The Morning Report — 8/ 21 /26

Good morning kids. As we briefly touched upon on the latest episode of the podcast linked here as well as in the sidebar and the popular platforms listed at the bottom of this post, there are many things that I'm grateful for in President Trump's second term and unlike Trump 1.0 the overwhelming majority of his staffing picks in cabinet and other key positions have been outstanding. It does make me feel positive insofar as our bench for future presidential elections in '28 and beyond.

his most stellar pick much to the surprise of many has been Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. The institution of a reverse domino effect in the Caribbean and Latin America in turning formerly what were thought of as permanent Socialist/Communist kleptocratic tyrannies into or at the very least taking their first steps into being free and prosperous societies and American allies has been one of the most significant foreign policy accomplishments in decades. The groundwork for this success was laid when President Ronald Reagan brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union which was the chief financier and sponsor of Latin American communist expansion and so without billions of rubles flowing in it was only a matter of time before these banana republic tyrants would follow suit. Although the political will to bring them down was also necessary and in the case of Venezuela, a little military action and legitimate cassus belli as was the case with the Maduro/Chavez regimes' massive narco-trafficking operations posing a grave threat to our safety and security.

But of course, the last remaining domino and symbol of communist failure, tyranny and misery that has yet to fall is Cuba. And so after 66 years it certainly appears as if Castroite communist Cuba may actually at long last be free or at least have a better than even chance of being free again.

Q: What did Communists use to light the night with before candles?
A: Electricity.
That is the kind of joke that survives because it is simple enough to tell in a bar, and true enough to sting.
In Havana these days, the joke has acquired an uglier second life.Fidel Castro would have turned 100 on August 13. The government marked the occasion with the familiar apparatus of revolutionary remembrance, and, increasingly, candles. Not birthday candles, but the kind a family keeps in the kitchen for when the electricity disappears again.

Without oil from Venezuela and Iran flowing in, Cuba can no longer export violence, terrorism and communism throughout the region and the globe, nor keep its own abused populace fed and fueled. That said, the government is one of the most effective and repressive police states on the planet so overcoming that as it has always been is the big challenge, just as it is in Iran and Red China, all of which have citizenry that are not pleased with their overlords.

Back to Marco Rubio, as a refugee from Castro's Cuba, the irony of him being our Secretary of State and a potential successor to President Trump himself should Cuba be liberated with him at the helm either in Foggy Bottom or perhaps seated at the Resolute Desk itself is too delicious to contemplate.

Considering the rise of the Democrat Socialites here in the US of A these days, their heads exploding as the statues and banners of the Castros are smashed and burned as Lenin's were in Russia when Communism fell is equally too delicious a prospect. No wonder they are/were in Cuba to celebrate Fidel as well as do their best to thwart President Trump and bolster Communism in Latin America.

But ¡Viva Rubio! who continues the fight regardless.

It seems that Marco Rubio has been pretty busy this week, and he's largely focused on eradicating communism, crime, and drug trafficking from the Western Hemisphere, which is exactly where I like him. Today, the Department of State is designating nine entities and three individuals to further the Trump Administration’s comprehensive push to end the Cuban regime’s malign activities, both in Cuba and across our hemisphere. This action targets the leadership of the U.S.-designated Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and designates nine Cuban entities supporting the regime.
These designations build on the Department’s July 20 report Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism, which summarizes the Cuban regime’s decades-long use of brigades, such as the one coordinated by the designated ICAP earlier this month, to advance Cuban interests at the expense of the United States.
.. .ICAP is the organization Fidel Castro began in 1960 to build global "friendship" and "solidarity" and maintain relationships with foreign activist groups. In reality, it's a way to spread communist propaganda. According to the State Department, "it claims to have more than 2,000 solidarity organizations across over 150 countries [and] serves as the main organizing hub of Cuba’s ideological network." Think Code Pink and the like. Additionally, "it coordinates research, educational, and cultural exchanges between American and Cuban institutions, builds relationships between American political movements and Cuban officials, and harnesses its global reach to draw leftwing activists, intellectuals, students, influencers and politicians to Cuba from across the world."

Of course the evil Commie rat bastards are not going to lay down and surrender. UN and Congress Commies stage next fake crisis.

The UN is outraged over events in Cuba. Not at the political repression by the Communist regime, the detention of over 1,200 political prisoners, the arrests of protesters, and the government-backed prostitution of children to foreign tourists, but at the U.S. sanctions which have kept foreign tourists from coming by to molest little kids and spend money.in Cuba.
The Communist regime in Havana is at its weakest in history and may be about to topple so the regime, the UN and Congress Commies have begun trying to fake a ‘Gaza-style’ crisis in Cuba. How is Cuba like Gaza? They’re both loser terrorist states lying furiously to play the victim.
And who better to certify that Cuba is Gaza with fewer mosques and more burritos.
The “silent Gaza” talking point had previously been promoted by four radical leftist members of Congress, Rep. Mark Pocan, Rep. Maxine Dexter, Rep Teresa Leger-Fernndez and Rep. Delia Catalina-Ramrez, who, despite the supposed “collapse of infrastructure” and “fuel shortages” that UN human rights experts were complaining about, were able to fly in and tour Cuba.
“I think Marco Rubio is making this personal and not professional,” Rep. Pocan whined, implying that the son of a Cuban refugee should really not take the dictatorship that destroyed his homeland personally. Rep. Pocan, who had spent much of the last few years defending Hamas-run Gaza from Israeli attacks on the Islamic group, claimed Cuba was a “silent Gaza.”
. . . How is Cuba like Gaza? They’re both loser terrorist states lying furiously to play the victim.. . Rep. Pocan and the rest of the delegation met with Cuban dictator Miguel Daz-Canel, not with the political prisoners imprisoned by the Communist dictatorship they had come to support. If they really cared about the ‘Cuban people’, they would have consented to meet with the families of political prisoners, as actual human rights activists were asking them to do.
Back in America, Rep. Pocan complained that “now they’re calling us Communists. Like, they’ve lost any credibility. They clearly haven’t taken a high school or even a junior high civics class recently, because they don’t understand the definitions of what they’re calling us.”

I'll leave you with the bitterest of all ironies in that we may very well liberate the world from Communism while at the same time America becomes a Communist hellhole itself. God-forbid.

And with that I bid you all to have a great weekend,

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. . . he's largely focused on eradicating communism, crime, and drug trafficking from the Western Hemisphere, which is exactly where I like him.
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THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
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1 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:12 AM (ExV1e)

2 I haz nooded. The blog clock seems to be weirdly off.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:13 AM (ExV1e)

3 2 I haz nooded. The blog clock seems to be weirdly off.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:13 AM (ExV1e)

Sorry, clock has been reset to correct time.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2026 07:14 AM (x0n13)

4 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2026 07:15 AM (2Cry5)

5 It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 21, 2026 07:15 AM (cpFbA)

6 G'morning J.J.!

@"I used to have a different nic": Thanks for the nood in the previous thread.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 07:15 AM (O7YUW)

7 So it turns out that Karmelo is a punk with a bad attitude just looking to stick someone with a knife. The media could have done some digging to find the facts about this kid, but that is not who they are.

Posted by: fd at August 21, 2026 07:16 AM (MWfyi)

8 TGIF Horde!

Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at August 21, 2026 07:16 AM (2CeDH)

9 Top 10! I feel proud.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 07:16 AM (OPGS/)

10 @2/I used to have a different nic: "The blog clock seems to be weirdly off."

Ace has taken the time machine off the shelves and is screwing with it again. Hang on kids, this might be a bumpy ride.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 07:17 AM (O7YUW)

11 @5/Mister Scott: "It's Flapjack Friday!"

Y'know what? That sounds really good. I think I'm gonna hit the local diner at 8 when it opens and get an order of those.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 07:18 AM (O7YUW)

12 he's largely focused on eradicating communism, crime, and drug trafficking

But I repeat myself.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 07:18 AM (OPGS/)

13 I would pay $80 to watch a MSNBC / CNN cage match.

Posted by: fd at August 21, 2026 07:19 AM (MWfyi)

14 Good morning, Horde.

Upon deliberation, praying that today God guide me to the correct jobs to apply to, give me persistence and wisdom during the applications to deal with stupid parsers and webform design, and the discernment to tell scammers and hucksters from legitimate recruiters.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 21, 2026 07:19 AM (aJQbY)

15 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:20 AM (u82oZ)

16 "California’s New Tire Mandate Could Drive Up Costs"

I don't want to live in a world that tells me how hard my tires can be.

Posted by: fd at August 21, 2026 07:21 AM (MWfyi)

17 RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click)

May you path be made smooth.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:22 AM (u82oZ)

18 NY Gov. Kathy Hochul: Don’t Deport ‘Essential’ Haitians, Salvadorans Who Staff Government

Why don't, you know, citizens staff government?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:25 AM (ExV1e)

19 It appears that the only way to remove Communism from the planet is to literally starve Communist governments to death.

Which is unfortunate, as the people Communist governments oppress will starve to death first.

The leaders will starve last.

*sigh*

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2026 07:25 AM (FZ29D)

20 "UK Gov’t Publishes Pamphlet to Inform Migrants That Rape is Wrong, Sex With Children Is a Crime"

Also, NO BARBECUES!

Posted by: fd at August 21, 2026 07:26 AM (MWfyi)

21 18 NY Gov. Kathy Hochul: Don’t Deport ‘Essential’ Haitians, Salvadorans Who Staff Government

Why don't, you know, citizens staff government?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:25 AM (ExV1e)

Anything that can cripple a blue state government is fantastic!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2026 07:27 AM (x0n13)

22 "Perfessor" Squirrel

Are you OK? I heard you are taking your indentured servants friends the books to the local library for resale on the open market.

And welcome back your students for a new academic year.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

23 The videos of women rallying in support of the lady who murdered her children have really bummed me out this morning. The forces of evil aren't even bothering to mask up any more.

Posted by: StefanH at August 21, 2026 07:30 AM (hKB05)

24 That 35 year old Albany woman who wanted to blow up the New York Assembly had the right idea just poor execution. Hopefully, a democrat judge will let her out soon to try again.

Inshallah!

Posted by: Muhammed El Muhammed Muhammed at August 21, 2026 07:30 AM (cFP1B)

25 StefanH

We pragmatists leave them behind.

Grandchildren are true wealth.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:30 AM (u82oZ)

26 23 The videos of women rallying in support of the lady who murdered her children have really bummed me out this morning. The forces of evil aren't even bothering to mask up any more.
Posted by: StefanH at August 21, 2026 07:30 AM (hKB05)

What's next, a mass rally to free that woman who strapped her kids into a car and drove it into a lake? Susan something or other?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2026 07:31 AM (x0n13)

27 Karmeli Anthony supporters believe black people should be allowed to kill white people without consequences. That's all.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 21, 2026 07:32 AM (Kl4xy)

28 @23/StefanH: Do not focus on what evil accomplishes. Conquer evil by going out and doing something good for someone today.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 07:32 AM (O7YUW)

29 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 07:33 AM (77rzZ)

30 Since Franklin Roosevelt, federal and state governments have slowly but surely claimed that property is a privilege, not a right. The wealth tax is the next step.

The Feds did reimpose slavery under the 16th Amendment—forever reversing the relationship between citizen and government.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 07:33 AM (rgGn5)

31 J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2026 07:31 AM (x0n13)

It just scares me that leftists have succeeded in moving the conversation this far.

Posted by: StefanH at August 21, 2026 07:33 AM (hKB05)

32 The week before the midterms, US gov should announce the departure of the US from the United Nations and give the UN 90 days to vacate the premises. The end of US funding should do wonders for the nations that are preyed upon by the UN.

Posted by: clarence at August 21, 2026 07:33 AM (pHgC8)

33 The women who support Lindsay Clancy think women should be allowed to murder children without consequences. End.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 21, 2026 07:33 AM (Kl4xy)

34 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Wise words for every day. Excellent advise.

Have a safe and effective school year. You are only as good as your next turn. I want no stories out of you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

35 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 07:35 AM (RIvkX)

36 Excellent Morning Report today. Thank you JJS!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 07:36 AM (pvZnA)

37 What the DSA has done, quite effectively, is dress up Stalinism in as a Scandinavian welfare state. Like a sweaty, unshaven, 300 pound drag queen in a tight sequin dress lip synching the Internationale.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 21, 2026 07:36 AM (Kl4xy)

38 Make the soft-on-crime advocates prove their models work — before letting them conduct any more experiments on the rest of us.

In many jurisdictions, judges are forever. So anoint a female judge into position, she will destroy your civilization ruling by ruling.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 07:36 AM (rgGn5)

39 CrotchetyOldJarhead, if you are still around: I'm sorry about Xena. It's never a "good time" for this as a pet owner.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 07:37 AM (OPGS/)

40 The videos of women rallying in support of the lady who murdered her children have really bummed me out this morning. The forces of evil aren't even bothering to mask up any more.
Posted by: StefanH at August 21, 2026 07:30 AM (hKB05)

I haven't been following the story... too disturbing... but the little I have read makes me think that the woman isn't evil. Supposedly, doctors had her hopped up on a fuck-ton of psychiatric drugs and the family may have been trying to have her temporarily committed. Seems like it may be another case of the system working to ensure the liberty of someone who needed help more and three children paid the price.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:37 AM (ExV1e)

41 The Drag Stalinists of America.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 21, 2026 07:37 AM (Kl4xy)

42 These designations build on the Department’s July 20 report Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism, which summarizes the Cuban regime’s decades-long use of brigades, such as the one coordinated by the designated ICAP earlier this month, to advance Cuban interests at the expense of the United States.
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Read this report! It describes the links between Cuba and all of the current, key sources of leftist turbulence in the U.S.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

43 The women who support Lindsay Clancy think women should be allowed to murder children without consequences. End.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 21, 2026 07:33 AM (Kl4xy)

Abortion up to HS graduation should be safe, legal, and fuck-it... that's all.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

44 San Franpsycho

Back home after your Wine Country sojourn?

I went to Prestwood Elementary School in Sonoma for four years as a youth. When I came back for a brief visit 40 years later the playground equipment was unchanged.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:40 AM (u82oZ)

45 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at August 21, 2026 07:40 AM (53oGX)

46 >>The media could have done some digging to find the facts about this kid

Even if they did the digging and found out the facts, it's less that 50:50 odds that they'd sit on it and not report it.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026 07:40 AM (J4Dwc)

47 Rubio has been outstanding, in all his many jobs. And I wish him well liberating the WNBA and Cuba.

But Scott Bessent has been crazy good as Treasury Secretary, desperately keeping America safe from financial attacks and, now, figuring new ways to bring the Mullahs down.

Bessent and Rubio are total stars.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 07:41 AM (v3ONH)

48 Victor Tango Kilo

A most vivid and disturbing image.

** Shudder **

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:41 AM (u82oZ)

49 Even if they did the digging and found out the facts, it's less that 50:50 odds that they'd sit on it and not report it.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026 07:40 AM (J4Dwc)

Even if they did the digging, found out the facts, and accurately reported them, the race baiters would still have been screaming that Anthony was justified cuz he was disrespected.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:42 AM (ExV1e)

50 Last night on the ONT we were asking AIs to tell us about commenters on the blog.

We are being closely watched.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

51 Oops, I guess that would be greater, not less than 50/50 odds.

More coffee...

Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026 07:43 AM (J4Dwc)

52 I feel sorry for the kids that any of those pro-Clancy c***s might have. Good grief, can you imagine having one of those things for a mother?

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 07:43 AM (77rzZ)

53 I used to have a different nic

Did you ring the bell?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

54 "Perfessor" Squirrel

Are you OK? I heard you are taking your indentured servants friends the books to the local library for resale on the open market.

And welcome back your students for a new academic year.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:28 AM (u82oZ)
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Huh. I just posted a reply to your comment and it immediately disappeared. I guess Pixy doesn't like me.

I'm doing fine. Just needed to clean house/garage a bit. Only so much available shelf space!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2026 07:43 AM (FZ29D)

55 "Perfessor" Squirrel

Shelf space. So true. I moved to Kindle to keep up.
The many books on my shelves are the survivors of moves and culls.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:45 AM (u82oZ)

56 Abortion up to HS graduation should be safe, legal, and fuck-it... that's all.

I think that it comes as a default as the former US becomes another Sharia caliphate. They just call the process "honor killings", and you just got to trust the family, because it is personal, when they tell you butchering their kids is honorable.

And if killing is on the table, then "lesser" impositions are too, like selling the children into slavery, or using them as practice goats before moving on to actual livestock.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 07:45 AM (pUU4E)

57 California’s New Tire Mandate Could Drive Up Costs
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It "could" huh?

Fvcking liar.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 07:45 AM (RIvkX)

58 An IRGC apparatchik admits on state tv that Iran is not selling any oil.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2026 07:46 AM (gIjzl)

59 Last night on the ONT we were asking AIs to tell us about commenters on the blog.

We are being closely watched.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

I asked about my old nic and it said that I was a regular user even though I haven't used that nic in over five years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

60 The best meme of SoS MR https://tinyurl.com/4c3tpmbw

Posted by: sidney at August 21, 2026 07:48 AM (Uy/WF)

61 Did you ring the bell?

I did.

First they threw confetti on me when I walked out of the radiation room.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:49 AM (ExV1e)

62 Black market tires will be a thing.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2026 07:49 AM (jjzhV)

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

This is good news for us. Are there any reports on how the harvest in Iran has been? Lack of water and fertilizer should make the lack of food imports very important.

Word on the street is Egypt and Indonesia are in trouble without Ukraine wheat to feed them, so this is a part of a bigger problem.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

64 ... but the little I have read makes me think that the woman isn't evil... it may be another case of the system ...

Satan nods in approval as you succumb to the amoral propaganda.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 07:50 AM (NzX/y)

65 Would You Pay $80 to Watch MSNBC?

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Even though I can't stand it, Jr. Black watches this dumpster fire when he can because he enjoys listening to their constant hair-on-fire TDS. I tell him I find nothing funny listening to liars.

I went to the article. The MSNOW broad said, for the top tier service, you'd get...

...offer perks like members-only content verticals, opportunities for subscribers to interact with the network’s personalities, community features for members to engage with each other, and a 24/7 network feed.

Just what, exactly is a "content vertical?"

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 21, 2026 07:50 AM (qBdHI)

66 Tires on brand new cars have low “rolling resistance,” meaning they generate less heat as they bounce against the road and lose less of the energy that otherwise would keep the car in motion. That boosts a car’s overall miles per gallon.

Doesn't this mean less grip on the road, so poorer handling in rain, snow, and ice?...

Oh, right; Kalifornia doesn't get any of those...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 07:50 AM (l3cgK)

67 52 I feel sorry for the kids that any of those pro-Clancy c***s might have. Good grief, can you imagine having one of those things for a mother?
Posted by: Bulg

I saw a screenshot of a chat on X. A guy broke up with his girlfriend of three years because she was a loud supporter of Clancy. Basically he said "I can't trust you with our future children."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 07:51 AM (OPGS/)

68 A pamphlet? That presupposes these guys are literate.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 21, 2026 07:51 AM (qFwJc)

69 Good morning JJ and horde
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2026 07:51 AM (zACrK)

70 First they threw confetti on me when I walked out of the radiation room.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Good for you on impressing the nurses!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:52 AM (u82oZ)

71 I had no idea Harriet Hageman was running for Senate. Outstanding!

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 21, 2026 07:52 AM (qBdHI)

72 Satan nods in approval as you succumb to the amoral propaganda.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 07:50 AM (NzX/y)

I didn't say that there was no evil, I said that I wasn't sure it was her. The doctors who had her on so many drugs she didn't know up from down but didn't hospitalize her would certainly qualify. The system which prevented her family from having her committed would also qualify. But if she didn't know what was real and what wasn't, is she actually evil?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

73 Salty

Yes we came back 2 days ago. Boy F. and I walked past Prestwood several times this summer on our morning hikes. We walked by Monday the first day of school and the cuteness was abundant.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

74 Content vertical?

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 07:53 AM (77rzZ)

75 > Last night on the ONT we were asking AIs to tell us about commenters on the blog.

We are being closely watched.
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The NSA in particular hoovers up a lot of content on the Internet for analysis. A method that was used, and may still be, it to "scrape" sites for data... the text on web pages for example. This site can probably be "scraped" from start to end on a daily basis in seconds.

All the plain text. Every day. If someone wanted to. And, I assume they do.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2026 07:53 AM (2Cry5)

76 Perversely ironic to see our focus on Cuba and its morbid communism while a more lively native variant of the evil ideology consumes our own culture and young people.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 21, 2026 07:54 AM (F8UH0)

77 Astronomers map fastest orbit so far of a star circling the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole

Linky no worky...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 07:54 AM (l3cgK)

78 {{{Lady in Black}}}
"content vertical?"

A silo of information, where truth and logical thinking is rigidly excluded.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

79 Good for you on impressing the nurses!
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:52 AM (u82oZ)

While I hate to lessen anyone's opinion of me... it appears that it was a regular thing they did. I'd seen confetti on the floor before.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:54 AM (ExV1e)

80 If those MA mothers for Clancy are representative of the jury, she will get off as lightly as possible. It is Massachusetts, after all. That's what I'm tentatively predicting.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 21, 2026 07:55 AM (qBdHI)

81 NaCly, I haven't seen any of those reports. I do know that inflation on existing food supplies is running at 400%.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2026 07:55 AM (gIjzl)

82 Basically he said "I can't trust you with our future children."
Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 07:51 AM (OPGS/)
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All of the mothers who are there, their kids need a welfare check.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 07:55 AM (RIvkX)

83 I liked the line in "The Birdcage" where Nathan Lane says "Execute the mother. The captain should go down with the ship." Or other words to that effect.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 21, 2026 07:55 AM (qFwJc)

84 75 > Last night on the ONT we were asking AIs to tell us about commenters on the blog.

A poster here did that to me about a week ago as a subtle threat.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 07:55 AM (OPGS/)

85 The original CO of the carrier Nimitz was on hand recently for the decommissioning at Naval Station Norfolk.

I think he had a uniform faux pas, but he's 94 years old, so...

https://tinyurl.com/4utbtykx

Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026 07:56 AM (J4Dwc)

86 But if she didn't know what was real and what wasn't, is she actually evil?

"Forgive them, for they know not what they do" - Jesus Christ

Why would the people who wrongly accused and crucified Christ need forgiveness?

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 07:56 AM (NzX/y)

87 @34/NaCly Dog: Thank you, and I'll try to have no stories, though there may be a few where I rail about some of the incredibly stupid driving I see other people doing out there.

As I tell my wife every morning as she heads off to work around the time I do: "Watch out for stupid out there, it's legion."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 07:56 AM (O7YUW)

88 "content vertical?"

A silo of information, where truth and logical thinking is rigidly excluded.

==

{{{Salty}}}

Your guess is better than mine! It just sounded so asinine...so MSNOW. I'm sure their potential subscribers will think they're really in the know, what with content verticals n'all...

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 21, 2026 07:57 AM (qBdHI)

89 Martini Farmer

In Utah, the NSA and Google data centers are quite close to each other.

I heard it directly from a worker at NSA that they do not monitor US Citizens. I believe that comment is a lie.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

90 "Forgive them, for they know not what they do" - Jesus Christ

Why would the people who wrongly accused and crucified Christ need forgiveness?
Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 07:56 AM (NzX/y)

I didn't say that she didn't need forgiveness. I said that I wasn't sure that she was evil. In any regard, I'll leave it in God's hands since, unlike me, He knows the truth.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

91 Lady in Black

Information silos have been a thing for centuries. In some way, individuals with America values have been breaking those silos down. Like us.

Even in well run organizations, silos are a problem. With the Left, it leaves them unable to solve problems or advance civilization.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:59 AM (u82oZ)

92 I didn't say that there was no evil, I said that I wasn't sure it was her. The doctors who had her on so many drugs she didn't know up from down but didn't hospitalize her would certainly qualify. The system which prevented her family from having her committed would also qualify. But if she didn't know what was real and what wasn't, is she actually evil?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:52 AM (ExV1e)
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Our society has re-paganized. It's all there - idol worship, infanticide, human sacrifice and of course persecuting Christians.

You can try to use the lens of secular materialism to explain everything with Marxism, or drugs, or demographic trends, but it only gets you so far. Take psychology, for example. Has there been a greater failure in human history?

"No, don't bother about religion, just take to this dude and maybe take some pills. No, there is no sin, only a stupid idea of shame, which you must ignore. Do shameful things with pride, it's okay."

Turns out, when you cut God out of your life, you become pagan. Human life becomes worthless. Your own wants become paramount. "Inconvenient" babies die. Suicide is endorsed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:00 AM (ZOv7s)

93 It’s almost comical that some news outlets are thinking it’s a huge shock that Iran will try to do something to disrupt our elections. As another poster here wrote, the most unsurprising October Surprise ever.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2026 08:02 AM (o3ajz)

94 It’s almost comical that some news outlets are thinking it’s a huge shock that Iran will try to do something to disrupt our elections. As another poster here wrote, the most unsurprising October Surprise ever.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2026 08:02 AM (o3ajz)

At least since the term was coined, has there ever been a surprising October Surprise?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

95 Well done, Mr. Lee and the EPA -- as far as it goes. Now get rid of that ethanol stuff for our gasoline completely.

I am still paying extra for ethanol-free, E0, gas, when I can find it here. though yesterday the station I often go to had it for $3.99, only about .40 more than the average price of E10 regular here. That's a bit more than 10%, and I get about 10% better mileage on the E0 than on E10; I'm almost breaking even.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2026 08:04 AM (wzUl9)

96 Yesterday was tough. Mrs. Lloyd met with the surgeon and while everything on that front is excellent, it is likely that she will need chemo, and that got her really down.

On the one hand, things are going great - we caught it early, no signs of spread, and chemo is just a precautionary measure, but there has been this steady retreat on the part of the medical staff, from "No problem, Stage 0, don't even need the whole breast, no chemo" to "AKTUALLY, Stage 1, taking both is wise, and we'll do chemo after all."

So please keep praying. Apparently we are not out of the woods yet.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:04 AM (ZOv7s)

97 Hey, A. H. Lloyd. I appreciated your pushing back against the Iran black-pillers yesterday. It gave me encouragement that the situation there is moving in the right direction. Thank you.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 08:04 AM (77rzZ)

98 If those MA mothers for Clancy are representative of the jury, she will get off as lightly as possible. It is Massachusetts, after all. That's what I'm tentatively predicting.

If a black man can butcher a woman on a bus in NC and walk away from it, then surely so can Clancy. If illegal aliens can rape and kill their way across the landscape and be "punished" with misdemeanors or "time-served" waiting trial, then so can Clancy.

Its only the white man who is held accountable—everyone else are apparently savage beasts who are not accountable.

America is fully incapable of slaying its dragons, or for that matter naming sin, or even accepting responsibility for any evil.

No big deal, that is the world since expulsion from The Garden.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 08:04 AM (U4c/V)

99 As I tell my wife every morning as she heads off to work around the time I do: "Watch out for stupid out there, it's legion."

True tale: after a downtown flood (it's Houston, so...)a fellow who had driven his Prius into 12 feet of water and required rescue said "I thought I could go thru it".
Buddy sitting next to me said "and there were people driving just a foot away from him on the highway "

Yikes

Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 08:04 AM (XuXeR)

100 Grandiose narcissism has entered the chat

Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (J4Dwc)

101 Your guess is better than mine! It just sounded so asinine...so MSNOW. I'm sure their potential subscribers will think they're really in the know, what with content verticals n'all...
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 21, 2026 07:57 AM (qBdHI)

The article itself noted that CNN tried this plan twice already, and it failed miserably both times.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (o3ajz)

102 "Black market tires will be a thing.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory"

So will Tire Inspectors.

Posted by: California at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (MWfyi)

103 Little gray thuglet Dagny La Siberienne just opened the kitchen cabinet door where I keep the kitty treats and was actually inside the cabinet, rummaging around. She's a smart cat -- too smart by half.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (wzUl9)

104 Dalia Ziada
@daliaziada 21h

My entire world collapsed when I publicly spoke against Hamas' terrorism on October 7. My Egyptian, Arab, and Muslim people, who are so blinded by Jew-hatred and so proud of supporting Hamas terrorism, tried to kill or imprison me for doing so. But my Jewish friends miraculously saved me.

Every single day since then, God shows me that I made the right decision.
7:42 AM · Aug 20, 2026

Within five hours, Dalia Ziada was forced to flee Egypt, leaving her family and homeland behind. The Arab street's response to Oct. 7 exposed a reality she had not wanted to believe, and when she spoke out against it, she became an enemy. In an interview with Israel Hayom, she says: "If I were an Israeli, I don't know how you can sleep at night."
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Savages.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (RIvkX)

105 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Prayers ascending for complete remission.

F**k Cancer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

106 It’s almost comical that some news outlets are thinking it’s a huge shock that Iran will try to do something to disrupt our elections. As another poster here wrote, the most unsurprising October Surprise ever.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2026 08:02 AM (o3ajz)
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"BREAKING: Country that has sworn undying hatred to the United States for 50 years vows to do bad things!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (ZOv7s)

107 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (ccf/V)

108 5 It's Flapjack Friday!
Posted by: Mister Scott

Hootersville Hotscakes are world renowned. Can also be sued to shingle a roof.

Posted by: Lisa On The Douglas Farm at August 21, 2026 08:06 AM (JM9I6)

109 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Prayers ascending for complete remission.

F**k Cancer.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:06 AM (ccf/V)

110 I heard it directly from a worker at NSA"

Worker or wanker?

Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 08:07 AM (XuXeR)

111 So will Tire Inspectors.
Posted by: California at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (MWfyi)
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Don't for get me!

Posted by: Bribery at August 21, 2026 08:07 AM (ZOv7s)

112 man

I will never say anything. There is no such agency.

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

113 It's Flapjack Friday!
Posted by: Mister Scott

***
Darn. I was planning to have an omelet this morning. Now I'll be thinking about pancakes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2026 08:08 AM (wzUl9)

114 While I hate to lessen anyone's opinion of me... it appears that it was a regular thing they did. I'd seen confetti on the floor before.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:54 AM (ExV1e)

Uh, that wasn't "confetti". Heh.

Posted by: Hot nurse from Ferris Bueller at August 21, 2026 08:08 AM (hmYU4)

115 So please keep praying. Apparently we are not out of the woods yet"

Done. FWIW, Mrs has another round of surgery in 5 weeks...

Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 08:08 AM (XuXeR)

116 Lisa On The Douglas Farm

Wistful Sigh.

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

117 Yesterday was tough. Mrs. Lloyd met with the surgeon and while everything on that front is excellent, it is likely that she will need chemo, and that got her really down.

My wife went through that. Doctors upbeat at every step and then... nope, bad news. Still... wife is now cancer free for 7 years. The process is rough, chemo sucks, boob radiation sucked (maybe its gotten better) but, in the end, it's a blip that you get to put behind you, God willing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 08:08 AM (ExV1e)

118 I will never say anything. There is no such agency"

Golf clap

Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 08:09 AM (XuXeR)

119 The Marxists fighting AI will have fun with it if they take over

Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2026 08:09 AM (zACrK)

120 Moscow’s forces have in recent months intensified their ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, exploiting Ukraine’s chronic shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defense interceptors, the sole weapon in its arsenal able to shoot down the missiles.
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Attacking civilians is a terror tactic, but Ukrainians seem to hold up well against Russian terror. A very tough people indeed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 08:09 AM (gMI5R)

121
Back in America, Rep. Pocan complained that “now they’re calling us Communists. Like, they’ve lost any credibility. They clearly haven’t taken a high school or even a junior high civics class recently, because they don’t understand the definitions of what they’re calling us.”

You lie with a Communist dog, you take on its Communist fleas, you dumbass.Commie.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 21, 2026 08:10 AM (trSL4)

122
So please keep praying. Apparently we are not out of the woods yet.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:04 AM (ZOv7s)

Depending on the type of chemo, she'll be Ok. It will be rough. She'll be tired. They'll keep her on steroids and anti-allergens to keep her 'normal.' She'll have good days and bad days. First Lady always had the 'steroid day' where she had tons of energy, then the crash where she wanted to sleep for 2 days.

If there's hair loss, there's hair loss. Smile. Everyone knows you're battling. *fistbump* When you're going through Hell, keep going.

The light at the end of the tunnel keeps getting brighter.

Its a tough road, but with all the Horde prayers, self-determination and a loving family, she'll come through with flying colors.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:10 AM (ccf/V)

123 117 Yesterday was tough. Mrs. Lloyd met with the surgeon and while everything on that front is excellent, it is likely that she will need chemo, and that got her really down.

My wife went through that. Doctors upbeat at every step and then... nope, bad news. Still... wife is now cancer free for 7 years. The process is rough, chemo sucks, boob radiation sucked (maybe its gotten better) but, in the end, it's a blip that you get to put behind you, God willing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 08:08 AM (ExV1e)

My wife went through that 18 years ago...mastectomy, radiation, chemo. Tamoxifen was supposed to be for 5 years, but was cut a year short when it came back metastatically. Fortunately treatment are much better now than they were almost 20 years ago.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 08:11 AM (l3cgK)

124 Green Acres was fun.

The comedy I still do not like, although Barbara Eden looked good, was I Dream of Jeannie.

A beautiful woman that calls the Air Force pilot / astronaut Master, with magical powers even, and lonely after 2,000 years ... Her abilities were wasted, wasted, I say.

Do not attempt the same scenario with a Naval Aviator and expect the show to play on prime time TV.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 08:11 AM (u82oZ)

125 I heard it directly from a worker at NSA"

No you didn't......

Posted by: Bob from NSA at August 21, 2026 08:12 AM (ccf/V)

126 because they don’t understand the definitions of what they’re calling us.”

Ah. Another idiot who babbles about roads being "socialism"

Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 08:13 AM (XuXeR)

127 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:10 AM (ccf/V)

Nice post.

And I will continue to pray for Mrs. Lloyd.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 08:13 AM (RC9EL)

128 All of the mothers who are there, their kids need a welfare check.

It seems to me to be a natural Tick-Tock progression. First just get abortion. Then drug your kids into psychopathy. Then get abortion up to birth. Then sexually mutilate your children rendering them sexually sterile and impotent. Then actually murder your children. Child prostitution is due to become the next Big Thing for parents to boast about.

Hook-up parties so that adult friends and neighbors can have their way with children.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 08:13 AM (+4Cf6)

129 What kind of lunatic compares Cuba to Gaza? Cuba needs to go down. Stop fucking that chicken. Maybe another 47 years or 60 years, what-be-the-haps?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 21, 2026 08:13 AM (tvdD1)

130 Done. FWIW, Mrs has another round of surgery in 5 weeks...
Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 08:08 AM (XuXeR)

Godspeed, sir.

All the prayers for your wife.

Posted by: s at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (ccf/V)

131 Hey, A. H. Lloyd. I appreciated your pushing back against the Iran black-pillers yesterday. It gave me encouragement that the situation there is moving in the right direction. Thank you.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 08:04 AM (77rzZ)
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Thanks! I'm just calling it as I see it. I spent an freakishly long portion of my career on a planning staff, and what I've seen is just crazy. Iran was not in our AOR, but we knew their air defenses and spent a lot of time arguing about how hard it would be take them down. When we did it so quickly and with so few losses, I was absolutely stunned, and called a veteran friend up and we both could not get over how amazing that was.

Iran is under siege. The only way to defeat a siege is either to get relief (think Vienna 1683) or the besieger has to quit (Vienna 1529). There's no logistical strain on us. This is basically Operation Northern Watch with some boats involved. Economically it was disruptive, but long-term, having us replace Iran's oil production is a huge win.

Oh, and we have Xi's nuts in a vice. Funny how no one talks about that. His navy runs on oil. Hard to launch an invasion on empty tanks.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (ZOv7s)

132 DAMNIT

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (ccf/V)

133 So when (God Willing) Cuba falls, will flags be at half staff at colleges while professors comfort each other through their tears?

I'm asking because I want to make sure I'm filming a few of the meltdowns.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (OPGS/)

134 For the past several years, leftists have waged an all-out assault on conservative attorneys and their ability to practice law. And now, such egregious “barfare” tactics are being aimed at the Trump Department of Homeland Security’s top legal official.
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Criticizing activist judges should be a crime, says the left, and they are doing their best to deprive Republican lawyers of their right to work. Norm Eisen is an evil human.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (gMI5R)

135 I heard it directly from a worker at NSA"

No you didn't......
Posted by: Bob from NSA at August 21, 2026 08:12 AM (ccf/V)

Yes you did.

Posted by: Bob's older brother, George at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (hmYU4)

136
Darn. I was planning to have an omelet this morning. Now I'll be thinking about pancakes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Was Babs Striesand either cooking or consuming pancakes in mass quantities at sone point about a decade or so back out of self-induced hysteria about right wingers trashing statists?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (trSL4)

137 So will Tire Inspectors.
Posted by: California at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (MWfyi)

I was living in California in the mid-80s when they started that mandatory smog-detection inspection bullshit. I took my car in for an inspection at some seedy repair shop so I could renew my tag and it was a complete scam. They took my money but never placed the probe thing into the tailpipe.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (J4Dwc)

138 My wife went through that 18 years ago...mastectomy, radiation, chemo. Tamoxifen was supposed to be for 5 years, but was cut a year short when it came back metastatically. Fortunately treatment are much better now than they were almost 20 years ago.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 08:11 AM (l3cgK)

Wife didn't require a mastectomy. Chemo/radiation. Anastrozole for 10 years. But she's alive and that's what matters.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 08:15 AM (ExV1e)

139 Hook-up parties so that adult friends and neighbors can have their way with children.
Posted by: Community Notes

Such an abomination is already going on but it's not out in the open yet.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 08:15 AM (OPGS/)

140 And I just noticed that after my debacle with Frontier/Verizon yesterday, my IP address has changed......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:15 AM (ccf/V)

141 Done. FWIW, Mrs has another round of surgery in 5 weeks...
Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 08:08 AM (XuXeR)

Prayers for you wife.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 08:15 AM (RC9EL)

142
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"BREAKING: Country that has sworn undying hatred to the United States for 50 years vows to do bad things!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (ZOv7s)

First: prayers and support for the hard news your wife received yesterday. You and she clearly have the best attitude towards that possible.

The big question with Iran now is, what could they actually do now if they chose to? Do they really have that much left? We don’t know of course, even for the best military analysts that part is all guess work.

But I think it’s self evident that if proxy groups like the Houthi had the ability to do more, they already would have.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2026 08:15 AM (o3ajz)

143 First they threw confetti on me when I walked out of the radiation room.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Good for you. The Confetti Industry has been in decline since my passing in 2017.

Posted by: Zombie Rip Taylor at August 21, 2026 08:16 AM (JM9I6)

144 Rev. Wishbone

I hear most of the young people of Cuba are leaving. It is emptying out, unlike Gaza. No one wants Gazans.

We need an assault tam of beachfront developers to take over Cuba, and make it shine again.

Go long on power plant equipment.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 08:16 AM (u82oZ)

145 I'm asking because I want to make sure I'm filming a few of the meltdowns.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (OPGS/)

They will be epic, and a glory to behold.

I might drive up to Woodstock NY just to watch the misery!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 21, 2026 08:16 AM (k5CNB)

146
I might drive up to Woodstock NY just to watch the misery!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 21, 2026 08:16 AM (k5CNB)

Just don't do the brown acid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:17 AM (ccf/V)

147 It's hard to know what Cuba will fall to, there really is no internal resistance to the regime, so there really will be no internal group that will take charge.

Probably make Rubio Lord Commander of the Imperium of Cuba for tick or two.

It would be wild if he got elected President in 28 and was running Cuba as well.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2026 08:17 AM (XV/Pl)

148 The big question with Iran now is, what could they actually do now if they chose to?

I would guess they'd try terror attacks. Fortunately, no terrorists came into the country with the 4M+ others that Biden let in.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

149
What kind of lunatic compares Cuba to Gaza?

One who would easily transition to speaking of "genocide of our indigenous Cubans, and not those fraudulent Cubans who fled to the U.S."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 21, 2026 08:18 AM (trSL4)

150 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

And should your wife need someone to talk to that's been through it, do not hesitate to reach out. I'm quite sure the First Lady would be happy to lend an ear, as I'm sure many in The Horde would, to hold her hand through this.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:18 AM (ccf/V)

151 money but never placed the probe thing into the tailpipe.
Posted by: one hour sober

What a letdown!

Posted by: The Great Poof at August 21, 2026 08:18 AM (JM9I6)

152 Just don't do the brown acid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:17 AM (ccf/V)

But, hey, it's your trip.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 08:19 AM (ExV1e)

153 Go long on power plant equipment.

Actually not a bad idea. Cuba doesn't have the regulatory burden of the West so frontier technology can be quickly implemented there.

Could you imagine Cuba as the world's AI and data center hub? Wouldn't be too hard a problem to recruit employees to live in what could become an island paradise.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 08:20 AM (+4Cf6)

154 I'm rarely active at this time of day, so slightly different audience here. I've got a series of posts up at ahlloyd.com for those who want to nerd out on a potential mainland invasion of Taiwan. There's no particular order, I write stuff as I think of it, and *spoiler alert* I think it's going to be difficult for China to do it.

I will likely do a counterfactual and examine Taiwan's weaknesses but the burden on the attacker is pretty crushing. Taiwan can literally win by doing nothing. See also: "Divine Wind."

Reference: Three typhoons have hit China already this year.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:20 AM (ZOv7s)

155 Falling energy consumption is a sign of industry slowing down, which will have a knock-on effect on overall wealth and employment.
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English industry is shrinking, as energy production makes their grid unusable for production. This is even more true in Germany where the chemical and heavy industrial activities, both heavy users of electricity, are the mainstays of their economy.

The future of Europe's economies is bleak, thanks entirely to "Net Zero" weirdness.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 08:20 AM (tNwfv)

156 138 My wife went through that 18 years ago...mastectomy, radiation, chemo. Tamoxifen was supposed to be for 5 years, but was cut a year short when it came back metastatically. Fortunately treatment are much better now than they were almost 20 years ago.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 08:11 AM (l3cgK)

Wife didn't require a mastectomy. Chemo/radiation. Anastrozole for 10 years. But she's alive and that's what matters.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 08:15 AM (ExV1e)

My MIL told me wife she didn't need reconstruction surgery, but I knew better; wife didn't feel whole without her breast, so we did the reconstruction surgery.
Afterwards, I was worried she'd feel phantom pain from the missing real breast so I...experimented. Let's say it was successful when she asked her doctor, "Is it normal to feel phantom pleasure from my missing breast?" Doc gave her a strange look. LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 08:20 AM (l3cgK)

157 Thank you JJ. Happy Friday all.

Had a design review all week; exhausting, glad it’s over with everyone reasonably happy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2026 08:20 AM (M+uMR)

158 They will be epic, and a glory to behold.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

You remember that one chick screaming "NOOOOOO!" when Trump was elected the first time? I want that again and some dude with a guitar making it a metal song.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 08:20 AM (OPGS/)

159 And should your wife need someone to talk to that's been through it, do not hesitate to reach out. I'm quite sure the First Lady would be happy to lend an ear, as I'm sure many in The Horde would, to hold her hand through this.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:18 AM (ccf/V)
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Thank you. Unfortunately, she seems to be very into chatbots as authority figures at the moment, and my friends and family who have personal experience apparently just don't know as much as the Holy Prophet ChatGPT.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:22 AM (ZOv7s)

160 "The future of Europe's economies is bleak, thanks entirely to "Net Zero" weirdness."

Don't discount "The Camp of the Saints."

Massive illegal immigration of the Coprophages has already had a huge impact.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 21, 2026 08:22 AM (36x1j)

161
You remember that one chick screaming "NOOOOOO!" when Trump was elected the first time? I want that again and some dude with a guitar making it a metal song.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 08:20 AM (OPGS/)

You mean like this?

https://youtu.be/rAK512Uwbo0

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:22 AM (ccf/V)

162 Hayden Daniel is a staff editor at The Federalist. He previously worked as an editor at The Daily Wire and as deputy editor/opinion editor at The Daily Caller.
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J.D. Vance is this dude's woobie.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 08:23 AM (RIvkX)

163 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2026 08:23 AM (eYRW2)

164 129 What kind of lunatic compares Cuba to Gaza? Cuba needs to go down. Stop fucking that chicken. Maybe another 47 years or 60 years, what-be-the-haps?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 21, 2026 08:13 AM (tvdD1)

As we were talking about yesterday, of course Cuba needs to go down; but there’s no hurry. They’re no longer any threat to anyone, just a handful of power mad bureaucrats lording it over a country of starving and sick peasants living in mud huts. Not only do they have no industry left, they’ve even lost the disgusting sex tourism they had going on with the Euro’s and the Canadians - their planes of pervs can’t fly there anymore, no fuel on the island.

That’s a new rock bottom for any country - they can’t even afford to sell their daughters to strangers anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2026 08:23 AM (o3ajz)

165 Woohoo! Rain! A little, anyway!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 21, 2026 08:23 AM (aJQbY)

166 @140/Sponge: "And I just noticed that after my debacle with Frontier/Verizon yesterday, my IP address has changed......"

Missed that when it happened. Want to give us an After-Action Report? (What'd they do to you THIS time?)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 08:24 AM (O7YUW)

167 The future of Europe's economies is bleak, thanks entirely to "Net Zero" weirdness.
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Europe's future is a museum looted by vandals.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 21, 2026 08:24 AM (iBAf4)

168 Thank you. Unfortunately, she seems to be very into chatbots as authority figures at the moment, and my friends and family who have personal experience apparently just don't know as much as the Holy Prophet ChatGPT.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:22 AM (ZOv7s)

Woof. Ok. Well, whatever makes her feel better, as that's what it's all about.

The offer stands, should she feel so inclined.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:25 AM (ccf/V)

169 You mean like this?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Exactly! And then you get this one:

https://youtu.be/-Dm51WGZPns

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 08:25 AM (OPGS/)

170 167 The future of Europe's economies is bleak, thanks entirely to "Net Zero" weirdness.
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Europe's future is a museum looted by vandals.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 21, 2026 08:24 AM (iBAf4)

I thought the Vandals were long extinct...oh, lower-case vandals...nevermind.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 08:25 AM (l3cgK)

171 My MIL told me wife she didn't need reconstruction surgery, but I knew better; wife didn't feel whole without her breast, so we did the reconstruction surgery.
Afterwards, I was worried she'd feel phantom pain from the missing real breast so I...experimented. Let's say it was successful when she asked her doctor, "Is it normal to feel phantom pleasure from my missing breast?" Doc gave her a strange look. LOL
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 08:20 AM (l3cgK)
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Mrs. Lloyd is stridently opposed to it, but my position is that it's way too early to even think about that sort of stuff. Again, this is the planner in me: too many variables, worthless to try to game it out.

My aunt had a double mastectomy, didn't want surgery, then changed her mind and got it. At every step of the process, my wife denounces it, and then the staff says "well, if you change your mind..." and I get the impression that it happens a lot.

I'm just looking at the 50 meter target, which is getting her recovered from surgery. Then we have chemo. And about a year from now, she's going to have hair loss and a flat chest, and I suspect she may want to make a change.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:25 AM (ZOv7s)

172 The IRGC asked for donations to a fund to pay an assassin for a hit on PDT. They raised $425.00

Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2026 08:26 AM (gIjzl)

173 The offer stands, should she feel so inclined.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:25 AM (ccf/V)
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I appreciate that. She frequently changes her mind, so I never rule anything out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:27 AM (ZOv7s)

174 In the 20 years between 2003 and 2023, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimates the total money blown on payments made in error, or in the wrong amount, or with no documentation (!!!) is $2.7 TRILLION.
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135 billion a year, and you know these estimates are always low.

And meanwhile Republicans refused to pony up 4 billion one time for a wall that all their voters wanted.

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2026 08:27 AM (ucYyF)

175 165 Woohoo! Rain! A little, anyway!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click)

Quick! Protect that cake! You'll never have that recipe again.

Posted by: Oh, No! at August 21, 2026 08:28 AM (JM9I6)

176 Saw some lady on X lamenting that Republicans need to have a plan to reach out to young women that have been swayed to leftism.

1) that fails to account for just how far left the young, unmarried female has gone
2) historically, when young women have gone so far radical, there is no "cure."

Because the cocaine-thrill of the raw, unaccountable, and unrestricted power leftism gives to destroy can not be matched.
Nor redirected.
It's why even Mao finally had to just liquidate them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 21, 2026 08:28 AM (3cUTc)

177
Missed that when it happened. Want to give us an After-Action Report? (What'd they do to you THIS time?)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 08:24 AM (O7YUW)

I was 20 minutes out from my weekly team meeting when my internet dropped. The one light on the router they recently sent me was red. I rebooted the power device in the garage and the router, then got on the app to chat with someone.

Once I got someone human, they told me there was a hardware change required to "ensure the best and fastest quality internet connection" and they would schedule a tech. I asked if that meant I'd be down for however long and they said yes.

I expressed my displeasure as to what happened, then they tried to sell me the WiFi backup network, to which I told them to pound sand as I don't appreciate being strongarmed by a vendor I've been giving money to for a decade plus.

They scheduled the tech for the next day, then sent me to their satisfaction survey, on which I was not very kind.

My internet was back within an hour or two and the text they sent me gave me the opportunity to cancel the scheduled tech, so I did.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:29 AM (ccf/V)

178 "the last remaining domino and symbol of communist failure, tyranny and misery that has yet to fall is Cuba"
There are also North Korea and China

Posted by: PG at August 21, 2026 08:30 AM (qln0f)

179 5 It's Flapjack Friday!
Posted by: Mister Scott

Hootersville Hotscakes are world renowned. Can also be sued to shingle a roof.
Posted by: Lisa On The Douglas Farm at August 21, 2026 08:06 AM (JM9I6)

And lit on fire, they can keep the unharvested crops in the field from freezing on bitter cold nights.

Posted by: Ebb at August 21, 2026 08:30 AM (wVcYX)

180 The IRGC asked for donations to a fund to pay an assassin for a hit on PDT. They raised $425.00
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2026 08:26 AM (gIjzl)
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And then Nevil Roy Singham stepped up.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 08:30 AM (tNwfv)

181 Could use a few small prayers for Brit Lass who has a medical appt today for a sudden new symptom and is very nervous. I think it's ok even though I'm a bit nervous for her. May not have any answers for a bit, but any prayers are much appreciated. Thanks.

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2026 08:30 AM (ucYyF)

182
Exactly! And then you get this one:

https://youtu.be/-Dm51WGZPns
Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 08:25 AM (OPGS/)

We owe it all to Big Pharma.

They've broken WAY more than they've fixed......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:31 AM (ccf/V)

183 175 165 Woohoo! Rain! A little, anyway!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click)

Quick! Protect that cake! You'll never have that recipe again.

Posted by: Oh, No! at August 21, 2026 08:28 AM (JM9I6)

The recipe was sh*t. No real loss.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 08:31 AM (l3cgK)

184 ..., prayers ascending.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2026 08:31 AM (gIjzl)

185 Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2026 08:31 AM (gIjzl)

Appreciate it Miss Had. Hope you are well.

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2026 08:32 AM (ucYyF)

186 The IRGC asked for donations to a fund to pay an assassin for a hit on PDT. They raised $425.00
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2026 08:26 AM (gIjzl)

I mean, it's possible. How much did Oswald get paid?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:32 AM (ccf/V)

187 At UPI, the 18th Annual Hambone Awards:

"nominees from this year included twin beagles Diesel and Matilda, who ate an entire two-tiered red velvet cake; a Bernese mix named Capone who swallowed an entire intact baseball cover; a Goldendoodle named Hampden who ate the skin off a vintage Ugandan drum; and borzoi dogs Lilliya and Noelle, who got into double mischief when Lilliya swallowed an entire bottle's worth of Rimadyl and then Noelle feasted on her sister's vomit."

Posted by: gp at August 21, 2026 08:33 AM (Jr5Lq)

188 You remember that one chick screaming "NOOOOOO!" when Trump was elected the first time? I want that again and some dude with a guitar making it a metal song.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 08:20 AM (OPGS/)

You mean like this?

https://youtu.be/rAK512Uwbo0
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:22 AM (ccf/V)

I don’t know why but I just went down a little rabbit hole to discover that scream lady (“Jess”

claimed to be queer and gender nonbinary… because of course she was….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2026 08:33 AM (M+uMR)

189 When revolutionary socialists tell us who they are, perhaps we should take them at their word.

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There you go. Same as terrorists, and assorted islamo-nazis.

Posted by: runner at August 21, 2026 08:34 AM (g47mK)

190
I don’t know why but I just went down a little rabbit hole to discover that scream lady (“Jess” claimed to be queer and gender nonbinary… because of course she was….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2026 08:33 AM (M+uMR)

Huh. The article I read had a different name and said she basically dropped off the face of the planet after that moment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:34 AM (ccf/V)

191 We owe it all to Big Pharma.

They've broken WAY more than they've fixed......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

All that Big Pharma did was answer the demand for an immediate solution to various problems. The fact that this causes other problems gives them a chance to address those too.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 08:34 AM (OPGS/)

192 The CIA has more than $425.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 08:34 AM (2MN4W)

193 Could use a few small prayers for Brit Lass who has a medical appt today for a sudden new symptom and is very nervous. I think it's ok even though I'm a bit nervous for her. May not have any answers for a bit, but any prayers are much appreciated. Thanks.
Posted by: ... at August 21, 2026 08:30 AM (ucYyF)

Consider it done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:35 AM (ccf/V)

194 >> Iran is under siege. The only way to defeat a siege is either to get relief (think Vienna 1683) or the besieger has to quit (Vienna 1529).

What makes you believe they aren’t being resupplied via the Caspian Sea and other routes. Certainly one could argue the quantity isn’t enough to completely replace all of their populations needs. But that’s not the point, is it. They have enough to feed the IRGC and its support structure. See the Siege of Candia as one example.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 21, 2026 08:36 AM (AhCY4)

195 All that Big Pharma did was answer the demand for an immediate solution to various problems. The fact that this causes other problems gives them a chance to address those too.

"Second-order effects? Consequences? Cause and effect and side-effect?.... Who cares, we're gettin' paid, bro!"

-- Big Pharma

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 21, 2026 08:36 AM (aJQbY)

196 English industry is shrinking, as energy production makes their grid unusable for production. This is even more true in Germany where the chemical and heavy industrial activities, both heavy users of electricity, are the mainstays of their economy.

The future of Europe's economies is bleak, thanks entirely to "Net Zero" weirdness.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 08:20 AM (tNwfv)

I read an astounding and revealing piece of news yesterday explaining why England can’t shut down the flow of boats full of migrants coming in from France every day. France of course helps to put them on the boats and sends them off, to take pressure off themselves.

The English have actually started asking France to stop the migrants from their side. Not only did France say “Hell no!” They said that if Englan blocks them, they’ll stop selling electricity to England.

London is currently getting almost 3/4 of its daily electricity usage imported from France. Because the French still have power plants, and the netzero kooks shut much of Englands grid down.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2026 08:36 AM (o3ajz)

197 Huh. The article I read had a different name and said she basically dropped off the face of the planet after that moment.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

I don't blame her. Shame is a powerful weapon.

Now, who I really miss was the large biker dude that was there and manhandling the protesters that were trying to keep people from getting to the ceremony.

"You're on camera!" one of the people bleated. He looked over and said "I don't give a fuck. My name's Dave!" and he continued yanking protesters out of the way of normal people.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 08:36 AM (OPGS/)

198
I was living in California in the mid-80s when they started that mandatory smog-detection inspection bullshit. I took my car in for an inspection at some seedy repair shop so I could renew my tag and it was a complete scam. They took my money but never placed the probe thing into the tailpipe.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026

***
In CO it was every two years, older cars (like 25+) were exempt. My 13-year-old Mercedes passed with no issue.

It amused me that they had no *safety* inspection. No check on headlights or brakes or working wipers, oh no, but what was coming out of your tailpipe, that was the big bad.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2026 08:37 AM (wzUl9)

199 Good morning again Horde thx JJ. Happy Friday to all.
Worked as a college intern in the NYS Capitol for a semester. That building is a solid slab of rock. The muzzie hippo was going to take out people. The "funny" thing is that both houses of the NYS legislature are super majority Dem. You'd think the Dems might learn, but nooo(said in Belushi voice)

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2026 08:37 AM (rp63B)

200 200

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 08:38 AM (OPGS/)

201 "Here. Take this drug for your feelings."

"What? You have strange muscle movements now? Take this drug. It'll help that."

"What? The drug for your movements has caused you swelling in your tongue and throat? You have uncontrollable bowels and stomach pain? Well, take this drug that should help with that."

"What? You have swelling between your anus and genitals? Well, finalize your plans as we don't have a drug for that and that's fatal."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:39 AM (ccf/V)

202 > The CIA has more than $425.
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It wouldn't phase me a bit to find out the IRGC is a CIA creation. Not. One. Bit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2026 08:39 AM (2Cry5)

203
200 200
Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 08:38 AM (OPGS/)

m hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:39 AM (ccf/V)

204 Huh. The article I read had a different name and said she basically dropped off the face of the planet after that moment.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:34 AM (ccf/V)

I might be wrong because internet, but I found something that said her name was Jessica “Jess” Starr and she did disappear after the viral clip. In her one interview she said she was proud that people didn’t know if she was male or female (because she’s nonbinary doncha know). A real whack job

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2026 08:40 AM (M+uMR)

205 The Trump administration will end summer-blend gasoline requirements about two weeks early this year in an effort to boost the U.S. fuel supply and hold down prices at the pump, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday.

The EPA said it will allow the sale of dirtier 10% wintertime fuel blend, or E10, gasoline with a higher Reid Vapor Pressure starting September 1, about two ⁠weeks earlier than normal.
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Fair warning.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 08:40 AM (fF9ID)

206 ...
The English have actually started asking France to stop the migrants from their side. Not only did France say “Hell no!” They said that if Englan blocks them, they’ll stop selling electricity to England.

London is currently getting almost 3/4 of its daily electricity usage imported from France. Because the French still have power plants, and the netzero kooks shut much of Englands grid down.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2026 08:36 AM (o3ajz)

The joys of being dependent on other countries for your energy and food. It always works out! Just not for you...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 08:40 AM (l3cgK)

207
I might be wrong because internet, but I found something that said her name was Jessica “Jess” Starr and she did disappear after the viral clip. In her one interview she said she was proud that people didn’t know if she was male or female (because she’s nonbinary doncha know). A real whack job
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2026 08:40 AM (M+uMR)

Yeah, that's the one. I'm actually shocked that a libtard like that didn't captialize on her sudden fame and try to monitize it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:41 AM (ccf/V)

208 Fair warning.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 08:40 AM (fF9ID)

Lord, strike that poor boy down......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:42 AM (ccf/V)

209 205 The Trump administration will end summer-blend gasoline requirements about two weeks early this year in an effort to boost the U.S. fuel supply and hold down prices at the pump, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday.

can they just get rid of them entirely?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 21, 2026 08:42 AM (j+aD2)

210 Thanks Spongey. You're the best.

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2026 08:43 AM (ucYyF)

211 The results were disappointing for Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan and raise concerns about the GOP’s ability to hold the seat — and potentially maintain control of the Senate — in November.

Former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) led the pack with just over 48% of the vote, while Sullivan finished second at 42.74%, a troubling result that puts his reelection bid in question.
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If Peltola wins, will Murkowski feel liberated from her family past and finally go full Democrat?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 08:43 AM (fF9ID)

212 Thanks Spongey. You're the best.

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2026 08:43 AM (ucYyF)

I help where I can.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:43 AM (ccf/V)

213 205 The Trump administration will end summer-blend gasoline requirements about two weeks early this year in an effort to boost the U.S. fuel supply and hold down prices at the pump, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday.

The EPA said it will allow the sale of dirtier 10% wintertime fuel blend, or E10, gasoline with a higher Reid Vapor Pressure starting September 1, about two ⁠weeks earlier than normal.
==============================
Fair warning.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 08:40 AM (fF9ID)

All the ethanolated (is that a real word?) fuels are crap for your engine...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 08:43 AM (l3cgK)

214 We are on summer blend forever. Summer still happens.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 08:44 AM (2MN4W)

215 I thought the Vandals were long extinct...oh, lower-case vandals...nevermind.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 08:25 AM (l3cgK)

My favorite Texas high school team name, in a nearby town, is the Van Vandals.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2026 08:44 AM (o3ajz)

216 Lord, strike that poor boy down......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:42 AM (ccf/V)
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Wut did I do to you?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 08:44 AM (fF9ID)

217 193 Could use a few small prayers for Brit Lass who has a medical appt today for a sudden new symptom and is very nervous. I think it's ok even though I'm a bit nervous for her. May not have any answers for a bit, but any prayers are much appreciated. Thanks.

prayers sent!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 21, 2026 08:44 AM (j+aD2)

218 If Peltola wins, will Murkowski feel liberated from her family past and finally go full Democrat?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 08:43 AM (fF9ID)

O'Keefe went in and posed has her brother or some such at the polling place. Didn't have to show ID and was allowed to enter.

She wants him prosecuted. Says she's for Voter ID, but didn't vote for SAVE because THAT'S just incredible overreach by the federal government.

Yeah, f*ck off, bitch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:45 AM (ccf/V)

219 I help where I can.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:43 AM (ccf/V)
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Spongeworthy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

220 Lyric.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 08:45 AM (2MN4W)

221 Today Is National Hawaiian Shirt Day.
Don't do it!

Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2026 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

222 201 "What? You have swelling between your anus and genitals?
Posted by: Sponge

Taint away is available over the counter.

Posted by: Auspex at August 21, 2026 08:46 AM (Y8DZL)

223 Boogaloo Boy Day?

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 08:46 AM (2MN4W)

224 =================
Wut did I do to you?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 08:44 AM (fF9ID)

It's a quote from a Van Halen tune.

(This is home)
Turns you from hunted into hunter
(This is Meanstreet)
Go and hunt somebody down
(This is home)
But hear me now, somebody said "Fair Warning, Lord !" (This is Meanstreet)
Lord, strike that poor boy down

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:46 AM (ccf/V)

225 Taint away is available over the counter.
Posted by: Auspex

Sunlight and tanning the area works wonders!

Posted by: You'll Need More Anus Bleach, Though at August 21, 2026 08:48 AM (JM9I6)

226 FBI Disrupts ISIS-Inspired Terrorist Attack on New York Statehouse

.. I must say that I have mixed feelings about this story

Posted by: Neo at August 21, 2026 08:48 AM (RHGPo)

227 Last night I watched an Alfred Hitchcock Hour made in 1965. The murderer turned out to be a tranny posing as a nurse to murder nurses.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 08:48 AM (RIvkX)

228 Uh oh. Sponge is quoting song lyrics again…

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 08:48 AM (77rzZ)

229 I was living in California in the mid-80s when they started that mandatory smog-detection inspection bullshit. I took my car in for an inspection at some seedy repair shop so I could renew my tag and it was a complete scam. They took my money but never placed the probe thing into the tailpipe.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026

***
In CO it was every two years, older cars (like 25+) were exempt. My 13-year-old Mercedes passed with no issue.

It amused me that they had no *safety* inspection. No check on headlights or brakes or working wipers, oh no, but what was coming out of your tailpipe, that was the big bad.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

My county did away with all the bullshit. No safety inspection. No smog inspection. Nada.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2026 08:48 AM (eYRW2)

230
.. I must say that I have mixed feelings about this story

Posted by: Neo at August 21, 2026 08:48 AM (RHGPo)

Libs eating their own just gets better and better, doesn't it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:49 AM (ccf/V)

231 The neighbors eouldn't like that.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 08:49 AM (2MN4W)

232
My county did away with all the bullshit. No safety inspection. No smog inspection. Nada.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2026 08:48 AM (eYRW2)

The state actually admitted what they're doing.

"Just send us the money and we'll send you a tag."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:49 AM (ccf/V)

233 Posted by: ... at August 21, 2026 08:30 AM

Will pray for Brit lass.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 08:50 AM (8T3Xj)

234 Uh oh. Sponge is quoting song lyrics again…

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 08:48 AM (77rzZ)

I'm an adrenaline junky. Living on the edge is my jam.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:50 AM (ccf/V)

235 The New York Times' piggy bank is $9.2M lighter after being found liable for defamation of a college basketball player.

Good.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026 08:50 AM (J4Dwc)

236 Still waiting for background check.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 08:51 AM (2MN4W)

237 The New York Times' piggy bank is $9.2M lighter after being found liable for defamation of a college basketball player.

Good.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026 08:50 AM (J4Dwc)

This isn't enough. MOAR PLEEZ.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:51 AM (ccf/V)

238 Washington Free Beacon:

Watch Hasan Piker Use the N-Word on His N-Word-Slinging Uncle’s Far-Left YouTube Show

Piker, who’s faced questions about his true attitude toward black people, seemed quite at home on the show where white, Turkish, and Asian people uttered the N-word, with a hard R, with abandon

Posted by: Neo at August 21, 2026 08:52 AM (RHGPo)

239 "the last remaining domino and symbol of communist failure, tyranny and misery that has yet to fall is Cuba"

I'm standing right here, you know.....

Posted by: Danny Ortega, President for Life at August 21, 2026 08:52 AM (SgdqL)

240 Trump got interviewed by his former lawyer Michael Cohen. Cohen has submitted a pardon request which is be willing to bet Trump grants post midterm

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2026 08:53 AM (rp63B)

241 Cuba's Healthcare system is so wonderful.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 08:53 AM (2MN4W)

242
Piker, who’s faced questions about his true attitude toward black people, seemed quite at home on the show where white, Turkish, and Asian people uttered the N-word, with a hard R, with abandon
Posted by: Neo at August 21, 2026 08:52 AM (RHGPo)

I LOVE that he's the face of the party now. Prop him up. Show who you really are.

If THAT doesn't destroy the Dem party, we're totally f*cked.

Of course, I do NOT expect ANYONE on the right to embrace that and shove his words down their f*cking throat and WIN with it.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:54 AM (ccf/V)

243 Of course, I do NOT expect ANYONE on the right to embrace that and shove his words down their f*cking throat and WIN with it.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:54 AM (ccf/V)
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That's. Not. Who. We. Are.

Posted by: GOPe at August 21, 2026 08:54 AM (FZ29D)

244 Cuba's Healthcare system is so wonderful.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 08:53 AM (2MN4W)

Michael Moore told us so.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:54 AM (ccf/V)

245 Must read article at Legal Insurrection regarding the Senate race-
So disturbing, it's even worse in Alaska than I thought.

"Adding to the ruse, fake Dan Sullivan initially asked election officials to list him on the ballot as “Dan S. Sullivan” — using the incumbent senator’s middle initial rather than his own."

They’re not even hiding it anymore.
There’s a “Fake Dan Sullivan” running in the Alaska Senate primary, a retired school teacher who:

• Voted Democrat in the last THREE presidential elections
• Voted for the Democratic challenger
• Protested Trump
• Showed up at a “No Kings” rally

…and somehow he’s on the ballot as a Republican.

Same name. Same state. Perfect setup to confuse voters and siphon support from the real Dan Sullivan in Alaska’s top-four primary.

This is the kind of dirty trick that only works when the system is rigged for chaos. Ranked choice voting + name games = Democrat wet dream

Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2026 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

246 > FBI Disrupts ISIS-Inspired Terrorist Attack on New York Statehouse
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This was the woman, a real chubster, who went all ISIS a while ago?

Yeah... her chances with them were slim and none.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2026 08:57 AM (2Cry5)

247 NYPost:

Harvard to pay $53M in suit over selling donated corpses on black market

Harvard University will pay $53 million to settle a ghoulish class-action suit brought by families claiming an imprisoned former morgue manager at the Ivy League institution mishandled the bodies of their loved ones donated to its medical school and even sold their body parts on the black market.

Posted by: Neo at August 21, 2026 08:58 AM (RHGPo)

248 Why did they thwart it?

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 08:58 AM (2MN4W)

249 Lawyers' take: $50M
Families' take: $3M

Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026 09:00 AM (J4Dwc)

250 I LOVE that he's the face of the party now. Prop him up. Show who you really are.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

I have been constantly informed that Piker is a "Democratic Socialist" which is the happy fun time kind of communism. Pointing out that he has claimed to be a communist is met with me taking things out of context.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 09:00 AM (OPGS/)

251 I’m beginning to believe that the Iran operation is a success. Maybe not necessarily the politics of it because who knows how voters respond they’re so fickle.

But from a strategic standpoint we’re slowly strangling them. It’s like a modern day siege. If it continues at some point they have to cry uncle. Of course it could take multiple administrations so hope a Rubio type is elected in 28. I wonder if Vance would continue down this path

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2026 09:01 AM (M+uMR)

252 Bring lawyers, guns, and money.

Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2026 09:01 AM (gd7Qy)

253
I have been constantly informed that Piker is a "Democratic Socialist" which is the happy fun time kind of communism. Pointing out that he has claimed to be a communist is met with me taking things out of context.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 09:00 AM (OPGS/)

He wants to wipe his ass with The Constitution. He wants to destroy our current form of government. They're inviting him to speak at rallies. He is their spokesperson.

But our side won't use it because we aren't allowed to have nice things.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:03 AM (ccf/V)

254 So, it's turning into a song lyrics thread?

Posted by: dantesed at August 21, 2026 09:03 AM (Oy/m2)

255 “The greatest danger is that you will have current murderers sitting in prison, being able to appeal their sentencing,” he said. “I do believe that you could be in a scenario where there will be judges who use this as an opportunity to kind of impose their ideology, and so letting people out of jail that don’t belong out of jail, and certainly don’t belong back on the streets.”
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Pennsylvania courts ended minimum sentences for murder and the legislature Democrats, kowtowing to DSA, has refused to pass a new law. Murdering someone is (for the present) a crime where a far-left judge now has discretion to let the criminal go free, if the judge chooses.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 09:03 AM (FcMK6)

256 Pennsylvania courts ended minimum sentences for murder and the legislature Democrats, kowtowing to DSA, has refused to pass a new law. Murdering someone is (for the present) a crime where a far-left judge now has discretion to let the criminal go free, if the judge chooses.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 09:03 AM (FcMK6)

Do they really want a 'kill or be killed' society? Because this is how you get there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:04 AM (ccf/V)

257 254 So, it's turning into a song lyrics thread?

Posted by: dantesed at August 21, 2026 09:03 AM (Oy/m2)

Add boobs to it, and it becomes a boob thread too...
Songs about boobs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 09:06 AM (l3cgK)

258 Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Brave AI response from M'Naugten, Massachusetts, and insanity keywords

Instead, the state uses a broader standard where a defendant may be found not criminally responsible if a mental disease or defect rendered them unable to appreciate the wrongfulness of their conduct OR unable to conform their conduct to the requirements of the law.

This volitional prong distinguishes Massachusetts law from many other jurisdictions that rely solely on cognitive tests like M'Naghten. In practice, once the defense presents credible evidence of mental illness, the burden shifts to the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was legally sane. This framework is currently central to high-profile cases, such as the trial of Lindsay Clancy, where the defense argues that postpartum psychosis impaired her ability to control her actions.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2026 09:07 AM (E4rtv)

259
Add boobs to it, and it becomes a boob thread too...
Songs about boobs...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 09:06 AM (l3cgK)

Posted this yesterday.......

https://youtu.be/Q7DniRWRA7s

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:07 AM (ccf/V)

260 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 21, 2026 09:08 AM (2Ez/1)

261 Lefties now want to criminalize criticism of public figures in the UK, calling their proposal "Arday's Law" to take advantage of the suicide of Fake Professor Guy, Jason Arday.

https://tinyurl.com/54rj2pp5

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 09:08 AM (FcMK6)

262 I still think the "Democratic Socialists" are getting a lot of press not because it's a political movement but because the media's in love with Socialism. They want it to succeed.

Because they're stupid. And they believe it's how the country will return to a place where the MSM is revered again.

*shrugs* It's hype because the media's hyping it. It's not like these people are pulling in 100K people at a rally.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2026 09:09 AM (2Cry5)

263 Rumble Channel.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 09:09 AM (2MN4W)

264 Thou shall not kill means thou shalt murder. What does murder mean? This question is what lawyers charge big for.

Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2026 09:09 AM (gd7Qy)

265 Lefties now want to criminalize criticism of public figures in the UK, calling their proposal "Arday's Law" to take advantage of the suicide of Fake Professor Guy, Jason Arday.

https://tinyurl.com/54rj2pp5
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 09:08 AM (FcMK6)

How far they've fallen.

UK fought tyranny in WW11 and helped defeat the Nazis.

Now, they're implementing tyranny and becoming the Nazis.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:09 AM (ccf/V)

266 @177/Sponge: "My internet was back within an hour or two and the text they sent me gave me the opportunity to cancel the scheduled tech, so I did."

Yeah, that crap is infuriating. My take on this: They decided to do a mid-work-day upgrade or update, and either it just took some time, or it went badly and had to be reverted.

Upgrades should happen from 00:00 to 06:00, but they don't want to pay the overtime, so they screw over the customer base instead, because they can.

Thanks for the AAR, Sponge. Much appreciated.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 09:12 AM (O7YUW)

267 Will pray for Brit lass.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 08:50 AM (8T3Xj)

Thank you Fen!!! Hope you and your flock are well!

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2026 09:12 AM (ucYyF)

268 Lefties now want to criminalize criticism of public figures in the UK, calling their proposal "Arday's Law" to take advantage of the suicide of Fake Professor Guy, Jason Arday.

https://tinyurl.com/54rj2pp5
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 09:08 AM (FcMK6)

Do the public figures have to be British citizens or could we holler at them to prosecute everyone who's ever said anything bad about Trump?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 09:12 AM (ExV1e)

269 Every 6 months or so all of academia takes a break from their important scholarship in order to remind us that each and every single hillbilly luddite stereotype about higher education being a cocoon of berserk shrieking Stalinist savages is 100% correct.

Posted by: Neo at August 21, 2026 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

270 Thou shall not kill means thou shalt murder. What does murder mean? This question is what lawyers charge big for.
Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2026 09:09 AM (gd7Qy)

The actual Commandment is "Thou shalt not commit murder."

Because God knows man sometimes must kill another man because evil exists and there's a constant battle.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:13 AM (ccf/V)

271 And Orchid.... I hope you are feeling much better this week than a couple weeks back.

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2026 09:13 AM (ucYyF)

272 Of course the prohibition is against murder.

Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2026 09:13 AM (gd7Qy)

273 Lefties now want to criminalize criticism of public figures in the UK, calling their proposal "Arday's Law" to take advantage of the suicide of Fake Professor Guy, Jason Arday.

https://tinyurl.com/54rj2pp5
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 09:08 AM (FcMK6)

Limeys have no 1st Amendment but do have crazy strict libel and defamation laws.

I'd say they've pretty much already got what they want.

Nobody would've said squat about Fae Arday if it hadn't been provably 100% true,

they'd of had the Watney's Red Barrel Ale sued outta them.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 21, 2026 09:13 AM (iJfKG)

274 Do they really want a 'kill or be killed' society? Because this is how you get there.
Posted by: Sponge
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Some do, the West has had its percentage of nihilistic assholes since WWI that just want to see it burn. Others are stupid in the name of 'compassion' to the criminal that they have none left for society or victims. Laken Riley was a perfect example of this misplaced 'compassion' for rapists and murderers just because they are 'foreign illegals'.

And no, AWFLs cannot fix them no matter how hard they post on Tik Tok or other social media. Predators kill, robbers rob, and rapists rape because it is enjoyable to them and they like the game of crime that gives them power over other people. Even that of life and death.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2026 09:14 AM (E4rtv)

275
Thanks for the AAR, Sponge. Much appreciated.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 09:12 AM (O7YUW)

My pleasure, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:14 AM (ccf/V)

276 Lefties now want to criminalize criticism of public figures in the UK, calling their proposal "Arday's Law" to take advantage of the suicide of Fake Professor Guy, Jason Arday.

https://tinyurl.com/54rj2pp5
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 09:08 AM (FcMK6)

No Kings

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2026 09:14 AM (ucYyF)

277 How did he do it?

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 09:15 AM (2MN4W)

278 But from a strategic standpoint we’re slowly strangling them. It’s like a modern day siege. If it continues at some point they have to cry uncle.”

It might take 6 months, but it won’t take 2 years. Try to visualize running a country with no money and no banks - they’re already at that point now. (The banks exist, but they only have Monopoly money in them)

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2026 09:15 AM (o3ajz)

279 Yeah, when my internet goes out, the company sends me an email...which I only access on my computer using their internet...not gonna put my email on my cell phone for Google to monitor.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 09:15 AM (l3cgK)

280 Great vid at NY Post of an African American preacher in Dearborn unleashing on the Muslim population and sharia law. This is after a very large motorcycle protest led by "Christian Nationalist" Jake Lang descended on the city two days ago. Things be getting sporty

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2026 09:16 AM (rp63B)

281 Arday accuser suspended.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 09:16 AM (2MN4W)

282 278 But from a strategic standpoint we’re slowly strangling them. It’s like a modern day siege. If it continues at some point they have to cry uncle.”

It might take 6 months, but it won’t take 2 years. Try to visualize running a country with no money and no banks - they’re already at that point now. (The banks exist, but they only have Monopoly money in them)

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2026 09:15 AM (o3ajz)

The colors are cool!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 09:17 AM (l3cgK)

283 I really like some of the monikers that commenters here give their spouses. "Brit Lass" is one of those. Also, "Smash," which one of the "Rons uses to refer to his wife.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 09:17 AM (77rzZ)

284 Do the public figures have to be British citizens or could we holler at them to prosecute everyone who's ever said anything bad about Trump?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 09:12 AM (ExV1e)
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Ah yes, the "Except Trump" provision. Him, you can anything you like about, all defamatory comments welcome.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 09:17 AM (w+leU)

285 Great vid at NY Post of an African American preacher in Dearborn unleashing on the Muslim population and sharia law. This is after a very large motorcycle protest led by "Christian Nationalist" Jake Lang descended on the city two days ago. Things be getting sporty
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2026 09:16 AM (rp63B)

muslhams will riot. Jake Lang will be the only one arrested.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:17 AM (ccf/V)

286 Joe Walsh has you covered on the boobs tunes.

https://tinyurl.com/yc3frdyn

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 21, 2026 09:17 AM (XvL8K)

287 "But from a strategic standpoint we’re slowly strangling them."

VDH says it's a modern version of the Winfield Scott Anaconda Plan.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 21, 2026 09:17 AM (36x1j)

288 Joe Walsh has you covered on the boobs tunes.

https://tinyurl.com/yc3frdyn
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 21, 2026 09:17 AM (XvL8K)

That just had to be a goof where they're all sitting around a studio bored and someone rolled tape.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:18 AM (ccf/V)

289 "But from a strategic standpoint we’re slowly strangling them."

VDH says it's a modern version of the Winfield Scott Anaconda Plan.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 21, 2026 09:17 AM (36x1j)

Does that mean that Trump isn't a buffoon who's being made a fool of by Iran?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 09:18 AM (ExV1e)

290 It was 58° here this morning at 5 when I walked to the local Stewart's . Going to be a cold fall and winter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2026 09:19 AM (rp63B)

291 279 Yeah, when my internet goes out, the company sends me an email...which I only access on my computer using their internet...not gonna put my email on my cell phone for Google to monitor.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Throwaway free email accounts, even encrypted email is available. I use my gmail for such crap as I have an Android phone anyway. And it you want a modicum of privacy, set up a VPN which makes your traffic less able to be analyzed by traffic analysis patterns that Google uses. Using it off and on makes your data messy and refusing to use precise location data on your phone makes locations approximate (unless the po po have a subpoena out on you to the telecoms and due to Scotus recently, that may require the next step which is a warrant--general geofencing subpoenas are out now).

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2026 09:20 AM (E4rtv)

292 It was 58° here this morning at 5 when I walked to the local Stewart's . Going to be a cold fall and winter
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2026 09:19 AM (rp63B)

It's 86 in NTX on the way to today's high of 107.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:20 AM (ccf/V)

293 Arday accuser suspended.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 09:16 AM (2MN4W)
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Nathan Cofnas, the American academic who exposed plagiarism allegations against the late Jason Arday, has been suspended by Ghent University in Belgium. The suspension, announced on August 20, 2026, is described by the university as a "precautionary measure" pending a preliminary disciplinary investigation into claims that Cofnas discriminated against Arday. (via Brave AI summary)

Whistleblowing plagiarism is now 'discriminatory' if the target is a black professor.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 09:20 AM (1KK9q)

294 It was 58° here this morning at 5 when I walked to the local Stewart's . Going to be a cold fall and winter
Posted by: Smell the Glove

But I was reliably informed that snowfalls are now a thing of the past due to globull warming.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 09:20 AM (77rzZ)

295 We have surprisingly good Internet service here... and we're sort of out in the boondocks. Good enough for TV streaming/gaming and surfing the web all at the same time on multiple devices.

But it's just the two of us...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2026 09:21 AM (2Cry5)

296
Whistleblowing plagiarism is now 'discriminatory' if the target is a black professor.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 09:20 AM (1KK9q)

Arday, proving his innocence by putting a hole in his head and letting the truth leak out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:22 AM (ccf/V)

297 It's 86 in NTX on the way to today's high of 107.
Posted by: Sponge

Ugh. I will never live in Texas.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 09:22 AM (77rzZ)

298 He didn't lynch himself?

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 09:22 AM (2MN4W)

299 Nathan Cofnas, the American academic who exposed plagiarism allegations against the late Jason Arday, has been suspended by Ghent University in Belgium. The suspension, announced on August 20, 2026, is described by the university as a "precautionary measure" pending a preliminary disciplinary investigation into claims that Cofnas discriminated against Arday.

https://youtu.be/eaLLRIvWz4M

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 09:22 AM (ExV1e)

300 Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Socialist Angie Nixon: "We don't want government like in our business."

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Riiiiiight.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 21, 2026 09:23 AM (ndZc7)

301 We have surprisingly good Internet service here... and we're sort of out in the boondocks. Good enough for TV streaming/gaming and surfing the web all at the same time on multiple devices.

But it's just the two of us...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2026 09:21 AM (2Cry5)

I've had FiOS for at LEAST 15 years. Verizon at first, then Frontier bought the service, which Verizon is now buying back. I've had an outage MAYBE 5 times, one of which was Snowmageddon where they discovered all their dead UPS batteries all over the place.

This 2nd round of Verizon is starting to be much worse.

We're hoping to be moved soon, where I'll never look back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:23 AM (ccf/V)

302 Time to nuke the college welfare system from orbit.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 09:24 AM (2MN4W)

303 This is the day the Lord hath made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2026 09:24 AM (gd7Qy)

304 Ugh. I will never live in Texas.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 09:22 AM (77rzZ)

That's ok. Moose out front says we're full anyway.

This summer has been the hottest in a while, for sure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:24 AM (ccf/V)

305 How far they've fallen.

UK fought tyranny in WW11 and helped defeat the Nazis.

Now, they're implementing tyranny and becoming the Nazis.
Posted by: Sponge

UK went broke fighting the NotSees. And we have damn near went broke fighting the Commies for decades and a lot of our trade, jobs, and political institutions got warped by the Cold War.

And like UK, part of the price for domestic quiet on the homefront was shoveling borrowed money at the populace for goodies in order to actually defend the country. Wars distort economies as we see with Iran and that distorts politics in turn.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2026 09:24 AM (E4rtv)

306 Arday was just a clump of cells.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 09:25 AM (2MN4W)

307 Arday was a pathological liar. He got called out for his lies. He committed suicide rather than face his critics.

Punish the guy that pointed it out.

We are so totally f*cked.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:26 AM (ccf/V)

308 Not Joe's fault!

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Jill Biden won't rule out Joe's drink being "laced" before his debate with Trump:

"Who knows, right? Who knows."

She's really still doing this.

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I suspect Kamala.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 21, 2026 09:27 AM (ndZc7)

309 There's a vid at Twitchy of Symone Sanders trying to get Nixon to downplay her socialism. Tried to get her to say it was tactical, but Nixon said it's about the issues.
Then there's Schumer saying al-Sayed brings energy to the party.
The Dems just don't get it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2026 09:27 AM (rp63B)

310 @WesternLensman
Jill Biden won't rule out Joe's drink being "laced" before his debate with Trump:

"Who knows, right? Who knows."

She's really still doing this.

BBWWWWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:27 AM (ccf/V)

311 Then there's Schumer saying al-Sayed brings energy to the party.
The Dems just don't get it
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2026 09:27 AM (rp63B)

The Dems believe the polls...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2026 09:28 AM (+gK6I)

312 Whistleblowing plagiarism is now 'discriminatory' if the target is a black professor.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Every dying system tries to prop itself up by preventing dissent and truth from being disseminated. And they take to picking targets out to destroy that dare tell the truth.

Long and short, unless they go full commie killer mode, it always fails. Sometimes even if they go full commie killer mode. At best, that staves off the collapse for awhile.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2026 09:28 AM (E4rtv)

313
The Dems believe the polls...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2026 09:28 AM (+gK6I)

They love them some tranny strippers.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:28 AM (ccf/V)

314 Arday, proving his innocence by putting a hole in his head and letting the truth leak out.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:22 AM (ccf/V)
He applied Rule 303 to himself.

Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2026 09:28 AM (gd7Qy)

315 > I've had FiOS for at LEAST 15 years. Verizon at first, then Frontier bought the service, which Verizon is now buying back.
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Frontier is shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2026 09:29 AM (2Cry5)

316 Then there's Schumer saying al-Sayed brings energy to the party.
The Dems just don't get it
Posted by: Smell the Glove

He wants to stay in office and stay a Senate leader for the Dems. Fighting the DSA failed, so he is joining before it takes his seat. It might anyway as old white men are being pushed out of the Dem. party by the leftist fanatics.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2026 09:29 AM (E4rtv)

317 Super genius Schumer.

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Chuck Schumer touts El-Sayed: "He's brought new energy and talent into the Democratic party."

El-Sayed: "If you're Chuck Schumer, I'm pretty damn dangerous."

Good luck, Chuck.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 21, 2026 09:30 AM (ndZc7)

318 Schumer doubling down on his support for al Sayed is bizarre, taking JJ's term "Self-gassing Jew" to the point of being literal truth. Sayed says repeatedly that Jews should be killed, and Schumer fucking supports his election.

Schumer is like a suicide bomber, trying to kill himself to gain power for the party.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 09:30 AM (1KK9q)

319 Have some Tide Pods Chuck.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 09:30 AM (2MN4W)

320 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:30 AM (ccf/V)

321 314 Arday, proving his innocence by putting a hole in his head and letting the truth leak out.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:22 AM (ccf/V)
He applied Rule 303 to himself.
Posted by: Eromero
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I thought it was an OD, not bang bang.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2026 09:31 AM (E4rtv)

322 Nood. Boobs. Nood boobs. Boobs of nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 09:31 AM (ExV1e)

323 310 @WesternLensman
Jill Biden won't rule out Joe's drink being "laced" before his debate with Trump:

"Who knows, right? Who knows."

She's really still doing this.

BBWWWWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 09:27 AM (ccf/V)

It was laced, but not with enough pills to give Biden the mental and physical boost he needed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 09:31 AM (l3cgK)

324 I thought it was an OD, not bang bang.
Posted by: whig at August 21, 2026 09:31 AM (E4rtv)
Well yeah, didn’t have the guts to pull the trigger twice.

Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2026 09:33 AM (gd7Qy)

325 @281/Boss Moss: "Arday accuser suspended."

Any further communication from him should be through his solicitor (lawyer) in order to scare the administration of Ghent University a little bit. Let them wonder if they're in for a wrongful dismissal lawsuit if they proceed with an actual termination of employment.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 09:45 AM (O7YUW)

326 'Morning, all. Thanks, J.J.

From above, Temporary immigrants are “essential” to the operation of New York’s government, Governor Kathy Hochul said. 'NY Gov. Kathy Hochul: Don’t Deport ‘Essential’ Haitians, Salvadorans Who Staff Government'

The top state with Haitian TPS Holders is Florida: 158,000. New York follows with 40,000. Florida is not experiencing a mass exodus or panic over Haitians leaving the state though, reportedly, Haitian workers are commonly working in healthcare, hospitality, elder care, and aviation support.

Certain small businesses and, of course, home-care agencies in South Florida have been forced to scale back or shut down entirely after losing a lot of employees. Some public healthcare systems, particularly in the south of the state, lost hospital and administrative staff that managed the business, financial, and operational sides of a healthcare facilities. Restaurant chains, landscaping, construction (i.e., post storm roofers) lost workers.; nursery and crop operations idled.

>Miami Herald, 8/9/26, ‘The streets are empty’: Haitians recede from public in South Florida as TPS ends

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 21, 2026 09:50 AM (NFX2v)

327 "At Miami International Airport, some 33 people have lost their work protections. And at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, another 132 who benefitted from who benefitted from Haitian TPS were let go by their employers, according to Arlene Satchell, a spokeswoman for the Broward County Aviation Department.

They worked as terminal janitors, aircraft cleaners, wheelchair attendants, baggage handlers, security officers and concession workers, according to Aldo Muirragui, field coordinator for Florida airports for 32BJ SEIU. The union represents at least 50 workers who lost their jobs."

South Florida politicians & business leaders are actively demanding the passage of the American Dream and Promise Act, as will politicians in NY, MA, NJ, PA, OH, and more.

The top States w/Salvadoran TPS Holders: California: 36,000; Texas: 27,000; Maryland: 21,000; Virginia: 17,000 New York: 14,000.

>The Times of San Diego: 'TPS for Salvadorans ends on Sept. 9. Thousands of families at risk for deportation' Aug. 13, 2026

The issues for mid-term elections & 2028: More Medicare/Medicaid expansion & the passing of The American Dream and Promise Act (H.R. 1589)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 21, 2026 09:50 AM (NFX2v)

328 CBS, MoneyWatch
National debt tops $40 trillion after doubling in less than a decade, Treasury data shows

As of Tuesday.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 21, 2026 10:44 AM (NFX2v)

329 I grew up in 1980s Britain. We still had candles ready for a power cut because of the problems caused by socialism (real socialism, with government ownership of the electricity generation and grid) through the 1970s that Thatcher was still bringing recovery from.

Posted by: Doubting_Rich at August 21, 2026 11:22 AM (xB1Z/)

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