Leftwing Shill Who Demanded the Deplatforming and De-Employment of Trump Staffers Fired by Forbes for Secretly Taking $6 Million from a Shady Sponsor

They're all liars, swindlers, and thieves.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Forbes chief content officer Randall Lane was fired after "the company discovered that he had received a payment of about $6 million from the founder of a firm that does business with the magazine."
The payment was made after RJ Shook, the founder of the firm that worked with Forbes to publish wealth adviser rankings, "sold a majority stake in Shook Research to PPC Enterprises, a private equity firm, last August." Lane made himself a spectacle of anti-Trump furor in 2021 when he threatened companies that dared to hire people who formerly worked with President Donald Trump, such as former White House press secretaries Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, and Kayleigh McEnany.
Reading his virtue-signaling now about "truth reckoning" in light of his own duplicitous violation of journalistic ethics is poetic justice. At the time, Lane promised his outlet will "scrutinize, double-check, investigate with the same skepticism we'd approach a Trump tweet" any company that hires one of the forbidden Trumpsters in his arbitrary blacklist: "Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump's fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie."
Lane doubled down on his threats: "Want to ensure the world's biggest business media brand approaches you as a potential funnel of disinformation? Then hire away," Lane quipped.
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It would take but a few years before Lane nuked his own "credibility" and "reputation" as a judge of character into orbit. The Times outlined the clear Forbes company policies that emphasize the gravity of Lane's undisclosed conflict of interest:

Forbes has policies requiring its employees to seek permission before conducting outside business activities and prohibiting them from gaining personally -- directly or indirectly -- from the company's business dealings, according to a copy of the employee handbook obtained by The New York Times. Traditional newsrooms usually forbid journalists to accept payments from sources or business partners to avoid conflicts of interest or the appearance of a conflict.
Oof! Not even a defibrillator could resuscitate Lane's image as a journalist at this point.

Literally every picture of him shows him in this gay hat:

What a card. He's got a masculine, John Waters kind of energy.

Unrelated: Commenters are discussing this bust of a frat-connected cocaine ring at Penn State.

The 24-year-old alleged ringleader of a Penn State cocaine ring has turned himself in to police, Pennsylvania authorities revealed Tuesday.
Agostino Abbatiello surrendered himself to face charges of possession with intent to deliver (cocaine) and conspiracy after being busted for allegedly running a complex cocaine trafficking ring out of two separate fraternities.
The Long Island native -- who was at the "very top of the chain" in the crime ring, prosecutors claim -- had failed to show up for a Monday arraignment and is now being held without bail.

Alleged co-conspirator Thomas Robinson and two others have been charged with felony corrupt organizations, conspiracy, dealing in proceeds of unlawful activity, and related offenses, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office said.
More than a dozen Penn State frat brothers were busted for running the ring that forced young pledges to cut and bag the drugs then sold to students, according to prosecutors.
The fraternities, Sigma Chi and Delta Upsilon, allegedly coordinated with suppliers in New York and Philadelphia, trafficking in the cocaine and distributing it mainly to Penn State students.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:46 PM

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1 I want a less interesting world, please.

Posted by: Piper at August 18, 2026 02:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

2 Was that wrong? Someone should have told me it was wrong.

Posted by: Bete at August 18, 2026 02:46 PM (LX4y3)

3
Skinsuits are in fashion!

Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2026 02:48 PM (Fi81e)

4 I still don't understand how he thought that no one would find about about the payoff. I guess he either didn't care or his hubris thought he was above such mundane things as this.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 18, 2026 02:48 PM (cpFbA)

5 Liars, Tramps, Thieves ....

Posted by: illiniwek at August 18, 2026 02:48 PM (vbXSk)

6 Looks like he spent all his money on hats

Posted by: nckate at August 18, 2026 02:48 PM (enNUy)

7 "Secretly Taking $6 Million from a Shady Sponsor"

Well, with $6M, he doesn't need the Forbes gig anymore. Well played, I guess.

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 02:49 PM (Jr5Lq)

8 Ace, how could not include a photo of Randall Lane. He's got the "fishing hat festish" going on, and looks more gay than the chorus line of "Cats" in a Chuck E Cheese ballpit .

Posted by: Orson at August 18, 2026 02:50 PM (dIske)

9 I still don't understand how he thought that no one would find about about the payoff. I guess he either didn't care or his hubris thought he was above such mundane things as this.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 18, 2026 02:48 PM (cpFbA)

6 mil is a pretty nice nest egg for destroying Forbes reputation.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 02:50 PM (uhVAy)

10 Oof! Not even a defibrillator could resuscitate Lane's image as a journalist at this point.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:46 PM

Eh, we'll hire him.
-WSJ

Posted by: Bete at August 18, 2026 02:50 PM (LX4y3)

11 >>>Well, with $6M, he doesn't need the Forbes gig anymore. Well played, I guess.

true, but these people sell access to a platform. No platform, no access, no more grift.

Posted by: ace at August 18, 2026 02:50 PM (1wjle)

12
It would take but a few years before Lane nuked his own "credibility" and "reputation" as a judge of character into orbit.
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So much for unbiased journalisming.

Also, Forbes your reputation is trashed too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 18, 2026 02:50 PM (JvZF+)

13 4 I still don't understand how he thought that no one would find about about the payoff. I guess he either didn't care or his hubris thought he was above such mundane things as this.
Posted by: Mister Scott
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People have betrayed their country for far less than Six Million. Still generational wealth even in this day and age. 5 percent return, 300k per year. Not too shabby.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 02:50 PM (E4rtv)

14 Old and busted: Animal House

New and cool: Criminal House

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 18, 2026 02:51 PM (ndZc7)

15 >>>Ace, how could not include a photo of Randall Lane. He's got the "fishing hat festish" going on, and looks more gay than the chorus line of "Cats" in a Chuck E Cheese ballpit .

oh okay, I'll post it. I saw that he's... like an actor in some musical about the founding fathers?

In the words of Senor Chang, "G A Y !"

Posted by: ace at August 18, 2026 02:51 PM (1wjle)

16 Those Penn state kids were just turning their lives around. They should get a sentence of boys being boys. That's how this works right?

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 18, 2026 02:51 PM (YZ0Fo)

17 So lets see, 'journalist' suddenly starts creating a policy for a magazine outside their usual habits, turns out took a big bribe for doing it.

Wonder where that company got the 6 million - NGOs?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 02:52 PM (uhVAy)

18 looks more gay than the chorus line of "Cats" in a Chuck E Cheese ballpit .

Posted by: Orson at August 18, 2026 02:50 PM (dIske)

This is glorious.

And also stolen.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 18, 2026 02:52 PM (PGK1w)

19 They had fraternity pledges bagging the coke?

These aren't very sophisticated criminals.

Posted by: Leupold at August 18, 2026 02:52 PM (eIzlH)

20 Those Penn state kids were just turning their lives around. They should get a sentence of boys being boys. That's how this works right?

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 18, 2026 02:51 PM (YZ0Fo)

Nah. They're white.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 18, 2026 02:52 PM (PGK1w)

21 This is a weird story because there's no details on what the $6 million bribe was for. Surely it was some kind of bribe or payola or hush money or something.

Even very rich guys don't hand out $6 million without expecting -- and getting -- something of commensurate value in exchange.

Shook claimed it was just a gift. Sure it was. And that banana that was found in Talacreepo's asshole just fell off the counter and lodged itself there.

I assume the $6M was part of some pump-and-dumb scheme where Shook was paying for artificially rosy coverage that Shook thought would end up making him back more than the $6M. Or some kind of insider trading.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 18, 2026 02:53 PM (iFTx/)

22 Quick - first thing/ impression that sprang to mind when you saw his photo -

Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 02:53 PM (Gqar8)

23 Is Steve Forbes still alive?

Wonder what he thinks of Trump.

Posted by: Bulg at August 18, 2026 02:53 PM (77rzZ)

24 Well, had he not been found out he would not have had a useless degree.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2026 02:53 PM (0kXVl)

25 Those Penn state kids were just turning their lives around. They should get a sentence of boys being boys. That's how this works right?

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 18, 2026 02:51 PM (YZ0Fo)
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Just for having a biological urge!

Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2026 02:53 PM (Fi81e)

26 $6 million American money?

Was he giving them lap dances?
Damn.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 18, 2026 02:54 PM (Sco7b)

27 >>>Well, with $6M, he doesn't need the Forbes gig anymore. Well played, I guess.

true, but these people sell access to a platform. No platform, no access, no more grift.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2026 02:50 PM (1wjle)

Well he has some street cred with the opposition now, might be able to parlay that into a job, or twitter celeb or something.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 02:54 PM (uhVAy)

28 Micks and Degos involved in organized crime, go figure. It's a day full of shocks. Shocks, I tell ya.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 18, 2026 02:54 PM (Vvh2V)

29
From the pic I gather Agostino was nailing trim from one end of campus to the other, even without blow.

Posted by: Auspex at August 18, 2026 02:55 PM (Y8DZL)

30 Was he Sigma Chi? Doesn't look like a Pike or Teke.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 18, 2026 02:55 PM (SkjRZ)

31
Huh, is cocaine making a comeback? Or did it never really go out of fashion?

And not to be unpleasant, but has the cocaine market suffered since Maduro's ousting?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 02:55 PM (XJ22o)

32 Lane made himself a spectacle of anti-Trump furor in 2021 when he threatened companies that dared to hire people who formerly worked with President Donald Trump, such as former White House press secretaries Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, and Kayleigh McEnany.
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Tell me you don't believe in free markets without telling me you don't believe in free markets.

Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2026 02:55 PM (Fi81e)

33 If that smegma chi coke pin and Taylor swift had babies, lord, the bangs on their kids, y'all

Posted by: nckate at August 18, 2026 02:55 PM (enNUy)

34 Man, that guy was at Penn State and in a frat.
He must have been scoring with the co-eds left and right.

As long as he brought coke.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 18, 2026 02:56 PM (Sco7b)

35 "More than a dozen Penn State frat brothers were busted for running the ring that forced young pledges to cut and bag the drugs then sold to students, according to prosecutors."

And people say today's kids aren't enterprising go-getters!

The truth? This is going on probably everywhere in every college to some degree. The drugs that the teenage and 20-something demo takes are off the charts. Girls especially. They gotta get that supply from somewhere.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 18, 2026 02:56 PM (iFTx/)

36 Huh, is cocaine making a comeback? Or did it never really go out of fashion?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 02:55 PM (XJ22o)
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She don't lie.

Posted by: J.J. Cale at August 18, 2026 02:56 PM (Fi81e)

37
My fraternity preznit arranged for Buckhorn beer to be in the pop dispenser for 25 cents a piece, so the same thing, really.

Posted by: Auspex at August 18, 2026 02:56 PM (Y8DZL)

38 Also, Forbes your reputation is trashed too.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Most dead tree publications are trash, it is more just a vanity press now like Newsweek or Time. WSJ is going that way too and Bloomberg's borg biz news has probably reached its zenith before the descent.

The clue is when investment money goes for additional publications rather than reinvested in the business. Bloomberg has been buying pubs like Roll Call for its borg because the returns have reached declining marginal revenue for its main biz so you buy more pubs to try to pump it up for a time. Like Gannett did on acquisitions just before it guts the local and rides the decline repackaging AP news stories.

A lot of media including online websites are on borrowed time now--it is no longer the big money maker it was. What will replace it is going to be a mish mash.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 02:56 PM (E4rtv)

39 Lane grew up in Briarcliff Manor NY, a very wealthy suburb of NYC, on Westchester County. He also wears a hat that makes him look like Drudge. So besides being a scumbag, he's a rich boy poser idiot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 18, 2026 02:57 PM (rp63B)

40 Micks and Degos involved in organized crime, go figure. It's a day full of shocks. Shocks, I tell ya.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor

The Joos ran much of organized crime in the early 1900s. Nobody tell Tucker.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 18, 2026 02:57 PM (Riz8t)

41 Huh, is cocaine making a comeback? Or did it never really go out of fashion?

And not to be unpleasant, but has the cocaine market suffered since Maduro's ousting?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 02:55 PM (XJ22o)

Well the drug boat industry no longer has to make replacement boats, so they are hardest hit.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 02:57 PM (uhVAy)

42
Is Steve Forbes still alive?

Wonder what he thinks of Trump.
Posted by: Bulg

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Endorsed him in 2016 anyways.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 02:57 PM (XJ22o)

43 31
Huh, is cocaine making a comeback? Or did it never really go out of fashion?

And not to be unpleasant, but has the cocaine market suffered since Maduro's ousting?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 02:55 PM (XJ22o)

Fear Not ! We always have China to fill the need!

Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 02:57 PM (Gqar8)

44 "Huh, is cocaine making a comeback?"

How could anybody trust street toot not to contain fentanyl or some other noxious shit?

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 02:57 PM (Jr5Lq)

45 The decline of Forbes magazine is another example of Why We Can't Have Nice Things.

Back in the late 70s, I really enjoyed the magazine. Up to the time I picked up my first issue - I believe I was sitting in the waiting room of my optometrist's office - I had given no serious thought to a career in business and finance. But I found the articles fascinating, and I think I can credit Forbes for getting me started on that career track. I never liked Malcolm Forbes' personal contributions - I considered him to be a windbag whose abuse of the English language was obnoxious (constantly trying to come up with neologisms, turning nouns into adjectives and vice versa), and whose ideas were not particularly enlightening (plus he was a fan of Armand Hammer) - but the articles by genuine business journalists were good, well-researched and informative.

And then, one day, it was just another garbage publication.

Posted by: Paco at August 18, 2026 02:57 PM (2L+MU)

46 And people say today's kids aren't enterprising go-getters!

The truth? This is going on probably everywhere in every college to some degree. The drugs that the teenage and 20-something demo takes are off the charts. Girls especially. They gotta get that supply from somewhere.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

I mean the drug scene was pretty huge when I was in college 99-04.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 18, 2026 02:57 PM (YZ0Fo)

47 The Joos ran much of organized crime in the early 1900s. Nobody tell Tucker.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 18, 2026 02:57 PM (Riz8t)

They ran everything all the time. They invented dinosaurs.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 02:58 PM (uhVAy)

48 Fat, stupid and coked to the gills is no way to go through life, son.

Posted by: spongeworthy at August 18, 2026 02:58 PM (sLLbN)

49 Cocaine? Are the Gen-Zers on some kind of 80s nostalgia kick?

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 18, 2026 02:58 PM (/OKHJ)

50 That guy's hat doesn't look very festive.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2026 02:58 PM (LQKAS)

51 Huh, is cocaine making a comeback? Or did it never really go out of fashion?

And not to be unpleasant, but has the cocaine market suffered since Maduro's ousting?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 02:55 PM (XJ22o)
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Never went out of fashion. But there's been an explosion in coke use -- and indeed, all heavy drug use -- among younger ladies. That wasn't true back in the day. That means lotsa new customers. Somebody's gonna supply them. Why not Penn State frat bros?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 18, 2026 02:58 PM (iFTx/)

52 50 That guy's hat doesn't look very festive.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2026 02:58 PM (LQKAS)

Ironic Hipster chic.

Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 02:59 PM (Gqar8)

53 And then, one day, it was just another garbage publication.
Posted by: Paco at August 18, 2026 02:57 PM (2L+MU)

Started hiring right out of colleges probably.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 02:59 PM (uhVAy)

54 The booger sugar brothers.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 18, 2026 02:59 PM (4ZxBh)

55 Mouse attack!

Disney is suing the Trump administration for his "retaliatory campaign" against ABC

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 18, 2026 02:59 PM (ndZc7)

56 There's more to this than told. Forbes is owned by China.
Something's up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 03:00 PM (Cq/ve)

57 23 Is Steve Forbes still alive?

Wonder what he thinks of Trump.
Posted by: Bulg

Hates him. Trump brought up one time in response to some useless True Republican putdown that Forbes did a story about Malcolm and his gay lover being rejected at a Trump hotel for bad behavior.

Steve was seething but Malcolm was well known about NYC for being extremely gay and liking his boy toys young.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:00 PM (E4rtv)

58 How could anybody trust street toot not to contain fentanyl or some other noxious shit?

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 02:57 PM (Jr5Lq)
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That's why you go the college route.

Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2026 03:00 PM (Fi81e)

59 Ozempic - Coke, Ozempic - Coke, what’s a gal to do?

Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 03:00 PM (Gqar8)

60 How could anybody trust street toot not to contain fentanyl or some other noxious shit?

Posted by: gp at August

You can easily test for it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 18, 2026 03:00 PM (YZ0Fo)

61 Well, well, well.

Guess who was the Point of Contact and the DOJ Public Integrity Unit during the period 2010 - 2015 that decided not to charge Swalwell with taking bribes from a CCP spy?

Jack Smith

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2026 03:01 PM (viF8m)

62 Steve was seething but Malcolm was well known about NYC for being extremely gay and liking his boy toys young.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:00 PM (E4rtv)
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Ah, that's why Forbes always felt libertarian.

Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2026 03:01 PM (Fi81e)

63 That guy's hat doesn't look very festive.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Looks like something Judge Smails would wear on the course.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 18, 2026 03:01 PM (4ZxBh)

64 60 How could anybody trust street toot not to contain fentanyl or some other noxious shit?

Posted by: gp at August

You can easily test for it.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 18, 2026 03:00 PM (YZ0Fo)

First, you find a Hobo

Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 03:01 PM (Gqar8)

65 Ozempic - Coke, Ozempic - Coke, what’s a gal to do?
Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 03:00 PM (Gqar

Why not both? You can be skeletal AND twitchy.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:01 PM (uhVAy)

66 Funny old world. Forbes used to be the credible, old school business magazine, while Fortune and BusinessWeek were country club liberal.

Recently my only familiarity with Forbes were articles rating products. I thought they still had professional objectivity, but in the fine print I noticed most of their reviews were sponsored.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 18, 2026 03:02 PM (bX16E)

67 60 How could anybody trust street toot not to contain fentanyl or some other noxious shit?

Posted by: gp at August

That's why you share first....

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 18, 2026 03:02 PM (Sco7b)

68 Biden White House Advisors Dubbed Themselves 'Politburo'
Last updated
1 hour ago
CNN's Jake Tapper revealed the internal term in a widely shared clip, drawing from his 2025 book *Original Sin* co-authored with Alex Thompson. The group, including aides like Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, Bruce Reed, Ron Klain, and others such as Anita Dunn and First Lady Jill Biden, controlled the president's schedule, information, and major choices amid concerns over his health. Critics called out media for earlier dismissals of Biden's decline as 'cheap fakes,' while the book frames it as a way to keep the administration running until after the 2024 election.

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2026 03:02 PM (ZxPkt)

69 That guy's hat doesn't look very festive.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2026 02:58 PM (LQKAS)
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A stunning lack of flair.

Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2026 03:02 PM (Fi81e)

70 47 The Joos ran much of organized crime in the early 1900s. Nobody tell Tucker.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 18, 2026 02:57 PM (Riz8t)

They ran everything all the time. They invented dinosaurs

Is there anything AI can't do? I asked it for plays on words for Jewish dinosaurs, and got:

Schleposaurus: A dinosaur that moves very slowly and complains about the weather.

Bubbiesaurus Rex: A motherly or grandmotherly T-Rex who insists you are too skinny.

Pterodactowitz: A flying reptile with a lot of opinions.

Nudgeasaurus: A small dinosaur that won't stop asking questions or giving advice.

Ashkenazasaurus: A classic, traditional prehistoric creature.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 18, 2026 03:02 PM (Riz8t)

71 To paraphrase Norm Macdonald, "Hey, that's my lucky cocksuckin' hat!"

Posted by: Wally at August 18, 2026 03:03 PM (avzFa)

72 I was not expecting this.

Posted by: The Spanish Inquisition at August 18, 2026 03:03 PM (idC0m)

73 heh

@TheBabylonBee 3m
Embarrassing Moment As Mike Johnson And Nancy Mace Realize They Got Matching Tattoos

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 18, 2026 03:03 PM (diia5)

74 Ah, that's why Forbes always felt libertarian.
Posted by: Axeman
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It's been awhile but I think rumor had it that Malcolm liked rough trade and he often went dressed in motorcycle leathers when he was on the prowl.

His nebbish son probably was humiliated on a daily basis by his dad and his actions.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:03 PM (E4rtv)

75 Biden White House Advisors Dubbed Themselves 'Politburo'

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2026 03:02 PM (ZxPkt)
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Not before I did!

Damn! I can't believe I **called** that shit!

Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2026 03:03 PM (Fi81e)

76 That guy thinks he's Kolchak.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 18, 2026 03:04 PM (/OKHJ)

77 Look, someone has to have a talk with the young people - young men especially - about their stupid throwback eyeglasses and effeminate pompadours. It is eye cancer and gayer than a drag show. TJM is the only remaining HQer under a 105, so this sad duty falls to him.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 18, 2026 03:04 PM (K3f7J)

78 70 47 The Joos ran much of organized crime in the early 1900s. Nobody tell Tucker.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 18, 2026 02:57 PM (Riz8t)

They ran everything all the time. They invented dinosaurs

Is there anything AI can't do? I asked it for plays on words for Jewish dinosaurs, and got:

Schleposaurus: A dinosaur that moves very slowly and complains about the weather.

Bubbiesaurus Rex: A motherly or grandmotherly T-Rex who insists you are too skinny.

Pterodactowitz: A flying reptile with a lot of opinions.

Nudgeasaurus: A small dinosaur that won't stop asking questions or giving advice.

Ashkenazasaurus: A classic, traditional prehistoric creature.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 18, 2026 03:02 PM (Riz8t)

Now, ask for Muslim dinosaurs

Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 03:04 PM (Gqar8)

79 But he paid taxes on the secret $6 million payment, right? RIGHT?

Posted by: Lawyers, Guns, and Secret 1099s at August 18, 2026 03:04 PM (qUkBO)

80 6 Looks like he spent all his money on hats
Posted by: nckate at August 18, 2026 02:48 PM (enNUy)

Rodney Dangerfield in Caddy Shack about a hat like that:
https://tinyurl.com/caddyshackhat

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 18, 2026 03:05 PM (N39Ws)

81 Biden White House Advisors Dubbed Themselves 'Politburo'
Last updated
1 hour ago
CNN's Jake Tapper revealed the internal term in a widely shared clip, drawing from his 2025 book *Original Sin* co-authored with Alex Thompson.
Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2026 03:02 PM (ZxPkt)

Shocker - commie staffers use commie metaphor for their clique.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:05 PM (uhVAy)

82 They look like lovely guys/sarc

I think his gay little fedora means "he's available," Ace. If anyone is interested. It barely fits his head and makes me focus on his honker nose. It looks the hat size for a toddler boy.

I read that the Markle shrew wore her gay little white fedora on her sailing trips with men as a "sign" she was available. By the time stupid Hazmet got stuck in her web there were echoes like the Holland Tunnel. I am incredibly bummed I can't read the subreddit of them anymore as I will not register. There were some hilarious comments.

The cocaine king's nose does not need a hat for me to focus on, or maybe the nerd glasses were arrows. I do wonder if he uses a hot roller to curl his hair. Tres chic.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 18, 2026 03:05 PM (hzuYO)

83 Recently my only familiarity with Forbes were articles rating products. I thought they still had professional objectivity, but in the fine print I noticed most of their reviews were sponsored.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

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It's basically the same as buying infomercial space nowadays.

Like I had friend that does basically payday loans locally and he had an "article" in Forbes about himself.

20-30 years ago, that would have been huge, but it's just a paid advertisement anyone can have.

It's a shame because Steve Forbes was a good, conservative advocate for free markets.

Posted by: Leupold at August 18, 2026 03:05 PM (eIzlH)

84 Shocker - commie staffers use commie metaphor for their clique.
Posted by: Oldcat

Next you'll tell me CNN news room calls themselves PRAVDA.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 18, 2026 03:06 PM (YZ0Fo)

85 Was that wrong?
Should they not have done that?

Posted by: George Costanza at August 18, 2026 03:06 PM (2Ez/1)

86 McLovin!

I mean the drug scene was pretty huge when I was in college 99-04.

yeppers

I mean back then-ish U Penn was more the coke-dealing uni, PSU was still drunkards

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 18, 2026 03:06 PM (j+aD2)

87 Increasing market share by snagging the other 50 per cent of the population is just good business sense.

The classic example was tobacco, cigars, cigarettes etc in the early 20th century. Females, as a rule, didn't use tobacco to any great degree, and certainly not in public.

A huge marketing campaign ensued. Marlboros were intended for women, it was only much later that the Cowboy motif was used. Cigarettes were called "Freedom Sticks" and tied with the then novel idea of allowing females to vote. Smoking was seen as an act of rebellion, etc etc. "You've Come A Long Way, Baby!" indeed.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2026 03:06 PM (Ewmxj)

88 Now, ask for Muslim dinosaurs

As you requested. They don't seem to be the same.

Deen-o-saur (A play on Deen, meaning religion or faith)
Dhikra-saurus (Reminiscent of Dhikr, the remembrance of Allah)
Salah-saurus (Always ready for prayer time)
Barakah-ceratops (Bringing extra blessings)
Du'a-lophosaurus (Always lifting its crest in supplication)

Posted by: Archimedes at August 18, 2026 03:07 PM (Riz8t)

89 Recently my only familiarity with Forbes were articles rating products. I thought they still had professional objectivity, but in the fine print I noticed most of their reviews were sponsored.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 18, 2026 03:02 PM (bX16E)

We only took bribes from the side we really liked the product, honest!

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:07 PM (uhVAy)

90 Was there a connection btw the $6M payment and Lane shitting on DJT? Or was it just a vanilla conflict-of-interest ethics violation without political motive?

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:07 PM (Jr5Lq)

91 he Joos ran much of organized crime in the early 1900s. Nobody tell Tucker.

They certainly did. Meyer Lansky. Dutch Schultz. Bugsy Siegel. Jewish Mobsters were a significant part of Murder, Inc.

Posted by: Howdy at August 18, 2026 03:07 PM (f7Poz)

92 That first picture, thought it was Ray Stevens.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 03:07 PM (Cq/ve)

93 By the way.......

MAGAZINES????

What the hell?

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 18, 2026 03:08 PM (Sco7b)

94 They certainly did. Meyer Lansky. Dutch Schultz. Bugsy Siegel. Jewish Mobsters were a significant part of Murder, Inc.

Posted by: Howdy at August 18, 2026 03:07 PM (f7Poz)
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See. They organized murder.

Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2026 03:09 PM (Fi81e)

95 88 Now, ask for Muslim dinosaurs

As you requested. They don't seem to be the same.

Deen-o-saur (A play on Deen, meaning religion or faith)
Dhikra-saurus (Reminiscent of Dhikr, the remembrance of Allah)
Salah-saurus (Always ready for prayer time)
Barakah-ceratops (Bringing extra blessings)
Du'a-lophosaurus (Always lifting its crest in supplication)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 18, 2026 03:07 PM (Riz8t)

Thanks, archimedes. Seems a bit different tenor. AI must have a neck to chop. Who knew?

Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 03:09 PM (Gqar8)

96 Why are men these days all either aging hipster, dork who hates you, fat mommy basement slob, Ted Bundy, office worker who can't use a screwdriver, or gross trans fag. Did I miss any?

Posted by: ... at August 18, 2026 03:10 PM (+rw6l)

97 Agostino Abbatiello surrendered himself

He's no Otter.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 18, 2026 03:10 PM (0sNs1)

98 Was there a connection btw the $6M payment and Lane shitting on DJT? Or was it just a vanilla conflict-of-interest ethics violation without political motive?

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:07 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Indeed. TDS is so run-of-the-mill, it could just be a coincidence.

Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2026 03:10 PM (Fi81e)

99 88 Now, ask for Muslim dinosaurs

As you requested. They don't seem to be the same.

Deen-o-saur (A play on Deen, meaning religion or faith)
Dhikra-saurus (Reminiscent of Dhikr, the remembrance of Allah)
Salah-saurus (Always ready for prayer time)
Barakah-ceratops (Bringing extra blessings)
Du'a-lophosaurus (Always lifting its crest in supplication)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 18, 2026 03:07 PM (Riz8t)

Sodomasaurus -- goats and boys are fair game.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 18, 2026 03:10 PM (N39Ws)

100 I suppose these dudes better get used to being The Sweetheart of Smegma Chi in the slammer

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 18, 2026 03:10 PM (sFNX2)

101 Didn't that top guy play for the San Antonio Spurs during the Tim Duncan era?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 18, 2026 03:10 PM (w9Wax)

102 Huh, is cocaine making a comeback? Or did it never really go out of fashion?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 02:55 PM (XJ22o)
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In 2023, there were about thirty thousand drug overdose deaths in the United States involving cocaine; a decade earlier, the number was five thousand.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 18, 2026 03:10 PM (+ovo7)

103 "MAGAZINES????"

It was Forbes' online reporters that exposed TNR's fabulist Stephen Glass.

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:10 PM (Jr5Lq)

104 Why are men these days all either aging hipster, dork who hates you, fat mommy basement slob, Ted Bundy, office worker who can't use a screwdriver, or gross trans fag. Did I miss any?
Posted by: ... at August 18, 2026 03:10 PM

Ahem. The Avatars of Modern Masculinity.

Posted by: Mr. Emhoff, Mr. Walz, and Mr. Hogg at August 18, 2026 03:11 PM (0sNs1)

105 Good mugshot though, suit and tie. Rare.

It's too bad, I like hats, but I know if I wear anything other than a ball cap, I'd be looked at as a dweeb, poser, dork and all around blockhead.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 18, 2026 03:11 PM (n5tGW)

106 ok so the PSU thing was fun BUT I have a better one

creepy freaking dude wearing a Them/Strangers type mask attacking women in Center City!

https://6abc.cm/LEAudm

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 18, 2026 03:11 PM (j+aD2)

107 24 years old and still in college? I bet mom and dad were still paying his tuition.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 18, 2026 03:11 PM (n17eQ)

108 81 Biden White House Advisors Dubbed Themselves 'Politburo'
Last updated
Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2026 03:02 PM (ZxPkt)

Brezhnev >> Biden

Posted by: Auspex at August 18, 2026 03:12 PM (Y8DZL)

109 Ok, this is funny.

"We are horrified by these serious allegations against current and former students," said Andrea Dowhower, Penn State's vice president for Student Affairs. "Criminal activity, including hazing, such as this has no place at our institution. We will continue to enhance our efforts around health and safety and hazing educational efforts for all our organizations."

This stupid woke bitch learns that two of the college's frats are major cocaine dealers and smugglers, basically running a Tony Montana operation on the fucking campus, and she makes this about ... hazing.

They can't stop fucking that pig.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 18, 2026 03:12 PM (iFTx/)

110 Heck, I'd read Forbes online if it wasn't paywalled.

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:12 PM (Jr5Lq)

111 Am I the only person left who is not on some kind of grift? I’m a fucking idiot.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 18, 2026 03:12 PM (qDa2L)

112 > Cigarettes were called "Freedom Sticks" and tied with the then novel idea of allowing females to vote.

It's funny how debilitating, habit-forming, addictive, destructive behavior is ALWAYS advertised as freedom.

Like girls having a ho-phase in college. It sets them up for a lifetime of bad relationships. But they call it freedom, baby.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 18, 2026 03:12 PM (mkw2N)

113 107 24 years old and still in college? I bet mom and dad were still paying his tuition.

yeah that's the part I don't get at all

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 18, 2026 03:12 PM (j+aD2)

114 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:12 PM (2YhKe)

115 Any self respecting cocaine crime ring boss would have a double Winsdor knot in his tie. What a disgrace.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 18, 2026 03:13 PM (xvV+O)

116 Leftists lie.

They're muslhams without all the suicide vests.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:13 PM (2YhKe)

117 Carried over:

32
I was watching either a Bulwark podcast or Pod Save America....no difference, because it was people from both shows (former Bush and Obama staffers) talking, and the Bush staffers very much sounded like they didn't like (or care about) conservative policy goals...it was just a job, trying to help a client (Bush) win. In a way, it was nice because it sounded very mercenary/mafia (nothing personal, just business), but ultimately I think you expose yourself to risk, especially in the future, if you hire people to help discuss critical strategy stuff that don't believe it, and could jump ship to the enemy later.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 18, 2026 01:39 PM (THJS/)

Heavy metal guitarist Bill Hudson (with NorthTale, Doro Pesch, et al.) recently made a post of 10 hard truths about music as a profession:

#4: "You can't create music you dislike 'to get big.' How do you know you're done? When you hate it?"

h/t Guitar MAX:
https://youtu.be/IEeaEnqycPI?t=382

Imagine promoting politics you dislike, just to make it in the industry. How would you even gauge your own work?

Posted by: SciVo at August 18, 2026 03:13 PM (L3Npt)

118 This stupid woke bitch learns that two of the college's frats are major cocaine dealers and smugglers, basically running a Tony Montana operation on the fucking campus, and she makes this about ... hazing.

why am I not surprised

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 18, 2026 03:13 PM (j+aD2)

119 All that money and the guy dresses like Temu Kolchak. Shame

Posted by: Polka will never die at August 18, 2026 03:13 PM (zq/30)

120 24 years old and still in college? I bet mom and dad were still paying his tuition.

Or maybe they're driving a Bentley now.

Posted by: t-bird at August 18, 2026 03:13 PM (Cuw0G)

121 Men Without Hats > Men With Gay Hats

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:13 PM (2YhKe)

122 When I was in college 5 years wasn’t uncommon. Inflation has changed that to 6 years I guess. Hence 24 years old.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 18, 2026 03:13 PM (qDa2L)

123 24 years old and still in college? I bet mom and dad were still paying his tuition.

yeah that's the part I don't get at all

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2)

===

If he was the cocaine king pin for college students, probably smart to just keep enrolling in classes and be a professional student.

Posted by: Leupold at August 18, 2026 03:13 PM (eIzlH)

124 "if I wear anything other than a ball cap, I'd be looked at as a dweeb, poser, dork and all around blockhead."

Boonie hat here. Doc sez I have to keep the sun off.

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:14 PM (Jr5Lq)

125 The 24-year-old alleged ringleader of a Penn State cocaine ring has turned himself in to police, Pennsylvania authorities revealed Tuesday.

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Gives a whole new meaning to the "White Out" nights.

Posted by: Cray Cray at August 18, 2026 03:15 PM (CYBB0)

126 I'd like to know how college kids can afford nose candy. We certainly couldn't in my day. Cheap Beer and a Pinner was about it.

Posted by: Howdy at August 18, 2026 03:15 PM (f7Poz)

127 24 years old and still in college? I bet mom and dad were still paying his tuition.

yeah that's the part I don't get at all

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 18, 2026 03:12 PM (j+aD2)
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He graduated two years ago. He was still running the coke to the campus, supposedly pounds at a time.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 18, 2026 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

128 Always make your hook-ups wear a 'hat'. Always.

Posted by: Cosmo Advice Editor at August 18, 2026 03:15 PM (0sNs1)

129
In 2023, there were about thirty thousand drug overdose deaths in the United States involving cocaine; a decade earlier, the number was five thousand.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan

===================

Good lord.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 03:15 PM (XJ22o)

130 The fraternities, Sigma Chi and Delta Upsilon, allegedly coordinated with suppliers in New York and Philadelphia, trafficking in the cocaine and distributing it mainly to Penn State students.

From the photo, I was guessing Lambda Lambda Lambda.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 18, 2026 03:15 PM (i8+2Q)

131 57 Hates him. Trump brought up one time in response to some useless True Republican putdown that Forbes did a story about Malcolm and his gay lover being rejected at a Trump hotel for bad behavior.

Steve was seething but Malcolm was well known about NYC for being extremely gay and liking his boy toys young. - whig

I didn't know about him being gay until shortly after he died. At the time, I had the sense that it was a big surprise to everybody, but apparently not.

I did truly loathe his "random thoughts" column and his curious support for Armand Hammer and People for the American Way. Fortunately, his own dubious political preferences didn't seem to affect the overall quality of the magazine. I think, perhaps, Forbes never really recovered from publishing a huge puff piece on Michael Milkin a month or so before the bottom fell out of his junk bond empire.

Posted by: Paco at August 18, 2026 03:15 PM (2L+MU)

132 In 2023, there were about thirty thousand drug overdose deaths in the United States involving cocaine; a decade earlier, the number was five thousand.

Oh No !!! Anyway.

Posted by: Howdy at August 18, 2026 03:15 PM (f7Poz)

133 He graduated two years ago. He was still running the coke to the campus, supposedly pounds at a time.

which is what I figured

so why loop the frats into it? the part about pledges cutting stuff is probably not even true!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 18, 2026 03:16 PM (j+aD2)

134 In 2023, there were about thirty thousand drug overdose deaths in the United States involving cocaine; a decade earlier, the number was five thousand.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan

===================

Good lord.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 03:15 PM (XJ22o)

all them refugees carrying it over the border.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:16 PM (uhVAy)

135 Never touch another man's hat without permission.

Posted by: Cowboys around the fire at August 18, 2026 03:16 PM (0sNs1)

136 "Am I the only person left who is not on some kind of grift? I’m a fucking idiot."

I was saying that during peak looting. WTF am I not stealing everything? Why am I proud to be a chump?

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:16 PM (Jr5Lq)

137 Oh boy just in time for the midterms. A massive trove of Epstein documents are going to be released after a judge directed previously unsealing previously sealed documents that a Fed judge had ordered sealed when Epstein pled guilty.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 18, 2026 03:16 PM (rp63B)

138 He graduated two years ago. He was still running the coke to the campus, supposedly pounds at a time.

which is what I figured

so why loop the frats into it? the part about pledges cutting stuff is probably not even true!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 18, 2026 03:16 PM (j+aD2)

More space for the product, less supervision than a dorm room.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:17 PM (uhVAy)

139 136 "Am I the only person left who is not on some kind of grift? I’m a fucking idiot."

I say that a lot

I know a LOT of people who work under the table!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 18, 2026 03:17 PM (j+aD2)

140
creepy freaking dude wearing a Them/Strangers type mask attacking women in Center City!

https://6abc.cm/LEAudm
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 18, 2026 03:11 PM (j+aD2)

Speak softly and carry a big stick. He approaches you, you smash his head, call the police and tell them you feared for your life and defended yourself.

He won't do that anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:17 PM (2YhKe)

141 I'd like to know how college kids can afford nose candy. We certainly couldn't in my day. Cheap Beer and a Pinner was about it.
Posted by: Howdy at August 18, 2026 03:15 PM (f7Poz)

Did you graduate with $500K in 'student' loans?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2026 03:17 PM (ExV1e)

142 24 years old and still in college? I bet mom and dad were still paying his tuition.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 18, 2026 03:11 PM (n17eQ)
********************

According to the New York Post article, Abbatiello graduated from Penn State in 2024. Not sure if he then enrolled in a Penn State graduate program or was just hanging around campus for business reasons.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 18, 2026 03:17 PM (+ovo7)

143 Oh boy just in time for the midterms. A massive trove of Epstein documents are going to be released after a judge directed previously unsealing previously sealed documents that a Fed judge had ordered sealed when Epstein pled guilty.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Hold on I just put an extra nothingburger on the grill.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 18, 2026 03:17 PM (YZ0Fo)

144 In 2023, there were about thirty thousand drug overdose deaths in the United States involving cocaine; a decade earlier, the number was five thousand.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan

Does that reflect greater use or undisclosed adulteration with fentanyl?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 18, 2026 03:17 PM (K3f7J)

145 Isn't Sigma Chi the one with all the sweehearts?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 18, 2026 03:17 PM (0sNs1)

146 "In 2023, there were about thirty thousand drug overdose deaths in the United States involving cocaine; a decade earlier, the number was five thousand."

Do you have a link for that?

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:17 PM (Jr5Lq)

147 I'd like to know how college kids can afford nose candy. We certainly couldn't in my day. Cheap Beer and a Pinner was about it.
Posted by: Howdy

*coughs* *Looks away awkwardly*

Posted by: US Department of Education Loan Department at August 18, 2026 03:17 PM (vJrRc)

148 "At parties, people do a lot of...drugs. Just remember, you folks, if you respect me at all, stay away from cocaine. Oh, it may seem glamorous at first, but there will come a time--believe me, there will come a time--when it will be your turn to...treat."

--Emo Philips

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 18, 2026 03:18 PM (FZ29D)

149 "Am I the only person left who is not on some kind of grift? I’m a fucking idiot."

you are not the only one who wonders from time to time ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2026 03:18 PM (VyBeY)

150 In 2023, there were about thirty thousand drug overdose deaths in the United States involving cocaine; a decade earlier, the number was five thousand.

Duh.....You don't want to know what they're cutting it with nowadays.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:18 PM (2YhKe)

151 Speak softly and carry a big stick. He approaches you, you smash his head, call the police and tell them you feared for your life and defended yourself.

the article I linked had a young lady who did jujitsu on the dude!

he sort of was shocked then ran away

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 18, 2026 03:18 PM (j+aD2)

152 Hold on I just put an extra nothingburger on the grill.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 18, 2026 03:17 PM

Can't you just stay in your lane?

Posted by: Charles "Chuck" Schumer (D-NY) at August 18, 2026 03:18 PM (0sNs1)

153 12
It would take but a few years before Lane nuked his own "credibility" and "reputation" as a judge of character into orbit.
====

So much for unbiased journalisming.

Also, Forbes your reputation is trashed too.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 18, 2026 02:50 PM (JvZF+)

Too late for that. Forbes was pretty much liberal swill long before this came out.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 18, 2026 03:19 PM (Sj6Ot)

154 Oh boy just in time for the midterms. A massive trove of Epstein documents are going to be released after a judge directed previously unsealing previously sealed documents that a Fed judge had ordered sealed when Epstein pled guilty.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Hold on I just put an extra nothingburger on the grill.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 18, 2026 03:17 PM (YZ0Fo)

Blowing up Trump would require leftist minions to learn to read.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:19 PM (uhVAy)

155 It was Forbes' online reporters that exposed TNR's fabulist Stephen Glass.
Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:10 PM (Jr5Lq)

Okay, thank you.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 18, 2026 03:19 PM (Sco7b)

156 I'd like to know how college kids can afford nose candy. We certainly couldn't in my day. Cheap Beer and a Pinner was about it.
Posted by: Howdy at August 18, 2026 03:15 PM (f7Poz)

Did you graduate with $500K in 'student' loans?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic a

===

I remember strategically buying Nat Light because it saved like $5 for a 30 pack, even though it was objectively worse than something like Coors.

I was willing to drink beer I hated to save like 15 cents a beer.

Posted by: Leupold at August 18, 2026 03:19 PM (eIzlH)

157 Speaking of religion, this guy makes friends wherever he goes.

I've been reading a book by a guy who spent a year in a cell* with Nazi war criminal Jurgen Stroop. Stroop called Catholicism "a catch-all of religions, infected with Judaism." He further claimed that Christianity was created as a Jewish conspiracy for "the weakening and debasement of man through guilt."

-
So that's the problem with Catholicism, too Jewish.

* He had fought with the resistance group the Polish Home Army but the Soviets, with their inherent fair play and respect for the truth, declared the Home Army a collaborationist group and arrested him as a Nazi collaborator.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 18, 2026 03:19 PM (ndZc7)

158 Did you graduate with $500K in 'student' loans?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2026 03:17 PM (ExV1e)

Ah. Good point. No, no I did not.

I did graduate with an appreciation for Schaefer cans. We bought them in flats, warm, for $8 at the local hardware store.

Posted by: Howdy at August 18, 2026 03:19 PM (f7Poz)

159 Duh.....You don't want to know what they're cutting it with nowadays.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:18 PM (2YhKe)

Descent into a low trust society.
You can't even trust your dealer anymore.
Unlike heritage America.
R.I.P.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 18, 2026 03:20 PM (K3f7J)

160 I had a deerstalker hat my last few years in high school, and in college. Bought it in London.

Eventually went with a fedora-style hat à la Indiana Jones. I’ve worn one of those ever since. Except when it’s really cold in the winter, when I break out the mink shapka that I bought for $50 in the bazaar in Akmola, Kazakhstan.

Posted by: Bulg at August 18, 2026 03:20 PM (77rzZ)

161 77 Look, someone has to have a talk with the young people - young men especially - about their stupid throwback eyeglasses and effeminate pompadours. It is eye cancer and gayer than a drag show. TJM is the only remaining HQer under a 105, so this sad duty falls to him.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 18, 2026 03:04 PM (K3f7J)

Hey, I've been griping about The Glasses(tm) for years, and I'm significantly younger than 105.

Posted by: pookysgirl, chopped liver at August 18, 2026 03:20 PM (Wt5PA)

162 He graduated two years ago. He was still running the coke to the campus, supposedly pounds at a time.

which is what I figured

so why loop the frats into it? the part about pledges cutting stuff is probably not even true!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 18, 2026 03:16 PM (j+aD2)
_____

I'll bet this started out very small, selling a few baggies of coke to frat bros and party girls. They got away with it, so the operation grew and grew.

Frats make a lot of sense because many own their own frathouses and thus are largely immune from college oversight. Shit can happen in a frathouse basement that ain't nobody ever gonna find out about.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 18, 2026 03:20 PM (iFTx/)

163 Imagine promoting politics you dislike, just to make it in the industry. How would you even gauge your own work?
Posted by: SciVo

By the number of times you whored yourself out. DC and the media attract people that want power and celebrity in that order. And they come from a narrow slice of America--the striving upper middle class and upper class--through the Ivies, law school, politically oriented jobs, and ultimately they find themselves grubbing on behalf of donors and members of Congress that are often major league sociopaths. So it all becomes simply a game to gain power, money, and climb the Hill. No actual feelings on anything.

I know quite a few DC folks my age and some young ones that got chewed up by reality there and in my state's politics. Some are burnouts, all are cynical, and some have ascended to be powers behind the throne.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:20 PM (E4rtv)

164
In 2023, there were about thirty thousand drug overdose deaths in the United States involving cocaine; a decade earlier, the number was five thousand.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan

===================

Good lord.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

=========

Followup question, I wonder who it is that's taking themselves out of the gene pool. Low-lifers, dead-enders, hookers, that type? Or people we consider tragic losses -- "she was so promising, so full of potential, but once she got hooked on that drug she was a slave to it"?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 03:21 PM (XJ22o)

165 ""In 2023, there were about thirty thousand drug overdose deaths in the United States involving cocaine; a decade earlier, the number was five thousand."

Do you have a link for that?"

Google AI sez it's true! IDNKT!

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:21 PM (Jr5Lq)

166 Hold on I just put an extra nothingburger on the grill.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 18, 2026 03:17 PM (YZ0Fo)

Are you mad? The only possible reason that a federal judge would seal those records is because they contain concrete evidence that dRumpf is a pedo. You see the way that the judges let him get away with everything.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2026 03:21 PM (ExV1e)

167 Walther beer. Out of Colorado, IIRC. $0.99/six-pack.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 18, 2026 03:21 PM (0sNs1)

168 I've been reading a book by a guy who spent a year in a cell* with Nazi war criminal Jurgen Stroop. Stroop called Catholicism "a catch-all of religions, infected with Judaism." He further claimed that Christianity was created as a Jewish conspiracy for "the weakening and debasement of man through guilt."

-
So that's the problem with Catholicism, too Jewish.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 18, 2026 03:19 PM (ndZc7)

Makes sense, all the apostles but Paul would have been Jewish.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:21 PM (uhVAy)

169
Google AI sez it's true! IDNKT!

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:21 PM (Jr5Lq)

Google AI thought George Washington was a black guy.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:22 PM (2YhKe)

170 > When I was in college 5 years wasn’t uncommon. Inflation has changed that to 6 years I guess. Hence 24 years old.

Same.

The BYU student newspaper had a recurring column near graduation time featuring students who would graduate after only three years. I found the interviews funny. They always emphasized they were at BYU to get a degree and nothing else. "I didn't come here to meet people. I didn't come here for activities. I just want the paper and I'm out."

Part of me admired the focus. But I always thought they missed out on so much. I met, made friends with, and dated some amazing people at BYU.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 18, 2026 03:22 PM (mkw2N)

171 "Agostino Abbatiello surrendered himself

He's no Otter.
Posted by: Duncanthrax"

He does remind me of a fish. I don't know what kind though.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2026 03:22 PM (MWfyi)

172 I'll bet this started out very small, selling a few baggies of coke to frat bros and party girls. They got away with it, so the operation grew and grew.

Frats make a lot of sense because many own their own frathouses and thus are largely immune from college oversight. Shit can happen in a frathouse basement that ain't nobody ever gonna find out about.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

I tell you what, the local uni had better be grateful that the local frats seems to be going with cigars (despite the university's efforts to ban all tobacco everywhere in town) as their drug of choice.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 18, 2026 03:23 PM (vJrRc)

173 137 Oh boy just in time for the midterms. A massive trove of Epstein documents are going to be released after a judge directed previously unsealing previously sealed documents that a Fed judge had ordered sealed when Epstein pled guilty.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Eh, Epstein's clients, many of which are financial big wigs but not necessarily clients of his whores.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:23 PM (E4rtv)

174 He does remind me of a fish. I don't know what kind though.

blobfish

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 18, 2026 03:23 PM (j+aD2)

175
Are you mad? The only possible reason that a federal judge would seal those records is because they contain concrete evidence that dRumpf is a pedo. You see the way that the judges let him get away with everything.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2026 03:21 PM (ExV1e)

This must be the same reason the Biden administration didn't release anything for 4 years of his presidency.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:23 PM (2YhKe)

176 with apologies to Risky Business:

Agostino's Father: Do you have something to tell me?
Agostino: No… I don’t think so.
Agostino's Father: I just got off the telephone with Bill Rutherford. Apparently, you two had quite a meeting. “Penn State can use a guy like Agostino.” His exact words!
Agostino: That’s unbelievable!
Agostino's Father: You’re as good as in! I knew you could do it! Haven’t I been telling you, sometimes you have to say: “What the heck!” Take some chances.
Agostino: You were so right.
Agostino's Father: You’ve made me very proud.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 18, 2026 03:23 PM (Sj6Ot)

177 so why loop the frats into it? the part about pledges cutting stuff is probably not even true!
Posted by: Black Orchid

Probably what the bint was referring to when she mentioned "hazing".

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 18, 2026 03:23 PM (w9Wax)

178 That's not even a proper fedora
that's a trilby, which is several degrees more gay

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2026 03:23 PM (ZxPkt)

179 Frats make a lot of sense because many own their own frathouses and thus are largely immune from college oversight. Shit can happen in a frathouse basement that ain't nobody ever gonna find out about.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

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Yea, but if you're running a criminal enterprise with lots of cash, just seems really stupid to have lots of civilians circulating around. I feel like any other college, it would get around quick if pledges were bagging cocaine.

Find some offsite apartment or office space.

Posted by: Leupold at August 18, 2026 03:23 PM (eIzlH)

180 Eventually went with a fedora-style hat à la Indiana Jones. I’ve worn one of those ever since. ...

Posted by: Bulg
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Merl Haggard liked those high crown hats.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 03:24 PM (Cq/ve)

181 Walther beer. Out of Colorado, IIRC. $0.99/six-pack.

Damn Dunc. They were almost paying you to drink it.

The flat cheapest I remember, back in the early 90s, was Sterling at the local Super 8. They had a bar (at a Super 8, of all places). They sold 10 oz. drafts of Sterling, in a plastic cup, for a quarter on Thursdays.

That shit was awful. But I drank it. It was, after all, a quarter.

Posted by: Howdy at August 18, 2026 03:24 PM (f7Poz)

182 Do you have a link for that?
Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:17 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Data from the CDC Wonder system's multiple cause of death records (search or https:// wonder. cdc. gov/ mcd.html). A lot of drug overdoses involve multiple types of drugs, so it isn't that cocaine is the sole culprit in all those deaths, but that particular drug had really picked up again from the mid-10s to mid-20s.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 18, 2026 03:24 PM (+ovo7)

183 Followup question, I wonder who it is that's taking themselves out of the gene pool. Low-lifers, dead-enders, hookers, that type? Or people we consider tragic losses -- "she was so promising, so full of potential, but once she got hooked on that drug she was a slave to it"?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 03:21 PM (XJ22o)

Well there was potential NBA star for the Celtics Len Bias who just dropped dead taking what I think was cocaine in the 80s. Even in those innocent times some peeps just popped a fuze when taking those drugs. Probably why originally people used to just gnaw on the leaves a bit.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:24 PM (uhVAy)

184 Oh boy just in time for the midterms. A massive trove of Epstein documents are going to be released after a judge directed previously unsealing previously sealed documents that a Fed judge had ordered sealed when Epstein pled guilty.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Hold on I just put an extra nothingburger on the grill.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 18, 2026 03:17 PM (YZ0Fo)___________

What did I say yesterday about that dubious claim by the playboy playmate that Hugh Hefner ratted to the FBI about Epstein? I said it was bullshit and just another way to keep his name in the news.

And now this? This was obviously coordinated. They will never ever ever ever ever stop fucking the Epstein pig.

The Blade, he knows things. Trust The Blade.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 18, 2026 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

185 Are you mad? The only possible reason that a federal judge would seal those records is because they contain concrete evidence that dRumpf is a pedo. You see the way that the judges let him get away with everything.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Considering the dude is a Democrat appointed judge, doubtful. I think the public has moved on.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:24 PM (E4rtv)

186 Not to keep harping on the CA tire ruling, but Nancy Skinner, one of 5 commissioners on the CEC, has a witch face:

https://tinyurl.com/5f68x2wd

Posted by: beckster at August 18, 2026 03:24 PM (kX27y)

187 "Google AI thought George Washington was a black guy......."

Google AI continues:

"Health experts point out that this massive increase over the decade wasn't just because more people were using cocaine. Instead, it was largely driven by the arrival of fentanyl, a incredibly strong man-made opioid. Drug dealers began mixing fentanyl into the cocaine supply. Because fentanyl is so strong, a tiny amount can cause a fatal overdose, often without the person even knowing they were taking."

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:24 PM (Jr5Lq)

188 Abbatiello is a blow fish, obviously

Posted by: or soon will be at August 18, 2026 03:25 PM (88C+u)

189 State Pen

Ha ha.

Posted by: Penn State or . . . at August 18, 2026 03:25 PM (anL5R)

190 And they come from a narrow slice of America--the striving upper middle class and upper class--through the Ivies, law school, politically oriented jobs, and ultimately they find themselves grubbing on behalf of donors and members of Congress that are often major league sociopaths. So it all becomes simply a game to gain power, money, and climb the Hill. No actual feelings on anything.
Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:20 PM

Called by Peter Turchik (and probably some others) as "the overproduction of Elites".

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 18, 2026 03:25 PM (0sNs1)

191

Well there was potential NBA star for the Celtics Len Bias who just dropped dead taking what I think was cocaine in the 80s. Even in those innocent times some peeps just popped a fuze when taking those drugs. Probably why originally people used to just gnaw on the leaves a bit.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:24 PM (uhVAy)

He was a stud in college. Got drafted by the Celtics. Bought cocaine and died with his first snort.

Never played a game for them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:25 PM (2YhKe)

192 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2026 03:25 PM (Ia/+0)

193 Oh man, I had Walther! That beer tasted like what you paid for it. But being a poor then, I still drank it.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 18, 2026 03:25 PM (n5tGW)

194 Yea, but if you're running a criminal enterprise with lots of cash, just seems really stupid to have lots of civilians circulating around. I feel like any other college, it would get around quick if pledges were bagging cocaine.

Find some offsite apartment or office space.
Posted by: Leupold at August 18, 2026 03:23 PM (eIzlH)

Then people might wonder about your foot traffic and supply drops.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:25 PM (uhVAy)

195 182 https:// wonder. cdc. gov/ mcd.html
Thanks!

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:25 PM (Jr5Lq)

196
The BYU student newspaper had a recurring column near graduation time featuring students who would graduate after only three years. I found the interviews funny. They always emphasized they were at BYU to get a degree and nothing else. "I didn't come here to meet people. I didn't come here for activities. I just want the paper and I'm out."

Part of me admired the focus. But I always thought they missed out on so much. I met, made friends with, and dated some amazing people at BYU.
Posted by: bonhomme

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It's just so expensive now to go to college, I can see it being normal to just to get out as quick as possible and making a living.

Probably every year you stay at a college is another 5-10 years of debt for some of these people.

Posted by: Leupold at August 18, 2026 03:26 PM (eIzlH)

197 Agostino looks like a cartoon character

Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2026 03:26 PM (Ia/+0)

198 Not to keep harping on the CA tire ruling, but Nancy Skinner, one of 5 commissioners on the CEC, has a witch face:

https://tinyurl.com/5f68x2wd
Posted by: beckster at August 18, 2026 03:24 PM (kX27y)

She truly believes it's her duty to control every aspect of your life. F*cking LOOK at her. She thinks you're shit and she MUST control you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:26 PM (2YhKe)

199 And now this? This was obviously coordinated. They will never ever ever ever ever stop fucking the Epstein pig.

The Blade, he knows things. Trust The Blade.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

It's dead. Fetch is not going to happen.

What I suspect soon is another bomb on the Dems, and that is foreign interference and cheating in our elections. Trump plays the long game too.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:26 PM (E4rtv)

200
he did it
the crazy sonofabitch did it

https://tinyurl.com/ynpzcwxk

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2026 03:26 PM (ZxPkt)

201 From Pedd State to Cocaine U in around a decade. Huh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:27 PM (2YhKe)

202 Did not expect a guy with a really good Mafia name busted for organizing a coke ring to look like Buddy Holly.

Posted by: Azjaeger at August 18, 2026 03:27 PM (3/XaG)

203 Biden White House Advisors Dubbed Themselves 'Politburo'
Last updated
Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2026 03:02 PM (ZxPkt)

But Democrats are totes afraid of some socialist radicals!!

Posted by: ... at August 18, 2026 03:27 PM (+rw6l)

204 Oh man, I had Walther! That beer tasted like what you paid for it. But being a poor then, I still drank it.

Nothing wrong with a "value beer". I still drink Natural Light. Its just beer. And besides, I like that they went back to the old style can. It looks like a damn beer ought to look.

Posted by: Howdy at August 18, 2026 03:27 PM (f7Poz)

205 Frats make a lot of sense because many own their own frathouses and thus are largely immune from college oversight. Shit can happen in a frathouse basement that ain't nobody ever gonna find out about.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

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Wow, you totally made that sound gay.

Posted by: Memories? at August 18, 2026 03:27 PM (anL5R)

206 Nah. They're white.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 18, 2026 02:52 PM (PGK1w)

Exactly. Why are we talking about this? Chuck them in jail for 30 years. Course, if i'm a white rich kid looking down the barrel of a coke charge in my last year in college, i'm showing up to court in a party city wig and cocktail dress 2 sizes too small and demand a mistrial because my name is Crystal Ballz and the guy that sold the coke is dead! And dead naming is a crime! Hah!

Posted by: Nelly at August 18, 2026 03:28 PM (6+ehB)

207 Frats make a lot of sense because many own their own frathouses and thus are largely immune from college oversight. Shit can happen in a frathouse basement that ain't nobody ever gonna find out about.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

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Yea, but if you're running a criminal enterprise with lots of cash, just seems really stupid to have lots of civilians circulating around. I feel like any other college, it would get around quick if pledges were bagging cocaine.

Find some offsite apartment or office space.
Posted by: Leupold at August 18, 2026 03:23 PM (eIzlH)
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I'm sure lotsa people on campus knew about it. Just like when I was in college, everyone knew which frats were most generous with the booze and drugs, which sorority sisters were most generous with their pussies, etc.

I'll bet this was an open secret on campus. I mean, with the amounts of coke reportedly recovered -- pounds of it -- it seems like these frats were supplying everyone on campus.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 18, 2026 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

208 That dude in the lower photo got crooked ears. Looks weird.

Posted by: Case at August 18, 2026 03:28 PM (VrYHL)

209 Kolchak’s hat was practically a character in its own right on that show.

Posted by: Bulg at August 18, 2026 03:28 PM (77rzZ)

210 200 Yes, I think it's crazy.

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:29 PM (Jr5Lq)

211 What I suspect soon is another bomb on the Dems, and that is foreign interference and cheating in our elections. Trump plays the long game too.
Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:26 PM (E4rtv)

Commie theater in NYC is gonna be terribly bad optics for the party. Especially with some factions in the city government doing passive resistance. It was funny when the city police refused to staff security for his wife's junket to Palestine.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:29 PM (uhVAy)

212 BTW - Somebody better warn Bryson Dechambeau

His new Canadian girlfriend is cray cray but also unbelievably hot.

He's doomed.

Posted by: Its a problem, but not one I have at August 18, 2026 03:29 PM (anL5R)

213 Walther beer. Out of Colorado, IIRC. $0.99/six-pack.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 18, 2026 03:21 PM

Walther rifles >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Walther beer

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2026 03:30 PM (LQKAS)

214 Called by Peter Turchik (and probably some others) as "the overproduction of Elites".
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Yep. John Updike and whatshisname Irving like to have dystopian novels about suburbia. They would have been better served by writing them about DC. Same for the far better Tom Wolfe. Hunter Thompson approached it in Fear and Loathing but never spent much time in DC to understand its culture and how that affected who ran the political machines for the Dems and GOP.

Blowing hoboes in teh alley is more honest work than the virtual blow jobs that staffers have to do to service big political donors, their own tin pot dictator in office, and connected assholes in DC beltway.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:30 PM (E4rtv)

215 Frats make a lot of sense because many own their own frathouses and thus are largely immune from college oversight. Shit can happen in a frathouse basement that ain't nobody ever gonna find out about.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

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Wow, you totally made that sound gay.
Posted by: Memories? at August 18, 2026 03:27 PM (anL5R)
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It is. I never joined a frat because it sounded very gay. And the hazing almost always involved getting naked in front of other dudes. Not my thing.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 18, 2026 03:30 PM (iFTx/)

216 I know a LOT of people who work under the table!
Posted by: Black Orchid
.......

Somebody's gotta clean all the old bubble gum off.

Posted by: wth at August 18, 2026 03:31 PM (UjdFS)

217 Oh man, I had Walther! That beer tasted like what you paid for it. But being a poor then, I still drank it.

Nothing wrong with a "value beer". I still drink Natural Light. Its just beer. And besides, I like that they went back to the old style can. It looks like a damn beer ought to look.
Posted by: Howdy at August 18, 2026 03:27 PM (f7Poz)

When I was in St Louis there were 'generic' and off brand beers that were just rejects or oversupplies of the various big beer companies in towns. They could be pretty good if you were lucky.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:31 PM (uhVAy)

218 >> lot of drug overdoses involve multiple types of drugs, so it isn't that cocaine is the sole culprit in all those deaths, but that particular drug had really picked up again from the mid-10s to mid-20s.

I've read that this is how people OD on fentanyl.
Fentanyl is added to most street drugs, so someone like that "The Wire" who is used to taking drugs, especially mixing them, unknowingly takes several fentanyl-laced substances (like coke and something else) and dies.
They never intentionally took fentanyl, but manage to OD via other drugs.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2026 03:31 PM (X8xt3)

219 Makes sense, all the apostles but Paul would have been Jewish.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:21 PM

Who wants to tell him?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2026 03:31 PM (LQKAS)

220
What I suspect soon is another bomb on the Dems, and that is foreign interference and cheating in our elections. Trump plays the long game too.
Posted by: whig

===================

You mean something that has NOT slipped through the Statute of Limitations?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 03:32 PM (XJ22o)

221 Commie theater in NYC is gonna be terribly bad optics for the party. Especially with some factions in the city government doing passive resistance. It was funny when the city police refused to staff security for his wife's junket to Palestine.
Posted by: Oldcat

Duncepack is a problem for the GOP, so many stupid Democrats in office or as candidates, it begins to blur which dumb sociopath are the Dems pushing this time.

I hope the money that the GOP has hoarded until now is spent on plenty of grapeshot.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:32 PM (E4rtv)

222 Commie theater in NYC is gonna be terribly bad optics for the party. Especially with some factions in the city government doing passive resistance. It was funny when the city police refused to staff security for his wife's junket to Palestine.

I bitch plenty about Trump - so I'll give credit where due. He doesn't play that stupid Republican game where he won't "lower himself" into getting into the ugly details of exactly how miserable the DNC behaves. Oh no - not The Donald. He gets right down there in the muck.

Which is necessary. Good on him. Its work that has to be done.

Posted by: Howdy at August 18, 2026 03:32 PM (f7Poz)

223 It is. I never joined a frat because it sounded very gay. And the hazing almost always involved getting naked in front of other dudes. Not my thing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 18, 2026 03:30 PM (iFTx/)

My first college roomie was a Jewish guy working to getting into the appropriate frat. Heard a lot of the silly stuff, seemed like a lot of effort for nothing to me.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:32 PM (uhVAy)

224
Then people might wonder about your foot traffic and supply drops.
Posted by: Oldcat

==

There's somebody in my office building that runs a drop shipping company that are medical supplies. Young people. In and out all the time, lots of thins being brought in and out, etc.

I would not be the wiser if it was drugs.

Just seems way smarter than having an open secret cocaine operation in a frat house and having random people involved, Which is why this got busted.

Posted by: Leupold at August 18, 2026 03:33 PM (eIzlH)

225 When I was in St Louis there were 'generic' and off brand beers that were just rejects or oversupplies of the various big beer companies in towns. They could be pretty good if you were lucky.

I truly believe Milwaukee's Best is just over-runs of Miller Lite. They taste the same to me.

Posted by: Howdy at August 18, 2026 03:34 PM (f7Poz)

226 And the hazing almost always involved getting naked in front of other dudes. Not my thing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

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Granted this is based on a sample population of . . uh . . . me, but I think you may need to back away from 'almost always.'

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 18, 2026 03:34 PM (tToWO)

227 It's funny how debilitating, habit-forming, addictive, destructive behavior is ALWAYS advertised as freedom.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 18, 2026 03:12 PM (mkw2N)
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Because it is "freedom". The outcome of freedom is not de facto a good.

Consider the pistons in a car engine cylinder. "Degrees of freedom" is not a very good thing.

The classic tale of a certain choice in a certain garden, because they physically could, should illustrate this concept to us.

Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2026 03:34 PM (Fi81e)

228 Considering the dude is a Democrat appointed judge, doubtful. I think the public has moved on.
Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:24 PM (E4rtv)

The batteries in your sarcasm detector may be dead.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2026 03:34 PM (ExV1e)

229 Lambda! Lambda! Lambda!

Posted by: Lex at August 18, 2026 03:34 PM (+ScOG)

230 Penn State should have been burned to the ground and the ground salted after their feetball coaches raped all those boys while Joe Pa slept.

Posted by: Nittany Pederasts at August 18, 2026 03:35 PM (9WAJE)

231 I know a LOT of people who work under the table!

Posted by: Black Orchid
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Wait. Forgot my sock.

Posted by: Kamala at August 18, 2026 03:35 PM (Fi81e)

232 I have heard the phrase “ the champagne of bottle beers” which one was that?

Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 03:36 PM (Gqar8)

233 220
What I suspect soon is another bomb on the Dems, and that is foreign interference and cheating in our elections. Trump plays the long game too.
Posted by: whig

===================

You mean something that has NOT slipped through the Statute of Limitations?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

No, I mean possibly declaring a national emergency over it and overriding courts and the states on election procedures. It would be crossing the Rubicon so I don't know if Trump will pull the trigger but I think from his earlier more mild statement, he just might do it.

Same as declaring the ballroom a military installation and massive security risk. Trump also quietly militarized the Southern Border including a key AZ Indian Reservation that had served as an open door for cartel and immigrant smuggling. Shut. And we are in an on and off again shooting war with Iran. So we shall see what happens.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:36 PM (E4rtv)

234 Suddenly "Happy Valley" whiteout games takes on a whole new meaning. Hopefully they weren't "diddling" little boys...

Posted by: pahound at August 18, 2026 03:36 PM (AjR4+)

235 Um, why'd ya have to arrest the cocaine guy?

Posted by: Candace "Snowens" at August 18, 2026 03:36 PM (Y/u0P)

236 Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell ya, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon... you know, cause I've worked in a lot of newsrooms and I tell you people do that all the time.

*Wipes away tears with wads of $100 bills*

Posted by: Randall Lane at August 18, 2026 03:36 PM (V362x)

237 I truly believe Milwaukee's Best is just over-runs of Miller Lite. They taste the same to me.
Posted by: Howdy at August 18, 2026 03:34 PM (f7Poz)

Red, White and Blue is just Pabst Blue Ribbon

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:37 PM (uhVAy)

238 It is. I never joined a frat because it sounded very gay. And the hazing almost always involved getting naked in front of other dudes. Not my thing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 18, 2026 03:30 PM (iFTx/)

My first college roomie was a Jewish guy working to getting into the appropriate frat. Heard a lot of the silly stuff, seemed like a lot of effort for nothing to me.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:32 PM (uhVAy)
______

Joining a frat -- especially in rural PA where I went to college -- opened a lot of doors to party and girl opportunities, with the hope that the frat "network" would help you later professionally.

But I had already been partying in NYC clubs by the time I went to college, and was already beyond macking on drunk college girls. So what did I care about the rural PA frat scene?

I did have some buddies in one of the more popular frats, so I can't say I blew off the the frat party and girl scene completely.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 18, 2026 03:37 PM (iFTx/)

239 I have heard the phrase “ the champagne of bottle beers” which one was that?
Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 03:36 PM

Wasn't that Miller High Life?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2026 03:37 PM (LQKAS)

240 Um, why'd ya have to arrest the cocaine guy?
Posted by: Candace "Snowens" at August 18, 2026 03:36 PM (Y/u0P)

Now way she does coke, OD for sure with those nozzles.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:37 PM (uhVAy)

241
The batteries in your sarcasm detector may be dead.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Irony and sarcasm is dead here, Kemosabe. Expired by overuse.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:37 PM (E4rtv)

242 230 Yep. I read the Freeh Report. Demonic stuff going on there.

Posted by: Bulg at August 18, 2026 03:38 PM (77rzZ)

243 I have heard the phrase “ the champagne of bottle beers” which one was that?
Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 03:36 PM

Wasn't that Miller High Life?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2026 03:37 PM (LQKAS)

that's why they had clear glass instead of green or brown glass.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:38 PM (uhVAy)

244 frat/sorority family here...

I'm surrounded by GDIs on this site!

damn!

btw no nudity reported I just canvassed the guys

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 18, 2026 03:38 PM (j+aD2)

245 Penn State should have been burned to the ground and the ground salted after their feetball coaches raped all those boys while Joe Pa slept.
Posted by: Nittany Pederasts at August 18, 2026 03:35 PM (9WAJE)

Agreed.

Instead, they lost a few scholarships and 2 bowl games.

Whooptydo.......they F*CKED KIDS for DECADES.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:38 PM (2YhKe)

246 "No, I mean possibly declaring a national emergency over it and overriding courts and the states on election procedures."

The left has been predicting for months he'd do that. Does he really want to do it?

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:38 PM (Jr5Lq)

247 Lane should try the autistic defense.

Posted by: PG at August 18, 2026 03:39 PM (qln0f)

248 Enjoyed my time in a fraternity. Never got naked in front of other dudes or had anything stuck in my fartclam.

Posted by: ballistic at August 18, 2026 03:39 PM (oqH4h)

249 Agostino Abbatiello surrendered himself

Accounting major. He'd be an interesting TA to have had.

Posted by: t-bird at August 18, 2026 03:39 PM (Cuw0G)

250 I have heard the phrase “ the champagne of bottle beers” which one was that?
Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 03:36 PM

Wasn't that Miller High Life?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2026 03:37 PM (LQKAS)

It was simply "The Champaign of Beers."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:39 PM (2YhKe)

251 223 It is. I never joined a frat because it sounded very gay. And the hazing almost always involved getting naked in front of other dudes. Not my thing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 18, 2026 03:30 PM (iFTx/)

My first college roomie was a Jewish guy working to getting into the appropriate frat. Heard a lot of the silly stuff, seemed like a lot of effort for nothing to me.
Posted by: Oldcat
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All about networking for the future and trying to have a social life. Fine for those that joined, fine for those that did not. No big deal.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:39 PM (E4rtv)

252 Still is, by the way.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:39 PM (2YhKe)

253 especially in rural PA where I went to college -

hmm where was this where was this

let me guess

Dickinson?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 18, 2026 03:39 PM (j+aD2)

254 There is nothing in our Founding Documents that includes freedom from consequences.

Posted by: mrp at August 18, 2026 03:39 PM (rj6Yv)

255 Hat makes dude look like Leo from "Get Shorty."

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 18, 2026 03:39 PM (NYInA)

256 248 Enjoyed my time in a fraternity. Never got naked in front of other dudes or had anything stuck in my fartclam.

Posted by: ballistic
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Ah, but did you have to say, "Thank You Sir, May I have Another?"

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:40 PM (E4rtv)

257 I truly believe Milwaukee's Best is just over-runs of Miller Lite. They taste the same to me.

Posted by: Howdy at August 18, 2026 03:34 PM (f7Poz)
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What they ring out of the mop after it runs over.

Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2026 03:40 PM (Fi81e)

258 All about networking for the future and trying to have a social life. Fine for those that joined, fine for those that did not. No big deal.
Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:39 PM (E4rtv)

All alien stuff.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:40 PM (uhVAy)

259 It was simply "The Champaign of Beers."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:39 PM

You are correct, sir. Never drank it, though. The RMBS Dad liked to brew, so my taste buds got spoiled by the good stuff early on.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2026 03:40 PM (LQKAS)

260 Hat makes dude look like Leo from "Get Shorty."
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 18, 2026 03:39 PM (NYInA)

Did Leo look like a cumgargling fag?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:41 PM (2YhKe)

261 She truly believes it's her duty to control every aspect of your life. F*cking LOOK at her. She thinks you're shit and she MUST control you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:26 PM (2YhKe)
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Yup, I went on her wiki and she has a very long, very controlling history. She's 72, I thought she looked older than that.

Posted by: beckster at August 18, 2026 03:41 PM (kX27y)

262
You are correct, sir. Never drank it, though. The RMBS Dad liked to brew, so my taste buds got spoiled by the good stuff early on.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2026 03:40 PM (LQKAS)

Drank it early on, before MGD came out. It wasn't all that bad, honestly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:41 PM (2YhKe)

263 Okay I unlazied for a moment. Miller High Life ( that’s a name?) is, indeed, “ THE champagne of bottled beers, according to the netz. Apparently not the champagne of draft beers, though.

Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 03:42 PM (Gqar8)

264 Before and after pictures of Ceuta. The third world can happen within a week.

https://tinyurl.com/4zbhx5y5

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 18, 2026 03:42 PM (n5tGW)

265 There is nothing in our Founding Documents that includes freedom from consequences.

Posted by: mrp at August 18, 2026 03:39 PM (rj6Yv)
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But that was the freedom the liberals started to covet most of all, before it became full-blown leftism.

Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2026 03:42 PM (Fi81e)

266 "No, I mean possibly declaring a national emergency over it and overriding courts and the states on election procedures."

The left has been predicting for months he'd do that. Does he really want to do it?
Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:38 PM (Jr5Lq)

Just plunking a bunch of agents with some backup in the bad areas will likely ruin the Dem's need to produce 440 million fake votes to come out on top.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:42 PM (uhVAy)

267 Drank it early on, before MGD came out. It wasn't all that bad, honestly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:41 PM

Fair enough. I'll cop to having drunk Busch in college when that was the only thing we had. Granted, I was pretty drunk at the time.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2026 03:43 PM (LQKAS)

268 All about networking for the future and trying to have a social life. Fine for those that joined, fine for those that did not. No big deal.
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the naked elephant walk bothers some guys more than others I guess. . .

Posted by: Raised Eyebrow at August 18, 2026 03:43 PM (anL5R)

269 Dude went to the Max Boot School of buying hats that make you look like a total faggot.

Posted by: ballistic at August 18, 2026 03:43 PM (oqH4h)

270 especially in rural PA where I went to college -

hmm where was this where was this

let me guess

Dickinson?
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 18, 2026 03:39 PM (j+aD2)

It was one of the below:

Penn State
Bucknell
Susquehanna

Well, not Susquehanna -- but I spent quite a few weekends there. They were well known of having hot and very generous girls.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 18, 2026 03:43 PM (iFTx/)

271 There is nothing in our Founding Documents that includes freedom from consequences.

Posted by: mrp at August 18, 2026 03:39 PM (rj6Yv)
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But if the elites have shown us anything, some people can be free from consequences.

If they have the right connections.

Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2026 03:43 PM (Fi81e)

272 Before and after pictures of Ceuta. The third world can happen within a week.

https://tinyurl.com/4zbhx5y5
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 18, 2026 03:42 PM (n5tGW)

Set it ablaze.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:43 PM (2YhKe)

273 Dude went to the Max Boot School of buying hats that make you look like a total faggot.
Posted by: ballistic at August 18, 2026 03:43 PM

Valedictorian.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2026 03:43 PM (LQKAS)

274 omg Elric you went to FuckHell and did NOT pledge a frat?

ok that's impressive

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 18, 2026 03:43 PM (j+aD2)

275 The left has been predicting for months he'd do that. Does he really want to do it?
Posted by: gp

None of us know what hand Trump has nor the evidence--someone like Chavez spilling the beans on cheating by Smartmatic and thus Dominion which licensed Smartmatic's software would put the cat among the pigeons.

Trump has been pretty good about OpSec this term rather than his first. But I think he is putting the pressure on Scotus to cram the states filled with fake registrations to kill the Dem judges injunctions forbidding the Feds from cleansing them. If those fake voter registrations go away, so does a big margin of fraud that the left can deploy easily. Not enough time to rack up a big new list.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:44 PM (E4rtv)

276 What is that rats nest on his head???

Posted by: Max Power at August 18, 2026 03:44 PM (q177U)

277 272 Before and after pictures of Ceuta. The third world can happen within a week.

https://tinyurl.com/4zbhx5y5
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
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Great ad material there for those that dare to use it.

Like seeing history come to life over sacking of cities by invaders.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:44 PM (E4rtv)

278 Think I read that Falstaff beer went out of business. Always liked that name. Falstaff. Name a beer after a Shakespeare character.

Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 03:45 PM (Gqar8)

279 But if the elites have shown us anything, some people can be free from consequences.

If they have the right connections.
Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2026 03:43 PM (Fi81e)

That's always been true which is why saner societies said they had to stand up exposed in battle and inspire us all being brave to get some of them shot.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:45 PM (uhVAy)

280 Agreed.

Instead, they lost a few scholarships and 2 bowl games.

Whooptydo.......they F*CKED KIDS for DECADES.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

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The NCAA is in the business of levying fines. Sweet sweet organization-funding fines.

PSU was a criminal matter, so no fines

So the NCAA ran away

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 18, 2026 03:45 PM (tToWO)

281
Fair enough. I'll cop to having drunk Busch in college when that was the only thing we had. Granted, I was pretty drunk at the time.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2026 03:43 PM (LQKAS)

Was at a good friend's house celebrating one of his daughter's achievements a while back. They had Busch Light, then the daughter went to the store and picked up straight Busch. I drank it......we went home. I wasn't really even buzzed, but walked into the house.......hit the toilet and made Buicks for the next 15 minutes........

Won't be touching that stuff again any time soon......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:45 PM (2YhKe)

282 Busch. They have a nice garden in Florida.

Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 03:46 PM (Gqar8)

283 "But I think he is putting the pressure on Scotus to cram the states filled with fake registrations to kill the Dem judges injunctions forbidding the Feds from cleansing them."

Does he currently have a case like that before SCOTUS?

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:46 PM (Jr5Lq)

284 The coolest college in PA was Slippery Rock.

Is it still around?

Posted by: Bulg at August 18, 2026 03:46 PM (77rzZ)

285 All alien stuff.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Some join the military for the same reasons or really any other group. Few people like to actually be alone.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:46 PM (E4rtv)

286 Great ad material there for those that dare to use it.

Like seeing history come to life over sacking of cities by invaders.
Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:44 PM (E4rtv)

NO one will use it and Big Media will never show it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:46 PM (2YhKe)

287 It was simply "The Champaign of Beers."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:39 PM

You are correct, sir. Never drank it, though. The RMBS Dad liked to brew, so my taste buds got spoiled by the good stuff early on.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2026 03:40 PM (LQKAS)
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The original ads for Miller Beer was "The Champagne of Bottled Beers", but it was shortened to "The Champagne of Beers" after WWII because Miller started shipping the brew in steel, then aluminum cans.

Posted by: mrp at August 18, 2026 03:46 PM (rj6Yv)

288 Old Milwelfare

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 18, 2026 03:47 PM (iyblN)

289 hit the toilet and made Buicks for the next 15 minutes........
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next to the dictionary entry for "TMI"

Posted by: thanks. thanks a lot. at August 18, 2026 03:47 PM (anL5R)

290 The coolest college in PA was Slippery Rock.

Is it still around?
Posted by: Bulg at August 18, 2026 03:46 PM (77rzZ)

it is a state school so yeah.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:48 PM (uhVAy)

291 In college I was dirt poor so mostly drank:

Milwaukee's Best (which we called the "Beast")
Old Milwaukee (which we called "Old Swill")
Busch (although this was more expensive so I rarely had it)

IIRC, the Beast wasn't that bad.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 18, 2026 03:48 PM (iFTx/)

292 Beer in steel cans. Hmmmm.

Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 03:48 PM (Gqar8)

293 Trump has been pretty good about OpSec this term rather than his first. But I think he is putting the pressure on Scotus to cram the states filled with fake registrations to kill the Dem judges injunctions forbidding the Feds from cleansing them. If those fake voter registrations go away, so does a big margin of fraud that the left can deploy easily. Not enough time to rack up a big new list.
Posted by: whig

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I firmly believe massive fraud occurs in our election system. What's disappointing is there's not the smoking gun type stuff being uncovered on the scale I think is going on. Like the closest thing I can think of was a small story in CA where a large amount of blank ballots was found in a criminal's car.

I wish someone like Musk would put bounties on this, like $5 million if you can show proof of manufacturing fraudulent votes.

There has to be lots of people involved that would rat someone out for a lot of money.

Posted by: Leupold at August 18, 2026 03:48 PM (eIzlH)

294 284 The coolest college in PA was Slippery Rock.

sure ... why is it cool?

it's pretty I guess

the coolest college here .. tough one

I would vote for Swarthmore

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 18, 2026 03:48 PM (j+aD2)

295 133 He graduated two years ago. He was still running the coke to the campus, supposedly pounds at a time.
___

He was redshirted.

Posted by: Cocaine University at August 18, 2026 03:49 PM (qUkBO)

296 Beer in steel cans. Hmmmm.
Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 03:48 PM (Gqar

those had the seams on the side made them hard to crush.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:49 PM (uhVAy)

297 Broke-ass college kid beer of choice for me and my buddies was always Natural Light.

Posted by: ballistic at August 18, 2026 03:50 PM (oqH4h)

298 Beer in steel cans. Hmmmm.
Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 03:48 PM (Gqar

I got into a trend of crushing aluminum cans off my forehead. Someone slipped in one of those Steel City beers which was in the Steel can.

Before I noticed it, I was lying on the floor with a big ring on my forehead.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:50 PM (2YhKe)

299 Does he currently have a case like that before SCOTUS?
Posted by: gp
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Yes, DoJ has multiple lawsuits demanding states under the Voting Rights Act give unredacted lists of voters so that the Feds can compare and find ineligible voters like illegals or dead people. And then there is the whole mail in ballot torpedo aimed Dems which has Elias and co suing to stop the USPS from only allowing mail to used by real verifiable voters--no more ballots sent to empty lots and ballots must use a trackable USPS envelop so receipt and sending times and dates are recorded.

Then there are ongoing investigations into voter fraud, the Deep State shuffle down in S. Florida involving the attempted Dem and Rino Coup in 2016, etc. etc.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:50 PM (E4rtv)

300 Beast was strictly to be funneled. Truly foul.

Posted by: ballistic at August 18, 2026 03:51 PM (oqH4h)

301 296 Beer in steel cans. Hmmmm.
Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 03:48 PM (Gqar

those had the seams on the side made them hard to crush.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:49 PM (uhVAy)

Guess it’s no weirder than vodka or bourbon in plastic jugs.

Posted by: tubal at August 18, 2026 03:51 PM (Gqar8)

302
He was redshirted.
Posted by: Cocaine University at August 18, 2026 03:49 PM (qUkBO)

It works for running backs who beat the shit out of their girlfriends........

Posted by: Bob Stoops at August 18, 2026 03:51 PM (2YhKe)

303 But if the elites have shown us anything, some people can be free from consequences.

If they have the right connections.
Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2026 03:43 PM (Fi81e)

That's always been true which is why saner societies said they had to stand up exposed in battle and inspire us all being brave to get some of them shot.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:45 PM (uhVAy)
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But that is freedom: the availability to choose a course you have the power/capability to choose.

Thus, paraplegics don't have a "freedom to get up and walk", many of the rest of us do.

This is my shot against Ayn Rand. Freedom is not thematically consistent, so if I can do it, have the brains and the means to manage it, I can take another person wholly captive. Especially if I can evade the law.

The "freedom" of "degrees of freedom" has no consideration for consistency.

Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2026 03:51 PM (Fi81e)

304 299 Thanks so much, whig!

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:51 PM (Jr5Lq)

305 Nood. That Michigan guy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2026 03:51 PM (ExV1e)

306 nood

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:52 PM (Jr5Lq)

307 Speaking of Lefties and the Law, Jill Stein just had a warrant issued for her arrest. Trespassing and assault on a police officer.

Remember her? Trotsky to Bernie's Stalin an election cycle or two ago.

The difference between her and "Doctor" Jill Biden is that Stein is an actual MD... Haaavard Medical School, no less, and she's old enough that it still meant something.

Too bad she went batshit crazy somewhere along the way.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 18, 2026 03:52 PM (IG3/x)

308 I got into a trend of crushing aluminum cans off my forehead. Someone slipped in one of those Steel City beers which was in the Steel can.

Before I noticed it, I was lying on the floor with a big ring on my forehead.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 18, 2026 03:50 PM (2YhKe)

Was a Rockford Files episode where Rockford's acquaintance from prison, played by Isaac Hayes, crushes a beer can to show his toughness and Rockford tells him with the Aluminum cans anyone can do it.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:52 PM (uhVAy)

309 I firmly believe massive fraud occurs in our election system. What's disappointing is there's not the smoking gun type stuff being uncovered on the scale I think is going on. Like the closest thing I can think of was a small story in CA where a large amount of blank ballots was found in a criminal's car.

I wish someone like Musk would put bounties on this, like $5 million if you can show proof of manufacturing fraudulent votes.

There has to be lots of people involved that would rat someone out for a lot of money.
Posted by: Leupold

The evidence is there but people ignored it as did courts using the standing rule. That the amount of fraud proven could not be shown to have caused defeat of the candidate. That standing ruling has now been overturned btw by Scotus in a little reported case last term.

Candidates now have standing to challenge rules, counting, etc. from teh get go, not to wait until after being cheated and their votes discarded. This is going to affect the Dem big cheat areas used to running things their own way.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2026 03:52 PM (E4rtv)

310 290 The coolest college in PA was Slippery Rock.

Is it still around?
Posted by: Bulg at August 18, 2026 03:46 PM (77rzZ)

it is a state school so yeah.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 18, 2026 03:48 PM (uhVAy)
______________________

There is a college in Turkey called "Batman University." It's in the Batman Province (which is a real thing). The capital of the Batman Province is called Batman. And it sits along the Batman River.

Posted by: Orson at August 18, 2026 03:53 PM (dIske)

311 "I wish someone like Musk would put bounties on this, like $5 million if you can show proof of manufacturing fraudulent votes."

Can DOJ, or state election offices, offer such bounties?

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2026 03:54 PM (Jr5Lq)

312 U. of Michigan had a thing for Slippery Rock. At Michigan football games, they’d announce that week’s final score of the Slippery Rock game, and the crowd would either cheer if SR had won, or boo if they had lost.

And, in 1979, SR played Shippensburg in Michigan Stadium when Michigan had an away game. My Dad and I went to see it. I forget who won.

Posted by: Bulg at August 18, 2026 03:55 PM (77rzZ)

313 You know who else was redshirted?

Posted by: ... at August 18, 2026 03:55 PM (+rw6l)

314 "she was so promising, so full of potential, but once she got hooked on that drug she was a slave to it"?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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She was on the D. Letterman show before she was a teen.
She's been in the business a long time.
One of the Baldwin brothers featured in an X, 'who set her up in the boat with the old rocker? They all did.'
I'll try to find it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 04:07 PM (Cq/ve)

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