Money Center Banks that Pushed the Tricolor Securities Fraud Are Being Sued by the Investors That Were Defrauded

Investors who bought now-worthless securities supported by the auto loans of Tricolor Holdings are suing the investment banks that issued them. JPMorgan, Barclay’s, and Fifth Third Bank promoted these securities as being “investment grade” even though their source of repayment was auto loans issued to non-citizens with no credit. Now those money center banks are being sued for their complicity in a spectacular fraud.

First, here’s a background summary on the Tricolor story, which I have written about several times, most recently this piece from last October, “Tricolor Auto Failure Follow-up: JPMorgan Takes a $170 Million Hit; Trump Disbands the Government’s DEI Agency that Was Involved”

• Tricolor was a company that sold and financed used cars, and its primary market was Spanish-speaking non-citizens illegally residing in the U.S.

• President Trump’s crackdown on illegal aliens not only caused a cessation of sales, but it pretty much brought an end to repayment on Tricolor’s loans, too.

• Money center banks had securitized about $2 billion of Tricolor’s very high risk loans. These securities were much like the bundled, sub-prime mortgages from the 2008 financial crisis.

• Tricolor was engaged in a massive fraud, with the same collateral pledged to multiple loans and securities.

• JPMorgan and Fifth Third Bank also had outstanding lines of credit to Tricolor. They each took a massive loss of about $200 million from the default on their lines of credit.

• The federal government under President Biden had given its seal of approval to Tricolor and its securities, certifying them as “social bonds” under the US Treasury’s CDFI program (“Community Development Financial Institution Fund”, because Tricolor’s customer base was an “underserved community.”

While all parties involved deserve ridicule for thinking that a pool of lower-than-subprime loans could make a high-quality security, the lawsuit doesn’t just allege that the big banks were pushing a junk product, the allegation is that there was willful blindness to the fraud that was occurring. Further, with the fraud in plain sight, the banks continued to earn underwriting fees for promoting these fraudulent securities.

“Tricolor Noteholders Sue JPMorgan, Barclays and Fifth Third” [Bloomberg - 02/27/2026]

In their suit, the noteholders claim the banks ignored “clear evidence” of fraud, including “alarming” 2022 and 2024 audits of the company, because they were earning millions of dollars in fees underwriting Tricolor’s securitized notes.

The CPA audits of Tricolor indicated waving red flags, including:

• Nearly half of payments received on a given day were posted to the wrong account.

• Defaulted loan accounts showed financial recoveries from repossessions, even though the subject cars were not actually repossessed.

• Loan delinquencies were inaccurately reported and re-aged so as to show those loans not being in default.

The plaintiffs accordingly allege that:

• JPMorgan, Barclay’s, and Fifth Third “responded by hiding what they had learned and sticking their heads in the sand to avoid learning more.”

• JPMorgan, Barclay’s, and Fifth Third withheld or misrepresented adverse information in offering materials for investors. Per the plaintiffs’ suit, “Defendants fueled and perpetuated Tricolor’s Ponzi-like fraud.”

When the Tricolor fraud blew wide open, JPMorgan’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, was quoted as saying ”It is not our finest moment. When something like that happens, you can assume that we scour every issue, every universe, everything about how it could be taking place to make sure it doesn’t take place from here. You can never completely avoid these things, but the discipline is to look at it in cold light and go through every single little thing, which you can imagine we’ve already done.”

Dimon added, ”When you see one cockroach, there are probably more.” To repeat what I said back in October, If there are more “cockroach loans” like Tricolor that are about to blow up, it is not an economic indicator, rather it is a sign that banks and investment houses abandoned their underwriting standards in pursuit of woke cred.

I’d also argue that it’s not fair for Dimon to blame employees whose “discipline” was lax. While this is only my opinion, I will state with a high level of confidence that plenty of lower-level analysts and underwriters at JPMorgan knew just how uncreditworthy Tricolor was, but senior management pressure for Community Reinvestment Act credits, woke bragging rights, government favor, etc., compelled every layer of credit approver to recommend approval for a lending facility that objectively should have been rejected.

Mr. Dimon stated that he was going to look at the Tricolor debacle “in cold light and go through every single little thing.” I hope he did. And if he has not yet uncovered why the underwriting and approval chain felt they could not decline the Tricolor facilities, then the light is clearly not cold enough.

As the lawsuit by defrauded investors moves forward, the question I’m most interested in isn’t “Who knew how bad Tricolor was, and when?” Instead, the question I have is why did otherwise intelligent bankers think they had no choice but to consent to promoting Tricolor as a good credit risk when the fraud and lack of creditworthiness were so evident.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 11:01 AM (NcUvK)

2 Good.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 16, 2026 11:02 AM (4NO2D)

3 Tri color?
The one in the middle is definitely Willie Nelson

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 16, 2026 11:02 AM (Kt19C)

4 • The federal government under President Biden had given its seal of approval to Tricolor and its securities, certifying them as “social bonds” under the US Treasury’s CDFI program (“Community Development Financial Institution Fund”, because Tricolor’s customer base was an “underserved community.”

When I see rhetoric like "social bonds" and "underserved community" I know it's a signal to run away like Usain Bolt chased by an angry emu.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 16, 2026 11:03 AM (Riz8t)

5 Great. Now have a look at all those Chinese outfits that are listed without having to go through any vetting...

Posted by: Brewingfrog at March 16, 2026 11:04 AM (PmzbF)

6 Has Tricolor gone up like an EV battery?

Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 11:05 AM (1YL6+)

7 Mr. Dimon stated that he was going to look at the Tricolor debacle “in cold light and go through every single little thing.”

I hope that cold light eventuallycomes from a naked light bulb in a SuperMax cell.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 16, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

8 First Black Rock, now this. Nature is healing.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 16, 2026 11:05 AM (99eI0)

9 "These securities were much like the bundled, sub-prime mortgages from the 2008 financial crisis."

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

Buck, you are being kind. These securities were much worse than the sub-prime mortgages, which were at least backed up by real estate (inflated, but they still existed).

A used car's value drops by the day, and my guess is that a fair number of these cars were simply abandoned, towed, and then auctioned for a tiny fraction of their value.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 16, 2026 11:06 AM (n9ltV)

10 TriColor lot is full of tumbleweeds, Texas tumbleweeds. Banks are the grift.

Posted by: kingsman at March 16, 2026 11:06 AM (ehY6c)

11 A huge, mammoth, behemoth of company like JP Morgan with their huge army of highly educated financial analysts... how could they possibly get mixed up in the TriColor scheme which anyone with half a brain could immediately see was junk. My guess: DEI idoeology....

Methinks Jamie Dimon doth protest too much. He's embarrassed they got caught

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 16, 2026 11:06 AM (xT8gx)

12 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)

13 As the lawsuit by defrauded investors moves forward, the question I’m most interested in isn’t “Who knew how bad Tricolor was, and when?” Instead, the question I have is why did otherwise intelligent bankers think they had no choice but to consent to promoting Tricolor as a good credit risk when the fraud and lack of creditworthiness were so evident.

For the same reason many investment bankers didn't blow the whistle on subprime mortgages in the early '00s. They got their marching orders from a government that knew precisely nothing about investment banking. See also, EVs and automakers.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 16, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

14 Another example of how so much of our "economy" is bullshit-based

Posted by: As fake and gay as everything else at March 16, 2026 11:07 AM (TbWk/)

15 At least we don't have an identity crisis like those other guys.

Posted by: Second Fourth Bank at March 16, 2026 11:07 AM (2Ez/1)

16 Bury Big Bank.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

17 11 A huge, mammoth, behemoth of company like JP Morgan with their huge army of highly educated financial analysts... how could they possibly get mixed up in the TriColor scheme which anyone with half a brain could immediately see was junk. My guess: DEI idoeology....

Methinks Jamie Dimon doth protest too much. He's embarrassed they got caught
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 16, 2026 11:06 AM (xT8gx)

He's pulling a Captain Renault.

Posted by: He is shocked, SHOCKED at March 16, 2026 11:08 AM (TbWk/)

18 Informative, infuriating, article. Heads should roll.

OTOH, there was an electric school bus conflagration that burned other buses and we haven't had pics/video of it.

Posted by: Fire Bug Fred at March 16, 2026 11:08 AM (oftw2)

19 They planned on making it up on volume!

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at March 16, 2026 11:08 AM (t/Eo5)

20 At least we don't have an identity crisis like those other guys.
Posted by: Second Fourth Bank at March 16, 2026 11:07 AM (2Ez/1)

LMMFAO

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

21 "When you see one cockroach, there are probably more"

"Nah. Just me."

-- Biggest Baddest Cockroach in the Valley

Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

22 abandoned their underwriting standards in pursuit of woke cred."

Nah. It was in pursuit of dollars from...guess who?

So we blew past the $38T debt mark...

Posted by: man at March 16, 2026 11:09 AM (XuXeR)

23 glurp gleep glop

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at March 16, 2026 11:09 AM (fr2Zm)

24
He's pulling a Captain Renault.
Posted by: He is shocked, SHOCKED at March 16, 2026 11:08 AM (TbWk/)

Le Car!

What a piece of shit THAT was.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)

25 Speaking of accounting, just got word that eldest son passed last exam and is now officially a CPA.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 16, 2026 11:10 AM (u73oe)

26 Money center banks had securitized about $2 billion of Tricolor’s very high risk loans. These securities were much like the bundled, sub-prime mortgages from the 2008 financial crisis....

Doesn't that contradict the basis for the lawsuit?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:10 AM (oob1u)

27 Oh look. It's the gay retarded coprophage.

Posted by: Did I mention he's retarded? at March 16, 2026 11:11 AM (TbWk/)

28 Tricolor wasn't doing anything different from what the federal government has been doing since forever. Are those Ponzi schemes like social security and medicare still stealing money from honest citizens?

Posted by: Bernie Madoff, American Hero at March 16, 2026 11:11 AM (Qrqtl)

29 Speaking of accounting, just got word that eldest son passed last exam and is now officially a CPA.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Yay! Congratulations!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 11:11 AM (NcUvK)

30 For the same reason many investment bankers didn't blow the whistle on subprime mortgages in the early '00s. They got their marching orders from a government that knew precisely nothing about investment banking. See also, EVs and automakers.

I know! We'll tell everyone what washing machines, hot water heaters, gas stoves, and lawn equipment they are allowed to own!

Posted by: Government employee humanities majors who never mowed a lawn in their lives at March 16, 2026 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

31 these cars were simply abandoned, towed, and then auctioned for a tiny fraction of their value."

Nah. They were towed to Mexico, then turned into sales or parts, lightly cleaned and resold.

Used to see caravans of these vehicles headed south thru Texas...

Posted by: man at March 16, 2026 11:11 AM (XuXeR)

32 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at March 16, 2026 11:11 AM (2Ez/1)

33 First National Bank of Pixley would never lend to such a scheme. It was hard to get a business loan from them for our cropdusting operation at Carson-Elliot Enterprises.

Posted by: Uncle Joe, Movin' Kinda Slow at March 16, 2026 11:12 AM (oftw2)

34 Nah. They were towed to Mexico, then turned into sales or parts, lightly cleaned and resold.

Used to see caravans of these vehicles headed south thru Texas...
Posted by: man at March 16, 2026 11:11 AM (XuXeR)

They're still flowing.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

35 Instead, the question I have is why did otherwise intelligent bankers think they had no choice but to consent to promoting Tricolor as a good credit risk when the fraud and lack of creditworthiness were so evident.

You know exactly why. They got a phone call from the White House saying "nice bank, it'd be a shame if something happened to it".

Posted by: Ian S. at March 16, 2026 11:12 AM (2ocoG)

36 Instead, the question I have is why did otherwise intelligent bankers think they had no choice but to consent to promoting Tricolor as a good credit risk when the fraud and lack of creditworthiness were so evident.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

Dude, I think your whole post (which is great btw) answers that question. When your boss, and his boss, and boss -et al- say to do it... well, don't you kinda just, do it?

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 16, 2026 11:12 AM (dmDsy)

37 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at March 16, 2026 11:09 AM (fr2Zm)

You're a retard that your history knowledge only starts the previous 24 hours. How the fuck do you remember to breathe?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:12 AM (oob1u)

38 Doesn't that contradict the basis for the lawsuit?"

I'd say so. They rolled the dice...

Posted by: man at March 16, 2026 11:13 AM (XuXeR)

39 "NO STANDING! Next?"

/US District Clown and Defacto POTUS Judge Bozoberg stayed

Posted by: ShainS at March 16, 2026 11:13 AM (bH6aI)

40 this scandal is perfectly of a piece with all the other fraud and lies, wherever you look around ... the entire system is rotted out and only immediate and drastic pruning can save it.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 16, 2026 11:13 AM (MIIRH)

41 Methinks Jamie Dimon doth protest too much. He's embarrassed they got caught
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 16, 2026 11:06 AM (xT8gx)

If I recall correctly, Jamie Dimon was one of the main financial market influences on the Lightbearer, the Shit Midas, the SCOAMF. I take the likelihood of his being innocent and pure about the same as that of the greeter at a Nevada brothel.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 16, 2026 11:13 AM (a/dOO)

42 Sub-prime should be a flashing neon sign telling you to run away.

Posted by: huerfano at March 16, 2026 11:14 AM (98kQX)

43 Finances that one would expect from Lower Slobbovia, or Elbonia, courtesy of the Democrat Party.

Posted by: Wofus at March 16, 2026 11:14 AM (CNa+A)

44 They're still flowing......."

Yeah, but now they're mostly wreaked and w/o tags...

Posted by: man at March 16, 2026 11:14 AM (XuXeR)

45 Le Car!

What a piece of shit THAT was.
Posted by: Sponge

Bite your tongue!

Posted by: Renault Alliance, En Fuego! at March 16, 2026 11:14 AM (oftw2)

46 25 Speaking of accounting, just got word that eldest son passed last exam and is now officially a CPA.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Yay for good news! Congratulations to your son. Have Ace send him Plaid Level Membership to this site.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 16, 2026 11:14 AM (99eI0)

47 25 Speaking of accounting, just got word that eldest son passed last exam and is now officially a CPA.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 16, 2026 11:10 AM (u73oe)

Congratulation! More are needed, and good ones cannot be replaced by AI.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 16, 2026 11:14 AM (a/dOO)

48 8 First Black Rock, now this. Nature is healing.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 16, 2026 11:05 AM (99eI0)

It truly is a sad day for them...

Posted by: Denny Crane - But Not Me! I Represent ALL Of Those Companies! at March 16, 2026 11:14 AM (dmDsy)

49 his being innocent and pure about the same as that of the greeter at a Nevada brothel"

Hey, I just work here...

/ that guy

Posted by: man at March 16, 2026 11:15 AM (XuXeR)

50 ... even though their source of repayment was auto loans issued to non-citizens with no credit.

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Making NINJA Loans Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS at March 16, 2026 11:15 AM (bH6aI)

51 37 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at March 16, 2026 11:09 AM (fr2Zm)

You're a retard that your history knowledge only starts the previous 24 hours. How the fuck do you remember to breathe?
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:12 AM (oob1u)
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
Well, if the brain doesn't need oxygen, then not remembering to breathe isn't much of an issue there.

Posted by: Another Anon at March 16, 2026 11:15 AM (4h45B)

52 They're still flowing......."

Yeah, but now they're mostly wreaked and w/o tags...
Posted by: man at March 16, 2026 11:14 AM (XuXeR)

Paper tags

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:15 AM (oob1u)

53 Tricolor means the colors of the Mexican flag: red, white, and green.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 16, 2026 11:15 AM (ZVgZ4)

54 This racket was always a game of hot potato. All the banks and investment firms -- including almost surely, the plaintiffs in the lawsuit -- knew the loans were very risky if not certain to fail. It was only a matter of when.

But there are potentially nice fat profits to be made on bad loans -- so long as you ain't the last guy holding the hot potato when the music stops. The plaintiffs in this case bet they wouldn't be the last ones, that they would take the profits and unload the dogshit on someone else. They lost that bet.

Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 11:16 AM (iFTx/)

55 Yay for good news! Congratulations to your son. Have Ace send him Plaid Level Membership to this site.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 16, 2026 11:14 AM (99eI0)

And an official AOS branded green eyeshade, pocket protector, and "How to Mount Shelves" guidebook.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 16, 2026 11:16 AM (a/dOO)

56 We don't care. Because we don't have to.

Posted by: Banks everywhere at March 16, 2026 11:16 AM (2Ez/1)

57 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at March 16, 2026 11:09 AM (fr2Zm)

Didn't I tell you that you were a dullard and I pity your family for even knowing you?

Why are you still here?

Posted by: Denny Crane - I'm Pretty Sure I Was The One That Did That... at March 16, 2026 11:17 AM (dmDsy)

58 Lawsuits are good...

but prosecutions would be better.

I have to take all sorts of corporate training sessions and many of them tackle this sort of fraud and argue Fedgov will fine the company and put you in prison for doing this sort of crap

Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2026 11:17 AM (sKqQm)

59 Renault Alliance, En Fuego"

Buddy actually bought a Fuego. AMCs... well, not finest moment

Posted by: man at March 16, 2026 11:17 AM (XuXeR)

60 26 Money center banks had securitized about $2 billion of Tricolor’s very high risk loans. These securities were much like the bundled, sub-prime mortgages from the 2008 financial crisis....

Doesn't that contradict the basis for the lawsuit?
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:10 AM (oob1u)

How so?

Posted by: Honest question at March 16, 2026 11:17 AM (TbWk/)

61 11 "Methinks Jamie Dimon doth protest too much. He's embarrassed they got caught"

they are incapable of embarrassment, I see it more as grubbing frantically to keep any credibility in the financial world where the only sin is losing money.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 16, 2026 11:17 AM (MIIRH)

62 Get a gun and you can rob somebody.
Get a bank and you can rob everybody.

Posted by: As we all well know at March 16, 2026 11:18 AM (2Ez/1)

63 I have to take all sorts of corporate training sessions and many of them tackle this sort of fraud and argue Fedgov will fine the company and put you in prison for doing this sort of crap

I would bet money that they were threatened with being fined/imprisoned for *NOT* doing this crap. We know the Biden junta threatened all the tech companies, and I'm sure they didn't stop there.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 16, 2026 11:19 AM (2ocoG)

64 the question I have is why did otherwise intelligent bankers think they had no choice but to consent to promoting Tricolor as a good credit risk when the fraud and lack of creditworthiness were so evident.

ESG pressure. They were pressured from the federal government to support businesses that helped illegals.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 16, 2026 11:19 AM (PYyV9)

65 Paper tags"

Not in Texas any more.

Posted by: man at March 16, 2026 11:20 AM (XuXeR)

66 Aliassmithsmith has been in and out of our custody for years. The Judge just won't commit to making him stay. It's dangerous for society at large.

Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at March 16, 2026 11:20 AM (oftw2)

67 AND then I said, "That's not a dog, that's my wife. HAHAHAHAHA.

Posted by: Banco at March 16, 2026 11:20 AM (ehY6c)

68 Thx Buck.
Difficult to repossess the collateral, the cars, the drivers of who fled to Mexico. Plus the people who took the loans were here illegally and may have been given false names.
But megabrain Jamie Dimon thought it was necessary to organize a bailout. He's smaaaht

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 16, 2026 11:20 AM (YsPj+)

69 Dimon should be hanging from a lamp post long before now. Should be held personally liable for a lot of shit.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 16, 2026 11:20 AM (sl73Y)

70
'cuz that's where the money is.

Posted by: Wille Sutton at March 16, 2026 11:20 AM (2Ez/1)

71 ESG pressure. They were pressured from the federal government to support businesses that helped illegals.

They were probably told "comply, or you'll meet President Boasberg".

Posted by: Ian S. at March 16, 2026 11:20 AM (2ocoG)

72 the question I have is why did otherwise intelligent bankers think they had no choice but to consent to promoting Tricolor as a good credit risk when the fraud and lack of creditworthiness were so evident.

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*raises hand and waves wildly* I know I know!

It's because the Barky/Biden regime told them that taxpayer bailouts were guaranteed when the banks would declare financial emergencies when Tricolor collapsed.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 16, 2026 11:20 AM (g8Ew8)

73 They were pressured from the federal government to support businesses that helped illegals."

Si.

Posted by: man at March 16, 2026 11:21 AM (XuXeR)

74 In their suit, the noteholders claim the banks ignored “clear evidence” of fraud ...

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"It's much better to commit multi-million dollar fraud than to be called a xenophobic racist, bigots!"

Posted by: ShainS at March 16, 2026 11:21 AM (sTJ+N)

75 > While all parties involved deserve ridicule for thinking that a pool of lower-than-subprime loans could make a high-quality security

Yes. Like pouring 20 buckets of dog shit into a barrel, stirring, then pretending you have something other than a barrel of dog shit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 16, 2026 11:21 AM (IG3/x)

76 Posted by: Honest question at March 16, 2026 11:17 AM (TbWk

These are not mom and pop investors suing. These are professional investors who should have recognized the risk immediately.

Like a slip and fall case. If you see the grape on the floor you don't step on it intentionally and fall on you ass then expect the grocery store to pay you a big settlement.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:21 AM (oob1u)

77 CHP PRODUCES INCIDENT REPORT AFTER ARTILLERY ROUND FROM CAMP PENDLETON PREMATURELY DETONATED MIDFLIGHT WITH DEBRIS STRIKING PATROL VEHICLE

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 16, 2026 11:22 AM (Kt19C)

78 >>They were pressured from the federal government to support businesses that helped illegals.

Yep - like Obama forcing loans to black institutions and unqualified black business owners.

This shit has been rampant for the last 16+ years.

Posted by: garrett at March 16, 2026 11:22 AM (erF49)

79 Underserved.

Yup, when I see the hordes of grasping foreign welfare pirates squeezing half the federal budget into their massive Democrat-run rakeoff schemes, the first thing I think is "I am definitely not serving these dusky sneakthieves nearly enough. We should serve them more. Dig deep, brothers."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 16, 2026 11:22 AM (BI5O2)

80 Come a time when those magic electronic numbers in your bank account will be worth exactly the paper that they are printed on.

Posted by: Hon Derbert as Mr. Gizzard at March 16, 2026 11:22 AM (7Q0e+)

81 Like pouring 20 buckets of dog shit into a barrel, stirring, then pretending you have something other than a barrel of dog shit."

You mean to say that stirring dog shit into vanilla ice cream doesn't make vanilla flavored dog shit?

Who knew?

Posted by: man at March 16, 2026 11:22 AM (XuXeR)

82 The most shocking thing about this story isn't that Big Bank is asshoe or that investors made risky bets they lost.

The most shocking thing is that a business model specifically formed to sell and finance used cars to Spanish-speaking illegals was not only itself legal, but at one point was worth billions of dollars. The securitized debt in question was alone worth over $2B.

Incredible.

Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 11:23 AM (iFTx/)

83 I should have bought Credit Default Swaps on those securities.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 16, 2026 11:23 AM (d6BF2)

84 Paper tags"

Not in Texas any more.
Posted by: man at March 16, 2026 11:20 AM (XuXeR)

Only took five plus years to correct.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:23 AM (oob1u)

85 It's because the Barky/Biden regime told them that taxpayer bailouts were guaranteed when the banks would declare financial emergencies when Tricolor collapsed.

Which is exactly what caused the 2008 mortgage meltdown.

When the government pays banks to give bad loans AND threatens them to make those bad loans of course they are going to - you get more of what you reward and less of what you punish

But...the Gods of the Copybook Headings will always eventually show up...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2026 11:24 AM (sKqQm)

86 Do Jamie Dimon and Larry Fink run in the same circles? Both thieves of high finance...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 16, 2026 11:24 AM (xT8gx)

87 The most shocking thing is that a business model specifically formed to sell and finance used cars to Spanish-speaking illegals was not only itself legal, but at one point was worth billions of dollars"

The world as we know it = house of cards...

Posted by: man at March 16, 2026 11:24 AM (XuXeR)

88 business model specifically formed to sell and finance used cars to Spanish-speaking illegals was not only itself legal

See, here I bet an AG from a red area could get a bunch of convictions arguing it was not...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2026 11:25 AM (sKqQm)

89 Yes. Like pouring 20 buckets of dog shit into a barrel, stirring, then pretending you have something other than a barrel of dog shit.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 16, 2026 11:21 AM (IG3/x)

1. True, but gross.

2. I was thinking of taking a trip to The Barrel. It's been a while since anyone has visited it, so I wonder what it's like inside nowadays....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 16, 2026 11:25 AM (dmDsy)

90 Tricolor means the colors of the Mexican flag: red, white, and green.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Yeah, but as an American company, Tricolor's corporate logo is red, white, and.....

Oh.

Ooooooh.

I wonder why nobody saw the signs, there.

Posted by: mikeski at March 16, 2026 11:26 AM (Kg4+n)

91 Which is exactly what caused the 2008 mortgage meltdown.

When the government pays banks to give bad loans AND threatens them to make those bad loans of course they are going to - you get more of what you reward and less of what you punish

The choice of Bear Stearns as the sacrificial example in the 2008 meltdown is a bit more interesting given that's where Epstein launched his career.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 16, 2026 11:26 AM (2ocoG)

92 It's because the Barky/Biden regime told them that taxpayer bailouts were guaranteed when the banks would declare financial emergencies when Tricolor collapsed.

I wish Obama would just shut his piehole and stick to stuff he's really good at, like monumental architecture.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 16, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)

93 2. I was thinking of taking a trip to The Barrel"

Copy/ paste the entire thread...

Posted by: man at March 16, 2026 11:27 AM (XuXeR)

94 "You can never completely avoid these things ..."

--------------

Actually, yes ... yes, you can.

Posted by: ShainS at March 16, 2026 11:27 AM (sTJ+N)

95 Buck, your final question borders on rhetorical.

We all know why the banks looked the other way. Its because they are run and managed by true believer democrats.

Currently stranded in thr Orlando Airport. For two days. This storm coming through has ruined airline travel today.

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 16, 2026 11:27 AM (7HdSs)

96 first thing I think is "I am definitely not serving these dusky sneakthieves nearly enough. We should serve them more. Dig deep, brothers."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 16, 2026 11:22 AM (BI5O2)

I love that and I am going to steal it.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 16, 2026 11:27 AM (dmDsy)

97 I wonder why nobody saw the signs, there."

Made it look like home, ya know?

Posted by: man at March 16, 2026 11:27 AM (XuXeR)

98 Shame all these used cars aren't still around. It would be a huge upgrade to Cubans to be able to replace their 56 Buicks with 86 Buicks.

Posted by: Fly-By-Night Motors at March 16, 2026 11:28 AM (oftw2)

99 CHP PRODUCES INCIDENT REPORT AFTER ARTILLERY ROUND FROM CAMP PENDLETON PREMATURELY DETONATED MIDFLIGHT WITH DEBRIS STRIKING PATROL VEHICLE
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
__________

Any of you suckholes want to come up here and knock me off?

Posted by: CHP Patrol Vehicle at March 16, 2026 11:28 AM (XvL8K)

100 business model specifically formed to sell and finance used cars to Spanish-speaking illegals was not only itself legal

See, here I bet an AG from a red area could get a bunch of convictions arguing it was not...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2026 11:25 AM (sKqQm)
_________

Tricolor was huge in Texas. According to an earlier post from Buck on this, Tricolor was like the 3rd biggest car dealer and lender in TX. If a very red state like TX didn't/couldn't do anything, then nobody could.

Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

101 Copy/ paste the entire thread...
Posted by: man at March 16, 2026 11:27 AM (XuXeR)

LOL

Yeah, I was thinking more of a weekend trip, like an open tag or something....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 16, 2026 11:29 AM (dmDsy)

102 Any of you suckholes want to come up here and knock me off?
Posted by: CHP Patrol Vehicle at March 16, 2026 11:28 AM (XvL8K)

——————

Lighten up, Francis.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 16, 2026 11:30 AM (u73oe)

103 You know, it seems you rarely see the words "dusky sneakthieves" in a limerick.

Posted by: Longing for a limerick at March 16, 2026 11:30 AM (2Ez/1)

104 39 "NO STANDING! Next?"

/US District Clown and Defacto POTUS Judge Bozoberg stayed
Posted by: ShainS at March 16, 2026 11:13 AM (bH6aI)

I say it a lot, but I think it probably takes a lot more training and talent to be a professional clown than it does to be Judge Boasberg.

Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 11:30 AM (1YL6+)

105 I'm glad I dumped JP Morgan a few years ago. The most uncooperative bank I have ever had an account with.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 16, 2026 11:30 AM (0U5gm)

106 Instead, the question I have is why did otherwise intelligent bankers think they had no choice but to consent to promoting Tricolor as a good credit risk when the fraud and lack of creditworthiness were so evident.

---------------

Perverse incentives.

Posted by: ShainS at March 16, 2026 11:30 AM (sTJ+N)

107 Sounds like they got hit with the TRUMP!!! curse.

Posted by: fd at March 16, 2026 11:30 AM (vFG9F)

108 Ben Stiller has released a line of sodas. Who knew?

No one.

And no one cares.

He's been seen hocking his wears at grocery stores where no one pays any attention to him whatsoever.

The world is healing, in some areas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

109 Underserved. That word just drives me crazy. The ruling class puts the fucking whip to every working American to pay for their army of indolent foreign CHUDs, and then tells us they're underserved. It's gold-standard propaganda gaslighting.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 16, 2026 11:31 AM (BI5O2)

110 99 CHP PRODUCES INCIDENT REPORT AFTER ARTILLERY ROUND FROM CAMP PENDLETON PREMATURELY DETONATED MIDFLIGHT WITH DEBRIS STRIKING PATROL VEHICLE
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
__________

Any of you suckholes want to come up here and knock me off?
Posted by: CHP Patrol Vehicle at March 16, 2026 11:28 AM (XvL8K)

Ponch, is that you???

Posted by: Baker at March 16, 2026 11:31 AM (dmDsy)

111 Perhaps Tricolor was greasing Austin TX palms, best whore house around.

Posted by: kingsman at March 16, 2026 11:31 AM (ehY6c)

112 I'm glad I dumped JP Morgan a few years ago. The most uncooperative bank I have ever had an account with.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 16, 2026 11:30 AM (0U5gm)

How DARE you thinking you have control over your own money and know better what to do with it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)

113 Nah. They were towed to Mexico, then turned into sales or parts, lightly cleaned and resold.

Used to see caravans of these vehicles headed south thru Texas...
Posted by: man at March 16, 2026 11:11 AM (XuXeR)

They're still flowing.......
Posted by: Sponge

I'm sure my 2005 Nissan is down there somewhere.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 11:32 AM (NcUvK)

114 Ben Stiller has released a line of sodas. Who knew?

No one.

And no one cares.

He's been seen hocking his wears at grocery stores where no one pays any attention to him whatsoever.

The world is healing, in some areas.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)
_____

I never heard of this so I just googled it. It was launched in September 2025. 6 months ago. I never once heard of it before today. And after today, I will forget I ever heard of it, and go back to never hearing of it.

Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

115 I'm glad I dumped JP Morgan a few years ago. The most uncooperative bank I have ever had an account with.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

*Wells Fargo has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 11:33 AM (NcUvK)

116 "hocking his wears"
That's not code for anything, is it?

Posted by: Sounds like it might be at March 16, 2026 11:33 AM (2Ez/1)

117
Only took five plus years to correct.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:23 AM (oob1u)

Now they hand you a metal tag, which is good for a year, so they can send you another metal tag to replace it.

For the environment......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:33 AM (Zz0t1)

118 If a very red state like TX didn't/couldn't do anything, then nobody could.

Just because they didn't doesn't mean they couldn't.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2026 11:34 AM (sKqQm)

119 Paul Ehrlich is dead at 93. He was wrong again and again yet they still make excuses for him.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 16, 2026 11:34 AM (gQ15S)

120 CHP PRODUCES INCIDENT REPORT AFTER ARTILLERY ROUND FROM CAMP PENDLETON PREMATURELY DETONATED MIDFLIGHT WITH DEBRIS STRIKING PATROL VEHICLE
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

I call bullshit.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 11:34 AM (NcUvK)

121 "hocking his wears"
That's not code for anything, is it?
Posted by: Sounds like it might be at March 16, 2026 11:33 AM (2Ez/1)

Guess it should've been hawking......oh well. You get the gist.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:35 AM (Zz0t1)

122 "Ben Stiller has released a line of sodas."
###

You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at March 16, 2026 11:35 AM (2Ez/1)

123 Sorry for going off topic, but I just read another bs story about women unable to vote due to marriage, divorce, or some other lie about last names not matching their IDs. That’s why there are provisional ballots. Why Republicans never seem to counter this crap by informing the public of this method of voting to counteract this nonissue is beyond my comprehension?!
Stop earning the Stupid Party nickname!

Posted by: Unkaren at March 16, 2026 11:35 AM (OTOad)

124 Jaye P. Morgan is still with us at age 94. So am I, The Unknown Comic!

Posted by: Murray Langston at March 16, 2026 11:36 AM (oftw2)

125 Ben Stiller has released a line of sodas. Who knew?

No one.

And no one cares.

Dodgeball >>>> Stiller's pisswater

Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2026 11:36 AM (sKqQm)

126 109
‘ The ruling class puts the fucking whip to every working American to pay for their army of indolent foreign CHUDs, and then tells us they're underserved. It's gold-standard propaganda gaslighting.’

Gaslighting so pervasive that some working Americans buy it. Someone should gas the Gaslighters.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 16, 2026 11:36 AM (jbnUc)

127
I never heard of this so I just googled it. It was launched in September 2025. 6 months ago. I never once heard of it before today. And after today, I will forget I ever heard of it, and go back to never hearing of it.
Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

https://is.gd/MKGPei

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:37 AM (Zz0t1)

128 Texans get to deal with a large portion of the attendant miseries of illegal immigration.

But Texans' business and political leaders get to enjoy a large portion of the attendant takeoff. And the GOP ones are eagerly lunging into the cash pile with their own well-worn rakes.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 16, 2026 11:37 AM (BI5O2)

129 AND THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS JOBS

-----

Finally, somebody other than me recognizes what phony Steve Jobs was

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 16, 2026 11:37 AM (C1otw)

130 Perhaps Tricolor was greasing Austin TX palms, best whore house around.
Posted by: kingsman at March 16, 2026 11:31 AM (ehY6c)

No doubt. The Left in Texas control more than you think. We have borrowed a number of government supervised programs from California. The first one that comes to mind is the Workers Comp system. The problem is that it is attorneys who make these reform recommendations. Guess which side most attorneys fall on.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:37 AM (oob1u)

131 You could say, "well of course they we're going to sue, they lost a lot of money."

Except.

Think back just 18 months ago:
If Kamala would have won, they wouldn't dare sue.

Think back to the GM bailout, where Obama forced bondholders--who have iron-clad priority under law--to take a loss so the union pensions would be saved.
You think they gave up their rights under the law out of altruism?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 16, 2026 11:37 AM (HXT0k)

132 Dodgeball >>>> Stiller's pisswater
Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2026 11:36 AM (sKqQm)

Posted by: Denny Crane - Don't Start Son, Ben Stiller Is Not Worthy Of That Riff. at March 16, 2026 11:38 AM (dmDsy)

133 Any of you suckholes want to come up here and knock me off?

"Sergeant, does this mean we're done for the day?"

Posted by: NR Pax at March 16, 2026 11:38 AM (99eI0)

134 Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

The soda is called Who Gives a Fucking Shit. Ask for it by name.

Posted by: ... at March 16, 2026 11:38 AM (KMzr2)

135 Interview with recruiter (went well) and then mopping the downstairs.

It's always one battle after another round these parts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 11:38 AM (p7EWr)

136 Why Republicans never seem to counter this crap by informing the public of this method of voting to counteract this nonissue is beyond my comprehension?!

The simplest approach:

The Democrats have argued every single vote protection measure proposed or passed since 2000 will disenfranchise millions of voters. Since then *0*....ZERO...have been disenfranchised. That's right, its a proven fact not a single eligible voter has lost the right to vote.

So it makes no sense why they would oppose simple ID here, like you need to get on a plane, or to drive, or to get into a government building...until you consider how they stole the 2020 election.

Now if every R said something like this...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2026 11:39 AM (sKqQm)

137 A statewide redistricting proposal is on the ballot for a special April 21 election that, if passed, could turn Virginia’s ruby-red 6th Congressional District bright blue.

"Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia’s standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?”

To all those smugly doubting if it's temporary: It's literally written into the text that typical Virginia districting standards are resumed after the 2030 census. Please learn how your state's legal system operates.

Maybe republicans will consider a gerrymander ban nationwide now with all the bitching and moaning ive seen from them in this sub

Summarizing the comments on this; people love gerrymandering when the GOP does it. But not if the democrats do it. Okayyy Russia bots

Good on Virginia for taking a stand in working to repel the MAGAt manipulation of gerrymandering. MAGAts only know how to cheat and steal. They lie about *everything.*

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 16, 2026 11:39 AM (JCZqz)

138 Could be worse.

It could be snowing in Hawaii.

Posted by: garrett at March 16, 2026 11:39 AM (erF49)

139 124 Jaye P. Morgan is still with us at age 94. So am I, The Unknown Comic!
Posted by: Murray Langston at March 16, 2026 11:36 AM (oftw2)

But not Gene Gene he Dancing Machine.

Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 11:39 AM (1YL6+)

140 Jamie Diamond of JP Morgan is as slimey of a robber baron as any cartoon caricatures ever drawn by Marxists.

But, he funds them so they ignore him.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 16, 2026 11:39 AM (HXT0k)

141 Good on Virginia for taking a stand in working to repel the MAGAt manipulation of gerrymandering. MAGAts only know how to cheat and steal. They lie about *everything.*
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 16, 2026 11:39 AM (JCZqz)

They live in a parallel universe where every day is opposite day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

142 Interview with recruiter (went well) and then mopping the downstairs.

It's always one battle after another round these parts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You joined the Navy?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 11:39 AM (NcUvK)

143 128 Texans get to deal with a large portion of the attendant miseries of illegal immigration.

But Texans' business and political leaders get to enjoy a large portion of the attendant takeoff. And the GOP ones are eagerly lunging into the cash pile with their own well-worn rakes.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 16, 2026 11:37 AM (BI5O2)

=====

And Texas is seeing the most deportations in raw numbers per state by not a small margin.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 11:39 AM (p7EWr)

144 ‘ The ruling class puts the fucking whip to every working American to pay for their army of indolent foreign CHUDs, and then tells us they're underserved. It's gold-standard propaganda gaslighting.’

After filing my taxes I deserve at least one thank you note from one of the Somalis I am paying for.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2026 11:40 AM (sKqQm)

145 Someone please tell ace it’s International Panda Day!

He will be so happy!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 16, 2026 11:40 AM (W2Pud)

146 Sorry for going off topic, but I just read another bs story about women unable to vote due to marriage, divorce, or some other lie about last names not matching their IDs. That’s why there are provisional ballots. Why Republicans never seem to counter this crap by informing the public of this method of voting to counteract this nonissue is beyond my comprehension?!

Republicans *are* countering this. The media just doesn't cover the counters.

MFM strategy:
1) Lie
2) Retract it later but buried on page 47

Everyone sees the lie, nobody sees the retraction.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 16, 2026 11:41 AM (2ocoG)

147 Remember New England votes about 40% R and has 20-0 Donk congressvillains.

That's "perfect" gerrymandering.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2026 11:41 AM (sKqQm)

148 Now they hand you a metal tag, which is good for a year, so they can send you another metal tag to replace it.

For the environment......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:33 AM (Zz0t1)

But it's much harder to make fake metal tags.

The amount of fraudulent paper tags in Texas became a running joke. 90% of crimes committed where a car was identified had paper tags.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:41 AM (oob1u)

149 Paul Ehrlich is dead at 93. He was wrong again and again yet they still make excuses for him.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 16, 2026 11:34 AM

Finally doing his part to defuse the population bomb.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2026 11:41 AM (bFu5X)

150 Someone please tell ace it’s International Panda Day!

He will be so happy!
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 16, 2026 11:40 AM (W2Pud)

International 'Lazy ass beast would be extinct were it not for captivity' Day.

FUN!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)

151 146 Republicans *are* countering this. The media just doesn't cover the counters.

MFM strategy:
1) Lie
2) Retract it later but buried on page 47

Everyone sees the lie, nobody sees the retraction.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 16, 2026 11:41 AM (2ocoG)

=====

"If the NYT doesn't put it on the front page, then it's not happening."
-like, a shocking number of conservatives

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 11:42 AM (p7EWr)

152 Someone please tell ace it’s International Panda Day!

He will be so happy!
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 16, 2026 11:40 AM (W2Pud)
_______

Pandas are like my favorite animals. Them, and dragons.

Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

153 79 Underserved.

I always read underserved as undeserved. Meaning they are getting something where the rules are being bent for these 'communities' that won't get applied to regular taxpaying 'communities'.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 16, 2026 11:43 AM (Dv3i1)

154 Doesn't Trump have a lawsuit pending against JP Morgan for debanking Trump International during his first run for president?

Posted by: jen the original at March 16, 2026 11:43 AM (9YEl6)

155 146 MFM strategy:
1) Lie
2) Retract it later but buried on page 47

Everyone sees the lie, nobody sees the retraction.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 16, 2026 11:41 AM (2ocoG)

"Don't care, the retraction came later. The original headline is the real source."

--The Entire Left.

Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 11:43 AM (1YL6+)

156
The amount of fraudulent paper tags in Texas became a running joke. 90% of crimes committed where a car was identified had paper tags.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:41 AM (oob1u)

Now, they'll just go back to stealing plates.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

157 130
‘ The Left in Texas control more than you think. We have borrowed a number of government supervised programs from California.’

Texans should study California like it’s a window to the future.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 16, 2026 11:44 AM (jbnUc)

158 152 Pandas are like my favorite animals. Them, and dragons.
Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

One that can't f***, and one that isn't real.

Yeah, checks out.

Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 11:44 AM (1YL6+)

159 "Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections"

So, is it ok if we cheat?

Posted by: The Dems at March 16, 2026 11:44 AM (vFG9F)

160 Doesn't Trump have a lawsuit pending against JP Morgan for debanking Trump International during his first run for president?
Posted by: jen the original at March 16, 2026 11:43 AM (9YEl6)
_________

Yes, and against Dimon personally too, IIRC.

Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 11:44 AM (iFTx/)

161 Today is National Xi Day?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2026 11:45 AM (2GVsD)

162 Today is National Xi Day?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2026 11:45 AM (2GVsD)

It's not Pooh Day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)

163 And October 1st is National Trash Panda Day.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2026 11:45 AM (bFu5X)

164 But it's much harder to make fake metal tags.

The amount of fraudulent paper tags in Texas became a running joke. 90% of crimes committed where a car was identified had paper tags.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

2021 Ford F-150. Front license plate holder is plastic and snaps on to plastic air dam on front.
Methican Americans at the local Wal Mart pop them off with ease.

Have a 2021 F-150 on it's fourth plate.
Plates usually last 7 years before they reissue new ones.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 11:46 AM (NcUvK)

165 It's not Pooh Day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:45 AM

Might I suggest more fiber?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2026 11:46 AM (bFu5X)

166 Ask and you shall receive.

Hollywood NPC calls for Gaza ceasefire six months after ceasefire was reached

Oli London
@OliLondonTV
‘One Piece’ actress Charithra Chandran demands ceasefire in Gaza- despite a ceasefire for the past 6 months.
“What we are demanding is a ceasefire in Gaza and I think I am so blessed to have a platform and this is the least I can do to use it.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 16, 2026 11:46 AM (ndZc7)

167 It's only the LIV that are still fooled by the initial false headlines. And their numbers are decreasing since the internet started fact checking immediately. Unfortunately the number is still large enough to make a difference.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:46 AM (oob1u)

168 Ben Stiller ... He's been seen hocking his wears at grocery stores
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:30 AM

A grocery store is probably a suboptimal location to try to hock your used underware.

Maybe try a pawn shop?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 16, 2026 11:46 AM (uoXLf)

169 167 It's only the LIV that are still fooled by the initial false headlines. And their numbers are decreasing since the internet started fact checking immediately. Unfortunately the number is still large enough to make a difference.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:46 AM (oob1u)

=====

CBS no longer being doctrinal leftist at every opportunity may, I believe, have a larger impact than Musk buying X.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 11:47 AM (p7EWr)

170
Might I suggest more fiber?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2026 11:46 AM (bFu5X)

Pooh = / = Poo

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

171 Oli London
@OliLondonTV
‘One Piece’ actress Charithra Chandran demands ceasefire in Gaza- despite a ceasefire for the past 6 months.
“What we are demanding is a ceasefire in Gaza and I think I am so blessed to have a platform and this is the least I can do to use it.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 16, 2026 11:46 AM

*facepalm*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2026 11:47 AM (bFu5X)

172 Ben Stiller is a huge ass. However, his father was absolutely hilarious as Frank Costanza and Arthur Spooner

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 16, 2026 11:47 AM (UvXT3)

173 Charithra Chandran

She's a real piece of work

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2026 11:47 AM (2GVsD)

174 Might I suggest more fiber?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2026 11:46 AM (bFu5X)

Pooh = / = Poo
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:47 AM

Yeah, but, Moron. So it checks out.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2026 11:48 AM (bFu5X)

175 @OliLondonTV
‘One Piece’ actress Charithra Chandran demands ceasefire in Gaza- despite a ceasefire for the past 6 months.
“What we are demanding is a ceasefire in Gaza and I think I am so blessed to have a platform and this is the least I can do to use it.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 16, 2026 11:46 AM (ndZc7)

"I pray for world piece."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

176 Now, they'll just go back to stealing plates.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

See #164

Fourth set of plates. Bought two new holders besides the holder that came on the truck. Now the plate rides inside on the dash.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 11:48 AM (NcUvK)

177
Yeah, but, Moron. So it checks out.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2026 11:48 AM (bFu5X)

I accept that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

178 She'll get whirled peas and like it!

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2026 11:48 AM (2GVsD)

179 167 It's only the LIV that are still fooled by the initial false headlines. And their numbers are decreasing since the internet started fact checking immediately. Unfortunately the number is still large enough to make a difference.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:46 AM (oob1u)

The amount of willful liars, on the other hand, has increased.

All the fact checks and extra information in the word won't stop their propagandizing.

Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 11:48 AM (1YL6+)

180 Pandas are like my favorite animals. Them, and dragons.
Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

One that can't f***, and one that isn't real.

Yeah, checks out.
Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 11:44 AM (1YL6+)
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Nuh uh. Pandas are Sex Machines. Dragons are real. I've seen them in the movies.

Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

181
Fourth set of plates. Bought two new holders besides the holder that came on the truck. Now the plate rides inside on the dash.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 11:48 AM (NcUvK)

And Barney Fife will pull you over and tell you that's not a legal display of the plate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)

182 VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY
From gatewaypundit...

The Obama Foundation is recruiting up to 100 unpaid volunteers to help operate the $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Chicago when it opens this summer.

The positions, described as part of a special volunteer initiative, will involve greeting visitors, directing guests around the campus, and explaining exhibits at the center’s museum tower, athletic facilities, and Chicago Public Library branch

Posted by: Stateless at March 16, 2026 11:49 AM (Sco7b)

183 It's not Pooh Day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)

DAMMIT!!!! When will they listen to me????

Posted by: Dr. Scatology, Renowned Author and Pervert. at March 16, 2026 11:49 AM (dmDsy)

184 CBS no longer being doctrinal leftist at every opportunity may, I believe, have a larger impact than Musk buying X.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 11:47 AM (p7EWr)

It's a big change but I have to disagree. Musk taking Twitter out of the Left's control is so big it can't be measured because the effect is still being compounded daily

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:50 AM (oob1u)

185 And Barney Fife will pull you over and tell you that's not a legal display of the plate.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

And I'll tell Barney Fife that's the fourth plate in five years. He can buy a new holder. And I'll tell the judge that too.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 11:50 AM (NcUvK)

186 I say it a lot, but I think it probably takes a lot more training and talent to be a professional clown than it does to be Judge Boasberg.

Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 11:30 AM (1YL6+)

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Touché, mon ami!

Posted by: ShainS at March 16, 2026 11:50 AM (xHp2Q)

187 It is good to see empty Tricolor lots in Dallas and Houston.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 16, 2026 11:50 AM (cnNUe)

188 Volunteers for an $850 million gig?

Sounds like slavery to me.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2026 11:50 AM (2GVsD)

189
The Obama Foundation is recruiting up to 100 unpaid volunteers to help operate the $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Chicago when it opens this summer.

The positions, described as part of a special volunteer initiative, will involve greeting visitors, directing guests around the campus, and explaining exhibits at the center’s museum tower, athletic facilities, and Chicago Public Library branch
Posted by: Stateless at March 16, 2026 11:49 AM (Sco7b)

Meanwhile, executives of said scam library make millions.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:51 AM (Zz0t1)

190 184 It's a big change but I have to disagree. Musk taking Twitter out of the Left's control is so big it can't be measured because the effect is still being compounded daily

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:50 AM (oob1u)

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I think X tends to be downstream and affect people who actively try to be in the know.

CBS tends to be upstream and tend to affect people who are more passive in acquiring news.

That's where I think the impact may end up being bigger.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 11:51 AM (p7EWr)

191 A grocery store is probably a suboptimal location to try to hock your used underware.

Maybe try a pawn shop?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 16, 2026 11:46 AM (uoXLf)

Or a vending machine in Tokyo?

Posted by: Denny Crane - Go Ahead, Ask Me How I Know. at March 16, 2026 11:51 AM (dmDsy)

192

And I'll tell Barney Fife that's the fourth plate in five years. He can buy a new holder. And I'll tell the judge that too.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 11:50 AM (NcUvK)

"Guilty of racism."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:51 AM (Zz0t1)

193 The hell kind of name is "fifth third". Maybe the bankers called it that because their investors are going to get back 1/15 of what they put in

Posted by: gKWVE at March 16, 2026 11:51 AM (gKWVE)

194 Tricolor because Redline Car Loans was too on the nose.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2026 11:52 AM (2GVsD)

195 Young Mojhat starts out in life as big remote mulla with a tidy little nest egg of about 100 beelions. He'll have the best bionic laig available.

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2026 11:52 AM (LHPAg)

196 You mean a business that targeted criminals for its customer base was itself unscrupulous?
Shocked, yes shocked I am to hear of it.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at March 16, 2026 11:52 AM (WUQWR)

197 It's always one battle after another round these parts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 11:38 AM

The Promethean struggle can seem Sisyphean at times.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 16, 2026 11:53 AM (hSO5P)

198 How much of this can be explained by their attitude that the loans were really just an excuse to bill a lot of people who more likely than not would have been paying and paying for many years because they did not have good understanding of system?

Like the prison phone scams where they charge prisoners $1 a minute for local calls. They do it because they can. The costs or accounting are immaterial -- just keep sending bills to people who have no choice but to keep paying.

It checks all the boxes, vulnerable client base, perpetual payments, lots of fees and penalties, they are subsidized by government welfare, and it's "social justice."

I wonder if anyone is reporting on it from that angle. These are the attributes that the financiers love. Who cares about things like accounting, just send the sucker another bill and he will pay, he has no choice.

I have known people in this situation - they are overwhelmed by their bills and just pay and pay. Many are stupid, but I think many just lose hope. This is vulture capitalism at its finest and Biden *encouraged* it by calling it "Social Bonds."

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 16, 2026 11:53 AM (Z4zOi)

199 119 Paul Ehrlich is dead at 93. He was wrong again and again yet they still make excuses for him.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 16, 2026 11:34 AM (gQ15S)

Hopefully he and Thomas Malthus are down in hell being forced to look each other directly in the eyes with white hot iron spiked ball gags in their mouths as they get sodomized by 20-inch demonic cocks covered in spinning blades. For all eternity.

Posted by: I hope their suffering is legendary even in hell at March 16, 2026 11:53 AM (TbWk/)

200 Last National Bank would have been more honest.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2026 11:53 AM (2GVsD)

201 I don't think you guys want to go back to paper plates right?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:53 AM (oob1u)

202 Paul Ehrlick is finally carbon neutral?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2026 11:54 AM (2GVsD)

203 The Obama Foundation is recruiting up to 100 unpaid volunteers to help operate the $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Chicago when it opens this summer.

The positions, described as part of a special volunteer initiative, will involve greeting visitors, directing guests around the campus, and explaining exhibits at the center’s museum tower, athletic facilities, and Chicago Public Library branch
Posted by: Stateless at March 16, 2026 11:49 AM (Sco7b)

Hell all kinds of corporations do this too, they just call it an internship.

Posted by: Soon to be pay the company to work there at March 16, 2026 11:54 AM (TbWk/)

204 The Obama Foundation is recruiting up to 100 unpaid volunteers to help operate the $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Chicago when it opens this summer.
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Plenty of AWFLs would crawl over broken glass and put on the hijab for one of these positions.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 16, 2026 11:54 AM (Dv3i1)

205 VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY
From gatewaypundit...

The Obama Foundation is recruiting up to 100 unpaid volunteers to help operate the $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Chicago when it opens this summer.

The positions, described as part of a special volunteer initiative, will involve greeting visitors, directing guests around the campus, and explaining exhibits at the center’s museum tower, athletic facilities, and Chicago Public Library branch
Posted by: Stateless at March 16, 2026 11:49 AM (Sco7b)
______

That monstrosity is gonna open in 3 months? Really? Based on recent pics, it's still under significant construction and doesn't look close to competition. I'll shit myself with laughter if they end up postponing the opening, or opening up a construction project.

Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 11:54 AM (iFTx/)

206 The hell kind of name is "fifth third". Maybe the bankers called it that because their investors are going to get back 1/15 of what they put in
Posted by: gKWVE

Fourth iteration of previous bankrupt banks?

"But this time we'll do it right!"

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 11:54 AM (NcUvK)

207 Congratulations Duke Lowell on your CPA son. Looks like there will soon be some job openings for him!

Posted by: gKWVE at March 16, 2026 11:54 AM (gKWVE)

208 Pandas are like my favorite animals. Them, and dragons.
Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade

How about dinosaurs?

https://is.gd/Da039Z

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 16, 2026 11:55 AM (ndZc7)

209 198 Like the prison phone scams where they charge prisoners $1 a minute for local calls. They do it because they can. The costs or accounting are immaterial -- just keep sending bills to people who have no choice but to keep paying.

It checks all the boxes, vulnerable client base, perpetual payments, lots of fees and penalties, they are subsidized by government welfare, and it's "social justice."

I wonder if anyone is reporting on it from that angle. These are the attributes that the financiers love. Who cares about things like accounting, just send the sucker another bill and he will pay, he has no choice.

I have known people in this situation - they are overwhelmed by their bills and just pay and pay. Many are stupid, but I think many just lose hope. This is vulture capitalism at its finest and Biden *encouraged* it by calling it "Social Bonds."
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 16, 2026 11:53 AM (Z4zOi)

I can't even begin to tell you the number of prisoners who filed legal complaints against T-Netix (a company that provides telephone service to prisoners)

Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 11:55 AM (1YL6+)

210 204 The Obama Foundation is recruiting up to 100 unpaid volunteers to help operate the $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Chicago when it opens this summer.
___

Plenty of AWFLs would crawl over broken glass and put on the hijab for one of these positions.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 16, 2026 11:54 AM (Dv3i1)

And suck Big Mike's dick.

Posted by: Mmmf mmmf slurp at March 16, 2026 11:55 AM (TbWk/)

211 VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY
From gatewaypundit...

The Obama Foundation is recruiting up to 100 unpaid volunteers to help operate the $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Chicago when it opens this summer.

The positions, described as part of a special volunteer initiative, will involve greeting visitors, directing guests around the campus, and explaining exhibits at the center’s museum tower, athletic facilities, and Chicago Public Library branch

Posted by: Stateless at March 16, 2026 11:49 AM (Sco7b)

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Young, gay, black men and trannies with experience in bathhouses and paddle boarding encouraged to apply!

Posted by: ShainS at March 16, 2026 11:55 AM (H01bu)

212 I saw Indolent Foreign CHUDs open for GWAR at the Cow Palace in '92.

Posted by: ballistic at March 16, 2026 11:55 AM (3BwY8)

213 201 I don't think you guys want to go back to paper plates right?
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:53 AM (oob1u)

And just who the hell do you think you are, Mister!?!

Posted by: Dixie Corp. at March 16, 2026 11:56 AM (dmDsy)

214 Paul Ehrlick is finally carbon neutral?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2026 11:54 AM

I think this is where his stored carbon begins to be released back into the environment.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 16, 2026 11:56 AM (hSO5P)

215 The only time I’ve ever seen Fifth Third banks are when vacationing in SW Michigan

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 16, 2026 11:57 AM (UvXT3)

216 2021 Ford F-150. Front license plate holder is plastic and snaps on to plastic air dam on front.
Methican Americans at the local Wal Mart pop them off with ease.

Have a 2021 F-150 on it's fourth plate.
Plates usually last 7 years before they reissue new ones.
Posted by: rickb223

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But have you gotten any tickets on the stolen plates?

Do they have red light cameras or speed cameras in Texas.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 16, 2026 11:57 AM (Z4zOi)

217 Is it the banks sending these "repossessed" cars to Mexico for sale? Is it the bank, or the car manufacturer (their "bank") that hold the titles? Is the market better in Mexico than here ... or do they not wat to suppress the US car market? Doesn't make sense to me, unless the Mexico cartels are somehow the buyers for pennies on the dollar.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 16, 2026 11:57 AM (vbXSk)

218 211 VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY
From gatewaypundit...

The Obama Foundation is recruiting up to 100 unpaid volunteers to help operate the $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Chicago when it opens this summer.

That "building "looks like one of the burned out remnants of the Iran war....

Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2026 11:57 AM (mpEqY)

219 can't even begin to tell you the number of prisoners who filed legal complaints against T-Netix (a company that provides telephone service to prisoners)
Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 11:55 AM (1YL6+)

Probably around the same number who file fake tax returns.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:57 AM (oob1u)

220 211 Young, gay, black men and trannies with experience in bathhouses and paddle boarding encouraged to apply!
Posted by: ShainS at March 16, 2026 11:55 AM (H01bu)

If Barry wants 'em black, he won't be getting troons (though he may get some drag queens) other than Big Mike.

Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 11:57 AM (1YL6+)

221 Barack likes his homos fat and white.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:58 AM (Zz0t1)

222 It's always one battle after another round these parts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 11:38 AM (p7EWr)

No it's not.

Posted by: ... at March 16, 2026 11:58 AM (KMzr2)

223 But have you gotten any tickets on the stolen plates?

Do they have red light cameras or speed cameras in Texas.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 16, 2026 11:57 AM (Z4zOi)

Depends. Voted them down in Houston.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 16, 2026 11:59 AM (oob1u)

224 That "building "looks like one of the burned out remnants of the Iran war....

Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2026 11:57 AM (mpEqY)

Appropriate for several reasons.

Posted by: ... at March 16, 2026 11:59 AM (KMzr2)

225 * perks up *

Posted by: David F. at March 16, 2026 11:59 AM (hSO5P)

226 There may be more to the new Supreme Leader goes to sex clinic than meets the eye.

https://is.gd/pqftJA

What's this going to do to the 72 virgin rule?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 16, 2026 11:59 AM (ndZc7)

227 I can't even begin to tell you the number of prisoners who filed legal complaints against T-Netix (a company that provides telephone service to prisoners)
Posted by: XTC

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I am as "tough on crime" as anyone, but the people who runt those prison phone businesses should be flayed, and the state workers who approve the plans should have to eat the skin.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 16, 2026 11:59 AM (Z4zOi)

228 Pandas are like my favorite animals. Them, and dragons.
Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade

How about dinosaurs?

https://is.gd/Da039Z
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 16, 2026 11:55 AM (ndZc7)
_____

That wasn't a dinosaur. You can't fool me. That was a Pelycosaur.

Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

229 Barack likes his homos fat and white.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:58 AM (Zz0t1)

Chris Matthews still has that tingle down his leg…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 16, 2026 11:59 AM (UvXT3)

230 222 It's always one battle after another round these parts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 11:38 AM (p7EWr)

No it's not.

Posted by: ... at March 16, 2026 11:58 AM (KMzr2)

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That's just a contradiction.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 11:59 AM (p7EWr)

231 But have you gotten any tickets on the stolen plates?

Do they have red light cameras or speed cameras in Texas.
Posted by: bob

No. Yes. I reported them the next day and got new plates issued on the spot.

See. This is where I advocate setting up a sniper hide and when they steal the plate, drop the thief and leave the body lay as a warning to other thieves.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 12:00 PM (NcUvK)

232 215 The only time I’ve ever seen Fifth Third banks are when vacationing in SW Michigan
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I don't think I'd qualify them as a 'money center' bank. I think they are a step below as a super-regional bank.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 16, 2026 12:00 PM (Dv3i1)

233 Barack likes his homos fat and white.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:58 AM

He never calls!

Posted by: Barney Frank at March 16, 2026 12:00 PM (bFu5X)

234 227 I am as "tough on crime" as anyone, but the people who runt those prison phone businesses should be flayed, and the state workers who approve the plans should have to eat the skin.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 16, 2026 11:59 AM (Z4zOi)

In most states, that'd be an Administrative Law Judge (it's always Judges) for their Utility Commission or Service Commission.

Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 12:01 PM (1YL6+)

235 That's just a contradiction.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 11:59 AM (p7EWr)

No it's not.

Posted by: The CONTRARIAN!!! at March 16, 2026 12:01 PM (dmDsy)

236 Investigate DoorDash next. About half of DoorDashers I run into cant speak English. Makes me wonder sometimes…

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 16, 2026 12:01 PM (cnNUe)

237 Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 11:57 AM (1YL6+)

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:58 AM (Zz0t1)

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Horrid mind is a beautiful thing!

* wipes tear *

Posted by: ShainS at March 16, 2026 12:01 PM (H01bu)

238 Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 11:59 AM

Hang on...when did The Blade appropriate Zod's nic?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2026 12:02 PM (bFu5X)

239 233 Barack likes his homos fat and white.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 11:58 AM

He never calls!
Posted by: Barney Frank at March 16, 2026 12:00 PM (bFu5X)

Like, aren't you dead?

Posted by: The CONTRARIAN!!! at March 16, 2026 12:02 PM (dmDsy)

240 Interview with the new gayatollah -

https://tinyurl.com/33ruh37u

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 16, 2026 12:03 PM (Dv3i1)

241 161 Today is National Xi Day?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2026 11:45 AM (2GVsD)

--

No, it's National XVI Day

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at March 16, 2026 12:03 PM (ntutk)

242 VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY
From gatewaypundit...

The Obama Foundation is recruiting up to 100 unpaid volunteers to help operate the $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Chicago when it opens this summer.

That "building "looks like one of the burned out remnants of the Iran war....

Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2026 11:57 AM (mpEqY)

Hmm, you know, it really does.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 16, 2026 12:03 PM (snZF9)

243 239 Like, aren't you dead?
Posted by: The CONTRARIAN!!! at March 16, 2026 12:02 PM (dmDsy)

Zero down
Financing
He is the Banking Queeeeeeen.

Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 12:04 PM (1YL6+)

244 Is it the banks sending these "repossessed" cars to Mexico for sale?

No. Usually it's Grupos de Mexicos doing it.

Banks literally "write them off" and run them through auction houses and get pennies on the dollar. Some hustling person or group sets up a business, buys them and then transports them to Mexico and sells them.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 12:04 PM (NcUvK)

245 I'm so old I remember when one of the left's complaints was that unpaid volunteer work was unfair to poorer people...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2026 12:04 PM (sKqQm)

246 Hang on...when did The Blade appropriate Zod's nic?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2026 12:02 PM (bFu5X)

yeah, ZOD Imperial is going to be pissed.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 16, 2026 12:04 PM (snZF9)

247 I'm not dead yet!

Posted by: Barney Frank at March 16, 2026 12:05 PM (bFu5X)

248 Investigate DoorDash next. About half of DoorDashers I run into cant speak English. Makes me wonder sometimes…

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 16, 2026 12:01 PM (cnNUe)

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A few months back I think Ace posted a link to a good essay on that (maybe at City journal?) -- that particular gig market for taking advantage of and abusing illegal aliens, many on mopeds and bicycles.

Wish I could recall the specifics and provide a link ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 16, 2026 12:05 PM (H01bu)

249 All the CEOs get to keep their 7 figure salaries though.

Posted by: Heroq at March 16, 2026 12:05 PM (hNsiU)

250 245 I'm so old I remember when one of the left's complaints was that unpaid volunteer work was unfair to poorer people...
____

I can't wait for the volunteers to unionize.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 16, 2026 12:05 PM (Dv3i1)

251
There is only one Zod.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 16, 2026 12:05 PM (3ek7K)

252 There is only one Zod.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 16, 2026 12:05 PM (3ek7K)

This.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

253 I'm not dead yet!

Posted by: Barney Frank at March 16, 2026 12:05 PM (bFu5X)

Your not fooling anybody, you'll be stone dead in a minute.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 16, 2026 12:06 PM (snZF9)

254 Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 11:59 AM

Hang on...when did The Blade appropriate Zod's nic?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2026 12:02 PM (bFu5X)
________

Ahh ... it was for an in-joke last week, I forgot to change in back ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 12:06 PM (iFTx/)

255 254 Ahh ... it was for an in-joke last week, I forgot to change in back ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 12:06 PM (iFTx/)

=====

Oh, it's a joke.

I get jokes.

HAHAHAHA!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 12:06 PM (p7EWr)

256 Zero down
Financing
He is the Banking Queeeeeeen.
Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 12:04 PM

Being form MA, that was always one of my favorite Shanklin parodies.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2026 12:06 PM (bFu5X)

257 248 A few months back I think Ace posted a link to a good essay on that (maybe at City journal?) -- that particular gig market for taking advantage of and abusing illegal aliens, many on mopeds and bicycles.

Wish I could recall the specifics and provide a link ...
Posted by: ShainS at March 16, 2026 12:05 PM (H01bu)

Citizens make an account, then rent the use of it to illegal aliens for a percentage.

Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 12:06 PM (1YL6+)

258 I'm not dead yet!

Posted by: Barney Frank at March 16, 2026 12:05 PM (bFu5X)

Your not fooling anybody, you'll be stone dead in a minute.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 16, 2026 12:06 PM

I think I'll go for a walk.

Posted by: Barney Frank at March 16, 2026 12:07 PM (bFu5X)

259 252 There is only one Zod.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 16, 2026 12:05 PM (3ek7K)

This.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

I just assumed that Zod had transitioned....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 16, 2026 12:08 PM (dmDsy)

260 Now, they'll just go back to stealing plates.
Posted by: Sponge

Rivets

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 16, 2026 12:08 PM (0U5gm)

261 Auto debt is probably the most destructive thing for middle class finances. If people had to pay cash for cars they’d be so much better off long term.

Posted by: Heroq at March 16, 2026 12:09 PM (hNsiU)

262 I often ponder our shitty corrupt govenrment doing this in all the countries we "help". Makes me sick, amoung other things.

Posted by: connected and litigious at March 16, 2026 12:09 PM (cS1cw)

263 *Shakes ipad*

Wake up, Ace!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 16, 2026 12:09 PM (u73oe)

264 nd I'll tell Barney Fife that's the fourth plate in five years. He can buy a new holder. And I'll tell the judge that too.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 11:50 AM (NcUvK)

90 days for you!!

Posted by: Crazy Judge Boasberg King Of The Universe at March 16, 2026 12:09 PM (5xuJ/)

265 Citizens make an account, then rent the use of it to illegal aliens for a percentage.

Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 12:06 PM (1YL6+)

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That was the scam, thank you!

Posted by: ShainS at March 16, 2026 12:09 PM (H01bu)

266 https://x.com/NoLimitGains/status/
2033450106175758731/photo/1

Iran is so winning because AI slop, guys.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 12:10 PM (p7EWr)

267 Susie Wiles is an incredible Chief of Staff, a great person, and one of the strongest people I know but, unfortunately, she has been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, and has decided to take on this challenge, IMMEDIATELY, as opposed to waiting. She has a fantastic medical team, and her prognosis is excellent! During the treatment period, she will be spending virtually full time at the White House, which makes me, as President, very happy! Her Strength and her Commitment to continue doing the job she loves, and does so well, while undergoing treatment, tells you everything you need to know about her. Susie, as one of my closest and most important advisors, is tough and deeply committed to serving the American People. She will soon be better than ever! Melania and I are with her in every way, and we look forward to working with Susie on the many big and wonderful things that are happening for the benefit of our Country! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 12:10 PM (NcUvK)

268 Auto debt is probably the most destructive thing for middle class finances. If people had to pay cash for cars they’d be so much better off long term.

Posted by: Heroq

I paid off my first car asap, then started saving a similar amount afterwards. When I wanted a replacement, I paid cash, and have been repeating the process ever since.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 16, 2026 12:11 PM (0U5gm)

269 I ordered delivery from Pizza Hut recently… door dash somehow inherited the delivery responsibility. They were a disaster… took more than an hour for the pizza to arrive; they changed to a different driver midway through the process. Pizza Hut farming out their deliveries to door dash just cost them a customer because that experience has me deciding I won’t be ordering their pizza again. BTW the order took so long the pizza wasn’t hot when I got it… kinda lukewarm.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 16, 2026 12:11 PM (UvXT3)

270 The democrats hate the USA. First Obama destroyed most of the used cars, then Biden mandates car loans to illegals.

All hurting actual Americans that live here.

Another day ending in y.

Posted by: connected and litigious at March 16, 2026 12:12 PM (cS1cw)

271 A few months back I think Ace posted a link to a good essay on that (maybe at City journal?) -- that particular gig market for taking advantage of and abusing illegal aliens, many on mopeds and bicycles.

Wish I could recall the specifics and provide a link ...
Posted by: ShainS

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Yeah, I remember that.

The reason I brought it up is because I think that was a big driver for the replacement - the new clients are very easy to exploit and certain businesses like that. And subsidized by gov., and it's social justice. The uber think you talk about is a good example. Same with crap food sold by stores, or the relentless costs if you get arrested.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 16, 2026 12:12 PM (Z4zOi)

272 Is Trump's "emergency" press conference being held to tell news about Suzie Wiles?

Posted by: M. Gaga at March 16, 2026 12:12 PM (KiBMU)

273 I'll tell Barney Fife that's the fourth plate in five years. He can buy a new holder. And I'll tell the judge that too.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 11:50 AM (NcUvK)

Citizens arrest! Citizens arrest!! — Gomer Pyle

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 16, 2026 12:13 PM (UvXT3)

274 BTW the order took so long the pizza wasn’t hot when I got it… kinda lukewarm.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 16, 2026 12:11 PM

*giggles insanely*

Posted by: The Noid at March 16, 2026 12:13 PM (bFu5X)

275 269 I ordered delivery from Pizza Hut recently… door dash somehow inherited the delivery responsibility. They were a disaster… took more than an hour for the pizza to arrive; they changed to a different driver midway through the process. Pizza Hut farming out their deliveries to door dash just cost them a customer because that experience has me deciding I won’t be ordering their pizza again. BTW the order took so long the pizza wasn’t hot when I got it… kinda lukewarm.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 16, 2026 12:11 PM (UvXT3)

Happens with GrubHub too.

A driver will abandon an assignment they accepted (usually because they want a bigger tip than you gave them), and you have to wait for someone else to take it.

Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 12:13 PM (1YL6+)

276 I assume these car loans were mostly for "buy here, pay here" places.

Having been in the car business myself, the way this works is a dealer will sell a car they bought for $3000 for $8000. The dealer will take $4000 in cash, and finance the rest at maximum legal rates.

The dealer already covered the cost of the car in cash, plus a little profit, so the loan is just gravy. When the borrower inevitably defaults, the car is repoed and sold again.

What Tricolor seems to have done is taken all these loans and repackage and sold them to banks, who then sold them as investment vehicles. Insanely risky.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 12:14 PM (iFTx/)

277 Losing TriColor cleaned up Bissonette and Shephard in Houston so theres that

Posted by: DanMan at March 16, 2026 12:15 PM (8uzBS)

278 What Tricolor seems to have done is taken all these loans and repackage and sold them to banks, who then sold them as investment vehicles. Insanely risky.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 12:14 PM (iFTx/)

Well, at least not for them.

LOL

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 16, 2026 12:15 PM (dmDsy)

279 276 What Tricolor seems to have done is taken all these loans and repackage and sold them to banks, who then sold them as investment vehicles. Insanely risky.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 12:14 PM (iFTx/)

Just wait until they start running "prediction market" prop bets on whether borrowers will pay back in full (or how long into the loan they'll default)...

Posted by: XTC at March 16, 2026 12:15 PM (1YL6+)

280 President Trump talking now on FoxNews....

Posted by: Stateless at March 16, 2026 12:16 PM (Sco7b)

281 I had a GH driver bail out on a Little Caesar’s and GH sent a new pizzia gratis.
Sometimes the driver has a car and it can take awhile. If they are on e bikes, they move quickly.

Posted by: Accomack at March 16, 2026 12:16 PM (GbONR)

282 Y'know, I can't help but think that if government financial institutions were forced to follow the same standards and practices that their non-governmental counterparts are - by law, passed by congress - this kind of thing would happen less.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 16, 2026 12:16 PM (a+4eV)

283 Try actually walking into a Papa Johns to order a pizza. It's not hilarity that ensues trust me. It's anger, disbelief, and thoughts of vengence.

"sorry sir you need to use the app"

Posted by: connected and litigious at March 16, 2026 12:16 PM (cS1cw)

284 Auto debt is probably the most destructive thing for middle class finances. If people had to pay cash for cars they’d be so much better off long term.

There is good and bad debt.

If you borrow to buy a car to just get you to a job, that's probably good debt.

If you buy more car then you need to just get to work and you finance it that is likely bad debt.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2026 12:17 PM (sKqQm)

285 Prop bets on repayment odds are derivatives. What’s her name, the blonde chick something Masters came up with it.

Posted by: Accomack at March 16, 2026 12:17 PM (GbONR)

286 I ordered delivery from Pizza Hut recently… door dash somehow inherited the delivery responsibility. They were a disaster… took more than an hour for the pizza to arrive; they changed to a different driver midway through the process. Pizza Hut farming out their deliveries to door dash just cost them a customer because that experience has me deciding I won’t be ordering their pizza again. BTW the order took so long the pizza wasn’t hot when I got it… kinda lukewarm.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 16, 2026 12:11 PM (UvXT3)
_______

Ordered a pizza from Uno's once. The delivery driver brought it to me in a bag with the pizza box -- an obvious pizza box from a pizza place -- standing up vertically in the bag. I thought I was being punked. I wasn't. This fucking idiot carried a pizza around vertically.

Of course when I opened the box, it didn't look like pizza. It looked like mushy soup.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 12:18 PM (iFTx/)

287 249 All the CEOs get to keep their 7 figure salaries though.
Posted by: Heroq at March 16, 2026 12:05 PM (

They shouls be forced to work for $7.25/hr only.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 16, 2026 12:18 PM (cnNUe)

288 Ace opened a Learing Center and is ignoring us now, isn't he.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

289 That's just a contradiction.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 11:59 AM (p7EWr)

You got me.

Posted by: ... at March 16, 2026 12:18 PM (KMzr2)

290 I had a GH driver bail out on a Little Caesar’s and GH sent a new pizzia gratis.
Sometimes the driver has a car and it can take awhile. If they are on e bikes, they move quickly.
Posted by: Accomack
__________

What's the rule on tipping these delivery services drivers beyond the delivery fee?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 16, 2026 12:19 PM (XvL8K)

291 Anyone here doubt that Jamie Dimon was personally involved in this scam?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2026 12:19 PM (8zz6B)

292 288 Ace opened a Learing Center and is ignoring us now, isn't he.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

======

He's retweeting things on X now. Probably looking for a story to cobble some commentary on real quick.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 12:19 PM (p7EWr)

293 What Tricolor seems to have done is taken all these loans and repackage and sold them to banks, who then sold them as investment vehicles. Insanely risky.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 12:14 PM (iFTx/)

Well, at least not for them.

LOL
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 16, 2026 12:15 PM (dmDsy)
_____

Yea. They all made nice fat profits except the last one. See my post above. The entire plan was to pass this junk around, pocket the profits, and just hope you weren't the last one holding the bag.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

294 NYPost: Trump briefed that Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is probably gay — and president has priceless reaction

Trump couldn’t contain his surprise and laughed aloud when he was briefed on the intel, according to sources.

Others in the room also found it “hilarious” and joined the president’s reaction, while one senior intelligence official “has not stopped laughing about it for days,” said one person familiar with the briefing.

Posted by: SMOD at March 16, 2026 12:20 PM (RHGPo)

295 Zero down and 60 month financing for E1 and up!

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2026 12:20 PM (LHPAg)

296 Twenty years ago I got pizza delivery every so often.

Now? Its too expensive, too complex, and would show up cold.

How are we regressing as a society in so many things!?!

Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2026 12:21 PM (sKqQm)

297 Ordered a pizza from Uno's once. The delivery driver brought it to me in a bag with the pizza box -- an obvious pizza box from a pizza place -- standing up vertically in the bag. I thought I was being punked. I wasn't. This fucking idiot carried a pizza around vertically.

Of course when I opened the box, it didn't look like pizza. It looked like mushy soup.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 12:18 PM (iFTx/)

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"Try our new Briefcase Supreme Pizza!"

Posted by: ShainS at March 16, 2026 12:21 PM (ju6Vm)

298 Yea. They all made nice fat profits except the last one. See my post above. The entire plan was to pass this junk around, pocket the profits, and just hope you weren't the last one holding the bag.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

But, what if there's a pizza in it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

299 Zero down and 60 month financing for E1 and up!
Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2026 12:20 PM

Don't forget the 19% part.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2026 12:22 PM (bFu5X)

300 He's retweeting things on X now. Probably looking for a story to cobble some commentary on real quick.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 12:19 PM (p7EWr)

Hey, when Ace gets here, let's all pretend that we don't know he's flailing aroung for a story to post!

This is gonna be great!

Posted by: Flounder at March 16, 2026 12:22 PM (dmDsy)

301 "Try our new Briefcase Supreme Pizza!"
Posted by: ShainS at March 16, 2026 12:21 PM

Cup o' Pizza ftw.

Posted by: Navin R. Johnson at March 16, 2026 12:23 PM (bFu5X)

302 "NYPost: Trump briefed that Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is probably gay — and president has priceless reaction"

Will they be throwing cardboard ayatollah from a rooftop?

Posted by: Ripley at March 16, 2026 12:23 PM (GUOwU)

303
Will they be throwing cardboard ayatollah from a rooftop?
Posted by: Ripley at March 16, 2026 12:23 PM (GUOwU)

Hang it from a crane. It lasts longer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)

304 Susie Wiles has the big C, and we need her to get better for the sake of America and the world.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 16, 2026 12:23 PM (lIvnD)

305 Oh, it's a joke.

I get jokes.

HAHAHAHA!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 12:06 PM

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE OFTEN PRETENDS NOT TO.

Posted by: BEN ROETHELISBERGER at March 16, 2026 12:24 PM (4w+Kg)

306 I don't think I ever ordered Pizza delivery. A friend did it often.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 16, 2026 12:24 PM (d6BF2)

307
He's retweeting things on X now. Probably looking for a story to cobble some commentary on real quick.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 12:19 PM (p7EWr)

Teh Ewok got tired of cribbing stories from HotAir? ; )

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 16, 2026 12:24 PM (y9nCu)

308 Isn't Gayatollah dead? Or in a coma missing a leg?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

309 Extra tip is up to you. We never get the same guy twice, so, unless something extraordinary happens, 2$.
I always use the app. Some places do have restricted menus online. Popeyes and Pollo Compero don’t allow you to order multiple pieces of only one part of the chicken.

Posted by: Accomack at March 16, 2026 12:24 PM (GbONR)

310 305 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE OFTEN PRETENDS NOT TO.

Posted by: BEN ROETHELISBERGER at March 16, 2026 12:24 PM (4w+Kg)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 16, 2026 12:24 PM (p7EWr)

311 Isn't Gayatollah dead? Or in a coma missing a leg?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

As long as it's not his third leg. He's spent a lot of money on that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)

312 Susie Wiles has the big C, and we need her to get better for the sake of America and the world.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 16, 2026 12:23 PM (lIvnD)

Early detection. Lumpectomy, treatments and radiation. She'll be tired a f*ck, but will be fine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 12:26 PM (Zz0t1)

313 I don't think I ever ordered Pizza delivery. A friend did it often.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 16, 2026 12:24 PM (d6BF2)
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I still remember the phone number of our local Domino's.

I haven't dialed that number in decades.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 16, 2026 12:26 PM (ESVrU)

314 I ordered delivery from Pizza Hut recently… door dash somehow inherited the delivery responsibility. They were a disaster… took more than an hour for the pizza to arrive; they changed to a different driver midway through the process. Pizza Hut farming out their deliveries to door dash just cost them a customer because that experience has me deciding I won’t be ordering their pizza again. BTW the order took so long the pizza wasn’t hot when I got it… kinda lukewarm.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

*Amazon & USPS has entered the chat

Amazon's drivers don't come this far out & they feel UPS charges them too much. So they give deliveries to USPS whose motto is, "You'll get it when you get it".

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 12:26 PM (NcUvK)

315 As long as it's not his third leg. He's spent a lot of money on that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)

Como se dice Nice Dick in Farsi

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 16, 2026 12:26 PM (gbOdA)

316
Teh Ewok got tired of cribbing stories from HotAir? ; )
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 16, 2026 12:24 PM (y9nCu)

Original content is for suckers.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 12:26 PM (Zz0t1)

317 Isn't Gayatollah dead? Or in a coma missing a leg?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

As long as it's not his third leg. He's spent a lot of money on that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 12:25 PM

When he snuffs it, will Trump do his YMCA dance?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2026 12:27 PM (bFu5X)

318 This is like the sub-prime mortgage fiasco back in '07 - '08. Everybody knew the banks made bad loans to unqualified buyers then bundled them to investors. Nobody asked why the banks knowingly made risky loans that brought the house down. Nobody remembered reading about the banks being accused all the way back in the early 90's by Bill Clinton and other Dems of 'redlining' certain high risk neighborhoods because they were neighborhoods of 'color'. Nobody remembered the Senate Banking committee - looking at Barney Frank, Shrillary and the JEF pressuring the banks to make these loans or risk losing their federal charter. It was another example of government wasting our tax dollars to address a problem THEY created!

OK - Unhinged Rant mode :

On [ ]

Off [X]

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 16, 2026 12:27 PM (QGaXH)

319 >>>The hell kind of name is "fifth third". Maybe the bankers called it that because their investors are going to get back 1/15 of what they put in

Posted by: gKWVE

>"Fifth Third" is a red flag to me. Why not just call it "Hobos In Ohio?" Weird. Give us your money, we need hookers and liquor and cocaine.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 16, 2026 12:27 PM (M9gjJ)

320 "Fifth Third" is a red flag to me. Why not just call it "Hobos In Ohio?" Weird. Give us your money, we need hookers and liquor and cocaine.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 16, 2026 12:27 PM (M9gjJ)

"TAKE MY MONEY!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 12:28 PM (Zz0t1)

321 Did a shelf fall on Ace?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 16, 2026 12:28 PM (xT8gx)

322 Susie Wiles is very pro-Cornyn.

That's all you need to know.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 16, 2026 12:28 PM (4w+Kg)

323 Susie Wiles has the big C, and we need her to get better for the sake of America and the world.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 16, 2026 12:23 PM (lIvnD
******
Yes pray for her. Early stage breast cancer
She will be working, but sometimes remotely while receiving treatment.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 16, 2026 12:28 PM (NpAcC)

324 304 Susie Wiles has the big C, and we need her to get better for the sake of America and the world.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 16, 2026 12:23 PM (lIvnD)
Hook her up with the best medical team and may GOD bless everyone concerned.

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2026 12:28 PM (LHPAg)

325 Isn't Gayatollah dead? Or in a coma missing a leg?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

Reports that he has been evacuated to Russia for more surgery.
Apparently they could not do the surgeries needed in Iran since the IRGC was occupying all the hospitals.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 16, 2026 12:28 PM (rbvCR)

326 Hunt Brothers Pizza is not awesome.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

327 Amazon's drivers don't come this far out & they feel UPS charges them too much. So they give deliveries to USPS whose motto is, "You'll get it when you get it".

I ordered a pair of pants from Amazon...shipped with USPS

On the day it was supposed to arrive...when I was home...I got a message it wasn't delivered because of animal interference.

I don't have any pets and again I was home all day. So I asked my regular mail guy and he told me someone else handles amazon stuff - call the office. Three calls of phone tag later where they kept saying they couldn't find my pants they just...show up in my mail box one day.

Was the alternative guy going to take them until his boss got on him? Where they buried in his truck and he found them later? Who knows...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2026 12:29 PM (sKqQm)

328 Is Ace sleeping off a wild weekend ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2026 12:29 PM (VE6XX)

329 Now that we've found out the new Ayatollah is a fag, we are quite concerned about our future viability.

Posted by: The Straights of Hormuz at March 16, 2026 12:29 PM (oftw2)

330 308 Isn't Gayatollah dead? Or in a coma missing a leg?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 12:24 PM (iFTx/

I hope he's alive. Let's end this war right now if he is. A complete embargo on Broadway musicals and showtunes.

Posted by: Stateless at March 16, 2026 12:29 PM (Sco7b)

331 So they give deliveries to USPS whose motto is, "You'll get it if and when you get it".
Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 12:26 PM

Suggested edit.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 16, 2026 12:30 PM (4w+Kg)

332
Zero down and 60 month financing for E1 and up!
Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2026 12:20 PM (LHPAg)

Imagine being crossed off the promotion list to E-7 because you went into default on your Pizza Mortgage.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 16, 2026 12:30 PM (y9nCu)

333 Did something just happen? Future crude shot up $5/barrel in one minute.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 16, 2026 12:30 PM (4NO2D)

334 Gayatollah.... heh, the horde has genius. Not that there's anything wrong with it!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 16, 2026 12:30 PM (xT8gx)

335 Sounds way too much like the plot to “Conclave” (2024), but replace hermaphroditism with gay, Catholic with Shia Islam.

Don’t let it be said that Allah doesn’t have a sense of humor.

Posted by: SMOD at March 16, 2026 12:30 PM (RHGPo)

336 Which stopped the stock market rally dead in it's tracks.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 16, 2026 12:31 PM (4NO2D)

337 Some motherfucker ruined my pants stealing scheme!

Posted by: Amazon driver at March 16, 2026 12:31 PM (u73oe)

338 Ayatollah of Rock-n-Rolla >>> One-legged Gayatollah

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 16, 2026 12:31 PM (iFTx/)

339 Was the alternative guy going to take them until his boss got on him? Where they buried in his truck and he found them later? Who knows...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2026 12:29 PM (sKqQm)

Doug Heffernan was the driver and he was in a fast food drive thru making a HUGE order...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 16, 2026 12:31 PM (xT8gx)

340 There are a lot of voices calling out that Private Equity funds as an industry is balls deep in really bad investments and pulling the same shenanigans that Tricolor has been doing. Since PE is really deep in housing, commercial real estate and marginal companies, the chances are that a Bear Stearns moment is coming and will pull everything they have on the table down as they drag the tablecloth off trying to stay solvent.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 16, 2026 12:31 PM (rbvCR)

341 328 Is Ace sleeping off a wild weekend ?
Posted by: It's me donna

Oscar party hangover.

Posted by: Auspex at March 16, 2026 12:32 PM (Y8DZL)

342 I still remember the phone number of our local Domino's.

I haven't dialed that number in decades.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 16, 2026 12:26 PM (ESVrU)

Well what is it?

We won't prank order you 30 pizzas, swearsies!!!!

Posted by: Flounder at March 16, 2026 12:32 PM (dmDsy)

343 I ordered a pair of pants from Amazon...shipped with USPS

On the day it was supposed to arrive...when I was home...I got a message it wasn't delivered because of animal interference.

I don't have any pets and again I was home all day. So I asked my regular mail guy and he told me someone else handles amazon stuff - call the office. Three calls of phone tag later where they kept saying they couldn't find my pants they just...show up in my mail box one day.

Was the alternative guy going to take them until his boss got on him? Where they buried in his truck and he found them later? Who knows...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2026 12:29 PM (sKqQm)
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Did you get them in time for the Sunday Morning Book Thread?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 16, 2026 12:32 PM (ESVrU)

344
Ace

Posted by: fourseasons at March 16, 2026 12:32 PM (3ek7K)

345 JustTheNews: Exclusive: Video shows Arizona center processing ballots in manner that alarmed Congress’ monitors

Posted by: SMOD at March 16, 2026 12:32 PM (RHGPo)

346 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 16, 2026 12:32 PM (Zz0t1)

347 Reports that he has been evacuated to Russia for more surgery.
Apparently they could not do the surgeries needed in Iran since the IRGC was occupying all the hospitals.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 16, 2026 12:28 PM (rbvCR)

Plus, Iranians hospitals don't treat the Gays...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 16, 2026 12:33 PM (dmDsy)

348 I hope he's alive. Let's end this war right now if he is. A complete embargo on Broadway musicals and showtunes.

Posted by: Stateless at March 16, 2026 12:29 PM (Sco7b)

I doubt that is possible. The remaining IRGC high brass has decamped for Canada

Posted by: Kindltot at March 16, 2026 12:33 PM (rbvCR)

349 Some motherfucker ruined my pants stealing scheme!
Posted by: Amazon driver
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A panty-waste.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 16, 2026 12:34 PM (XeU6L)

350 Paul Ehrlich is dead at 93. He was wrong again and again yet they still make excuses for him.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 16, 2026 11:34 AM (gQ15S)

Well, his personal "globe" is gonna get one hell of a lot warmer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2026 12:34 PM (8zz6B)

351
I hope he's alive. Let's end this war right now if he is. A complete embargo on Broadway musicals and showtunes.

Posted by: Stateless at March 16, 2026 12:29 PM (Sco7b)

What's Farsi for "YOU BRUTE! YOU BRUTE! YOU BRUTE!"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 16, 2026 12:35 PM (y9nCu)

352 Hey Shain: I did the “DoorDash” posts about how the business model is for a US citizen to get approved as a Dasher, then he subcontracts out his “franchise” to a group of slave/illegal laborers, with a wink and a nod from the food delivery company. I’d post the link but it might blow the margins.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at March 16, 2026 12:35 PM (HOnlm)

353 If the victimw had been an imam, we'd never hear the end of it but he was a pastor so this is the first I'm hearing about it.

Arizona man who admitted to crucifying pastor asks for death penalty so 'we can move on with our lives'
. . .
Sheafe, 51, is accused of murdering William Schonemann, the pastor of New River Bible Chapel, in April 2025 before mutilating the man's body. Schonemann was found dead with his arms spread out in his bed and his hands pinned to a wall, authorities said.
. . .
Sheafe told Fox 10 last year that the murder of Schonemann, 76, was part of a plot targeting more than a dozen Christian leaders across the country in a mission he called "Operation First Commandment."
He has claimed that Schonemann and other Christian pastors were leading followers onto a false path. The defendant’s father, Chris Sheafe, told the Arizona Family that his son had become obsessed with the Bible and has a large tattoo of a Hebrew word for God on his neck.

"Adam became extremely interested in the Old Testament. He read it extensively. And part of that process became his interest. We weren’t excited when we’d learned that he’d done it, but to have the tattoo," his father said.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 16, 2026 12:35 PM (ndZc7)

354 Did you get them in time for the Sunday Morning Book Thread?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 16, 2026 12:32 PM

One should never depend on only one pair of pants for the Book Thread. The stakes are too high. Have several pairs, just in crease.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 16, 2026 12:35 PM (sHfXa)

355 Some motherfucker ruined my pants stealing scheme!
Posted by: Amazon driver at March 16, 2026 12:31 PM

That son of a bitch stole my pants!

Posted by: Hobo in the Alley at March 16, 2026 12:35 PM (bFu5X)

356 One should never depend on only one pair of pants for the Book Thread. The stakes are too high. Have several pairs, just in crease.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 16, 2026 12:35 PM (sHfXa)

Nice way to end the thread!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 16, 2026 12:37 PM (dmDsy)

357 Shine on you crazy Dimon.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at March 16, 2026 12:39 PM (9EO0O)

358 Susie Wiles is an incredible Chief of Staff, a great person, and one of the strongest people I know but, unfortunately, she has been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, and has decided to take on this challenge, IMMEDIATELY, as opposed to waiting. She has a fantastic medical team,

Posted by: SMOD at March 16, 2026 12:40 PM (RHGPo)

359 Fourth set of plates. Bought two new holders besides the holder that came on the truck. Now the plate rides inside on the dash.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2026 11:48 AM (NcUvK)

Glitter-bomb plate holder?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2026 12:44 PM (8zz6B)

360 BabylonBee: The horror movie Sinners has officially won the Oscar for "Crappiest Movie To Win An Oscar". The award each year goes to the most awful, banal cinematic catastrophe that somehow squeaks out an Oscar for being extra gay or not having any white people in it. "And the award goes to...Sinners!" announced host Conan O'Brien. "You actually won an Oscar for that appalling pile of trash, congratulations.

Posted by: SMOD at March 16, 2026 12:52 PM (RHGPo)

361 352 Hey Shain: I did the “DoorDash” posts about how the business model is for a US citizen to get approved as a Dasher, then he subcontracts out his “franchise” to a group of slave/illegal laborers, with a wink and a nod from the food delivery company. I’d post the link but it might blow the margins.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at March 16, 2026 12:35 PM (HOnlm)

Cool. Given what I have seen with my own eyes I’d read that.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 16, 2026 01:28 PM (kBisb)

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