The Morning Report — 7/ 17 /26

Good morning kids. Last night President Trump took to the airwaves and took a massive swing at the Chi-Coms.

President Trump revealed that China stole the voter registration data of 220 million Americans as part of his primetime speech on Thursday.
“Over a period of years, starting during the 2020 election cycle, the People’s Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files,” Trump said in remarks from the East Room of the White House.
“That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data that would be needed to register to vote and engage in other nefarious activities, which is exactly what was happening,” the president continued. “This data loss presents an unprecedented election security nightmare.

While this is of course a serious breach of our security it's obviously not a one-off as it goes hand in hand with the breach that occurred about a decade ago that hacked the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) exposing thousands of government employees including many in the most sensitive departments and agencies, as well as myriad breaches in the private sector.

Obviously, Donald Trump was and remains an existential threat to the plans and schemes of the Chi-Coms and every other malign actor in the world and they have a vested interest in derailing and sabotaging him at every turn. Did their hack actually interfere with or otherwise corrupt and subvert the results of 2020? Who knows.

But President Trump's and by extension our greatest threat continues to come from within our own country with its epicenter in the Democrat Party and leftist movement. It was and remains my assertion beyond any doubt that they did in fact steal the 2020 election via several tactics, most notably the massive mail-in ballot fiascos as a result of the coronavirus lockdowns that destroyed any semblance of ballot/election integrity most notably in the several key swing states and districts where corrupt Democrat operatives engaged in massive ballot dumping and cessation of the counts that allowed that to happen.

As you my recall, I wrote a book about it that is based on my reportage on election day/night and covering the subsequent weeks up until one of our darkest days in history, January 6th, 2021 when the electoral college vote was made kosher in Congress and the Democrats attempted to blood libel us with causing an insurrection.

If you don't want to purchase the book (and to this day I have yet to receive a penny in royalties, feh.) you can just access my column here in the archives from that day forward and read it there.

Of course equally as horrendous was the fact that several of the major networks refused to even carry the speech which only serves to underscore their naked corruption as Leftist/Globalist propaganda house organs.

CBS News aired part of President Trump’s prime-time speech on election fraud Thursday night, joining in late and switching away as the commander-in-chief called for ABC and NBC to lose their licenses for not showing his remarks. Before tuning into Trump’s speech, CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil explained why the network was airing it: “Much of what the President has said on [security of American elections] has been false.” “There is an argument that it’s irresponsible to air the president’s speech tonight. But this speech will be made. It will be news. And it’s our job to cover the news,” Dokoupil said.

Dokoupil, Douche-chill? And speaking of Leftwing terrorism

For far too long our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot — a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left.
Even today, the very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream, or worse, as a dangerous fascist conspiracy. It’s treated this way by many in the press, by many in academia and our universities, and by many of our legacy institutions. You will no doubt see the dogma rear its head in the coverage of this very conference.
In spite of the clear and the undeniable reality, in spite of the objective numbers and statistics, in spite of the fact that in this room today there are representatives from across the political spectrum, we will hear this organized — that this kind of organized violence and terror will be dismissed. It will be dismissed as a partisan fiction. . . For years, this extraordinary ideological prejudice was embedded in the way we talked about political violence and extremism. It was repeated again and again, until it was accepted as the neutral and objective baseline, so entrenched in the mainstream conventional wisdom that it came to be regarded as an apolitical fact.
It is the reason why, here in my country, so many people in positions of power have repeatedly dismissed acts of violence and even terrorism as legitimate forms of political expression so long as they served a left-wing cause.
It is why during those so-called George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020, as criminals and extremists burned and looted their way through America’s great cities and nearly brought the country to its knees, city governments all across the country simply refused to prosecute the people conducting these acts of violence and terror.

Of course our fantastic Secretary of State is absolutely right. The question is what are we going to do about it?! Yes, there are threats that do come from abroad but the cancer of Leftism/Communism which had its origins overseas a century ago have now metastasized here. It must be utterly eradicated root and branch and I'm afraid that is going to be a painful and bloody affair, both figuratively and quite literally given the nature of our most implacable of enemies, our fellow citizens in name only who view the nation and society that we allegedly share as both illegitimate and an evil to be eradicated by any means necessary.

I think Rubio one day will or could be a truly outstanding president, that is if the Democrat forces of darkness and evil do not snuff us out in the years ahead.

Unlike J.D. Vance who is truly turning into a big time disappointment.

Have a great weekend!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

“Over a period of years, starting during the 2020 election cycle, the People’s Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files,” Trump said in remarks from the East Room of the White House.
Trump reveals China stole voter registration data from 220M Americans in primetime speech
Rubio Op-Ed: For far too long our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot — a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left.
Marco Rubio: America will no longer ignore the threat of left-wing violence

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

With a whole-of-government effort tilted toward equity, California is poised to become the next South Africa.
The Racialist State
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
The Trump administration is rescinding a Biden-era rule that ignored a migrant’s use of welfare, food stamps, and other tax-paid subsidies when determining eligibility for permanent legal status.
Trump Admin to Exclude Migrants on Welfare from Green Cards (why can't we exclude them from our country, and repatriate our money?! - jjs)
A Clinton-appointed federal judge in Florida has died just days after he controversially released a Cuban plane hijacker who was awaiting deportation... A legal source in Miami also confirmed Steele’s sudden death. The circumstances were not immediately clear.
Judge who freed Cuban plane hijacker dies suddenly days after controversial ruling
The initiative is expected to enhance road safety by prioritizing experienced and highly trained American drivers over unqualified foreigners. Additionally, it provides a career pathway for veterans transitioning to civilian life, potentially boosting wages and job security for American truckers.
Trump Advances Plan to Replace Illegal Immigrant Truck Drivers with American Veterans.
Newsom just pointed out problems with mass migration without even realizing what he said.
Deport Illegals to Reduce Inequality
Pigott said he was unable to explain Walz’s logic, and it seems Walz was unable to explain himself either. Speaking about the deportation of this child molester, the failed Democrat vice presidential candidate asked, “Did that make us any safer?”“It really is inexplicable,” Pigott said. “I mean, you had a pardon from Governor Tim Walz to try to shield this individual from deportation, and then what happened afterwards is Secretary Rubio moving then to revoke the legal status of this individual, and then you have our colleagues at DHS [Department of Homeland Security] and ICE quickly moving to remove this individual from the country so he can never threaten another American ever again.”
Tim Walz Questions if Deporting Illegal Alien Child Molester He Pardoned Made the Community Safer
THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)
Reuters: “A significant amount of Gulf oil has since been diverted to the Red Sea through a Saudi pipeline, and the waterway now carries around 7% of global energy supplies.”
Report: Iran Orders Houthis to Close Strategic Red Sea Strait if U.S. Escalates
So what do they need nukes for?
Iran: Hey, We’ve Got Moses, Jesus, David and Solomon on Our Side

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Vice President JD Vance needs to get his head out of the conspiratorial “rabbit holes” he says he loves to explore and drop the bizarro line he just pitched to Joe Rogan that the Israelis blew up the Iran peace deal because they want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.” (he needs to get his head out of Tuq'r Qatarlson's ass - jjs)
JD Vance is wrong to blame Israel for his Iran peace deal’s failure thus far
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
The embattled UN charity has been under fire for years for ties to Hamas and other Muslim extremist groups in Gaza
UNICEF-Funded Gaza School Held Anti-Israel Contest That Asked Children To Draw ‘Suffering’ Palestinians in ‘The Occupation’s Prisons’: Then the US Gave UNICEF $200 Million

* * * * *
The anti-Israel virus shows up everywhere.
Norway Wants to Kick Israel Out of World Soccer
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The investigation forms part of the Trump administration’s efforts to safeguard U.S. highways and ensure that only qualified drivers operate commercial vehicles.
Trump Admin Probes 75 Trucking Schools for Fraud and Licensing Irregularities.
Whatever it takes, end the twice-a-year clock-switching madness.
The 5 Dumbest Arguments Against The Sunshine Protection Act
In the post-judicial-filibuster world, intellectual adherence to textualism, in and of itself, is no longer sufficient for Republican Supreme Court nominees.
After Birthplace Citizenship Case, The Conservative Legal Movement Needs To Raise Its Standards
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
How Sharia penal codes weaponize adulthood against children.
The Biological Trap: The Doctrine That Erases Childhood
Raising the alarm of the damage created when immigrants with destructive cultures are imported for purely economic reasons.
Something About England
The Shi’ite revenge fantasy.
When the Twelfth Imam Returns
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
New York Democrats want voters to side with elderly gender-confused citizens over Catholic nuns taking care of the terminally ill.
Kathy Hochul Campaign Surrogates Oppose Nuns Providing Care To Terminally Ill
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft ripped apart Democrats’ narrative that the Trump administration is using the Department of Justice as a personal office to prosecute “political enemies.”
Former AG: The DOJ Has A ‘Duty’ To Prosecute The President’s ‘Political Enemies’ If They Broke The Law
‘When you go after your political opponents, that is weaponization,’ Sen. Eric Schmitt said. ‘When you hold people accountable who weaponize the justice system, that’s not the same thing.’
Tillis Doesn’t Understand Difference Between Biden’s Weaponized DOJ And Trump’s Pursuit Of Justice
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
It beggars belief that the Disney Grooming Syndicate benefits from our publicly owned airwaves, which it is allowed to use for free, and is still permitted to abuse this gift by broadcasting two full hours of leftist propaganda every weekday.
FCC Sets Sights on ‘The View’ and Disney Licenses: Report
Before tuning into Trump’s speech, CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil explained why the network was airing it: “Much of what the President has said on [security of American elections] has been false.”
CBS cuts away from Trump’s election fraud speech — as ABC and NBC refused to air it on TV
Authoritarianism is bad — unless it's communist, apparently.
AP Warns Against Trump’s ‘Darkly Political’ Anti-Communist Remarks
Comedy Gold: “I actually think I would be a really good president of the United States. I’m being totally serious.”
Disgraced Ex-CNN Anchor (and bitter fruit) Eyes Presidential Run

* * * * *
There is no alternative. Every adult in Britain who wants to keep using Instagram or X, are required to hand over their identity, or their biometric data.
PAPERS, PLEASE: UK and EU push forward with mass surveillance infrastructure under the guise of protecting children
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Slow-motion Communism.
They’re Trying to Eliminate Landlords, Not Regulate Them
The city council is going after a service on which millions of New Yorkers depend.
New York City’s War on Amazon
The dream of Islamic socialist Zoran Mamdani to sell the American electorate the supposed miracles of socialism has come to an end.
Taxing Your Way to Socialism
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Less than an hour after he took office, Trump fired him.
Trump Fires U.S. Attorney One Hour After Swearing In
The Democrats trying to sink Blanche’s nomination vigorously supported Obama’s fixer and ‘wingman,’ Attorney General Eric Holder.
Todd Blanche Could Never Be As Partisan As Obama ‘Wingman’ Eric Holder Even If He Tried
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The campus directives are being wielded against Jewish and pro-Israel students, often without meaningful due process.
No-Contact Orders Were Meant to Protect Students—Now They’re Being Used Against Them
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
. . . between our enemies around the world like the Chinese and Iranian regimes and their collaborators in the American media and “Deep State,” malicious actors have stolen voters’ data, hacked electronic voting machines, manufactured fake ballots, and bribed fraudsters. It’s an “unprecedented election security nightmare.” And both Joe Biden and Barack Obama apparently benefited.
Worse Than the Third World? Trump Exposes Mind-Blowing Election Compromising and Cheating
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche received the letter on Thursday morning after it was revealed that a senior Mamdani official attempted to organize an unauthorized meeting with a high-ranking member of the Iranian regime while the country remains at war with the United States.
Exclusive: House Republicans Request Federal Investigation into Mamdani Admin for Potential Logan Act Violation
'Because of the nature of structural racism,' doctors think of a Medicaid patient as a 'half citizen,' El-Sayed said
‘The Doctor … Thinks of You as a Half Citizen’: Abdul El-Sayed Said Doctors Who Don't Accept Medicaid 'Discriminate' Against Black People. His Psychiatrist Wife Doesn't Participate in the Program.
While sources told the Post that his relationships were part of a “pattern of mistakes and missteps and judgment calls,” Gallego dismissed the report as “gossip.” (That's basically an admission of guilt - jjs)
Report: Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego Had Sexual Relations with 2 Congressional Staffers
Manny Rutinel rarely discusses his father, a self-described socialist once accused of bashing his girlfriend’s head, but the two share similar politics.
Like Father, Like Son: Colorado House Candidate Who Wrote Pro-Socialism Blog Posts Hails From Powerful Socialist Political Dynasty in Dominican Republic
POLITICS
...on the floor of the chamber while criticizing President Donald Trump over the war in Iran.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Appears to Loudly Fart on Senate Floor (He does that whenever he opens his mouth - jjs)
A leadership meeting exposes the group’s rifts over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and whether its activist core should steer the 2028 presidential endorsement process.
Titty-Caca AOC for President? The DSA Can’t Decide
A coordinated network of dark money groups is popping up around the country to dump millions against Republicans.
Where A Secretive Dem Dark Money Network May Strike Next
The DSA made the election headlines, but the Working Families Party supplied the organization, resources, and campaign muscle behind many socialist victories.
The Party Driving New York’s Leftward Drift
Cities including Seattle, Portland, and Los Angeles have become new political battlegrounds for a socialist resurgence.
How Socialism Captured the West Coast
More than 60 years ago, a man asked a nation whether it still trusted freedom, still trusted itself. That question has come due again, on our own ballots.
A Time for Choosing, 2026
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Chinese-U.S. relations may have just taken a turn as Trump hits hard with new allegations against the People's Republic.
Trump’s Speech Sends Beijing, And China-Watchers, Into A Frenzy
The vice president needs to unplug, reset, and reevaluate his approach to foreign policy, before it gets worse.
JD Vance Is In Desperate Need Of A Nineties Summer
Fred Fleitz: Rubio made clear that the United States will no longer tolerate this rogue court.
Secretary Rubio’s Campaign to Dismantle the ICC: Defending American Sovereignty at Last
"A lot of things are going to happen in Cuba over the next, maybe two months, but I don't see it being like Venezuela," the president said, presumably meaning that we're not going to fly into Havana in the middle of the night and scoop up Raúl Castro and/or Miguel Díaz-Canel from their sleeping quarters.
Cuba Falling: Did Trump Just Set a Timeline?
The UK has nationalised British Steel, the final functioning virgin steel-producing mill in the UK, after it was bought by a Chinese Communist Party-linked company that seemed determined to shut it down.
UK Nationalizes Country’s Final Functioning Blast Furnace From Chinese Company
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Fedorov, who was appointed in January, has been credited with energizing the defense ministry and implementing high-tech warfare strategies, including the improved use of drones and cyber warfare operations. His dismissal is reportedly linked to tensions with Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi, with Fedorov suggesting that both Syrskyi and Chief of the General Staff Andrii Hnatov should be replaced.
Zelensky Faces Street Protests After Ousting Popular War Minister.
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
“Sixty-one thousand, five hundred new recruits are joining the United States Army. We hit that about eight and a half months into our year,” Driscoll said. “This is specifically and directly because of Secretary of War Hegseth’s and the President’s push on lethality and their push on excellence.”
Exclusive: U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll Highlights Hitting Recruitment Numbers Early
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
After years of debates and back-and-forth rejections, French lawmakers on Wednesday voted to adopt a bill for the implementation of assisted dying — a years-long “promise” made by President Emmanuel Macron.
Macron’s ‘Promise:’ France Approves Assisted Dying Bill
This represents another significant decision by the FDA within just a matter of months.
Trump FDA Approves New Cholesterol-Lowering Pill.
“This adds to the evidence that microplastics can lead to localized inflammatory reactions, which can raise the risk of heart attack due to plaque rupture,” commented Dr. Joyce Oen-Hsiao, a cardiologist at Yale Medicine.
Microplastics in Blood Identified as Factor in Severe Heart Attack Cases.
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
...According to Space Capital, the total private investment capital raised in just the last 36 months has exceeded $70 billion, with investment in North America dominating.
Private capital investment in space soared in ’26
The black material at the foot of these slides as well as on the mound’s peak and south and eastern flanks is a bit more puzzling.
Strange flows on the flanks of a small isolated Martian mound
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
America’s experiment with Title IX social engineering has failed.
Title IX’s Failed Experiment: Why Accommodating Sex Differences Beats Engineered Parity
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: Far-Left site also attacks 'Citizen Vigilante,' suggests movies spark violence
LA Times Slams Daily Wire Film as Racist (Without Seeing It)
And read the epic poem instead.
Why You Should Boycott Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’
In a turnaround that surprised Wall Street, woke funds are no longer trendy. The savvy investors are staying away.
Why It’s no Longer Woke to be Woke
HITHER & YON
Theodore Roosevelt believed in ‘the science,’ ‘the experts,’ and a government strong enough to act on what those experts said.
The Right Needs To Stop Lionizing Leftist Dupe Teddy Roosevelt
Wiśniewski contacted officials with the Pomeranian Provincial Heritage Conservator who said it was not the first sword from that time period found in the area.
PHOTOS: Metal Detectorist Finds 2,700-Year-Old Bronze Age Sword Standing Upright in Polish Forest (Insert joke about Mika Brzezinski's crotch here (sword named the Joe Scarborough blunt - jjs)

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:31 AM

Comments

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1 First!

Posted by: China at July 17, 2026 07:32 AM (MWfyi)

2 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:32 AM (u82oZ)

3 Lies! All lies!

Posted by: New York Times at July 17, 2026 07:33 AM (XCCeP)

4 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

5 Happy Friday

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 17, 2026 07:33 AM (/+uur)

6 G'morning J.J.!

(Thanks to NaCly Dog for calling the Nood)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 07:34 AM (O7YUW)

7 J.J. Good morning.
Hope your Doctor visit went so well you are the guy he brags about to other doctors.

I bought your book. And no royalties? Inconceivable!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:35 AM (u82oZ)

8 PDJT starts every speech with the Propaganda media already convinced he is wrong in everything he says, though some statements are mere "exaggerations" while others are "lies" or, worse, "dangerous lies".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 07:36 AM (XCCeP)

9 7 J.J. Good morning.
Hope your Doctor visit went so well you are the guy he brags about to other doctors.

I bought your book. And no royalties? Inconceivable!
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:35 AM (u82oZ)

So far so good with the medical stuff. Yeah the publisher fucked me over.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2026 07:36 AM (x0n13)

10 Vice President JD Vance needs to get his head out of the conspiratorial “rabbit holes” he says he loves to explore and drop the bizarro line he just pitched to Joe Rogan that the Israelis blew up the Iran peace deal because they want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”

JD Said there are a few people in the Israeli government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”

By Post Editorial Board is asshoes.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 17, 2026 07:37 AM (/+uur)

11 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 07:38 AM (jehhT)

12 1 First!
Posted by: China at July 17, 2026 07:32 AM
.......
*ahem*

That's "Chy-na."

Posted by: Please make a note of it at July 17, 2026 07:41 AM (2Ez/1)

13 Trump Admin to Exclude Migrants on Welfare from Green Cards

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Will it be by the end of the day or Monday that we get a bottom feeder judge to rule it illegal to not give wads of taxpayer cash to illegals?

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 07:43 AM (qBdHI)

14 BOING!

שבת שלום ומבורך

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2026 07:43 AM (yMCWt)

15 Top 20 because work was interfering. Happy Friday, everyone. Those of us in the DC area should stay indoors and avoid people.

OK, avoid people anyway but you know what I mean.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 07:44 AM (99eI0)

16
Schumer farts on Senate Floor? He does that every time he opens his mouth.

News you can use...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2026 07:44 AM (x0n13)

17 Thanks for your linkage and commentary, J.J.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 07:45 AM (Bw1/o)

18 Happy Friday!

Posted by: Mick at July 17, 2026 07:45 AM (HFx9z)

19 Lady in Black

A few District judges ruling in favor of Trump policies would tame Judicial tyranny.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

20 SpaceX scrubbed their Starship flight test yesterday a fraction of a second before liftoff, apparently due to a malfunction of some sort, the details of which are not yet public.

Sad!

Posted by: Huck Follwood at July 17, 2026 07:46 AM (5xBgn)

21 Willowed from previous post about my local squirrels.

1. I call 'em "Tree Rats".

Tree Meat is another acceptable term. But the one I was referencing needs to be encouraged to head to his tree. We have to check for him and a few others before we open the door.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 07:46 AM (99eI0)

22 17 Thanks for your linkage and commentary, J.J.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 07:45 AM (Bw1/o)

It's more than a pleasure. It's an inconvenience.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2026 07:46 AM (x0n13)

23 @All: The publisher on J.J.'s book that isn't paying him royalties is Calamo Press.

@J.J.: Check with a lawyer who specializes in copyright and book publication.

See if there's a clause in your contract about getting the rights for your book to revert back to you if they DON'T pay you royalties. I'd be looking to invoke that and self publish after confirming that the rights have reverted back to you.

(Caveat: If they paid you an advance, then they may not have sold enough copies to cover their costs and start paying you royalties. They should be able to account for this though and they should be sending you yearly statements.)

Next time, publish with Raconteur Press if possible. Those guys won't screw you over, they've built the whole business on treating authors right.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 07:46 AM (O7YUW)

24 I had to laugh at today's "NY Post" headline: "Capitol Swill" about the D guys in Congress acting like idiots in their personal lives.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 07:47 AM (Bw1/o)

25 breach that occurred about a decade ago that hacked the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) exposing thousands of government employees including many in the most sensitive departments and agencies

Yep. I was one of them. Needless to say, I am reluctant to venture outside the US on account of that.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 07:47 AM (99eI0)

26 JD Said there are a few people in the Israeli government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”

I don't doubt that there are people in the US government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

27 Apparently several of the booster engines failed to start.

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 07:49 AM (ZxPkt)

28 I know certain sections of the country won't believe this but I don't give a shit what the New York Times has got to say. Or most of the media for that matter.

Posted by: Case at July 17, 2026 07:50 AM (bqIVz)

29 @21/NR Pax: "Tree Meat is another acceptable term."

*snorts* Good term, I'm stealing that. :-)

In related news, we saw THREE juvenile hawks tearing apart some critter's small carcass on our lower roof this morning. Also, there is a distinct lack of bustling of a certain red squirrel who wanted to take up residence in our garage.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, WE GOT HIM!"

Good little hawks. Please stick around?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 07:51 AM (O7YUW)

30 23 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 07:46 AM (O7YUW)

Thanks for the tip. I doubt I'll write another but who knows?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2026 07:51 AM (x0n13)

31 It's good Trump aired this dirty laundry in public.

But that's as far is it goes - this is a nothing burger.

Congress will protect the hive. They're not going to pass SAVE. The Courts will protect the hive. They'll squash any legal action Trump tries to make against fraud.

As for the American people? Doesn't move the needle. We all knew about the fraud already. Those of us who were pissed about it will remain pissed about it. Democrat voters will continue to wholeheartedly approve of it.

*shrugs*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 07:51 AM (BI5O2)

32 Don Black

Sound Space-X engineering to be able to abort so late in the take off sequence, and not blow up the pad, like Blue Origin.

Hope they fix it today.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:52 AM (u82oZ)

33 >> reach that occurred about a decade ago that hacked the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) exposing thousands of government employees including many in the most sensitive departments and agencies

Yep. I was one of them. Needless to say, I am reluctant to venture outside the US on account of that.
Posted by: NR Pax
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Me 2. The GSA sponsored ID monitoring service just lapsed last year. Never had a hit. Did get some weird (suspicious) e-mails off and on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 07:52 AM (jehhT)

34 I don't doubt that there are people in the US government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 07:48 AM
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*averts eyes, shifts in seat, and shuffles papers nervousl*

Posted by: Lockheed, Raytheon, and Northrop at July 17, 2026 07:52 AM (2Ez/1)

35 "Trump Advances Plan to Replace Illegal Immigrant Truck Drivers with American Veterans."

This is a good idea so probably won't happen.

Posted by: fd at July 17, 2026 07:53 AM (MWfyi)

36

It's more than a pleasure. It's an inconvenience.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2026 07:46 AM (x0n13)

Well, I hope you are inconvenienced for many more years. 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 07:53 AM (D+BhG)

37 I'm not sure why Vance would say (in essence) that Israel is "running the show" on the Iran war. Israel is diligently working to secure its own safety while it can and cant really worry about how our war effort is going. So, Israel's behavior is unsurprising. Perhaps Vance is saying this to allow Israel to be "rogue" while we act exasperated but don't actually stop them.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 17, 2026 07:54 AM (rii+a)

38 “This case exposes the depravity of the Radical Left: they will literally pardon child rapists and defy federal law to protect criminal illegals,” the White House said in a press release. “Walz and Ellison stood with a monster

They really really need illegal voters.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 17, 2026 07:54 AM (/+uur)

39 Good little hawks. Please stick around?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

The only problem I've ever had with a hawk was when one dropped a squirrel carcass in my yard. The smell was so bad, Winnie was trying to bury her nose in it. Thankfully, she was muzzled.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 07:55 AM (99eI0)

40 > don't doubt that there are people in the US government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”
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Hey, I'm dead now.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at July 17, 2026 07:56 AM (jehhT)

41 It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 17, 2026 07:56 AM (0N4FZ)

42 JD Said there are a few people in the Israeli government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”

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Considering the anti-Semitism running rampant in the D party, and the world in general now, it just seems like an inflammatory statement to make that should've been left unstated. It's unnecessarily incendiary when the rabid joo haters are just looking for reasons to cause chaos, violence and mayhem. YMMV

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 07:56 AM (qBdHI)

43 37 I'm not sure why Vance would say (in essence) that Israel is "running the show" on the Iran war.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 17, 2026 07:54 AM

Prolly got something to do with the weather machine.

Posted by: Or so I'm told at July 17, 2026 07:56 AM (2Ez/1)

44 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent disclosed publicly for the first time Thursday that he was the target of an alleged assassination plot just hours after being sworn into office. Speaking at a State Department ministerial on political terrorism, Bessent said he was the subject of an alleged assassination attempt “two hours after being sworn into my job,” adding that the case demonstrates that politically motivated violence remains a real threat. Federal prosecutors have charged Ryan Michael English, 24, of Massachusetts, in connection with the alleged plot.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 07:57 AM (YtmxO)

45 I know
I was watching the launch, and the water deluge started and then all the smoke from the rocket engines billowed out but the rocket did not move. I thought for sec the whole thing might go kablooey.

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 07:57 AM (ZxPkt)

46 So does this mean the hundreds of thousands of red chinamen attending our crappy colleges can be sent home now?

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at July 17, 2026 07:58 AM (45BvE)

47 I think Rubio one day will or could be a truly outstanding president,

He's really good. I can now totally understand that little garbage problem he had back in the day with the Ewoks.

Can Stephen Miller be his Press Secretary?

Posted by: t-bird at July 17, 2026 07:59 AM (EJWxb)

48 Okay, gotta go woosh. Work beckons.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 08:00 AM (O7YUW)

49 That's "Chy-na."

"Ass-ho"

Posted by: man at July 17, 2026 08:01 AM (XuXeR)

50 46 So does this mean the hundreds of thousands of red chinamen attending our crappy colleges can be sent home now?
Posted by: Walter Sobchak at July 17, 2026 07:58 AM
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You been heah fo' yea-uh! You go now!

Posted by: Chinese lady who runs the college buffet at July 17, 2026 08:01 AM (2Ez/1)

51 "Trump Advances Plan to Replace Illegal Immigrant Truck Drivers with American Veterans."

I can now announce my own plan to replace holes in the Iranian desert with illegal immigrant truck drivers...

Posted by: t-bird at July 17, 2026 08:01 AM (EJWxb)

52 Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche drew a hard line on X, making it clear that the administration will not tolerate judicial interference in executive matters. “District court judges can appoint a temporary U.S. Attorney, and POTUS can fire them,” Blanche posted
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Ok Boomer

Posted by: Biden Judges everywhere at July 17, 2026 08:01 AM (ZTyuZ)

53 Recall the “OPM Hack”? It really wasn’t a hack, previous administration had outsourced database management of all Federal employees to a foreign firm cutout. With access to Root.

They must have quite the dossiers on everybody by now. Sleep Well, America!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 08:02 AM (uwLak)

54
It was sort of cool watching the blood red sun this morning through the Canadian smoke.

Also, Carney's immediate family is squatting in the U.S.

Throw them out.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 08:04 AM (Y8DZL)

55 > Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche drew a hard line on X, making it clear that the administration will not tolerate judicial interference in executive matters.
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A little late there bud. But, good luck with that "hard line" that nobody will recognize.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 08:04 AM (jehhT)

56 JD Said there are a few people in the Israeli government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”

Well, and ours, and the EU, and London.

Posted by: t-bird at July 17, 2026 08:04 AM (EJWxb)

57 Blue Angel 3, who made the low pass Wednesday that caused the leftists to shit themselves, did not fly in the practice show over the beach yesterday. Presumably grounded pending review, was completed. (He'll fly today's show).

I need an AI pic of Rubio sitting on that White House sofa wearing Blue Angel 3 flight suit.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 17, 2026 08:04 AM (J4Dwc)

58 It really wasn’t a hack, previous administration had outsourced database management of all Federal employees to a foreign firm cutout. With access to Root.

Very brutal and painful examples should have been made of people over that.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 08:04 AM (99eI0)

59 Rubio's speech should to be heard in full by every American. It won't be, unfortunately.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 08:05 AM (t+TFX)

60 Vance is playing his own game. He wants to President. He sees anti-Israel sentiment as a good differentiator from Trump, and anti-war sentiment as fertile soil to till in the '28 cycle.

As I've tried to warn for years - he's a career GOP politician. None of them can be trusted further than they can be manually strangled, and he won't hesitate to undermine Trump for his own ends - it only increases his credibility with the rest of his Party, in any event.

Same goes for Rubio, De Santis, or any other GOP candidate, though they'll choose some other angle for their treachery, since Vance has staked out this one.

It will get much worse after November. That's when the intra-Party melee to see which hyena gets the best piece of the MAGA carcass begins in earnest.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:06 AM (BI5O2)

61 Common Tater

Only my Google file has more information on me than China.

Before that, I was approached by a young female Chinese student asking me about TS military information. I was in a Service Dress Blue uniform on the Metro coming back from NIH. I reported her to NIS. Yes, even her cup size estimate was in my description.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

62 Good morning!
I got a new IPad and I am playing around with it. Husband and I listened to the speech last night. I want to see arrests. I want to see journalists in the gray bar hotel. I am still angry this AM.

Posted by: Jmel at July 17, 2026 08:06 AM (3TlS+)

63 Ben Had, if you're here, can you spell out TecumsehTea's email?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2026 08:07 AM (wzUl9)

64 > Recall the “OPM Hack”? It really wasn’t a hack, previous administration had outsourced database management of all Federal employees to a foreign firm cutout. With access to Root.

They must have quite the dossiers on everybody by now. Sleep Well, America!
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While probably the most well known data breach, there were (are) so many others that it's more than likely every single American has had some form of their personal info "stolen" or accessed without proper authorization.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 08:07 AM (jehhT)

65 A Clinton-appointed federal judge in Florida has died just days after he controversially released a Cuban plane hijacker who was awaiting deportation... A legal source in Miami also confirmed Steele’s sudden death. The circumstances were not immediately clear.

Where was Nick Reiner at the time of the crime?

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2026 08:07 AM (2ap+5)

66 Before that, I was approached by a young female Chinese student asking me about TS military information. I was in a Service Dress Blue uniform on the Metro coming back from NIH. I reported her to NIS. Yes, even her cup size estimate was in my description.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

Very observant of you in a stressful situation.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 17, 2026 08:09 AM (wVcYX)

67 Before that, I was approached by a young female Chinese student asking me about TS military information. I was in a Service Dress Blue uniform on the Metro coming back from NIH. I reported her to NIS. Yes, even her cup size estimate was in my description.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:06 AM
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You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at July 17, 2026 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)

68 I did observe that Vance was owned. And he is. It is all over these creatures, they cannot hide it in their body language.

As to why he would blatantly blow it up now instead of riding a wave of popularity to a nomination in Trump's wake, that is the openest of open questions.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 08:11 AM (/bHKT)

69 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at July 17, 2026 08:11 AM (53oGX)

70 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Ruben Gallego at July 17, 2026 08:12 AM (2YhKe)

71
Well, I'm at the show, went to my ring to steward and found out I'm handling both the inner and outer steward's jobs. It'll be an exciting morning.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 08:12 AM (flEsB)

72 Oh wow......Stellar start to the day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 08:12 AM (2YhKe)

73 Count de Monet

Ya gotta have observational priorities. I would have loved to give her disinformation, but that is forbidden by policy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

74 I should just go back to bed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 08:12 AM (2YhKe)

75 As to why he would blatantly blow it up now instead of riding a wave of popularity to a nomination in Trump's wake, that is the openest of open questions.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 08:11 AM (/bHKT

Because this not only differentiates him from the old boss, but from Rubio, who appears to be the more popular candidate at this point.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:13 AM (BI5O2)

76 As quoted on Elon's X account, Mark Twain is credited with saying "Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 08:13 AM (nECtM)

77 Hadrian the Seventh

You handle responsibility well, unlike others.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:13 AM (u82oZ)

78 I don't understand why JD is the guy that has to go out there and defend what is clearly Trump's peace deal. JD didn't create it, if I remember hearing correctly, EVERYONE told Trump don't go into Iran. Why is JD taking the fall for what was clearly Trump's plan and now his issue.

Posted by: Jaimo at July 17, 2026 08:13 AM (2noDb)

79 Trump told a reporter that he wasn’t worried about his successor removing his Oval Office decorations because “Cubans love gold”. Hmmm

Posted by: Jmel at July 17, 2026 08:14 AM (3TlS+)

80 Leftism is so redundant, boring and dismally, endlessly barren you'd think it would be last choice of idealistic young people. But when you see it's appeal to the adolescent Id, to the rage to vandalize, to frustrated self-righteousness, to the glorification of instant gratification and envy, it all makes sense.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 08:15 AM (t+TFX)

81 I’m beginning to believe that, sadly, there will be no heir apparent to Trump for 28. Vance is disappointing; Rubio seems good now but remember he was considered a RINO squish when he was in the senate. Never trust any politician

Don Jr… no, I don’t like family dynasties.

Trump was/is a one-off. A unicorn… we won’t have anything close to his equal going forward. I’m not happy about it but that’s the way I see it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 08:16 AM (+gA9j)

82 “Did that make us any safer?”

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It made Walz safer from losing elections.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 08:16 AM (ndZc7)

83 Some French are cleverer than others

https://tinyurl.com/3nttnpkz

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 08:18 AM (wUQJO)

84 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:18 AM (v3afF)

85 Why is JD taking the fall for what was clearly Trump's plan and now his issue.
Posted by: Jaimo at July 17, 2026 08:13 AM (2noDb)

1. Because that's what VPs do.
2. I presume because he doesn't believe it involves "taking the fall." That is, he understands how it will ultimately play out, and that his performance of loyalty will pay off.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 08:18 AM (t+TFX)

86 There's no need to fear,
Hadrian the Seventh is here!

Posted by: Dog Show Event at July 17, 2026 08:19 AM (wVcYX)

87 Norway Wants to Kick Israel Out of World Soccer

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I hate Viking Nazis.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 08:19 AM (ndZc7)

88 Before that, I was approached by a young female Chinese student asking me about TS military information.

Kind of surprising that she was that blatant. Usually, they try flattering you and getting close. Maybe she just hated her job and was ready to go home.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 08:20 AM (99eI0)

89 Good morning again Horde thx JJ. Happy Friday everybody.
Is saw Mika Brzezincki's Crotch open for ... ah nevermind

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 08:20 AM (OXYE0)

90 Serious question:
Did Trump allege that some use was made of said "election data" or "voter files" to actually change votes, intimidate voters, or anything of the sort? Did they submit fake votes?

If not, then it's a big deal but not a matter of "election fraud" - which is what everyone hyped it as.

Posted by: GWB at July 17, 2026 08:20 AM (kU0PQ)

91 Trump told a reporter that he wasn’t worried about his successor removing his Oval Office decorations because “Cubans love gold”. Hmmm

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Oh gosh, LOL....

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 08:20 AM (qBdHI)

92 Very brutal and painful examples should have been made of people over that

They hauled some clueless bint before Congress and axed a couple questions. “We shall never speak of this again” is the routine, apparently.

What more do you want? The cherry on top - they signed everyone up for “Life Lock” or some BS like that. Clown Show.

The national security implications of this debacle are almost too horrible to even think about.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 08:20 AM (uwLak)

93 Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 08:12 AM (flEsB)

Demand double pay!

Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:21 AM (Oy/m2)

94 >I don't understand why JD is the guy that has to go out there and defend what is clearly Trump's peace deal.
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VPs get some shitty assignments

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 08:21 AM (ZxPkt)

95 It will get much worse after November. That's when the intra-Party melee to see which hyena gets the best piece of the MAGA carcass begins in earnest.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:06 AM (BI5O2)

We can't leave out the "Black Swan" phenomenon. That is, a candidate, a populist, who reinvigorates MAGA; someone not on the radar at the moment.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 08:21 AM (t+TFX)

96 Lady in Black

I think President Trump finds ways to enjoy his job.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:22 AM (u82oZ)

97 Canada is asshoe. The sky is completely smoke-filled. Clean up your problem Canada!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 08:22 AM (ji8TS)

98 Huck Follywood

Send LA firefighter north?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

99 Did Trump allege that some use was made of said "election data" or "voter files" to actually change votes, intimidate voters, or anything of the sort? Did they submit fake votes?

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If it's true China got ahold of 2/3rds of America's voter rolls (don't check my maths), I doubt they wanted the info to send us individual Christmas cards. Whatever they did with it, I can only assume it was for nefarious purposes. If not now, then in the near future. It should be front page news.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 08:23 AM (qBdHI)

100
It's Working breeds today, so I'm likely to be pelted with flying chunks of meat used as bait. The handlers use it to get the dog's attention, then toss it. If their aim is bad, I get hit.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 08:24 AM (flEsB)

101 >I don't understand why JD is the guy that has to go out there and defend what is clearly Trump's peace deal.
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VPs get some shitty assignments
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 08:21 AM (ZxPkt)

. . . not worth a bucket of warm (piss) spit.

Posted by: John Nance Garner, 32nd VP at July 17, 2026 08:24 AM (wVcYX)

102 Prosecute a few lower level people like the lady saying she was running a parallel FBI. Low level bureaucrats don't have the callousness that the upper level deep staters have and the flunkies will crack and rat on their bosses

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 08:24 AM (OXYE0)

103 78 I don't understand why JD is the guy that has to go out there and defend what is clearly Trump's peace deal. JD didn't create it, if I remember hearing correctly, EVERYONE told Trump don't go into Iran. Why is JD taking the fall for what was clearly Trump's plan and now his issue.
Posted by: Jaimo at July 17, 2026 08:13 AM (2noDb)

B/c this VP supports his Pres. JD is doing nothing without Trump's say so. Trump wants JD's message out there...but he doesn't want it coming from him...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2026 08:24 AM (tOcjL)

104 Leftism is so redundant, boring and dismally, endlessly barren you'd think it would be last choice of idealistic young people. But when you see it's appeal to the adolescent Id, to the rage to vandalize, to frustrated self-righteousness, to the glorification of instant gratification and envy, it all makes sense.
Posted by: Ordinary American

There's only appeal because there is no pushback.

If asses were capped and bodies left to lay where they fell when they were vandalizing/burning, it would lose it's appeal toot sweet.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:24 AM (v3afF)

105 Before that, I was approached by a young female Chinese student asking me about TS military information.

Kind of surprising that she was that blatant. Usually, they try flattering you and getting close. Maybe she just hated her job and was ready to go home.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 08:20 AM (99eI0)

He at least should have fucked her before turning her in.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2026 08:25 AM (g8Ew8)

106 WRT the Vance kerfuffle...

Is it impossible to conceive that the Israeli government, or elements within the Israeli government, might believe that there are things in their best national interest which differ from what the US government believes?

If they were to believe that, is it impossible to conceive that they might act on those things?

If they were to act on those things, is it impossible to conceive that elements of the US government might be exasperated by it?

Or is it just that Israel is never permitted to be criticized?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 08:25 AM (ExV1e)

107
78 I don't understand why JD is the guy that has to go out there and defend what is clearly Trump's peace deal. JD didn't create it, if I remember hearing correctly, EVERYONE told Trump don't go into Iran. Why is JD taking the fall for what was clearly Trump's plan and now his issue.
Posted by: Jaimo at July 17, 2026 08:13 AM (2noDb)

There were always rumors that inside the Administration, Vance lobbied harder for negotiations than anyone, while Rubio and Hegseth were opposed. Vance’s obvious bitterness at it all blowing up gives credence to those claims.

Also many forget, but I noted at the time - the MOU was wrecked when Rubio announced an agreement between the US, Lebanon, and Israel that completely negated Hezbollah’s claims to power and legitimacy. This infuriated Iran, which thought they had secured an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon; and they resumed attacking ships in the straits within a couple days of that.

I suspect that Vance is attacking Israel because he doesn’t dare attack Rubio openly; but I repeat my claim that they’ll never serve together in an administration after this one.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 08:25 AM (wLnmp)

108 Ontario and California seem to have the same forest management philosophies: Let It Burn

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 08:25 AM (ji8TS)

109 I'm headed to Buffalo to visit relatives next week. I demand that Canada clean up this problem before my arrival!

(I hear from my WNY peeps that it's really bad there.)

Posted by: Delurker at July 17, 2026 08:25 AM (2Drhq)

110 The 5 Dumbest Arguments Against The Sunshine Protection Act

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They can have my sunshine when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 08:26 AM (ndZc7)

111 Jr. Black just informed me that our own past SC governor, the errant "Argentine-curious" Mark Sanford, has filed for a senate run to replace Graham. Oh goodie.... :/

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 08:26 AM (qBdHI)

112 @CBSEveningNews
·
12h
Federal health officials say Taylor Farms is the likely source of the nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened people in at least 34 states. The California supplier provides lettuce to Taco Bell and major retailers including Walmart, Target and Whole Foods. https://cbsn.ws/4fj6plH

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 08:27 AM (ZxPkt)

113 Jr. Black just informed me that our own past SC governor, the errant "Argentine-curious" Mark Sanford, has filed for a senate run to replace Graham. Oh goodie.... :/
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 08:26 AM (qBdHI)
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He needs a job

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 08:28 AM (ji8TS)

114 Dookypill. Cause you have to swallow shit to listen to him

Posted by: Drunken Yoda at July 17, 2026 08:28 AM (ilHZO)

115 Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Nay, bro.

Had a French girlfriend.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:28 AM (u82oZ)

116 We can't leave out the "Black Swan" phenomenon. That is, a candidate, a populist, who reinvigorates MAGA; someone not on the radar at the moment.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 08:21 AM (t+TFX)

The desire for something like that is how the Dems got Graham Platner.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 08:29 AM (wLnmp)

117 Silver spot price is down to $55 and change, taking a much deeper tumble than gold.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 17, 2026 08:29 AM (wVcYX)

118 >>The handlers use it to get the dog's attention, then toss it.

And some handlers do it during the initial go-around to cause the dog(s) behind them to lunge for it while the judge is watching.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 17, 2026 08:29 AM (J4Dwc)

119 We can't leave out the "Black Swan" phenomenon. That is, a candidate, a populist, who reinvigorates MAGA; someone not on the radar at the moment.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 08:21 AM (t+TFX

Certainly not. That's the forlorn hope, anyway.

I'm speaking specifically of the GOP candidates everyone is enthusing about at this time - they all bear the mark of McCain.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:29 AM (BI5O2)

120 Huck Follywood
Send LA firefighter north?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

Are they still counting Karen Bass's fraudulent votes in L.A.?

Posted by: Election Fraud at July 17, 2026 08:29 AM (45BvE)

121 @CBSEveningNews
·
12h
Federal health officials say Taylor Farms is the likely source of the nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened people in at least 34 states. The California supplier provides lettuce to Taco Bell and major retailers including Walmart, Target and Whole Foods. https://cbsn.ws/4fj6plH
Posted by: Don Black

*marked safe from cyclosporiasis as I do not take part in the devil's weed.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:29 AM (v3afF)

122 [i9]12h
Federal health officials say Taylor Farms is the likely source of the nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened people in at least 34 states. The California supplier provides lettuce to Taco Bell and major retailers including Walmart, Target and Whole Foods. https://cbsn.ws/4fj6plH
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 08:27 AM (ZxPkt)

Dear Mexicans.

In America, we have toilets and indoor plumbing. We also have port-a-potties where you can do your business wherever you're working. Please stop shitting on our food while you're harvesting it.

Sincerely,

The Civilized World

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 08:30 AM (2YhKe)

123 > Iran: Hey, We’ve Got Moses

I remember the bizarre feeling I got when I learned the Quran refers to Moses as a "Muslim".

Sorry, Mohammed... I'm *pretty sure* that Moses was, in fact, Jewish.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 08:30 AM (IG3/x)

124 Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 08:26 AM (qBdHI)

Mark Sanford? Wasn't he the one who went hitch-hiking along the Appalachian Trail?

Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:31 AM (Oy/m2)

125 Silver spot price is down to $55 and change, taking a much deeper tumble than gold.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Needs to dip into the mid twenties for a day or so. 😉

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:31 AM (v3afF)

126 We can't leave out the "Black Swan" phenomenon. That is, a candidate, a populist, who reinvigorates MAGA; someone not on the radar at the moment.
Posted by: Ordinary American

The Jeb Bush / Mike Pence "Return to Reasonableness" movement has momentum!

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 08:31 AM (Y8DZL)

127 Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 08:26 AM (qBdHI)

Mark Sanford? Wasn't he the one who went hitch-hiking along the Appalachian Trail?
Posted by: dantesed

I thought he hitchhiked his secretary's tail?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:32 AM (v3afF)

128 Because this not only differentiates him from the old boss, but from Rubio, who appears to be the more popular candidate at this point.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:13 AM (BI5O2)

And let's fact it, the anti-Jew sentiment is very very important to these people.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 08:32 AM (/bHKT)

129 Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 08:26 AM (qBdHI)

Mark Sanford? Wasn't he the one who went hitch-hiking along the Appalachian Trail?
Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:31 AM (Oy/m2)

Time for another "Road To . . ." movie!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 17, 2026 08:32 AM (wVcYX)

130 No, thanks. I don't need protection.

Posted by: Sunshine at July 17, 2026 08:33 AM (2Ez/1)

131
The Jeb Bush / Mike Pence "Return to Reasonableness" movement has momentum!

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 08:31 AM (Y8DZL)

Please crap!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 08:33 AM (2YhKe)

132 The Jeb Bush / Mike Pence "Return to Reasonableness" movement has momentum!
Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 08:31 AM (Y8DZL)

Remember, stay out Da Bushes!

Posted by: Zombie Jesse Jackson, Race Hustler and Warlord Jew Hater at July 17, 2026 08:34 AM (45BvE)

133 NYPost:

A Clinton-appointed federal judge in Florida has died just days after he controversially released a Cuban plane hijacker who was awaiting deportation. Judge John E. Steele, 77, passed away, according to a law clerk for Chief Judge Marcia Morales Howard of the Middle District of Florida — where Steele served. A legal source in Miami also confirmed Steele’s sudden death. The circumstances of his passing were not immediately clear. Steele came under criticism for his July 8 ruling to release Cuban plane hijacker Maikel Guerra Morales from ICE custody.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 08:34 AM (RHGPo)

134 * Stretching * Two fresh pages written, and as I was advised to do by Papa Hemingway, I've stopped in the middle of a scene and a sentence. Maybe I can finish the story tomorrow or Sunday!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2026 08:35 AM (wzUl9)

135 Federal health officials say Taylor Farms is the likely source of the nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened people in at least 34 states. The California supplier provides lettuce to Taco Bell and major retailers including Walmart, Target and Whole Foods. https://cbsn.ws/4fj6plH
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 08:27 AM (ZxPkt)
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I always suspected lettuce was a devil weed.

Now we have proof!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 08:35 AM (FZ29D)

136 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 08:30 AM (IG3/x)

The Koran acknowledges the Virgin Birth which to me is insane for multiple reasons. In it her consent is interestingly skipped over, but she is told, it happens, and then she hides away.

Jesus speaks from the cradle and I believe tells everyone that he is a human prophet of Allah, so that's a new miracle that I'm pretty sure isn't included in King James.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 08:36 AM (/bHKT)

137 Silver hovered around $4 for a long time. Nobody wanted it then. “You make money on the buy”. Always remember that! The common refrain is always to compare its return with investments, like stocks. Silver and gold are not investments.

Compared with cash stuffed in the mattress it did very, very well.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 08:36 AM (uwLak)

138
And some handlers do it during the initial go-around to cause the dog(s) behind them to lunge for it while the judge is watching.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 17, 2026 08:29 AM (J4Dwc)

_____________

That's why, as a steward, I'm fanatical about keeping the ring clean. Many years ago we had a dog lose because it lunged for a piece of liver on the floor on the final go-around.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 08:37 AM (flEsB)

139 The Russian Collusion scam always seemed too convenient for the CCP.

Posted by: davidt at July 17, 2026 08:37 AM (Q+gd/)

140 Trump was/is a one-off. A unicorn… we won’t have anything close to his equal going forward. I’m not happy about it but that’s the way I see it
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 08:16 AM (+gA9j)

I don’t know about his domestic priorities, but Rubio has got the best strategic views of any sec of State since Kissinger, maybe better. And he hates communism personally. That’s enough for me to give him a chance.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 08:37 AM (wLnmp)

141 I think Rubio one day will or could be a truly outstanding president, that is if the Democrat forces of darkness and evil do not snuff us out in the years ahead.

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Or their Assassination Culture doesn't (God forbid) first snuff out his life like they did Charlie Kirk's and have attempted to with President Trump (multiple times).

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 08:38 AM (9EFgU)

142 Sorry, Mohammed... I'm *pretty sure* that Moses was, in fact, Jewish.

Sorry, Rodrigo Borgia, Moses was a Levite, a Hebrew as recognized by the Egyptians, though the descendants of Jacob were called Israelites by God.

It wasn't until 930BC when the kingdom was divided and the people of the southern kingdom were called Judahites.

But to be safe, it wasn't until after the Babylonian Exile (6th century BC) where we get the distinction between Hebrew and Jew—mainly because most of the survivors where people from Judah.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 08:38 AM (PVBkQ)

143 And who does Taylor Farms employ. Dare I ask.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 08:38 AM (/bHKT)

144 CBS News @CBSNews

President Trump announced that his administration is declassifying intelligence that reveals "shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure," including "hacking, exploitation and foreign interference."

FACT CHECK RATING: False.

Officials have repeatedly said election infrastructure remains secure.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said there was “no evidence of any malicious activity” affecting the integrity of the 2024 elections. CISA also said the 2020 election was “the most secure in American history,” with no evidence that voting systems deleted, lost or compromised votes.

... in on-air comments CBS wondered why 1/3rd of CISA was laidoff at the beginning of this current administration. It never occurred to them that perhaps, just perhaps, it was because CISA was wrong.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 08:38 AM (RHGPo)

145 Wasn’t Taylor Farms behind the last veggie issue, too? I suppose I can grok that.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:39 AM (Dd38x)

146 Here in the United States, the share of left-wing terrorist attacks and plots has risen to levels not seen in decades. In Germany, far-left violence has jumped by more than 40 percent in just the last year alone. In Greece, more than 80 percent of radical violence is now driven by far-left and anarchist actors. These are not abstract statistics.

Americans have seen what those numbers mean – an all-out assault on our immigration officers, sniper attacks, explosives, armed ambushes. A transgender shooter opening fire on Catholic elementary school students as they pray, his gun marked with slogans like, “Where is your God now?” A health care executive executed in cold blood in the streets. Multiple assassination attempts on a sitting president. And the murder of the greatest conservative activist of a generation, a man who happened also to be a husband and the father of two young children, shot and killed while speaking to a crowd of students.

This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred above all else, a hatred for civilization itself.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2026 08:40 AM (rvRiq)

147 The desire for something like that is how the Dems got Graham Platner.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 08:29 AM (wLnmp)

It's how we got Trump.

And the intervening 11 years have not cooled my burning hatred of the GOP, they've doubled the temperature.

This is something GOP voters don't seem to grasp. People like me may not be a majority, but there are millions of us. If you think the GOP has been winning elections on the strength of their awesome candidates like Rubio and Vance, you're sorely mistaken.

We're not coming back to their church without Trump in the pulpit. We put him there because we hate the GOP, and that hasn't changed.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:40 AM (BI5O2)

148 It is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things, and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can. This is what radical leftism is.

- Marco Rubio

Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2026 08:40 AM (rvRiq)

149 NYPost:

A Clinton-appointed federal judge in Florida has died just days after he controversially released a Cuban plane hijacker who was awaiting deportation. Judge John E. Steele, 77, passed away, according to a law clerk for Chief Judge Marcia Morales Howard of the Middle District of Florida — where Steele served. A legal source in Miami also confirmed Steele’s sudden death. The circumstances of his passing were not immediately clear. Steele came under criticism for his July 8 ruling to release Cuban plane hijacker Maikel Guerra Morales from ICE custody.
Posted by: SMOD

When ICE fights back.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:41 AM (v3afF)

150 I believe in one of the apocryphal books Child Jesus gets annoyed with a playmate and strikes him dead. Then Mary yells at him and makes him bring the other kid back to life.

There's some crazy shit out there. The problem is that Mohammed's crazy shit has two billion people who believe in it.

We need to do something about that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 08:41 AM (IG3/x)

151 TGIF, all!!

Sorry I missed Trump's speech, but I'm sure I'll be reading about it all day.

More cowbell, Donald!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 08:41 AM (X8xt3)

152 Vice President JD Vance needs to get his head out of the conspiratorial “rabbit holes” he says he loves to explore and drop the bizarro line he just pitched to Joe Rogan that the Israelis blew up the Iran peace deal because they want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.” (he needs to get his head out of Tuq'r Qatarlson's ass - jjs)

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Sounds like he has a future in Podcastistan.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 08:41 AM (9EFgU)

153 April, 2021. President Biden claims that Russia interfered in the 2020 election and announces sanctions against them.

Biden offered no proof of election interference and he never mentioned China.

Biden announced in 2021 that Russia interfered in the 2020 election. Released no evidence, media had no questions. They just went along.

Trump announces Chinese interference, releases documents, media spends all night trying to discredit him.

They are so pathetic.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 08:42 AM (RHGPo)

154 Rogues gallery. The contenders who want to replace Platner on the ballot and yikes!

https://tinyurl.com/yethvne4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 08:42 AM (ndZc7)

155 You know, we take the sewage pumped out of septic tanks and water treatment plants to process it into liquid fertilizer and spray it on our fields. Nitrogen rich liquid fertilizer.

Y'all know this. Right?

It's been "processed" into something "safe" but it's still human waste at the start. And, no, it's not used on every single crop grown here. But I know for a fact it is used as fertilizer on hay fields that cattle graze on, soybean fields and corn. Sprayed on the ground before planting. It stinks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 08:42 AM (jehhT)

156 In total, Taylor Farms has been connected to at least 3–5 significant outbreaks with documented illnesses over the past decade-plus, with the two 2024 E. coli events being the largest (hundreds of cases combined).

They are based in Salinas, Ca.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:44 AM (hftzA)

157 >>I think Rubio one day will or could be a truly outstanding president, that is if the Democrat forces of darkness and evil do not snuff us out in the years ahead.

THIS

He's doing the big things on an international level, but he's also doing the little things that really mean a lot, such as deporting "students" who came here to sow revolution and pardoned Laotian child rapists.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 08:44 AM (X8xt3)

158 Rubio Op-Ed: For far too long our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot — a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left.

When I read through lefty forums direct calls for killing people are common.

I don't mean calls to prosecute or even veiled "it would be a shame if something bad happened to X" but just repeated "we should kill X, his wife, and his kids"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 08:44 AM (sKqQm)

159 Everything has now changed with ESG. In a turnaround that surprised Wall Street, woke funds are no longer trendy. The savvy investors are staying away. Call it something else, but avoid the ESG tag at all costs.

The heyday of ESG investing was between 2018 and 2021, when the trend took hold. Hundreds of billions of dollars entered this new market. At that time, the ESG juggernaut seemed impossible to stop. Wall Street giants like BlackRock and Vanguard put their weight behind the move. Investment capital and state pension funds poured into these ESG funds that favored leftist causes, furthering the Climate Change grift.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 08:44 AM (RHGPo)

160 ... in on-air comments CBS wondered why 1/3rd of CISA was laidoff at the beginning of this current administration. It never occurred to them that perhaps, just perhaps, it was because CISA was wrong.
Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 08:38 AM (RHGPo)
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or lying...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 08:45 AM (FZ29D)

161 >>Wasn’t Taylor Farms behind the last veggie issue, too?

Yes, a couple of years ago -- onions supplied to McDonalds.

And before that, lettuce in 2013.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 17, 2026 08:46 AM (J4Dwc)

162 > They are based in Salinas, Ca.
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:44 AM (hftzA)

Why do I get the feeling that a thorough audit would show big payoffs going to the Pelosis and the Newsoms and the Feinsteins and the...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 08:46 AM (IG3/x)

163 The circumstances of his passing were not immediately clear. Steele came under criticism for his July 8 ruling to release Cuban plane hijacker Maikel Guerra Morales from ICE custody.
Posted by: SMOD
......
Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: The ghost of Dennis Miller at July 17, 2026 08:46 AM (2Ez/1)

164 All you need to know is the media went straight to attacking the president, ad hominems, repeating tired, worn narratives and protecting left wing shibboleths.

What they did not do is examine the facts, present in the documents. They voiced absolutely zero concerns about demonstrable evidence from intelligence agencies that foreign actors have stolen US voter data and are directly involved in trying to manipulate our elections. That’s before we get to the illegal aliens registered to vote, and evidence they did.

Not a single outlet paused to examine any of the documents, then draw a single inference about why foreign actors would do things such as steal voter data and what that means to election integrity.

Not a single one. Why is that?

Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2026 08:46 AM (rvRiq)

165 They've finally admitted the murder of the old conservative dame in England was politically motivated. Another Leftist assassination.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 08:47 AM (t+TFX)

166 I don't like lettuce at all.

Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:47 AM (Oy/m2)

167 Taylor Swift owns produce farms now?

Posted by: Who knew at July 17, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

168 Not a single one. Why is that?
Posted by: Vengeance

Because the media is the enemy.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 08:48 AM (99eI0)

169 >>A legal source in Miami also confirmed Steele’s sudden death. The circumstances of his passing were not immediately clear. Steele came under criticism for his July 8 ruling to release Cuban plane hijacker Maikel Guerra Morales from ICE custody.

*ahem*

Posted by: Citizen Vigilante at July 17, 2026 08:48 AM (X8xt3)

170 Today Is National Tattoo Day.
Don't do anything crazy.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

171 They've finally admitted the murder of the old conservative dame in England was politically motivated. Another Leftist assassination.

Based on how this works in western countries, the assassin will get a slap on the wrist and his material accomplices which likely include British governmental figures will intentionally not be investigated.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 08:48 AM (sKqQm)

172 FACT CHECK RATING: False.

I always find it funny that the post modernist Left, whose chief characteristic is categorically rejecting the notion of absolute truth, somehow disavow that core tenet when they need to call Trump a liar.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 08:48 AM (U4c/V)

173 I don't mean calls to prosecute or even veiled "it would be a shame if something bad happened to X" but just repeated "we should kill X, his wife, and his kids"
Posted by: 18-1

And if you're in Virginia, piss on their graves when you're done.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (Y8DZL)

174 We're not coming back to their church without Trump in the pulpit. We put him there because we hate the GOP, and that hasn't changed.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:40 AM (BI5O2

Okay….so Trump won’t be there next time, because he can’t. Then what? Vote dem? Don’t vote (which is the same as voting dem)? I am just as frustrated as anyone over the Thunes of our world. Luckily they are dwindling either by being voted out kicking and screaming, or through the Grim Reaper. But we need to figure out how to go forward without Trump at the helm.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (hftzA)

175 Taylor Swift owns produce farms now?
Posted by: Who knew at July 17, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

Enshittening two industries simultaneously.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (wVcYX)

176 When I read through lefty forums direct calls for killing people are common.

I don't mean calls to prosecute or even veiled "it would be a shame if something bad happened to X" but just repeated "we should kill X, his wife, and his kids"
Posted by: 18-1

I'm their huckleberry.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (v3afF)

177 166 I don't like lettuce at all.
Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:47 AM

I shall Romaine neutral.

Posted by: Oh, no... at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)

178 If you bring in people from the 3rd world to pick your crops you are going to get diseases spread by fecal contamination. That's just a given.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (sKqQm)

179 Taylor Swift owns produce farms now?
Posted by: Who knew at July 17, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

Enshittening two industries simultaneously.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Three. Music, food & now, the NFL.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:50 AM (v3afF)

180 >>They've finally admitted the murder of the old conservative dame in England was politically motivated. Another Leftist assassination.

Yeah, MSM was all upset about Uwe Boll's vigilante movie a month ago, but when their side *continues* to take out what they perceive to be a threat to their society, it's all don't be a conspiracy theorists, move along, move on.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 08:50 AM (X8xt3)

181 I don't like lettuce at all.
Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:47 AM

I shall Romaine neutral.
Posted by: Oh,

Oh geez. Slow clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:50 AM (v3afF)

182 162 > They are based in Salinas, Ca.
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:44 AM (hftzA)

Why do I get the feeling that a thorough audit would show big payoffs going to the Pelosis and the Newsoms and the Feinsteins and the...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 08:46 AM (IG3/x)

A raid on their farms would probably remove half of our illegal. (Maybe a little exaggerated)

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:51 AM (hftzA)

183 We would have also accepted "enshittifying."

Posted by: The Judges at July 17, 2026 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)

184 > 167 Taylor Swift owns produce farms now?
Posted by: Who knew at July 17, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

I hear she's also into meat packing.

In all senses of that term.

What, you've never heard of Swift Premium meats?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 08:51 AM (IG3/x)

185 I shall Romaine neutral.
Posted by: Oh, no... at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)

Lettuce not go down that road, okay?

Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:51 AM (Oy/m2)

186 Today Is National Tattoo Day.
Don't do anything crazy.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

"Welcome to Jamaica, mon. Have a nice day!"

Posted by: Just The Punchline at July 17, 2026 08:51 AM (wVcYX)

187 We're not coming back to their church without Trump in the pulpit. We put him there because we hate the GOP, and that hasn't changed.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:40 AM (BI5O2)

The Republican old guard is getting weaker and weaker as they leave office (Tillis, Cornyn, Cassidy, McConnell, Massie) or pass away, as we saw recently. The Trump vision of the party is ascendant.

Meanwhile the Democrats are handing Mamdani and the DSA the keys to the house.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 08:51 AM (wLnmp)

188 185 I shall Romaine neutral.
Posted by: Oh, no... at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)

Lettuce not go down that road, okay?

Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:51 AM (Oy/m2)

Leaf it alone.

Posted by: davidt at July 17, 2026 08:52 AM (Q+gd/)

189 Sorry, Mohammed... I'm *pretty sure* that Moses was, in fact, Jewish.

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Our standard response asking if the Pope is Catholic is no longer clear so we should change it to is Moses Jewish.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 08:52 AM (ndZc7)

190 This is what radical leftism is.

- Marco Rubio
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It's what every kind of leftism is.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 08:52 AM (/bHKT)

191 I shall Romaine neutral.
Posted by: Oh, no...

I get green with envy when I see the puns here. I'll just kale time reading them.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 08:52 AM (99eI0)

192 rickb223

Did she sign a prenup to not sing "My ex-husband dropped a pass on 4th and goal"?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:52 AM (u82oZ)

193 Today Is National Tattoo Day.
Don't do anything crazy.
Posted by: redridinghood

"Welcome to Jamaica, mon. Have a nice day!"
Posted by: Just The Punchline

Aka, WENDY.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:52 AM (v3afF)

194 All you need to know is the media went straight to attacking ~~the president~~ Senator McCarthy ad hominems, repeating tired, worn narratives and protecting left wing shibboleths. What they did not do is examine the facts, present in the documents.
——-

They have been doing this a long, long time. They have it down to a science. Attack the messenger.

“Blacklisted By History” should be required reading, they have been using the same playbook for 80 years, at least. This will become excruciatingly obvious when you go through this book. Not much has changed.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 08:53 AM (uwLak)

195 I shall Romaine neutral.
Posted by: Oh, no... at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)

Lettuce not go down that road, okay?
Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:51 AM (Oy/m2)

It a Field of Greens.
Plant it and they will come.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 17, 2026 08:53 AM (wVcYX)

196 Did she sign a prenup to not sing "My ex-husband dropped a pass on 4th and goal"?
Posted by: NaCly Dog

*snooooooort

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:53 AM (v3afF)

197 NR Pax

Head those comments back to the ranch.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:53 AM (u82oZ)

198 We need a full-on, head-on attack on the media. I want to see a team of forensic analysts precede every Leavitt press conference with a 10-minute Power Point presentation of media lies dating back 20 years right up to yesterday. They can break it into two parts: historic lies, and current lies. I want them to call out specific "lies" and "liars," by name, by outlet, and to their faces -- coldly, matter-of-factly, unsparingly.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 08:53 AM (t+TFX)

199 >>Jr. Black just informed me that our own past SC governor, the errant "Argentine-curious" Mark Sanford, has filed for a senate run to replace Graham.

A squish, iirc?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 08:54 AM (X8xt3)

200 187 We're not coming back to their church without Trump in the pulpit. We put him there because we hate the GOP, and that hasn't changed.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:40 AM
+++++
Have you tasted the fried chicken at our Wednesday night suppers?

Posted by: The Southern Baptist Church across town at July 17, 2026 08:54 AM (2Ez/1)

201 The Republican old guard is getting weaker and weaker

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Except for McConnell. He's training for a Marathon now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 08:54 AM (ndZc7)

202 But we need to figure out how to go forward without Trump at the helm.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (hftzA)

The GOP already knows how they will go forward without Trump and it's called "business as usual".

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 08:55 AM (/bHKT)

203 Have you tasted the fried chicken at our Wednesday night suppers?
Posted by: The Southern Baptist Church across town

Yeah. Grandy's.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:55 AM (v3afF)

204 JD Said there are a few people in the Israeli government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”

Is that actually hard to believe? We have plenty of pro forever war types here, but at least the two most prominent are gone now (McCain and Graham).

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 08:56 AM (QZThv)

205 Stop being butt(er)heads with the lettuce puns

Posted by: one hour sober at July 17, 2026 08:56 AM (J4Dwc)

206 >>Can Stephen Miller be his Press Secretary?

If Rubio or Vance are elected, Stephen Miller needs to be the next "Rubio," the guy who keeps getting new responsibilities and kicks azz!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 08:56 AM (X8xt3)

207 Meanwhile the Democrats are handing Mamdani and the DSA the keys to the house./i]

I was thinking about this yesterday and it is interesting to look at the contrast in the two party's populist wings.

The Republican one is defined mostly be ideology. While the establishment Republicans mostly say the same things as the MAGA polls they don't actually do them.

The Dem upstarts and establishment DO the same things though the establishment doesn't talk about it ahead of time. The big difference is the Dem "populists" aren't heritage Americans - either immigrants are children of immigrants. It is basically the voters they've imported demanding a higher share of the graft through their own tribal leaders

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 08:56 AM (sKqQm)

208 Early ICE raids in California were at a weed farm IIRC. Video of children working the crops, people running all over the place, smoke from teargas.

Funny how that little episode is forgotten by the left.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 08:56 AM (jehhT)

209 >>Stop being butt(er)heads with the lettuce puns

Or what? Head will escarole?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 08:56 AM (X8xt3)

210 "Vice President JD Vance needs to get his head out of the conspiratorial “rabbit holes” he says he loves to explore and drop the bizarro line he just pitched to Joe Rogan that the Israelis blew up the Iran peace deal because they want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.” (he needs to get his head out of Tuq'r Qatarlson's ass - jjs)

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way ahead of you, boss !

https://tinyurl.com/khae2xfe

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 08:57 AM (GD0B3)

211 Have you tasted the fried chicken at our Wednesday night suppers?
Posted by: The Southern Baptist Church across town

Spaghetti lunch is where it's at.

Posted by: Greek Church at July 17, 2026 08:57 AM (wVcYX)

212 Yeah. Grandy's.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:55 AM
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Whoa. What a flash from the wayback machine.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 17, 2026 08:57 AM (2Ez/1)

213 An Aussie golfer, Lucas Herbert , is -9 after 17 holes at the Open. If he pars 18 he'll have the lowest round , 61, in a major championship history. Even more impressive is that they're playing at Birkdale a very tough course

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 08:58 AM (OXYE0)

214 President Trump said tonight the CCP's operations obtained 220 million voter records.

... and the DOJ has been in court trying to get voter records of some "blue states".
Perhaps President Xi can help.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 08:58 AM (RHGPo)

215 Sorry, Mohammed... I'm *pretty sure* that Moses was, in fact, Jewish.

The common argument from Muslims is that modern Jews are not related to Kingdom of Israel era Jews - instead Khazars from what is near modern Ukraine.

It is bullshit, DNA testing has actually been done and while the Romans killed a lot of them there have been Jews in Israel since before recorded history.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 08:59 AM (sKqQm)

216 1 class to go, and then home to our community doggy who is wondering why he has been left alone so long. He is the world’s clingiest Shiba.😂

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:59 AM (Dd38x)

217 Aaaaaand it's a food thread.

Posted by: I'm hungry at July 17, 2026 08:59 AM (2Ez/1)

218 Video of children working the crops, people running all over the place, smoke from teargas.

Lefties don't mind slave labor building their apple devices, I'm sure children picking their pot doesn't bother them at all either

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 09:00 AM (sKqQm)

219 How can you not love this guy?

Roger Rogoff, a former state judge, was unilaterally installed as the interim U.S. Attorney for Western Washington by a panel of 17 district judges. The local bench completely bypassed the long-standing tradition of consulting with the White House, attempting to force their own preferred candidate into a critical law enforcement role.

The administration’s counter-strike was near-instantaneous. While Rogoff was waiting in the lobby of the federal prosecutor’s office, he received an email informing him that the President had terminated his appointment, ending his tenure before he could even unpack.

Nope! You don't install your own U.S. Attorney, Washington state.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 09:00 AM (X8xt3)

220 I always find it funny that the post modernist Left, whose chief characteristic is categorically rejecting the notion of absolute truth
———

“Believe nothing!” Is the general part where they break down previous beliefs.Isolation. Only approved sources of information. In the extreme, this is how Cults work. “Reverend” Jim Jones, or Charlie Manson were pros..

But this “Believe nothing!” somehow doesn’t apply to them however.

They’d never steer ya wrong! No sir.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 09:00 AM (uwLak)

221 208 Early ICE raids in California were at a weed farm IIRC. Video of children working the crops, people running all over the place, smoke from teargas.

Funny how that little episode is forgotten by the left.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

DUDE! I totally forgot about that! And the pizza I left in the oven last night!

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 09:01 AM (Y8DZL)

222 The White House’s new talking point on the Save Act is great: you need an ID for Olive Garden’s unlimited pasta pass, so why don’t elections?

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 09:01 AM (QZThv)

223 Senate Bill 624 – filed Jan. 14 and on Feb. 2 moved to the 2027 legislative session – proposes adding a definition of “Islamophobia” to Virginia’s assault-and-battery statute. The legislation does not create a new criminal offense; rather, it addresses how certain bias-related incidents could be classified and tracked.

Words now be violence

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 17, 2026 09:01 AM (/+uur)

224 The only difference between the DSA and Democrats is DSA puts a little heart over the i in Communism.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 09:01 AM (/bHKT)

225 Allowing judges to install a US attorney we could seem to violate the separation of powers. At least I recall learning that in law school. The high and mighty may have forgotten

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 09:02 AM (OXYE0)

226 No attorney for you!
Come back...one year!

Posted by: The Judge Nazi at July 17, 2026 09:02 AM (2Ez/1)

227 "JD Said there are a few people in the Israeli government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”

He said this? Jeezus.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 09:03 AM (t+TFX)

228 All you need to know is the media went straight to attacking the president, ad hominems, repeating tired, worn narratives and protecting left wing shibboleths.

-
Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
CBS is prebunking the president's address by sharing accurate info about voter rolls and election systems.

-
Whatever he says, it'll be a lie.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:03 AM (ndZc7)

229 It’s so bad, it’s good. The stars of the Odyssey have released a rap video.

ha

hahah

hahahahaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 17, 2026 09:03 AM (/+uur)

230
Yeah. Grandy's.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:55 AM (v3afF)

Is there still a Grandy's in Paris?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 09:04 AM (2YhKe)

231 The Left claims there is no central truth and that everyone has a perspective and it's all subjective and no such thing as good and evil - EXCEPT for anything they believe which is categorically correct and gold - and anyone who disagrees with them is categorically incorrect and evil.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 09:04 AM (/bHKT)

232 Whoa. What a flash from the wayback machine.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Yeah. Every Wednesday night. Girlfriend's mom & dad back in high school picked it up for Wednesday night suppers. They'd bring home the leftovers.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:04 AM (v3afF)

233 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 70 cool degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, though highs in the mid 80s are predicted.

I did not watch the speech last night, because I knew what it would be: accusations against China, no (or hardly any) mention of Democrat thievery and, most especially, no arrests.

Who was the woman Trump mentioned who bragged about operating a 'shadow government?' Why is she not in jail or up against a wall?

I'm tired of 'bombshell revelations' that only confirm what we already know and lead nowhere. I'm not even satisfied with arrests anymore. I want executions.

So I'm sorry to drag things down, but as the saying goes, wake me when someone actually goes to jail.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 17, 2026 09:04 AM (qRla/)

234 The administration’s counter-strike was near-instantaneous. While Rogoff was waiting in the lobby of the federal prosecutor’s office, he received an email informing him that the President had terminated his appointment, ending his tenure before he could even unpack.
****

I saw the announcement earlier but not the background. Giant fuck you from the Trumpster.

Posted by: clarence at July 17, 2026 09:04 AM (1QT7n)

235 @brianstelter
CBS is prebunking the president's address by sharing accurate info about voter rolls and election systems.

ESAD, fag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 09:04 AM (2YhKe)

236 And who does Taylor Farms employ. Dare I ask.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 08:38 AM (/bHKT)

Tom Joad I think.

Posted by: Grapes Of Ass, A Communist Myth at July 17, 2026 09:04 AM (45BvE)

237 > Lefties don't mind slave labor building their apple devices

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 09:00 AM (sKqQm)

See, now this is the kind of thing I just don't get.

Are people seriously suggesting that the working conditions in the factories that build Android, Dell, Lenovo, or Huawei crap are any better?

I would bet a large sum that they are not, and would even bet a reasonable sum that they are, overall, considerably worse.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 09:05 AM (IG3/x)

238 He said this? Jeezus.

He said a few people, not that it was official policy. Lindsey Graham wanted all the wars all the time and was in our government until a week ago.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 09:05 AM (QZThv)

239 I wonder if they served iceberg lettuce on the Titanic

Posted by: Bilwis - at July 17, 2026 09:05 AM (w/O5Q)

240 Is there still a Grandy's in Paris?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

No idea. There's one in Sherman. Girlfriend's mom & dad would get Grandy's for Wednesday night supper in Lewisville.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:05 AM (v3afF)

241 Sorry I missed Trump's speech, but I'm sure I'll be reading about it all day.
More cowbell, Donald!!!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 08:41 AM (X8xt3)
~~~~~

The only ones talking about it are X and Newsmax. Even Fox (which did carry the speech live) and Fox Business have not even mentioned it today, at least from 6:00am through 7:30am. And that includes Trump fan Maria Bartiromo. Hannity gave it about 30 seconds last night right after the speech. That's it.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 17, 2026 09:05 AM (3ImbR)

242 They have been doing this a long, long time. They have it down to a science. Attack the messenger.

As mentioned earlier, this is the "D" in DARVO. More letters to come shortly.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 09:06 AM (/TiS1)

243 Are people seriously suggesting that the working conditions in the factories that build Android, Dell, Lenovo, or Huawei crap are any better?

It’s the same factory. Sony too, and Microsoft.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 09:06 AM (QZThv)

244 Point of Order: Brian Stelter is NOT the media.
He's a crank.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 17, 2026 09:06 AM (2Ez/1)

245 Senate Bill 624 – filed Jan. 14 and on Feb. 2 moved to the 2027 legislative session – proposes adding a definition of “Islamophobia” to Virginia’s assault-and-battery statute. The legislation does not create a new criminal offense; rather, it addresses how certain bias-related incidents could be classified and tracked.

Words now be violence
Posted by: r hennigantx

Damn Rob Schneider stirring up trouble!

Rob Schneider
@RobSchneider
Islamophobia does not exist.
It is a weapon to gain power by deflecting away Islamic terrorism, rape, murder and other Sharia Law anti-Women anti-American crimes.
They are very Christianophobic.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:07 AM (ndZc7)

246 No idea. There's one in Sherman. Girlfriend's mom & dad would get Grandy's for Wednesday night supper in Lewisville.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:05 AM (v3afF)

I remember the Grandy's in Lewisville.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 09:07 AM (2YhKe)

247 239 I wonder if they served iceberg lettuce on the Titanic
Posted by: Bilwis - at July 17, 2026 09:05 AM

Watercress.

Posted by: Oof at July 17, 2026 09:08 AM (2Ez/1)

248 And who does Taylor Farms employ. Dare I ask.
Posted by: ...

If Tay Tay DID own a vegetable farm, she could hire all the broke down ex nfl players.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:08 AM (v3afF)

249 I saw that wanker Starmer is pushing for Lordship for the jihadi prick London mayor. What a dhimmy.

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 09:08 AM (GD0B3)

250 We used to be a thing.

Posted by: Po' Folks at July 17, 2026 09:09 AM (2Ez/1)

251 Damn that Biden!

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Talarico says Biden failed to secure the border, and that's "unacceptable."

He's trying so hard to play the sensible, border security Democrat in Texas — while the rising wing of his "Big Tent" party wants no borders at all.

The wildly dissonant messaging just doesn't work.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)

252 “If I see a reconciliation bill come from the House with another failed attempt to confuse this election, I will use every device I have available to slow down the wheels of government until people cop a clue and do the math,” Tillis said, nearly shouting, on the Senate floor.

muttering under his breath
Im a gonna go eat worms

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 17, 2026 09:10 AM (/+uur)

253 @WesternLensman
Talarico says Biden failed to secure the border, and that's "unacceptable."

He's trying so hard to play the sensible, border security Democrat in Texas — while the rising wing of his "Big Tent" party wants no borders at all.

The wildly dissonant messaging just doesn't work.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)

He's a lying sack of shit. F*ck that guy. He's a heretic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 09:10 AM (2YhKe)

254 Okay….so Trump won’t be there next time, because he can’t. Then what? Vote dem? Don’t vote (which is the same as voting dem)?

------

That's the dilemma the GOP faces - not me.

They should ask themselves if they can live with another populist outsider at the helm. Because my faction can't live with another GOP stooge.

So the choice is:give us what we want, or go get fucked. They can't win without us and we won't budge.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 09:10 AM (BI5O2)

255 > 225 Allowing judges to install a US attorney we could seem to violate the separation of powers. At least I recall learning that in law school.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 09:02 AM (OXYE0)

Heck, you don't even need law school to know that DoJ is in the executive branch while judges are in the judicial branch.

Just a competent K-12 education.

Granted, competent K-12 educations are pretty thin on the ground nowadays.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 09:10 AM (IG3/x)

256 Fox was just as bad as CBS. Bret Baier cannot hide his hatred of Trump. The lie that none of the steal was proven is a half-truth. The corrupt judiciary refused to hear any of the arguments for fear that they would be proven true.

Posted by: Rotkappchen at July 17, 2026 09:11 AM (j3Fsw)

257 "I don't remember any Democratic president calling the attorney general and saying you need to prosecute him. And you need to prosecute her, and you need to prosecute them, and you need to go after this organization. We have never seen that before, or anything like it, anything like it," Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said.

Politico: 02/10/2024

In recent weeks, President Biden has grumbled to aides and advisers that had Garland moved sooner in his investigation into former President Donald Trump’s election interference, a trial may already be underway or even have concluded, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss private matters. That trial still could take place before the election and much of the delay is owed not to Garland but to deliberate resistance put up by the former president and his team.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 09:12 AM (RHGPo)

258 Is there still a Grandy's in Paris?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

yes
and it is pronounced Granday"s

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 17, 2026 09:12 AM (/+uur)

259 I remember the Grandy's in Lewisville.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

I haven't had Grandy's since then. I have no idea how it tastes. Probably not the same.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:12 AM (v3afF)

260 251 Damn that Biden!

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Talarico says Biden failed to secure the border, and that's "unacceptable."

He's trying so hard to play the sensible, border security Democrat in Texas — while the rising wing of his "Big Tent" party wants no borders at all.

The wildly dissonant messaging just doesn't work.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)

=========

Is he saying this because he's winning easily and Paxton is such a flawed candidate?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 09:12 AM (PIaQL)

261 Nope! You don't install your own U.S. Attorney, Washington state.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 09:00 AM (X8xt3)

Just a reminder that they attempted this because the GOP controlled Senate STILL hasn't confirmed Trump's nominee for the post.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

262 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 17, 2026 09:13 AM (GC/eJ)

263 Off topic: How did I not know that "Major League Fishing" is now a thing?

I presume it's on cable, which I haven't had for decades?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 09:13 AM (IG3/x)

264 Getting a little jiggy and philosophical for a moment.

"There is no such thing as absolute truth" is a logical fallacy. Because it would mean to also say that "truth exists" is untrue. Which is impossible.

Apparently the relativists get around this by claiming that truth is real but "difficult to access". Boy, the Left spends a lot of time justifying being corrupt assholes.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 09:13 AM (/bHKT)

265 Who was the woman Trump mentioned who bragged about operating a 'shadow government?' Why is she not in jail or up against a wall?”

You didn’t know? She’s head of Security for Microsoft now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 09:13 AM (wLnmp)

266 Po Folks. White building with red trim? I think there was one on the east side of San Antonio by Randolph AFB.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 09:13 AM (wOO3z)

267 Vice President JD Vance needs to get his head out of the conspiratorial “rabbit holes” he says he loves to explore and drop the bizarro line he just pitched to Joe Rogan that the Israelis blew up the Iran peace deal because they want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”
=====

*wet fart*

His performance here has been lackluster.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 17, 2026 09:14 AM (GC/eJ)

268 Talarico says Biden failed to secure the border, and that's "unacceptable."

He's trying so hard to play the sensible, border security Democrat in Texas — while the rising wing of his "Big Tent" party wants no borders at all.

The wildly dissonant messaging just doesn't work.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)

He's a lying sack of shit. F*ck that guy. He's a heretic.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

That too.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:14 AM (v3afF)

269 Herbert missed a 3 ft putt at 18 and bogeyed. . He'll have to settle for a 62. I wish I could settle for that

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 09:14 AM (OXYE0)

270 Good morning JJ and horde
From Historicon in Lancaster Pa

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2026 09:15 AM (0CVPB)

271 Independent journalist Sara Gonzalez calls out Tillis the other day, causing him to basically admit he's paid by pro-illegal lobbyists. Rare, beautiful moment in political confrontation, corruption and clarity.

https://tinyurl.com/nhc9txkv

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 09:16 AM (t+TFX)

272 Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Talarico says Biden failed to secure the border, and that's "unacceptable."

Is this an attempt to recover from calling the meth guy who got shot while attempting to run over an ICE agent a "fellow Texan"?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 09:16 AM (ExV1e)

273 >>Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
CBS is prebunking the president's address by sharing accurate info about voter rolls and election systems.

Translate: We don't report the news, we decide what's news.

Does Stelter understand what he's just said?
Gee, that Bari Weiss sure is cleaning up shop, eh? /sarc

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

274 He's trying so hard to play the sensible, border security Democrat in Texas — while the rising wing of his "Big Tent" party wants no borders at all.

The wildly dissonant messaging just doesn't work.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)

Talarico’s problem is that Hispanic residents in the Texas border counties - whose vote he is depending on - support Trump’s border crackdown more than anyone. They’re the ones whose lives were being ruined by the millions crossing freely; Dems in California and NYC don’t understand that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 09:17 AM (wLnmp)

275 So the choice is: give us what we want, or go get fucked. They can't win without us and we won't budge.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 09:10 AM (BI5O2)

They're perfectly happy being in the minority. A lot of pressure is removed.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 09:18 AM (t+TFX)

276
Talarico is the democrat norm.

My congresswoman tells local media she's against high gubmnt spending.

Their base couldn't care less about the lies.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 09:18 AM (Y8DZL)

277 RNC Research
@RNCResearch
MODERATOR: "What qualifications do you have to serve in the U.S. Senate?"

Maine Democrat Ashley Webb: "I'm a songwriter and I write my own books."

-
"Ashley" appears to be a troon.

https://tinyurl.com/4nte4wbp

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:18 AM (ndZc7)

278 Talarico’s problem is that Hispanic residents in the Texas border counties - whose vote he is depending on - support Trump’s border crackdown more than anyone. They’re the ones whose lives were being ruined by the millions crossing freely; Dems in California and NYC don’t understand that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 09:17 AM (wLnmp)

That's because Dems in Cali and NY think that they're all illegals rather than folks whose families have been there for hundreds of years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e)

279 "Secretary Marco Rubio
@SecRubio
10h
Without trust, there can be no greatness.

Under @POTUS, the Trump Administration will rout out foreign interference in our elections and safeguard our democracy.

America’s future belongs to Americans."

Make China Poor Again!

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 09:19 AM (GD0B3)

280 The Dem argument on election security is bizarre if you actually take it at face value.

Only citizens can vote and they can only vote for themselves...even though we send registrations to non-citizens and unless you have very, very strict signature matching there is no way at all to validate that a mail in ballot came from the person it is in the name of.

And further 1/4 mail in ballot voters have admitted to submitting a ballot in someone else's name

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 09:19 AM (sKqQm)

281 He's trying so hard to play the sensible, border security Democrat in Texas — while the rising wing of his "Big Tent" party wants no borders at all.

The wildly dissonant messaging just doesn't work.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)

And not just the rising wing. The literal entire party for the last 60 years. The difference is the supposed "rising" people are not bothering lying about it at all. And why? Because Trump cornered the party so now they are playing both sides. Here's our bold message and by the way we're still reasonable and fighting these "crazies". Yet the message will keep getting amplified because that's what they want in the end.

Honestly Kamala and Biden and them have all been front for open borders too, in word and deed.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 09:20 AM (/bHKT)

282 "Deport Illegals to Reduce Inequality"

Heck, we don't need an excuse. Just deport them.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 09:20 AM (99eI0)

283 >>@WesternLensman
Talarico says Biden failed to secure the border, and that's "unacceptable."

"Criminal"

The word you're looking for is criminal, or even "treasonous."

His pinched face disapproval is lame.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 09:21 AM (X8xt3)

284 My congresswoman tells local media she's against high gubmnt spending.

Their base couldn't care less about the lies.

High info leftists want power.

Low info leftists want money.

Neither group gives a sh*t about *anything* else

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 09:21 AM (sKqQm)

285
Back from Euroworld...I have thoughts.

I'll probably dump them in the Art Thread.

Today, the globe-trotting and lovely Mrs naturalfake and I will go see a movie as part of Our Jetlag Recovery Protocol, probably-

"The Odyssey'(I know, I know) Ok, fiiiiiine-

We'll probably go see "The Oddyttey".

Or, "MC Young GW'....what it's not in rap?!?!
well I don't know then.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2026 09:21 AM (iJfKG)

286 They're perfectly happy being in the minority. A lot of pressure is removed.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 09:18 AM (t+TFX)

Correct.

Which is why they always behave like this in the majority.

Which means it's really not a dilemma.

People like me gain nothing from their success, and they don't want success.

So, Trump will go, and their Party will die on the vine. They don't care because they'll all get a nice cut of the heist before the Party is in the cold ground.

And life goes on.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 09:22 AM (BI5O2)

287 People like me gain nothing from their success, and they don't want success.

I remember watching Mitt Romney intentionally lose the '12 election. It was an amazing thing to watch.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 09:23 AM (sKqQm)

288 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:18 AM (ndZc7

As fake transgenders go, Ashley is a really bad example of one.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 09:23 AM (Bw1/o)

289 Okay….so Trump won’t be there next time, because he can’t. Then what? Vote dem? Don’t vote (which is the same as voting dem)?
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (hftzA)
------------/
The evidence is already in: without Trump on the ticket, GOP turnout goes way down. People just don't feel the Thune-momentum.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 09:23 AM (0aOmD)

290 I have a strong suspicion that NYT is heavily influenced by the ChiCom funded editors and "journalists".

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 09:24 AM (GD0B3)

291 I watched the speech.... Less than I expected but newsworthy just the same... The media doesn't seem it's worth anything except to dispute it.... So a day that ends in "Y"

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 09:25 AM (3iJWA)

292 >>Just a reminder that they attempted this because the GOP controlled Senate STILL hasn't confirmed Trump's nominee for the post.

Thune is a back-stabber.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 09:25 AM (X8xt3)

293 That Maine candidate looks like Meatloaf.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 09:26 AM (wOO3z)

294 Here's a pic of Nikki Floris, the person who claimed she was running a shadow government.

https://tinyurl.com/y4rha8a2

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 17, 2026 09:26 AM (3ImbR)

295 Thune is a back-stabber.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 09:25 AM (X8xt3)

I think it will be easier to list those in the GOP that aren't backstabbers, or backstabbers in waiting. I'll start.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 09:26 AM (/bHKT)

296 People like me gain nothing from their success, and they don't want success.

I remember watching Mitt Romney intentionally lose the '12 election. It was an amazing thing to watch.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 09:23 AM (sKqQm)

Yes, it was.

Debate 1: Whips Oblabla like the ignorant jackass he was.

Debate 2: Oh, the jewels that fall from your mouth, Oh Great Bringer of Light! And i dare not gainsay the genius of the Crowley Whale

Feh.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2026 09:26 AM (iJfKG)

297 If there's ever a fire in the Capitol while Congress is in session someone needs to padlock all the doors from the outside and throw away the key.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 09:27 AM (jehhT)

298 Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 09:26 AM (wOO3z)

LOL. He does!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 09:27 AM (Bw1/o)

299 "Manny Rutinel rarely discusses his father, a self-described socialist"

From the article:
Manny’s mother moved to the United States when her son was six years old...

I've had it up to here with foreigners in our government. Seriously fed up.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 17, 2026 09:27 AM (d5z8u)

300 Trump told a reporter that he wasn’t worried about his successor removing his Oval Office decorations because “Cubans love gold”. Hmmm
Posted by: Jmel at July 17, 2026 08:14 AM (3TlS+)
******
Whether or not Trump's successor is Rubio or Vance. They should find a way to tell Trump that he needs to take a lot of the gold and put it in his presidential library.
That's my one pet peeve about Trump. His decorating skills can sometimes be a little on the tacky side.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 09:28 AM (NpAcC)

301 If there's ever a fire in the Capitol while Congress is in session someone needs to padlock all the doors from the outside and throw away the key.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 09:27 AM (jehhT)

If we ever build a new Republic from the ashes of this one, the Senate is getting a good old-fashioned tile roof.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 09:28 AM (BI5O2)

302 That's my one pet peeve about Trump. His decorating skills can sometimes be a little on the tacky side.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 09:28 AM (NpAcC)

Agreed

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 09:29 AM (3iJWA)

303 Weird fact of the day:

Since Lincoln's assassination, every US President has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 09:29 AM (IG3/x)

304 Thou shalt pronoun correctly, sayeth Bill Gates.

Microsoft Word’s Woke New Feature Will Make Sure You Are Always Inclusive of “Every Gender”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:29 AM (ndZc7)

305 I remember watching Mitt Romney intentionally lose the '12 election. It was an amazing thing to watch.
Posted by: 18-1

I think the Powers That Be saw how easily Romney made Obama his wife during the debate so they dug up something unpleasant on him and he got the lecture about that sting you feel is pride fucking with you.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 09:29 AM (99eI0)

306 Art up. No bewbs. 😢

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:30 AM (v3afF)

307 Trump told a reporter that he wasn’t worried about his successor removing his Oval Office decorations because “Cubans love gold”. Hmmm
Posted by: Jmel at July 17, 2026 08:14 AM (3TlS+)
******
Whether or not Trump's successor is Rubio or Vance. They should find a way to tell Trump that he needs to take a lot of the gold and put it in his presidential library.
That's my one pet peeve about Trump. His decorating skills can sometimes be a little on the tacky side.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 09:28 AM (NpAcC)

Eh, I'll disagree. If there one thing my current Euroquest 2026 taught me, it's that gold and plenty of it has always been the preferred display of power and wealth throughout histy and "The People" respond to it that way.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2026 09:31 AM (iJfKG)

308 >>>You didn’t know? She’s head of Security for Microsoft now.
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Same place her friend Lisa Monaco landed. Funny, isn't it?

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 17, 2026 09:31 AM (3ImbR)

309 “Cubans love gold”.

The remark was detailed in the book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. Trump was seemingly referring to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is of Cuban heritage, as a top choice to succeed him
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In other words, absolute medical grade Hawaiian Kush horseshit.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 09:31 AM (/bHKT)

310 I remember watching Mitt Romney intentionally lose the '12 election. It was an amazing thing to watch.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 09:23 AM (sKqQm)

I remember the exact moment the intention crystallized.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 09:33 AM (t+TFX)

311 Kelly Monaco > Lisa Monaco.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 09:35 AM (IG3/x)

312 It's been "processed" into something "safe" but it's still human waste at the start. And, no, it's not used on every single crop grown here. But I know for a fact it is used as fertilizer on hay fields that cattle graze on, soybean fields and corn. Sprayed on the ground before planting. It stinks.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 08:42 AM (jehhT)

Only for a little while. The excellent growth factor outweighs the stink every time. 😎

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2026 09:36 AM (g8Ew8)

313 ... that is if the Democrat forces of darkness and evil do not snuff us out in the years ahead.

That's why this was revealed this week
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-WeaponizedKragleWH

LET'S GO BRANDON! Indict Brennan!
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-HereComeTheDRUMS
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-signedSCHWARTZWALD

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at July 17, 2026 09:39 AM (QzizI)

314 46 So does this mean the hundreds of thousands of red chinamen attending our crappy colleges can be sent home now?
Posted by: Walter Sobchak at July 17, 2026 07:58 AM (45BvE)

If only.
Remember the Confucius Institute debacle? Hundreds on college campuses, revealed to be , oh, I don't know, Chinese spy and infiltration agencies?
"While China describes the institutes as cultural bridges, critics and intelligence agencies allege they suppress discussion of sensitive topics like Tibet, Taiwan, and the Tiananmen Square protests, leading to widespread closures across the United States, Australia, and Europe. U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley and the FBI have warned that the institutes pose national security risks, including potential intellectual property theft and espionage."

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 17, 2026 09:39 AM (d5z8u)

315 If you look at everything on Rubio's plate, he's clearly demonstrating that he is world class. Vance is getting the same opportunity to step up but he's so far unimpressive. It's like watching Political Apprentice

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 17, 2026 09:40 AM (jPdyB)

316 It's like watching Political Apprentice
Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 17, 2026 09:40 AM (jPdyB)

I don't know. Vance is slick, perhaps no one slicker in Republican garb has come along in a long time. He knows how to play the game both short-term and long-term. He understands the trade-offs being VP.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 09:43 AM (t+TFX)

317 122 Please stop shitting on our food while you're harvesting it.

Sincerely,

The Civilized World

It amazes me, though, that people actually do not wash their produce before eating it. Not rinse. Wash. Soaking in vinegar and water typically works, although I don't know about this explosive diarrhea bug.

But I don't eat that stuff, anyway. My food eats that stuff.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 17, 2026 09:52 AM (d5z8u)

318 316 It's like watching Political Apprentice
Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 17, 2026 09:40 AM (jPdyB)

I don't know. Vance is slick, perhaps no one slicker in Republican garb has come along in a long time. He knows how to play the game both short-term and long-term. He understands the trade-offs being VP.
Posted by: Ordinary American

VANCE is cTHIEL's asset, and when Musk makes his move to form (Dare to be St00p1d) Third Party before his funds run out, the inevitable will happen.

When ELON Musk goes bust, Harry Lime like fingers pressing up against a welded sewer plate as the filth and corruption foam up around his waist -- Trump will look down with his BFF/Bezo's next to him and whisper: NO.

How many products does fElon make that you really wan't vs Bezos. Russia/China by then will take down Starlink. Bezos' Kuiper, Prometheus deriivitives will fill the void.

What could possibly go wrong?

LET's GO BRANDON!
Defeat LIB Strategic Insanity Free the World
Indict Brennan -- his compromatee's will dtop ship the canoe.
Kharg administered by Gulf Nations as reparations for IRG damage upon them
Freeport Cuba, as the new Kharg exporting American Shale/Oil

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at July 17, 2026 09:58 AM (eQL4L)

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