Providence Mayor Calls Mural Showing Face of Slaughtered Iryna Zarutska "Divisive," Wants It Taken Down

He wants the mural destroyed. He does not want to say her name.

The mayor of Rhode Island's capital city is calling for a mural reportedly backed by Elon Musk to honor Iryna Zarutska --the Ukrainian woman whose brutal murder while riding a North Carolina train prompted calls for harsher punishment for career criminals -- to be taken down.
The mural, located on the exterior of The Dark Lady, an LGBTQ+ club in downtown Providence, remains incomplete, WJAR-TV reported.
The office of Mayor Brett Smiley told the news outlet that he wants the artwork taken down.
"The murder of the individual depicted in this mural was a devastating tragedy, but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like the one across the county is divisive and does not represent Providence," Smiley said in a statement.
He said he continues to "encourage our community to support local artists whose work brings us closer together rather than divide us."

Did he call for the George Floyd murals to be obliterated as well?

Of course not.

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Zarutska, a 23-year-old refugee who fled her country after the Russian invasion, was brutally stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack while riding the Lynx Blue Line light rail in Charlotte, NC, last year.
The suspect, Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, is charged with violence against a railroad carrier and mass transportation system resulting in death, which is a capital offense under federal law.
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Zarutska's death prompted questions about soft on crime policies adopted by many Democratic-run cities. President Donald Trump spotlighted the killing during his State of the Union address last month.
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"Iryna was riding home on the train when a deranged monster, who had been arrested over a dozen times and was released through no-cash bail, stood up and viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body," Trump said.
"She had escaped a brutal war only to be slain by a hardened criminal set free to kill in America," he added. "Ms. Zarutska, tonight I promise you we will secure justice for your magnificent daughter."

It's pretty explicit that white lives don't matter to the left. "Reparations" include the right of "oppressed minorities" to beat and kill white people with little consequence.

It's also clear that the Regime that murdered Iryna by letting this psychopath out of jail dozens of times will brook absolutely no criticism of their murderous policies. Iryna is not just a reminder that white lives matter too, askshually. It's a reminder that the psycho-left's policies cause butchery and rape. But the psycho-left will use any tool of oppression to halt any argument or simple fact that might undermine their headlong drive to inflict authoritarian Marxism with a nasty racist twist on the country.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:35 PM

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1 Types deletes

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 31, 2026 01:36 PM (u73oe)

2 It's pretty explicit that white lives don't matter to the left. "Reparations" include the right of "oppressed minorities" to beat and kill white people with little consequence.

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If Iryana had been murdered by a white man, they'd love the murals.

It's not the victim, it's the perpetrator.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 31, 2026 01:36 PM (bcF3R)

3
ESPONJA!!11!!1!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 31, 2026 01:37 PM (tljrc)

4 We know why, Brett. Just say it, coward.

Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2026 01:37 PM (98kQX)

5 If it's on a private building, I doubt it matters what Smiley wants.

Posted by: LASue at March 31, 2026 01:37 PM (lCppi)

6 Homo mayor say what??

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 01:38 PM (pDt9x)

7 People, children in school! were punished for saying "all lives matters"...we were in the dark times my friends...

Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 01:38 PM (GD0B3)

8 A quick search and one finds out that, of course, this male mayor has…. A husband. He’s gay… of course, how shocking

His desire to remove the mural is disgusting

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 31, 2026 01:38 PM (xT8gx)

9 It's not like Rhode Island is a real place anyway.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 31, 2026 01:38 PM (xcxpd)

10 9 It's not like Rhode Island is a real place anyway.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 31, 2026 01:38 PM (xcxpd)

Said on an earlier thread it is Munchkinland. Its’ mayor weighed in.

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 01:40 PM (pDt9x)

11 Reparations? How about reparations for the church after Mahometan conquest of the Holy Land and North Africa ? Reparations? How about reparations for the looting of the church in England and Europe during the Reformation?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at March 31, 2026 01:40 PM (YlWIZ)

12 Math with fractions is divisive...or is it divisible?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2026 01:40 PM (ynpvh)

13 but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like the one across the county is divisive and does not represent Providence

But murder does.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 01:40 PM (9E5Ho)

14 Homo mayor say what??
Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 01:38 PM (pDt9x)

All exterior murals should depict a man enjoying the attentions of one, or more, other men. Obviously. -- Mayor Smiley

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 01:41 PM (ExV1e)

15 They don't have a problem with things being divisive. Pride flags are divisive. BLM riots were divisive. #MeToo was divisive. "No Kings" stupidity is divisive. They lustfully and gleefully invite all that. Divisive is not the problem.

Promoting something they want suppressed is the issue, not divisiveness.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 01:41 PM (El6/E)

16 2 It's pretty explicit that white lives don't matter to the left. "Reparations" include the right of "oppressed minorities" to beat and kill white people with little consequence.

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If Iryana had been murdered by a white man, they'd love the murals.

It's not the victim, it's the perpetrator.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 31, 2026 01:36 PM (bcF3R)

St. George Floyd of Fent...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2026 01:41 PM (ynpvh)

17 In happier news, Hilaria Baldwin showed off her new belly-button piercing while posing in swimsuits during her spring break vacation at an undisclosed beach location.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at March 31, 2026 01:42 PM (0sNs1)

18 OF COURSE. If it pulls the heartstrings and makes people think BADTHOUGHT rightwing thoughts, it's "divisive".

But if you want to glorify an overdosing criminal who held a pregnant woman at gunpoint in order to encourage riots and multiple murders, that's not divisive at all.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 31, 2026 01:42 PM (N1DT3)

19 14 Homo mayor say what??
Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 01:38 PM (pDt9x)

All exterior murals should depict a man enjoying the attentions of one, or more, other men. Obviously. -- Mayor Smiley

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 01:41 PM (ExV1e)

He was looking for the local gloryhole...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2026 01:42 PM (ynpvh)

20 That mayor is a monster.

Posted by: Eromero at March 31, 2026 01:43 PM (LHPAg)

21 Every word absolutely true Ace.

they're not gonna be happy until wypipo are a minority who can be enslaved and abused.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 31, 2026 01:43 PM (MIIRH)

22 It's probably a nice mural.
I hope good-hearted snipers are protecting it.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 01:43 PM (Sco7b)

23 We must not tolerate divisiveness! Divisiveness is evil.

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 31, 2026 01:43 PM (2ap+5)

24 The irony is that white single women are the biggest supporters of people who shrug when white women are murdered.

Posted by: Heroq at March 31, 2026 01:43 PM (tZs6V)

25
Some people did something.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 31, 2026 01:43 PM (n7rxJ)

26 If the Left didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at March 31, 2026 01:44 PM (MNCvZ)

27 Math with fractions is divisive...or is it divisible?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2026 01:40 PM

This is a discussion that could go on infinitely.

Posted by: Zero in the denominator at March 31, 2026 01:44 PM (0sNs1)

28 Floyd overdosed on drugs he swallowed so as not to be further prosecuted for drug charges. His neck was not compressed. It was suicide by overdose.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2026 01:44 PM (ynpvh)

29 >>> Floyd was killed by police who were paid by more taxes
I don't want my taxes to be used for adjudicated murder.
I hold the police to a much higher standard of behavior than a schizophrenic mentally ill man. Do you ?

The mural holds the politicians and their "decarceration" policies to a higher standard. Don't you agree that politicians who create a policy should be held to a higher standard than beat cops making spur of the moment decisions?

You're so fucking tedious and queer. Get the fuck out of here.

Posted by: ace at March 31, 2026 01:44 PM (1wjle)

30 The irony is that white single women are the biggest supporters of people who shrug when white women are murdered.
Posted by: Heroq at March 31, 2026 01:43 PM (tZs6V)

It'll never happen to me. The 'A' sees to that. -- AWFLs

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 01:45 PM (ExV1e)

31 26 If the Left didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at March 31, 2026 01:44 PM (MNCvZ)

I thought they had no standards...they act amorally.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2026 01:45 PM (ynpvh)

32 A story, possibly apocryphal, said that Irina had a Black Lives Matter poster hanging on the wall of her apartment. Ironic, if true.

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 01:45 PM (pDt9x)

33 You think this mayor would lose a minute of sleep over sending whites to death camps?

It’s coming sooner than you think.

Posted by: Heroq at March 31, 2026 01:45 PM (tZs6V)

34 Guess the conversion didn't stick:
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Key details of his faith journey include:

Conversion: He converted to Judaism for himself to have a stronger spiritual and moral foundation.

Posted by: beckster at March 31, 2026 01:45 PM (kX27y)

35 [Troll droppings deleted. [CBD]]

I didn't know the police jabbed him full of fentanyl and then overworked his heart for 20 years.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 31, 2026 01:45 PM (N1DT3)

36 Floyd overdosed on drugs he swallowed so as not to be further prosecuted for drug charges. His neck was not compressed. It was suicide by overdose.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2026 01:44 PM (ynpvh)

Shhhhh. Shhhh. You cannot introduce facts to a leftist. They cannot assimilate them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 01:46 PM (ExV1e)

37 Remember that twit eatlier this year

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 31, 2026 01:46 PM (bXbFr)

38 I saw Tedious and Queer open for Elton John in Tucson circa 1998.

Posted by: Heroq at March 31, 2026 01:47 PM (tZs6V)

39 Not murdering innocent people is the universal standard.

If you can't grasp THAT...

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 31, 2026 01:47 PM (DgMqy)

40 White privilege.

Posted by: ShainS at March 31, 2026 01:47 PM (hHU1D)

41 A story, possibly apocryphal, said that Irina had a Black Lives Matter poster hanging on the wall of her apartment. Ironic, if true.
Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 01:45 PM (pDt9x)

- I believe there is a photo.
- It is ironic.
- She still didn't deserve what happened to her.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 01:47 PM (ExV1e)

42 13 but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like the one across the county is divisive and does not represent Providence

But murder does.
Posted by: rickb223
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He didn't call out Musk by name because his ass would be in a sling.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 01:48 PM (ZwdAr)

43 I still can't watch the video. I try to keep in mind the AI art of Charlie Kirk comforting Iryna.

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at March 31, 2026 01:48 PM (Wt5PA)

44 40 White privilege.
Posted by: ShainS at March 31, 2026 01:47 PM (hHU1D)

Like my estimated taxes I fork over every. damned. year. THAT white privilege?

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 01:48 PM (pDt9x)

45
Can the mayor just order a mural destroyed? By what legitimate authority?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 31, 2026 01:49 PM (azNOR)

46 I saw Tedious and Queer open for Elton John in Tucson circa 1998.
Posted by: Heroq at March 31, 2026 01:47 PM (tZs6V)

Why'd he open for himself?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 31, 2026 01:49 PM (N1DT3)

47 Will no one think of the poor DU commenters?

"Some days are tougher than others to bear what Donald is doing to our country.

Today is one of those for me.
Stay safe. Hug someone. Watch a good movie. Walk the dog. Then...

Prepare to vote in the upcoming elections, no matter what this fascist demented dunce and his thugs try to throw at us. I have no doubt ICE will be there to greet us. Above all, Stay Calm.

Try to have a good day today, people."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 31, 2026 01:49 PM (0sNs1)

48 He didn't call out Musk by name because his ass would be in a sling.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 01:48 PM (ZwdAr)

Been there, done that. Sometimes it get overused on a Saturday night. -- Mayor Smiley

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 01:49 PM (ExV1e)

49 39 Not murdering innocent people is the universal standard.

If you can't grasp THAT...
Posted by: Bad Andrew

That's divisive. Many people in Providence believe murdering innocent people is ok.
-Mayor of Providence, xhi/xher

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2026 01:49 PM (Dv3i1)

50 41 A story, possibly apocryphal, said that Irina had a Black Lives Matter poster hanging on the wall of her apartment. Ironic, if true.
Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 01:45 PM (pDt9x)

- I believe there is a photo.
- It is ironic.
- She still didn't deserve what happened to her.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 01:47 PM (ExV1e)

I agree with that.

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 01:49 PM (pDt9x)

51 So it's safe to say that this mayor is not a fan of the mural to the story.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at March 31, 2026 01:49 PM (ryVuR)

52 Mayor Not-Pete is probably jealous due to all the comments from men on how pretty Iryna was.

Posted by: I'm 'Enery the Eight, I Am at March 31, 2026 01:49 PM (IG3/x)

53 Providence needs more muslims.

Along with a mural honoring the victims of the 'Pulse' shooting.

And stir.....

Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 01:50 PM (Sco7b)

54 Our latest outrage in Charlotte is a pregnant woman getting shanked in the Teeter parking lot while she was loading her toddler and groceries into her car. Stabber has had 20 plus arrests and was found in Florida. Char Meck waited a week to put out pictures of stabber. Allowing time to flee the state.

Posted by: NCKate at March 31, 2026 01:50 PM (uQzkA)

55 28 Floyd overdosed on drugs he swallowed so as not to be further prosecuted for drug charges. His neck was not compressed. It was suicide by overdose.
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But this is Minneapolis. The Metro Police Manual approved and taught the knee to the shoulder blade restraint to all their officers. There is no way this restraint impacts the blow hole. But, Dems needed a bloody shirt and thus blamed the 'union' cop for murder. So much for union dues doing anything to protect their union members. Please note, the officer was prosecuted by the FEDS cuz the State AG didn't want to go there.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 31, 2026 01:50 PM (n17eQ)

56
George Floyd Murals are sacred, sacred ground. The Church of Floyd

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 31, 2026 01:50 PM (IifOV)

57 What's even more insane is that the murderer had called the cops ON HIMSELF before this because he was having a psychotic break. But they turned him out on the street anyway.

Posted by: Anarcho-tyranny at March 31, 2026 01:50 PM (TbWk/)

58 41 A story, possibly apocryphal, said that Irina had a Black Lives Matter poster hanging on the wall of her apartment. Ironic, if true.
Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 01:45 PM (pDt9x)

- I believe there is a photo.
- It is ironic.
- She still didn't deserve what happened to her.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 01:47 PM

I thought that was disproved.

If she was a BLM supporter then my sympathy meter for her drops to near zero.

Posted by: Heroq at March 31, 2026 01:50 PM (tZs6V)

59 It's not the victim, it's the perpetrator."

Can't we all just get along?

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 01:51 PM (XuXeR)

60 46 I saw Tedious and Queer open for Elton John in Tucson circa 1998.
Posted by: Heroq at March 31, 2026 01:47 PM (tZs6V)

Why'd he open for himself?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 31, 2026 01:49 PM (N1DT3)

ego

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 31, 2026 01:51 PM (xcxpd)

61 Did someone say "impacting the blowhole"?

Posted by: Barack "Gaylord" Obama at March 31, 2026 01:51 PM (IG3/x)

62 ASS is right.

The police in this country are out of control, kill black men for sport, and have the backing of the Fascist Orange Man to prevent them from facing any consequences for it.

All people browner than Italians should leave America for their own safety because America is a terrible, fascist dystopia that will never have single payer healthcare. They should all flee to France, the post-racial socialist paradise, instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 31, 2026 01:51 PM (bcF3R)

63 47 Will no one think of the poor DU commenters?

"Some days are tougher than others to bear what Donald is doing to our country.

Today is one of those for me.
Stay safe. Hug someone. Watch a good movie. Walk the dog. Then...

Prepare to vote in the upcoming elections, no matter what this fascist demented dunce and his thugs try to throw at us. I have no doubt ICE will be there to greet us. Above all, Stay Calm.

Try to have a good day today, people."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 31, 2026 01:49 PM (0sNs1)

Waa,Waa,Waa.... Cry baby cry... Your tears are delicious.. And may I suggest you get help STAT because you are Touched in the head...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 01:51 PM (kamC8)

64 Mayor must be Russian agent
Anti-uke

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 31, 2026 01:51 PM (6U1c2)

65 62 ASS is right.

The police in this country are out of control, kill black men for sport, and have the backing of the Fascist Orange Man to prevent them from facing any consequences for it.

All people browner than Italians should leave America for their own safety because America is a terrible, fascist dystopia that will never have single payer healthcare. They should all flee to France, the post-racial socialist paradise, instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 31, 2026 01:51 PM (bcF3R)

North Korea is the true communist paradise...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2026 01:52 PM (ynpvh)

66 I thought that was disproved.

It may have been. I don't know that I ever saw both her and the flag at the same time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 01:52 PM (ExV1e)

67 59 It's not the victim, it's the perpetrator."

Can't we all just get along?
Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 01:51 PM (XuXeR)

"Fiending on power will make your blood clot
It starts with the greed and then goes all wrong
That's why, We can't all just get along"

-AD Rock

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 31, 2026 01:52 PM (xcxpd)

68 >>Providence needs more muslims.

Mohamed don't surf!

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2026 01:53 PM (viF8m)

69 They should all flee to France, the post-racial socialist paradise, instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 31, 2026 01:51 PM (bcF3R)

Canada is closer. I'll chip in for the flight!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2026 01:53 PM (n9ltV)

70 The Army suspended the aircrew flying military helicopters by Kid Rock's house over the weekend, a U.S. official said Tuesday

==

I am glad they did.

Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 01:53 PM (GD0B3)

71
The linked article has a photo of Providence Mayor Brett Smiley. Has the look of an emaciated semen eater. How unexpected.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 31, 2026 01:54 PM (azNOR)

72 Communist humor is like food, comrade.

Not everyone gets it.

Posted by: Novosibirsk Comedy Club at March 31, 2026 01:54 PM (IG3/x)

73
Canada is closer. I'll chip in for the flight!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2026 01:53 PM (n9ltV)

Too close... They may try to come back

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 01:54 PM (kamC8)

74 Not murdering innocent people is the universal standard.

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

"Mass graves for innocent whites is the new universal standard of reparations and justifiable homicide, h8r!"

Posted by: ShainS at March 31, 2026 01:54 PM (hHU1D)

75 The irony is that white single women are the biggest supporters of people who shrug when white women are murdered.
Posted by: Heroq

They also defend islam and decry the patriarchy. Sometimes in two separate breaths.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at March 31, 2026 01:54 PM (ryVuR)

76 Too close... They may try to come back

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 01:54 PM (kamC

Then we need another wall...this one on the Northern border.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2026 01:54 PM (n9ltV)

77 Floyd was killed by police who were paid by more taxes
I don't want my taxes to be used for adjudicated murder.
I hold the police to a much higher standard of behavior than a schizophrenic mentally ill man. Do you ?

He was killed by an overdose of fentanyl. Not the cops.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 01:55 PM (El6/E)

78 Mural Showing Face of Slaughtered Iryna Zarutska "Divisive,"

He is just saying she had it coming.
That you disagree is causing the problems.

That is alll

Posted by: Operator Error at March 31, 2026 01:55 PM (q4fV5)

79 Don't you guys remember Smiley from the Brown attack?

He's a world class assclown.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2026 01:55 PM (viF8m)

80 69 They should all flee to France, the post-racial socialist paradise, instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 31, 2026 01:51 PM (bcF3R)

Canada is closer. I'll chip in for the flight!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2026 01:53 PM (n9ltV)

======

Can't just walk across the Atlantic Ocean like the Canadian border, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 31, 2026 01:55 PM (bcF3R)

81 You’d think someone from Ukraine would be the last person who wants communist/woke shit. But the world is all gay and retarded so who knows? Maybe she was into it.

Posted by: Heroq at March 31, 2026 01:55 PM (tZs6V)

82 Mayor must be Russian agent
Anti-uke

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now that you mention it ...what the hell kinda name is Brett Smiley ?? not real

Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 01:55 PM (GD0B3)

83 Build a wall along the ontario border

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 31, 2026 01:55 PM (bXbFr)

84 I saw Emaciated Semen Eaters open for the Vomit Pigs in a punk club in Austin back in '75.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 31, 2026 01:55 PM (IG3/x)

85 Too close... They may try to come back
Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 01:54 PM (kamC

Murderbots on the border. Throw some cash towards the defense contractors so we can get the Senate on-board.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 01:55 PM (ExV1e)

86 If you want to reach LIVs you don't present them with dry 47 point legislative plans.

You reach them emotionally.

This is a bad, bad crime story from a leftwing perspective, because they intentionally let her killer loose...not expecting him to murder a pretty blonde refugee and this is the sort of story that LIVs care about and understand...it could have been any one of them on that bus...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2026 01:55 PM (sKqQm)

87 Hopefully there's a Streisand effect that magnifies Musk's message and hurts the pro-murder Democrats.

Posted by: Dave at March 31, 2026 01:56 PM (sbsMc)

88 71
The linked article has a photo of Providence Mayor Brett Smiley. Has the look of an emaciated semen eater. How unexpected.

---------
Scott Weiner here in CA has a very similar look.

Posted by: beckster at March 31, 2026 01:56 PM (kX27y)

89 Waa,Waa,Waa.... Cry baby cry... Your tears are delicious.. And may I suggest you get help STAT because you are Touched in the head...

This is the thing. The left is still demoralized and miserable. We're angry and frustrated, but not cowed and demoralized.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 01:56 PM (El6/E)

90 Divisive is defined by the left as a concept that is uncomfortable to a leftist, instead of the dictionary definition.

Divisive by the dictionary encompasses everything a leftist actually does or says.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2026 01:57 PM (skSAB)

91 You’d think someone from Ukraine would be the last person who wants communist/woke shit. But the world is all gay and retarded so who knows? Maybe she was into it.
Posted by: Heroq at March 31, 2026 01:55 PM (tZs6V)

She was a young woman. Lots of young people get into stupid shit. For women it seems to be all "social justice".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 01:57 PM (ExV1e)

92 Build a wall along the ontario border
Posted by: Miguel cervantes

Had someone on fb try to tell me the northern border was secure. LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 01:57 PM (9E5Ho)

93 Smiley is a dick.
He's also stupid. A tool for his sponsors.
I long for the Buddy Cianci days.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 31, 2026 01:57 PM (sl73Y)

94 I don't think Job would have been as patient with that retard as Ace was.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 31, 2026 01:58 PM (2ap+5)

95 Can't just walk across the Atlantic Ocean like the Canadian border, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

You're thinking some will eventually learn the lesson in the metaphor 'grass isn't always greener'?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2026 01:58 PM (Dv3i1)

96 they're not gonna be happy until wypipo are a minority who can be enslaved and abused.

While I being a white person oppose this and oppose it generally for all humans... its just our turn this time, I guess. Globally white people are a minority and we're shrinking because losers like me have no family and no kids.

Its inevitable that we become the oppressed at this rate.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 01:58 PM (El6/E)

97 She was a young woman. Lots of young people get into stupid shit. For women it seems to be all "social justice".

Going with the narrative gets them social credit among other young single females.

Opposing it isolates them.

Yes, its like a cult.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2026 01:58 PM (sKqQm)

98 Big News - Kirk Cousins is being sought by the LA Rams. This is causing a stir.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 31, 2026 01:58 PM (n17eQ)

99 The only problem with floyd is they didnt double tao quietly behind a car

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 31, 2026 01:59 PM (bXbFr)

100 Is there ANY BLM stuff up in Providence? if so, this Mayor can Eat a Bag O Dicks... (although, he's a lefty, so he may like it).

I've been lectured in more than one 'training', both Government and Sillyvillian... that Racism is the combination of Prejudice, and POWER.

Prejudice, against a White girl... and Mayor = Power.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 01:59 PM (mP0Kj)

101 We are lost unless that adage about hard men comes about.

Soon.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 31, 2026 01:59 PM (KH0i+)

102

This modern satanic maoism / bioleninist "socialism" is the politics of the world's losers, founded on envy, covetousness, malice, and the hatred of anything beautiful and wholesome.

Posted by: imp at March 31, 2026 01:59 PM (g6TN6)

103 This is a bad, bad crime story from a leftwing perspective, because they intentionally let her killer loose

Posted by: 18-1

I seriously doubt any of them care. Congressional representation via illegals and criminals is more important than human lives.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2026 02:00 PM (skSAB)

104 Afternoon.

Maybe replace the mural with one of Brett Smiley getting double teamed by a black guy and a Venezuelan.

Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2026 02:00 PM (pd4O4)

105 While I being a white person oppose this and oppose it generally for all humans... its just our turn this time, I guess. Globally white people are a minority and we're shrinking because losers like me have no family and no kids.

Its inevitable that we become the oppressed at this rate.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 01:58 PM (El6/E)

Whites have always been a global minority. No change there.
Whites are also the people, excluding the Mongols, who've conquered most of the known world.

I'm not saying that the remnant has that spark but the future oppressors had better hope not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 02:00 PM (ExV1e)

106 96 they're not gonna be happy until wypipo are a minority who can be enslaved and abused.

While I being a white person oppose this and oppose it generally for all humans... its just our turn this time, I guess. Globally white people are a minority and we're shrinking because losers like me have no family and no kids.

Its inevitable that we become the oppressed at this rate.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 01:58 PM (El6/E)

White Males are just about 30% of the US right now.

So... I want my minority get out of shit free card.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 02:01 PM (mP0Kj)

107 >>>bioleninist

huh, cool coinage

Posted by: ace at March 31, 2026 02:01 PM (1wjle)

108 Don't say "all lives matter." Instead say "each life matters." Every one of us has value not because we are part of some collective, but because every one of us has a value that is unique and entirely our own.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at March 31, 2026 02:01 PM (Zst8M)

109 >>I long for the Buddy Cianci days.

Buddy was a crook but he was entertaining as hell. He was like Mumbles Menino and other old time northeast Democrats. They were all party hacks but they wanted their cities run well.

Boston was clean and safe under Menino and he was actually pretty good with constituent services. The communists who have taken over the Democrat Party are incompetent at running anything and really don't care. It's all about communist doctrine for them while their cities burn.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2026 02:01 PM (viF8m)

110 > Vomit Pigs

https://tinyurl.com/3xednw8a

Hitler would have had me put to sleep
They would have had me put to sleep in Germany
Now I'm a useless eater in the USA
Thanks to mom and pop, I'll be okay
Now I'm a useless eater.

Baby boom, baby boom
Boomer kids there's no more room
Baby boom, oh baby boom
Boomer kids there's no more room, no more room, no more room...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 31, 2026 02:01 PM (IG3/x)

111 98 Big News - Kirk Cousins is being sought by the LA Rams. This is causing a stir.
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Why can't the Rams just get Cousin's cell phone number from the Falcons? You'd think they'd have no problem giving it out.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2026 02:01 PM (Dv3i1)

112 98 Big News - Kirk Cousins is being sought by the LA Rams. This is causing a stir.
Posted by: pudinhead at March 31, 2026 01:58 PM (n17eQ)

To be the backup?

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2026 02:02 PM (tOcjL)

113

I read the poster was in a friend's apartment.

Posted by: four seasons at March 31, 2026 02:02 PM (3ek7K)

114 17 - navel piercings are utterly repugnant, just sayin'

so I guess that for her it's perfectly in character, lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 31, 2026 02:02 PM (MIIRH)

115 Big News - Kirk Cousins is being sought by the LA Rams. This is causing a stir.
Posted by: pudinhead at March 31, 2026 01:58 PM (n17eQ)

Our definitions of "big news" differ.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 02:02 PM (ExV1e)

116 They should all flee to France, the post-racial socialist paradise, instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 31, 2026 01:51 PM (bcF3R)

Canada is closer. I'll chip in for the flight!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2026 01:53 PM (n9ltV)

How about a compromise -
Quebec!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 31, 2026 02:02 PM (w9Wax)

117 >>>bioleninist

huh, cool coinage

I just saw it for the first time about a week ago. I'm not sure where the bio part comes in, though.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2026 02:02 PM (Riz8t)

118 What things are actually divisive right now?

1 BLM marches
2 No kings marches
3 Violent crowds at ICE facilities
4 Juries and grand juries refusing to follow the laws.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2026 02:03 PM (skSAB)

119 Don't say "all lives matter." Instead say "each life matters." Every one of us has value not because we are part of some collective, but because every one of us has a value that is unique and entirely our own.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at March 31, 2026 02:01 PM (Zst8M)

Up yours, Racist!

Posted by: Some Asshole Communist at March 31, 2026 02:03 PM (pd4O4)

120 "If Iryana had been murdered by a white man, they'd love the murals. It's not the victim, it's the perpetrator."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Well, if the victim was black, mayor would not care about that either. Most blacks are murdered by other blacks, and we don't hear about those murders.

So it is the black on white crime the mayor prefers to hide, and finds it "offensive" (to black murderers?).

Posted by: illiniwek at March 31, 2026 02:03 PM (vbXSk)

121 I don't like the use of the word tragedy in this context and I think atrocity is the more fitting word choice.

The left always uses tragedy instead of another word like atrocity.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 31, 2026 02:04 PM (6z5U/)

122 108 Don't say "all lives matter." Instead say "each life matters." Every one of us has value not because we are part of some collective, but because every one of us has a value that is unique and entirely our own.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at March 31, 2026 02:01 PM (Zst8M)

I used to believe that... now I'm pretty convinced that some people just need killin.

Of course, being a Navy Retiree may just have a bit to do with that attitude.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 02:04 PM (mP0Kj)

123 >>>I just saw it for the first time about a week ago. I'm not sure where the bio part comes in, though.

it's lenninism with spoils awarded to various races rather than an economic class.

Posted by: ace at March 31, 2026 02:04 PM (1wjle)

124 Don't say "all lives matter." Instead say "each life matters."

==

I will say what I want, thank you very much.

Posted by: runner at March 31, 2026 02:04 PM (GD0B3)

125 And yes, Mayor Smiley looks exactly like you'd expect. Compared to him, Pete Buttigieg is Chuck Norris.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2026 02:04 PM (Riz8t)

126 Tangentially related...

So, I'm on Tubi looking for a horror movie.

Up comes 'Butt Boy' -2020

"A detective suspects his AA sponsor may be involved in a missing persons investigation when people start disappearing up the man's butt."

Asian stuff for the win...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 02:05 PM (Sco7b)

127 @EYakoby
BREAKING: Huge uplift in vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz today.

The regime has lost control.

..

But, what about the Gays of Hormuz? Any uplift in traffic?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2026 02:05 PM (Dv3i1)

128 I don't like the use of the word tragedy in this context and I think atrocity is the more fitting word choice.

The left always uses tragedy instead of another word like atrocity.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 31, 2026 02:04 PM (6z5U/)

Good point. Accidents are tragedies. Murder is an atrocity.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 31, 2026 02:05 PM (KH0i+)

129 >>>bioleninist

huh, cool coinage

I just saw it for the first time about a week ago. I'm not sure where the bio part comes in, though.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2026 02:02 PM (Riz8t)

Gotta watch out when Cyborg Killing Machine Lenin comes around.

Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2026 02:06 PM (pd4O4)

130 it's leninism with spoils awarded to various races rather than an economic class.

Ah, thanks.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2026 02:06 PM (Riz8t)

131 Don't say "all lives matter." Instead say "each life matters."

My life matters.

If you believe that your life matters, don't put it in a position where I have to choose between the two.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 02:06 PM (ExV1e)

132 NGL - Hillaria is very attractive. The navel piercing notwithstanding.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 31, 2026 02:06 PM (2ap+5)

133 >>>@EYakoby
BREAKING: Huge uplift in vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz today.

The regime has lost control.

someone said the markets had "gone vertical," could this be why?

Posted by: ace at March 31, 2026 02:06 PM (1wjle)

134 Don't say "all lives matter." Instead say "each life matters."

Flights are reopening between the penthouse and the ground.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 02:07 PM (ExV1e)

135 Our definitions of "big news" differ.
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Dude, Kirk is the last of the Redskins. He was brought in by Daddy Shanahan as insurance for RG III. RG ended his career in the playoffs and Kirk carried the team from then on. He is the doubleganger for Stafford. Same talents - same system. Stafford has had troubles with his back. The Rams coach was the OC for Redskins and knows Kirk's talents. Whether he wants a backup role is the question. Should Stafford go down he would be QB-ing a Super Bowl caliber team.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 31, 2026 02:07 PM (n17eQ)

136 hey fake and gay aliassmithsmith, why are you not commenting on the markets "going vertical" today?

Posted by: ace at March 31, 2026 02:07 PM (1wjle)

137

More BS in MN, another slap on the wrist sentence.

Lou Raguse
@LouNewsMan

Money laundering fraud suspect receives 6-month sentence. Zamzam Jama apologized in court and said she wished she made better decisions but then also blamed her accountant whom she trusted. The Jama family in all took $5.6 million from their tiny restaurant in Rochester, Mn, but Zamzam was responsible for about a half million of it.

Posted by: beckster at March 31, 2026 02:08 PM (kX27y)

138 Is "gone vertical" some kind of sexual innuendo?

Is this the polite way of saying markets have popped a giant throbbing boner?

Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2026 02:09 PM (pd4O4)

139 Dude, Kirk is the last of the Redskins. He was brought in by Daddy Shanahan as insurance for RG III. RG ended his career in the playoffs and Kirk carried the team from then on. He is the doubleganger for Stafford. Same talents - same system. Stafford has had troubles with his back. The Rams coach was the OC for Redskins and knows Kirk's talents. Whether he wants a backup role is the question. Should Stafford go down he would be QB-ing a Super Bowl caliber team.
Posted by: pudinhead at March 31, 2026 02:07 PM (n17eQ)

So, some guy who played for a team I didn't like back when I paid attention to football may go and play for a different team that I didn't like back when I paid attention to football? That's just not big news to me. It wouldn't be even if I still paid attention to football.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 02:09 PM (ExV1e)

140 Democrat Party are incompetent at running anything and really don't care. It's all about communist doctrine for them while their cities burn.
Posted by: JackStraw at March

This. Local politics should be all about services, by people who understand what that takes. I was a Boston resident White thru Menino, corrupt as hell, but things got done. Providence resident since, and it's been downhill after Cianci. Next was an accountant, fair, and since it's been all identity politics.
If you want to spout nonsense do it at the state and national levels.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 31, 2026 02:09 PM (sl73Y)

141 So, some guy who played for a team I didn't like back when I paid attention to football may go and play for a different team that I didn't like back when I paid attention to football? That's just not big news to me. It wouldn't be even if I still paid attention to football.
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This sounds all gay and shit.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 31, 2026 02:10 PM (n17eQ)

142 Up yours, Racist!
Posted by: Some Asshole Communist at March 31, 2026 02:03 PM

Now, don't take this the wrong way, and I'm only saying it because I care, but bite me.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at March 31, 2026 02:10 PM (Zst8M)

143 it's lenninism with spoils awarded to various races rather than an economic class.

Posted by: ace at March 31, 2026 02:04 PM (1wjle)

I feel like they just award themselves while claiming it's for someone else

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2026 02:10 PM (eBwIO)

144 Money laundering fraud suspect receives 6-month sentence. Zamzam Jama
___

Whoa, Black Betty, Zamam Jama! She from Birmingham?

Posted by: Ram Jam at March 31, 2026 02:10 PM (Dv3i1)

145 The left always uses tragedy instead of another word like atrocity.

Posted by: CaliGirl

Atrocity implies fault and the left wants you thinking it was accidental, not purposeful.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2026 02:10 PM (skSAB)

146 >>The regime has lost control.

>>someone said the markets had "gone vertical," could this be why?

I saw someone commenting on the site of last nights attacks, which were extensive, and it appears they were targeting a large missile launching spot that he claimed was the primary attack spot for the Strait. It was pretty much obliterated.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2026 02:10 PM (viF8m)

147 The NFL told y'all they were gay.

Not sure why you didn't listen.

But in the meantime, check out the tuck on that tranny cheerleader as he does a high kick!

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2026 02:11 PM (sKqQm)

148 I just saw it for the first time about a week ago. I'm not sure where the bio part comes in, though.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2026 02:02 PM (Riz8t)

I wonder if they are trying to coolify Lysekoism, which is a bit of junk 'Wil to Science' that should never be forgotten.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2026 02:11 PM (zZu0s)

149 Trump told Europe to go get their own damned oil so maybe the Market thinks were leaving Iran which I don't think is the case... Trump was just pissed...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 02:11 PM (kamC8)

150 >>>I saw someone commenting on the site of last nights attacks, which were extensive, and it appears they were targeting a large missile launching spot that he claimed was the primary attack spot for the Strait. It was pretty much obliterated.

thanks. odd that that was still extant.

Posted by: ace at March 31, 2026 02:11 PM (1wjle)

151 Posted by: pudinhead at March 31, 2026 02:10 PM (n17eQ)

Meh. I'm not one of the people who bitches at folks for continuing to follow pro sports. Everyone needs some escape from the world.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 02:11 PM (ExV1e)

152 "Each life matters" ... needs context.

The lives of the IRGC that were murdering citizens ... they "mattered". That is why they needed to be killed. And that is true of most jihadists ... because not all "lives matter" in the same way.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 31, 2026 02:12 PM (vbXSk)

153 >>>I wonder if they are trying to coolify Lysekoism, which is a bit of junk 'Wil to Science' that should never be forgotten.

no it's just another way to say "race Marxism," Marxism with the spoils of communist seizure of property and power given to different races/identities rather than a broad economic class.

Posted by: ace at March 31, 2026 02:12 PM (1wjle)

154 It's actually the Bi of Hormuz. It goes both ways.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2026 02:12 PM (eBwIO)

155 Gas jumped to 3.99 (from 3.79.) It seems to be across the board.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2026 02:13 PM (zZu0s)

156 >>I saw someone commenting on the site of last nights attacks, which were extensive, and it appears they were targeting a large missile launching spot that he claimed was the primary attack spot for the Strait. It was pretty much obliterated.

They took out a huge storage depot, too. Lots of secondary explosions.

Posted by: garrett at March 31, 2026 02:13 PM (W7FsI)

157 More BS in MN, another slap on the wrist sentence.

The ultimate example of judicial stupidity? Two men were found guilty of the same crime, shared guilt at the same time: raping a 15 year old boy.

One was sentenced to 30-50 years by Judge Derek Vaughn.

Judge Rich McGowan then took over the case and sentenced the other man to 3 years.

When Judge McGowan was questioned on his decision, he stated, "I am the law."

https://tinyurl.com/55zaas3u

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 02:13 PM (El6/E)

158 I guess in the Marxist victim hierarchy, black male still rates above Ukrainian female

Posted by: Jose at March 31, 2026 02:13 PM (V6W16)

159 Will no one think of the poor DU commenters?

"Some days are tougher than others to bear what Donald is doing to our country.

Today is one of those for me.
Stay safe. Hug someone. Watch a good movie. Walk the dog. Then...

Try to have a good day today, people."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 31, 2026 01:49 PM (0sNs1)

Um. Muslims don't like dogs. Your advice is racist and Islamophobic and you should be banned from DU.

So say we all.

- DU, like 74% confidence.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at March 31, 2026 02:13 PM (FmapG)

160 Young, single, urban white chick from Europe. There's a 150% chance she was a doctrinaire bien pensant Leftist. Doesn't matter. The murder was what it was, and nobody should ever let the Democrats forget. She may have been one of theirs, but now she's their albatross.

*shrugs*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2026 02:14 PM (BI5O2)

161 Just call them commies, cause commies is what they are.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2026 02:14 PM (zZu0s)

162 I guess in the Marxist victim hierarchy, black male still rates above Ukrainian female
Posted by: Jose at March 31, 2026 02:13 PM (V6W16)

Votes for Democrats > Cannot vote for Democrats

That is the whole of their victim hierarchy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 02:14 PM (ExV1e)

163
122 108 Don't say "all lives matter." Instead say "each life matters." Every one of us has value not because we are part of some collective, but because every one of us has a value that is unique and entirely our own.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at March 31, 2026 02:01 PM (Zst8M)

I used to believe that... now I'm pretty convinced that some people just need killin.

Of course, being a Navy Retiree may just have a bit to do with that attitude.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 02:04 PM (mP0Kj)

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I have no military or law enforcement history, but I've reached the same place. There are psychopaths who have no capacity to imagine or care about the misery they inflict. The ability just isn't there. They see the entertainment value just fine, though.

There are lives that matter only in a negative way -- the danger they pose, and the lethal trouble they cause. I care about their lives, but not in the sympathetic way typically intoned. Just the opposite.

They started it. It's their rules. They made it this way.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 31, 2026 02:15 PM (VWtfl)

164 161 Just call them commies, cause commies is what they are.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2026 02:14 PM (zZu0s)

Not even trying to hide it... Did you see all the communist flags at the No kings freak fest Saturday ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 02:15 PM (kamC8)

165 A quick search and one finds out that, of course, this male mayor has…. A husband. He’s gay… of course, how shocking

His desire to remove the mural is disgusting
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 31, 2026 01:38 PM (xT8gx)
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Using the let's language, I would call him a tool of the Patriarchy. Silencing women's voices and all that.

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 31, 2026 02:15 PM (cWQQU)

166
Atrocity implies fault and the left wants you thinking it was accidental, not purposeful.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2026 02:10 PM

The brutal murder of this woman and the soft on crime policies of his comrades isn't the problem, the reaction to the crime is the problem that must be removed from sight immediately.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 31, 2026 02:15 PM (6z5U/)

167 Also the Pakistani who is acting as a go between Iran and the US proposed a cease fire, negotiations and and end to attacks on the Strait. One way or another it sounds like we are getting closer to an end game.

There's not much left for the remaining regime members to do other than die.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2026 02:15 PM (viF8m)

168 Winston Wolfe (sp?) flag on the Hormuz traffic play, for now.

Not much actual movement so far.

But "the markets" are remarkably stupid, in the short run at least. Dimly understood scare factors (or hype factors) seem to cause ridiculous gyrations (short term) for many years now. Whatever.

The UK-based maritime traffic organization advisories for both Hormuz and Red Sea/Bab el Mandab remain the same, last I checked.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2026 02:16 PM (U/Byj)

169 Not The Bee:

Update: Secret Service agent who shot himself in butt was trying to use gun light to find phone

UPDATE: Additional new details about the junior @SecretService agent who shot himself last Friday morning during a movement at the Philly airport with Jill Biden: The agent left his phone behind in the SUV while escorting Jill Biden into the airport. He rushed back to get his cell phone and was using his Glock's flashlight to try to
find it in the trunk of the SUV. When he tried to holster his gun, he shot himself -- yes,
right in the butt cheek. I'm told agent training stresses that the light on the Glock
should only be used while shooting.

Yes, that is Susan Crabtree, a national correspondent for RealClear Politics, reporting the details of a Secret Service agent who shot himself in the tush.
Last week, the agency reported that the agent shot himself in the leg while on Jill Biden's protective detail, but it looks like they might have been trying to save what's left of his dignity.

https://tinyurl.com/7yr3p8e8

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 02:16 PM (9E5Ho)

170 Dude, Kirk is the last of the Redskins.

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

Recently heard about a group that's advocating to bring back the name of the Indians for Cleveland's MLB team:

"Bring the Cleveland Indians Name Back to Cleveland," founded by Stephen Marks and John Galvin, has launched a petition arguing that the name change disregarded fan sentiment and historical legacy, claiming broad support among fans and some Native American organizations like the "Native American Guardian Association" (ironic) and "Save the Name."

Posted by: ShainS at March 31, 2026 02:16 PM (3QSdt)

171 Not even trying to hide it... Did you see all the communist flags at the No kings freak fest Saturday ?
Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 02:15 PM (kamC

Given everything, the best thing about Trump is still the removal of masks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2026 02:16 PM (zZu0s)

172 It's actually the Bi of Hormuz. It goes both ways.
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2026 02:12 PM (eBwIO)

Trans as well, for obvious reasons.

Posted by: LASue at March 31, 2026 02:16 PM (lCppi)

173 When Judge McGowan was questioned on his decision, he stated, "I am the law."
____

That statement should result in re-sentencing in another court, defrocking, tarring, feathering and riding out of town on a rail Mr. "I am the law" McGowan. Anything short of that and we still have a ways to go on the path to Making America Great Again.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2026 02:16 PM (Dv3i1)

174 >>>it's leninism with spoils awarded to various races rather than an economic class.

So, racism. Cool, I knew it would come back into style eventually.

Posted by: Kindltot - Free Harambe! at March 31, 2026 02:17 PM (rbvCR)

175 150 >>>I saw someone commenting on the site of last nights attacks, which were extensive, and it appears they were targeting a large missile launching spot that he claimed was the primary attack spot for the Strait. It was pretty much obliterated.

thanks. odd that that was still extant.

----------------
From this morning's It's Noon In Israel newsletter (Amit Segal):

Last night, Donald Trump shared a clip of a massive strike on Isfahan on social media. According to Ynet’s Ron Ben-Yishai, what initially appeared to be a strike on ballistic missiles may have in fact been the burial of enriched uranium deep underground in a way that will prevent the Iranians from accessing it. The U.S., it seems, has given up on prolonged ground action that would also entail many casualties.

Posted by: beckster at March 31, 2026 02:17 PM (kX27y)

176 There's not much left for the remaining regime members to do other than die.
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This sounds like an opportunity to kill them. Killing usually does the trick in war.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 31, 2026 02:17 PM (n17eQ)

177 ***

There's not much left for the remaining regime members to do other than die.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2026 02:15 PM (viF8m)

As the meme goes, your terms are acceptable.

Posted by: LASue at March 31, 2026 02:17 PM (lCppi)

178 Gas jumped to 3.99 (from 3.79.) It seems to be across the board.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Including diesel, there are about 70 grades of fuel that refineries produce and distribute to 10,000 stations. Whenever the flow of feedstock is disturbed, there are temporary price shocks.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2026 02:17 PM (skSAB)

179 So wait, he flagged his ass while using his weapon as a flashlight?

Unless he was not sure it was up his ass or not, why?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2026 02:17 PM (zZu0s)

180 167 Also the Pakistani who is acting as a go between Iran and the US proposed a cease fire, negotiations and and end to attacks on the Strait. One way or another it sounds like we are getting closer to an end game.

I don't see us doing a cease fire and I really don't see Israel.. I do see Iran doing one soon since we've blasted most of their weapons to smithereens...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 02:18 PM (kamC8)

181 someone said the markets had "gone vertical," could this be why?
Posted by: ace at March 31, 2026 02:06 PM (1wjle)

Adam Schiff thinks it is because this is the final bubble and if we are fools because we didn't buy physical gold.

Posted by: Kindltot - Free Harambe! at March 31, 2026 02:18 PM (rbvCR)

182 172 It's actually the Bi of Hormuz. It goes both ways.
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2026 02:12 PM (eBwIO)

Trans as well, for obvious reasons.
Posted by: LASue at March 31, 2026 02:16 PM (lCppi)

Had to chuckle... because when I was sitting on a Destroyer there 35 years ago today...

Yeah, I felt like I was taking it up the poop shoot.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 02:18 PM (mP0Kj)

183 I finally got my "we'll call you right back" from the doctors office. Only took 27 hours.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 02:18 PM (ExV1e)

184 A quick search and one finds out that, of course, this male mayor has…. A husband. He’s gay… of course, how shocking

Oddly, he looks even more like a disturbing twink than Talarico. These soy chinless sad bois are everywhere in the Democrat Party now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 02:19 PM (El6/E)

185 I used to believe that... now I'm pretty convinced that some people just need killin.

Of course, being a Navy Retiree may just have a bit to do with that attitude.
Posted by: Romeo13

As a former prison guard, I can guarantee some just need killing.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 02:19 PM (9E5Ho)

186 "It's pretty explicit that white lives don't matter to the left. "Reparations" include the right of "oppressed minorities" to beat and kill white people with little consequence."

Rashida Tlaib wants to give illegals that were terrorized by ICE, reparations.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 02:19 PM (NpAcC)

187 Whites have always been a global minority. No change there.
Whites are also the people, excluding the Mongols, who've conquered most of the known world.

I'm not saying that the remnant has that spark but the future oppressors had better hope not.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 02:00 PM (ExV1e)

"When the Saxon began to hate"

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 31, 2026 02:20 PM (N1DT3)

188 Not The Bee:

Update: Secret Service agent who shot himself in butt was trying to use gun light to find phone

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He'll be appointed the Director of The Secret Cervix next time a Democrat-Communist is "elected" to the Presidency.

Posted by: ShainS at March 31, 2026 02:20 PM (ax8PA)

189 Other than the fact that some kind of ordnance was involved (secondary explosions), don't think anyone outside the mil/intel sector knows what those spectacular explosions outside Isfahan were last night.

And there are many "re-strikes" occurring. Again, neither the US nor Israel are giving out a lot details (Israel much more actually) on targets struck, but Israel at least has hit targets more than once. Also, if you count hitting places first struck back in June '25, they're going back for seconds on several targets. Either due to interfere with recovery/reconstruction efforts (CENTCOM released on video of a hit on a bulldozer), or to cause further damage.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2026 02:21 PM (U/Byj)

190 Adam Schiff thinks it is because this is the final bubble and if we are fools because we didn't buy physical gold.
Posted by: Kindltot - Free Harambe! at March 31, 2026 02:18 PM (rbvCR)

If this is truly the final bubble, it wouldn't matter.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 02:21 PM (ExV1e)

191 So wait, he flagged his ass while using his weapon as a flashlight?

Unless he was not sure it was up his ass or not, why?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Probably had his finger on the trigger as he reholstered the gun. Pushing downward pull the trigger.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 02:21 PM (9E5Ho)

192 Probably had his finger on the trigger as he reholstered the gun. Pushing downward pull the trigger.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 02:21 PM (9E5Ho)

Fuck.

Bet he won't do that again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2026 02:22 PM (zZu0s)

193 >>@AJENews
·
39m
>>BREAKING: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says on Tuesday that Iran has the 'necessary will' to end the war with Israel and the US but is seeking guarantees the conflict will not be repeated, according to AFP.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2026 02:23 PM (viF8m)

194 ...Probably had his finger on the trigger as he reholstered the gun. Pushing downward pull the trigger.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 02:21 PM (9E5Ho)

It's one of the reasons I don't like/trust Glocks. I know you're supposed to keep your finger off the trigger but I'd still prefer an additional manual safety. Like on a 1911.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 31, 2026 02:23 PM (KH0i+)

195 How about we memorialize the other black people on the train that stood there doing nothing while she was brutally murdered?

Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 31, 2026 02:23 PM (D7v4F)

196 >>BREAKING: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says on Tuesday that Iran has the 'necessary will' to end the war with Israel and the US but is seeking guarantees the conflict will not be repeated, according to AFP.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2026 02:23 PM (viF8m)

Uh.... No

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 02:23 PM (kamC8)

197 This is why sodomites should be barred from elective office. One of the reasons, anyway. IMO. I've seen the damage done to Colorado because the governor sees everything through the lens of his oft-penetrated anus.

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2026 02:24 PM (ZxPkt)

198 >>BREAKING: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says on Tuesday that Iran has the 'necessary will' to end the war with Israel and the US but is seeking guarantees the conflict will not be repeated, according to AFP.

Here's your assurance. If you don't do as you're told, the conflict will be repeated.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2026 02:24 PM (Riz8t)

199 135 Our definitions of "big news" differ.
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Dude, Kirk is the last of the Redskins. He was brought in by Daddy Shanahan as insurance for RG III. RG ended his career in the playoffs and Kirk carried the team from then on. He is the doubleganger for Stafford. Same talents - same system. Stafford has had troubles with his back. The Rams coach was the OC for Redskins and knows Kirk's talents. Whether he wants a backup role is the question. Should Stafford go down he would be QB-ing a Super Bowl caliber team.
Posted by: pudinhead at March 31, 2026 02:07 PM (n17eQ)

Russell Wilson was actually the Shannahan's 1st choice to be QB, but Snyder decided to trade 3 1st rounders and a 2nd rounder to move up to draft RGIII because he wanted a flashy QB. The Shannahan's were blindsided by it because Wilson was a better fit for their offense. By the time that they got to the 4th round, Bruce Allen asked the Kyle if he still wanted Cousins who was their 2nd choice at QB, and they said yes. Snyder couldn't stand Cousins because he thought that he was taking the shine off of RGIII, so he treated him like shit which led to Cousins leaving DC.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at March 31, 2026 02:24 PM (k1E2D)

200 I am looking forward to ace weighing in on the Kristi Noem story that is percolating out there, today.

Posted by: garrett at March 31, 2026 02:25 PM (W7FsI)

201 oh, I don't think anyone has forgotten them ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 31, 2026 02:25 PM (MIIRH)

202 I know the safety on Glock's is mainly to prevent a discharge if you drop it. I generally try NOT to drop my gun. That's my safety.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 31, 2026 02:25 PM (KH0i+)

203 People don't realize - bail serves to weed out the sane criminals from the psychos with nothing left to lose.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 31, 2026 02:25 PM (D7v4F)

204 200 I am looking forward to ace weighing in on the Kristi Noem story that is percolating out there, today.
Posted by: garrett at March 31, 2026 02:25 PM (W7FsI)

Wish we could avoid that one... Creepy...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 02:25 PM (kamC8)

205 OMG. Desantis you genius!

Liberals heads explode in.
3, 2, 1...
PALM BEACH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IS NOW Donald J. Trump International Airport offical July 1st!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 02:26 PM (9E5Ho)

206 Any Iranian official/s who make a """deal""" with the Great Satan will be the new stars of the Iranian Muslims' Stab-in-the-Back mythology.

Those people would either be instantly deposed and killed by their subordinates, or have to fight a brutal, protracted power struggle against them, which they will lose.

This will make any negotiating largely pointless.

We could agree to back that faction to the hilt for the foreseeable future, and set their leader up as the puppet we defend until the Muslims beat us along with him.

Or, we could wave the worthless peace treaty around, declare victory and go home until it's time to smash the Muslims from the air and sea again.

No real great options for a negotiated peace at this point.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2026 02:26 PM (BI5O2)

207 If this is truly the final bubble, it wouldn't matter.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 02:21 PM (ExV1e)

To be honest, this is Adam Schiff's opinion on pretty much everything, from "Domestic manufacturing has seen a downturn for the Q3"" to "the bakery is out of bread today" so at least he is consistent.

Posted by: Kindltot - Free Harambe! at March 31, 2026 02:27 PM (rbvCR)

208 I am looking forward to ace weighing in on the Kristi Noem story that is percolating out there, today.
Posted by: garrett at March 31, 2026 02:25 PM (W7FsI)

Wish we could avoid that one... Creepy...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 02:25 PM (kamC

Further, it's the husband, not her.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 02:27 PM (ExV1e)

209 If this is truly the final bubble, it wouldn't matter.

That is the thing I don't get. If everything collapses, if all society is destroyed, civilization is in ruins, and the economy is worthless.... gold is just a rock.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 02:27 PM (El6/E)

210
Is this mayor not a member of the nomenklatura of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, a known white supremacist organization?

How dare he cite standing against hate as a core belief of his!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 31, 2026 02:27 PM (xG4kz)

211 Was the Secret Service agent that was trying to use his weapon light as a flashlight new to firearms? Thought these people were supposed to be some of the best of the best? Even then, the moron should be carrying a handheld flashlight as part of his kit. And I trained to shoot holding a flashlight in my off hand, weapon in my dominant side. And I'm a nobody.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 31, 2026 02:28 PM (N39Ws)

212 Re Kristi Noem

Creepy? I have no knowledge on this one and look forward to ace learnin us.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2026 02:28 PM (zZu0s)

213 It's ok to kill white people.

Posted by: democrats and the people who support them at March 31, 2026 02:29 PM (/1l9x)

214 WRT any deal with the Iranians - how do we account for Taqiyyah?

Serious question.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 31, 2026 02:29 PM (KH0i+)

215
Creepy? I have no knowledge on this one and look forward to ace learnin us.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2026 02:28 PM (zZu0s)

It involves some cross dressing and perverted on line stuff....

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 02:29 PM (kamC8)

216 No doubt, the little four-eyed c***sucker (literally!) was wedgied repeatedly in Jr Hi. Now, he has the power, and he's going to use it.
I'll also bet he was a theater kid.

Posted by: buddhaha at March 31, 2026 02:29 PM (nwB28)

217 That is the thing I don't get. If everything collapses, if all society is destroyed, civilization is in ruins, and the economy is worthless.... gold is just a rock.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 02:27 PM (El6/E)

Metal, sir.

Posted by: Patsy at March 31, 2026 02:29 PM (zZu0s)

218 It's one of the reasons I don't like/trust Glocks. I know you're supposed to keep your finger off the trigger but I'd still prefer an additional manual safety. Like on a 1911.
Posted by: Chairborne!

That's why I like my H&K's decock lever. Returns it to a double action with a much heavier trigger pull than a single action.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 02:29 PM (9E5Ho)

219 138 Is "gone vertical" some kind of sexual innuendo?

Is this the polite way of saying markets have popped a giant throbbing boner?

well, it is now...

Posted by: anachronda at March 31, 2026 02:29 PM (oY6Yp)

220 Whites have always been a global minority

—

A very tiny minority. Less than 10% of the world’s population.

Posted by: Heroq at March 31, 2026 02:29 PM (tZs6V)

221 That is the thing I don't get. If everything collapses, if all society is destroyed, civilization is in ruins, and the economy is worthless.... gold is just a rock.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 02:27 PM (El6/E)

The problem with gold is... who's going to take it in trade? And, if people take it in trade, what's going to prevent someone else from taking it from you?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 02:29 PM (ExV1e)

222 PALM BEACH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IS NOW Donald J. Trump International Airport offical July 1st!

Lefties are indeed having the vapors over this -- again -- and I think its a dumb ego thing as usual. But San Francisco just renamed a building after Nancy Pelosi today too. That's just what politicians do. Its stupid and annoying, half of West Virginia is named after Robert C. Byrd. But its not unprecedented.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 02:29 PM (El6/E)

223 Rhode Island is a gay state.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 31, 2026 02:29 PM (abIsI)

224 212 Re Kristi Noem
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Kristi Noem and boobs in the same story. It will be yet another lesson in careful what you wish for.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2026 02:30 PM (Dv3i1)

225 The agony and confusion among the Beltway pointy-heads (to include 98% of supportive, "conservative" "expert" types) at Trump's wild public diplomacy stylings are glorious.

SecState calls the Iranian leadership (several days in a row) "lunatics", while simultaneously the prez bizarrely proclaims that the 3rd or 4th replacements for leadership that has been terminated a "new regime", and "more reasonable".

Trump's intimation that we could just declare our objectives met and walk, without worrying about Hormuz - the Euros and others can take care of that, it's their big problem - is also hilarious. Obviously not serious, but amusing and possibly useful in reaching a few more LIVs (that is, almost everyone now).

Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2026 02:30 PM (U/Byj)

226 I know the safety on Glock's is mainly to prevent a discharge if you drop it. I generally try NOT to drop my gun. That's my safety.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 31, 2026 02:25 PM (KH0i+)

To be snarky, this is something Smith and Wesson managed to do since 1899. It is nice to know the Austrians managed this as well.

Posted by: Kindltot - Free Harambe! at March 31, 2026 02:30 PM (rbvCR)

227 209 If this is truly the final bubble, it wouldn't matter.

That is the thing I don't get. If everything collapses, if all society is destroyed, civilization is in ruins, and the economy is worthless.... gold is just a rock.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 02:27 PM (El6/E)

Ammo - that will be the new currency. I'll gladly hand over 10 rounds of 9mm for food. How do you do that with a gold coin worth hundreds if not thousands?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 31, 2026 02:30 PM (N39Ws)

228 American journalist Shelly Kittleson abducted in Iraq
Local authorities are searching for Shelley Kittleson, who was abducted in Baghdad.

Should I be concerned about this because, I don't feel concerned about this?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 31, 2026 02:30 PM (abIsI)

229 It's ok to kill white people.
Posted by: democrats and the people who support them at March 31, 2026 02:29 PM (/1l9x)

Fuck yeah it is!!!
- 30-40% of whites in America

Posted by: Heroq at March 31, 2026 02:30 PM (tZs6V)

230
I am looking forward to ace weighing in on the Kristi Noem story that is percolating out there, today.
Posted by: garrett

That was her husband in the jinormous boobs article of last night's ONT?

Did she put down the wrong dog?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 31, 2026 02:30 PM (xG4kz)

231 They wouldn't have a mural of the woman, if law enforcement and the judiciary had taken things seriously.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 31, 2026 02:30 PM (D7v4F)

232
Judge says Trump gotta fund PBS & NPR.

LOL.

Posted by: Auspex at March 31, 2026 02:31 PM (Y8DZL)

233 It involves some cross dressing and perverted on line stuff....
Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 02:29 PM (kamC

I am assuming by perverted you don't mean large breasted lesbians(who are totally not real lesbians)... *sigh*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2026 02:31 PM (zZu0s)

234 That is the thing I don't get. If everything collapses, if all society is destroyed, civilization is in ruins, and the economy is worthless.... gold is just a rock.
Posted by: Christopher R

Gold has been valued for over 5,000 years while everyone lived in dirt. Unless it is an ELE, humanity will rebuild.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 02:31 PM (9E5Ho)

235 A very tiny minority. Less than 10% of the world’s population.

You can see a population explosion after the industrial revolution though. Then as Europe/US shared that knowledge with the rest of the world (and started sending them food) their populations started booming as well.

And then that continues until the left foisted second generation feminism on the west and birth rates then start declining...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2026 02:31 PM (sKqQm)

236 208 I am looking forward to ace weighing in on the Kristi Noem story that is percolating out there, today.
Posted by: garrett at March 31, 2026 02:25 PM (W7FsI)

Wish we could avoid that one... Creepy...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 02:25 PM (kamC

Further, it's the husband, not her.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 02:27 PM (ExV1e)

But the story has 3000 cc saline boobs.

Given our track record.....

Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 02:31 PM (Sco7b)

237 209 If this is truly the final bubble, it wouldn't matter.

That is the thing I don't get. If everything collapses, if all society is destroyed, civilization is in ruins, and the economy is worthless.... gold is just a rock.

but it's a pretty rock that you can hammer into jewelry using other, harder rocks.

Posted by: anachronda at March 31, 2026 02:31 PM (oY6Yp)

238 That is the thing I don't get. If everything collapses, if all society is destroyed, civilization is in ruins, and the economy is worthless.... gold is just a rock.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 02:27 PM (El6/E)

The problem with gold is... who's going to take it in trade? And, if people take it in trade, what's going to prevent someone else from taking it from you?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 02:29 PM (ExV1e)

You prevent someone from taking it from you by...hitting them with the rock. You're welcome.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 31, 2026 02:31 PM (KH0i+)

239 I know the safety on Glock's is mainly to prevent a discharge if you drop it. I generally try NOT to drop my gun. That's my safety.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 31, 2026 02:25 PM (KH0i+)

To be snarky, this is something Smith and Wesson managed to do since 1899. It is nice to know the Austrians managed this as well.
Posted by: Kindltot

Except they put the safety ON the trigger.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 02:32 PM (9E5Ho)

240 Looking back over today I see this is unmentioned so... the Supreme Court just decided 8-1 that deprogramming homosexuals and transexuals is not unconstitutional. I am confident that you can guess who the one dissenting judge was.

The majority opinion specifically calls out Jackson several times over her incredibly asinine arguments in the minority opinion. Basically she tries to bring in some legal precedent but it boils down to "but I like this law"

Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson are varying degrees of fool and activist but Jackson takes the cake. She cares nothing about the law, logic, jurisprudence, precedent, the constitution, truth, or sanity.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 02:32 PM (El6/E)

241 I am looking forward to ace weighing in on the Kristi Noem story that is percolating out there, today.

I suspect the left's reaction will be something like, "Her husband is a perv she should be banned from public office"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2026 02:32 PM (sKqQm)

242
Further, it's the husband, not her.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 02:27 PM (ExV1e)

But the story has 3000 cc saline boobs.

Given our track record.....
Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 02:31 PM (Sco7

See... Pervertedly creepy...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 02:32 PM (kamC8)

243 178 Gas jumped to 3.99 (from 3.79.) It seems to be across the board.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Including diesel, there are about 70 grades of fuel that refineries produce and distribute to 10,000 stations. Whenever the flow of feedstock is disturbed, there are temporary price shocks.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2026 02:17 PM (skSAB)

We are also in the process of switching from "winter" blend to "summer" blend which raises the price about 15 cents per gallon.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at March 31, 2026 02:32 PM (k1E2D)

244 185

As a former prison guard, I can guarantee some just need killing.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 02:19 PM (9E5Ho

Rick I did prison ministry for a number if years in a medium security prison. I found that nearly everyone in there needed to be there and some should never be released. The worst group were the sex offenders. After establishing enough rapport nany just said flat out that they would do it again when released.

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 02:33 PM (Dkz5F)

245 Gold has been valued for over 5,000 years while everyone lived in dirt. Unless it is an ELE, humanity will rebuild.

Sure, we would rebuild. And gold would regain its value. but by then you'd be a skeleton with a bar of gold in your hand if that's all you had.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 02:33 PM (El6/E)

246 American journalist Shelly Kittleson abducted in Iraq
Local authorities are searching for Shelley Kittleson, who was abducted in Baghdad.

Should I be concerned about this because, I don't feel concerned about this?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 31, 2026 02:30 PM (abIsI)

A white woman, running around the ME (alone?), after her government told her it was dangerous?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 02:34 PM (ExV1e)

247 Except they put the safety ON the trigger.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 02:32 PM (9E5Ho)

Springfield does it too. There is a grip safety, and the trigger safety.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 31, 2026 02:34 PM (N39Ws)

248 Saying black lives matter is a liberal's way of saying that white lives don't.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2026 02:34 PM (skSAB)

249 White Girl Bleed a Lot

https://is.gd/vpfZtZ

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 31, 2026 02:34 PM (eHmQE)

250 Taqqiyah is no particular concern with Iran. It's the same inability to trust any authoritarian government from almost any part of the world. The USSR couldn't be trusted on many aspects of agreements, that's what conservative counting rules and eventually on-site inspection were all about. Of course the dogshit regime in Tehran cannot be trusted, on any matter at all.

Which is why the obvious solution to the problem they pose has always been obvious and remains so. But don't mention it, or the bumper-sticker level segment (most, now?) will have the vapors.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2026 02:34 PM (U/Byj)

251 Looking back over today I see this is unmentioned so... the Supreme Court just decided 8-1 that deprogramming homosexuals and transexuals is not unconstitutional. I am confident that you can guess who the one dissenting judge was.

The left's take is that grooming a 3 year old to be gay is fine. You can read porn with him, have a tranny twerk in his face, or put him in a dress, but if an adult wants to meet with a psychologist to help him get over being gay/tranny that is a literal crime against humanity.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2026 02:34 PM (sKqQm)

252 NOOD Strait of Hormuz

Posted by: Turn 2 at March 31, 2026 02:34 PM (SlGTd)

253 And then that continues until the left foisted second generation feminism on the west and birth rates then start declining...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2026 02:31 PM (sKqQm)

do you know about the Kissinger report? National Security Study Memorandum 200?

Posted by: Kindltot - Free Harambe! at March 31, 2026 02:34 PM (rbvCR)

254 Offer them a shipping container each of dogs and pigs for the journalist.

Then you can say "we tried."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2026 02:34 PM (BI5O2)

255 Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson are varying degrees of fool and activist but Jackson takes the cake. She cares nothing about the law, logic, jurisprudence, precedent, the constitution, truth, or sanity.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

It's taken awhile, but I have finally come to the conclusion that Jackson has a below average IQ. Still smarter than the idiot who nominated her though.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2026 02:35 PM (Dv3i1)

256 do you know about the Kissinger report? National Security Study Memorandum 200?

No - do you have a synopsis?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2026 02:35 PM (sKqQm)

257 Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson are varying degrees of fool and activist but Jackson takes the cake. She cares nothing about the law, logic, jurisprudence, precedent, the constitution, truth, or sanity.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 02:32 PM (El6/E)
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KBJ is stone-cold retarded.

That she was able to enter into and graduate from law school is an indictment of the entire education system in the United States.

Posted by: ballistic at March 31, 2026 02:36 PM (oqH4h)

258 I know you're supposed to keep your finger off the trigger but I'd still prefer an additional manual safety.

This too is the reason "keep your booger hook off the bang lever" is one of the primary rules of gun safety

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2026 02:36 PM (El6/E)

259 I prefer a handgun with a quick swish of the thumb manual safety. When I carry a Glock, I'm always afraid of catching something as I holster the gun. Shooting my dick off doesn't seem like fun. I now carry a Ruger Security 9.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 31, 2026 02:36 PM (abIsI)

260 Yeah sorry if you’re dumb enough to go to Baghdad then my give a fuck meter about you is pegged at zero.

Posted by: Heroq at March 31, 2026 02:37 PM (tZs6V)

261 Or, just bluntly state that "the United Ststes does not negotiate for journalists," and then send the Iraqis a baseball bat studded with nails as a consolation prize.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2026 02:37 PM (BI5O2)

262 Wasn’t mayor smiley in charge of shooting events at Brown University awhile back. Being so understanding of what happened.

Posted by: morigu at March 31, 2026 02:38 PM (U2YN7)

263 That's why I like my H&K's decock lever. Returns it to a double action with a much heavier trigger pull than a single action.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 02:29 PM (9E5Ho)

*a single tear rolls down a stony face*

Posted by: John Moses Browning at March 31, 2026 02:38 PM (zZu0s)

264 The wise Latina and Kagan are communist filth but they’re not retarded. judge Jumanji is communist filth and retarded.

Posted by: Heroq at March 31, 2026 02:39 PM (tZs6V)

265 Here, here Ace!

Russia might turn out to be our greatest ally when all is said and done.

Russia, US, and Israel came remake the Middle East - if not the world - through sustained aerial bombardment and rockets and drones to ensure freedom liberty reign supreme.

And Trump is right we have plenty of oil here and from Venezuela to ensure we don't need any oil from the Middle East.

But we need the patriotic oil companies in the US to price oil at an American discount and not via the world market.

Posted by: Diabeetus at March 31, 2026 02:39 PM (SlrUo)

266 He rushed back to get his cell phone and was using his Glock's flashlight to try to find it in the trunk of the SUV. When he tried to holster his gun, he shot himself -- yes, right in the butt cheek.

In addition to everything else that's wrong with this story, since when does an SUV have a "trunk?"

Posted by: mikeski at March 31, 2026 02:40 PM (Fi4Tu)

267
One of the most humorous events from my time as Scoutmaster was sitting in on one of our scout's Eagle Board of Review and, when he was asked whether someone or another ought to have been punished for having behaved inhumanely toward another human being, he replied, "Well, some people deserve to be punished."

That response nearly caused his questioner to stroke out from shock. "Surely you can't mean that!"

"I do. Some people are just evil and they deserve punishment."

More sputtering and attempts to get the young man to moderate his assertions, but he stuck to his guns.

One of the other Board members knew the young man's father and, afterward, during the congratulatory chit chat, he told the father, "Boy, I certainly knew that he was your son when he made that reply!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 31, 2026 02:41 PM (xG4kz)

268 If I were running things and someone took a journalist hostage, I'd send in the same team that got Maduro. The terrorists would all be freaking out, thinking they're about to get f'd in the a, and then get real confused when the special forces operators just mag-dumped on the hostage and returned to base.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2026 02:41 PM (BI5O2)

269 Rick I did prison ministry for a number if years in a medium security prison. I found that nearly everyone in there needed to be there and some should never be released. The worst group were the sex offenders. After establishing enough rapport nany just said flat out that they would do it again when released.
Posted by: tubal

We had one on death row. Back in '85. Times were different. They weren't 100% isolated. They were taken to the showers in small groups & recreated in small groups. We had one who would stab convicts & officers when his death date was coming up.

Can't kill a man with an ongoing investigation/trial.

They finally started isolating him.

James Dumachette.

https://tinyurl.com/murb2y7v

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 02:42 PM (9E5Ho)

270 *a single tear rolls down a stony face*
Posted by: John Moses Browning

Make a magazine release for left handers.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 02:43 PM (9E5Ho)

271 No - do you have a synopsis?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2026 02:35 PM (sKqQm)

"it might be best to limit birth rates in 3rd world countries so they don't use up all the resources the US needs to power its manufacturing economy"
and other gems like that

it is online as "Kissinger report"

Posted by: Kindltot - Free Harambe! at March 31, 2026 02:44 PM (rbvCR)

272
Wasn’t mayor smiley in charge of shooting events at Brown University awhile back. Being so understanding of what happened.

Posted by: morigu

He was the asshat who, absent any evidence whatsoever, declared it safe for folks to resume normal activities despite no such assurances from law enforcement authorities. When asked on what basis he made that assertion, he replied (in effect), "Well, no one has been shot in the last (fill in this blank) hours."

But the shooter was alive and had driven into Massachusetts and shot the professor at MIT around that time.

He may not have known much, but what little he did know, he knew really well!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 31, 2026 02:46 PM (xG4kz)

273 That's sort of a hilarious and serious tweet by Trump. Seems like the new world order is going to be like the old world order.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at March 31, 2026 02:46 PM (sX1BW)

274
In which federal agency was the guy whose handgun fired when he was executing some awesome moves on a dance floor about four years ago?

Was he Secret Service, or FBI?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 31, 2026 02:50 PM (xG4kz)

275 268 If I were running things and someone took a journalist hostage, I'd send in the same team that got Maduro. The terrorists would all be freaking out, thinking they're about to get f'd in the a, and then get real confused when the special forces operators just mag-dumped on the hostage and returned to base.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

LOL

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2026 03:21 PM (W2Pud)

276 There's a BLM mural in town. They can take any spare paint and start on that one next.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 31, 2026 03:57 PM (EKdvg)

277 My suggestion is to partially paint over the mural with a sneering rendition of the Mayor trying to pull a cover over it, with a caption making it a political ad.

Posted by: epador at March 31, 2026 04:08 PM (AC6Wj)

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