The Morning Report — 5/ 22/26

Good morning kids. Well it's scum on parade once more, so a day ending in "Y" here at the Morning Report. First, I was remiss (though truth be told I never came across any links, believe it or not) in neglecting to note the passing of one of the most singularly reprehensible and destructive individuals to hold elective office in the past 50 years if not in our history. That would be the former congressman from Massachusetts the late and unlamented Barney Frank.

Here is a complete rap sheet of this friggin' termite courtesy of the invaluable DiscovertheNetworks.

Besides running a teenage male prostitution ring out of his home, he was one of the key architects in the collapse of the housing market and the tanking of our economy in 2008 among other Democrat/Leftist catastrophes that we are still digging our way out from the rubble lo these many years later... His worldview and voting record over the ouse of his career are a testament to Democrat/Leftist scietal destruction in pursuit of absolute power. Period full stop. Odd that on his deathbed he publicly chastised his party for the positions it held and advanced. Nearer my God to Thee or an attempt at taqqiya sunrising to prevent future Democrat electoral wipeouts?

Barney Frank Warns the Left is Destroying Democrats . . ."Many of my colleagues who I know agree with me but are inhibited from saying so.”

As I recall the spoof ditty created by Rush Limbaugh to the tune of Abba's "Dancing Queen" referring to Frank as The Banking Queen, let us move on to the next subject in the "Conga Line of Freaks" per old Yeller Mark Levin, shall we?

Congressional Democrats are moving to shut down President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, escalating a political fight over compensation for Americans who say they were targeted by politically motivated prosecutions and federal lawfare.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is introducing legislation aimed at preventing any federal money from being used to create or distribute payments through the fund. . .

At the same time, some establishment Republicans are also voicing opposition to the fund. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick told reporters Wednesday that he would “try to kill” the program.

. . . Supporters of the fund argue it represents a long-overdue effort to compensate Americans harmed by politically driven prosecutions and abuses of government power.

Critics, meanwhile, claim the program would improperly use taxpayer money to compensate individuals tied to controversial investigations, including those connected to the January 6 Capitol protest.

Two law enforcement officers who were present at the Capitol on Jan. 6 have already filed a lawsuit seeking to dissolve the fund entirely.

Well as to Jamie Raskin, Cancer is as cancer does. He and his party led by Malig-Nancy Pelosi either directly engineered and orchestrated the events of 1/6 or else created the conditions and fiction that Trump was inciting an insurrection when it was in fact an entrapment sting to create that pretext and illusion to oppress and suppress the enemies of the Left and Deep State. And GOP confederates like Fitzpatrick et al are equally guilty of perpetuating the corrupt status quo regardless of the consequences to the American people and Republic.

And speaking of which that brings us to the next diseased turd floating by in the punchbowl...

The Senate is heading home until June without finishing a reconciliation bill, after Republican tensions over the package coincided with President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-TX) against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). Brendan Pedersen, a senior reporter with Punchbowl News, posted on X: “Thune asked if Senate Rs are responding to politics — ie, Trump endorsements and snubs this week ‘It’s hard to divorce anything that happens here from what’s happening in political atmosphere around us,’ Thune said. ‘You can’t disconnect those things.’”While Republican Senators publicly claim substantive issues with the bill were the driving factor behind the early vacation, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) acknowledged President Donald Trump’s Tuesday endorsement of Ken Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) weighed heavily on Republican Senators’ minds as they skipped town instead of advancing a top Trump priority as planned.

Yes, the Barney Franks, Jamie Raskins and Malig-Nancy Pelosis we are afflicted with are horrid enough but Thune and his ilk and their criminal fecklessness and naked, shameless collusion with them and farcical kabuki "opposition" as is embodied in the likes of JOHN THUNE and sadly many like him all over the GOP is why our nation is circling the drain, or at least was until enough decent people said enough is enough and elected a man who to greater or lesser extent recognized that were headed off a cliff and now 11 years since descending the golden Trump Tower escalator, he has almost singlehandedly at a minimum put the brakes on and has attempted to throw us in reverse. We shall see if MAGA is indeed the start of the movement for American renaissance or merely a speed bump on the road to Hell.

The rejection of Thomas Massie will go a long way but it's only a start!

Thomas Massie’s defeat in Kentucky’s Republican primary was not merely the fall of one Republican congressman. It was the collapse of an illusion -- an illusion that has grown inside parts of America’s online Right over the past few years: that a few million followers, a handful of popular podcasts, several viral clips, and some anti-establishment slogans can replace party machinery, voter loyalty, local networks, money, organization, and real political power.

Kentucky shattered that illusion. Not in a television debate, not in an intellectual quarrel, not in another online shouting match, but in the one place where politics strips away fantasy and reveals itself: the ballot box.

Just like the Leftists, you can expect the voices on the Right to become even more shrill, vulgar and vituperative in their attacks on all of us than even the most strident of Lefties.

Whom we are at long last rejecting for their duplicity and fraudulence in foisting RINO globalists and big government stooges on us. It will be a long time in coming but when all of them are gone from the scene, it will be glorious.

Have a relaxing, fun and safe Memorial Day weekend!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• On the one hand, there is the risk of AI letting rip without thought for the consequences. On the other there is the risk that America’s competitive advantage will be lost and that other countries will make the inevitable advances anyway. Some of this may still sound abstract. But it isn’t going to be for very much longer. I’ve been thinking about this in recent months because AI started coming for me
  Douglas Murray: I see dangers of AI firsthand — as people make doppelgangers of me!
  
• Before the gas chambers came the lies, the laws, and the excuses. . .read this piece again and stop when the circumstances begin to feel familiar.. . Don’t wait... for another Auschwitz to be under construction.
  Auschwitz Wasn’t Built Overnight

AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!
• A man arrested last year has been charged with espionage and attempted participation in murder after an Iranian intelligence agency tasked him with gathering information on the head of Germany’s main Jewish group and three others with a view to carrying out attacks, German prosecutors said Thursday. The suspect, a Danish national identified only as Ali S. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested last June in Denmark. An alleged accomplice, an Afghan national identified as Tawab M., also was arrested there in November. Federal prosecutors said they filed an indictment against the pair at the Hamburg state court on May 7.
  Germany Charges Man Allegedly Planning Attacks on Jewish Figures For Iran

  CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• A new report shows how dangerous groups exploit legal protections.
  In Florida, Extremist Networks Are Hiding Behind Nonprofits
  
• Democrats to Block Trump’s $1.776 Billion ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Fund
  Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is introducing legislation aimed at preventing any federal money from being used to create or distribute payments through the fund.
  
• Nearly $50 million has been budgeted for programs that appear to exclude white people entirely, according to a Free Beacon analysis. An additional $248 million will go to programs that use racial preferences or are geared toward race-conscious outcomes, such as the county's street outreach program, which indicates that "BIPOC" homeless people should be "referred to shelter at rates as high or higher than non-Hispanic whites."
  'Culturally Specific Corrections Counselors,' a 'Construction Diversity and Equity Fund,' and Race-Based Shelter Referrals: Portland Proposes Budget Larded With Racially Discriminatory Programs
  
• So this is exactly what the Founding Fathers, what the Constitution was meant to protect against. And, Republicans right now realize that this is political Kryptonite.” (Democrats are Political (and soon to be literal( Zyklon B - jjs)
  Markey: Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund Is an ‘Impeachable Offense’
  
• Underneath the feel-good politics of it, the practical questions sink the whole enterprise.
  Reparations: Who Pays Whom?
  
• The song ‘My Old Kentucky Home’ reflects how America revises its past while the same arguments over race and power resurface in new forms.
  Jim Crow and the Blame Game

  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• Another horrific murder shows what we’re up against — not just the illegal aliens, but the judges who keep releasing them.
  Illegals Are Killing America
  
• “Today, we are onboarding the largest immigration judge class in agency history."
  Trump Takes Massive Step To Keep Americans Safe
  
• Angel Emilio Rodriguez-Marroquin, an illegal alien from Guatemala, was handed the sentence on May 18 after having been arrested in November 2025 by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
  Biden-Released Illegal Alien Gets 50 Years in Prison for Producing Child Porn of His Special Needs Niece, Nephew

  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• “This is not the end of our work in Minnesota. This is not the end of the beginning of our work in Minnesota. This is the beginning of our work in Minnesota. The fraud here in Minnesota is shocking.”
  DOJ: 15 in Minnesota Charged With Allegedly Running Fraud Schemes Targeting $90 Million

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) raised the issue during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing Tuesday while questioning acting Attorney General Todd Blanche about the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on waste and fraud in federally funded programs.
  California Medicaid Program Under Fire for Covering Exorcisms, Tribal Prayers
  
• A traditionalist constitutional conservative analysis continues.
  Part II: The Politicization of the Federal Courts During the Second Trump Presidency

• Central banks in other countries manage with far fewer employees
  New Fed Chair Has Chance to Right-Size ‘Disaster’ of Bloated Staff

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• What could possibly go wrong?
  Bloodthirsty and Brutal Islamic Jihad Murderer Could Soon Be Freed

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS

• The Free Beacon reports that the mosque's longtime imam has questioned the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust and suggested it was made up 'by Zionists'
  Democrat House Hopeful Brad Lander Shows Up at Holocaust-Denier's Mosque, Chants in Arabic and Vows To 'Partner' With Muslim 'Squad' Members and Mamdani
  
• A Jewish leader's long record of damaging the Jewish cause.
  Mourn the Man – But Avoid Emulating Abe Foxman’s Actions (NO! - jjs)
  "BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
  
• PA-03, which includes Philadelphia, is said to be the bluest district in the U.S. and the only majority black district in Pennsylvania. 
  Dem Who Claimed Bondi Beach Massacre was ‘Zionist False Flag’ Wins House Primary
  
• ‘Fighting antisemitism’ by funding antisemitism.
  The Soros Network Exposes its Jewish Front Groups

  SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• Just look at the nefarious behavior of Jack Smith. And he’s far from the only one.
  Is Prison the Best Place for Certain Prominent Democrats?

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• NPR is “offering buyouts to approximately 300 employees, mostly within newsgathering desks in the newsroom. Staff of NPR’s news programs, including hosts, are not eligible,” reports NPR about NPR.
  More Far-left Media Shrinkage as NPR Slashes Dozens of Jobs
  
• If upheld, the Pentagon’s policy would limit reporters’ ability to interact with government employees willing to leak confidential information to them. Secretary Hegseth explained in a memo last year, “While the Department remains committed to transparency, the Department is equally obligated to protect [classified national intelligence information] and sensitive information – the unauthorized disclosure of which could put the lives of U.S. Service members in danger.”
  The New York Times is Suing the Pentagon Again.
  * * * * *

• Raw Egg Nationalist: Should we be worried that AI becomes more left-wing if it doesn’t like you?
  The Marxist in the Machine
  
• The suspicious website, Kiddle, is spreading biased information to children that soft-pedals authoritarian regimes and terrorist organizations.
  A Mysterious Children’s Search Engine Is Misleading Kids

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Until the tax burden is acknowledged, until waste and fraud are confronted, until government spending is aligned with reality, and until the system stops placing disproportionate pressure on the families who fund it, the American Dream will remain out of reach for far too many.
  The American Dream And Taxes

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

• Albert Gore III, the son of former VP Gore, serves as the Executive Director of the Zero Emission Transportation Association and is unhappy with this development.
  Green Energy Cultists Meltdown Over Proposed EV Road-Use Fees

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• The initiative marks a significant shift in government policy, which has been accused of taking insufficient action against the huge number of vape stores, Turkish barber shops, phone repair stores, and so on, often staffed and owned by immigrant and immigrant-background individuals, that have proliferated across Britain in recent years.
  Migrant Crime Networks Are Operating Through Vape Stores, Barber Shops.

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• The complaint alleges Smith “determined these searches to be a racist threat” and likened the student’s pro-ICE emblems to “a burning cross” before suspending N.C. pending expulsion. That expulsion was later upheld before an Expulsion Hearing Panel and Expulsion Review Board.
  Las Vegas Student Sues School District After Being Expelled for Displaying Pro-ICE Signs

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• The Colorado Democrat Party on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to censure Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) for commuting the sentence of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who was sentenced for her role in tampering with election equipment.
  Colorado Democrat Party Censures Gov. Jared Polis for Commuting Tina Peters’ Sentence
  
• A Canadian man who lives in Massachusetts is accused of voting in multiple U.S. elections, something Dems say never happens.
  More Voter Fraud Charges Scream For The Senate To Pass The SAVE America Act

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• One of the influencers, Qasim Rashid, said his 'jaw dropped' when he received a fundraising solicitation from Platner and is soliciting donations for the Maine Democrat's campaign
  'The Best Fundraising Text I've Ever Seen': Graham Platner's 'Grassroots' Campaign Is Funneling Money to Influencers To Fawn Over Him

  POLITICS
  
  

• While Republican Senators publicly claim substantive issues with the bill were the driving factor behind the early vacation, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) acknowledged President Donald Trump’s Tuesday endorsement of Ken Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) weighed heavily on Republican Senators’ minds as they skipped town instead of advancing a top Trump priority as planned.
  Senate Abandons Trump’s ICE, Border Funding Bill for Early Vacation; Thune Admits Paxton Endorsement Played Role
  
• Thomas Massie’s defeat in Kentucky’s Republican primary was not merely the fall of one Republican congressman. It was the collapse of an illusion.
  Kentucky Just Humiliated the Podcast Right

• The 192-page report, which was concluded last December and authored by Democratic consultant Paul Rivera, calls for “a renewed focus on the voters of Middle America and the South, who have come to believe they are not included in the Democratic vision of a stronger and more dynamic America for everyone.”
  Facing Intense Internal Pressure, DNC Releases 2024 Election Autopsy
  
• This is what consultant-driven politics looks like, and it’s stale enough to bundle off to the landfill.
  The Democrat Party Correctly Rejects Its Useless 2024 Post-Mortem
  
• California Gov. Gavin Newsom is transforming himself into a 2028 populist for the white-collar middle class now threatened by ruthless layoffs and accelerating Artificial Intelligence.
  Gavin Newsom Admits Trump Was Right, Cosplays White-Collar Populist
  
• The report took forever to see the light of day, and DNC Chairman Ken Martin's explanation for the delay was something else. "When I received the report late last year, it wasn't ready for primetime — not even close — and because no source material was provided, it would have meant starting over. I could not in good faith put the DNC's stamp of approval on the report that was produced," Martin said. So the party that wants to run your healthcare couldn't manage to produce a competent internal review? That’s comforting.
  The DNC’s 2024 Autopsy Is Here, and Oh Boy, It’s a Dumpster Fire
  
• At the center of the race are two DC natives, Kenyan McDuffie, 51, and Janeese Lewis George (JLG), 38.
  Heated Mayor Race Shows How White Liberals Boxing Out Old Black People

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Trump is using justice — some of it long delayed — as an instrument of foreign policy to advance freedom and American interests abroad.For years, the targets of US sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba have treated those restrictions as mere inconveniences. Bad actors have routed around them through shell companies in Panama, gold flights to Turkey and friendly bankers in Madrid and Geneva. Now, the president is sending a message to the world: Obey our sanctions or pay a price.
  Castro charges tighten Trump’s noose on anti-American corruption
  
• Fred Fleitz: Trump’s Cuba strategy combines economic pressure, targeted humanitarian aid, and direct outreach to Cubans to weaken the regime—not invasion or appeasement.
  Trump’s Cuba Gambit
  
• The backs of New Delhi’s three-wheeled auto-rickshaws, also known as “tuk tuks” after the characteristic sputtering sound of their engines, are frequently rented out for advertising banners.
  Trump’s Face Adorns Rickshaws in India for ‘Happy Birthday America’ Campaign
  
• Commenting on the Conservatives behavior in Bradford, Reform UK Deputy Leader and Member of Parliament (MP) Richard Tice commented, “The Conservatives have done it again. In their desperation to stop Reform, they are now crawling into coalition with the Green Party to seize power in local councils.”
  ‘Conservatives’ Ally With Far-Left ‘Greens’ in ANOTHER UK Town in Desperate Ploy to Stop Farage’s Reform UK.
  
• Carney has treated Canada’s largest trading partner and closest military ally with a contempt that borders on an obsessive mania.
  Carney could get Canada kicked out of NORAD as US reconsiders relationship
  
• Officials in nations bordering Russia urged President Donald Trump not to retreat from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), arguing that America still has too much at stake in Europe even as Trump grows increasingly frustrated with the alliance and its response to Iran.
  EXCLUSIVE: European Officials Warn Trump Against Leaving NATO As US Weighs Its Own Priorities

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . AND HISTORY

• The State Department will abide by the Taylor Force Act 2018 for the next 10 years. The Palestinian Authority’s Martyrs Fund, referred to by critics as a “Pay to Slay” scheme, will be impacted by the State Department’s renewed commitment to the act as the U.S. ceases financial aid.
  State Dept Settles $1.5 Billion Lawsuit Over Biden Funding 'Palestinian' Terrorists.
  
• Why, exactly, are CCP-linked billionaires funding 'pro-Palestine' protests?
  Prager Video: The Connection Between the CCP and Antisemitism

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• If AI is as powerful as its creators claim, it needs to start solving problems that people care about.
  AI Needs to Cure Cancer (I approve that message! - jjs)

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• A new documentary argues that science supports the concept of a creator God.
  ‘The Story of Everything’ 2026
  
• One trivia fact noted during today’s broadcast. With its new more powerful Raptor-3 engines, Superheavy produces about 18 million pounds of thrust at launch. That is more than twice that of either the Saturn-5 rocket (seven million pounds) or the SLS rocket (8.8 million pounds). And remember, everything about Starship/Superheavy is intended to be reused, with Superheavy already proving its ability to do so.
  Starship/Superheavy launch scrubbed at T-40 seconds
  
• They might think it resembles a crystal ball, but to my eye this is an amoeba undulating in weightlessness.
  An amoeba in space
  more than a light year in size (this was a Star Trek episode - jjs)

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• . . .the long-delayed Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum after Republicans added language clarifying that the museum would focus on biological women.
  Democrats, GOP Defectors Block Women’s History Museum Bill after ‘Biological Women’ Language Added

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• European authorities are not only banning Christians from writing about the Bible, but trying to keep the world unaware they have done so.
  European Author Of Banned Book: ‘It Is Christianity They Are Trying To Censor’
  
• Christian Toto: Sunny Hostin's price check proved laughable, but it points to bigger problem
  This Little ‘View’ Distortion Is Peak Cringe

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Comments

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1 First again?

Posted by: fd at May 22, 2026 07:47 AM (vFG9F)

2 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 07:47 AM (RIvkX)

3 Nooded. Thanks, JJ!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 22, 2026 07:47 AM (NcvvS)

4 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 07:47 AM (u82oZ)

5 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 07:48 AM (jehhT)

6 2 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 07:47 AM (RIvkX)


About a week away actually!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 22, 2026 07:48 AM (x0n13)

7 But Georgia’s Republican voters have for years considered Mr. Raffensperger a villain who enabled Mr. Trump’s 2020 loss, the Times reported.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 07:48 AM (L1jPj)

8 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2026 07:48 AM (53oGX)

9 Thanks, Nazdar. You did good with your nood.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 07:48 AM (u82oZ)

10 Happy Friday

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 22, 2026 07:49 AM (/+uur)

11 It’s fish taco Friday.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 07:49 AM (XV/Pl)

12 yay

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 22, 2026 07:49 AM (CWTWj)

13 Good morning, all!

Posted by: No nic, another fine day at May 22, 2026 07:49 AM (NFX2v)

14 The GOP is a worthless pile of penguin poop.

Posted by: fd at May 22, 2026 07:49 AM (vFG9F)

15 14 The GOP is a worthless pile of penguin poop.
Posted by: fd at May 22, 2026 07:49 AM (vFG9F)


Penguano?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 22, 2026 07:51 AM (x0n13)

16 Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen were confronted by an aggressive man who accused them of faking the moon mission.

'Stop lying! Stop acting! You all never went to space,' the man shouted as he filmed himself approaching the crew.

The befuddled crew simply stood in uncomfortable silence as the man berated them, apparently trying their best to pretend he wasn't there.

The man continued: 'Follow Jesus! God's watching you all!'

As Glover smiled and gave an uneasy wave, he went on: 'Stop lying to the public! Your psyop isn't working on millions of us! NASA's a joke!'

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 07:51 AM (L1jPj)

17 J.J.

FWIW, AI has been in heavy use by the drug industry in cancer research for over a decade. Lots of the advances working their way through the system were refined by AI.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 07:51 AM (u82oZ)

18 Finally, someone has seen the light:Bolt CEO fires his entire HR team because they “created problems that didn’t exist”, and “those problems disappeared when I let them go”. Welcome to the party, pal.Ryan Breslow, the co-founder and chief executive of US fintech firm Bolt, said the department was scrapped as part of sweeping layoffs aimed at returning the struggling business to “start-up mode”.The 32-year-old added that HR professionals were more suited to “peacetime” conditions at larger companies rather than a start-up environment focused on rapid growth and efficiency.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 07:53 AM (L1jPj)

19 fd

20% turnover in GOPe Senators lately is not enough. We need good candidates.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 07:53 AM (u82oZ)

20 About a week away actually!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 22, 2026 07:48 AM (x0n13)

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Yeah I know but OpSec OpSec OpSec

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

21 Gonorrhea and syphilis skyrocket in Europe — and this country has the highest spike

… is Islamophobia worse ?

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 07:54 AM (L1jPj)

22 San Franpsycho

He does not want me to sing him Happy Birthday. J.J. is very smart.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

23 "Penguano?"

I thought that was a kind of Italian cheese.

Posted by: fd at May 22, 2026 07:55 AM (vFG9F)

24 Is Prison the Best Place for Certain Prominent Democrats?
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The "dustbin of history" wants its primacy back

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 22, 2026 07:56 AM (zapWf)

25 In the span of just a few weeks, Carolina Republicans have given us two of the most tone-deaf, out-of-touch, and clueless statements of all time.

First, the SC state senate Republican majority leader, blocking redistricting, because SC needs a "vibrant" Democrat Party.

Then Tillis, sputtering in anger how it's "tyranny " to take his money and give it to something he "vehemently " disagrees with.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2026 07:56 AM (73/SM)

26 I think Thune is having an "old man's temper tantrum." Maybe his BP will spike. Bigly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 07:56 AM (jehhT)

27 Seriously, folks. It's Friday. And a long weekend ahead. If you have this thought of "You know what's needed? Tickets!" going through your mind, you need to go home. Now.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 22, 2026 07:56 AM (RjOoY)

28 Darrell Maguire, 55, of New Braunfels, is accused of shooting deer with a crossbow from his vehicle, chopping off their prized heads and leaving the decapitated bodies behind for horrified locals to find over 11 months between fall 2024 and summer 2025

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 07:58 AM (L1jPj)

29 "I like my peace and quiet," Dick Armey said. "And I don't need to listen to Barney Fag . . . haranguing in my ear because I've made a few bucks off a book I worked on." 1995

Posted by: Fags Gonna Fag at May 22, 2026 07:58 AM (7d1L5)

30 Yeah I know but OpSec OpSec OpSec
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)
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I saw the Blind Squirrels open for the Dead Drunks at Summerfest, back in 1984.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 22, 2026 07:59 AM (zapWf)

31 Amputation rates are on the rise — especially among a surprising at-risk population

Over the six-year period, amputations rose overall, by 35.3% (from 58.9 to 79.7 per 10,000 people). But among patients whose cases involved opioids, the increase was dramatically steeper, climbing by 66% (from 55.6 to 92.3 per 10,000).

The sharpest spikes in opioid-related amputations were seen in parts of the Northeast and West.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 07:59 AM (L1jPj)

32 Hard to tell who is more detestable, Dan Goldman or Brad Lander.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 08:00 AM (RIvkX)

33 Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 07:48 AM (u82oZ)

You're welcome, Salty. Just finished reading the content and saw this.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 22, 2026 08:00 AM (NcvvS)

34 17 J.J.

FWIW, AI has been in heavy use by the drug industry in cancer research for over a decade. Lots of the advances working their way through the system were refined by AI.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 07:51 AM (u82oZ)


Good to know considering my situation.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 22, 2026 08:01 AM (x0n13)

35 Austria’s parliament has approved legislation introducing caps on the number of family members able to join refugees each year, marking a significant shift in the country’s migration policy. The quota system is expected to take effect from July, though officials have not yet set a fixed number, saying it will depend on Austria’s reception and integration.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 08:01 AM (L1jPj)

36 I keep mixing up Jamie Raskin and Jamie Dimon.

Posted by: XTC at May 22, 2026 08:02 AM (iXqHn)

37 Is Prison the Best Place for Certain Prominent Democrats?
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No!

Posted by: Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Savior of Chilean Democracy at May 22, 2026 08:03 AM (RIvkX)

38 But were they valid exorcisms?

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 22, 2026 08:03 AM (qFwJc)

39 Denmark has led some of the strictest asylum legislation in Europe. The center-right government of Mette Frederiksen has claimed that limiting the number of foreigners in the country is necessary for maintaining a generous welfare state. The Danish Refugee Council says this is causing a lot of uncertainty and anxiety among refugees. A historically low number of asylum approvals were granted by the Danish authorities in 2025.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 08:03 AM (L1jPj)

40 Are we there yet?

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 22, 2026 08:03 AM (zBgIx)

41 Gen. Augusto Pinochet

Right On!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

42 I keep mixing up Jamie Raskin and Jamie Dimon.
Posted by: XTC at May 22, 2026 08:02 AM (iXqHn)
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They're the same thing.

Posted by: Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Savior of Chilean Democracy at May 22, 2026 08:04 AM (RIvkX)

43 “It costs like $10 to buy eggs!”
~~ Sunny Hostin, of the View
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She oughta be in the Senate.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 22, 2026 08:04 AM (Zhjn8)

44 /oops

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 08:04 AM (RIvkX)

45 Is the Senate in recess? Time for Trump to make appointments.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 22, 2026 08:04 AM (qFwJc)

46 It will be some time before we comprehend the extent of why Trump was spared.

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 08:07 AM (J8APv)

47 @45

>>Is the Senate in recess? Time for Trump to make appointments.

The Senate has not had a formal recess since 2011.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 08:08 AM (XV/Pl)

48 The most powerful Democrats in the country organized a coup d’état in broad daylight and dragged the country through a barbed-wire field of partisan propaganda for the last ten years, and Jack Smith wants Americans to be upset that President Trump retained documents that he was entitled to possess? It’s just such lunacy.
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Sadly, many Americans buy this crap.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 22, 2026 08:08 AM (Zhjn8)

49 WaPo:

In 2020, just 246 people tried to sneak into Poland from Belarus through the marshy wetlands on the border, according to the Polish government’s records. There was a pandemic on, after all. But over the following year, almost 40,000 migrants from Syria, Somalia, Iran, Afghanistan, India and other countries crossed or attempted to cross this frontier. Those migrants didn’t end up in Belarus by accident. Some were carrying Russian visas or entry stamps. Russia and its ally — some would say lackey — Belarus were, in effect, importing migrants, delivering them to the Polish-Belarusian border and telling them to head to Poland.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 08:08 AM (L1jPj)

50 Excellent commentary as always this morning, JJ. Massie was a fool to think that the endorsements of AOC and Ro Khanna, would not destroy him in Red State Kentucky

Posted by: Jonah at May 22, 2026 08:08 AM (YCxFk)

51 The Danish Refugee Council says this is causing a lot of uncertainty and anxiety among refugees.

"This is Achmed. He's seeking asylum in Denmark because raping people in his home nation has too many competitors. Please open the door and let him in so he can convert us to his peaceful beliefs."

Cue Sarah McLachlan music and zoom in on Achmed's sad face.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 22, 2026 08:10 AM (RjOoY)

52 29 "I like my peace and quiet," Dick Armey said. "And I don't need to listen to Barney Fag . . . haranguing in my ear because I've made a few bucks off a book I worked on." 1995
Posted by: Fags Gonna Fag

Maybe the silence about the passing of Barney Frank has something to do with the vile nastiness of the guy along with his sister. They were attack dogs, uncivil in every respect.

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 08:11 AM (Y8DZL)

53 .
Now is time for someone to read the Constitution to tRump so that he can send the House on an early vacation as well. No doubt the Senate is leave one loser behind to gavel it into session; but, butt ... EVERYONE know that is disallowed by said Constitution.

Posted by: Marooned at May 22, 2026 08:11 AM (kt8QE)

54 what infuriates me, is not just the inaction of the GOP Senate, but the idiocy of Thune and others to think the new Marxist party would abide by the blue slip and filibuster if they get a trifecta down the road.

Posted by: Jonah at May 22, 2026 08:11 AM (YCxFk)

55 Chris Rabb, PA-03 candidate, calls out candidates who refuse to call Israel's actions "genocide"

"If you can't name the demon, you can't kill it.

If we can't say genocide, if we can't say white supremacy, if we can't say patriarchy or oligarchy, if we can't say the words, how are you going to entrust somebody to do the work when it matters most?"
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Philadelphia elections aren't giving us good results.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 22, 2026 08:12 AM (Zhjn8)

56 Good morning again Horde. Thx JJ. Happy Friday to all.
Posted this yesterday but you should look at it
Over at Facebook Donny Deutsch has posted a vid ripping the Texas woman Galindo a new one over her concentration camps comment. I'm not big on Donny but he's spot on.
The insane thing is the comments section . It literally looks like it could be from Stormfront. This nation is in a world of hurt

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 08:12 AM (gu0hJ)

57 “At times, it seems Democrats are trying to win arguments while Republicans are focused on winning elections. Democrats operate in an ecosystem defined by reason even in cycles when the electorate is defined by rage. This highlights a fundamental and necessary truth — a brutal and efficiently delivered message will frame the choice for voters and help actually win the election,” the report reads.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 08:12 AM (L1jPj)

58 Jonah

Using Occam's Razor: They were bought off.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

59 Not quite sure how this compensation fund will work legally but good luck. It would be easier legally for DOJ to pay out Trump and Trump could set up his own fund for DOJ victims.

Posted by: The Sanhedrin at May 22, 2026 08:13 AM (+9A0s)

60 At least Colbert is finally gone

Posted by: Jonah at May 22, 2026 08:14 AM (YCxFk)

61 Thank you JJ. So glad a long Memorial Day weekend is almost upon us.

The senate is worse than the house… mainly because of simple math: smaller numbers. A Congress critter in the house is 1 of 435… a senator is 1 of 100 and they have 6 year terms (3 x that of a house member).

I’m convinced Cassidy in Louisiana voted to convict Trump in that impeachment trial because he thought to himself: I just won by 40 and everyone will forget in 6 years. PDJT didn’t forget hehe

But this process of prying and crowbarring the RINOs out is long… so long

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2026 08:14 AM (+gA9j)

62 >>Senate Abandons Trump’s ICE, Border Funding Bill for Early Vacation; Thune Admits Paxton Endorsement Played Role

It played the leading role.

And if you go back and look at the days after J6 some "Republicans" including Cornyn were the most vociferous in demanding that the J6 patsies be dealt with harshly. The don't want to admit they were either wrong or complicit. Because they hate us.

They had no problem advocating their fellow Senators got huge settlements from the feds for Wray spying on them, they just don't want us peasants getting justice.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 08:14 AM (viF8m)

63 I once responded to one of Tillis' questionnaires a few years ago.
I indicated one of my top issues was weaponization of the federal government .
Now he is griping about the Anti-Weaponization Fund.
The irony!

Posted by: CapeFear at May 22, 2026 08:15 AM (11O9i)

64 The author of the DNC autopsy believes Democrats were too hesitant to put President Donald Trump in prison.

“The retrospective evaluation of Donald Trump’s presidency was too positive. Given the ability of right-wing entities to slash and smear the Vice President, it was essential to prosecute a more effective case as to why Trump should have been disqualified from ever again taking office. The grounds were there, but the messaging did not make sense.”

Never mind that Trump’s mug shot proved one of the defining images of his campaign. The photo appeared on Trump merchandise almost immediately after Trump was released from Fulton County Jail in August 2023. The mug shot now hangs outside the Oval Office.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 08:15 AM (L1jPj)

65 At least Colbert is finally gone

Who?

Posted by: Joe Sixpack at May 22, 2026 08:15 AM (7d1L5)

66 Never saw any of the Colbert show. Ever.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 08:16 AM (u82oZ)

67 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 08:16 AM (77rzZ)

68 From the article about the Las Vegas student getting expelled for pro-ICE messages:

"CCSD recognizes and honors our students’ First Amendment rights to lawful advocacy and expression on causes important to them."

The absolute obliviousness of these people would be hilarious except for the fact that they have power over children.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 22, 2026 08:16 AM (RjOoY)

69 Have to give credit to the W Bush Appeals court judges who were loyal enough to retire in the last few months. Donald has named quality replacements for them, and when confirmed, Trump will have the second most Appeals Court judges after Ronald Reagan. With more than two years to go

Posted by: Jonah at May 22, 2026 08:16 AM (YCxFk)

70 "At least Colbert is finally gone

Who?
Posted by: Joe Sixpack"

Claudette. Died 1996.

Posted by: fd at May 22, 2026 08:16 AM (vFG9F)

71 I've recently become convinced that the commies started the America Never Went to the Moon "theories" because they were pissed we beat the Soviets and everyone else.

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 08:17 AM (J8APv)

72 The leaked DNC autopsy doesn't mention:

- Inflation or Bidenflation
- Podcasts
- Women's sports, bathrooms
- Pronouns
- Catholics, Christians, or evangelicals
- 'Religion' or 'Religious'
- White men
- Anything related to MAHA
- Gas prices

And:
- Only one mention of trans in the context of the they/them ad
- One 'border' mention in the context of Dems being mad that Kamala was labeled the 'border czar'
- Brief mention of climate policies causing 'anxiety'
- One mention of '80-20' issues but no definition of what those are

It also alleges that the media ecosystem is too right-wing for Democrats to be able to compete.

Pure slop. Stunningly bad.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 08:17 AM (L1jPj)

73 The FrontPage Magazine piece about Auschwitz not being built overnight is well written.

"It moved through isolation, legal discrimination, propaganda, fear, and public conditioning; one policy, one justification, and one compromise at a time.

And with each stage, more people adapted.

Some supported it. Some benefited from it. Many stayed silent."

Here's the link again:
https://tinyurl.com/4y45d5en

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 22, 2026 08:18 AM (2Ez/1)

74 Never watched a single episode of Colbert. Or Kimmel. Or Myers.
Watched Fallon a couple of times because he's a local guy.
None will be missed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 08:18 AM (gu0hJ)

75 At least Colbert is finally gone
Posted by: Jonah at May 22, 2026 08:14 AM (YCxFk)
================
Who?

Oh yeah... that guy who got his 15 minutes of TV fame.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 22, 2026 08:18 AM (Zhjn8)

76 19 fd

20% turnover in GOPe Senators lately is not enough. We need good candidates.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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There are good candidates galore but they don't have funding enough to run except as long shots. And a good candidate in one state would be a lousy one in another.

What we can do is not necessarily ensure good people but set up incentives not to be bad in office like firing the Thom Tillis types.

And far too many people fall in love with candidates--to my way of thinking, the guys picking up your garbage are more important, not so much who is your senator or rep. Falling in love with a politician only means they will eventually betray you and break your heart. Best not get invested emotionally, especially with pretty words when they do their dirty deeds done dirt cheap for donors or party insiders.

They are there to represent us because all the voters cannot fit into the Capitol, so someone has to do the boring and frankly hideous job of legislating. So a studied measure of contempt, dry sarcasm, and willingness to replace them as components is needed. Quality assurance one might say.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 08:18 AM (E4rtv)

77 I've recently become convinced that the commies started the America Never Went to the Moon "theories" because they were pissed we beat the Soviets and everyone else.
Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 08:17 AM (J8APv)
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All they have left is their lies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 08:19 AM (RIvkX)

78 Chris Rabb, PA-03 candidate, calls out candidates who refuse to call Israel's actions "genocide"

"If you can't name the demon, you can't kill it.

If we can't say genocide, if we can't say white supremacy, if we can't say patriarchy or oligarchy, if we can't say the words, how are you going to entrust somebody to do the work when it matters most?"
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Philadelphia elections aren't giving us good results.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 22, 2026 08:12 AM ()

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He'll be my "representative", I'm afraid. Hopefully next year I'll be able to get out of the city

Posted by: Josephistan at May 22, 2026 08:19 AM (PyqXH)

79 Nearer my God to Thee or an attempt at taqqiya sunrising to prevent future Democrat electoral wipeouts?

Perhaps Barney realized that his afterlife was not going to be very comfortable and he was trying to get God's mercy.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 22, 2026 08:19 AM (RjOoY)

80 The suspicious website, Kiddle, is spreading biased information to children that soft-pedals authoritarian regimes and terrorist organizations.

--

Kiddle...sounds pornographic.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 22, 2026 08:19 AM (qBdHI)

81 The FrontPage Magazine piece about Auschwitz not being built overnight is well written.

"It moved through isolation, legal discrimination, propaganda, fear, and public conditioning; one policy, one justification, and one compromise at a time.

And with each stage, more people adapted.

Some supported it. Some benefited from it. Many stayed silent."

Here's the link again:
https://tinyurl.com/4y45d5en
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 22, 2026 08:18 AM (2Ez/1)
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At its most insidious, Evil can be very patient.

It never rests, never tires, and never quits.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 08:20 AM (gnNyN)

82 SMOD

If this is really their inner thinking, their actions going forward will not rescue them. They are missing the long plot for short term grift.

Don't correct an enemy on the wrong path.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 08:21 AM (u82oZ)

83 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Had an adventure. After being molested by the urologist, they said that if I ran a fever of 100.5 to not bother calling, just go the ER. So... yesterday I have a fever of 100.8. Go to an ER. Fever has dissipated by the time I get there. Get sent home. No doubt it'll cost me a million dollars.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

84 Cold Bear? Kimmel? Fallon?
So people still watch TV?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 22, 2026 08:21 AM (2Ez/1)

85 I so miss Rush. The Banking Queen was one of his many Paul Shanklin hits. As was his pronunciation of Baaarney Fwank.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 22, 2026 08:22 AM (0Xb3a)

86 I hope the people of South Dakota are melting down Thune's phoneline for his childish reaction to Trump's endorsements, and for his total abdication of his duty to the American population who wants the SAVE Act (and other Trump initiatives) passed into law. What a scumbag.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 22, 2026 08:22 AM (qBdHI)

87 Rabb's district is D+40, the most partisan district in the US. It voted for Biden 91%. It shouldn't surprise anyone that they'd vote in an antisemitic communist

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 08:22 AM (gu0hJ)

88 It also alleges that the media ecosystem is too right-wing for Democrats to be able to compete.

Pure slop. Stunningly bad.
Posted by: SMOD

Campaign consultants are generally slugs good at one thing--persuading people to give them money because they claim to be good at their job. And that goes for GOP consultants. So they tell whoever is paying them what they want to hear and Democrats did not want to hear that a) their policies are insane, b) lying constantly for years takes a toll on popularity, c) Putting forth Puddin Brain and then Kamala as candidates after the administration failed was bad politics.

The GOP autopsy of 2012 ran toward we need to approve amnesty becuz Romney lost being a meanie. That is what the donors and GOPe wanted to hear.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 08:23 AM (E4rtv)

89 If I were a Democrat I might just vote for this man based on his name "Squire Servance" because it sounds quaintly old fashioned to me. I think he'd be a much better fit for Bonnie Watson Coleman's district ( They're both African American) than the execrable Hamawy who had not only supported Muslim terrorism and thiinks the army should be ended as well as ICE and homeland security, but who also had complaints against his work as a plastic surgeon.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 08:23 AM (OYsYV)

90 I've been reading the Amazon reviews of the Horde Cookbook this morning. Beautiful things, guaranteed to yield a laugh or two, each and every one! It is hard to believe that was eight years ago. Time flies.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 22, 2026 08:24 AM (eZeWG)

91 Can someone give me a brief Dummies version of what this Anti-Weaponization Fund is?

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 22, 2026 08:24 AM (qBdHI)

92 90 Time flies.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 22, 2026 08:24 AM (eZeWG)

Fruit Flies like a banana.

Posted by: XTC at May 22, 2026 08:25 AM (iXqHn)

93 "Banking Queen" LOL. I recall that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 08:25 AM (OYsYV)

94 'The Best Fundraising Text I've Ever Seen': Graham Platner's 'Grassroots' Campaign Is Funneling Money to Influencers To Fawn Over Him

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Who's Time's cover boy?

https://tinyurl.com/44k978tw

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 22, 2026 08:25 AM (ndZc7)

95 This J6 stuff makes me wonder...

Will we ever find out what all those National Guard troops in the Capital were all about, around the 2021 inauguration? Supposedly, it was to protect the inauguration from violent, rabid MAGA people.

But there was no organized movement among MAGA people to do ANYTHING. In fact, the word was out that if somebody tried to talk you into such a thing, they were likely a Fed looking to trap you.

The were called up by TRUMP, remember. Surrounded the whole city. Check points to enter or leave. Stayed there many weeks afterward. SOMETHING was going on that they weren't telling us. Something MAJOR and UNPRECEDENTED.

Posted by: MrExcitement at May 22, 2026 08:25 AM (ovdkm)

96 The second is the margin of defeat for Kamala Harris was among the smallest in American history.
Under the structure of the Electoral College, a handful of swing states are generally determinative
in the outcome, meaning the margins of victories in those states are the key to the overall
outcome. Tens of thousands of votes in a handful of states returned a Republican to the White
House.
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Do they not know who won the popular vote?

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 08:25 AM (J8APv)

97 If you went back 15 years and said Barney's Frank will be a voice of reason compared to the base of the Democratic Party, you would be put under observation in a psych ward.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 22, 2026 08:26 AM (R86kT)

98 whig

Cogent points. Like Homeless NGO CEOs not solving the homeless problem.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 08:26 AM (u82oZ)

99 86 I hope the people of South Dakota are melting down Thune's phoneline for his childish reaction to Trump's endorsements, and for his total abdication of his duty to the American population who wants the SAVE Act (and other Trump initiatives) passed into law. What a scumbag.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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SD also has Dusty Johnson running for governor there who is another never Trumper now craving Trump's endorsement. I have come to the conclusion that not all of those claiming Trump is wonderful are good but every single pos politician that is a Never Trumper is bad deserving defeat.

I think it is that these Never Trumpers despise the base openly that Trump represents--that is not who we are indeed. The ones that fake Trump support, to some extent are trapped because betrayal means political death to them. So they have to fake it to keep their miserable careers going along (see Lindsay Graham).

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 08:26 AM (E4rtv)

100 So is the senate in recess appointments recess or recess theater?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 08:26 AM (2PamV)

101 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

I am sorry you were having a fever and had to go to the ER.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 08:26 AM (OYsYV)

102 Had an adventure. After being molested by the urologist

My urologist always grins when offering a prostate exam, which is why I always say, "No"

Posted by: Halfhand at May 22, 2026 08:27 AM (IXblq)

103 Well, pigs are flying. I agree with Jimmy Kimmel.

JIMMY KIMMEL MELTDOWN: Urges Viewers to “NEVER WATCH CBS AGAIN” After Colbert’s Finale Tonight
“I hope those of you who watch our show will also tune in to CBS for the last time. Don’t ever watch it again.”
LOL!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 22, 2026 08:28 AM (ndZc7)

104 71 I've recently become convinced that the commies started the America Never Went to the Moon "theories" because they were pissed we beat the Soviets and everyone else.

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 08:17 AM (J8APv)


The No Moon Landings people and the Flat Earth clowns have small minds.

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 08:28 AM (5rh/l)

105 I've been reading the Amazon reviews of the Horde Cookbook this morning. Beautiful things, guaranteed to yield a laugh or two, each and every one! It is hard to believe that was eight years ago. Time flies.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 22, 2026 08:24 AM (eZeWG)
===

Please tell me my Turkey Loaf recipe got five stars.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 08:28 AM (RIvkX)

106 Limbaugh made radio one of the most entertaining and thought provoking mediums ever. He was a gifted broadcaster with split second timing. Comedic genius and political insight expressed in a way that made you realize you weren't alone in your conservative leanings. He surrounded himself with talented staff that created what is known in the business as "production values" which made it extremely listenable. I was addicted for decades. Shanklin was just icing on the cake.

I miss Rush.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 22, 2026 08:28 AM (2Ez/1)

107 >>Can someone give me a brief Dummies version of what this Anti-Weaponization Fund is?

It's a fund that Trump agreed to in exchange for dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS for releasing his tax returns.

The money was designated for people who have subjected to harassment by Obama's and Biden's weaponized DOJ. People like Michael Caputo who's life and career were destroyed over baseless charges because he supported Trump early on and also people like J6ers who were setup and over prosecuted.

Permanent DC hates it because it exposed the dual system of justice in this country.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 08:29 AM (viF8m)

108 Welp, Today Is Harvey Milk Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 22, 2026 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

109 Eight? I feel like that cookbook was 12 or more years ago.

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 08:29 AM (J8APv)

110 Barney pushed every leftist, governmentalist scheme he could and now at the end of his miserable existence he's warning the Dems.
As was said in a sci-fi series "the avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 08:30 AM (gu0hJ)

111 Tillis, who has voted for trillions and trillions to fund Democrat Party priorities, is suddenly angered and outraged over a few billion to fund Trump's priorities.

From the border wall, to ICE, to now--they can never find a penny to fund what we want.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2026 08:30 AM (73/SM)

112 Halfhand

I asked my gastroenterologist what the craziest thing he heard was.
Evidently one patient wanted no pain meds, and sang through the entire colonoscopy procedure.

I did entertain my urologist with my gold-digger stories.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

113
1.) It was no mistake; Dick Armey got it right.

2.) As long as we're eulogizing Barney Fag, my favorite thing about him was this: his notorious, nation-wtecking financial corruption aside, I will never forget when, perhaps fifteen years after he walked away without so much as a single charge for sex trafficking in teen boys, he did an interview where he bemoaned the fact that the Republicans' House censure of him for his well-known pederasty had nearly "ruined [his] social life."

Not that it *did* ruin it, mind you - just that there were a couple months when Georgetown AWFLs were uncomfortable being seen with him in their parlors, and child-buggering panderers were skittish about inviting him into their fleshpots. This was an act of lese-majeste he harbored a lifelong grudge about.

Barney Fag's life epitomized the corruption, vacuity and arrogance of America's ruling class during the waning years of the Republic.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2026 08:30 AM (BI5O2)

114 Well, Bruce is funnier than Colbert.

Bruce Springsteen appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show tonight and COOKED Trump and his goons
“I’m here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke….

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 22, 2026 08:31 AM (ndZc7)

115 > Will we ever find out what all those National Guard troops in the Capital were all about, around the 2021 inauguration? Supposedly, it was to protect the inauguration from violent, rabid MAGA people.
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The only part of J6 that was "organic" (not pre-planned) was the public's demonstration. Everything else, the Capitol in particular, was staged.

Pelosi had a huge hand in it. The political, donor, and chattering classes in the capitol city wanted a real insurrection so they could hang Trump and be done with MAGA forever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 08:31 AM (jehhT)

116 98 whig

Cogent points. Like Homeless NGO CEOs not solving the homeless problem.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

I've been around too many political consultants over the years. A very few were decent people, most, I would put on the level of Mel Brooks, "The Producers". And that is in part why the GOP is so bad at politics, consultants don't make money from volunteers and actual popularity, they make money by mailers, robocalls, advertising placements, and communications management. The Rick Jackson phenomenon in GA is an example. This guy spent over $100 million so far--his wife donates to Democrats, he donated to Jeb and Cheney plus Stacey Abrams, he clearly hates having to deal with average citizens in political show and greet, and his campaign consists of slanderous mailers, robocalls, media ad placements, and campaign signage. A fake, gay, Potemkin candidacy allied with the Kemp faction in GA politics.

Dooley for Senate is the same way.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 08:32 AM (E4rtv)

117 It's a fund that Trump agreed to in exchange for dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS for releasing his tax returns.

This is a formula the left has been using for years. Some environmental group sues the EPA and the EPA, also made up of environmentalists, "settles" for what it wanted to do, now with the imprimatur of a court order.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 22, 2026 08:32 AM (R86kT)

118 Someone explain to me why Robert Kagan’s piece in the Atlantic yesterday is wrong. He thinks Trump is surrendering to Iran… I don’t trust Kagan but I admit his piece is somewhat persuasive to me… because I’ve not been happy with Trump’s continual talk of negotiations and a “deal” and I believe (alas) that the current stalemate if it persists favors Iran. They don’t care about economic discomfort while American voters are fickle. I’m beginning to believe this waiting game, even with our blockade of Hormuz, is not in our favor. That seems to be Kagan’s argument.

But when I find myself agreeing with a knucklehead like Kagan maybe I’ve gone off my rocker. Help me out here…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2026 08:32 AM (yz/88)

119 SD also has Dusty Johnson running for governor there who is another never Trumper now craving Trump's endorsement. I have come to the conclusion that not all of those claiming Trump is wonderful are good but every single pos politician that is a Never Trumper is bad deserving defeat.

............

Won't be voting for him. Have seen the guy? Besides being an idiot he's a little wimp. Blowing up the tv and internet with ads. I have seen a couple polls lately that he is running in 2nd. Good,and good riddance.

Posted by: Mollly k. at May 22, 2026 08:34 AM (j/yko)

120 115 Pelosi had a huge hand in it. The political, donor, and chattering classes in the capitol city wanted a real insurrection so they could hang Trump and be done with MAGA forever.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 08:31 AM (jehhT)

The doors were opened for the people to enter and they were escorted in by Pelosi's Capitol goons

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 22, 2026 08:34 AM (x0n13)

121 And it's National Vanilla Pudding Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 22, 2026 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

122 Funny how, in order to protest Trump’s refusal to back certain Republican Senators, Thune is determined to prove that everything Trump said about those senators was true.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2026 08:35 AM (NyxOA)

123 66 Never saw any of the Colbert show. Ever.

I only saw the clips shown on right wing podcasts, like the cringey "The Vaxx Scene" with homos dancing around with giant syringes. Ugh.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 08:35 AM (gtcuf)

124 Lizzy Warren, who loudly endorsed Platner in Maine just a month ago, now refuses to even mention his name in public, after his masturbation and Thai hooker Reddit posts got some publicity.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 22, 2026 08:35 AM (9vcWq)

125 Permanent DC hates it because it exposed the dual system of justice in this country.
Posted by: JackStraw

Thom was a big supporter of the Senate bill that rewarded senators $500k for being spied on. I think those GOP members despise the base voter Trump people because they think they are aristocrats.

That is not who we are (Let them eat cake) in modern vernacular. Paying the serfs for treating them with injustice for Jan 6 or else is Not Who We Are bullshit.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 08:35 AM (E4rtv)

126 And it's National Vanilla Pudding Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 22, 2026 08:35 AM (NpAcC)
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I knew this without knowing I knew it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 08:35 AM (RIvkX)

127 61 ... The senate is worse than the house… mainly because of simple math: smaller numbers. A Congress critter in the house is 1 of 435… a senator is 1 of 100 and they have 6 year terms (3 x that of a house member).
...
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2026 08:14 AM (+gA9j)


The Senate tells you how just corrupt the establishment is, doesn't it? There are a lot more red states than blue, but Republicans only have a small majority, when they have a majority at all. Seems like they should have an easy time having a solid majority.

Posted by: MrExcitement at May 22, 2026 08:35 AM (ovdkm)

128 LinusVanPelt

The real target is China. Note: No cheap Iranian oil is flowing to China. They have to pay market rates. This is a dagger in the entire Chinese export-based economy.

Plus, pipelines are being built to bypass the Strait of Hormuz. This is adaptation to Trump's economic warfare.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ)

129 Somewhere out there on the intertubes there is a video of John Cornyn telling Chris Wray he needed to go as harshly as possible on the J6er who were arrested for "storming" Congress. He knew those people were America First types and he knew or he should've known it was a setup. Yet he still demanded overly harsh treatment.

That's John Cornyn. That's why they hate this fund. It will expose many of them as frauds at best.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 08:35 AM (viF8m)

130 A president "who can't take a joke"...

He can only take being shot, prosecuted, cheated, insulted, threatened....

But not a joke.

Democrats are such toughguys

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 08:36 AM (J8APv)

131 Bruce Springsteen appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show tonight and COOKED Trump and his goons

Yeah, how can Trump ever recover from that.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 08:36 AM (gtcuf)

132 66 Never saw any of the Colbert show. Ever.

I only saw the clips shown on right wing podcasts, like the cringey "The Vaxx Scene" with homos dancing around with giant syringes. Ugh.
Posted by: Delurker

Same Colbert report persona that was on Stewart's who. That IS who he is. A vile caricature of a man hiding behind clown nose on and clown nose off--except that nose is always brown from kissing Democrat ass.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 08:37 AM (E4rtv)

133 Evidently one patient wanted no pain meds, and sang through the entire colonoscopy procedure.

I woke up from mine shouting, "Where the hell am I?!" which shocked and amused the doctor and nurses.

Posted by: Halfhand at May 22, 2026 08:37 AM (IXblq)

134 128 Plus, pipelines are being built to bypass the Strait of Hormuz. This is adaptation to Trump's economic warfare.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ)

Let's get the Keystone XL protesters to China ASAP!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 22, 2026 08:37 AM (x0n13)

135 r/FedEmployees
Feeling like the 250 celebrations are completely hollow this year. I’m a pretty patriotic person, and normally I’d be overjoyed about all the 250‑year freedom celebrations. But right now it just feels fake. The admin in the office, including my own elected representatives, clearly can’t stand me or the work I do. It all feels like a performance layered over a bunch of hostility.

Feels like more of a wake than a birthday celebration. I will be mourning this 4th.

1976 had actual unity around it, now everything gets weaponized before the decorations even go up. I'm going to Celebrate Juneteenth , with the flag Asshats name hasn't been Imposed on. Black Lives Matter flag. The Nation is lost currently, I can't celebrate that.

I wouldn't count on a bloody civil War. I would count on quiet acceptance like billions of people do on earth. They accept that they're under the authoritarian boot. There's no heroic uprising.

No way! We will rise. Minnesota taught me that even under extreme authoritarian rule, resistance works. We are an incredible country, and the corrupt disgusting president will not take that from us!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 22, 2026 08:37 AM (ycI94)

136 >>Thom was a big supporter of the Senate bill that rewarded senators $500k for being spied on. I think those GOP members despise the base voter Trump people because they think they are aristocrats.

Correct. They view themselves as a class above us not our elected representatives. And they hate us when we don't sit down and be quiet and let them tell us what to do.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 08:37 AM (viF8m)

137 Finally, someone has seen the light:Bolt CEO fires his entire HR team because they “created problems that didn’t exist”, and “those problems disappeared when I let them go”. Welcome to the party, pal.Ryan Breslow, the co-founder and chief executive of US fintech firm Bolt, said the department was scrapped as part of sweeping layoffs aimed at returning the struggling business to “start-up mode”.The 32-year-old added that HR professionals were more suited to “peacetime” conditions at larger companies rather than a start-up environment focused on rapid growth and efficiency.
Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 07:53 AM (L1jPj)

Because “peacetime” conditions at larger companies really need a bit of “created problems that didn’t exist”?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 08:38 AM (ExV1e)

138 Perhaps the root of the problem in Iran is that there's no one left to negotiate with. Maybe the "leadership" is so fractured no one is able to speak authoritatively on behalf of the military.

If you think about the aftermath of when you know who killed you know who, leadership seemed to default to Navy Admiral Donitz, who was no where near Berlin, and just shrugged his shoulders and said "Yeah, ok. We give up."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 22, 2026 08:38 AM (2Ez/1)

139 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2026 08:32 AM (yz/8
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I haven't read it but agree with your point.

Anything less than unconditional surrender will only lead to more violence in the future.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 08:38 AM (RIvkX)

140 whig

We talk about the hatred of the Left.

The actions of the GOPe Senate are building rage inside pragmatic observers as well. The Rep and Ind base is turning strongly against the GOPe.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 08:38 AM (u82oZ)

141 100 So is the senate in recess appointments recess or recess theater?
Posted by: rickb223
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Fake recess of course.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 08:39 AM (E4rtv)

142 Chocolate pudding > vanilla pudding.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 08:40 AM (gtcuf)

143 NYPost:

May 15 marks one year since Governor Kathy Hochul enacted a “bell-to-bell” ban on personal phones in public schools, impacting almost a million children in K-12 public and charter schools across the state.

Teachers who spoke to The Post all say the ban has had an overwhelmingly postive impact on their schools.

“I think that the cell phone ban has been remarkable,” Dr. Jessica Chock-Goldman, director of clinical services at Bard High School Early College of Manhattan on the Lower East Side, told The Post. “I’ve been astounded by how much of a shift it has been.”

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 08:40 AM (RHGPo)

144 Barney was just mad because he had to ride the pine for several months, and by the time he could lace up his bondage gear and get back in the game, Lindsey Graham had already wrecked the ass of every catamite in the Beltway. It probably took him a couple seasons to regain his records and retake the lead in the cock-ring count.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2026 08:41 AM (BI5O2)

145 Robert Kagan, the husband of that great stateswoman, Victoria nuland. No agenda there.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 22, 2026 08:41 AM (5P5DO)

146 If the Senate is not in recess, can the President (or Vance, or anyone) call them to a vote?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 22, 2026 08:41 AM (9vcWq)

147 Kathy Hotox did something good?

Broken clock and all that.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 08:42 AM (gtcuf)

148 Chocolate pudding > vanilla pudding.
Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 08:40 AM (gtcuf)
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This is a debate worth having.

It mostly depends on the relative quality of the cocoa powder to the quality of the vanilla bean used.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 08:42 AM (RIvkX)

149 Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg

The wife of the elderly "Trump House" owner who was attacked in California says her husband is not expected to survive.

Maria Sheron says there is "no hope" for her husband, Kerry, who was brutally beaten outside his home.

Sheron, a 69-year-old Army veteran, is known in the Escondido area for all the Trump and USA flags he has at his home.

His wife, Maria, says she believes he was targeted for the displays, according to the California Post.

32-year-old man Thomas Caleb Butle was arrested for the horrific attack and is charged with attempted murder.

https://tinyurl.com/5cy5zd7z

Posted by: redridinghood at May 22, 2026 08:42 AM (NpAcC)

150 Overslept. Catching up. Overwhelmed by links. Mr. Sefton is a treasure. Worst thing about sleeping late is the Art Thread horror comes that much more quickly. At least I have coffee.

Posted by: Behind The Eight Ball at May 22, 2026 08:42 AM (oftw2)

151 I've recently become convinced that the commies started the America Never Went to the Moon "theories" because they were pissed we beat the Soviets and everyone else.
Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 08:17 AM (J8APv)

Also disparages white males as lying, conspiratorial frauds who cannot be trusted.

Posted by: Whitey On The Moon at May 22, 2026 08:42 AM (7d1L5)

152 I’m beginning to believe this waiting game, even with our blockade of Hormuz, is not in our favor. That seems to be Kagan’s argument.

But when I find myself agreeing with a knucklehead like Kagan maybe I’ve gone off my rocker. Help me out here…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2026 08:32 AM (yz/8

This regime sent a million of its followers to die for nothing during the Iran-Iraq war. They’re busy executing everyone inside Iran who complains too loudly, and much like North Korea, they maintain absolute control over the military and internal security services.

A summer of economic hardship is nothing to them, and the “blockade” is far more porous than we like to pretend it is. Our “good friend” Pakistan has 6 major rail crossings where goods pour into Iran every day. The people will suffer from the economic decline, but the regime won’t.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2026 08:43 AM (NyxOA)

153 Barney was just mad because he had to ride the pine for several months, and by the time he could lace up his bondage gear and get back in the game, Lindsey Graham had already wrecked the ass of every catamite in the Beltway. It probably took him a couple seasons to regain his records and retake the lead in the cock-ring count.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2026 08:41 AM (BI5O2)
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Mrs. F. is disturbed I'm laughing so loudly before 6 am and I cannot tell her why.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 08:43 AM (RIvkX)

154 Donald has named quality replacements for them, and when confirmed, Trump will have the second most Appeals Court judges after Ronald Reagan.

Making a pretty big assumption, aren't you?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 08:44 AM (ExV1e)

155 Posted by: Whitey On The Moon at May 22, 2026 08:42 AM (7d1L5)

Her face and arms began to swell

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 08:44 AM (J8APv)

156 Thomas Caleb Butle

Butler. Star Wars Incel.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 08:44 AM (gtcuf)

157 Barney's sister was Ann Lewis, a nasty piece of Dem work. She was a Clintonista to the core. Real nice family

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 08:44 AM (gu0hJ)

158 “I think that the cell phone ban has been remarkable,” Dr. Jessica Chock-Goldman, director of clinical services at Bard High School Early College of Manhattan on the Lower East Side, told The Post. “I’ve been astounded by how much of a shift it has been.”
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My now former workplace is trying to implement something along that line. I agree smart phones hurt worker productivity in many environments.
Heh. I'm just glad to be celebrating One Month Of Saturdays with Ye Olde Android firmly in my grasp.
More coffee.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 22, 2026 08:45 AM (2Ez/1)

159 146 If the Senate is not in recess, can the President (or Vance, or anyone) call them to a vote?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Nope. Special sessions may be called when Congress is in recess or have adjourned sine die. President can also adjourn Congress if the House and Senate disagree on adjournment.

Normally the House has to ask the Senate for permission to do so which galls the House to no end but they can ask the president to do so.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 08:45 AM (E4rtv)

160 I saw Wet Leg open for Dusty Johnson at the Isle of Wight Music Festival last year.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 22, 2026 08:46 AM (Dv3i1)

161 Mostly peaceful and hardly any property damage.

Sunny Hostin defends the deadly Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. She claims there was only "very limited destruction of property and violence."

-
Unlike the Hiroshima-like death and destruction of J6.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 22, 2026 08:46 AM (ndZc7)

162 Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 08:40 AM (RHGPo)

Wow!; Kathy Hochuldid something positive? I'm surprised.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 08:46 AM (8Xy/A)

163 My urologist always grins when offering a prostate exam, which is why I always say, "No"
Posted by: Halfhand at May 22, 2026 08:27 AM (IXblq)

Sadly, this was a biopsy, involving a sex toy and 50 - or so - daggers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 08:47 AM (ExV1e)

164 John Thune is some piece of work.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 22, 2026 08:47 AM (9vcWq)

165 118 Someone explain to me why Robert Kagan’s piece in the Atlantic yesterday is wrong. He thinks Trump is surrendering to Iran… ... I’m beginning to believe this waiting game, even with our blockade of Hormuz, is not in our favor. That seems to be Kagan’s argument.
...
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2026 08:32 AM (yz/8


I keeping hearing that "Trump is surrendering to Iran". It's the most ridiculous propaganda imaginable. The military action was about as lop-sided as you can imagine, and Iran's economy has been practically shut down.

It was clear from the start - and I remember Ace commenting to this effect - that the US and Israel aim to END THIS, once and for all. There would be no point to it otherwise.

All the talk of "negotiation" is for suckers. Either it REALLY means Trump is bribing Iranian insiders or Trump is stalling for time to get ready for the endgame. Trump always gives his opponent the opportunity to do the right thing, but he doesn't really EXPECT them to do the right thing.

Posted by: MrExcitement at May 22, 2026 08:47 AM (ovdkm)

166 whig

Potential upside of the Senate recess: No War Powers Act theater.

Bring on the strike packages.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 08:48 AM (u82oZ)

167 Wet Leg is the dumbest band name since Bent Knee. What's next, Broken Ankle?

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 08:48 AM (gtcuf)

168 Starship/Superheavy launch scrubbed at T-40 seconds

"Though SpaceX mission controllers tried several times to restart the countdown when it went into an automatic hold at T-40 seconds due to some technical issues, they eventually decided to scrub the Starship/Superheavy launch today.

At present they expect to try again tomorrow, with a launch window opening at 5:30 pm (central). Expect updates later today or tomorrow."

SpaceX will try again today. As of now. 6:30 PM Eastern. Launch window is about 2 hours.

My educated speculation:
Trying again 24 hours after yesterday's several temperature-related issues inside T-40 seconds, tells me the engineers are confident they understand the cause(s). They'll change temperature limits in the launch sequencer computer program for the T-0 launch pad-vehicle quick disconnects that violated limits yesterday. No hardware fixes. The engineers must have test data and computer models that indicate they can safely change the limits up or down to accommodate the temperatures observed yesterday.

I wish them success today!

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 08:49 AM (5rh/l)

169
I suppose Thune and his ilk are going to use this time-off to -

run to they're various Leftard and Chinese donors like Soros, and-

lay their heads on his lap and say-

Daddy Soros! Daddy Soros, President Trump was sooooo mean and a big bully to my pal, Corny, will you give me even more money i9f I vote harder against his agenda like the SAVE Act.
Cuz he's so mean, Daddy Soros, so very very mean!!!
...
...
Now, where's Uncle Xi?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 22, 2026 08:49 AM (iJfKG)

170 Mrs. F. is disturbed I'm laughing so loudly before 6 am and I cannot tell her why.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 08:43 AM (RIvkX)

There's nothing funny about competitive pederasty among ruling class elites. It's deadly serious business.

----Ed Buck

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2026 08:49 AM (BI5O2)

171 Wet Leg is the dumbest band name since Bent Knee. What's next, Broken Ankle?
Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 08:48 AM (gtcuf)
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There was pretty big local band in nyc called Broken Arrow.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 08:49 AM (RIvkX)

172 Butler who attacked the Trump house man was said to have "bad PTSD" from his Navy days. Reading the rest of the article it just looks like he was a paranoid schizophrenic.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 08:50 AM (gu0hJ)

173 Gref

Thank you for your analysis.

I want to be yelling Go! Go! Go! today.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 08:50 AM (u82oZ)

174 Sandy Frank >>> Barney Frank

Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 08:50 AM (77rzZ)

175
I would have thought Lindsey Graham was a catcher, not a pitcher.

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 08:50 AM (Y8DZL)

176 167 Wet Leg is the dumbest band name since Bent Knee. What's next, Broken Ankle?
Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 08:48 AM
++++

Hey, my WAP is sitting right here.

Posted by: Cardi B at May 22, 2026 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)

177
I frequently think that it would be best if we shut Capitol Hill down and dispersed our US senators and representatives to the states or districts they come from. Advances in communications and networking should make this not too burdensome. Too many of these people get elected on a campaign of representing their people, then go to Washington and "go native".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 08:51 AM (HdYcL)

178 Wet Leg is the dumbest band name since Bent Knee. What's next, Broken Ankle?
Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 08:48 AM (gtcuf)

I saw Broken Ankle open for Sniff 'n' The Tears at Fenway Park in 1980.

Lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth...

Posted by: Tory Crimes at May 22, 2026 08:51 AM (7d1L5)

179 it's only creepy when the urologist wants to cuddle afterward

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 08:52 AM (gKWVE)

180 Iran/IRGC and Hormuz...

Shippers who are paying bigly to just be in the area with their multi-billion dollar vessels are not convinced it's safe. That's the problem, and why we're sitting on our collective thumbs.

The IRGC will "guarantee" safe passage for certain vessels.... for a fee. Some shippers are willing to pay it. But some shippers won't. And some vessels, registered or flagged in a country the IRGC is currently at war with will never be permitted into our out of the Persian Gulf. As long as the IRGC controls Hormuz.

The IRGC, correctly, has assumed that if they hold the Hormuz at risk, they will have a stronger negotiating stance. If they can't control Hormuz....

Prying the IRGC out of their bunkers and hideouts across hundreds of square miles is no easy task.

This is where we are. IMO

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 08:52 AM (jehhT)

181 Sadly, this was a biopsy, involving a sex toy and 50 - or so - daggers.

I'm sorry to hear that. I pray your biopsy produces a negative result.

Posted by: Halfhand at May 22, 2026 08:52 AM (IXblq)

182 144 Barney was just mad because he had to ride the pine for several months, and by the time he could lace up his bondage gear and get back in the game, Lindsey Graham had already wrecked the ass of every catamite in the Beltway. It probably took him a couple seasons to regain his records and retake the lead in the cock-ring count.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2026 08:41 AM (BI5O2)

Barney was too fat for his fellow Sodomites to allow him to wear the bondage gear.

Posted by: XTC at May 22, 2026 08:53 AM (iXqHn)

183 NYPost: Rylynn Joshua Davis is accused of executing his girlfriend on Mother’s Day after shooting two good Samaritans who tried to help her as he dragged her down the sidewalk.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 08:53 AM (RHGPo)

184 JJ, I really wish you’d retire that fat-chick-in-leather-with-someone-else’s-head meme.

Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 08:53 AM (77rzZ)

185 gKWVE

After my first colonoscopy, my older, petite, female gastroenterologist patted my hand and said I had a beautiful colon. I had no answer at that time.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 08:54 AM (u82oZ)

186 The problem with being a proctologist is, you have to start at the bottom.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 08:54 AM (gtcuf)

187 NYPost:

Thomas Diiorio, 40, faces charges of harassment and bias intimidation after spouting obscene phrases at Lakisha Spruill in their upscale development in Mount Laurel, NJ, around 6:30 p.m. Monday, according to NJ.com.

Diiorio allegedly referred to Spruill and other black people as “you people” in the argument.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 08:54 AM (RHGPo)

188 There is a civil war breaking out in the Senate.

The GOPe, still has the power of leadership, are unable to protect their loyal members.
They're demanding the leaders do more to protect them.
In their minds, that means opposing Trump more.

Meanwhile, there are those actually have to win their seats who see Trump isn't going away, conservatives aren't "voting for the lesser evil" aka the Rove Plan and are demanding the leaders start delivering on Trump's priorities.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2026 08:54 AM (73/SM)

189 Who names their kid Rylynn?

Posted by: I gotta ask at May 22, 2026 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)

190
Unfortunately, Iran can prevail by not losing. Militarily we were supreme in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. We never lost a battle in the field. But the people and politicians got tired, we drew down our forces and left without anything sturdy in place. It was easy for the enemy to take over the vacuum.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 08:55 AM (HdYcL)

191 177
I frequently think that it would be best if we shut Capitol Hill down and dispersed our US senators and representatives to the states or districts they come from. Advances in communications and networking should make this not too burdensome. Too many of these people get elected on a campaign of representing their people, then go to Washington and "go native".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Yep. The same with dispersing the agencies across the US. Little reason to keep them in DC anymore.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 08:55 AM (E4rtv)

192 Sandy Cheeks >>> Sandy Frank >>> Barney Frank

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 22, 2026 08:55 AM (ndZc7)

193 "And it's National Vanilla Pudding Day.
Posted by: redridinghood"

That's not pudding.

Posted by: Graham Platner at May 22, 2026 08:55 AM (vFG9F)

194 167 Wet Leg is the dumbest band name since Bent Knee. What's next, Broken Ankle?
Posted by: Delurker

Creative names help one to get noticed.

Posted by: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band at May 22, 2026 08:55 AM (oftw2)

195 178 Wet Leg is the dumbest band name since Bent Knee. What's next, Broken Ankle?
Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 08:48 AM (gtcuf)

I saw Broken Ankle open for Sniff 'n' The Tears at Fenway Park in 1980.

Lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth...

Posted by: Tory Crimes at May 22, 2026 08:51 AM (7d1L5)


Wow! I haven't seen or heard the band Sniff 'n' The Tears mentioned since I don't know when. The last time was very likely in the 20th Century.

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 08:55 AM (5rh/l)

196 I'm sorry to hear that. I pray your biopsy produces a negative result.
Posted by: Halfhand at May 22, 2026 08:52 AM (IXblq)

That would be nice but the MRI saw a mass so I've already emotionally accepted getting bad news. The only question is how bad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

197 >>All the talk of "negotiation" is for suckers. Either it REALLY means Trump is bribing Iranian insiders or Trump is stalling for time to get ready for the endgame. Trump always gives his opponent the opportunity to do the right thing, but he doesn't really EXPECT them to do the right thing.

Saw a really interesting piece on X yesterday by a guy who goes by the name of GreenBeretNapTime or something like that. Very detailed piece so he is clearly knowledgable about the ethnic/tribal makeup of Iran and the government.

He claims that because of the lack of internet or real media coverage a lot of what is going on in Iran is based on regime leaks or assumptions and not fact. His claim is that there are lots of cracks and fractures in the regimes control and they are being exploited during the negotiations. Sounds at least plausible.

Why I find absurd is that anyone would listen to Kagan, the clown behind decades of disastrous military adventures in the Middle East not to mention being the husband of Victoria Nuland, possibly the most corrupt and most destructive POS ever in ur foreign policy establishment. One of the architects of the disaster in Ukraine.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 08:56 AM (viF8m)

198 " ..patted my hand and said I had a beautiful colon."
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I get that a lot.

Posted by: Miss Lindsay at May 22, 2026 08:56 AM (2Ez/1)

199 Maurice Cheeks >>>Sandy Cheeks >>> Sandy Frank >>> Barney Frank

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 08:57 AM (gtcuf)

200 188 There is a civil war breaking out in the Senate.

The GOPe, still has the power of leadership, are unable to protect their loyal members.
They're demanding the leaders do more to protect them.
In their minds, that means opposing Trump more.

Meanwhile, there are those actually have to win their seats who see Trump isn't going away, conservatives aren't "voting for the lesser evil" aka the Rove Plan and are demanding the leaders start delivering on Trump's priorities.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Excelllent summary. And yet, those GOPe are stuck, they cannot publicly denounce Trump much or risk being defeated but their donors, staffers, and political support apparatus demand that they don't help him. Something is gonna give.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 08:57 AM (E4rtv)

201 Tell me again about those crazy conspiracy theories ...

Elizabeth @alluringmedia

Never forget Jack Smith held more than enough evidence to convict him for the Capitol insurrection and the illegal retention of classified documents.

Trump knew he would face prison time because he had ZERO chance of beating Harris. He solicited the help of Musk to facilitate malware on the tabulators that changed the outcome of the votes.

TRUMP DID NOT WIN THOSE SWING STATES.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 08:57 AM (RHGPo)

202 151 I've recently become convinced that the commies started the America Never Went to the Moon "theories" because they were pissed we beat the Soviets and everyone else.
Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 08:17 AM (J8APv)

Also disparages white males as lying, conspiratorial frauds who cannot be trusted.
Posted by: Whitey On The Moon at May 22, 2026 08:42 AM (7d1L5)


Pretty much. It's anti-American propaganda for sure. If you want to tear down America, rewrite its history, so its accomplishments are portrayed as simply frauds. They're trying to rewrite the entire culture, into a dysfunctional dystopia. Just look at how every major intellectual property in Hollywood has been rewritten, and destroyed. Star Wars, Star Trek, even the Wizard of Oz. Obviously, an organized effort from the Globalists.

Posted by: MrExcitement at May 22, 2026 08:57 AM (ovdkm)

203 The troll barfed out something he swallowed at the glory hole

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 08:57 AM (gu0hJ)

204
TRUMP DID NOT WIN THOSE SWING STATES.

TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON!

Posted by: Mortimer Duke at May 22, 2026 08:58 AM (gtcuf)

205 Yep. The same with dispersing the agencies across the US. Little reason to keep them in DC anymore.
Posted by: whig

You can't possibly want to burden lobbyists with the chore of travelling state to state to stuff money into federal legislators' pockets!

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 08:58 AM (Y8DZL)

206 201 Trump knew he would face prison time because he had ZERO chance of beating Harris. He solicited the help of Musk to facilitate malware on the tabulators that changed the outcome of the votes.

TRUMP DID NOT WIN THOSE SWING STATES.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 08:57 AM (RHGPo)

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What changes were introduced to the voting machines between 2020 and 2024 that made them possible to hack?

Because I've been told that the very idea that the 2020 machines were at all inaccurate is insurrection.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 08:59 AM (46HP8)

207 @183 more from NYPost -
The other good Samaritan was shot directly in the head and suffered a catastrophic injury described in court records as "incompatible with life"

Truly Horrible.

(but congrats(?) on the euphemism.)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 22, 2026 08:59 AM (Dv3i1)

208 200 Excelllent summary. And yet, those GOPe are stuck, they cannot publicly denounce Trump much or risk being defeated but their donors, staffers, and political support apparatus demand that they don't help him. Something is gonna give.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 08:57 AM (E4rtv)

More than likely, the Donor Class goes native and just starts donating directly to Demoncrats instead of The Gope.

Posted by: XTC at May 22, 2026 08:59 AM (iXqHn)

209 184 JJ, I really wish you’d retire that fat-chick-in-leather-with-someone-else’s-head meme.
Posted by: Bulg

You're the biggest Boob Fan on this board. Why would you say such a thing?

Posted by: Wilson's House Of Suede and Leather at May 22, 2026 08:59 AM (oftw2)

210 Troll is an expert in Oedipus complex. Wonder why.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 09:00 AM (RIvkX)

211 There is a civil war breaking out in the Senate.

The GOPe, still has the power of leadership, are unable to protect their loyal members.
They're demanding the leaders do more to protect them.
In their minds, that means opposing Trump more.

Meanwhile, there are those actually have to win their seats who see Trump isn't going away, conservatives aren't "voting for the lesser evil" aka the Rove Plan and are demanding the leaders start delivering on Trump's priorities.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2026 08:54 AM (73/SM)
******
They all better confirm his judge nominees or there will be hell to pay.
Primary everyone who doesn't.
Tillis and Cassidy are vindictive little bitches and if Cornyn loses he may be too.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 22, 2026 09:00 AM (NpAcC)

212 Paul comes from this town
youtu.be/MkclS4415Kw

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 09:01 AM (gKWVE)

213 Why I find absurd is that anyone would listen to Kagan, the clown behind decades of disastrous military adventures in the Middle East not to mention being the husband of Victoria Nuland, possibly the most corrupt and most destructive POS ever in ur foreign policy establishment. One of the architects of the disaster in Ukraine.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I am willing to trust Trump on this one rather than his critics. Trump is after the enriched uranium because for the sake of the world, he has to win on that but he is not willing to put troops into a meat grinder to get it.

The critical bit is that these oil wells are in fact in danger if Iran shuts them down yet there is not enough storage anymore to keep them pumping. That means permanently damaging the Iranian state's ability to raise funds getting worse as time goes on.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 09:01 AM (E4rtv)

214 I am rather surprised at how many young people walk around the campus and town of the local institution of higher learning glued to their cell phone. They cross the busy intersection looking at their cell phones. They may overlook the beauty of the campus gardens because they are looking at their cell phones. They probably miss the cute , friendly dog ( Portuguese Water Dog) sitting with its owner outside the coffee shop. For all I know they may bump into people because they're looking at their cell phones. I am glad I grew up before cell phones. I have one witn me in my purse or pocket but I don't take it out unless it rings or I have to call somebody.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 09:01 AM (n3VHW)

215 I learned the hard way that House Of Leather was not going to be the place to find my new sofa.

Posted by: It was awkward at May 22, 2026 09:01 AM (2Ez/1)

216 There was a line at the Porta Potty, so I'm late. What on Earth are people doing in there?

Posted by: Holding It at May 22, 2026 09:01 AM (oftw2)

217 "Diiorio allegedly referred to Spruill and other black people as 'you people' in the argument."

At least he didn't say the Wakandan Holy Word.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 22, 2026 09:02 AM (RjOoY)

218 I coulda swore the link stated “NPR handinng out bayonets to staff…”

Posted by: epador at May 22, 2026 09:02 AM (/SscP)

219 Wet Leg is the dumbest band name since Bent Knee. What's next, Broken Ankle?

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 08:48 AM (gtcuf)

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Wet Leg is a big fave of The Ewok.

They're pretty good for a 5th Generation Punky/New Wave Girly Band. I have a couple of their songs on the iPhone.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 22, 2026 09:02 AM (iJfKG)

220 209 Not a fan of Thune’s boobs.

Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 09:03 AM (77rzZ)

221 Do I understand this correctly? Does Virginia delegate Dan Helmer want to go into the insurance business with Peter Strock? (sp?)

Posted by: Fenderbender at May 22, 2026 09:03 AM (1FEc1)

222 211 They all better confirm his judge nominees or there will be hell to pay.
Primary everyone who doesn't.
Tillis and Cassidy are vindictive little bitches and if Cornyn loses he may be too.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 22, 2026 09:00 AM (NpAcC)

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10 of the current crop (including Mitch, Tillis, Cornyn, Ernst, and Cassidy) will be gone in 2027, and the GOP is not going to lose the Senate (they'd have to lose deep red seats like...Ohio...and Texas...not going to happen).

If the GOP holds onto the House (I'm doubtful, but it could happen), the 120th Congress will be much more proactive in pushing Trump's policies through legislation than the 119th.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 09:03 AM (46HP8)

223 FenelonSpoke

As I would pull up to the High School in 12 tons of Yellow Honking Death, the students would walk in front of their bus. They put their lives in my hands. Fortunately, I had good reflexes. But this behavior is anti-survival in a low trust society.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 09:03 AM (u82oZ)

224 145 Robert Kagan, the husband of that great stateswoman, Victoria nuland. No agenda there.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 22, 2026 08:41 AM (5P5DO)

One of the many problems of bad policy is that it allows your enemies, even if they are loathsome people, to score easy points by saying the obvious.
Trump has up til now been very good at not putting himself in this position, and he can get out of it if he’ll act.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2026 09:04 AM (NyxOA)

225
I saw Wet Leg open for Wet Willie at Aquaworld Cancun in 2024.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 22, 2026 09:04 AM (iJfKG)

226 > There is a civil war breaking out in the Senate.
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The legacy Senate, the ones who collect the lion's share of the grift, are afraid they'll be out of office and unable to maintain their stature, and standard of living unless they oppose legislation that would, you know, prohibit exactly what they're doing now.

It has nothing to do with actual "legislation." It has everything to do with eliminating the grift. That's what the GOPe in the Senate are opposing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 09:04 AM (jehhT)

227 Scoop: John Fetterman's chief of staff resigned Wednesday, a source familiar with the move told us.

Fetterman has had a serious staff retention problem as he's faced scrutiny over his health struggles and changing political brand.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 09:04 AM (RHGPo)

228 216 There was a line at the Porta Potty, so I'm late. What on Earth are people doing in there?
Posted by: Holding It at May 22, 2026 09:01 AM
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Inorite?
Don't they have a Zoom call or a Ficus?

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at May 22, 2026 09:04 AM (2Ez/1)

229 Speaking of punky girly bands, I just realized yesterday that The Donnas are in their late 40s.

Oof. That made me feel old.

Posted by: Mortimer Duke at May 22, 2026 09:05 AM (gtcuf)

230 Wet Leg is a big fave of The Ewok.

They're pretty good for a 5th Generation Punky/New Wave Girly Band. I have a couple of their songs on the iPhone.
______

Pics of lead singer Rhian Teasdale run the gamut from smoking hot to British.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 22, 2026 09:05 AM (Dv3i1)

231
That being said...

Babymetal >>>> Wet Leg




Just sayin'

Posted by: naturalfake at May 22, 2026 09:05 AM (iJfKG)

232 216 There was a line at the Porta Potty, so I'm late. What on Earth are people doing in there?
Posted by: Holding It

You do not want to know.

Posted by: That guy who always says at May 22, 2026 09:06 AM (31e/z)

233 227 Scoop: John Fetterman's chief of staff resigned Wednesday, a source familiar with the move told us.

Fetterman has had a serious staff retention problem as he's faced scrutiny over his health struggles and changing political brand.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 09:04 AM (RHGPo)

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I can't wait until he's gone.

Shit vote against us on everything.

Plus, presidential election year, 4 years of deportations, and the DOJ's cleanup efforts on voter rolls could mean a Republican replaces him. I'd rather have another Mitch in that seat, who votes for judicial nominees, than Fetterman, who votes against all of them (except 1, literally, only one vote for a Trump judicial nominee).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 09:06 AM (46HP8)

234 And the taxpayer have to pay, instead of the shitty school officials.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 22, 2026 09:06 AM (qFwJc)

235 More than likely, the Donor Class goes native and just starts donating directly to Demoncrats instead of The Gope.
Posted by: XTC

Don't know about that. Most of those types are cynical assholes that pay to play--the industries (mainly subsidized) by the Democrats will continue to donate, the productive industries will tend toward GOP because the Dems are anti business generally.

Lobbyists for the most part are stone cold assholes--they don't care who is in power but they must get their employer's legislative business in play regardless of personal feelings. And Trump has shown, he is the biggest and baddest mfer in DC and not to be trifled with. He is currently sitting on 350 billion buck warchest and runs the RNC. And corporations are willingly spending money on ballrooms, restoring DC fountains, etc. to buy favor and protection.

It is best to think of DC as a Mafia town with a lot of rival 'families' of criminal gangs and Don as the boss of bosses.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 09:06 AM (E4rtv)

236 235 It is best to think of DC as a Mafia town with a lot of rival 'families' of criminal gangs and Don as the boss of bosses.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 09:06 AM (E4rtv)

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My favorite gangster movie is Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 09:07 AM (46HP8)

237 TGIF, all!!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 09:07 AM (X8xt3)

238 Looking at your phone while walking outside should be illegal. A ticketable offense.

Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 09:07 AM (77rzZ)

239 I like listening to retired General Keane, but he's affiliated with the Kagan 's through the Institute for the Study of War. Anything that even smells of Victoria Nuland should be avoided like the plague

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 09:07 AM (gu0hJ)

240 197 ...
He claims that because of the lack of internet or real media coverage a lot of what is going on in Iran is based on regime leaks or assumptions and not fact. His claim is that there are lots of cracks and fractures in the regimes control and they are being exploited during the negotiations. Sounds at least plausible.
...
Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 08:56 AM (viF8m)



I heard that about "cracks and fractures". How can it NOT be true? You have a situation where the top leadership routinely gets wiped out from bombing! The ones REALLY in control are gone, and everyone else is wondering who's going to stab them in the back to try to either seize power or to sell out to the Americans to save their hides.

That's another thing about the negotiations (and maybe it's really the same thing you're saying). Trump talks of working with moderate insiders, but the Iranians don't seem to know who they are. It could be that they don't really exist, but that Trump says those things to stoke the paranoia they must be having towards each other.

Only a fool would take what Trump says about this stuff at face value. It's Sun Tzu - THANK GOD!

Posted by: MrExcitement at May 22, 2026 09:07 AM (ovdkm)

241 Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 09:03

I am glad you have quick reflexes, Salty, and sorry that the students were so clueless.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 09:08 AM (n3VHW)

242 {{{Lizzy}}}

Huzzah! It's Friday.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 09:08 AM (u82oZ)

243 240
Only a fool would take what Trump says about this stuff at face value. It's Sun Tzu - THANK GOD!

Posted by: MrExcitement at May 22, 2026 09:07 AM (ovdkm)

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The language of diplomacy, especially public language on diplomacy, is materially different from the language of politics or war.

And so many people seem to not realize it. It's weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 09:08 AM (46HP8)

244 I ride my bike about 50 miles a week through quiet neighborhoods. Almost no girl over the age of ten descends the school bus steps without staring at her cell phone. This generation will develop T-Rex arms from this. Boys do it too, but not as much as girls.

Posted by: You Can Observe A Lot Just By Watching at May 22, 2026 09:09 AM (oftw2)

245 Mayor Karen Bass Says L.A. Should Consider Letting Non-Citizens Vote

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Keep LA Dirty and Burning!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 22, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)

246 Why I find absurd is that anyone would listen to Kagan, the clown behind decades of disastrous military adventures in the Middle East not to mention being the husband of Victoria Nuland, possibly the most corrupt and most destructive POS ever in ur foreign policy establishment. One of the architects of the disaster in Ukraine.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I am willing to trust Trump on this one rather than his critics. Trump is after the enriched uranium because for the sake of the world, he has to win on that but he is not willing to put troops into a meat grinder to get it.

The critical bit is that these oil wells are in fact in danger if Iran shuts them down yet there is not enough storage anymore to keep them pumping. That means permanently damaging the Iranian state's ability to raise funds getting worse as time goes on.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 09:01 AM (E4rtv)

I agree with you both, but at the same time I don’t see how we can win a waiting game. Iran wins by not losing no matter how much damage to their country. Trump leaves office in 2.5 years; I could see them waiting it out that long. At some point, Trump has to take some decisive action I would think

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2026 09:09 AM (+gA9j)

247 FenelonSpoke

Over 5 years, it got worse every year. They are sure trusting of others.

Hope FenelonSpouse is almost done for the year.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 09:10 AM (u82oZ)

248 238 Looking at your phone while walking outside should be illegal. A ticketable offense.
Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 09:07 AM (77rzZ)

Not cruel enough.

A roof mounted sniper puts a hollow-point directly through their eye socket.

Posted by: XTC at May 22, 2026 09:10 AM (uEmCf)

249 Trump made the Country Club Republicans and the unwashed MAGA masses get along in order to win and ostensibly make America First.
Now the country club contingent has taken its ball and gone home to sulk. They like winning the titles and power part but delivering on America First….who EVER believed they cared about US(A)?

Posted by: Voter theater. at May 22, 2026 09:10 AM (FCPbW)

250 >>The critical bit is that these oil wells are in fact in danger if Iran shuts them down yet there is not enough storage anymore to keep them pumping. That means permanently damaging the Iranian state's ability to raise funds getting worse as time goes on.

The common narrative about Trump is that he is a deal maker. I think a lot of people make the mistake of thinking that means he will make a deal no matter the cost.

If history is any guide, and it is, Trump makes deals where Trump wins or he finds a way to destroy his opponent. See Massie, Thomas.

Trump knows exactly what is happening in Iran, much more than we do because he is probably getting daily if not hourly updates from those pesky Jews who have been on the ground in Iran for years. He also knows what the mullahs are all about and he also knows the geopolitical issues that surround Iran including the ME and China.

If he hasn't earned his supporters trust by now I don't know what to tell them.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 09:10 AM (viF8m)

251 >>> There is a civil war breaking out in the Senate.

Good?

When they get along they do terrible things.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 09:10 AM (X8xt3)

252 What's with this so-called autopsy of the Democrats loss in 2024? I was told that Kamala Harris ran the best and perfect presidential campaign ever.

Posted by: dantesed at May 22, 2026 09:11 AM (Oy/m2)

253 248 A roof mounted sniper puts a hollow-point directly through their eye socket.

Also my wish-prescription for anyone walking around outside wearing a mask.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 09:11 AM (gtcuf)

254 Mayor Karen Bass Says L.A. Should Consider Letting Non-Citizens Vote


KAREN BASS

Forget 3rd World! We Can Take This Bitch All The Way To 4th World!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 22, 2026 09:11 AM (iJfKG)

255 Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
Democrats are giving Trump sh*t for not *publicly* committing to attend Don Jr.’s wedding in a FOREIGN COUNTRY

Ilhan Omar called him the “worst parent in the world.”

Question for @Ilhan
: did your parents attend your wedding when you married your brother?

Also, if 47, DID go, they’d be whining on TV about it all day.

Not to mention they’d try to kiII him while he’s there.

We’re dealing with some truly horrible people.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 09:12 AM (RHGPo)

256 Time to start the day's attempt to control the idiocy. Have a good one.

Posted by: clarence at May 22, 2026 09:12 AM (31e/z)

257 253 Also my wish-prescription for anyone walking around outside wearing a mask.
Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 09:11 AM (gtcuf)

Not going along with this one because it would put too many Japanese at risk.

Posted by: XTC at May 22, 2026 09:12 AM (uEmCf)

258 246 I agree with you both, but at the same time I don’t see how we can win a waiting game. Iran wins by not losing no matter how much damage to their country. Trump leaves office in 2.5 years; I could see them waiting it out that long. At some point, Trump has to take some decisive action I would think

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2026 09:09 AM (+gA9j)

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They're already dealing with gas shortages in country (they have no refining capacity). They're losing $450 million per day on lost trade (the Caspian Sea and Pakistani railroads account for roughly 1% of the trade they got from Persian and Oman Gulf ports). Reports of the IRGC and the Iranian army fighting. Guerilla attacks in the country against IRGC and Basij commanders. The in-country inflation at about 30% a week. Black market turning to bartering. UAE directly attacking targets in Iran.

2.5 years of this is...a long time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 09:12 AM (46HP8)

259
Mayor Karen Bass Says L.A. Should Consider Letting Non-Citizens Vote

Kick t

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 22, 2026 09:12 AM (ixS3i)

260 Babymetal >>>> Wet Leg

Saw a snippet of a video yesterday where Keanu Reeves was talking about how awesome Babymetal is. I'm going to see them live in September.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 09:12 AM (ExV1e)

261 XTC

Using directed EMP to brick the phone would hurt them more.

So much of teen life revolved around that phone.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 09:13 AM (u82oZ)

262 10 of the current crop (including Mitch, Tillis, Cornyn, Ernst, and Cassidy) will be gone in 2027, and the GOP is not going to lose the Senate (they'd have to lose deep red seats like...Ohio...and Texas...not going to happen).

If the GOP holds onto the House (I'm doubtful, but it could happen), the 120th Congress will be much more proactive in pushing Trump's policies through legislation than the 119th.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 09:03 AM (46HP
********
I'd like to think that these senators would think twice about not confirming Trump's judges.
If they don't, they are finished as a Republican and might as well just become a Democrat.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 22, 2026 09:14 AM (NpAcC)

263 Not mentioned in the Breitbart article, when Jared Polis commuted Tina Peters' sentence on May 15, he also pardoned 37 prisoners and commuted 8 others besides Peters. Two men who had their sentences commuted were serving life without parole for first degree murder.

Nary a peep from the outraged democrats about those, though.

https://tinyurl.com/y7sd8td6

Posted by: muldoon at May 22, 2026 09:14 AM (qgHp7)

264 Trump has just released a whole bunch of declassified UFO stuff including videos. All over X.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 09:14 AM (viF8m)

265 >>Mayor Karen Bass Says L.A. Should Consider Letting Non-Citizens Vote


Is anyone surprised?

They don't want any of us anymore, they only want to rule over poor foreigners who are grateful for the scraps they deem to give them.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 09:15 AM (X8xt3)

266 (u82oZ)

248 238 Looking at your phone while walking outside should be illegal. A ticketable offense.
Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 09:07 AM (77rzZ)

Not cruel enough.

A roof mounted sniper puts a hollow-point directly through their eye socket.
Posted by: XTC

Go through much ammo at Walmart.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 22, 2026 09:15 AM (orHDq)

267 X-
@DVanLangenhove
Mohamed Bakkali, the logistical brain behind the Paris and Bataclan attacks that killed 129 and wounded hundreds more, is allowed penitentiary leave by the Brussels court.

If Bakkali continues his “calm and good behaviour” according to the court, he could soon be freed indefinitely.
___

Hopefully, while on one of his leaves, he gets his due justice in this world before painfully passing to the next.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 22, 2026 09:15 AM (Dv3i1)

268 Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 09:10 AM (u82oZ)

Thanks I think he's done about the 20 or so of June. Whatever that Friday is. It was pretty brutal the past couple of days with no air conditioning in the bus and the temp 95 . I went to the senior center for Bible study this past Tuesday and I said "I am thankful to God for modern conveniences like air conditioning". They agreed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 09:15 AM (AphQx)

269 If he hasn't earned his supporters trust by now I don't know what to tell them.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 09:10 AM (viF8m)

I like him, but he is still a man, capable of mistakes, and not a god.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2026 09:16 AM (NyxOA)

270 If the GOP holds onto the House (I'm doubtful, but it could happen), the 120th Congress will be much more proactive in pushing Trump's policies through legislation than the 119th.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

6th years of presidencies and House elections are weird. You usually do not see big losses or gains if the previous election was not a wave election. 2024 was not a legislative wave election nor was 2022 much.

Too many analysts throw in second presidential mid terms in with first term. First presidential term midterms are usually awful. Disenchantment with the policies of a new president, opposing party if a wave exists taking back marginal seats, and so on. Sometimes there is a drubbing but usually over really bad issues--1938 was FDR's dip back into a major recession plus 1936 was a wave election. 1974 was Watergate and hapless Ford. But 1958 was okay for Ike, 1986 was not terrible for Reagan though he lost the Senate, and 1998 was good for Clinton gaining seats.

Senate is more dependent on whose seats are up and good candidates, the House is more attuned to national conditions at the time of election.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 09:17 AM (E4rtv)

271 262 I'd like to think that these senators would think twice about not confirming Trump's judges.
If they don't, they are finished as a Republican and might as well just become a Democrat.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 22, 2026 09:14 AM (NpAcC)

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Letting judicial nominations die through process is not going to be the political death sentence of any GOP senator.

And Trump won't be able to successfully target a dozen senators in 2028.

Still, the threat is there and replacing someone like Mitch with Andy Barr will push things along.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 09:17 AM (46HP8)

272 266 Go through much ammo at Walmart.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 22, 2026 09:15 AM (orHDq)

I'm imagining the Snipers to be white-suit-and-tie consummate professional Golgo 13 types. Not so much good ol' boys.

Posted by: XTC at May 22, 2026 09:17 AM (uEmCf)

273 216 There was a line at the Porta Potty, so I'm late. What on Earth are people doing in there?
Posted by: Holding It

You do not want to know.
Posted by: That guy who always says at May 22, 2026 09:06 AM (31e/z)
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The really need to put a sign on them:

"When the Porta-Potty's a-thumpin', don't come a-dumpin'"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 09:17 AM (gnNyN)

274 FenelonSpoke

We are done for the year. But we start mid August.

That little fan never seems to be enough. I used the driver window cracked and the opposite side last window cracked, with the roof hatches popped in the rear of the housing, to get air flow.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 09:18 AM (u82oZ)

275 270 Senate is more dependent on whose seats are up and good candidates, the House is more attuned to national conditions at the time of election.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 09:17 AM (E4rtv)

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Gerrymandering from 2020 has made the list of vulnerable seats about 30, at max.

The redistricting wars of this year have halfed that.

Median seat is now something like Trump 5.6 (from 2024). I think it's one of the Iowa districts.

Waves simply aren't possible with the current map.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 09:18 AM (46HP8)

276 Still think the Republicans will hold both houses of Congress because of the craziness that is coming this summer. The blue cities will be horrible and the independents will react accordingly.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 09:19 AM (gu0hJ)

277 >>Two men who had their sentences commuted were serving life without parole for first degree murder.


Ah! Knew there was a gut punch somewhere with the Tina Peters release, that there as something he as hiding.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 09:19 AM (X8xt3)

278 276 Still think the Republicans will hold both houses of Congress because of the craziness that is coming this summer. The blue cities will be horrible and the independents will react accordingly.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 09:19 AM (gu0hJ)

Eh. The Demoncrat hostage-taking usually works. Instead of disgusting the voters into voting GOP, they instead say "If we vote for the Democrats, will you stop rioting?"

Posted by: XTC at May 22, 2026 09:21 AM (uEmCf)

279 Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 09:18 AM (u82oZ

Yes, I thought Kansas started and ended earlier because of the heat.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 09:21 AM (OYsYV)

280 > Still, the threat is there and replacing someone like Mitch with Andy Barr will push things along.
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He might replace the guy, but not his pull in the Senate. And McConnell passed that halo off two years ago.

But your point is taken.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 09:21 AM (jehhT)

281 278 Eh. The Demoncrat hostage-taking usually works. Instead of disgusting the voters into voting GOP, they instead say "If we vote for the Democrats, will you stop rioting?"

Posted by: XTC at May 22, 2026 09:21 AM (uEmCf)

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It worked so well in 2020 that they shut down ballot counting in six states in the middle of the night and ballot box stuffed like Tammany Hall to barely get Biden an electoral college victory.

The late 60s showed Democrats steadily losing power because of the race riots.

2020 is the exception to the rule...and it's got a weird asterisk.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 09:22 AM (46HP8)

282 I use AI regularly as my job.

It has made me more effective.

Will they replace me with it? Well...it also does dumb things so you need to check it. And someone has to tell it what to do just to start with - and that's not going to be some VP or something like that.

So what will the mid term let alone long term effects be? Hard to say.

But at least right now I'm more worried about globo corps replacing Americans with H1Bs.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 09:22 AM (sKqQm)

283 >>I like him, but he is still a man, capable of mistakes, and not a god.

Of course he is. On the other hand just because some don't agree with his strategy it doesn't make him wrong.

His record of success in foreign affairs so far going back to his first term where he wiped out ISIS in a minute after the experts said it was impossible has given him a long leash in my opinion. And his team both civilian and military is so far above his predecessors I have confidence they have a realistic plan to achieve the goals they laid out.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 09:22 AM (viF8m)

284 FenelonSpoke

114℉ on a bus in August. AC is not installed, and if added, would be ineffectual.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 09:23 AM (u82oZ)

285 >>I'd like to think that these senators would think twice about not confirming Trump's judges.


They have an amount of arrogance that is hard to comprehend. THEY are the critical leaders in government, not some %$#@ who was elected to come to DC for 4 years.

They value their fellow Senators more than their constituents. They sure as heck don't want to hear from us, or God forbid, have to explain why they are doing what they're doing (you wouldn't understand). Just looking at how many die in office, they truly believe that the country would cease to function if we were deprived on just one minute of their "public service."

They have made it clear that they owe nothing to Trump, nor feel any need to do anything he wants.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 09:23 AM (X8xt3)

286 It worked so well in 2020 that they shut down ballot counting in six states in the middle of the night and ballot box stuffed like Tammany Hall to barely get Biden an electoral college victory.

When we all went to bed and "the counting was stopped", Trump looked like a winner as he was up in all the battleground states.

So...I assume that's what the vote looked like with normal Dem vote fraud.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 09:23 AM (sKqQm)

287 280 > Still, the threat is there and replacing someone like Mitch with Andy Barr will push things along.
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He might replace the guy, but not his pull in the Senate. And McConnell passed that halo off two years ago.

But your point is taken.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 09:21 AM (jehhT)

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That's definitely part of it. The machine that Mitch maintained in the Senate still exists, but loyalists are leaving in a drove this year alone.

Imagine Tillis being replaced by Whatley (fingers crossed those registration gains for the GOP in NC pan out...last time Cooper won statewide there were 400,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans, there are now 10,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats).

We'll get some other asshole who tries to hold things up (new Utah senator seems ground zero), but that guy has no pull himself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 09:24 AM (46HP8)

288 Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 09:23

Wow .That is quite some temperature!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 09:24 AM (n3VHW)

289 If he hasn't earned his supporters trust by now I don't know what to tell them.
Posted by: JackStraw

I think the worry for some is over how high gas prices will affect the GOP in 2026 midterms.

For shitheads like Kagan, they want US boots on the ground for regime change which is absolutely stupid.

For the uranium, going in and taking it is akin to a trap for US forces. We are very good at force projection but that facility is in the middle of Iran and would take a lot of time to retrieve. Meanwhile it would allow the Iranians to surge toward the US trapped forces there. Something like Anzio in WWII or Bastogne. High casualties are likely.

There is a limit as to what we are willing to do and Trump is not going to send troops ashore just to invade Iran--he just isn't nor should we expect that. The air campaign is holding off but can be resumed immediately but aimed at what targets?

The economic war is grinding down the regime despite being slow and mostly out of sight. And we forget one thing, we are producing the high priced oil for our country, not sending money abroad to buy it this go around. Not true of previous Middle East crises. The money is staying here.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 09:24 AM (E4rtv)

290 286 When we all went to bed and "the counting was stopped", Trump looked like a winner as he was up in all the battleground states.

So...I assume that's what the vote looked like with normal Dem vote fraud.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 09:23 AM (sKqQm)

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That was after months of mail in ballot fraud, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 09:25 AM (46HP8)

291 2.5 years of this is...a long time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 09:12 AM (46HP

You’re probably right. I just have a predilection for extreme impatience. It’s clear the mullahs (or IRCG… whoever’s in charge now) are employing the wait-it-out strategy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2026 09:26 AM (+gA9j)

292 291 You’re probably right. I just have a predilection for extreme impatience. It’s clear the mullahs (or IRCG… whoever’s in charge now) are employing the wait-it-out strategy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2026 09:26 AM (+gA9j)

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We still have three carrier groups in the region.

And every day that the IRGC tries to act like it can control the strait is another day that the Gulf States decide to do another pipeline. UAE started a new pipeline at the start of April.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 09:27 AM (46HP8)

293 I thought this was America! Or, at least, Florida!

https://tinyurl.com/3pzs3bsf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 22, 2026 09:27 AM (ndZc7)

294 It is best to think of DC as a Mafia town with a lot of rival 'families' of criminal gangs and Don as the boss of bosses.

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I've been saying Trump needs to do a "Jefe de Jefes" video; locking the border, chasing RINOs and Dems with a bat, etc.

Maybe the Pratt people can do that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2026 09:28 AM (73/SM)

295 TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

Two USN Carrier Battle groups only. Unless we add the French. The USAF is ready to go as well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 09:29 AM (u82oZ)

296 293 I thought this was America! Or, at least, Florida!

https://tinyurl.com/3pzs3bsf
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

What was he arrested for? Hopefully the alligator declines to press charges.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 22, 2026 09:29 AM (Dv3i1)

297 You’re probably right. I just have a predilection for extreme impatience. It’s clear the mullahs (or IRCG… whoever’s in charge now) are employing the wait-it-out strategy
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2026 09:26 AM (+gA9j)
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It's about the only strategy that has a chance of success. Unfortunately, it's also one that's very nearly guaranteed to work.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 09:29 AM (gnNyN)

298 We went to direct election of Senator because of corrupt back room deals with state pols, but...this has been worse.

In fairness to the people that made this change the notion there would be so much voter fraud and so many voters that don't pay attention to who they are voting for would have seemed insane.

And on this last point the data is stunning...for example 10-15% of Dem voters believe the Dem party is pro-life. Now imagine you could force those people to sit and watch Dem speeches on abortion Clockwork Orange style. No I don't think that means the Dems lose 10-15% of their vote...but maybe they lose 2%.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 09:29 AM (sKqQm)

299 Unfortunately Tillis will be replaced by Mike Whatley who apparently thinks the most important thing is to "end partisan gridlock".

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 22, 2026 09:31 AM (Vh9CX)

300 NOOD art

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 09:31 AM (gtcuf)

301 299 Unfortunately Tillis will be replaced by Mike Whatley who apparently thinks the most important thing is to "end partisan gridlock".

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 22, 2026 09:31 AM (Vh9CX)

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Whatley is the guy who made the RNC fight in 2024 and won the election for Trump.

But you just go off his commercials. That's all that really makes him a politician.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 09:31 AM (46HP8)

302 Eh. The Demoncrat hostage-taking usually works. Instead of disgusting the voters into voting GOP, they instead say "If we vote for the Democrats, will you stop rioting?"
Posted by: XTC
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Historically, it usually fails. Same for terrorism and political violence generally and this is across countries. Violence tends to keep the government in power that combats it, not the ones that promote it.

One of my old profs was one the big names in that particular area and it is why that violent political movements, if they don't pull off an immediate victory, end up returning to the political process as a party. Sein Fein is an example. So is the party Petro represents in Colombia. And elsewhere.

And the 1964 election put LBJ in charge with large majorities despite the GOP having nothing to do with JFK's assassination. Nixon won a landslide in 1972, in part, because violent student activists, etc. put Americans off on voting D. Even a lot of Democrats ended up voting for Tricky Dick.

GOP is the law and order party, Democrats cannot claim that as they try to move toward defunding cops, etc.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 09:31 AM (E4rtv)

303 I've been saying Trump needs to do a "Jefe de Jefes" video; locking the border, chasing RINOs and Dems with a bat, etc.

Maybe the Pratt people can do that.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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The scene in the Untouchables with the baseball bat comes to mind.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 09:33 AM (E4rtv)

304 And thank you, J.J.

From above, "He and his party led by Malig-Nancy Pelosi either directly engineered and orchestrated the events of 1/6 or else created the conditions and fiction that Trump was inciting an insurrection when it was in fact an entrapment sting to create that pretext and illusion to oppress and suppress the enemies of the Left and Deep State. And GOP confederates like Fitzpatrick et al are equally guilty of perpetuating the corrupt status quo regardless of the consequences to the American people and Republic.

Looking back at Charlottesville, imagine the run January 6th is gonna have!

For example, Harry Dunn (among many others) with his harrowing testimony and Written Statement of Harry A. Dunn, Private First Class U.S. Capitol Police, Hearing Before the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, U.S. House of Representatives January 27, 2021.

Harry's still going strong.

Msm also solidly tied Carlson and Fuentes to "America First."

And someday soon there could be a real statue on the National Mall of Nancy Pelosi & her photographer daughter, Alexandra, to commemorate it.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 22, 2026 09:36 AM (NFX2v)

305 The Resolute Desk (sculpture) "artwork" allegedly depicting Pelosi's office desk as a result of 01/06 was only briefly installed on the National Mall, fall 2024. (Wikipedia) A future statue of the ladies could be George Floyd level!

(Jk/I got it; don't give them any ideas.)

Barney Frank's warning? BS attention grabbing for a book because the Democrats ARE washed up & thanks to the rinos, the Rs aren't far behind, imo.

👉There are over 400 congressional caucuses in the U.S. Congress. (When do they work for us??) The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) currently consists of 101 members.

This total includes 100 representatives in the U.S. House and 1 U.S. Senator (Bernie Sanders), making it the largest membership organization within the House Democratic Caucus.
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Wherever you area, hope Memorial Day 2026 is still a strong National Holiday honoring U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces vs. being just the "official start of summer."
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Good weekend! 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 22, 2026 09:36 AM (NFX2v)

306
Whatley is the guy who made the RNC fight in 2024 and won the election for Trump.

But you just go off his commercials. That's all that really makes him a politician.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 09:31 AM (46HP

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I think it was less Whatley and more Lara Trump that got the RNC running in 2024.

Listen, Whatley is telling us what he is going to do, work with the Democrats. Don't be suprised when he does that. At the very least his campaign is generic consultant class GOPe. No reason to suspect he will be any different in office.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 22, 2026 09:37 AM (Vh9CX)

307 What does Europe have that is important to the USA?

I really can’t think of anything. We saved their asses three times in the twentieth century from themselves. They didn’t say thank you. No they complained and demanded more. Fuck them.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 22, 2026 09:37 AM (xvV+O)

308 306 I think it was less Whatley and more Lara Trump that got the RNC running in 2024.

Listen, Whatley is telling us what he is going to do, work with the Democrats. Don't be suprised when he does that. At the very least his campaign is generic consultant class GOPe. No reason to suspect he will be any different in office.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 22, 2026 09:37 AM (Vh9CX)

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It was absolutely Whatley.

He got the job because he was adamant that Democrats stole 2020.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 09:38 AM (46HP8)

309 You’re probably right. I just have a predilection for extreme impatience. It’s clear the mullahs (or IRCG… whoever’s in charge now) are employing the wait-it-out strategy
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

The mullahs have no other option really. Russia doesn't care about Iran as it is raking in high oil prices with Iran's absence. China is now getting oil from the US in part as an inducement to stop propping up the mullahs.

Iran has pissed off even its Gulf allies by launching missiles everywhere to the extent that their offshore money in Qatar, etc. is now frozen at best, and will be taken by host countries for damages at worst.

Trying to mine the Straits is a no go with USN there and their speedboat fleet can be shattered with an A-10 or copters with cheap cannon fire.

So they are like a guy trying to fight eviction--they cannot go out but nothing much is coming in, they got no money, and it doesn't matter that they have a gun if they are sitting in the darkness, power off, and no water. If they come out, they will be finished off. If they sit, they will likely go nuts and suicide.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 09:39 AM (E4rtv)

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