Trump Announces He Will Unilaterally Fund DHS and Dares Democrats to Sue to Stop Him;<br>Republican Senators Offer Democrats Deal, and Democrat Senators Accept

Trump Announces He Will Unilaterally Fund DHS and Dares Democrats to Sue to Stop Him;
Republican Senators Offer Democrats Deal, and Democrat Senators Accept

The "deal" is exactly what you'd expect from Mitch McConnell's prison punk John Thune: Capitulation. When a Ted Cruz demands a government shut-down to advance a conservative goal, the GOPe shrieks that that's not how we do business and caves immediately. But when the Democrats shut the government down, the GOPe also caves.

Update: Commenters disagree with my hot take. I have included their dissent before the jump.

But first, Trump's declaration that he will fund DHS on his own authority, citing powers under the National Emergencies Act.

I don't know if the president is allowed to bypass Congress' chief power over the purse through the Emergencies Act or if it's still beyond his power. But it's only beyond his power if a judge rules it so after Democrats bring lawsuit to stop him, and I don't know if they'd have the balls to be so open about wanting to keep TSA agents unpaid as well as DHS counter-terrorism agents during a war with the terror state of Iran.

Fox:

President Trump announced on Thursday he will sign an emergency order to pay TSA agents and hopefully relieve congestion at the nation's largest airports.
In a lengthy Truth Social post where he savaged Democrats for their role in refusing to fund the Department of Homeland Security, Trump said he would see that the agents are paid.
"Because the Democrats have recklessly created a true National Crisis, I am using my authorities under the Law to protect our Great Country, as I always will do!" Trump said.
"I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports. It is not an easy thing to do, but I am going to do it!," he wrote.
His announcement came as Republicans and Democrats struggle to fund the department and as Transportation Security Administration employees faced a second month without a paycheck.
Under the National Emergency Act, the president could order unspent government funds to be used to temporarily pay TSA employees -- a move that would bypass Congress.
Republicans have the majority in the Senate but lack the 60 votes needed to advance DHS funding in the legislative process.

Rather than letting this play out, GOPe Senators caved and gave the Democrats what they wanted -- the TSA would be funded, but the parts of DHS that Democrats want to defund, ICE and the Border Patrol, will be defunded, just as the Democrats wanted.

This is a deal? Give them everything they want?

DHS shutdown breakthrough comes at cost for Republicans as funding fights nears end

Senate Republicans are eying reconciliation as a long-term solution for ICE and CBP funding

Again, Thune is pushing the idea that he'll concede everything on the vote but he'll "make it up during budget reconciliation."

But budget reconciliation requires cuts to the budget. How exactly is spending the money for CBP and ICE a budget cut? The Democrats are actually cutting the budget by defunding two agencies.

Congress is one step closer to ending the Homeland Security shutdown after the Senate advanced a new, last-minute deal, but it came at the price of Republicans ceding ground, temporarily, to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
The Senate unanimously advanced a deal to reopen most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the wee hours of Friday morning, 42 days into the shutdown that was spurred by the Trump administration's immigration operations in Minnesota.
It was an agreement that largely gave Schumer and Senate Democrats what they wanted -- no funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and parts of Customs and Border Protection (CBP). But it lacked the stringent reforms they desired, like requiring judicial warrants or requiring agents to unmask.
While the deal mirrors previous attempts by Democrats to pass similar legislation that carved out immigration funding, Thune argued that Democrats are still walking away empty-handed in the policy fight over immigration enforcement.
"We've been trying for weeks to fund the whole thing," Thune said. "And, I mean, in the end, this is what they were willing to agree to. But again, it's different that it has zero reforms in it. I mean, they got no reforms on DHS, which they could have had if they had been willing to work with us a little bit on that."
Schumer said that if Republicans hadn't blocked their initial attempts, "this could have been done three weeks ago."
"This is exactly what we wanted," Schumer said. "This is what we asked for, and I'm very proud of my caucus. My caucus held the line."

Now it goes to the House -- and I'm sure House conservatives aren't happy about this.

But what Thune has done is make it politically costly for conservatives to veto the deal. Now, Democrats will be able to say "It's the MAGA Republican shut-down!"

Also, Thune has given up all leverage. The Democrats want to defund ICE and CBP. They want a wide-open border. You can only force them to fund those agencies by tying that funding to something that it is costly for them to refuse to fund -- like TSA and DHS counter-terrorism operations.

But now, they have the funding for the stuff they want, and can refuse to fund the stuff they don't want with no penalty whatsoever.

And Republican Senators are already warning us: BTW, this whole "reconcilliation" thing is Failure Theater Bullshit so don't expect the funding to actually pass.

And some Republicans are already couching expectations on what can and can't be accomplished in the party-line process, given that anything in the bill has to pass muster with strict rules in the Senate.
"I think we have to set our sights a little bit lower on this reconciliation bill," Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told Fox News Digital. "It's got to be targeted to fund ICE for 10 years, I think that's the number one thing to us."

Or possibly he's saying "I know we told you we'd pass the SAVE Act by reconciliation, which was also Failure Theater Bullshit, but now that we've got this new Failure Theater Bullshit production going, you have to accept we've got to "set our sights a little lower" and just do the ICE and CBP funding as our first-priority Failure Theater Bullshit.

It's almost as if the GOPe exists to pretend to oppose the Democrats while giving the communists everything they want, and then turning to the public and saying, "All of this was done constitutionally, because the 'opposition' party did in fact agree to all of the communists' demands."

Brilliant, Thune, you Gollum to Mitch McConnell's Sauron.

Update: Commenters disagree.

They played a big bluff...and had to fold it with losses, since they are now on record as giving in as a full group...
Posted by: Nova Local

If the bill doesn't include a bar on face masks, ID requirements, and a ban on ICE going into "sensitive" locations, then it's not a GOP cave, it's a Democrat cave.
Those things were what Democrats wanted. They said so many times.
They didn't get those things.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Ace, I see this differently: it was the Democunts who caved, assuming this deal goes through. You can tell by how desperately they moved the goalposts. Cuck Schemer is now cheering that ... he got TSA funded at airports.
The shutdown wasn't about incremental funding for ICE and BP, as ICE and BP are already funded through 2028. The shutdown was about unmasking agents, identification requirements, limits on where ICE could go, and basically making their lives hell.
Dums got none of that. So they are now pretending it was always about funding TSA at airports. (Huh? They shut down the gov't over TSA?) Since TSA funding was restored -- something Trump and the GOP wanted too -- the Dums are claiming they won.
This is a win for the GOP -- albeit not a 100% complete one -- and a cave for the Dums. Not the other way around.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

The Dems didn't get anything they wanted.
Why do we have to repeat what the left media says?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

🚨 BREAKING: Majority Leader Steve Scalise just PUMMELED Hakeem Jeffries using his OWN WORDS

"Jeffries, 2015: 'Our single job should be to FUND DHS! Anything else is an abdication our responsibility and legislative malpractice.'"

"Their party now stands with ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS,… pic.twitter.com/P6gQhB6GiK
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 27, 2026

🚨 BREAKING OVERNIGHT: The US Senate has PASSED a bill funding most of DHS following President Trump’s executive order to pay TSA workers using other funds

However, ICE and CBP are NOT funded.

DO NOT let Dems get away with that. pic.twitter.com/r4q16NX9Ns
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 27, 2026

🚨 JUST IN: Leader Thune is being eviscerated by some House Republicans after "in the dead of night" passing a DHS funding deal without ICE and CBP

REP. GREG STEUBE: "Of course Leader Thune and the Senate RINOs caved to Democrats who refuse to fund ICE and CBP. The American… pic.twitter.com/7RSxBHtL5t
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 27, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:10 PM

Comments

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1 Full moon is rising, the sky is black
I heed your call, I'm coming back
The road is straight cast, wind's in my eyes
The engine roars between my thighs

From desert plains I bring you ... FIRSTS

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

2 Always the same.

Posted by: steevy at March 27, 2026 12:11 PM (YwEeS)

3 Ummm, Ace, gotta disagree on this one. Ds caved in full...thus, why they weren't willing to vote, but just went for unanimous consent and none of their requested items...nothing. All they got was defunding something already funded til 2029.

They played a big bluff...and had to fold it with losses, since they are now on record as giving in as a full group...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 27, 2026 12:12 PM (tOcjL)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:12 PM (5bGGs)

5 In on the ground floor.

Posted by: Haste Makes Waste at March 27, 2026 12:12 PM (oftw2)

6 LUM has been nooded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:12 PM (5bGGs)

7 If the bill doesn't include a bar on face masks, ID requirements, and a ban on ICE going into "sensitive" locations, then it's not a GOP cave, it's a Democrat cave.

Those things were what Democrats wanted. They said so many times.

They didn't get those things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:13 PM (JmKZX)

8 Some Dem must have kompromat on Thune.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 12:14 PM (cWLG3)

9 Eh, the Democrats get absolutely ZERO out of this deal. Not even the watered-down "reforms" limp-dick Republicans previously conceded to.

It's not a GOP win by a long shot, but it's a HUGE Dem "L" - they get nothing for all of the pain they inflicted.

Posted by: can of spam at March 27, 2026 12:14 PM (14gFN)

10 *Waiting for TJM to tell Ace he's got it all wrong*

Oh boy! THIS is gonna be GREAT!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:14 PM (5bGGs)

11 "This is exactly what we wanted" Schumer

Good grief, and Thune is also grinning.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 27, 2026 12:15 PM (vbXSk)

12 @7 I hope you're right, Mr. Look on the Bright Side of Life!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 12:15 PM (cWLG3)

13 Some Dem must have kompromat on Thune.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 12:14 PM (cWLG3)

It is not actually Kompromat when everyone is in the club and they have joint nights-out to do things. It is merely getting along with our "colleagues across the isle." [sic]

Posted by: Kindltot at March 27, 2026 12:16 PM (rbvCR)

14 Yeah, I'm pissed. Unfortunately, *both* of my squishy GOP Senators are set to retire, so even if I let them have an earful, they won't care. Well, one of them might more than the other....

Posted by: pookysgirl, doomposting slightly at March 27, 2026 12:16 PM (Wt5PA)

15 10 *Waiting for TJM to tell Ace he's got it all wrong*

Oh boy! THIS is gonna be GREAT!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:14 PM (5bGGs)

And it only took 7 comments!

LOL

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 27, 2026 12:17 PM (dmDsy)

16 Yeah, I'm pissed. Unfortunately, *both* of my squishy GOP Senators are set to retire, so even if I let them have an earful, they won't care. Well, one of them might more than the other....
Posted by: pookysgirl, doomposting slightly at March 27, 2026 12:16 PM (Wt5PA)

They wouldn't care if they weren't retiring. They don't care about their constituents. ALL congresspersons hate their voters. They've been shitting on them for generations.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:18 PM (5bGGs)

17 The GOP (not even GOPe anymore, it's every single last one of them) exists solely to be Gunt Guards for the Demoncrats.

Make sure the Demoncrats get what they want, then moan and groan and failure theater and beg for more money.

Posted by: XTC at March 27, 2026 12:18 PM (FpHTM)

18
And it only took 7 comments!

LOL
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 27, 2026 12:17 PM (dmDsy)

yeah, I was a bit slow.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:18 PM (5bGGs)

19 The House Freedom Caucus just said they are a no on this bill until ICE is included and the SAVE Act is amended to it.

Also, Democrats did’t get everything they wanted. This is what Republicans proposed some time ago when Democrats indicated they would not vote to fund DHS. Democrats also wanted changes to ICE operations. Then when Republicans conceded some of that, Democrats raised the bar again and made a lot of other demands. That’s when Trump said FU and declared an emergency. At that point Democrats knew they were screwed and accepted the original deal Republicans proposed.

BTW just think about this. Democrats screwed American citizens and put them through the TSA wringer to show their support for illegal aliens. There is no other way to read what they did.

Is that their midterm winning message?

Posted by: Marcus T at March 27, 2026 12:19 PM (zfkPG)

20 No funding for ICE?

So, all the new agents are getting fired, right?

There are rescissions in the funding bill that undo OBBB, right?

ICE are just going to outright stop enforcing immigration law, that which they've been doing nonstop throughout the whole shutdown to the point where they were the only DHS employees getting paid in airports when they showed up to help TSA?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:19 PM (JmKZX)

21 I am going to exercise my right to look on the ( somewhat ) bright side of life, and thank a few regular commentators for bringing those points up.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 27, 2026 12:19 PM (PFs9e)

22 Deem it passed.

That works for the Dems.

Posted by: garrett at March 27, 2026 12:19 PM (W7FsI)

23 Thune needs to be disposed, soonest.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at March 27, 2026 12:20 PM (Q/FnY)

24 But GOOD NEWS everyone!

The UN wants TRILLIONS from all 'slave tied' countries for reparations!

We're SAVED!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:20 PM (5bGGs)

25 I just want the SAVE act…. And the ability to get through security at the airport in a reasonable time

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 27, 2026 12:21 PM (7gm9V)

26 Thune and McConnell disgust me.

They are taxation without representation personified.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 27, 2026 12:21 PM (dK+Kv)

27 I just want the SAVE act…. And the ability to get through security at the airport in a reasonable time
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 27, 2026 12:21 PM (7gm9V)

YOU'LL get NOTHING and LIKE IT!!!!!

Posted by: Judge Smails at March 27, 2026 12:22 PM (5bGGs)

28 Ace, I see this differently: it was the Democunts who caved, assuming this deal goes through. You can tell by how desperately they moved the goalposts. Cuck Schemer is now cheering that ... he got TSA funded at airports.

The shutdown wasn't about incremental funding for ICE and BP, as ICE and BP are already funded through 2028. The shutdown was about unmasking agents, identification requirements, limits on where ICE could go, and basically making their lives hell.

Dums got none of that. So they are now pretending it was always about funding TSA at airports. (Huh? They shut down the gov't over TSA?) Since TSA funding was restored -- something Trump and the GOP wanted too -- the Dums are claiming they won.

This is a win for the GOP -- albeit not a 100% complete one -- and a cave for the Dums. Not the other way around.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

29 24 But GOOD NEWS everyone!

The UN wants TRILLIONS from all 'slave tied' countries for reparations!

We're SAVED!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:20 PM (5bGGs)
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Put forward by Ghana and every former colonial empire in Europe abstained.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 12:22 PM (cWLG3)

30 Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 27, 2026 12:17 PM (dmDsy)

yeah, I was a bit slow.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:18 PM (5bGGs)

You kidding? You were there within a minute of the actual event!

You are hereby awarded the Nostradamus Award of the Day... Congratulations!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 27, 2026 12:22 PM (dmDsy)

31 Even if the Save Act passed we all know it will just be tied up in emergency injunction and endless litigation. And blue states still just trust refuse to comply while Hawaiian judges give them cover.

Posted by: brak at March 27, 2026 12:23 PM (BG30B)

32
You are hereby awarded the Nostradamus Award of the Day... Congratulations!
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 27, 2026 12:22 PM (dmDsy)

#Winning!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:23 PM (5bGGs)

33 28
This is a win for the GOP -- albeit not a 100% complete one -- and a cave for the Dums. Not the other way around.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

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But, you see, this bill doesn't include ICE funding, so all agents are fired as of right now.

Duh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:23 PM (JmKZX)

34 The Dems didn't get anything they wanted.

Why do we have to repeat what the left media says?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 27, 2026 12:23 PM (HXT0k)

35 It may be a huge dem loss, but it will not be sold that way in the media that dem voters and people who barely pay attention to politics watch and listen to. It will be a big win for truth, justice and the American way.

Posted by: huerfano at March 27, 2026 12:23 PM (98kQX)

36 And the SAVE Act?

Posted by: RI Red at March 27, 2026 12:23 PM (l8UMQ)

37 Thune can't ever get tired of winning, because he never wins.

What a pussy!

But oh gotta save their little vacation from their thieving jobs.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM (n5tGW)

38 You should understand what Democrats are doing.

Their crazy base is energized, that’s a fact. You can hand waive off the special elections, but they put up some very larger than normal numbers of voters. They need those people for the midterms.

This may sound like an electoral death wish to you (fighting for illegal aliens). But it’s a clarion call to their base who wants this and will show up in November in big numbers if they keep getting red meat.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM (zfkPG)

39 Thune is from South Dakota. You could probably primary him and win by switching 100 votes.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM (eerEz)

40
*Waiting for TJM to tell Ace he's got it all wrong*

Oh boy! THIS is gonna be GREAT!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:14 PM (5bGGs)

And it only took 7 comments!

LOL
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 27, 2026 12:17 PM (dmDsy)

Where's the "calling first is annoying and childish" guy at? Teh Horde could use another mouse to bat around with our Cat Claws of Doom.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM (y9nCu)

41 31 Even if the Save Act passed we all know it will just be tied up in emergency injunction and endless litigation. And blue states still just trust refuse to comply while Hawaiian judges give them cover.

Posted by: brak at March 27, 2026 12:23 PM (BG30B)

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I'm not sure if it could have ever been in effect for the 2026 midterms, even if passed early last year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM (JmKZX)

42 >>> 24 But GOOD NEWS everyone!

The UN wants TRILLIONS from all 'slave tied' countries for reparations!

We're SAVED!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:20 PM (5bGGs)

Have we started bombing the UN yet?

Posted by: a modest proposal at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM (ULPxl)

43 The GOP caves, the Democrats spelunk

Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM (45LId)

44 As others have pointed out this morning, at least ICE won't be in Toronto. So the mayor is happy.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM (Sco7b)

45 Thanks to Elric, James Madison, Nova Local and anyone else I forgot.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 27, 2026 12:25 PM (ZeH0U)

46 28 This is a win for the GOP -- albeit not a 100% complete one -- and a cave for the Dums. Not the other way around.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

Thune letting everyone leave and doing his stupid little Two Minutes Pro-Formas with no SAVE Act is a loss.

Posted by: XTC at March 27, 2026 12:25 PM (FpHTM)

47 38 Their crazy base is energized, that’s a fact. You can hand waive off the special elections, but they put up some very larger than normal numbers of voters. They need those people for the midterms.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM (zfkPG)

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Well, you're hand waving away the special elections where the GOP overperforms, so why can't I hand wave away the special elections where Democrats overperform?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:25 PM (JmKZX)

48 >>But oh gotta save their little vacation from their thieving jobs.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM

They are running for re-election. Gotta raise money sometime.

Posted by: huerfano at March 27, 2026 12:25 PM (98kQX)

49 >>>Some Dem must have kompromat on Thune.

Not even that. They're all uniparty. Simple as.

Posted by: brak at March 27, 2026 12:25 PM (BG30B)

50 Imagine the faces of Democrats when they see ICE ERO is still putting up big removal numbers. lol.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 27, 2026 12:25 PM (zfkPG)

51 Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM (Sco7b)

Is the Mayor of Toronto really that stupid?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 27, 2026 12:25 PM (ZeH0U)

52 The UN wants TRILLIONS from all 'slave tied' countries for reparations!

Past or current?

Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 12:25 PM (Sco7b)

53 46 Thune letting everyone leave and doing his stupid little Two Minutes Pro-Formas with no SAVE Act is a loss.

Posted by: XTC at March 27, 2026 12:25 PM (FpHTM)

=======

Actual recesses require a majority vote. The majority leader can't just make them happen.

I guarantee you there are at least 10 GOP senators who would never vote for a recess because the Senate does almost nothing else but lord over appointments, and they're not giving that up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:26 PM (JmKZX)

54 Hi friends- I know there is a lot going on today, but if you have a second, would you give a little prayer up for my youngest who just went under anesthesia for her wisdom teeth? Thank you!

Posted by: Piper at March 27, 2026 12:26 PM (DXIXb)

55 We all knew in November(hell we knew during his first term) the biggest obstacle for us and the Trump agenda were the Republicans. We'll be lucky if we don't take a bath in the mid terms. Another two year Trump administration possibly with his last two just being a lame duck.
At least some will be able to yell at people calling them doomers n black pill. Then if we lose big in the mid terms because of GOPe sabotage we can curse the GOPe for a while then go back to falling for the latest flavor of the month "conservative"and fight with each other over their authenticity. Then some will say I'm not voting for the bastards, then some will yell at those people asking why you would hand over a win to the enemy. Then the person we fought over IS the enemy, another Thune type. I'm to the point where I'm numb to it. Just pull the lever for an R and stfu. Hope for the best(?) I don't know anymore.

Posted by: JROD at March 27, 2026 12:26 PM (IlL6s)

56 40
Where's the "calling first is annoying and childish" guy at? Teh Horde could use another mouse to bat around with our Cat Claws of Doom.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM (y9nCu)
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There are a few "get off my lawn" types.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 12:26 PM (cWLG3)

57 As others have pointed out this morning, at least ICE won't be in Toronto. So the mayor is happy.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM (Sco7b)

I still want to know if she found Ford's crack stash.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:26 PM (5bGGs)

58 So I have to set my hair on fire again ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 12:27 PM (FtULh)

59 Piper at March 27, 2026 12:26 PM (DXIXb)

Of course.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 27, 2026 12:27 PM (ZeH0U)

60 >>> Full moon is rising, the sky is black
I heed your call, I'm coming back
The road is straight cast, wind's in my eyes
The engine roars between my thighs

From desert plains I bring you ... FIRSTS
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

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Stop. Just stop.

Posted by: I've been first before a time or two, but not once have I said first. at March 27, 2026 12:27 PM (BPDc6)

61 Hi friends- I know there is a lot going on today, but if you have a second, would you give a little prayer up for my youngest who just went under anesthesia for her wisdom teeth? Thank you!

Posted by: Piper at March 27, 2026 12:26 PM (DXIXb)

OOOOH! Record her when she gets out. She might start spewing some REALLY silly stuff.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:27 PM (5bGGs)

62 i added Nova Local and TJM's disagreement to the post.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:27 PM (1wjle)

63 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
TGIF
1 1,/2 hours to go

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2026 12:27 PM (KyaUN)

64 40 Where's the "calling first is annoying and childish" guy at? Teh Horde could use another mouse to bat around with our Cat Claws of Doom.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM (y9nCu)

Sponge is always first, no matter how much someone else claims it.

Posted by: XTC at March 27, 2026 12:27 PM (FpHTM)

65 51 Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM (Sco7b)

Is the Mayor of Toronto really that stupid?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 27, 2026 12:25 PM (ZeH0U

I haven't confirmed it but saw it several times this morning in previous threads.

And it wouldn't surprise me.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 12:28 PM (Sco7b)

66 >>The UN wants TRILLIONS from all 'slave tied' countries for reparations!

I have a better idea, let's just return ALL the slaves and/or their descendants to them.

Let them 'fuel' their economies.

Posted by: garrett at March 27, 2026 12:28 PM (W7FsI)

67 Posted by: I've been first before a time or two, but not once have I said first. at March 27, 2026 12:27 PM (BPDc6)

Good for you.

LGF bans people for doing it. You might be happier there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:28 PM (5bGGs)

68 God bless your daughter, Piper. May she heal quickly.

Posted by: huerfano at March 27, 2026 12:28 PM (98kQX)

69 62 i added Nova Local and TJM's disagreement to the post.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:27 PM (1wjle)

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Nova's fine.

But TJM?

Dude's an asshole who can't even read.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:28 PM (JmKZX)

70 I hope we're getting to the point in the exposure operation where people are shown the GOPe wing of the Democrats is not only complicit in the march of Marxism, it is instrumental to that choreographed march.

Because it's getting old!

Posted by: t-bird at March 27, 2026 12:28 PM (vhFJq)

71
So, there are plausible statements here saying both that this is a rout for Democrats, and a rout for Republicans.That ICE and Border Patrol were previously funded through 2028, and that their funding is being cut to make a shitty fake 'deal.' That Republicans are genuinely pissed and Democrats triumphant, and also that it's all just pretense and theater.

So which is it?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 27, 2026 12:28 PM (mS8PE)

72 They wouldn't care if they weren't retiring. They don't care about their constituents. ALL congresspersons hate their voters. They've been shitting on them for generations.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:18 PM (5bGGs)

One of them is Grassley. Y'all rag on him, but he's an old-school workhorse. The other is Ernst, who I am very disappointed in. I am not sure who she considers her constituents, since she doesn't do the annual 99-county tour that Grassley does.

Posted by: pookysgirl, Hawkeye 4 Life at March 27, 2026 12:28 PM (Wt5PA)

73 I'll also add to my comment above that this was all mostly a bukkake circle-jerk distraction while ICE and BP continue to do their good work.

How many shitheel hirudineans got arrested and deported, or blocked from entry, while the Democraps paraded around sucking each other's dicks with this shutdown?

Just like all the impotent mewling over Goode and Pretti, while ICE tore MN apart.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 12:28 PM (iFTx/)

74 >> Well, you're hand waving away the special elections where the GOP overperforms, so why can't I hand wave away the special elections where Democrats overperform?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:25 PM (JmKZX)

Dude I hope you are right. I hope you stand and point and laugh at me after the midterms.

It’s a long way away and we have a lot of ground to cover. If we can finish off Iran and get the economy humming than we should be ok. Provided GOP voters actually show up and we get Proof of Life from the RNC, which seems dead, Jim.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 27, 2026 12:29 PM (zfkPG)

75 Anesthesia for wisdom teeth? I just had novacaine and the gas. The gas made it kinda fun.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 27, 2026 12:29 PM (eerEz)

76 Seems to me this is one of those non-rare occasions where both sides come out looking like crap.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 27, 2026 12:29 PM (viF8m)

77 and people's hippo's dissent

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:29 PM (1wjle)

78 71
So, there are plausible statements here saying both that this is a rout for Democrats, and a rout for Republicans.That ICE and Border Patrol were previously funded through 2028, and that their funding is being cut to make a shitty fake 'deal.' That Republicans are genuinely pissed and Democrats triumphant, and also that it's all just pretense and theater.

So which is it?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 27, 2026 12:28 PM (mS8PE)

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I haven't seen anyone say that ICE and BP funding was being cut.

Only that it wasn't further expanded.

Because that's what the GOP was trying to get. Mostly support stuff.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:29 PM (JmKZX)

79 I realize a lot of the DC stuff is theater. I appreciate the explanations of this one.

Sounds like the dems aren't so smart after all. Trump gets credit for breaking the deadlock, and anyone with a functioning brain will realize that after a bit, at which point the democrat crazy base will start asking, hey, what happened?

And Schumer is hoping that with AOCs meltdown in Europe, he doesn't have to fear her attacks from the left.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 27, 2026 12:29 PM (GZYu7)

80 TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM

Thanks for the explanation of what happened.

Posted by: dantesed at March 27, 2026 12:29 PM (Oy/m2)

81 24 But GOOD NEWS everyone!

The UN wants TRILLIONS from all 'slave tied' countries for reparations!

We're SAVED!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Then Brazil is soooo f-cked. Right?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 27, 2026 12:30 PM (Dv3i1)

82 Probably some Historian Morons can clarify this, but I think this whole Republic went to shit when the behind-the-scenes power brokers whittled down the number of political parties to just two, sometime in the late 1800's?.

That right there made it so easy for them to manipulate the direction of American politics.

Fast-forward to today, and all the citizens are taught (through schools or life experience) that there are only democrats and republicans, nothing else....

A binary choice. The easiest for them to control.

I think we're fucked.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 27, 2026 12:30 PM (dmDsy)

83 So, Sortor and Daughtery are wrong?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:30 PM (5bGGs)

84
There are a few "get off my lawn" types.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 12:26 PM (cWLG3)

Just so long as I can sit in a lawn chair and swat the neighborhood children with my cane as they walk by.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 27, 2026 12:30 PM (y9nCu)

85 65 51 Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM (Sco7b)

Is the Mayor of Toronto really that stupid?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 27, 2026 12:25 PM (ZeH0U

I haven't confirmed it but saw it several times this morning in previous threads.

And it wouldn't surprise me.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 12:28 PM (Sco7b)
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Mayor of New York needs to abolish Chinese police stations.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 12:30 PM (cWLG3)

86 Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

Gomerism, a simple man and his desire to be 'first' with a 'it's all about me' over all the rest, not even a related comment. As Ron White famously said, 'The next time you have a thought, just let it go.' You have become the butt of jokes, deservedly so.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at March 27, 2026 12:30 PM (Q/FnY)

87 74 Dude I hope you are right. I hope you stand and point and laugh at me after the midterms.

It’s a long way away and we have a lot of ground to cover. If we can finish off Iran and get the economy humming than we should be ok. Provided GOP voters actually show up and we get Proof of Life from the RNC, which seems dead, Jim.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 27, 2026 12:29 PM (zfkPG)

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Special elections are not predictive of a general election.

They never have been. And they never will be.

I'm not the only saying that they mean something. That's you.

All you're doing is cherry picking the bad ones and demanding that they be predictive which is...far from statistical analysis.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:30 PM (JmKZX)

88 The UN wants TRILLIONS from all 'slave tied' countries for reparations!

How much are they planning to excuse for countries like England, where William Wilberforce and other evangelical Christians were largely responsible for the abolition of the slave trade in England?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 27, 2026 12:30 PM (ZeH0U)

89 They made a movie about this that TJM gave it a thumbs down?

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2026 12:30 PM (KyaUN)

90 From desert plains I bring you ... FIRSTS
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 12:09 PM (iFTx/)
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First Point of Entry.

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 27, 2026 12:31 PM (f1kZG)

91 Mayor of New York needs to abolish Chinese police stations.
____

Replace them with sharia enforcement police instead.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 27, 2026 12:31 PM (Dv3i1)

92 Even if the Save Act passed we all know it will just be tied up in emergency injunction and endless litigation. And blue states still just trust refuse to comply while Hawaiian judges give them cover.
Posted by: brak

I'm not sure if it could have ever been in effect for the 2026 midterms, even if passed early last year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The best time to plant a tree.....

Posted by: mikeski at March 27, 2026 12:31 PM (zR9UB)

93 @81 I think Portugal abstained.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 12:32 PM (cWLG3)

94 How, specifically does this bill affect ICE and BP? What is there after this bill passes that was not there before, or what is not there after this bill passes that was there before?

All this hair-on-fire/nothing-to-see-here frightens and confuses me.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 27, 2026 12:32 PM (EXyHK)

95
Then Brazil is soooo f-cked. Right?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 27, 2026 12:30 PM (Dv3i1)

I just want to know if the countries that actually sold their population as commodities are going to face the brunt of that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:32 PM (5bGGs)

96 Thanks to Elric, James Madison, Nova Local and anyone else I forgot.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 27, 2026 12:25 PM (ZeH0U)
_____

:-)

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

97 The best time to plant a tree.....
Posted by: mikeski at March 27, 2026 12:31 PM (zR9UB)

Right after you bury a body.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 27, 2026 12:33 PM (eerEz)

98 ICE are just going to outright stop enforcing immigration law, that which they've been doing nonstop throughout the whole shutdown to the point where they were the only DHS employees getting paid in airports when they showed up to help TSA?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:19 PM (JmKZX)

I would think step 2 would have been to hire all the TSA agents who qualified to work for ICE and leave them at the airports, paid, and with a secondary duty of nabbing illegals.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 27, 2026 12:33 PM (rbvCR)

99 Look, if there's a loser, it's the American people who will now probably have a more radicalized DHS. Why?

This was the 2nd shutdown with missed paycheck for DHS in 6 months. Who can afford to miss paychecks multiple times a year? No one on a government salary, especially no one with a family and a single wage earner on a government salary. So, who left in these shutdowns? The conservative employees, the employees with families with kids,, the employees who COULD leave and were competent.

Who stayed? The zealots, the f&ckups, and the single folks...aka, the blue dream for government employees...

So, you now can expect a less competent, more liberally zealot, and more liberal voting crew...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 27, 2026 12:33 PM (tOcjL)

100 I saw the 4K remastered version of Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS. Legendary in its time (although surely most of that was hype for marketing), it's fairly tame by modern standards. It's basically soft-core sex porn and soft-core torture porn.

What was most surprising is how well it was made. The budget is obviously low, but the director and crew knew how to shoot a movie. Good framing, some nice camerawork, and decent lighting for a movie with a budget about what it costs to feed the crew for a day on a modern Hollywood movie.

It's pure sleaze and schlock, but even then they had to try to dress up exploitative crap as a victory for feminism. Isla is supposedly some kind of feminist icon. Ummm ... ok.

She's a sadistic lunatic who tortures women, forced them to be raped by SS soldiers, and murders them. She violates women in the most vile manner possible, literally shoving flaming, spiked, electrified dildos up their vaginas until they die. The most abusive, misogynistic male rapist would be like "that bitch is cray-cray."

But yea, she's a victory for women. Feminists are fucked in the head.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 12:33 PM (iFTx/)

101 Schumer seems pretty damn happy about it. And it doesn't look like a fake emotion.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 27, 2026 12:33 PM (n5tGW)

102 I am inclined to always believe the worst of the Thunites, but in this case I haven't read the details, so I'll withhold judgement.

In the meantime, where's my fricken SAVE America Act?!

Also, PDJT is hopefully planning to land Arab troops on Kharg Island, not American. Can you imagine the consternation in Tehran if a combined force of muslim troops takes away their precious oil export platform?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 27, 2026 12:33 PM (2HgxZ)

103 The best time to plant a tree.....

Also, make them say it. Sure, the SAVE act will be tied up… when Democrats sue to tie it up. BUT MAKE THEM SUE.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 27, 2026 12:33 PM (EXyHK)

104 i added elric the blade's comment.

Maybe I had this wrong.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:33 PM (1wjle)

105 Reposted from the Morning Outrage thread with slight edits:

121 HOLY S$$$!

I sent Friday feedback into Fox Business's Varney and Company under my nic 'ARiK' - and they showed it this morning - as ARIK!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 27, 2026 11:53 AM (QGaXH)

I gotta share these little triumphs as they occur....LOL!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 27, 2026 12:34 PM (QGaXH)

106
Right after you bury a body.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 27, 2026 12:33 PM (eerEz)

But don't make it a fruit tree.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:34 PM (5bGGs)

107 94
All this hair-on-fire/nothing-to-see-here frightens and confuses me.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 27, 2026 12:32 PM (EXyHK)
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 12:34 PM (cWLG3)

108 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at March 27, 2026 12:34 PM (lES6Q)

109 Schumer seems pretty damn happy about it. And it doesn't look like a fake emotion.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 27, 2026 12:33 PM (n5tGW)
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He's a professional actor. Recall that he's also the same guy who looked giddy plopping cheese on an uncooked hamburger, claiming he was about to eat it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 27, 2026 12:35 PM (2HgxZ)

110
OOOOH! Record her when she gets out. She might start spewing some REALLY silly stuff.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:27 PM (

Ha! Swooping in like the long lost uncle to embarrass her!

Posted by: Piper at March 27, 2026 12:35 PM (DXIXb)

111 The UN wants TRILLIONS from all 'slave tied' countries for reparations!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

They can start by getting money from all those African countries who sold other tribes to the Euros and Arabs, and from the Arab countries who brokered all the deals and can only deny that they were involved because there aren't any blacks in their countries because they castrated all their African slaves.

Or they can sit and spin.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 27, 2026 12:35 PM (a+4eV)

112 Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer?

Being 29, I predate Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer. Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer also frightens and confuses me.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 27, 2026 12:35 PM (EXyHK)

113 If the bill doesn't include a bar on face masks, ID requirements, and a ban on ICE going into "sensitive" locations, then it's not a GOP cave, it's a Democrat cave.
Those things were what Democrats wanted. They said so many times.
They didn't get those things.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

What they wanted, was "due process". The face masks and above was just a diversion to concede at the end.

The big get for them was having every deportation go in front of a judge. They tried this under biden, where the court would also be in DC where they had control.

Removing the judicial order to remove people was the big win for us.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 27, 2026 12:35 PM (zGM4Q)

114 It may be a huge dem loss, but it will not be sold that way in the media that dem voters and people who barely pay attention to politics watch and listen to. It will be a big win for truth, justice and the American way.

Posted by: huerfano at March 27, 2026 12:23 PM (98kQX)
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The dem voters are going to realize soon that this was a loss - and they are going to start shrieking loudly. It won't be tough to miss. The hammer was Trump essentially saying that I'm just going to pay them. Called the democrats bluff.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 27, 2026 12:35 PM (GZYu7)

115 104 i added elric the blade's comment.

Maybe I had this wrong.
Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:33 PM (1wjle)

So hair fire put out again

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 12:35 PM (FtULh)

116 104 i added elric the blade's comment.

Maybe I had this wrong.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:33 PM (1wjle)

=======

We have a couple of decades of the GOP in DC actively stabbing us in the back.

It's just straight PTSD at this point.

But Thune should have earned a lot of respect for his machinations on getting the OBBB past the parliamentarian, and he's done nothing to undo it since.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:35 PM (JmKZX)

117 When was working nights in Delaware I wanted to slap a lical for keep electing Biden.
Now I want to slap a New Yorker for giving us Shummy

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2026 12:36 PM (KyaUN)

118 As someone pointed out on X:
I don't need to hear what Trump says or what the Dems say. Or what anyone says.
All I need to see is Trump's body language and behavior.
And he is in a very good mood.

But for real, while all these folks on the right are pissing their pants and bemoaning the end of America because we're going to lose the midterms, we're not going to pass the SAVE Act, Iran is going to win, the economy is suffering?
Trump is behaving just like the summer of 2024--when he knew he already won.
Happy, joking, campaigning.
While the whole media and the online right were sure Kamala had the inside advantage and was going to win.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 27, 2026 12:36 PM (HXT0k)

119
Anesthesia for wisdom teeth? I just had novacaine and the gas. The gas made it kinda fun.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 27, 2026 12:29 PM (eerEz)

Oral surgeon konked me out when I had all four wisdom teeth yanked out at 16. One moment I was laying on the gurney counting backwards from 10, the next moment I remember the red brick wall in the alley behind the building as I was being loaded into my Mom's car.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 27, 2026 12:36 PM (y9nCu)

120 @82 SSBN 656-I don't think its the two parties as much as its a cultural problem. The long march through our institutions has been successful. I think its as simple as that.

Posted by: JROD at March 27, 2026 12:36 PM (IlL6s)

121 Due process in this case is "put them on a plane and tell them to never come back"

Posted by: Kindltot at March 27, 2026 12:36 PM (rbvCR)

122 Crazy that I see that comment from Sen. Duckworth that DHS could have paid the TSA using existing funds literally last night before bed and a couple hours later the GOP capitulates to the same bill dems have proposed 11 times. Really shows you how much the entire thing was political theatre on the republican side. It’s disgusting what they’re willing to do to their fellow Americans.

So, they're passing what Democrats proposed before the 40 day shutdown. Kind of like how the goal of the war in Iran is now opening the Strait of Hormuz when it was open prior to the war.

FINALLY! I bet the House won’t pass it, or trump won’t sign it, though. Doesn't matter. Deal is on the table. Any pain after this is strictly on the GOP.

They passed it because they are taking 2 weeks off for vacation and want to be able to fly. Can we please overthrow this entire government already? They literally are worthless

I wonder what else is buried in this bill. Republicans must have voted for it for some reason. I not really seeing them being altruistic at this point in time

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 27, 2026 12:36 PM (jo/K7)

123 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at March 27, 2026 12:34 PM (lES6Q)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at March 27, 2026 12:37 PM (5bGGs)

124 >>Schumer seems pretty damn happy about it. And it doesn't look like a fake emotion.

That doesn't surprise me. What was his alternative, admit defeat? He's already hanging by a thread with the far left base.

As many of us have been saying for a long time ICE is fully funded until 2029 in the BBB. It's done. Unless there is some hidden stuff in this bill that somehow undoes ICE funding all Democrats "won" is funding the rest of DHS.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 27, 2026 12:37 PM (viF8m)

125 54 Posted by: Piper at March 27, 2026 12:26 PM

Prayers up

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at March 27, 2026 12:37 PM (Oq/TM)

126 >>How much are they planning to excuse for countries like England, where William Wilberforce and other evangelical Christians were largely responsible for the abolition of the slave trade in England?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 27, 2026 12:30 PM

And not just in England. The British Navy targeted slave traders ports and ships going everywhere.

Posted by: huerfano at March 27, 2026 12:37 PM (98kQX)

127 "always look on the briiiiight side of life *whistles*

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 12:37 PM (cWLG3)

128 And Schumer is hoping that with AOCs meltdown in Europe, he doesn't have to fear her attacks from the left.
Posted by: Black JEM

Her meltdown was related to a "world" profile. It did nothing to her "national " i.e. state profile.

She'll still troubce him. See Moudami / Houchul sucking up to himl ection and where that state is going.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 27, 2026 12:37 PM (oAa51)

129 113 What they wanted, was "due process". The face masks and above was just a diversion to concede at the end.

The big get for them was having every deportation go in front of a judge. They tried this under biden, where the court would also be in DC where they had control.

Removing the judicial order to remove people was the big win for us.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 27, 2026 12:35 PM (zGM4Q)

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Yeah, that was the big thing.

Turning civil matters (deportation) into criminal matters (judicial warrants) while also maintaining that deportation over civil crimes is just so wrong.

Deportation is the farkin' civil remedy. It deprives the individual not at all of liberty or property. Sending someone back to their home country is not a damage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:38 PM (JmKZX)

130 SFO privatized TSA and stayed open all the way through this circus. I fervently hope all airports will draw the right lesson from that contrast, and do as the putative socialists in San Francisco have done.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 27, 2026 12:38 PM (2HgxZ)

131 If FISA gets reauthorized, highly likely unless it is successfully tied to SAVE act, what's to stop Bondi from getting FISA warrant from friendly judge to add Boasberg and other traitor judges to warrantless wiretapping lists?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 27, 2026 12:38 PM (Dv3i1)

132 Why do we have to repeat what the left media says?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 27, 2026 12:23 PM (HXT0k)

You are calling Ace a shill for the left-wing corporate media?

He's a shill for Big Shelf, not the media!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 27, 2026 12:38 PM (n9ltV)

133
Ha! Swooping in like the long lost uncle to embarrass her!
Posted by: Piper at March 27, 2026 12:35 PM (DXIXb)

It is my role in life.

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at March 27, 2026 12:38 PM (5bGGs)

134 The best time to plant a tree.....
Posted by: mikeski at March 27, 2026 12:31 PM (zR9UB)

Right after you bury a body.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

When you need to pee

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 27, 2026 12:38 PM (oAa51)

135 SHIT.

Off day.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:38 PM (5bGGs)

136 just give me the cliff notes, please ( I have all the alphabet syndromes, I think)

are we happy

Posted by: Don Black at March 27, 2026 12:38 PM (ZxPkt)

137 Anesthesia for wisdom teeth? I just had novacaine and the gas. The gas made it kinda fun.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Prayers for Piper's little one.

I was all the way out for mine, because they had to cut holes in my gums to go find them, and jackhammer them into pieces small enough to remove. No way they were going to come in on their own without messing up my jaw; there just wasn't enough space.

Posted by: mikeski at March 27, 2026 12:38 PM (zR9UB)

138 If we're not even sure whether we "won" or not, how can we view the House of Representatives (HORs) as anything but scum?

How many thousands of actual Americans suffered for these HORs?

Posted by: Mr. Proton at March 27, 2026 12:38 PM (Wfh+h)

139 121 Due process in this case is "put them on a plane and tell them to never come back"

Posted by: Kindltot at March 27, 2026 12:36 PM (rbvCR)

======

For the civil crime of being here illegally?

Yes!

Democrats keep telling me that being here illegally is just a civil crime, so why do they demand criminal judicial processes to address it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:39 PM (JmKZX)

140 All you need to understand about the news is the only thing the Left cares about is winning today's news cycle. And keeping Trump from writing a narrative. That is it.

When Trump is gone they will go back to sketching pure narrative and sowing only discord because I don't think his successor will be nearly as good at batting all of it back. Vance has shown flashes but Trump is definitely one of a kind. He's a one man fucking wrecking crew. But from where we sit it doesn't always look like that.

Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 12:39 PM (45LId)

141 @122 Dems seem to think they won, but they also claim Iran is winning.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 12:39 PM (cWLG3)

142 BREAKING — HOUSE GOP FIGHTS BACK: Speaker Johnson has reportedly proposed a 60 DAY, CLEAN funding bill that includes ICE and CBP

While the Senate GOP's Democrat compromise left out ICE and CBP

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer said PRESIDENT TRUMP backs the plan, per NOTUS

HERE WE GO!

Time to HOLD THE LINE

https://tinyurl.com/56bwude8

Posted by: redridinghood at March 27, 2026 12:39 PM (NpAcC)

143 132 You are calling Ace a shill for the left-wing corporate media?

He's a shill for Big Shelf, not the media!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 27, 2026 12:38 PM (n9ltV)

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He's just afraid of Big Shelf.

They have a history.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:39 PM (JmKZX)

144 Lol

MS Now
NYT: Trump wants to renovate White House Treaty Room. One of the most historic rooms in the White House.

President Trump's signature on money WAS SO 20 hours ago.
Trump 2.0 just floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 12:40 PM (Sco7b)

145 120 @82 SSBN 656-I don't think its the two parties as much as its a cultural problem. The long march through our institutions has been successful. I think its as simple as that.
Posted by: JROD at March 27, 2026 12:36 PM (IlL6s)

I can't disagree with your analysis. That "long march" definitely had devastating affects... I was just saying, the two-party system they devised gave them a much more controllable electorate.

Just two pieces of their nefarious plan...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 27, 2026 12:40 PM (dmDsy)

146 136 just give me the cliff notes, please ( I have all the alphabet syndromes, I think)

are we happy
Posted by: Don Black at March 27, 2026 12:38 PM (ZxPkt

Yeah... Let me know.. I'm tired of lighting my hair on fire and putting it out..

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 12:40 PM (FtULh)

147 No Jackstraw, what I am saying is he is actually happy about it, not what else he is going to politically say anyway.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 27, 2026 12:40 PM (n5tGW)

148 Piper, I had three impacted wisdoms pulled at the same time, and it went well. That was even though I was 30 at the time and I was still smoking.
Be very aware of the pain killers afterwards, though. They didn't think they were addictive much when they were handing them out to me.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 27, 2026 12:40 PM (rbvCR)

149 140 All you need to understand about the news is the only thing the Left cares about is winning today's news cycle. And keeping Trump from writing a narrative. That is it.

When Trump is gone they will go back to sketching pure narrative and sowing only discord because I don't think his successor will be nearly as good at batting all of it back. Vance has shown flashes but Trump is definitely one of a kind. He's a one man fucking wrecking crew. But from where we sit it doesn't always look like that.

Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 12:39 PM (45LId)

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It's true.

They are willing to toss policy wins in order to win the narrative for the day.

Remember, they held up that Goode woman's death as a narrative victory for about 5 minutes. All while Trump kept deporting people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:40 PM (JmKZX)

150 I'm happy... but still want more winning

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 27, 2026 12:42 PM (xT8gx)

151 If FISA gets reauthorized, highly likely unless it is successfully tied to SAVE act, what's to stop Bondi from getting FISA warrant from friendly judge to add Boasberg and other traitor judges to warrantless wiretapping lists?
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Because thats not who we are.

GOPe

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 27, 2026 12:42 PM (oAa51)

152 Thrre are a lot of head trophies to mount on the walls, he might have a point.

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2026 12:42 PM (KyaUN)

153 TJM and Elric and NOVA can confirm this:

1. ICE and BP were funded through 28, and continue to be funded.
2. GOP wanted some additional funding for stuff related to border and immigration enforcement - Thune said fine, we will strip that and run it through reconciliation
3. Dems wanted officers de-masked (exposed to threats) and judicial review of deportations
4. Trumps move to pay all TSA regardless forced the dems to give up on the things they wanted for additional ICE and BP funding that was going to come later
5. The dems think ICE is going to stop working now - boy are they going to be pissed
6. Johnson is pissed he has to herd cats in the House again - because everything there is tight

Posted by: Black JEM at March 27, 2026 12:42 PM (GZYu7)

154 So...

Hair en fuego or not?

We're waiting with gasolined locks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 27, 2026 12:42 PM (bss/y)

155 144
President Trump's signature on money WAS SO 20 hours ago.
Trump 2.0 just floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee...
Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 12:40 PM (Sco7b)
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Yeah, about that. Does that mean some people will be turning down any handouts of your "Trump money"?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 12:43 PM (cWLG3)

156 >Schumer seems pretty damn happy about it. And it doesn't look like a fake emotion.
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Any emotion from Chuckie is as fake as a raw burger with cheese on it. The guy is literally a well practiced font of deceit.

Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 12:43 PM (45LId)

157
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 12:33 PM (iFTx/)

On the other hand, in all of the Ilsa films, Dyanne Thorne takes a shower, which elevates them into the pantheon of great films.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 27, 2026 12:43 PM (y9nCu)

158
Hair en fuego or not?

We're waiting with gasolined locks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 27, 2026 12:42 PM (bss/y)

I read this as 'gasolined socks' for some reason..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:44 PM (5bGGs)

159 I see at Legalinsurrection.com Iran isn't letting sports teams out to visit any country out of their backing.

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2026 12:44 PM (KyaUN)

160 I don't have enough hair to ignite. I'm more of a Mr. Joshua lighter on the forearm guy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 27, 2026 12:44 PM (PSEDc)

161 119 Oral surgeon konked me out when I had all four wisdom teeth yanked out at 16. One moment I was laying on the gurney counting backwards from 10, the next moment I remember the red brick wall in the alley behind the building as I was being loaded into my Mom's car.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 27, 2026 12:36 PM (y9nCu)

Same here. Woke up in my father's car, in the parking lot. Which is impressive considering the oral surgeon's office was literally 3 minutes down the road from where I lived.

Posted by: XTC at March 27, 2026 12:44 PM (FpHTM)

162 153 TJM and Elric and NOVA can confirm this:

1. ICE and BP were funded through 28, and continue to be funded.
2. GOP wanted some additional funding for stuff related to border and immigration enforcement - Thune said fine, we will strip that and run it through reconciliation
3. Dems wanted officers de-masked (exposed to threats) and judicial review of deportations
4. Trumps move to pay all TSA regardless forced the dems to give up on the things they wanted for additional ICE and BP funding that was going to come later
5. The dems think ICE is going to stop working now - boy are they going to be pissed
6. Johnson is pissed he has to herd cats in the House again - because everything there is tight
Posted by: Black JEM at March 27, 2026 12:42 PM (GZYu7)

In good news for Johnson, with the Senate just saying yes unanimously, it gives cover to the House to just do the same and get out of town...so, this herding, if he plays it right (with his "being upset") can be much simpler than normal, even with his current margins...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 27, 2026 12:45 PM (tOcjL)

163 I read this as 'gasolined socks' for some reason..........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:44 PM (5bGGs)

Well, I mean you could do that too. Maybe have a sock wrapped around your head.

Or light the sock first, then apply to hair.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 27, 2026 12:45 PM (bss/y)

164 It's good. It's bad. It's ugly.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 27, 2026 12:45 PM (Cqx++)

165 So, you now can expect a less competent, more liberally zealot, and more liberal voting crew...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 27, 2026 12:33 PM (tOcjL)
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Competent at what, imaging faces or drivers licenses? TSA takes pictures, and runs metal detectors. "Less competent" is meaningless, and most I run across in big airports are muslim anyway, so "zealot" is also a curious choice of word. Privatize these jobs.

The union head is frequently interviewed and (at least to my ears) he seems a very practical guy, and in this case his most aggressive comments have been directed at Democrats so I guess I am not worried the union will suddenly become a more aggressively Democrat engine.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 27, 2026 12:45 PM (qfJCX)

166 Yeah... Let me know.. I'm tired of lighting my hair on fire and putting it out.."

I know, huh? Imagonna need a new ignitable pitchfork. And we still haven't stormed the castle!

*looks up local Ace hardware*

Posted by: man at March 27, 2026 12:45 PM (XuXeR)

167 i posted a Hobbit update in the sidebar, for those taking the Hobbit Challenge.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:45 PM (1wjle)

168 @148 Also avoid accidentally sucking the pulp out of one of the empty sockets with your tongue.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 12:46 PM (cWLG3)

169 In good news for Johnson, with the Senate just saying yes unanimously, it gives cover to the House to just do the same and get out of town...so, this herding, if he plays it right (with his "being upset") can be much simpler than normal, even with his current margins...
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Not so fast there, buck-o!
-Thomas Massie

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 27, 2026 12:46 PM (Dv3i1)

170 I thought ICE was fully funded til 2029?

Can these weasels undo this?

Just getting here and haven't read comments.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 27, 2026 12:46 PM (WONhk)

171 I have not really been following this, and the democrat demands have been very vague publicly.

But what they wanted was "due process." Habeas basically. They wanted anyone captured by ICE to have government funded attorney, right to go in front of a court to determine if the state has right to hold them and deport them.

For those with deportation orders, this is second bite at apple since they were already in front of a judge.

But there are others who ICE is allowed to deport without that, and Dems wanted this "due process" for all. They are not citizens, so do not have *full* constitutional rights, but they have some and that is the big argument.

In past, the Dems have tried to do this for all immigration cases and they even wanted a special immigration court in DC (so under Dem control, dem districts, dem juries, ...)

They want this because it will (a) stop the deportations, and (b) make the legal industrial complex very rich.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 27, 2026 12:46 PM (zGM4Q)

172 They didn't let me have a general during my extraction so I was there when the dentist was hammering a chisel in my mouth.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 27, 2026 12:46 PM (RIvkX)

173 So we won? Why are Republicans not allowing recess appointments? And no vote on the Save Act? We can't have a simple vote to see who's who? No, we can't have these things because it might embarrass the RINO's. At least Cornyn is toast, no way he survives this.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 27, 2026 12:47 PM (Y6JKj)

174 All renovations that Trump is doing were planned many years ago, some over a 100, but various administrations never had the wherewithal to do it. The ballroom, the arc, the rose garden that Melania updated I believe was based on Jackie Kennedy's designs. These bitchy complaints are Karenish.

Posted by: runner at March 27, 2026 12:47 PM (GD0B3)

175 The demasking thing is just: we want the cartels to be able to target the officers and their families so they can be terrorized or killed.

Dems/commies: We want them to be afraid to do their jobs AND we want some of them dead to get that terror.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 27, 2026 12:47 PM (bss/y)

176 >>No Jackstraw, what I am saying is he is actually happy about it, not what else he is going to politically say anyway.

I get what you're saying but I don't necessarily agree that he's truly happy. I think he would put on a smile and claim victory if someone shot him in the nuts. He's a professional liar.

Did ICE get defunded? No. Is ICE being forced to remove their masks? No. Did Democrats get any of things they were demanding to pass a DHS funding bill? No.

I don't like the deal because it sets precedent that the Senate can now fund only parts of agencies they like instead of funding everything. I'm sure that will come back to bite us at some point.

But Democrats didn't score a big win no matter what they say publicly unless there are things in this bill that haven't come to light yet.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 27, 2026 12:47 PM (viF8m)

177 This seems appropriate for some reason.......

https://youtu.be/qo28NjqPqbA

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:48 PM (5bGGs)

178 This issue is made, by design, to be confusing unless one takes the time and energy to dig into the facts. Something the media won't do. Instead, they (all of them) gaslight the public with pure unadulterated bullshit to push a narrative.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 27, 2026 12:48 PM (AkEZC)

179 KFC Canada is switching to halal prepared chicken, and ditching all pork products

guess why

https://tinyurl.com/2p9rd72z

Posted by: Don Black at March 27, 2026 12:48 PM (ZxPkt)

180 167 i posted a Hobbit update in the sidebar, for those taking the Hobbit Challenge.
Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:45 PM (1wjle)

Got the 4 books yesterday will start reading today... I'm a very fast reader and the books aren't long

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 12:48 PM (FtULh)

181 Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 12:33 PM (iFTx/)

On the other hand, in all of the Ilsa films, Dyanne Thorne takes a shower, which elevates them into the pantheon of great films.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 27, 2026 12:43 PM (y9nCu)
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Yea, there's a shower scene in the first 5 minutes of She-Wolf. It's comically cheesy and exploitative, and the very sharp 4K restoration shows something that probably nobody saw before: the outline of the breast implant balloons and the incision lines where she was cut open to insert them.

In the commentary, a much older Thorne is commenting on that scene, and on the exploitative nudity and sex in general. She's clearly embarrassed by it. But rather than say "hey, it was the 70s, I was young and getting paid to get naked," she babbles some incoherency about it all being about female empowerment.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 12:48 PM (iFTx/)

182 ICE was funded to $75 billion.

Until 2028

And they have only spent $10 billion of it so far.

So I think this was Thune saying "I'll let you claim victory while you get nothing."

Which is something we can argue about but its not as bad as actually defunding ICE would be.

Posted by: Harun at March 27, 2026 12:48 PM (IuIym)

183 Why do we have to repeat what the left media says?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 27, 2026 12:23 PM (HXT0k)

You are calling Ace a shill for the left-wing corporate media?

He's a shill for Big Shelf, not the media!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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LOL
But for real, I'd like to "revise and extend" my remarks.
I don't mean this as a criticism per se, it's just that ... we really have no other source.
Like, even very good conservatives are still forced to source to ... the left media.

OTOH: Ace of Spades is solid gold. Only 'cause it's the one of the last few spaces with open and honest dissent. For reals. Not puffery.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 27, 2026 12:49 PM (HXT0k)

184 I propose the same due process for deportation that they received when the walked across the border or overstayed their visa.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 27, 2026 12:49 PM (Dv3i1)

185 In good news for Johnson, with the Senate just saying yes unanimously, it gives cover to the House to just do the same and get out of town...so, this herding, if he plays it right (with his "being upset") can be much simpler than normal, even with his current margins...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 27, 2026 12:45 PM (tOcjL)
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Voice vote = "this stinks so bad I don't want a record of how I voted."

Posted by: WisRich at March 27, 2026 12:49 PM (G0vdT)

186 Yeah... Let me know.. I'm tired of lighting my hair on fire and putting it out..

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 12:40 PM (FtULh)

Simple solution. Stop putting it out.

I'm kidding. Sort of. Honestly - wake up with the baseline of understanding how miserable the Left are right now, and that Trump is out front for some ungodly reason, ever the happy warrior, still fighting at 80. There is no sweeter satisfaction than knowing the Left are crying. And Trump loves to make them cry.

Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 12:49 PM (45LId)

187 Flogging will commence. Be nice to Ace!

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at March 27, 2026 12:49 PM (F0XtB)

188 Can these weasels undo this?"

Hey, that's my gig!

/Judge Khammanawannalaya

Posted by: man at March 27, 2026 12:49 PM (XuXeR)

189 I know it’s not in keeping with the blog, but I’m going withhold comments on this until after the smoke clears.
I know, I know.

Posted by: RI Red at March 27, 2026 12:49 PM (l8UMQ)

190 But for real, I'd like to "revise and extend" my remarks.
____

I RECLAIM MY TIME!!!!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 27, 2026 12:49 PM (Dv3i1)

191 173 So we won? Why are Republicans not allowing recess appointments? And no vote on the Save Act? We can't have a simple vote to see who's who? No, we can't have these things because it might embarrass the RINO's. At least Cornyn is toast, no way he survives this.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 27, 2026 12:47 PM (Y6JKj)

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Recesses (real ones) require a majority vote from the floor. The Senate is not going to give up its power over appointments, especially this GOP.

Thune is going through the motions on the SAVE act like he did on the OBBB. It's probably all an effort to appease a handful of on the cusp GOP senators (like Collins) to make sure their vote is done.

Also, he has to go through the whole debate thing (which they're doing) in order to bypass cloture.

The SAVE act, from the outside, looks like it's being maneuvered towards passage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:50 PM (JmKZX)

192 I was all the way out for mine, because they had to cut holes in my gums to go find them, and jackhammer them into pieces small enough to remove. No way they were going to come in on their own without messing up my jaw; there just wasn't enough space.
Posted by: mikeski at March 27, 2026 12:38 PM (zR9UB)

What a disturbing memory you just reminded me of!

I was getting all 4 wisdom teeth removed (all under the gum) because Navy submarine service required that you don't have them before reporting to your boat.

I had a Navy dentist, who happened to be in training. He pumped me full of Novocain, and the top two popped right out... but the bottom two required cutting deep into the gums, and the last needed, like you said, jack-hammering to break it up, and pull out the pieces...

Problem was, the Novocain was wearing off. I tried to tell him, but I had like an oil filter removal tool in my mouth... I started yelling, and I remember him saying " OK, just relax Petty Officer ******, we're almost there! He had his hand on my chest trying to get leverage to pull the fragments from my jaw...

It was quite a memorable experience.

Sorry for the TL/DR post...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 27, 2026 12:50 PM (dmDsy)

193 and I think the Dems could always claim victory and get the media to write that.

Posted by: Harun at March 27, 2026 12:50 PM (IuIym)

194 165 So, you now can expect a less competent, more liberally zealot, and more liberal voting crew...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 27, 2026 12:33 PM (tOcjL)
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Competent at what, imaging faces or drivers licenses? TSA takes pictures, and runs metal detectors. "Less competent" is meaningless, and most I run across in big airports are muslim anyway, so "zealot" is also a curious choice of word. Privatize these jobs.

The union head is frequently interviewed and (at least to my ears) he seems a very practical guy, and in this case his most aggressive comments have been directed at Democrats so I guess I am not worried the union will suddenly become a more aggressively Democrat engine.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 27, 2026 12:45 PM (qfJCX)

All of DHS...as I've mentioned 100 times, TSA was not the only unfunded part of DHS, just the one which had the most interaction with the public. They are likely the least skilled group of DHS, and they were not the only ones quitting...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 27, 2026 12:50 PM (tOcjL)

195 President Trump could veto but the GOP faggots will vote to override3.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 27, 2026 12:51 PM (2ap+5)

196 Ace I don't know if you're around but just wanted to mention again you were in top form (top shelf?) with that cenobite post. In my opinion Hall of Fame in execution and laughs. Thanks.

Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 12:51 PM (45LId)

197 >>>Got the 4 books yesterday will start reading today... I'm a very fast reader and the books aren't long

oh boy, you are mistaken! the Hobbit is not long, the others are huge! 500 pages each, and they're written in a much more serious, deep style than the Hobbit, which is written in this breezy, chatty style like it's a grandfather just telling you a story he's making up as he goes. (Though Tolkien slips in some beautiful prose into it from time to time.)

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:51 PM (1wjle)

198 >>>196 Ace I don't know if you're around but just wanted to mention again you were in top form (top shelf?) with that cenobite post. In my opinion Hall of Fame in execution and laughs. Thanks.

thank you! I might have to take the Cenobite Challenge.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:51 PM (1wjle)

199 197 oh boy, you are mistaken! the Hobbit is not long, the others are huge! 500 pages each, and they're written in a much more serious, deep style than the Hobbit, which is written in this breezy, chatty style like it's a grandfather just telling you a story he's making up as he goes. (Though Tolkien slips in some beautiful prose into it from time to time.)

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:51 PM (1wjle)

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I expect daily updates on The Silmarillion to start soon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:51 PM (JmKZX)

200 Can’t we just do like a citizens deportation like a citizens arrest?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 27, 2026 12:52 PM (eerEz)

201 198 thank you! I might have to take the Cenobite Challenge.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:51 PM (1wjle)

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I don't comment in the evening, but I did read it.

I larfed. A good bit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:52 PM (JmKZX)

202 >>>I expect daily updates on The Silmarillion to start soon.

I tried, I failed.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:52 PM (1wjle)

203 It's good. It's bad. It's ugly.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 27, 2026 12:45 PM (Cqx++)

Clint Eastwood. Lee Van Cleef. Eli Wallach.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 27, 2026 12:52 PM (xT8gx)

204 If FISA gets reauthorized, highly likely unless it is successfully tied to SAVE act, what's to stop Bondi from getting FISA warrant from friendly judge to add Boasberg and other traitor judges to warrantless wiretapping lists?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 27, 2026 12:38 PM (Dv3i1)

The fact that she doesn't want to?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at March 27, 2026 12:52 PM (G1ktt)

205 >>500 pages each

That's a short Fantasy Book, though.

Posted by: garrett at March 27, 2026 12:52 PM (W7FsI)

206 202 >>>I expect daily updates on The Silmarillion to start soon.

I tried, I failed.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:52 PM (1wjle)

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Eru Iluvatar is disappointed in you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:52 PM (JmKZX)

207 Maybe I'm so cynical because I am just slight over 29 and have seen this movie so many times before. If Thune/McConnell make any type of deal with the dems we are gonna take it up the squeakhole.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 27, 2026 12:52 PM (n5tGW)

208 Maybe a better way to put it is this --

The Dems want to extend full constitutional protections to any scumbag hat happens to sneak into the country and run havoc on our land.

They want invaders and pillagers treated as citizens.

That is their long term goal and everything else - funding, masks, sensitive areas, ROE,.... it is all bullshit and means nothing.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 27, 2026 12:53 PM (zGM4Q)

209 >>>That's a short Fantasy Book, though.

i guess yeah but... prose is slower to read and dialogue is quicker, and LOTR books are mostly prose description.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:53 PM (1wjle)

210 President Trump could veto but the GOP faggots will vote to override3.
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 27, 2026 12:51 PM (2ap+5)

He DID say he wasn't signing SHIT till the SAVE Act crossed his desk.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:53 PM (5bGGs)

211 69 But TJM?

Dude's an asshole who can't even read.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:28 PM (JmKZX)

I was a little shocked at that statement at first then I saw it was just some self-deprecating humor.

Seeing who celebrates being first and the self-humor and 'get off my lawn' stuff and harassing Ace about his shelving struggles are all part of what makes this place special in my book.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 27, 2026 12:53 PM (QGaXH)

212 Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:51 PM (1wjle)

I read them years ago and I remember that.. I just finished reading Little Dorrit by Dickens and it was over 800 pages and small type...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 12:53 PM (FtULh)

213 Speaking of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly...

Pam Bondi is a blondi! Heh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 27, 2026 12:54 PM (xT8gx)

214 Ace of Spades is solid gold. Only 'cause it's the one of the last few spaces with open and honest dissent.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

No it's not.

Posted by: somebody had to say it at March 27, 2026 12:54 PM (zR9UB)

215 It's good. It's bad. It's ugly."

You dig?

Posted by: man at March 27, 2026 12:54 PM (XuXeR)

216 >>>No it's not.
Posted by: somebody had to say it

I know, we really need to have more guest posts by avowed anti-American nazis.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:54 PM (1wjle)

217 >>i guess yeah but... prose is slower to read and dialogue is quicker, and LOTR books are mostly prose description.

Hold my Beer.

Posted by: garrettZombie Robert Jordan at March 27, 2026 12:55 PM (W7FsI)

218 216 >>>No it's not.
Posted by: somebody had to say it

I know, we really need to have more guest posts by avowed anti-American nazis.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:54 PM (1wjle)

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We all know that ace is just a paid front for ZOG!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:55 PM (JmKZX)

219 I read them years ago and I remember that.. I just finished reading Little Dorrit by Dickens and it was over 800 pages and small type...
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Sounds like Dickens.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 27, 2026 12:55 PM (n17eQ)

220 A month ago...this short video...ICE fully funded through 2029. February, I think.

https://tinyurl.com/4fh5xe9n

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 27, 2026 12:55 PM (WONhk)

221 51 Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM (Sco7b)

Is the Mayor of Toronto really that stupid?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 27, 2026 12:25 PM (ZeH0U

I don't mind KFC. But in my little Canadian town, ours could use some passing by muslims to torch it so they could rebuild.

I think I'm going to take the reading challenge. It'd do me good.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 12:55 PM (Sco7b)

222 Sorry, bad cut paste..

Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 12:56 PM (Sco7b)

223 Sounds like Dickens."

It was the best of times...

Posted by: man at March 27, 2026 12:56 PM (XuXeR)

224 Both sides got a bit of what they really want. Talking points that play to their bases, whle covering up and confusing the plebs as usual about how the lousy sausage is made.

Posted by: Gref at March 27, 2026 12:56 PM (Kk4R3)

225 The Dems wanted to require judicial warrants to arrest illegals. That would slow grind deportations as to essentially end them.

They didn't get that but the fact that they wanted it just shows that they are anti-American motherfuckers who should rightfully be contemplating their errors on the Tree of fucking Woe.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 27, 2026 12:56 PM (4NO2D)

226 >>>I expect daily updates on The Silmarillion to start soon.

I tried, I failed.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:52 PM (1wjle)

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Eru Iluvatar is disappointed in you.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

It would be great if someone could take the Silmarillion and other stories & threads of stories from the Appendices and Lost Tales, etc and rework them into novels.

Posted by: Josephistan at March 27, 2026 12:56 PM (y9ksN)

227 >>Recesses (real ones) require a majority vote from the floor. The Senate is not going to give up its power over appointments, especially this GOP.

Every president gets recess appointments except Trump, am I right on that?

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 27, 2026 12:57 PM (n/RyG)

228 226 It would be great if someone could take the Silmarillion and other stories & threads of stories from the Appendices and Lost Tales, etc and rework them into novels.

Posted by: Josephistan at March 27, 2026 12:56 PM (y9ksN)

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I like The Silmarillion as it is.

It's a collection of histories. I don't need someone else coming along and retelling Beren and Luthien in a different form.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:57 PM (JmKZX)

229
Ace I don't know if you're around but just wanted to mention again you were in top form (top shelf?) with that cenobite post. In my opinion Hall of Fame in execution and laughs. Thanks.
Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 12:51 PM (45LId)

Brown noser.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 27, 2026 12:57 PM (y9nCu)

230 It would be great if someone could take the Silmarillion and other stories & threads of stories from the Appendices and Lost Tales, etc and rework them into novels."

How 'bout movies!

/Little Stevie Colbert

Posted by: man at March 27, 2026 12:57 PM (XuXeR)

231 >>It would be great if someone could take the Silmarillion and other stories & threads of stories from the Appendices and Lost Tales, etc and rework them into novels.

I think an Annotated version of the Trilogy and Hobbit that cites the refs to The Silmarillion by Page and Line, would sell well.

Posted by: garrett at March 27, 2026 12:57 PM (W7FsI)

232 I don't like the deal because it sets precedent that the Senate can now fund only parts of agencies they like instead of funding everything. I'm sure that will come back to bite us at some point.

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Breaking: Congress passes the defense appropriations with the exception of funding for the Second Battalion Fourth Marines because that's Duke Lowell's old unit and fuck that guy in particular.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 27, 2026 12:57 PM (2UnvF)

233 227 Every president gets recess appointments except Trump, am I right on that?

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 27, 2026 12:57 PM (n/RyG)

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Last real recess was under Obama. Biden didn't get them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:57 PM (JmKZX)

234 I bought the hobbit on Audible.

Andy Serkis does well, but he goes a bit too hard at the very beginning. It's like 'Calm down, man. You have a ways to go.' But he did. Good voice (if commie.)

On LotR, I bought the ensemble cast version on audible (I have a ton of credits.) I'll see how it is (there is also a serkis read one.)

Personal note: I read very fast and have read all these books multiple times. I wanted to try something different this go around and just go slow and savor it (or try to.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 27, 2026 12:57 PM (bss/y)

235 500 pages each

Victor Hugo and Alexander Dumas have entered the chat.

Posted by: dantesed at March 27, 2026 12:58 PM (Oy/m2)

236 I'm kidding. Sort of. Honestly - wake up with the baseline of understanding how miserable the Left are right now, and that Trump is out front for some ungodly reason, ever the happy warrior, still fighting at 80. There is no sweeter satisfaction than knowing the Left are crying. And Trump loves to make them cry.
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Think of it this way:
The very very best the Dems can hope for this upcoming midterm is ... a narrow majority in the House.
If the Dems had the SCOTUS, the Presidency and the Senate, would you be excited that the Republicans might could possibly win a narrow majority in the House?

Again: Compare Trump in Oct. 2020, Oct. 2024 and now.
Which is he more like, 2020 or 2024?
Who is winning and knows it?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 27, 2026 12:58 PM (HXT0k)

237 Every president gets recess appointments except Trump, am I right on that?"

Recess?

/sleepyjoe

Posted by: man at March 27, 2026 12:58 PM (XuXeR)

238 >>Ace I don't know if you're around but just wanted to mention again you were in top form (top shelf?) with that cenobite post. In my opinion Hall of Fame in execution and laughs. Thanks.
Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 12:51 PM (45LId)

A Few Years back, Ace would have declared you the THREADWINNER for this post.

Posted by: garrett at March 27, 2026 12:58 PM (W7FsI)

239 Every president gets recess appointments except Trump, am I right on that?
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 27, 2026 12:57 PM

Yep. Thanks to the turtle and his mini-me Thune.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 27, 2026 12:58 PM (4NO2D)

240 >>They passed it because they are taking 2 weeks off for vacation and want to be able to fly. Can we please overthrow this entire government already? They literally are worthless

One of the few statements on Reddit that recognise reality.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 27, 2026 12:58 PM (NcvvS)

241 What kind of surname is "Thune" anyway?

It sounds like one of those fahrts through a really tight sphincter. Or an off key oboe.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 27, 2026 12:58 PM (WONhk)

242 She is out. The anesthesia is making her cry. Going to drive this poor tiny thing home now.

Posted by: Piper at March 27, 2026 12:59 PM (DXIXb)

243 >>What kind of surname is "Thune" anyway?

It's Dutch.

Posted by: garrett at March 27, 2026 12:59 PM (W7FsI)

244 206 202 >>>I expect daily updates on The Silmarillion to start soon.

I tried, I failed.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:52 PM (1wjle)

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Eru Iluvatar is disappointed in you.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:52 PM (JmKZX)
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The first part, the creation myth of Ea and all the celestial beings was a slog for me, but the prose is beautiful and it "makes sense" as allegory. The stories of the early heros of each people, especially the elves, are excellent though.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 12:59 PM (cWLG3)

245 I don't mind KFC. But in my little Canadian town, ours could use some passing by muslims to torch it so they could rebuild.

I think I'm going to take the reading challenge. It'd do me good.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 12:55 PM (Sco7b)

222 Sorry, bad cut paste..
Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 12:56 PM (Sco7b)

That's ok, thanks for the promo!

Posted by: The Colonel at March 27, 2026 12:59 PM (dmDsy)

246 242 She is out. The anesthesia is making her cry. Going to drive this poor tiny thing home now.
Posted by: Piper at March 27, 2026 12:59 PM (DXIXb)

Poor baby...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 12:59 PM (FtULh)

247 oh boy, you are mistaken! the Hobbit is not long, the others are huge! 500 pages each, and they're written in a much more serious, deep style than the Hobbit, which is written in this breezy, chatty style like it's a grandfather just telling you a story he's making up as he goes. (Though Tolkien slips in some beautiful prose into it from time to time.)
Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 12:51 PM (1wjle)
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LOL! Wut?

I'm reading Fellowship right now. Just the story is around 400 pages, though there's a considerable prologue explaining hobbits.

The other two are shorter. Two Towers is around 350 pages and Return of the King is about 300 pages.

Mine are trade paperback copies, though. The mass-market paperbacks will be longer.

I also find the prose much easier to read in Lord of the Rings for the most part. I found the style of The Hobbit to be much more long-winded in places.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 27, 2026 01:00 PM (ESVrU)

248 On LotR, I bought the ensemble cast version on audible (I have a ton of credits.) I'll see how it is (there is also a serkis read one.)

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The BBC did a radio drama adaptation of LOTR years ago that was pretty good.

Posted by: Josephistan at March 27, 2026 01:00 PM (y9ksN)

249 Okay, I do have a copy of 'The Hobbit' here. Dusty.

Do I start with that or LOTRs first?

Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 01:00 PM (Sco7b)

250
It sounds like one of those fahrts through a really tight sphincter. Or an off key oboe.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 27, 2026 12:58 PM (WONhk)

That's HOT!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at March 27, 2026 01:00 PM (5bGGs)

251 242 She is out. The anesthesia is making her cry. Going to drive this poor tiny thing home now.
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Piper, have you been Hobo Hunting?

Posted by: pudinhead at March 27, 2026 01:00 PM (n17eQ)

252 Healing prayers for the little one Piper.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 27, 2026 01:00 PM (n5tGW)

253 Brown noser.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 27, 2026 12:57 PM (y9nCu)

You know who else have noses

Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 01:00 PM (45LId)

254 >>>Andy Serkis does well, but he goes a bit too hard at the very beginning. It's like 'Calm down, man. You have a ways to go.' But he did. Good voice (if commie.)

Yeah he's okay.

on youtube I found an audio book where they have different actors speaking the lines of different characters. I'd like to find out what that version is. It was good. Like a radio play version of the book (but with all the text being read).

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 01:00 PM (1wjle)

255 249 Okay, I do have a copy of 'The Hobbit' here. Dusty.

Do I start with that or LOTRs first?

Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 01:00 PM (Sco7b)

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The only place to really start is the beginning.

So, The Illiad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 01:01 PM (JmKZX)

256 I don't need someone else coming along and retelling Beren and Luthien in a different form."

Yes you do!!

/Stephen Schwartz, W. Holzman, and G. Maguire

*too inside baseball?*

Posted by: man at March 27, 2026 01:01 PM (XuXeR)

257 She is out. The anesthesia is making her cry. Going to drive this poor tiny thing home now.
Posted by: Piper at March 27, 2026 12:59 PM (DXIXb)

Well, that's not the result I was hoping for.

Poor kid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 01:01 PM (5bGGs)

258 >>>The BBC did a radio drama adaptation of LOTR years ago that was pretty good.

oh maybe that's what I heard.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 01:01 PM (1wjle)

259 It's Dutch.
Posted by: garrett at March 27, 2026 12:59 PM (W7FsI)

Well, I don't like him, garrett.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 27, 2026 01:01 PM (WONhk)

260 >>>No it's not.
Posted by: somebody had to say it

I know, we really need to have more guest posts by avowed anti-American nazis.
Posted by: ace

Sid and Rainman and AliasSmurfSmurf on the front page! Perfect April Fools Day content!

.....

Please don't do this.

Posted by: mikeski at March 27, 2026 01:01 PM (zR9UB)

261 Schumer said. "This is what we asked for, and I'm very proud of my caucus. My caucus held the line."
......

Your caucus is shriveled up and limp, resting on your old man balls.

Posted by: wth at March 27, 2026 01:01 PM (UjdFS)

262 So this post says we're all fucked, quotes TJM noting that the Dems are actually the ones who are fucked, and then concludes by saying we're fucked?

As some guy says a lot, I don't get it.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 27, 2026 01:02 PM (aUxYo)

263 Calling first is annoying and childish, though, so there.

Also, the bad Cloggenstein impressions, and other Greatest Hits from 2012.

Thank you, I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: Jocko Homo at March 27, 2026 01:02 PM (4Alum)

264 The only place to really start is the beginning.

So, The Illiad."

Dude's a Homer...

Posted by: man at March 27, 2026 01:02 PM (XuXeR)

265 >>>Okay, I do have a copy of 'The Hobbit' here. Dusty.
Do I start with that or LOTRs first?

the hobbit. 1, it's chronologically the first, and 2, it's a gateway drug to get you ready for LOTR. It's a much smaller buy-in in terms of time and effort.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 01:02 PM (1wjle)

266 226 It would be great if someone could take the Silmarillion and other stories & threads of stories from the Appendices and Lost Tales, etc and rework them into novels.

Posted by: Josephistan at March 27, 2026 12:56 PM (y9ksN)
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Some the stories have been rewritten as stand-alone novels. Beren and Luthien, The Fall of Gondolin, and The Children of Hurin, for example.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 27, 2026 01:02 PM (ESVrU)

267
Your caucus is shriveled up and limp, resting on your old man balls.
Posted by: wth at March 27, 2026 01:01 PM (UjdFS)

They eat raw hamburgers and cold cheese.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 01:03 PM (5bGGs)

268 262 So this post says we're all fucked, quotes TJM noting that the Dems are actually the ones who are fucked, and then concludes by saying we're fucked?

As some guy says a lot, I don't get it.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 27, 2026 01:02 PM (aUxYo)

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No one got fucked.

Democrats demanded specific things and didn't get them. It's a minor narrative of the day that ends a weeks long little drama and will be forgotten by next week.

Hey...what was the last shutdown about?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 01:03 PM (JmKZX)

269 Your caucus is shriveled up and limp, resting on your old man balls."

That's hot.

/a now 45 (?) Paris Hilton

Posted by: man at March 27, 2026 01:03 PM (XuXeR)

270 257 She is out. The anesthesia is making her cry. Going to drive this poor tiny thing home now.
Posted by: Piper at March 27, 2026 12:59 PM (DXIXb)

Well, that's not the result I was hoping for.

Poor kid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 01:01 PM (5bGGs)

Wisdom teeth? Hope it wears off soon...fluids to get it out of her.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 27, 2026 01:03 PM (WONhk)

271 Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 12:24 PM (Sco7b)

Is the Mayor of Toronto really that stupid?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 27, 2026 12:25 PM (ZeH0U

I don't mind KFC. But in my little Canadian town, ours could use some passing by muslims to torch it so they could rebuild.

I think I'm going to take the reading challenge. It'd do me good.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 12:55 PM (Sco7b)
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The post about KFC going halal was from 2024. I don't know if it actually happened. Halal chicken is ... chicken. The "halal certification" is purely in how the cow was killed, which I have no doubt is paying off some Muslim grifter to certify it regardless whether it's really halal. There was a scandal in NYC some years back over fake "kosher" certifications.

There are lots of restaurants in heavily Muslim areas who promote their menus as "halal" because if not they would lose all those customers.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 01:03 PM (iFTx/)

272 The Silmarillion has some great lines and stories but you can tell it was never completed for publication.

West, North, and South the children of Men spread and wandered, and their joy was the joy of the morning before the dew is dry, when every leaf is green.

But the dawn is brief and the day full often belies its
promise; and now the time drew on to the great wars of the powers of the North, when Noldor and Sindar and Men strove against the hosts of Morgoth Bauglir, and went down in ruin.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 27, 2026 01:03 PM (4NO2D)

273 @266 Which are not from the mind of JRR Tolkien.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 01:04 PM (cWLG3)

274 I look forward to AoS posters blaming Ted Cruz, for he is the divine object of hatred in the Senate.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 27, 2026 01:04 PM (muXU/)

275 > Ace of Spades is solid gold. Only 'cause it's the one of the last few spaces with open and honest dissent.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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HOW DARE YOU

Posted by: Don Black at March 27, 2026 01:04 PM (ZxPkt)

276 Mitch McConnell and John Thune both support Israel, and that's all that matters.

Posted by: One Issue Voter at March 27, 2026 01:04 PM (xGBkT)

277 >>So this post says we're all fucked, quotes TJM noting that the Dems are actually the ones who are fucked, and then concludes by saying we're fucked?
As some guy says a lot, I don't get it.

sorry, I'm not sure what take is right. The commenters made a lot of good points. I think maybe they're more right?

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 01:04 PM (1wjle)

278 Had spinal surgery about 10 years ago. Was told, later, that on the way to post-surgery, wife was there with her sister, and introduced her to the nurses as 'the quiet one'. One of the nurses asked if there was a noisy one, and apparently I said, 'You have no idea.' Was told this got shrieks of laughter.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 27, 2026 01:04 PM (NcvvS)

279
There are lots of restaurants in heavily Muslim areas who promote their menus as "halal" because if not they would lose all those customers.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 01:03 PM (iFTx/)

So, if we ban halal foods, will they just leave?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 01:05 PM (5bGGs)

280 Schumer said. "This is what we asked for, and I'm very proud of my caucus. My caucus held the line."

I almost feel a tiny bit bad for Schumer. He understands how to play the DC game, but his caucus is run by dopey low-IQ kids who all want the wrong side of 80/20 issues because that's what CNN and MSNOW tell them. He's expected to get primaried even harder than Fetterman at this point.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 27, 2026 01:05 PM (aUxYo)

281 Hey...what was the last shutdown about?"

Shutdown? Hey, that dentist shot a lion!

/dude in coma for the last 15 years....

Posted by: man at March 27, 2026 01:06 PM (XuXeR)

282 by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 01:03 PM (iFTx

Actually, noow that you mention that, I do remember the story.

There are no muslims in my area, but some of the cities around here....wow. Dearborn North...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 01:06 PM (Sco7b)

283 @266 Which are not from the mind of JRR Tolkien.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 01:04 PM (cWLG3)
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Uh, yes they are. Christopher Tolkien used his father's notes and unfinished manuscripts to flesh out the stories for publication. Which is also what he did for The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and The Book of Lost Tales.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 27, 2026 01:06 PM (ESVrU)

284 He's expected to get primaried even harder than Fetterman at this point.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 27, 2026 01:05 PM (aUxYo)

Oh, he's 100% AoC's bitch at this point.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 01:06 PM (5bGGs)

285 >I look forward to AoS posters blaming Ted Cruz, for he is the divine object of hatred in the Senate.

Posted by: Cow Demon
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nah
there are plenty of Senators for me to despise before I get to Cruz
the beard looks silly but whatever

Posted by: Don Black at March 27, 2026 01:06 PM (ZxPkt)

286 So, if we ban halal foods, will they just leave?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 01:05 PM (5bGGs)

I think it's more that if they don't promote their menus as halal, the locals will burn the restaurants to the ground.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at March 27, 2026 01:06 PM (G1ktt)

287 172
They didn't let me have a general during my extraction so I was there when the dentist was hammering a chisel in my mouth.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
.......

When I was having my teeth wired together in the hospital after a car accident the dentist they gave me was named Dr. Slaughter.

Posted by: wth at March 27, 2026 01:07 PM (UjdFS)

288 YOU'LL get NOTHING and LIKE IT!!!!!
Posted by: Judge Smails at March 27, 2026 12:22 PM (5bGGs

AUGUST 2002

Posted by: Meshuggah at March 27, 2026 01:07 PM (muXU/)

289 the dentist they gave me was named Dr. Slaughter."

At least it wasn't a silly name, like "muldoon" or something...

*ducks*

Posted by: man at March 27, 2026 01:08 PM (XuXeR)

290 There are lots of restaurants in heavily Muslim areas who promote their menus as "halal" because if not they would lose all those customers.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 01:03 PM (iFTx/)

So, if we ban halal foods, will they just leave?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 01:05 PM (5bGGs)
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Go for it. It would take a gov't ban. Muslims most likely own these restaurants in question, so going to halal lines up with their beliefs.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 01:08 PM (iFTx/)

291
I think it's more that if they don't promote their menus as halal, the locals will burn the restaurants to the ground.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at March 27, 2026 01:06 PM (G1ktt)

But, if they can't eat because the food isn't halal AND they've burned the restaurants down, will they leave?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 01:08 PM (5bGGs)

292 ace: "Republicans always chicken out"

Rand Paul: "I'll object to this bill on conservative principles."

ace: "Wah! Wah! Rand Paul is a communist. And not supporting spending another trillion dollars is anti-Semitic! Wah! Wah!"

Posted by: One Issue Voter at March 27, 2026 01:08 PM (xGBkT)

293 It was quite a memorable experience.

Sorry for the TL/DR post...
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 27, 2026 12:50 PM (dmDsy)

Was it safe?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 27, 2026 01:08 PM (rbvCR)

294 Thune's Twitter is bragging about how he blocked the Democrat agenda.
Like he's the minority leader! Like his party isn't in power!
He doesn't listen a single thing that Senate Republicans have actually accomplished for America.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 27, 2026 01:08 PM (0MjtC)

295 nah
there are plenty of Senators for me to despise before I get to Cruz
the beard looks silly but whatever
Posted by: Don Black at March 27, 2026 01:06 PM (ZxPkt)

He is among the best of the bad guys.
Not perfect! But no one is.

Yeah. Really, Ted, lose the beard.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 27, 2026 01:09 PM (muXU/)

296 OT: Trump sent the right ICE agents to the airports...nothing like in shape friendly black guys laughing and giggling as angry liberal wannabe gay white male citizen journalists spout their nonsense on camera...one guy did try to cover his giggles, but couldn't...

See Twitchy for the lead video...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 27, 2026 01:09 PM (tOcjL)

297 Go for it. It would take a gov't ban. Muslims most likely own these restaurants in question, so going to halal lines up with their beliefs.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 01:08 PM (iFTx/)

RFK Jr. needs to get to work then. Find something in the halal process that is detrimental to avoiding jihad in America and drive them the f*ck out of my country.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 01:09 PM (5bGGs)

298 289 the dentist they gave me was named Dr. Slaughter."

At least it wasn't a silly name, like "muldoon" or something...

*ducks*
Posted by: man at March 27, 2026 01:08 PM (XuXeR)

Dr. Acula probably knows a lot about teeth.

Posted by: XTC at March 27, 2026 01:09 PM (iXqHn)

299 Posted by: garrett at March 27, 2026 12:58 PM (W7FsI)

People keep saying that it's important to win threads. I say it's just as important to thread wins.

And we can start today. You can start today. I can start today. Olay?

Everyone can win a thread or thread a win if we just start today. Start today. It doesn't matter when you start. It could be today or it could be tomorrow. What matters is that you do it. That you do it. That you do it.

Because what really matters isn't what's in a thread. It's what's in your heart. What's in a thread can change but what's in your heart is real. Because blood is real. Right? It has types and it is real. O. B. AB. It's real. They're all real. These other people, they're gonna go out there and tell you that blood isn't real. But it is.

It is.

It is.

I have seen blood. I know that blood is real and if you're a child or a minority and you have dreams, you don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Thank you.

Posted by: Kamala at March 27, 2026 01:09 PM (45LId)

300 the hobbit. 1, it's chronologically the first, and 2, it's a gateway drug to get you ready for LOTR. It's a much smaller buy-in in terms of time and effort.

Posted by: ace

Thanks.

And Prime Canada wanted money to see 'Hellraiser'. 'The Thing' too. And a bunch of older horror movies. It's like a tax on people who don't want to watch modern day gays and trannies.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 01:09 PM (Sco7b)

301 I look forward to AoS posters blaming Ted Cruz, for he is the divine object of hatred in the Senate.

Ted Cruz voted for Hubert Humphrey, and he killed Jesus.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 27, 2026 01:09 PM (EXyHK)

302 @nypost
·
1h
Murdered model's head was cut off and stolen from the cemetery https://trib.al/8lPGISX

Posted by: Don Black at March 27, 2026 01:09 PM (ZxPkt)

303 Did Piper's daughter have her wisdom teeth removed?
I can't be productive around here until I know.

Will someone please answer? Then you can go back to whatever you were doing.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 27, 2026 01:10 PM (WONhk)

304 289 the dentist they gave me was named Dr. Slaughter."

At least it wasn't a silly name, like "muldoon" or something...

*ducks*
Posted by: man

I got an Epidural Steroid Injection from a Dr. Spear.

Posted by: Lance McBoyle at March 27, 2026 01:10 PM (oftw2)

305 ace: "Wah! Wah! Rand Paul is a communist. And not supporting spending another trillion dollars is anti-Semitic! Wah! Wah!"
Posted by: One Issue Voter at March 27, 2026 01:08 PM (xGBkT)

TBF, Rand Paul is a libertarian, and nothing makes him cringe as much as this country having a military and being a superpower.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 27, 2026 01:10 PM (muXU/)

306 Rand Paul: "I'll object to this bill on conservative principles."

Rand usually objects on Libertarian Party principles, which mostly consist of "Drugs for everyone! Whoa!"

Posted by: Ian S. at March 27, 2026 01:10 PM (aUxYo)

307 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 27, 2026 12:25 PM (ZeH0U

.Stateless, I don't know what she said about KFC. I guess that was stupid too. I was speaking of her saying that she wouldn't allow American ICE at the Canadian airports.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 27, 2026 01:11 PM (Nx5jP)

308 What is Trump's take on this ?

Posted by: runner at March 27, 2026 01:11 PM (GD0B3)

309 303 Did Piper's daughter have her wisdom teeth removed?
I can't be productive around here until I know.

Will someone please answer? Then you can go back to whatever you were doing.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 27, 2026 01:10 PM (WONhk)

Yes.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 27, 2026 01:11 PM (tOcjL)

310 A Senator with principles. Now THAT is some funny shit.

Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 01:11 PM (45LId)

311 The Children of Hurin might make a good movie. It was published as a novel separate from the Silmarillion.

Like LoTR, I would open with the Battle of Unnumbered Tears.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 27, 2026 01:11 PM (4NO2D)

312 It's like a tax on people who don't want to watch modern day gays and trannies.
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Snort.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 27, 2026 01:11 PM (n17eQ)

313 277 >>So this post says we're all fucked, quotes TJM noting that the Dems are actually the ones who are fucked, and then concludes by saying we're fucked?
As some guy says a lot, I don't get it.

sorry, I'm not sure what take is right. The commenters made a lot of good points. I think maybe they're more right?

Posted by: ace

I would expect the owner of the blog to better understand the rules here. One never, ever admits to possible second thoughts. One digs in one's heels and calls everyone who disagrees a RINO.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 27, 2026 01:11 PM (Riz8t)

314 There are two repub reps in that clip saying a past midnight deal with 5 senators in session is a cave.

Opinions all over the place on this one. I'm going with my well brow-beaten experience that we're getting thuned.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 27, 2026 01:12 PM (n5tGW)

315 Nude thundercunt Judge Beryl Howell

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

316 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 27, 2026 01:10 PM (WONhk)

Piper asked for prayers about half and hour ago when her daughter was undergoing anesthesia for that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 27, 2026 01:12 PM (Nx5jP)

317 283 @266 Which are not from the mind of JRR Tolkien.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 01:04 PM (cWLG3)
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Uh, yes they are. Christopher Tolkien used his father's notes and unfinished manuscripts to flesh out the stories for publication. Which is also what he did for The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and The Book of Lost Tales.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 27, 2026 01:06 PM (ESVrU)
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I was referring to the standalone books derived from chapters of the Silmarillion. The extra content would have been abstracted from a book that was completed using his father's notes, correct? I assumed they were akin to adaptations of short stories.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 01:12 PM (cWLG3)

318 Murdered model's head was cut off and stolen from the cemetery

Posted by: Don Black at March 27, 2026 01:09 PM (ZxPkt)

No points for guessing what was done with the head.

Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 01:12 PM (45LId)

319 Murdered model's head was cut off and stolen from the cemetery"

Black Dahlia 2.0?

Posted by: man at March 27, 2026 01:12 PM (XuXeR)

320 This bill is dead in the House.
Now Democrats can say they tried to fund the TSA with a bipartisan bill and Republicans blocked it.

Thune turned Republicans' biggest current political asset into a political liability.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 27, 2026 01:12 PM (0MjtC)

321 313 I would expect the owner of the blog to better understand the rules here. One never, ever admits to possible second thoughts. One digs in one's heels and calls everyone who disagrees a RINO.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 27, 2026 01:11 PM (Riz8t)

=======

Been a while since anyone called me glowie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 01:12 PM (JmKZX)

322 320 This bill is dead in the House.
Now Democrats can say they tried to fund the TSA with a bipartisan bill and Republicans blocked it.

Thune turned Republicans' biggest current political asset into a political liability.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 27, 2026 01:12 PM (0MjtC)

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The Freedom Caucus stamping its feet means nothing, to be honest.

It'll easily pass the House.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 01:13 PM (JmKZX)

323 Do I start with that or LOTRs first?
Posted by: Stateless

The Hobbit takes place before the LoTR, so that's where most start. Or if you want to torture yourself, read the 10k year history of middle earth in the Silmarillion.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 27, 2026 01:14 PM (diia5)

324 300 And Prime Canada wanted money to see 'Hellraiser'. 'The Thing' too. And a bunch of older horror movies. It's like a tax on people who don't want to watch modern day gays and trannies.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 01:09 PM (Sco7b)

As opposed to old gays and troons?

Posted by: XTC at March 27, 2026 01:14 PM (iXqHn)

325 KFC Canada is switching to halal prepared chicken, and ditching all pork products

guess why

https://tinyurl.com/2p9rd72z
Posted by: Don Black at March 27, 2026 12:48 PM (ZxPkt)

Well, KFC will now be a hard "No" for me, but I cannot remember the last time I entered one of them.

I am in Tonopah, NV this morning, got in late last night, Coffee and shower, and back on the road soon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 27, 2026 01:14 PM (CMKMQ)

326 Been a while since anyone called me glowie.

I thought you only glowed for Prometheus.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 27, 2026 01:14 PM (aUxYo)

327 From Page Six - Heather Graham slams ‘awkward’ new reality of Hollywood sex scenes
....
“One time, I had an intimacy coordinator, and they started directing me on, like, how to have sex in a scene,” Graham remembered. “They were like, ‘When you do this, you can do this.’ And I was like, ‘You’re not the director, OK? I’m not asking for notes on how to have sex in the scene.'”

“I just felt, like, ‘Shut up,’” she added. “I’m like, ‘You can just tell this to the director… because I don’t want to have two different people directing me.’ It’s confusing.”

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 27, 2026 01:14 PM (Dv3i1)

328 by: FenelonSpoke at March 27, 2026 01:11 PM (Nx5j

Hi FenelonSpoke.

KFC was an older story.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 01:14 PM (Sco7b)

329 File under Shit Happens.

Jill Biden's Secret Service agent shoots himself in the leg with "negligent discharge" at airport

https://is.gd/0i8p5T

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 27, 2026 01:15 PM (ndZc7)

330 Bu my PRINTHIPLETH!!!@!@@!

I hate Trump! Epsetein! My primary opponent says he hates Trump! Epstein! PRINTHIPLETH!!!

FUCK THE JEWS! GO HAMAS! PRINTHIPLETH!!!

Posted by: Tommy Masshole at March 27, 2026 01:15 PM (4Alum)

331 311 The Children of Hurin might make a good movie. It was published as a novel separate from the Silmarillion.

Like LoTR, I would open with the Battle of Unnumbered Tears.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 27, 2026 01:11 PM (4NO2D)

Turin son of Hurin is one of the most tragic characters in Tolkien's myths.

Posted by: davidt at March 27, 2026 01:15 PM (Q+gd/)

332 179 KFC Canada is switching to halal prepared chicken, and ditching all pork products

guess why

https://tinyurl.com/2p9rd72z
Posted by: Don Black at March 27, 2026 12:48 PM (ZxPkt)

Mega City One (h/t, Unacceptable Fringe)

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 27, 2026 01:16 PM (muXU/)

333
Will someone please answer? Then you can go back to whatever you were doing.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 27, 2026 01:10 PM (WONhk)

Daughter is out, teeth removed, but the anesthesia made her cry, so they were going home.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 01:16 PM (5bGGs)

334 330 Posted by: Tommy Masshole at March 27, 2026 01:15 PM (4Alum)

Oh no, Tawmee from Quinzee has escaped containment at Kissing Suzy Kolber.

Posted by: XTC at March 27, 2026 01:16 PM (iXqHn)

335 >>>I'm reading Fellowship right now. Just the story is around 400 pages, though there's a considerable prologue explaining hobbits.

I don't think you can exclude the long prologue.

>>>The other two are shorter. Two Towers is around 350 pages and Return of the King is about 300 pages.
Mine are trade paperback copies, though. The mass-market paperbacks will be longer.

You are right on the page count (now that I check) but LOTR is written more densely than the Hobbit. The pages literally are packed with more words. My version of The Hobbit has a low word count per page.

>>>I also find the prose much easier to read in Lord of the Rings for the most part. I found the style of The Hobbit to be much more long-winded in places.

I think this is probably a minority position!

The Hobbit does waffle about but amusingly, like a Bernie Wooster story.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 01:17 PM (1wjle)

336 332 179 KFC Canada is switching to halal prepared chicken, and ditching all pork products

guess why

https://tinyurl.com/2p9rd72z
Posted by: Don Black at March 27, 2026 12:48 PM (ZxPkt)

Mega City One (h/t, Unacceptable Fringe)
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 27, 2026 01:16 PM (muXU/)

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They only have Muslim health inspectors in Canada?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 01:17 PM (cWLG3)

337 Afternoon Ace.
Thune is better than McConnell. That's not a high bar

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 27, 2026 01:18 PM (mHVWR)

338 Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Hurin cried: 'Aure entuluva! Day shall come again!' Seventy times he uttered that cry; but they took him at last alive, by the command of Morgoth, for the Ores grappled him with their hands, which clung to him still though he hewed off their arms; and ever their numbers were renewed, until at last he fell buried beneath them. Then Gothmog bound him and dragged him to Angband with mockery.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 27, 2026 01:18 PM (4NO2D)

339 What kind of surname is "Thune" anyway?

It sounds like one of those fahrts through a really tight sphincter. Or an off key oboe.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 27, 2026 12:58 PM (WONhk)

He is descended from Tulsa Thune, who needed no irony to control the minds of men.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 27, 2026 01:19 PM (rbvCR)

340 Thune has probably arranged for a few Republicans senators to be conveniently absent during the vote.

Posted by: Occasional Commenter at March 27, 2026 01:20 PM (1IwXo)

341 @339 That's the "modern" pronunciation of Sune

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 01:20 PM (cWLG3)

342 Without a clear path to final bill that includes funding for ICE and CBP, and ready for signature by the President, yeah, it's Failure Theater. Without ICE and CBP fully funded, we are back to open borders and Cartel domination in Blue cities.

The House and Senate would have to go back to conference to thrash out the 2.0 funding bill. That makes the President's bold move to fund immigration enforcement by EO timely. It's a stink bomb lobbed into the conference room, not to mention forcing the Dems to make all sorts of obnoxious noises about opposing funding for federal agencies that protect US citizens and their jobs.

Sure, Chuck, take it to court. Throw DJT into that briar patch and see what happens.

Posted by: mrp at March 27, 2026 01:20 PM (rj6Yv)

343 Florida Man Leaves AA Meeting, Does Coke, Smokes Pot, Drinks, Crashes Through Airport Gate, Tries To Steal Plane

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Doo dah! Doo dah!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 27, 2026 01:21 PM (ndZc7)

344
Meachum: "Are You Out of Your Damn Mind? I Am a United States Senator!"

Swagger: "Exactly." *BLAM*

Posted by: wth at March 27, 2026 01:21 PM (UjdFS)

345 >>>338 Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Hurin cried: 'Aure entuluva! Day shall come again!' Seventy times he uttered that cry; but they took him at last alive, by the command of Morgoth, for the Orcs grappled him with their hands, which clung to him still though he hewed off their arms; and ever their numbers were renewed, until at last he fell buried beneath them. Then Gothmog bound him and dragged him to Angband with mockery.

thanks for the quote.

Posted by: ace at March 27, 2026 01:22 PM (1wjle)

346 @343 There should be a Guinness Book of Florida-Man records.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 27, 2026 01:23 PM (cWLG3)

347 Wisdom teeth? Hope it wears off soon...fluids to get it out of her.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 27, 2026 01:03 PM (WONhk)

My mom had me put teabags over the holes to sop up bleeding which helped a lot.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 27, 2026 01:23 PM (8avO+)

348 "Florida Man Leaves AA Meeting, Does Coke, Smokes Pot, Drinks, Crashes Through Airport Gate, Tries To Steal Plane"

Overachiever

Posted by: fd at March 27, 2026 01:24 PM (eswSc)

349 339 He is descended from Tulsa Thune, who needed no irony to control the minds of men.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 27, 2026 01:19 PM (rbvCR)

Explains why he's such a snake.

Posted by: XTC at March 27, 2026 01:25 PM (iXqHn)

350 Daughter is out, teeth removed, but the anesthesia made her cry, so they were going home.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 01:16 PM (5bGGs)

Thank you. Everyone is different on anesthesia. She should be better soon. Fluids get rid of the anesthesia.

We had both sons done the same day. One was a pale, groggy, sleepy mess. The other would not shut up in glee and I told him this was why he was bleeding more than his brother. Their father and I had to walk them to their rooms (at this point both were taller than me).

At the time, over 20yrs ago, the HS rumor was a Frosty would cure it all. No nutrition but we got them Frosty from Wendy's. No straws as sucking straws dislodges clot.

They did have other stuff from nurse Mom for protein.

One thing that kept swelling down was ice. I'd put a soft ice wrap on both sides, tie a towel around that, and did this for the first day. They looked like bunnies but let me do what I wanted to them and it worked. Once they revived they played video games and I have a photo of them in this condition.

If you have her email, tell her this, please. I am always late to the party.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 27, 2026 01:26 PM (WONhk)

351 SO WHAT YAHOO WAS TELLING ME WAS RIGHT?

If everything is funded until 2029 through the BBB....how is it now DEfunded?

None of this makes sense....except when viewed through the lense of another manufactured GOP cave and surrender to hobble the president and any congressman that actually wants to do their job(s).

Good on Trump for seeing the GOPe+Commie plan to fuck us.

This fight (to find agencies that are already funded for the next several years (huh??) will decide if Dems take the Senate.

But, the GOP wants the Dems to take th Senate....so they'll probably take the Senate.

Posted by: GigantorX at March 27, 2026 01:26 PM (geQNm)

352 What kind of surname is "Thune" anyway?

It's Dutch.
Posted by: garrett at March 27, 2026 12:59 PM (W7FsI)

And.....it's pronounced...Toona"

Posted by: Will Robinson at March 27, 2026 01:27 PM (cO6oP)

353 "It's pronounced Men Ghee Lee"

Posted by: Kindltot at March 27, 2026 01:31 PM (rbvCR)

354 Eh, the Democrats get absolutely ZERO out of this deal. Not even the watered-down "reforms" limp-dick Republicans previously conceded to.

It's not a GOP win by a long shot, but it's a HUGE Dem "L" - they get nothing for all of the pain they inflicted.
Posted by: can of spam at March 27, 2026 12:14 PM (14gFN)

That's how I see it too. The Donks just put DHS through Hell for 6 weeks over for a whole of nothing. The entire "defund ICE" is a smoke-screen for the Dem CHUDs ... umm ... fully funded until 2029, the so future will have to take care of itself.

For all the blather from Democrats about "protecting our precious democracy (tm)" they're doing more to ensure that future Presidents will have to take action without any sort of fig-leaf approval from the U.S. Congress. The Ship-of-State has to keep sailing. These drones are just demonstrating that they are useless and a hindrance to good governance.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 27, 2026 01:33 PM (ksbjf)

355 Apparently, there's a second Sphinx buried under the first. The story.

https://is.gd/7BILWn

Artist's rendition of what it possibly would look like.

https://is.gd/aUo1MB

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 27, 2026 01:35 PM (ndZc7)

356 If you have her email, tell her this, please. I am always late to the party.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 27, 2026 01:26 PM (WONhk)

I do not.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 01:42 PM (5bGGs)

357 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 01:42 PM (5bGGs)

Well, you still won My Moron of the Day Contest!
XXXX

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 27, 2026 02:05 PM (WONhk)

358 Another Libertarian diss opportunity. Because Libertarians suck.

Posted by: connected and litigious at March 27, 2026 03:00 PM (cS1cw)

359 rACO

republicans
Always
Chicken
Out

(I don't capitalize the r because they're not even worthy of that little bit of respect. F-k 'em.)

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Trump Announces He Will Unilaterally Fund DHS and Dares Democrats to Sue to Stop Him;
Republican Senators Offer Democrats Deal, and Democrat Senators Accept