Bobby "The Brain" DeNiro Is So Pro-Democracy He Wants a Council of Elders To Ban People He Doesn't Like From Running for President

nurse ratched asked for a "fun thread." I don't know if this counts, but maybe it does.

Batya Ungar-Sargon
@bungarsargon
This is such a perfect example of how Trump broke the brains of so many on the Left. In the name of opposing "totalitarianism" and "defending democracy," DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office, including someone who went on to win the popular vote.
What's sad is that DeNiro is obviously experiencing immense, totalizing pain, genuine psychic distress at the outcome of an election.
So much of their hatred of Trump is just an attempt to evade recognizing that democracy--their neighbors getting what they want when they vote in greater numbers--causes them searing psychic pain.

I recently managed to ferret my way into a green room where Robert De Niro was waiting to speak at an anti-Trump rally. I found a man confused, angry and bewildered at what America had become. He just could not understand who or what Donald Trump really was. He thinks someone… pic.twitter.com/hirsqo7JYZ
— Freddie Hayward (@freddiejh April 1, 2026

This is such a perfect example of how Trump broke the brains of so many on the Left. In the name of opposing "totalitarianism" and "defending democracy," DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office, including someone who went on to win… https://t.co/H2eKWF5rv1
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) April 1, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:38 PM

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1 SUPER GENIUS

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:38 PM (N1DT3)

2 Dude has lost his marbles. He's ruined all his once enjoyable movies. FOAD.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:39 PM (dK+Kv)

3 The left has taken Orwell as a blueprint, not a warning.

Doublethink (TM) is their bread and butter.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:39 PM (N1DT3)

4 It seems like we DO have a screening process, though it's debatable how robust it is considering some of the idiots who have landed on the final Presidential ticket (on both sides).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (ESVrU)

5
TDS is degenerative.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (IifOV)

6 Dude has lost his marbles. He's ruined all his once enjoyable movies. FOAD.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:39 PM (dK+Kv)

Eh. I expect actors to be idiots. They rarely disappoint.

However, we really need to do something about the people who DO look to celebrities for anything other than entertainment.

We need to go back to treating actors as barely better than prostitutes...

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (N1DT3)

7 High School Equivalency Graduate Robert Deniro

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (4NO2D)

8 The EU basically does this. Outlaws parties, outlaws individuals, negates election results when the approved parties don't win.

Posted by: steevy at April 02, 2026 04:42 PM (YwEeS)

9 What a maroon.

Posted by: bugs bunny at April 02, 2026 04:42 PM (OFw3k)

10 "What's sad is that DeNiro is obviously experiencing immense, totalizing pain, genuine psychic distress at the outcome of an election."

Sad for who? All I got is joy joy joy.

Posted by: fd at April 02, 2026 04:42 PM (UoFpr)

11 To be fair, when the left wrests control and imposes their vision, I'll be under some psychological stress.

Posted by: InZona at April 02, 2026 04:42 PM (peFv8)

12 Great joke. What do you call it??

THE AUTHORITY~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 02, 2026 04:42 PM (diia5)

13 DeNiro was never bright or learned, but he has been so praised, protected, and coddled that in his dotage he genuinely believes he is that great.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:42 PM (El6/E)

14 grandpa is off his meds again

Posted by: brak at April 02, 2026 04:43 PM (jGJov)

15 The EU basically does this. Outlaws parties, outlaws individuals, negates election results when the approved parties don't win./i]

"Und zometimes, ve kill zem!"
--Germany

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:43 PM (El6/E)

16 Some good news-

Lt. Dan Rooney, the founder and CEO of Folds of Honor, is running as a Republican in Oklahoma for Congress.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 02, 2026 04:43 PM (NpAcC)

17 Oh, hey, I just pulled off the hat-trick Sponge. Three-peat baby!

/spikes the football, rounds the bases at a trot.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:43 PM (N1DT3)

18 Say what you will about Bobby DeNiro, he never shot and killed a woman on set.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 04:43 PM (ndZc7)

19 So who decides who's on the "body of elites," or "council of elders?" That is, who elects them? Is there another council that decides who can run for the council?

Is it councils all the way down?

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 04:44 PM (VHUov)

20 Oh, hey, I just pulled off the hat-trick Sponge. Three-peat baby!

/spikes the football, rounds the bases at a trot.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

* holds out glove for a fistbump when FV skates by the bench *

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 04:44 PM (VHUov)

21
This is the opposite of the Democracy these lunatics are always whining about.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 04:45 PM (IifOV)

22
@bungarsargon

bung. ars. argon.

Now that is one self-confident woman!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:45 PM (xG4kz)

23 So who decides who's on the "body of elites," or "council of elders?"

The Supreme Leader, obviously.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:45 PM (4NO2D)

24 Bobby’s take is pretty mild. The usual hot take by the left is save our most precious democracy by putting our political opponents in prison. He’s only banning them from holding office.

Posted by: Heroq at April 02, 2026 04:45 PM (nLVHX)

25 "So who decides who's on the "body of elites," or "council of elders?"

The same people that pick the Oscars.

Posted by: fd at April 02, 2026 04:45 PM (UoFpr)

26 >>>@bungarsargon
This is such a perfect example of how Trump broke the brains

It doesn't sit right to say that Trump broke them. They broke. They broke themselves--in response to Trump.

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:45 PM (fNISR)

27 A fun thread would be is where the Mariners beat the Dodgers in the World Series and us Mariner faithful get to gloat and snark until we pass out.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (glnUu)

28 Willowed:

Will there be a first female to set foot on the Moon?
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Alice Kramden is already there.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (J8NZO)

29 Eh. I expect actors to be idiots. They rarely disappoint.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (N1DT3)

At least, in the past, they kept their mouths shut for the sake of the profitability of their works. They should do that some more or starve.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (dK+Kv)

30 The EU basically does this. Outlaws parties, outlaws individuals, negates election results when the approved parties don't win.
Posted by: steevy at April 02, 2026 04:42 PM (YwEeS)

Exactly, some points of view are so toxic to the way things ought to be, that the people who espouse them must be silenced, ensuring by social or political pressure that no one can ever admit listening to them or supporting any part of what is said, and be called fascists or antisemites or something, so it is OK to destroy them.
Cass Sunstein was big on that, and lots of people thought it was so powerful a method, they should adopt it themselves.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (rbvCR)

31 The problem for the left is that all their radical dreams were JUST ABOUT to be totally realized and Trump interrupted them. Like, the cat jumped on the bed just before orgasm.

Then he proceeded to strip away one thing after another that they had imposed on us in their insanity, like tranny bathrooms and USAID graft. From their perspective this is like mom coming into your room, ripping all the posters off the wall and taking away your console game. Its someone desecrating their shrine to Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (El6/E)

32 TDS is real and it is both horrifying and hilarious.

I love trolling cow workers and it’s incredibly easy and they lose their shit and say really REALLY crazy stuff.

I had one comparing the adverts for MAID in Canada with the adverts for signing up for the Army the USA.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (A5RD0)

33 High School Equivalency Graduate Robert Deniro

-
Well, at least he wasn’t a plumber.
- Jimmy Kimmel

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (ndZc7)

34 Trump, a wildly successful businessman, isn't qualified to be POTUS but a failed community organizer and part time college instructor is.

Otay.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (viF8m)

35 How did Sparta chose the Ephors?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:47 PM (rbvCR)

36
Perfect!

"Booby Hatch" DeNiro and Bruce "Old McSpringsteen" can be the charter members of this Council of Experts!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:47 PM (xG4kz)

37 Is it councils all the way down?
Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 04:44 PM (VHUov)

The Council of Zion, with wise elder Cornel West.

Posted by: I think The Matrix covered this council thing at April 02, 2026 04:47 PM (XE5AP)

38 The funniest part is that the one country that I can think that has exactly this system is Iran. They have a council of Ayatollahs, I think they call it the Guardian Council, which rules on who is allowed to be a candidate or not.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 04:47 PM (cKPyM)

39 Exactly, some points of view are so toxic to the way things ought to be, that the people who espouse them must be silenced

I am actually coming to this perspective regarding Islam, Communism, and Fascism. Some ideas are so toxic to society and culture, to liberty and civilization that they cannot be allowed in our public discourse.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (El6/E)

40 They also want only “approved journalists” to be able to do journalism.

What it comes down to for these wretched filthy cockcuskers is they want credentials for everything. Why not a credential to run for president? And who will be the credentialing body? Why a far left organization of course. Like the ABA or AMA.

Posted by: Heroq at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (nLVHX)

41 DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office,

Fuck you you cock sucker. You stay in NYC and choke on Mayor Jihadis taxes.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (J8NZO)

42 4 It seems like we DO have a screening process, though it's debatable how robust it is considering some of the idiots who have landed on the final Presidential ticket (on both sides).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Every single way to pick leadership has been tried in history and failed to be perfect. Popular sovereignty, like Winston Churchill said about democracy, is the worst of all ways to choose a leader except for the other methods.

Posted by: whig at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (E4rtv)

43 DeNiro needs to remove his monster shoes and stand barefoot in the grass. Maybe that would ground him.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (w6EFb)

44 So who decides who's on the "body of elites," or "council of elders?"

The Supreme Leader, obviously.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Morgan Freeman?!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (ndZc7)

45 Remember that movie where DeNiro's cat uses his mom's ashes as a litter box?
I don't want that fate for DeNiro's mom. To be clear.

Posted by: Meow, grunt, meow at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (gKWVE)

46 And i will be your Supreme Leader.

Posted by: Anthony Fauci at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (hUFDe)

47 "Dude has lost his marbles. He's ruined all his once enjoyable movies. FOAD.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder"

Luckily for me, I was never a fan.

But I do like Heat.

Posted by: eleven at April 02, 2026 04:49 PM (aTgV0)

48 De Niro played himself in Awakenings, but without the L-Dopa.

Posted by: Candice Owens at April 02, 2026 04:49 PM (bNf8H)

49 Fkin DeNiro is a turned Marxists

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 04:49 PM (Ia/+0)

50 Gee a screening process to run for president......Maybe, just maybe we could have a two part screening process just to make sure a person has been screened to run for president.

The first one is where your political party votes for the person they want to be president and then he/she goes on to another part of the process. Let's call it a general election where everyone in the country gets to vote for the guy who they think should be president.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 02, 2026 04:49 PM (0N4FZ)

51
Was Red Kammie "screened" by anybody, Booby?

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:49 PM (xG4kz)

52 Off nostrildame sock.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (bNf8H)

53 I am actually coming to this perspective regarding Islam, Communism, and Fascism. Some ideas are so toxic to society and culture, to liberty and civilization that they cannot be allowed in our public discourse.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (El6/E)

Resist that urge.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (dK+Kv)

54 27 A fun thread would be is where the Mariners beat the Dodgers in the World Series and us Mariner faithful get to gloat and snark until we pass out.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

That would have been GLORIOUS!

Has any city ever won both the World Series and the Super Bowl in the same year?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (A5RD0)

55 Taking advice from people whose entire life has consisted of playing make-believe is incomprehensible to me.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (iKI3U)

56
Somebody lower the lifts in Booby's shoes -- he's huffing the ozone layer all the time, now.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (xG4kz)

57 "The first one is where your political party votes for the person they want to be president and then he/she goes on to another part of the process"

Oh, we don't need that

Posted by: The Democrat Party at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (UoFpr)

58 The Council of Elders approach was done by the Dims. They chose Commie Harris. Does he really want more of that?

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (pR6C/)

59 Is Nostridamus going to be on his council or is she too young?

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (pDt9x)

60 This is a great idea. I think this council should be headquarted on the farthest island in the Aleutian Chain.

Too bad about that whole Constitution thingy.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (+DSUk)

61 Has any city ever won both the World Series and the Super Bowl in the same year?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (A5RD0)

I think the Mets and the Giants both won in '86

Posted by: InZona at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (peFv8)

62
Same year wins in Superb Owl and the World Series?

New England / Boston, maybe?

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (xG4kz)

63 I am actually coming to this perspective regarding Islam, Communism, and Fascism. Some ideas are so toxic to society and culture, to liberty and civilization that they cannot be allowed in our public discourse.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (El6/E)

Average people, unlike us, are credulous and easily led into sin. We must act now to prevent future problems, and make sure their actions do not endanger us all.
Their rights and freedoms are upheld by us, but their ability to chose must be curtailed in the preservation of their liberty.
We must become the ultimate arbitrators of acceptable discourse and investigation, thus we secure the future, everlasting, radiant and bring about the era of the New Man.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (rbvCR)

64 This is pretty much what the commies did in every place that they took over, you could only vote for who the commies put on the ballot.

That is why smart people always say you can't vote your way out of communism.

I hate fucking commies.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 02, 2026 04:52 PM (k1E2D)

65 The EU basically does this. Outlaws parties, outlaws individuals, negates election results when the approved parties don't win.
Posted by: steevy at April 02, 2026 04:42 PM (YwEeS)

The EU doesn't outlaw parties, you are assigned one when elected. However, since the parliament isn't the final rule on making laws this doesn't matter a lot.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:52 PM (8avO+)

66 Gotta go, I have a bunch of apple rootstock to graft.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:52 PM (rbvCR)

67 [recollects that in the past, entertainers were looked down on]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2026 04:52 PM (XeU6L)

68 I am actually coming to this perspective regarding Islam, Communism, and Fascism. Some ideas are so toxic to society and culture, to liberty and civilization that they cannot be allowed in our public discourse.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (El6/E)

Resist that urge.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (dK+Kv)

Yes. That should be the screening process for allowing people into the country. If you are born here, we won't control your thoughts, but if you want to come here, we aren't letting in degenerate ideologies.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (N1DT3)

69 We must become the ultimate arbitrators of acceptable discourse and investigation, thus we secure the future, everlasting, radiant and bring about the era of the New Man.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (rbvCR)

He’s a rebel and a runner
He’s a signal turning green
He’s a restless young romantic
Wants to run the big machine

He’s got a problem with his poisons
But you know he’ll find a cure
He’s cleaning up his systems
To keep his nature pure

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (dK+Kv)

70 DeNiro's confused about what America has become? Welcome to the party pal...I'm pretty confused how the America I knew growing up became a dystopian leftist hellhole, where half the country can't define what a woman is, thinks LBGTQWTF is just peachy, loves communism, is just fine with dudes beating the hell out of women in sports, etc., etc.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (XMwZJ)

71 "When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong."

Posted by: Meryl Streep, Method Actor, in The Giver at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (XE5AP)

72 Has any city ever won both the World Series and the Super Bowl in the same year?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (A5RD0)

I think the Mets and the Giants both won in '86
Posted by: InZona at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (peFv

And Penn State won the national championship. It was a great year for all my teams.

Posted by: InZona at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (peFv8)

73 In order to make the actual moon landing DEI Approved the first moon flight will contain a crew of 3,345 to satisfy all the requirements to meet a perfect DEI Moon Landing Mission.

Posted by: Jackson K. at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (cAEZx)

74 It’s really fun and always beings a smile to my face to see fucknugget retards like DeNiro have complete and total mental breakdowns over the fact that Trump is their President. The mere thought of “President Trump” burns the gay worms fucking in their head like someone poured boiling oil on their brains. It literally causes them physical pain. I love it.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (PudHT)

75 DiNero is a short little man with the short-man syndrome. A lot of things are tiny with him and he's frustrated.
......................................
O/T but I ask for prayers for my son and DIL who are going through a miscarriage with their first baby. I can do nothing but pray through my tears for this unexpected sadness.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (WONhk)

76 Has any city ever won both the World Series and the Super Bowl in the same year?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (A5RD0)

I think the Mets and the Giants both won in '86
Posted by: InZona at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (peFv

Jets and Miracle Mets came close I think.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:54 PM (8avO+)

77 "He’s a rebel and a runner
He’s a signal turning green
He’s a restless young romantic
Wants to run the big machine

He’s got a problem with his poisons
But you know he’ll find a cure
He’s cleaning up his systems
To keep his nature pure"

That's so Rush sounding it has to be Rush.

Posted by: eleven at April 02, 2026 04:54 PM (aTgV0)

78 50 Gee a screening process to run for president......Maybe, just maybe we could have a two part screening process just to make sure a person has been screened to run for president.

The first one is where your political party votes for the person they want to be president and then he/she goes on to another part of the process. Let's call it a general election where everyone in the country gets to vote for the guy who they think should be president.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 02, 2026 04:49 PM (0N4FZ)

It's kind of funny that the people he wants to be in charge tried to do that in 2024.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 02, 2026 04:54 PM (k1E2D)

79 If we none of Robert De Niro's movies survived, would we care.

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:54 PM (fNISR)

80 *had

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:54 PM (fNISR)

81
They also want only “approved journalists” to be able to do journalism.

Remember when Fredo Cuomo informed we, the great unwashed, that we were NOT to read the ClimateGate emails -- only urinalists were qualified to do so?

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (xG4kz)

82 >>If we none of Robert De Niro's movies survived, would we care.

Midnite Run was a great flick.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (TLp3A)

83 I don't think they are necessarily broken. Their way, the way of the left, has been the ruling conceptual framework of society for most of their existence. The government, the media, the GOPe, everybody just accepted that the leftists were in control of everything everywhere. Now, many of us didn't like that; we surely hoped it would change, but we had f-all means to change it.

Now there is one person who challenges that. And that one person is against all the government, the GOPe, the media, everybody but us few. So from the perspective of a leftist, this is just a short odd transient, an aberration from the established leftist norm. One man against the world who will be out of office soon and then it's time for seizing their rightful throne and exacting terrible vengeance against their vanquished enemies.

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (3uBP9)

84 >>I think the Mets and the Giants both won in '86

NY Mets and NY Jets both won in 1969.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (viF8m)

85 Do any of y’all troll acquaintances? Not being mean. But just eff with them and get them all fulffernittered and spitting and eyes bulging, just for ahits and giggles?

How do you do it so they don’t really realize it until they are frothing at the mouth and you walked away ten minutes ago?

This is my goal for April.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (A5RD0)

86 Italian?

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (3uBP9)

87 The absurdity is that the reason we have primaries is because self-declared progressives wanted the people to decide who candidates would be rather than letting a council of elites, party bosses at the time and congressional delegations originally, decide who candidates would be.

Now that popular choice is inconvenient, proggies want to fire the people and go back to secret councils in smoke-filled rooms.

Posted by: Sam at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (7jMef)

88 28 Willowed:

Will there be a first female to set foot on the Moon?
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Alice Kramden is already there.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (J8NZO)

; )

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (fNISR)

89 OT:

I stumbled onto NASA's live coverage of the Artemis II mission on YouTube.

They're showing the external camera view of the engines.

In the background you can see red streaks zipping through the camera view. I'm wondering if those are stars, illustrating just how fast the spacecraft is going (6400+ mph at the moment)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (ESVrU)

90 FEED ME!

Posted by: barrel at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (3uBP9)

91 Alice Kramden is already there.
Posted by: rickb223

I watched the old Hitchcock movie Rebecca yesterday which had a scene set in a French restaurant. Laurence Olivier called a waiter over, "Garçon!" Reminded me of when Ralph and Alice were in Paris and Ralph calls the waiter over, "Gargoyle!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (ndZc7)

92 No actors opinion is more important than mine on anything but acting, and there are even some exceptions to their acting opinions is my stance.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (pDt9x)

93 I am actually coming to this perspective regarding Islam, Communism, and Fascism. Some ideas are so toxic to society and culture, to liberty and civilization that they cannot be allowed in our public discourse.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (El6/E)

The antidote to those ideas is a healthy education system that teaches about those ideas in a balanced and ruthlessly honest manner - showing both bad and good (if there is any good in those ideologies) mixed with a strong dose of critical thinking skills.

Unfortunately, the commies figured this out and took over and poisoned our education system to do exactly the opposite.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (iKI3U)

94 Trump didn't break their brains -- the programming did that.

They are like the guys in A Clockwork Orange that puke when they think of violence.

DeNiro is just highly susceptible to the programming because he has a very weak mind (most actors do) and a very high desire to be liked and conform (most actors do.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (MHAh2)

95 I do not think it sad that DeNiro is in agony.

Just for the record.

Posted by: eleven at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (aTgV0)

96 Same year wins in Superb Owl and the World Series?

New England / Boston, maybe?
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (xG4kz)

Seems NY has done it multiple times. (Pre-and Post superbowl)

Detroit has done it. (Well, Pre-superbowl)

Pittsburgh

San Francisco

Boston.

A few others have also have an NHL title or NBA title with MLB or NFL.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (N1DT3)

97 Mmmmm, banana Dream

Posted by: The Barrel at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (XE5AP)

98
Oh, boy! I get to go to The Barrel!

That's a damn sight better than getting sentenced to serve time in the Space Toilet, that's for sure!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:57 PM (xG4kz)

99 Oh dear. Krebs, report to the Apollo 10 launch aka "the interplanetary barrel"

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 04:57 PM (gKWVE)

100 Wow, today is like a "You are fired!" day !

"BREAKING: Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, according to CBS News. Circumstances unclear."

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 04:57 PM (GD0B3)

101 100

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:57 PM (fNISR)

102 Mmmmm, banana Dream
Posted by: The Barrel

banana Dream fixed it. Krebs started it. You only get one. Don't be greedy.

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 04:58 PM (VHUov)

103 At least, in the past, they kept their mouths shut for the sake of the profitability of their works. They should do that some more or starve.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (dK+Kv)

But Hollywood became just a giant money laundering machine, with no profit motive whatsoever.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 02, 2026 04:58 PM (lLEcp)

104 If we none of Robert De Niro's movies survived, would we care.

Midnite Run was a great flick. - Posted by: garrett
Good Fellas

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 04:58 PM (glnUu)

105 >>The antidote to those ideas is a healthy education system that teaches about those ideas in a balanced and ruthlessly honest manner -

Watching Commies and Islamists, in the thousands, getting summarily and publicly executed is a Lesson few would forget.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 04:58 PM (TLp3A)

106 100 Wow, today is like a "You are fired!" day !

"BREAKING: Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, according to CBS News. Circumstances unclear."
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 04:57

Asked or ordered? I want ordered.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (pDt9x)

107 So who decides who's on the "body of elites," or "council of elders?" That is, who elects them? Is there another council that decides who can run for the council?

Is it councils all the way down?
Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 04:44 PM (VHUov)

That's the problem with the utopianists. Most systems sound ok -- if you are the one in charge. You should aways assume that your enemy, or an idiot, gets charge of your perfect system to test if it is workable at all.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (8avO+)

108
I've got my bindle stick packed and I'm off!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (xG4kz)

109 musta been all those punches to the head in "Raging Bull"....

Posted by: pahound at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (HJCDN)

110 what's the read on this guy?

@disclosetv 12m
JUST IN - Pete Hegseth asks Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement — CBS

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (diia5)

111 >>> In the background you can see red streaks zipping through the camera view. I'm wondering if those are stars, illustrating just how fast the spacecraft is going (6400+ mph at the moment)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (ESVrU)

Are the stars red or blue? Is there apparent parallax? Are they traveling to other galaxies?

Posted by: barrel at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (3uBP9)

112 We could call them super delegates or something.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (okun6)

113 Are the Jets and the Giants going to suck again this year? As opposed to the Texans who do okay until the first playoff before they grease up and bend over

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (gKWVE)

114 It's always Todd

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (Cqx++)

115 We need to go back to treating actors as barely better than prostitutes..."

At least prostitutes leave when everything's done...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (cGjQu)

116 DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office, including someone who went on to win the popular vote.

Hey, you all could meet on Epstein's Island!

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (xQK38)

117 But Hollywood became just a giant money laundering machine, with no profit motive whatsoever.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 02, 2026 04:58 PM (lLEcp)
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Hollywood Accounting makes quantum mechanics look like basic arithmetic.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (ESVrU)

118 Not a "council of elders". A family of Made Guys.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (AlhUl)

119 So I'm told....

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (cGjQu)

120 BREAKING: Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, according to CBS News. Circumstances unclear."
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 04:57

Asked or ordered? I want ordered.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (pDt9x)

Ordered, but internet is unreliable!

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (GD0B3)

121 I love about Al Pacino. He has skill, talent, intensity, a willingness to take risks, and above all range - King Lear, The Merchant of Venice (film and on the stage) and two versions of Richard III.

And I don't know his politics.

Meanwhile DeNiro only plays himself and has no range, only playing variations of 'tough guys" which is funny considering his dad was a big deal gay artist and his family had dough.

He's got an $8 million mansion in Montauk and a 98 acres estate in Gardiner NY.west of Poughkeepsie, so he's plenty insulated from the progressive shit he whines about.

I hope ICE puts a detention facility next door to him in both places.

Posted by: vivi at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (OFw3k)

122 Islam, Communism, and Fascism. Some ideas are so toxic to society and culture, to liberty and civilization that they cannot be allowed in our public discourse.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (El6/E)
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The antidote to those ideas is a healthy education system that teaches about those ideas....
Posted by: Chairborne!.
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These are diffferent classes of ideas.

Fascism runs through every man's heart and requires education and morality, and a society to keep down.

Socialism (communism...) is the white noise of ideology. We are all socialists when infants and we learn about the world and learn that others are not there to provide for us. This requires teaching and education.

islam is a slave cult and must be banished.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (MHAh2)

123
* checks toilet in Barrel *

It flushes! This place is luxurious!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (xG4kz)

124 I was actually thinking about checking out what was playing locally and then this clown had to shoot his mouth off. And today I see Streep is flapping her gums convincing us women are too stupid to figure out how to vote.
Fu*k Hollywood.
Not one more dollar from me, assholes.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (2WIwB)

125 Are the stars red or blue? Is there apparent parallax? Are they traveling to other galaxies?

Posted by: barrel at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (3uBP9)

Is it red shift that is a result of moving very fast past a light source that shows an apparent increase in wavelength? I forget.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (dK+Kv)

126 We had to burn the village to save the village.

We must initiate totalitarianism to prevent someone we don't like from getting elected and becoming a totalitarian.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (D7v4F)

127 Maybe the old guy waz fooling around with his secretary !

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:01 PM (GD0B3)

128 I invoke my short-arse privilege to observe that:

This is exactly the kind of authoritarian outlook I'd expect from a guy who's spent decades wearing shoes with 4-inch soles so that he can act like a tough guy in movies.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 02, 2026 05:01 PM (z5QST)

129 Huh. Maybe runner's right on this one. Could it be that Trump and Vance are planning to call shens on Thune's bogus "recess" and appoint a bunch of MAGA?

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 05:01 PM (gKWVE)

130 What De Niro wants is a totalitarianism of the left to combat the mere potential for totalitarianism on the right.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at April 02, 2026 05:01 PM (D7v4F)

131 nurse ratched asked for a "fun thread." I don't know if this counts, but maybe it does.
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I think it does, since it features a clown.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:01 PM (Fi81e)

132 Oh, boy! I get to go to The Barrel!
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot

I see you didn't get the Platinum Membership instruction card. Item 5 says to put [ / i ] in the Name field after your name ( without the spaces, obviously. )

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 02, 2026 05:01 PM (diia5)

133 Are the stars red or blue? Is there apparent parallax? Are they traveling to other galaxies?
Posted by: barrel at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (3uBP9)
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it could just be a camera artifact. The image does jitter and skip quite a bit as the signal comes and goes. There are similar black lines that streak over the whiteness of the engine.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 05:01 PM (ESVrU)

134 DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office,
_______________________________

Isn't this how Democrats choose their presidential candidates? I mean....literally. (Kamala Harris)

Posted by: Orson at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (dIske)

135 121 I love about Al Pacino. He has skill, talent, intensity, a willingness to take risks, and above all range - King Lear, The Merchant of Venice (film and on the stage) and two versions of Richard III.

And I don't know his politics.

Meanwhile DeNiro only plays himself and has no range, only playing variations of 'tough guys" which is funny considering his dad was a big deal gay artist and his family had dough.

Posted by: vivi at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (OFw3k)

*applause!*
And The Godfather.

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (fNISR)

136
DeNiro started out sucking as an actor in "Mean Streets" and almost without exception, he has sucked ever since.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (xG4kz)

137 The fight is with the Argument of Utility.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (TLp3A)

138 If we none of Robert De Niro's movies survived, would we care.

He has had a bunch of great movies, but honestly I would not be heartbroken if they were gone forever. I mean I really like Heat an Midnight Run and Godfather Part II and The Untouchables, Bronx Tale, Casino, and Goodfellas. I even like stuff like Brazil and Jackie Brown. But I don't need to ever see them again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (El6/E)

139 I think it does, since it features a clown.
Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:01 PM (Fi81e)
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Except no one likes clowns.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (ESVrU)

140 * checks toilet in Barrel *

It flushes! This place is luxurious!
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (xG4kz)

***

Well, after flushing do NOT look up at that pipe sticking out from the ceiling.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (2WIwB)

141 @129 Vance is busy with the Paki hotline.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (GD0B3)

142 Well, if Bobby is experiencing severe pain, he can always go to Canada. I hear they have a banging new treatment for people that have pain.

In fact, if Bobby got his pain dealt with, that might actually go a little way to making me feel better too.

See Bob, everybody wins! Go to Canada!

Posted by: Nelly at April 02, 2026 05:03 PM (7gpcF)

143 Is it red shift that is a result of moving very fast past a light source that shows an apparent increase in wavelength? I forget."

Christian Doppler whimpers...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:03 PM (cGjQu)

144 DeNiro's confused about what America has become? Welcome to the party pal...I'm pretty confused how the America I knew growing up became a dystopian leftist hellhole, where half the country can't define what a woman is, thinks LBGTQWTF is just peachy, loves communism, is just fine with dudes beating the hell out of women in sports, etc., etc.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM

Don't forget the part where the liberals celebrate grown naked men walking around locker rooms with their junk hanging out while young girls are there.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 02, 2026 05:03 PM (0N4FZ)

145 Red shift at Artemis speed? Do not think so.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 05:04 PM (pDt9x)

146 >>I think the Mets and the Giants both won in '86

NY Mets and NY Jets both won in 1969.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (viF8m)

the Bears won the SB following the 85 season, which was in Jan 86. There is an ambiguity in this stat as to what year / season is in the 'same year'

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:04 PM (8avO+)

147 Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Deniro's kink getting shit on by Black Models?

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 05:04 PM (TLp3A)

148 the whiteness of the engine."

Engine privilege?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:04 PM (cGjQu)

149 In the background you can see red streaks zipping through the camera view. I'm wondering if those are stars, illustrating just how fast the spacecraft is going (6400+ mph at the moment)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (ESVrU)

uh, no. You have to get to a significant percentage of the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) to get the visible red shift thing going.

Red streaks flashing away? Maybe somebody on board is a chain smoker, and they're tossing their cigarette butts out the open window. Hope they don't start a fire or get ticketed for littering.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 02, 2026 05:04 PM (lLEcp)

150 Has any city ever won both the World Series and the Super Bowl in the same year?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (A5RD0)

Pyongyang?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 02, 2026 05:04 PM (g8Ew8)

151 Super Bowl and WS winners in same season
1970 Orioles and Colts
1986 Giants and Mets
2004 Red Sox and Patriots
2018 Red Sox and Patriots

While none of these happened during the same calendar year, they were in the same season because the Super Bowl was/is played in January/February.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 02, 2026 05:05 PM (k1E2D)

152 Why am I seeing stuff like this all over the place?

"According to multiple current Trump administration officials with access to Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who was just named Acting Attorney General, has been the main roadblock holding up prosecutions of former Biden officials, state-level politicians, and Antifa terrorists. Todd Blanche personally shut down the DOJ’s “weaponization” task force and is responsible for sidelining Ed Martin.

Todd Blanche sees himself as a “principled” conservative and views investigations of Trump enemies like Jack Smith as an “abuse of power.” He has privately told staff that he will not “stoop to that level.”

Under Todd Blanche, the failure of the DOJ to investigate left-wing terrorists and former officials who prosecuted President Trump will only get worse."

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:05 PM (GD0B3)

153 Hope they don't start a fire or get ticketed for littering."

Don't mess with Texas!

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:05 PM (cGjQu)

154 Is there a "No Midget Pretend Mafiosi" movement in America?

Bobby De Niro is a scrub, a back bencher, and he's not as bright Bobby Boombats.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 02, 2026 05:06 PM (UqSya)

155 In the background you can see red streaks zipping through the camera view. I'm wondering if those are stars, illustrating just how fast the spacecraft is going (6400+ mph at the moment)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (ESVrU)

It's the aliens leaving the dark side of the moon

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at April 02, 2026 05:06 PM (pR6C/)

156 The goofs across the street from me are wearing covid masks while they hang out in their garage. This is striking me as nutso behavior. Could be wrong. Pretty sure I am not.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 05:06 PM (glnUu)

157 66- Did someone say graft?

Posted by: Omar the raghead at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (OFw3k)

158 Red shift at night. Rocket's delight.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (Cqx++)

159 But Hollywood became just a giant money laundering machine, with no profit motive whatsoever.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 02, 2026 04:58 PM (lLEcp)
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Hollywood Accounting makes quantum mechanics look like basic arithmetic.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (ESVrU)

it's just fraud, it isn't complicated.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (8avO+)

160
By denying Trump's legitimacy, these leftists are denying the legitimacy of the majority of voters who elected him. If they want him in jail for winning, they want us in jail for voting for him.

DeNiro is reportedly pretty dumb. He's probably just repeating what people around him are saying.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (biznJ)

161 Blanche helped Trump in NY with Trump's bimbo situation, which means nothing. He sounds like another Andre McCarthy.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (GD0B3)

162 uh, no. You have to get to a significant percentage of the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) to get the visible red shift thing going.

Red streaks flashing away? Maybe somebody on board is a chain smoker, and they're tossing their cigarette butts out the open window. Hope they don't start a fire or get ticketed for littering.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 02, 2026 05:04 PM (lLEcp)
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No, I guess it's just camera artifacts. Although they are using a decent resolution camera, it's still showing some stuttering in the image.

Right now you can see the crew slowly rotating a solar array. Frames are being skipped.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (ESVrU)

163 This is the opposite of the Democracy these lunatics are always whining about.
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 04:45 PM (IifOV)
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They are context free. They don't know what fascism is. They don't know what makes kings. They just flap their lips.

I stopped calling people on news shows "panel" and started calling them "news yackers". Because they just yack, many of them don't know shit about shit quite often and their performance is just emoting how they're mad as hell and aren't going to take (what?) anymore.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (Fi81e)

164 I found a man confused, angry and bewildered at what America had become. He just could not understand who or what Donald Trump really was.
===

Not really. He is just fundamentally incurious.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (RIvkX)

165 I think I read that DeNiro is 5'4"" tall. He never played an NBA player, I also think.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (pDt9x)

166 runner, thank you. I remember reading about Blanche 's opinions now.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 05:08 PM (+nEug)

167 I like Casino. I can watch it over and over. But anything more recent with him in it I can't watch. His idiocy has ruined them.

Posted by: LASue at April 02, 2026 05:08 PM (lCppi)

168 I think that my college football team, my pro football team, and my favorite MLB all won championships in the same season once.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 05:08 PM (4NO2D)

169 39 Exactly, some points of view are so toxic to the way things ought to be, that the people who espouse them must be silenced

I am actually coming to this perspective regarding Islam, Communism, and Fascism. Some ideas are so toxic to society and culture, to liberty and civilization that they cannot be allowed in our public discourse.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (El6/E)

I dream of the day that Marxism and Islam are treated like White Nationalism, and if you look around a meeting wondering who the narc is, it's all of them. Literally every single one of them except for you is an undercover agent or registered asset with some state, local, or Federal agency or another. They're all building files on each other's cover identities like it's a great big game, except that you yourself will be going to PMITA prison for real if you so much as sneeze wrong. And they're all trying to get you to cross state lines with a controlled substance, explosive device, and NFA firearm, in the service of a recorded conspiracy.

Posted by: SciVo at April 02, 2026 05:09 PM (Sy6m/)

170 Joe Biden?

Posted by: pahound at April 02, 2026 05:09 PM (HJCDN)

171 Super Bowl and WS winners in same season
1970 Orioles and Colts
1986 Giants and Mets
2004 Red Sox and Patriots
2018 Red Sox and Patriots

While none of these happened during the same calendar year, they were in the same season because the Super Bowl was/is played in January/February.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper

I am more than mildly annoyed that the Red Sox and Patriots are on that list twice. Once is plenty. Zero is perfect.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 05:09 PM (glnUu)

172 Many actors learn to act when young by taking on a persona and getting a reaction. They learn to read the audience and see what gets a big reaction, and they keep doing that.

It is why they are considered on the level with whores. They are whoring for attention. Some get very rich doing that.

Once they get rich, they get surrounded by a lower class of whore, the sycophant. The groupie. So now you have a rich attention seeking whore, and a money seeking attention giving whore and like two rats fucking in a coffee can on a hill, it just keeps rolling down faster and faster until it crashes.

So they still have coffee cans in USA? In Japan it is all bags. I miss the cans.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 02, 2026 05:09 PM (MHAh2)

173 DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office,
_______________________________

Isn't this how Democrats choose their presidential candidates? I mean....literally. (Kamala Harris)
Posted by: Orson at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (dIske)

So, Democrat candidates will be chosen by Joe Biden until he dies? This could be entertaining.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 02, 2026 05:10 PM (S/Y4j)

174 But Hollywood became just a giant money laundering machine, with no profit motive whatsoever.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 02, 2026 04:58 PM (lLEcp)
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Nah, if they were there to make money, the money makers like Hail Mary wouldn't shock them into kinda talking about how they kinda might change the movies they are making.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:10 PM (Fi81e)

175 I think I read that DeNiro is 5'4"" tall. He never played an NBA player, I also think."

Too tall to play Muggsy Bogues?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:10 PM (cGjQu)

176 @Ben Had, what d'you remember ??

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:10 PM (GD0B3)

177 I think that my college football team, my pro football team, and my favorite MLB all won championships in the same season once.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 05:08 PM (4NO2D)

Happens every year if you just change the teams when somebody wins.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:10 PM (8avO+)

178 Wait just a second DeNiro... don't you have to have a committee to then decide on who can be on the elite committee?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 02, 2026 05:10 PM (n5tGW)

179 We can all it "The Council of Experts", after its Iranian equivalent.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 02, 2026 05:10 PM (n1OCj)

180 I want to trip him on a banana peel.
And mock him.

Posted by: torabora at April 02, 2026 05:11 PM (KtOUo)

181 he is there temporarily, but he should not be there at all !

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:11 PM (GD0B3)

182 >>> Is it red shift that is a result of moving very fast past a light source that shows an apparent increase in wavelength? I forget.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (dK+Kv)

I actually can't remember if it is affected by the velocity of the inertial reference of the observer or just a function of the universe's expansion. Space stuff is to funky for my engineering brain to understand very well. You'd think delta v is delta v, but who knows?

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:11 PM (3uBP9)

183 Isn't this how Democrats choose their presidential candidates? I mean....literally. (Kamala Harris)

Posted by: Orson at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (dIske)
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Superdelegates are the American way!!

This is the party that relied on ACLU through a good portion of the 20th century to legislate social change in the courts. I mean, fuck these people's understanding of "democracy"! It's all slogans to these people.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:11 PM (Fi81e)

184 runner, what you said about holding up and refusing to prosecute cases.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (+nEug)

185 I want to trip him on a banana peel.
And mock him.

I dunno, he might break a hip at his age.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (El6/E)

186 Experts say Experts know best.

Posted by: The Experts at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (glnUu)

187 So they still have coffee cans in USA? In Japan it is all bags. I miss the cans.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 02, 2026 05:09 PM (MHAh2)

I think they have medium size tubs of coffee grounds still.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (8avO+)

188 87 The absurdity is that the reason we have primaries is because self-declared progressives wanted the people to decide who candidates would be rather than letting a council of elites, party bosses at the time and congressional delegations originally, decide who candidates would be.

Now that popular choice is inconvenient, proggies want to fire the people and go back to secret councils in smoke-filled rooms.
Posted by: Sam at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (7jMef)

Up until 2008, the Dems had their "Super Delegates" which were party insiders that make up about a third of the delegates to the DNC. They were formed for the express purpose of stopping somebody like Jessee Jackson from becoming the nominee.

In 2008, Hillary had secured almost every super delegate to vote for her, and there was concern that those delegates would have put her over the top in 2008, so a push was made to get her to let them vote for Obama and not destroy his historic first and tick off the black vote.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (k1E2D)

189 Philly, of all places, had all 45 "major" sports teams in the championship game/rounds in one season, 1980-81.

Only the baseball Phillies managed to bring home the trophy.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (9CBNQ)

190 But I'd definitely miss this dumb prick's movies if they were gone. Heat and Ronin in particular, which I can rewatch virtually without limit. Also Angel Heart, which I like quite a bit. I more or less expect to hate all actors anyway though. So Micro Bobby's distemper doesn't really register much.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (z5QST)

191 I think I read that DeNiro is 5'4"" tall. He never played an NBA player,
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Even Spud Webb was 5'7"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (XeU6L)

192 Doh, not 45. Four, lol.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at April 02, 2026 05:13 PM (9CBNQ)

193 From now on, I will refer to Robert DeNiro as 'the suctorial Robert DeNiro."

Posted by: vivi at April 02, 2026 05:13 PM (OFw3k)

194 DOJ is probably the most important as far as security of the administration, and the most difficult department to clear of out of garbage.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:13 PM (GD0B3)

195 I'm on the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet who can be president. Assuming the committee above me accepts my application.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 02, 2026 05:13 PM (n5tGW)

196 Retardo DeNiro

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 05:14 PM (V4IXI)

197 mean, fuck these people's understanding of "democracy"! It's all slogans to these people.
Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:11 PM (Fi81e)

You've just nailed it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 02, 2026 05:14 PM (g8Ew8)

198 19 So who decides who's on the "body of elites," or "council of elders?" That is, who elects them? Is there another council that decides who can run for the council?

Is it councils all the way down?
Posted by: mikeski
.....................................
It's been done.

-Soviet Union

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 02, 2026 05:14 PM (1BNwQ)

199 In case someone didn't already mention it:

@DataRepublican
Officially credentialed Pentagon press corps as of today, alongside my interpreter @DataInterpretr . First Deaf journalist to hold the badge. Thank you @JoelValdezDOW for moving mountains to make this unique arrangement possible. Naturally, the legacy media is invited to congratulate the Department of War on their commitment to press corps inclusiveness.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (diia5)

200 I think I read that DeNiro is 5'4"" tall. He never played an NBA player, I also think.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (pDt9x)
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IMBD has him at 5'9 1/2"

They wouldn't choose somebody below 5'6" to play the raging bull Lamada.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (Fi81e)

201 I actually can't remember if it is affected by the velocity of the inertial reference of the observer or just a function of the universe's expansion. Space stuff is to funky for my engineering brain to understand very well. You'd think delta v is delta v, but who knows?
Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:11 PM (3uBP9)

The shift is that of the spectral lines caused by absorption of light by various molecules between the source and observer. They move redward or blueward depending on the velocity of the emitter relative to the observer. Assuming the light emits at all frequencies equally, the color of the object would appear the same at any redshift.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (8avO+)

202 You'd think delta v is delta v, but who knows?"

Wasn't that a video game too?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (cGjQu)

203 DOJ is probably the most important as far as security of the administration, and the most difficult department to clear of out of garbage.
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:13 PM

The problem is that it's full of lawyers.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (4NO2D)

204 Nobody was shot in Las Cruces yesterday. On the other hand a 15 year old is currently on trial for being part of a gang of 4 that shot up a park last year, killing 3 and wounding 14.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (glnUu)

205 I'm on the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet who can be president. Assuming the committee above me accepts my application.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 02, 2026 05:13 PM (n5tGW)

CA politics in a nutshell.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 02, 2026 05:16 PM (g8Ew8)

206
We can all it "The Council of Experts", after its Iranian equivalent.

Circle of Fiends

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2026 05:16 PM (Cqx++)

207 committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet who can be president"

There's a lot of vett'n going on around here ..

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:16 PM (cGjQu)

208 Meanwhile DeNiro only plays himself and has no range, only playing variations of 'tough guys" which is funny considering his dad was a big deal gay artist and his family had dough.

He's got an $8 million mansion in Montauk and a 98 acres estate in Gardiner NY.west of Poughkeepsie, so he's plenty insulated from the progressive shit he whines about.

I hope ICE puts a detention facility next door to him in both places.
Posted by: vivi at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (OFw3k)

That's weird how so many "dark" and or "Tough" actors are really privileged nepo-kids.

Kinda like the Beatles and Stones. The Beatles really were the poor, tough, street kids and the Stones were the flouncy, art school soy boys.

Funny how that works.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 05:17 PM (iJfKG)

209 Is the artemis mission slower than last century's moon missions or did it always take many days to get to the moon? I assume they are using an efficient hohmann transfer and all which I remember nothing about from my college days.

I understand it's a ways away and all. I was born in '70 and don't remember any of the early space stuff so I don't have a reference in my mind for how long it would take.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:17 PM (3uBP9)

210 In case anyone is interested, there is a live feed from cameras on Artemis II

https://youtu.be/_MbnRqxtvUY

Posted by: Joyenz at April 02, 2026 05:18 PM (2F0/Y)

211 We can all it "The Council of Experts", after its Iranian equivalent.

Circle of Fiends"

Elrond?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:18 PM (cGjQu)

212 The problem is that it's full of lawyers.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (4NO2D)

I was going to say that the problems is that lawyer are duplicitous bastards😂

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:18 PM (GD0B3)

213 IMBD has him at 5'9 1/2"

IMDB spots all the male actors a couple inches, its kind of hilarious. Look up Tom Cruise heh

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:18 PM (El6/E)

214 I think I read that DeNiro is 5'4"" tall. He never played an NBA player, I also think. Posted by: tubal
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IMBD has him at 5'9 1/2" They wouldn't choose somebody below 5'6" to play the raging bull Lamada. Posted by: Axeman

"Robert De Niro Wears Platform Shoes to Tower Over Al Pacino" (2017)
https://is.gd/fpQ8ga

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 05:18 PM (glnUu)

215 When DeNiro first came on the scene he had a unique quality to evoke a real person on the screen, as well as a presence. I was blown away by the uniqueness of his performance the first time I saw him, and at that point in my life the main thing I wanted to was to be an actor.

But that doesn't make him worthwhile listening to about politics.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:19 PM (Fi81e)

216 I think I read that DeNiro is 5'4"" tall. He never played an NBA player, I also think.
Posted by: tubal
_________

Put a Fletch afro on him.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 02, 2026 05:19 PM (XvL8K)

217 I think I read that DeNiro is 5'4"" tall. He never played an NBA player, I also think.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (pDt9x)
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IMBD has him at 5'9 1/2"

They wouldn't choose somebody below 5'6" to play the raging bull Lamada.
Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (Fi81e)

DeNiro is 5'9" only if he's wearing his mega-soled Frankenstein shoes. There enough photos out there to show how that works.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 05:19 PM (iJfKG)

218 Whatever his height he is a prick.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM (pDt9x)

219 I miss the cans.

Boob thread.

Posted by: jugear fukstik at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM (Kt19C)

220 always take many days to get to the moon"

Depends. Round trip or not?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM (cGjQu)

221 >>> Retardo DeNiro
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 05:14 PM (V4IXI)

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If it hasn't been said, I believe it's been reported that he has to read off of cue cards for his lines in his movies. I’m sure it's probably not true because I read it on the interwebz. /

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM (CyFyf)

222 The Golden Scalp Weasel causes localized collapses in alternate reality fields. This can be very disconcerting to some individuals.

e.g. Holy Shit, I'm just an actor. I don't know anything about the real world.

Posted by: DaveA at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM (FhXTo)

223 >> In the background you can see red streaks zipping through the camera view. I'm wondering if those are stars, illustrating just how fast the spacecraft is going

No, parallax from the spacecraft's translational motion would be effectively zero, so vanishingly small it would be (parallax from near stars over 6 months is pretty small over 1AU). They are rotating and changing attitude all the time, which would give you a relative motion of the background star field relative to the camera, but it would be slow.

Those are likely reflections of debris , ice particles, and other venting from the spacecraft.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM (w6EFb)

224 Bob can choke on a bag of Dicks. Hollywood actors rate below pond scum on my scale.

Posted by: fd at April 02, 2026 05:21 PM (UoFpr)

225 Bobby has to look no further than his wonderful Democratic Party. The “Super Delegates” got rid of Bernie Sanders twice, and was there anything worse than installing Kamala, the supposed most qualified woman in human history, who chose not to campaign for fear of questions and . . . Joe Rogan podcast? Fucking retard.

Posted by: Unkaren at April 02, 2026 05:21 PM (OTOad)

226 Is the artemis mission slower than last century's moon missions or did it always take many days to get to the moon? I assume they are using an efficient hohmann transfer and all which I remember nothing about from my college days.

I understand it's a ways away and all. I was born in '70 and don't remember any of the early space stuff so I don't have a reference in my mind for how long it would take.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:17 PM (3uBP9)

its more or less the same time, but the distance of the moon from earth is not uniform. I think I heard this one is a bit faster transfer than most old Apollos were. The main issues matching pace with the moon's own motion.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:21 PM (8avO+)

227 The problem is that it's full of lawyers.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (4NO2D)
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"My God, it's full of lawyers!"

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:21 PM (Fi81e)

228 Funny how De Niro's idea of democracy corresponds so neatly with the ayatollahs. Isn't this how Iran's presidents are chosen, by a panel of mullahs?

Posted by: Decaf at April 02, 2026 05:21 PM (Tbs6N)

229 >>> DOJ is probably the most important as far as security of the administration, and the most difficult department to clear of out of garbage.
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:13 PM

The problem is that it's full of lawyers.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (4NO2D)

Well, that's not nearly as interesting...

Posted by: Dave Bowman at April 02, 2026 05:22 PM (3uBP9)

230 Midget Mafia? Joe Pesce is pretty damn short.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 02, 2026 05:22 PM (wBaIH)

231 Speaking of movies, watched 2 episodes of Landman last night. Not politically correct. Hope that continues.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 05:22 PM (pDt9x)

232 ---
IMBD has him at 5'9 1/2"
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With, or without these shoes?
https://shorturl.at/63xT0

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2026 05:22 PM (XeU6L)

233 I'm just an actor. I don't know anything about the real world.

This is the proper response to someone asking about your politics. "I memorize words other people write and repeat them, why are you asking me about anything??"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:22 PM (El6/E)

234 always take many days to get to the moon"

Depends. Round trip or not?
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM (cGjQu)
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Apparently it's supposed to be a 10-day mission, though the first day or so is just flying around the Earth, moving to high-Earth orbit, testing systems, etc., before actually beginning the main leg of their journey away from Earth.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 05:23 PM (ESVrU)

235 No, parallax from the spacecraft's translational motion would be effectively zero, so vanishingly small it would be (parallax from near stars over 6 months is pretty small over 1AU). They are rotating and changing attitude all the time, which would give you a relative motion of the background star field relative to the camera, but it would be slow.

Those are likely reflections of debris , ice particles, and other venting from the spacecraft.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM (w6EFb)

The largest parallax from Earth orbit is less that one second of arc (360/60/60). A parsec is 3+ light years, Proxima Centaury is 4+ light years.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:23 PM (8avO+)

236 157 66- Did someone say graft?

graft zeppelin is best graft

Posted by: anachronda at April 02, 2026 05:23 PM (oY6Yp)

237 75
O/T but I ask for prayers for my son and DIL who are going through a miscarriage with their first baby. I can do nothing but pray through my tears for this unexpected sadness.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (WONhk)

Prayers up, Christy! I know this is a tough time for all of you.

Posted by: Retired, thank God at April 02, 2026 05:23 PM (va0Yo)

238 This fucking retard doesn't know?

There's a rigid, uncompromising structure of ruling class institutions specifically designed to filter out any American from having a federal office, elected or appointed.

It's literally the entire purpose of the Acela Class government. It's all it does. NO AMERICANS. It's more exclusive toward us even than Republican Rome was toward Italians.

Trump just fucked it all it up. He slipped through. He was the guy it was all made to stop, and it failed.

De Niro is so dumb he doesn't know he's swimming in it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 05:23 PM (BI5O2)

239 Is a 10 day mission like a 3 hour cruise?

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 05:24 PM (pDt9x)

240 Speaking of movies, watched 2 episodes of Landman last night. Not politically correct. Hope that continues.

I have heard that other than the portrayal of the really messed up women, its pretty based. But Yellowstone was too, until it wasn't, heh.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:24 PM (El6/E)

241 >>> "My God, it's full of lawyers!"
Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:21 PM (Fi81e)

Well, that's not nearly as interesting...
Posted by: Dave Bowman at April 02, 2026 05:22 PM (3uBP9)

JINX!
(punch)

Posted by: Banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:24 PM (3uBP9)

242 >> Is the artemis mission slower than last century's moon missions or did it always take many days to get to the moon? I assume they are using an efficient hohmann transfer

This is similar, yet very different to the Apollo mission TLI trajectories. It has to do with the SLS/Orion's delta-v budget. Go to the Artemis tracker here, get the hang of the 3D view controls, and you'll see the trajectory.

Rotate it around to see the orbital plane of the Moon vs the spacecraft and how the free return slingshot changes planes of the spacecraft:

https://is.gd/CKLeJm

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:24 PM (w6EFb)

243 So who decides who's on the "body of elites," or "council of elders?" That is, who elects them? Is there another council that decides who can run for the council?

Is it councils all the way down?
Posted by: mikeski
.....................................
It's been done.

-Soviet Union
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 02, 2026 05:14 PM (1BNwQ)

***

So...a group of elites, lets call them a vanguard, who are party members and from them a smaller, more collectivist group emerges that form a bureau of the political body. This political bureau then selects the leader.
Say....this sounds familiar...

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 05:25 PM (2WIwB)

244 Speaking of movies, watched 2 episodes of Landman last night. Not politically correct. Hope that continues.

I have heard that other than the portrayal of the really messed up women, its pretty based. But Yellowstone was too, until it wasn't, heh.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:24 PM (El6/E)

It seems a pattern that if a show escapes from the suits and is popular, it rarely escapes them for long.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:25 PM (8avO+)

245 O/T but I ask for prayers for my son and DIL who are going through a miscarriage with their first baby.

So awful, its always heartbreakig. God be with her and her family, and you, Christy. May He give you all peace and comfort and bring you closer to His love.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:25 PM (El6/E)

246 Democrats have already converted to the De Niro model of selecting a presidential candidate? Kamala did not go through the usual selection by members but was chosen by a secret panel.

Posted by: Decaf at April 02, 2026 05:25 PM (Tbs6N)

247 Landman is pretty based all the way through. I heard the next season will be back more to the oil business part and less of the females and family, but I didn't mind looking at those babes.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 02, 2026 05:26 PM (n5tGW)

248 Is the artemis mission slower than last century's moon missions or did it always take many days to get to the moon?

There had been complaints in the neighborhood, so they're trying to take it easy.

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 05:26 PM (BvTxf)

249 Can't say I see a point of flying just around the moon.

We do it every day

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 05:27 PM (Ia/+0)

250 Kamala did not go through the usual selection by members but was chosen by a secret panel.

I mean, the last time Democrat voters picked their candidate was 2004.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:27 PM (El6/E)

251
Another constraint on the Artemis trajectory that didn't apply to Apollo was Orion is solar powered, while Apollo used fuel cells. They can't let Orion be in the dark for much over an hour or so (I'm sure they've got contingencies, but normal mission profile needs sunlight).

That put a lot more constraints on the timing and trajectories compared to Apollo.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:27 PM (w6EFb)

252 more fun..

"The Hezbollah fighter who wore his own burial shroud before battle has been identified as Fadel Abbas Awwal, killed yesterday in southern Lebanon."

He dressed for the occasion!

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:27 PM (GD0B3)

253 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (z5QST)

I judge the actors in movies whether I can see the movie being just as good with someone else in the role. De Niro has a couple where I can't see someone else in the role. King of Comedy is one.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 05:28 PM (V4IXI)

254 Ask Bernie Sanders how this "body of elites" works.

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 05:28 PM (BvTxf)

255 >>> The largest parallax from Earth orbit is less that one second of arc (360/60/60). A parsec is 3+ light years, Proxima Centaury is 4+ light years.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:23 PM (8avO+)

In the old Star Trek TOS beginning where the ship is darting around with star parallax, that would be really freaking fast and huge distances. But I guess dey got dem crystals and warp fields and wotnot.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:28 PM (3uBP9)

256 Why would I watch a show about a tycoon, just to see a bunch of dumb broads and their womanly problems? I have more than enough of that IRL.

Note to self: pass on "Landman."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 05:28 PM (BI5O2)

257 TDS is degenerative.
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (IifOV)

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Hard to work out what came first, the TDS which leads to their dementia or was it the old age dementia that causes the TDS. That young people also suffer from it is simply a trend in their social circles and they don't want to be different.

Posted by: Decaf at April 02, 2026 05:29 PM (Tbs6N)

258
Just heard something about Artemis communication. This is the first time since Apollo, over 50 years, that the Deep Space Network has carried human voice communication.

That sort of got me right here thinking about it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:29 PM (w6EFb)

259 Star Trek OS was limited to a parsec in the Milky Way. That's kind of mind blowing.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 05:30 PM (V4IXI)

260 Why would I watch a show about a tycoon, just to see a bunch of dumb broads and their womanly problems? I have more than enough of that IRL.

Note to self: pass on "Landman."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Sort of surprised you didn't opt to pass on the tycoon option.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 05:31 PM (glnUu)

261 Trump didn't break them, he just make them reveal their true nature.

Posted by: John M at April 02, 2026 05:32 PM (CzLfO)

262 Can we vote DeNiro off the island?

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 02, 2026 05:32 PM (+QijZ)

263 They use a really high-bandwidth laser system and radio.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:33 PM (3uBP9)

264 Star Trek OS was limited to a parsec in the Milky Way

A parsec is 3.2 light years I think. There are no stars in that radius from us.
Ten parsecs will net a nice selection of stars although I don't think any have habitable planets (we'd know).

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 05:33 PM (gKWVE)

265 Hard to work out what came first, the TDS which leads to their dementia or was it the old age dementia that causes the TDS. That young people also suffer from it is simply a trend in their social circles and they don't want to be different.
Posted by: Decaf at April 02, 2026 05:29 PM (Tbs6N)
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I think DeNiro is just left-brain dumb. The only reason he has any say in anything is that he had so much success in the movies that he became a political _donor_. And like a donor thinks he needs to tell people what they owe him for the money. He's shelling out, and Trump's getting elected president and the Republicans (in some form) control both houses, and conservative cases win in the SCOTUS.

That's got to be frustrating.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:33 PM (Fi81e)

266 "But, he was convicted of 34 felonies!"
============
This is the crux of the argument about Trump. To the left, this is honest, to the right is it total bullshit.

Fake charges never leveled against anyone else, ie, a completely novel prosecution, in a court so fatally biased that the judge's family was making money off the case while it was ongoing!, and the corrupt prosecutor is herself an actual criminal. The conviction resulted in no actual penalty, and even as a conviction was just a symbol to the left.

Simple justice demands this be overturned. But, a National Exorcism is going to be necessary to get it out of the minds of lefties.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 05:34 PM (kBqIc)

267 Okay nurse.

On 'The Five' they showed Pritzker out celebrating 'Walking Day.'

That was funny.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 05:34 PM (Sco7b)

268
223

Those are likely reflections of debris , ice particles, and other venting from the spacecraft.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM

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If they ejected some whiz into space, the resulting cloud of sparkling ice crystals is reportedly quite a sight.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 02, 2026 05:34 PM (kf4RM)

269 Ask Bernie Sanders how this "body of elites" works.

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 05:28 PM (BvTxf)
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"They give me houses."?

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:35 PM (Fi81e)

270 >> They use a really high-bandwidth laser system and radio.

They are testing that for video feeds and stuff, but the mission critical comms are using the DSN. Critical comms are voice, telemetry/navigation, and system "health" info.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:35 PM (w6EFb)

271 Because I missed the Artemis thread...

>>> Women shouldn't be on long space voyages.
One reason is that the female body doesn't handle being dirty as well as the male body. (Private parts being interior rather than exterior makes cleanliness both more important and more difficult to do.) Also a reason women shouldn't be in the military.Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:15 PM (N1DT3)

Fine. I will use Ace's Time Machine to go back in time and tell the pioneer women that crossed the plains and the Oregon trail to stay home. And the immigrant women who sailed on boats from Europe to America to stay home. And the Hebrew women that Moses freed to just stay put in Egypt. They don't travel well apparently.

Women can travel just fine. We have been doing it for Thousands of years. Even if we have smaller bladders.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 05:36 PM (gWBY1)

272 Deniro is not one of the good fellas.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 02, 2026 05:37 PM (y+Apl)

273 I have heard that other than the portrayal of the really messed up women, its pretty based. But Yellowstone was too, until it wasn't, heh.

The Marshals spinoff is simply awful. I quit it halfway through the second episode.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 02, 2026 05:37 PM (ceJ0R)

274 >> If they ejected some whiz into space

See the ONT last night. They did a piss dump. And they had to upload procedures for the piss dump. While the space toilet was on the fritz, they had to use the CCU, collapsible contingency urinal. And then they had to dump it.

My mind was blown to learn they had to turn some heaters on in the system to warm up the piss before venting. Otherwise it would freeze and clog up the outlet nozzle. So, hot piss dump in space.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:37 PM (w6EFb)

275 Can't say I see a point of flying just around the moon.

We do it every day
Posted by: Skip

It's to look at the other side. Duh.

Posted by: the chicken at April 02, 2026 05:38 PM (VHUov)

276 Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 05:34 PM (kBqIc)
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Not to mention that they had to play peek-a-boo with the statute of limitations and the jury instructions were like a twisted version of Fred Rogers, "Well what crimes do you think Mr. Trump might be hiding?"

They ignored the standard that every element of the case must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and just went to the Land of Make-believe for the jury.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:38 PM (Fi81e)

277 So they still have coffee cans in USA? In Japan it is all bags. I miss the cans.

Chock Full O' Nuts still comes in cans.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2026 05:38 PM (ufSfZ)

278
So awful, its always heartbreakig. God be with her and her family, and you, Christy. May He give you all peace and comfort and bring you closer to His love.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:25 PM (El6/E)

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Thank you, Christopher. I'm already a bit better than when I asked upthread. I told son and DIL that faith is made deeper with grief and hardship.

My prayers are that God will, in His timing, give them a future baby from their love. They married in 2024 and were so excited.

I am ok if something is wrong with me...but with our sons I am Mama Bear and can't handle when they are hurting. I can't fix this and nurses fix things.

This was their first and very early, but already much loved by all of us. I'll meet that baby someday in heaven.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 05:39 PM (WONhk)

279 Can rarely define who has been drinking too much, or too little, online.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 05:39 PM (NFX2v)

280 I think I read "Hot Piss Dump In Space" in a review for one of Marilyn Manson's albums

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 05:40 PM (gKWVE)

281
Water released into space boils off until it pulls enough heat out to freeze, then continues to sublimate. This close to the Sun, there's enough light flux to sublimate it all away and quickly.

Now, way out in the outer solar system, some ice would remain and is would cold enough the vapor pressure would get very small.

By heating the outlet tube and nozzle, they keep the liquid stream from freezing before it clears the spacecraft.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:40 PM (w6EFb)

282 Star Trek OS was limited to a parsec in the Milky Way. That's kind of mind blowing.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 05:30 PM (V4IXI)
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Well, I can't think of another OS with that much coverage.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:40 PM (Fi81e)

283 I'm at my parents house and am seeing The Five for the first time. What a bunch of retards.

Posted by: fd at April 02, 2026 05:40 PM (UoFpr)

284 277 So they still have coffee cans in USA? In Japan it is all bags. I miss the cans.

Chock Full O' Nuts still comes in cans.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2026 05:38 PM (ufSfZ)

So does Bustelo. I haven't tried Chock full of nuts, how is it MP4?

Posted by: moki at April 02, 2026 05:40 PM (wLjpr)

285 >>> So they still have coffee cans in USA? In Japan it is all bags. I miss the cans.

Chock Full O' Nuts still comes in cans.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2026 05:38 PM (ufSfZ)

You can get a big 3lb metal can of Kriklands at Costco. That's what I pickup when it's my time in the coffee club at work. Folgers is in plastic cans now but I'm sure those will hold your odd washers and bolts as well as the metal ones.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:41 PM (3uBP9)

286 I haven't tried Chock full of nuts, how is it MP4?

OK, I suppose. I only keep it in the house for guests. To me, coffee is coffee. I'm a tea drinker.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2026 05:42 PM (ufSfZ)

287 I have heard that other than the portrayal of the really messed up women, its pretty based. But Yellowstone was too, until it wasn't, heh.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:24 PM (El6/E)
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His other new show "The Madison" (starring the Madison River, and Michelle Pfeiffer, which are both pretty spectacular) is not terrible. It's about an entitled city family getting in touch with their humanity when essentially forced to live in Montana for a while.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 05:42 PM (Krt8w)

288 75. O/T but I ask for prayers for my son and DIL who are going through a miscarriage with their first baby. I can do nothing but pray through my tears for this unexpected sadness.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Oh, that's sad. So sorry for their lose and yours, and prayers for all of you.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 05:42 PM (NFX2v)

289 ChristyBlinky, prayers for your family. My mother had 5 miscarriages between my brother and myself.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 05:43 PM (+nEug)

290 Nood. More HR drama speculation.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 05:43 PM (ExV1e)

291 I rewatched The Martian recently. It's fun sci-fi, but I started getting ticked off that the character Matt Daaaaamon played turned every act of survival into a "one day people will study and celebrate me, I have to make my mark!" Leaving his signature on the walls of the site or whatever. I realize it's fiction. But it annoyed me.

Maybe it was just good PR, but the astronauts in the 60s seemed to care more about achievement than making a legacy for themselves. Am I wrong? The current astronauts (real ones not fake space tourists) also seem to be in the same frame of mind. Are they secret fame whores and I'm not seeing that?

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 05:44 PM (gWBY1)

292 This was their first and very early, but already much loved by all of us. I'll meet that baby someday in heaven.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 05:39 PM (WONhk)

I'm so sorry Christy. Hugs to you and your family. Yes indeed, you will see that baby and hug and love on her for eternity!

Posted by: moki at April 02, 2026 05:45 PM (wLjpr)

293 They ignored the standard that every element of the case must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and just went to the Land of Make-believe for the jury.
Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:38 PM (Fi81e)
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They did everything possible to enable the plaintive wail "but....but....he's a convicted felon!!"

Fake case. Show trial. Corrupt Democrats. Gave Democrats the symbolic conviction they wanted, at the cost of destroying Americans faith in the justice system.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 05:46 PM (Krt8w)

294 Christy, Prayers are sent for your family at this difficult time
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Posted by: Mrs JTB at April 02, 2026 05:47 PM (yTvNw)

295 I drink coffee black no creamer and chock full is one of my favorite brands for that. People say it's bland but I wouldn't agree.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:47 PM (3uBP9)

296 289 ChristyBlinky, prayers for your family. My mother had 5 miscarriages between my brother and myself.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 05:43 PM (+nEug)

Thank you. I know it is not unusual or rare early on (9wks).

My husband's reaction was to text our son his sorrow, and that his mother miscarried and then "cranked out five babies." Such a delicate group are the males in my family, when I was a sodden mess (I cry about every 5-7yrs).

Thank you. I have hope for a future baby for them. I knew it was difficult from reading about it, but knowing they hurt made it so much harder.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 05:48 PM (WONhk)

297 Thanks for the prayers and kind thoughts, y'all.

I'm doing ok now and they will grieve and hope for the future with a stronger faith. Many friends and family in FL for them who will help, and have personal knowledge of this sadness. It's unchartered for me and all I could offer is prayers and hope.

Life can certainly take a turn fast, which is why we should find joy each day.

Today son was going to tell his brother about this baby after the OB visit.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 05:51 PM (WONhk)

298 Hey, who brought the fish?

Posted by: Blind Astrronaut at April 02, 2026 05:54 PM (9CBNQ)

299 ChristyBlinky

Prayers ascending for a full recovery. Then, Practice makes Pregnant.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 05:56 PM (u82oZ)

300 LizLem

60's test and combat fighter pilot machismo. Then John Glenn added publicity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 05:57 PM (u82oZ)

301 299 ChristyBlinky

Prayers ascending for a full recovery. Then, Practice makes Pregnant.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 05:56 PM (u82oZ)

Thank you. Laughing at the advise...

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 06:05 PM (WONhk)

302 Always remember that these are the people who thought that Joe Biden was fit to be president then decided that Harris was a better choice.
Their opinions are scoff-worthy.

Posted by: Max Entropy at April 02, 2026 06:57 PM (oxDA9)

303 Deniro has been on heroin for years, guys. He goes on it, then he goes off of it. I'm guessing he's on it again. This was confirmed to me by a friend of his. His brain is FRIED.
This big secret will probably not come out until the loser dies.

Posted by: Tammy at April 02, 2026 06:58 PM (tHEhe)

304 "DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office, including someone who went on to win the popular vote."

So, basically Communist China's "democratic" practices in Hong Kong.

Posted by: JTP at April 02, 2026 07:28 PM (ttA2x)

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