Where Is Mitch McConnell? Some Demand "Proof of Life"

He's as publicly visible as Ayatollah Khamenei's gay dead son.

Donald Trump's most vocal supporters are demanding that Mitch McConnell's office provide proof that the Kentucky lawmaker is still alive after he disappeared amid a three-week hospitalization.
McConnell, 84, was admitted to a hospital on the morning of June 14 following a medical emergency at his Washington, DC home. Paramedics responded to a report of an unconscious person believed to have suffered a 'cardiac arrest,' with a medic reporting 'CPR in progress' at the address.
The senator was not named on the call, and his office has never confirmed what sent him to the hospital, saying only that he is receiving 'excellent care.'
The speculation surrounding McConnell has intensified in recent days because his aides have refused to release new information regarding his condition or whether he will return to work as the GOP fights to maintain their razor thin majority.
Trump conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer claimed that an unnamed White House source told her that McConnell is in a 'vegetative state' or 'brain dead' and is 'not coming back' to work.
DC outlet The Hill even accidentally published an obituary of the senator which was swiftly deleted. A screenshot spread on X, and a copy reportedly stayed live on Yahoo News.
Independent journalist Desirée Townsend confirmed Loomer's allegations: 'I have heard the same thing from my sources for days. At this point, I am at the hospital for when they eventually decide to cut him off of life support and move his body.'
As online chatter continued to grow about McConnell's health condition, MAGA activists like Breitbart editor Matthew Boyle wrote on X, 'McConnell's staff should produce proof of the senator's condition one way or another right now.'

Is this true? I don't know.

What makes me think it's false is that this retard thinks it's true:

I spoke with Marjorie Taylor Greene this AM in NYC:

- She slams Republicans for not speaking out on Mitch McConnell

- Calls McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, a “possible commuist spy”

- Wants Thomas Massie to run for McConnell’s seat if it becomes vacant pic.twitter.com/IucQjh0eKL
— Jacob Wasserman (@jacob_wass) July 7, 2026

The reference to McConnell's wife is to longtime Republican (well, RINO) operative Elaine Chao, who traveled to China three days after her husband was hospitalized and probably on the edge of death.

Sen. Mitch McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, was in China three days after her 84-year-old husband was hospitalized on June 14.
Chao, who married McConnell in 1993, met with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng on June 17 in Beijing, according to Chinese state media service Xinhua. The report, which was also published by the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America, claims Han "urged further efforts to strengthen" the relationship between the U.S. and China during the meeting.
"Chao said maintaining stable U.S.-China relations serves the interests of all parties, and expressed the willingness to continue making efforts to promote practical cooperation and people-to-people exchanges between the United States and China," read the report, which was accompanied by a picture of Han and Chao.

Rasmussen Reports says that claim is mostly false: Chao was already in China when McConnell suffered his health event.

Rasmussen Reports
@Rasmussen_Poll
Good Morning !
Elaine Chao was already IN China when Mitch was getting CPR. The real question is, why didn't she immediately fly back to DC instead of meeting with the Chinese VP 5 days later? And who exactly did John Thune speak with on June 15th?
June 12 - Wife Elaine Chao in China at University
June 14 - DC - McConnell in "full cardiac arrest," w/CPR
June 15 - John Thune tells Politico he spoke with Mitch
June 17 - Wife Elaine Chao in China w/Chinese VP

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM

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Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 07, 2026 04:21 PM (l26NL)

2 He's dead, Jim. Period.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 07, 2026 04:22 PM (k9OZB)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 07, 2026 04:22 PM (2YhKe)

4 Supposedly Thune spoke to him today. Sure, sure he did.

Posted by: Ann at July 07, 2026 04:22 PM (SHHm+)

5 Top 5!

Posted by: NR Pax at July 07, 2026 04:22 PM (/k3in)

6 He's fine as turtle hair.

Posted by: like a cabbage patch kid at July 07, 2026 04:22 PM (MWfyi)

7 Mitch is pining for the fjords!

Posted by: NR Pax at July 07, 2026 04:22 PM (/k3in)

8 "McConnell is in a 'vegetative state' or 'brain dead' and is 'not coming back' to work."

Never stopped him before.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 07, 2026 04:22 PM (CwhoI)

9 If 'Proof of Life' is too much to ask, we'll take 2 fingers.

Any 2 fingers.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 07, 2026 04:23 PM (Sco7b)

10 Politically, there's no advantage to demonstrating that he is no longer fit to serve. Just the opposite. With a Dem governor, his replacement would be a Dem.

Not that McConnell is a tried and true MAGA friend, but a Dem replacement would be even worse.

Posted by: No Name Today at July 07, 2026 04:23 PM (8mulE)

11 C'mon folks. Mitch is constantly at the gym doing the RBG power workout.

Posted by: Bulg at July 07, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

12 That reminds me, I used to really like 'Heathers'.

Christian Slater's Jack Nicholson impression really amused me once.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 07, 2026 04:23 PM (xcxpd)

13 Schroedinger's Senator - he's neither alive nor dead but you still voted for him. Even if you didn't.

Posted by: DaveA at July 07, 2026 04:23 PM (FhXTo)

14 so... what official government diplomatic position does Elaine Chao hold, again?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 07, 2026 04:24 PM (vJrRc)

15 John Thune, McConnell's boy toy, spoke with McConnell's ghost.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 07, 2026 04:24 PM (U/Eoe)

16 "Thune spoke to him today."

But Did Mitch reply?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 07, 2026 04:24 PM (qFwJc)

17 MTG WOULD want Massie to fill his place as she lurves Massie and they probably swing together. Although I don't want to think about this or Potato Nose. YUG

Has the widow returned to the USA? That interests me more than her probably dead husband.

He codes, flatlines, on life support and 3 days later she flies to chy na. I know that would be most widow's response.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 07, 2026 04:25 PM (hzuYO)

18 Mitch is pining for the fjords!

Posted by: NR Pax at July 07, 2026 04:22 PM (/k3in)

Under recall. Transmission issues.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 07, 2026 04:25 PM (2YhKe)

19 That reminds me, I used to really like 'Heathers'.

Christian Slater's Jack Nicholson impression really amused me once.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

The first flick that I saw Winona in. She was hot AF in that.

Posted by: Bulg at July 07, 2026 04:25 PM (77rzZ)

20 Below the busy bees, Above the theiving wasps ...

Posted by: Adriane the Not Paranoid Enough Critic . . . at July 07, 2026 04:25 PM (VGla4)

21 Mitch, if he can, will time his death in the way that causes the most problems for conservatives.

He'll be spiteful til the end

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 07, 2026 04:26 PM (+SZb7)

22 *ding ding ding ding ding*

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at July 07, 2026 04:26 PM (guGkK)

23
All right, I'm going to level with you all. But what's most important now is that you remain calm. There is no reason to panic.

Now, it is true that the senator is ill... slightly ill.

But he's just fine. He's at his office, free to pursue a life of religious fulfillment.

Posted by: John Thune at July 07, 2026 04:26 PM (CwhoI)

24 so... what official government diplomatic position does Elaine Chao hold, again?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 07, 2026 04:24 PM (vJrRc)

Selling her husband's services.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 07, 2026 04:26 PM (2YhKe)

25 Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is literally a bone head, said something something Jews. Yawn.

Posted by: MTG Ultra at July 07, 2026 04:27 PM (qUkBO)

26 Anybody else imagine McConnell to be like Capt. Pike on Star Trek? One beep, two beeps.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 07, 2026 04:27 PM (N39Ws)

27 This new brain should fix Mitch right up. Belonged to someone named Abby Normal.

Posted by: Eyegor at July 07, 2026 04:27 PM (guGkK)

28 I have no idea either what's fake or true on this, but his wife and/or his staff should speak up.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 07, 2026 04:27 PM (n5tGW)

29 Anybody else imagine McConnell to be like Capt. Pike on Star Trek? One beep, two beeps.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 07, 2026 04:27 PM (N39Ws)

I don't think he's that mentally active.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 07, 2026 04:28 PM (zZu0s)

30
But Did Mitch reply?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 07, 2026 04:24 PM (qFwJc)

Oh, it was quite the conversation. Mitch was “fully engaged.”

(Space after senate)

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate /5957438-mcconnell-thune-barrasso-health/

Posted by: Ann at July 07, 2026 04:28 PM (SHHm+)

31 If he was in any way coherent we would have already had proof of life. This is going to turn out to be the exact same thing we had with with mccain when they released a grainy photo purportedly showing him in a wheelchair being pushed by his wife and they finally admitted a week later that he had died.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 07, 2026 04:28 PM (0N4FZ)

32 @ScottJenningsKY
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes … about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible.

***
Seems pretty dispositive. *( Would be darkly funny if he was actually talking to an AI Mitch ... )

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 07, 2026 04:28 PM (diia5)

33 But Did Mitch reply?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 07, 2026 04:24 PM (qFwJc)

Mitch is receiving excellent care. That's all you need to know.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2026 04:28 PM (guGkK)

34 C'mon folks. Mitch is constantly at the gym doing the RBG power workout.
Posted by: Bulg at July 07, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

Bulg, I just finished my thirty minutes of GAINZZ on the elliptical. Mitch was running strong right next to me!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2026 04:29 PM (1Ff7Z)

35 June 12 - Wife Elaine Chao in China at University
June 14 - DC - McConnell in "full cardiac arrest," w/CPR
June 15 - John Thune tells Politico he spoke with Mitch
June 17 - Wife Elaine Chao in China w/Chinese VP/i]

Nothing says true love quite like prioritizing good dim sum over your husband's last moments on earth...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2026 04:29 PM (sKqQm)

36 Yes, we can still let you speak with Mitch McConnell; getting the vaporous apparition back into its fleshy cage is the trick.

Posted by: Peter Venkman at July 07, 2026 04:29 PM (gKWVE)

37 Who among us doesn't have important meetings with senior level Chinese Communist Party members on a regular basis which may inconveniently occur during the stroke of a spouse?

Dang if I would go through the trouble of rescheduling, especially when somebody has a stroke every fortnight. Nothing would ever get accomplished.

Posted by: Minuteman at July 07, 2026 04:29 PM (47/pr)

38 didn't we have a notice Scott Jennings talked world issues with Mitch for 20 minutes today?

Posted by: DanMan at July 07, 2026 04:30 PM (8uzBS)

39 Yes, we can still let you speak with Mitch McConnell; getting the vaporous apparition back into its fleshy cage is the trick.
Posted by: Peter Venkman at July 07, 2026 04:29 PM (gKWVE)

How is Elvis, and have you spoke to him lately?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 07, 2026 04:30 PM (2YhKe)

40 @ScottJenningsKY
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky.

Was it in a very cold room?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2026 04:30 PM (guGkK)

41 HOUSE IN KENEBUNKPORT AND A NEW MERCEDES AND ANNUAL ROUND TRIP TO THAILAND.

Posted by: BERNIE PLATNER at July 07, 2026 04:30 PM (qUkBO)

42 Politically, there's no advantage to demonstrating that he is no longer fit to serve. Just the opposite. With a Dem governor, his replacement would be a Dem.

Not that McConnell is a tried and true MAGA friend, but a Dem replacement would be even worse.

Posted by: No Name Today at July 07, 2026 04:23 PM

They changed the law in Kentucky years ago. They have to have a special election to replace him now.

Having said that the governor has said the new law is unconstitutional and he would decide if he would follow it or not when the time came.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 07, 2026 04:31 PM (0N4FZ)

43 Don't worry about Mitch, kids, we've sent him to a farm where he'll be very happy.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 07, 2026 04:31 PM (k9OZB)

44 Nothing says true love quite like prioritizing good dim sum over your husband's last moments on earth...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2026 04:29 PM (sKqQm)

If it was really good dim sum... I'd have to think about it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2026 04:31 PM (1Ff7Z)

45 Does anyone a spare Republican bill we can wave around in front of him to see if he votes against it?

Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 07, 2026 04:32 PM (CwhoI)

46 Mitch is no longer trying to walk since his table has wheels on it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2026 04:32 PM (guGkK)

47 Big deal. I spoke to my dog for a few minutes today too.

Posted by: fd at July 07, 2026 04:32 PM (MWfyi)

48 Having said that the governor has said the new law is unconstitutional and he would decide if he would follow it or not when the time came.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 07, 2026 04:31 PM (0N4FZ)

Why do we have a Supreme Court if Governors can just declare what's Constitutional or not?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 07, 2026 04:32 PM (2YhKe)

49
This is top Mitch, sharper than ever, asking questions staff can't answer, providing amazing insights no one in the room is aware of...

Posted by: Auspex at July 07, 2026 04:32 PM (Y8DZL)

50 I'm willing to believe Scott Jennings would exaggerate but I have trouble seeing him flat out lie.

So perhaps McConnell is at least partially mentally competent even if his body is failing

Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2026 04:32 PM (sKqQm)

51
Big deal. Staffers run their offices while their senators schmooze and drink.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2026 04:32 PM (O0L8i)

52 Hillary Clinton can perform a seance with Mitch! What would be the top things he would tell her?

Posted by: LizLem at July 07, 2026 04:32 PM (gWBY1)

53 It's kind of sad that we get to pry into the final moments of the lives of our public servants but they are our public servants, so ....

Posted by: m at July 07, 2026 04:33 PM (6wpGE)

54 I hate we have a Soviet society now. "Let's carefully parse the leaders statements to find the clues to the actual truth, because we all know they lie as a default mode."

I mean, doesn't Trump know? Can't he just say?

Posted by: SimoHayha at July 07, 2026 04:33 PM (/ZkOF)

55
All true:

Kylie Jane Kremer
@KylieJaneKremer
·
3h
Fascinating.

Mitch McConnell is apparently well enough to spend 20 minutes discussing global geopolitics, but somehow not well enough to record a 30-second video reassuring the people of Kentucky, and the world, that he’s okay.

Also, his office of roughly 40 staff members still can’t provide a meaningful update?

Nothing about why Elaine Chao traveled to China to meet with senior CCP officials just three days after he was hospitalized?

And we’re all just supposed to accept this at face value?

None of this inspires confidence. If anything, this post raises more questions than it answers.

Posted by: beckster at July 07, 2026 04:33 PM (kX27y)

56 So perhaps McConnell is at least partially mentally competent even if his body is failing
Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2026 04:32 PM (sKqQm)

Maybe his eyes are open? If he blinks, eh.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2026 04:34 PM (1Ff7Z)

57 Platner plans to come by to ass-rape Mitch later today.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2026 04:34 PM (guGkK)

58 32 @ScottJenningsKY
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes … about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible.

***
Seems pretty dispositive. *( Would be darkly funny if he was actually talking to an AI Mitch ... )
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 07, 2026 04:28 PM (diia5)

I believe him.

Posted by: m at July 07, 2026 04:34 PM (6wpGE)

59 Mitch's family are adhering to the John McCain gambit. McConnell disappears for an extended period until an announcement of his passing is eventually made.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 07, 2026 04:34 PM (5yDGQ)

60 This is top Mitch, sharper than ever, asking questions staff can't answer, providing amazing insights no one in the room is aware of...
Posted by: Auspex at July 07, 2026 04:32 PM (Y8DZL)

His own staff can't keep up with him!

Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2026 04:34 PM (jGGMD)

61 31 If he was in any way coherent we would have already had proof of life. This is going to turn out to be the exact same thing we had with with mccain when they released a grainy photo purportedly showing him in a wheelchair being pushed by his wife and they finally admitted a week later that he had died.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 07, 2026 04:28 PM (0N4FZ)

When's the deadline for when they don't appoint/do special election (depending on which party is deciding) and they just want to the November election?

Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2026 04:34 PM (tOcjL)

62 57 Platner plans to come by to ass-rape Mitch later today.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2026 04:34 PM (guGkK)

This should not have made me laugh. Bad Cicero!

Posted by: m at July 07, 2026 04:34 PM (6wpGE)

63 Platner plans to come by to ass-rape Mitch later today.

But not in a gay way

Posted by: Platner at July 07, 2026 04:35 PM (sKqQm)

64 Sumting Wong with Glitch.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2026 04:35 PM (wOO3z)

65 want = wait (dang typo).

Had a great day in DC today, but 5:30am wakeups are no fun...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2026 04:35 PM (tOcjL)

66 Mitch McConnell is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration which is responsible for overseeing the rules and procedures of the Senate, federal election laws, campaign finance, presidential succession, and the administration of Senate buildings.

I am sure he is being held on ice to avoid a new Committee Chair to make sure the administration of the Senate buildings are kept just as-is

Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2026 04:35 PM (rbvCR)

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at July 07, 2026 04:35 PM (WbWbV)

68 Maybe Mitch will be in the same hospice care as Jimmy Carter had and will live for another year and a half.

Posted by: dantesed at July 07, 2026 04:35 PM (w1twS)

69 This is top Mitch, sharper than ever, asking questions staff can't answer, providing amazing insights no one in the room is aware of...
Posted by: Auspex at July 07, 2026 04:32 PM (Y8DZL)

We need a small obstacle course installed between the Senators and Congressmen and the voting stations. Only the spry get to vote.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 04:35 PM (uhVAy)

70 McConnell is doing the RBG workout right now and 9/10 leftist journalists can't keep up

Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2026 04:35 PM (sKqQm)

71 I don't think it's a HIPPA violation to say dead or alive.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 07, 2026 04:35 PM (n5tGW)

72 It's kind of sad that we get to pry into the final moments of the lives of our public servants but they are our public servants, so ....
Posted by: m at July 07, 2026 04:33 PM (6wpGE)

If they would retire before becoming incapacitated, we could avoid all this.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2026 04:35 PM (1Ff7Z)

73 59 Mitch's family are adhering to the John McCain gambit. McConnell disappears for an extended period until an announcement of his passing is eventually made.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 07, 2026 04:34 PM (5yDGQ)

Just had a music person dead 6 weeks before her death was announced yesterday...they can probably go 2 months, easy...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2026 04:36 PM (tOcjL)

74 Didn't the Turtle's sister in law get drowned by her EV Maximum Overdrive style? They can start by convincing me that was an accident.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 07, 2026 04:36 PM (w/O5Q)

75 If Elaine Chao is still in China, can we just not let her back into America? She should have rushed home when he got ill.

None of these "loyal" wives (Jill, Elaine, Fetterman wife) put their husbands' health and safety above their own grifts. It's so sad.

Can Elaine delay taking her husband off life support until it's too late for the voters to choose their new senator? That's what I saw floating around.

Posted by: LizLem at July 07, 2026 04:36 PM (gWBY1)

76 Mitch is actually riding in the Tour de France.

Posted by: ballistic at July 07, 2026 04:36 PM (oqH4h)

77 57 Platner plans to come by to ass-rape Mitch later today.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2026 04:34 PM (guGkK)

Probably the first time in a while he hasn't heard "no" for an answer

Posted by: gKWVE at July 07, 2026 04:37 PM (gKWVE)

78 Didn't the Turtle's sister in law get drowned by her EV Maximum Overdrive style? They can start by convincing me that was an accident.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 07, 2026 04:36 PM (w/O5Q)

Shouldn't it have caught fire first?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 04:37 PM (uhVAy)

79 McConnell has recently been a reliable Democrat vote, so his comatose state is just fine. He counts as a Republican for Senate majority purposes, but he can no longer vote with Dems to sabotage the Trump presidency. It’s almost like gaining a seat in the Senate, since Schumer has now lost one of his reliable reliable votes.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 07, 2026 04:37 PM (200+5)

80 I'm hungry.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 07, 2026 04:37 PM (+yTe/)

81
Karl Mundt suffered a stroke and was incapacitated but served out his term. Carter Glass never appeared on the Senate floor after 1942 but stayed in office until he died in 1946.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2026 04:37 PM (O0L8i)

82 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Ah, yes - Scott Jennings spoke TO McConnell.

Yeah, we spoke to our daughter when she was on life support - talked about all kinds of things. She wasn't involved in the conversation, but we still spoke to her...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 07, 2026 04:38 PM (SRRAx)

83 Trump should do a traitor's row of statues of these scum, all in bronze but burried upside down on the plinth, maybe with half the head burried. In some DC greenspace controlled by the Trump org.

McConnel, Clintons, Barry, ... I can think of about 30 or 40 -- traitors all.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 07, 2026 04:38 PM (KOok1)

84 "In Kentucky, the deadline to replace a deceased senator is 56 days before the next election."

AI - So, Mitch will be declared dead in mid-Sept if I mathed right...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2026 04:38 PM (tOcjL)

85 Mitch is actually riding in the Tour de France.
Posted by: ballistic

I'm cooking up the performance-enhancers as we speak!
-- Lance Armstrong

Posted by: Bulg at July 07, 2026 04:38 PM (77rzZ)

86 He counts as a Republican for Senate majority purposes, but he can no longer vote with Dems to sabotage the Trump presidency.

He'll vote however his staffers claim he votes.

But...presumably they could be bought more easily then he could.

A lifetime supply of Trump steaks for a vote on the SAVE act?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2026 04:38 PM (sKqQm)

87 We don't need Massie to be replacing Mitch. Mitch needs to be kept alive till the midterms in November.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 07, 2026 04:38 PM (NpAcC)

88 It's just Marjorie Greene now. Has-beens don't rate middle names.

Posted by: SciVo at July 07, 2026 04:39 PM (Sy6m/)

89 "What makes me think it's false is that this retard thinks it's true:"

LOL, I hear ya, Ace!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 07, 2026 04:39 PM (VyBeY)

90 Hey guys. Just checking in before I get back to ziplining with Gisele!

Posted by: Elaine C. at July 07, 2026 04:39 PM (WbWbV)

91 Also RBG's family and staff kept her propped up far longer then she should have been.

Half the problem is the spouse, the other half is the staffers who realize if the politician/justice goes mort, there goes their cushy jobs and influence. But this "leaders sneaking off for secret cancer treatments, or two month of secret maternity leave, or in a secret coma" kind of nonsense needs to stop.

Posted by: LizLem at July 07, 2026 04:39 PM (gWBY1)

92 >>>.The first flick that I saw Winona in. She was hot AF in that.

i haven't seen that movie since college. I wonder if it holds up.

Posted by: ace at July 07, 2026 04:40 PM (1wjle)

93 >>Mitch is actually riding in the Tour de France.
Posted by: ballistic

US Riders took #2 and #7 Spots on Stage 4, today.

And the #2 Rider was working for the Stage Winner the entire day.

Good rides by both US Riders

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2026 04:40 PM (5MUB0)

94 Mitch is actually riding in the Tour de France.
Posted by: ballistic at July 07, 2026 04:36 PM (oqH4h)

Didn't tell his staff that he was going to hike the Appalachian Trail. Ooops

Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2026 04:40 PM (rbvCR)

95 These things take time.. They are quietly consulting with the McCain family planning the Years-Long Funeral.

Posted by: DBCooper at July 07, 2026 04:40 PM (3oMnW)

96 80 I'm hungry.
Posted by: Braenyard

Me too.

Posted by: Mordiggian at July 07, 2026 04:40 PM (gKWVE)

97 We don't need Massie to be replacing Mitch. Mitch needs to be kept alive till the midterms in November.
Posted by: redridinghood

Or kept in a walk-in freezer.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2026 04:40 PM (wOO3z)

98 So his wife went to Chy-nuh before he flatlined and hasn't come back? That's at least just as bad as leaving afterwards, and possibly worse.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 07, 2026 04:40 PM (2ocoG)

99 Say, what did happen with Fetterman's wife? She went to Canada and vanished from the news, and Fetterman suddenly started becoming sane.

Posted by: SimoHayha at July 07, 2026 04:40 PM (/ZkOF)

100 Winona was one of the better looking women in Stranger Things even as she is well into middle age...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2026 04:40 PM (sKqQm)

101 The reference to McConnell's wife is to longtime Republican (well, RINO) operative Elaine Chao, who traveled to China three days after her husband was hospitalized and probably on the edge of death.
---

Her, shipping magnate, daddy called her home. Important CCP business.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 07, 2026 04:40 PM (+yTe/)

102 Did anyone check to see if his "doctor" is Miracle Max?

Maybe he's only "mostly dead" and just needs a miracle pill to get back on his feet...

Remember! Chocolate coating makes it go down easier!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2026 04:41 PM (FZ29D)

103 Karl Mundt suffered a stroke and was incapacitated but served out his term. Carter Glass never appeared on the Senate floor after 1942 but stayed in office until he died in 1946.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2026 04:37 PM (O0L8i)

Charles Sumner, beaten in the Senate by a Southern Representative with a cane, was out from 1856 to 1859 being re-elected by Massachusetts in between. Head Trauma.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 04:41 PM (uhVAy)

104 We don't need Massie to be replacing Mitch. Mitch needs to be kept alive till the midterms in November.

I could see the Dem governor do that... "See I replaced McConnell with a Republican what more do you want?!?"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2026 04:41 PM (sKqQm)

105 Candy corn, I need candy corn.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 07, 2026 04:41 PM (+yTe/)

106
Mitch will lie in state in the Forbidden City.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2026 04:41 PM (O0L8i)

107 98 So his wife went to Chy-nuh before he flatlined and hasn't come back? That's at least just as bad as leaving afterwards, and possibly worse.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 07, 2026 04:40 PM (2ocoG)

No one can ask her about his condition...seems smart if we're running The Weekend at Bernie's playbook...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2026 04:41 PM (tOcjL)

108 Mitch McConnell was just drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks.

Posted by: ace at July 07, 2026 04:41 PM (1wjle)

109 Why is Jennings sticking his neck out? If it turns out he was lying about the Turtle, it will really bash his "pro truth teller, pro sense" brand.

Posted by: LizLem at July 07, 2026 04:41 PM (gWBY1)

110 It's just Marjorie Greene now. Has-beens don't rate middle names.
Posted by: SciVo

The other day, I found out that Sally Field played Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln with Daniel Day-Lewis. I haven't seen the film, but now I can't unsee the physical resemblance (at least facially) between Mary Todd and Sally.

Posted by: Bulg at July 07, 2026 04:42 PM (77rzZ)

111 55
All true:

Kylie Jane Kremer
@KylieJaneKremer
·
3h
Fascinating.

... Elaine Chao traveled to China to meet with senior CCP officials just three days after he was hospitalized ...

Posted by: beckster at July 07, 2026 04:33 PM (kX27y)

NOT true. See Ace's update.

Posted by: m at July 07, 2026 04:42 PM (6wpGE)

112 I don't think it's a HIPPA violation to say dead or alive.

If it is, Jon Bon Jovi is in a *lot* of trouble.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 07, 2026 04:43 PM (2ocoG)

113 Winona Ryder is still a smoke show.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 07, 2026 04:43 PM (CwhoI)

114 108 Mitch McConnell was just drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks.
Posted by: ace at July 07, 2026 04:41 PM (1wjle)

Could as easily have said the Chicago Bears

Posted by: also dead at July 07, 2026 04:43 PM (gKWVE)

115 109 Why is Jennings sticking his neck out? If it turns out he was lying about the Turtle, it will really bash his "pro truth teller, pro sense" brand.
Posted by: LizLem at July 07, 2026 04:41 PM (gWBY1)

As someone pointed out, he has an easy out...people speak to those on life support all the time...and that's assuming he doesn't go with "Mitch's folks were lying"...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2026 04:43 PM (tOcjL)

116 The other day, I found out that Sally Field played Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln with Daniel Day-Lewis. I haven't seen the film, but now I can't unsee the physical resemblance (at least facially) between Mary Todd and Sally.
Posted by: Bulg at July 07, 2026 04:42 PM (77rzZ)

I didn't realize that. Apparently Sally can act. Maybe just a limited range, but she can act.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2026 04:43 PM (rbvCR)

117 *ding ding ding ding ding*
Posted by: Mitch McConnell

Breaking Mitch?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 07, 2026 04:43 PM (DZ9Lv)

118 GLENDOWER
I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
HOTSPUR
Why, so can I, or so can any man,
But will they come when you do call for them?

Henry IV, Part 1 - Act 3, scene 1
William Shakespeare

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 07, 2026 04:44 PM (jTgrB)

119 78 Didn't the Turtle's sister in law get drowned by her EV Maximum Overdrive style? They can start by convincing me that was an accident.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 07, 2026 04:36 PM (w/O5Q)

Shouldn't it have caught fire first?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 04:37 PM (uhVAy)

Imagine sitting in your car when the doors lock, the windows won't roll down and it autopilots you into a pond. Just stuck there drowning wondering on the odds of all three of those specific failures simultaneously. Could happen to anybody.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 07, 2026 04:44 PM (w/O5Q)

120 Isn't it Kentucky state law that the Dem governor specifically *can't* name the replacement, there has to be a special election?

Posted by: Ian S. at July 07, 2026 04:44 PM (2ocoG)

121 I don't think it's a HIPPA violation to say dead or alive.

Maybe we should just ask if he could get the clot shot now because the courts have decided it is fine to share that info right?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2026 04:44 PM (sKqQm)

122 I didn't realize that. Apparently Sally can act. Maybe just a limited range, but she can act.

The part where Mary Todd Lincoln could fly in strong winds was convincing.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2026 04:44 PM (guGkK)

123 i haven't seen that movie since college. I wonder if it holds up.
Posted by: ace

Ace, I kinda soured on it after the Columbine shootings, since there seemed to have eerie parallels.

But that did not detract from Winona's hotness.

Posted by: Bulg at July 07, 2026 04:44 PM (77rzZ)

124 Karl Mundt suffered a stroke and was incapacitated but served out his term. Carter Glass never appeared on the Senate floor after 1942 but stayed in office until he died in 1946.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2026 04:37 PM (O0L8i)

Charles Sumner, beaten in the Senate by a Southern Representative with a cane, was out from 1856 to 1859 being re-elected by Massachusetts in between. Head Trauma.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 04:41 PM (uhVAy)

Yeah, Sumner got beaten up on the Senate floor a few days after his "Crime Against Kansas" speech.

Strom Thurmond's chief of staff was half-jokingly referred to as the senior senator from SC the last two years of Strom's time in office.

Posted by: Vendette at July 07, 2026 04:44 PM (PrsTH)

125 Peak Sally was Smokey and the Bandit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2026 04:45 PM (wOO3z)

126 I don't think it's a HIPPA violation to say dead or alive.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 07, 2026 04:35 PM (n5tGW)

Probably not, but it's a RINO violation.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 07, 2026 04:45 PM (qx7Zg)

127 Marjorie Taylor Greene can't go away fast enough.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2026 04:45 PM (20Ghg)

128 Why is Jennings sticking his neck out? If it turns out he was lying about the Turtle, it will really bash his "pro truth teller, pro sense" brand.
Posted by: LizLem at July 07, 2026 04:41 PM (gWBY1)

He can tell all the fibs he wants as long as he keeps making the CNN staff looking like idiots. But as the next senator from KY, not so much.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 04:45 PM (uhVAy)

129 77 57 Platner plans to come by to ass-rape Mitch later today.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2026 04:34 PM (guGkK)

Probably the first time in a while he hasn't heard "no" for an answer
Posted by: gKWVE at July 07, 2026 04:37 PM (gKWVE)

Ooooh.

Posted by: m at July 07, 2026 04:45 PM (6wpGE)

130 120 Isn't it Kentucky state law that the Dem governor specifically *can't* name the replacement, there has to be a special election?
Posted by: Ian S. at July 07, 2026 04:44 PM (2ocoG)

Gov disagrees with the new law.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2026 04:45 PM (tOcjL)

131
Imagine sitting in your car when the doors lock, the windows won't roll down and it autopilots you into a pond.

______________

Clippy says, "It looks like your drowning."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2026 04:45 PM (O0L8i)

132 113 Winona Ryder is still a smoke show.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 07, 2026 04:43 PM (CwhoI)

Ah, "You Wanna Ryder?"

She's over-rated

(And now we play the waiting game...)

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 07, 2026 04:45 PM (xcxpd)

133 I didn't realize that. Apparently Sally can act. Maybe just a limited range, but she can act.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2026 04:43 PM (rbvCR)

I always thought she had a head in the clouds look in her early roles. She did start acting more down to earth later, though.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2026 04:46 PM (1Ff7Z)

134 Mitch McConnel is in a secret bunker getting super soldier serum like Captain America. He will soon emerge to kick the ass of America's enemies! Hero in a half shell: Boomer Mutant Senate Turtle.

But not China, because he is whipped by the CCP and his wife. China is his kryptonite. (Yes I'm crossing superhero lore, I don't care.)

Posted by: LizLem at July 07, 2026 04:46 PM (gWBY1)

135 > Chao, who traveled to China three days after her husband was hospitalized and probably on the edge of death.

When your business partners are only dealing with you because of your dead or soon to die husband's political position, you've got to go see them.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 07, 2026 04:46 PM (mkw2N)

136 Half the problem is the spouse, the other half is the staffers who realize if the politician/justice goes mort, there goes their cushy jobs and influence. But this "leaders sneaking off for secret cancer treatments, or two month of secret maternity leave, or in a secret coma" kind of nonsense needs to stop.
Posted by: LizLem at July 07, 2026 04:39 PM (gWBY1)

If Mitch comes out of the hospital with an infant or two he should get 6 months parental leave like Buttigig did. And free prosthetic breasteses.

Posted by: Minuteman at July 07, 2026 04:46 PM (47/pr)

137 I know slang has a way of becoming mainstreamed. “Gay” is relatively recent. What did the press call homosexualists before “gay” became de rigeur?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 07, 2026 04:46 PM (nFipu)

138 My mistake, I thought "Sally Struthers" not Sally Fields

Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2026 04:47 PM (rbvCR)

139 Winona Ryder is still a smoke show.

The most underrated gag in the South Park movie was Winona firing ping pong balls out of her cooter.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 07, 2026 04:47 PM (2ocoG)

140 My mistake, I thought "Sally Struthers" not Sally Fields
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2026 04:47 PM (rbvCR)

Now you ruined my joke.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2026 04:48 PM (guGkK)

141 My mistake, I thought "Sally Struthers" not Sally Fields
Posted by: Kindltot

Well now. There's about 200 lbs of difference.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2026 04:48 PM (wOO3z)

142 I love the videos of Scott Jennings on CNN, but this doesn't sound very authentic:

@RepJackKimble:
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 45 minutes. He's so sharp. Just like always he let me do all of the talking. He's a great listener. After that we prayed silently for awhile and had a staring contest. Just like always, he beat me. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible.

@ScottJenningsKY
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes … about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible.

Posted by: frammish at July 07, 2026 04:48 PM (rcENI)

143 I didn't realize that. Apparently Sally can act. Maybe just a limited range, but she can act.

The part where Mary Todd Lincoln could fly in strong winds was convincing.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2026 04:44 PM (guGkK)

It was her hoop skirts: they acted as airfoils.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 07, 2026 04:48 PM (jTgrB)

144 So why IS Chao Chan in China???

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 07, 2026 04:48 PM (xcxpd)

145 Thune and Barrasso both said they have talked to him so I guess he's still kicking.

That would be a very difficult lie to get over if they didn't.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 07, 2026 04:48 PM (n5tGW)

146 Yes I'm crossing superhero lore

Hey Liz, at least you kept it to the DC universe.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 07, 2026 04:48 PM (gKWVE)

147 Scott Jennings has said that he has talked to Mitch McConnell himself for at least 20 minutes......so, no, Mitch is not brain dead and on life support. MTG is an idiot, was an idiot and will always be an attention-seeking idiot.

Posted by: Monica at July 07, 2026 04:48 PM (0emhU)

148 Gov disagrees with the new law.

Right, they passed it by overriding his veto IIRC, but it's still a passed law.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 07, 2026 04:48 PM (2ocoG)

149 The same Massie who just got detonated a few weeks ago? Oooooh, spooky.

Bet you wish you hadn't laundered all that money to Kevin McCarthy now that you're both unemployed and unemployable.

Nice moves. Whaddya think you're gonna do now? Hitch your wagon to that rising star Thomas Massie and ride it back to glory on the gravy train?

HAHAHA go blow Tucker Carlson's rotten pecker and see if he'll leave you some Arab gold on the nightstand, you raddled old GOP whore.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2026 04:48 PM (BI5O2)

150 It just occurred to me looking at that last video: MTG has a definite horse face in the spirit of SJP. How’d I miss this until now?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 07, 2026 04:48 PM (26GAh)

151 @ScottJenningsKY
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes … about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible.

---------

"Work", lol

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 07, 2026 04:49 PM (DbmIv)

152 Trump conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer claimed that an unnamed White House source told her that McConnell is in a 'vegetative state' or 'brain dead' and is 'not coming back' to work.

SO,

YOU MEAN HE IS JUST LIKE BIDEN WAS FOR 4 YEARS ??

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 07, 2026 04:49 PM (JQ06R)

153 Afternoon.

I FINALLY got unloaded so now I'm home and getting loaded IYKWIMAITYD.

Also, fuck John Thune. Resign.

Posted by: Robert at July 07, 2026 04:49 PM (dpXJq)

154 145 Thune and Barrasso both said they have talked to him so I guess he's still kicking.

That would be a very difficult lie to get over if they didn't.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 07, 2026 04:48 PM (n5tGW)

talked to is different than talked with

Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2026 04:49 PM (tOcjL)

155 The Chinese appear clueless here. You send your spy/handler back to pretend to care if her husband lives or dies.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 07, 2026 04:49 PM (wGerL)

156 Imagine sitting in your car when the doors lock, the windows won't roll down and it autopilots you into a pond. Just stuck there drowning wondering on the odds of all three of those specific failures simultaneously. Could happen to anybody.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer

-----------
In China there have been many cases of them running over a curb, battery ignites and seconds later the car is filled with smoke and flame. The doors won't open so bystanders frantically try to break windows as people fry.

Imagine that one as well.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 07, 2026 04:49 PM (KOok1)

157 One of those southern Democrat Senators actually banged a gal on her way to her execution in the electric chair.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 07, 2026 04:50 PM (nFipu)

158 Didn't the Turtle's sister in law get drowned by her EV Maximum Overdrive style?

drunk, happened in Austin, not unique

Posted by: DanMan at July 07, 2026 04:50 PM (8uzBS)

159 @RepJackKimble:
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 45 minutes. He's so sharp. Just like always he let me do all of the talking. He's a great listener. After that we prayed silently for awhile and had a staring contest. Just like always, he beat me. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible.

===

Is this a joke ???

Posted by: runner at July 07, 2026 04:50 PM (GD0B3)

160 Posted by: frammish at July 07, 2026 04:48 PM (rcENI)

Yeah, that's definitely sus.
McConnell's staffers must've given them a PR sheet with suggested paragraphs.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 07, 2026 04:50 PM (6ydKt)

161 12 That reminds me, I used to really like 'Heathers'.

Christian Slater's Jack Nicholson impression really amused me once.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
=====
Rare US 'black' comedy (not referring to race here). Brits used to specialize in these.

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 04:50 PM (E4rtv)

162 83 Trump should do a traitor's row of statues of these scum, all in bronze but burried upside down on the plinth, maybe with half the head burried. In some DC greenspace controlled by the Trump org.

McConnel, Clintons, Barry, ... I can think of about 30 or 40 -- traitors all.
Posted by: bob

Had this idea about 30 years ago with the "Hollywood 10", a sculpture monument project we would extract democrat deep pocket to pay for.

Posted by: Auspex at July 07, 2026 04:50 PM (Y8DZL)

163 The Chinese appear clueless here. You send your spy/handler back to pretend to care if her husband lives or dies.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson

I don't think they give a shit anymore.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2026 04:51 PM (wOO3z)

164 I think Mitch has reached the "Captain Pike" phase of his life.

Posted by: WisRich at July 07, 2026 04:51 PM (G0vdT)

165 154 145 Thune and Barrasso both said they have talked to him so I guess he's still kicking.

That would be a very difficult lie to get over if they didn't.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 07, 2026 04:48 PM (n5tGW)

talked to is different than talked with
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2026 04:49 PM (tOcjL)

well spotted

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 07, 2026 04:51 PM (xcxpd)

166 That would be a very difficult lie to get over if they didn't.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 07, 2026 04:48 PM (n5tGW)

Nah, they could have gotten the guarantee that he would "have a terrible relapse" unfortunately

Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2026 04:51 PM (rbvCR)

167 > Winona Ryder is still a smoke show.

Not so fun fact about Ryder: After she was famous, a young girl from Ryder's home town was kidnapped during a sleepover with friends in the girl's own bedroom.

Ryder showed up to do whatever she could to get the word out about the little girl. Ryder didn't bring an entourage and she didn't make it all about herself.

Tragically, the little girl was murdered. But I respect Ryder for trying and the way she did it.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 07, 2026 04:51 PM (mkw2N)

168 When your business partners are only dealing with you because of your dead or soon to die husband's political position, you've got to go see them.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 07, 2026 04:46 PM (mkw2N)

She has to go see them - but they aren't her partners. The CCP are her bosses, and she was handling this asset for them. Lot of touchy business to wrap up in a hurry before this Turtle goes to the boiling saltwater tank in the 9th ring.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2026 04:51 PM (BI5O2)

169 The most underrated gag in the South Park movie was Winona firing ping pong balls out of her cooter.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 07, 2026 04:47 PM (2ocoG)
----
Heh.

And here I thought it was when Terrance slaps Brooke Shields on Conan O'Brien's show. For no reason. He doesn't even say a word.

Cracks me up every time.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2026 04:51 PM (FZ29D)

170 WTF is going on?!

Posted by: runner at July 07, 2026 04:51 PM (GD0B3)

171 Scott Jennings refers to Turtle as “his old friend”… two meanings: they’ve been friends for a long time or they’re friends and Turtle is old. I think the latter…. This makes me suspicious of Jennings either way

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 07, 2026 04:51 PM (26GAh)

172 161 12 That reminds me, I used to really like 'Heathers'.

Christian Slater's Jack Nicholson impression really amused me once.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
=====
Rare US 'black' comedy (not referring to race here). Brits used to specialize in these.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 04:50 PM (E4rtv)

They did indeed. They also used to do satire before the real world made that impossible.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 07, 2026 04:51 PM (xcxpd)

173 Is this a joke ???

It's possible that he and Jennings are making fun of the claims made to cover up Biden. I don't think Thune is that sharp.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 07, 2026 04:52 PM (2ocoG)

174 Mitch McConnell's username on Ouija is Captain Howdy.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 07, 2026 04:52 PM (LsplE)

175 What did the press call homosexualists before “gay” became de rigeur?
Posted by: Common Tater at July 07, 2026 04:46 PM (nFipu)

I believe the term was "confirmed bachelor".

More recently, saying a person has "expressive wrists" or "perfectly creased pants" is also acceptable code...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 07, 2026 04:52 PM (SRRAx)

176 Is this a joke ???
Posted by: runner

He is an fictional critter from a fictional 54th District of CA.

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 04:52 PM (E4rtv)

177 115 109 Why is Jennings sticking his neck out? If it turns out he was lying about the Turtle, it will really bash his "pro truth teller, pro sense" brand.
Posted by: LizLem at July 07, 2026 04:41 PM (gWBY1)

As someone pointed out, he has an easy out...people speak to those on life support all the time...and that's assuming he doesn't go with "Mitch's folks were lying"...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2026 04:43 PM (tOcjL)

But the whole quote is this:

32 @ScottJenningsKY
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes … about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 07, 2026 04:28 PM (diia5)

Posted by: m at July 07, 2026 04:52 PM (6wpGE)

178 159 @RepJackKimble:
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 45 minutes. He's so sharp. Just like always he let me do all of the talking. He's a great listener. After that we prayed silently for awhile and had a staring contest. Just like always, he beat me. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible.

===

Is this a joke ???
Posted by: runner at July 07, 2026 04:50 PM (GD0B3)

It does sound like someone absolutely dead and on machines...

"Just like always he let me do all of the talking. He's a great listener. After that we prayed silently for awhile and had a staring contest. Just like always, he beat me. "

Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2026 04:52 PM (tOcjL)

179 One of those southern Democrat Senators actually banged a gal on her way to her execution in the electric chair.
Posted by: Common Tater

Sparks were flying that day.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2026 04:52 PM (wOO3z)

180 They said "spoke with"

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 07, 2026 04:52 PM (n5tGW)

181 Sally Fields, IMHO, is actually one of those rare actresses who's gotten better looking as she's aged.

Posted by: Bulg at July 07, 2026 04:52 PM (77rzZ)

182 The rumors about why Jamiroquai broke up with Winona are hilarious. He said she had "huge mommy milkers" and she was too wild about sex.

Dude, you just sound like an idiot for leaving her, like the girls who break up with a guy because he was too well endowed.

Posted by: LizLem at July 07, 2026 04:52 PM (gWBY1)

183 It's possible that he and Jennings are making fun of the claims made to cover up Biden. I don't think Thune is that sharp.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 07, 2026 04:52 PM (2ocoG)

Yeah, I was surprised at Jennings, but now...you might be on to something!

Posted by: runner at July 07, 2026 04:53 PM (GD0B3)

184 Sharp as a tack!!!

... is 'sharp' a code word for these retards?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 07, 2026 04:53 PM (R+iUD)

185 Beep Beep .........

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at July 07, 2026 04:53 PM (JQ06R)

186 The Chinese appear clueless here. You send your spy/handler back to pretend to care if her husband lives or dies.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 07, 2026 04:49 PM (wGerL)

Then again, there is not just one China under Xi, there is a bunch of interlocking agendas.
That is also the problem with Iran and the problem with the US Senate as well.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2026 04:53 PM (rbvCR)

187 173 Is this a joke ???

It's possible that he and Jennings are making fun of the claims made to cover up Biden. I don't think Thune is that sharp.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 07, 2026 04:52 PM (2ocoG)

I just noticed the staring contest line.
It does seem to be a joke.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 07, 2026 04:53 PM (6ydKt)

188 Gov disagrees with the new law.

Right, they passed it by overriding his veto IIRC, but it's still a passed law.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 07, 2026 04:48 PM (2ocoG)

Let the KY legislature impeach and remove the punk now, then. That'd solve the whole "I can pick who I want" deal.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2026 04:54 PM (1Ff7Z)

189 165 154 145 Thune and Barrasso both said they have talked to him so I guess he's still kicking.

That would be a very difficult lie to get over if they didn't.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 07, 2026 04:48 PM (n5tGW)

talked to is different than talked with
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2026 04:49 PM (tOcjL)

well spotted
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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The entire GOP senate caucus might as well be brain dead for all the good they are doing. We could have voted Democrat and got the same obstruction without the traitor's grief.

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 04:54 PM (E4rtv)

190 174 Mitch McConnell's username on Ouija is Captain Howdy.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 07, 2026 04:52 PM (LsplE)

That explains a lot about Georgetown.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 07, 2026 04:54 PM (xcxpd)

191 For some reason, I believe the Wagners and not the Somali sisters:
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A Minneapolis couple accused of racially abusing two Somali women house hunting now claim they were victims of anti-white slurs.

Brian and Jen Wagner were caught in a viral video arguing with two Somali sisters in Shakopee, a suburb southwest of the Minnesota capital, last month.

The sisters, who have since been identified only by their first names - Hamdi and Sumaya - claimed they were confronted by the couple while walking through the neighborhood.

Video footage they captured and shared online showed Brian telling them: 'Nobody wants you here. Not a single person here wants you. I can smell you from here.'

Speaking with Alpha News, Brian said that what was shared to social media was only part of what had unfolded during the confrontation last month.

'The public saw a shortened, selective clip showing my reaction, but not the events that led up to it. Before that video began, racial slurs were directed at me', he said.

According to Brian, the sisters called him a 'f****** white cracker', as well as a 'redneck' before they started recording him. A 'cracker' is an offensive term for a white person.

Posted by: beckster at July 07, 2026 04:54 PM (kX27y)

192 The rumors about why Jamiroquai broke up with Winona are hilarious. He said she had "huge mommy milkers" and she was too wild about sex.

Dude, you just sound like an idiot for leaving her, like the girls who break up with a guy because he was too well endowed.
Posted by: LizLem at July 07, 2026 04:52 PM (gWBY1)

or from exhaustion from redecorating his large house.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 04:55 PM (uhVAy)

193 I think maybe, just maybe both journalists are making fun...

Posted by: runner at July 07, 2026 04:55 PM (GD0B3)

194 The entire GOP senate caucus might as well be brain dead for all the good they are doing. We could have voted Democrat and got the same obstruction without the traitor's grief.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 04:54 PM (E4rtv)

It's why I'm not stressed about the election in Maine. If Collins loses, we win.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 07, 2026 04:55 PM (xcxpd)

195 Ding dong where is Mitch

Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2026 04:55 PM (Ia/+0)

196 >>> 39 Yes, we can still let you speak with Mitch McConnell; getting the vaporous apparition back into its fleshy cage is the trick.
Posted by: Peter Venkman at July 07, 2026 04:29 PM (gKWVE)

How is Elvis, and have you spoke to him lately?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 07, 2026 04:30 PM (2YhKe)

JackStraw talks to Elvis all the time.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 07, 2026 04:56 PM (R+iUD)

197 Elaine Chao not coming home indicates that McConnell is not near death's door, or she could care less and is moving to Hong Kong or Shanghai as soon as Mitch flees the mortal coil.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 07, 2026 04:56 PM (6ydKt)

198 The rumors about why Jamiroquai broke up with Winona are hilarious. He said she had "huge mommy milkers" and she was too wild about sex.

Just say it: She's crazier than a shithouse rat.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2026 04:56 PM (wOO3z)

199 Three people are claiming to have talked to him within the last couple of days:

Scott Jennings
John Thune
According to New York Times reporter Catie Edmonson, a spokesperson for U.S. Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming said the senator had spoken with McConnell on July 7 for about 20 minutes.

Regardless of his mortality, he is in no position to represent the people of Kentucky, and they should be vocal about that. Toss him unceremoniously out the door. The self-importance is ridiculous.

Posted by: Orson at July 07, 2026 04:57 PM (dIske)

200 They did indeed. They also used to do satire before the real world made that impossible.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edward
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It took the bite out of the Babylon Bee as yesterday's satire was news the next day. Bee would set the bar and the real news would go just a bit lower each time you might have thought the Bee had gone too far.

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 04:57 PM (E4rtv)

201 It was daybreak over the US Capital once again ......

Bring out your dead.....

Bring out your dead ...........

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 07, 2026 04:57 PM (JQ06R)

202 It's why I'm not stressed about the election in Maine. If Collins loses, we win.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 07, 2026 04:55 PM (xcxpd)

Yeah its just all down to the comedy now. Would be a blast having a Dem Senator in an SS uniform ranting about the Jew menace.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 04:57 PM (uhVAy)

203 The Chinese appear clueless here. You send your spy/handler back to pretend to care if her husband lives or dies.

Makes no difference to them. Mitch's usefulness to China is over - he wasn't running again, and Thune is firmly committed to keeping the Senate shut down so SAVE can't pass.

Probably Elaine wanted to get quickly to China's home for traumatized honeypots. She'll be great friends with Fang Fang there.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 07, 2026 04:57 PM (2ocoG)

204
He said she had "huge mommy milkers" and she was too wild about sex.

_____________

Fag

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2026 04:57 PM (O0L8i)

205 McConnell will be declared dead on August 4th.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 07, 2026 04:57 PM (nAS9C)

206 >>> 54 I hate we have a Soviet society now. "Let's carefully parse the leaders statements to find the clues to the actual truth, because we all know they lie as a default mode."

I mean, doesn't Trump know? Can't he just say?
Posted by: SimoHayha at July 07, 2026 04:33 PM (/ZkOF)

I want OrangeManBad to demand the release of Hostage Mitch.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 07, 2026 04:57 PM (R+iUD)

207 We will know when the news stations in Kentucky start playing funeral music

Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2026 04:58 PM (Ia/+0)

208 Ellen Page pretending to be a man is so off-putting. Look at her moving around in this recent video. It's clear she's trying to move like a man, but she's smack dab in the uncanny valley.

And what's up with the fit of that suit? Just awful.

http://tiny.cc/eea6101

Posted by: bonhomme at July 07, 2026 04:58 PM (mkw2N)

209 Sally Fields, IMHO, is actually one of those rare actresses who's gotten better looking as she's aged.

somebody hasn't seen Smokey and the Bandit II, must have been a tough three years

Posted by: DanMan at July 07, 2026 04:58 PM (8uzBS)

210 people asking why Chao was in China -- she is Chinese. Her family is Chinese CCP.

The real question is what the hell was she doing married to Mitch? It would be as if Lenin's daughter married Jack Kennedy during the Cold war.

This was a marriage of "fuck the USA, we are corrupt as hell and now rule you for the glory of CCP and we traitors are getting filthy rich doing it"

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 07, 2026 04:58 PM (KOok1)

211 It's why I'm not stressed about the election in Maine. If Collins loses, we win.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Other than judicial nominees for higher courts and for the Trump admin, the GOP senate might just as well be in the hospital bed with Mitch.

Very little proof of life from that bunch.

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 04:58 PM (E4rtv)

212 199> Three people are claiming to have talked to him within the last couple of days

The Ouija board and the Witch of Endor do not count.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 07, 2026 04:58 PM (nAS9C)

213
so... what official government diplomatic position does Elaine Chao hold, again?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 07, 2026 04:24 PM (vJrRc)

Same one that Jimmy the Peanut held when he negotiated with N Korea to prevent them from getting a nuke (which of course, failed), then handed the agreement over to Bubba Clinton and dared him to throw it out. From what I understand, Clinton was furious that Carter had boxed him into a corner.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 07, 2026 04:59 PM (y9nCu)

214 People lied about their scintillating discourse with McCain's Stage IV glioblastoma for a good deal longer than anyone's ever survived one of those before.

These people are all shameless liars. Dude could well be in a fridge already.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2026 04:59 PM (BI5O2)

215
We will know when the news stations in ~~Kentucky~~ China start playing funeral music

Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2026 04:58 PM (Ia/+0)

Fixèd

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2026 04:59 PM (O0L8i)

216 I'll say it again:
All this is being done to prevent the people from having a choice in who represents them.

Think about that, it's not "do the people of Kentucky have a Senator representing them?" it's, "Mitch deserves the job as long as he wants it regardless of whether he can perform the duties"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 07, 2026 05:00 PM (3cUTc)

217 Yeah, I gotta say the Smokey years were prime Sally Fields.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 07, 2026 05:00 PM (6ydKt)

218 This was a marriage of "fuck the USA, we are corrupt as hell and now rule you for the glory of CCP and we traitors are getting filthy rich doing it"
Posted by: bob
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The question is who ISN'T beholden to foreign countries and donors on Capitol Hill.

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 05:00 PM (E4rtv)

219 I'm sick and tired of seeing that cinderblock headed, Marjorie Taylor Greene. What a huge mask she was wearing while she was in office. Just another fake.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 07, 2026 05:00 PM (qBdHI)

220 211 It's why I'm not stressed about the election in Maine. If Collins loses, we win.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Other than judicial nominees for higher courts and for the Trump admin, the GOP senate might just as well be in the hospital bed with Mitch.

Very little proof of life from that bunch.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 04:58 PM (E4rtv)

They want power and they are not messing around.
Trump is as big a threat to them as....we are. In theory.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 07, 2026 05:01 PM (xcxpd)

221 A 'cracker' is an offensive term for a white person.
Posted by: beckster at July 07, 2026 04:54 PM (kX27y)

I don't understand that. I believe it's from "whipcracker," a slang term for a slave master. Pretty strange to insult someone by saying the person has power over you.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2026 05:01 PM (1Ff7Z)

222 207 We will know when the news stations in Kentucky start playing funeral music
Posted by: Skip
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My Old Kentucky Home?

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 05:01 PM (E4rtv)

223 I have to chime in. I'm not a fan of women who never lost the baby fat on their facial cheeks, and Sally Fields falls into that category.

Posted by: Orson at July 07, 2026 05:01 PM (dIske)

224 Hey foreigners: you stink and nobody wants you here.

That's not racism. It's just a fact.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2026 05:01 PM (BI5O2)

225 >>> 99 Say, what did happen with Fetterman's wife? She went to Canada and vanished from the news, and Fetterman suddenly started becoming sane.
Posted by: SimoHayha at July 07, 2026 04:40 PM (/ZkOF)

Fetterman's wife, who was from Venezuela, and whose family may have been involved in Venezuelan election shenanigans? That Mrs. Fetterman?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 07, 2026 05:02 PM (R+iUD)

226 I can’t stand her voice

Posted by: Gonzotx at July 07, 2026 05:02 PM (nGraA)

227 I remember Winona Ryder as "Lydia" in Beetlejuice.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 07, 2026 05:02 PM (O7YUW)

228 ..
...
....
....

......

And that's all, folks!

Posted by: man at July 07, 2026 05:02 PM (XuXeR)

229 "Americans will soon be able to take passport photos at home with a phone or laptop camera instead of visiting CVS, Walgreens, or another photo service, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced. The photos would be verified in real time using facial recognition, per the State Department"

I heard Rubio talk about it when he unveiled America 250 Commemorative passports.

Posted by: runner at July 07, 2026 05:02 PM (GD0B3)

230 208 Ellen Page pretending to be a man is so off-putting. Look at her moving around in this recent video. It's clear she's trying to move like a man, but she's smack dab in the uncanny valley.

And what's up with the fit of that suit? Just awful.

http://tiny.cc/eea6101
Posted by: bonhomme at July 07, 2026 04:58 PM (mkw2N)

Ruby Rose did it better

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 07, 2026 05:02 PM (xcxpd)

231 They want power and they are not messing around.
Trump is as big a threat to them as....we are. In theory.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Eh, the GOP wants power to make themselves and their families rich. The Democrats want to make themselves rich and the rest of us poor and servile.

As bad as I complain about King Log, I prefer King Log to King Stork.

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 05:02 PM (E4rtv)

232 Seems I need another vehicle, the truck finally might need more than its worth in months

Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2026 05:03 PM (Ia/+0)

233 221 A 'cracker' is an offensive term for a white person.
Posted by: beckster at July 07, 2026 04:54 PM (kX27y)

I don't understand that. I believe it's from "whipcracker," a slang term for a slave master. Pretty strange to insult someone by saying the person has power over you.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2026 05:01 PM (1Ff7Z)
___________________________________

I feel uncomfortable every time I buy Cheezits at the grocery store. That whole aisle is racist.

Posted by: Orson at July 07, 2026 05:03 PM (dIske)

234 221 A 'cracker' is an offensive term for a white person.
Posted by: beckster at July 07, 2026 04:54 PM (kX27y)

I don't understand that. I believe it's from "whipcracker," a slang term for a slave master. Pretty strange to insult someone by saying the person has power over you.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2026 05:01 PM (1Ff7Z)

I thought it was a reference to saltines...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 07, 2026 05:03 PM (xcxpd)

235 He's only MOSTLY dead.

Posted by: steevy at July 07, 2026 05:03 PM (YwEeS)

236 161 12 That reminds me, I used to really like 'Heathers'.

Christian Slater's Jack Nicholson impression really amused me once.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Rare US 'black' comedy (not referring to race here). Brits used to specialize in these.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 04:50 PM (E4rtv)

Love that movie. It really is rare. Grosse Point Blank isn't that dark, Death Becomes Her isn't that funny. Blame It On The Bellboy and many other 'screwball' comedies may have some meanspirited 'humor', but that isn't enough to make that specific genre. It's just not a very American sensibility.

Posted by: SciVo at July 07, 2026 05:03 PM (Sy6m/)

237 I have to chime in. I'm not a fan of women who never lost the baby fat on their facial cheeks, and Sally Fields falls into that category.
Posted by: Orson at July 07, 2026 05:01 PM (dIske)

So Skeletor is right up your alley?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 05:03 PM (uhVAy)

238 232 Seems I need another vehicle, the truck finally might need more than its worth in months
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2026 05:03 PM (Ia/+0)

Time for an old Toyota?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 07, 2026 05:04 PM (xcxpd)

239 And I often wonder if every or what Chinese here are spies

Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2026 05:04 PM (Ia/+0)

240 What a huge mask she was wearing while she was in office. Just another fake.

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Well, she has large head, but it wasn't much of a mask. She was a nakedly corrupt swamp lizard who publicly laughed about the GOP money laundering schemes she was part of.

Don't listen to what they say. Watch what they do.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2026 05:04 PM (BI5O2)

241 Posted by: LizLem at July 07, 2026 04:52 PM (gWBY1

I think people who yap about that kind of stuff in "Her mommy milkers were too large" or "He had too big of a wang" are pathetic . Don't say that kind of stuff to anyone unless you can absolutely trust your friends . Certainly don't blather it in public.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2026 05:04 PM (Bw1/o)

242 193 I think maybe, just maybe both journalists are making fun...
Posted by: runner at July 07, 2026 04:55 PM (GD0B3)

Scott's tweet has over 20,000 comments.

Posted by: m at July 07, 2026 05:04 PM (6wpGE)

243 201 It was daybreak over the US Capital once again ......

Bring out your dead.....

Bring out your dead ...........
Posted by: Jackson K.
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If it included those brain dead puppets, it would empty out the Capitol in a hurry.

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 05:04 PM (E4rtv)

244 AI informs me that Chao is not representing any organization or business on her current trip to China. She claims it's for her family philanthropic endeavors and was long-planned.

Yet she is having high level meetings with government officials.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 07, 2026 05:05 PM (6ydKt)

245 I don't know what, I need a truck or minivan

Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2026 05:05 PM (Ia/+0)

246 I feel uncomfortable every time I buy Cheezits at the grocery store. That whole aisle is racist.
Posted by: Orson at July 07, 2026 05:03 PM (dIske)

Cheezits aren't white enough to be crackers.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 05:05 PM (uhVAy)

247 Ellen Page pretending to be a man is so off-putting. Look at her moving around in this recent video. It's clear she's trying to move like a man, but she's smack dab in the uncanny valley.

--

There is nothing she can do to shake off her obvious female sex. Lob off her breasts, short hair, dress like a guy...she's still unmistakably a woman.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 07, 2026 05:05 PM (qBdHI)

248 My Old Kentucky Home?"

Sure. Whatever, we don't care.

/Devil Anse Hatfield

Posted by: man at July 07, 2026 05:06 PM (XuXeR)

249 Love that movie. It really is rare. Grosse Point Blank isn't that dark, Death Becomes Her isn't that funny. Blame It On The Bellboy and many other 'screwball' comedies may have some meanspirited 'humor', but that isn't enough to make that specific genre. It's just not a very American sensibility.
Posted by: SciVo
========
American Psycho is another rare 'black' American comedy.

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 05:06 PM (E4rtv)

250 AI informs me that Chao is not representing any organization or business on her current trip to China. She claims it's for her family philanthropic endeavors and was long-planned.

Yet she is having high level meetings with government officials.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 07, 2026 05:05 PM (6ydKt)

Nobody is more philanthropic than the CCP high brass.

I buy the Mitch McConnell talk show reports more than that story.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 05:06 PM (uhVAy)

251 The whole Senate is a Senior Health Clinic and Over 80 Nursing home...

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 07, 2026 05:06 PM (JQ06R)

252 Not big on Jennings helping Mitch, but Jennings takes it to the left in all the clips from CNN I see. I'll give Jennings a freebie here

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2026 05:07 PM (20Ghg)

253 Cheezits aren't white enough to be crackers.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 05:05 PM (uhVAy)
_________________________

Two words: George Zimmerman

Posted by: Orson at July 07, 2026 05:07 PM (dIske)

254 AI informs me that Chao is not representing any organization or business on her current trip to China. She claims it's for her family philanthropic endeavors and was long-planned.

--

She went to trade yoga tips and recipes. Btw, if Mitch is barely clinging to life, don't you think it would behoove one to stay with their spouse at this critical time?

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 07, 2026 05:07 PM (qBdHI)

255 221 A 'cracker' is an offensive term for a white person.
Posted by: beckster at July 07, 2026 04:54 PM (kX27y)

I don't understand that. I believe it's from "whipcracker," a slang term for a slave master. Pretty strange to insult someone by saying the person has power over you.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2026 05:01 PM (1Ff7Z)

US English derogatory
a contemptuous term for a white person, especially an impoverished white person living in the southern US. Also called poor white

Posted by: m at July 07, 2026 05:07 PM (6wpGE)

256 King Log wasn't secretly working for King Stork though.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2026 05:07 PM (BI5O2)

257 206 >>> 54 I hate we have a Soviet society now. "Let's carefully parse the leaders statements to find the clues to the actual truth, because we all know they lie as a default mode."

I mean, doesn't Trump know? Can't he just say?
Posted by: SimoHayha at July 07, 2026 04:33 PM (/ZkOF)

I want OrangeManBad to demand the release of Hostage Mitch.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 07, 2026 04:57 PM (R+iUD)

They hate each other, so are we sure Trump himself knows?

Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2026 05:07 PM (tOcjL)

258 Ellen Page pretending to be a man is so off-putting. Look at her moving around in this recent video. It's clear she's trying to move like a man, but she's smack dab in the uncanny valley.

--

There is nothing she can do to shake off her obvious female sex. Lob off her breasts, short hair, dress like a guy...she's still unmistakably a woman.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 07, 2026 05:05 PM (qBdHI)

Someone gave her film of a male chimpanzee to model her walk on.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 05:07 PM (uhVAy)

259 252 Not big on Jennings helping Mitch, but Jennings takes it to the left in all the clips from CNN I see. I'll give Jennings a freebie here
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2026 05:07 PM (20Ghg)
_____________________

Jennings used to work for him.

Posted by: Orson at July 07, 2026 05:07 PM (dIske)

260 There is nothing she can do to shake off her obvious female sex. Lob off her breasts, short hair, dress like a guy...she's still unmistakably a woman.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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You learn something every day, I never knew breasts could be lobbed. Nice trick that.

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 05:08 PM (E4rtv)

261 237 I have to chime in. I'm not a fan of women who never lost the baby fat on their facial cheeks, and Sally Fields falls into that category.
Posted by: Orson at July 07, 2026 05:01 PM (dIske)

So Skeletor is right up your alley?
Posted by: Oldcat

I'm doing my best to help out here! Give me a few more years!

Posted by: Ozempic at July 07, 2026 05:08 PM (uSCoZ)

262 >>> 221 A 'cracker' is an offensive term for a white person.
Posted by: beckster at July 07, 2026 04:54 PM (kX27y)

I don't understand that. I believe it's from "whipcracker," a slang term for a slave master. Pretty strange to insult someone by saying the person has power over you.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2026 05:01 PM (1Ff7Z)

Not from saltines???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 07, 2026 05:08 PM (R+iUD)

263 what official government diplomatic position does Elaine Chao hold, again?

She was, supposedly, there on personal business related to philanthropic endeavors.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 07, 2026 05:09 PM (ExV1e)

264 Biden had oxygen relief stations and wheelchair ramps installed in the US Capital to help his friends....

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 07, 2026 05:09 PM (JQ06R)

265 Three people are claiming to have talked to him within the last couple of days:

Scott Jennings
John Thune
According to New York Times reporter Catie Edmonson, a spokesperson for U.S. Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming said the senator had spoken with McConnell on July 7 for about 20 minutes.

Regardless of his mortality, he is in no position to represent the people of Kentucky, and they should be vocal about that. Toss him unceremoniously out the door. The self-importance is ridiculous.

Posted by: Orson at July 07, 2026 04:57 PM

Multiple people also claimed they had talked to senator mccain in the weeks before they finally announced he was dead, assuring us that he would be back to work in DC in just a few days or weeks.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 07, 2026 05:09 PM (0N4FZ)

266 A more loathsome Senator would be hard to find. And yes I know Chuck Shumer and Dick “Dick” Durbin both exist.

Posted by: Kalshi Odds at July 07, 2026 05:09 PM (Tpp9k)

267 Here's the video of the judge watching the Kirk murder -

https://tinyurl.com/y2ptu36c

Posted by: beckster at July 07, 2026 05:10 PM (kX27y)

268 Cartel judge in Georgia tells the DOJ what crimes they are allowed to investigate.

Sure, he lied and says it's because the statue of limitations has run on election crimes but:
1. Conspiracy is an on going crime, and they have 100% conspired to cover up the crime even to today
2. DOJ never said it was only 2020 crimes, but that they wanted the names of those who worked 2020, because
3. They have relevant info about crimes they are investigating.

This is basically the judge saying they can't investigate a murder because limitations had passed on the guy they want to subpoena for illegal gambling.

But I really like the implication:
That only those who commit election fraud (GA officials) are allowed to investigate their election fraud.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 07, 2026 05:10 PM (3cUTc)

269 US English derogatory
a contemptuous term for a white person, especially an impoverished white person living in the southern US. Also called poor white
Posted by: m at July 07, 2026 05:07 PM (6wpGE)

Are you really going to believe a dictionary over information posted on AoS??

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2026 05:10 PM (1Ff7Z)

270 Someone gave her film of a male chimpanzee to model her walk on.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Male and female hips are different and that is one the first tells that archaelogists use to determine sex is the pelvis. My guess is Ellen is trying so hard to keep her hips from swiveling it makes her walk abnormal.

Heinlein spends a bit in Starship Troopers pondering the mysteries of the female walk.

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 05:10 PM (E4rtv)

271 Btw, if Mitch is barely clinging to life, don't you think it would behoove one to stay with their spouse at this critical time?

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 07, 2026 05:07 PM (qBdHI)

You'd think so.

I'm leaning towards that means Mitch isn't too far gone and she was told to complete the trip.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 07, 2026 05:10 PM (6ydKt)

272 Not from saltines???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 07, 2026 05:08 PM (R+iUD)

Civil War hardtack rations were called crackers, but are much larger and thicker than modern saltines.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 05:10 PM (uhVAy)

273 Yeah, I learned today that Scott Jennings is a McConnell machine man. I didn't know that.

This falls neatly under the heading of "don't listen to what they say, watch what they do."

Shame on me. I should've known better, but now I do, so I have no use for Scott Jennings going forward. Automatic "ignore" from now on.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2026 05:10 PM (BI5O2)

274 The Atlanta Crackers were a top minor league team up to the year before the Braves moved there from me Milwaukee. White folks liked the name

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2026 05:10 PM (20Ghg)

275 Just put his wife in. (She's been a cabinet Secretary twice in her career.) There aren't that many months until he'd be gone anyway.

In American political history, 48 women have been elected or appointed to fill congressional vacancies created by the deaths of their husbands. This practice, coined "widow's succession" or the "widow's mandate", includes 39 women who succeeded to the House and eight to the Senate.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 07, 2026 05:10 PM (NFX2v)

276 Nothing like being the shortest, weakest person in that video

Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2026 05:11 PM (Ia/+0)

277 Anyone know of the Anne Heche death conspiracy? Apparently (as shown on X) video taken from news helicopter shows Anne (or someone) clearly trying to get up off the stretcher before getting shoved into the back of the ambulance. I asked Grok to confirm the video is connected with Anne's death and not doctored and Grok confirmed, but contined to gaslight me saying I couldn't possibly be seeing what I was seeing. I don't know what to believe, I hate this.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 07, 2026 05:11 PM (E8E+8)

278 >>> 268 Cartel judge in Georgia tells the DOJ what crimes they are allowed to investigate.

Sure, he lied and says it's because the statue of limitations has run on election crimes but:
1. Conspiracy is an on going crime, and they have 100% conspired to cover up the crime even to today
2. DOJ never said it was only 2020 crimes, but that they wanted the names of those who worked 2020, because
3. They have relevant info about crimes they are investigating.

This is basically the judge saying they can't investigate a murder because limitations had passed on the guy they want to subpoena for illegal gambling.

But I really like the implication:
That only those who commit election fraud (GA officials) are allowed to investigate their election fraud.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 07, 2026 05:10 PM (3cUTc)

Arrest the fucking judge since he's obviously invovled.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 07, 2026 05:11 PM (R+iUD)

279 Today is November 23, 2050, and I want to wish Senator Schumer a happy 100th birthday and good luck in your reelection for your 20th term.

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 07, 2026 05:11 PM (JQ06R)

280 And she is autographing for guys.

Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2026 05:12 PM (Ia/+0)

281 Bad luck is happening in Midtown Manhattan
youtu.be/qVSAueGw-o8

Posted by: gKWVE at July 07, 2026 05:12 PM (gKWVE)

282 The Atlanta Crackers were a top minor league team up to the year before the Braves moved there from me Milwaukee. White folks liked the name
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2026 05:10 PM (20Ghg)

Also note the craze for the "Fighting Whiteys" some years ago. Or Notre Dame's mascot.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 05:12 PM (uhVAy)

283 Civil War hardtack rations were called crackers, but are much larger and thicker than modern saltines.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 05:10 PM (uhVAy)

Or, ship's biscuits.

Posted by: Jon Townsend and Max Miller at July 07, 2026 05:12 PM (1Ff7Z)

284 281 Bad luck is happening in Midtown Manhattan
youtu.be/qVSAueGw-o8
Posted by: gKWVE at July 07, 2026 05:12 PM (gKWVE)

They are renovating a former Pfizer office building to make condos...I bet they took out main supports b/c they were gonna be ugly or intrusive to the living areas (and no one asked an engineer or architect 1st)...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2026 05:13 PM (tOcjL)

285 I asked Grok to confirm the video is connected with Anne's death and not doctored and Grok confirmed, but contined to gaslight me saying I couldn't possibly be seeing what I was seeing. I don't know what to believe, I hate this.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

You know Ellen went to UK for awhile around that time. Hmmm, I guess my version of Clue would be Ellen with a pillow in the ambulance.

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 05:14 PM (E4rtv)

286 Three people are claiming to have talked to him within the last couple of days:

Scott Jennings
John Thune

He's far beyond cogent. This version of ~~Biden~~ McConnell, intellectually, analytically, is the best ~~Biden~~ McConnell, ever. Start your tape right now... And f-you if you can't handle the truth."

Posted by: Joe Scarborough at July 07, 2026 05:14 PM (uSCoZ)

287 >>> 285 I asked Grok to confirm the video is connected with Anne's death and not doctored and Grok confirmed, but contined to gaslight me saying I couldn't possibly be seeing what I was seeing. I don't know what to believe, I hate this.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

You know Ellen went to UK for awhile around that time. Hmmm, I guess my version of Clue would be Ellen with a pillow in the ambulance.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 05:14 PM (E4rtv)

"You're not fooling anyone!" -- Ellen D holding the pillow

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 07, 2026 05:15 PM (R+iUD)

288 Anyone know of the Anne Heche death conspiracy? Apparently (as shown on X) video taken from news helicopter shows Anne (or someone) clearly trying to get up off the stretcher before getting shoved into the back of the ambulance. I asked Grok to confirm the video is connected with Anne's death and not doctored and Grok confirmed, but contined to gaslight me saying I couldn't possibly be seeing what I was seeing. I don't know what to believe, I hate this.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 07, 2026 05:11 PM (E8E+

Reminds one of the 'bring out your dead' scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. "You aren't fooling anyone you know"

I barely know who she is much less why people would be filming her nor why there would be reason to get her.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 05:15 PM (uhVAy)

289 American Psycho is another rare 'black' American comedy.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 05:06 PM (E4rtv)

I must add it to my list! I highly recommend both seasons of Dead Like Me, one of my favorite shows of all time. (Skip the movie, they tried to pull a Serenity and it was *horrible*.) 2003-4 Showtime afterlife workplace dramedy. Hit that very specific spot juuuust right.

That reminds me, I switched phones and need to put the opening theme of DLM back onto it for my ringtone.

Posted by: SciVo at July 07, 2026 05:15 PM (Sy6m/)

290 Where Is Mitch McConnell? Some Demand "Proof of Life"
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Previously on - Headlines That Could Be From 2018.

Posted by: ... at July 07, 2026 05:16 PM (vE0+H)

291 269 US English derogatory
a contemptuous term for a white person, especially an impoverished white person living in the southern US. Also called poor white
Posted by: m at July 07, 2026 05:07 PM (6wpGE)

Are you really going to believe a dictionary over information posted on AoS??
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2026 05:10 PM (1Ff7Z)

Not necessarily?

Posted by: m at July 07, 2026 05:16 PM (6wpGE)

292 Talking “to” Mitch is easy; talking “with” Mitch is harder.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 07, 2026 05:16 PM (jTgrB)

293 Hey Man..... Mitch and I are down here in Kingston, Jamaca banging Reggae Snapper, Drinking Rum and smoking some big Bob Marley Gunja.

Ain't that Baaaaaaaaaad Mon and we be jamming ....

Posted by: Blo Jiden at July 07, 2026 05:16 PM (38587)

294 >>> 288
==
Reminds one of the 'bring out your dead' scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. "You aren't fooling anyone you know"

I barely know who she is much less why people would be filming her nor why there would be reason to get her.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 05:15 PM (uhVAy)

Horde mind!

... why do low-level mafia members get whacked?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 07, 2026 05:16 PM (R+iUD)

295 Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
·
1h
🚨 BREAKING: A Boeing 737-400 freighter has gone missing in the Indian Ocean, just past the Gulf of Oman, after taking off from the UAE

Flight tracking data shows an EXTREMELY rapid descent, dropping approximately 35,000 feet in less than 2 minutes, before disappearing from radar entirely.

Pray for the souls on board. A search and rescue operation has been launched.

It's not currently known what would have brought down the plane.

The K2 Airways cargo plane (AP-BOI) was reportedly en route to Karachi, Pakistan.

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 05:17 PM (E4rtv)

296 I'm leaning towards that means Mitch isn't too far gone and she was told to complete the trip.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 07, 2026 05:10 PM (6ydKt

For the record, this would not deter me from coming home as soon as possible, and with their money, that means on a private jet.

Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2026 05:17 PM (PRqXW)

297 My guess would be one last spasm, clutching to life as the lights went down. Nobody killed a demonstrably insane, drug-addicted F-list celebrity.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2026 05:17 PM (BI5O2)

298 > My guess is Ellen is trying so hard to keep her hips from swiveling it makes her walk abnormal.

Guys also tend to slouch and bounce more. Women typically stand more erectly and sort of glide in comparison. She's trying to mimic the slouch and bounce, but it's not natural and it looks wrong. I think your observation RE her hips is a big part of it.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 07, 2026 05:18 PM (mkw2N)

299 Sing along with Mitch

My dad had that album

Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2026 05:18 PM (Ia/+0)

300 300

Posted by: m at July 07, 2026 05:18 PM (6wpGE)

301 I don't care. After years of cancer-ridden elderly RBG works out harder than you articles, I'm content to let this asshole's corpse ride out the remainder of his term. Post someone nearby to keep the flies of him.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 07, 2026 05:19 PM (NehaE)

302 U.S. Central Command
"@CENTCOM
4m
U.S. Central Command forces have begun launching a series of powerful strikes against Iran to impose heavy costs for targeting and attacking commercial shipping crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway. The U.S. strikes are in response to Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels that were transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s demonstrated aggression was unwarranted, dangerous, and a clear violation of the ceasefire"

Posted by: runner at July 07, 2026 05:19 PM (GD0B3)

303 Justice! Many of those fired for their comments about Charlie Kirk's death have received massive sums of money from wrongful termination lawsuits.

Posted by: Sid at July 07, 2026 05:19 PM (2M3ac)

304 Hardtack, aka worm castles.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 07, 2026 05:20 PM (jTgrB)

305 Not sure what would bring a plane down in the middle of a war zone. Baffling.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 07, 2026 05:20 PM (n5tGW)

306 "Cargo Flight" ? hmm

Posted by: runner at July 07, 2026 05:21 PM (GD0B3)

307 Schrödinger’s Turtle

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 07, 2026 05:21 PM (bAJQW)

308 Are you really going to believe a dictionary over information posted on AoS??
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2026 05:10 PM (1Ff7Z)

Not necessarily?
Posted by: m at July 07, 2026 05:16 PM (6wpGE)

Whew! I mean, the Horde is certainly more correct than some outside source!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2026 05:22 PM (1Ff7Z)

309 Link of Anne Heche, supposedly

https://x.com/i/
status/2074488704803000733

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 07, 2026 05:22 PM (E8E+8)

310 Sparkle Judge bitch slapped.

SCOTUS Wire
@scotus_wire
·
36m
🚨 Just weeks after Judge Sparkle Sooknanan vacated the SAVE system's SSN-search and bulk-upload features, a federal judge in Florida ordered the agency to restore those same features, which states use to verify citizenship and immigration status for voter rolls.

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 05:23 PM (E4rtv)

311 I bet they took out main supports b/c they were gonna be ugly or intrusive to the living areas (and no one asked an engineer or architect 1st)...

Kansas City Hyatt renovation techniques are the worst techniques.

Posted by: DanMan at July 07, 2026 05:23 PM (8uzBS)

312 >Sally Fields, IMHO, is actually one of those rare actresses who's gotten better looking as she's aged.
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she was a real MILF in Forrest Gump

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2026 05:23 PM (ZxPkt)

313 Hell, proof of life was requested for Biden. Silence for weeks.

"Conspiracy theory, conspiracy theory!" the progressives and press yelled.

Just say No.

Ps - Biden & Harris should have been drug and alcohol screened weekly for four solid years & results made public.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 07, 2026 05:24 PM (NFX2v)

314 I'm leaning towards that means Mitch isn't too far gone and she was told to complete the trip.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 07, 2026 05:10 PM (6ydKt

For the record, this would not deter me from coming home as soon as possible, and with their money, that means on a private jet.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2026 05:17 PM (PRqXW)

For Mitch McConnell ? I'm sure it was a love match.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2026 05:24 PM (uhVAy)

315 Women typically stand more erectly and sort of glide in comparison.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 07, 2026 05:18 PM (mkw2N)

No one stands, how you say, more erectly, than the Paolo.

Posted by: The Paolo at July 07, 2026 05:24 PM (1Ff7Z)

316 JUST IN: Former Democratic Florida Gubernatorial Nominee Andrew Gillum Arrested With Meth, Cut Straws, Bong
https://shorturl.at/wtLRt
Gateway Pundit

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 07, 2026 05:25 PM (R+iUD)

317 I spoke with Mitch McConnell.

And Elvis.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2026 05:25 PM (RIvkX)

318 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
5m
🚨 HOLY CRAP. President Trump and the U.S. military have just launched STRIKES against Iran while 47 is in Turkey, after the mullahs attacked vessels in the Strait

FAFO IN REAL TIME! 🔥

“U.S. Central Command forces have begun launching a series of powerful strikes against Iran to impose heavy costs for targeting and attacking commercial shipping crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway.”

“The U.S. strikes are in response to Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels that were transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s demonstrated aggression was unwarranted, dangerous, and a clear violation of the ceasefire.” 🇺🇸

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 05:25 PM (E4rtv)

319 Judge Sparkle Sooknanan

ROFL, I'm sure this is a straight-laced textualist and very rational and impartial presence on the bench....

Posted by: ballistic at July 07, 2026 05:26 PM (oqH4h)

320 Wants Thomas Massie to run for McConnell’s seat if it becomes vacant

… there were conspiracy theories floating around yesterday the McConnell was dead and they were trying to hide that till after the dead line that would keep a special election till after November.

Posted by: SMOD at July 07, 2026 05:26 PM (IrKJc)

321 310. 36m
🚨 Just weeks after Judge Sparkle Sooknanan vacated the SAVE system's SSN-search and bulk-upload features, a federal judge in Florida ordered the agency to restore those same features, which states use to verify citizenship and immigration status for voter rolls.
Posted by: whig

Thank heavens.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 07, 2026 05:26 PM (NFX2v)

322 For Mitch McConnell ? I'm sure it was a love match.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Asset and handler doesn't make a good love match.

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 05:26 PM (E4rtv)

323 Nood. Come and mock the formatting.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 07, 2026 05:26 PM (ExV1e)

324 Why are MAGA people so hot to force Turtle to provide PoL? Who cares if he’s alive or dead.

If he’s dead, that means the shitfuck KY governor gets to appoint a Democrap to the seat. Why do we want that? Yes yes yes, I know about that law forced through. You wanna bet on that?

Sometimes I wonder about my fellow MAGA peeps.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 07, 2026 05:26 PM (bAJQW)

325 she was a real MILF in Forrest Gump
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2026 05:23 PM (ZxPkt)
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Dat's what I'm talkin' 'bout.

Posted by: The school principal that suggested a "deal" to enroll Forrest in school at July 07, 2026 05:27 PM (PiwSw)

326 Kansas City Hyatt renovation techniques are the worst techniques.
Posted by: DanMan at July 07, 2026 05:23 PM (8uzBS)

We're trying to do some renovations here, not jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!

Posted by: Slim Pickens at July 07, 2026 05:27 PM (oqH4h)

327 there were conspiracy theories floating around yesterday the McConnell was dead and they were trying to hide that till after the dead line that would keep a special election till after November.
Posted by: SMOD

After a day in August, mebbe August 4th, the law would have a coterminous special election with the general to fill any vacancy.

Posted by: whig at July 07, 2026 05:28 PM (E4rtv)

328 If he’s dead, that means the shitfuck KY governor gets to appoint a Democrap to the seat. Why do we want that? Yes yes yes, I know about that law forced through. You wanna bet on that?

Sometimes I wonder about my fellow MAGA peeps.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 07, 2026 05:26 PM (bAJQW)

My understanding is that if he's dead it's early enough that there has to be a special election to replace him, rather than have whatever dildoneck the Dem gov appoints ride out the term for the next however many years.

Posted by: ballistic at July 07, 2026 05:28 PM (oqH4h)

329 Isn't it Kentucky state law that the Dem governor specifically *can't* name the replacement, there has to be a special election?
Posted by: Ian S. at July 07, 2026 04:44 PM (2ocoG)

Gov disagrees with the new law.
Posted by: Nova Local at July

Unfortunately, it seems the state constitution disagrees as well.
I could be wrong, but it seems the demoncrat is correct this time.

Posted by: Dandalo at July 07, 2026 05:29 PM (3QsZU)

330 316 JUST IN: Former Democratic Florida Gubernatorial Nominee Andrew Gillum Arrested With Meth, Cut Straws, Bong
https://shorturl.at/wtLRt
Gateway Pundit
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 07, 2026 05:25 PM (R+iUD)

Meth. Not even once.

Posted by: m at July 07, 2026 05:30 PM (6wpGE)

331 323 Nood. Come and mock the formatting.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 07, 2026 05:26 PM (ExV1e)

Posted by: m at July 07, 2026 05:31 PM (6wpGE)

332 They are talking to an AI Mitch? Ask Mitch to calculate pi to the final digit and see what happens.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2026 05:33 PM (TVOOe)

333 281 Bad luck is happening in Midtown Manhattan
youtu.be/qVSAueGw-o8
Posted by: gKWVE

Want to be the Mayor? Have a competent staff including Licensing, Engineering and Inspection Services.

Further, quit sitting around mouthing off as you wait for the Kelce's and other billionaires to give you, your staff and "your" city more money.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 07, 2026 05:34 PM (NFX2v)

334 Christopher Pike is too good a character to compare that ratf*ck McConnell to; he is definitely Hector Salamanca. Got his little bell and dinging the sh*t out of it.

Posted by: Nelly at July 07, 2026 05:36 PM (6+ehB)

335 It’s hilarious how leftists think Turtle is some maga stalwart. These dummies also think Fox News is right wing.

Posted by: Kalshi Odds at July 07, 2026 05:36 PM (Tpp9k)

336 Just in case nobody has posted this yet:

https://tinyurl.com/yhhmenrw

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 07, 2026 05:37 PM (vLKBf)

337 Sally Fields won an Oscar for Norma Rae. She was good in Places of the Heart too. She is one of the few actresses that hasn't had any work done. She looks like a grandma, which is what she is.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2026 05:38 PM (bkuEU)

338 Heh. Trust Sid to once again prove that leftists are the most vile people imaginable.

Posted by: SimoHayha at July 07, 2026 05:39 PM (/ZkOF)

339 When I see Mitch, I don't even see a turtle anymore, I see a crusty old shell of a man who should be given a release. A rocking chair on the porch with a blanket.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 07, 2026 05:40 PM (fkjGs)

340 A “health event”.

No one knows what that word means anymore I guess.

Let me assure you, Mr. McConnell has no such thing as “health”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 07, 2026 05:41 PM (OwmWb)

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