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Mollie Hemingway: Leftwing Justices Slow-Walked The Dobbs Decision Even While Right-Leaning Justices Were Targeted With Death Threats and White Powders

And they did this, of course, to expose their colleagues to danger and menace, in hopes they would buckle and change the decision to match what the violent leftist mobs and assassins demanded.

When the draft of the Supreme Court ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade leaked to the press, the conservative justices who signed on to the majority opinion suddenly wore bigger targets on their backs. The very real threat of assassination hung over them like a coming thunderstorm.

And still their pro-abortion colleagues stalled the release of the official ruling for weeks, putting the justices' lives at increased risk, as detailed in Mollie Hemingway's new book on Justice Samuel Alito and reported Saturday by Fox News.

Alito is the justice who wrote Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the ruling ending nationalized abortion.

"Alito asked the dissenters to make the completion of their dissents their priority because delay of the decision was a security threat," Hemingway, The Federalist's editor-in-chief writes in Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution."Abortion supporters had an incentive to kill one or more of the justices in the majority to change the outcome."

The dissenters -- Justices Stephen Breyer (counting down the days until his retirement at the end of the 2021-22 term ), Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor -- "demurred," Hemingway reports. Justice Neil Gorsuch asked the liberals when they expected to be wrapped up. They refused to provide a date.

The tension and the threats escalated.

...

It took 53 days to finally release the Dobbs decision. Despite the growing threat to their colleagues, the liberals on the court refused to listen to urgent pleas to complete their work, Hemingway reports.

Read the whole thing.

I love the "conservatives" telling us they'll defect to the left if we don't agree with them that the Zionist Entity must be wiped off the map.

There's further bad behavior from leftwingers on the Court -- they've leaked documents about internal deliberations to the New York Times, despite Roberts' very stern warning that they should stop doing that or face another warning.

Note that this article does not say that leftwingers leaked these documents. I say it was the leftwingers, because 1, they've done before -- see Dobbs -- and 2, this leak seems designed to create fodder for the left to claim that right-leaning Justices are "activists" who need to be put in check or impeached. (Or reduced in power by packing the Court.)

In yet another blow to the Supreme Court's long-cherished tradition of secrecy, The New York Times has published confidential internal memos that shed rare light on the justices' private deliberations.

In a report titled "The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court," the Times published 16 pages of confidential documents exchanged among justices over five days in February 2016.
...


The memos -- unlikely to have surfaced for decades under normal circumstances -- capture behind-the-scenes discussions led by Chief Justice John Roberts as the court moved swiftly to issue a stay without full briefing or oral argument. They also suggest the majority was concerned that, absent intervention, the Environmental Protection Agency would impose what it saw as unlawful regulatory burdens on electric utilities.

See, the Court ruled against Obama's EPA and its issuance of orders without legislative authorization to do so -- so this was leaked by leftwingers who think that a Democrat Administration has All the Powers under their twisted version of the Constitution.


That decision marked a significant shift toward resolving high-stakes disputes through expedited orders, a practice that has since expanded to cases involving presidential authority and other major policy questions.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:20 PM




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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 21, 2026 03:20 PM (tgvbd)

2
*sweeps up thread*
*puts it in a bag*
*walks out with it*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 21, 2026 03:21 PM (tgvbd)

3 Odor in the Court?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 21, 2026 03:21 PM (0sNs1)

4 If no one will punish leftwing office holders and bureaucrats for bad behavior why would anyone expect it to stop?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 21, 2026 03:22 PM (sKqQm)

5 Tbh I thought the "right wing" judges would fold too.

Posted by: steevy at April 21, 2026 03:22 PM (YwEeS)

6 Abortion is the only thing sacred to them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:22 PM (O35xg)

7
Of course. The lib justices wanted to get as much damage and carnage committed against the conservative justices. The supposed "camaraderie" amongst the justices ended a long time ago.

It's the Chicago Way, all the way, all the time now.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 21, 2026 03:22 PM (IifOV)

8 Why wasn't there any resolution of the leaker's identity and punishment provided?

This needs explaining.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 21, 2026 03:22 PM (YBtcQ)

9 Although the materials are from a period prior to her having been seated, the materials do seem to be fodder for KBJ's criticism of the shadow docket and the Court's review of improvident stays by the lower courts.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at April 21, 2026 03:22 PM (ssz2a)

10 That decision marked a significant shift toward resolving high-stakes disputes through expedited orders, a practice that has since expanded to cases involving presidential authority and other major policy questions.

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The explosion of district courts trying their hand at being the executive since Trump became president has nothing to do with this, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:23 PM (O35xg)

11 Cal Democrats just selected Xavier Becerra to be the next Governor of Gavinfornia.

Posted by: 13times at April 21, 2026 03:23 PM (TbA/q)

12 So the Vestal Virgins are selling blowjobs?

Posted by: pudinhead at April 21, 2026 03:23 PM (FmapG)

13 Top 20?

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at April 21, 2026 03:24 PM (iNIf8)

14 I thought Judges weren't Political?

John Roberts assured me.

Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2026 03:24 PM (ytyaf)

15
I can't even imagine conferences with KBJ.

"Marbury v. Madison"
"Marbury v. Madison"
"Marbury v. Madison"
"Marbury v. Madison"
"Thank you!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 21, 2026 03:24 PM (tgvbd)

16 Why did they never find the Dobbs leaker? Because they didn’t want to…. That’s the only reason. Because the universe of individuals with advanced access to that decision was tiny…. It would’ve been so easy to go through all the electronic communications of every single person with access…. I find it infuriating they didn’t

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 21, 2026 03:24 PM (xT8gx)

17 I love the "conservatives" telling us they'll defect to the left if we don't agree with them that the Zionist Entity must be wiped off the map.

==

They are already defected!

🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2026 03:25 PM (GD0B3)

18 Alt headline:

Spiteful Women Delay Court Decision

Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2026 03:25 PM (ytyaf)

19 17 I love the "conservatives" telling us they'll defect to the left if we don't agree with them that the Zionist Entity must be wiped off the map.

==

They are already defected!

🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2026 03:25 PM (GD0B3)

========

Most voted for Kamala, and they end up acting like they were instrumental in getting Trump elected.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:25 PM (HvPCP)

20 Wikileaks had an email in it that claimed that the night Scalia died of the very common and often fatal pillow over the face heart attack, was a great night for "wet work". Fucking weirdos. Who even uses that term?

Posted by: ... at April 21, 2026 03:25 PM (AucCq)

21 Doesn't Roberts have any control over any of this? Shaking walls would have had me over there in a minute......

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Kagan, an Obama nominee, made her opinion on the delay loudly clear, according to Hemingway’s book, as reported by Fox.

“Hemingway wrote that Kagan, an Obama appointee, angrily confronted Breyer, a Clinton appointee, in May 2022 behind closed doors after at least one justice, Samuel Alito, had asked his liberal colleagues to speed up writing their dissent because of security threats,” Fox reported. “Breyer was most likely to agree to Alito’s request, Hemingway wrote.”

Hemingway wrote that “Kagan remonstrated with Breyer not to accommodate the majority, screaming so loudly, observers noted, that the ‘wall was shaking,’” according to Fox.

Posted by: beckster at April 21, 2026 03:26 PM (kX27y)

22 There's a leak in my soup!

- SCOTUS

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 21, 2026 03:26 PM (n5tGW)

23 So the Vestal Virgins are selling blowjobs?

Posted by: pudinhead at April 21, 2026 03:23 PM (FmapG)

Yes, all 16 of them.

Posted by: Gary Brooker at April 21, 2026 03:26 PM (CNl8/)

24 As pointed out, there were no leaks from the Court prior to Jumanji Jackson being appointed.

There have been 4 major leaks since she was DEI'ed into the job.

What's after "enemy action" Mr. Goldfinger?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 21, 2026 03:26 PM (tUP1A)

25 Leftists want a American Civil War II

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2026 03:27 PM (Ia/+0)

26 Roberts' very stern warning that they should stop doing that or face another warning.



The Robin Williams bit about unarmed cops in London. Stop or I shall say stop again.

Posted by: Heroq at April 21, 2026 03:27 PM (ohom6)

27 Molly Hemingway says the liberals are again slow walking their descent on the "majority minority" case heard back in OCTOBER! They're going to delay it until the last day in session.

Why? to prevent it from going into effect before midterms. All political.

just f'ing wow.

Posted by: WisRich at April 21, 2026 03:28 PM (G0vdT)

28 Alt headline:

Spiteful Women Delay Court Decision

Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2026 03:25 PM (ytyaf)

And that's just Roberts

Posted by: ... at April 21, 2026 03:28 PM (AucCq)

29 " Why did they never find the Dobbs leaker?"

It's not illegal enough.

Posted by: fd at April 21, 2026 03:28 PM (vFG9F)

30 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 21, 2026 03:26 PM (tUP1A)

But KBJ wasn't on the court when the Dobbs leaks happened.

Posted by: Delurker at April 21, 2026 03:28 PM (gtcuf)

31 It worked with John Roberts, it seems the public pressure is why he buckled on ObamaCare.

Posted by: Leupold at April 21, 2026 03:29 PM (eIzlH)

32 There's a leak in my soup!

- SCOTUS
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 21, 2026 03:26 PM (n5tGW)

No soup for you!!!

Posted by: TheSoupNazi at April 21, 2026 03:29 PM (xT8gx)

33 I hate to be a bummer but like I said in the last thread a system like ours doesn't/can't survive when one side rejects all the rules of the game.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 21, 2026 03:29 PM (tWc/t)

34 Make me.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 21, 2026 03:29 PM (E6xSb)

35 >>> 24 As pointed out, there were no leaks from the Court prior to Jumanji Jackson being appointed.

There have been 4 major leaks since she was DEI'ed into the job.

What's after "enemy action" Mr. Goldfinger?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 21, 2026 03:26 PM (tUP1A)

*sigh*

Posted by: sad, lonely trebuchet at April 21, 2026 03:29 PM (9vFyc)

36 More leaks because Roberts had the first leak release go
Bad behavior gets you more of it

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2026 03:29 PM (Ia/+0)

37 24 As pointed out, there were no leaks from the Court prior to Jumanji Jackson being appointed.

There have been 4 major leaks since she was DEI'ed into the job.

What's after "enemy action" Mr. Goldfinger?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 21, 2026 03:26 PM (tUP1A)
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She wasn't on the court for the Dobb's leak. That was Souter, Kagan, and the wise latina.

Posted by: WisRich at April 21, 2026 03:29 PM (G0vdT)

38 31 It worked with John Roberts, it seems the public pressure is why he buckled on ObamaCare.
Posted by: Leupold at April 21, 2026 03:29 PM (eIzlH)

If you think of him as the HS student council president who is hyper concerned about his standing with the Cool Kids, Justice Roberts’s decisions make much more sense.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 21, 2026 03:30 PM (E6xSb)

39 Why can't a majority just go ahead and publish their decision? The dissents can publish when they feel like it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 21, 2026 03:30 PM (4NO2D)

40 I will keep saying it:

The left is evil and wants you dead. This episode is just an extension of that.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 21, 2026 03:31 PM (N1DT3)

41 39 Why can't a majority just go ahead and publish their decision? The dissents can publish when they feel like it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 21, 2026 03:30 PM (4NO2D)

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Comity and tradition.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:31 PM (O35xg)

42 I'm not being facetious when I say I bet Roberts was involved with the leak, thus nothing coming from the investigation.

It's exactly the sort of "hard decision" Roberts never wants to make. Just endless can kicking.

Posted by: Leupold at April 21, 2026 03:31 PM (eIzlH)

43 You would think there would be a deadline or you don't get published even in the high court.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 21, 2026 03:31 PM (n5tGW)

44 What is the fun of leaking a decision if you can't make those responsible face prolonged death threats and maybe get them killed. I mean that WAS the point of the leak.

Posted by: ... at April 21, 2026 03:31 PM (AucCq)

45 Even though she's a leftist I kind of respected Kagan as someone who was reasonable. After reading this eff her with a pineapple sideways using Buffalo wing sauce as lube , with a nice barbed wire wrap

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 21, 2026 03:31 PM (gu0hJ)

46 Most voted for Kamala, and they end up acting like they were instrumental in getting Trump elected.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:25 PM (HvPCP)

..as in having a defect

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2026 03:31 PM (GD0B3)

47 Thanks goodness the conservative stalwarts on the court aren't cowards, or the ploy of threats might have worked.

Who should trump get to take over when one of them finally retires? The only one that might not squish and has media savvy is Jeanine Pirro. And she'd drive the left nuts.

Posted by: LizLem at April 21, 2026 03:31 PM (gWBY1)

48 The mullahs want an armageddon - seems like the left does too. So similar the two groups. Nihilists.

Posted by: tubal at April 21, 2026 03:31 PM (pDt9x)

49 >" Why did they never find the Dobbs leaker?"
----
they know who it is

is there a single political institution in America that is on the up and up?

Just one
help me here

Posted by: Don Black at April 21, 2026 03:32 PM (ZxPkt)

50 >>> 48 The mullahs want an armageddon - seems like the left does too. So similar the two groups. Nihilists.
Posted by: tubal at April 21, 2026 03:31 PM (pDt9x)

Bomb the mullahs with the commies, especially the danger-haired commies.

Posted by: or is that too cruel? at April 21, 2026 03:32 PM (9vFyc)

51 I think if Kagan thundered at me, she might receive a knuckle sandwich in return. Collegiality goes both ways or not at all…

Posted by: TheSoupNazi at April 21, 2026 03:32 PM (xT8gx)

52 And people wonder why Augusto Pinochet was a helicopter enthusiast.

Posted by: Minuteman at April 21, 2026 03:33 PM (47/pr)

53 31 It worked with John Roberts, it seems the public pressure is why he buckled on ObamaCare.

Yep. John Iscariot Roberts subscribes to the "the leftist terrorists will hang me last" school of thought.

Posted by: Delurker at April 21, 2026 03:33 PM (gtcuf)

54 If the reports are crafted to make me sympathetic to the so-called 'conservative' justices... it has failed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 21, 2026 03:33 PM (AkEZC)

55 Abortion is the only thing sacred to them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:22 PM (O35xg)

Moloch must be appeased.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 21, 2026 03:34 PM (N1DT3)

56 So everything is corrupt and nothing is normal in this nation. Is that what I am gathering here? I am sure they know who leaked and we will never know the identity. Roberts will see to that.

Posted by: turambar at April 21, 2026 03:34 PM (Q0yOR)

57 All of these leaks, delays, departures from established practice are just as corrupt and perverted as a district court judge issuing nationwide "injunctions."

Bullsh*t on its face.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 21, 2026 03:34 PM (RIvkX)

58 Delicious soup but crabby guy sock off

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 21, 2026 03:34 PM (xT8gx)

59 But I'm sure that if a conservative Justice was assassinated before the ruling was released, all the other Justices would have made it an 8-0 ruling out of solidarity and respect and as a message that you can not just kill off the ones you don't like to change a ruling.

Right?

(Ha, I crack myself up. I'm funnier than Muldoon's ditties.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 21, 2026 03:34 PM (53GQo)

60 Mullahs want Armageddon so their Imam can cfall out of his hole

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2026 03:34 PM (Ia/+0)

61
Slow walking decisions is a Tax.

Posted by: Chief Justice John Roberts at April 21, 2026 03:34 PM (IifOV)

62 Just when I've been wanting to get Kash to be fired, Chucky Schumer demands he resign, and now I want Kash to stay in EVEN HARDER. Anything the Atlantic and Schumer wants I feel compelled to be against.

Pelosi revealed their hand already for this: it's called the wrap-up smear.
https://x.com/HeyBooBoo16/status/
1415728087115780097/mediaviewer

Posted by: LizLem at April 21, 2026 03:34 PM (gWBY1)

63 "And they did this, of course, to expose their colleagues to danger and menace, in hopes they would buckle and change the decision to match what the violent leftist mobs and assassins demanded."

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

Not "what the violent leftist mobs and assassins demanded," but what the leftist justices themselves demanded. If the leftist DEI justices didn't want violence threatened on their colleagues, they would've hurried up with their decisions. Those leftist justices wanted their colleagues to change their mind, and they were fine with using mob violence or threats thereof to compel it...

Posted by: bearski at April 21, 2026 03:36 PM (Bhsk7)

64 Just send Kami Harris as the US Negotiator and have her just sit there and Cackle for hours until the Ragheads Eyes and Ears bleed...

That will force them to accept any deal !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at April 21, 2026 03:36 PM (X7dyz)

65 The left is always on the march. Virginia will have 10/11 seats in a 55/45 state. SCOTUS leftists are encouraging its Antifa foot soldiers to kill fellow justices. The left is openly siding with Iran because they know it hurts Trump.
They’re the terminator. They never stop.

Meanwhile the gop won’t pass a voter ID bill that has 75% public support.

Posted by: Heroq at April 21, 2026 03:36 PM (ohom6)

66 The mullahs want an armageddon - seems like the left does too. So similar the two groups. Nihilists.
Posted by: tubal at April 21, 2026 03:31 PM


Nihilists! F*ck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude; at least it’s an ethos.

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at April 21, 2026 03:36 PM (0sNs1)

67 There are NO reasonable D's. Not after the Planned Parenthood stuf which was ON VIDEO. Not after Benghazi. Not after BLM. Not after the stolen 2020. Not after the party they nearly threw when Trump got shot and the one they did throw when Kirk was murdered. Not after the prosecutions against conservatives, laughing at white women set on fire by illegals, and calling fathers with raped daughters terrorists.

Forget it. Not a single one. They either know what the Democrats are and don't care, or they simply are what the Democrats are. Give it up.That train has left the port.

Posted by: ... at April 21, 2026 03:36 PM (AucCq)

68 Hemingway wrote that “Kagan remonstrated with Breyer not to accommodate the majority, screaming so loudly, observers noted, that the ‘wall was shaking,’” according to Fox.

Posted by: beckster at April 21, 2026 03:26 PM (kX27y)
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Definitely would not want that stump shouting at me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 21, 2026 03:36 PM (RIvkX)

69 And Jumanji Jackson is all-but taunting "of course I did it--and I'll do it again."

Every one of her screeds that she calls dissents whines about how they should let the lower courts work through the case before they decide.

That is, let the radical left cartel judge's ruling stand for 3-5 years.

But only when it's a cartel judge ruling against Trump.

But she sings like a pig in shit about the wonders of the emergency SCOTUS orders when the Court rules against Trump.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 21, 2026 03:37 PM (tUP1A)

70 hmm

"🔴

TASNIM: Iran’s decision to skip Wednesday’s talks in Pakistan is final."

Okey dokey

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2026 03:37 PM (GD0B3)

71 67 Hasn't been for a long, long time.

Posted by: turambar at April 21, 2026 03:38 PM (Q0yOR)

72 70 hmm

"🔴

TASNIM: Iran’s decision to skip Wednesday’s talks in Pakistan is final."

Okey dokey

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2026 03:37 PM (GD0B3)

=======

TACO Trump who obviously doesn't have the balls to follow through on a threat is just going to let his doubled military presence in the region do nothing in response.

It's not like there's a recent example of him using overwhelming and deadly force in this arena recently that I can use as an example for what he might do in this situation, or anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:39 PM (O35xg)

73 TASNIM: Iran’s decision to skip Wednesday’s talks in Pakistan is final."

( ) More Negotiating
(X) More Bombing

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 21, 2026 03:39 PM (IifOV)

74 Hemingway wrote that “Kagan remonstrated with Breyer not to accommodate the majority, screaming so loudly, observers noted, that the ‘wall was shaking,’” according to Fox.

Posted by: beckster at April 21, 2026 03:26 PM (kX27y)
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I love knowing we made a leftard even more miserable. Feels good man.

Posted by: ... at April 21, 2026 03:39 PM (AucCq)

75 Iran realized they are fkd, one way or the other.

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2026 03:39 PM (GD0B3)

76 Ghalibaf can defect !

HAHAHAH!!

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2026 03:40 PM (GD0B3)

77 TACO Trump who obviously doesn't have the balls to follow through on a threat is just going to let his doubled military presence in the region do nothing in response.

It's not like there's a recent example of him using overwhelming and deadly force in this arena recently that I can use as an example for what he might do in this situation, or anything.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:39 PM (O35xg)
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*confused*

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein in Brattleboro, VT at April 21, 2026 03:40 PM (RIvkX)

78
TASNIM: Iran’s decision to skip Wednesday’s talks in Pakistan is final."

Okey dokey
Posted by: runner at April 21, 2026 03:37 PM (GD0B3)
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We need the "So it begins" guy...for a curtain call.

Posted by: WisRich at April 21, 2026 03:40 PM (G0vdT)

79 Thomas and Alito are the only two people on that court worth a tinker's hot damn.

The rest of them can go screw.

Posted by: ballistic at April 21, 2026 03:40 PM (oqH4h)

80 Iran realized they are fkd, one way or the other.

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2026 03:39 PM (GD0B3)

You mean like proper fucked?

Posted by: ... at April 21, 2026 03:40 PM (AucCq)

81 TASNIM: Iran’s decision to skip Wednesday’s talks in Pakistan is final."

( ) More Negotiating
(X) More Bombing
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 21, 2026 03:39 PM



[X] it begins
[_] other than beginning

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 21, 2026 03:40 PM (4NO2D)

82 See, I don't get the rationale here. If people are angry enough to kill them before the opinions are released, why would releasing the decision automatically calm things down?

I remain unconvinced that there was bigger jeopardy in holding up the Dobbs decision than in releasing it.

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 03:41 PM (Fi81e)

83 75 Iran realized they are fkd, one way or the other.

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2026 03:39 PM (GD0B3)

======

Head of IRGC realizes that he's an island in the nation and he probably threatened to murder anyone who volunteered to go because all he has to project power within the nation is naked violence.

I suspect Israeli intelligence knows which bunker under which mountain he's hiding in. And I suspect the US military knows which bomb will reach him best.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:41 PM (O35xg)

84 It's not like there's a recent example of him using overwhelming and deadly force in this arena recently that I can use as an example for what he might do in this situation, or anything. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

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Well!! We're waiting!!!!

Posted by: Judge Smails at April 21, 2026 03:41 PM (Bhsk7)

85 Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 03:41 PM (Fi81e)

Didn't it say they wanted the decision changed?

Posted by: ... at April 21, 2026 03:42 PM (AucCq)

86 Maybe they think they have nothing to gain nor lose but to me they believe their religion will win eventually.

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2026 03:42 PM (Ia/+0)

87 They want them dead.
Seriously. They leak to get some nutter frightened/riled up enough to try to kill a conservative Justice before the decision is made.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2026 03:42 PM (4KUe5)

88 But no leaks so far about the birthright citizenship decision. Maybe the left likes the way it is trending within the court.

A finding that the babies of illegals and tourists are US citizens with all of the rights thereof would eviscerate what's left of the concept of citizenship.

They will probably punt, and say we don't know what it means but whatever it means Trump cannot unilaterally define it by executive order.

Posted by: TITP at April 21, 2026 03:43 PM (r3hkP)

89 Haven’t got a fucking clue.

Posted by: Guy who always thinks its beginning at April 21, 2026 03:43 PM (u73oe)

90 86 Maybe they think they have nothing to gain nor lose but to me they believe their religion will win eventually.

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2026 03:42 PM (Ia/+0)

=======

IRGC has been threatening civilian leadership for even talking to the US for a couple of weeks now.

Because the power the IRGC holds right now is brittle.

And the country is being starved of $450 million per day.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:43 PM (O35xg)

91 Everybody I've read feels it was Kagan's staff that leaked Dobbs

Posted by: SMOD at April 21, 2026 03:43 PM (RHGPo)

92 I think if Kagan thundered at me, she might receive a knuckle sandwich in return. Collegiality goes both ways or not at all…

Posted by: TheSoupNazi at April 21, 2026 03:32 PM (xT8gx)
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Nah, I'm pretty sure I can shout louder than she can.

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 03:44 PM (Fi81e)

93 Everybody I've read feels it was Kagan's staff that leaked Dobbs

Posted by: SMOD at April 21, 2026 03:43 PM (RHGPo)

I'm pretty sure Kagan's staff is very leaky.

Posted by: ... at April 21, 2026 03:44 PM (AucCq)

94 BTW how did "Zionist Entity" make it into this post?

Does Ace have to include a minimum number of Israel references per day under his SEO arrangements?

Posted by: TITP at April 21, 2026 03:45 PM (r3hkP)

95 ***Leftwing Justices Slow-Walked The Dobbs Decision Even While Right-Leaning Justices Were Targeted With Death Threats and White Powders
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Arrest them and put them in J6 cells.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2026 03:45 PM (YvvFZ)

96 "How to beat them when they've got more than us"

The leftist supremes and the IRGC have a lot in common. And the best allies one can hope for. The US media.

Posted by: M. Gaga at April 21, 2026 03:45 PM (KiBMU)

97 Everybody I've read feels it was Kagan's staff that leaked Dobbs
Posted by: SMOD at April 21, 2026 03:43 PM (RHGPo)
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Ironic that Kagan had the leaky staff.

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 03:45 PM (Fi81e)

98 The Mets are 0-11 since Mr. and Mrs. Met hugged Mamdani.

Posted by: SMOD at April 21, 2026 03:45 PM (RHGPo)

99 Tell Clarence it was only business. I always liked him.

Posted by: John Roberts at April 21, 2026 03:45 PM (AucCq)

100 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: And you damn well know it at April 21, 2026 03:45 PM (2Ez/1)

101 98 The Mets are 0-11 since Mr. and Mrs. Met hugged Mamdani.

Posted by: SMOD at April 21, 2026 03:45 PM (RHGPo)

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Worse than the Sacramento A's!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:46 PM (O35xg)

102 91 Everybody I've read feels it was Kagan's staff that leaked Dobbs

I had figured it was the Wise Latina's staff, but if the Slimes' report is true (never even close to a given) it does sound like Kagan's.

Posted by: Delurker at April 21, 2026 03:46 PM (gtcuf)

103 Stop or I’ll say stop again!

Posted by: John Roberts at April 21, 2026 03:46 PM (u73oe)

104 Mullahs want Armageddon so their Imam can cfall out of his hole

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2026 03:34 PM (Ia/+0)

We need to find that hole and put an atomic cork in it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 21, 2026 03:46 PM (snZF9)

105 Saw some Lefty on X crowing about how badazz Ketanji-Brown is, specifically mentioning how much she talks. When challenged that talking a lot isn’t intelligence, she said it was awesome because it prevented others Justices from speaking.

They only want power, they don’t want a functioning SCOTUS. She is likely there to disrupt.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2026 03:46 PM (4KUe5)

106 102 91 Everybody I've read feels it was Kagan's staff that leaked Dobbs

I had figured it was the Wise Latina's staff, but if the Slimes' report is true (never even close to a given) it does sound like Kagan's.

Posted by: Delurker at April 21, 2026 03:46 PM (gtcuf)

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It's real surprising that the elderly lesbian past childbearing age still holds abortion so highly in her mind.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:46 PM (O35xg)

107 65 The left is always on the march. Virginia will have 10/11 seats in a 55/45 state. SCOTUS leftists are encouraging its Antifa foot soldiers to kill fellow justices. The left is openly siding with Iran because they know it hurts Trump.
They’re the terminator. They never stop.

Meanwhile the gop won’t pass a voter ID bill that has 75% public support.

Posted by: Heroq at April 21, 2026 03:3

If they get greedy, splits that close could turn on them quick.

Posted by: Inogame at April 21, 2026 03:47 PM (53oGX)

108 I'm pretty sure Kagan's staff is very leaky.
Posted by: ... at April 21, 2026 03:44 PM (AucCq)
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We'll if she was yelling at one of her fellow libs about slow walking, it makes sense she'd be the leaker, directly or indirectly.

Posted by: WisRich at April 21, 2026 03:47 PM (G0vdT)

109 105 Saw some Lefty on X crowing about how badazz Ketanji-Brown is, specifically mentioning how much she talks. When challenged that talking a lot isn’t intelligence, she said it was awesome because it prevented others Justices from speaking.

They only want power, they don’t want a functioning SCOTUS. She is likely there to disrupt.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2026 03:46 PM (4KUe5)

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Idea:

Trump should nominate Nicki Minaj to SCOTUS.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:47 PM (O35xg)

110 I think its Kagen leaking.

Most would probably say Sotomayor, because she is so partisan a left-winger and so vocal lately about the shadow docket, but I say Kagen because she is a politician first and a judge second, and this leaking is standard issue politicking.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 21, 2026 03:47 PM (qH7II)

111 Second look at National Divorce?

Posted by: Joe Mama at April 21, 2026 03:47 PM (TezPK)

112
Leaky staff?
Much like the burning during urination.

Posted by: Kramer at April 21, 2026 03:48 PM (2Ez/1)

113 It was Roberts.

Posted by: ... at April 21, 2026 03:48 PM (AucCq)

114 On 27 Nov. 1700 the Pennsylvania Assembly installed a 20-shilling levy on slave imports, doubled it to 40 shillings in 1706, and in 1712 adopted an additional £20 pound import tax on slaves. In 1731 King George II ordered Pennsylvania’s governor to vacate the tax and to prohibit any colonial law imposing import duties on slaves.
However, in 1768, under the nose of the next King George (III), legislators established a £10 duty on imported Negroes, then, in 1768, increased the duty to £20, made it perpetual, and strengthened enforcement and collection law.

... If this had been passed today, slavery would last forever as no tax ever completely goes away

Posted by: SMOD at April 21, 2026 03:48 PM (RHGPo)

115 Seriously. They leak to get some nutter frightened/riled up enough to try to kill a conservative Justice before the decision is made.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2026 03:42 PM (4KUe5)
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If some justices are slow-walking the decision, it suggests that the other side should be all that much closer to the final sign-ons and concurrences. Why would a justice who had sat through arguments and even gave signoff to an opinion be fully discounted simply by not being alive at the time the decision was publicized?

That would be sick.

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 03:49 PM (Fi81e)

116 >>> It's not like there's a recent example of him using overwhelming and deadly force in this arena recently that I can use as an example for what he might do in this situation, or anything. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

The problem is the Iran regime has had spoiled child syndrome for over a half decade. They think by throwing the same old tantrum they'll somehow get their way. But there's a new daddy, and he's all about the smacking and having them get the belt.
Not sure when they'll finally give up and cry uncle. I hope soon.

In the hammer films, have you gotten to the Hound of the Baskervilles yet? Fun stuff.

Posted by: LizLem at April 21, 2026 03:49 PM (gWBY1)

117 Wasn’t Kagan just appointed when they were deliberating the Obamacare legal challenges, and Obama was openly threatening SCOTUS?
Then Roberts write-up turned out to be weird, as if when he started it he had one opinion, then midway switched sides?

Seem to recall speculation back then was that Obama knew who was wobbly and pressured them…

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2026 03:50 PM (4KUe5)

118 K-JB just spews Marxist rhetoric in her law writings

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2026 03:50 PM (Ia/+0)

119 >>have you gotten to the Hound of the Baskervilles yet?


We're reading that in the Book Club.

You have time to catch up, if you need it.

Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2026 03:50 PM (ytyaf)

120 >>> The Mets are 0-11 since Mr. and Mrs. Met hugged Mamdani. Posted by: SMOD at April 21, 2026 03:45 PM (RHGPo)

It's too good, I love it.

Posted by: LizLem at April 21, 2026 03:50 PM (gWBY1)

121 It wasn't a liberal Justice that leaked Dobbs, it was Roberts. initials SS,

Posted by: MikeN at April 21, 2026 03:51 PM (6o2gJ)

122 116 In the hammer films, have you gotten to the Hound of the Baskervilles yet? Fun stuff.

Posted by: LizLem at April 21, 2026 03:49 PM (gWBY1)

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In terms of my watching, I've just gotten to Curse of Frankenstein and Quatermass 2, 1957. Reviews are about 2 weeks behind that.

So, I've finally gotten to the point where people think of Hammer Films.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:51 PM (O35xg)

123 Speaking of the SCROTUS, my office is currently knee-deep in the IEEPA refunds and it just infuriates me.

Posted by: Delurker at April 21, 2026 03:51 PM (gtcuf)

124 Yet, the right SCJ still side with the left in so many cases

Posted by: Gonzotx at April 21, 2026 03:51 PM (nGraA)

125 Wasn’t Kagan just appointed when they were deliberating the Obamacare legal challenges, and

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2026 03:50 PM (4KUe5)
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Yes, that was Justice Elena "What's Recusal?" Kagan.

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 03:52 PM (Fi81e)

126 Garrett, where/how does book club meet? Watching the Hammer version after you finish it could be fun.

Posted by: LizLem at April 21, 2026 03:52 PM (gWBY1)

127 IRGC has been threatening civilian leadership for even talking to the US for a couple of weeks now.

Because the power the IRGC holds right now is brittle.

And the country is being starved of $450 million per day.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:43 PM (O35xg)
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I hope the President targets IRGC, instead of "bridges and power plants". The IRGC true believers have to die one way or another, because they would never allow even a slightly secularized government. For them its all or nothing. Start with the leadership, sure, and get them first, but they all have to go.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 21, 2026 03:52 PM (qH7II)

128 110 I think its Kagen leaking.

Weak bladder or Spinchter?

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 21, 2026 03:52 PM (IifOV)

129 111 Second look at National Divorce?
Posted by: Joe Mama at April 21, 2026 03:47 PM (TezPK)

Yeah, but divorces end up in court...

kinda tricky when yer tryin to divorce the Judge.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2026 03:52 PM (mP0Kj)

130 The libs on the court are apparently slow-walking the Louisiana v. Callais (Voting Rights Act) decision so that by the time it is issued, there won't be enough time to re-draw maps before the midterms.

This is the kind of crap leftists do all the time, yet we can't get our own Senate majority leader to pass the Save America Act or even allow President Trump a recess appointment.

Uniparty.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 21, 2026 03:52 PM (3ImbR)

131 BTW, wrt to the vote in Virginia to redistrict and essentially eliminate Republican representation, I just checked and 26 out of our 50 states are Republican led. So the 26 should all redistrict and eliminate Democrat representation and we win. By a slight margin, but still.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 21, 2026 03:52 PM (C4BAC)

132 118 K-JB just spews Marxist rhetoric in her law writings
Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2026 03:50 PM (Ia/+0)
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She's so bad, Kagan and Soto are not even signing onto some of her dissents.

Posted by: WisRich at April 21, 2026 03:53 PM (G0vdT)

133 127 I hope the President targets IRGC, instead of "bridges and power plants". The IRGC true believers have to die one way or another, because they would never allow even a slightly secularized government. For them its all or nothing. Start with the leadership, sure, and get them first, but they all have to go.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 21, 2026 03:52 PM (qH7II)

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Once strikes start again, they'll be hitting hundreds of targets a day.

A wide variety. And it'll probably start again like it did last time: decapitation strikes.

Israeli intelligence is very deep in Iranian intelligence. There's a solid chance they know where most, if not all, of IRGC's leadership is. Probably underground bunkers. Perfect for some MOABs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:53 PM (O35xg)

134 127 IRGC has been threatening civilian leadership for even talking to the US for a couple of weeks now.

Because the power the IRGC holds right now is brittle.

And the country is being starved of $450 million per day.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:43 PM (O35xg)
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I hope the President targets IRGC, instead of "bridges and power plants". The IRGC true believers have to die one way or another, because they would never allow even a slightly secularized government. For them its all or nothing. Start with the leadership, sure, and get them first, but they all have to go.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 21, 2026 03:52 PM (qH7II)

Bridges should be targeted to keep the IRGC from being able to move around easily. Substations could also be targeted instead of power plants if trying to keep things easy to repair/replace.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 21, 2026 03:54 PM (okun6)

135 >>Garrett, where/how does book club meet?


Ace sets the schedule.

Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2026 03:54 PM (ytyaf)

136 121 It wasn't a liberal Justice that leaked Dobbs, it was Roberts. initials SS,
Posted by: MikeN

Roberts initials are SS?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 21, 2026 03:54 PM (Dv3i1)

137 130 The libs on the court are apparently slow-walking the Louisiana v. Callais (Voting Rights Act) decision so that by the time it is issued, there won't be enough time to re-draw maps before the midterms.

This is the kind of crap leftists do all the time, yet we can't get our own Senate majority leader to pass the Save America Act or even allow President Trump a recess appointment.

Uniparty.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 21, 2026 03:52 PM (3ImbR)

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FL is probably the only state who would have redrawn maps for 2026 even if the decision had been announced 3 months ago.

The VRA decision was always going to be a bigger player in 2028.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:54 PM (O35xg)

138 TACO Trump who obviously doesn't have the balls to follow through on a threat is just going to let his doubled military presence in the region do nothing in response.

It's not like there's a recent example of him using overwhelming and deadly force in this arena recently that I can use as an example for what he might do in this situation, or anything.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:39 PM (O35xg)

*snort*

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 21, 2026 03:55 PM (DwqWV)

139 Does Trump "always chicken out" of being a dictator or king?

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 03:56 PM (Fi81e)

140 She's so bad, Kagan and Soto are not even signing onto some of her dissents.
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Someone must have told KBJ that her saying "I don't understand" was making her look stupid. So she changed it to "I can't fathom," which sounds much smarter.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 21, 2026 03:56 PM (Dv3i1)

141 131 BTW, wrt to the vote in Virginia to redistrict and essentially eliminate Republican representation, I just checked and 26 out of our 50 states are Republican led. So the 26 should all redistrict and eliminate Democrat representation and we win. By a slight margin, but still.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 21, 2026 03:52 PM (C4BAC)

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2 things on that.

1. I've always said that gerrymandering is the spoils of political war, and I see no moral issue with the party in power maximalizing. If the other party in the state wants to reverse that, win more seats in the state legislature. No one else is going to save you.

2. A very solid number of blue districts in Republican states are majority-minority and mandated by Gingles. With Gingles still as precedent, can't undo those.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:56 PM (O35xg)

142 Is there any law that states that the SC majority must wait for the dissenters to write their dissent? Or is it just custom? Because if the latter, the next time this happens, just release the majority decision forthwith, and fuck custom.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2026 03:56 PM (utfVc)

143 See, here's the thing. If you've got 5 justices agreeing to something, you can give the dissenters a date of release. And then?

Release the f*cking opinion. Let them no, they were marked down as a "no" and move on.

And if something leaks? Keep them out of all conferences except to give a thumbs up and thumbs down. If they demur, then let the opinion be 5-0, 6-0, 7-0, whatever.....

Roberts is a clown for (amongst everything else) tolerating this nonsense.

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at April 21, 2026 03:56 PM (Iwv3U)

144 139 Does Trump "always chicken out" of being a dictator or king?

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 03:56 PM (Fi81e)

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Trump giving up power after "losing" the 2020 election was a TACO!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:57 PM (O35xg)

145 Leftists want an American Civil War II

And they might very well win it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 21, 2026 03:57 PM (qRla/)

146 K-JB just spews Marxist rhetoric in her law writings

As did MLK at the end. He came to the conclusion that the black man was gonna' need some socialism. And later some communism.

Its rare to see a Thomas Sowell just come out and say the quiet part out loud. Make everything even and some will flourish while others flounder. Each as they get for themselves.

Posted by: YEP at April 21, 2026 03:57 PM (S2mGF)

147 And tomorrow the libtards will switch back from TACO to war crimes without missing a beat.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 21, 2026 03:58 PM (u73oe)

148 Why would Roberts leak it when he wrote his own concurrence with the decision?

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 03:58 PM (Fi81e)

149 The single greatest threat to the republic is the judiciary.

It’s why the liberals have constantly tried to undermine it. They know the power that unelected judges can wield to subvert the Bill of Rights and ensure a permanent Democrat majority.

Until the courts are righted, our democratic republic will be under threat.

Our liberties were never meant to be meted out and limited by a bunch of unelected jurists. Nor should we ever let that occur. Ever.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 21, 2026 03:58 PM (yv1Au)

150 And tomorrow the libtards will switch back from TACO to war crimes without missing a beat.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 21, 2026 03:58 PM (u73oe)
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220, 221, whatever it takes.

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 03:59 PM (Fi81e)

151 55 Abortion is the only thing sacred to them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


And protecting/ supporting illegal aliens.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 21, 2026 03:59 PM (W2Pud)

152 148 Why would Roberts leak it when he wrote his own concurrence with the decision?

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 03:58 PM (Fi81e)

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The logic would be to scare one of the other 5 into backing off.

I assume it's either Kagan or Thomas.

Thomas just being an immortal samurai with bloodlust of cannon fodder, of course.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:59 PM (O35xg)

153 Thom Tillis sucks sick by choice.

Just thought I’d add that.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 21, 2026 03:59 PM (yv1Au)

154 >>>Hemingway wrote that “Kagan remonstrated with Breyer not to accommodate the majority, screaming so loudly, observers noted, that the ‘wall was shaking,’” according to Fox.
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See, my suggestion that Thomas body slam Roberts into a wall are not that out of line.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2026 03:59 PM (YvvFZ)

155 Twitter is a buzz with Iran stuff over last 30min.

Latest HOT MOIST TIGHT rumor is US signaling they may end the blockade ina. Goodwill gesture to get talk a back on track.

Yeah, I don't think so. Witkoff, Kushner, JD all being recalled to DC for meetings.

Methinks my positive side wins out on this one.

Posted by: GigantorX at April 21, 2026 03:59 PM (I5fLw)

156 153 Thom Tillis sucks sick by choice.

Just thought I’d add that.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 21, 2026 03:59 PM (yv1Au)

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I watched a streaming movie earlier today.

Saw two political ads total.

One was anti-Roy Cooper, and the other was pro-Michael Whatley. Probably means not much, but it's interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:00 PM (O35xg)

157 127 I hope the President targets IRGC, instead of "bridges and power plants". The IRGC true believers have to die one way or another, because they would never allow even a slightly secularized government. For them its all or nothing. Start with the leadership, sure, and get them first, but they all have to go.

"We decapitate, then we do business with what's left." - Phil Leotardo - "The Sopranos."

Posted by: Delurker at April 21, 2026 04:00 PM (gtcuf)

158 Sydney Sweeney's three-minute cameo in the upcoming release of The Devil Wears Prada 2 has ended up on the cutting-room floor.

The choice to omit her scene was reportedly due to a creative decision.

According to a report from EW, Sweeney‘s appearance would have come near the beginning of the movie, but was scrapped because it did not work structurally.

Yeah, sure. It probably had nothing to do with her refusing to play the game of leftist gotcha media while failing to denounce Trump as a fascist dictator.

Leftist Lady Gaga's cameo will remain in the movie, however.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 21, 2026 04:00 PM (Y1sOo)

159 Latest HOT MOIST TIGHT rumor is US signaling they may end the blockade ina. Goodwill gesture to get talk a back on track.

I could see that... Yeah... I'm a pessimist...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 21, 2026 04:00 PM (K88SD)

160 [-i]Leftists want an American Civil War II

And they might very well win it.

If its a real civil war they lose.

But they can easily win if a Dem controlled FedGov just starts arresting dissidents. As long as they promise senior GOPe members they'll be left alone the GOPe will allow it to happen, even if they in turn get rounded up later.

One flashpoint we almost saw - DeSantis threatened to turn out the FL NG if Biden implemented Vaxports.

Presumably the Junta believed other states would join in.

But suppose a President Newsom arrests Trump and his cabinent and actual opposition GOP leaders. Would the states actually do anything or just let it happen?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 21, 2026 04:01 PM (sKqQm)

161 158 Sydney Sweeney's three-minute cameo in the upcoming release of The Devil Wears Prada 2 has ended up on the cutting-room floor.

The choice to omit her scene was reportedly due to a creative decision.

According to a report from EW, Sweeney‘s appearance would have come near the beginning of the movie, but was scrapped because it did not work structurally.

Yeah, sure. It probably had nothing to do with her refusing to play the game of leftist gotcha media while failing to denounce Trump as a fascist dictator.

Leftist Lady Gaga's cameo will remain in the movie, however.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 21, 2026 04:00 PM (Y1sOo)

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I do not care that a rich lady I will never meet got cut from a movie I will never see and was not made for me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:01 PM (O35xg)

162 150 And tomorrow the libtards will switch back from TACO to war crimes without missing a beat.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 21, 2026 03:58 PM (u73oe)
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220, 221, whatever it takes.
Posted by: Axeman
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They so dumb don't know a whipsaw when they're on it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2026 04:01 PM (YvvFZ)

163 It occurs to me that there's several thousand Marines in the Iran/IRGC theater. Been couped up on several ships for about a month, maybe longer. They'd probably like to blow off a little steam.

Or a few heads. IRGC heads specifically.

They're not in the area to sightsee.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 21, 2026 04:02 PM (AkEZC)

164 >>I do not care that a rich lady I will never meet got cut from a movie I will never see and was not made for me.


I am sure she got paid.

Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2026 04:02 PM (ytyaf)

165 Until the courts are righted, our democratic republic will be under threat.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 21, 2026 03:58 PM (yv1Au)
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It's only gotten worse through my lifetime.

Now, you have prominent conservatives saying "You have to venue shop," about the looming prosecutions in Florida of the Russian Hoaxers.

But when you have traditionals say "You have to venue shop!" It just allows the Dems to be more comfortable with their tampering all along.

I hope I'm wrong. But when terms get this confused, the only times things will get more serious is with a crash and burn.

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 04:02 PM (Fi81e)

166 Al Capone’s vault broadcast was blessing and curse: Geraldo Rivera (Forty years ago today)

better than the Real Housewives of Nome

Posted by: SMOD at April 21, 2026 04:02 PM (RHGPo)

167 164 >>I do not care that a rich lady I will never meet got cut from a movie I will never see and was not made for me.


I am sure she got paid.

Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2026 04:02 PM (ytyaf)

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They don't work for free!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:03 PM (O35xg)

168 >I think its Kagen leaking.
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eww gross

Posted by: Don Black at April 21, 2026 04:03 PM (ZxPkt)

169 I do not care that a rich lady I will never meet got cut from a movie I will never see and was not made for me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:01 PM (O35xg)

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I don’t get it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 21, 2026 04:04 PM (u73oe)

170 25 Leftists want a American Civil War II

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2026 03:27 PM (Ia/+0)


They want Battle of the Little Bighorn II. With them as the thousand-plus Sioux and allied warriors, along with a thousand-plus women and children following along to kill the badly wounded and maim the still-living and the dead, and us as Custer's 470 or so cavalry troopers and officers with single-shot carbines and a few dozen revolvers.

Posted by: Gref at April 21, 2026 04:04 PM (5rh/l)

171 I do not care that a rich lady I will never meet got cut from a movie I will never see and was not made for me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:01 PM (O35xg)

Why do you hate movies?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 21, 2026 04:04 PM (xcxpd)

172 According to a report from EW, Sweeney‘s appearance would have come near the beginning of the movie, but was scrapped because it did not work structurally.
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Syndey's bod works structurally.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 21, 2026 04:05 PM (Dv3i1)

173 166 Al Capone’s vault broadcast was blessing and curse: Geraldo Rivera (Forty years ago today)

And they spent what felt like hours trying to make a few old liquor bottles A Thing. Should've ended Jerry Rivers' career. Didn't though.

Posted by: Delurker at April 21, 2026 04:05 PM (gtcuf)

174 171 I do not care that a rich lady I will never meet got cut from a movie I will never see and was not made for me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:01 PM (O35xg)

Why do you hate movies?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 21, 2026 04:04 PM (xcxpd)

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They do not perfectly reflect reality at all times. They are lies and distort our perceptions.

Instead, all men should live in the forest, hunting with their bare hands, and only entertain themselves with introspective readings of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:05 PM (O35xg)

175 But suppose a President Newsom arrests Trump and his cabinet and actual opposition GOP leaders. Would the states actually do anything or just let it happen?

The government arrested hundreds of people for doing nothing more than walking around the Capitol. Not one single state governor said boo or did a single thing in opposition.

Trump came within a whisker of having his head blown off. Which governors stood up against the government?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 21, 2026 04:06 PM (qRla/)

176 They put the conservative justices at risk of life and limb, and meanwhile the squish-pseudo conservative justices watched this and did...nothing...they kept on being squish-pseudo conservative justices. Thomas and Alito should have been as mad at them as they were at the communist justices.

Posted by: Crusader at April 21, 2026 04:06 PM (TN0g+)

177 The Dobbs leaker was likely Breyer's law clerk Elizabeth Deutsch

She married a journalist Isaac Arnsdorf who was best friends with the journo who published the Dobbs decision, Josh Gerstein. Gerstein attended Deutsch's wedding.

She wrote her law school paper on abortion.

She wrote a NYT op-ed supporting abortion.

https://en.rattibha.com/thread/1521685968939630592

Posted by: Jose at April 21, 2026 04:06 PM (V6W16)

178 Bridges should be targeted to keep the IRGC from being able to move around easily. Substations could also be targeted instead of power plants if trying to keep things easy to repair/replace.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 21, 2026 03:54 PM (okun6)

Particularly substations that provide power for government and military installations, and regime residences.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2026 04:07 PM (utfVc)

179 We give women the right to vote, the next thing you know, they've taken over the supreme court.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 21, 2026 04:07 PM (Fbc0I)

180 They do not perfectly reflect reality at all times. They are lies and distort our perceptions.

——————


Except Lone Wolf McQuade, of course.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 21, 2026 04:07 PM (u73oe)

181 >>> they did this, of course, to expose their colleagues to danger and menace, in hopes they would buckle and change the decision to match what the violent leftist mobs and assassins demanded.


Ludicrous!!! There are politics in any Court !

- Chief SCROTUS Nazgul Roberts

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 21, 2026 04:08 PM (/lPRQ)

182 180
Except Lone Wolf McQuade, of course.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 21, 2026 04:07 PM (u73oe)

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That was a documentary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:08 PM (O35xg)

183 179 We give women the right to vote, the next thing you know, they've taken over the supreme court.

Led by Roberts, the womanliest woman on the sourt.

Posted by: Delurker at April 21, 2026 04:08 PM (gtcuf)

184 Why would Roberts leak it when he wrote his own concurrence with the decision?

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 03:58 PM (Fi81e)

To put pressure on the others. His concurrence wasn't required.

Posted by: ... at April 21, 2026 04:09 PM (AucCq)

185 We give women the right to vote, the next thing you know, they've taken over the supreme court.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 21, 2026 04:07 PM (Fbc0I)
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Probably if the Dems get their 13 on the super-legislature that invalidates the entire concept of the Court, we'll have 7 women--or 1 of them is a gay guy.

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 04:09 PM (Fi81e)

186 Space Ice put out a Lone Wold McQuade video a few days ago.

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 21, 2026 04:09 PM (CNl8/)

187 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 21, 2026 04:10 PM (Zz0t1)

188 Are we allowed to trust Mollie Hemingway? She is still willing to appear on Megyn Kelly's show.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 21, 2026 04:10 PM (AlhUl)

189 To put pressure on the others. His concurrence wasn't required.
Posted by: ... at April 21, 2026 04:09 PM (AucCq)
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6-3 looks a hell of a lot better than 5-4 decisions.

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 04:10 PM (Fi81e)

190 All of this shit will continue until someone is actually punished for this treasonous behavior.

No one has gone to jail. No one as been indicted. No one has been even threatened.

We're not a serious country.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 21, 2026 04:10 PM (Zz0t1)

191 It is comical, the Dems are stacking about stacking the SC, adding new states like...DC...and the GOPe is spending their time on...some minor part of the Clean Air Act and renewing government surveillance

Posted by: 18-1 at April 21, 2026 04:11 PM (sKqQm)

192 Looks like Iran is choosing more war.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2026 04:11 PM (viF8m)

193 Are we allowed to trust Mollie Hemingway? She is still willing to appear on Megyn Kelly's show.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 21, 2026 04:10 PM (AlhUl)
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At times like this, it's good to remember that Guilt by Association doesn't stop being a logical fallacy.

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 04:11 PM (Fi81e)

194 The expedited rulings from the court are largely due to the expansion of nationwide injunctions from the lower courts. Which are, by the way, unsupported by the constitution.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at April 21, 2026 04:11 PM (L6dcX)

195 I think its Kagen leaking.
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I think Kumanji is too stupid to even know what leaking means.

Posted by: Crusader at April 21, 2026 04:12 PM (TN0g+)

196 We give women the right to vote, the next thing you know, they've taken over the supreme court.

Led by Roberts, the womanliest woman on the sourt.
Posted by: Delurker


Most feminine, maybe.
And you misspelled squirt.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 21, 2026 04:12 PM (/lPRQ)

197 All of this shit will continue until someone is actually punished for this treasonous behavior.

No one has gone to jail. No one as been indicted. No one has been even threatened.

We're not a serious country.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 21, 2026 04:10 PM (Zz0t1)


In a way, I'm grimly looking forward to Kash "Indictments Are Coming!" Patel to turn Steiner.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 21, 2026 04:12 PM (qRla/)

198 Are we allowed to trust Mollie Hemingway? She is still willing to appear on Megyn Kelly's show.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 21, 2026 04:10 PM (AlhUl)



I think she's still in the court of 'no pub is bad pub' on that one.

Is Kelly becoming a Qatarlson nazi freak? Yes. Is she 100% there yet? Maybe not.

I'll give Hemmingway a pass because she hasn't given the inclination that she's a nazi freak as of yet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 21, 2026 04:12 PM (Zz0t1)

199 In a way, I'm grimly looking forward to Kash "Indictments Are Coming!" Patel to turn Steiner.

One hopes their recent libel of him spurs him to action...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 21, 2026 04:13 PM (sKqQm)

200 I am glad to see the democrats bring their own brand of civility and decorum to the Supreme Courts.

The idiot conservatives let them run rampant and bitch and moan about it but still will seat a Kunte Kinte Jackson or an Amy Conehead Barrett because they don't want to be "rude" or "hostile".

The Supreme Courts chickens have come home to mooch.

Posted by: Oliver Wendell Douglas at April 21, 2026 04:13 PM (79nfv)

201 It is comical, the Dems are stacking about stacking the SC, adding new states like...DC...and the GOPe is spending their time on...some minor part of the Clean Air Act and renewing government surveillance

Posted by: 18-1 at April 21, 2026 04:11 PM (sKqQm)
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But they don't want it up for a vote or a referendum...like you get in a representative democracy.

"You don't run on it," - James Carville.

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 04:13 PM (Fi81e)

202 I do not care that a rich lady I will never meet got cut from a movie I will never see and was not made for me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:01 PM (O35xg)

Why do you hate movies?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 21, 2026 04:04 PM (xcxpd)

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They do not perfectly reflect reality at all times. They are lies and distort our perceptions.

Instead, all men should live in the forest, hunting with their bare hands, and only entertain themselves with introspective readings of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:05 PM (O35xg)

This is the way.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 21, 2026 04:13 PM (xcxpd)

203 When you say you care about the Iranian people, we're supposed to think you have a good heart.

I don't care about subhumans that chanted Death to America for.50 years.

Shut up. The grownups are talking.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at April 21, 2026 04:13 PM (wBaIH)

204 In a way, I'm grimly looking forward to Kash "Indictments Are Coming!" Patel to turn Steiner.

One hopes their recent libel of him spurs him to action...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 21, 2026 04:13 PM (sKqQm)


People in Hell hope the thermostat gets turned down a bit.

Ain't gonna' happen.

Posted by: YEP at April 21, 2026 04:14 PM (S2mGF)

205 A lot of our losses over the years have ultimately been because it wouldn't be nice to fight the left in a "mean" way over issue X or Y.

Not the hill to die on!
What if they did it to us? (they always do)
What will the public think? (they don't care)

Posted by: 18-1 at April 21, 2026 04:14 PM (sKqQm)

206 Instead, all men should live in the forest, hunting with their bare hands, and only entertain themselves with introspective readings of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:05 PM (O35xg)



So women can get f*cked by bears because they'll feel safer about it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 21, 2026 04:14 PM (Zz0t1)

207 192 Looks like Iran is choosing more war.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2026 04:11 PM (viF8m)
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another delay tactic? Spend the next week trying to get meeting back on. rinse repeat.

Don't fall for it Donny.

Posted by: WisRich at April 21, 2026 04:15 PM (G0vdT)

208 194 The expedited rulings from the court are largely due to the expansion of nationwide injunctions from the lower courts. Which are, by the way, unsupported by the constitution.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at April 21, 2026 04:11 PM (L6dcX)

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Statute that created lower courts: "Lower courts only have authority over x y and z."

Lower courts: "I declare we have authority over the whole alphabet because Trump!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:15 PM (O35xg)

209 >>One hopes their recent libel of him spurs him to action...

It's not up to Kash. It's up to the DOJ. And they just put Joe diGenova in charge of indicting Brennan.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2026 04:15 PM (viF8m)

210 6 Abortion is the only thing sacred to them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 03:22 PM (O35xg)


I think their god is Power, and Clique is its handmaiden. But if they can get women to kill their own babies -- proving their malleability and scorching their consciences -- then they can get them to do *anything*, so abortion is a Holy Sacrament in their worship.

Posted by: SciVo at April 21, 2026 04:15 PM (Sy6m/)

211 Looks like Iran is choosing more war.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2026 04:11 PM (viF8m)

—————

War is the remedy our enemy has chosen and I say let us give them all they want.

-William Tecumseh Sherman

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 21, 2026 04:15 PM (u73oe)

212 and only entertain themselves with introspective readings of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations."

Or, you know, The Hobbit.

Posted by: man at April 21, 2026 04:16 PM (XuXeR)

213
Trump came within a whisker of having his head blown off. Which governors stood up against the government?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 21, 2026 04:06 PM (qRla/)




THAT WAS STAGED!!!!!!

Posted by: Marjorie Taylor Brown at April 21, 2026 04:16 PM (Zz0t1)

214
It's not up to Kash. It's up to the DOJ. And they just put Joe diGenova in charge of indicting Brennan.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2026 04:15 PM (viF8m)


And Joe is not a fan of Brennan

Posted by: It's me donna at April 21, 2026 04:16 PM (K88SD)

215 >>Don't fall for it Donny.

I doubt he will. He's too far down the road.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2026 04:16 PM (viF8m)

216 But they don't want it up for a vote or a referendum...like you get in a representative democracy.

"You don't run on it," - James Carville.


Pretty much every time there are actual issues up for a vote the right wins. And pretty much every time it is a popularity contest the left wins.

Compare 2012 where Romney is indeed a rich asshole with 2016 where Trump is also a rich asshole but people are voting on illegal immigration not who is an asshole.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 21, 2026 04:16 PM (sKqQm)

217 212 and only entertain themselves with introspective readings of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations."

Or, you know, The Hobbit.

Posted by: man at April 21, 2026 04:16 PM (XuXeR)

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Pansy-ass fantasy with dwarves and singing?

You are a traitor to mankind.

Read Sun-Tzu and reflect on your shortcomings!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:16 PM (O35xg)

218 I think its Kagen leaking"

Depends

Posted by: man at April 21, 2026 04:17 PM (XuXeR)

219 I think its Kagen leaking"

Depends
Posted by: man at April 21, 2026 04:17 PM (XuXeR)



Do dinosaurs have such issues?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 21, 2026 04:18 PM (Zz0t1)

220 Read Sun-Tzu "

I'm next to a Shih Tzu. That ok?

Posted by: man at April 21, 2026 04:18 PM (XuXeR)

221 Read Sun-Tzu and reflect on your shortcomings!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:16 PM (O35xg)
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Pretty rich, coming from an illiterate.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 21, 2026 04:18 PM (xvhJH)

222 192 Looks like Iran is choosing more war.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Mentioned up stream that boatloads of Marines have been couped up for two months.
s t e a m

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2026 04:18 PM (YvvFZ)

223 221 Read Sun-Tzu and reflect on your shortcomings!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:16 PM (O35xg)
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Pretty rich, coming from an illiterate.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 21, 2026 04:18 PM (xvhJH)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:18 PM (O35xg)

224 And Comey is still walking free.

Posted by: 8647? at April 21, 2026 04:19 PM (a992C)

225 We give women the right to vote, the next thing you know, they've taken over the supreme court.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

====

The worst fallout was the unexpected -
Duel citizenship then anchor babies.

Before the 19th citizenship for dependents was derived from the husband/father. (This was back when patriarchy used to actually mean something) So, in a way, this too is the story of Obama.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 21, 2026 04:19 PM (/lPRQ)

226 BREAKING: President Trump extends ceasefire.

STATEMENT OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP:
Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal. I have therefore directed our Military to continue the Blockade and, in all other respects, remain ready and able, and will therefore extend the Ceasefire until such time as their proposal is submitted, and discussions are concluded, one way or the other. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 21, 2026 04:20 PM (CNl8/)

227 Whenever there is some crime story in the news about a man (usually an illegal) victimizing a woman I go check my regular lefty forums and there is always a 60+ woman posting something along the lines of "I remember when men would step in to help a lady in trouble! What is wrong with men today"

Posted by: 18-1 at April 21, 2026 04:20 PM (sKqQm)

228 The mythology of the left/atheists is "Magical Possibility". Life can be lived ala carte.

The last episode of The Pitt had something like that in it. A pregnant woman came into the hospital to receive treatment for her headache, but she wanted a "wild childbirth" and almost killed herself and her baby until an emergency c-section was needed to save both their lives.

Next season, they'll probably get sued for the lady not getting her ala carte selection.

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 04:20 PM (Fi81e)

229 you know, The Hobbit.

No Tolkien negro.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 21, 2026 04:20 PM (Kt19C)

230 224 And Comey is still walking free.

Posted by: 8647? at April 21, 2026 04:19 PM (a992C)

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There's a federal grand jury empaneled in a Florida district that is apparently looking into the conspiracy to deny Donald Trump his rights.

Comey has been interviewed by that grand jury.

I strongly suspect we'll be getting news of indictments by late summer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:20 PM (O35xg)

231 Welp, Donny blinked. Iran got a delay. Trump says he won't resume attacks until Iran comes up with a "unified proposal" which should be ready around Mid November.

Posted by: WisRich at April 21, 2026 04:20 PM (G0vdT)

232 BREAKING: President Trump extends ceasefire.


I knew it... Damn

Posted by: It's me donna at April 21, 2026 04:20 PM (K88SD)

233 And Comey is still walking free.
Posted by: 8647? at April 21, 2026 04:19 PM (a992C)



As is the entire Biden and Owebama administrations.

No more treason has ever been committed than in those two administrations.

They've violated countless federal laws and violated the Constitution multiple times.

*crickets*


We're not a serious country.

Like the GREAT George Carlin said: "It's an exclusive club. And YOU AIN'T IN IT."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 21, 2026 04:21 PM (Zz0t1)

234 Read Sun-Tzu and reflect on your shortcomings!

I remember the 90s. When every business guy "read Sun-Tzu".

Here's the thing. They read it because it was written simple enough where they thought they understood it. And also - no military ever fought like Sun-Tzu wrote. No business ever really acted like that either.

Leave your opponent an avenue of retreat so they won't fight as hard ? That was one of the brilliant writing of Sun-Tzu. Nobody does that - because its stupid.

Attack where your opponent is weak ? Great idea, Sun. Simply brilliant. Now tell me how to find that spot.

I hate that fucking book. I can't stand those who pretend to be smarter for reading it. I read it. I felt myself get dumber for the effort.

Posted by: YEP at April 21, 2026 04:21 PM (S2mGF)

235 The mythology of the left/atheists is "Magical Possibility". Life can be lived ala carte.


One of the great ironies of our current political moment is the left is full of NPCs that believe they deserve to live life like a main character in a video game.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 21, 2026 04:21 PM (sKqQm)

236 Could he at least announce these things before the markets close so we can get a rally?

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 21, 2026 04:21 PM (CNl8/)

237 Mollie has some good stuff, I'll keep reading her stuff

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2026 04:22 PM (Ia/+0)

238 226 BREAKING: President Trump extends ceasefire.

STATEMENT OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP:
Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal. I have therefore directed our Military to continue the Blockade and, in all other respects, remain ready and able, and will therefore extend the Ceasefire until such time as their proposal is submitted, and discussions are concluded, one way or the other. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 21, 2026 04:20 PM (CNl8/)

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The blockade is hurting Iran more than the bombings did.

$450 million per day denied.

They'll max out their oil storage soon (like, in the next few days). No inflow of dollars meaning that the leadership has to pay its soldiers in rials which are borderline worthless.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 21, 2026 04:22 PM (O35xg)

239 >>Welp, Donny blinked. Iran got a delay. Trump says he won't resume attacks until Iran comes up with a "unified proposal" which should be ready around Mid November.

They might be getting a bit hungry by then. The blockade is still on and reports are that Iran is losing between $4 and $500 million per day in lost oil revenue.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2026 04:22 PM (viF8m)

240 >>I hate that fucking book. I can't stand those who pretend to be smarter for reading it. I read it. I felt myself get dumber for the effort.


The Art of Cunnilingus was his best book.

Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2026 04:22 PM (ytyaf)

241 there is always a 60+ woman posting something along the lines of "I remember when men would step in to help a lady in trouble! What is wrong with men today"

That's funny right there

Posted by: man at April 21, 2026 04:22 PM (XuXeR)

242 Leave your opponent an avenue of retreat so they won't fight as hard ? That was one of the brilliant writing of Sun-Tzu. Nobody does that - because its stupid.

Depends on what you are trying to do but yes usually the best strategy is surround them and starve them. Hell, WWII is a masterclass in how do do so...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 21, 2026 04:23 PM (sKqQm)

243 *ace does not tolerate this kind of talk.*

*this is your one warning*

Posted by: Matthew at April 21, 2026 04:23 PM (OdsgZ)

244
I hate that fucking book. I can't stand those who pretend to be smarter for reading it. I read it. I felt myself get dumber for the effort.
Posted by: YEP at April 21, 2026 04:21 PM (S2mGF)




That's just what he WANTED you to think.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 21, 2026 04:23 PM (Zz0t1)

245 The Art of Cunnilingus was his best book.

I found the core thesis to be fishy.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 21, 2026 04:23 PM (sKqQm)

246 I hate that fucking book. I can't stand those who pretend to be smarter for reading it. I read it. I felt myself get dumber for the effort.

Posted by: YEP at April 21, 2026 04:21 PM (S2mGF)
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Don is supposedly a devotee of that book.

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 04:24 PM (Fi81e)

247 >>> There's a federal grand jury empaneled in a Florida district that is apparently looking into the conspiracy to deny Donald Trump his rights.


They should expand it to include all collateral damage in the deep states onslaught.

.... at publicly charge someone for rummaging through underwear drawers.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 21, 2026 04:24 PM (/lPRQ)

248 Will Iran extend their ceasefire is the question.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 21, 2026 04:24 PM (n5tGW)

249 Depends on what you are trying to do"

W.T. Sherman waves...

Posted by: man at April 21, 2026 04:25 PM (XuXeR)

250
The Art of Cunnilingus was his best book.
Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2026 04:22 PM (ytyaf)



Because sometimes it takes good oral support.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 21, 2026 04:25 PM (Zz0t1)

251 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 21, 2026 04:25 PM (LdBR/)

252 The Art of Cunnilingus was his best book.

Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2026 04:22 PM (ytyaf)
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It just got the most tongues wagging.

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 04:26 PM (Fi81e)

253 Cow workers are now talking about TACO TUESDAY. Taco this. Taco that.

TACO
TACO
TACO

I hate these stupid gits.

They are gleeful when they hear the US may be getting the shaft.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 21, 2026 04:26 PM (W2Pud)

254 25 Leftists want a American Civil War II

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2026 03:27 PM (Ia/+0)


They want Battle of the Little Bighorn II. With them as the thousand-plus Sioux and allied warriors, along with a thousand-plus women and children following along to kill the badly wounded and maim the still-living and the dead, and us as Custer's 470 or so cavalry troopers and officers with single-shot carbines and a few dozen revolvers.

Posted by: Gref at April 21, 2026 04:04 PM (5rh/l)



Only this time we bring the Gatling guns. GarryOwen!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 21, 2026 04:26 PM (C4BAC)

255 Leave your opponent an avenue of retreat so they won't fight as hard ? That was one of the brilliant writing of Sun-Tzu. Nobody does that - because its stupid.

Attack where your opponent is weak ? Great idea, Sun. Simply brilliant. Now tell me how to find that spot.

I hate that fucking book. I can't stand those who pretend to be smarter for reading it. I read it. I felt myself get dumber for the effort.
Posted by: YEP


Buy Low.
Sell High.
- Sun-Tzu

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 21, 2026 04:26 PM (/lPRQ)

256 Something weird is going on in the Pentagon if reports are true.

General in Charge of Nucs was just escorted out of the Pentagon.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2026 04:26 PM (mP0Kj)

257
Leave your opponent an avenue of retreat so they won't fight as hard ? That was one of the brilliant writing of Sun-Tzu. Nobody does that - because its stupid.

Attack where your opponent is weak ? Great idea, Sun. Simply brilliant. Now tell me how to find that spot.

I hate that fucking book. I can't stand those who pretend to be smarter for reading it. I read it. I felt myself get dumber for the effort.

Posted by: YEP at April 21, 2026 04:21 PM (S2mGF)

Most troops did not die in fighting but being cut down in the retreat/rout until relatively recent centuries. What Sun Tzu is talking about is inducing a rout, which was the key to wars for most of human history. The avenue of retreat need not be extensive or largely viable, it's a place for the enemy to panic funnel towards.

He also talks about cutting off your own retreat, such as Cortez scuttling his boats, to prevent routs.

In short since battles were won by morale, you want your troops to believe they're firmly committed and must fight or die and the enemy to believe they can back off. The side that starts running first gets butchered.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 21, 2026 04:28 PM (okun6)

258 wait, WAIT..

your favorite president has an UPDATE !

"Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal. I have therefore directed our Military to continue the Blockade and, in all other respects, remain ready and able, and will therefore extend the Ceasefire until such time as their proposal is submitted, and discussions are concluded, one way or the other. President DONALD J.
TRUMP"

😂😂😂

*as runner explained on the other thread...the blockade is on and it is a good thing!!

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2026 04:28 PM (GD0B3)

259 oh, here is a very piquant rumor !

"Hearing from Arabic sources that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard places Qalibaf, Pezeshkian, and Araghchi under house arrest.

Negotiations with US are halted."

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2026 04:31 PM (GD0B3)

260 They want Battle of the Little Bighorn II. With them as the thousand-plus Sioux and allied warriors, along with a thousand-plus women and children following along to kill the badly wounded and maim the still-living and the dead, and us as Custer's 470 or so cavalry troopers and officers with single-shot carbines and a few dozen revolvers.

Posted by: Gref at April 21, 2026 04:04 PM (5rh/l)



Custer fucked up when he divided his forces. United we win.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 21, 2026 04:31 PM (C4BAC)

261 Personally was hoping to see Iran ridden of anything that floats

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2026 04:32 PM (Ia/+0)

262 I was hoping the next bombing raid would begin in a few hours ... instead Trump hopes they die on the vine from lack of oil revenue, and perhaps from a few more IRGC being stabbed to death on the streets. I have no clue how fractured the various IRGC and other Iran faithful militaries are, or aren't.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 21, 2026 04:32 PM (vbXSk)

263 He also talks about cutting off your own retreat, such as Cortez scuttling his boats, to prevent routs.

And no military does that either. To cut off your own retreat is to cut off your own supply. That's damn dumb.

Sun-Tzu's greatest accomplishment seems to be writing the first pamphlet on war. I wouldn't call it a book.

Posted by: YEP at April 21, 2026 04:34 PM (S2mGF)

264 Oooof.

Extends the cease fire so the government of Iran can stop being fractured, out itself together and come back to talk about things they've already rejected?

Not a good plan. Best you get is continuing the blockade to attack them that way....but, I don't know,.use that to further destabilize? But he wants them un-fractured and stable so they can "negotiate"

What the fuck. Fuck this. TACO TUESDAY.

TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO MOTHER FUCKING TACO ASS WEINER HEAD FACE.

Posted by: GigantorX at April 21, 2026 04:35 PM (I5fLw)

265 He also talks about cutting off your own retreat, such as Cortez scuttling his boats, to prevent routs.


He also calls for calling down fire on your own positions when the enemy is inside the wire and you've been overrun.


Okay, maybe he didn't but that's just because they didn't have Artillery. But I do.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 21, 2026 04:37 PM (C4BAC)

266
"One word- plastics."

- Sun Tzu, Stuff Sun-Tzu Said, Vol. I

Posted by: Don Black at April 21, 2026 04:37 PM (ZxPkt)

267 263 "He also talks about cutting off your own retreat, such as Cortez scuttling his boats, to prevent routs."

And no military does that either. To cut off your own retreat is to cut off your own supply. That's damn dumb.

Sun-Tzu's greatest accomplishment seems to be writing the first pamphlet on war. I wouldn't call it a book.

Posted by: YEP at April 21, 2026 04:34 PM (S2mGF)

Cortez literally did that. Setting one's back to a river is also a reasonably common approach for similar reasons.

Sun Tzu is talking largely of melee combat, which stopped being dominant arguably in the 20th century.

Supply in the WW1 and further sense isn't really what he's addressing either. Foraging for supply as he describes isn't as possible on that scale, nor do we depend on raiding as much in war.

Sun Tzu wasn't making stuff up, they're tactics that were in use and continued to be in use for quite some time, including outside of Asia.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 21, 2026 04:38 PM (okun6)

268 "Give the twice cooked pork a pass".


Other things Sun Tzu said.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 21, 2026 04:40 PM (C4BAC)

269 IRGC and the Pakastani's just shoving HUGE MEAT FILL D TACOS down Donny's throat on this wonderful Tuesday.....then slapping their kabobs on Donny tushy.

TACO burrito what's that leaking out of Donny's speedo!?

Posted by: GigantorX at April 21, 2026 04:41 PM (I5fLw)

270 Sun Tzu wasn't making stuff up, they're tactics that were in use and continued to be in use for quite some time, including outside of Asia.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 21, 2026 04:38 PM (okun6)


OK dude - you apparently love some Sun-Tzu. As did every manager in the 90s that wanted to virtue-signal that they were smart.

I keep telling you why his writings don't make sense now, and you keep saying how you think they made sense back then.

Who cares ? I don't. Makes no sense now. Maybe, if we all go Middle Ages and regress, you can carry that copy of Sun-Tzu around and put your band of who knows what backs to the river and somehow attack the weakest point in the other band of fuck-ups and then route them while they think they can retreat before your guys run out of lunch-meat.

But I doubt it.

Posted by: YEP at April 21, 2026 04:46 PM (S2mGF)

271 270
OK dude - you apparently love some Sun-Tzu. As did every manager in the 90s that wanted to virtue-signal that they were smart.

I keep telling you why his writings don't make sense now, and you keep saying how you think they made sense back then.

Who cares ? I don't. Makes no sense now. Maybe, if we all go Middle Ages and regress, you can carry that copy of Sun-Tzu around and put your band of who knows what backs to the river and somehow attack the weakest point in the other band of fuck-ups and then route them while they think they can retreat before your guys run out of lunch-meat.

But I doubt it.

Posted by: YEP at April 21, 2026 04:46 PM (S2mGF)

Sun Tzu isn't talking about business when he's describing where to pitch a camp or how to position in regards to sunlight.

He's literally just going over many of the basics of warfare in his era.

It's fine that you don't understand it. It is not relevant to you anymore than Roman engineering is. That doesn't make them stupid.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 21, 2026 04:51 PM (okun6)

272 Kinsinger is making it clear he was a Dem plant in Congress. He's campaigning for the gerrymandering in Virginia.

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2026 05:01 PM (Fi81e)

273 t's fine that you don't understand it. It is not relevant to you anymore than Roman engineering is. That doesn't make them stupid.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 21, 2026 04:51 PM (okun6)


So you feel a need to defend the dude that wrote a pamphlet about the guy that said don't pitch your tent with the opening to the East ?

Slick - I get that you are a Conservative. But some things don't need conserved. Including dumb ass writings about warfare.

Honestly - you are the definition of a conservative.

Posted by: YEP at April 21, 2026 05:54 PM (S2mGF)

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