The Morning Report — 6/ 26 /26

Good morning kids. The scope of the disaster in Venezuela, in the wake of a devastating earthquake staggers the imagination.

Look at the despair and the sorrow of the people unable to rescue their injured loved ones from beneath the tons and tons of rubble, some of them calling out, dying, in homes transforming by the hour into tombs. . . There's no search and rescue, there's no ambulances, there's no hospitals, there's no fire trucks, and yes, fires are breaking out nightmarishly enough -- Venezuela's health care lies in ruins - nor is there an organized effort to dig out.
Socialism has well and truly taken over in that country, and as this leftish but still good essayist in the Caracas Chronicles notes, one of the effects is that the state has abandoned its basic functions of government. . .
Since at least 2022, the Venezuelan state has increasingly adopted a hands-off approach to governance. This shift, shaped by a post-socialist form of laissez-faire economic policy, reduced state control over large parts of the economy and contributed to a modest but visible revival in business activity. In many ways, the tate appeared to retreat from major areas of public administration while preserving absolute control over others, particularly the security apparatus and the machinery of censorship and political repression.

And yet the very system of government that resulted in making a natural disaster into a dystopian nightmare is seemingly on the march in New York City and perhaps across America as a whole.

Young urban voters across the country are flocking to the hip new politics of urban socialism.
Across urban America, the socialists are on a roll.
This week, all three democratic socialist candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their primaries for the U.S. House in deep blue New York City. You might be tempted to dismiss the latest victories on the grounds that New York City — which recently elected Mayor Zohran “Warmth of Collectivism” Mamdani — is America’s designated socialism containment zone. But the far-left’s momentum is by no means unique to The Empire State. Arguably more important are the democratic socialists’ victories in some of America’s other largest cities, representing a realignment where the urban, educated base of the Democratic Party increasingly sees the once-poisonous s-word in a candidate’s biography as a credential rather than a liability.

And yet, despite that, I give you this glimmer of hope.

Political scientist John Sides recently dropped a data-heavy report detailing a massive vibe shift that has left the professional panic-mongers utterly bewildered. For decades, the media smugly preached the gospel of the "inevitable liberal consensus." The theory was simple: as old conservatives died off, the enlightened youth would usher in a progressive utopia of gender-neutral communes and government-mandated weed dispensaries. It was a nice little fantasy for the faculty lounge, but the data shows it has officially crashed at high speed into the brick wall of reality. . .
. . . The beautiful irony in all of this is that the left’s aggressive push to colonize every corner of American life has utterly backfired. By turning every major institution—from universities to comic books to Fortune 500 companies—into a humorless, hyper-woke HR department, they did the unthinkable: they made conservatism cool again.

So, as we approach America's 250th birthday whither our future? Will the era of Donald Trump be merely a one-off last desperate gasp of the last remnants of the saner children of the Greatest Generation to stave off disaster or will it be the harbinger of American revival?

As Tina Turner sang it "Will our story shine like a light, or end in the dark?!"

With that I bid you,

Have a great weekend,

THE IRAN CONFLICT, "PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)

The attack casts further uncertainty on the stability of the recent agreement between the U.S. and Iran, which is aimed at ending the conflict. Specifically, the attack is likely to complicate the ongoing dispute over shipping routes. The U.S. wants to allow vessels to sail freely along the Omani coastline, while Iran is opposed, arguing that all vessels should seek permission before entering the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran Attacks Ship in Strait of Hormuz, Defying U.S. Deal.
Why?
Trump’s Deal: Rescuing Hezbollah
Obviously, the U.S. would never adopt the Soviet approach. However, what the Soviet’s response reveals is that in any negotiations with Iran, there can be no quarter.
Dealing With Islamic Extremism: How The Soviets Did It
Exploring its terms.
Prager U Video: A Deal With Iran
"U.S. forces remain present and vigilant throughout the region."
Iran Attacks Cargo Ship, Taunting U.S. Peace Deal

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The MSM loves to promote drama within the Donald Trump administration — even when there actually is none. The latest fixation is on the Vice President and the Secretary of State.
Marco's Mic Drop Moment: 'We Have No Drama, We Have No Games'
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Sammie Lee says she was leaving Whiskey J’s bar in Longview, Texas when she was attacked by a group of girls she had never met before, Fox News reported. Lee alleged that the crowd was angered by the verdict against Karmelo Anthony — the 19-year-old who was sentenced to 35 years in prison after being found guilty of murdering Austin Metcalf in a fatal stabbing at a high school track meet.
Mob Shouting ‘Free Karmelo’ Violently Assaults ‘The Smallest White Girl They Could Find,’ She Claims
If convicted on all three arson charges, Rinderknecht could face up to 45 years in prison. In a summary of Rinderknecht’s answers during questioning, investigators wrote: “[Rinderknecht] responded that it would be out of resentment of the rich enjoying their money as ‘we’re basically being enslaved by them.'” This case could potentially represent another instance of far-left terrorism, comparable to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, allegedly carried out by Luigi Mangione.
Alleged Palisades Fire Arsonist Wanted to Punish ‘The Wealthy’ for ‘Destroying the World.’
The crisis we face today is existential. Too many Americans, both native-born and naturalized, have been taught to despise their country.
After 250 Years, Our American Republic Is Coming Apart
The rise of the Hate America crowd is not a bug; it's a feature
The Original Sin Behind The Anti-America Movement.
Chevalier, a convert to Islam, has called for the abolition of police, prisons and the country’s borders. She also co-founded Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a Muslim Brotherhood front group whose goals are the “full eradication of Western civilization” and the cultivation of “unrest and violence in America.” All three candidates made ending American support for Israel a centerpiece of their campaigns. All three used the “genocide” libel against the Jewish state. Chevalier has doubled down on the support she voiced for Hamas the day after the terrorist group led the attack against Israel on Oct. 7.
NYC’s black-red alliance of Islamism and ultra-leftism wants us to hate Israel and America
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
“Yes!! Supreme Court allowing deportation of Haitians to continue!!!” said a message from a local Facebook group, Stop the Influx into Springfield, Ohio.
Citizens in Springfield, Ohio Rejoice at Trump’s Haitian TPS Amnesty Win
Known as Mullin v. Alt Otro Lado, the case centers around a previously used border policy called “metering,” which involves U.S. immigration officials turning away asylum seekers before they reach the U.S.-Mexico border.
SCOTUS: No, Asylum Seekers Don’t ‘Arrive’ In America When They’re In Mexico
Hundreds of thousands of migrants will now "have to leave" the United States.
How Trump’s Big Day At SCOTUS Opens Door For Border Crackdown, Deportations
On Thursday, Judge Evelyn Padin, appointed to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in 2022 by Biden, dismissed the DOJ’s case against the cities of Newark, Hoboken, Jersey City, and Paterson for their sanctuary policies that shield illegal aliens from federal immigration law.
Biden-Appointed Judge Throws Out DOJ Lawsuit Against New Jersey Sanctuary Cities
. . .the arrests are part of the administration’s extensive immigration enforcement campaign, aimed at removing violent criminals from U.S. communities.
Trump Admin Announces Arrest of More Than 10,000 Suspected Gang Members
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
“The Trump Administration greatly improved the integrity of SNAP, but cooperation from the states remains vital to ensure that federal funds go only to eligible Americans,” said DOGE Chairman Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) “In Fiscal Year 2024, SNAP cost taxpayers $100 billion, despite a payment error rate of nearly 11 percent.”
House DOGE Committee Launches Investigation Into Blue States That Refused to Provide SNAP Data to USDA
Don't allow hyperbole to get in the way of facts – or accountability.
How Many People Did DOGE Really Kill?

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The unspoken assumption of the UK rape gang scandal: Muslims are at war with us.
Rape as a Weapon of War
Because the religion’s clearly stated rules are hostile to Western norms and our Constitution, Western governments fail their citizens by refusing to address it.
The Tenets Of Islam: License To Kill
The bioweaponds [sic] are doing exactly what they were imported to do, and that’s carry out European genocide.
Louis, a beautiful young French boy, lured to a construction site and stomped to death by migrants
Is he being honest about his prior statements?
Tucker Carlson Says He Used to Criticize Islam, but Now He Sees the Light
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
FIFA security staff at Los Angeles's SoFi stadium are caught on video confiscating an American fan's Star of David flag
Exclusive: FIFA Threatened with Lawsuit for Seizing Jewish Fan's Israeli Flag at World Cup Match While Permitting Palestinian and Iranian Flags
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Nunes and Patel never stopped working on exposing the Deep State’s efforts to destroy Trump, and we’re finally getting close to indictment territory.
The Mar-a-Lago Raid Was About Burying the Fake Russia ICA
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Race hustling commentator Joy Reid claims that, because of slavery that she nor anyone she knows experienced, black people don't celebrate the 4th of July. It's like they made her in a moron factory.
Joyless Reid Speaks For ALL Black People...Apparently
Embraces 'mustachioed villain' theory of American Founding while warning against it
New York Times Marks America’s 250th With Claim Revolutionary Cause was ‘Anti-Native Sentiment,’ Land Grab

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Grassley agreed to allow lower-profile executives to testify in their places at the hearing scheduled for July 28, Politico reported, citing five sources familiar with the events. In return, the White House said it would support the James T. Woods Act, a package that would combat online child exploitation.
Washington’s Special Rules For Tech Oligarchs Reportedly Let Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai Off Hook
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Iran has been avoiding U.S. sanctions by using Chinese yuan to sell its oil, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Tuesday. This avenue opened amid years of American leaders making it less desirable for China, Iran, and Russia to use the U.S. dollar.
How US Leaders’ Attempts To Dominate The World Are Weakening One Of Our Greatest Advantages
The price increases could set a precedent for other PC and tablet manufacturers. While Apple’s loyal customer base is expected to absorb the hikes without significant backlash, the broader tech industry may face challenges in maintaining affordability.
Apple Announces Huge Price Hikes, Citing Soaring Chip Costs.
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Blame Fedeal fuel economy standards for the rise in pedestrian deaths.
CAFE Kills, And Trump Is Doing Something About It
Ferrari expressed gratitude for Galliera’s contributions and stated that he had “decided to embark on a new chapter in his professional journey — a decision shared with the company some time ago.” The announcement notably made no reference to the recent launch of the Luce, Ferrari’s inaugural electric vehicle, which has generated massively negative attention when revealed in May.
EV Loser: Ferrari Marketing Chief Steps Down After Electric Car Fiasco
“The idea of somebody plowing up pasture to grow lentils is ludicrous.” – Henry Graham, Berkshire farmer
UK Govt Wants Cattle Farmers to Transition to Growing Oilseeds to Save the Climate.
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
We already know that Joe Biden tried to turn our border into a free-for-all and treated narcos with kid gloves, but now, we're learning it's even worse than we imagined. . . According to a new report out by the Associated Press, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) "permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and 2025." Essentially, the agency knowingly allowed the drug to hit U.S. communities, so it could focus on going after bigger fish.
Trump's Blowing Up Narcos. Biden Ignored Them — Now We're Learning Just How Bad It Was.
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
A defense of Western meritocracy against the academically destructive DEI incursion.
The Decline Of Academia
SECOND AMENDMENT
A Virginia court issued a preliminary injunction Thursday, halting a ban on the sale and transfer of modern semiautomatic firearms and securing a victory for pro-Second Amendment organizations.
Virginia Court Temporarily Blocks Abigail Spanberger’s Semi-Auto Gun Ban
Breitbart News reported that SCOTUS ruled 6-3 against a Hawaii gun control in Wolford, finding the limitations against licensed concealed carry on private property violated the 2nd and 14th Amendments.
Justices Barrett, Gorsuch, Thomas: Public Opinion Can’t Block Constitutional Gun Rights
Here are the best quotes from Justice Alito’s majority opinion in Wolford v. Lopez.
5 Killer Quotes From Alito’s Takedown Of Hawaii’s Illegal Gun Control Law
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and others vowed to oppose all floor action until the Senate passes the SAVE America Act. The chamber canceled rules votes scheduled for Wednesday afternoon and cannot proceed without these rules.
House Cancels Votes As GOP Holdouts Revolt Over Failure To Pass SAVE America Act
While the issue of voter fraud will always be subject to debate and scrutiny, Scanlon’s claim that voter ID would disenfranchise voters falls short when examining the facts. In Georgia, for instance, where similar laws were put into effect, voter turnout either went up or stayed relatively the same. During the 2022 midterms following several reforms, early voting actually tripled from 2018 and doubled from 2020, with black voters casting over 100,000 more early ballots than they did in 2018.
Fact Check: Democrat Mary Gay Scanlon Claims SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Half of Pennsylvania Voters (Translation: 50% of PA voters are foreigners and or dead and 100% Democrat - jjs)
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
The four-minute video. . . intersperses headlines and news-anchor segments about allegations and controversies surrounding Platner with clips of Democrat senators, representatives, governors, and candidates being pressed on whether they support him, whether he has the character to serve in the U.S. Senate, and whether they would campaign with him.
Exclusive — RNC Video Shows Democrats Squirming over Support for Graham Platner
The far-left Michigan Democrat expressed strong support for ex–cons to run for office so they could share their experience with 'a deeply broken system'
‘We Need Your Voice’: Abdul El-Sayed Urged Registered Sex Offender Debate Coach To Run for Office, Told Him ‘You Have Something Deep To Offer’
The Hyatt Hotels heir and Illinois governor once removed five toilets from his mansion to save hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes
James Talarico, Running for Senate as a Crusader Against Billionaires, Holds Big-Ticket Fundraiser With Billionaire Hyatt Heir JB Pritzker
Brown has accused his opponent of taking money from “Wall Street” and “billionaires,” declared “Workers > Wall Street,” said “Wall Street does not believe in the dignity of work,” and claimed, “We continue to see the power Wall Street has over the political system.”
Sherrod Brown-note Took Nearly $4.9M from Wall Street-Affiliated and Billionaire Donors While Railing Against Them
As socialist candidates surge in New York and New York City, it’s worth noting that one leader of New York City’s Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) chapter is the niece of Neville Roy Singham — a propagandist for the Chinese Communist Party and ardent supporter of Maoism and socialism.
NYC Socialist ‘Leader’ Is Billionaire CCP Propagandist’s Niece
POLITICS
Today's young conservatives have looked at the mandated chaos of modern progressivism and realized that the ultimate middle finger to the regime isn't self-destruction but self-mastery.
America's young conservatives are leading a counterrevolution
The Democrat Party hasn’t “fully recovered” since being “soundly defeated in 2024,” Slotkin, a Democrat , argued during an appearance on SiriusXM’s “Straight Shooter with Stephen A” – hinting that Schumer (D-NY) and Jeffries (D-NY) are to blame.
Senate Democrat suggests it may be time to replace Schumer and Jeffries: ‘Let others lead’
Democrats are getting exactly what they wanted, if not exactly how they wanted. They appealed to and recruited anti-American communists, largely by importing their voters from the Third World, and cultivated their electoral power one election at a time.
Dems Aren’t Afraid Of The Communists Their Party Is Electing. They Just Hate Losing Their Jobs To Them
Tuesday’s Democratic Socialist romp can’t be blamed on outside factors like inflation or Israel or the national party’s mad obsession with countering President Donald Trump’s every move.
No, it’s the result of 15 years of New York Democrats’ single-party rule — and the monstrous ego of Andrew Cuomo. (No it's 80-200 years of the lust for absolute power of the thousands who voted for it over and over again - jjs)
Look in the mirror, New York Democrats — your misrule paved the DSA’s way
Young urban voters across the country are flocking to the hip new politics of urban socialism.
Big City Socialism In Every Pot
“I’ve had to live with the question of whether I can afford to stay in the city I love."
Democrats’ Newest Star Is Fully Funded By Your Tax Dollars
We should ask: What is controversial or unusual about a far-left candidate condemning nationalism?
The answer is: nothing. Except for when that candidate is condemning nationalism as practiced by a non-white group.
Winning Socialist Who Stormed Out Of Interview Exposes Unnoticed, Deeper Rift Among Far-Left
The legislature, where Zohran Mamdani got his start, is becoming the far-left mayor’s farm team for future socialist leaders
Meet the Mini-Mamdanis: Budding Crop of Extreme Left-Wing, 9/11-Justifying, Israel-Hating Socialists Win Primary Nods for New York State Legislature Seats
The California congressman embodies the uneasy place of Indian Americans in progressive racial politics.
The Meaning of Ro Khanna
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Rogers’ remarks are likely to resonate with those advocating for a stronger post-Brexit Britain, while also serving as a critique of the country’s current leadership, and policies that have failed to deliver on Brexit’s potential. Her comments echo those of President Donald J. Trump during King Charles III’s recent state visit to America, where he also emphasized the shared heritage of Britain and America.
Under-Secretary Rogers Backs Britain: ‘Our Greatness Comes From You.’
The United Kingdom cannot deport half of the approximately 400,000 illegal migrants known to be in the country due to asylum and human rights claims, according to leaked government documents.
Half of Illegal Migrants Are Impossible to Deport Due to Asylum and Human Rights Claims.
The long-suffering peoples of Europe have had enough.
In Rome, Thousands March Demanding Remigration
What is the West waiting for?
South Africa Says Enough to Illegal Migration
Socialism and natural disasters are a lethal combination.
Venezuela: The terrible wages of socialism
America is not abandoning Europe; it is forcing Europe to confront an uncomfortable truth: a continent that cannot enforce its own rules cannot claim to shape the world.
After the Protectorate: America, Europe, and the Return of the Decision
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Fred Fleitz: Putin’s war machine is facing mounting pressure as Ukraine’s drone strikes expose Russia’s vulnerabilities, leaving the Kremlin leader with one choice: negotiate before the window closes.
Why Putin Needs a Deal with Trump Now
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The discovery comes with increased military activity and rising tensions around Taiwan.
Satellite Images Show China Built Replica US Destroyer for Missile Testing
Why do we keep empowering our existential enemies?
Now We’re Going to Sell Stealth Fighters to Turkey(Maybe if they were made out of cardboard like Iran's mullah du jour? - jjs)
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
What crimes have Western governments committed against their citizens?
The COVID Conspiracy Continues
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
In a 7-2 decision authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Monsanto’s parent company Bayer, stating that U.S. states cannot require pesticide label warnings beyond those mandated by federal regulation. In handing down its decision, the Court halted thousands of lawsuits alleging that the Big Pharma company failed to warn consumers about the weedkiller’s potential cancer risks. (RELATED: Anna Paulina Luna Takes Swing At John Thune As GOP Factions Battle Over MAHA-Backed Pesticide Provision)
MAHA World Livid After SCOTUS Pesticides Ruling
“Wave after wave of therapeutic fads have washed over our society...This ship is unlikely to turn around any time soon.”
Stop Talking About Mental Health
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
One interesting tidbit: Though the data suggests both planets are spherical, this is not confirmed with certainty. Overall, the nature of such puffy planets is not really understood at this time.
Astronomers discover two exoplanets as dense as cotton candy
Now, Kaib and Raymond have shown that the orbits of long-period comets suggest HD 7977 came within 6000-10000 AU of our Sun, setting off a major shower of new comets into the inner solar system.
Astronomers: We might be experiencing a shower of comets from the distant Oort cloud due to a close pass of another star 2.5 million years ago
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
A new Oregon study shows that pediatric gender transitions aren’t as rare as advocates of the “affirming” model assured us.
How Many Girls on Testosterone Is Too Many?
Men built, protected, and sustained civilization. If we want stronger families and communities, we must stop dismissing masculinity and start supporting men.
Embracing Masculinity: Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Iger’s “approach to the Trump administration was scrutinised when Kimmel was taken off the air following his comments about the shooting of the rightwing culture warrior Charlie Kirk,” writes the Financial Times. “Iger says people mistook the move as being politically motivated.”
Ex-Disney CEO Iger Says Trump Had Nothing to Do with Kimmel Suspension
Pope Leo and the road to hell.
Rome vs. The True Catholic Church
Christian Toto: Thriller calls out radical Islam, shocking rise of terror sympathizers on campus
Daily Wire’s ‘Run Hide Fight: Infidels’ Tease Is Pure Fire
HITHER & YON
A short film about miraculous survival.
Video: The Long Return

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1 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 26, 2026 07:17 AM (NcvvS)

2 1

Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 26, 2026 07:17 AM (lBqsU)

3 And SPONGE!!

Posted by: Nazdar at June 26, 2026 07:17 AM (NcvvS)

4 Too slow. And the Italicans are here!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 26, 2026 07:18 AM (lBqsU)

5 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 07:18 AM (u82oZ)

6 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 26, 2026 07:19 AM (jehhT)

7 It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 26, 2026 07:20 AM (0N4FZ)

8 They are having brawls in France over air conditioners. Hey Mohammed, maybe don't wait until June to buy one.

Posted by: fd at June 26, 2026 07:20 AM (MWfyi)

9 It's Saturday Eve.

Posted by: Celebrate responsibly at June 26, 2026 07:21 AM (CJnkZ)

10 It's Flapjack Friday!

It’s too early for flapjacks.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 26, 2026 07:22 AM (fuPRJ)

11 News seems kinda slanted….

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 26, 2026 07:23 AM (3Ope8)

12 Urban socialism? Like where you live in a community and everyone shares and shares alike and everyone is happy because they are COMMUNISTS?

Posted by: fd at June 26, 2026 07:24 AM (MWfyi)

13 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 26, 2026 07:24 AM (ExV1e)

14 Happy Friday all. Thank you JJ

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 07:25 AM (WsUVh)

15 Alleged Palisades Fire Arsonist Wanted to Punish ‘The Wealthy’ for ‘Destroying the World.’

The irony is lost on folks like these...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 07:25 AM (l3cgK)

16 4 Too slow. And the Italicans are here!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 26, 2026 07:18 AM (lBqsU)

Yeah, seems JJ's fault...

"Known as Mullin v. Alt Otro Lado>/i>,"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 07:26 AM (l3cgK)

17 "If convicted on all three arson charges, Rinderknecht could face up to 45 years in prison."

He will be out long before the homes he destroyed are rebuilt.

Posted by: fd at June 26, 2026 07:27 AM (MWfyi)

18 Rosasharn twirled on the Pixy thread, so all is going well for a Friday.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 07:29 AM (u82oZ)

19 Good morning Horde, thx JJ. Happy Friday to all.
JJ , I didn't see it in the report but there is an unbelievable video at Twitchy of Scott Weiner being accosted by a man with a phone camera demanding that Weiner say "Free Palestine" . Weiner looks terrified. You almost feel sorry for him but then you remember he's Scott Weiner

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 26, 2026 07:29 AM (ik64N)

20 When are these communists gonna practice their beliefs and actually live in communes with Sky Aquarian (aka Gopi aka Hester)? Little Rockford Files reference there; the sound of one hand clapping…

Those perfect commies of the USSR… always seemed like their leaders lived in these beautiful massive dachas while the workers lived in tiny drab cookie cutter apartments

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 07:31 AM (WsUVh)

21 "Socialism has well and truly taken over in that country, and as this leftish but still good essayist in the Caracas Chronicles notes, one of the effects is that the state has abandoned its basic functions of government. . . "

Socialist Great Britain. How many girls have they abandoned to the hordes. Perhaps not all dead, but some for sure and the vast majority permanently scarred. The numbers of that tragedy certainly exceed the quarter million low estimate reported.

Whither now, New York?

Posted by: Diana Pool at June 26, 2026 07:31 AM (S7k2w)

22 Just how many "elections" are these socialist/communists running in? Are any of them national? Or is it mostly local/state/city races with typically low turnout or near zero interest? What's the fraud like in these contests?

I suspect we all know the answer to that last question.

Whatever the case there's a warning here to the rest of us to get our collective shit together and act, or submit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 26, 2026 07:31 AM (jehhT)

23 Smell the Glove

Wasn't there an old book that says "You reap what you sow?"

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

24 Happy Friday

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 26, 2026 07:31 AM (/+uur)

25 @23 NaCly Dog , you know I believe you're correct

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 26, 2026 07:34 AM (ik64N)

26 "Astronomers: We might be experiencing a shower of comets from the distant Oort cloud due to a close pass of another star 2.5 million years ago"

More climate change. Damn that Trump.

Posted by: fd at June 26, 2026 07:35 AM (MWfyi)

27 IMHO, the entirety of Hezbollah should be air lifted out of Lebanon and into Iran.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 26, 2026 07:35 AM (qFwJc)

28 The entirety of Hezbollah should be air lifted out of Lebanon and into Paris, where they will die from climate change.

Posted by: fd at June 26, 2026 07:36 AM (MWfyi)

29 no one of any consequence

Plenty of sharks in the Gulf of Oman that need feeding. Why waste protein?

Posted by: Air Pinochet at June 26, 2026 07:37 AM (u82oZ)

30 My record remains intact: I still haven’t watched one second of WC…. But what’s up with a headline I saw that said “Turkiye” (complete with an umlaut over the u) and not Turkey?? When did they change the spelling, I missed this… just like I missed when Kiev became Kyiv…. I know Istanbul is Constantinople (which got the works and that’s nobody’s business but the Turks), but I can’t keep up

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 07:37 AM (B+fc+)

31 "we must stop dismissing masculinity and start supporting men."

We do support men.

Posted by: Playtex at June 26, 2026 07:38 AM (MWfyi)

32 "Will the era of Donald Trump be merely a one-off"

I pray not. Stop the immigration thru airlines.

Posted by: Joe at June 26, 2026 07:39 AM (Uy/WF)

33 fd

I had no idea Trump had a space-time continuum altering machine. Is there nothing he can be blamed on by the Left?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

34 …. I know Istanbul is Constantinople (which got the works and that’s nobody’s business but the Turks), but I can’t keep up
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 07:37 AM
+++

It'll always be Burma to me, Elaine.

Posted by: J. Peterman at June 26, 2026 07:39 AM (CJnkZ)

35 IMHO, the entirety of Hezbollah should be air lifted out of Lebanon and into Iran.

IMHO, FWIW, the entirety of Hezbollah should be ruthlessly hunted to extinction. Then we can discuss Iran.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 26, 2026 07:40 AM (3Ope8)

36 "we must stop dismissing masculinity and start supporting men."

We do support men.
Posted by: Playtex at June 26, 2026 07:38 AM (MWfyi)

Do you know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza, Mansiere Inventor at June 26, 2026 07:41 AM (wVcYX)

37 Plenty of sharks in the Gulf of Oman that need feeding. Why waste protein?
Posted by: Air Pinochet at June 26, 2026 07:37 AM (u82oZ)

Are these sharks armed with lasers by any chance?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 07:41 AM (26GAh)

38 It's the Bro!

Posted by: Kramer at June 26, 2026 07:42 AM (CJnkZ)

39 Good morning JJ and horde
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2026 07:42 AM (sgkY8)

40 Oh and on Cut Jib Speaks you guys forgot Seattle, quickly going Marxists as well

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2026 07:43 AM (sgkY8)

41 Mullin v. Alt Otro Lado>/i>

renders the blog unreadable, forever

Posted by: norman at June 26, 2026 07:43 AM (HZp68)

42 35> Hunting Hezbollah into extinction

Can we try a comprehensive pilot project on the Koranimals here in the US first?

At least the operators can sleep in their own beds at the end of the work day.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 26, 2026 07:46 AM (xE0sV)

43 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE NEITHER THE FRENCH MEN NOR THE MUSLIMS USE SOAP WHEN THEY BATHE.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 26, 2026 07:46 AM (qFwJc)

44 Interesting that Lebanon is a wholly owned subsidiary of Iran and not a Country.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2026 07:47 AM (afJtY)

45 So, did they have the "Pride Night" at the stadium in Seattle last night during the Egypt vs Iran ( or whatever country it was competing against Iran in the WC) competition, or it's on for tonight?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2026 07:48 AM (Yl2Ob)

46 Those "Free (murderer) Karmelo" animals are one of the reasons I'm very thankful Jr. Black just turned down a very good job in Atlanta. White people are being terrorized by ignorant, hate-filled racists in many cities across the country.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 26, 2026 07:48 AM (qBdHI)

47 Holy moley. Paris is going to be hot today. 101 F.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 26, 2026 07:48 AM (qFwJc)

48 Leftists then: OMG, Trump called Haiti a third world shithole!!!

Leftists now: We can't send our Haitian immigrants home because it's a dangerous, third world shithole!!!

Posted by: one hour sober at June 26, 2026 07:49 AM (J4Dwc)

49 26> Astronomers trolling for some grift

Unlike Antifa, the Oort Cloud is only an idea.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 26, 2026 07:50 AM (xE0sV)

50 Community Notes

*Gasp*

A Number 6 on those miscreants?

What will the Nabobs say?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

51
Re CAFE Kills:
Next time you take a drive, notice how often in the city or parking lot how pedestrians step out without even looking to see if it's safe.
Do pedestrians bear any responsibility for their own safety, and did they seem to take more back before CAFE standards kicked in?

Posted by: Speller at June 26, 2026 07:50 AM (pSotA)

52 Lebanon was wrecked when the PLO relocated there after getting the snot kicked out of themselves by the Jordanians in Black September. The Civil War broke out in 75 between the with a number of different factions. Hezbollah has become the most powerful because Iran funded them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 26, 2026 07:50 AM (ik64N)

53 19 Good morning Horde, thx JJ. Happy Friday to all.
JJ , I didn't see it in the report but there is an unbelievable video at Twitchy of Scott Weiner being accosted by a man with a phone camera demanding that Weiner say "Free Palestine" . Weiner looks terrified. You almost feel sorry for him but then you remember he's Scott Weiner

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 26, 2026 07:29 AM (ik64N)

A "free Palestine" means dead Jews and defenestrated gays. The Wiener-mobile is all about the trans and the gheys and buggery of little boys (well, the last one is a commonality with the Muzzies)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 07:50 AM (l3cgK)

54 Brutal Heatwave coming to the Midwest, starting Sunday

Posted by: Jonah at June 26, 2026 07:51 AM (YCxFk)

55 Since at least 2022, the Venezuelan state has increasingly adopted a hands-off approach to governance.”

Don’t we call that Anarcho-Fascism? The State ignore all parts of governance in which it could be serving a useful purpose, and instead focuses only on those things which serve to maintain its power and strip any remaining wealth from those subjects under its control.

It is government run, quite literally, by a gang of psychopathic criminals.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2026 07:51 AM (o8hG1)

56 8 They are having brawls in France over air conditioners. Hey Mohammed, maybe don't wait until June to buy one.
Posted by: fd at June 26, 2026 07:20 AM (MWfyi)

We can send them goat-scented deodorant by the container load.

Posted by: Roy at June 26, 2026 07:51 AM (qwype)

57 Young urban voters across the country are flocking to the hip new politics of urban socialism.

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And so it goes that the gullible, very pampered, never had to live under socialism American idiots are clamoring for something they know nothing about.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 26, 2026 07:51 AM (qBdHI)

58 while the workers lived in tiny drab cookie cutter apartments"

Evening wear, very nice...

Posted by: man at June 26, 2026 07:52 AM (XuXeR)

59 NYC lost a lot of political clout in Congress Tuesday night, and Sistah Leticia and Carville are upset. Head of Hispanic Caucus and Moneybags Goldman, booted for Commies

Posted by: Jonah at June 26, 2026 07:53 AM (YCxFk)

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

The addition of the PLA and Hezbollah to Lebanon turned Beirut from Paris in the Middle East to a third world, bombed out, scarred ruin.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

61 Next time you take a drive, notice how often in the city or parking lot how pedestrians step out without even looking to see if it's safe."

Hmm. Wonder what they're looking at instead of their surroundings?

Beuller?

Posted by: man at June 26, 2026 07:54 AM (XuXeR)

62 "Next time you take a drive, notice how often in the city or parking lot how pedestrians step out without even looking to see if it's safe."

Walking on the edge of the road, staring at a phone, traffic flying by at 60mph, oblivious.

Posted by: urban pedestrian at June 26, 2026 07:54 AM (MWfyi)

63 55. Agree Tom, but what is more important is that a right winger won in Columbia, after 4 years of Marxism in Bogota. That keeps the region a little more in check now

Posted by: Jonah at June 26, 2026 07:55 AM (YCxFk)

64 30 My record remains intact: I still haven’t watched one second of WC…. But what’s up with a headline I saw that said “Turkiye” (complete with an umlaut over the u) and not Turkey?? When did they change the spelling, I missed this… just like I missed when Kiev became Kyiv…. I know Istanbul is Constantinople (which got the works and that’s nobody’s business but the Turks), but I can’t keep up

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 07:37 AM (B+fc+)

WC? Water Closet (i.e. bathroom)?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 07:55 AM (l3cgK)

65 staring at a phone"

The deuce you say.

Hmmm.

Posted by: man at June 26, 2026 07:55 AM (XuXeR)

66
54 Brutal Heatwave coming to the Midwest, starting Sunday
Posted by: Jonah at June 26, 2026 07:51 AM (YCxFk)

I remember my grandfather, who was hauling product in Iowa and Wisconsin at the time, said 1936 was the summer that it got so hot that “all the flies died”. I looked it up, that year there were a string of days all over 100 degrees across the Midwest.

The coming heatwave will be warm, but it won’t be close to what that year was like.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2026 07:56 AM (o8hG1)

67 61 Next time you take a drive, notice how often in the city or parking lot how pedestrians step out without even looking to see if it's safe."

Hmm. Wonder what they're looking at instead of their surroundings?

Beuller?
Posted by: man at June 26, 2026 07:54 AM (XuXeR)
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I've noticed more and more that drivers are doing the same damned thing.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 26, 2026 07:56 AM (SgdqL)

68 43 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE NEITHER THE FRENCH MEN NOR THE MUSLIMS USE SOAP WHEN THEY BATHE.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 26, 2026 07:46 AM (qFwJc)

True, but prison gives opportunities for a different use...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 07:56 AM (l3cgK)

69 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 07:56 AM (2YhKe)

70 NaCly, it is as if Lebanon doesn't exist.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2026 07:56 AM (afJtY)

71 I've noticed more and more that drivers are doing the same damned thing."

Pizza slicing. It's a thing.

Posted by: man at June 26, 2026 07:56 AM (XuXeR)

72 Wasn't expecting a plate of poo first thing this morning.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 07:56 AM (2YhKe)

73 so is it true that the abolishment of US aid, is the reason so many South American countries are swinging to the right?

Posted by: Jonah at June 26, 2026 07:57 AM (YCxFk)

74 73. LOL

Posted by: Jonah at June 26, 2026 07:57 AM (YCxFk)

75 57 Young urban voters across the country are flocking to the hip new politics of urban socialism.

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And so it goes that the gullible, very pampered, never had to live under socialism American idiots are clamoring for something they know nothing about.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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In this particular case, it is foreign sourced and indoctrinated and indebted college graduates are lapping the idea of free shit up. It isn't really a popular movement from the bottom up but rather an affectation of a particular subset of big city liberals turning leftist because they won't do as well as their parents.

Worthless degrees, massive student loan debt, high taxes in urban areas, and expensive living in cities due to illegal influx are to blame.

Natural progression of the blue service model of government right before it rolls over and sinks.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 07:58 AM (E4rtv)

76 16 4 Too slow. And the Italicans are here!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 26, 2026 07:18 AM (lBqsU)

Yeah, seems JJ's fault...

"Known as Mullin v. Alt Otro Lado>/i>,"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 07:26 AM (l3cgK)

Fixed thanks!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 26, 2026 07:58 AM (x0n13)

77 66. Right tom, but the worst one for Chicago area was 1995. Many people died in the city that summer.

Posted by: Jonah at June 26, 2026 07:59 AM (YCxFk)

78 It's been reported that those in the UK who actually have an air conditioner, are being told not to use them.

It's for the environment, you see.

*the real reason was likely riots over the haves vs. the have nots*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 26, 2026 07:59 AM (jehhT)

79 man

I would be slowly moving 12 tons of yellow, honking death up to the high school to drop off kids. Students looking only at their phone would walk right in front of me. Happened even 10 years ago. It has gotten worse.

They put their lives in my hands. Fortunately, in this case they were safe.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 07:59 AM (u82oZ)

80 The communists did a very good job of taking over the education system and indoctrinating young skulls full of mush into socialism.

Now, the same idiots who demanded that insurance companies cover "pre-existing conditions" and hospitals treat anyone who showed up in an emergency room for free are screeching that health care is "unaffordable."

The people who demanded rent control, mass immigration, and fought "gentrification" screech that housing is "unaffordable."

The people who demanded ever increasing minimum wages for no-skill workers screech that food is 'unaffordable.'

Uruguay looking better all the time.

Posted by: Victor Tango Jilo at June 26, 2026 07:59 AM (YPR7M)

81 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 08:00 AM (Dvo57)

82 Well, my Nats have now blown three straight games in the 9th inning. And against the Philthies, alas.

They may as well sign me for their bullpen. I couldn't be any worse.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 26, 2026 08:00 AM (SgdqL)

83 Back in the day, Cowtown had 100+ days of 100+ temps. I was diving a 76 Vega GT with no AC and black vinyl seats. But a case of beer was $10 and gas was pretty cheap so it was just a reason to spend all day at the lake.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 26, 2026 08:01 AM (3Ope8)

84
Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck gettin' dirt' and gritty

Posted by: The Lovin' Spoonful at June 26, 2026 08:01 AM (CJnkZ)

85 74 so is it true that the abolishment of US aid, is the reason so many South American countries are swinging to the right?
Posted by: Jonah

Probably yes but also in the context that every Socialist government inevitably becomes ridden with cronyism, dysfunction, and outright theft of public taxes. No socialist government actually 'works', it can only exist as long as wealth in society is there to be looted to pay off the masses for a time. And inevitably, the biggest beneficiaries of such governments are the El Presidente and their governing circle where they loot the public treasury and take bribes (Petro, Maduro, Morales, Lula, every past Mexican President, etc. have all become fabulously wealthy from that).

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:01 AM (E4rtv)

86 78 66. Right tom, but the worst one for Chicago area was 1995. Many people died in the city that summer.
Posted by: Jonah at June 26, 2026 07:59 AM (YCxFk)

My late aunt, an 86 year old Jewish lady at the time lived on the south side and spent that summer in the basement to stay cool. She passed away about a year later.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 26, 2026 08:02 AM (x0n13)

87 Scanlon issued her claim during a congressional town hall this week.

“Under this SAVE Act, Real ID that shows citizenship is required,” she began. “Only five states have Real ID that shows citizenship. Pennsylvania is not one of them.”

Liar
“(1) A form of identification issued consistent with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005 that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the United States.

“(2) A valid United States passport.

“(3) The applicant's official United States military identification card, together with a United States military record of service showing that the applicant's place of birth was in the United States.

“(4) A valid government-issued photo identification card issued by a Federal, State or Tribal government showing that the applicant’s place of birth was in the United States.

“(5) A valid government-issued photo identification card issued by a Federal, State or Tribal government other than an identification described in paragraphs (1) through (4), but only if presented together with one or more of the following:

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 26, 2026 08:02 AM (/+uur)

88 @53 jim, the guy who was accosting Weiner didn't give two shits about da gays. The gays ought to realize they're down the pecking order from the Palis. Oddly the guy going after Weiner was an African American. News flash pal, the African Americans are down the pecking order also

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 26, 2026 08:03 AM (ik64N)

89 It's been reported that those in the UK who actually have an air conditioner, are being told not to use them.

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Wondering what the temperature setting is at 10 Downing Street. I'm sure they're just running rooms full of fans.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 26, 2026 08:03 AM (qBdHI)

90 I would guess that most residences in France have a bathtub and cool water.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2026 08:03 AM (afJtY)

91 80 man

I would be slowly moving 12 tons of yellow, honking death up to the high school to drop off kids. Students looking only at their phone would walk right in front of me. Happened even 10 years ago. It has gotten worse.

They put their lives in my hands. Fortunately, in this case they were safe.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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I think peak phone has arrived and is now declining a bit.

States and schools are increasingly banning them during class times because they literally make students stupid by causing inattention and more likely to do whatever stupid trend is on TikTok because their frontal brains haven't developed enough to realize some things are both risky and stupid to do.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:04 AM (E4rtv)

92 So, as we approach America's 250th birthday whither our future?

You asked for it..........

https://youtu.be/PgIsxxq4EBg?t=51

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:04 AM (2YhKe)

93 92 I would guess that most residences in France have a bathtub and cool water.
Posted by: Ben Had
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Have you smelled a Frenchman? I think the idea of water is foreign to them let alone submerging in it.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:05 AM (E4rtv)

94
“Is he being honest about his prior statements?
Tucker Carlson Says He Used to Criticize Islam, but Now He Sees the Light”

He’s certainly being “honest” about his current statements - he now loves Islam, and hates America.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2026 08:05 AM (o8hG1)

95 I would guess that most residences in France have a bathtub and cool water.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2026 08:03 AM (afJtY)

Judging by the smell, they really need to heed the immortal words of Redd Foxx: WASH YO ASS

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:05 AM (2YhKe)

96 Posted by: Paul at June 26, 2026 08:03 AM (zgYlH)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at June 26, 2026 08:06 AM (2YhKe)

97 89 @53 jim, the guy who was accosting Weiner didn't give two shits about da gays. The gays ought to realize they're down the pecking order from the Palis. Oddly the guy going after Weiner was an African American. News flash pal, the African Americans are down the pecking order also

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 26, 2026 08:03 AM (ik64N)

Yes, high skin melanin content is frowned upon by the Muzzie Arabs. There are still many, many black slaves owned by Muzzies (even though it's technically "illegal" according to laws that are not enforced, because, hey, the Koran says slavery is A-Okay)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:06 AM (l3cgK)

98 79> Socialism = Misery

Many units are mini-split heat pumps. The temperature delta in the winter vs summer makes summer cheaper to cool than warming in the winter.

One would think with summer and more hours of daylight, that solar power would easily cover the heat-pump's use.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 26, 2026 08:06 AM (+4Cf6)

99 "Students looking only at their phone would walk right in front of me. Happened even 10 years ago. It has gotten worse."

This is why I want a train horn on my truck.

Posted by: Playtex at June 26, 2026 08:06 AM (MWfyi)

100 Ben Had

About 30% of Lebanese are Christian, and shrinking. This is down from almost 50%. The more Islamic Lebanon gets the more dysfunctional it becomes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

101 Oops off supportive sock.

Posted by: fd at June 26, 2026 08:07 AM (MWfyi)

102 98 Posted by: Paul at June 26, 2026 08:03 AM (zgYlH)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at June 26, 2026 08:06 AM (2YhKe)

I dun tried shootin' my flue, but it just broke things...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:07 AM (l3cgK)

103 Paul forgot to mention that Hegseth's policy of voluntary flu shots was reversed by the Pentagon. *sad trombone*

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 26, 2026 08:08 AM (qBdHI)

104 In all seriousness though, dehydration works differently for elderly and is a real problem in the hot seasons because a) lots of them are on diuretics for blood pressure, etc., b) elderly are often forgetful about fluid intake, and c) UTIs are aided by even moderate dehydration and you get into a vicious cycle, d) they don't realize that with age, comes greater sensitivity to matters like dehydration.

Seen it play out in family members.

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

105 Students looking only at their phone would walk right in front of me. Happened even 10 years ago. It has gotten worse."

Indeed. iWatches are the rage (slip by cell phone "bans")

Posted by: man at June 26, 2026 08:09 AM (XuXeR)

106 93> Observed: More phones, more Darwin

Not to mention that with a phone, a student can upload a photo of their test and AI will select all the correct answers and write out grammatically correct essay responses.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 26, 2026 08:10 AM (+4Cf6)

107 Why should I give a flying f*ck what the temperature is in France?

Anyone check what the sun is doing?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:10 AM (2YhKe)

108 I'm a distracted driver / pedestrian magnet. Trying to thread my way thru a Kroger/HEB parking lot is the worst. I've long learned to circle around the far outer reaches which vastly reduces the opportunities to score DeathRace2000 points.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 26, 2026 08:10 AM (wVcYX)

109 Why should I give a flying f*ck what the temperature is in France?"

Well, some friends touring urrrup. They're in the Normandy area right now, and said it's *gasp* almost 80F in spots!

C'est dommage

Posted by: man at June 26, 2026 08:11 AM (XuXeR)

110 About 30% of Lebanese are Christian, and shrinking. This is down from almost 50%. The more Islamic Lebanon gets the more dysfunctional it becomes.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

When I was a grad student in college I shared a (tiny) office on campus with a Lebanese Christian. Very nice guy. As far as I know he never went back there due to the constant chaos…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 08:12 AM (26GAh)

111 There is nothing bewildering about the shift toward socialism. It only appears to be happening rapidly in the sense that the flush of blossoms of on a cherry tree appear in a matter of days.

The desiccated monkey skeletons of the boomer Left spent 50 years in power, governing as a mafia that jealously clutched their political monopoly with increasingly bony old claws. At the same time, they weaponized cultural and educational institutions to carefully create the hyper-Left Monster Babies that pushed their opposition into a position of submission, and bullied the general population into accepting their gangster rule as somehow "moderate."

Their rule was so long and so total and so successful, that these Monster Babies are a flat-out supermajority of people under 50. Time is a cruel master, and the boomers are making their shambolic exit from the public arena, leaving these Jacobins as their only possible successors.

The tree is blooming right now. You'll hate the taste of its fruit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 26, 2026 08:12 AM (BI5O2)

112 About 30% of Lebanese are Christian, and shrinking. This is down from almost 50%. The more Islamic Lebanon gets the more dysfunctional it becomes.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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A lot of Lebanese Christians have left the country and I'd imagine the birth rate for them is below replacement. They are perfectly ok with Israel taking out Hezbollah but aren't going to stick their necks out to do it themselves. They got burned in the 80's for that. Same with the Druze and even Sunnis.

The Shi'a percentage of Lebanon was nearly 50 percent last time I checked and they are predominately in the Southern part of Lebanon and some precincts of Beirut. That is the fount of Hezbollah.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:12 AM (E4rtv)

113 States and schools are increasingly banning them during class times because they literally make students stupid by causing inattention and more likely to do whatever stupid trend is on TikTok because their frontal brains haven't developed enough to realize some things are both risky and stupid to do.
Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:04 AM (E4rtv)

I only look to one thing to determine just how stupid phones have made society:

The Tide Pod Challenge

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:12 AM (2YhKe)

114 Count de Monet

Wanted to drive an absolute beater car with stick figure stencils on the driver door. My late wife was persuasive in her argument against this.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

115 100 79> Socialism = Misery

Many units are mini-split heat pumps. The temperature delta in the winter vs summer makes summer cheaper to cool than warming in the winter.

One would think with summer and more hours of daylight, that solar power would easily cover the heat-pump's use.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 26, 2026 08:06 AM (+4Cf6)

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."--Sir Winston Churchill

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:12 AM (l3cgK)

116 i
90 It's been reported that those in the UK who actually have an air conditioner, are being told not to use them.
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I don’t think it’s due to envy; rather the reason Euro governments (and their controlled media outlets) are against AC is because they have *never* built their energy supply close to what American users take for granted.

If even half the people there had AC and used it, they would easily crash the grid. I believe that a lot of the “global warming” nonsense is just an endlessly repeated excuse which the governments use to shield their incredible incompetence.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2026 08:13 AM (o8hG1)

117 Socialism, because misery wants company.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2026 08:14 AM (afJtY)

118 90 It's been reported that those in the UK who actually have an air conditioner, are being told not to use them.
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Because everyone must make sacrifices to save da erf.

Global warmening n' shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:15 AM (2YhKe)

119 Wanted to drive an absolute beater car with stick figure stencils on the driver door. My late wife was persuasive in her argument against this.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

Yup.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 26, 2026 08:17 AM (wVcYX)

120 These 100 degree temperatures would not have been possible 50 years ago. Our thermometers didn't even go that high.

Posted by: A expert at June 26, 2026 08:17 AM (MWfyi)

121 > Observed: More phones, more Darwin
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Just the other day; following a crossover SUV and the driver's drifting all over the road. Over the double yellow, then nearly off the shoulder on our side.

This went on for about a minute. Then the drift to the right, onto the shoulder kept going, I slowed way down and watched them take out a roadside speed limit sign without stopping.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 26, 2026 08:18 AM (jehhT)

122 You cannot get an FHA mortgage if the house does not have A/C is many parts of the country. 101 here won't kill me because my A/C works.

I imaging Paris has very few places with A/C.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 26, 2026 08:18 AM (qFwJc)

123 No one ever experienced 100 degree temps before the invention of the Rubix Cube.

All that friction.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:19 AM (2YhKe)

124 110 About 30% of Lebanese are Christian, and shrinking. This is down from almost 50%. The more Islamic Lebanon gets the more dysfunctional it becomes.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

When I was a grad student in college I shared a (tiny) office on campus with a Lebanese Christian. Very nice guy. As far as I know he never went back there due to the constant chaos…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 08:12 AM (26GAh)

A woman I was interested in college was born and raised in Lebanon...her entire family left after their apartment building was hit by shells during the Lebanese Civil War. They'd heard all sorts of bad things about how violent America was, but her brother, who was liviing in America pretty much told her that only applied to certain bad parts of large cities and America was actually quite the peaceful place...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:19 AM (l3cgK)

125 72 Wasn't expecting a plate of poo first thing this morning.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 07:56 AM (2YhKe)

"That's just avocado that's gone brown"--Beta O'Rourke

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:20 AM (l3cgK)

126
This went on for about a minute. Then the drift to the right, onto the shoulder kept going, I slowed way down and watched them take out a roadside speed limit sign without stopping.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 26, 2026 08:18 AM (jehhT)

Because reading about the sushi meal Fanny just had and posted to Facebook is SOOO much more important than paying attention while driving a 4,000 lb missile.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:20 AM (2YhKe)

127 Monster Babies are a flat-out supermajority of people under 50. Time is a cruel master, and the boomers are making their shambolic exit from the public arena, leaving these Jacobins as their only possible successors.
The tree is blooming right now. You'll hate the taste of its fruit.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 26, 2026 08:12 AM (BI5O2)

Even worse are the Monster Babies' Monster Babies.

Savages who are lazy, disrespectful, unkempt, sexually disordered and prone to violence.

Enjoy!

Posted by: Good Times Ahead at June 26, 2026 08:20 AM (8tSC/)

128 Right tom, but the worst one for Chicago area was 1995. Many people died in the city that summer.
Posted by: Jonah

Summer 1980 DFW Metroplex -
42 consecutive 100+ days
113 degrees June 26-27
31 100 degree days in July
About 43% of homes in 1980 did NOT have AC.
65% or higher humidity

Yeah. That was a bitch summer.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 08:21 AM (Dvo57)

129 They'd heard all sorts of bad things about how violent America was, but her brother, who was liviing in America pretty much told her that only applied to certain bad parts of large cities and America was actually quite the peaceful place...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:19 AM (l3cgK)

See: Euros visiting America for the first time for the World Cup

"The media has been lying to me about what America is like for my entire life."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:21 AM (2YhKe)

130 117 Socialism, because misery wants company.
Posted by: Ben Had

Socialism is always the refuge of the lazy, mediocre, and envious, among us even back to the time of Aesop. Ant and Grasshopper is illustrative tale of the mindset.

So you get some wannabe elites that are locked out of the current power structure, they figure out promising something for nothing will get votes to get into power and the lazy/disaffected to vote for them. The funny thing as society gets poorer as the new 'socialists' go quite well in improving their personal financial conditions.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:21 AM (E4rtv)

131 The tree is blooming right now. You'll hate the taste of its fruit.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 26, 2026 08:12 AM (BI5O2)

The positive side - it’s only “blooming” in those portions of the country that are dying, which may not be apparent if you’re unfortunate enough to still live in those areas.

It’s certainly not the case in Texas or Florida. You might say “well those are just two states” but given recent trends, it is not a stretch to say that within about 20 years, half of the wealth of the entire country is going to be based in those 2 states (wealth moves to where it is treated well). And places like Cali, NY, and Illinois will just be fading cesspools of decay and abandonment.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2026 08:22 AM (o8hG1)

132
Yeah. That was a bitch summer.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 08:21 AM (Dvo57)

I wasn't here yet, but I do remember summers of 60+ days over 100 degrees. I had a/c, but it was woefully inadequate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:22 AM (2YhKe)

133 122 You cannot get an FHA mortgage if the house does not have A/C is many parts of the country. 101 here won't kill me because my A/C works.

I imaging Paris has very few places with A/C.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 26, 2026 08:18 AM (qFwJc)

They use a heat wave as a double-edged sword over there.
1) Climate Change is causing heat waves, and Climate change is caused by carbon emissions.
B) Air conditioning uses power, generating lots of carbon emissions, so you need to stop using air conditioning.
III) Look at all the deaths! It's Climate Change! We need to take everybodys' money and force Commie Socialism on everyone. Do it for the Planet! Do it for the Chillins!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:23 AM (l3cgK)

134 Longview, TX - White woman leaves an establishment minding her own business when a group of black women approach and begin attacking her screaming "FREE KARMELO!"

Only one has been arrested.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:25 AM (2YhKe)

135 It's not the heat.... it's the humidity. amirite

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 26, 2026 08:25 AM (jehhT)

136 If you want to hate America, watch the news.
If you want to love America, drive across it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 26, 2026 08:25 AM (CJnkZ)

137 132
Yeah. That was a bitch summer.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 08:21 AM (Dvo57)

I wasn't here yet, but I do remember summers of 60+ days over 100 degrees. I had a/c, but it was woefully inadequate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:22 AM (2YhKe)

I remember a New Year's Day in the mid-to-late 1980's when I lived in the Desert...the temp got up to 100ºF or 101ºF that day...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:25 AM (l3cgK)

138 III) Look at all the deaths! It's Climate Change! We need to take everybodys' money and force Commie Socialism on everyone. Do it for the Planet! Do it for the Chillins!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:23 AM (l3cgK)

Isn't it amazing that the solution for literally EVERYTHING is bigger government and more burden on the taxpayer?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:26 AM (2YhKe)

139 III) Look at all the deaths! It's Climate Change! We need to take everybodys' money and force Commie Socialism on everyone. Do it for the Planet! Do it for the Chillins!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:23 AM (l3cgK)

*cue an Eric Andre meme where he shoots Hannibal Burress sitting innocently in a chair, and this time cries out:*

"Why would Capitalism do such a thing?!?!?!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2026 08:26 AM (Ot/FD)

140 The funny thing as society gets poorer as the new 'socialists' go quite well in improving their personal financial conditions.
Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:21 AM (E4rtv)

See:

The Live and Times of Bernie Sanders

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:27 AM (2YhKe)

141 whig, I am looking for a pithy statement about socialism that I can put on a t-shirt.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2026 08:27 AM (afJtY)

142 The positive side - it’s only “blooming” in those portions of the country that are dying, which may not be apparent if you’re unfortunate enough to still live in those areas.

------

Exactly.

Which is why I am so passionate about my quixotic goal of national divorce NOW. Their regions form the popular majority in a federation split between Monster Babies and Garbage People, and I don't fancy being bulldozed into a landfill just yet.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 26, 2026 08:27 AM (BI5O2)

143 *Life

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:27 AM (2YhKe)

144 Isn't it amazing that the solution for literally EVERYTHING is bigger government and more burden on the taxpayer?
Posted by: Sponge
======
Power gets you money is why.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:27 AM (E4rtv)

145 I wasn't here yet, but I do remember summers of 60+ days over 100 degrees. I had a/c, but it was woefully inadequate.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

That was my first summer here. Holy cow was it hot.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 08:27 AM (Dvo57)

146 Good morning again dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2026 08:27 AM (RIvkX)

147 Isn't it amazing that the solution for literally EVERYTHING is bigger government and more burden on the taxpayer?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:26 AM (2YhKe)

It's kind of funny how our solution to everything is "Leave it the hell alone you'll just make it worse"... because that usually is the right solution?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2026 08:28 AM (Ot/FD)

148 Yeah. That was a bitch summer.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 08:21 AM (Dvo57)

Oh yeah those of us who were around still remember that Summer of ‘80! Nothing since then has been nearly as bad.

And the global warming crowd hates people who know that, because it contradicts the claim that “everything is getting hotter and hotter!”
Nope. Heat waves happen from time to time, always have, always will. They’re part of this world. And it’s incredibly arrogant of men to think they’re powerful enough to do anything about it one way or the other.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2026 08:28 AM (o8hG1)

149 Or we're doing the "Boomers" are all awful!" screed again? Where's "Howdy" or whatever his most recent handle was. See you on the art thread.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2026 08:28 AM (2sfNr)

150 141 whig, I am looking for a pithy statement about socialism that I can put on a t-shirt.
Posted by: Ben Had
=======
Envy is a sin.
Be grateful for what you have.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:28 AM (E4rtv)

151 It's kind of funny how our solution to everything is "Leave it the hell alone you'll just make it worse"... because that usually is the right solution?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2026 08:28 AM (Ot/FD)

Out = Man will find a way

In = Only GOVERNMENT can make that happen

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:29 AM (2YhKe)

152 132
Yeah. That was a bitch summer.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 08:21 AM (Dvo57)

I wasn't here yet, but I do remember summers of 60+ days over 100 degrees. I had a/c, but it was woefully inadequate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:22 AM (2YhKe)

My folks had a swamp cooler (for dry hot days) and an air conditioner in ONE small room...it was many years until we got a larger air conditioner that cooled the entire house (using fans to spread the cool air around the house).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:29 AM (l3cgK)

153 - @49 Community Notes

The Oort Cloud.
Yep. Ask em to show you where it's at. They can't.
But it has to be out there somewhere, making new comets, otherwise there couldn't be any comets.

Make Genesis 1 mean whatever you want, you can do the same to the rest of the prophets I reckon. Including the One who holds the offices of Prophet, Priest and King.

Posted by: TeeJ at June 26, 2026 08:29 AM (xI6JS)

154 whig, I am looking for a pithy statement about socialism that I can put on a t-shirt.
Posted by: Ben Had
=======
Envy is a sin.
Be grateful for what you have.
Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:28 AM (E4rtv)

Socialism SUCKS

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:29 AM (2YhKe)

155 It's not the heat.... it's the humidity. amirite
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 26, 2026 08:25 AM (jehhT)

As a new resident of Florida, I say you are absolutely positively completely right! Now excuse me while I try to clear up the fog on my glasses

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 08:29 AM (ugElV)

156 It's kind of funny how our solution to everything is "Leave it the hell alone you'll just make it worse"... because that usually is the right solution?
Posted by: Warai-otoko
=====
Calvin Coolidge did pretty well in office with that philosophy.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:30 AM (E4rtv)

157 The California congressman embodies the uneasy place of Indian Americans in progressive racial politics.
The Meaning of Ro Khanna
====

This piece of sh*t isn't even worth the time to consider.

A living artifice who married wealth and is know insulated from the Marxism he wants to put on everyone else.

The most active inside trader in Congress.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2026 08:30 AM (RIvkX)

158 151 It's kind of funny how our solution to everything is "Leave it the hell alone you'll just make it worse"... because that usually is the right solution?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2026 08:28 AM (Ot/FD)

Out = Man will find a way

In = Only GOVERNMENT can make that happen

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:29 AM (2YhKe)

Gov't takes a small problem, promises to fix it, makes it worse, and takes your tax money to fund their clusterf**k and perpetuate it, because if the problem goes away, so does their excuse for the tax monies to "tackle" the problem...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:30 AM (l3cgK)

159 If you want to hate America, watch the news.
If you want to love America, drive across it.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Stolen.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

160 All men are created equal. What you do with that is up to you

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2026 08:30 AM (afJtY)

161 Socialism SUCKS
Posted by: Sponge
=====
About as easy to say Socialism=Theft

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:31 AM (E4rtv)

162 154 whig, I am looking for a pithy statement about socialism that I can put on a t-shirt.
Posted by: Ben Had
=======
Envy is a sin.
Be grateful for what you have.
Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:28 AM (E4rtv)

Socialism SUCKS

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:29 AM (2YhKe)

Che Guevara Shirt: "I may Hate Capitalism, but These Shirts make me Lots of Dough!"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:31 AM (l3cgK)

163
Gov't takes a small problem, promises to fix it, makes it worse, and takes your tax money to fund their clusterf**k and perpetuate it, because if the problem goes away, so does their excuse for the tax monies to "tackle" the problem...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:30 AM (l3cgK)

California teachers are demanding more money because they want 'what they're owed.'

Um, education in California is some of the worst in the country.

What you're owed is a pink slip and a patch of concrete on Skid Row.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:31 AM (2YhKe)

164 Quarter Twenty, stolen

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2026 08:32 AM (afJtY)

165 Trying to persuade the rabid younger generations to reject socialism is akin to someone saying the answer to the problem of radical Islam is just figuring out how to sell them on Christianity. This is a fool's errand. We need some other answer.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 26, 2026 08:32 AM (BI5O2)

166 160 All men are created equal. What you do with that is up to you

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2026 08:30 AM (afJtY)

Gov't makes some people more equal than others...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:32 AM (l3cgK)

167 116> ERCOT != Europe electrical usage profile

Summer is usually 3-7PM intensive. Winter is bimodal (peaks morning + evening)

ERCOT dominant peak season is Summer, main driver is A/C
France/Germany/UK dominant peak season is Winter with heating and lighting as main drivers.

Winter demand in Western Europe is consistently 35% HIGHER in winter than summer

Summer in France: 40-50 GW
Winter in France: 55-70 GW

Its social/political, not dispatchable energy constrained.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 26, 2026 08:32 AM (+4Cf6)

168 All men are created equal. What you do with that is up to you
Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2026 08:30 AM (afJtY)

I've been saying that for years.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:32 AM (2YhKe)

169 whig, I am looking for a pithy statement about socialism that I can put on a t-shirt.
Posted by: Ben Had
=======
Envy is a sin.
Be grateful for what you have.
Posted by: whig

Socialism is wonderful
Until you run out of other people's money

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 08:32 AM (Dvo57)

170 Yeah. That was a bitch summer.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 08:21 AM (Dvo57)

I don’t ever remember as a teen worrying or even thinking much about the summer weather. Yes I knew it was hot but it was expected because summer…. Detassling corn was hot sweaty work; knew that going in

Now that I’m 29 I do notice the heat when it’s really bad

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 08:33 AM (ugElV)

171 California teachers are demanding more money because they want 'what they're owed.'

Um, education in California is some of the worst in the country.

What you're owed is a pink slip and a patch of concrete on Skid Row.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:31 AM (2YhKe)

They ought to pray to whatever fairy dirt spirit it is they pray to that they never actually get what they deserve.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2026 08:33 AM (Ot/FD)

172 whig, I am looking for a pithy statement about socialism that I can put on a t-shirt.
Posted by: Ben Had
=======
Envy is a sin.
Be grateful for what you have.
Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:28 AM (E4rtv)

Socialism SUCKS
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:29 AM (2YhKe)

You Have Two Cows.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 26, 2026 08:33 AM (wVcYX)

173 165 Trying to persuade the rabid younger generations to reject socialism is akin to someone saying the answer to the problem of radical Islam is just figuring out how to sell them on Christianity. This is a fool's errand. We need some other answer.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 26, 2026 08:32 AM (BI5O2)

And even when some are hit square in the face by the hammer of reality, they won't let go of their stupid fixation with Marx and Engels..."it just wasn't done right!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:33 AM (l3cgK)

174 "Hello, it can NEVER be done right"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:33 AM (l3cgK)

175 Sponge, hugs to you both.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2026 08:34 AM (afJtY)

176 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:26 AM (2YhKe)

Oh the earth is warming up? Fuck you, pay me.

Got homeless people and rising housing prices? Fuck you, pay me.

Economy took a dip, huh? Fuck you, pay me.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2026 08:34 AM (l9DAo)

177 ERCOT sucks.

Texas NEVER suffered rolling blackouts before THEY took control over energy in the state.

Well, that and Rick f*cking Perry signing off on 0webama's energy plan that killed off all the coal plants.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:34 AM (2YhKe)

178 Gov't takes a small problem, promises to fix it, makes it worse, and takes your tax money to fund their clusterf**k and perpetuate it, because if the problem goes away, so does their excuse for the tax monies to "tackle" the problem...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:30 AM (l3cgK)

Govt will never understand the first rule of holes…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 08:34 AM (ugElV)

179 Trying to persuade the rabid younger generations to reject socialism is akin to someone saying the answer to the problem of radical Islam is just figuring out how to sell them on Christianity. This is a fool's errand. We need some other answer.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Shove socialism up their ass & break it off?
Give it to them Mayor Jihadi NYC style and don't bail them out.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 08:34 AM (Dvo57)

180 Uruguay looking better all the time.
Posted by: Victor Tango Jilo at June 26, 2026 07:59 AM (YPR7M)

Didn't Uruguay buck the recent South America trend and vote in a socialist government?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 26, 2026 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

181 The Heat IS On.

Posted by: Zombie Glenn Frey at June 26, 2026 08:35 AM (wVcYX)

182 178 Gov't takes a small problem, promises to fix it, makes it worse, and takes your tax money to fund their clusterf**k and perpetuate it, because if the problem goes away, so does their excuse for the tax monies to "tackle" the problem...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:30 AM (l3cgK)

Govt will never understand the first rule of holes…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 08:34 AM (ugElV)

Don't put your dick in crazy?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:35 AM (l3cgK)

183 The Heat IS On.

Posted by: Zombie Glenn Frey at June 26, 2026 08:35 AM (wVcYX)

*Axle Foley dances in the street*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:35 AM (2YhKe)

184 Govt will never understand the first rule of holes…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 08:34 AM (ugElV)

Of course they understand it.

"Twenty Bucks. Same as in town."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2026 08:36 AM (Ot/FD)

185
134 Longview, TX - White woman leaves an establishment minding her own business when a group of black women approach and begin attacking her screaming "FREE KARMELO!"

Only one has been arrested.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:25 AM (2YhKe)

I have to question a lot about this story; first Longview is a nice but very boring little town where nothing newsworthy ever happens. Second, I tried to look up local accounts and looks like the “mob” consisted of three friends, one of whom was arrested for assault.

The actual story doesn’t seem to match the hype.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2026 08:36 AM (o8hG1)

186 We need some other answer.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 26, 2026 08:32 AM (BI5O2)

The answer is to have their precious socialism affect them directly and without question.

For example, instead of fighting it, let's do reparations.

That changes minds and hearts faster than anything.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2026 08:36 AM (l9DAo)

187 181 The Heat IS On.

Posted by: Zombie Glenn Frey at June 26, 2026 08:35 AM (wVcYX)

Oh, I guess you ARE a zombie now...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:36 AM (l3cgK)

188 You Have Two Cows.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 26, 2026 08:33 AM (wVcYX)

We don't have a cow. We have a bull.

Posted by: Mr. Boorg at June 26, 2026 08:36 AM (8tSC/)

189 "Hello, it can NEVER be done right"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:33 AM (l3cgK)

Just like accounting.
It's only boring when done right.
It's never boring.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 26, 2026 08:37 AM (wVcYX)

190 Govt will never understand the first rule of holes…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 08:34 AM (ugElV)

Don't put your dick in crazy?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:35 AM (l3cgK)

Ha! That one yes, but I was thinking of: When you’re in one, stop digging

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 08:38 AM (ugElV)

191
Gov't takes a small problem, promises to fix it, makes it worse, and takes your tax money to fund their clusterf**k and perpetuate it, because if the problem goes away, so does their excuse for the tax monies to "tackle" the problem...
Posted by: jim
======
Public education is a perfect example. We are now less literate as a society than we were before public education was established. Public Education is our version of Soviet Agriculture.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:38 AM (E4rtv)

192
The actual story doesn’t seem to match the hype.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2026 08:36 AM (o8hG1)

Two more women have since been arrested.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:39 AM (2YhKe)

193 Uruguay looking better all the time.
Posted by: Victor Tango Jilo at June 26, 2026 07:59 AM
++++

Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: Costa Rica at June 26, 2026 08:39 AM (CJnkZ)

194 Public education is a perfect example. We are now less literate as a society than we were before public education was established. Public Education is our version of Soviet Agriculture.
Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:38 AM (E4rtv)

The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the waaaaaaa why do i have to work to make nice things happen to me it's not fair i hate you daddy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2026 08:40 AM (Ot/FD)

195 whig, I am looking for a pithy statement about socialism that I can put on a t-shirt.
Posted by: Ben Had

Too poor to be a socialist.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 26, 2026 08:40 AM (ExV1e)

196 Gov't takes a small problem, promises to fix it, makes it worse, and takes your tax money to fund their clusterf**k and perpetuate it, because if the problem goes away, so does their excuse for the tax monies to "tackle" the problem...
Posted by: jim
======
Public education is a perfect example. We are now less literate as a society than we were before public education was established. Public Education is our version of Soviet Agriculture.
Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:38 AM
_____

Now do recycling.

Posted by: Mother Erf at June 26, 2026 08:41 AM (CJnkZ)

197
168 All men are created equal. What you do with that is up to you
Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2026 08:30 AM (afJtY)

Go with one of the most popular slogans of the Old West.

“God created man; Samuel Colt made them equal.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2026 08:41 AM (o8hG1)

198 Socialism Free Trial:

Give me everything you own so I can tell you you're what's wrong with the world.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2026 08:42 AM (Ot/FD)

199 Socialism. Where the 'haves' control what the 'have nots' have.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:42 AM (2YhKe)

200 198 Socialism Free Trial:

Give me everything you own so I can tell you you're what's wrong with the world.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2026 08:42 AM (Ot/FD)

Hah! Nice.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:43 AM (l3cgK)

201 Austin 2011 had 90 days over 100 degrees. It hit 112 degrees on August 28. That was a hot summer.
2023 has 80 days over a 100 degrees, 40 of those days were 105 or hotter. The spawn was outside practicing that summer. This was the hottest summer on record so far.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 26, 2026 08:43 AM (EneHm)

202 When radical Islamic terrorists hijack a liberal college’s pro-Palestine encampment to enforce barbaric Sharia law on students and execute infidels in a makeshift caliphate, a ragtag band of red-blooded students, a security guard tired of ‘Uncle Tom’ smears, and a Delta Force vet must arm up to save their clueless peers and keep America from surrendering to the enemy on its own soil.

Typical weekend in Harvard.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 26, 2026 08:43 AM (/+uur)

203 173 165 Trying to persuade the rabid younger generations to reject socialism is akin to someone saying the answer to the problem of radical Islam is just figuring out how to sell them on Christianity. This is a fool's errand. We need some other answer.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 26, 2026 08:32 AM (BI5O2)

And even when some are hit square in the face by the hammer of reality, they won't let go of their stupid fixation with Marx and Engels..."it just wasn't done right!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

That is because most people grow up in a socialist economy--e.g. the family. The parents work to provide for the kids (From each according to his abilities) and those kids consume a lot of what their parents worked for (to each according to their needs). The missing formula is love but one cannot 'love' innumerable masses, it simply does not scale. A form of socialism works in a family because the parents love (or should) their children.

It doesn't work very well as you scale up-unless you are something like a monastery/abbey, the military, or some other community united around one purpose with enforceable discipline ejecting those not willing to live like that.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:44 AM (E4rtv)

204 I think the summer of 100 was 80.
I was remodeling Skillerns Drug Stores.
It was HOT.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 26, 2026 08:44 AM (/+uur)

205 JJ , I didn't see it in the report but there is an unbelievable video at Twitchy of Scott Weiner being accosted by a man with a phone camera demanding that Weiner say "Free Palestine" . Weiner looks terrified. You almost feel sorry for him but then you remember he's Scott Weiner

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 26, 2026 07:29 AM (ik64N)
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I hope the tiger eats his face off.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

206 The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the waaaaaaa why do i have to work to make nice things happen to me it's not fair i hate you daddy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Adam should have thought of that before he ate that fruit.

"By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground--because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return."

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:46 AM (E4rtv)

207 No one likes humidity, but at least you don't have to shovel it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 26, 2026 08:46 AM (CJnkZ)

208 Socialism: "using other people's money and labor to make money for the people using other people's money and labor."

It's what it does. One big f-ing circle jerk with a death cult as your guide.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 26, 2026 08:47 AM (jehhT)

209 Gov't makes some people more equal than others..."

Samuel Colt waves...

Posted by: man at June 26, 2026 08:47 AM (XuXeR)

210 You almost feel sorry for him but then you remember he's Scott Weiner

Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Out in society perverts are leftists because it affords them political protection. Until the real leftists/Islamists show up who promptly dispense with the public perverts.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:48 AM (E4rtv)

211 "Do I still have to pay all the taxes and insurance on my free Palestine, or do you cover that, too?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2026 08:48 AM (Ot/FD)

212 I'm willing to try socialism here in America.

The class divide has grown too large and the effects of inflation have made basic things like purchasing a house and raising a family, the underpinnings of society, out of reach for both my generation and the generations behind me.

Socialism is not a good system, but the government has failed to important anti-trust laws, usury laws, and control the printing of fiat currency that has left the old generation wealthy, a handful of corporations in control of everything, and mercantilism is rampant.

The failure of the American government to properly administrate the capitalist system here has left us with little alternative but to turn to more heavy handed governmental systems and the seizure of privately held capitol.

I wish it weren't this way, but the greed of Boomers has forced our hand.

Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 08:49 AM (6Rf1G)

213 Mornin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at June 26, 2026 08:49 AM (77rzZ)

214 To follow up on YD's comment, these young socialists are coming out of university. They got their "International Studies" degree. This is hardly something that can commend them to employers of electrical engineers (or coders, but no degree seems to help there anymore).
By becoming an extremist "community organizer" or whatever, they might be able to get a job at a NGO.
Telling them that socialism doesn't work is like telling a forty year old union longshoreman that unions are inefficient. They don't care. Fuck you, pay them.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 26, 2026 08:50 AM (gKWVE)

215 Adam never had a chance; Surveys indicate that no man ever born would turn down a piece of fruit offered to him by a naked lady.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2026 08:50 AM (o8hG1)

216 Those "Free (murderer) Karmelo" animals are one of the reasons I'm very thankful Jr. Black just turned down a very good job in Atlanta. White people are being terrorized by ignorant, hate-filled racists in many cities across the country.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 26, 2026 07:48 AM (qBdHI)

Until white people finally have enough. After working in Newark for 20 years at one of our studio facilities, my tolerance level dropped to zero. We closed down that facility in 2015 and spent my remaining years at a much "better" site devoid of the ferals that roamed the streets in Newark. I retired a few years later.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 26, 2026 08:51 AM (5xuJ/)

217 I wish it weren't this way, but the greed of Boomers has forced our hand.
Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 08:49 AM (6Rf1G)

If that's your submittal for your Bulwark internship, you're going to need to cut a lot more subjects from your sentences. And would it kill you to throw in a Simpsons reference or something?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2026 08:52 AM (Ot/FD)

218 I wish it weren't this way, but the greed of Boomers has forced our hand

Your concern is noted.

Posted by: Halfhand at June 26, 2026 08:52 AM (C8QQs)

219 Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 08:49 AM (6Rf1G)

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Maybe crack a history book once in your life.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2026 08:52 AM (RIvkX)

220 "Their rule was so long and so total and so successful, that these Monster Babies are a flat-out supermajority of people under 50."

Are they? I'm honestly asking.

There a lot of Monster Babies but from what I see they're not a super-majority. Non-College outnumber College by more than two to one. Monster Babies tend to be college-educated. And they gravitate to Blue Enclaves like Brooklyn. Where they get lots of media attention.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 26, 2026 08:52 AM (dtajH)

221 ...The missing formula is love but one cannot 'love' innumerable masses, it simply does not scale. A form of socialism works in a family because the parents love (or should) their children.

It doesn't work very well as you scale up-unless you are something like a monastery/abbey, the military, or some other community united around one purpose with enforceable discipline ejecting those not willing to live like that.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 08:44 AM (E4rtv)

Family takes the selfishness of individuals and directs it into the ones you love, so you are selfishly protecting and caring for your loved ones. As you wrote, that DOES NOT scale up to entire populations, because, again, people, at their very core, are selfish and lazy.
Capitalism, despite it's flaws, leverages this selfishness to positive ends. You don't want you or your family to starve, so you work to eat. You want stuff other folks have (yes, envy is a sin), but to get it, you have to work harder and provide goods and services others want. Socialism has none of these incentives.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:54 AM (l3cgK)

222 Ok which one if you wise acres is using Millennial Conservative as a Sock? Come on , fess up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 26, 2026 08:54 AM (ik64N)

223 Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 08:49 AM (6Rf1G)

You're making the very common mistake of viewing Socialism in a strictly economic context rather than as the total human-behavior reconstitution and control project that it conceals within its promises but always becomes.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 26, 2026 08:54 AM (fZiTB)

224 I got a slogan.

"Pay for..."

Pay for Palestine. Pay for Karmelo. Pay for Luigi. Pay for all the atrocities, great and small, that you support.

You want to yoke yourself to so much evil, then the onus is on you to make amends for it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2026 08:54 AM (Ot/FD)

225 And even when some are hit square in the face by the hammer of reality, they won't let go of their stupid fixation with Marx and Engels..."it just wasn't done right!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

If Lenin & Stalin, who could kill whoever got in their way, couldn't do it right, it can't be done.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 08:54 AM (Dvo57)

226 Burl Ives! That's the name I couldn't think of last night!

*sips coffee*

G'day, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - reporting in for the morning at June 26, 2026 08:55 AM (C8pEi)

227 Wants to give socialism "a try"

You can vote your way in, but you'll have to shoot your way out.

Posted by: Halfhand at June 26, 2026 08:55 AM (C8QQs)

228 all trolls are average joe and the cock is what they choose to suck

Posted by: gKWVE at June 26, 2026 08:56 AM (gKWVE)

229 Those college 'educated' rent seeking kids with useless degrees should be given a chance to work off their student debt alongside the politicians that decided to fund college for everyone. Someone suggested a 'dignity canal'.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 26, 2026 08:56 AM (3Ope8)

230 Socialism NEVER works. It is never the answer to anything.

Posted by: Bulg at June 26, 2026 08:56 AM (77rzZ)

231 r
I remember a New Year's Day in the mid-to-late 1980's when I lived in the Desert...the temp got up to 100ºF or 101ºF that day...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Lol

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 26, 2026 08:56 AM (ItWcy)

232
I wish it weren't this way, but the greed of Boomers has forced our hand.
Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 08:49 AM (6Rf1G)

If you are feeling this way, odds are good that you live in a blue shithole city that does all it can do to suppress the creation of new jobs.

So get off your ass and move someplace where there ARE new jobs being created, like all the generations of Americans before you have done. Nobody’s going to care about helping you out if all you do is sit on your butt and cry about how mean the world is.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2026 08:56 AM (o8hG1)

233 223 Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 08:49 AM (6Rf1G)

You're making the very common mistake of viewing Socialism in a strictly economic context rather than as the total human-behavior reconstitution and control project that it conceals within its promises but always becomes.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 26, 2026 08:54 AM (fZiTB)

Socialism is the pitcher plant of economic systems.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:56 AM (l3cgK)

234 Maybe crack a history book once in your life.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2026 08:52 AM (RIvkX)

Perhaps you should.

You should read about what happens when the elite ignore huge swaths of disaffected young men without families or economic hope.

I think you'll find it to be interesting reading.

Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 08:57 AM (6Rf1G)

235 I saw Greed of Boomers open for Black Sabbath at Poplar Creek in '79.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:57 AM (2YhKe)

236 Socialism NEVER works. It is never the answer to anything.
Posted by: Bulg at June 26, 2026 08:56 AM (77rzZ)

It just has never been done correctly.

Posted by: John F. Kerry at June 26, 2026 08:57 AM (2YhKe)

237 "The failure of the American government to properly administrate the capitalist system here has left us with little alternative but to turn to more heavy handed governmental systems and the seizure of privately held capitol."

I see a class divide between the non-college working class and those with college degrees and cushy jobs. The divide has aspects of men v women.

Our working class have been getting f*cked over for the last 50 years by deliberate government policies. This is what Trump is working to change.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 26, 2026 08:58 AM (dtajH)

238 You should read about what happens when the elite ignore huge swaths of disaffected young men without families or economic hope.

I think you'll find it to be interesting reading.
Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 08:57 AM (6Rf1G)

The history of Europe?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:58 AM (2YhKe)

239 The economic output of the 11 Southern states together now form the 3rd largest GDP in the world.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 26, 2026 08:58 AM (fZiTB)

240 I wish it weren't this way, but the greed of Boomers has forced our hand.
Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 08:49 AM (6Rf1G)

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good

Posted by: Gordan Gekko at June 26, 2026 08:58 AM (wVcYX)

241 233 223 Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 08:49 AM (6Rf1G)

You're making the very common mistake of viewing Socialism in a strictly economic context rather than as the total human-behavior reconstitution and control project that it conceals within its promises but always becomes.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 26, 2026 08:54 AM (fZiTB)

Socialism is the pitcher plant of economic systems.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:56 AM (l3cgK)

And you are the ant.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:58 AM (l3cgK)

242 You can vote your way in, but you'll have to shoot your way out.
Posted by: Halfhand

When do we start? Because I have a list.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 08:58 AM (Dvo57)

243 I ran across an interesting bit of Aztec mythology.

They have a story about a goddess of vegetation kidnapped by an underworld god causing the world to have seasons.

Now, obviously this invites parallels to Persephone from Greek myth and while the Persephone story has parallels all over the middle east those cultures had ties with Greece so that isn't surprising.

But the Aztecs? Supposedly the American Indians came over 10-30k years ago and came from north east Asia so they shouldn't have shared myths and for example the Mongolian people do NOT have a Persephone myth.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2026 08:58 AM (sKqQm)

244 I do think that "greed" should be the official collective noun for Boomers.

"A Greed of Boomers".

Sounds kinda badass. Not like "A Squish of Millennials", or "A Spasm of Zoomers".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2026 08:58 AM (Ot/FD)

245 I never realized that being a retired boomer living in the sticks gave me "elite" status. Fetch me my Grey Poupon, serf.

Posted by: Halfhand at June 26, 2026 08:59 AM (C8QQs)

246 all trolls are average joe and the cock is what they choose to suck
Posted by: gKWVE at June 26, 2026 08:56 AM (gKWVE)

Kickin' it old school. Well done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 08:59 AM (2YhKe)

247 Socialism: Take Your Neighbor's Happiness Away

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2026 08:59 AM (l9DAo)

248 236 Socialism NEVER works. It is never the answer to anything.
Posted by: Bulg at June 26, 2026 08:56 AM (77rzZ)

It just has never been done correctly.

Posted by: John F. Kerry at June 26, 2026 08:57 AM (2YhKe)

What economic system NEVER works? Socialism is the answer...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 08:59 AM (l3cgK)

249 TGIF, all!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2026 08:59 AM (X8xt3)

250 That took me way too long Ben Had but I like it.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2026 08:59 AM (l9DAo)

251 The vid of Weiner which exemplifies the Dem divide and people babbling about trying socialism reminds me that you can never be pure enough in the leftist world. The purity tests of adherence to ideology are just a way of keeping power. Go ahead middle and upper class lefties , try and ride the tiger.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 26, 2026 08:59 AM (ik64N)

252 Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Posted by: Retief at June 26, 2026 09:00 AM (I8M2J)

253 238 You should read about what happens when the elite ignore huge swaths of disaffected young men without families or economic hope.

I think you'll find it to be interesting reading.
Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 08:57 AM (6Rf1G)

And you might want to educate yourself on what is happening when the elite degrade, deride and marginalize young men to the degree the Leftist culture has been doing for decades.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 26, 2026 09:00 AM (fZiTB)

254 There a lot of Monster Babies but from what I see they're not a super-majority. Non-College outnumber College by more than two to one. Monster Babies tend to be college-educated. And they gravitate to Blue Enclaves like Brooklyn. Where they get lots of media attention.
Posted by: Ignoramus
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Yep. It is a function of college educated nowadays and even there, a lot of them have degrees that simply do not help with getting jobs and they are indebted up to their eyeballs to get those prestige degrees.

We have been pumping out too many degrees and devalued college credentials. And those credentials have been watered down because colleges wanted to keep their students paying tuition and get even more of them.

Too many wannabe elites competing for too few jobs that they deem suitable for a white collar existence.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:00 AM (E4rtv)

255 Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 08:57 AM (6Rf1G)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at June 26, 2026 09:01 AM (2YhKe)

256 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 26, 2026 09:01 AM (/6r4m)

257 the Mongolian people do NOT have a Persephone myth.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2026 08:58 AM (sKqQm)

They don't need one.
Aztecs - and Maya, they have a dying/resurrected god too, 1 Ahau - became agricultural people.
Semites had Tammuz / Damuzi.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 26, 2026 09:01 AM (gKWVE)

258 The people that are embracing socialism want is to get goods and services without having to work.

We normally call this theft but socialism pretties it up. Now it reality most people calling for socialism will be digging "dignity canals" if they get their wish but...the lure of free shit is that strong.

And one amusing part of this the people demanding socialism also commonly complain that their parents didn't leave them generational wealth which, of course, is supposedly a BAD THING if you believe in socialism.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2026 09:01 AM (sKqQm)

259 I ran across an interesting bit of Aztec mythology.

They have a story about a goddess of vegetation kidnapped by an underworld god causing the world to have seasons.

Now, obviously this invites parallels to Persephone from Greek myth and while the Persephone story has parallels all over the middle east those cultures had ties with Greece so that isn't surprising.

But the Aztecs? Supposedly the American Indians came over 10-30k years ago and came from north east Asia so they shouldn't have shared myths and for example the Mongolian people do NOT have a Persephone myth.
Posted by: 18-1

I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.
Posted by: Georgio Tsoukalos

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 09:01 AM (Dvo57)

260 How many "kids" are still in school or college and being indoctrinated into socialism/communism?

See... this thing's not going to die off anytime soon. Unless the "experiment" they're trying with socialism dies on the vine (probably with them too.) BAMN

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 26, 2026 09:01 AM (jehhT)

261 good morning JJ, Horde
Posted by: callsign claymore at June 26, 2026 09:01 AM (/6r4m)

Where you been?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:02 AM (2YhKe)

262 Let's try socialism on those who want it. No problem. I will take their guns away first.

Posted by: runner at June 26, 2026 09:02 AM (GD0B3)

263 >>I see a class divide between the non-college working class and those with college degrees and cushy jobs. The divide has aspects of men v women.

The business vs. NGO.
One understands where money comes from, and how to use it wisely vs. those who see it as magically arriving, to be used on whatever makes them feel good.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2026 09:02 AM (X8xt3)

264 Millennial Conservative has gotta be a sock being purposely stupid and obtuse… that can’t be for real

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 09:03 AM (26GAh)

265 How about when governments CREATE huge swathes of disaffected young men without families or hope?

That's the "Socialism" you yearn for.

That's the major thrust of this whole thread right now. Create the problem. Dangle the problem in front of the afflicted. Promise a Better World for those whose world you actively ruined.

And then blame it all on the poor bastards who were actually working towards a better world the entire time.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2026 09:03 AM (Ot/FD)

266 Millennial Conservative has gotta be a sock being purposely stupid and obtuse… that can’t be for real
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 09:03 AM (26GAh)

IF not, should he have experience higher education, he should get his money back because he is f*cking stupid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:03 AM (2YhKe)

267 Large numbers of disaffected young men cause trouble in communist/socialist societies as well. Look at China which has a huge number of unmarried young men because of the aborting of baby girls. Right now that society and government isn't too stable

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 26, 2026 09:04 AM (ik64N)

268 Too many wannabe elites competing for too few jobs that they deem suitable for a white collar existence.
Posted by: whig

Starbucks always needs baristas.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 09:04 AM (Dvo57)

269 You should read about what happens when the elite ignore huge swaths of disaffected young men without families or economic hope.

Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 08:57 AM (6Rf1G)

I'll play but only for a minute. Because I think (for the moment) you are trying to say something of interest but doing it particularly badly -

What exactly do the "elite" owe to young men, and how are they expected to deliver it?

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2026 09:04 AM (l9DAo)

270 You should read about what happens when the elite ignore huge swaths of disaffected young men without families or economic hope.

I think you'll find it to be interesting reading.
Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 08:57 AM (6Rf1G)

Well if you’re talking about early medieval Europe, or the Arab world anytime, what happens is that they get packaged up and sent into some foreign country to cause as much trouble as they can, or die trying. It’s a very effective pressure release system.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2026 09:04 AM (o8hG1)

271 Capitalism, despite it's flaws, leverages this selfishness to positive ends. You don't want you or your family to starve, so you work to eat. You want stuff other folks have (yes, envy is a sin), but to get it, you have to work harder and provide goods and services others want. Socialism has none of these incentives.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Well said. Thanks for extending and clarifying my remarks. And Adam Smith with his Theory of Moral Sentiments said exactly that. Later pops up in the Wealth of Nations.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:04 AM (E4rtv)

272 They don't need one.
Aztecs - and Maya, they have a dying/resurrected god too, 1 Ahau - became agricultural people.
Semites had Tammuz / Damuzi.

So obviously this could be a coincidence, the Aztecs needs to explain seasons and independently came up with something similar to what the classic civilizations of the fertile crescent and surrounding regions did. That just seems odd to me though

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2026 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

273 "Point on the map where socialism works and the people are happy and successful."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:04 AM (2YhKe)

274 Obvious troll is obvious.

Don't engage the trolls, folks.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 26, 2026 09:05 AM (O7YUW)

275 I wish it weren't this way, but the greed of Boomers has forced our hand.
Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 08:49 AM (6Rf1G)

I know this tract. The conclusions are all wrong.

Posted by: Captain Ramius at June 26, 2026 09:05 AM (wVcYX)

276 Then from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. So anyone making over 25K will feed those who are bumming around, shitposting on the internet, while mommy and daddy subsidise their lifestyles. I like it! And if they don't like it, they will go someplace where they can learn to work for free.

Posted by: runner at June 26, 2026 09:06 AM (GD0B3)

277 Socialism has none of these incentives.

Yep. Work in a capitalist system creating more goods and services and you get more goods and services.

Work in a socialist system creating more goods and services and you get 1/330millionith of the goods and services you produced.

The incentives in socialism then say "don't work it isn't worth it"

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2026 09:06 AM (sKqQm)

278 And one amusing part of this the people demanding socialism also commonly complain that their parents didn't leave them generational wealth which, of course, is supposedly a BAD THING if you believe in socialism.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2026 09:01 AM (sKqQm)

Would those be the same parents who were able to buy a 100,000 sqft house and raise 300 children at age 18 on a single minimum wage job?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 26, 2026 09:06 AM (ExV1e)

279 Obvious troll is obvious.

Don't engage the trolls, folks.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 26, 2026 09:05 AM (O7YUW)

He started it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:06 AM (2YhKe)

280 You should read about what happens when the elite ignore huge swaths of disaffected young men without families or economic hope.

Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 08:57 AM (6Rf1G)

I'll play but only for a minute. Because I think (for the moment) you are trying to say something of interest but doing it particularly badly -

What exactly do the "elite" owe to young men, and how are they expected to deliver it?
Posted by: ...

It's been 81 years since the last major dust up. We're overdue.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 09:07 AM (Dvo57)

281 I had to call the FD after my roommate fell twice yesterday. My roommate is currently eating cereal in the rumpus room. Living with roommates is not fun. Too bad I'm related.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 26, 2026 09:07 AM (diia5)

282 You should read about what happens when the elite ignore huge swaths of disaffected young men without families or economic hope

And there it is. The same threat that stacked 100 million bodies like cord wood.

Posted by: Halfhand at June 26, 2026 09:07 AM (C8QQs)

283 149> Boomers are awful

Just a reminder, the mean and median age of a US Congress critter is around 54 years.

The mean and median age of a Congress critter's staff is 30.

GS-15s are 40-55

None of that is Boomer territory for policy, Deep State bureaucracy and Ruling Class.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 26, 2026 09:08 AM (xE0sV)

284 I had to call the FD after my roommate fell twice yesterday. My roommate is currently eating cereal in the rumpus room. Living with roommates is not fun. Too bad I'm related.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 26, 2026 09:07 AM (diia5)

Ouch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:08 AM (2YhKe)

285 273 "Point on the map where socialism works and the people are happy and successful."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:04 AM (2YhKe)

The local cemetery...those folks seem peaceful...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 09:08 AM (l3cgK)

286 Goddess of Vegetation? The Great Kudzu?

Posted by: Fred Flintstone at June 26, 2026 09:08 AM (wVcYX)

287 Just finished Citizen Vigilante.

It's about an American in Europe who has chosen to solve the violent migrant problem the European governments refuse to solve themselves.

Line: "I do this for you until you learn to do it for yourself."

Whoa... The EU is absolutely going to ban that film.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 26, 2026 09:08 AM (rii+a)

288
So obviously this could be a coincidence, the Aztecs needs to explain seasons and independently came up with something similar to what the classic civilizations of the fertile crescent and surrounding regions did. That just seems odd to me though
Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2026 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

The earliest stories of Quetzalcoatl said that he came to the early Mayans from across the sea.
Lost Carthaginian fleet?

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2026 09:08 AM (o8hG1)

289 Yeah, people engage with trolls bringing the most stupid topics. Next we'll be trying to prove that Earth is not flat and that rain is wet.

Posted by: runner at June 26, 2026 09:08 AM (GD0B3)

290 282 You should read about what happens when the elite ignore huge swaths of disaffected young men without families or economic hope

They probably won't bother voting.. I'm more concerned with young women who will

Posted by: It's me donna at June 26, 2026 09:09 AM (SbjuD)

291 Goddess of Vegetation? The Great Kudzu?
Posted by: Fred Flintstone at June 26, 2026 09:08 AM (wVcYX)

Shark status:

[ X ] Jumped

[ _ ] Not Jumped

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:09 AM (2YhKe)

292 The local cemetery...those folks seem peaceful...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 09:08 AM (l3cgK)

Ooooh look at her over there, all 5'11" deep like she owns the place.

Whole place is going to the dogs, I tell ya. Someone should do something.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2026 09:09 AM (Ot/FD)

293 Another funny thing right now you can see...

The left tells you capitalism is bad because the people that it gives wealth/power to are also corrupted by this wealth/power.

But if instead you give wealth/power to a governing elite they will make good, fair decisions because when power comes with a government office it is no longer corrupting.

And then they tell you Trump is a NAZI and everyone associated with him in the government is corrupt.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2026 09:09 AM (sKqQm)

294 What exactly do the "elite" owe to young men, and how are they expected to deliver it?

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2026 09:04 AM (l9DAo)

Contractually....nothing.

Morally and socially....the same society they thrived in, if not a better one.

Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 09:09 AM (6Rf1G)

295 elite ignore huge swaths of disaffected young men without families or economic hope
_____

Are they ignoring these men or are they actively creating these huge swaths by policy via DEI?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 26, 2026 09:09 AM (Dv3i1)

296
Contractually....nothing.

Morally and socially....the same society they thrived in, if not a better one.

Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 09:09 AM (6Rf1G)

Why are they owed anything at all for simply just existing?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:10 AM (2YhKe)

297 261 Hey Sponge. Changing up the morning routine. Still dropping by here from time to time. Someone has to post ridiculous Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn quotes for no good reason

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 26, 2026 09:10 AM (/6r4m)

298 >>What exactly do the "elite" owe to young men, and how are they expected to deliver it?

Stop demonizing them?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2026 09:11 AM (X8xt3)

299 Socialism has none of these incentives.

Yep. Work in a capitalist system creating more goods and services and you get more goods and services.

Work in a socialist system creating more goods and services and you get 1/330millionith of the goods and services you produced.

The incentives in socialism then say "don't work it isn't worth it"
Posted by: 18-1

For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat”

2 Thessalonians 3:10

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 09:11 AM (Dvo57)

300 JJ posted half a mile of links, and all you can do is engage with trolls...sad

Posted by: runner at June 26, 2026 09:11 AM (GD0B3)

301 Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 09:09 AM (6Rf1G)

You're on weak ground raising the issue of how the elite treat young men. You can't possibly not see the veritable cultural jihad waged by the Left against masculinity over the last 30 years.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 26, 2026 09:12 AM (fZiTB)

302 Hey Sponge. Changing up the morning routine. Still dropping by here from time to time. Someone has to post ridiculous Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn quotes for no good reason
Posted by: callsign claymore at June 26, 2026 09:10 AM (/6r4m)

Glad to hear you're still plugging away.

Just know your commentary has been missed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:12 AM (2YhKe)

303 What exactly do the "elite" owe to young men, and how are they expected to deliver it?

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2026 09:04 AM (l9DAo)

Contractually....nothing.

Morally and socially....the same society they thrived in, if not a better one.

Posted by: Millennial Consevative

We don't owe you shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 09:12 AM (Dvo57)

304 Whoa... The EU is absolutely going to ban that film.
____

I was curious where in Europe it was filmed. Turns out - Croatia. They have cultural memory of being occupied and living under the tender mercies of Islamic rule.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 26, 2026 09:12 AM (Dv3i1)

305 300 JJ posted half a mile of links, and all you can do is engage with trolls...sad
Posted by: runner at June 26, 2026 09:11 AM (GD0B3)

It's not a terrible thing to engage them now and then.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 26, 2026 09:13 AM (fZiTB)

306 JJ posted half a mile of links, and all you can do is engage with trolls...sad
Posted by: runner at June 26, 2026 09:11 AM (GD0B3)

The troll is actually engaging and didn't just shitpost and run.

Get over it. It's what we do around here. We debate, even with retards.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:13 AM (2YhKe)

307 Posted by: runner at June 26, 2026 09:08 AM (GD0B3)

You would never engage in a stupid argument.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2026 09:13 AM (l9DAo)

308 runner: perhaps the Millennial Con Man represents that plate of doo doo

Posted by: gKWVE at June 26, 2026 09:13 AM (gKWVE)

309 The earliest stories of Quetzalcoatl said that he came to the early Mayans from across the sea.
Lost Carthaginian fleet?

Portugal claimed to have found Brazil by a a ship sailing the coast of Africa getting blown off course.

Carthage did send ships further south then Morocco so could they have had the same thing happen to them? Its an interesting question...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2026 09:14 AM (sKqQm)

310 Starbucks always needs baristas.
Posted by: rickb223

I can kind of sympathize with the plight of college age yutes--they were promised all kinds of bullshit from their parents, corporations, K12, society, and colleges. Like the college degree will open the key to the career you want.

The truth is that colleges in their best incarnation were grounded in teaching students how to think. As they became more watered down in the Humanities into socialist indoctrination camps, the practical degrees sprung up--business, comp sci, STEM, etc. etc.

And those in turn were watered down, turned into socialist bootcamps, etc.

So an indebted kid with credentials, a massive chip on their shoulder from socialist indoctrination from education, and a disdain for manual work but an instant desire for an executive position, come out and find out the world does not work that way.

Don't go to college because you want a 'job' that pays well without working. For many males, they would do better to work at whatever jobs rather than go straight to college anyway. I promise you that colleges will take your money any time you are ready to spend it.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:14 AM (E4rtv)

311 >>Just finished Citizen Vigilante.

It's about an American in Europe who has chosen to solve the violent migrant problem the European governments refuse to solve themselves.

Line: "I do this for you until you learn to do it for yourself."

Whoa... The EU is absolutely going to ban that film.
- - - -

The main character has no moment self-reflection, no moment where he wonders if he has become just as monstrous as those he pursues, no hesitation, ever.

Yeah, not so much a movie/story as a reaction to the state of Europe.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2026 09:14 AM (X8xt3)

312 Damn that Musk!

Karen Piper
@PiperK
Wow. A Lancet study says Elon Musk will have killed 14 million people by 2030. Lancet is the world's top medical journal.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 26, 2026 09:14 AM (ndZc7)

313 Whoa... The EU is absolutely going to ban that film.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 26, 2026 09:08 AM (rii+a)

I believe that the UK already has. That's probably why Elon put it up on X for free for 2 days.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 26, 2026 09:15 AM (ExV1e)

314 They probably won't bother voting.. I'm more concerned with young women who will

Posted by: It's me donna at June 26, 2026 09:09 AM (SbjuD)

There it fucking is.

Leave it to donna to cut right to the heart

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2026 09:15 AM (l9DAo)

315 Portugal claimed to have found Brazil by a a ship sailing the coast of Africa getting blown off course.

Hell of a blow job.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 09:15 AM (Dvo57)

316 "The main character has no moment self-reflection, no moment where he wonders if he has become just as monstrous as those he pursues, no hesitation, ever."

Good. Now I'd like to see it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 26, 2026 09:16 AM (fZiTB)

317 The troll is actually engaging and didn't just shitpost and run.

Get over it. It's what we do around here. We debate, even with retards.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:13 AM (2YhKe)

I agree, I suspect it’s an old friend. Much much better than the idiot who was saying Trump caused earthquakes in Venezuela.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2026 09:16 AM (o8hG1)

318 I saw Debating with Retards front for Men at Work at the Central Club Hotel in Melbourne in 1980...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 09:16 AM (l3cgK)

319 Think Locally. Act Locally.

The Globe doesn't give a rats ass about you or your life.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2026 09:16 AM (Ot/FD)

320 We don't owe you shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 09:12 AM (Dvo57)

I understand that is your position and the position of everyone like you.

If you don't believe one generation of Americans owes it to the next to maintain and build the quality of life, that's fine. I'm not here to convince you of that.

What I am telling you is why I'm willing to investigate into an American version of socialism.

I understand my struggles fall on deaf ears. That's why I, too, am listening to the "socialism never works" mantra with deaf ears as well.

Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 09:17 AM (6Rf1G)

321 A well designed society structures itself to pressure young men and to start working and looking for a wife, and for young women to start looking for a husband and preparing to have children.

We have not had a well designed society for some time.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2026 09:17 AM (sKqQm)

322 317 The troll is actually engaging and didn't just shitpost and run.

Get over it. It's what we do around here. We debate, even with retards.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:13 AM (2YhKe)

I agree, I suspect it’s an old friend. Much much better than the idiot who was saying Trump caused earthquakes in Venezuela.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2026 09:16 AM (o8hG1)

What did Trump do? Bare his legs?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 09:17 AM (l3cgK)

323 Haven't the Democrats suffered enough?

POLITICO
@politico
Democrats grapple uncomfortably with World Cup success

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 26, 2026 09:17 AM (ndZc7)

324 @PiperK
Wow. A Lancet study says Elon Musk will have killed 14 million people by 2030. Lancet is the world's top medical journal.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 26, 2026 09:14 AM (ndZc7)

Now do the covid 19 'vaccine.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:17 AM (2YhKe)

325 >>You can't possibly not see the veritable cultural jihad waged by the Left against masculinity over the last 30 years.

This.
As institutions have become led by women, they have been feminized and hostile to men. I am so f'ing sick of the term "toxic masculinity."

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2026 09:18 AM (X8xt3)

326 It amuses me that every day people, presumably in the US, bid up the price of oil and every night it goes back down again.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 26, 2026 09:18 AM (ExV1e)

327 Stop demonizing them?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2026 09:11 AM (X8xt3)

Step back and you'll note the elites are suddenly the biggest fans of young disaffected men going.

This ain't 2017 anymore. All men rape but it's become a good thing overnight and also, what rape.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2026 09:18 AM (l9DAo)

328
What did Trump do? Bare his legs?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 09:17 AM (l3cgK)

Took over their oil industry and started fracking. Fracking destroyed Venezuela in 6 months.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:18 AM (2YhKe)

329 What I am telling you is why I'm willing to investigate into an American version of socialism.

I understand my struggles fall on deaf ears. That's why I, too, am listening to the "socialism never works" mantra with deaf ears as well.

Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 09:17 AM (6Rf1G)

Um, hello! We ALREADY have socialism in this country. Gov't price controls. Subsidies to various groups, including farmers. Social Security. Medicare. Food Stamps.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 09:19 AM (l3cgK)

330 rent control

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 09:19 AM (l3cgK)

331 >>@politico
Democrats grapple uncomfortably with World Cup success

And really, isn't this the story of Obama?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2026 09:19 AM (X8xt3)

332 Neville Roy Singham — a propagandist for the Chinese Communist Party and ardent supporter of Maoism and socialism.

I remember when the communists thought billionaires were bad.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at June 26, 2026 09:19 AM (0paAZ)

333 What I am telling you is why I'm willing to investigate into an American version of socialism.

-
And that's why I'm willing to let you eat socialist cake.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 26, 2026 09:19 AM (ndZc7)

334 It's not a terrible thing to engage them now and then.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 26, 2026 09:13 AM (fZiTB)

My view is that if you engage with trolls, you are reducing yourself by accepting nonsense as engagement and "serious argument" .

Posted by: runner at June 26, 2026 09:19 AM (GD0B3)

335 The Phoenicians supposedly circumnavigated Africa about 600 BC.

Posted by: Bulg at June 26, 2026 09:19 AM (77rzZ)

336 Millennial Consevative

With deaf ears, perchance your eyes still work.

Name a socialist country that does not have outmigration of productive citizens. We see in everywhere, since the Paris Commune, including from US states like CA & NY

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 09:20 AM (u82oZ)

337 "The main character has no moment self-reflection, no moment where he wonders if he has become just as monstrous as those he pursues, no hesitation, ever

There is a funny aspect to this.

Imagine some popular Euro director were to make a film about a young Muslim in Gaza who sees the Muslims around him killed by "Jewish colonizers" and then reacts with "anti-colonial" violence. It would win awards and be the talk of Europe.

But Jews have lived in Israel for all of recorded history with Muslims showing up much later...as colonizers.

And Muslims have very explicitly come to Europe as colonizers.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2026 09:20 AM (sKqQm)

338 This.
As institutions have become led by women, they have been feminized and hostile to men. I am so f'ing sick of the term "toxic masculinity."
Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2026 09:18 AM
+++

And everything becomes feelings based.
Stop putting women in charge.

Posted by: That's right, I typed it at June 26, 2026 09:20 AM (CJnkZ)

339 What I am telling you is why I'm willing to investigate into an American version of socialism.
Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 09:17 AM (6Rf1G)

Then I suggest you check out the history of Socialism and Communism in America via Robert Owens and Fourierism in the early 19th century.

You keep dodging the key challenge: show us where Socialism has worked, that is, produced success, prosperity and social stability anywhere. If there is some new model that miraculously avoids every tragic feel-good failing of Socialism of the past, please enlighten us.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 26, 2026 09:21 AM (fZiTB)

340 runner

Do we ask CBD to ban him?

He sharpens our arguments. Practice.
At least he is not insulting us much.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 09:21 AM (u82oZ)

341 If we can talk about boobs and make endless Seinfeld references, we can engage with trolls.

Posted by: Bulg at June 26, 2026 09:21 AM (77rzZ)

342
What I am telling you is why I'm willing to investigate into an American version of socialism.

I understand my struggles fall on deaf ears. That's why I, too, am listening to the "socialism never works" mantra with deaf ears as well.
Posted by: Millennial Consevative at June 26, 2026 09:17 AM (6Rf1G)

So, you're in the John Kerry swiftboat that believes that socialism has failed everywhere it's been tried because they just "didn't do it right."

Got it. Again, if you paid for higher education, get your money back. They failed you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:21 AM (2YhKe)

343 >>Step back and you'll note the elites are suddenly the biggest fans of young disaffected men going.

Only because the 2024 election revealed a huge disparity in support for Democrats between Gen Z women and men. They've been scrambling to woo young men back ever since.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2026 09:21 AM (X8xt3)

344 Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame
tinyurl.com/3572kahm
Springer bought out Naturwissenschaften, the journal which had published Planck's papers in the 1940s. The papers got retracted in 2011.
One was "Sinn und Grenzen der exakten Wissenschaft". This was an opinion / philosophical piece which Planck was floating to other journals. Naturwissenschaften at the time didn't care. Springer, now, cares.
Didn't stop Springer from charging $40 for the retracted pdf though. The empty pdf. We're serious.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 26, 2026 09:22 AM (gKWVE)

345 Add the Lancet to the list of skin suit zombie orgs…. Sigh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 09:22 AM (YXvTV)

346 U.S. states cannot require pesticide label warnings beyond those mandated by federal regulation.

Doesn't California do this all the time? Or are all those cancer-causing warnings that mention CA federally mandated?

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at June 26, 2026 09:22 AM (0paAZ)

347 And everything becomes feelings based.

In a very odd way.

The left felt bad about George Floyd dying...but not him threatening to kill a pregnant woman.

The left feels bad about Karmelo going to jail...but not him murdering a kid

And so on.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2026 09:22 AM (sKqQm)

348 If we can talk about boobs and make endless Seinfeld references, we can engage with trolls.
Posted by: Bulg at June 26, 2026 09:21 AM (77rzZ)

Especially with the ones that stick around and argue their point.

I have little issue with that.

Fling poo and run, f*ck off.

Stick around and stand by your flung poo, I'm ok with humoring you a bit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:22 AM (2YhKe)

349 328
What did Trump do? Bare his legs?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 09:17 AM (l3cgK)

Took over their oil industry and started fracking. Fracking destroyed Venezuela in 6 months.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:18 AM (2YhKe)

That's fracking we-todd-did...Yes, fracking can cause earthquakes (like in Oklahoma and Texas), but were they even fracking anywhere near the epicenter? And how much fracking? Remember, faults already exist, already have tension. And Venezuela has a history of large quakes. A 200 year delay is not unheard of for faults in some areas (Cascadia has a 300 to 500 year repeat on its massive subduction quakes)...I wonder what archaeoseismology has been done in the region to substantiate the frequency of occurrence...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 09:22 AM (l3cgK)

350 The earliest stories of Quetzalcoatl said that he came to the early Mayans from across the sea.

-
I thought that was Puff the Magic Dragon.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 26, 2026 09:23 AM (ndZc7)

351 Do we ask CBD to ban him?

He sharpens our arguments. Practice.
At least he is not insulting us much.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 09:21 AM (u82oZ)

Ignoring, as all of the COBS advised is sufficient. You can't fix stupid trolls, so don't try.

Posted by: runner at June 26, 2026 09:23 AM (GD0B3)

352 How Many Girls on Testosterone Is Too Many?

Just look at the WNBA...

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at June 26, 2026 09:23 AM (0paAZ)

353 My view is that if you engage with trolls, you are reducing yourself by accepting nonsense as engagement and "serious argument" .
Posted by: runner at June 26, 2026 09:19 AM (GD0B3)

Okay. I choose to take it on a case-by-case basis.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 26, 2026 09:23 AM (fZiTB)

354 Representatives from Springer Nature declined to comment, beyond saying that “detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.”

The relevant author is Max fucking Planck. Might be a mite challenging to discuss his papers with him.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 26, 2026 09:24 AM (gKWVE)

355 Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2026 09:14 AM (sKqQm)

I read a really interesting book about the Chinese 'Plate Fleet' that supposedly explored the southern Americas a century or so before Magellan.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 26, 2026 09:24 AM (3Ope8)

356 Just look at the WNBA...

Hmm, I might have to agree

Posted by: Caitlan Clarke looking at the man hands punching her in the throat at June 26, 2026 09:24 AM (sKqQm)

357 346 U.S. states cannot require pesticide label warnings beyond those mandated by federal regulation.

Doesn't California do this all the time? Or are all those cancer-causing warnings that mention CA federally mandated?

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at June 26, 2026 09:22 AM (0paAZ)

In Kalifornia, everything causes cancer; it's just to what degree.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 09:24 AM (l3cgK)

358 I’m GenX and I quickly get tired of the generational skirmishes… GenX gets lost in the shuffle anyway and rarely gets mentioned. Astrology is quackery and so is thinking that all born in a certain range of years are identical widgets. Lazy thinking

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 09:24 AM (Jehr5)

359 As institutions have become led by women, they have been feminized and hostile to men. I am so f'ing sick of the term "toxic masculinity."
Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2026 09:18 AM

Not to put too fine a point on it Lizzy because you know I greatly admire and respect your wit, knowledge, and commentary, but the world is currently marinating in the most toxic version of masculinity imaginable, all fomented into western society by these very same elites. It's happened overnight and under our noses.

While you're busy trying to get them to leave masculinity alone, they already have. They are dumping the worst possible animal version of it on our heads and laughing about it. Just make sure you understand the nature of the battle!

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2026 09:25 AM (l9DAo)

360 People all over the world strive to come to The United States because it ISN'T a socialist country and the dream of doing whatever you want to get whatever you want can still be realized.

Take that away and the world desire to achieve, accomplish and strive for greatness diminishes greatly.

So, f*ck you for trying to destroy the last best hope for mankind on Earth.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:25 AM (2YhKe)

361 Maybe we can argue that astrology is real science...

Posted by: runner at June 26, 2026 09:25 AM (GD0B3)

362 341 If we can talk about boobs and make endless Seinfeld references, we can engage with trolls.
Posted by: Bulg at June 26, 2026 09:21 AM (77rzZ)

Or references to Mel Brooks movies.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 26, 2026 09:25 AM (N39Ws)

363 I read a really interesting book about the Chinese 'Plate Fleet' that supposedly explored the southern Americas a century or so before Magellan.

Zheng He? He is recorded as reaching Eastern Africa.

Not long after though China turned very insular and I think we lost some of the records of their explorations.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2026 09:25 AM (sKqQm)

364 CrotchetyOldJarhead

Hoax. That fleet got to Australia and the east coast of Africa.

The Japanese did get to Mexico, but after the Spanish.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 09:26 AM (u82oZ)

365 If you don't believe one generation of Americans owes it to the next to maintain and build the quality of life, that's fine.

We gave you a quality of life.

I saw a video where some young-ish woman was bemoaning the uselessness of her PhD in soil biology just because she wasn't willing to move out of San Francisco to where the soil was.

I've seen videos where young folks bemoan the fact that they can't have the "good life" because jobs don't pay enough while they have a smart phone, two tablets, three flat screen TVs and a coffee table covered in takeout and coffee flavored sugar.

The younger generation wants what they THINK Boomers had plus everything that Boomers created. They want it now, and they want it handed to them.

Good luck with your socialism. Hopefully I'll be dead before it comes to Texas.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 26, 2026 09:26 AM (ExV1e)

366 - @243. 18-1

Check out "Dr Nathaniel Jeanson Traced" on utube.

Posted by: TeeJ at June 26, 2026 09:26 AM (xI6JS)

367 Posted by: It's me donna
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AI is probably going to eliminate a lot of those white collar jobs currently going to college educated females. And government has reached a point where a lot of the blue states are overextended as is Uncle Sam--those gubmint air conditional easy jobs are likely to decline in the coming years.

Too many young women are going to college now in quantity as colleges, will incur massive debts, and come out with declining job prospects. E.g. teaching jobs going away due to declining enrollments (the baby dearth), governments retrenching on employment, service industries using AI instead of new hires, fewer DEI and HR jobs, less requirement for paperwork jobs, etc. etc. And that means female voting will start to decline as well. Voting rates in genera decline as poverty increases because of personal economic instability. Women are just a bit behind the males in the economic shift is all.

The males willing to do hard manual trade labor will still get jobs as AI doesn't build houses, doesn't dig ditches, doesn't redo the wiring, fix the cars, etc.

And the reason is too many college degrees for fewer jobs that need them.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:26 AM (E4rtv)

368 So, you're in the John Kerry swiftboat that believes that socialism has failed everywhere it's been tried because they just "didn't do it right."

Got it. Again, if you paid for higher education, get your money back. They failed you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Let me kill 100 million Soviets with zero pushback. I'm SURE I can do it right!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 09:26 AM (Dvo57)

369 What happened with Caitlin Clark, did she get mauled ? Did they do anything about it ?

Posted by: runner at June 26, 2026 09:26 AM (GD0B3)

370
Or references to Mel Brooks movies.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 26, 2026 09:25 AM (N39Ws)

DO WHAT HE SAY! DO WHAT HE SAY!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:27 AM (2YhKe)

371 355 Are you referring to that stupid Menzies book about Zheng He? That’s been debunked pretty thoroughly.

Posted by: Bulg at June 26, 2026 09:27 AM (77rzZ)

372 The main character has no moment self-reflection, no moment where he wonders if he has become just as monstrous as those he pursues, no hesitation, ever.

Yeah, not so much a movie/story as a reaction to the state of Europe.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2026 09:14 AM (X8xt3)

Perhaps that's for later.

You deal with the closest alligator to your canoe first. That alligator is the deliberate, unchecked, forcible installation of violent Muslims onto Western societies.

Without reading or listening to ANYTHING about the film, I wonder if the main character's moment of self-reflection can only come after the problem has been solved.

Sometimes, the fastest way out is 'through.'

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 26, 2026 09:27 AM (rii+a)

373 358 I’m GenX and I quickly get tired of the generational skirmishes… GenX gets lost in the shuffle anyway and rarely gets mentioned. Astrology is quackery and so is thinking that all born in a certain range of years are identical widgets. Lazy thinking

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 09:24 AM (Jehr5)

Yet we are influenced and affected by the times and surroundings we were born into. My Dad grew up during the depression and fought in WWII (not eleven); those two things had an immense influence on his thoughts and how he handled situations...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 09:27 AM (l3cgK)

374 How Many Girls on Testosterone Is Too Many?
======================
This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: John Thune at June 26, 2026 09:27 AM (XvWvi)

375 18-1

Horde minds.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 09:27 AM (u82oZ)

376 What happened with Caitlin Clark, did she get mauled ? Did they do anything about it ?

I think the official answer from the WNBA to violence against Clark is...

She needs to stop being so white
She needs to stop being so straight

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2026 09:27 AM (sKqQm)

377 299 Socialism has none of these incentives.

Yep. Work in a capitalist system creating more goods and services and you get more goods and services.

Work in a socialist system creating more goods and services and you get 1/330millionith of the goods and services you produced.

The incentives in socialism then say "don't work it isn't worth it"
Posted by: 18-1

For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat”

2 Thessalonians 3:10

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 09:11 AM (Dvo57)

From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs.

From this and history I conclude:
Commie leaders have insatiable needs yet only have the ability to give misery to their society.

Maybe this should be pointed out to the idiots voting themselves into serfdom.

Posted by: Gref at June 26, 2026 09:28 AM (5rh/l)

378 Poor baby!

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Gavin Newsom claims that Democrats don’t have the same kind of friendly media ecosystem that Trump and conservatives do.
“I don’t see that on MSNBC…I sure as hell don’t see it on CNN. I don’t see it anywhere."
Gaslighting levels here are stratospheric.

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The View are practically Christian nationalist extremists!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 26, 2026 09:28 AM (ndZc7)

379 169 whig, I am looking for a pithy statement about socialism that I can put on a t-shirt.
Posted by: Ben Had
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Envy is a sin.
Be grateful for what you have.
Posted by: whig

Socialism is wonderful
Until you run out of other people's money
Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 08:32 AM (Dvo57)

"Just Be Thankful For What You've Got"

William Devaughn 1974

Diamond in the back
sunroof top
Diggin' the scene
with the gangster-lean!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 26, 2026 09:28 AM (x0n13)

380 How Many Girls on Testosterone Is Too Many?

Just look at the WNBA...
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at June 26, 2026 09:23 AM (0paAZ)

... yeah, and deep, too!

Posted by: Brittney Griner at June 26, 2026 09:28 AM (wVcYX)

381 >>@politico
Democrats grapple uncomfortably with World Cup success

Saw a European on X marveling at American World Cup fans, asking if they really thought they had a chance to win it.

Yeah, buddy, you've just discovered American optimism and the can-do spirit, they really believe it's possible. Imagine the shock!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2026 09:29 AM (X8xt3)

382 I think the official answer from the WNBA to violence against Clark is...

She needs to stop being so white
She needs to stop being so straight

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She needs to stop being so talented, makes us look bad

Posted by: runner at June 26, 2026 09:29 AM (GD0B3)

383 If you don't believe one generation of Americans owes it to the next to maintain and build the quality of life, that's fine.

Every generation has built a better quality of life for the next generation, without question. The fact that YOUR f*cked off generation doesn't want to work to better the quality of life for the NEXT generation isn't our problem.

That would be a YP, lazy bitch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:29 AM (2YhKe)

384 The world would instantly improve (by epsilon) if the WNBA would just dissolve and go out of business

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 26, 2026 09:29 AM (2mApq)

385 294> buying uncritically all of the 70s Boomer Pr0n on TikTok

You want gas lines, the Misery Index, Vietnam War conscription, 20% home mortgage rates, constant union strikes, hostages, shitty cars suffering conflicting EPA and CAFE mandates, Japanization of the economy, race riots, communist uprisings and bombings, three broadcast networks totally captured by the Left, Fairness Doctrine, and long distance phone rates?

Posted by: Community Notes at June 26, 2026 09:29 AM (xE0sV)

386 I wonder if he's grokked yet that Socialism can only function on a wider basis through coercion.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 26, 2026 09:29 AM (fZiTB)

387
Diamond in the back
sunroof top
Diggin' the scene
with the gangster-lean!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 26, 2026 09:28 AM (x0n13)

CAAAANN YOUUUUU DIIIGGGG IIIIIITTTTTTT!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)

388 376 What happened with Caitlin Clark, did she get mauled ? Did they do anything about it ?

I think the official answer from the WNBA to violence against Clark is...

She needs to stop being so white
She needs to stop being so straight

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2026 09:27 AM (sKqQm)

The WNBA is one of the immumerable organized Mean Girls Clubs.

Posted by: Gref at June 26, 2026 09:30 AM (5rh/l)

389 >>I think the official answer from the WNBA to violence against Clark is...

She needs to leave the WNBA, voluntarily or involuntarily.
It's not all that stealth that they are determined to not let her compete.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2026 09:30 AM (X8xt3)

390 I think we should only tolerate opinions which sound good to us on the surface and not try to listen to or understand anything being said that sounds suspiciously like it doesn't comport with what "we" think. That's what I think.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2026 09:30 AM (l9DAo)

391 361 Maybe we can argue that astrology is real science...

Posted by: runner at June 26, 2026 09:25 AM (GD0B3)

There's a cartoon where it's the first day of class for Astronomy 101, and the class is full. A student asks the prof, "What's the difference between astrology and astronomy?" Prof replies, "Lots and lots of math". Last frame shows the class almost entirely empty.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 09:30 AM (l3cgK)

392 Wnba suspended the thug who punched Clark in the throat for one game and fined her. The beatings of Clark will continue

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 26, 2026 09:30 AM (ik64N)

393 Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 09:26 AM (u82oZ)

Seriously? It seemed pretty well researched and cited what seemed to be pretty sound sources. Who debunked it?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 26, 2026 09:30 AM (3Ope8)

394 Decent art ip

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2026 09:31 AM (Dvo57)

395
She needs to stop being so talented, makes us look bad
Posted by: runner at June 26, 2026 09:29 AM (GD0B3)

This is the biggest part of their hatred.

She's a straight, white female with chops that dwarfs 99.9% of the league that DEI has NEVER produced.

The experiment is failing greatly and it pisses them off.

F*ck the WNBA. Clark should leave it. She owes it nothing because it's given her nothing in return for what she's done other than cuts, scratches and bruises.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 26, 2026 09:32 AM (2YhKe)

396 "The males willing to do hard manual trade labor will still get jobs as AI doesn't build houses, doesn't dig ditches, doesn't redo the wiring, fix the cars, etc."

Robots will do those.

Posted by: Victor Tango Jilo at June 26, 2026 09:32 AM (r8sI/)

397 You can't have the world your parents had, because you are not your parents. They made the world they lived in. You make the world you live in. Your children will make the world they live in.

"The World", in this gauzy socio-economic sense, is not like a '68 Mustang or a cedar chest. It's not some durable object that gets fashioned once and handed on as an inheritance.

You can't inherit "The World My Parents Lived In" any more than you can inherit your father's skill as a welder. If you're patient and diligent, and you let your father teach you how to weld without being a snotty know it all shit and telling him he actually sucks at welding, you can have that. But you don't get to sit in a filthy apartment dirt poor complaining that your father didn't give you a job as a master welder in a gift-wrapped box for your eighteenth birthday just because that's what he was.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2026 09:32 AM (Ot/FD)

398 whatever you think of Vivek, he would be a massive upgrade from this clown:

"AP - Gov. Mike DeWine has vetoed a new Republican-passed bill that would have required Ohioans to show a photo ID to vote by mail.

DeWine announced late Wednesday that he had vetoed House Bill 472, which expanded the strict photo ID requirement Ohio has had for voting since 2023.

The Republican governor issued an unusually lengthy statement explaining his decision. He said the requirement would pose an unwieldy challenge for voters without providing any real benefit."

Posted by: Commodore at June 26, 2026 09:32 AM (V6W16)

399 The Statue of Liberty play.

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
MSNOW’s Nicolle Wallace invokes the “Statue of Liberty” defense over the SCOTUS TPS ruling.
Says “Trump’s Supreme Court made a mockery” of it.
A poem on a statue isn’t immigration law. No matter how badly they want it to be.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 26, 2026 09:33 AM (ndZc7)

400 Young urban voters across the country are flocking to the hip new politics of urban socialism.

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And so it goes that the gullible, very pampered, never had to live under socialism American idiots are clamoring for something they know nothing about.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 26, 2026 07:51 AM (qBdHI)

We should create socialism camps, whereby they could experience socialism first hand, as a precondition of receive student loans.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 26, 2026 09:33 AM (dK+Kv)

401 CrotchetyOldJarhead

The written record, DNA evidence, and archaeological finds. And me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 09:33 AM (u82oZ)

402 And that's why I'm willing to let you eat socialist cake.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 26, 2026 09:19 AM (ndZc7)

Is that the stuff at the bottom of a urinal?

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at June 26, 2026 09:33 AM (0paAZ)

403 358 I’m GenX and I quickly get tired of the generational skirmishes… GenX gets lost in the shuffle anyway and rarely gets mentioned. Astrology is quackery and so is thinking that all born in a certain range of years are identical widgets. Lazy thinking
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Eh, useful in some contexts but not the way people usually employ them. Shorthand heuristic for life experiences around events differ by generations. But the danger in any statistical model is to attribute all the causal relationships to just one variable--e.g. the Boomers are the source of all evils. Or that the Greatest Generation was.

Each generation has to live with past mistakes of their ancestors and yet confront whatever challenges exist in their time. Or simply roll over and die because the next generation will simply step over their corpse on the way to the future.

The most pernicious tendency for a lot of folks is sunk costs and looking backward to figure out who to blame. It is far better to look forward and what to fix today than marinating in grievances.

That gets you stuck in the trap that most of the world has adopted. Historical grievances become destructive.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:34 AM (E4rtv)

404 Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

A year on a North Korean farm.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2026 09:34 AM (u82oZ)

405 Is that the stuff at the bottom of a urinal?
Posted by: Question Authority
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Commies don't even get that. They don't have indoor plumbing. They get to eat dirt, leaves, and grass. See N. Korea for an example.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:35 AM (E4rtv)

406 392 Wnba suspended the thug who punched Clark in the throat for one game and fined her. The beatings of Clark will continue

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 26, 2026 09:30 AM (ik64N)

Sounds like how the UK handles Muzzie rapists...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 09:35 AM (l3cgK)

407 buying uncritically all of the 70s Boomer Pr0n on TikTok

You want gas lines, the Misery Index, Vietnam War conscription, 20% home mortgage rates, constant union strikes, hostages, shitty cars suffering conflicting EPA and CAFE mandates, Japanization of the economy, race riots, communist uprisings and bombings, three broadcast networks totally captured by the Left, Fairness Doctrine, and long distance phone rates?

Posted by: Community Notes at June 26, 2026 09:29 AM (xE0sV)

Umm, tube tops.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 26, 2026 09:36 AM (dK+Kv)

408 We should create socialism camps, whereby they could experience socialism first hand, as a precondition of receive student loans.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Happy Fun Death Camps. You slave so others may live large. But we already have those socialism camps, they are called Universities.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:36 AM (E4rtv)

409 China does not mind a ground war...it would take care of their over population of young males and alleviate the problems associated with it.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 26, 2026 09:36 AM (EneHm)

410 Umm, tube tops.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Something something, Boobs and Circuses for the masses.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:37 AM (E4rtv)

411 Remember back when Obama was elected and the progressive rags were saying things like "We're all Socialists now!"?

These trends are ephemeral.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 26, 2026 09:37 AM (fZiTB)

412 408 We should create socialism camps, whereby they could experience socialism first hand, as a precondition of receive student loans.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Happy Fun Death Camps. You slave so others may live large. But we already have those socialism camps, they are called Universities.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:36 AM (E4rtv)

National Socialism said that in the camps, work made you free...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 09:37 AM (l3cgK)

413 The most pernicious tendency for a lot of folks is sunk costs and looking backward to figure out who to blame. It is far better to look forward and what to fix today than marinating in grievances.

That gets you stuck in the trap that most of the world has adopted. Historical grievances become destructive.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:34 AM (E4rtv)

Speaking of looking forward, SPCX is at its market opening price right now if you were looking to get some and did not.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 26, 2026 09:38 AM (dK+Kv)

414 osted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2026 09:21 AM (X8xt3)

Sorry I meant the swarthy ones they imported by the millions.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2026 09:39 AM (l9DAo)

415 409 China does not mind a ground war...it would take care of their over population of young males and alleviate the problems associated with it.
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas
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They are underpopulated with young males--the population bulge is in 40's or older before the one child rule took full effect. About 9 percent of their population is fighting age males from 18-30.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:40 AM (E4rtv)

416 But we already have those socialism camps, they are called Universities.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:36 AM (E4rtv)

Those are the artificial utopias that skew all these young socialist perceptions of the world.

There are never the brutalities of socialism, even if only only artificial, except maybe Top Ramen Sustenance 101.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 26, 2026 09:41 AM (dK+Kv)

417 Speaking of looking forward, SPCX is at its market opening price right now if you were looking to get some and did not.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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I stick with index funds nowadays as loss avoidance is more important than a massive gain at my age.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:41 AM (E4rtv)

418 National Socialism said that in the camps, work made you free...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 09:37 AM (l3cgK)

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And Nanzi Pelozi said that socialism was freedom from work and "job-lock."

Posted by: ShainS at June 26, 2026 09:41 AM (t/lcw)

419 Nood, BTW.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 26, 2026 09:42 AM (dK+Kv)

420 415 409 China does not mind a ground war...it would take care of their over population of young males and alleviate the problems associated with it.
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas
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They are underpopulated with young males--the population bulge is in 40's or older before the one child rule took full effect. About 9 percent of their population is fighting age males from 18-30.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:40 AM (E4rtv)

Yeah, they'd want to take the old folks and put them in the front lines, not the young folks. The over-abundance of males, due to abortion and the one-child policy, can be fixed by importing females from other regions (oh noes! The "purity" of the Chinese!)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 26, 2026 09:42 AM (l3cgK)

421 I stick with index funds nowadays as loss avoidance is more important than a massive gain at my age.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:41 AM (E4rtv)

I just play around with a relatively small amount I can afford to lose.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 26, 2026 09:43 AM (dK+Kv)

422 Whig what percent of china's population is young women between 18-30?

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 26, 2026 09:46 AM (EneHm)

423 There are never the brutalities of socialism, even if only only artificial, except maybe Top Ramen Sustenance 101.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

The brutality is not the Universities themselves but the massive debt (about 2 trillion now) of unpaid student loans due upon graduation. Massive hit on living standards upon exit.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:54 AM (E4rtv)

424 422 Whig what percent of china's population is young women between 18-30?
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas

About 18 percent 0-30--about 11 percent 18-30.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:56 AM (E4rtv)

425 I just play around with a relatively small amount I can afford to lose.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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I do that in reverse with medical bills.

Posted by: whig at June 26, 2026 09:57 AM (E4rtv)

426 "Just Be Thankful For What You've Got"
William Devaughn 1974

Diamond in the back
sunroof top
Diggin' the scene
with the gangster-lean!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 26, 2026 09:28 AM (x0n13)

Love that song. It's one of the two videos I post up on my Fakebook page every Thanksgiving. The other should be blindingly obvious....

Posted by: goozer at June 26, 2026 10:05 AM (eTh1u)

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