The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 5/ 11/26

Good morning kids. While no doubt President Trump and Israeli PM Netanyahu do not view the situation with Iran as such, it certainly seems by all outward appearances that for sure these "negotiations" with the Mullahs or whoever the Mullah du Jour may be, resemble Kabuki theatrics. Despite the absolute necessity of denying and depriving the Armageddon-seeking Dark Age death cult of Islamic controlled Iran of acquiring nuclear weapons as well as exporting terrorism around the globe and brutalizing their own citizenry, what is the end game here, or what acceptable end game can we expect? With the divisions at home not only from the usual America and Trump-haters on the Left but popping up from the right, the battered regime in Tehran may actually survive an onslaught that we had expected and hoped should or would have crushed them. Echoes perhaps of the 1968 Tet Offensive...

Where foreign policy issues are concerned, such as with Iran, a sign of political division always creates a weakness for diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict. This has been underscored not only by Kimmel’s jokes but by the comments of various leaders of the Democrat party, like those of Senator Mark Kelly and former Vice President Kamala Harris. The latter, as a presidential candidate in 2024, said all options were on the table to prevent Iran from becoming nuclear armed—only now to criticize the option Trump selected. Ultimately, it was political division and an uninformed anti-war movement that forced an end to the Vietnam war, leaving millions of Vietnamese subject to communism.

And yet, President Trump remains adamant. . .

President Trump on Sunday appeared to reject Iran’s latest proposal in ongoing negotiations over a peace deal, calling the Islamic republic’s offer “totally unacceptable.”
“I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives.’ I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The president also warned the country against “playing games” after Tehran refused to discuss its nuclear program in its latest response to America’s peace proposal through Pakistani mediators.
Trump slammed the rogue Mideast country for delaying negotiations historically, ranting on the social platform.
“Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Yet between his mixed signals as well as the treasonous behavior of the Left and their media/culture allies, the Mullahs perceive, and perhaps not mistakenly, that time is on their side. Especially with a crucial midterm election approaching and the final months of President Trump's term that could see his political will and power on the wane as he departs office, with no guarantee that a successor will carry on his agenda should whoever the GOP candidate is come out on top in 2028.

If only the President and really the GOP were to treat the Democrat Left and its record of political and physical terrorism against the American people as “totally unacceptable.”

Because that is what the Democrats look upon America as founded as well as any setback they endure in the quest for absolute power as.

As night follows day, progressives’ response to the Virginia Supreme Court’s tossing of Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s outrageous gerrymander is to demand an instant court-packing move to undo it.
To lefties driving today’s Democratic Party, it’s not “democracy” unless it’s hard-wired to let them run roughshod — and when their power-grab schemes run afoul of the rule of law, their only answer is a fresh scheme.
Specifically, progs want to ram through a law instantly dropping the retirement age for the Virginia court to 54, which would allow the legislature to replace enough justices to restore the gerrymander.
Spanberger’s already caved to the left in pushing an outrage she’d promised to oppose; will she find the spine to say no now?
Wiser minds would call off the madness — but then again wiser minds would’ve avoided this mess in the first place. ..
Nationwide, even moderate Dems are now talking about seizing their next available chance to pack the US Supreme Court, grant statehood to DC and Puerto Rico simply to gain them four safe Senate seats and abolish the Senate filibuster — and so lock in progressive power forever.
Anyone paying attention should realize these lunatics need to be kept out of power until the party comes to its senses.

The Democrat party will never "come to its senses." This is akin to expecting Islam to have a reformation wherein it rejects its goal of the domination of humanity for all time.

Have a good day!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

Roger Kimball: Failed regimes are faltering while political and military reality is asserting itself with unmistakable force.
No News Is Good News—Except When It Isn’t: Labour’s Rout, MAGA’s Surge, and Iran’s Slow Surrender

AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!

“For 47 years the Iranians have been “tapping” us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 innocent, unarmed protestors, and laughing at our now GREAT AGAIN Country. They will be laughing no longer!” he said.
Trump rejects Iran’s latest peace offer after Tehran refuses to negotiate its nuclear program: ‘TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!’
In a post on X, Barak Ravid, a global affairs correspondent for Axios, shared that he had a phone conversation with Trump, in which Trump said he did “not like” the response from Iran regarding a “draft agreement to end the war.” Trump also reportedly shared with Ravid that he had a “nice conversation” with Netanyahu.
Trump to Netanyahu on Iran Deal: Israel a ‘Great Ally,’ but Deal Is ‘My Business Not Anyone Else’s’
The United States and Israel launched military strikes against Iran on Feb. 28 after talks regarding the Islamic regime’s nuclear program broke down. Netanyahu told CBS News reporter Major Garrett that, while the campaign had achieved “a great deal,” he believed there was still “work to be done.”
Netanyahu Insists Iran War Is ‘Not Over,’ Says Trump Wants To ‘Physically’ Remove Uranium
Qatar and Kuwait said that no casualties were reported from either attack. The events marked the latest threats to a month-old ceasefire, which the Trump administration says remains in effect.
Iran Ceasefire Tested as Cargo Ship Catches Fire in Reported Drone Attack of Qatar
Thad McCotter: History shows regimes can turn mere survival into victory; America must ensure Iran cannot repeat Mao’s Korean War playbook.
Will the Yalu River Run through the Strait of Hormuz?
The U.S. media has tabled a question that warrants examining two 20th-century historical events.
Iran War: Insubordination Stands To Snatch Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory
There are moments in American foreign policy when the warning signs are flashing so brightly that failing to act becomes its own form of negligence.
Ignoring Iran’s Expanding Proxy Network
The WSJ: “Israel built the installation, which housed special forces and served as a logistical hub for the Israeli air force.”
Israel Built Secret Iraq Airbase Ahead of Iran Strike
The consequences of the Emirates’ departure from OPEC
The UAE doubles down on Israel and America
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
In a court brief filed last week, authorities say a forensic review of his computer showed Jonathan Rinderknecht searched “Free Luigi” and “reddit lets kill all billionaires” in December 2024.: (Hat tip to commenter MTF - jjs)
Suspected arsonist behind Palisades fire looked up to Luigi Mangione as hero, prosecutors say
The indictment alleges Brown attempted to set fire to a building that houses two commercial businesses in addition to the county’s GOP headquarters on January 14. Justin R. Simmons, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, announced the indictment on Friday.
Texas Woman Indicted for Attempted Arson of Republican Party Headquarters
Washington, D.C., doesn’t just lean left. It rules a country it doesn’t represent—and the tools to change that do exist.
Washington DC. Is Not America
...Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism, talked about intelligence...“It’s commonsense counterterrorism based on reality, not fake threats, not the political perversion of counterterrorism.”
Exclusive: White House Counterterror Expert Says Trump Dismantling Anti-MAGA Intel Apparatus
A nation cannot survive by endlessly relitigating grievance; it endures by reclaiming its civilizational inheritance and choosing reconciliation, unity, and stewardship over division.
What Choice, Americans?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tried to turn the American Revolution into a left-wing lecture about billionaires, and somewhere in the great classroom beyond, even the great fabricator Howard Zinn probably winced.
Titty-Caca AOC Gives 1776 the Howard Zinn Treatment
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
The case has reignited national debates over immigration enforcement, with President Donald J. Trump criticizing the former Biden regime for allowing Joachin to remain in the U.S.
Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Haitian Hammer Killer.
Illinois’ decline is rooted in sustained out-migration and mass immigration that have reshaped its population and undermined its historic trajectory.
Replacement Migration and the Slow Death of Illinois (1/2)
The San Diego Padres have lost one of their top prospects, under very, very unusual circumstances. . .
Padres Prospect Self-Deports to Mexico After Pleading Guilty to Human Smuggling
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
Muckraking journalists have uncovered massive child care fraud schemes in Minnesota, hospice fraud schemes in California, and a bustling “home health” care racket in Ohio.
Which State Is Next In The Medicaid Fraud-O-Rama?
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The Supreme Court’s chief justice seems to have something other than the Constitution as his top priority.
The Spine of Justice Roberts
The misuse of the EITC, a program designed to support low-income workers, not only drains taxpayer funds but also undermines trust in government oversight. In 2025 alone, the IRS estimated $21.1 billion in erroneous EITC payments, with both fraud and unintentional errors contributing to the problem. This ongoing issue highlights the need for improved interagency cooperation and data-sharing to prevent future losses.
IRS Erroneously Awarded Millions in Tax Breaks to Noncitizens.
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
It seems that prosecuting while Jewish is subject to certain conditions, something unimaginable if a prosecutor were black or gay.
In California, a pro-Israel prosecutor is kicked off a pro-Hamas vandalism case
We’ve cracked the case.
The Jew-Hatred Pandemic No Longer a Mystery
But the ADL is trying to take the credit.
Trump College Crackdown Cut Anti-Semitism by 66%
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
But it's not the threats to Shirley and his team that caught my attention. It's the responses from the Cuban people he was able to talk to before the regime began harassing him. Many of them refused to speak, fearing for their own safety. Some spoke but with their faces blurred. Others spoke but got quiet when he asked them certain political questions. And some, you could tell, just didn't give a flying flip anymore and were ready to share with the world what their lives are like. They're tired and losing their fear.
Nick Shirley Shares More About His 24 Hours in Cuba and... You Just Need to See This
The weird and radical shift.
Video: Whatever Happened to Tucker Carlson?
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Fewer people won’t save the planet—how we live, build, and innovate matters far more than how many of us there are.
Depopulation Won’t Save the Planet (unless it's fewer Muslims and Leftists; Net Zero for both will save us - jjs)
This project is a leaner, faster, and more litigation-resistant project that reuses idle pipe, threads existing corridors, avoids reservation land, and is racing the clock to lock in steel-in-the-ground before the next Democratic administration can once again sacrifice North American energy security to green ideology.
Keystone XL Rebranded as “Keystone Light” in Trump’s Push for North American Energy Security
A deep dive into the Federal Judicial Center’s climate guide scandal reveals its authors’ left-wing partisanship.
Meet The Left-Wing Activists Behind The Guide Meant To Advise Judges On ‘Climate Science’
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“All 56 FBI field offices and U.S. Attorneys, offices around the country participated in the coordinated takedown effort, including the Buffalo FBI Field Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York,” the press release said.
DOJ: ‘Operation Iron Pursuit’ Nets 350 Child Sex Predators as Officials Warn Others ‘We Are Coming for You’
Lenient judges and offenders who know how to game the system are a major problem.
Pritzker Lied Defending the SAFE-T Act, Now a Chicago Police Officer Is Dead
The public still has unanswered questions about Democrat North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein securing early release for an untold number of criminals before his term. Former Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper drew criticism since 2021 for the COVID-19-inspired inmate releases that Stein’s office negotiated while he was Cooper’s attorney general. Stein’s office played a crucial role by capitulating to leftist criminal reform groups who sued in 2020 over the pandemic’s effect on prisons, but he skated to the governor’s mansion in the 2024 elections without enduring as much controversy.
We May Finally Get Answers On COVID-Era Mass Prisoner Release Deal
“Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail, but, you know, at some point, if you are a criminal, you’re a criminal, and he was scary, he was a scary guy.”
Woman’s Toxic Empathy Blamed for NYC Retiree’s Murder in Vicious Subway Attack
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Despite the loan caps not taking effect until July 1, some schools have already taking steps to lower tuition because of the rule.
Democrats Are Trying To Repeal Trump Admin’s College Affordability Protections
Even after SCOTUS’ landmark 2023 decision curbing race-based admissions, many universities have sought ways to preserve similar practices.
Congress Targets DEI In Federal Contracts, But Is There More To Address In College Admissions?
The investigation could lead to significant changes in how LAUSD and other districts nationwide handle allegations of educator misconduct, potentially resulting in stricter enforcement of Title IX requirements. The case also highlights broader concerns about the rise of sexual misconduct in schools, with reports of educator offenses doubling in recent years, according to studies.
Trump Admin Investigates LA Schools for Protecting Predatory Teachers.
ABORTION
The new website is a direct rebuke of the Biden junta, which used a federal website to push abortion.
EXCLUSIVE: White House Launches Moms.Gov, A Win For Pro-Life And MAHA Movements
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
Monica Crowley, the U.S. government's chief of protocol, dropped a significant claim on Wednesday: hard evidence that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election is coming, and it's coming soon. "He did win in a landslide, and we will soon be able to give evidence about that," Crowley said.
Bombshell Evidence About the 2020 Election Is Coming
How dare you take away our right to take away your rights!
Virginia Dems Complain Blocking Their Effort to Disenfranchise Voters… Disenfranchises Voters
The discovery of uncounted ballots comes during the nationwide scramble to redistrict states ahead of the midterms in November. Redistricting measures favoring the incumbent party have been pursued in several other states, including Texas, Florida, and Virginia.
California Election Integrity Questioned as HUNDREDS of Uncounted Ballots Discovered Post-Certification.
It can be done if Republicans have the political courage to listen to almost 80% of American voters.
ow to Get the SAVE America Act Over the Finish Line
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
They are just diapers. But they have landed California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) into messy accusations of corruption for dumping $20 million in taxpayer money into a nonprofit led by an executive who sits on the board of his wife’s organization.
Report: Newsom’s $20 Million Diaper Deal Reveals Sweetheart Relationships Using Taxpayer Dollars
“Confederate states are rushing through rigged maps to erase Black districts off the map,” Newsom wrote above a map demonstrating the possible effects of redistricting in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina.
Gavin Newsom Tees Up For Likely Presidential Run By Belittling Entire Region Of Country
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) gets asked about a phone call with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) after he said Johnson wasn't willing to sit down for a conversation about a possible government shutdown. Jeffries responded in a way you just can't make up.
Hakeem Jeffries Get Owned...By Hakeem Jeffries
Adam Hamawy’s plastic surgery practice has been the subject of scathing and furious online reviews going back almost a decade.
This Doctor and His Staff Are Horrible!’ Democrat House Hopeful Under Fire for Terror Ties Denounced as ‘Creep’ Who Left Patients Scarred, Disfigured, According to Complaints
David Harsanyi: At this point, what could a progressive say to be shunned by Democrats?
Nazi Tattoo? Hamas Defender? No Problem, Says Chuck Schumer
Robert Allerton Cushman III, the son of a Harvard-educated Canadian public health official, has flown under the radar as Platner casts himself as a blue-collar commercial fisherman
Meet 'Working-Class Mainer' Graham Platner's Oyster Farming Business Partner, an Elite Boarding School Graduate Who Drinks 'Foraged Spring Water' and Owns the Island Where the Farm Is Based
POLITICS
“My ambition is to change this country. … Presidents come and go; Senate, House seats, elected officials come and go, but single-payer healthcare is forever.
Titty Caca AOC on 2028 Buzz: ‘My Ambition Is Way Bigger Than That’”
. . . Justice Alito’s meticulous majority opinion merely prevents the VRA from being abused to dictate “proportional representation”—that is, racial quotas—contrary to the express language of Section 2, which states that “nothing in this section establishes a right to have members of a protected class elected in numbers equal to their proportion in the population.” (hat tip to author Mark Pulliam - jjs)
Justice Alito Cleans the Augean Stable of Faux Voting Rights Precedents
‘This is not politics. This is a con. We fully expect Burbank to follow through on her own stated plan and disappear the moment the primary is called.’
‘This Is A Con’: Democrats Use Nebraska Senate Primary To Boost ‘Fake Independent’
As night follows day, progressives’ response to the Virginia Supreme Court’s tossing of Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s outrageous gerrymander is to demand an instant court-packing move to undo it. To lefties driving today’s Democratic Party, it’s not “democracy” unless it’s hard-wired to let them run roughshod — and when their power-grab schemes run afoul of the rule of law, their only answer is a fresh scheme.
Dems scheme to ‘fix’ their Virginia gerrymander fail is a WORSE outrage
If Republicans are wise, Louisiana v. Callais could be the kind of once-in-a-century Supreme Court decision that returns America to its constitutional roots.
Louisiana v. Callais and the Long Run
This earthquake likely won’t occur in most states during the midterm, though it may in Louisiana. But it can be by 2028.
Republican victories on redistricting could change the composition of the US House for a decade
Virginia Democrats’ motion urging the state supreme court to temporarily halt its order against the 2026 gerrymandering referendum appears to include two major typos. The joint motion’s first page misspells “Virginia” in the section identifying the plantiff and, just below it, misspells “senator” when identifying the defendants.
Virginia Dems Make Glaring Errors In Rushed Court Motion To Save $64,000,000 Gerrymandering Scheme
The Supreme Court needed to explain what the definition of an ‘election’ is, so that Democrats could understand.
Virginia’s Pro-Gerrymander Dems Argued Election Is Single Day After Forcing 45-Day Vote
"First three weeks, signs up across the city: 'No more nakedness, no more drug use, no more robbing
Spencer Pratt Promises To Bring In CDC To Rid City Of ‘Medieval Diseases’
These pocketbook priorities align perfectly with the cultural audiences conservatives need to activate to win the midterm elections.
America’s forgotten conservatives MUST mobilize for midterms
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
If successful, this case would strip Rocha of his U.S. citizenship. Warnings about Rocha’s activities date back decades, with intelligence suggesting that communist Cuba had a “super mole” inside the U.S. government as early as 1987. This is not the first time in recent years that a Western government official has been caught spying for a communist country. Earlier in May,
U.S. Moves to Revoke Citizenship of Diplomat Who Spied for Cuba.
The review comes after two American officials working for the CIA, died alongside two Mexican investigators during a counter-narcotics operation in northern Mexico.
State Department reviews ALL 53 Mexican consulates in US amid cartel tensions
This operation eliminates a potential nuclear security risk and demonstrates renewed international cooperation with Venezuela. The processed uranium is likely to contribute to U.S. energy independence and nuclear innovation.
U.S. Completes Transfer of Venezuela’s Enriched Uranium to South Carolina.
The knives are out for Prime Minister Starmer, who is now embroiled in a desperate fight to extend his political life after a historically poor performance in the rough British equivalent of a midterm election this week.
Over 100 Labour Politicians Call on Prime Minister Starmer to Resign After Election Disaster
Sharing “campaign lessons from Labour’s victory with Democrats.”
UK Labour Party, Used as Inspiration by Dems, Wiped Out
Repression, slander and libel, panicked labeling campaigns to smear whole parties and movements as dangerous extremists, surveillance and fake intelligence dossiers, victory. Political conflict isn’t the same across the world, but it often rhymes.
Europeans Are Also Tired Of Dumb Leftists Ruining Everything They Touch
Britain's leaders have no navy. And no will.
The U.K. Royal Navy is royally screwed, as is Britain
It’s hard for Americans to fathom the horror of what goes on every day in North Korea.
Kim Jong-un Is Not Our Friend
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Speaking to reporters in Moscow amid Victory Day celebrations, President Putin suggested that a resolution with Kyiv and its Western partners is possible, even going so far as to say he would be willing to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a third country after a peace framework is agreed.
Putin Says He Believes Ukraine War May Be Coming to ‘Completion’ Amid Trump-Brokered Ceasefire
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The two soldiers were on a recreational hike during African war games exercises with NATO allies.
Body Of One Soldier Recovered After War Games Accident, One Still Missing
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Artificial intelligence is poised to disrupt how U.S. doctors detect and treat cancer, according to experts.
This New Technology Is Transforming Cancer Screening
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Raw Egg Nationalist: Declining testosterone is eroding the biological foundation of courage, virtue, and civilization.
Christian Conservatives Find It So Hard to Understand the Importance of Testosterone Decline?
A young liberal woman refused to cooperate with prosecutors after violent recidivist Rhamell Burke attacked her on the subway five weeks before he allegedly pushed a retired NYC teacher to his death on Thursday. Now the 23-year-old woman has regrets. “Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail,” she told The Post.
Miranda Devine: The left is weaponizing women’s misplaced empathy — and it threatens all of us
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
America is based on English culture and Christian civilization — a heritage that came before our civic creed and upon which our ideals rest.
Neil Gorsuch Is Wrong, America Isn’t A ‘Creedal Nation’
Though a liberal by creed, Ted Turner embodied conservatism in practice—creating wealth through risk, restoring ecosystems through ownership, and building shared national culture.
Ted Turner: Voting Left and Living Right
Christian Toto: 'Late Show' host pushed Russian Collusion hoax harder than some journalists
Goodbye, Stephen Colbert: The C*** Holster Crack
HITHER & YON
“I can’t confirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins,” grinned Pete Hegseth, “but I can confirm they don’t.
Are ‘Kamikaze Dolphins’ Real? The Daily Wire Investigates”

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1 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 11, 2026 06:57 AM (Kyh8Y)

2 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at May 11, 2026 06:58 AM (kmSxS)

3 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Why is Tehran not burning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2026 06:59 AM (RIvkX)

4 Old Rule: Never negotiate with terrorists. Kill them.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2026 07:01 AM (RIvkX)

5 Good morning to the horde and disaster and bunker-busters to the mullah-du-jour

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2026 07:02 AM (6txWC)

6 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 11, 2026 07:04 AM (NcvvS)

7 Happy Monday, one and all!

Posted by: NR Pax at May 11, 2026 07:04 AM (99eI0)

8 reddit lets kill all billionaires

I know that long term thinking is not their forte, but what kind of world do they think they will have if all of the billionaires were suddenly erased from existence? Do they think the world will be fair with sunshine and rainbows every day?

Posted by: NR Pax at May 11, 2026 07:08 AM (99eI0)

9 Ha

Posted by: TALACHULITNA at May 11, 2026 07:10 AM (JwHz5)

10 "IRS Erroneously Awarded Millions in Tax Breaks to Noncitizens."

Sure. It was just an error. They got the money back, right?

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2026 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

11 Breaking news.
MIDDLE EAST — An oil tanker has managed to slip through the Strait of Hormuz completely undetected after donning a giant fake nose and mustache.
++++

https://tinyurl.com/y242nkk6

Sneaky bastards.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 11, 2026 07:12 AM (2Ez/1)

12 "It can be done if Republicans have the political courage to listen to almost 80% of American voters"

That is not who we are.

Posted by: The GOP at May 11, 2026 07:13 AM (vFG9F)

13 Time is always on the side of America's enemies. The American people don't support the wars anymore, so it's an easy out if leadership wants it - and when they don't, their objective is to win, but simply deny the opponent victory for as long as possible before it's demanded of them to end it.

So, no matter how weak, disadvantaged, and destitute an enemy may be, all they have to do is keep up the fight, and they'll win by default, sooner or later.

Trump could short circuit this now by saying "we've set their nuclear program back many years, and since the negotiations failed, we'll now make good on our threats, and erase all their infrastructure, setting it back much more. By this time next month, Iran will cease to be a functioning nation state. So break out the cham-pag-nee, because our boys our coming home real soon."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 11, 2026 07:14 AM (BI5O2)

14 The dithering on the SAVE act is a perfect example of why we are all f'd.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2026 07:14 AM (vFG9F)

15 S/b "their objective is NOT to win."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 11, 2026 07:15 AM (BI5O2)

16 "IRS Erroneously Awarded Millions in Tax Breaks to Noncitizens."
######

It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at May 11, 2026 07:15 AM (2Ez/1)

17 Information officially coming out of North Korean prison camps is practically nonexistent, but reports from survivors, those released having served their terms, and the very few escapees paint a picture of corporal punishment on a daily basis, rape, torture, forced abortions, infanticide, starvation, untreated disease, and executions, all of which is supported by a system of obligatory spying among and reporting of friends, family, and associates. Along with these brutalities are the lack of adequate food, shelter, and clothing and harsh working conditions.
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Heaven!

Posted by: Bernie Brigades at May 11, 2026 07:15 AM (9i0A8)

18 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2026 07:15 AM (u82oZ)

19 " Padres Prospect Self-Deports to Mexico After Pleading Guilty to Human Smuggling"

I guess baseball has not been very good to him.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2026 07:18 AM (vFG9F)

20 Yonder Horde.

I think the "bottom line" issue with Iran/IRGC is their Uranium stockpile. It's the only thing they have to negotiate with.

And Trump's done negotiating.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2026 07:20 AM (jehhT)

21 Let's get CENTCOM in gear. Bomb Iran, rinse, repeat. There is no possibility of negotiation working.

The old wisdom, Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant, kept a civilized core productive for 300 years.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2026 07:20 AM (u82oZ)

22 "DON'T: ‘Operation Iron Pursuit’ Nets 350 Child Sex Predators as Officials Warn Others ‘We Are Coming for You’"

Zombie Michael Jackson, look out!

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2026 07:20 AM (vFG9F)

23 Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant

i leared something new today!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2026 07:26 AM (RIvkX)

24 On the dark side losers all: Old Scratch, cia, chinese, iranians, thune democrats , prancing pence, bushes, clintons,o'bam etc.

God in Heaven laughs at these fools. Serve God.

Posted by: kingman at May 11, 2026 07:26 AM (ehY6c)

25 I think I know where the Royal Navy went. It went to the welfare largesse of all the head chopping invaders the Left is so keen on.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 11, 2026 07:26 AM (l26NL)

26 Adam Hamawy’s plastic surgery practice has been the subject of scathing and furious online reviews going back almost a decade.
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This creep runs more political ads than I've seen in a long time. TV here in NJ is filled with his stuff. Qatar must be writing big checks.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2026 07:27 AM (ji8TS)

27 Good morning Horde. Thx JJ. Happy Monday to all.
I watched a vid of the Tenn legislator Pearson losing his mind and dancing at a graduation event. The guy is as inauthentic as you get , as he is a Bowdoin college graduate. From Joshua Chamberlain to this putz. Downfall indeed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 11, 2026 07:29 AM (gu0hJ)

28
I don't think the fireworks in the gulf start until after Trump gets on the plane out of China.

Posted by: Auspex at May 11, 2026 07:30 AM (Y8DZL)

29 *This creep runs more political ads than I've seen in a long time. TV here in NJ is filled with his stuff.*
_______

This begs a bigger question:
Why does anyone still watch TV?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 11, 2026 07:31 AM (2Ez/1)

30 “Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail,” she told The Post.

I'm sure the family of the man he murdered a few weeks later appreciate the fact you Care So Hard. I'm cruel enough to think that she doesn't deserve any place in civilized society and should be shamed everywhere she goes.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 11, 2026 07:31 AM (99eI0)

31 I hope it happens while Xi is face-to-face with Trump.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2026 07:31 AM (RIvkX)

32 Auspex

Good point. Wonder what the pre-summit talking points are here.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2026 07:32 AM (u82oZ)

33
I think I know where the Royal Navy went. It went to the welfare largesse of all the head chopping invaders the Left is so keen on.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 11, 2026 07:26 AM (l26NL)

You'd like to think an island nation would see the importance of having a robust navy. But what do I know?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 11, 2026 07:32 AM (HdYcL)

34 I would pay good money to hear Trump say to Xi "Poo how you doing?"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 11, 2026 07:33 AM (gu0hJ)

35 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 11, 2026 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

36 I'm sure the family of the man he murdered a few weeks later appreciate the fact you Care So Hard. I'm cruel enough to think that she doesn't deserve any place in civilized society and should be shamed everywhere she goes.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 11, 2026 07:31 AM (99eI0)
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I term this "collusion" which means she bears partial guilt for the crime. Her behavior is only slightly more civilized than the perpetrator's.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2026 07:33 AM (RIvkX)

37 Hadrian the Seventh

National political power and financial interests need physical power as basic underpinning.

The UK elite have lost that knowledge.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2026 07:35 AM (u82oZ)

38 I used to have a different nic

Are you laughing in Texas?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2026 07:36 AM (u82oZ)

39 Her behavior is only slightly more civilized than the perpetrator's.

There is a gentleman on YouTube who goes by the name Hoe Math that talks about women like her. Basic summary: They never mentally grow past the mentality of kindergarten teacher and they think that this is just children being naughty. Which is why true punishment horrifies them because in their eyes, it's like throwing a kindergartner into general population for acting up.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 11, 2026 07:36 AM (99eI0)

40 The white woman who prosecute her attacker because he was black isn't much different than the white girls who get pregnant by black guys who abuse and/or don't support them.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 11, 2026 07:37 AM (gu0hJ)

41 IRS Erroneously Awarded Millions in Tax Breaks to Noncitizens.

Erroneously. And you can believe that if you want.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 11, 2026 07:40 AM (ExV1e)

42 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: VDH - Cruelty Rating Systems at May 11, 2026 07:41 AM (53oGX)

43 Smell the Glove

This is happening a lot.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

44 AOC doesn't want to be president she wants to be something more. First female Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Hitler? Sounds like it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 11, 2026 07:42 AM (gu0hJ)

45 I'd bet if you gave Tucker a good slap, he wouldn't even fight back. He's a simp with a sore pussy.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 11, 2026 07:42 AM (kSpDG)

46 "Erroneously. And you can believe that if you want.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic"

If I make an error in my favor on my deposit slip at the bank those bastards want it back!

Posted by: fd - I Am Enough at May 11, 2026 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

47 Trump appears to have truly believed this would all be over in 6 weeks, and he’s failing to have the nerve to finish it. The Iranians could hang on for several months like this, they’re in no danger of immediate collapse. Meanwhile, an entire summer of $5 gas will hand Congress to the left on a platter.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2026 07:44 AM (AnnNE)

48 Maybe women judges aren't such a great idea.

Posted by: Mumbling under my breath at May 11, 2026 07:44 AM (2Ez/1)

49 The entire leftist project is an effort to satisfy the infantile urge to avoid and mitigate the negative consequences of behavior.

As a result, positive behavior is unrewarded and negative behavior is encouraged. Not a surprise here.

Reparative justice? Not justice.
No bail?
Undercharging?
Plea deals?
Soft sentencing?
Early release?
Automatic appeals?
Parole?

NOT JUSTICE.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2026 07:44 AM (RIvkX)

50 Monica Crowley, the U.S. government's chief of protocol, dropped a significant claim on Wednesday: hard evidence that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election is coming, and it's coming soon. "He did win in a landslide, and we will soon be able to give evidence about that," Crowley said.

Will there be prosecutions? Will we bomb foreign capitals? Will anything change?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 11, 2026 07:47 AM (ExV1e)

51 Robert Allerton Cushman III, the son of a Harvard-educated Canadian public health official, has flown under the radar as Platner casts himself as a blue-collar commercial fisherman
=====================
Platner went to Hotchkiss and Cushman to St. Paul's, and they all live in Blue Hill, Maine.

It doesn't get any more lazy rich boy than those ties. That Platner is even a possibility for Senate is ridiculous. I hope the negative news supposedly coming knocks him not just out of the race, but knocks his Cushman partners out of Maine and back to Ottawa.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2026 07:47 AM (7hx0x)

52 48 Maybe women judges aren't such a great idea.
Posted by: Mumbling under my breath at May 11, 2026 07:44 AM (2Ez/1)

Boasberg?

Posted by: Nova Local at May 11, 2026 07:47 AM (tOcjL)

53 Trump thinking this would be over in six weeks. Why, pray tell.are we and have been transporting all these troops and supplies to the Middle East for the last 6 weeks?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 11, 2026 07:47 AM (z2aPa)

54 Monica Crowley, the U.S. government's chief of protocol, dropped a significant claim on Wednesday: hard evidence that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election is coming, and it's coming soon. "He did win in a landslide, and we will soon be able to give evidence about that," Crowley said.

The chief of protocol? That's who's going to present 'hard evidence?'

I have no snark that even approaches how dumbassed I think this is.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 11, 2026 07:49 AM (qRla/)

55 dooM!! glooM!!!

agony???

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 11, 2026 07:50 AM (zBgIx)

56 "Will there be prosecutions? Will we bomb foreign capitals? Will anything change?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic"

If it is proven that he won, he should get another term.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2026 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

57 Trump thinking this would be over in six weeks. Why, pray tell.are we and have been transporting all these troops and supplies to the Middle East for the last 6 weeks?
Posted by: Ben Had at May 11, 2026 07:47 AM (z2aPa)
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I thought this would be over by the end of March.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2026 07:50 AM (RIvkX)

58 53 Trump thinking this would be over in six weeks. Why, pray tell.are we and have been transporting all these troops and supplies to the Middle East for the last 6 weeks?
Posted by: Ben Had at May 11, 2026 07:47 AM (z2aPa)

B/c we're starting 9-10 weeks now...and 2-3 weeks in, after leadership was dead, it was obvious 6 weeks wasn't gonna work.

I agree that Trump was sold that the original decapitation strike and follow on would take 6 weeks (b/c he gave a d$mn stupid speech that this would all be over in "weeks"), so he approved it. I'm sure his folks said that was their best guess, and it could be more, but they sold 6 weeks...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 11, 2026 07:51 AM (tOcjL)

59 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at May 11, 2026 07:52 AM (S838b)

60 I used to have a different nic

Are you laughing in Texas?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2026 07:36 AM (u82oZ)

Since I'm waiting to have my prostate cancer confirmed, not at the moment.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 11, 2026 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

61 >>>Trump thinking this would be over in six weeks. Why, pray tell.are we and have been transporting all these troops and supplies to the Middle East for the last 6 weeks?

Posted by: Ben Had

>Phase 1 was over in six weeks. You still have Phase 11 and Phase 111 coming up.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 11, 2026 07:53 AM (kSpDG)

62 I used to have a different nic

Yikes! Prayers ascending.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

63 Your AOSHQ word of the day is "swart"

1. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.

2. Gloomy; malignant.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2026 07:54 AM (vFG9F)

64 "March 1: Trump said in a speech that "combat operations continue at this time in full force, and they will continue until all of our objectives are achieved." When The New York Times asked him how long the United States and Israel would continue the attacks, Trump said: "Well, we intended four to five weeks.""

yes, it's pbs.org...but that's what Trump did say.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 11, 2026 07:54 AM (tOcjL)

65 Has anyone contacted President Trump and notified him of your displeasure? I understand there are several ways to so, like X and Truth Social.

I don't think random comments on a blog will do the trick.

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 11, 2026 07:54 AM (zBgIx)

66 CONT
"March 2: Trump said at a White House ceremony: "We're already substantially ahead of our time projections. But whatever the time is, it's OK." He repeated that the initial projection was "four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that."

same timeline

Posted by: Nova Local at May 11, 2026 07:55 AM (tOcjL)

67 Mar 2 Hegsgeth: "Hegseth added: "Trump has all the latitude in the world to talk about how long it may or may not take. Four weeks, two weeks, six weeks. It could move up, it could move back."

I can keep going on the 6 weeks sold at the beginning...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 11, 2026 07:55 AM (tOcjL)

68 SanFranpsycho, The IRGC have been building underground missile and nuke facilities for 30+ years planning for this end game.
There is a reason they are labeled a death cult.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 11, 2026 07:56 AM (z2aPa)

69 The dithering on the SAVE act is a perfect example of why we are all f'd.

--

It isn't even a matter of dithering. They're simply refusing to do it. There is no hesitation. There isn't anything more crystalline about the true intentions of these disgusting, self-serving pieces of **** than their refusal to pass what 80% of the country that elected them want. I despise the GOP, and the failure to pass the SAVE Act has me more infuriated than just about anything they've ever done. Traitorous scum.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 11, 2026 07:56 AM (qBdHI)

70 As in "Swart Military Blog".

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2026 07:57 AM (vFG9F)

71 Little Miss Attempted Arson of GOP Offices looks straight out of Central Casting.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 11, 2026 07:58 AM (qBdHI)

72 Your AOSHQ word of the day is "swart"

1. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.

2. Gloomy; malignant.
Posted by: fd at May 11, 2026

***
I guess my pure black cat doesn't qualify as "swart." He's not "moderately" black, he IS black.

Morning, news folken!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 11, 2026 07:58 AM (wzUl9)

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

We should be givers, and give the IRGC their heart's desire. Martyrdom.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2026 07:58 AM (u82oZ)

74 As in "Swart Military Blog".
Posted by: fd at May 11, 2026

***
A tawny military blog? What, are we mountain lions?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 11, 2026 07:59 AM (wzUl9)

75
58 53 Trump thinking this would be over in six weeks. Why, pray tell.are we and have been transporting all these troops and supplies to the Middle East for the last 6 weeks?
Posted by: Ben Had at May 11, 2026 07:47 AM (z2aPa)

Answer a question with another question - why do that and then have them sit around doing very little
for the next 6 weeks, unless it was just a big bluff that we hoped would pay off?

And now that the bluff has been called , we don’t know what to do next? The blockade is great, but it won’t make the Iranians give in. It’s foolish to think that it will.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2026 07:59 AM (AnnNE)

76 www.oregonlive.com :

Three dozen medical experts say Trump ‘mentally unfit,’ should be removed from office with ‘greatest urgency’

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 08:00 AM (qIAN9)

77 Rev. Wishbone, exactly.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 11, 2026 08:00 AM (z2aPa)

78 Has anyone contacted President Trump and notified him of your displeasure? I understand there are several ways to so, like X and Truth Social.

I don't think random comments on a blog will do the trick.
Posted by: Will Robinson at May 11, 2026 07:54 AM (zBgIx)
====

He and I are psychically connected.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2026 08:01 AM (RIvkX)

79 Heard a guy filling his truck with gas today say “f’ing Trump”. It’s wearing on people and it shows.

I suppose you can hand wave that off and say it will be lower in a month. But it seems like Iran is a moving target and we are getting dragged by our dicks at this point.

Could be six weeks. Could be two months. Could be a year.

But yeah they are totally going to fold. Any day now.

*makes ok sign*

Posted by: Vengeance at May 11, 2026 08:03 AM (Pu/zx)

80 What the point of using USS Wisconsin and USS Missouri in 1st Gulf War ?

Pretty much a ‘feint’ to force Iraq to defend the coastline of Kuwait

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 08:03 AM (qIAN9)

81 Good morning, All.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 11, 2026 08:03 AM (lQA6G)

82 I thought this would be over by the end of March.

Any war in the Middle East is never over.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 11, 2026 08:03 AM (DgMqy)

83 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 50 cloudy degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. Another day of editing ahead; I'm hoping I can get to the end of the book today, but I doubt it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 11, 2026 08:04 AM (qRla/)

84 The Israelis still haven't completed their Phase 1 task; regime change.

We, on the other hand have. Military assets.

Phase 11; global commerce.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 11, 2026 08:04 AM (kSpDG)

85 Unless the IRGC is taken out the whole thing will be deemed a failure. The IRGC is the Gestapo, the SS, the KGB and the Red Guards all rolled into one

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 11, 2026 08:04 AM (gu0hJ)

86 He and I are psychically connected.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2026 08:01 AM (RIvkX)

I'm almost afraid to ask but how and where?

😂

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 11, 2026 08:05 AM (zBgIx)

87 Tom Servo, the military is only one aspect of this war. Right now it is being fought on the economic and diplomatic fronts.

The military is not sitting around. They are prepping the battlespace.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 11, 2026 08:06 AM (z2aPa)

88 Little Miss Attempted Arson was one of Roger Hargreave's underrated comics. Pity he wasn't allowed to publish Little Miss Molesting Schoolteacher

Posted by: gKWVE at May 11, 2026 08:06 AM (qhl8T)

89 www.oregonlive.com

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Seeing that made me think of Oregon Muse. RUP

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 11, 2026 08:06 AM (lQA6G)

90 www.oregonlive.com :

Three dozen medical experts say Trump ‘mentally unfit,’ should be removed from office with ‘greatest urgency’
Posted by: SMOD

😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at May 11, 2026 08:07 AM (S838b)

91
The military is not sitting around. They are prepping the battlespace.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 11, 2026 08:06 AM (z2aPa)

Pretty sure they're not just sitting there twiddling their thumbs..

Posted by: It's me donna at May 11, 2026 08:09 AM (asBle)

92 @87 Ben Had-prepping the battle space to do what?

Posted by: JROD at May 11, 2026 08:09 AM (IlL6s)

93 Not RUP! RIP.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 11, 2026 08:10 AM (lQA6G)

94 >prepping the battle space to do what?
++++

Battle.

Posted by: Someone has to say it at May 11, 2026 08:12 AM (2Ez/1)

95 I'm no strategery expert; I have no insight (nor does anyone else who isn't directly involved in the machinations of all these moving parts), but I get the impression that Trump probably thought Iran would fold up like the Jeepers Creepers monster by now. He's in a very tough place. If they're "collapsing," it's a slow burn collapse and it could drag on forever. I have every belief Democrats are in contact with the IRGC, or whoever's still left breathing and in command, and are sabotaging Trump and advising these animals to hang on. He can't level the place due to catastrophic civilian casualties, and they can't rise up enough to topple these demons without weaponry. And all the while, people here are starting to grumble about gas prices. Did Trump get snookered? Did he pull back the reins when he should've kept grinding them into the ground? I fear this has become a quagmire, and it will affect the midterms unless gas prices start coming down. High gas prices vs. an eradicated, hardline Islamic Regime? Americans aren't going to look past their own pocketbooks into the long term. It's just a truth that can't be ignored.

/totally unqualified opinion turning off

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 11, 2026 08:14 AM (qBdHI)

96 I saw The Haitian Hammer Killers open for Wall of Voodoo at the Superdome in New Orleans in 1985.

Lots of zombie chicks in attendance.

Posted by: Mexican Radio at May 11, 2026 08:15 AM (HBTIy)

97 "prepping the battle space to do what?
++++

Battle."

Somebody should, and by somebody, I mean somebody other than me, should create a template for a sternly worded letter so that people that are dissatisfied with POTUS in this matter can make their opinion know to the one man who does matter, at this moment.

Maybe if you this this template, you could buy the creator a coffee or two?

no?

Oh well, it was just a suggestion.

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 11, 2026 08:16 AM (zBgIx)

98 Today Is Twilight Zone Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2026 08:16 AM (NpAcC)

99 I've always gotten a laugh out of psychologists and psychiatrists saying that Trump is mentally unfit.
I've taken enough testimony from such doctors to realize that s good chunk of them are as crazy as their patients

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 11, 2026 08:16 AM (gu0hJ)

100 @94 Someone has to say it-battle boredom because we are bluffing or battle the IRGC as in boots on the ground?

I know we are all speculating. Curious if we will see boots on the ground.

Posted by: JROD at May 11, 2026 08:17 AM (IlL6s)

101 It's time for high heels on the ground!

Posted by: Sam Brinton at May 11, 2026 08:19 AM (2Ez/1)

102 Here in deep red, upstate SC, I was driving towards Greenville on Saturday down I-85 and saw a giant billboard: FalseProphet.org. With a giant picture of President Trump draped in an American flag and wearing a crown.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 11, 2026 08:21 AM (qBdHI)

103 Americans aren't going to look past their own pocketbooks into the long term. It's just a truth that can't be ignored.

/totally unqualified opinion turning off
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 11, 2026 08:14 AM (qBdHI)

I absolutely agree, and I've said so before. In fact, I'll even make a prediction - come the summer, look for a few 'brave voices' in the GOP to go public with how their 'frustrated constituents' have been calling with concerns about the war and high prices and not-so-subtly suggesting this is all Trump's fault. A self-sabotage, if you will, in order to deliberately lose the midterms.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 11, 2026 08:21 AM (qRla/)

104 Sam Brinton

Lead the way. Gaza, Tehran, Yemen or North Korea need your on the ground expertise.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2026 08:22 AM (u82oZ)

105 "Someone has to say it-battle boredom because we are bluffing or battle the IRGC as in boots on the ground?"

SEveral Iranian resistance sources are claiming that more weapons are getting to them. I would highly expect that Special Forces/Special Operation Group, type troops are already there overseeing the distribution.

At most I would think the only U.S. ground forces that would be deployed would be Marine amphibious troops and maybe the 82nd Airborne. all around near the SoH to secure it while the Iranian people do the work of clearing out the mad muzzies.

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 11, 2026 08:22 AM (zBgIx)

106 Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Without a SAVE act passed, focused on fraudulent voting, the GOPe will lose.

Then we have a bg decision.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

107 We, and the Israelis, really want to rid Iran of their enriched Uranium. Trump's hedged a bit on it, but I think he's back to, as he has said, "taking it all." Which is an admission that the end state for Iran might just be more of the same. They've got no functioning government other than the IRGC. Which isn't at all interested in governing or surrender.

"Taking" Iran's enriched Uranium and making sure they can't restart that process without great difficulty is going to be difficult. And it's apparently something of a priority right now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2026 08:24 AM (jehhT)

108 Democrats are absolutely in contact with the IRGC.

Especially the Kalorama faction.

There's no way that they aren't.

Posted by: XTC at May 11, 2026 08:24 AM (iXqHn)

109 @63
Who can doubt the secret hid
Under Cheops' pyramid
Was that the contractor did
Cheops out of several millions

Or that Joseph's sudden rise
to Comptroller of Supplies
Was a fraud of monstrous size
On King Pharaoh's swart Civilians?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 11, 2026 08:24 AM (zdLoL)

110 >>>Someone has to say it-battle boredom because we are bluffing or battle the IRGC as in boots on the ground?

I know we are all speculating. Curious if we will see boots on the ground.

Posted by: JROD

>Boot on the ground means what? Marines? The president can do that at any time. If you're talking about war, only Congress can call up the militia, the army.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 11, 2026 08:25 AM (kSpDG)

111 Since we stopped any major offensive actions against Iran, we've been waiting on Iran to provide us a peace plan. Didn't we kick their ass? Doesn't that imply that we dictate the terms? If they refuse them, they get multiples of what they experienced on the first attacks. Am I missing something here?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 11, 2026 08:26 AM (N39Ws)

112 @97 Will Robinson- I am looking at this whole Iranian thing from two sides. The optimistic Victor Davis Hanson side and the Tom Servo side(sorry Tom). Dissatisfied? Yeah I'm dissatisfied in the sense that I'm wondering wtf is going on. I WANT US......OUR SIDE TO WIN. HERE AT HOME AND ABROAD. I think you'll live if I show some dissatisfaction with a man I still fully support.

Posted by: JROD at May 11, 2026 08:26 AM (IlL6s)

113 I know we are all speculating. Curious if we will see boots on the ground.
Posted by: JROD at May 11, 2026 08:17 AM (IlL6s)

The main body of Iran does not require invasion, but truly opening the straits absolutely requires amphibious troops to take the islands in the straits that house observation posts and buried missile sites that allow Iran to close the straits to shipping.

The US walked right up to the point where that was the necessary next step, and balked. Now Iran is laughing about it, and this morning is calling for the US to surrender and go home.

And so far Trumps only response is “well maybe I’ll talk to your good friends in Qatar for another month or two.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2026 08:26 AM (AnnNE)

114 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

115 108 Democrats are absolutely in contact with the IRGC.

Especially the Kalorama faction.

There's no way that they aren't.
Posted by: XTC at May 11, 2026 08:24 AM (iXqHn)

I don't doubt it. Sure would be nice if our intel communities could provide documented proof of such.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 11, 2026 08:28 AM (N39Ws)

116 Spanberger’s already caved to the left in pushing an outrage she’d promised to oppose; will she find the spine to say no now?

She lied. Voters fell for it. She won.

NEVER vote for a Dem, if you know what's good for you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

117 Since I'm waiting to have my prostate cancer confirmed, not at the moment.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 11, 2026 07:52 AM (ExV1e)
*******
Sending prayers.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2026 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

118 Am I missing something here?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 11, 2026 08:26 AM (N39Ws)

No.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

119 Since I'm waiting to have my prostate cancer confirmed, not at the moment.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 11, 2026 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

Praying for a non-confirmation and all is well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

120
111 Since we stopped any major offensive actions against Iran, we've been waiting on Iran to provide us a peace plan. Didn't we kick their ass? Doesn't that imply that we dictate the terms? If they refuse them, they get multiples of what they experienced on the first attacks. Am I missing something here?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 11, 2026 08:26 AM (N39Ws)

I agree completely. That’s the issue I try to raise - Iran has figured out “hey you guys are already sick of fighting, and you really don’t know what to do next, do you? And they are very publicly calling our bluff.

The next step is going to require taking some casualties on our part. That’s a hard pill to swallow, but walking away and letting Iran declare victory is an even worse one.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2026 08:30 AM (AnnNE)

121 Kinetic action started on March 4. Does Iran have a navy? How many Iranian fighter jets have flown defensive or even offensive missions.

Why waste munitions while the economic front is doing so much damage. Because it would be stupid.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 11, 2026 08:30 AM (z2aPa)

122 Praying for a non-confirmation and all is well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

Well, the MRI showed a mass so it's not likely to be not cancer but that would certainly be a nice surprise.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 11, 2026 08:30 AM (ExV1e)

123 Cornyn on full display again, dressed in a wig and stockings doing a lap dance for the NeverTrumper/Barack Odildo cabal. Not quite the full cocksuckery of Schitt Rumney and Roger French, but right out in the open. . . . . again. C'mon Texas . . fix it.

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & MSM InfoWhores at May 11, 2026 08:31 AM (HeR4S)

124 Sponge - F*ck Cancer

The latest plan is for the Democrat legislator to set a new retirement age for the VA Supreme Court, force the bad judges to retire, then appoint vassals to the Court.

For some reason, the Left refuses to believe anyone else but them can hold power. Very Totalitarian.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2026 08:31 AM (u82oZ)

125 So how, exactly does this work? A big truck shows up in your neighborhood and someone starts handing out rifles, pistols and ammo? Ahmed the 20 year old college student is now magically proficient in military tactics? Fatemeh the local coffee shop barista is suddenly a well practiced sniper?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 11, 2026 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)

126 Here in deep red, upstate SC, I was driving towards Greenville on Saturday down I-85 and saw a giant billboard: FalseProphet.org. With a giant picture of President Trump draped in an American flag and wearing a crown.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 11, 2026 08:21 AM (qBdHI)

Liberal billionaires aren't backing down.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

127
For some reason, the Left refuses to believe anyone else but them can hold power. Very Totalitarian.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2026 08:31 AM (u82oZ)

But, No Kings, yo.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

128 In general, pausing battle when it’s clear your objectives haven’t been met is a mistake. It only serves the defenders. I’ll presume we had enough assets in the battle space from the beginning, or we would have never kicked off kinetic actions. Resupply is key to any combat operations. They are the ultimate professionals. Don’t believe anyone who says the pause was primarily to rearm. It wasn’t. Draw your own conclusions.

GFM von Molte, von Clausewitz, et al were correct on this point.

We are no closer to meeting the mission objectives than we were weeks ago. The Iranians are finding ways to deal with their oil wells. They are rearming with Chinese and Russian weapons coming in on aircraft and via the Caspian. The Iranians have learned to improvise. They’ve had to. It feels like that wasn’t built into the battle plan.

The Iranians know they have two main cards to play. Close down the strait, and hold onto the nuclear material. It’s evident in the negotiations they are holding those cards at the behest of their Chinese and Russian benefactors.

Ultimately we wont lose if the battle restarts. But we have prolonged the timeline and increased the risk factors if we do. YMMV.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2026 08:32 AM (OQfsE)

129 Posted by: Will Robinson at May 11, 2026 08:05 AM (zBgIx)

We are very much from the same place.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2026 08:32 AM (RIvkX)

130
Well, the MRI showed a mass so it's not likely to be not cancer but that would certainly be a nice surprise.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 11, 2026 08:30 AM (ExV1e)/i]

Godspeed, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

131 The latest plan is for the Democrat legislator to set a new retirement age for the VA Supreme Court, force the bad judges to retire, then appoint vassals to the Court.

I'd bet that would run afoul of the "no ex-post facto" thing which is why Congress has always exempted current people whenever they do stuff like that but who knows.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 11, 2026 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

132 After reading the article, it looks like New Jersey's House District 4 is poised to elect a slice'n'dice, disfiguring plastic surgeon, best buddies with the "Blind Sheikh," as their next representative. Supposedly the district is +13 Dem and whoever wins the primary will win the House seat. He's the front-runner.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 11, 2026 08:33 AM (qBdHI)

133 > Democrats are absolutely in contact with the IRGC.

Especially the Kalorama faction.

There's no way that they aren't.
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I don't doubt it either. And if the administration isn't monitoring this, and collecting evidence, they're stupid as shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2026 08:33 AM (jehhT)

134 C'mon Texas . . fix it.
Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & MSM InfoWhores at May 11, 2026 08:31 AM (HeR4S)

Paxton is leading in the polls. But, being as those are for strippers, I'm only guessing when I say Cornyn's political days are numbered.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

135 I've taken enough testimony from such doctors to realize that s good chunk of them are as crazy as their patients
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 11, 2026 08:16 AM (gu0hJ)
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This checks out.
-American Psychological Association

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2026 08:34 AM (RIvkX)

136 Top Democrats held a private, ANGER-ridden call on Saturday panicking to figure out how to gerrymander Virginia after the 10D-1R map was tossed out

One plan: FIRE THE SUPREME COURT, lower the retirement age

Another plan: NULLIFY the redistricting rules!

"They spoke about a collective determination to flip two or three Republican-held seats under the existing map and discussed a bank-shot proposal to redraw the congressional lines anyway."

"The most dramatic idea they discussed, which would be involve the unusual gambit to replace the entire Supreme Court of Virginia with the goal of reinstating their gerrymandered map."

"One key to the plan would be having Democrats in Richmond lower the mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices."

"Can you imagine firing the Virginia Supreme Court? By the way, if you want to take off in a purple state independence who you need to win elections, do that!"

https://tinyurl.com/2v49bcju

Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2026 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

137 ALL IS LOST!

Posted by: runner at May 11, 2026 08:37 AM (GD0B3)

138 Doesn't sound like that Saturday phone call was very private.

Posted by: Ummmm at May 11, 2026 08:37 AM (2Ez/1)

139 "Can you imagine firing the Virginia Supreme Court? By the way, if you want to take off in a purple state independence who you need to win elections, do that!"

https://tinyurl.com/2v49bcju
Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2026 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

Why is the NYT suddenly doing some actual journalism?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

140
Talked with Her Majesty this morning. The accident this weekend that injured a fellow Borzoi breeder happened at a lure coursing trial associated with our National Specialty. Apparently, she was trying to catch a dog who was finishing the course. She's very experienced in field trials and knows how to do it, but in this case the dog slammed into her.

A 100 pound dog hitting you at 25 miles an hour is no joke. Multiple broken bones in the leg and back, concussion and internal bleeding. She was in surgery for six or seven hours. Given her age and frailty before this, it will be a very long time, if ever, before she can even go home.

Any spare thoughts for her would be appreciated. She had nine dogs with her and they're all being taken care of.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 11, 2026 08:38 AM (HdYcL)

141 137 ALL IS LOST!
Posted by: runner at May 11, 2026 08:37 AM (GD0B3)

"Now you can only win."

--Escape with Romeo

Posted by: XTC at May 11, 2026 08:38 AM (FpHTM)

142 I've taken enough testimony from such doctors to realize that s good chunk of them are as crazy as their patients
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 11, 2026 08:16 AM (gu0hJ)
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This checks out.
-American Psychological Association
Posted by: San Franpsycho
_________

Unfortunately, you can find an expert in just about any field to testify to whatever you want for the right price. But especially the medical field. Plaintiffs have their panel of known whores, as do defendants.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 11, 2026 08:39 AM (XvL8K)

143
Any spare thoughts for her would be appreciated. She had nine dogs with her and they're all being taken care of.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 11, 2026 08:38 AM (HdYcL)

Wow. Who knew dog shows were a full contact sport.

May the healing hand of God bless her with rapid healing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

144 Despite the loan caps not taking effect until July 1, some schools have already started taking action related to the rule.

Huh. It turns out that you can just do things.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 11, 2026 08:39 AM (99eI0)

145 Ultimately we wont lose if the battle restarts. But we have prolonged the timeline and increased the risk factors if we do. YMMV.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2026 08:32 AM (OQfsE)

Agree completely with your analysis. Prolonging a war that could be ended quickly is *never* an advantageous move. Iran is getting enough supplies overland through Pakistan and China and Russia to survive the blockade, Not happily, but it will not collapse them - believing that is a fantasy.

Everyone else is ready to go. Trump is the one man who’s dithering, when it’s time to act.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2026 08:41 AM (AnnNE)

146 Top Democrats held a private, ANGER-ridden call on Saturday panicking to figure out how to gerrymander Virginia after the 10D-1R map was tossed out

One plan: FIRE THE SUPREME COURT, lower the retirement age

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Yeah. Lower the retirement age TO FIFTY FOUR.

For those that need a refresher course on fascism, THAT is fascism.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 11, 2026 08:43 AM (S838b)

147 146 Yeah. Lower the retirement age TO FIFTY FOUR.

For those that need a refresher course on fascism, THAT is fascism.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 11, 2026 08:43 AM (S838b)

Combined with an 18 year Term Limit.

Posted by: XTC at May 11, 2026 08:45 AM (FpHTM)

148 Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is rallying fellow Democrats in a new “Dear Colleague” letter for a battle royale on the Senate floor over $1 billion in proposed funding for President Trump’s 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom that’s tucked into a $72 billion Republican-drafted budget reconciliation package. Schumer is planning to turn the Senate floor debate and marathon voting session on the reconciliation bill into a referendum on lowering costs and scrapping the earmark for the ballroom.

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 08:45 AM (RHGPo)

149 @113 Tom Servo- I know the focus has been Kharg Island but from what I understand Qeshm Island is the most strategically significant spot as it pertains to the Strait Of Hormuz. I frequent a Marine blog and commenter's there have said that there has been plans in place to take that island for decades now if the time/situation arose.

Iran just this morning is playing the victim card which the leftist media will lap up n regurgitate. They're gonna play the U Smedia like the fiddle of useful idiots they are.

Hopefully we can starve them out economically if that is what Trump is betting on and that time is on our side.

I agree with a comment above. We'll see after Trump meets with Xi and where this all goes from there.

Posted by: JROD at May 11, 2026 08:46 AM (IlL6s)

150 Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 11, 2026 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

151 They are just diapers. But they have landed California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) into messy accusations of corruption for dumping $20 million in taxpayer money into a nonprofit led by an executive who sits on the board of his wife’s organization.

Someone did the math on the diaper scheme and determined taxpayers would be paying fifty cents for each free diaper which can be purchased at Costco for twelve cents each.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 11, 2026 08:47 AM (2ap+5)

152 >> Everyone else is ready to go. Trump is the one man who’s dithering, when it’s time to act.

To be fair CiNC has probably seen the target list for a restart of combat operations. He also realizes (especially after the downed aircraft) there are a lot of risks. If we carry out the next phase it won’t simply destroy the IRGC and military targets, it’s going to make restarting the country harder and have longer term local and global economic impact. There is a lot to consider but IMVHO we should have never stopped and just proceeded until we had complete, unquestioned positive control.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2026 08:47 AM (f98mK)

153 So how impactful will the British elections be?

It looks like the voters want:

An end to immigration (all immigration)
Freedom of speech legalized again
The arrests of immigrants committing crimes.

Will this get them any of that?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2026 08:48 AM (sKqQm)

154
Will this get them any of that?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2026 08:48 AM (sKqQm)/i]

No. Starmer won't resign. ReformUK will be neutered before it even takes a seat.

UK will continue to circle the drain into islhamic darkness.

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 11, 2026 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

155 The way you win the Iran war is something like how Clinton won the Serbian war.

He targeted the infrastructure of the Serbian elites - bridges, power plants, TV studios, etc.

Now the Serbs were mostly rational and the Mullahs are not, so it won't stop there. But frankly the Mullah class should have been without power since day 2 or 3 of the conflict.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2026 08:50 AM (sKqQm)

156 "Voters."
That's cute.

Posted by: Politicians everywhere at May 11, 2026 08:50 AM (2Ez/1)

157 So how impactful will the British elections be?

It looks like the voters want:

An end to immigration (all immigration)
Freedom of speech legalized again
The arrests of immigrants committing crimes.

Will this get them any of that?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2026 08:48 AM (sKqQm)

Since the elections were for the equivalent of city councils and not Parliament, no.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 11, 2026 08:50 AM (ExV1e)

158 18-1

Nope. the elites want the native Britons to be replaced. Little do they imagne they would be replaced as well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2026 08:50 AM (u82oZ)

159 I used to have a different nic, prayers for you are ascending.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 11, 2026 08:50 AM (z2aPa)

160
Trump needs to forget about peace prizes. Anything short of destroying the mullah and their thugs is like letting Hitler sets the terms of peace while in the bunker.

Posted by: Auspex at May 11, 2026 08:50 AM (Y8DZL)

161 153 So how impactful will the British elections be?

It looks like the voters want:

An end to immigration (all immigration)
Freedom of speech legalized again
The arrests of immigrants committing crimes.

Will this get them any of that?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2026 08:48 AM (sKqQm)

Probably not very impactful in the short term, and no, it won't get them any of that. These were local-level elections (like our equivalent of City Council or Township Supervisor) It will only be impactful in the long term if it impacts the National Elections in 2029 (in other words, if voting patterns hold until then).

Posted by: XTC at May 11, 2026 08:51 AM (FpHTM)

162 Opening sentence of an NIH review article on hantaviruses:

Hantaviruses are a significant and emerging global public health threat, impacting more than 200,000 individuals worldwide each year.

For perspective
200,000 out of !7.5 billion = 0.000027 or 0.0027%

Draw your ownn conclusions.

Side note: Authors of the article:

Samia Afzal , Liaqat Ali , Anum Batool , Momina Afzal , Nida Kanwal , Muhammad Hassan , Muhammad Safdar , Atif Ahmad , Jing Yang

Posted by: muldoon at May 11, 2026 08:51 AM (I0N4X)

163 Keep pushing the Dems. Look how insane they've gone because of the Virginia case, a decision that was based on solid grounds. Keep going after their NGOs and keep dumping info about 2020 election. Keep them off balance and insane

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 11, 2026 08:51 AM (gu0hJ)

164 >>>Everyone else is ready to go. Trump is the one man who’s dithering, when it’s time to act.

Posted by: Tom Servo

>Regime change is on the Israelis. We don't do assassinations by law. We are not at war. That is on Congress. Imminent Threat. War power resolution. Global commerce. Do you want to send in the marines?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 11, 2026 08:51 AM (kSpDG)

165 but from what I understand Qeshm Island is the most strategically significant spot as it pertains to the Strait Of Hormuz.”

I agree completely, was saying that weeks ago. If we had taken Qeshm before announcing a cease fire the current situation would not be so dire. But we didn’t.

The economic pressure is intense, but we are not facing a democratic or popular government ; we are facing radical terrorists who want to bring about the end of the world. The economic embargo is not bad, but it may take 6 months to have any effect on the regimes control.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2026 08:52 AM (AnnNE)

166 They are just diapers. But they have landed California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) into messy accusations of corruption for dumping $20 million in taxpayer money into a nonprofit led by an executive who sits on the board of his wife’s organization.

Someone did the math on the diaper scheme and determined taxpayers would be paying fifty cents for each free diaper which can be purchased at Costco for twelve cents each.
Posted by: Oglebay

.38 cents per is the government skim.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 11, 2026 08:53 AM (S838b)

167 Side note: Authors of the article:

Samia Afzal , Liaqat Ali , Anum Batool , Momina Afzal , Nida Kanwal , Muhammad Hassan , Muhammad Safdar , Atif Ahmad , Jing Yang
Posted by: muldoon at May 11, 2026 08:51 AM (I0N4X)

Jing Yang, Jing Yang...any relation to Yang Poon ??

Posted by: runner at May 11, 2026 08:53 AM (GD0B3)

168 Why is the NYT suddenly doing some actual journalism?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)
*****
A broken clock is right twice a day, as the sayin' goes.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2026 08:53 AM (NpAcC)

169 @163 muldoon, sounds like the authors were Star Wars characters

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 11, 2026 08:53 AM (gu0hJ)

170 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 11, 2026 07:40 AM (ExV1e)

Hey, are you hanging in?

Posted by: ... at May 11, 2026 08:54 AM (/YotI)

171 "Hantaviruses are a significant and emerging global public health threat..."
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Hashtag TwoWeeks.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at May 11, 2026 08:54 AM (2Ez/1)

172 CORRECTION: That article was not published by the NIH, but was cited by the NIH.

The institutions of the authors include two from Pakistasn ad one from (wait for it)...

...Wuhan, China

Posted by: muldoon at May 11, 2026 08:54 AM (I0N4X)

173 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday.

Posted by: Bulg at May 11, 2026 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

174 And......it's Monday.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

175 Muckraking journalists have uncovered massive child care fraud schemes in Minnesota, hospice fraud schemes in California, and a bustling “home health” care racket in Ohio.

The DOJ reversed a previous policy that generally overlooked fraud cases under $1.5 million.

I assume this is the Megan McArdle threshold for fraud too minor to bother prosecuting.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 11, 2026 08:55 AM (2ap+5)

176 Iran has 90 million people, a huge landmass, a highly subsidized weapons production effort and proxies.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 11, 2026 08:55 AM (z2aPa)

177 Now the 23-year-old woman has regrets. “Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail,” she told The Post.

That’s not really empathy. It’s the liberal mindset of “everyone is an interchangeable cog”, so if Somalians don’t behave like trust fund WASPs it’s because of some outside factor, probably Republicans.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 11, 2026 08:56 AM (QZThv)

178
Jing Yang, Jing Yang...any relation to Yang Poon ??
Posted by: runner at May 11, 2026 08:53 AM (GD0B3)

Yang Dang Sweet Poontang!

Posted by: Sweaty Teddy at May 11, 2026 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

179 “Expert” - somebody from out of town, who has a briefcase

Posted by: Just the Punchline at May 11, 2026 08:57 AM (2BdZb)

180 we are facing radical terrorists who want to bring about the end of the world.
Posted by: Tom Servo
__________

Are we at this point? That was the mullahs, but if the IRGC is now in control, it seems like it's a bunch of grifters who know they're dead if there's regime change. Not sure which is more dangerous here.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 11, 2026 08:57 AM (XvL8K)

181
Someone did the math on the diaper scheme and determined taxpayers would be paying fifty cents for each free diaper which can be purchased at Costco for twelve cents each.
Posted by: Oglebay at May 11, 2026 08:47 AM (2ap+5)

And that cost per rises significantly if you factor in the fraud that will no doubt steal 85% of the 20 million dollars.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

182 AmericanThinker:

In Virginia, desperate Democrats have a plan to overthrow the state Supreme Court

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 08:58 AM (RHGPo)

183

CUMQUat>>>Paraquat>>>>>>>Liaqat

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 11, 2026 08:58 AM (x0n13)

184 >Regime change is on the Israelis. We don't do assassinations by law. We are not at war. That is on Congress. Imminent Threat. War power resolution. Global commerce. Do you want to send in the marines?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 11, 2026 08:51 AM (kSpDG)

Yes, I want to send the marines in to Qeshm and the other strategic points in the Straits. I’ll go so far as to say that unless we do that, Iran will win and this action will go down as one of the greatest foreign policy failures in American history. You don’t start a war and then just walk away when you get bored with it.

And saying “regime change is on the Israelis” is incredibly foolish - they have not a fraction of the power needed to do it. Assassinating leaders is all well and good, but we’ve already taken out most of Iran’s leadership, and every time 1 Mohammed goes down, 5 more jump up to take his place. That is not going to have any effect on the Regime maintaining control.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2026 08:59 AM (AnnNE)

185 Plastic disposable diapers.

If they can outlaw plastic straws, and plastic grocery sacks, diapers should be EZ. Gaia demands it!

Posted by: Just the Punchline at May 11, 2026 08:59 AM (2BdZb)

186 "... and determined taxpayers would be paying fifty cents for each free diaper which can be purchased at Costco for twelve cents each."

+++

It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at May 11, 2026 09:00 AM (2Ez/1)

187 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2026 09:01 AM (F5WKh)

188 Starmer intends to react to the voters message in a speech today. The citizenry say they want immigrants kicked out, border enforcement, prosecution of Pakistani rape gangs, and a return to national greatness. Two Tier Queer is instead announcing Britain will become a subsidiary country of the Brussels bureaucracy, a vassal state of the EU, and that all carbon production will end.

How's that gonna turn out?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2026 09:01 AM (7hx0x)

189 Having a data center in your town increases the possibility that in the even to a nuclear war, your town will be targeted.

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 09:01 AM (RHGPo)

190 Iran will capitulate this week. Unless the City of London and the IMF continues to bankroll it

You cannot shut in your oil wells and expect to survive.

Posted by: Danimal28 at May 11, 2026 09:02 AM (mNOhh)

191 This begs a bigger question:
Why does anyone still watch TV?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 11, 2026 07:31 AM (2Ez/1)

Because we can.

Posted by: Nyah! at May 11, 2026 09:02 AM (5xuJ/)

192 I know it was a minor story: The Guardian, citing some radical leftist, says Alito "fudged" the stat he cited that black voter participation exceeded white in LA.
See, say newly found experts, one must exclude the ineligible from the denominator such as the felon, incarcerated and ... illegal (oh?!).

Then, they lie, the rate exceeds only on 1 of the last 3.

But that wasn't the real intent of the article.

The real intent? US papers pick it up, use slightly stronger words like, mislead or deceive.
Then the real thrust:
The online left cites it as "Alito lied in his opinion and nothing will happen to him!"

Related: these same are now ""just asking questions" about the safety of ACB's Hatian children, and "do they know she doesn't think they have the right to vote?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 11, 2026 09:02 AM (MtSIY)

193 I love the Lefr sometimes. The theme of Pride Month this ywae is ALREADY "beyond the rainbow" - meaning a giant lecture to regular gays and lesbian about all the different "communities" they have "marginalized". Flipping hysterical. They always turn on their own.

"This isnt about you" is what they are telling the original people it is about now. I love it!!!

Posted by: ... at May 11, 2026 09:02 AM (/YotI)

194 If the US won't get in there and kill IRGC then I hope Israel does do so.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2026 09:02 AM (7hx0x)

195 Now the 23-year-old woman has regrets. “Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail,” she told The Post.

We can have a balkanized, racialized society OR we can have a conservative, individualist society. I really don't think most people want to live in the former.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2026 09:02 AM (sKqQm)

196 "The Jew-Hatred Pandemic No Longer a Mystery"

It a mystery to me only briefly. Then I realized Joos were simply the next-up villain for the Leftists to use. 'Transphobes' was fading as a villain that would drive contributions, along with hatred by the left's base that could be directed at normal American targets like a gun.

Before transphobes the villain was white supremacists. Before that it was racism by every white person. Homophobia. Anti-abortion groups and individuals. And the list goes back for decades.

Attempts to use ICE as the villain, white-christian nationalists, the police, the military, millionaires, AR-15s, and billionaires were/are mixed-in.

Why? Because every propagandist, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter knows a good story needs both a hero and a villain. Victims and their Leftist rescuers are always the heroes in Leftist propaganda.

Posted by: Gref at May 11, 2026 09:03 AM (5rh/l)

197 Jamie Raskin
@jamie_raskin
Last month, the people of Virginia took to the ballot box to fight back against the extreme partisan gerrymanders orchestrated by Donald Trump and MAGA all over America.

Today, in an outrageous outburst of right-wing judicial activism following the Roberts Court’s Callais decision, the Virginia Supreme Court has struck down the will of the voters. But democracy won’t end with right-wingers in black robes. Now is the time to campaign like never before for strong democracy, freedom and progress.

The American people will have the final say in November. Organize!
...

The justice who penned the decision was appointed by @MarkWarner
… right-wing? Really?

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 09:03 AM (RHGPo)

198 Are we at this point? That was the mullahs, but if the IRGC is now in control, it seems like it's a bunch of grifters who know they're dead if there's regime change. Not sure which is more dangerous here.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 11, 2026 08:57 AM (XvL8K)

The IRGC are even worse terrorists than the Mullahs were. They are exact analogues to Sinwar and Hamas in Gaza, and Nasrullah with Hezbollah in Lebanon. They will never surrender, never negotiate honestly, never stop trying to kill all of us - and they care nothing about their own deaths.

You do not negotiate with people like this. Never. You either kill them, or run away. Those are the only two real choices we have.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2026 09:03 AM (AnnNE)

199 I love the Lefr sometimes. The theme of Pride Month this ywae is ALREADY "beyond the rainbow" - meaning a giant lecture to regular gays and lesbian about all the different "communities" they have "marginalized". Flipping hysterical. They always turn on their own.

I've seen reddit threads were lefties line up to tell lesbians they are not in fact real lesbians if they won't have sex with a "woman with a penis" but instead mere "vagina enthusiasts"

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2026 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

200 Hey, are you hanging in?
Posted by: ... at May 11, 2026 08:54 AM (/YotI)

The biopsy is scheduled for next week. It's just a waiting game at the moment.

It is, of course, concerning and there's a huge element of uncertainty but I don't believe that I'm at risk of dying from it, just pain, annoyance, and expense.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 11, 2026 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

201 From the Bee

Jesus's Parents Realize He's Divine As He Completes Carpentry Project Without Going Back To Home Depot A Single Time

https://buff.ly/sMiKLs4

Posted by: rickb223 at May 11, 2026 09:06 AM (S838b)

202 The left has hated Jews for a while and if you talk with Jewish vs other racialist groups in the left it is comical.

Left leaning, and largely secular, Jews believe themselves to be a discriminated against minority.

The rest of the lefty racial groups see Jews as a worse flavor of white devils.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2026 09:06 AM (sKqQm)

203 Well, the MRI showed a mass so it's not likely to be not cancer but that would certainly be a nice surprise.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 11, 2026 08:30 AM (ExV1e)/i]

You are in my prayers. Stay strong. Don't let the bastard (cancer) win.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 11, 2026 09:07 AM (N39Ws)

204 Well…apparently, according to Abraham Enriquez, if I heard him right, one of the problems with data centers is that they bring in evil Muslims, and Dallas, for instance, would have no evil Muslims if not for data centers.

This according to an interview I heard on Pratt on Texas.

I’m still voting for Tom Sell with zero enthusiasm. A grifter kid or a lobbyist. Yay. I miss being in TX-13.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 11, 2026 09:07 AM (uxCHZ)

205 .38 cents per is the government skim.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 11, 2026 08:53 AM (S838b)

Paid to the Gov's wife's friends

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 11, 2026 09:08 AM (/+uur)

206 The Israelis might want regime change in Iran, but what they want more is to alleviate them of their nuclear stockpile of enriched Uranium.

That's been "the" sticking point with the IRGC/Iran.

This "pause" is more than likely to figure out how to get to the materials, safely, and spirit them away without getting into a huge shooting battle or mishandling the Uranium and making a really bad mess.

The question is likely "how much does the IRGC want in return for the Uranium?" So far, it appears they're in no mood to haggle.

So, we'll back to war soon enough.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2026 09:08 AM (jehhT)

207 America doesn't need to import people to work in data centers.

If foreign hires are denied to AMZ and MSFT they'll train Americans...but they'd rather not.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2026 09:08 AM (sKqQm)

208 A federal grand jury in San Antonio returned an indictment charging a New Braunfels woman with the alleged arson attack, where she is accused of setting fire to the Comal County Republican Party Headquarters. According to the indictment, 22-year-old Grace Carol Brown is charged with actual and attempted malicious damage by fire to property involved in interstate or foreign commerce.
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Look at all those piercings and tattoos! This chick will find a real home in prison with some trans fellow-traveler.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2026 09:08 AM (6txWC)

209 201 From the Bee

Jesus's Parents Realize He's Divine As He Completes Carpentry Project Without Going Back To Home Depot A Single Time

https://buff.ly/sMiKLs4
Posted by: rickb223 at May 11, 2026 09:06 AM (S838b)

He went to Lowe’s.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 11, 2026 09:08 AM (uxCHZ)

210 >>>And saying “regime change is on the Israelis” is incredibly foolish - they have not a fraction of the power needed to do it. Assassinating leaders is all well and good, but we’ve already taken out most of Iran’s leadership, and every time 1 Mohammed goes down, 5 more jump up to take his place. That is not going to have any effect on the Regime maintaining control.

Posted by: Tom Servo

>Fine. I won't argue. But they started it. They own it. And we support them. It will all play out. Don't over look what the Arabs can offer.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 11, 2026 09:08 AM (kSpDG)

211 The IRGC are even worse terrorists than the Mullahs were. They are exact analogues to Sinwar and Hamas in Gaza, and Nasrullah with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Posted by: Tom Servo
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Not arguing with them possibly being worse, but it seems to me that the IRGC is motivated by grift more than the promise of 72 virgins. But I don't know if it makes any difference in how to approach the problem.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 11, 2026 09:09 AM (XvL8K)

212 200 Hey, are you hanging in?
Posted by: ... at May 11, 2026 08:54 AM (/YotI)

The biopsy is scheduled for next week. It's just a waiting game at the moment.

It is, of course, concerning and there's a huge element of uncertainty but I don't believe that I'm at risk of dying from it, just pain, annoyance, and expense.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 11, 2026 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

The waiting is the hardest part. I'm sure you are scared, have all kinds of thoughts running through your mind, etc. Try to stay strong - for yourself. It matters - trust me. I went through my own cancer battle last year.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 11, 2026 09:09 AM (N39Ws)

213 201 From the Bee

Jesus's Parents Realize He's Divine As He Completes Carpentry Project Without Going Back To Home Depot A Single Time

https://buff.ly/sMiKLs4
Posted by: rickb223 at May 11, 2026 09:06 AM (S838b)

He’s JUST all right.

Posted by: Doobie Brothers at May 11, 2026 09:09 AM (uxCHZ)

214
194 If the US won't get in there and kill IRGC then I hope Israel does do so.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2026 09:02 AM (7hx0x)

Israel has a population of just over 10 million, much smaller than most realize. Iran has a population of 92 million. Israel punches way above its weight militarily and they function extremely well as an adjunct to the US military; but thinking they have the power to do anything like this by themselves is a fantasy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2026 09:09 AM (AnnNE)

215
"Vagina enthusiast."
Damn. Gotta add that to my resume.
Right below "Boob aficionado."

Posted by: Guys everywhere at May 11, 2026 09:09 AM (2Ez/1)

216 Keep pushing the Dems. Look how insane they've gone because of the Virginia case, a decision that was based on solid grounds. Keep going after their NGOs and keep dumping info about 2020 election. Keep them off balance and insane
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 11, 2026 08:51 AM (gu0hJ)
*******
I still can't wrap my head around that the Virginia redistricting amendment was added to the ballot after early voting had already begun, with over a million voters having already cast their ballots.

And their argument was that ballots are counted on election day.

How does that even make sense?

Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2026 09:09 AM (NpAcC)

217
Today, in an outrageous outburst of right-wing judicial activism following the Roberts Court’s Callais decision, the Virginia Supreme Court has struck down the will of the voters. But democracy won’t end with right-wingers in black robes. Now is the time to campaign like never before for strong democracy, freedom and progress.

The VSC determined that the whole thing violated the state constitution, you jackass. It should've never been put to the people in the first place.

The will of the people has nothing to do with it.

F*ck off, commie.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

218 202 The left has hated Jews for a while and if you talk with Jewish vs other racialist groups in the left it is comical.

Left leaning, and largely secular, Jews believe themselves to be a discriminated against minority.

The rest of the lefty racial groups see Jews as a worse flavor of white devils.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2026 09:06 AM (sKqQm)

Jews as a whole represent God and the idea that He has a plan.
Leftist as a whole represent Man and the idea their Central Plan is the plan.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 11, 2026 09:10 AM (/+uur)

219 Happy Monday, all!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 11, 2026 09:10 AM (8Fxbo)

220 Jewish voters were mostly leftwing and yet the Democrats decided to demonize the Jews. Why would they purposely alienate people like Bill Ackman? Yet they have.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 11, 2026 09:10 AM (2ap+5)

221 @177 Ben Had-So what is your stance? Try to starve the regime economically? Boots on the ground taking islands and control of their oil? This move on Iran was a risky/dangerous move. Bigger picture a move on China. I WANT US TO SUCCEED. We know we are up against worldwide leftist propagandists that still hold sway and control part of the narrative if not all of it. So yes, some of us are concerned(take note of our concern) but make no bones about it we want us/ourside to succeed. This blog is a space for some of us to express concern while still hoping we succeed. Make fun or throw shade at people that do not conform to your line of thought but if you're going to do that at least give us some idea at what you think we should be doing......you know, offer a counter argument/solution. I think I'm being reasonable here.

Posted by: JROD at May 11, 2026 09:10 AM (IlL6s)

222 Paraphrasing Robert Pratt: when you vote, you are NOT voting for someone you can go out and have a beer with…you are voting for someone who will represent you and do the best job doing it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 11, 2026 09:11 AM (uxCHZ)

223 And their argument was that ballots are counted on election day.

Imagine their plan was always to use the blue strongholds to produce enough votes no matter what came out of the new districts so it didn't matter if votes were dropped on the floor.

Now it makes sense no?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2026 09:11 AM (sKqQm)

224 Dismissing the now-dominant political force in the country as fundamentally un-British, Starmer criticised those who point “at Britain’s problems”, saying they blame “other people in this country. And I don’t think that’s British”, a clear reference to an apparently emerging policy consensus on ending open borders and engaging in deportations.
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Ah yes, the familiar "we need better voters!" argument.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2026 09:12 AM (6txWC)

225 old and busted : Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy !

new hotness : Right-Wing Judicial Activism !

*who writes this shite? HRC 's 70 year old consultants?

Posted by: runner at May 11, 2026 09:12 AM (GD0B3)

226 I really don't think most people want to live in the former.
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No, but there is a wicked strain of self-loathing Death Wish in younger “liberals”. They’ve had their brain matter scrambled. Chicks like that were already behind the 8-ball, but they are completely wacked now due to peer pressure and relentless, insidious propaganda.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at May 11, 2026 09:13 AM (3pkwM)

227 Huntly Gordon, San Francisco’s unofficial pope, has died after falling in his apartment and hitting his head. Gordon, a businessman, activist and longtime member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, spent his last night out dancing at the club. He was 91 years old.

... guess he is joining Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in hell

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

228 Too late to comment now.

Posted by: Don Black at May 11, 2026 09:13 AM (ZxPkt)

229 Greg Sargant, an infant-brained radical lefty some of you may know of, now rants Trump's "vile " midterm plan is "Democrats shouldn't exist."

1) not giving you and yours an illegal 40 seats* in the House is just fair, deal with it
2) nothing Trump has said is anything like that; banning Dems
3) to the extent you heard that, it's a confession of guilt
4) but I wish he would because no current party deserves it more

* I think it's Stevan Miler who cited, between the illegals counted, the VRA, and the improper Census allocation, it's at least 40 seats. I'll bet it's closer to 60.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 11, 2026 09:13 AM (MtSIY)

230 It's just another Merlot Monday.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at May 11, 2026 09:14 AM (2Ez/1)

231 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 11, 2026 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

I will send prayers up.

Posted by: ... at May 11, 2026 09:14 AM (/YotI)

232
IRGC will go all Taliban and live off the land, terrorizing everybody they come in contact with after we bomb 'em to the stone age.

Democrats will revolt and increase the murder rate domestically. The rule of law in many blue states is practically over as of now.

Posted by: Auspex at May 11, 2026 09:14 AM (Y8DZL)

233 The VSC determined that the whole thing violated the state constitution, you jackass. It should've never been put to the people in the first place.

The will of the people has nothing to do with it.

F*ck off, commie.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)
======================
"A Republic, if you can keep it!"

Raskin missed that part.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2026 09:14 AM (6txWC)

234 Hong Kong helped bankroll Iran’s terror network, bombshell report claims

The 26-page report by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, titled “Oil, Arms, and Cash: How Hong Kong Fuels the Iranian Regime,” alleges that dozens of Hong Kong-based companies have helped Iran evade Western sanctions while funneling billions of dollars into the hands of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its terror proxies.

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 09:14 AM (RHGPo)

235 >>They are just diapers. But they have landed California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) into messy accusations of corruption for dumping $20 million in taxpayer money into a nonprofit led by an executive who sits on the board of his wife’s organization.

Free diapers. Huh.
IIRC, this newfound need is linked with demand for free tampons/pads.

Free, free, free -- why is no one giving ME free stuff?
When will someone do an analysis of n=both the totality of free stuff given to the lower class, as well as all the areas of overlap (e.g. WIC/SNAP/free school meals).

Posted by: Lizzy at May 11, 2026 09:14 AM (8Fxbo)

236 >Fine. I won't argue. But they started it. They own it. And we support them. It will all play out. Don't over look what the Arabs can offer.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 11, 2026 09:08 AM (kSpDG)

They did not start this round - Trump started it by demanding an end to Iran’s nuclear program, and demanding that Iran surrender its enriched uranium. He launched a massive series of airstrikes to achieve those goals, and he was right to do so.

My entire point is that the US can NOT get bored and walk away now, just because it turned out to be harder than we hoped it would be. The goal of obtaining the enriched stockpile of uranium must be achieved.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2026 09:15 AM (AnnNE)

237 234 Hong Kong helped bankroll Iran’s terror network, bombshell report claims

The 26-page report by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, titled “Oil, Arms, and Cash: How Hong Kong Fuels the Iranian Regime,” alleges that dozens of Hong Kong-based companies have helped Iran evade Western sanctions while funneling billions of dollars into the hands of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its terror proxies.
Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 09:14 AM (RHGPo)

I see.

What is Hong Kong part of again?

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 11, 2026 09:15 AM (uxCHZ)

238 Why would they purposely alienate people like Bill Ackman? Yet they have.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 11, 2026 09:10 AM (2ap+5)

Because they hate Jews, and always turn on their own. Look at how blacks live in all their strongholds. They don't like blacks either.

Posted by: ... at May 11, 2026 09:16 AM (/YotI)

239 > America doesn't need to import people to work in data centers.
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Datacenters don't need people once they're built. At least, not very many, probably not on staff 24X7. Once finished they're pretty self sufficient.

It's not like they need a janitor, or a receptionist. They can be monitored remotely and if Joe's HVAC is needed to adjust the A/C his crew can be dispatched.

It's amusing our political class keeps telling us "datacenters mean jobs." Well, yea, to build them. But after that...?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2026 09:16 AM (jehhT)

240 How Hong Kong Fuels the Iranian Regime,” alleges that dozens of Hong Kong-based companies have helped Iran evade Western sanctions while funneling billions of dollars into the hands of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its terror proxies.

==

..in exchange for cheap cheap cheap oil; which is not reaching China now...what a shame!

Posted by: runner at May 11, 2026 09:16 AM (GD0B3)

241
Free diapers. Huh.
IIRC, this newfound need is linked with demand for free tampons/pads.

Free, free, free -- why is no one giving ME free stuff?
When will someone do an analysis of n=both the totality of free stuff given to the lower class, as well as all the areas of overlap (e.g. WIC/SNAP/free school meals).
Posted by: Lizzy at May 11, 2026 09:14 AM (8Fxbo)

In sixth grade (in more words) I learned something everyone has seemingly forgotten.

Nothing Is Free.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 11, 2026 09:16 AM (uxCHZ)

242 193 "This isnt about you" is what they are telling the original people it is about now. I love it!!!
Posted by: ... at May 11, 2026 09:02 AM (/YotI)

This is how Revolutionary politics work (for a certain value of "work"). They always need new activists to start a "new" Revolution over and over and over again.

Posted by: XTC at May 11, 2026 09:17 AM (FpHTM)

243 The Israeli have stated they want regime change numerous times. They are responsible for deaths of the regime so far.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 11, 2026 09:17 AM (z2aPa)

244
Are ‘Kamikaze Dolphins’ Real? The Daily Wire Investigates”

Dolphins?

The aquatic mammal?

No.

But, you do have to look out for the Cloud Dolphins.

They are mean, sneaky bastards.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 11, 2026 09:17 AM (iJfKG)

245 An Iranian heiress locked in a nasty, $200 million divorce battle with her doctor husband sneakily signed away control of her company so he couldn’t claim any cash from the business, new court documents allege.

Setareh “Star” Bral — the daughter of a late real estate mogul believed to have had ties to the last shah of Iran — relinquished control of Star Pacific Properties shortly after she separated from UCLA Dr. Ryan Aronin, according to documents obtained by The California Post.

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 09:18 AM (RHGPo)

246 >>Greg Sargant, an infant-brained radical lefty some of you may know of, now rants Trump's "vile " midterm plan is "Democrats shouldn't exist."

Gee, how does it feel, Greg?
Your side has openly talked of eliminating us for years.

Seem to recall a former Obama campaign leader tweeting in 2016 (paraphrasing from memory): 'It's not just enough to beat Trump, he must be so thoroughly beaten that his kind will never rise again.'

Posted by: Lizzy at May 11, 2026 09:18 AM (8Fxbo)

247 Hadrian, Thank you for sharing that picture of HM and the pup. Beautiful.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at May 11, 2026 09:19 AM (yTvNw)

248 A local Hawaiian is being hailed as a hero for pummeling a Seattle tourist caught hurling a huge rock at a beloved monk seal — and even earned a special recognition from the state government for the vigilante ass-whooping.

The entitled tourist, 37, allegedly approached the endangered seal — known by Hawaiians as Lani — and tossed a massive rock at her as she swam along the shoreline off Front Street in Lahaina on Tuesday, according to social media posts and the Hawaii Department of Natural Resources.

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 09:20 AM (RHGPo)

249 239 > America doesn't need to import people to work in data centers. (I agree. Unless we are at full employment, and I believe, being a child of an immigrant, immigration by legal means is fine - after the would be immigrant gets the equivalent of an anal rectal exam.)
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Datacenters don't need people once they're built. At least, not very many, probably not on staff 24X7. Once finished they're pretty self sufficient.

It's not like they need a janitor, or a receptionist. They can be monitored remotely and if Joe's HVAC is needed to adjust the A/C his crew can be dispatched.

It's amusing our political class keeps telling us "datacenters mean jobs." Well, yea, to build them. But after that...?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2026 09:16 AM (jehhT)

I just found it amusing that Mr. Enriquez blamed the inevitability of the Texas Caliphate and the presence of evil Muslims on data centers - not the federal government for not suspending 1A and not allowing evil Muslims as much as a tourist visa.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 11, 2026 09:21 AM (uxCHZ)

250 233 The VSC determined that the whole thing violated the state constitution, you jackass. It should've never been put to the people in the first place.

The will of the people has nothing to do with it.

F*ck off, commie.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)
======================
"A Republic, if you can keep it!"

Raskin missed that part.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2026 09:14 AM (6txWC)

What a Democrat does not say about something is usually much more important than what he does say. Democrats and the Media have made lying by omission a form of art.

Posted by: Gref at May 11, 2026 09:21 AM (5rh/l)

251 not giving you and yours an illegal 40 seats* in the House is just fair, deal with it

This is actually something getting closer and closer to the Overton window.

Most people don't know the census used illegals for the last count.

So you Joe Average get one Represenatives for you and 800K other actual Americans. In CA thought 800k American citizens are getting 3 or 4 Representatives because the other few million people are illegals...

If we fix this the Dems instantly becomes a regional party with maybe 150 House seats in a good year.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2026 09:21 AM (sKqQm)

252 Someone send this thread along to Pete Hegseth..... I'm sure he would welcome the advice.....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 11, 2026 09:21 AM (asBle)

253
Why would they purposely alienate people like Bill Ackman?...

That reminds me...

Akkermansia muciniphilia is a great probiotic for you intestinal biome.

Get some today!

or don't.

Think for yourself, dammit!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 11, 2026 09:21 AM (iJfKG)

254 I expect better of Breitbart. If you use the phrase “undocumented immigrant”, you ACHE for the end of CBP, PoEs, and ACHE for a day when crossing into the United States is less consequential that my crossing the county line every day.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 11, 2026 09:23 AM (uxCHZ)

255 The entitled tourist, 37, allegedly approached the endangered seal — known by Hawaiians as Lani — and tossed a massive rock at her as she swam along the shoreline
Posted by: SMOD
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How did they know it was Lani? Is there only one seal that swims in that area?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 11, 2026 09:23 AM (XvL8K)

256
Data centers need security; you know the Luddites are targeting them as I type.

Posted by: Auspex at May 11, 2026 09:23 AM (Y8DZL)

257 New York Times announces the end of the climate change hoax

A New York Times op-ed argues voters are turned off by climate messaging after decades of failed predictions

For almost the entirety of the half century I have lived on Earth, I have had experts, teachers, politicians and activists hectoring me about how climate change is going to destroy the planet. But this week, in The New York Times, of all places, is evidence that climate alarmism is finally cooling down.

"Democrats Do Not Have To Campaign On Climate Change Anymore," blared the headline, this week, as author Matt Huber argues that voters are rather turned off by the subject. I would like to suggest that this is because it is the single most expensive lie in human history.

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

258 They are just diapers. But they have landed California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) into messy accusations of corruption for dumping $20 million in taxpayer money into a nonprofit led by an executive who sits on the board of his wife’s organization.
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The program will balloon to $60 million and start a vibrant black market selling "looses" in front of day care centers and on street corners.

Posted by: WisRich at May 11, 2026 09:24 AM (G0vdT)

259 Moar acronyms!

Posted by: Person who loves acronyms at May 11, 2026 09:24 AM (2Ez/1)

260 loosies

Posted by: WisRich at May 11, 2026 09:24 AM (G0vdT)

261
252 Someone send this thread along to Pete Hegseth..... I'm sure he would welcome the advice.....
Posted by: It's me donna at May 11, 2026 09:21 AM (asBle)

He knows already - right now, Trump is overruling what Hegseth and CENTCOM are proposing to do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2026 09:24 AM (AnnNE)

262 That’s not really empathy. It’s the liberal mindset of “everyone is an interchangeable cog”

Posted by: Ian S.

Except for them of course. They are more special than the mere cogs.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 11, 2026 09:25 AM (99eI0)

263 AOC struggled to properly state the history of the American revolution, but I understand! Her Marxist teachers didn't educate her very well, and she now is so crazily ideological that she refuses to go back and learn actual facts.

Cannot stand that little twit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2026 09:25 AM (UqeTT)

264 Joe Biden will fight the Trump DOJ to prevent the release 70 hours of audiotapes of the former president’s conversations with his ghostwriter.

Last week it was reported that the DOJ was preparing to release damning audio of Biden’s interview with former Special Counsel Robert Hur. The Department is also going to release 2017 audio recordings of conversations with his ghostwriter in which he disclosed classified information.

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 09:26 AM (RHGPo)

265 262 Except for them of course. They are more special than the mere cogs.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 11, 2026 09:25 AM (99eI0)

They get the gigantic mansion on the hill.

Everyone else gets a mud hut.

Posted by: XTC at May 11, 2026 09:26 AM (FpHTM)

266 I would like to suggest that this is because it is the single most expensive lie in human history.
Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 09:23 AM
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*polite cough*

Posted by: Recycling at May 11, 2026 09:26 AM (2Ez/1)

267 >>“When we criticize the system, the system has gotten so concentrated that [billionaires] take it as criticism of themselves,” Ocasio-Cortez said

Says the gal who wore a "TAX THE RICH" dress at a party with billionaires.

Your mobs torch/bomb Tesla dealerships, gleefully call for the murder of Elon and Trump, and have lionized Luigi Magione.

Billionaires take it personally because you have made it personal -- your "system" is "Eat the Rich!!!"

Posted by: Lizzy at May 11, 2026 09:26 AM (8Fxbo)

268 Were I a Democrat strategist looking at the shrinking margin of error for my party, marginalizing the environmentalists who are a danger to vote third party might not be at the top of my To Do list.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 11, 2026 09:26 AM (2ap+5)

269 Trump heads to China later this week. That oughta be something.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2026 09:27 AM (UqeTT)

270 *polite cough*

Posted by: Recycling at May 11, 2026 09:26 AM (2Ez/1)

Ahem!

Posted by: I won't cum in your mouth at May 11, 2026 09:27 AM (iERP6)

271 They're turning against gays and lesbians in their own movement partly to kiss muslim ass.

Posted by: ... at May 11, 2026 09:28 AM (/YotI)

272 263 AOC struggled to properly state the history of the American revolution, but I understand! Her Marxist teachers didn't educate her very well, and she now is so crazily ideological that she refuses to go back and learn actual facts.

Cannot stand that little twit.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2026 09:25 AM (UqeTT)

I bet she wouldn't be able to properly state Marxist history or theory, either, TBH.

Posted by: XTC at May 11, 2026 09:28 AM (FpHTM)

273 Loosies will be the death of me.

Posted by: Eric Garner at May 11, 2026 09:28 AM (oftw2)

274 256
Data centers need security; you know the Luddites are targeting them as I type.
Posted by: Auspex at May 11, 2026 09:23 AM (Y8DZL)

My concern about data centers is two fold. One is easily addressed, the other not so much. But I am sure it can be solved by market forces.

1) Power. (But some are looking at being self supporting in that regard, which is fine. People are concerned they will Hoover up vast amounts of power, driving up costs - I get that.)
2) This is part of a bubble that, when it bursts, will leave plenty of worthless real estate lying around. I suspect many of these data centers are being built on the basis of hype and castles in the air (h/t, Malkiel), leaving many to hold the burning bag when it all comes crashing down.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 11, 2026 09:28 AM (uxCHZ)

275 🚨 HOLY CRAP! SecWar Pete Hegseth has just opened a Pentagon legal investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly for possibly OPENLY LEAKING a *classified* briefing on CBS' Face The Nation

The topic was US weapons stockpiles — info that could help OUR ENEMIES

EXPEL HIM! Traitor!

HEGSETH: "'Captain' Mark Kelly strikes again. Now he’s blabbing on TV (falsely & dumbly) about a *CLASSIFIED* Pentagon briefing he received."

"Did he violate his oath…again? Dept. of War legal counsel will review."

The Senate needs to take action!

... his time in space has damaged his mind

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 09:28 AM (RHGPo)

276 The entitled tourist, 37, allegedly approached the endangered seal — known by Hawaiians as Lani — and tossed a massive rock at her as she swam along the shoreline
Posted by: SMOD
___________

How did they know it was Lani? Is there only one seal that swims in that area?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Yes. There's a certain beach she uses. And they are very endangered. Only about 1600 left. The locals know her on sight.

Asshole tourist said, "I'm rich. I can afford any fine".

Can't afford an ass whooping.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 11, 2026 09:29 AM (S838b)

277 271 They're turning against gays and lesbians in their own movement partly to kiss muslim ass.
Posted by: ... at May 11, 2026 09:28 AM (/YotI)

The Eternals have brought in The Exterminators to exterminate The Brutals.

We're not living in 1984 OR Brave New World.

We're living in Zardoz.

Posted by: XTC at May 11, 2026 09:29 AM (FpHTM)

278 Given the observation that the majority of hantavirus illnesses are contracted through contact with rodent feces, urine, saliva, and aerosolized droplets or inhaled dust containing those substances and very difficult to catch via human-to-human contact, one has to wonder what the concentration of rat droppings are in the kitchens, air ducts and other parts of your typical cruise ship.

And whether Mickey Mouse cruise ships are at increased risk.

Passenger: "Waiter, the poppy seeds on the diner rolls were a nice touch."

Waiter: "Poppy seeds?"

Posted by: muldoon at May 11, 2026 09:29 AM (I0N4X)

279 Loosies will be the death of me.
Posted by: Eric Garner at May 11, 2026 09:28 AM (oftw2)
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Breathe in, breathe out. It'll be OK>

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2026 09:29 AM (UqeTT)

280 Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth

“Captain” Mark Kelly strikes again.

Now he’s blabbing on TV (falsely & dumbly) about a *CLASSIFIED* Pentagon briefing he received.

Did he violate his oath…again? @DeptofWar
legal counsel will review.

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 09:29 AM (RHGPo)

281 271 They're turning against gays and lesbians in their own movement partly to kiss muslim ass.
Posted by: ... at May 11, 2026 09:28 AM (/YotI)

The flavor of the week, and SO SUPER-NEATO!!!

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 11, 2026 09:29 AM (uxCHZ)

282 Whenever anyone talks about the VSC 'overturning the will of the people,' I jam CA and gay marriage back down their throats.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 11, 2026 09:29 AM (qRla/)

283
Trump's running a "Kind War".

so, he expects rational deal-making from irrational people.

I believe if the Iranians just give up their nuclear materials...He'd call it a win and go home.

But, that won't bring about armageddon, so they will have to be ground down. Or maybe the populace armed and during the chaos of civil war, the US can just grab the nuclear stuff.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 11, 2026 09:30 AM (iJfKG)

284 The next step is going to require taking some casualties on our part. That’s a hard pill to swallow, but walking away and letting Iran declare victory is an even worse one.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2026 08:30 AM (AnnNE)

Wars aren't won without troops taking and then occupying the land. It's the hard part of every war. This one is no exception.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 11, 2026 09:30 AM (g8Ew8)

285 JROD, you are entirely reasonable. Questioning PDT'S plan is is much different than screaming " Trump has surrendered" at every turn.

I trust our military and Commander in Chief and I make no predictions about what will happen because that is all idle speculation.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 11, 2026 09:30 AM (z2aPa)

286 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

287 It's no longer a question of whether Donald Trump will resume kinetic action against the remnants of the IRGC holding onto power in Iran by their fingernails. By mid-afternoon on Sunday, Washington time, the question of it moved into the realm of when and to what level of intensity.

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 09:31 AM (RHGPo)

288 Can't afford an ass whooping.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 11, 2026 09:29 AM (S838b)

I approve of that sort of citizen action.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 11, 2026 09:31 AM (iERP6)

289 >>For almost the entirety of the half century I have lived on Earth, I have had experts, teachers, politicians and activists hectoring me about how climate change is going to destroy the planet. But this week, in The New York Times, of all places, is evidence that climate alarmism is finally cooling down.

Gen Z has been fed climate change alarmism from every possible angle - every kids book/tv show/movie, every class, on social media, at home*, at church, at scouting, every ad, and on and on and on and on. . .

Maybe, just maybe, they are sick to death of you jerks forcing it upon them?

*For those with leftie family

Posted by: Lizzy at May 11, 2026 09:31 AM (8Fxbo)

290 "Democrats Do Not Have To Campaign On Climate Change Anymore," blared the headline, this week, as author Matt Huber argues that voters are rather turned off by the subject. I would like to suggest that this is because it is the single most expensive lie in human history."

This made may coffee taste that much richer and more flavorful this morning.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 11, 2026 09:32 AM (DgMqy)

291 Passenger: "Waiter, the poppy seeds on the diner rolls were a nice touch."

Waiter: "Poppy seeds?"
Posted by: muldoon at May 11, 2026 09:29 AM (I0N4X)

The Three Stooges short where they play exterminators at a fancy party.

CURLY (looking at a cake covered with ants): Ooh, poppy seed cake! Want some?

LARRY (who put the ants there): Oh. No, no.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 11, 2026 09:32 AM (qRla/)

292 DESPERATE POWER GRAB: Virginia Democrats Plot to Pack Supreme Court by Lowering Retirement Age to 54 After Losing Big on Gerrymander Map – Force Out All Justices to Install Cronies Who Will Rubber-Stamp Illegal Redistricting Scheme

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

293 264
264 Joe Biden will fight the Trump DOJ to prevent the release 70 hours of audiotapes of the former president’s conversations with his ghostwriter.

Last week it was reported that the DOJ was preparing to release damning audio of Biden’s interview with former Special Counsel Robert Hur. The Department is also going to release 2017 audio recordings of conversations with his ghostwriter in which he disclosed classified information.
Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 09:26 AM (RHGPo)

The Ghost Writer has already been given immunity, even after he tried to destroy the tapes when he learned the DOJ was coming for the recordings.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 11, 2026 09:33 AM (N39Ws)

294 This made may coffee taste that much richer and more flavorful this morning.
Posted by: Bad Andrew

Fill it to the rim.

Posted by: With Brim at May 11, 2026 09:34 AM (oftw2)

295
Asshole tourist said, "I'm rich. I can afford any fine".

Can't afford an ass whooping.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 11, 2026 09:29 AM (S838b)

I got married on the north shore in Kawaii. There was a seal sunning itself on the beach near by where we were doing the ceremony. They have crews of people that patrol the beaches and cordon off the area should a seal go onto the beach. I was told back then it was a $10k fine for messing with it.

We were also told it was a blessing that the seal chose that time and that beach to relax.....

Someone should throw rocks at that asshole as he swims.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 11, 2026 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

296 25 So how, exactly does this work? A big truck shows up in your neighborhood and someone starts handing out rifles, pistols and ammo? Ahmed the 20 year old college student is now magically proficient in military tactics? Fatemeh the local coffee shop barista is suddenly a well practiced sniper?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 11, 2026 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)

I'm thinking 40 caliber compact pistols so that you can walk up to the irgc guys on the street and give them a gut shot. A little more ckoak and dagger.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 11, 2026 09:37 AM (7mCLy)

297 292 DESPERATE POWER GRAB: Virginia Democrats Plot to Pack Supreme Court by Lowering Retirement Age to 54 After Losing Big on Gerrymander Map – Force Out All Justices to Install Cronies Who Will Rubber-Stamp Illegal Redistricting Scheme
Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

Then immediately raise it back to 75. Seems Legit. Totally pass scotus.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 11, 2026 09:39 AM (7mCLy)

298 Islam already had a reformation. It happened in the centuries following the death of Mohammad. What Islam is now IS the reformed version. All the storied glories that are touted about science and knowledge in ancient Islam are ones that happened after his death but before the reformation won out.

Posted by: geoffb at May 11, 2026 09:40 AM (OtD+j)

299 Keep belittling and insulting the South, Gavin. Your work will ensure regional hostility to you and your brand of bullshit for decades to come. The South as well as TX are full of proud people who will remember this and will hold it against you and rightly so.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 11, 2026 09:40 AM (uxCHZ)

300 289 >>For almost the entirety of the half century I have lived on Earth, I have had experts, teachers, politicians and activists hectoring me about how climate change is going to destroy the planet. But this week, in The New York Times, of all places, is evidence that climate alarmism is finally cooling down.

Gen Z has been fed climate change alarmism from every possible angle - every kids book/tv show/movie, every class, on social media, at home*, at church, at scouting, every ad, and on and on and on and on. . .

Maybe, just maybe, they are sick to death of you jerks forcing it upon them?

*For those with leftie family
Posted by: Lizzy at May 11, 2026 09:31 AM (8Fxbo)
Climate has always changed, will change now, and will always change, no matter what. What a dumb name. Global warming was at least better.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 11, 2026 09:42 AM (uxCHZ)

301 oe Biden will fight the Trump DOJ to prevent the release 70 hours of audiotapes of the former president’s conversations with his ghostwriter.

Last week it was reported that the DOJ was preparing to release damning audio of Biden’s interview with former Special Counsel Robert Hur. The Department is also going to release 2017 audio recordings of conversations with his ghostwriter in which he disclosed classified information.
Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 09:26 AM (RHGPo)

The Ghost Writer has already been given immunity, even after he tried to destroy the tapes when he learned the DOJ was coming for the recordings.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 11, 2026 09:33 AM (N39Ws)

Tapes?? No one has been using tapes for many years. Any recordings were done, were done on a digital recording device, which compounds the issue because those recordings can be deleted and/or altered very easily.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 11, 2026 10:07 AM (5xuJ/)

302 You'd like to think an island nation would see the importance of having a robust navy. But what do I know?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 11, 2026 07:32 AM (HdYcL)

I look at the world in terms of mental models, competing explanations with estimated likelihoods. And, one hypothesis I have for the Royal Navy's state is that the UK is in the terminal phase of long-term looting by an insider cabal.

Looking at California's bespoke artisanal cougar/butterfly bridge that is costing $100M+, where other states achieve the same function for $15M, that gives us a baseline of the public budget being 85%+ grift in corrupt states. But the UK is a much older country, so its grifter cliques are more established and have been running harder for a longer time.

I would not even trust their gold reserves to be more than an empty wallet with a moth flying out, no matter what it's supposed to be on paper. And this raises the question of cause and effect: is their navy so bad because they're spending so much on immivader welfare? Or are they supine to their conquerors because their military is so hollowed out by grift that they're literally helpless to even stop lightly armed barbarians?

Posted by: SciVo at May 11, 2026 10:25 AM (Sy6m/)

303 It is now ordered that the faces and voices of individuals captured by the body cams on J6 are not exempt from disclosure. Big victory in the January 6 body cam battle.

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2026 10:57 AM (RHGPo)

304 If we offered fentanyl overdoses as a means of execution, murderers might skip endless appeals.

Contrariwise, they might start hammering people for the drug hit. Hmm.

Posted by: Codfanglers at May 11, 2026 11:22 AM (f93Fd)

305 One of my former co-workers was Vietnamese with the surname Nguyen. In light conversation I said Nguyen must be a proud last name related to Vietnamese royalty. I was immediately corrected by the said co-worker. It is common in Vietnam for people to change their surname to whomever was is power to avoid retribution. Politics not withstanding.
That is their culture. They will subjugate themselves to survive their overlords.
That is the basic principle that our "low IQ" U.S. Intelligence community will never comprehend. And they are advising our POTUS!

Posted by: John at May 11, 2026 01:53 PM (0DsdP)

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