The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 7/ 1 /26

Good morning kids. Of course the top story is the utterly devastating if not sadly unsurprising SCOTUS decision upholding the complete bastardization of the 14th Amendment. If I want to be charitable I'd say that Roberts' and Barrett's lives were directly threatened by the usual Democrat/Leftist terrorists. Either that or they were paid off from the same funders of the aforementioned terrorists. But screw that as their duty is to uphold and defend the Constitution, same as it always has been throughout their careers as jurists. It may just be that they made a purely political decision to not rock the boat and let the cancerous rot that has been destroying this nation and its institutions for much of its history, including the very institution that they are a part of. When President Trump first announced that he was issuing an executive order banning birthright citizenship I had a feeling of dread that it would not survive the ultimate challenge at SCOTUS, and foolishly as time went on, I still held out hope that sanity would prevail. So much for that delusion, The great Clarence Thomas' brilliant dissent notwithstanding.

“The Court today takes the extraordinary step of holding facially unconstitutional the President’s Order excluding from citizenship the children of foreign temporary visitors and illegal aliens,” Thomas writes:
In doing so, the Court adds to the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks but has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support. Because many potential applications of the President’s Order are consistent with the original public meaning of the Citizenship Clause, I respectfully dissent. [Emphasis added]

Of course, one does not have to be one of if not America's greatest jurists and legal minds ever to serve in any court to know how completely insane this decision was. All one has to do is know the most rudimentary facts about how and why the 14th Amendment was enacted as well as to be able, and willing, to read and understand plain English What happened yesterday was yet another jackboot to the head of America as founded, as it lays prostrate on the ground after decades of curb-stomping by the Democrats and those whose complicity and inaction allow them to get away with it.

And the President nailed it with this observation:

“I would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great Country of China, on their massive Birthright Citizenship WIN!” Trump declared via his Truth Social platform.
The court’s decision protects, for now, the practice of “birth tourism,” which is used by many wealthy Chinese nationals who travel to the United States to give birth to their children.

And if I still want to engage in delusion, there are a few Pollyannas out there as well:

Vice President JD Vance argued Tuesday that there is a “big silver lining” in the divided Supreme Court ruling striking down President Trump’s executive order outlawing birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants and tourists.
“I know a lot of conservatives, Laura, certainly the people that I’m talking to, that you’re talking to, are extremely disappointed in this, but I do actually think there’s a really big silver lining here, and that’s the simple fact that a lot of legal experts expected this case to go the wrong direction by seven to two, or even eight to one,” Vance said in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
“The fact that this case was a 5-to-4 decision effectively means that the concept of birthright citizenship, which is an absurdity to the 14th Amendment, that concept is hanging by a thread,” the vice president argued during his appearance on “The Ingraham Angle.”
. . . “What I take from [the ruling] is, yes, we’ve got to fix the immigration system even more, we have to be even more aware of who’s coming into our country to make sure that they’re not benefiting from this atrocious Supreme Court ruling,” Vance said, adding, “but it also means that we have to keep fighting … because we actually have an opportunity to reverse this decision.”
The vice president further argued that the high court’s “major, major mistake” might invite pregnant foreign nationals “to come here quite literally on a vacation, give birth, and then all of a sudden the child and their family have the full benefits of American citizenship.”
“It’s just a preposterous ruling, and the absurdity of that outcome suggests why the Supreme Court should have went the other way.”

Yeah, we have an opportunity to reverse this? I'm sure future POTUS Titty Caca Ocasio Cortez will get right on that by packing the court with 19 or more Maoists! 250 years was a good run, I guess. If we make it to 500 or even 1,000 we'll probably be where England is, the irony of course is that that is the nation we rebelled against in the first place.

So, at what point do we take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
Or do we doom ourselvelves forever to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune unto death?

Have a good day,

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

The decision was 6 to 3 against Trump, but Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued that Trump and other politicians can change the rule via legislation.
SCOTUS Affirms Birthright Citizenship, Rejects Trump’s Executive Order
Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett joined the liberals in ruling that children of illegal aliens born on U.S. soil are American citizens under the 14th Amendment.
SCOTUS Says Babies Of Illegal Aliens, CCP Birth Tourists Are US Citizens Because Of Magic Dirt
‘The Court has repurposed the Fourteenth Amendment to protect its own set of preferred rights,’ Justice Thomas wrote.
‘Grotesque Results’ Of Birth Tourism Allow Foreign Invaders To Seize Control Of U.S. From The Inside
“The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process,” Trump wrote. “No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary!”
Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Ruling ‘Too Bad’ but Lays Out Pathway Forward Through Congress
"Too bad for our country."
Trump Congratulates Xi Jinping On Major Win At SCOTUS
In his dissenting opinion, Thomas writes that “both the Civil Rights Act and the Citizenship Clause guaranteed citizenship to persons born and domiciled in the United States regardless of their race.”
Clarence Thomas on SCOTUS Ruling: 14th Amendment Has Been ‘Repurposed for Political Projects’
The Supreme Court handed the keys of citizenship to anyone with a plane ticket and a due date.
SCOTUS made US citizenship cheaper than a tourist visa—we Americans know how valuable it really is
There is more than one way to skin a cat, after all. The justices say that babies born in our country to illegal aliens and birth tourists are U.S. citizens? Fine. What if these grasping, scofflaw women weren’t allowed into the country in the first place?
President Trump Could End Most Birthright Citizenship With This 1 Simple Trick
It’s counterintuitive, but there’s a cost to solving a political problem: It removes the issue from the public sphere. Because we lost today, the immigration issue is still relevant. And we can still use it to drive voters to the polls.
The Political Upside of Losing the Birthright Citizenship Case
One ruling declared it within the president’s authority to interpret the word “temporary” as the opposite of “permanent” with regard to migrants who have been permitted to live within the U.S. for what is understood to be a finite period. He can order their removal. (Good!) A separate ruling, on the other hand, affirmed automatic American citizenship to babies born to migrants who have illegally entered the country. (Bad!) Yet a third ruling deemed it legal for states to count voter ballots that arrive after Election Day, thus rendering the whole concept of “Election Day” void. (Very bad!)
Supreme Court Makes It Clear. Mass Deportations Are Mandatory To Save America
“The fact that this case was a 5-to-4 decision effectively means that the concept of birthright citizenship, which is an absurdity to the 14th Amendment, that concept is hanging by a thread. . . “What I take from [the ruling] is, yes, we’ve got to fix the immigration system even more, we have to be even more aware of who’s coming into our country to make sure that they’re not benefiting from this atrocious Supreme Court ruling,” Vance said, adding, “but it also means that we have to keep fighting … because we actually have an opportunity to reverse this decision.” (I'm sure future POTUS Titty Caca Cortez will get right on that by packing the court with Maoists! - jjs)
Vance argues there is a ‘big silver lining’ in Supreme Court’s ‘preposterous ruling’ in birthright citizenship case
The Supreme Court ruled the Civil War was fought so that Chinese nationals who have set up birth tourism companies in the United States could have anchor babies.
SCOTUS Says The US Civil War Was Basically About Protecting ChiCom Birth Tourists
THE IRAN CONFLICT, "PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)
Bold lies can obscure the truth and buy time.
Shattered Ayatollahs Betting on Propaganda Power
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
IDF Chief Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir “This day reminds us of our overall responsibility and the weight that rests on our shoulders.”
Israel Eliminates Hamas, Islamic Jihad Commanders as Gaza Operation Nears 1000-Day Mark
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
McCarthy was completely correct that communists had infiltrated the U.S. government, and his legacy has been vindicated by later evidence.
McCarthyism Didn’t Go Far Enough To Root Out Filthy Commies, So Now We Have Modern NYC
Populist movements have exposed a deep divide between Western elites and voters—but their biggest challenge may be turning backlash into a lasting governing strategy.
The Grave and Increasingly Obvious Limitations of Populist Politics
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
However, it’s dramatically increased presidential power, something that needs to change quickly if we are to maintain our constitutional system.
The Supreme Court Has Weakened The Regulatory State
Counting non-citizens is only one of several major problems affecting the accuracy of the Census.
Why the US Census needs an accurate count of citizens, not just population
You’d think that people who are constantly fretting about “threats to democracy” would be cheering this decision.
The Supreme Court Restores Balance To The Force
The Department of Housing and Urban Development offers a new path forward on homelessness, but activists demand more of the same.
HUD Rejects Failed “Housing First” Strategy
The Supreme Court has finally brought the administrative state back under elected control.
Humphrey’s Executor Has Been Slaughtered

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
A small but significant win in the battle against Sharia supremacism.
Canada: Regina, Saskatchewan’s Call to Islamic Prayer on Loudspeakers on Hold After Backlash
A failed notion, false hope, and cynical deception should at last be discarded.
It’s Long Past Time to Give Up the ‘Moderate Muslim’ Fantasies
Demographic eclipse and cultural surrender in post-Christian Europe.
The Waning Of The West
"We have nowhere else to go."
Anni Cyrus Video: “I’m Willing to Die To Stop Islam From Taking Over America.” (what about the Leftists? - jjs)
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
The rise of the Socialist left in New York is a bad omen for obvious reasons.The radical agenda is uniformly anti-police, pro-criminal, favors wildly expanded government powers over private property and demands punishing taxes on businesses and high-income families to fund its redistribution schemes. If that were all, it would still be a destructive and dangerous movement.
Michael Goodwin: Dems’ destructive agenda has turned them into a Jew-hating cult
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The original NPR item carried the headline, “Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, retires,” and described Alito as a key figure in leading the conservative charge on abortion and other issues.
NPR Retracts False Story Saying Justice Alito Was Retiring: ‘Erroneously Published’

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Jacob Siegel’s brand new book focuses on how rulers and elites use digital tools to calibrate information and control the masses.
The Information State: Its Impact On Freedom
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
“But on the other hand, I have been shocked, not only by my own change of mind, but by … some of my colleagues,” he said. “People who are longtime advocates of globalization and free trade, who are saying, ‘okay Europe needs to do [something]’ … really if you like, it’s national security, it’s market disruption, to just allow something as big as the European auto industry to just be overrun, even if consumers would benefit for a while, it’s not 20 years ago anymore.”
Paul Krugman Suddenly Admits Tariffs May Be ‘Necessary’ After Years Of Globalist Dogma
The approximately nine percent gap between the weakest and strongest market underscores the localized nature of housing costs. While affordability is a key concern for all Americans, it’s evident that markets vary significantly by region, and thus may reflect differences in political priorities. However, this data also suggests that inflation-adjusted housing wealth has now declined for 11 consecutive months, showing that while some areas are becoming less expensive than others, the affordability of housing remains a nationwide issue.
US Home Prices Decline Continues for Third Month
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
LET THEM EAT ICE: The elite bureaucrats on the upper floors allowed to enjoy cool air, while staff on lower floors are encouraged to enjoy more traditional options.
European Commission Adopts Feudal Approach to Air Conditioning Distribution
‘Nose-ringed Just Stop Oil pests’ hurt environmental movement with mainstream voters
Climate Activists ‘Exaggerating,’ Liberal Journalist Says, Denouncing ‘Shrill Eco-Catastrophism’
Air conditioning has become the subject of intense political debate in Europe. Leftists, such as Jean Luc-Melenchon, leader of the far-left La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party, argue that using AC would make the heatwave worse. By contrast, Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (National Rally) party has called for a nationwide rollout of AC.
Paris Deputy Mayor Blames Americans Having AC for Europe’s Deadly Heatwave.
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Alison Winter, serial killer Rex Heuermann’s therapist, received $60,000 in reimbursement payments for insurance claims from 2018 to 2024 without having a clinical social work license, Newsday reported, citing prosecutors. Over $50,000 was allegedly billed via Cigna. The insurance company reportedly requires masters-level clinicians who work independently to have a state license in order to be part of their network. Winter also obtained reimbursement payments via UnitedHealthcare and Medicare, according to court documents.
REPORT: Serial Killer’s Therapist Allegedly Practiced For Years Without A License, Faces Felony Charges
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Millions dead, billions of dollars in economic value lost.
Will China Ever Be Held Accountable for COVID-19?
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Enjoy your Nancy Pelosi Institute, taxpayers.
College With $1B in Federal Grants Creates ‘Nancy Pelosi Institute’
School choice is crucial to the American Dream—we need a new birth of freedom.
What, to the Black Student, is the Fourth of July?
SECOND AMENDMENT
t's been a good couple of weeks at the Supreme Court for gun rights activists, but there's reason to feel disappointed.
Two SCOTUS Wins For Gun Rights, But Questions Remain About The ‘History And Tradition’ Test
Democrat Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s efforts to enact a sweeping gun-control agenda were placed on hold by courts in June, while the state Legislature pushed back the effective date of another law.
Abigail Spanberger’s Plan To Ban Guns Blows Up In Her Face
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
Lee, a leading advocate and sponsor of the SAVE America Act — landmark election integrity legislation supported by President Donald Trump — cited the Senate’s handling of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a historical example of how major legislation can advance even when the votes for cloture are not initially in place.
EXCLUSIVE: Mike Lee Explains How LBJ Broke A Filibuster And What It Means For The SAVE America Act
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
“So, overall, that is a wing of the party without a doubt. But they’re not Democrats. They’re not socialists, several of them, many of them have actually are an avowed communist. So between P hustle in Maine and some of the other winners, you know, in New York, that’s, you know, they should form their own party and run on all the things that they’ve had to do on, on social media.”
Fetterman: The ‘Dirtbag Left’ Is Clearly Anti-America
Sen. John Fetterman told the Free Beacon that Claire Valdez is 'pro-Hamas'
'She Hasn't Asked for My Endorsement': New York Democrat Party Chair Keeps Distance From Darializa Avila Chevalier as Party Frets Over Socialist Surge
POLITICS
South Dakota’s GOP runoff pits a populist outsider promising sweeping reform against an incumbent defending his record — a test of whether voters want disruption or continuity.
The South Dakota 2026 GOP Gubernatorial Runoff
And the DSA controls the Democrats.
A Marxist Majority Controls the Democratic Socialists of America
Melat Kiros’ win follows victories from three Zohran Mamdani-backed challengers in New York
Colo-radical: Socialist Who Called 9/11 ‘Inevitable’ Takes Down 15-Term Incumbent in Denver House Primary (more like Colo-rectal - jjs)
The vice president said government should prioritize policies that strengthen families, communities, and workers.
JD Vance Lays Out Post-Trump Conservative Vision In Interview With Michael Knowles
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Fujimori is expected to assume the office of President on July 28, 2026. Her victory in Peru represents another victory for the right-wing in Latin America, potentially aligning with United States President Donald J. Trump. As the country has seen nine presidents in ten years, spectators will be looking to Fujimori to provide much-needed stability.
Another Right-Wing Victory in Latin America as Keiko Fujimori Clinches Peruvian Presidency Over Leftist Rival.
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
“Excessive subsidies and zero-premium plans created unusually strong incentives for improper enrollment, while weak verification systems…allowed those incentives to be exploited at scale.” – Brian Blase, President of the Paragon Health Institute
Obamacare Enrollment Declines by 3 Million Amid Fraud Crackdown.
Families of loved ones with Duchenne, Huntington’s, and Sanfilippo showed up to Senate hearings in February 2026 in wheelchairs and in tears — and with nothing left to lose. Senators, patient advocates, and the scientific community gave them full support, and interestingly, Makary and Prasad were gone within weeks.
Did Leftwing Influence Encourage the FDA to Leave Rare Disease Patients Behind?
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Maybe you've heard of Rocket Lab, the scrappy New Zealand-based launch company whose innovative Electron small-lift rocket quickly became one of the most popular in U.S. service, thanks to its high success rate and rapid launch cadence. Except for nerds like me paying close attention to the launch industry, Rocket Lab gets a little lost in SpaceX's shadow. But that might be about to change with the company's multibillion-dollar acquisition.
This Scrappy Little Rocket Company Just Made a Big Play Against Elon Musk
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"That takes that ridiculous situation off the table!!!"
Supreme Court Trans Ruling Fulfills Trump’s Campaign Promise
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Despite strong political differences most Americans remain around of who they are.
As U.S. Nears Its 250th Birthday, Nearly 3/4 Still Say They’re Proud To Be American: I&I/TIPP Poll
Christian Toto: The Invite star shows paper-thin skin, but he's has a point on one key area
Seth Rogen Is (Partially) Right about Film Critics
“Puy de Fou’s shows are about as historically accurate as a Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show...The Puy de Fou model is in the process of being exported abroad.”
What the American Right Can Learn From France
HITHER & YON
The untold path to Independence.
The Background That Made the Revolution Possible

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:28 AM

Comments

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1 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:29 AM (u82oZ)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 01, 2026 07:29 AM (NcvvS)

3 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 07:29 AM (jehhT)

4 What hath Roberts wrought?

The only practical response is to deport all Illegal Immigrants who don't have an anchor baby an urgent pace.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2026 07:29 AM (dtajH)

5 70 degrees, 100% humidity, heading to the mid-90s in Kentuckiana.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 01, 2026 07:30 AM (NcvvS)

6 5 70 degrees, 100% humidity, heading to the mid-90s in Kentuckiana.
Posted by: Nazdar at July 01, 2026 07:30 AM (NcvvS)

Hot and humid here in southern Cheeseland.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 01, 2026 07:31 AM (x0n13)

7 Ban dual citizenship.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2026 07:32 AM (MWfyi)

8 Lord I’m southbound

Posted by: Redenzo at July 01, 2026 07:32 AM (cYX+0)

9 It's a stupid idea anyway.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2026 07:32 AM (MWfyi)

10 Coming home to you

Posted by: Redenzo at July 01, 2026 07:32 AM (cYX+0)

11 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 07:33 AM (RIvkX)

12 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

13 How hard would it have been to simply decide, "At least one of the parents had to be residing in the United States as a legal alien at the time of the child's birth in order for the child to be granted U.S. Citizenship" ?

WTF, SCOTUS?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2026 07:34 AM (O7YUW)

14 Further to 13: Or as a legal resident, or citizen. (You get the idea I'm driving at, I hope.)

I'm up later than normal and need to have my first coffee. Doing that now.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2026 07:35 AM (O7YUW)

15 >“The fact that this case was a 5-to-4 decision effectively means that the concept of birthright citizenship, which is an absurdity to the 14th Amendment, that concept is hanging by a thread. . . “
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Missed it by >< that much.

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 07:35 AM (cVN12)

16 WTF, SCOTUS?

SCOTUS does not arrive to a conclusion. They work backwards from it.

Posted by: Halfhand at July 01, 2026 07:36 AM (9MUFz)

17
I'm just here to see Nothing Will Happen Guy to show up, but I'm guessing nothing will happen.

Posted by: Auspex at July 01, 2026 07:37 AM (Y8DZL)

18 I figured I would approve birthright citizenship so I can save money on my collecting of minority trophy children.

I need 1 Chinese, 1 Khmer, 1 Mongolian and a Viet, prefer a Hmong if I can acquire one to make my Oriental collection complete.

They will look great in our next family photo!

Posted by: Amy Conehead Bareass at July 01, 2026 07:37 AM (K5H/e)

19 And pregnancy tests at the border will be deemed a violation of the 4th Amendment and privacy.

Posted by: davidt at July 01, 2026 07:38 AM (Q+gd/)

20 Will China Ever Be Held Accountable for COVID-19?

Will the US?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

21 >I'm just here to see Nothing Will Happen Guy to show up, but I'm guessing nothing will happen.

Posted by: Auspex
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as far as the scenario you mention goes- nothing will happen

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 07:39 AM (cVN12)

22 Halfhand

Sigh. Congress and it's failure. It all comes back to Congress and the Senators in office who are the enemy of American and Legacy Americans.

Impeaching Justices or shaping lower courts, all within the powers Congress holds, are off the table.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:40 AM (u82oZ)

23
Coffee is lifting the I.Q. past 30; I can feel it.

Halfway to topping out.

Posted by: Auspex at July 01, 2026 07:40 AM (Y8DZL)

24 Will China Ever Be Held Accountable for COVID-19?

No.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2026 07:41 AM (0N4FZ)

25 Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

The US started the COVID-19 Wuhan fire. Mostly a Deep State project to kneecap China.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

26 Barrett's collection of brown, yellow, black kids she bought online or wherever should have disqualified her from the birthright case.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 07:42 AM (jehhT)

27 And pregnancy tests at the border will be deemed a violation of the 4th Amendment and privacy.
Posted by: davidt at July 01, 2026 07:38 AM (Q+gd/)

Ah, but pregnancy tests won't be required. They will only be requested, as the woman is requesting entry into the country. A favor for a favor.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 07:42 AM (ExV1e)

28 I would love to know if J.D. Vance thinks the Iranians are still "rully kewl?"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 07:43 AM (RIvkX)

29 Barrett's collection of brown, yellow, black kids she bought online or wherever should have disqualified her from the birthright case.

YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 07:42 AM (jehhT)

Which would have made it a 4-4 ruling, which would have upheld the lower court's ruling, which would have had the exact same effect.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 07:44 AM (ExV1e)

30 And while we are at it, can we reverse the 19th Amendment?

Men Create Civilization
Women Destroy it.

Even when they had a perfect, sinless Paradise where everything they would ever want was easily at hand, Adam's first impulse was to organize via naming the animals and discover his place, yet Eve's first act was to piss off God just to see what He would do.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 01, 2026 07:45 AM (nCgQz)

31 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 07:45 AM (sgkY8)

32 Sigh. Congress and it's failure. It all comes back to Congress and the Senators in office who are the enemy of American and Legacy Americans.

Yep. The fact that an empirically evident imbecile like KBJ was even seated shows how feckless they are.

Posted by: Halfhand at July 01, 2026 07:45 AM (9MUFz)

33 San Franpsycho

J.D. Vance has inherited a thankless, impossible task. At least he is trying harder than Kamala "Border Czar" Harris ever did.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:45 AM (u82oZ)

34 The Marxists invasion continues

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 07:46 AM (sgkY8)

35 30 Eve's first act was to piss off God just to see what He would do.
Posted by: Community Notes

Apples don't just sell themselves, you know.

Posted by: Auspex at July 01, 2026 07:47 AM (Y8DZL)

36 I don't like that so many SCOTUS decisions have the effect of creating new law. Above all, the Supreme Court is an appeals court. SCOTUS rulings should be either 'granted' or 'denied', and that's it.

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 07:48 AM (cVN12)

37 I wish the great Clarence Thomas would not have said “I respectfully dissent” but instead written “I disrespectfully and with derision dissent this abomination of legal trash”…. Or something along those lines with more invective than I can invent now off the top of my head

Forget respectfully…. There can be ZERO respect for a decision that so mangled constitutional concepts that as far as I can tell the majority views US citizens as old-fashioned feudal era subjects (of the king, ironically) rather than human beings with rights granted by God almighty. They really backed themselves into a corner… I wonder if they even realize how abhorrent their “reasoning” is….. no, they knew the result they wanted and generated a claptrap of tangled logic to get there; certainly the constitution didn’t factor into their decision

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 07:48 AM (D2O3S)

38 Skip

80+% of American people wanted the end of birthright citizenship. Keep pressing, and use other methods.

Turning off the money tap has proven successful. Can the Administration zero out public money for maternity clinics that birth foreigner's babies?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

39 “American economic policy on the right is now much more Alexander Hamilton than it is Milton Friedman,” Vance said, arguing that President Trump’s political movement has already transformed the GOP’s approach to trade, tariffs, manufacturing, and industrial policy.

Rather than viewing economic growth as an end in itself, Vance argued that government should prioritize policies that strengthen families, communities, and workers.

“The economy is a tool to service the dignity of the human person,” he told Knowles.
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Da Fuq is this b.s??

Keep your "government policies" off my family, my community, and my employees. This is fascism, not conservatism.

Keep talking J.D. and show us the real you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 07:49 AM (RIvkX)

40 >The fact that an empirically evident imbecile like KBJ was even seated shows how feckless they are.
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we need more feck.

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 07:49 AM (cVN12)

41 Don Black

Good and hard?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

42 Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Ruling ‘Too Bad’ but Lays Out Pathway Forward Through Congress

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I mean, what else can he say. At least he's the only president that's ever tried to even show a modicum of concern on this issue.

But Congress is purely, absolutely, unequivocally, worthlessly, and most importantly, diabolically useless. They aren't going to pass a damned thing relating to this*. Nearly every one of them would get vertigo from being in a sewer; that's how low and scummy they are.

*or anything relating to saving America

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2026 07:51 AM (qBdHI)

43 I’m getting annoyed with Vance recently. Between his absurd comments on the Iran negotiations and now add his nonsense about a silver lining and I’m thinking: Is this guy losing it? Pull yourself together JD!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 07:51 AM (D2O3S)

44 Salty, I think he is showing he is too young, too naive, and he is in way over his head.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 07:52 AM (RIvkX)

45 {{{Lady in Black}}}

Preach it, sister.

I like "get vertigo from being in a sewer". I may need that phrase.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:53 AM (u82oZ)

46 Roberts and ACB are trying to save the Court from the Democrats packing it.

Buying themselves a separate peace by selling America to the wolves.

But make no mistake:
This is an issue Republicans can fix:
Simple majority vote in the House and the Senate to limit citizenship to those legally born here; no judicial review.

And you can immediately tell who is not serious about fixing it by those who propose a Constitutional Amendment--that has to pass super-majorities of Congress, the President and 3/4 of the states.
Hell, I bet it won't even get 30 votes in the Senate, that's how deeply stupid and unserious that proposal is; failure theater.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 07:53 AM (3cUTc)

47 San Franpsycho

Could be. The test is how effective he can be. He has strengths, but big weaknesses also.

Rubio continues to impress.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

48 "we need more feck.
Posted by: Don Black "

*checks ebay for secondhand feck*

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2026 07:54 AM (MWfyi)

49 The Executive Order was not going to be upheld . This is the duty of Congress to address. PDT put this issue in their lap but it is up to us, the people, to right this ship.

Take a page out of the dem playbook and continue to fight.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 07:55 AM (afJtY)

50 And you can immediately tell who is not serious about fixing it by those who propose a Constitutional Amendment--that has to pass super-majorities of Congress, the President and 3/4 of the states.
Hell, I bet it won't even get 30 votes in the Senate, that's how deeply stupid and unserious that proposal is; failure theater.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 07:53 AM

At this point in time amending the constitution is physically impossible and will never be done again.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2026 07:57 AM (0N4FZ)

51 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 01, 2026 07:57 AM (2Ez/1)

52 Congress can write 50 different laws to stop this. No amendment needed.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 07:59 AM (afJtY)

53 Congratulations on your first, Salty my friend

Posted by: Buck at July 01, 2026 07:59 AM (z6ONu)

54 Hard-working public servants:

@NEWSMAX
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29m
EARLY EXIT: House Republican leaders abruptly canceled votes on major legislation Tuesday and sent lawmakers home early for a nearly two-week recess after a group of Republicans blocked action on the House floor. MORE: https://bit.ly/3QLTZKU

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 08:00 AM (cVN12)

55 Aliens are most definitely not Immigrants. It is well to carefully think about the words used to describe.

When leftists are allowed to define the very terms or words used in debate they will tend to have an advantage in manipulating opinions or persuasion.

That is rather the point, appeals to emotion. Euphemisms. “Undocumented Immigrants” makes it sound more benign, no? Like he just misplaced his wallet somewhere.

There is a class of Legal Aliens, too. “Alien” is not a pejorative, it is a technical or legal term of art in the USC Title 18, all that stuff.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 01, 2026 08:01 AM (wJccJ)

56 46> Observing the death of a mono-culture

Constitutional Amendments today would be impossible to pass. I can't think of anything that Congress and We The People could ever agree on. The Ruling class, servants to Stan and foreign oligarchs, and fully occupying the Dark Tetrad personalities will always be at war with The Governed.

We can't even agree on Standard Time or Daylight Saving Time even though nearly everyone hates our current pointless ritual.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 01, 2026 08:01 AM (U4c/V)

57 I don't think Congress can right a law that goes against what this court has decided the 14th amendment means. It will be tied up in court for years and lose. You're essentially saying it's ok for Congress to decide the 14th is wrong. That would take a constitutional amendment and that ain't happening in any of our lifetimes.

Posted by: Jaimo at July 01, 2026 08:02 AM (2noDb)

58 I really liked J.D., read his book, love his story. I was happy Trump picked him and happy to vote for him.

Am disappoint.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 08:02 AM (RIvkX)

59 Buck

Thank you. Not my first first, even this week.

I sent you an email, as requested, from my NaCly email account. No response seen.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:02 AM (u82oZ)

60 In its 2024 report, Tilting the Balance, CIS found that excluding non-citizens reduces that figure to about 308.3 million. Excluding both non-citizens and their minor children reduces it further to about 301.9 million. In other words, nearly 30 million were included in the congressional apportionment.

30000000/800000=37
So illegals are a State bigger than Texas.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 01, 2026 08:02 AM (/+uur)

61 I’m getting annoyed with Vance recently. Between his absurd comments on the Iran negotiations and now add his nonsense about a silver lining and I’m thinking: Is this guy losing it? Pull yourself together JD!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 07:51 AM (D2O3S)

1. Trump made Vance the lead negotiator. He cannot go around publicly stating that the Iranians are faithless and everyone in the country should be annihilated in nuclear fire.
2. Vance's comments on the "silver lining" are almost exactly the same thing that Kurt Schlichter and other have said.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

62 We only need to get to about 260 to be where England is. Vance's Thoughtful Republican on My Side shtick is getting old but I fear he's the best chance we've got. Of a very very bad lot.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:03 AM (J9Kpb)

63 The Restore America Agenda:

- End the filibuster
- pass the SAVE Act
- limit citizenship to legal residents only
- defund the courts

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 08:04 AM (3cUTc)

64 And you can immediately tell who is not serious about fixing it by those who propose a Constitutional Amendment--that has to pass super-majorities of Congress, the President and 3/4 of the states.

The President is not involved in amending the Constitution.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

65 61 - I agree with you. Poor JD drew the short straw to try and explain or excuse Trump's stupid decision to take on Iran before the midterms. Whatever he says he has to tread lightly so as not to piss off Trump or other warmongers.

Posted by: Jaimo at July 01, 2026 08:04 AM (2noDb)

66 People's Hippo Voice

Good plan. Defunding the lower courts is within the power of Congress.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

67 NPR Retracts False Story Saying Justice Alito Was Retiring: ‘Erroneously Published’

All Breaking NEws stories are 51% lies.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 01, 2026 08:06 AM (/+uur)

68 Marxists don't do what the people want, they do what they need to stay in power

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 08:06 AM (sgkY8)

69 58 I really liked J.D., read his book, love his story. I was happy Trump picked him and happy to vote for him.

Am disappoint.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 08:02 AM (RIvkX)

He's not coasting to the 2028 nomination. Rough seas ahead.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2026 08:06 AM (fZiTB)

70 It’s counterintuitive, but there’s a cost to solving a political problem: It removes the issue from the public sphere. Because we lost today, the immigration issue is still relevant. And we can still use it to drive voters to the polls.
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This sounds suspiciously like the Roberts 8D Chess Theory of ObamaCare Taxing. There is ZERO upside, political or otherwise, of this to anyone but the thieves who want to corrupt and destroy America. Zero. If we're in Death by 1,000 Cuts this stupidity was about 70 of them.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:07 AM (J9Kpb)

71 I think the legislature is a lost cause... becoming irrelevant. They're more concerned with making money than running the country. That's what the intelligence community is for.

Now, the judiciary is a different story. They're the enablers for all the shit being dumped on us. The reverence we apply to them is misplaced.

There certainly needs to be some sort of reckoning, and soon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 08:07 AM (jehhT)

72 People's Hippo, all worthy and doable. Statusquotidians are akin to turtles. Pull you head back instead of stick your neck out.

I intend to fight harder

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 08:07 AM (afJtY)

73 As best as I can tell, the upshot of the "logic" of this decision is identical to the kind of logic that would call a bank robbery "making a withdrawal".

Hey, you left the bank with more money than you had. That's just a withdrawal. And withdrawals are totally legal.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 01, 2026 08:07 AM (Ot/FD)

74 Martini Farmer

Good analysis.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:08 AM (u82oZ)

75 Rubio continues to impress.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

14 years of stabbing us in the back in the Senate, all forgotten because there's a new target for the forgetful hate.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

76 Nice too see abortion Barbie lose in Colorado last night. 30 year demon

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:11 AM (YCxFk)

77 That article about how “Tail Gunner” Joe McCarthy was right about commies reminded me of Whittaker Chambers’ wonderful book Witness. Rumpled, plump and ugly, non-charming Chambers was right all along about the elegant and suave Alger Hiss. Good thing he hid those receipts (the proof) in a pumpkin… the difference today is the commies are quite open about it. Don’t try at all to hide their ideology

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 08:11 AM (D2O3S)

78 Hard-working public servants:

@NEWSMAX
·
29m
EARLY EXIT: House Republican leaders abruptly canceled votes on major legislation Tuesday and sent lawmakers home early for a nearly two-week recess after a group of Republicans blocked action on the House floor. MORE: https://bit.ly/3QLTZKU
Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 08:00 AM (cVN12)

They're blocking votes in the House to try and force a vote in the Senate on SAVE.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

79
7 Ban dual citizenship.
Posted by: fd at July 01, 2026 07:32 AM (MWfyi)

SCOTUS has already ruled that you can’t do that. Back in the 60’s.

We did used to have laws against it. That’s why we don’t anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:12 AM (7wNAQ)

80 I used to have a different nic

Not forgotten. Is Rubio only successful because of Trump being a strong leader? I have doubts, but want to acknowledge achievements.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

81 14AM meme:

https://tinyurl.com/3rs8258e

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 01, 2026 08:13 AM (x8PQF)

82 Can’t find your email, Salty. Try again at jack471 at bellsouth dot net

Posted by: Buck at July 01, 2026 08:13 AM (z6ONu)

83 Now, the judiciary is a different story. They're the enablers for all the shit being dumped on us. The reverence we apply to them is misplaced.

There certainly needs to be some sort of reckoning, and soon.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 08:07 AM (jehhT)

What did Bukele say recently about the judiciary?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 08:13 AM (D2O3S)

84 Barrett's collection of brown, yellow, black kids she bought online or wherever should have disqualified her from the birthright case.

YMMV

==

In going against the grain of my species (heresy!), I will say what I've believed for a long time. Women are simply not up to the task of using logic, not emotion, when it comes to political or constitutional matters. Yes, plenty of men are as guilty, but I do not trust women as a whole and do not vote for women because of it. The only exception I can think of at the moment is Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The rest? Totally unreliable. They think and act like women. And women fall short in my book when their feelz overtake common sense and logic. The exact opposite of what this country needs. I was always skeptical of ACB for that reason. And she's proven my theory too many times.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2026 08:13 AM (qBdHI)

85 To throw the citizens a bone SCOTUS granted cert in two rifle ban cases on their last day. They will consolidate Viramontes v. Cook County, a Seventh Circuit (Illinois) case and Grant v. Higgins from the Second Circuit (Connecticut) and review the case next term.

I believe given the 5-4 rulings on Election Day and Birthright citizenship, and the legal arguments made, anyone who treasures their Second Amendment rights should be concerned. I expect more constitutional subversion from ACB and Roberts. I also believe that any favorable ruling would come with enough caveats it will give the defendant states another avenue to undermine our Second Amendment rights.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (+Tpk4)

86 The Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy is raising $50 million to ‘focus on GRIFT ~~climate change, wealth inequality, criminal justice, the impact of artificial intelligence on democracy, and electoral reforms aimed at reducing polarization.”~~

fisked it

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (/+uur)

87 Marxists don't do what the people want, they do what they need to stay in power

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 08:06 AM (sgkY

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Marxists > RINOs

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (x8PQF)

88 They're blocking votes in the House to try and force a vote in the Senate on SAVE.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

I have to support this because the rebellion was led by the lovely Luna (swoon)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (D2O3S)

89 ACB is the biggest mistake Trump ever made.

Posted by: Delurker at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (2Drhq)

90 I like "get vertigo from being in a sewer". I may need that phrase.

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I actually glommed onto it from somewhere else, who knows where! I put it in my insult bank for later use. It's a good one.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2026 08:15 AM (qBdHI)

91 Nice to know that we actual citizens are now on the same level as the spawn of the felonious fence hoppers who squat one out after they break their way into the country. Thanks for putting me in my place just in time for my quarterly tax payment. Good to know it will be going to support the “real Americans.” Buck Ferrett.

Posted by: Me no speaky ingrish at July 01, 2026 08:15 AM (hD90I)

92 Good morning Horde thx JJ great report.
Does anyone think that if there is a massive increase in birth tourism, that our elite specifically the GOPe will do anything. We've seen non GOPe types already beginning the constitutional amendment process. I doubt the GOPe will move.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2026 08:16 AM (dcxJn)

93 ACB’s social activism should have been a giant red flag for Trump who has for years decried the DEI crowd. You can thank the Federalist Society for both her and Roberts. It’s why Trump has said should he get another pick, they won’t be anywhere near that process.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2026 08:16 AM (+Tpk4)

94 Any Boney Carrot.

Posted by: Just wanted to type that at July 01, 2026 08:17 AM (2Ez/1)

95 I called Luna's office to say thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 08:17 AM (afJtY)

96 JJ, why you and Trump pick on Chynah?!?!?!

https://tinyurl.com/4tvzntkz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 01, 2026 08:17 AM (x8PQF)

97 ACB is the biggest mistake Trump ever made.

Posted by: Delurker at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (2Drhq)

She's definitely the longest-lasting.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 01, 2026 08:18 AM (xA5g+)

98 You can thank the Federalist Society for both her and Roberts. It’s why Trump has said should he get another pick, they won’t be anywhere near that process.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2026 08:16 AM (+Tpk4)

We recently learned that Mitch informed Trump that Barrett was going to be the pick and that was that.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 01, 2026 08:19 AM (xA5g+)

99 Lady in Black

That's an idea for an ace post!

List what is in your insult bank.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:19 AM (u82oZ)

100 Keep in mind, none of these commies have won in swing states. Chickenpooper won his Senate primary in CO easily last night. Deep blue seats only have flipped

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:19 AM (YCxFk)

101 In going against the grain of my species (heresy!), I will say what I've believed for a long time. Women are simply not up to the task of using logic, not emotion, when it comes to political or constitutional matters.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2026 08:13 AM (qBdHI)
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This is why we should NOT have nice things - like comment edit and delete buttons.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 01, 2026 08:20 AM (x8PQF)

102 14 years of stabbing us in the back in the Senate, all forgotten because there's a new target for the forgetful hate.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

Basically.... yeah.

I don't care who fights for us right now, so long as they fight. I would rather yesterday's squish who has taken up the cudgels today, than the standard RINO bastard who waves a plastic toy sword around at us screaming bloody murder about what a fighter he is.

No enemies in a foxhole, but you have to actually be in my foxhole for that to count.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 01, 2026 08:20 AM (Ot/FD)

103 ACB’s legal reasoning in the Election Day case is perhaps just as bad as anything we have seen from KBJ. The birthright citizenship case doesn’t even try to make a constitutional argument, it’s a rehashing of the courts own precedents. Both are embarrassingly bereft of constitutional premise.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2026 08:20 AM (+Tpk4)

104 List what is in your insult bank.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:19 AM (u82oZ)
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I can't insult someone bad unless I know how big their momma is.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 08:21 AM (RIvkX)

105 Jonah

Outmigration from Deep States should have electoral consequences, not just economic woes. We need a tight, focused Census.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:21 AM (u82oZ)

106
1. Trump made Vance the lead negotiator. He cannot go around publicly stating that the Iranians are faithless and everyone in the country should be annihilated in nuclear fire.
2. Vance's comments on the "silver lining" are almost exactly the same thing that Kurt Schlichter and other have said.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

I enjoy Schlicter’s writing, his ideas usually echo my own, and the only fault I find is that he tends to be far too much of an apologist at times. For instance his piece yesterday, which you referenced, said (paraphrased) “this was great news! Look how close we came! All we need is a couple new justices and a better Congress, and I know this will be overturned in 20 or 30 years!”

Kurt, we don’t have 20 or 30 years left to fix this. By then, all the children of the ones being born today will be having children of their own, and the games will be over.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:21 AM (7wNAQ)

107 Ginsberg passes so close to 20/20 election. Dems wanted to stall and do another Kav trial. Woman was way to go. Easy confirm. She did vote right way on Roe, but I agree she is soft like O’Connor.

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:22 AM (YCxFk)

108 And not to sound misogynistic, but there should never be another woman on the court. They’ve all been disasters for our constitution. Every one.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2026 08:22 AM (+Tpk4)

109 I voted for a Congressman and Senators so I now absolve myself from anything other than bitching about what happens.
We the people are responsible.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 08:22 AM (afJtY)

110 “80+% of American people want the end of so-called “birthright citizenship”.

Left unspoken, in a Democracy importing an illegal electorate is treason.

American citizens aren’t allowed to vote on this. Ain’t it grand? The “government” is electing a new people, since apparently the ignorant hick rube mouth breathers out in flyover country aren’t down with the program.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 01, 2026 08:22 AM (wJccJ)

111 San Franpsycho

I have faith in your ability to handle large women.

Now, gun-toting Internal Security KGB types is another matter.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:22 AM (u82oZ)

112 "Both are embarrassingly bereft of constitutional premise."

It's as if they had vertigo.
From being in a sewer.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 01, 2026 08:23 AM (2Ez/1)

113 97 She's definitely the longest-lasting.

That's why.

Posted by: Delurker at July 01, 2026 08:24 AM (2Drhq)

114 Administration officials say tighter eligibility verification and program integrity measures prevented about 2.9 million people from receiving subsidies they were not entitled to, while estimates of fraudulent enrollments have dropped from 5.6 million to 2.6 million.

There are at least 1 million Obamacare members with NO SSID.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 01, 2026 08:24 AM (/+uur)

115 It starts by Trump telling universities no more Chinese visas for graduate programs. Univ of Illinois is now called little Beijing

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:24 AM (YCxFk)

116 You're soaking in it.

Posted by: Madge at July 01, 2026 08:26 AM (2Ez/1)

117 I agree with you. Poor JD drew the short straw to try and explain or excuse Trump's stupid decision to take on Iran before the midterms. Whatever he says he has to tread lightly so as not to piss off Trump or other warmongers.
Posted by: Jaimo at July 01, 2026 08:04 AM (2noDb)

Sure, my point was that Trump is a big poopyhead who should have waited until after the midterms, not caught the Iranian leadership all in one place, and had everyone pissing and moaning about how he attacked before the 2028 election.

Everyone would forget their disappointment with Vance as quickly as they've forgotten their disgust with Rubio but for the fact that he's from Florida and, for some reason, that's an aphrodisiac for commenters here.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:26 AM (ExV1e)

118 The American system is a complex web of graft and blackmail - so I have no doubt that SC justices are being bribed and threatened. Nearly everyone in the ruling class is, every day.

That's just how the machine runs. But Barrett and Roberts did this for the same reason everyone in the ruling class does what they do - class loyalty.

This isn't a decision that required any cajoling. Anchor babies are a key feature of the ruling class war against the subject classes. It would be treason to undermine that. No top man in good standing will go against it.

Same with vote fraud. That's why I never considered the possibility of Congress just shrugging their shoulders and saying "well, I guess the hated subjects win this critical battle. Let's just surrender. We're passing SAVE. We shall put down our tabulators and rig elections no more."

That's not how any of this works.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 01, 2026 08:26 AM (BI5O2)

119 Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:22 AM (u82oZ)
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Ha!

Your faith in me is sadly misplaced.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 08:26 AM (RIvkX)

120 You can thank the Federalist Society for both her and Roberts. It’s why Trump has said should he get another pick, they won’t be anywhere near that process.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2026 08:16 AM (+Tpk4)

From what I've read, Trump initially wanted Barbara Lagoa from Florida. It was Pence and McConnell who pushed Barrett.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2026 08:27 AM (fZiTB)

121 ACB is the biggest mistake Trump ever made.
Posted by: Delurker at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (2Drhq)

I agree. -- Mike Pence

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:28 AM (ExV1e)

122 SC judges can grift?

Who knew!!!

https://tinyurl.com/26rht5bc

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 01, 2026 08:28 AM (x8PQF)

123 It starts by Trump telling universities no more Chinese visas for graduate programs. Univ of Illinois is now called little Beijing
Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:24 AM (YCxFk)

Why are they here? Are there no colleges in Red China? How many Americans go to college in Red China? Anyone want Moo Goo Gai Pan?

Posted by: Questions at July 01, 2026 08:28 AM (K5H/e)

124 I really liked J.D., read his book, love his story. I was happy Trump picked him and happy to vote for him.

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I read his book, too. I was very impressed with his success from his very humble upbringing. He grew up in a town just a few miles from where I'm from. I could relate to much of what he wrote about: his blue collar upbringing, the hopelessness that befell so many of those he knew, and it's what led him, against all odds, to succeed as he did in a most impressive way.

Only the next couple of years will tell how his political path will unfold, but I do have a few cautions that are starting to bother me. The biggest being Schmucker Carlson. But we'll see...

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2026 08:29 AM (qBdHI)

125 This is a 6-3 court in our favor and we have people celebrating how "close" it was?

Optimism is fine, keeping the troops together is fine, but for the love of God don't piss on our heads and tell us it's a beautiful day.

This is a disaster for every future possible case and it's only gonna get worse as we lose our two sanest arbiters. There is the sunny side and then there is willful blindness. The enemy is inside the gate and they are way more than just an idea.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:29 AM (J9Kpb)

126
97 ACB is the biggest mistake Trump ever made.

Posted by: Delurker at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (2Drhq)

Worse than Jeff Sessions? That mistake lost the effectiveness of his entire first term, if you’ve forgotten.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:29 AM (7wNAQ)

127 Tanned, rested and ready!

Posted by: Harriet Miers at July 01, 2026 08:29 AM (2Ez/1)

128 Rumpled, plump and ugly, non-charming Chambers was right all along about the elegant and suave Alger Hiss.
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They were, um … “friends” IYKWIMAITTYD. (Not that there is anything wrong with that!)

Posted by: Common Tater at July 01, 2026 08:29 AM (wJccJ)

129 I respectfully dissent.

As I said, elsewhere, Mr. Thomas I disrespectfully dissent! I don't think they deserve any respect whatsoever for ignoring the clear written text combined with the words of those who wrote and passed the 14th Amendment. I am also astounded the War of 1812 wasn't addressed, it seems. It was directly due to a nation (Britain) asserting that those in America were still subject to British authority because they had been born on what was once British soil.

Posted by: GWB at July 01, 2026 08:30 AM (kU0PQ)

130 I agree. -- Mike Pence

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At least Pence was only a transitory mistake. We're stuck with ACB until she goes to her great reward in heaven.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2026 08:30 AM (qBdHI)

131 ACB (female) has been generally awful, but don’t forget, Roberts (male) has been even worse and for a longer period of time…. Both are adoptive parents but that doesn’t mean adoption is bad.

I think these two are a product of higher academia (Notre Dame and Harvard). Both bastions of leftism and hatred of America… and they both apparently have a personality trait of wanting to be liked above all else. Less about gender and more about weakness of core convictions

As much as I hate abortion it’d be better for the country if they’d left Roe alone and got this one right….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 08:30 AM (D2O3S)

132 Been playing music, but electrical guys came today and getting loud urban 'music'with the usual profanity

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 08:31 AM (sgkY8)

133 @126 Yup, add in Barr and Wray and Trump's first term was controlled by the Russia gate BS and Epstein crap.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2026 08:32 AM (dcxJn)

134 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2026 08:33 AM (4Agqc)

135 Moorpark Protester Loay Alnaji Sentenced For 2023 Killing of Opposing Protester Paul Kessler
By Andrew Gillies

June 30, 2026 12:25 pm
Published June 30, 2026 12:49 pm

VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji, a Moorpark man facing charges related to the death of opposing protester Paul Kessler, was sentenced to one year in Ventura County Jail and two years of felony probation this week.
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"He dented my megaphone with his joo head!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

136 The thing about Rubio and/or Vance is that they're familiar with Trump's vision for the country. That they might have their own "spin" on it isn't (to me) all that relevant when they wax poetic about "stuff."

Some people take every word spoken by either of them literally.

They're politicians. Nothing they say is what they're really thinking.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 08:33 AM (jehhT)

137 Please let Alito/Thomas name his replacement, whenever the day come we.

Posted by: shenanigans at July 01, 2026 08:34 AM (ZDltW)

138 At least Pence was only a transitory mistake. We're stuck with ACB until she goes to her great reward in heaven.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2026 08:30 AM (qBdHI)

But boy did he stick the knife in when it counted. When he thought it was the coup de grace on America as we knew it.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:34 AM (J9Kpb)

139 ACB is the biggest mistake Trump ever made.

Posted by: Delurker at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (2Drhq)

Worse than Jeff Sessions? That mistake lost the effectiveness of his entire first term, if you’ve forgotten.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:29 AM (7wNAQ)

Yeah, but Barrett is there for the next 40 years.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 01, 2026 08:35 AM (xA5g+)

140 Where’s Whig or one of our other parliamentarians? Didn’t Nixon get one of his picks shot down? Clifford Hainesworth or something like that.

It used to be almost automatic that presidents had their nominees confirmed. In recent years it has turned into a dumpster fire on bath salts.

The left is now trying to argue that packing the Court with more associate justices is really about unpacking the Court.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 01, 2026 08:35 AM (wJccJ)

141 shenanigans

We need better GOP Senators.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ)

142 The World Is Becoming Increasingly Divided By Fertility
https://shorturl.at/k4KqX

These Countries Are Building The Most Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
https://shorturl.at/2r5RB

Zerohedge - from Visual Capitalist

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2026 08:35 AM (R+iUD)

143 136 The thing about Rubio and/or Vance is that they're familiar with Trump's vision for the country. That they might have their own "spin" on it isn't (to me) all that relevant when they wax poetic about "stuff."

I agree and think that with either man we have the elusive "talks/acts liberal but swings hard right in office" possibility.

JD in particular will calm down the old biddies but I don't think he's going to govern boomer-left.

either way the Millennials - particularly those with children - are FINALLY seemingly wising up

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 01, 2026 08:35 AM (j+aD2)

144 ACB is the biggest mistake Trump ever made.

Posted by: Delurker

Worse than Jeff Sessions? That mistake lost the effectiveness of his entire first term, if you’ve forgotten.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Yes. Amy Boney Carrot is still fucking us LONG after Sessions is gone. And will continue to screw us for years to come. The damage she can inflict for the next 30 years is incalculable.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2026 08:36 AM (4Agqc)

145 No excuse for Barrett. Her inadequacies were quite obvious to anybody who looked. Zero trial experience. No impressive teaching or writing work. Her few public interviews were weak tea. On the other hand, Raymond Kethledge, a finalist for the position twice, has sterling conservative credentials and a top-level intellect (author of a book on leadership). Also a finalist was Barbara Lagoa from Florida, with a far more impressive conservative record than Barrett.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2026 08:37 AM (fZiTB)

146 91> American citizenship devalued to simple commodity.

What is the draw to serve in the military now?

An illegal alien or Chinese tourist scores full access rights to America's dwindling bounty then moments later joins the Grievance Army screaming "WE BUILT THIS PLACE" having only the tick/tock of a clock's time here so that they can claim more of the public treasury for themselves.

Yet Heritage Americans are expected to fight and die to please the foreign policy ambitions and MIC money/influence pipeline in the name of "National Security" when such security is just open borders, open treasury, open colonization and open auctioning of the next grifting politician.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 01, 2026 08:37 AM (U4c/V)

147 We need better GOP Senators.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ)
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Might I suggest we hold hearings on the matter?

Posted by: Weasel at July 01, 2026 08:38 AM (6tnon)

148 rickb223

Add Roberts to the list, and the 3 lockstep idiotic Leftist Justices. Maybe just the unlearned one first.

If we had a reliable Senate, we could pack the Court with Thomas-like clones. And there would be much rejoicing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:39 AM (u82oZ)

149 Sessions was a weird thing.

What I noticed, one, he was a long time conservative firebrand. He always sounded good. And notably he was among the first if not the very first to voice his support for then potential candidate Donald J. Trump. Remember that?

I thought he was gonna kick ass and take names. Finally. Get an AG with some cajones. Can’t hardly throw a rock in D.C. without hitting somebody who belongs in prison.

And then … he recused himself. Is he even still alive??

Posted by: Common Tater at July 01, 2026 08:39 AM (wJccJ)

150 shenanigans

I shall shenan, then I shall shenanigan.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2026 08:40 AM (4Agqc)

151 Worse than Jeff Sessions? That mistake lost the effectiveness of his entire first term, if you’ve forgotten.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:29 AM (7wNAQ)

Aw shucks! I always though my soft Southern delivery and cornpone charm had everybody fooled that I was not an Alabammy Hillbilly Asshole.

Posted by: Jeff Sessions, Alabama Hillbilly at July 01, 2026 08:40 AM (K5H/e)

152 Everyone would forget their disappointment with Vance as quickly as they've forgotten their disgust with Rubio but for the fact that he's from Florida and, for some reason, that's an aphrodisiac for commenters here.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:26 AM (ExV1e)

I believe everyone knows that Vance is just doing what he’s told to do, and has little choice in the matter. But it’s easier to openly criticize him than to criticize the one giving the orders.

Be that as it may, it’s quite obvious that the MOU
talks Vance was heading have already collapsed completely, and no more are scheduled. Trump wants a nice quiet July 4th celebration with no distractions; but remember how Muslims love to launch big attacks on their enemies holidays? (Like October 7)

Right now the US is tossing Iran a nice, slow pitch right across the middle of the plate. They see it, even if we don’t.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:40 AM (7wNAQ)

153 Weasel

Thank you for your inscription for my gift Deplorable Cookbook gift. It was very well received.

Or so that widow says, as she turns walking with me into stalking me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:40 AM (u82oZ)

154 147 We need better GOP Senators.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ)

We need to scrap the 17th.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2026 08:40 AM (fZiTB)

155 Amy was never, ever going to vote for anything that would hurt (even slightly, emotionally) her children.

that's just baked in the cake.

to some degree, the Roe decision led us to this. yesterday I was contemplating the large number of my peers (and young boomers) who chose foreign adoption. I was almost one of them, but I'm too stubborn to give up even after years of IF treatment.

and many would have adopted domestically but it was basically impossible. of say 20 families I know, ONE adopted domestically and it took them years. they tried to adopt their daughter's sibling later, and it never went through

partly this is due to the Roe decision. families with primary or secondary IF, or those who "didn't want to burden the planet with more normal babies" or something - they basically had to adopt internationally.

China was maybe the best option, but very hard and very pricy. Anyway. ACB went with Haiti, likely via the Church. The Roberts' did a whole thing for Mrs Roberts to sneak some Irish children out via South American (shady) because she was Irish American.

For those of us paying out the nose for IF treatments, and for those who payed out the nose for adoptions, tough.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 01, 2026 08:41 AM (j+aD2)

156 I assume Sessions was reminded by the powers that be that they knew there was a Sessions Jr out there that he had during an affair and they would publicize it if he didn't allow the Russiagate Hoax to continue...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 08:41 AM (sKqQm)

157 So Chinese "American citizens" will be casting votes by mail from Beijing in our elections.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 01, 2026 08:41 AM (YDjYy)

158 I don't not like Vance or Rubio. Insofar as they remain useful to Trump, fine, whatever, but I have no use for either of them in their own right.

They are career GOP politicians. They're part of the system I want to see permanently wrecked. Can't ever be trusted.

Once he's out of the picture, either of these men will immediately seek to co-opt his movement and restore the status quo ante. But this is true of any Republican. As of January 2028, we go back to a controlled opposition cuck party machine - just wearing red hats, this time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 01, 2026 08:42 AM (BI5O2)

159 Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:21 AM (7wNAQ)

And should he put out a piece saying that all is lost? No reason to vote. Consider suicide.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:42 AM (ExV1e)

160 I think Vance and Rubio are both terrific, and will support both over broken glass against the Commies in 2028

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:42 AM (YCxFk)

161 Community Notes

War is a Racket by Smedley Butler got there first in 1935.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:43 AM (u82oZ)

162 Sessions forte was immigration. He should have been the head of DHS and he would have had a different legacy.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 08:43 AM (afJtY)

163 Mornin’, All. Happy July.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2026 08:44 AM (77rzZ)

164 158. Say what? Vance was only elected in 2022 to his first office, and served his country in Middle East. How is that a career pol?

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:44 AM (YCxFk)

165 Young women in modern America are told by the FNM that fertility isn't an issue and they can have kids easily until 40 at least.

I saw a Whatever podcast where one guest presented the numbers on fertility decline - starting at 28 for most women - and none of the female guests would believe it. It turned out some 40 year old female celeb had just had a healthy child and so they all argued that meant they could as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 08:45 AM (sKqQm)

166 Today Is International Chicken Wing Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2026 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

167 164 158. Say what? Vance was only elected in 2022 to his first office, and served his country in Middle East. How is that a career pol?

lol Jonah that was my reaction too!

let them wallow

I like JD and I like Marco. I'd prefer Ron maybe but either way. All good.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 01, 2026 08:45 AM (j+aD2)

168 I need an answer to a question. Does birth right citizenship entitle the person-when they are 18-to vote? I am really perplexed by this decision of the court.

Posted by: . Chillin the most at July 01, 2026 08:45 AM (Sv8TC)

169 I shall shenan, then I shall shenanigan.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2026 08:40
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*pointing*

The doah is that way.

Posted by: The Blue Ridge Mountains at July 01, 2026 08:45 AM (2Ez/1)

170 Would R's let any true conservative past the Senate now? I have strong doubts.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (J9Kpb)

171 It turned out some 40 year old female celeb had just had a healthy child and so they all argued that meant they could as well

yep that burned Gen X bad. we all got married too late.

you can have kids at 40 or even 50 IF you've been having them all along! if you try for the first time then, it's a long shot.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (j+aD2)

172 James Ho of the Fifth circuit is next up. First asian on court, and a great conservative

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (YCxFk)

173 They're politicians. Nothing they say is what they're really thinking.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 08:33 AM (jehhT)

Word. It's all advertising.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

174 Does birth right citizenship entitle the person-when they are 18-to vote?/i]

Yes.

They still have to register to vote, but blue states have made that so easy people that don't exist do it all the time...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (sKqQm)

175 Sessions decided to recuse himself because he once brushed sleeves with a Russian diplomat at a DC cocktail party. Pathetic preemptive surrender, but he sure proved his "ethical" standards!

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (fZiTB)

176 need an answer to a question. Does birth right citizenship entitle the person-when they are 18-to vote? I am really perplexed by this decision of the court.

Posted by: . Chillin the most at July 01, 2026 08:45 AM (Sv8TC)

Yes it confers them every advantage of citizenship because they are a citizen.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:47 AM (J9Kpb)

177 Posted by: The Blue Ridge Mountains "

Shenandoah River...

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 08:47 AM (XuXeR)

178 Have to remember Tom Tillis wants to be a lobbyist and needs to be on good standing with Senate Conservatives to do that after he retires. He will not 86 a Trump Scotus pick

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:47 AM (YCxFk)

179 Desantis is great Orchid. Wish his public speaking was better, but would support him big also

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:49 AM (YCxFk)

180 Ideally society would encourage people to find a spouse and start having kids shortly after HS but it does the opposite of this, pointing people to college and partying until at least 30 and career focus after that.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 08:49 AM (sKqQm)

181 yep that burned Gen X bad. we all got married too late.

you can have kids at 40 or even 50 IF you've been having them all along! if you try for the first time then, it's a long shot.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (j+aD2)

My then-wife had our first at 35.

We were younger than a huge percentage of our peers who were having their firsts.

On the upside, we were exponentially more financially stable. On the downside, having kids is for the young. We still FELT young then, of course...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 01, 2026 08:49 AM (xA5g+)

182 The Marxist takeover of the Dems has spread from NY and Cali to Colorado. The 15 term Dem Congress critter DeGette was beaten by a 29 yr old Dem Socialist. Theater kids for the win!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2026 08:50 AM (dcxJn)

183 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 01, 2026 08:42 AM (BI5O2)

One could argue we don't have to go "back", it never left.

Trump came along and showed Republicans how to win. And how to do it by simply assenting to and acting on what their own voters had been asking for, and what they'd been promising, for 50 years.

They said "nah bro we good". But they still want you to donate.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:51 AM (J9Kpb)

184 171 Would R's let any true conservative past the Senate now? I have strong doubts.
Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (J9Kpb)

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R's should pick a Black conservative to get hearings easily.

Dude. That only works for Democrats. Remember Clarence Thomas?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 01, 2026 08:51 AM (W/5JY)

185 Non doom scenario. Republicans pick up 5 in the House and two in the Senate . Legislation then has a different complexion.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 08:51 AM (afJtY)

186 The 15 term Dem Congress critter DeGette was beaten by a 29 yr old Dem Socialist"

Oh noes. What will we do?

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 08:51 AM (XuXeR)

187 "It turned out some 40 year old female celeb had just had a healthy child and so they all argued that meant they could as well."
+++
Because you can spend so many fulfilling years in a nondescript cubicle serving me!

Posted by: The Soulless Corporation at July 01, 2026 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)

188 On the downside, having kids is for the young. We still FELT young then, of course...

Drinking all night and getting up for work the next day is way easier in your early 20s then it is after that.

But the same is true with dealing with a baby that keeps you up all night

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (sKqQm)

189 yep that burned Gen X bad. we all got married too late.

you can have kids at 40 or even 50 IF you've been having them all along! if you try for the first time then, it's a long shot.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (j+aD2)

We had our first when I was 35…. If I had to do it all over again I’d have kids much younger… say mid-20s…. Better to be battling teenagers in your late 30s early 40s than 10+ years after that. Energy naturally wanes…. Plus, would love to see how my kids are faring into their 50s but realistically probably not…. Which is kinda sad

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (YetvJ)

190 Fall of 2020, Covid, Ginsberg passes. Goober Graham saying we should wait until January to replace. Murkowski and Collins saying the same. We had no choice but Barrett, nor did Trump. Only pro lifer that they GOP moderates would vote for. Is what it is

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (YCxFk)

191 Non doom scenario"

That's not allowed here anymore, I think. Kinda sad. The joy is gone...

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (XuXeR)

192 At this point it appears the senate is an active force of opposition to Trump.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (fZiTB)

193 I might have different feelings about the birthright situation if the kid squeezed out here had to remain in the country until they turned 21.

Rather than have the parent(s) spirit them back to wherever... then send them back here to be a nuisance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (jehhT)

194 Posted by: The Blue Ridge Mountains "

Shenandoah River...
Posted by: man

Life is old there...

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (4Agqc)

195 And Romney was still in Senate too

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:53 AM (YCxFk)

196 180 Desantis is great Orchid. Wish his public speaking was better, but would support him big also
Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:49 AM (YCxFk)

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The opposite of Newsom in so many ways. I really think he could be a great president

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 01, 2026 08:53 AM (W/5JY)

197 Dems did it to biden too. Sinema and Manchin stopped the negation of the Filibuster, which saved America's ass

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:54 AM (YCxFk)

198 JJ's mother was put in a camp by people like you, troll.

Just. Like. You.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 08:54 AM (RIvkX)

199 I got spoiled by Trump. There probably won’t be another like him in my lifetime… come to think of it I got to see both Reagan and Trump!

Rubio Vance DeSantis would all be great. But none of them are Trump

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 08:54 AM (YetvJ)

200 Have a family and kids or don't or cannot but scrounging the globe for children just to have kids because you can afford it is insane.

Clown World.

Posted by: Bozo The Clown at July 01, 2026 08:54 AM (K5H/e)

201 158 I don't not like Vance or Rubio. Insofar as they remain useful to Trump, fine, whatever, but I have no use for either of them in their own right.

They are career GOP politicians. They're part of the system I want to see permanently wrecked. Can't ever be trusted.

Once he's out of the picture, either of these men will immediately seek to co-opt his movement and restore the status quo ante. But this is true of any Republican. As of January 2028, we go back to a controlled opposition cuck party machine - just wearing red hats, this time.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 01, 2026 08:42 AM (BI5O2)
**********
We are now fighting communists and to save the Republic from them.

If we get one of them across the finish line in 2028 or both if they're on the same ticket, we have a chance of replacing more Supreme Court justices.
If we lose the Democrat party will pack the court with communists.
The 3 Democrat justices we have will be considered too right wing compared to what the left is going to put forward.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2026 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

202 Worse than Jeff Sessions? That mistake lost the effectiveness of his entire first term, if you’ve forgotten.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:29 AM (7wNAQ)

Sessions was the willing trigger man that started the whole shit show. Not Comey. Sessions.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2026 08:55 AM (NrrBq)

203 @109

>>I voted for a Congressman and Senators so I now absolve myself from anything other than bitching about what happens. We the people are responsible.

What can one do besides that?

We've seen what happens when we take to the streets, infiltration, subjugation and imprisonment on faggot ass shit like, parading.

When things eventually break, they will break bad and the people that have foisted these grotesqueries on us will rue the day.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2026 08:55 AM (XV/Pl)

204 177> Voting and birth right citizenship

How does that work with Chinese birth tourism?

So the anchor baby returns to China and after 18 years states like Colorado will let the new voter participate in elections.

In which district? And where do the jury duty summons originate and get sent?

I submit that Chinese birth tourists have superior rights to Heritage US citizens. First, they don't have to pay US income taxes, they get to enjoy full voting rights with absolutely none of the duties, and at any time make claims to whatever residual benefits that will remain once the world has plundered us into penury.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 01, 2026 08:55 AM (xE0sV)

205 180 Desantis is great Orchid. Wish his public speaking was better, but would support him big also
Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:49 AM (YCxFk)

I like DeSantis a lot; but to run a national campaign you’ve got to be a great campaigner, and he just isn’t. He would do well as a high level appointee in the future.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:55 AM (7wNAQ)

206 If only Roberts and Barrett were as scared of conservatives as they are of the Left and their ground troops.

Posted by: smelting at July 01, 2026 08:55 AM (7iM56)

207 Communist candidates lost big in the IL Dem primaries also, media not talking about that

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:56 AM (YCxFk)

208 Today is also International Joke Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2026 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

209 Posted by: The Blue Ridge Mountains "

Shenandoah River...
Posted by: man

Life is old there...
Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM

And yet my lyrics refer to "the wide Missouri."

Posted by: Oh Shenandoah at July 01, 2026 08:56 AM (2Ez/1)

210 Sometimes I think Congress resents the fact that there is an executive branch, with a President

back in the olden times, the Continental Congress was top dog

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 08:57 AM (cVN12)

211 Roberts is the problem. Christmas day if that sleazebag retired.

Someday Roberts will retire under a Dem like Souter

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:57 AM (YCxFk)

212 Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2026 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

You're not wrong but the "you HAVE to vote for people you think will betray you to stop the communists" only seems to work one way.

Then as soon as someone came along who was actually on our side, the "thoughtful Republicans" in the party said outright: "nope time to vote for communists".

Should give anybody pause. And should make the argument moot. Because an argument that only works one way is no argument at all.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:58 AM (J9Kpb)

213 205. Agree Tom

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:58 AM (YCxFk)

214 Does birth right citizenship entitle the person-when they are 18-to vote? I am really perplexed by this decision of the court.

Posted by: . Chillin the most at July 01, 2026 08:45 AM (Sv8TC)

Now, what if Chynah takes all those magic-dirt citizens and starts marrying them to other magic-dirt citizens? A child of two citizens is a citizen even if they were born outside the US and never set foot on the magic-dirt.

Pretty soon, Chynah conquers the US without a shot being fired.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

215
192 At this point it appears the senate is an active force of opposition to Trump.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (fZiTB)

They always have been. After Cornyn and Cassidy lost, they realized there’s no point in pretending any differently any more.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:58 AM (7wNAQ)

216 @ModernityNews
·
1h
Outgoing UK PM “Proud To Have The GAYEST Parliament Of All Time Anywhere In The World”
“I don’t think there is any Parliament that is gayer than this Parliament.”

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 08:59 AM (cVN12)

217 @193

>>I might have different feelings about the birthright situation if the kid squeezed out here had to remain in the country until they turned 21.

Per John Roberts ridiculous ruling, a Portuguese woman on a trip to the US to see the world cup, pops out a kid during intermission, that kid is an American Citizen.

It's preposterous at every level of analysis.

But here we are, living in clown world with clowns dressed in black robes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2026 08:59 AM (XV/Pl)

218 Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 08:54 AM (RIvkX)

They wear that as a badge of honor and can't wait to do the same to you. No matter what they "say".

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 09:00 AM (J9Kpb)

219 199. Well Said Linus. Trump and Reagan were warriors who fought back. Gipper had to deal with a Dem House his whole span too.

After Romney and McCain, we wanted a fighter to go after the Dem Viet Cong

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 09:00 AM (YCxFk)

220 Desantis is great Orchid. Wish his public speaking was better, but would support him big also
Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:49 AM (YCxFk)

While I have reservations about DeSantis - stemming from the fact that he's never had a job outside of government and has broken his word in the past - I would support him in a general election but not in the primary. Of course, I don't think he'd ever get to the general election because he has no personality and, sadly, that matters more than it should.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

221 Life is old there..."

Older than the trees?

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 09:01 AM (XuXeR)

222 I used to have a different nic, hear , hear.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 09:01 AM (afJtY)

223 The GOPe isn't weak.

The GOPe is co-opted.

And we know exactly when it happed - 1999.

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

224 Have a great day, everyone.

May you all support American Exceptionalism, not the Deep State.

I must get a cunning plan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 09:02 AM (u82oZ)

225 Younger than the mountains…

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2026 09:02 AM (77rzZ)

226 > Pretty soon, Chynah conquers the US without a shot being fired.
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In some respects, they already have.

They outright own much of FedGov. Our national infrastructure. And so on...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 09:02 AM (jehhT)

227 Rather than have the parent(s) spirit them back to wherever... then send them back here to be a nuisance.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (jehhT)

They don't have to send them back. They can vote for Chynah friendly policies from the comfort of their gulag.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

228 Posted by: The Blue Ridge Mountains "

Shenandoah River...
Posted by: man

Life is old there...
Posted by: rickb223

I don't get it.

Posted by: This Is Not A Sports Song at July 01, 2026 09:02 AM (Trl6K)

229 Where China ended up being smarter then the Soviets is that ideology doesn't matter as much as $$$

I don't think your average Chinese stooge in DC really cares for Chinese style national socialism. They care for the $$$ that they get though and really its just a small change to how they'd otherwise vote right?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 09:03 AM (sKqQm)

230 Younger than the mountains…"

Growing like a ...breeze...?

Song lyrics. Bizarre.

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 09:04 AM (XuXeR)

231 DeSantis demonstrated his impoverished judgment when he bet against Trump at a time when it was both temporally asynchronous and politically dunderheaded.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 09:04 AM (J9Kpb)

232 Sometimes I think Congress resents the fact that there is an executive branch, with a President

back in the olden times, the Continental Congress was top dog
Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 08:57 AM (cVN12)

If that were true, they'd stop passing bills that say that the executive branch gets to decide what they mean.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 09:04 AM (ExV1e)

233 @216 Future BBC headline

GAYEST PARLIAMENT IN HISTORY THROWN OFF ROOF

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2026 09:05 AM (dcxJn)

234 Good morning!

(Yikes, almost typed "TGIF!")

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:05 AM (X8xt3)

235 I don't get it.
Posted by: This Is Not A Sports Song "

Fall Saturdays in Morgantown, West Virginia disagree...

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 09:05 AM (XuXeR)

236 Morn' all... I'm still bummed over yesterday's debacle...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2026 09:06 AM (FtULh)

237 >>Have a great day, everyone.
May you all support American Exceptionalism, not the Deep State.

Thanks, you, too!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:06 AM (X8xt3)

238 My wife and I are looking to move to West Virginia.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2026 09:06 AM (77rzZ)

239 I saw a Whatever podcast where one guest presented the numbers on fertility decline - starting at 28 for most women - and none of the female guests would believe it. It turned out some 40 year old female celeb had just had a healthy child and so they all argued that meant they could as well.
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Girl Math:
This rare exception proves the statistical average is wrong.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 09:07 AM (3cUTc)

240 Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:05 AM (X8xt3)

Or as I like to say, TGIL

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 09:07 AM (J9Kpb)

241 DeSantis demonstrated his impoverished judgment when he bet against Trump at a time when it was both temporally asynchronous and politically dunderheaded.

Why would you hold it against him that he threw his hat in the ring and ran a fairly positive campaign?

Had the Dems assassinated Trump or managed to jail him that would have left DeSantis the heir apparent instead of Haley which I think would have been a good thing

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 09:08 AM (sKqQm)

242 I like how this guy thinks!

@chriswithans
If you're a U.S. citizen and you're living abroad, you have to file taxes on your income. Doesn't matter where it's from. And if you want exclusions or credits, you still have to file. (This is the #1 reason why departing Americans renounce their citizenship.)

The IRS should be mining foreign countries looking for "anchor babies" and other citizens who aren't filing. Instead of obsessing about whether your grandma reported her Etsy knitting earnings, they should be focused on this.

And then you can give them a choice: renounce your citizenship or pay back taxes on everything you owed, including penalties.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:08 AM (X8xt3)

243 My wife and I are looking to move to West Virginia."

There are some absolutely lovely areas. Transportation can be challenging in spots, tho...

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 09:08 AM (XuXeR)

244 Sessions decided to recuse himself because he once brushed sleeves with a Russian diplomat at a DC cocktail party. Pathetic preemptive surrender, but he sure proved his "ethical" standards!
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Before there was suicidal empathy, Republicans had perfected suicidal congeniality.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 09:10 AM (3cUTc)

245 At the border, if a pregnancy test is refused, then State should issue a visa for the presumed fetus for temporary visitation rights to the US. After the visa expires, the fetus or child can then be deported. Heh heh.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at July 01, 2026 09:10 AM (KpyH1)

246 >>Or as I like to say, TGIL

Heh!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:10 AM (X8xt3)

247 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at July 01, 2026 09:10 AM (53oGX)

248 @241

>>Why would you hold it against him that he threw his hat in the ring and ran a fairly positive campaign?

People have to come to terms with the fact that DeSantis just does not have that thing that would allow him to be President.

He just doesn't.

Unless something disastrous happens, the ticket will be Vance and Rubio.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2026 09:11 AM (XV/Pl)

249 Had the Dems assassinated Trump or managed to jail him that would have left DeSantis the heir apparent instead of Haley which I think would have been a good thing

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 09:08 AM (sKqQm)

DeSantis somewhat mysteriously dropped out, leaving Haley with the delegates when Trump was shot.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 09:11 AM (J9Kpb)

250 >>The 15 term Dem Congress critter DeGette was beaten by a 29 yr old Dem Socialist"

Oh, F#CK!
Ethiopian Socialist who is as abrasive as Omar and Tlaib.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:12 AM (X8xt3)

251 The 15 term Dem Congress critter DeGette was beaten by a 29 yr old Dem Socialist"
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Turning their mockery upon them:
The Face-Eating Leopard Party finds the leopard eating their face.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 09:12 AM (3cUTc)

252 @chriswithans
If you're a U.S. citizen and you're living abroad, you have to file taxes on your income. Doesn't matter where it's from. And if you want exclusions or credits, you still have to file. (This is the #1 reason why departing Americans renounce their citizenship.)

The IRS should be mining foreign countries looking for "anchor babies" and other citizens who aren't filing. Instead of obsessing about whether your grandma reported her Etsy knitting earnings, they should be focused on this.

And then you can give them a choice: renounce your citizenship or pay back taxes on everything you owed, including penalties.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:08 AM (X8xt3)

Hmmm. That's actually a pretty good idea.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2026 09:13 AM (IZsO+)

253 > My wife and I are looking to move to West Virginia.
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Eastern WV is a lot different from Western WV. Same for North and South.

I used to live, and still own a house, in far West WV near the Ohio River.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 09:13 AM (jehhT)

254 Lets encourage birth tourism among Afrikaners.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 01, 2026 09:15 AM (rJ48h)

255 They always have been. After Cornyn and Cassidy lost, they realized there’s no point in pretending any differently any more.
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You should see Cornyn on X now.
He is everything he was accused of but conservative.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 09:15 AM (3cUTc)

256 @250 Lizzy, yup. I just saw her victory speech . Oligarchy, we aren't waiting , as well as every other socialist platitude. The volume was turned up to 11

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2026 09:15 AM (dcxJn)

257 What’s with the leopard eating the face thing? Where does that come from?

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2026 09:16 AM (77rzZ)

258 Interesting backstory behind how the John Denver classic song came to be.

https://tinyurl.com/yuj4yczr

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 01, 2026 09:16 AM (2Ez/1)

259 The most delegates I mean. He still retained 3rd place I believe.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 09:16 AM (J9Kpb)

260 Congress is lazy and corrupt. In particular, the senate. They have been aloof in their duties, snobbish in their attitudes and indolent in their work ethic. That apathy and sloth has cost us dearly, as senators have valued their own arrogant, cavalier pronouncements over the work they should be doing for the people. All of our problems and failures are largely based on their inability to act and function on behalf of the republic instead of themselves.

They need a good throat punch. All of them.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 01, 2026 09:17 AM (zvo7E)

261 Headline over at Liberty Daily-

MTG: Actually, Trump Is the Traitor Who Works on Behalf of a Foreign Country, Israel

https://tinyurl.com/s5wme2h4

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2026 09:17 AM (NpAcC)

262 I still think that ACB is a 1.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2026 09:17 AM (77rzZ)

263 >>Turning their mockery upon them:
The Face-Eating Leopard Party finds the leopard eating their face.

It will be entertaining to see where DeGette goes next.
She is NEVER in Colorado. All of her townhalls with constituents are done by phone/Zoom, for many years (long before Covid). She went to DC and hubby stayed home in CO to raise the kids, IIRC.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:17 AM (X8xt3)

264 Eastern WV is a lot different from Western WV. Same for North and South."

Indeed. Mrs was born in Morgantown, and we still own property not far from Charleston.. barely 3 hours' drive apart, but very different.

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 09:17 AM (XuXeR)

265 The IRS should be mining foreign countries looking for "anchor babies" and other citizens who aren't filing. Instead of obsessing about whether your grandma reported her Etsy knitting earnings, they should be focused on this.”

California, Colorado and the rest of the Dem party are already scouring the world for ‘anchor babies” that don’t vote.

They say “you don’t have to worry about figuring out who to vote for, we’ll do it for you! We’ll even pay you for it!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 09:17 AM (7wNAQ)

266 "Leopards eating faces" is a popular political and social metaphor used to describe people who vote for or support harmful, oppressive policies, but then act completely shocked and regretful when those same policies negatively affect them personally.

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

267 Marjorie Trailer Queen.

Posted by: I just like to type that at July 01, 2026 09:18 AM (2Ez/1)

268 Bernie is looking out for you.

Sen. Bernie Sanders
@SenSanders
Europe is suffering through its worst heat wave in recorded history.
This week, 3 dozen U.S. states will likely see record-breaking temperatures.
No, Mr. Trump. Climate change is not a “hoax.”
We must stop fossil fuel industry greed and save the planet.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at July 01, 2026 09:18 AM (ndZc7)

269 If lefties believe what they say about global warming the ONLY solution at this point would be to nuke China.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 09:19 AM (sKqQm)

270 @257

>>What’s with the leopard eating the face thing? Where does that come from?

I think it's a corruption of, Weasel's Ripped My Flesh.

Tim Cahill had a book, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh.

So a thing eating your face off is not a stretch.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2026 09:20 AM (XV/Pl)

271 J.J. ended his editorial with this:

So, at what point do we take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
Or do we doom ourselves forever to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune unto death?
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I think we've got two years to figure that out. There's no guarantee Vance or Rubio or whomever will win in '28. Or that they're prepared to face it rather than let it happen. With the nominal left reeling a bit right now I'd say some soul searching might be necessary soon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 09:20 AM (jehhT)

272 The application to live here requires you list the length of your left leg and the length of your right leg.

Posted by: The State of West Virginia at July 01, 2026 09:20 AM (2Ez/1)

273 The BBC explains it all.

The BBC has issued an official explanation on why it has failed to cover our rape gang inquiry.
'Complex choices' are made for editorial and practical reasons.
These choices 'should not be taken as indicative of bias.'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at July 01, 2026 09:21 AM (ndZc7)

274 >>I just saw her victory speech . Oligarchy, we aren't waiting , as well as every other socialist platitude. The volume was turned up to 11

She is BAD:
@DSA_Watch
🚨 Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros, running against Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, told 9NEWS in an interview with Kyle Clark
@KyleClark she was happy to see the tech company Palantir leave Colorado

Kiros said she would also be happy if defense contractor Lockheed Martin leaves Colorado. Lockheed employs roughly 15,000 Coloradans and contributes to defending American lives.

video clip: https://tinyurl.com/2htxcn4b

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:21 AM (X8xt3)

275 You should see Cornyn on X now.
He is everything he was accused of but conservative.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 09:15 AM (3cUTc)

I’ve been watching him. It’s really amazing how people act when they feel they finally don’t have to pretend anymore. He now works hard every day to prove that everything that Paxton and Texas conservatives said about him was true.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 09:21 AM (7wNAQ)

276 The application to live here requires you list the length of your left leg and the length of your right leg.
Posted by: The State of West Virginia "

You left out the brother/ sister/cousin relationship chart

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 09:21 AM (XuXeR)

277 >> @chriswithans

This is the kind of thinking that causes you to win and crush the opposition.

Stop whining about a Supreme Court intent on limiting and undermining the Bill of Rights. Accept that’s what they do and operate with that thinking.

I see they accepted cert on the rifle ban cases. We should all be concerned given the past months ruling. But we should get ahead of that, because the liberals and their Marxist foot soldiers already have.

It’s up to us to save our democratic republic, not a bunch of Supreme Court wieners and social justice hacks. We need to beat them at their own game and use it like a club. Repeatedly.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 01, 2026 09:22 AM (zvo7E)

278 What’s with the leopard eating the face thing? Where does that come from?
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IDK, it's some stupid shit the left came up with to mock conservatives.
I'm not even sure of an example, except that they were basically saying the policies conservatives were voting for were hurting conservative and "ha ha, you stupids didn't think that through."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 09:23 AM (3cUTc)

279 Everyone born in the US is an American citizen!!! You cannot change that by diktat!

Posted by: Sid at July 01, 2026 09:25 AM (0qg6L)

280 @chriswithans
If you're a U.S. citizen and you're living abroad, you have to file taxes on your income. Doesn't matter where it's from.
Posted by: Lizzy

I think there's a minimum income that is observed, no? It used to be like $95k.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 01, 2026 09:25 AM (diia5)

281 >>What’s with the leopard eating the face thing? Where does that come from?

From Know Your Memes:
Leopards Eating People's Faces Party refers to a parody of regretful voters who vote for cruel and unjust policies (and politicians) and are then surprised when their own lives become worse as a result. ...

On October 16th, 2015, Twitter user @cavalorn[1] tweeted, "'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party." The tweet gained over 58,000 retweets and 92,000 likes over the following five years (shown below).

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:25 AM (X8xt3)

282 She's got better things to do than worry about a bunch of dead kids.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal tells the parents of those murdered by illegal aliens that she has better things to do:

"Unfortunately this hearing is the 4th time in this committee that we’ve had a hearing on sanctuary cities... There's many other things that we could be doing.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at July 01, 2026 09:25 AM (ndZc7)

283 >We need to beat them at their own game and use it like a club. Repeatedly.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 01, 2026 09:22 AM (zvo7E)
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so, we beat them with clubs
I'm in.

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 09:25 AM (cVN12)

284 The Leopard eating face thing was a meme originating on the Babylon Bee a few months ago. “Woman who voted for the Leopards eat my Face Party shocked to find Leopard eating her face.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 09:25 AM (7wNAQ)

285 >>I think there's a minimum income that is observed, no? It used to be like $95k.

Maybe it needs to be lowered?!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:26 AM (X8xt3)

286 One example of how Trump is one of a kind: after that nonsense birthright citizenship ruling yesterday, his tweet (or truth… whatever) congratulating Xi on his big win

The guy never stops fighting

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 09:26 AM (YetvJ)

287 67 NPR Retracts False Story Saying Justice Alito Was Retiring: ‘Erroneously Published’

All Breaking NEws stories are 51% lies.
Posted by: r hennigantx
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And the rest simply aren't true.. or something like that that Mark Twain said.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at July 01, 2026 09:27 AM (VkY89)

288 287 67 NPR Retracts False Story Saying Justice Alito Was Retiring: ‘Erroneously Published’

Wishful thinking...

Posted by: AI local 123 at July 01, 2026 09:27 AM (FtULh)

289 Why would you hold it against him that he threw his hat in the ring and ran a fairly positive campaign?

1. When asked if he would run for the Presidency, DeSantis stated that he would not run against Trump.
2. Trump announced that he was running.
3. Then DeSantis announced that he was running.

That's why.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 09:28 AM (ExV1e)

290 So the Commie won in Co ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2026 09:29 AM (FtULh)

291 The only thing that I have ever been confidently able to say "both sides" are right about is -

"The other side is voting against their own interests."

The only thing we all agree on that we are all correct about. The principal problem is there has long been no way to vote FOR your own interests. Even the hardest core commie is voting against their own interests by voting for hardcore communists because they are voting for people that want to get rich and kill you.

Then again so is everyone else....

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 09:29 AM (J9Kpb)

292 Winning!

British prime minister: "I don't think there is any parliament that is gayer than this parliament."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at July 01, 2026 09:29 AM (ndZc7)

293 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2026 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

294 ART NOOD

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 09:31 AM (sgkY8)

295 "The other side is voting against their own interests."

When an FSA member votes for the candidate offering Free Shit are they voting against their interests?

In a theoretical sense sure, the economy suffers overall from free shit.

But in a practical immediate sense they are voting for their interests - they want free shit and the Dem they vote for gives it to them

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 09:32 AM (sKqQm)

296 Why would you hold it against him that he threw his hat in the ring and ran a fairly positive campaign?

1. When asked if he would run for the Presidency, DeSantis stated that he would not run against Trump.
2. Trump announced that he was running.
3. Then DeSantis announced that he was running.

That's why.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 09:28 AM (ExV1e)

Dude thought he could swoop in and take over MAGA when government weaponization was at its highest and it was apparent that the goal was to imprison Trump or disqualify him from POTUS ballot.

With friends like that . . . .

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2026 09:33 AM (dK+Kv)

297 Global Warming is BACK

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 09:33 AM (J9Kpb)

298 The immigration statutes give the President full control over who comes into this country and for how long.

Easy fix to birth tourism, anchor babies, etc.: Don't let the prospective parents into the country in the first place.

Maybe I'm missing something.

Ayn Rand was right.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 01, 2026 09:33 AM (9X60i)

299 Shouldn't the birthright citizen kerfuffle consider the sailing vessel from distant shores that you arrived on? Was it a sailing ship, schooner, bark, snow, brigantine, ketch, pinnace, sloop, or shallop; where did it come from? We should only process immigrants that land in our ports after sailing the seas.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 01, 2026 09:34 AM (fkjGs)

300 "The other side is voting against their own interests."

When an FSA member votes for the candidate offering Free Shit are they voting against their interests?

In a theoretical sense sure, the economy suffers overall from free shit.

But in a practical immediate sense they are voting for their interests - they want free shit and the Dem they vote for gives it to them

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 09:32 AM (sKqQm)

Yeah, there is a very shallow political and economic calculus going on there with that set.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2026 09:34 AM (dK+Kv)

301 >>"The other side is voting against their own interests."

>>When an FSA member votes for the candidate offering Free Shit are they voting against their interests?

Better example? When you vote for open borders and then have your car stolen by TdA. When you vote for no cash bail and then your local Walgreens and Stop n Shop close because the shoplifting is too common.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:36 AM (X8xt3)

302 When an FSA member votes for the candidate offering Free Shit are they voting against their interests?

In a theoretical sense sure, the economy suffers overall from free shit.

But in a practical immediate sense they are voting for their interests - they want free shit and the Dem they vote for gives it to them

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 09:32 AM (sKqQm)

They get the commensurate rise in crime, government theft, somali drivers, inflation, etc so yes. In general every single voter is voting against himself.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 09:39 AM (J9Kpb)

303 Estoy de parto, ¡rápido! Llévenme al aeropuerto.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 01, 2026 09:40 AM (2ap+5)

304 Florida woman claims cocaine found in her butt after arrest must’ve been from ‘intimate encounter’

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2026 09:52 AM (RHGPo)

305 'Morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

Above, "School choice is crucial to the American Dream—we need a new birth of freedom."
What, to the Black Student, is the Fourth of July?

Here in Pennsylvania we have something known as PSEA-PACE. It supports friends of education in state and local elections.

It appears that during recent campaign finance cycles, direct political donations from PSEA-PACE to local state representatives included $74,000 in active campaign receipts to secure a reliable, pro-public union vote in the core of one township. In the same township, but another district thereof, the state representative's campaign committee cleared over $1.4 million in total donation with PSEA & aligned statewide public labor coalitions acting as dominant institutional anchors.

My state representative, sitting at the center of two school district boundary lines, is a primary recipient of PSEA endorsement & direct PAC capital, keeping his legislative record tightly aligned with the union's opposition to corporate tax credits or school voucher programs.

Note: Every one of the three noted above are "Democrats."

Cont'd -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2026 09:53 AM (NFX2v)

306 Mostly importantly, Black reps. take just like the White reps & White kids are screwed just like the Black kids in many school districts where the taxes are highest in the state.

Check your own state. If reliably Blue, and you're not wealthy or "friends" of teachers' union affiliated, your area is likely screwed, too, when it comes to school choice and/or the opportunity to have kids receive equal opportunity in education.

Speaking of unions -

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) national and local staff are unionized with the Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild. They've been since 2017!

The Metro DC DSA covers Washington D.C., Northern Virginia, and several Maryland counties, with over 3,400 local members. The primary Maryland branches actively fight for rent control, tenant organizing, tax justice, progressive governance, yada yada.

It works. The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is a major U.S. labor union that has increasingly aligned itself with progressive politics, democratic socialism, and anti-corporate campaigns. Its members actively participate in left-leaning movements and socialist coalitions.

Bernie's people. ✊🏻

Good day 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2026 09:53 AM (NFX2v)

307 The writer of "What the American Right Can Learn from France" explains the current state of the Disney phenomenon but does not acknowledge Walt Disney's original vision. Early Disney celebrated our unique American history and the things that made our country great. You can see Walt's love and optimism in the things he created. It wasn't until after his death that Disney became all about the licensed characters.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 01, 2026 09:53 AM (pAWWf)

308 “Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the majority in striking down President Trump’s executive order but wrote separately in partial dissent. He concluded the order conflicted with existing federal law, not that it was unconstitutional. In his opinion, he also outlined a framework for addressing concerns surrounding birthright citizenship through legislation, making clear that any path to lasting change would likely require an act of Congress.”

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2026 09:55 AM (RHGPo)

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