Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Sources of Country Music
Thomas Hart Benton

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 09:30 AM (S838b)

2 I see no cheatin' wives, no broken-down trucks and no dead dogs.

Posted by: Delurker at May 08, 2026 09:30 AM (gtcuf)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

4 Hootenanny!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

5 And the train theme is completed.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 08, 2026 09:31 AM (NpAcC)

6 Hoedown!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

7 At least there's a jug of 'shine....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 08, 2026 09:31 AM (jehhT)

8 The world was italicized that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at May 08, 2026 09:31 AM (2Ez/1)

9 Bigfoot in pink.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 09:31 AM (S838b)

10 Hooo doggies!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 08, 2026 09:31 AM (8Fxbo)

11 If Heaven ain't a lot like Dixie.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

12 'Ho down!

Posted by: Cicero (@ciceto43) at May 08, 2026 09:32 AM (JkO4W)

13 Bigfoot in pink.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 09:31 AM (S838b)

She will marry an Italian wine maker.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

14 I see no cheatin' wives, no broken-down trucks and no dead dogs.
Posted by: Delurker

Obligatory: play country music backwards and get your dog back, your double wide back & your wife back.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 09:32 AM (S838b)

15 Hootin' is a gateway drug to hollerin'.

Posted by: Be warned at May 08, 2026 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)

16 There's an engineer there on that long black train
Making you wonder if the ride is worth the pain
He's just a waiting on your heart to say
Let me ride on that long black train

But you know there's victory in the Lord I say
Victory in the Lord
Cling to the Father and his holy name
And don't go riding on that long black train. . .

Posted by: Josh Turner at May 08, 2026 09:33 AM (8Fxbo)

17 I dunno. Could be a shiveree.

Posted by: Cicero (@ciceto43) at May 08, 2026 09:33 AM (JkO4W)

18 'Ho down!
Posted by: Cicero

Ain't none of them fallen over yet!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 09:33 AM (S838b)

19 I see no cheatin' wives, no broken-down trucks and no dead dogs.
Posted by: Delurker
________

Or whiskey.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 08, 2026 09:33 AM (XvL8K)

20 'Murrica!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2026 09:33 AM (2icm1)

21 If you're gonna play in Texas.......

Ya gotta have a fiddle in the band.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

22 Spot the DEI hire?

Posted by: Delurker at May 08, 2026 09:33 AM (gtcuf)

23 Alternate title: #6 Dance!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 09:34 AM (S838b)

24 White trash. No dogs.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 08, 2026 09:34 AM (Kt19C)

25 This train is bound for glory.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 08, 2026 09:34 AM (0nHVk)

26 Girls and trains. Check and check.

Forgot dogs, prison, and Mom. Johnny Carson might have covered this list better.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 08, 2026 09:34 AM (nECtM)

27 Wait. I remember reading on a Smart Military Blog™ something about the requirement for an upright bass.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 08, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

28
When you die, you may not go to Heaven, but-

Texas is always open for business!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 08, 2026 09:34 AM (iJfKG)

29 Then we get 'em at the Number 6 dance.

Posted by: Taggart at May 08, 2026 09:34 AM (JkO4W)

30 Why are the 3 on the left looking in horror to the skies?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

31 If you’re gonna play in Texas, ya gotta have a fiddle in the band.

Checks out.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at May 08, 2026 09:35 AM (XxHEN)

32 Always like Benton's paintings. This one is definitely lively.
Would hang
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 08, 2026 09:35 AM (gu0hJ)

33 This is marvelous. Why, yes, I'm a Thomas Hart Benton fangirl.

Posted by: huerfano at May 08, 2026 09:35 AM (VJX5o)

34 Spot the DEI hire?

Posted by: Delurker

The one in green on the left. She's not playing an instrument.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 09:35 AM (S838b)

35 Well, judge looked down, gave me forty days
Instead of the fine that I could not pay
Said "Walk right, you'll soon be home
Cross the line, you'll be on your own"

Forty days of shotguns and barbed wire fences
Forty nights to sit and listen
To the midnight train to Memphis. . .

Posted by: Chris Stapleton at May 08, 2026 09:35 AM (8Fxbo)

36 Yeeee Haaaw!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 08, 2026 09:35 AM (g8Ew8)

37 No horse, no country music art.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 08, 2026 09:36 AM (hnKw3)

38 They play vintage (1940s-50s) country music at my barbershop, which has led me to listening to some great vintage country playlists on the yootoobs.

I've become a big Kitty Wells fan, among others.

Posted by: Delurker at May 08, 2026 09:36 AM (gtcuf)

39 Git yer foot off'n that saddle!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 09:36 AM (S838b)

40 Commie art style. Me no likey.

Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2026 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

41 I hear the train a comin', it's rolling 'round the bend
And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when
I'm stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin' on
But that train keeps a rollin' on down to San Antone. . .

Posted by: Johnny Cash at May 08, 2026 09:36 AM (8Fxbo)

42 Guitar player on the right has a holster and pistol.

Posted by: dantesed at May 08, 2026 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

43 ...as Jerry Reed's version of 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' rolls across the playlist......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

44
Thomas Hart Benton. Quite a guy. Grand-nephew of Thomas Hart Benton, the first senator from Missouri. Hard-drinking, hated Marxists, foreigners and gays.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 08, 2026 09:37 AM (HdYcL)

45 Yeah, reminds me of Commie art, too.
But heh, looks like they're enjoying themselves?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 08, 2026 09:38 AM (8Fxbo)

46
In fact they wrote a song about it:

https://tinyurl.com/3v8327zp

Posted by: naturalfake at May 08, 2026 09:38 AM (iJfKG)

47 Whoever designed that church obviously didn't take into account the need for parking.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2026 09:38 AM (JkO4W)

48 But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
You never even call me by my name.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 08, 2026 09:39 AM (wVcYX)

49 C&W chicks usually have bigger tits.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 08, 2026 09:39 AM (g8Ew8)

50
Why are the 3 on the left looking in horror to the skies?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

Ghost Riders in the Sky!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 08, 2026 09:40 AM (iJfKG)

51 They play vintage (1940s-50s) country music at my barbershop, which has led me to listening to some great vintage country playlists on the yootoobs.

I've become a big Kitty Wells fan, among others.
Posted by: Delurker

YouTube - Hank Williams, Sr.

I Saw the Light.

A young June Carter is between Hank & Roy Acuff.
And yes, you can tell it's June by her voice.

https://tinyurl.com/4hhba69e

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 09:41 AM (S838b)

52 What’s the long thing extending across the bottom of the painting?

Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2026 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

53 NO DANCING

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2026 09:41 AM (JkO4W)

54 Elwood: What kind of music do you usually have here?

Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country *and* western.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 08, 2026 09:41 AM (wVcYX)

55 This is an insult to Allah and haram.

Posted by: Sayyid Qutb at May 08, 2026 09:41 AM (Dq4RN)

56 19 I see no cheatin' wives, no broken-down trucks and no dead dogs.
Posted by: Delurker
________

Or whiskey.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
+++
Look closer at the feet of one of the fiddle players.
There's a brown jug.
Prolly not Dasani.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 08, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)

57 This is an insult to Allah and haram.

Posted by: Sayyid Qutb at May 08, 2026 09:41 AM (Dq4RN)/i]

Good.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

58 Fiddle player #2 brought a jug. Good man.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2026 09:42 AM (JkO4W)

59

They wrote a song about that one too...

Let Johnny Cash tell you all about it

https://tinyurl.com/5hhvrb3x

Posted by: naturalfake at May 08, 2026 09:42 AM (iJfKG)

60 Nice way to complete this week's theme.

Posted by: Tuna at May 08, 2026 09:43 AM (lJ0H4)

61
I got them Pretty Girls Dancin', Dulcimer-Strummin', Train-a-Chuggin' Country Music Blues.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 08, 2026 09:43 AM (HdYcL)

62 The Sources of Country Music

***********

Pop Confusion - a limerick

The local folks were putting on a hoedown
And the locomotive didn't even slow down
But it was Gladys and the Pips
That made the dancers swing their hips
The source of country music? Heck, it's Motown!

Posted by: muldoon at May 08, 2026 09:43 AM (I0N4X)

63 Black guy on the banjo has to sit way over there, but it isn't because he's black. It's because banjos are very loud.

Posted by: huerfano at May 08, 2026 09:43 AM (VJX5o)

64 49 C&W chicks usually have bigger tits.
+++
Bigger than what?

Posted by: D. Parton at May 08, 2026 09:43 AM (2Ez/1)

65 Not my style, but OK, I think.

Just to let y'all know, I was Country when Country wasn't cool.

But seriously, I was never Country. I appreciate some Country, though.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 08, 2026 09:43 AM (DgMqy)

66 C&W chicks usually have bigger tits.
+++
Bigger than what?
Posted by: D. Parton

Yes.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 09:44 AM (S838b)

67 Lord have mercy, baby's got her blue jeans on

Posted by: Mel McDaniel at May 08, 2026 09:44 AM (HcoTw)

68 +++
Bigger than what?
Posted by: D. Parton at May 08, 2026 09:43 AM (2Ez/1)

Get well soon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

69
I need moar drugs to view this art. Would not hang.

"Ooooooooooooooklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain.
Oklahoma, Ev'ry night my honey lamb and I
Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk
Makin' lazy circles in the sky.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 08, 2026 09:45 AM (QVmho)

70 I wonder if anything rhymes with dulcimer...?

Posted by: muldoon at May 08, 2026 09:45 AM (I0N4X)

71 There's even a steamboat in the background. Nice touch.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 08, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)

72 I wonder if anything rhymes with dulcimer...?
Posted by: muldoon at May 08, 2026 09:45 AM (I0N4X)

Dulcimer? I hardly KNEW 'er.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)

73 Lady in the pink dress needs bunion surgery

Posted by: one hour sober at May 08, 2026 09:46 AM (4iDZE)

74 "Again" is a cool propaganda piece by Benton. It's... not subtle.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 08, 2026 09:46 AM (BI5O2)

75
Boiler on the steamboat in the background fixing to explode.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 08, 2026 09:46 AM (HdYcL)

76 70 fulsomer

Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2026 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

77 Dulcimer? I just met her!

Posted by: Hey-ooooh at May 08, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)

78
I wonder if anything rhymes with dulcimer...?

Posted by: muldoon at May 08, 2026 09:45 AM (I0N4X)

Pulsometer, you physician you!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 08, 2026 09:47 AM (iJfKG)

79 I wonder if anything rhymes with dulcimer...?
Posted by: muldoon at May 08, 2026 09:45 AM (I0N4X)

Ulcer?

Posted by: dantesed at May 08, 2026 09:48 AM (Oy/m2)

80 Is that Trace Adkins ballsack hanging off the log on the right?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

81 Mortimer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

82
Huh. Benton died just as he was finishing this.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 08, 2026 09:48 AM (HdYcL)

83 Saturday night and the moon is out
I want to head on over to the Twist and Shout

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 08, 2026 09:48 AM (wVcYX)

84 I wonder if anything rhymes with dulcimer...?

Posted by: muldoon at May 08, 2026 09:45 AM (I0N4X)

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

Skull Simmer?

[h/t Uncle Bosie]

Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2026 09:49 AM (lR5Ug)

85 70 I wonder if anything rhymes with dulcimer...?

Nada. You'd have better luck with psaltery.

Posted by: Delurker at May 08, 2026 09:50 AM (gtcuf)

86 I agree from upthread. This is the Soviet rendition of C&W.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 08, 2026 09:50 AM (g8Ew8)

87 Tulsi fur?

Posted by: Delurker at May 08, 2026 09:51 AM (gtcuf)

88 It wasn't long after this the Three Bonnet Girls changed their name to Dixie Chicks and started performing in denim hot pants.

Posted by: Music nerd at May 08, 2026 09:51 AM (2Ez/1)

89 Which country?

Posted by: fd at May 08, 2026 09:51 AM (vFG9F)

90 It looks like AI.

Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage" at May 08, 2026 09:52 AM (vFG9F)

91 I like Benton's portrayal of the speed of the locomotive by having it lean forward. Very effective

Posted by: muldoon at May 08, 2026 09:52 AM (I0N4X)

92 I'd peel off those tight fittin jeans
I'd love to lay em down
I've got a slow hand.

Conway don't play. All your women belong to me.

Paulo or whoever. Never heard of him.

Posted by: Conway twitty at May 08, 2026 09:52 AM (HcoTw)

93 It wasn't long after this the Three Bonnet Girls changed their name to Dixie Chicks and started performing in denim hot pants.
Posted by: Music nerd at May 08, 2026 09:51 AM (2Ez/1)

Then they went to Europe and pissed off the entire country music world.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)

94 79 I wonder if anything rhymes with dulcimer...?
Posted by: muldoon at May 08, 2026 09:45 AM (I0N4X)

Ulcer?
Posted by: dantesed at May 08, 2026 09:48 AM (Oy/m2)

Ulcer in 'er.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 08, 2026 09:53 AM (g8Ew8)

95 Benton's great-grand uncle the Senator was known as "Old Bullion"

Posted by: Delurker at May 08, 2026 09:53 AM (gtcuf)

96 Gossamer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)

97
One fine night, they leave the pool hall
Heading for the dance at the Arm'ry
Libertine men and scarlet women, and ragtime,
Shameless music
That'll grab your son, your daught with the arms of a jungle, animal instinct
Mass-steria!
Friends, the idle brain is the devil's playground!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 08, 2026 09:53 AM (HdYcL)

98 *Guy who always says "It's garbage" at May 08, 2026 09:52 AM*

Or is it shit?

Posted by: As we've recently learned from ace at May 08, 2026 09:53 AM (2Ez/1)

99 Dulcimer? I hardly knew 'er!

Posted by: fd at May 08, 2026 09:54 AM (vFG9F)

100 There's no booze or adultery in that painting, so thus incomplete

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 08, 2026 09:54 AM (xcxpd)

101 There's no booze or adultery in that painting, so thus incomplete
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 08, 2026 09:54 AM (xcxpd)

There are jugs on the floor in front of the one fiddle player......Might be shine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)

102 Lead singer of Dixie chicks present day. Ooof

Posted by: Oh no! at May 08, 2026 09:55 AM (HcoTw)

103 "Again" is a cool propaganda piece by Benton. It's... not subtle.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 08, 2026 09:46 AM (BI5O2)

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

Had never seen that, thanks YD:

https://is.gd/bUC0js

Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2026 09:55 AM (lR5Ug)

104 I wouldn't hang a Benton painting but I enjoy looking at them. It's fun to see what is included and how the people are posed. This one was requested by Tex Ritter to show te many influences of country music from church/gospel, to cowboys to square dancing and more. The people are dressed for each type with the bare dulcimer player for at home music, the women in bonnets for the church choir, the cowboy with his single guitar, the banjo player might be a (former?) slave, the fiddlers in overalls and the dancers in 'country best', etc. The steam boat, telegraph poles and steam locomotive help set the sense of time. And it is all bright but not garish, light with a sense of enjoyment and life and movement.

It's a wonderfully effective painting.

Posted by: JTB at May 08, 2026 09:56 AM (yTvNw)

105 There are jugs on the floor in front of the one fiddle player......Might be shine.

There aren't XXX's on it.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 08, 2026 09:56 AM (DgMqy)

106 Jugs on the floor? Is this about me?

Posted by: Old Lady Pelosi at May 08, 2026 09:56 AM (2Ez/1)

107 Where Minnie Pearl?

Posted by: How-dee! at May 08, 2026 09:57 AM (oftw2)

108 107 Where Minnie Pearl?

Clammed up and left

Posted by: Oh no! at May 08, 2026 09:57 AM (HcoTw)

109 TGIF morons!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 08, 2026 09:57 AM (zgRls)

110 There's not one damn cow or horse in that scene.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 08, 2026 09:57 AM (g8Ew8)

111 Now I’ve got Toby Keith in my head.

“I sobered up and I got to think’n girl you ain’t much fun since I quit drink’n!”

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at May 08, 2026 09:58 AM (XxHEN)

112 This can't be a real hoe-down.

There's not a single jug of moonshine to be seen!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 08, 2026 09:58 AM (gnNyN)

113 Jugs on the floor? Is this about me?
Posted by: Old Lady Pelosi at May 08, 2026 09:56 AM (2Ez/1)

Heh. The Horde never disappoints.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 08, 2026 09:58 AM (wVcYX)

114 There are jugs on the floor in front of the one fiddle player......Might be shine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)

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

And we've gone beyond D. Parton to N. Pelosi.

Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2026 09:58 AM (lR5Ug)

115 CBD has surpassed his quota of smoke and cinders this week.
On the upside, train stations have no ottomans.

Posted by: Pullman Porters Local 12 7/8 at May 08, 2026 09:58 AM (oftw2)

116 Huh. Benton died just as he was finishing this.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

So THAT'S why the "n" in Benton trails off towards the floor.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 09:58 AM (S838b)

117 104 ... That should have said 'bare foot' dulcimer player.

I need to proof read my comments.

Posted by: JTB at May 08, 2026 09:59 AM (yTvNw)

118 Crap. Beaten to the punch once again ... hordemind!

* pouts *

Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2026 10:00 AM (lR5Ug)

119 Truth Social -

Trump administration releases batch of files, including photos and videos, documenting UFOs

https://tinyurl.com/ydxxfhr9

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 10:00 AM (S838b)

120
There are jugs on the floor...

Well, to be fair...you get that with a photo of Nancy Pelosi,

and you probably wouldn't call that country.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 08, 2026 10:01 AM (iJfKG)

121 is that a puckered asshole at far right?

Posted by: Don Black at May 08, 2026 10:01 AM (ZxPkt)

122 *sigh*

Beaten to the punch.

*shakes fist at Shain*

Posted by: naturalfake at May 08, 2026 10:02 AM (iJfKG)

123 > 'bare foot' dulcimer player.
-----
Now put her on an ottoman.
Hubba hubba.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 08, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1)

124 Willowed from last thread because of 100 comment rule:

"Trainspotting" is a 30 year old film that showed what two generations of welfare state did to young men in Scotland, we are well past that innocent drug, drink, and sex era now.

Britain has a unemployable male youth population.
Posted by: Auspex

There's going to be a World War 12 shortly. Or a CW 12. They've got to kill off the surplus. They can't afford to keep that many males around.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 10:03 AM (S838b)

125 Lively painting; Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 08, 2026 10:04 AM (Yl2Ob)

126 Hmmm...reminiscent of commie agitprop.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 08, 2026 10:05 AM (xAP/Y)

127 Lookin' like a foo wit yo jugs on da floor.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

128 Eh, lots of imam and muezzin positions opening up in the UK, I hear.

Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2026 10:05 AM (77rzZ)

129

"Trainspotting" is a 30 year old film that showed what two generations of welfare state did to young men in Scotland, we are well past that innocent drug, drink, and sex era now.

Britain has a unemployable male youth population.
Posted by: Auspex

If you travel to London, you can see-

"Trainspotting: The Musical"!

Sets your toes a'tappin' and your heart asingin' as you shott up.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 08, 2026 10:06 AM (iJfKG)

130
shott = shoot

Posted by: naturalfake at May 08, 2026 10:07 AM (iJfKG)

131 There's going to be a World War 12 shortly.
Ahem...that's World War One-Hundred-Eleven, you uneducated buffoon.

You're welcome,
Ilhan

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 08, 2026 10:07 AM (y2f7I)

132 Truth Social -

Trump administration releases batch of files, including photos and videos, documenting UFOs

https://tinyurl.com/ydxxfhr9
Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 10:00 AM (S838b)

And every one of those pics and videos are of the lowest quality and grainy to the point that no one can discern the strings.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 08, 2026 10:07 AM (g8Ew8)

133 The UK started a government heroin program because drug addicts should be able to shoot up and not worry about a bad batch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

134
Trump administration releases batch of files, including photos and videos, documenting UFOs

https://tinyurl.com/ydxxfhr9
Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 10:00 AM (S838b)

And every one of those pics and videos are of the lowest quality and grainy to the point that no one can discern the strings.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 08, 2026 10:07 AM

He's just distracting from the Epstein files.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 10:08 AM (Zz0t1)

135 In Kansas City you can visit Benton's house and studio. He had a unique way of working on his Cinerama-style murals: he'd make a shadow box, using chicken wire and papier-mache to mock up all the figures, so that he could watch how their perspective size and angles changed as the viewpoint moved. Lot of work. He didn't usually save them after the painting, but there are a few. He was a folk musician, as well. Made albums.

Both he and Grant Wood worked on Navy dazzle paint schemes in WWI. I tried to make a little something of that, but the pretty-well-grounded art major docent was sure they'd both completed a lot of old school classical training before the drafting experience with Large Ships.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 08, 2026 10:09 AM (zdLoL)

136 There's going to be a World War 12 shortly.
Ahem...that's World War One-Hundred-Eleven, you uneducated buffoon.

You're welcome,
Ilhan
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

*snort.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 10:09 AM (S838b)

137 I wonder if the government ever figured out what the foo fighters were.

Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2026 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

138 Guitarist is packing. He's played this place before.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 08, 2026 10:09 AM (sl73Y)

139 Notice the holster on that cowboy.

*********

That Plucking Guy - a limerick

There once was a guitar-playing hick
Who pulled off a pretty neat trick
Cross-draw holster on his hip
Pulled his pistol with a flip
And kilt the bad guy without missing a lick!

Posted by: muldoon at May 08, 2026 10:10 AM (I0N4X)

140 And every one of those pics and videos are of the lowest quality and grainy to the point that no one can discern the strings.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Yeah. We can read a newspaper from the SR-71 Blackbird at cruising altitude but we have 7-11 cameras in fighter aircraft.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 10:11 AM (S838b)

141 Truth Social -

Trump administration releases batch of files, including photos and videos, documenting UFOs

https://tinyurl.com/ydxxfhr9
Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 10:00 AM (S838b)

And every one of those pics and videos are of the lowest quality and grainy to the point that no one can discern the strings.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 08, 2026 10:07 AM (g8Ew

4-5 billion people worldwide with cellphones

and no one can get a clear photo or video of a flying saucer.

Ya know, it's almost like the whole thing is a hoax.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 08, 2026 10:11 AM (iJfKG)

142 137 I wonder if the government ever figured out what the foo fighters were.
###

Those cats were fast as lightning!

Posted by: Biddu at May 08, 2026 10:11 AM (2Ez/1)

143 Foo is a tech term. It’s like a placeholder or a temporary value when programming.

Fighting that is a noble cause. Fuck temporary values be man, commit.

Posted by: Le Haim at May 08, 2026 10:11 AM (qbQ2i)

144 Its ok

Posted by: Skip at May 08, 2026 10:11 AM (P735k)

145 I've never cared for Benton, though I don't really know why.

The swirliness of his figures always reminds me of the painting seen in the opening credits of Good Times.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 08, 2026 10:12 AM (qRla/)

146 138 Guitarist is packing. He's played this place before.
Posted by: From about That Time at May 08, 2026 10:09 AM (sl73Y)

Wrong kind of holster for a twist draw, dunno why he'd carry a revolver that way.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 08, 2026 10:12 AM (xcxpd)

147 Trump administration releases batch of files, including photos and videos, documenting UFOs

https://tinyurl.com/ydxxfhr9
Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 10:00 AM (S838b)
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Hah! I knew it!

Posted by: Fox Mulder at May 08, 2026 10:12 AM (gnNyN)

148 Country music?
Where the hell is BARBI Benton?

Posted by: RI Red at May 08, 2026 10:12 AM (z1SIt)

149 145 Easy credit ripoffs!

Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2026 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

150 137 I wonder if the government ever figured out what the foo fighters were.
Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2026 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

At some point, they were flying them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 08, 2026 10:13 AM (xcxpd)

151 Notice the holster on that cowboy.

Yeah. But butt forward is usually worn closer to the front for cross draw. Not low slung on the hip like a gunfighter.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 10:13 AM (S838b)

152 Foo is a tech term. It’s like a placeholder or a temporary value when programming.

Fighting that is a noble cause. Fuck temporary values be man, commit.
Posted by: Le Haim at May 08, 2026 10:11 AM (qbQ2i)

Incorrect.

A 'foo' is a person whom Mr. T pities.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 10:13 AM (Zz0t1)

153 Scratchin' and surviving.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 08, 2026 10:14 AM (2Ez/1)

154 That Plucking Guy - a limerick

There once was a guitar-playing hick
Who pulled off a pretty neat trick
Cross-draw holster on his hip
Pulled his pistol with a flip
And kilt the bad guy without missing a lick!
Posted by: muldoon at May 08, 2026 10:10 AM (I0N4X)

nice

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 08, 2026 10:14 AM (xcxpd)

155
Country music?
Where the hell is BARBI Benton?

Posted by: RI Red at May 08, 2026 10:12 AM (z1SIt)

In several old issues of Playboy, now available for your perusal online.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 08, 2026 10:14 AM (iJfKG)

156 C&W chicks usually have bigger tits.
+++
Bigger than what?
Posted by: D. Parton

Yes.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 09:44 AM (S838b)

Dolly's measurements have been reported as 41-25-38, but she's admitted she has had at least one breast enhancement surgery.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 08, 2026 10:15 AM (qRla/)

157 133 The UK started a government heroin program because drug addicts should be able to shoot up and not worry about a bad batch.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

China grins in revenge

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 08, 2026 10:15 AM (xcxpd)

158 It's a lovely, sunny day here at Stately Poppins Manor and I am slowly editing my new novel. Just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 08, 2026 10:17 AM (qRla/)

159 Dolly's measurements have been reported as 41-25-38, but she's admitted she has had at least one breast enhancement surgery.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 08, 2026 10:15 AM (qRla/)

One?
Wouldn’t that throw them off kilter?

Posted by: RI Red at May 08, 2026 10:17 AM (z1SIt)

160 Holy Shit!

BREAKING: The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down the VA 10-1 Democratic gerrymander, arguing it violated the VA Constitution.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 08, 2026 10:17 AM (CNl8/)

161 Oh dear, does look like I’m hated all around the UK.
Shall I quit?
Lol no.
I have several more years of pain to inflict on the people who voted me in.

Posted by: Queer Starmer at May 08, 2026 10:17 AM (KHO4A)

162 It's a lovely, sunny day here at Stately Poppins Manor and I am slowly editing my new novel. Just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 08, 2026 10:17 AM (qRla/)

*brohug*

One day at a time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

163 *Just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.*

I think it's a boob thread now.

Posted by: Just got here at May 08, 2026 10:18 AM (2Ez/1)

164
I think it's a boob thread now.
Posted by: Just got here at May 08, 2026 10:18 AM (2Ez/1)/i]

LGBT thread.

Liberty
Guns
Boobs
Trump

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

165 BREAKING: The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down the VA 10-1 Democratic gerrymander, arguing it violated the VA Constitution.
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 08, 2026 10:17 AM (CNl8/)

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

BWAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 08, 2026 10:19 AM (2UnvF)

166 Those pages are, uh, unavailable. Two ply now.

Posted by: RI Red at May 08, 2026 10:19 AM (z1SIt)

167 This looks like a cross between Bosch and Rockwell.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 08, 2026 10:19 AM (lbImv)

168 Wouldn’t that throw them off kilter?

**********

Nope. That's just the way God built 'er

Posted by: muldoon at May 08, 2026 10:20 AM (I0N4X)

169 No Spamburger for you!!

Posted by: Virginia Supreme Court at May 08, 2026 10:20 AM (2Ez/1)

170 What is the dulcimer player sitting on?

Posted by: tankdemon at May 08, 2026 10:20 AM (lbImv)

171
This looks like a cross between Bosch and Rockwell.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 08, 2026 10:19 AM (lbImv)

No one has a bird demon coming out of their butt,

so no on the Bosch.

Unless you mean Bosch spark-plugs.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 08, 2026 10:21 AM (iJfKG)

172 The painting looks like a Christmas ornament.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 08, 2026 10:21 AM (2ap+5)

173 From the VA decision.

"This constitutional violation incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy."

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 08, 2026 10:21 AM (2UnvF)

174 "...a cross between Bosch and Rockwell."

I'm on sale this week. Just in time for Mother's Day.

Posted by: DeWalt cordless drills at May 08, 2026 10:22 AM (2Ez/1)

175 Good ‘un, Muldoon.
And now you’ve got 40% of another limerick!

Posted by: RI Red at May 08, 2026 10:23 AM (z1SIt)

176 This painting was featured in the Country Music documentary with Ken Burns. It was very representative of the history of the music that was brought from Europe and Africa ,passed down and then reworked into the classics and long forgotten tunes of today. The Carter family patriarch drove hundreds of miles visiting the people living in the hills to gather songs, write them down, and then record them. Such as Will the circle be Unbroken. That documentary was fascinating and very educational for country music lovers.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 08, 2026 10:23 AM (jyyfa)

177 170 What is the dulcimer player sitting on?
Posted by: tankdemon at May 08, 2026 10:20 AM
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At least it's not an ottoman.

Posted by: Whew! at May 08, 2026 10:23 AM (2Ez/1)

178 Good ‘un, Muldoon.
And now you’ve got 40% of another limerick!
Posted by: RI Red at May 08, 2026 10:23 AM (z1SIt)

You start with the punchline and work your way back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

179 I think it's a boob thread now.

Otherwise known as the AOC Institute for Political Theory.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 08, 2026 10:23 AM (qRla/)

180 167 This looks like a cross between Bosch and Rockwell.
Posted by: tankdemon

Tankdemon is a tool!

Posted by: Makita Mike at May 08, 2026 10:24 AM (oftw2)

181
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Sources of Country Music
Thomas Hart Benton

Mid-Morning Hart Thread

Posted by: m at May 08, 2026 10:24 AM (RtN13)

182 Train can't decide if a new pope has been elected

Posted by: one hour sober at May 08, 2026 10:24 AM (4iDZE)

183 In reading the VA Supreme Court decision, I'm envisioning Dems as Daffy Duck with a smoke blackened face with his bill on backwards.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 08, 2026 10:25 AM (2UnvF)

184 >>@ShannonBream
·
10m
>>BREAKING: Looks like VA Sup Ct has struck down the referendum that flipped 4 House seats from leaning R to leaning D - Reading opinion now ...

Posted by: JackStraw at May 08, 2026 10:25 AM (viF8m)

185 183 In reading the VA Supreme Court decision, I'm envisioning Dems as Daffy Duck with a smoke blackened face with his bill on backwards.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 08, 2026 10:25 AM (2UnvF)

LOL.. Or Wile e Coyote

Posted by: It's me donna at May 08, 2026 10:26 AM (FtULh)

186 I wonder if anything rhymes with dulcimer...?
Posted by: muldoon

You might get somewhere with "Elsinore"
or the Roman general Ricimer.

Sounds like a Taylor-Coleridge Porlockian die-lemma.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 08, 2026 10:26 AM (zdLoL)

187 182 Train can't decide if a new pope has been elected
Posted by: one hour sober at May 08, 2026 10:24 AM (4iDZE)

heh

Posted by: m at May 08, 2026 10:26 AM (RtN13)

188 That's a drinking jug, not a jug band playing jug.
It's got a cork in it.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 08, 2026 10:27 AM (sl73Y)

189 On the art I like Benton

Posted by: It's me donna at May 08, 2026 10:27 AM (FtULh)

190
Dolly Parton's breasts were off-kilter
So her plastic surgeon tried to re-tilt her
But in the end he just decided
She remained a bit lopsided
I guess that's just the way the Good Lord built her!

Posted by: muldoon at May 08, 2026 10:27 AM (I0N4X)

191 Foo is a tech term. It’s like a placeholder or a temporary value when programming.

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Bar none.

Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2026 10:28 AM (lR5Ug)

192 Looks like early voting just cost the Dems 4 House seats.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 08, 2026 10:28 AM (CNl8/)

193 Muldoon always delivers!

Posted by: RI Red at May 08, 2026 10:29 AM (o19x0)

194 >>@ShannonBream
·
10m
>>BREAKING: Looks like VA Sup Ct has struck down the referendum that flipped 4 House seats from leaning R to leaning D - Reading opinion now ...

Posted by: JackStraw at May 08, 2026 10:25 AM (viF8m)

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I mean, it was such a clear violation of black letter law that only the illiterate munchkin DEI Hire "Affirmative Action Jackson" could disagree.

Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2026 10:30 AM (lR5Ug)

195 >>>>BREAKING: Looks like VA Sup Ct has struck down the referendum that flipped 4 House seats from leaning R to leaning D - Reading opinion now ...

This may well be the biggest self-own for the Democrats in many, many years!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 08, 2026 10:30 AM (8Fxbo)

196 Good ‘un, Muldoon.
And now you’ve got 40% of another limerick!
Posted by: RI Red at May 08, 2026 10:23 AM (z1SIt)

He is legend and we're blessed to have him as a part of the Horde family.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)

197 Where is Satan in this image?

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 08, 2026 10:30 AM (rkhDX)

198 LOL.. Or Wile e Coyote
Posted by: It's me donna at May 08, 2026 10:26 AM (FtULh)
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This. Picturing Wile E. as he just ran full-speed into the side of a mountain that had been painted to look like a tunnel.

Posted by: ballistic at May 08, 2026 10:31 AM (oqH4h)

199 10m
>>BREAKING: Looks like VA Sup Ct has struck down the referendum that flipped 4 House seats from leaning R to leaning D - Reading opinion now ...

Posted by: JackStraw at May 08, 2026 10:25 AM (viF8m)

OVERRULED!!!!!

Posted by: Judge Buch M. Dano at May 08, 2026 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

200 A boob limerick! And the VA Supreme Court fried the Spamburger!
Can this Friday get any better?

Posted by: Limerick, freedom and boob lover at May 08, 2026 10:31 AM (2Ez/1)

201 This may well be the biggest self-own for the Democrats in many, many years!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 08, 2026 10:30 AM (8Fxbo)

LOL HAPPY FRIDAY

Posted by: ... at May 08, 2026 10:31 AM (udZ7r)

202 Muldoon always delivers!

Posted by: RI Red at May 08, 2026 10:29 AM (o19x0)

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There's an obstetrician limerick in there somewhere ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2026 10:31 AM (lR5Ug)

203 Is that Tammy Wynette back center by the cow catcher on the train?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 10:31 AM (S838b)

204 I'm thinking there may be a flaming skull in our future.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 08, 2026 10:32 AM (2UnvF)

205 The three women up on the stage is singing "The Sheriff is Near".

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 10:32 AM (S838b)

206 This may well be the biggest self-own for the Democrats in many, many years!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 08, 2026 10:30 AM (8Fxbo)

Although the Left screaming "do it!" when Trump announced he was thinking about maybe running for president has got to be a close second. 🤣

Posted by: ... at May 08, 2026 10:32 AM (udZ7r)

207 Wait … wait … is this where we get our current terminology that would describe this as a Ho' Down! … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at May 08, 2026 10:32 AM (ayRl+)

208 Interesting that cowboy is wearing his holster that low as a cross-draw. Would seem to be a bit of a reach

Posted by: GWB at May 08, 2026 10:33 AM (P35BA)

209 VA redistrict is dead.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 08, 2026 10:33 AM (YZ0Fo)

210 Perhaps Spanberger and the Dems will defy the VaSC.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 08, 2026 10:33 AM (2ap+5)

211 Not a pickup truck to be seen. Predates the invention perhaps?

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 08, 2026 10:33 AM (TezPK)

212 Most drug addiction was deliberately imposed by governments. After the major infantry wars, crippled-up veterans would line city streets, begging and in agony. This was bad for business. Opium first, and then a long string of scientifically improved ('this time it's not addictive") replacements, were doled out to shut them up.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 08, 2026 10:33 AM (zdLoL)

213 >>This may well be the biggest self-own for the Democrats in many, many years!

CIA Barbie spent an enormous amount of political capital just to face plant and piss off half her state.

Anyone who is still black pilling is missing a lot of fun.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 08, 2026 10:33 AM (viF8m)

214 Jeff Foxworthy closed the CMAs years ago with this:

"I started thinking about why I like country music and doing this show so much, and here's what I came up with, y'all.

"I like country music because it's about the things in life that really matter. It ain't about braggin' about how you're gonna mess somebody up, or how somebody ain't respectin' ya. It's about love, family, friends -- with a few beers, a cheap woman and a two-timin' man thrown in for spice. It doesn't take political sides, even with things as ugly as war. Instead, it celebrates the brave men and women who go to fight 'em, the price they pay to do it and the longin' we have for them to return home to the ones that they love.

"It's about kids and how there ain't nothin' like 'em. I get tired of hearin' about how bad kids are today, because there are a lot of great kids out there that just need somebody to love 'em and believe in 'em. Country folks love their kids and they will jack you up if you try to mess with 'em! ---

Posted by: Lizzy at May 08, 2026 10:34 AM (8Fxbo)

215 In reading the VA Supreme Court decision, I'm envisioning Dems as Daffy Duck with a smoke blackened face with his bill on backwards.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 08, 2026 10:25 AM (2UnvF)
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The judges would also have accepted the look on Wile E. Coyote's face after he's run off a cliff, just as he remembers that gravity is a thing.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 08, 2026 10:34 AM (gnNyN)

216 Well for sure DJT is proving what happens when you just minimally fight the Left.

Posted by: ... at May 08, 2026 10:34 AM (udZ7r)

217 Would make a good Kansas album cover. This would be the song list:

What's on My Mind
Wheels
Sparks of the Tempest
Dust in the Wind
Rainmaker
On the Other Side
A Glimpse of Home
Down the Road

Posted by: banana Dream at May 08, 2026 10:34 AM (3uBP9)

218 CIA Barbie spent an enormous amount of political capital just to face plant and piss off half her state.

Anyone who is still black pilling is missing a lot of fun.
Posted by: JackStraw at

She originally said that they couldn't do it. And was string armed into it by the speaker and that debate chick that's in trouble.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 08, 2026 10:35 AM (YZ0Fo)

219 continued:
"People in country music don't forget the people that allow them to do what they do for a livin'. They sign autographs and they take pictures with the fans because they know without 'em most of us entertainers would be gettin' a lot dirtier in the course of our workday. We are thankful that people want to hear the songs and the jokes that we write. Country music doesn't have to be politically correct. We sing about God because we believe in Him. We are not trying to offend anybody, but the evidence that we have seen of Him in our small little lives trumps your opinion about whether or not He exists.

"We love country music because it touches us where we live. It's about mommas, and when they were hot, and when they are unappreciated, and when they were dyin'. It's about daddies and the difficulties they have sometimes at tellin' the people that they work so hard to protect and provide for how they feel about 'em.

"Country music is about new love and it's about old love. It's about gettin' drunk and gettin' sober. It's about leavin' and it's about comin' home. It's real music sung by real people for real people, the people that make up the backbone of this country."

Posted by: Lizzy at May 08, 2026 10:35 AM (8Fxbo)

220 Ah, I see rickb223 beat me to it.

Posted by: GWB at May 08, 2026 10:35 AM (P35BA)

221 215 In reading the VA Supreme Court decision, I'm envisioning Dems as Daffy Duck with a smoke blackened face with his bill on backwards.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 08, 2026 10:25 AM (2UnvF)
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The judges would also have accepted the look on Wile E. Coyote's face after he's run off a cliff, just as he remembers that gravity is a thing.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 08, 2026 10:34 AM (gnNyN)

Told you they'd go with the intervening election requirement as the "cleanest" overturn...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 08, 2026 10:36 AM (tOcjL)

222 Did VA Supremes rule the process violated the constitution or the redistricting itself? Cuz if it was process they can do it again and follow the process legally this time.

They’re fascist left wingers, they never take a defeat and go home. Thats only for the GOP. The left keeps trying until they win. See gay marriage as exhibit A.

Posted by: Heroq at May 08, 2026 10:36 AM (JRUvI)

223 ---
You can call us rednecks if you want. We're not offended, 'cause we know what we're all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary.

"All we ask for is a few songs to carry us along the way. . ."

Country was not Hollywood.
Sadly, it's since been invaded by Beyonce and others.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 08, 2026 10:36 AM (8Fxbo)

224 Kansas had some great album covers. Point Of Know Return is one of the best ever.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 08, 2026 10:37 AM (CNl8/)

225 New data shows 18%, or nearly 1 in 5, of tested students and staff at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco were diagnosed with either latent or active tuberculosis during an outbreak that started in November.

How could this happen?

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 08, 2026 10:37 AM (/+uur)

226 212 Most drug addiction was deliberately imposed by governments. After the major infantry wars, crippled-up veterans would line city streets, begging and in agony. This was bad for business. Opium first, and then a long string of scientifically improved ('this time it's not addictive") replacements, were doled out to shut them up.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 08, 2026 10:33 AM (zdLoL)

BurtTC? That you?

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 08, 2026 10:37 AM (rkhDX)

227 206 This may well be the biggest self-own for the Democrats in many, many years!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 08, 2026 10:30 AM (8Fxbo)

Although the Left screaming "do it!" when Trump announced he was thinking about maybe running for president has got to be a close second. 🤣
Posted by: ... at May 08, 2026 10:32 AM (udZ7r)

That was fun!

Posted by: m at May 08, 2026 10:38 AM (RtN13)

228 Would make a good Kansas album cover.

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Ah! Being a massive Kansas fan myself, I'd have to agree.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 08, 2026 10:38 AM (qBdHI)

229 >>She originally said that they couldn't do it. And was string armed into it by the speaker and that debate chick that's in trouble.

Aw, she had no sway with other state politicians?
Maybe she's not good at her job.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 08, 2026 10:38 AM (8Fxbo)

230 Dammit. I'm trying to become New Jersey.

Posted by: Virginia at May 08, 2026 10:38 AM (2Ez/1)

231 222 Did VA Supremes rule the process violated the constitution or the redistricting itself? Cuz if it was process they can do it again and follow the process legally this time.

They’re fascist left wingers, they never take a defeat and go home. Thats only for the GOP. The left keeps trying until they win. See gay marriage as exhibit A.
Posted by: Heroq at May 08, 2026 10:36 AM (JRUvI)

Their main holding was it violated the VA requirement of having an intervening election between the 1st and 2nd legislative passage of the amendment (what I said from the beginning). Early voting bit them in the a$$ on this...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 08, 2026 10:38 AM (tOcjL)

232
They’re fascist left wingers, they never take a defeat and go home. Thats only for the GOP. The left keeps trying until they win. See gay marriage as exhibit A.
Posted by: Heroq at May 08, 2026 10:36 AM (JRUvI)

The right forgets the rule: the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. The Left takes advantage.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 08, 2026 10:38 AM (rkhDX)

233 Aw, she had no sway with other state politicians?
Maybe she's not good at her job.
Posted by: Lizzy at May

Well being that she's an empty vessel for her cia handlers that's probably true.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 08, 2026 10:39 AM (YZ0Fo)

234 There’s an AI song called something like country music for people who hate country music. And the lyrics are hilarious. I got beer and beer and chevys and trucks beer and beer and girl let’s rock. Beer chevy Chevy beer America pride proud to be proud on Friday night. It’s only like a minute long but really funny.

Posted by: Heroq at May 08, 2026 10:39 AM (JRUvI)

235 PS - This means VA is likely to be 10-1 in 2028, unless the VA 2027 elections have unexpected results b/c they can repass an amendment then (and likely, they'll rewrite this the way it needs doing and repass again now to just start the process over correctly).

Posted by: Nova Local at May 08, 2026 10:39 AM (tOcjL)

236 That was nice Lizzy

Posted by: ... at May 08, 2026 10:40 AM (udZ7r)

237 I see the painting covers all the sources of this music, both country and western.

Posted by: bonesy at May 08, 2026 10:41 AM (s/s6s)

238 >>Dammit. I'm trying to become New Jersey.

Ah yes, where her old roommate is governor.
Maybe they should have run for governor in their home states, instead of swapping? Spanberger is originally from NJ.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 08, 2026 10:41 AM (8Fxbo)

239 Every Kansas song sounds like every other Kansas song, just like every Boston song sounds like every other Boston song.

Posted by: A Mighty Wind at May 08, 2026 10:41 AM (oftw2)

240 "She originally said that they couldn't do it. And was string armed into it..."
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We would have accepted "roped into it "

Posted by: The Judges at May 08, 2026 10:42 AM (2Ez/1)

241 >>She originally said that they couldn't do it. And was string armed into it by the speaker and that debate chick that's in trouble.

A large part of the funding to try and push this through came from Low IQ Hakeem.

Amazing what can happen when we have a president who inspires people to fight back.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 08, 2026 10:42 AM (viF8m)

242 >>That was nice Lizzy

Yeah, Foxworthy hit the nail on the head with that one.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 08, 2026 10:42 AM (8Fxbo)

243 The left keeps trying until they win. See gay marriage as exhibit A.
Posted by: Heroq at May 08, 2026 10:36 AM (JRUvI)

Trump does this but you were never convinced.

Posted by: ... at May 08, 2026 10:42 AM (udZ7r)

244 large part of the funding to try and push this through came from Low IQ Hakeem.

Amazing what can happen when we have a president who inspires people to fight back.
Posted by: JackStraw

Mr FAFO? How'd that work out for him. Hahah.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 08, 2026 10:43 AM (YZ0Fo)

245 The three women up on the stage is singing "The Sheriff is Near".
Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 10:32 AM (S838b)

Everyone knows Trump is on the train and they're all starting to sing YMCA.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 08, 2026 10:43 AM (g8Ew8)

246
Said the pregnant lady Madeline Rivers:
"A cold speculum gives me the shivers!"
But when she goes into labor
I'll wear mittens, as a favor
'Cause Dr. Muldoon always delivers!

Posted by: muldoon at May 08, 2026 10:44 AM (I0N4X)

247 >>Every Kansas song sounds like every other Kansas song, just like every Boston song sounds like every other Boston song.

"It's the final countdown!!" x100
-- Europe

https://tinyurl.com/9xu97e8n

Posted by: Lizzy at May 08, 2026 10:44 AM (8Fxbo)

248 Oh dear.

Posted by: Weasel at May 08, 2026 10:44 AM (1S3fY)

249 165 BREAKING: The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down the VA 10-1 Democratic gerrymander, arguing it violated the VA Constitution.
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 08, 2026 10:17 AM (CNl8/)

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I did not see that coming.

Happy to be wrong that the judiciary isn't completely stacked against us at all times.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 08, 2026 10:45 AM (c3FgC)

250 Cool. Nice painting. I have the best of Alabama CD's down by the computer. And beer, trucks and dogs have already been mentioned,

Done grocery shopping. $20 Can and I don't have to leave the house for a week. Bananas, oranges, beautiful apples and milk.

Previously stocked otherwise...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 08, 2026 10:45 AM (Sco7b)

251 239 Every Kansas song sounds like every other Kansas song, just like every Boston song sounds like every other Boston song.
Posted by: A Mighty Wind at May 08, 2026 10:41 A
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Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: Electric Light Orchestra at May 08, 2026 10:45 AM (2Ez/1)

252 The Sources of Country Music
Thomas Hart Benton

Cute with a theme.

Wikiart,in part, In 1973, at the age of 84, Thomas Hart Benton was asked to paint a mural for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. He was encouraged to take on the ambitious project by famous country music singer, Tex Ritter, who suggested that he paint a large visual summary of the roots of country music. The result was The Sources of Country Music (1975), a large multifigure composition that presents five distinct scenes describing the music of ordinary Americans.

The central motif is a barn dance with two fiddlers and a group of square dancers, which represent the dominant music of the American frontier. On the upper left of the painting, three women dressed for Sunday church sing with hymnals in their hands, emphasizing the importance of church music in Protestant America. In front of the church choir, he painted two barefoot mountain women that sing and play the dulcimer – a string instrument associated with the music of the Appalachian region in America. On the right, Benton added an armed cowboy singer strumming his guitar, an homage to Tex Ritter. ...

Reading all suggested.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 08, 2026 10:45 AM (NFX2v)

253 Now, I'm happy VA is still lawful, BUT...

While it's unlikely Ds win 10 of the 11 House seats this fall, without a big effort, they can win up to 9 with the current borders (likely 8, but maybe we can vote like we did in this referndum and hold to 6)...

So, it's not over on the election...it's just over on the abuse of the constiutional amendment process...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 08, 2026 10:45 AM (tOcjL)

254 249 165 BREAKING: The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down the VA 10-1 Democratic gerrymander, arguing it violated the VA Constitution.
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 08, 2026 10:17 AM

Really!
Sweet!

It really has been a pretty few good weeks...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 08, 2026 10:46 AM (Sco7b)

255 Every Kansas song sounds like every other Kansas song, just like every Boston song sounds like every other Boston song.
Posted by: A Mighty Wind

Is that wrong?

Posted by: Bruce Springsteen at May 08, 2026 10:46 AM (JRUvI)

256 "Dolly's measurements have been reported as 41-25-38, but she's admitted she has had at least one breast enhancement surgery.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing"

Left or right?

Posted by: fd at May 08, 2026 10:46 AM (vFG9F)

257 >> The left keeps trying until they win. See gay marriage as exhibit A.

YUP. They've been openly sharing all their plans for when they get back in power, such as expanding the SCOTUS and packing it with radicals.

What they've just done is diminished their chances or doing so in the near future. They will keep working, though. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at May 08, 2026 10:46 AM (8Fxbo)

258 248 Oh dear.
Posted by: Weasel at May 08, 2026 10:44 AM (1S3fY)

wut

Posted by: m at May 08, 2026 10:47 AM (RtN13)

259 249 165 BREAKING: The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down the VA 10-1 Democratic gerrymander, arguing it violated the VA Constitution.
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 08, 2026 10:17 AM (CNl8/)

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I did not see that coming.

Happy to be wrong that the judiciary isn't completely stacked against us at all times.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 08, 2026 10:45 AM (c3FgC)

VA has a very strong state legal framework and constitution and a long history of following it to the letter.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 08, 2026 10:47 AM (tOcjL)

260 He is legend and we're blessed to have him as a part of the Horde family.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)
There's an obstetrician limerick in there somewhere ...
Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2026 10:31 AM (lR5Ug)

I’d hate to say that he is on a roll. Probably do a bakery limerick.

Posted by: RI Red at May 08, 2026 10:47 AM (7PD8l)

261 247 >>Every Kansas song sounds like every other Kansas song, just like every Boston song sounds like every other Boston song.

"It's the final countdown!!" x100
-- Europe

https://tinyurl.com/9xu97e8n
Posted by: Lizzy at May 08, 2026 10:44 AM (8Fxbo)

Jethro Tull is only known for Aqualung and plays versions in 15 different languages at their concerts.

When Ian Anderson pulls out the flute the mosh pit cannot be contained in its ferocity.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 08, 2026 10:47 AM (rkhDX)

262 Not a pickup truck to be seen. Predates the invention perhaps?
Posted by: Joe Mama

Pickup was invented in 1925. Model T Runabout with pickup body.

Very first pickup like vehicle was Gottlieb Daimler's
1896 motorized delivery wagon.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 10:48 AM (S838b)

263 >>Jethro Tull is only known for Aqualung and plays versions in 15 different languages at their concerts.

WOW

Posted by: Lizzy at May 08, 2026 10:49 AM (8Fxbo)

264 New data shows 18%, or nearly 1 in 5, of tested students and staff at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco were diagnosed with either latent or active tuberculosis during an outbreak that started in November.

How could this happen?

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 08, 2026 10:37 AM (/+uur)

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Four years of open borders and another 20 million turd-world illegal aliens.

Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2026 10:50 AM (lR5Ug)

265 Everyone knows Trump is on the train and they're all starting to sing YMCA.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

LOL 😂

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2026 10:50 AM (S838b)

266 Well for sure DJT is proving what happens when you just minimally fight the Left.

And the GOP will never forgive him for it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 08, 2026 10:51 AM (qRla/)

267 Is that wrong?
Posted by: Bruce Springsteen at May 08, 2026 10:46 AM (JRUvI)

ESAD, prick.

Posted by: s at May 08, 2026 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

268 WTF?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

269 267 Is that wrong?
Posted by: Bruce Springsteen at May 08, 2026 10:46 AM (JRUvI)

ESAD, prick.
Posted by: s at May 08, 2026 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

268 WTF?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

?

Posted by: m at May 08, 2026 10:52 AM (RtN13)

270 Nasdaq has broken 26K for the first time as tech keeps flying. Up 12.5% for the year.

Run bull run.

Posted by: Bruce Springsteen at May 08, 2026 10:53 AM (JRUvI)

271 Jethro Tull is only known for Aqualung and plays versions in 15 different languages at their concerts.

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I always hated "Aqualung" (just creeped me out), but was impressed with the chord progression of "We Used to Know" which Don Felder likely ripped off for use in my favorite song -- Hotel California by the Eagles.

When I taught myself guitar three decades ago, that was the first song I spent months trying to master ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2026 10:53 AM (lR5Ug)

272 ESAD, prick.
Posted by: s at May 08, 2026 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

268 WTF?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

?
Posted by: m at May 08, 2026 10:52 AM (RtN13)

Not sure how my nick got screwed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

273 267 Is that wrong?
Posted by: Bruce Springsteen at May 08, 2026 10:46 AM (JRUvI)

ESAD, prick.

Posted by: s at May 08, 2026 10:51 AM (Zz0t1

On No King's Day, MS Now had Springsteen playing onstage shar8ng a split screen with a yammering Debra Whatshername Shultz.

He's as close to dead without physically dying as he's going to get.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 08, 2026 10:54 AM (Sco7b)

274 VA has a very strong state legal framework and constitution and a long history of following it to the letter.
Posted by: Nova Local

The decision was 4-3

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 08, 2026 10:54 AM (Dv3i1)

275 272

Not sure how my nick got screwed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

weird

Posted by: m at May 08, 2026 10:54 AM (RtN13)

276 The Dems had banked those 4 extra seats as a done deal.

LOLGF

As I keep saying, gerrymandering has become so precise that there is less than 10% of seats that are not safe for either party.
Even in a wave.

The R's are up like 11 seats now, IIRC

PS: They had a 21-19 advantage in the VA senate. But I'm sure they'll keep Lucas even as she sits in jail.

PPS: The entire VA senate is up for reelection next year.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 08, 2026 10:55 AM (MtSIY)

277 Awright. I said during JJ 's report that I thought the Virginia SC would rule today and they did. 4-3 found the gerrymandering null and void due to procedural errors
Cue Mega Nelson Muntz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 08, 2026 10:55 AM (gu0hJ)

278 Happy to be wrong that the judiciary isn't completely stacked against us at all times.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 08, 2026 10:45 AM (c3FgC)

It was 4-3 on party lines, and will likely pass in 2028, but by then all the other redistricting (IAW Callais) will have been done, too so net/net, I think we still win.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 08, 2026 10:55 AM (iNUL3)

279 I'm hoping for Ace on a real tear regarding the VA court news and queer starmer. Should be fun. I bet he's sanded and stained about eight tables already.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 08, 2026 10:57 AM (3uBP9)

280 'Cause Dr. Muldoon always delivers!

Posted by: muldoon at May 08, 2026 10:44 AM (I0N4X)

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* standing golf clap *

There are geniuses among us ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2026 10:58 AM (lR5Ug)

281 I bet he's sanded and stained about eight tables already.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 08, 2026 10:57 AM (3uBP9)

Using the beaks of his new crow friends for the final polish.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 08, 2026 10:59 AM (iNUL3)

282 Correction:
Both the entire VA state house and senate are up for reelection next year.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 08, 2026 10:59 AM (MtSIY)

283 278 Happy to be wrong that the judiciary isn't completely stacked against us at all times.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 08, 2026 10:45 AM (c3FgC)

It was 4-3 on party lines, and will likely pass in 2028, but by then all the other redistricting (IAW Callais) will have been done, too so net/net, I think we still win.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 08, 2026 10:55 AM (iNUL3)

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It barely passed this time, and the DNC spent $30 million to do that while burning all of their new governor's political capital.

I look forward to them trying again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 08, 2026 11:00 AM (c3FgC)

284 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 08, 2026 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

285 >>It was 4-3 on party lines, and will likely pass in 2028, but by then all the other redistricting (IAW Callais) will have been done, too so net/net, I think we still win.

Maybe. But if it was so likely to win they why did Democrats so openly cheat to try and make it happen?

Now opposing forces will have time to prepare.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 08, 2026 11:02 AM (viF8m)

286 From HotAir: "Democrats will get a four-seat pickup from California, but that's it. Democrats are looking at a net negative swing that may creep into double digits."

Can you imagine how over Spanberger's career is if the GOP hold the House by fewer than four seats?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 08, 2026 11:02 AM (iNUL3)

287 286 From HotAir: "Democrats will get a four-seat pickup from California, but that's it. Democrats are looking at a net negative swing that may creep into double digits."

Can you imagine how over Spanberger's career is if the GOP hold the House by fewer than four seats?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 08, 2026 11:02 AM (iNUL3)

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Newsom started this. If he hadn't decided to make Texas about him, none of the post-Texas stuff would have happened.

(Really, Hochul started it like 2 years ago.)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 08, 2026 11:04 AM (c3FgC)

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