The Morning Report -- 4/ 20/26

Good morning kids, Well for sure the Epic Fury in and around Iran continues epically and furiously...

The USS Spruance destroyer intercepted Iran’s Touska cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman, taking custody of the ship after it refused warnings to stop, according to the president. 

Yet with that the kabuki theatrics of so-called "negotiations" with the mullahs continues. Or at least would continue if they even decided to attend, instead of flipping the bird at President Trump. For the Trumpteenth time, it ultimately will lead nowhere. Unless the last vestiges of the Islamic regime are ripped out of Iran root and branch, regardless of how much ordnance is dropped, how many power plants, bridges and infrastructure is destroyed and ships sunk, they along with every other Muslim on the planet will never cease in their eternal quest to conquer the world and/or destroy it in the process.

Talk of a “grand bargain” with Iran revives a failed playbook of concessions and deception that history shows only strengthens Tehran’s regime. . . Here’s what you need to know. . .When the Iranian regime hears the term “grand bargain,” they begin to salivate. It’s better than hot mint tea after a day-long forced march in the Great Salt Desert.To them, it means they will survive. Even better, they will have succeeded in suckering those stupid Americans once again into a very bad deal.

Still, the prospect of an Iranian A-bomb or a nuclear arsenal replete with the long range missiles to deliver them to any sane person was and remains completely intolerable. A little pain at the pump or watching your children die of radiation sickness until your own eyes melt like the Nazi. Trump gets it.

And speaking of Nazis, here at home we have their kissing cousins, the Democrat Leftists and their coven of power-mad insane fiends to who originated the phrase "Death to America" which the Mullahs glommed onto and made their own.

During a recent livestream, Piker declared that “if you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott.” Scott (R-Fla.) has since pushed for Yale University to lose funding for allowing Piker to speak at an event. “He wants me killed. He wants every capitalist murdered,” Scott bemoaned matter-of-factly on “Fox News Sunday.” “He said that we deserve 9/11. He’s clearly antisemitic. Democrats are campaigning with this guy.” “The Democrat Party supports this stuff,” he added. “Yale, if they want to go support somebody that wants to be a capitalist murdered in this country, right, so I don’t want them to get any federal funding. I mean, it’s pretty simple to me. They shouldn’t be doing this.”

WIth backstabbing criminal Quisling traitors and vermin like Chris Murphy, is it any wonder we have assassination attempts, firebombing, drive-by shootings, riots. This is the kind of incitement that leads to complete dissolution.

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) was in Spain this weekend for some reason, trashing the United States as being in the midst of a crisis, claiming that Trump is trying to take over our democracy, calling him a totalitarian, and on and on.Murphy reminds me a lot of Senator Elizabeth Warren. Like Warren, Murphy has not dialed down his insane anti-Trump rhetoric below eleven even once since the 2024 election. It makes me think he is planning a 2028 run for president, not because he thinks he can win, but because he wants a position in the next Democrat administration, or a job in media.This performance, and it is a performance, is a total disgrace.

Of course he went to Spain:

Pedro Sanchez’s anti-American crusade exposes a deeper truth: the global Left’s ideology remains rooted in recycled Marxism, repackaged through expediency and contradiction.

Ah yes, Murphy does the "Dirty Sanchez" smearing his own country in a foreign capital during a time of war.

It really is us or them. Something's got to give, and if push comes to shove, it's not going to be me.

Compare and contrast this cancerous fistula with one of the greatest American patriots of all time, Justice Clarence Thomas:

Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government. It holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God but from government. It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with a constitution premised on the transcendent origin of our rights.
It is unfortunately rare these days to hear any public figure describe the threats of “progressivism” so clearly.

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Her worst excuse ever.
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Abraham Accords for NATO
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She’s a woman who has repeatedly changed her values without explanation and has some nasty political friends in her background.

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1 Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) was in Spain this weekend for some reason, trashing the United States as being in the midst of a crisis, claiming that Trump is trying to take over our democracy, calling him a totalitarian, and on and on.
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He's anti-American, he's nasty minded, and he is really dumb.

All he needs is a few cross-dressing photos to come to light, and he could be the symbol of today's Democrat Party.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 07:21 AM (8OhW+)

2 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2026 07:22 AM (RIvkX)

3 Thank heaven above for Justice Clarence Thomas.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 07:22 AM (8OhW+)

4 I really wish I could have rolled over and gone back to sleep. But I have 2 weeks more of treatments.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 20, 2026 07:22 AM (AlhUl)

5 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 20, 2026 07:23 AM (AkEZC)

6 How about that?! I was sponge and neglected to say happy Patriots Day to the late arriving hordians and happy birthday to our fine host, JJ Sefton himself.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 07:23 AM (8OhW+)

7
Called 'em

*waits for treat*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2026 07:24 AM (tgvbd)

8 The USS Spruance destroyer intercepted Iran’s Touska cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman

What?! SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH?!

Posted by: NR Pax at April 20, 2026 07:25 AM (BpO1e)

9 Unless the last vestiges of the Islamic regime are ripped out of Iran root and branch, regardless of how much ordnance is dropped, how many power plants, bridges and infrastructure is destroyed and ships sunk, they along with every other Muslim on the planet will never cease in their eternal quest to conquer the world and/or destroy it in the process.
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The regime cannot be allowed to survive this but it will not be the force of American arms that topples them, it must be the Iranian people.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2026 07:25 AM (RIvkX)

10 What's a Dirty Sanchez? 😯

:feigns innocence:

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 20, 2026 07:26 AM (IhL8c)

11 Nobody ever talks about me.

Posted by: The next-to-last vestige at April 20, 2026 07:29 AM (2Ez/1)

12 Women are not okay. The young ones, especially.

Almost as if scorning "traditional roles" and telling impressionable young people that the world is unfair and they are in a perpetual state of victimhood has negative results.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 20, 2026 07:29 AM (BpO1e)

13 Almost as if scorning "traditional roles" and telling impressionable young people that the world is unfair and they are in a perpetual state of victimhood has negative results.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 20, 2026 07:29 AM
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That and it's okay to kill babeez.

Posted by: Choose life at April 20, 2026 07:31 AM (2Ez/1)

14 Democrats are despicable scumbags, and are only getting worse and the crazies are taking over.

The district in NJ I used to live in had the moderate GOP rep, Rodney Freylinghausen, when he retired the odious Mike Sherril won his seat, when she became governor her seat was up for election, a literal Soros funded Marxist lunatic has won the seat, so a district that once had a moderate Republican is now represented by a Bernie Sanders social justice warrior in the span of 7 years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 20, 2026 07:32 AM (5Z3xE)

15 “Neurotic” is a word that has fallen out of favor, if you do they get hysterical

Posted by: Common Tater at April 20, 2026 07:32 AM (HhTfM)

16 Even the way in which they react to the current crisis says a lot about the Iranian ayatollahs. Shiites have a very high opinion of martyrdom.
If they had nuclear weapons they would be well capable of using them, against Israel, Europe, or maybe Saudi Arabia (and try to smuggle one into the US), regardless of the consequences. They welcome martyrdom.

Posted by: PG at April 20, 2026 07:32 AM (Q4aSA)

17 During a recent livestream, Piker declared that “if you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott.”

Scott (R-Fla.) has since pushed for Yale University to lose funding for allowing Piker to speak at an event.
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Yale can host these sorts of antisemitic, anticapitalist, anti-American murderous thugs if they wish. It is certainly the right of the college to support the end of western civilization this way, if that is their wishful opinion.

But, at a minimum, American tax dollars should not go there to support Yale. In fact, the "school" should be closely examined and investigated. Maybe Yale should move to Gaza, or London, or somewhere else in Caliphate.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 07:33 AM (J5gTp)

18 I Take My History Straight: The Pitfalls of Weaponizing the Past
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While I wouldn't call it "mistaken", that article seems to creep around the core question, without addressing it. The fact is that, contrary to the usual belief, revisionism is constantly needed. Every single narrative contains some distortion and omission. And ours is no exception.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 20, 2026 07:34 AM (AlhUl)

19 To my mind, the key to success in Iran is killing enough of the 'right people', so they are weak enough for the population to rise up and finish off. We should be targeting and killing IRGC wherever and whenever. Cow after cow, village after village, army after army- exterminate the brutes.

Posted by: Don Black at April 20, 2026 07:34 AM (ZxPkt)

20 What's a Dirty Sanchez? 😯

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 20, 2026 07:26 AM (IhL8c)
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SAIT.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2026 07:34 AM (1o8D5)

21 But, at a minimum, American tax dollars should not go there to support Yale.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 07:33 AM (J5gTp)
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Tax dollars shouldn't be going to any school.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2026 07:36 AM (1o8D5)

22 Sen. Murphy is elected so Trump can't be as bad as the twit says he is. Don't these idiots think before they speak? Running your mouth is not doing your job Senator.

Posted by: Case at April 20, 2026 07:36 AM (pvf3X)

23 Is Denying ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Child Abuse?

There are a lot of doctors that need to lose their license over this.

An acquaintance of mine took her son to a therapist. Being a teenage boy, he joked that he was feeling about as emotional as a girl.

The therapist immediately decided that he needed to be on estrogen and that would solve his problems. Needless to say that was the only appointment they had with that quack.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 20, 2026 07:36 AM (BpO1e)

24 >What's a Dirty Sanchez?
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well, it's different from a Cleveland Steamer

Posted by: Don Black at April 20, 2026 07:36 AM (ZxPkt)

25 Again, you can’t rise up against tyrants with guns if the riser uppers don’t have guns, the mullahs aren’t the British and Iran ain’t India.

Mulisms are brutal savages and the people in control will murder your entire family if you so much as look cross wise at them.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 20, 2026 07:37 AM (5Z3xE)

26 Humanity has always been murderously insane. Social Media is the turbocharger that just kicked it up a notch.

Enforce the immigration laws.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 20, 2026 07:37 AM (Fbc0I)

27 They welcome martyrdom.
Posted by: PG at April 20, 2026 07:32 AM (Q4aSA)
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Happy to oblige.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

28 That and it's okay to kill babeez.
Posted by: Choose life

Aztec woman: "I must sacrifice my baby so we can have good crops.

Modern woman: "I must sacrifice my baby so I can have a fulfilling career."

Posted by: NR Pax at April 20, 2026 07:38 AM (BpO1e)

29 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 07:38 AM (u82oZ)

30 At this point only 33% of Americans support the Iran war

Posted by: Paul
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prove it

Posted by: Don Black at April 20, 2026 07:38 AM (ZxPkt)

31 Tax dollars shouldn't be going to any school.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2026 07:36 AM (1o8D5)
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Would that require closing Livermore and JPL? Some dollars might be well spent, if going for basic research.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 07:38 AM (J5gTp)

32 At this point only 33% of Americans support the Iran war

Posted by: Paul at April 20, 2026 07:35 AM (IJqrQ)
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You dick! You forgot to tell us about the partisan gap.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2026 07:39 AM (1o8D5)

33 "DHS Says It Costs $18,000 To Deport An Illegal Alien"

I can build a really nice trebuchet for $18,000.

Posted by: fd at April 20, 2026 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

34 Trump's administration should probably concede that the actual "government" in Iran is now the IRGC. That outfit isn't going to quit until the last one of them is dead.

Focus on killing off the IRGC and many other things the administration wants to accomplish in Iran will likely begin to fall into place.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 20, 2026 07:39 AM (AkEZC)

35 Would that require closing Livermore and JPL? Some dollars might be well spent, if going for basic research.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 07:38 AM (J5gTp)
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Very selective R&D might be an exception to what should otherwise be a blanket rule.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2026 07:40 AM (1o8D5)

36 "How liberalism loses any connection with its historical principles and comes exclusively to represent the perpetual exaltation of the expert classes and their sundry social projects.
How Liberalism Inevitably Turns to Managerialism (meh, it turns into Mass graves for its enemies - jjs) "

I wish we could somehow quit calling it "liberalism"; it is anything but.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 20, 2026 07:41 AM (VyBeY)

37 16 Even the way in which they react to the current crisis says a lot about the Iranian ayatollahs...

How Trump Wins. Replace Currency/Regime Falls
200% Sanction on IRG Currency Traders.

xhttps://tinyurl.com/forWARd-TrumpLaysLowDIMON
MR.BEALE *FINALLY* gets it after 50years.
MAD AS HELL: and not gonna LIB anymore...

IRG goes MadMax/RoadWarrior scenario with Kharg/replaced by Gulf of America freeport.

Kharg/Destruction interdicted/new Regime makes 10x the money as a data-center, semiconductor fab, and research epicenter for new Space Economy.

LIBs. What Price their Vision?
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-LIBsHalftimeAmerica250
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-HereComeTheDRUMS

America250:
"The difference between a civilian and a citizen? A citizen accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic, of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not."

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at April 20, 2026 07:41 AM (7h9/P)

38 You can't negotiate with people who embrace lies as a core tenet of their culture

Posted by: Don Black at April 20, 2026 07:41 AM (ZxPkt)

39 At this point only 33% of Americans support the Iran war

Posted by: Paul
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prove it

Posted by: Don Black at April 20, 2026 07:38 AM (ZxPkt)
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I asked Grok. Read till the end.

https://tinyurl.com/5au7748a

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2026 07:42 AM (1o8D5)

40 You can't negotiate with people who embrace lies as a core tenet of their culture

Posted by: Don Black at April 20, 2026 07:41 AM (ZxPkt)
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Which means negotiating with Muslims or Democrats are equally futile endeavors.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 20, 2026 07:43 AM (gnNyN)

41 I have a Persian coworker. Standard NPR leftist. Mad at Trump for not helping the people of Iran.

U.S. attacks. Brief amount of gratitude. Then he's mad because the regime is not toppled.

I ask him where the Iranian people are? We can't care about their freedom more than they do.

He accedes I have a point.

Posted by: blaster at April 20, 2026 07:43 AM (NlEaG)

42 This notion of “Just War” we’re hearing is interesting, hopelessly outdated.

Atomic weapons changed everything. Even before the first bomb had been tested in the New Mexico desert there were numerous high level discussions in the American government about what a post-war world might look like.

Waiting to get attacked first, and then responding is no longer an option and hasn’t been for a long time. Try to keep up, or STFU

Posted by: Common Tater at April 20, 2026 07:43 AM (HhTfM)

43 "I can build a really nice trebuchet for $18,000.

Posted by: fd"

and it's reuseable! (not to mention carbon-neutral!)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 20, 2026 07:43 AM (VyBeY)

44 When I read these "Manfred" posts I understand nary a word.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 07:43 AM (J5gTp)

45 At this point only 33% of my holes are filled.

Posted by: Pawl at April 20, 2026 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

46 If you've killed everyone in charge, who do you talk to about surrender? The head janitor? The chief gravedigger?

Posted by: I gotta ask at April 20, 2026 07:44 AM (2Ez/1)

47 I don't bees know nuttin about no tax reruns.

Posted by: Letita James, Mammy At Law at April 20, 2026 07:44 AM (4eiIm)

48 They Couldn’t Find a Transgender Person to Read to Kids, So They Settled for Obama and Mamdani
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Are they trying to claim Obama is male?

BS.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 20, 2026 07:45 AM (AlhUl)

49 "...and it's reuseable! (not to mention carbon-neutral!)"
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Yes, but is it organic and sustainable? Was it built with fair trade labor?

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at April 20, 2026 07:46 AM (2Ez/1)

50 35 Trump's administration should probably concede that the actual "government" in Iran is now the IRGC. That outfit isn't going to quit until the last one of them is dead.
...
Focus on killing off the IRGC and many other things the administration wants to accomplish in Iran will likely begin to fall into place.

Replace Currency/Regime Falls
-- as the joker said: they'll eat each other,

Using their own people as humans shields and the rest of the world hostage. NO MORE.

LET'S GO BRANDON!
https://iran.liveuamap.com/

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at April 20, 2026 07:46 AM (tOiuU)

51 "Yes, but is it organic and sustainable? Was it built with fair trade labor?
Posted by: Karen McAwfl "

Yes. Now get in.

Posted by: fd at April 20, 2026 07:47 AM (vFG9F)

52 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday.

Posted by: Bulg at April 20, 2026 07:47 AM (77rzZ)

53 Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,

Polls today are broken. But if we fail to win ...

I see no alternative to making Iran electrical power free. But everything wrong, down to a bad hair day, will be the result of this decision.

Go long on electrical substation supply companies.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 07:48 AM (u82oZ)

54 I’m sorry, but the suicide of a UFO “researcher” who showed clear signs of clinical paranoia in her personal messages is hardly evidence of some vast plot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2026 07:48 AM (Fmj+u)

55 My own opinion is that, while 55-60% of independents may not support the attacks on Iran, if PDJT manages a clear win then that number reverses very quickly.

This was a political gamble the President obviously felt was necessary. And we hired him specifically to make these sorts of hard calls.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 07:48 AM (J5gTp)

56 Good morning Horde.

Happy Birthday JJ.

Posted by: blaster at April 20, 2026 07:48 AM (NlEaG)

57 51 "Yes, but is it organic and sustainable? Was it built with fair trade labor?
Posted by: Karen McAwfl "

Yes. Now get in.
Posted by: fd at April 20, 2026 07:47 AM
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LOL.

Posted by: I LOL'd at April 20, 2026 07:49 AM (2Ez/1)

58 54 I’m sorry, but the suicide of a UFO “researcher” who showed clear signs of clinical paranoia in her personal messages is hardly evidence of some vast plot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2026 07:48 AM (Fmj+u)

Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

Posted by: blaster at April 20, 2026 07:50 AM (NlEaG)

59 >I asked Grok. Read till the end.
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Okay
they're wrong, but okay

Posted by: Don Black at April 20, 2026 07:50 AM (ZxPkt)

60 54 I’m sorry, but the suicide of a UFO “researcher” who showed clear signs of clinical paranoia in her personal messages is hardly evidence of some vast plot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2026 07:48 AM
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The truth is out there.

Posted by: Scully at April 20, 2026 07:50 AM (2Ez/1)

61 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 20, 2026 07:51 AM (/6r4m)

62 MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE

Look at Iranian leaders killed by organizational category. The IRGC has been the real target of our leader assassination strikes from Day 1. Many more leaders removed from the IRGC than any other Iranian organization.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 07:51 AM (u82oZ)

63 The state’s high court ruled 5-2 on Tuesday to uphold a lower court’s preliminary injunction of a 2022 policy that mandates Montanans have birth certificates and IDs that match their biological sex. The court ruled that the policy likely goes against the state constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.
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What is more difficult to accomplish: changing the state Constitution to eliminate this sophistry, or changing out the five idiots on the state Supreme Court who see reality through such a twisted lens?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 07:52 AM (J5gTp)

64 If you've killed everyone in charge, who do you talk to about surrender? The head janitor? The chief gravedigger?

Judge Boassberg?

Posted by: Overruled at April 20, 2026 07:54 AM (4eiIm)

65 If you want to cripple Iran, take out their substations. Don't hit their generating capacity yet. That's level two. Make a long road to the stone age.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 20, 2026 07:55 AM (Fbc0I)

66 Huck Follywood

The end result is government endorsed Darwin Award winners walking around. 70 years ago the trans wanting people would be in insane asylums. This is progress?

All the dead from mass murdering trans shooters would be alive.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

67 I would say most people are more upset with gas prices than the war. But polls being what they are didn't bring up that point.

Posted by: Case at April 20, 2026 07:56 AM (pvf3X)

68 How many "U.S. officials and scientists" have access to U.S. secrets?"

Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? The number is huge.

Of COURSE some of them are going to die mysteriously. that happens every day in a country of 350 million people.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 20, 2026 07:57 AM (n9ltV)

69 But if we fail to win ...

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 07:48 AM (u82oZ)
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I already said last week that Trump is stupid and Netanyahu is stupider.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2026 07:58 AM (1o8D5)

70 The Long Road To The Stone Age album was one the least known but best undiscovered jewel in the music catalog of The Stone Temple Pilots.

Posted by: Music Nerd at April 20, 2026 07:58 AM (2Ez/1)

71 Why Disastrous Blue Model Failure Isn’t Producing A Red Shift
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For me, that was preaching to the choir. Which makes me wonder if there's something Bray and I are missing. I keep going back to the fact that our country elected Obama. Twice.

That said, I can't dispute his prescription - fighting for what we believe. The trouble with that is that so many of our pols don't believe in anything, and are just as clueless as the left as to what we do believe.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 20, 2026 07:59 AM (AlhUl)

72 >>I would say most people are more upset with gas prices than the war. But polls being what they are didn't bring up that point.

Trump could cure cancer and the same people would suddenly become pro-cancer. It's reflex for them, anything Trump does, even when it is objectively good for the US and the world, is evil.

They don't have any credibility, just a large megaphone.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2026 07:59 AM (viF8m)

73 The Angry Young Women say they want “revolution”: “systematic change.” Racked by chronic fatigue and endometriosis, they find satisfaction in protest, nonbinary comedy evenings, and pursuing “moral missions.” But even then, that satisfaction is fleeting. “You’ve got to be pessimistic,” one young woman says. The point isn’t to be happy; it’s about being angry and engaged.
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Young women are in terrible shape in our country. It's a real problem.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 08:00 AM (J5gTp)

74 I have the, probably mistaken, impression that the only path to success in the Demoncrat Party is to be a bigger piece of shit shit than anyone else. Probably unfair of me.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 20, 2026 08:00 AM (8z5RA)

75 Case

Can we make the case that kicking the can down the road has led to progress towards peace and prosperity in the US and Iran?

Although you can argue based on Detroit and Hiroshima that an Iranian nuclear bomb hitting a US city is less damaging than Democrat / Leftist urban policies and governance.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 08:00 AM (u82oZ)

76 All the dead from mass murdering trans shooters would be alive.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

There we are. The rationale for getting rid of "gender affirming care."

"If it saves one child, it's worth it!"

Posted by: NR Pax at April 20, 2026 08:00 AM (BpO1e)

77 *yawn* Guten morgen, Hordevolk. Heading down to placate a grumpy toddler, and then off to get bloodwork to see if my body accepted the IVF implantation. We won't know if it was truly successful until I get an ultrasound in about two weeks. (Boooo...)

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to be patient at April 20, 2026 08:00 AM (Wt5PA)

78 Rep. Bro-Fo Omar Blames $29M Accounting Errors for ‘Millionaire’ Status
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Who among us hasn't made a 29 million error in balancing our checkbooks?

Posted by: Eeyore at April 20, 2026 08:01 AM (AlhUl)

79 Newsom Sold 2/3rds of His ‘Bestselling’ Book to Himself
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How can this be? He's already told us he cannot read.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 20, 2026 08:02 AM (AlhUl)

80 Of COURSE some of them are going to die mysteriously. that happens every day in a country of 350 million people.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 20, 2026 07:57 AM (n9ltV)
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How many dies "mysteriously" a year ago? And a year before that, etc.?

Then you'll get a better idea whether something is very scwewy around here.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2026 08:03 AM (1o8D5)

81 I have the, probably mistaken, impression that the only path to success in the Demoncrat Party is to be a bigger piece of shit shit than anyone else. Probably unfair of me.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 20, 2026 08:00 AM (8z5RA)
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You might have nailed it, though.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 08:03 AM (yU4sG)

82 “We are going to be making arrests, and it's coming, and I promise you, it's coming soon," Patel said.That's not a vague promise from a bureaucrat hedging his bets. That's the sitting FBI director going on record, on camera, with a direct commitment to the American people that we’re finally going to see some accountability over the shenanigans that took place during the 2020 elections. (Lowest of low-level flunkies or else a lot of hot air - jjs)

I agree with JJ. And it's why, IMO, the GOP and - by extension, Trump - deserve to lose the midterms. While I am in admiration of his foreign policy successes, I am concerned that his eye seems to be too much outside America rather than in it. He concentrates too much on the external enemy and not the domestic one.

There are dozens, if not hundreds of high-ranking people who need to be arrested, imprisoned and, where required, executed. But none have, and none will.

YMMV

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 20, 2026 08:04 AM (qRla/)

83 Trump Admin To Stop Taxpayer Funding Of Worthless College Degrees
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Other than the military academies, and ROTC, why are we funding any?

Posted by: Eeyore at April 20, 2026 08:04 AM (AlhUl)

84 Eeyore

NSF and NIH fund a lot of science advanced degrees and Post Doc work.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

85 I have spent years being told, in every Western capital where I am invited to speak, that the Palestinian cause is the conscience of the Arab world. This month, the Arab world watched Hamas refuse to lift a finger for the regime that armed it for twenty years, and watched the president of the Palestinian Authority laugh at the destruction of the country that has paid his civil servants’ salaries for most of his presidency.

Therein lies the conscience of the Arab world.
-Hen Mazzig
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Don't say I didn't warn you about them.

Posted by: Lawrence of Arabia at April 20, 2026 08:06 AM (RIvkX)

86 Young women are in terrible shape in our country. It's a real problem.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 08:00 AM (J5gTp)

Motherhood is demonized and the young woman are left to churn and burn in their lonely menstrual cycles while approaching Cat Lady status, devoid of love, affection and semen.

Posted by: Mother Nature at April 20, 2026 08:06 AM (4eiIm)

87 There are dozens, if not hundreds of high-ranking people who need to be arrested, imprisoned and, where required, executed. But none have, and none will.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 20, 2026 08:04 AM (qRla/)
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"Things that will never happen," for $100, Alex.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2026 08:06 AM (1o8D5)

88 Lawrence of Arabia

"So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people--greedy, barbarous and cruel."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 08:07 AM (u82oZ)

89 New Glenn launches for 3rd time, reuses first stage and lands it, but fails to put satellite in correct orbit
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Blue Origin did two things well, but then screwed the pooch on what the customer paid for. The satellite now will be destroyed and a replacement built and launched. Presumably on a SpaceX rocket.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 08:08 AM (2jkJ9)

90 Welcome to doom and gloom Monday, huh?

Trump better get his ass out there and arrest those people.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 20, 2026 08:09 AM (DIbRX)

91 Huck Follywood

New Glen is compensation for Bezos and his inner inadequacies.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 08:09 AM (u82oZ)

92 I am concerned that his eye seems to be too much outside America rather than in it. He concentrates too much on the external enemy and not the domestic one.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 20, 2026 08:04 AM (qRla/)

I don't agree here, MP4. There are fewer federal government employees today than in the past 60 years. Illegal immigration is near zero. Legal immigration is collapsing. There is a Grand Conspiracy case being heard by a grand jury in Florida. Birthright citizenship has been challenged as never before and is a justice or two from being overturned - as Roe was overturned.

There are sweeping, systemic, domestic victories. Enough? No. But honestly, there will never be enough.

And that's what I have to tell myself when I find myself making the exact same complaints you're making here - No modern American president has ever (ever) done more with less and with more aligned against him than has Trump. "Yeah, but he hasn't done..." is not only not effective, but it removes the external incentives for him to even keep going.

If you're never going to be satisfied, why should he bother at all?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 20, 2026 08:09 AM (G1ktt)

93 Don't say I didn't warn you about them.

Posted by: Lawrence of Arabia at April 20, 2026 08:06 AM (RIvkX)
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Don't say I didn't warn you about them.
- Genesis 16:11-12

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2026 08:10 AM (1o8D5)

94 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

May your day be sunshine and zephyrs under a cloud dapples sky.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 08:10 AM (u82oZ)

95 Trump famously "fired" people off his apprentice shows. He probably needs to get back into that mode with whomever is going to be running the DoJ and give them a list of names.

Press charges, publicly arrect, jail until trial, convict, hang. Not necessarily in that order.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 20, 2026 08:11 AM (AkEZC)

96 42 Atomic weapons changed everything.
Posted by: Common Tater

I suppose they'll always be there, as terror tools for last chance all-hope-is-lost scenarios; but as technology evolves the question arises over whether nukes are obsolete and becoming more so very day.

Posted by: Auspex at April 20, 2026 08:11 AM (Y8DZL)

97 There are dozens, if not hundreds of high-ranking people who need to be arrested, imprisoned and, where required, executed. But none have, and none will.

YMMV
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 20, 2026 08:04 AM
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Is this about me?

Posted by: Mrs Fauci's little boy Tony at April 20, 2026 08:11 AM (2Ez/1)

98 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at April 20, 2026 08:11 AM (As/lK)

99 How Liberalism Inevitably Turns to Managerialism (meh, it turns into Mass graves for its enemies - jjs)
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No doubt, JJ. But the question the author is addressing is "Why?" He doesn't cite Rousseau, but he should have. In that view, people must be forced to be free.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 20, 2026 08:13 AM (AlhUl)

100 Wonderful collection of links and it all looks so "clean", but I miss the black diamonds.

Posted by: Old School at April 20, 2026 08:13 AM (oftw2)

101 Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,

Good call. Genesis for the win.

It reminds me of the Patent Office, where you tried to get the oldest relevant citation to deny an applicant's claim language. One examiner I knew did use Genesis for his denial of a toothpaste patent application.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 08:14 AM (u82oZ)

102 Bartiromo, for her part, wasn’t interested in vague assurances. In fact, she set the stage by noting what any honest observer already knows — President Donald Trump has been saying the 2020 election was rigged since, well, 2020. She pressed Patel directly on what he had actually done about it over the past 14 months. His answer was unambiguous.
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We are all on Team Bartiromo on this, no doubt, and at the "Show Me!" stage. MP4 may be right ("nothing will happen") but I read this differently. Patel says indictments are coming very soon. Hopefully, they are strong cases.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 08:14 AM (hnY0g)

103 "... while approaching Cat Lady status, devoid of love, affection and semen.
Posted by: Mother Nature at April 20, 2026 08:06 AM"

++++

Hey. We're sitting right here.

Posted by: Alcohol, SSRI inhibitors and The Hallmark Channel at April 20, 2026 08:15 AM (2Ez/1)

104 The clouds are orange at the moment

Posted by: Don Black at April 20, 2026 08:15 AM (ZxPkt)

105 Today Is Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2026 08:16 AM (NpAcC)

106 Todd Blanche also sent reinforcements to assist the prosecution in the Southern District of Florida. Specifically, he is bringing Joe diGenova onboard to act help organize the process.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2026 08:16 AM (viF8m)

107 101 NaCly, do you know what chapters/verses the examiner used? I can’t see how Genesis would be relevant to toothpaste.

Posted by: Bulg at April 20, 2026 08:16 AM (77rzZ)

108 Old School

Doubtless there has been some behind the scenes enhancements to J.J.s posts.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 08:17 AM (u82oZ)

109 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 20, 2026 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

110 Today Is Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2026 08:16 AM (NpAcC)
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One of my specialties from high school home ec.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2026 08:17 AM (RIvkX)

111 That piece on Gabbard is one of the worst written Deep State hit pieces I’ve seen in a while. The author says almost nothing about Gabbard, other than he doesn’t like her and never has, and doesn’t think she was qualified (Trump did so your opinions don’t count asswipe). Most of it is just a rosy reminiscence of how great he thought things were when the author was in the Reagan administration. Typical derp state bullshit.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2026 08:18 AM (Fmj+u)

112 Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 20, 2026 08:09 AM (G1ktt)

Hi, Nearsider! Always a pleasure to see you.

I appreciate your broader point, and yes, Trump has and does face opposition greater than any POTUS since Lincoln. But (whether you agree with him or not) he was not afraid to exercise his powers by shutting down papers, eliminating habeas corpus and arresting traitors.

Let's try one example: we know Fauci lied. We know he engaged in animal torture. We know he was instrumental in developing a bioweapon used not just against the US, but around the world. Why is that bastard not swinging from a length of piano wire right now?

It's not that I am not glad to see people face consequences, but all I see from the administration is akin to arresting Anton Drexler while allowing Heinrich Himmler to walk free as a bird.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 20, 2026 08:18 AM (qRla/)

113 It's just another Merlot Monday.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at April 20, 2026 08:19 AM (2Ez/1)

114 Bulg

Good morning.

Well that examiner was internally famous for his toothpaste examination interviews, but it may not be a toothpaste patent application. It was a while ago, and I may not have the details correct anymore. But he did use Genesis as a basis for rejection.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 08:20 AM (u82oZ)

115 112 Well done with the Anton Drexler reference, MP4.

Posted by: Bulg at April 20, 2026 08:20 AM (77rzZ)

116 I read a piece by Insurrection Barbie yesterday that also pointed fingers at Tulsi Gabbard but never made clear her role.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2026 08:21 AM (RIvkX)

117 Anyway, on to the Poppins Report:

38 sunny, chilly degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. I was my usual lazy self yesterday, so no writing got done. Today is must be done, so that later in the afternoon I can go to the local dairy and get milk and ice cream.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 20, 2026 08:21 AM (qRla/)

118 The clouds are orange at the moment

Posted by: Don Black at April 20, 2026 08:15 AM (ZxPkt)
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As long as they're not angry today.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2026 08:22 AM (1o8D5)

119 Obsolete? Show your work. When they were still theoretical, the notion was put forward that war itself was obsolete. Naturally, that was nonsense.

Anyway the point here is that this argument the world must sit around and wait - till the Iranian mullah regime (or anyone else) has nuclear weapons ready to go before it is “just” to respond is twaddle.

Nuclear proliferation was the #1 concern, before atomic weapons had even been constructed. They knew they could not be “uninvented”, and that any nation with sufficient industrial capacity and engineering capability could build them.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 20, 2026 08:22 AM (7t4fv)

120 She’s a woman who has repeatedly changed her values without explanation and has some nasty political friends in her background.

==

I absolutely agree. She was a big mistake. She hires subversive, "libertarians" and Bernie bros. She rehired Caldwell who was dumped by DOW. She always does her darnedest to distance herself for Trump and his policies, and the "exposes" that she dumps from time to time are stale.

Posted by: runner at April 20, 2026 08:22 AM (GD0B3)

121 117 You, too, MP4.

Posted by: Bulg at April 20, 2026 08:23 AM (77rzZ)

122 @75.
I would say it's time to shit or get off the pot. I'm tired of the " let's give it another two weeks". We have given them every chance to come to an agreement. All they do is stall for time. Let's bomb the shit out of them, infrastructure and all. Call it a win and come home.

Posted by: Case at April 20, 2026 08:23 AM (pvf3X)

123 Nothing was going to happen to any of these miscreants during the four years of Bribe'em.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 20, 2026 08:23 AM (DIbRX)

124 Maria Bartiromo right now eviscerating Ro Khanna live on her show.

What a damn dummy he is. Fvcking loser.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2026 08:23 AM (RIvkX)

125 This will hopefully be the last time he shows up.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2026 08:24 AM (RIvkX)

126 “I suppose they'll always be there, as terror tools for last chance all-hope-is-lost scenarios; but as technology evolves the question arises over whether nukes are obsolete and becoming more so very day.

Posted by: Auspex at April 20, 2026 08:11 AM (Y8DZL)

I was having a discussion with a friend who listens to too many talk radio hosts, who was saying “Trump is going to have to use nukes in Iran soon!”
And I asked Why? Why would we do that? There’s nothing a nuke can do militarily that a precision conventional weapon can’t do better, except kill a lot of civilians at once. And why would we want to kill a lot of civilians who would be on our side?

There’s really no rational case for using nukes now, except as a threat.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2026 08:24 AM (Fmj+u)

127 I see from the administration is akin to arresting Anton Drexler while allowing Heinrich Himmler to walk free as a bird.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 20, 2026 08:18 AM (qRla/)

And you - I hope there's a MoMee in your future. I still remember fondly getting to share a drink with you.

As to your example, I think the Art of the Possible overrides everything. Could it be done? Possibly, but not likely. Would it cost a massive amount of political capital to achieve even an unwanted outcome? Almost definitely.

And then the tricky part - would I rather Trump spend that political capital on things more likely to generate wins? Yes. Yes I would.

And this is, I think where we disagree. I don't want to tilt at windmills. I want to stack victories. Victory is contagious. It took more than one Administration for America to get here. It'll take more than one Administration to get out. Trump, though, is showing the way - get up, hit back, flip over their rice bowls, fuck their 'propriety.'

Get to victory.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 20, 2026 08:24 AM (G1ktt)

128 84 Eeyore

NSF and NIH fund a lot of science advanced degrees and Post Doc work.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)
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I question whether they should. I'm not one of those who worship at the altar of Science! Or those who regard non-STEM degrees as worthless.

Why are we paying for any degrees not directly related to the role of government?

Posted by: Eeyore at April 20, 2026 08:24 AM (AlhUl)

129 I read a piece by Insurrection Barbie yesterday that also pointed fingers at Tulsi Gabbard but never made clear her role.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2026 08:21 AM (RIvkX)

She is a big problem. Her nickname in the Trump administration is "Do Not Invite". She and her people leak on policies that do not align with her leftist , Bernie Bro views.

Posted by: runner at April 20, 2026 08:25 AM (GD0B3)

130 Common Tater

The rhetoric from the Iranian leaders was the problem. If they were like Swiss leaders, making Iran and its people better, nukes would not be as big an issue.

But the Iranian insider's hatred and envy of others like the US, married with deliverable nuclear weapons, is a clear and present danger.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 08:25 AM (u82oZ)

131 I see someone is selling one of my books on Ebay. I'm tempted to buy it just to see if it's one I autographed as a gift.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 20, 2026 08:25 AM (qRla/)

132 >As long as they're not angry today.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
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remains to be seen

serious inquiry: why do you say Trump and Bibi are stupid

Posted by: Don Black, because someone has to at April 20, 2026 08:27 AM (ZxPkt)

133 Hedge Fund CIO: "After This Market Rolls Over, Rates Are Going Back To Zero, And The Fed Balance Sheet Will Balloon"

On the backside of this bull market, we’re going to see relentless selling by Baby Boomers. They own too much stock and too many big houses. There are not enough young people to buy them all unless they get way cheaper.

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2026 08:27 AM (RHGPo)

134 Washington Nearsider, well stated.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 20, 2026 08:27 AM (DIbRX)

135 131 I see someone is selling one of my books on Ebay. I'm tempted to buy it just to see if it's one I autographed as a gift.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 20, 2026 08:25 AM (qRla/).

I hope it doesn’t say “This one’s for you, thanks mom!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2026 08:28 AM (Fmj+u)

136 "A lot of the things you said are just not true."
-Maria Bartiromo

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2026 08:28 AM (RIvkX)

137 7.4 magnitude quake off Japan is very concerning. Tsunamis are one thing, but awakening Godzilla yet again is something the world doesn't need right now.

Posted by: Reptile Dysfunction at April 20, 2026 08:28 AM (oftw2)

138 Gabbard should have been fired after Joe Kent , who is now a hero to the left, and especially after that sad performance in Congress. But he might have decided to replace Bondi first, maybe more urgency there, more active cases or whatever.

Posted by: runner at April 20, 2026 08:28 AM (GD0B3)

139 Ro Khanna spreading the jew hate live on Fox.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2026 08:29 AM (RIvkX)

140 Just last week Tulsi sent criminal referrals to the DOJ for Intel IG Michael Atkinson and fake whistleblower Eric Ciaramella for their part in the fake Ukraine impeachment hoax.

I don't have to agree with her or anyone else on everything but I think she doing a pretty good job of digging out evidence of criminal activity in prior administrations.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2026 08:29 AM (viF8m)

141 I'm a re-gifter. Like YOU'VE never done it.

Posted by: M4's mom at April 20, 2026 08:29 AM (2Ez/1)

142 Eeyore

Hmmm. You have a point. But the NIH and NSF grants, in general, are an investment in the best, most useful research, up to the election of pbho.

The awardee do the grunt labor of science as part of their education. Results from that research have helped in many fields.

But today... Subsidizing foreign students over Americans. Could we have Science if the personnel support part of the grants ended? This could be a good debate.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

143 You might want to read this Substack on what Tulsi is doing as DNI.

https://tinyurl.com/vxappz6s

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 20, 2026 08:30 AM (wOXCn)

144 We are all on Team Bartiromo on this, no doubt, and at the "Show Me!" stage. MP4 may be right ("nothing will happen") but I read this differently. Patel says indictments are coming very soon. Hopefully, they are strong cases.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 08:14 AM (hnY0g)
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I do believe indictments are coming soon.
Although prison time may not ever happen due to all the radical judges we seem to have and have a hard time replacing.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2026 08:31 AM (NpAcC)

145 136 Wow, I’ve never watched Maria, but she sounds absolutely awesome. Don’t let them get away with their lies, Maria!

Posted by: Bulg at April 20, 2026 08:31 AM (77rzZ)

146 OK, folks, I would love to spend some more time, but I must kick my ass and write. Part of my reason for retiring was so that I would have the time to do it and not waste it on booze and dirty pictures.*

Talk to you all later.

*speaking of pictures, with my luck, today will be a day when CBD posts a picture of a lovely 19th century lady.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 20, 2026 08:32 AM (qRla/)

147 Ro Khanna spreading the jew hate live on Fox.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2026 08:29 AM (RIvkX)

He's a real charmer.

Somebody ought to challenge him on the difference between the Indian independence movement and the Israeli independence movement. It would be interesting to hear him equivocate.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 20, 2026 08:32 AM (n9ltV)

148 Ok, so a politician who lies for a living is getting fussed at by a woman on a cable news channel.
So, what?

Posted by: Nothing will happen at April 20, 2026 08:34 AM (2Ez/1)

149 good fortune to your efforts, MP4!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 20, 2026 08:34 AM (VyBeY)

150 Ted Lieu thinks 'proportionality' in war is Federal law.

Odds he is a slimy amoral idiot of a c0cksucker? 100%

He is from California after all.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 20, 2026 08:34 AM (2GVsD)

151 It took more than one Administration for America to get here. It'll take more than one Administration to get out. Trump, though, is showing the way - get up, hit back, flip over their rice bowls, fuck their 'propriety.'

Get to victory.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 20, 2026 08:24 AM (G1ktt)

^^^This^^^

The deep state is still pervasive. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees and agents are working against us, and our president, every day. It can never happen fast enough for us, but we have to amplify the wins.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 20, 2026 08:35 AM (h7ZuX)

152 Under the proposed rule, undergraduate programs will have to prove that degree recipients earn at least as much as a high school graduate before being eligible for student loan funding.

How could a college degree, no matter how stupid, cause you to earn less than someone with only a HS diploma? They should require the degree to earn substantially more - where they can quibble over what substantially means.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 20, 2026 08:36 AM (ExV1e)

153 Gabbard's referrals lead to nowhere, she is binding time, making herself look important. None of them are actionable or materialized into anything. But she can say, hey I've done something, it's now in DOJ's hands! No one needs that office the way it is. "National Intelligence"...When Trump needs national intelligence, he goes to Ratcliffe.

Posted by: runner at April 20, 2026 08:36 AM (GD0B3)

154 Morning, News Folken!

Captain Obvious, I'm in Salina, KS, near Salty and other fortunate members of our group who live in KS. I've worked out, showered and shaved, had breakfast; I may go smoke a pipe if it's not too windy outside. Then the realtor lady is coming by for me about 10:15 and we are going to look at three houses!

JSG, I've seen your email and replied.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 20, 2026 08:36 AM (+2QQb)

155 Bulg at April 20, 2026 08:31 AM (77rzZ)

Is she wearing those big smokey tinted eyeglasses?

Posted by: dantesed at April 20, 2026 08:36 AM (Oy/m2)

156 BILL MAHER: “Israel has 7 Democratic allies left in the Senate.”

“This is the Democrats saying, we’re not going to sell Israel any more military equipment.”

JAKE SULLIVAN: “40 Democrats who voted for this.”

MAHER: “That’s right. Only 7 allies.”

SULLIVAN: “I talked to a number of them before the vote. I think they did the right thing.”

MAHER: “Who did the right thing?”

SULLIVAN: “Those 40 Democrats.”

MAHER: “The 40?”

SULLIVAN: “Yeah. Because the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Israel brought the United States into a war that… cost American lives and cost American families at the gas pump… If you are not wanting to support the US and Israel continuing the war in Iran, you shouldn’t be voting to send more weapons to Israel.”

MAHER: “Well, I see why Biden lost…”

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2026 08:36 AM (RHGPo)

157 ICBMs may be considered obsolete, but suitcase nukes are still on the table, - even though we have tech to detect them.

But much like EV charging stations, the infrastructure is inadequate.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 20, 2026 08:37 AM (Fbc0I)

158 >Ted Lieu thinks 'proportionality' in war is Federal law.
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odds are, he knows this is not true, but equally, he knows his constituents are dumb, and will believe him

Posted by: Don Black, because someone has to at April 20, 2026 08:37 AM (ZxPkt)

159 When Piker says, "if you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott," presumably he means if you care about defrauding the taxpayers and fully funding the NGO scam.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 20, 2026 08:38 AM (2ap+5)

160 Abraham Accords for NATO

US out of NATO.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 20, 2026 08:39 AM (ExV1e)

161 cost American families at the gas pump…

Hey Mr. Sullivan did you express this when Gaylord jacked up gas prices?

No? GFY

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 20, 2026 08:39 AM (2GVsD)

162 Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine (D) just said on @FoxNewsSunday, when asked about the gerrymandering ballot measure:

“90% of Virginians are not Democrats”

He was trying to argue for the measure. But oops.

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2026 08:40 AM (RHGPo)

163 Origin of the suitcase bomb

https://youtu.be/OjS2fyRPTJY

Posted by: Don Black, because someone has to at April 20, 2026 08:41 AM (ZxPkt)

164 Maria Bartiromo is from Brooklyn but I like her anyway.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2026 08:41 AM (RIvkX)

165 Tulsi won’t be fired, and your insinuation without evidence or reason is tiresome. As is your constant trolling. There probably isn’t a single person here who hasn’t figured out you’re a troll or a complete idiot. Probably both. Give it a rest.

Posted by: That Guy at April 20, 2026 08:41 AM (AydIQ)

166 >>The deep state is still pervasive. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees and agents are working against us, and our president, every day. It can never happen fast enough for us, but we have to amplify the wins.

For those of you on X @Shipwreckedcrew posted an interesting piece on his substack the other day. He's a former DOJ prosecutor turned defense counsel and he represented dozens of J6 defendants largely or donations.

He claims that the DOJ career prosecutors he went up against with J6 cases were overwhelmingly, your woke women who were placed there by Obama/Biden. That was the DOJ that Bondi took over. They can't all be replaced with the snap of a finger.

Just last week Blanche removed the career prosecutor hearing evidence in Florida in the conspiracy case against Trump for supposedly slow walking cases against Brennan and others and replaced her, yes her, with Joe diGenova who is a fierce defender and believes the 2020 election was stolen. Let's see how he does.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2026 08:42 AM (viF8m)

167 After Joe Biden won in 2020, Swalwell fixed his sights on leading the CIA, and a staffer prepared a memo for him on the biographies of previous leaders of the agency. The unspoken subtext of the nine-page report was that Swalwell held little of those qualifications.

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2026 08:42 AM (RHGPo)

168 Maria Bartiromo is a big deal. Trump respects her.

Posted by: runner at April 20, 2026 08:43 AM (GD0B3)

169 I'm giving Trump the benefit of the doubt that he understands these negotiations are a farce and that Iran is both completely incapable and unwilling to "make a deal." But it's getting harder and harder.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 20, 2026 08:44 AM (t+TFX)

170 73 The Angry Young Women say they want “revolution”: “systematic change.” Racked by chronic fatigue and endometriosis, they find satisfaction in protest, nonbinary comedy evenings, and pursuing “moral missions.” But even then, that satisfaction is fleeting. “You’ve got to be pessimistic,” one young woman says. The point isn’t to be happy; it’s about being angry and engaged.
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Young women are in terrible shape in our country. It's a real problem.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20

Mike Rowe's advice to young men has no appeal to young women. Very few want, or will lower themselves, to be plumbers, machinists, electricians, auto mechanics, or workers in other necessary trades. Parents and teachers actively work to keep young women from such career paths, told they are beneath women. Add to this that young urban and suburban women are told marrying tradesmen is beneath them. Yet there are only so many male bankers, doctors, lawyers, dentists, stock brokers, trust fund babies, tenure-track college professors, and even engineers. Teaching is the fall back career it seems. Putting women in direct daily contact with ultra-woke women. What a mess.

Posted by: Gref at April 20, 2026 08:45 AM (5rh/l)

171 Cracks Appear In Climate Consensus As Germany's Energy Minister Admits Renewables Are Ruining The Country

“One fact has been concealed for too long: an energy transition that ignores system costs will ruin the country it claims to save...”

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2026 08:46 AM (RHGPo)

172 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Good luck. Replied to your email.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 08:46 AM (u82oZ)

173 A D.C. police officer was ordered held without bond until his next appearance in court on child sex abuse charges. Lt. Matthew Mahl was arrested in Harford County, Maryland, Tuesday on charges of solicitation of sex from a minor and solicitation of child pornography. He has been with the Metropolitan Police Department for 23 years, most recently assigned to special operations, and 10 years ago became the first openly gay chairman of the police union.

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2026 08:47 AM (RHGPo)

174 Women are not okay. The young ones, especially.

Apparently, young women actively dislike men. Oh, they'll have sex with dozens of them, but they dislike them.

https://youtu.be/dQRKL4BxrEM - this is a New Statesman video about the article referenced.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 20, 2026 08:47 AM (ExV1e)

175 Morn' all... What's all the hate against Gabbard ? I think she's doing a fine job...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 20, 2026 08:48 AM (FuSB1)

176 Obligatory:

You know who else was born on April 20th?

Posted by: Gref at April 20, 2026 08:48 AM (5rh/l)

177 How could a college degree, no matter how stupid, cause you to earn less than someone with only a HS diploma? They should require the degree to earn substantially more - where they can quibble over what substantially means.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 20, 2026 08:36 AM (ExV1e)

22 y/o, HS Diploma, plumber at 4 years: ~$75,000
22 y/o, BA, political science, entry level: ~45,000

They're at the same age but their salaries aren't even close.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 20, 2026 08:49 AM (G1ktt)

178 and 10 years ago became the first openly gay chairman of the police union.
Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2026 08:47 AM (RHGPo)

I think we found our problem...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 20, 2026 08:49 AM (FuSB1)

179 On Saturday’s The Weekend: Primetime, MS NOW hosts Antonia Hylton and Charles Coleman Jr. combined for a remarkable escalation—from stylistic nitpicking to smearing an entire group of Christians as extremists. Hylton quickly pivoted to a jaw-dropping—and wholly unsupported—claim: that Trump is surrounded by religious advisers who are “telling him that he is God,” or effectively God’s representative on Earth. Hylton offered no evidence for the assertion, presenting it instead as her personal “read” based on following “extremist” Christian figures.

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2026 08:49 AM (RHGPo)

180 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
This church in NY was built in 1869.

Now it's the Bosnian IsIamic Center.

https://tinyurl.com/ytvnw6az

Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2026 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

181 I’m sorry, but the suicide of a UFO “researcher” who showed clear signs of clinical paranoia in her personal messages is hardly evidence of some vast plot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2026 07:48 AM (Fmj+u)

That's what they want you to think.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 20, 2026 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

182 The ceasefire wasn't made because we though the negotiations would be fruitful. It was made to resupply, redeploy, re-target and update our intel. Let it play out. The global economy will take the hit because NATO and the rest of the world are pussies. Reset the war powers resolution and hit them again, and let the world know we're the big dog in the yard.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 20, 2026 08:52 AM (Fbc0I)

183 I used to have a different nic

Hope retirement is going well.

Have they asked you to come back to work yet?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 08:52 AM (u82oZ)

184 I would say most people are more upset with gas prices than the war. But polls being what they are didn't bring up that point.
Posted by: Case at April 20, 2026 07:56 AM (pvf3X)

Yes. Asking AI to analyze polls on an issue will result in GIGO.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 20, 2026 08:52 AM (ExV1e)

185 "159 When Piker says, "if you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott," presumably he means if you care about defrauding the taxpayers and fully funding the NGO scam.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 20, 2026 08:38 AM (2ap+5) "

hard to interpret it any other way, innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 20, 2026 08:53 AM (VyBeY)

186 serious inquiry: why do you say Trump and Bibi are stupid

Posted by: Don Black, because someone has to at April 20, 2026 08:27 AM (ZxPkt)
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No place for ceasefires. Unconditional surrender with no breathing time for the enemy.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2026 08:54 AM (1o8D5)

187 Court Rules Construction of Trump’s Ballroom Can Proceed (Again)

Moronable U.S. District Judge Richard Leon has been overrules by a 3 judge panel

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2026 08:54 AM (RHGPo)

188 102 Bartiromo, for her part, wasn’t interested in vague assurances. In fact, she set the stage by noting what any honest observer already knows — …….
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We are all on Team Bartiromo on this, no doubt, and at the "Show Me!" stage. MP4 may be right ("nothing will happen") but I read this differently. Patel says indictments are coming very soon. Hopefully, they are strong cases.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 08:14 AM (hnY0g)
Every beating MAGA heart wants (demands) that SOMEone(s) be indicted and convicted for the 2020 election theft. Due to issued witness and document subpoenas you might think that the bad guys would know that indictments were imminent. Guess these alleged FBI election investigations are super double secret..

Posted by: Voter theater. at April 20, 2026 08:55 AM (FCPbW)

189 and 10 years ago became the first openly gay chairman of the police union.
Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2026 08:47 AM (RHGPo)

Another sodomite sodomiting.

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at April 20, 2026 08:55 AM (4eiIm)

190 You know who else was born on April 20th?

==

Yes! George Takei..

Posted by: runner at April 20, 2026 08:55 AM (GD0B3)

191
No place for ceasefires. Unconditional surrender with no breathing time for the enemy.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2026 08:54 AM (1o8D5

I think both of them are fighting their "advisors" and general public sentiment in their Countries... It's a fine line...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 20, 2026 08:56 AM (FuSB1)

192 Guess these alleged FBI election investigations are super double secret..

Posted by: Voter theater. at April 20, 2026 08:55 AM (FCPbW)

I don't know, the grand jury hearing Grand Conspiracy charges in Florida seems pretty public.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 20, 2026 08:56 AM (G1ktt)

193 Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 08:52 AM (u82oZ)

Good morning, sir. I'm guessing you are a bit proud of surface warfare officers and sailors getting a rare bit of action and acclaim, with the USS Spruance stopping the Touska with gunfire. Salute!

Posted by: Gref at April 20, 2026 08:56 AM (5rh/l)

194 "Parents and teachers actively work to keep young women from such career paths, told they are beneath women."

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Learn to coal.

Posted by: West Virginia Employment Commission at April 20, 2026 08:56 AM (2Ez/1)

195 Young women are in terrible shape in our country. It's a real problem.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 08:00 AM (J5gTp)

They are bombarded, constantly, with "I don't need no man", "I'd choose the bear", "I was sexually assaulted seventeen times this morning (by men I don't find attractive looking at me)".

Social media plays up the utterances of the how brigades in the big "hot girl" cities (Miami, Atlanta, LA, etc.), how much MONEY OF girlies make, that sleeping around until you're 40 and then marrying a suitable billionaire professional athlete/rapper to have a trophy kid is the way to go. And young people are susceptible to that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 20, 2026 08:57 AM (ExV1e)

196 And Lenin was born on 22 April.

Posted by: Bulg at April 20, 2026 08:57 AM (77rzZ)

197 >>Every beating MAGA heart wants (demands) that SOMEone(s) be indicted and convicted for the 2020 election theft. Due to issued witness and document subpoenas you might think that the bad guys would know that indictments were imminent. Guess these alleged FBI election investigations are super double secret..

It's not just the 2020 election. It's a decade long conspiracy that included many things including the Russia lie right up through the 2024 election and beyond. That's what's being investigated by a grand jury in Florida. The 2020 election was just a piece of it.

Nothing may come from it but I doubt it. Brennan and Comey seem to doubt it. But it doesn't surprise me at all that a case this big is taking time to unfold.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2026 08:58 AM (viF8m)

198 Dodgers place Freddie Freeman on paternity list, activate Ryan Ward

By going on the paternity list, he can miss up to three days to be with his family. Freeman announced back in the spring that he and his wife, Chelsea, were awaiting their fourth child.

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2026 08:59 AM (RHGPo)

199 Maria Bartiromo right now eviscerating Ro Khanna live on her show.

What a damn dummy he is. Fvcking loser.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2026 08:23 AM (RIvkX)
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Khanna has committed political seppuku except no one would help him finish. He's a gutted "former politician" and just doesn't seem to know it.

How his wife and her self-made MAGA family tolerate this POS, I j

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 08:59 AM (XfdX/)

200 Gref

Yes. I can imagine what is going on in the ship. i do believe their particular weapon's load-out makes relieving them on station difficult.

I imagine they spend a lot of time at General Quarters, which can get old fast.

Well done to the crew.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 08:59 AM (u82oZ)

201 Kurt Schlichter
@KurtSchlichter

Define poverty in America. It’s not starvation. It’s not dying in the elements. It’s not failing to get medical care. Most people who are under the poverty line have cell phones. Many have cars. Most are fat.

You throw out the word “poverty” as if we’re supposed to react as if it’s some Ethiopian tribesmen starving in the sand. But that’s a lie. And we’re done listening to lies.

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2026 09:01 AM (RHGPo)

202 @199
was supposed to end "I just do not know", but I seem to have somehow cut that part out. We apologize for the error (to quote my only favorite part of the NY Times)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 09:01 AM (XfdX/)

203 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

It's been revealed that young American men under 30 are LEADING a massive Christian and spiritual revival

42% of young men say religion is "very important" and 40% attend a religious service at least once per month

That is a SURGE of +14 points from years prior 🙏🏻

Keep bumping those numbers up!

https://tinyurl.com/3y7fbkn8

Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2026 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

204 there was an ad on Squawkbox this morning where the actor portraying an investor is given the line, "I'm not interested in getting rich fast; I want to get rich slow."

Posted by: Oglebay at April 20, 2026 09:02 AM (2ap+5)

205 Nothing may come from it but I doubt it. Brennan and Comey seem to doubt it. But it doesn't surprise me at all that a case this big is taking time to unfold.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2026 08:58 AM (viF8m)
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In all honesty it has become so visibly and persistently corrupted, I no longer have full faith in our justice system. It's about 50%.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2026 09:02 AM (RIvkX)

206 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

Gov. Shapiro shows who he is & what he's willing to do more & more often: votebobbrooks

Instagram votebobbrooks
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I’m proud to have @joshshapiropa, @berniesanders, and so many others on our team. As a former bartender and snowplow driver, I know what working families are facing. As a firefighter and union leader, I’ve taken on tough fights.

Watch our new ad here. (Left it off. Watch on your own. It's all over TV, radio.)
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Also -
City & State PA dot com: Bob Brooks receives Working Families Party endorsement in PA-7 race
The firefighters union leader adds the progressive group’s support to his list of endorsements

NY state & NYC is NOT the only major socialist arena in the U.S., and what is enacted at the National level is slow like molasses seeping down to & through the states.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 20, 2026 09:02 AM (NFX2v)

207 So Virginia is about to make a 6/5 Dem/ Repub Congressional representatives State a 10/ 1 State ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 20, 2026 09:02 AM (FuSB1)

208 Let's do what was done before! Always.

Now -
The Hill, minutes ago
Senate Republican knocks Trump over ‘holy war’ with pope

The UK Guardian, 12 hours ago
‘We’re Catholic first’: Sunday mass attenders weigh in on Trump’s feud with Pope Leo
Catholics around Atlanta share mixed feelings on faith and politics as Trump engages in rhetorical war with pope

How the dispute between Trump and Pope Leo escalated
Updated on: April 19, 2026/ CBS News

Then -

WHYY Catholics detest Trump, Catholics decide elections. Do the math, August 30, 2016

WHYY Election 2020, Evangelicals at base of Trump hopes for Pennsylvania repeat

Argue among yourselves.

(There is some scripture for it.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 20, 2026 09:02 AM (NFX2v)

209 NPR, WHYY

Spanish speakers learn strategies to pass English-only driving test in Florida, April 20, 2026
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No, not advertising for certain venues. Learn what the others cling to.
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Good day! 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 20, 2026 09:02 AM (NFX2v)

210 They’re holed up in a bank demanding three large pizzas, a helicopter, and a personal phone call from Sydney Sweeney. . . ."
— Greg Gutfeld on Iran’s negotiating position.

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2026 09:02 AM (RHGPo)

211
Social media plays up the utterances of the how brigades in the big "hot girl" cities (Miami, Atlanta, LA, etc.), how much MONEY OF girlies make, that sleeping around until you're 40 and then marrying a suitable billionaire professional athlete/rapper to have a trophy kid is the way to go. And young people are susceptible to that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 20, 2026 08:57 AM (ExV1e)

Don't compare yourself to others. Set high standards for yourself, your appearance, your behavior, your treatment of others. Work to living up to them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2026 09:02 AM (tgvbd)

212 There are dozens, if not hundreds of high-ranking people who need to be arrested, imprisoned and, where required, executed. But none have, and none will.

The Trump Administration doesn't get to decide who gets arrested, imprisoned and, where required, executed.

If the GOP and - by extension, Trump - deserve to lose the midterms because leftist judges refuse to uphold the law, or leftist citizens refuse to punish malefactors on the left, then we are royally fucked and may as well just give up now.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 20, 2026 09:03 AM (ExV1e)

213 NBC News:

Joe diGenova, a former Trump campaign lawyer who backed President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, will head up a Florida-based federal investigation into former federal officials who investigated Trump, a Justice Department official confirmed to NBC News on Saturday. DiGenova, 81, who was U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia during the Reagan era, will lead a sprawling investigation targeting Trump's enemies, reaching all the way back to a previous Justice Department inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2026 09:04 AM (RHGPo)

214 Amy Eskridge, 34, who was involved in extensive research into anti-gravity technology, UFOs and extraterrestrial life, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at her home in Huntsville, Ala. in 2022, according to the Daily Mail.

I'm reminded of when Bill Clinton's contact to Jeffrey Epstein was found dead, hanging by the neck, with a fatal shotgun wound to the chest...and no shotgun anywhere near...and it was ruled a suicide.

I actually am not arguing that this woman was murdered here, a lot of UFO types are mentally unstable, but when the government will rubber stamp obvious murders as suicide it makes everyone suspicion of any and all suicides...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2026 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

215 >No place for ceasefires. Unconditional surrender with no breathing time for the enemy.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
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got it, thanks
stay safe over there

Posted by: Don Black, because someone has to at April 20, 2026 09:04 AM (ZxPkt)

216 Maria interviews Ro Khanna often for some reason but today it was obvious she no longer takes him seriously. He skipped two beats before answering any questions. You could see the gears turning as he tried to form a coherent answer...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2026 09:04 AM (RIvkX)

217
Oh, additionally. Don't follow trends. Don't keep bad company. Acknowledge when you're wrong. Work to amend your life.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2026 09:05 AM (tgvbd)

218 So Virginia is about to make a 6/5 Dem/ Repub Congressional representatives State a 10/ 1 State ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 20, 2026 09:02 AM (FuSB1)

The new map would make Virginia the most gerrymandered state in the union.

And I'd give it very good odds (80%ish) of winning tomorrow.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 20, 2026 09:05 AM (G1ktt)

219 targeting Trump's enemies

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2026 09:04 AM (RHGPo)

Way to avoid charged language, NBC.

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to be patient at April 20, 2026 09:06 AM (EtIaO)

220 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2026 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

221 >>In all honesty it has become so visibly and persistently corrupted, I no longer have full faith in our justice system. It's about 50%.

I think that's fair. As I said above Ship posted interesting stuff about how both Obama and Biden weaponized the DOJ with woke prosecutors, many of them young women, and turned it into a political operation. That took a lot of time to build and it wasn't going get turned around in a few months no matter who was in charge.

The replacement of the career prosecutor in FL and the insertion of diGenova is a positive sign for me. If anything he is more adamant in his belief of a conspiracy against Trump than we are.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2026 09:06 AM (viF8m)

222 I think some people have put an awful lot of faith into a mystical, legal working group in Florida.

I understand why this group is there. I'm just not convinced the outcome there will be any different than what has been achieved elsewhere.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 20, 2026 09:07 AM (AkEZC)

223 I hope DiGenova’s actions match the mouthing off he’d always do on WMAL.

Posted by: Bulg at April 20, 2026 09:07 AM (77rzZ)

224 Meh. The Ro Khanna dude is good for ratings. Whatever.

Posted by: Maria's agent at April 20, 2026 09:08 AM (2Ez/1)

225 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at April 20, 2026 09:08 AM (53oGX)

226 Well, the weekend went........

Met with the attorney, so that ball is rolling.

Learned she wouldn't pass a drug test. THC.

Damn it. This isn't going to go well, is it.

Currently in the market for a donor car to see if we can get replacement parts. Hopefully, I can fix it without another claim or we're going to get dropped from our insurance. It's still under loan, so we MUST fix it.

I didn't have a good day yesterday.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2026 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

227
The UK Guardian, 12 hours ago
‘We’re Catholic first’: Sunday mass attenders weigh in on Trump’s feud with Pope Leo
Catholics around Atlanta share mixed feelings on faith and politics as Trump engages in rhetorical war with pope

This was all so stupid and unnecessary. Trump's failing is that he takes things personally. He could have said Leo is in Africa right now; how many wars are there there?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2026 09:09 AM (tgvbd)

228 I'm trying to become New Jersey.

Posted by: Virginia at April 20, 2026 09:09 AM (2Ez/1)

229 Ro Khanna is evidence that an inability to be embarrassed can take one a long way in politics.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 20, 2026 09:10 AM (2ap+5)

230 >>I think some people have put an awful lot of faith into a mystical, legal working group in Florida.

Nothing mystical or magical about it. Florida was chosen specifically because it's not DC or Virginia. And the judge overseeing the GJ is Aileen Cannon, the judge who shutdown Jack Smith's ridiculous special counsel case.

The odds of justice in a case like this are much higher in Florida than in a typical Democrat stronghold. Again, nothing good might come of it but in Florida at least we have a shot.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2026 09:11 AM (viF8m)

231 There are more than 300,000 bridges in Iran.

Posted by: Grok at April 20, 2026 09:11 AM (6fhoX)

232 >>>then we are royally fucked and may as well just give up now.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

>There is no giving up. Ever. Nothing has hit home here, and I'm not an activist running around like an idiot. Let it play out.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 20, 2026 09:11 AM (Fbc0I)

233 That piece on Gabbard is one of the worst written Deep State hit pieces I’ve seen in a while. The author says almost nothing about Gabbard, other than he doesn’t like her and never has, and doesn’t think she was qualified (Trump did so your opinions don’t count asswipe). Most of it is just a rosy reminiscence of how great he thought things were when the author was in the Reagan administration. Typical derp state bullshit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2026 08:18 AM (Fmj+u)

Noem out, Bondi out, so they turn their attention to the next skirt in the Administration.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 20, 2026 09:11 AM (ExV1e)

234
This was all so stupid and unnecessary. Trump's failing is that he takes things personally. He could have said Leo is in Africa right now; how many wars are there there?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2026 09:09 AM (tgvbd)

Yeh, I wish he hadn't picked this fight...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 20, 2026 09:11 AM (FuSB1)

235 Ro Khanna is evidence that an inability to be embarrassed can take one a long way in politics.
Posted by: Oglebay at April 20, 2026 09:10 AM (2ap+5)
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Lots of sociopaths in office. It is kind of amazing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 09:11 AM (JbFZD)

236 226 Well, the weekend went........

Met with the attorney, so that ball is rolling.

Learned she wouldn't pass a drug test. THC.

Damn it. This isn't going to go well, is it.

Currently in the market for a donor car to see if we can get replacement parts. Hopefully, I can fix it without another claim or we're going to get dropped from our insurance. It's still under loan, so we MUST fix it.

I didn't have a good day yesterday.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2026 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

Sorry to hear that. You could always try blaming Trump, or Maybe Tulsi Gabbard to see if that helps.

Posted by: tubal at April 20, 2026 09:12 AM (pDt9x)

237 This was all so stupid and unnecessary. Trump's failing is that he takes things personally. He could have said Leo is in Africa right now; how many wars are there there?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2026 09:09 AM (tgvbd)

Leo met with Axelrod to plan strategy against Trump for the midterms. It is not really about the war at all; it is about the international left plotting a hoped for reconquista of the American Government.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2026 09:12 AM (rGqqI)

238 218 WNS, I’ve been “Vote No!” flyers in the mail almost daily, and I’m seeing the same lawn signs more than “Vote Yes!” even in FFx Co. So I am cautiously optimistic that it will fail.

Posted by: Bulg at April 20, 2026 09:13 AM (77rzZ)

239 ugh Sponge sorry

well the flyers won and that was pretty exciting

I usually find ways to like most NHL teams, even the Strangers, but I really deeply hate the Pens

I mean this version I used to like Jagr! these guys just piss me off.

plus people talk about Philly fans but I went to one game out there as a kid and some guy poured his beer on me bc I was wearing a flyers shirt.

spent the weekend in town (philly) and it was great. yesterday was kinda cold and rainy but otherwise really a fun weekend

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 20, 2026 09:13 AM (j+aD2)

240 It turns out Spanberger and Mikie Sherril are BFF's, so that's not good.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 09:13 AM (JbFZD)

241 It may be unfounded hope, but I would like to believe that PDJT understands that when he makes a move on the deep state, that not only will all of those bad actors create mayhem, that all the sleeper cells will be activated, too. Such potential destruction could leave the US vulnerable to outside threats (such as Chy-na), and PDJT is putting those threats on their heels so they can't take advantage of the weakness in our boarders.

Or I can just pitch this idea to one of Tom Clancy's ghost writers.

Posted by: Cray Cray at April 20, 2026 09:13 AM (nCTkv)

242 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2026 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

Send her to military school! *worked for some....

Posted by: runner at April 20, 2026 09:14 AM (GD0B3)

243
Leo met with Axelrod to plan strategy against Trump for the midterms. It is not really about the war at all; it is about the international left plotting a hoped for reconquista of the American Government.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2026 09:12 AM (rGqqI)

Who knows what the conversation was about? Maybe Leo told Axelrod, "Repent! Your time is short."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2026 09:14 AM (tgvbd)

244 Sabres-Bruins game was wild. Buffalo scored 4 goals in like 8 minutes late in the third to win it.

Posted by: Delurker at April 20, 2026 09:14 AM (gtcuf)

245 Clarence Thomas is one of the best ever on the Earth.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 20, 2026 09:14 AM (ZRzmB)

246 I'm glad PDJT went after Bob the Professor of God

it's good

fuck that guy, honestly, as a lifetime real deal Catholic! we have HAD ENOUGH of these types

I personally know how corrupt the Philly Archdiocese was and is. honestly there are a lot of bad actors still in the hierarchy. A LOT.

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 20, 2026 09:15 AM (j+aD2)

247 Action News Investigates has learned the most frequent destination for UPMC’s $50 million leased jet is a Florida city where UPMC CEO Leslie Davis owns property.

In July, WTAE asked Davis if she had any concerns about University of Pittsburg Medical Center leasing a new jet at the same time it was laying off 1,000 employees.

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2026 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

248 Wyatt Earp !

How is retirement?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20, 2026 09:15 AM (u82oZ)

249 I didn't have a good day yesterday.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2026 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)
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You deserve a better week, having endured so much lately. C'mon karma, deliver for sponge!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 09:15 AM (JbFZD)

250 Amy Eskridge was batshit crazy

Posted by: Elric the Blade at April 20, 2026 09:15 AM (tL+lc)

251 244 Sabres-Bruins game was wild. Buffalo scored 4 goals in like 8 minutes late in the third to win it.

how can you not love the Sabres rn! I love them.
crazy

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 20, 2026 09:15 AM (j+aD2)

252 In July, WTAE asked Davis if she had any concerns about University of Pittsburg Medical Center leasing a new jet at the same time it was laying off 1,000 employees.
so unsurprising

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 20, 2026 09:16 AM (j+aD2)

253 251 244 Sabres-Bruins game was wild. Buffalo scored 4 goals in like 8 minutes late in the third to win it.

Hockey is Soccer on skates...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 20, 2026 09:16 AM (FuSB1)

254 251 how can you not love the Sabres rn! I love them.
crazy

Love how they play for each other. Tage Thompson scored the first two to get it rolling and all he wanted to talk about after the game was his teammates making it happen.

And that crowd was rockin'! The whole arena was shaking.

Posted by: Delurker at April 20, 2026 09:17 AM (gtcuf)

255 >>Hockey is Soccer on skates...

You don't see that many guys getting punched in the face at an average soccer game.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2026 09:17 AM (viF8m)

256 246
I personally know how corrupt the Philly Archdiocese was and is. honestly there are a lot of bad actors still in the hierarchy. A LOT.

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2)

My pastor was the "Candy Crush" priest. Put $21K on games related to candy Crush on his church iPhone

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2026 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

257 Wyatt Earp !

How is retirement?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20

I love it. I take the kids to school, clean the house, get to go to the gym three days, and I get to jog a lot.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 20, 2026 09:18 AM (ZRzmB)

258 241 It may be unfounded hope, but I would like to believe that PDJT understands that when he makes a move on the deep state, that not only will all of those bad actors create mayhem, that all the sleeper cells will be activated, too.
Posted by: Cray Cray at April 20, 2026 09:13 AM (nCTkv)

And the Pope plots with Democratic strategists. We're fighting a Leviathan.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 20, 2026 09:18 AM (h7ZuX)

259 255 >>Hockey is Soccer on skates...

You don't see that many guys getting punched in the face at an average soccer game.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2026 09:17 AM (viF8m)

This is true... And soccer players don't get sticks either but still

Posted by: It's me donna at April 20, 2026 09:18 AM (FuSB1)

260 I love it. I take the kids to school, clean the house, get to go to the gym three days, and I get to jog a lot.

that's awesome Wyatt! how about the flyboys!

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 20, 2026 09:18 AM (j+aD2)

261 Hockey is Soccer on skates...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 20, 2026 09:16 AM (FuSB1)

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I enjoy them both. It was fun watching Manchester City crush Arsenal yesterday.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 20, 2026 09:18 AM (2ap+5)

262 I didn't have a good day yesterday.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2026 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)
******
Hoping you have a better week.
Maybe this was a wakeup call for your daughter and that she has learned an important lesson.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2026 09:18 AM (NpAcC)

263
Hockey is Soccer on skates...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 20, 2026 09:16 AM (FuSB1)

Soccer: get brushed against, roll on the ground in agony.

Hockey: get leg broken blocking shot, finish shift anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h15m87WsCHQ

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2026 09:19 AM (tgvbd)

264 Soccer: get brushed against, roll on the ground in agony.

yeah well Cindy and Malkov like to play like soccer players

arrrrrgggh I hate the pens

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 20, 2026 09:19 AM (j+aD2)

265 Wyatt Earp !

How is retirement?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 20

I love it. I take the kids to school, clean the house, get to go to the gym three days, and I get to jog a lot.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 20, 2026 09:18 AM (ZRzmB)
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Good on you: leave the homeless armies of the great Northeast to fend for themselves

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 09:21 AM (JbFZD)

266 Hockey is Soccer on skates...

Both are lame.

I like to watch black men completely encased in plastic run a five second play and then stand in a circle for 45 seconds.

It's super intense.

Posted by: Football is a Real Sport at April 20, 2026 09:21 AM (6j88S)

267 From a red state piece this morning - although the true nationality of the Iranian flagged Touska, seized by the US Navy yesterday is unclear, its most recent port of call was in a Chinese city that it is a known loading port for chemicals including sodium perchlorate, used for making solid rocket motors.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2026 09:21 AM (rGqqI)

268 That said, I can't dispute his prescription - fighting for what we believe. The trouble with that is that so many of our pols don't believe in anything, and are just as clueless as the left as to what we do believe.
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Trump has done more to explain the moral case against abortion than 50 years of nearly all elected Republicans.

All of them could mouth the right phrases, say they're "pro-life."
But almost none of them believed it or could make any coherent moral case against it.

And when Roe was over-turned, we saw that weakness as so many states were able to expand abortion.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 20, 2026 09:22 AM (tUP1A)

269 ======================
You deserve a better week, having endured so much lately. C'mon karma, deliver for sponge!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 09:15 AM (JbFZD)

I'd allow it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2026 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

270 , its most recent port of call was in a Chinese city that it is a known loading port for chemicals including sodium perchlorate, used for making solid rocket motors.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2026 09:21 AM (rGqqI)

Which we can all figure was on there...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 20, 2026 09:22 AM (FuSB1)

271
that's awesome Wyatt! how about the flyboys!
Posted by: BlackOrchid

My last two. Kevin (Senior) is looking at Holy Family. Close by and he didn't want to be at a place where he's too far away from us. Kevin is still running at Archbishop Ryan.

Julia is playing field hockey - she's great - and this year she was running most of the stuff outside. She has a great thing for that.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 20, 2026 09:23 AM (ZRzmB)

272 Hoping you have a better week.
Maybe this was a wakeup call for your daughter and that she has learned an important lesson.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2026 09:18 AM (NpAcC)

She swears this is the case. She's got a LOT of work to do with the attorney to get things going in her favor. We will find out if it's true or not.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2026 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

273 Since I don't subscribe to any of the internet streaming services; I'm missing out on the NHL post season.

* kicks rock sadly *

Posted by: dantesed at April 20, 2026 09:23 AM (Oy/m2)

274 Who knows what the conversation was about? Maybe Leo told Axelrod, "Repent! Your time is short."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2026 09:14 AM (tgvbd)

Reports are that Axelrod was sent there as Obama's Nuncio. It hardly needs to be said that Axelrod is of course not Roman Catholic and has no business being granted a private conference with the Pope.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2026 09:24 AM (rGqqI)

275 Hockey is Soccer on skates...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 20, 2026 09:16 AM (FuSB1)

This is so incredibly not the case in any way, shape or form.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2026 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

276 All will be buried in an Avalanche.

Posted by: Don Black, because someone has to at April 20, 2026 09:24 AM (ZxPkt)

277 >>>Good on you: leave the homeless armies of the great Northeast to fend for themselves
Posted by: Huck Follywood

People in my division asked if I wanted to work. The money - amazingly - the pension is really when you leave. I don't want to get another job.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 20, 2026 09:25 AM (ZRzmB)

278 275 Hockey is Soccer on skates...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 20, 2026 09:16 AM (FuSB1)

This is so incredibly not the case in any way, shape or form.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2026 09:24 AM (Zz0t1

So I hit a nerve ... LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at April 20, 2026 09:25 AM (FuSB1)

279 You might think it’s faggela, but tennis players pretty much run sprints for upwards of 5 hours non-stop.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 20, 2026 09:25 AM (ARtwq)

280 I didn't have a good day yesterday"

Best wishes.. .

And we're at MD Anderson again this morning...

Posted by: man at April 20, 2026 09:25 AM (/6BNk)

281 >>So I hit a nerve ... LOL

Only if you're playing hockey. In soccer that calls for flopping and a Red Card.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2026 09:26 AM (viF8m)

282 It turns out Spanberger and Mikie Sherril are BFF's, so that's not good.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 09:13 AM (JbFZD)

BFF's? They LIVED together for years.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 20, 2026 09:26 AM (G1ktt)

283 My last two. Kevin (Senior) is looking at Holy Family. Close by and he didn't want to be at a place where he's too far away from us. Kevin is still running at Archbishop Ryan.

Julia is playing field hockey - she's great - and this year she was running most of the stuff outside. She has a great thing for that.

Holy Family is so nice. My cousin used to work there but he's at Neumann now.

Glad to hear about the hockey what does "running stuff outside" mean? Does she want to play in college?

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 20, 2026 09:26 AM (j+aD2)

284 Soccer: get brushed against, roll on the ground in agony.

Hockey: get leg broken blocking shot, finish shift anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h15m87WsCHQ
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2026 09:19 AM (tgvbd)

In the Panthers first run to the Cup Finals, Matthew Tkachuk took a hit that fractured his sternum. I sat out one game. They faced elimination, he returned to the ice and scored a goal in the eventual loss.

They won the next 2 Cups. The list of player's injuries after each final is staggering.

Soccer can't carry Hockey's jock strap.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2026 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

285
So I hit a nerve ... LOL
Posted by: It's me donna at April 20, 2026 09:25 AM (FuSB1)

Maybe.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2026 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

286 Larry Krasner would be enough to drive anyone out of the force, I'd imagine. I hope a building falls on his head.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 09:27 AM (DN7sv)

287 if you get hit in the face with a soccer ball, you won't need stitches

or a dentist

Posted by: Don Black, because someone has to at April 20, 2026 09:27 AM (ZxPkt)

288 danteseed there are ... other options to watch

I did a free trial of YouTube TV for now but if the boys go farther I will use those "other options"

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 20, 2026 09:27 AM (j+aD2)

289 You don't see that many guys getting punched in the face at an average soccer game.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2026 09:17 AM (viF8m)

If you did, no one would ever stop rolling on the ground.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 20, 2026 09:28 AM (h7ZuX)

290 >>>Holy Family is so nice. My cousin used to work there but he's at Neumann now.

Glad to hear about the hockey what does "running stuff outside" mean? Does she want to play in college?

Julia wants to go to an art school, which are ridiculous. She is great with art, but even we can't get that much money.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 20, 2026 09:28 AM (ZRzmB)

291 287 if you get hit in the face with a soccer ball, you won't need stitches

or a dentist
Posted by: Don Black, because someone has to at April 20, 2026 09:27 AM (ZxPkt)

.....

Soccer does have the second most concussions of any American youth sport.

Anyone that thinks it's a soft sport hasn't played it at a competitive level, only watched.

Posted by: Truth Be Known at April 20, 2026 09:29 AM (6j88S)

292 * HE sat out one game.

I wasn't playing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2026 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

293 Julia wants to go to an art school, which are ridiculous. She is great with art, but even we can't get that much money.

whew

ok well I recommend Kutztown. excellent school with a great art program AND fantastic FH! I know the coach!

not sure what year she is but she should do those 1-day clinics schools have in the spring and summer. I'm sure Kutztown has one. WCU is another great idea! also has great arts and great field hockey!

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 20, 2026 09:30 AM (j+aD2)

294 Abdul El-Sayed Gets More Brazen As New Michigan Primary Polls Show Him Surging
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Well, that sucks. Michigan is really going to elect a Hamas candidate in the Democrat primary? I hope this is wrong, and by a lot.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2026 09:31 AM (DN7sv)

295 In soccer, if the referee sees a player getting upset, he will go over to the guy and tell him to stop behaving like a child and play the game properly.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 20, 2026 09:31 AM (2ap+5)

296 Julia wants to go to an art school, which are ridiculous. She is great with art, but even we can't get that much money.

I got a girlfriend.
She goes to art school.
I got an art school girlfriend.
Yeah.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2026 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

297 Nood art

Posted by: rickb223 at April 20, 2026 09:31 AM (As/lK)

298 >>>ok well I recommend Kutztown. excellent school with a great art program AND fantastic FH! I know the coach!

not sure what year she is but she should do those 1-day clinics schools have in the spring and summer. I'm sure Kutztown has one. WCU is another great idea! also has great arts and great field hockey!
Posted by: BlackOrchid

She's looking already.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 20, 2026 09:33 AM (ZRzmB)

299 >Soccer does have the second most concussions of any American youth sport.
----

hockey players are smart enough to wear helmets!

Posted by: Don Black, because someone has to at April 20, 2026 09:33 AM (ZxPkt)

300 I'll say it again, we all thought Trump was going to lose the election in June of 2024.
All of the news was full of how he was losing.

While Trump was already vetting his future cabinet.

Someone on X made a comment, "Trump doesn't appear worried about the midterms. Why?"

Of course the retarded shit-monkeys flung to "cause he's going to cancel the election!" to "cause he wants to lose so he can blame all the problems on the Dems!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 20, 2026 09:34 AM (tUP1A)

301 She's looking already.

well let me know where she likes - I do still know a bunch of coaches

FH is a great way to get in and get money at the DI and DII level. not sure how that works for DIII but this is the best area for DII hockey and it's kind of perfect for intense hockey but not as intense/time consuming as DI

PSU is DI of course but they are a program that likes to take US players and they are good with scholarship money too. And they have a wide variety of majors ; )

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 20, 2026 09:36 AM (j+aD2)

302 PSU is DI of course but they are a program that likes to take US players and they are good with scholarship money too. And they have a wide variety of majors ; )

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 20, 2026 09:36 AM (j+aD2)

It helps that Penn State is the greatest place in the world.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 20, 2026 09:38 AM (G1ktt)

303 It's been revealed that young American men under 30 are LEADING a massive Christian and spiritual revival

Seems to pop up every Lent, and is usually connected in some way to the Bishop of Rome telling us to rub our knuckles in shit.

If only American christendumb could suck up to the existence of God or his word the same way they ass-nose the Church of Quinnipiac Poles. But you're going to believe what you want to. You're rolling to hell on a very chummy band wagon.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 20, 2026 09:43 AM (zdLoL)

304 Why would arrests of high-ranking Biden officials increase conservative turn-out in the midterms?

Why would it increase irregular Republican-voter turnout?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 20, 2026 09:44 AM (tUP1A)

305 "Sen. Chris Murphy Trashes Trump in Spain: ‘Most Significant Threat Since Civil War’ "

How come...Murphy doesn't have to worry about death threats, but Trump on down, do? I mean, even Pam Bondi had to live on a military base, and she did next to nothing...

Posted by: zigggggy at April 20, 2026 09:48 AM (EDeJ/)

306 The Iranian leadership isn't going away until we litter Tehran with 10's of thousands of parachuted AK47's and grenades. Litter the rooftops, courtyards, and streets with them.

The IRGC can't be everywhere at once and probably 80%+ of them would fall into the hands of citizens. The ones that IRGC pickup are essentially useless because they already have small arms.

I have my doubts that the citizens will revolt but at least you can say we didn't give them a chance.

Posted by: hatethedeepstate at April 20, 2026 10:04 AM (2Nfh9)

307 As stated above, getting rid the IRGC is the answer.

Posted by: AnnaS at April 20, 2026 10:32 AM (WdMlw)

308 How Liberalism Inevitably Turns to Managerialism (meh, it turns into Mass graves for its enemies - jjs)

So there is a link with CBD's Mid-Morning Art Thread. 🤨

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 20, 2026 11:03 AM (NFX2v)

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