British Medical Journal: The FDA and CDC Used a Faulty Algorithm to Understate Vaccine Injuries. When One Researcher Pointed Out the Flaw, She Was Told to Mind Her Own Business.

I'm not willing to assume "just an accidental oversight."

In fact, I'm very much assuming enemy action.

Adam Urato, MD
@AdamUrato1

Must-read investigative article in The BMJ.
Clear safety signals of Covid vaccine harms (in red below) were missed by FDA & CDC by using a flawed method where the harms went undetected.
"The agency's PRR analyses--examined by The BMJ--show that hundreds of types of adverse events met the agency's criteria for a signal" (including myocarditis, pericarditis, Bell's palsy, and tinnitus.)
The FDA doctor who alerted them to the flawed safety system was muzzled. "She was told, with diplomatic flourish, to back off."

Above, the images show a correct analysis of vaccine harms, showing lots of red flags.

The images on the right show the FDA's and CDC's "accidental" understatement of vaccine injuries -- all green flags.

Whoops!

Whoopsie!

From the BMJ:

US officials knew covid vaccine safety system was flawed--but turned aside the FDA doctor who alerted them
US officials embraced an algorithm for detecting signals of harm from mRNA covid-19 vaccines that they knew was broken and suppressed efforts to fix it.
David Willman reports:
Before covid-19 vaccines were rolled out to Americans in December 2020, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assured healthcare providers that the agency was on the lookout for any harmful reactions. A key part of the CDC's strategy was its Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which receives such reports after vaccination.
"It is the nation's frontline system for monitoring vaccine safety and the early warning system for detecting possible vaccine safety problems," said Tom Shimabukuro, deputy director of CDC's Immunization Safety Office, on 30 October 2020.
Millions of people were to be vaccinated each week, and the CDC would rely on statistical "data mining" of the VAERS database to quickly identify any safety signals in need of further probing.
Two well recognised, separate algorithms were to be used. The first involved calculating "proportional reporting ratios" (PRRs), which sought to identify types of reactions reported to VAERS disproportionately or more frequently than background rates. The second data mining technique, called "empirical bayesian," was to be provided by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which operated VAERS jointly with the CDC, and the two agencies planned to share and discuss results.
But in a little noticed September 2022 letter, CDC director Rochelle Walensky said that the agency did not perform PRR analyses for signals until 2022. This was more than a year into the vaccine rollout and was intended, she wrote, "to corroborate" the FDA's approach. Instead of using the PRR and empirical bayesian methods jointly during the pandemic, Walensky explained that both the CDC and FDA instead "chose to rely" on empirical bayesian, which she characterised as "a more robust technique."

It doesn't appear to be "more robust." What it appears to be is deliberately crippled to hide vaccine injuries.

The BMJ, however, has found that the FDA's algorithm was mathematically compromised by the deluge of covid vaccine adverse event reports--resulting in a near total loss of signal detection sensitivity for the new mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna. Top FDA officials were warned internally of this problem in early 2021, and the official who headed its pharmacovigilance division for vaccines commented more than two years later to his CDC and FDA colleagues: "We were aware of this [data mining] limitation before and during the pandemic." Government documents also show that CDC officials were informed during rollout of the vaccines--on multiple occasions.
Yet instead of fixing the safety deficiency--or shutting down the unreliable signal detection system--officials continued to rely on the FDA's broken algorithm. The officials also cited the absence of signals when assuring clinicians and the public of the vaccines' safety.
At the FDA, managers went a step further by silencing the career drug safety officer who had repeatedly brought the deficiency to their attention and had offered an updated algorithm intended to fix it. As a result, Americans received unfounded assurances of the safety of the most widely used covid vaccines and were denied prompt warnings of potential harms, The BMJ's investigation found.

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"I'm perplexed that myocarditis isn't alerting"
In late February 2021, CDC and FDA officials received notice of "a large number of reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people," after vaccination. The warnings of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the pericardium) came from the Israeli Ministry of Health. In a private meeting five weeks later, the Israelis informed a CDC convened covid vaccine safety committee that two of the 77 vaccinated people with myocarditis or pericarditis had died.
The next week, the same committee heard from the Pentagon's Defense Health Agency, which reported a "cluster of cases" of myocarditis among male US military members.
US public health officials remained sceptical of a link to the new mRNA vaccines. "We have not seen a signal [for myocarditis], and we've actually looked intentionally for the signal in the over 200 million doses we've given," CDC director Walensky told reporters.
By May 2021, VAERS had received hundreds of reports of myocarditis and pericarditis after covid vaccinations, and the CDC began alerting healthcare professionals. While the agency was still unsure of a causal relationship, it decided to alert physicians more broadly through a "clinical considerations" web posting.
But oncologist Peter Marks, who as director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research was the agency's top covid vaccine regulator, objected. He questioned the CDC's imminent website announcement, emailing Walensky directly, highlighting the lack of any safety signal from the government's own surveillance: "We still have concerns here [at the FDA] if myocarditis and pericarditis have not actually signaled . . . Can you help me understand why we are doing this when pediatricians and others in the community already seem to be aware?"
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Still, VAERS reports continued to mount, with myocarditis attracting the greatest attention. In a June 2021 public presentation, the CDC's Shimabukuro showed that, for young males (age 12-24), VAERS had received between 29 and 347 times more myocarditis and pericarditis reports than the agency expected based on background incidence rates. In a public statement that day, the CDC dubbed myocarditis an "extremely rare side effect."
Government records show that, the day before his presentation, Shimabukuro had received the FDA's latest data mining report--and it continued to show no signal. "I'm perplexed that myocarditis isn't alerting for either of the mRNA vaccines," Shimabukuro emailed a colleague.

Early warnings
The BMJ can reveal that the FDA's algorithm failed to signal a potential relationship between mRNA covid vaccination and myocarditis, pericarditis, Bell's palsy, tinnitus, and other reported disorders owing to a flaw in the detection methodology--a flaw that senior officials declined to rectify.

If I understand the next section, I believe they are saying the FDA's and CDC's faulty algorithm compared covid "vaccine" VAERS reports to all VAERS reports, and would only flag the "vaccines" as problematic if they showed many more VAERS reports than all other reports.

But the problem is -- and this should have been obvious -- that 90% of the public was "vaccinated" with the covid "vaccines," so if you compared "vaccine" incident rates to all reported incident rates -- they were practically the same number. The FDA and CDC used an algorithm to detect a covid "vaccine" signal against the sea of all other incidents, but covid "vaccines" were so common, numbering the many tens of millions, that covid "vaccine" incidents were the sea they were checking against.

It's like a Venn diagram where the circles almost completely overlap. If you're comparing "vaccine" incidents to "background" incidents but "vaccine" incidents make up 90% of the background, everytime you check, you'll find that "vaccine" incidents are very similar to "background" incidents, because "background" incidents are made up mostly of vaccine "incidents."

And thus, they kept claiming: We don't see any pronounced spike of "vaccine" incidents compared to all other incidents, without telling you that the background data they were checking against was mostly covid "vaccine" data.

The problem arose because, in the first year of the rollout, almost all the reports coming into VAERS--more than 90% of 1.1 million--were for the mRNA covid shots, dwarfing vaccines for all other diseases. This meant that analysing the safety of one vaccine, for example Pfizer's product, involved comparing it to other vaccines, which were overwhelmingly limited to Moderna's product. But if both mRNA vaccines elevated the risk of an adverse event like myocarditis in roughly equal amounts, the "observed" frequency and "expected" frequency would be similar, resulting in no automated alert. The statistical phenomenon is known as "masking."

And I wonder if this "masking" effect was accidental, or intended.

Imagine if you wanted to see if covid was affecting ethnic Chinese people more than non-ethnic Chinese people. In China. So you compare the rates of ethnic Chinese people in China to all people in China, and find that there is no difference between ethnic Chinese people and all people in China.

But your data for "all" people in China is 95% ethnic Chinese! Of course you found no difference in the rates of infection! You're comparing Data Set A to Data Set A + 5% other data and finding the two are barely different at all!

No more than 5% different, in fact! Not statistically significant!

Szarfman and DuMouchel, who earned his PhD at Yale and by 2010 became chief statistician at Oracle Health Sciences, judged that the unique circumstances of the pandemic meant that the FDA's approach was missing safety signals...
"Regarding the NYT article, I am quite concerned," Szarfman emailed Marks two days later. She wrote that the agency should be "clamoring to fix this problem." < Szarfman concluded, "Let me know if you want Bill DuMouchel and I to discuss our proposal for more effective monitoring, including the need to use an updated algorithm by DuMouchel for data mining spontaneous reports."
...
Marks and his staff, however, declined to alter the FDA's existing approach--and agency officials did not publicly warn of the deficiency with finding safety signals. When Szarfman continued to press the matter, she was told, with diplomatic flourish, to back off.
That email, sent on 7 May 2021, by Craig Zinderman, associate director for medical policy in FDA's Office of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, began: "Good Afternoon Ana, Thank you again for talking with us back in March about your work exploring new data mining approaches . . . We are writing to kindly ask you to please hold off on creating and sending data mining reports and analyses using covid-19 vaccine AE [adverse event] data."

I would say "incredible" but we have seen again and again that 90% of the output from government, from NGOs, from academia, from corporations is pure fraud on the public.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:04 PM

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1 Of course.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:04 PM (Y/06r)

2 test

Posted by: Max Power at September 18, 2026 12:04 PM (SwyyQ)

3 Dammit! I thought I could close the tab...

Posted by: Max Power at September 18, 2026 12:05 PM (SwyyQ)

4 Wait, it worked!!!

Posted by: Max Power at September 18, 2026 12:05 PM (SwyyQ)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:05 PM (ccf/V)

6 HTML Tags.

HOW DO DEY WERK?!??

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:06 PM (ccf/V)

7 Top o' the nooner to ya, Ace!

Too much Val-u-Rite last night?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:06 PM (ccf/V)

8 I don't understand a word of this, and I am RAGING.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 18, 2026 12:07 PM (2ap+5)

9 Burn the medical establishment to the waterline.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 18, 2026 12:07 PM (ohcCe)

10 Motherfuckers.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 18, 2026 12:08 PM (4NO2D)

11 on, no! MATHS!

Posted by: runner at September 18, 2026 12:08 PM (AKptf)

12 You know, this sort of thing was bad when they did it in the Tuskegee Experiment.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 18, 2026 12:08 PM (ndZc7)

13 Trust Da Thienth~!!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 18, 2026 12:08 PM (HeG1i)

14 The thing about this:

-vaccine manufacturers could offload a costly, dangerous R&D project that did not work out for it's intended purpose at premium, government subsidized prices.

-Doctors got kickbacks. Politicians got kickbacks. Bureaucrats got kickbacks.

The truly astounding thing is I am not sure there is a good historical parallel. This is a nexus in a lot of different things: widespread testing of a dangerous medication. Government covered it up. This is far worse than even the Tuskegee Syphilis thing.

Maybe Thalidomide? Mercury for Syphilis treatment?

But I can't think of one where it was a bad treatment but the government not only covered it up, but tried to wholesale force it on everyone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:09 PM (Y/06r)

15 "This is Trump's fault. Also, Trump firing non-partisan bureaucrats in the American government is an attack on independent and moral scientists who only have our best interests and the science at heart."
-troll

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:10 PM (+a7XK)

16 Should I get a flu vaccine?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 18, 2026 12:10 PM (2Ez/1)

17 So basically our government wanted to kill us, control us and harm us.

Got it.

Posted by: Czech Chick at September 18, 2026 12:10 PM (rg/w7)

18 Get your red-hot Covid Boosters here!

Posted by: Everytown, USA at September 18, 2026 12:10 PM (Fn+3X)

19 Brit Neil Ferguson created the Covid fatality model the world used to shut us down. He was a disgraced scientist like Fauci for his totally flawed model for Mad Cow disease that cost the UK tens of millions of dollars. And like Fauci and his HIV /AIS leadership lied like Pinocchio. How our leaders accepted anything these two presented is beyond my comprehension .

Posted by: polynikes at September 18, 2026 12:10 PM (KC5Lt)

20 Population control. Period.

They all believe the Earth is overpopulated and are doing whatever they can to lessen the count.

Chinese flus, covid, the vax, muslham spread.......it's all designed to kill you off......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:10 PM (ccf/V)

21 12 You know, this sort of thing was bad when they did it in the Tuskegee Experiment.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 18, 2026 12:08 PM (ndZc7)

But the thing was that was allowing a disease to run it's course while the subjects believe they are being treated in order to study the progression of the disease. Aided by racisms.

This, this is just money. And politics.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:11 PM (Y/06r)

22 19 Brit Neil Ferguson created the Covid fatality model the world used to shut us down. He was a disgraced scientist like Fauci for his totally flawed model for Mad Cow disease that cost the UK tens of millions of dollars. And like Fauci and his HIV /AIS leadership lied like Pinocchio. How our leaders accepted anything these two presented is beyond my comprehension .

Posted by: polynikes at September 18, 2026 12:10 PM (KC5Lt)

=====

And he broke lockdown to get some strange.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:11 PM (+a7XK)

23 16 Should I get a flu vaccine?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

R U Nutz?

Posted by: Say No To Needles at September 18, 2026 12:11 PM (Fn+3X)

24 16 Should I get a flu vaccine?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 18, 2026 12:10 PM

That was a misfire. I meant to ask this:

Should I get a pneumonia vaccine?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 18, 2026 12:12 PM (2Ez/1)

25 Is Fauci somehow connected?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:12 PM (l3cgK)

26 The next time someone tells you they are “science”, hang them.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:12 PM (oAqqA)

27 Turning the country into a gulag was just a side effect!

Posted by: runner at September 18, 2026 12:12 PM (AKptf)

28 24 16 Should I get a flu vaccine?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 18, 2026 12:10 PM

That was a misfire. I meant to ask this:

Should I get a pneumonia vaccine?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 18, 2026 12:12 PM (2Ez/1)

Should I get an M-Pox vax?

Posted by: Old Auntie Listening to CDC at September 18, 2026 12:13 PM (l3cgK)

29 >But I can't think of one where it was a bad treatment but the government not only covered it up, but tried to wholesale force it on everyone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:09 PM (Y/06r)

And if you have suffered damages as a result of the 'vaccine', there is no recourse. Pharma companies cannot be sued as a result. If only there was a legislative body that can remove shielding laws preventing legal recourse for injured consumers.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at September 18, 2026 12:13 PM (GTqXr)

30 "This is Trump's fault. Also, Trump firing non-partisan bureaucrats in the American government is an attack on independent and moral scientists who only have our best interests and the science at heart."
-troll
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:10 PM (+a7XK)

Trump pushed for a vaccine in Operation Warp Speed, knowing FULL WELL, after being cured of it in a f*cking weekend, that it wasn't necessary. He pushed to bypass all the standard regulatory guidelines so he could have it before his term ended. It was ready, but they didn't want him credited with it. But no one blames Biden for any of it. And he forced it on the masses.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:13 PM (ccf/V)

31 27 Turning the country into a gulag was just a side effect!

Posted by: runner at September 18, 2026 12:12 PM (AKptf)

No, I think perhaps that was the point.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:13 PM (l3cgK)

32 You just can’t let your victims know you’ve been killing them and plan to continue killing them. Keep ‘em in the dark.

Posted by: Eromero at September 18, 2026 12:13 PM (UlXJJ)

33 Should I get a flu vaccine?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 18, 2026 12:10 PM (2Ez/1)

If you want the flu, sure. They NEVER get the strain right, so usually the flu shot is worthless.

However, they're pushing it to be mRNA as well, so it too is being designed to kill you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:15 PM (ccf/V)

34 31 27 Turning the country into a gulag was just a side effect!

Posted by: runner at September 18, 2026 12:12 PM (AKptf)

No, I think perhaps that was the point.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:13 PM (l3cgK)

JIM JOHNSON (in Kalifornia) IS RIGHT!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:15 PM (Y/06r)

35 My Display is going out...Samsung, one of their better models, but after only 2 years...
Son said online mentions issues with the electrical connections on the glass coming loose...
Maybe this should be under FWP, but I can't wait for Sunday! (another FWP!)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:16 PM (l3cgK)

36
And he broke lockdown to get some strange.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:11 PM (+a7XK)

I mean, c'mon.......the powerful need to release some steam, man. The pressures........you just wouldn't understand......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:16 PM (ccf/V)

37 32 You just can’t let your victims know you’ve been killing them and plan to continue killing them. Keep ‘em in the dark.
Posted by: Eromero at September 18, 2026 12:13 PM

Now you're catching on.

Posted by: Lindsey Clancy at September 18, 2026 12:16 PM (2Ez/1)

38 Wood chippers for everyone involved in this bullshit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 18, 2026 12:16 PM (d9FiM)

39 Fun fact: No nation on Earth incorporated the Nuremberg Code into law as "it was felt at the time that there was no need".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 18, 2026 12:17 PM (ExV1e)

40 The guy who sprayed Ilhan Omar with vinegar is going to jail for the next year

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Well, vinegar related crimes are particularly heinous.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 18, 2026 12:17 PM (ndZc7)

41 Wood chippers for everyone involved in this bullshit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 18, 2026 12:16 PM (d9FiM)

In before the 'nothing will happen' guy.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:17 PM (ccf/V)

42 32 You just can’t let your victims know you’ve been killing them and plan to continue killing them. Keep ‘em in the dark.

Posted by: Eromero at September 18, 2026 12:13 PM (UlXJJ)

Until it too late, then gloat over them how easy it was.
At least that's what I see in the movies...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:17 PM (l3cgK)

43 I'm fairly certain this was deliberate.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 18, 2026 12:18 PM (2Cry5)

44 There is a serious need seen by the .gov and pHarm for a "gene to vaccine" technology. Unfortunately what they have is an auto-immune inducing technology, that has the side benefit of impairing the body's ability to identify and destroy cancerous cells, and is enabled by LNPs that appear to exacerbate cancer metastasis.
It also doesn't seem to do much for preventing diseases.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2026 12:18 PM (rbvCR)

45 And the reason they wouldn't allow the use of prophylactics like HCQ and Ivermectin is that it would affect their test subjects in the largest clinical trial of a cancer drug in history.

This is the part of the Covid period which makes me the most angry. Advocate for the death penalty angry.

Posted by: polynikes at September 18, 2026 12:18 PM (KC5Lt)

46 The people who did this are still there in the FDA and CDC, aren't they?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 18, 2026 12:18 PM (O7YUW)

47 Sponge I meant to ask about the pneumonia vaccine.
Recently my doc was pushing it...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 18, 2026 12:19 PM (2Ez/1)

48 I would say "incredible" but we have seen again and again that 90% of the output from government, from NGOs, from academia, from corporations is pure fraud on the public.

If you understood our understanding of the "public", you'll understand.

#BeBetter

Posted by: Your Elites at September 18, 2026 12:19 PM (0sNs1)

49 38 Wood chippers for everyone involved in this bullshit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 18, 2026 12:16 PM (d9FiM)

Yes, we need the wood chippers for you guys...

Posted by: Mandami and the Kwueer Kuran Komunists (KKK) at September 18, 2026 12:19 PM (l3cgK)

50 At least that's what I see in the movies...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:17 PM (l3cgK)

I blame movies for women now screaming hysterically whenever anything startling happens.

I just don't picture a mother on the prairie screaming bloody murder as they fought off an Indian attack......She sheltered the kids, picked up a rifle and started laying waste.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:19 PM (ccf/V)

51 Regular vaccines are hard (see Polio.) I think they want to be able to create a swiss army knife. I think this is part of the larger grift and covid was just the first use case. They see dollar signs in just iterating on the same tech over and over and over.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:19 PM (Y/06r)

52 We just need commonsense vinegar control.

Posted by: Bulg at September 18, 2026 12:19 PM (77rzZ)

53 Mistakes were made.
It was just a few rouge agents in the Cincinnati office.
Additional training modules have been required.
At this point, what difference does it make?
Can't we all just MoveOn.org?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 18, 2026 12:20 PM (3cUTc)

54 It’s too much work trying to access this site on an iPhone.

Posted by: Buck_IV at September 18, 2026 12:20 PM (Pd4Dv)

55 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: That Guy who intones, sonorously, "Nothing will happen." at September 18, 2026 12:20 PM (0sNs1)

56 48 I would say "incredible" but we have seen again and again that 90% of the output from government, from NGOs, from academia, from corporations is pure fraud on the public.

If you understood our understanding of the "public", you'll understand.

#BeBetter

Posted by: Your Elites at September 18, 2026 12:19 PM (0sNs1)

======

"They'll fall for anything, especially those stupid conservatives."

*conservatives don't fall for it, only progressives do*

"See? Conservatives are such dummies because they don't listen to our lies."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:20 PM (+a7XK)

57 One cup of vinegar a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Karen McKarenface at September 18, 2026 12:21 PM (2Ez/1)

58 Democrats are the ones who started using Covid as a weapon against the people. They hid facts like this from the public and attacked anyone who destroyed the narrative they were wielding like a club.

But you should totally vote for Democrats in November because you’re angry about the price of gas. What’s the worst thing that could happen?

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:21 PM (oAqqA)

59 About ten years ago I got a flu shot and got the flu. Haven't got one since. And I haven't had the flu since.

Posted by: Case at September 18, 2026 12:21 PM (xJpuh)

60 They want to kill us and wear our skin. Different day - same old shit.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 18, 2026 12:21 PM (KGj36)

61 Sponge I meant to ask about the pneumonia vaccine.
Recently my doc was pushing it...
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 18, 2026 12:19 PM (2Ez/1)

I mean, I wouldn't, but that's me. Do your research. See if you can find the VAERS data for it. Read the side effects page......

I'm personally not getting another vaccine as long as I live. The last one I got was the tetanus shot. That damn thing caused me significant pain in my back and shoulder. And this was YEARS before this covid bullshit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:21 PM (ccf/V)

62 "They'll fall for anything, especially those stupid conservatives."

*conservatives don't fall for it, only progressives do*

"See? Conservatives are such dummies because they don't listen to our lies."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:20 PM (+a7XK)

In a lot of ways I think I see everything as having the same root cause. Consumer vs customer. Serve instead of being served.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:21 PM (Y/06r)

63 These were REAL vaccines, effective and safe! VAERS reports are at best anecdotal non-evidence and mostly fabrications from crackpot anti-vaxxers! Remdesivir and respirators, not horse paste! Don't believe in facts, believe in SCIENCE™!

Posted by: Things I learned here strangely enough at September 18, 2026 12:21 PM (TbWk/)

64 The Lancet hangs its head in shame. Hah! Just kidding!

Posted by: Peer Reviewed at September 18, 2026 12:21 PM (6iKlf)

65 50 At least that's what I see in the movies...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:17 PM (l3cgK)

I blame movies for women now screaming hysterically whenever anything startling happens.

I just don't picture a mother on the prairie screaming bloody murder as they fought off an Indian attack......She sheltered the kids, picked up a rifle and started laying waste.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:19 PM (ccf/V)

like the Mom in Gremlins that shoved the beastie into the microwave...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:21 PM (l3cgK)

66 TJM who wins the NC senate seat. Put down your marker.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:22 PM (oAqqA)

67 i said all conservatives were going to die because they weren't going to take the vaccine

and sid's ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Paul at September 18, 2026 12:22 PM (6bWdV)

68 Willowed:

The only good thing to come out of Canada is Terrence and Phil
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 18, 2026 11:57 AM

Come out of Canada? I'm right here, you know.
Posted by: Peter North, proud Canadian and irregular AoSHQ commenter at September 18, 2026 12:16 PM

Posted by: Peter North, proud Canadian and irregular AoSHQ commenter at September 18, 2026 12:22 PM (bd4T5)

69 44 There is a serious need seen by the .gov and pHarm for a "gene to vaccine" technology. Unfortunately what they have is an auto-immune inducing technology, that has the side benefit of impairing the body's ability to identify and destroy cancerous cells, and is enabled by LNPs that appear to exacerbate cancer metastasis.
It also doesn't seem to do much for preventing diseases.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2026 12:18 PM (rbvCR)

Please tell me most if not all of these 'experts' are on the Non-GMO Foods bandwagon.

Posted by: Gref at September 18, 2026 12:22 PM (5rh/l)

70 52 We just need commonsense vinegar control.

Posted by: Bulg at September 18, 2026 12:19 PM (77rzZ)

Too much acetic acid makes it assault vinegar...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:22 PM (l3cgK)

71 66 TJM who wins the NC senate seat. Put down your marker.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:22 PM (oAqqA)

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*shrugs*

It'll be close.

I think Cooper should be considered the underdog because of registration changes and the end of Cooper's term combined with the fact that "popular" governors of the wrong party lose federal elections all the time (Larry Hogan in MD recently, for example).

But, turnout differentials are a thing, and it could be enough to undo the 3 point win Trump had 2 years ago.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:23 PM (+a7XK)

72 Legal weed will fix everything.

- Democrats

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:23 PM (oAqqA)

73 Posted by: Paul at September 18, 2026 12:22 PM (6bWdV)

Amongst the rare truths, you've got to ruin everything with one big f*cking lie.......

F*ck off, dick.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:24 PM (ccf/V)

74 57 One cup of vinegar a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Karen McKarenface at September 18, 2026 12:21 PM (2Ez/1)

I wouldn't know; I'm not a woman.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:24 PM (l3cgK)

75 "Two weeks to flatten the curve" is as monstrous and horrifying dissembling as "just following orders."

An innocuous statement to hide pure evil.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 18, 2026 12:24 PM (3cUTc)

76 >>>But I can't think of one where it was a bad treatment but the government not only covered it up, but tried to wholesale force it on everyone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:09 PM (Y/06r)

There seems to be shit in the vaccine that should not be in there that was put in intentionally. But what do I know?

Even the LNP delivery vector is toxic (and KNOWN to be toxic before hand).

Posted by: Max Power at September 18, 2026 12:24 PM (SwyyQ)

77 IIRC, back in the day, the trolls were crowing about how we would be FORCED to get the vaccine while we were voicing the exact same fucking concerns we are now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:24 PM (Y/06r)

78 If you want the flu, sure. They NEVER get the strain right, so usually the flu shot is worthless.

Posted by: Sponge
________

There's that study of Cleveland Clinic workers from last year or the year before that showed it actually increased the risk of flu for that year. But it was a small sample and may not be valid.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 18, 2026 12:25 PM (XvL8K)

79 I mean, c'mon.......the powerful need to release some steam, man. The pressures........you just wouldn't understand......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:16 PM

I know, right? We don't even like milk and apples.

Posted by: The Pigs at September 18, 2026 12:25 PM (ymmov)

80 Too much acetic acid makes it assault vinegar...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:22 PM

It's got that thing that goes up.

Posted by: Newsreader at September 18, 2026 12:25 PM (2Ez/1)

81 Please tell me most if not all of these 'experts' are on the Non-GMO Foods bandwagon.
Posted by: Gref at September 18, 2026 12:22 PM (5rh/l)

I always pointed out some would rather people starve than pass out GMO food and those same people were advocates for mandating the mRNA vax.

Posted by: polynikes at September 18, 2026 12:25 PM (KC5Lt)

82 77 IIRC, back in the day, the trolls were crowing about how we would be FORCED to get the vaccine while we were voicing the exact same fucking concerns we are now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:24 PM (Y/06r)

====

Winter of death.

We were promised.

Biden would have no problem winning re-election because all the conservatives were going to die from covid because no conservative got the vaccine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:25 PM (+a7XK)

83 R U Nutz?

-
Didja see this?

Toys ‘R’ Us is opening 120 new stores as grownup collectors fuel toy sales

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 18, 2026 12:25 PM (ndZc7)

84 Come out of Canada? I'm right here, you know.
Posted by: Peter North, proud Canadian and irregular AoSHQ commenter at September 18, 2026 12:16 PM

I mean, you WERE Throbbin in the "Dickman and Throbbin" cinematic gem......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:25 PM (ccf/V)

85 I hope you'll join me tomorrow in a Pick Six!

Posted by: James Talarico at September 18, 2026 12:25 PM (bd4T5)

86 They are doing something very similar in many studies that use national health data to show no injuries. In those, they use the national database comparing injuries fro all people vaccinated, to the general public. The problem is that they are only looking at people who had interaction with the health system (retrospective study) but that excludes anyone with no vaccine, who did not get sick.

I can go into more detail if asked, but there are a bunch of studies in Europe considered the "gold standard" in proving the vaccines are safe, and they are all total bullshit.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 18, 2026 12:25 PM (5SewL)

87 Didja see this?

Toys ‘R’ Us is opening 120 new stores as grownup collectors fuel toy sales
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 18, 2026 12:25 PM (ndZc7)

Speculators selling to other speculators. Great.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:26 PM (Y/06r)

88 80 Too much acetic acid makes it assault vinegar...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:22 PM

It's got that thing that goes up.

Posted by: Newsreader at September 18, 2026 12:25 PM (2Ez/1)

Vinagra?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:26 PM (l3cgK)

89
There's that study of Cleveland Clinic workers from last year or the year before that showed it actually increased the risk of flu for that year. But it was a small sample and may not be valid.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 18, 2026 12:25 PM (XvL8K)

And how, amazingly, during the covid 'pandemic' the flu just magically went away.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:26 PM (ccf/V)

90 What was the flu "vaccine" efficacy last year? 14%?

Why bother?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 18, 2026 12:27 PM (d9FiM)

91 90 What was the flu "vaccine" efficacy last year? 14%?

Why bother?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 18, 2026 12:27 PM (d9FiM)

100% during COVID, since nobody died of the Flu...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:27 PM (l3cgK)

92 They want to kill us and wear our skin. Different day - same old shit.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 18, 2026 12:21 PM (KGj36)

And groom our children to participate in their perverse sexual degeneracy.

Posted by: Great leaders we got at September 18, 2026 12:27 PM (TbWk/)

93 Yep.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 18, 2026 12:27 PM (FC7F4)

94 Cooper is an idiot. The guy did a shit job as governor. He has better name recognition because of his position. I think that gave him an early lead, which btw seems to be shrinking. Republican groups just dumped a bunch of money into their efforts. I think that moves the needle mostly because they’re gonna point out how nuts Dems are. If enough of those new registered voters show up, Whatley wins.

I’ll be bold and say we also squeak out Michigan and New Hampshire.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:27 PM (oAqqA)

95 I had the Hong Kong flu when I was a kid. I think I have natural immunity to a number of strains.

Posted by: polynikes at September 18, 2026 12:28 PM (KC5Lt)

96 I had one statistics class (almost 50 years ago) but am still not comfortable looking into details of statistical data. There are so many ways to hide facts inside flawed data, or flawed analysis.

imo, earlier elections were known to be stolen based on statistics, but those details are too complicated to be easily understood by the "common man". And so many in charge want to help hide the facts, so they just say "shut up, or we will hurt you".

Same for health care unfortunately.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 18, 2026 12:28 PM (vbXSk)

97 92 They want to kill us and wear our skin. Different day - same old shit.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 18, 2026 12:21 PM (KGj36)

And groom our children to participate in their perverse sexual degeneracy.

Posted by: Great leaders we got at September 18, 2026 12:27 PM (TbWk/)

perverse degeneracy seems redundant...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:28 PM (l3cgK)

98 And how, amazingly, during the covid 'pandemic' the flu just magically went away.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:26 PM

Masking and social distancing worked!!!

Posted by: Karen McScoldyface at September 18, 2026 12:28 PM (ymmov)

99 94 Cooper is an idiot. The guy did a shit job as governor. He has better name recognition because of his position. I think that gave him an early lead, which btw seems to be shrinking. Republican groups just dumped a bunch of money into their efforts. I think that moves the needle mostly because they’re gonna point out how nuts Dems are. If enough of those new registered voters show up, Whatley wins.

I’ll be bold and say we also squeak out Michigan and New Hampshire.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:27 PM (oAqqA)

We get 'em by the squeaker?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:28 PM (l3cgK)

100 68- a number of good ""things" have come out oof Canada, 🍁 including Andre Besette. Who sounds like a wonderful, humble man canonized by Pope Benedict:

https://tinyurl.com/en2vzpke

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (JrHfD)

101 I've worked at the FDA for 20+ years. The scientists, medical officers, and review staff there are overwhelmingly Democrat, and more than a few are hardcore activists. But they are not stupid. They are actually quite bright. There is no chance that this was an accidental oversight. None.

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (CYakq)

102 It's for the children.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (8D3Qw)

103 Swell.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (wxsGM)

104 Maybe Thalidomide? Mercury for Syphilis treatment?

But I can't think of one where it was a bad treatment but the government not only covered it up, but tried to wholesale force it on everyone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:09 PM (Y/06r)

I think mercury actually is able to cure syphilis. At a cost, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (1z8ji)

105 I fully expect James Talarico to start mainlining beef bullion, shooting guns and riding horses in commercials.

Because he's just one of us Texans.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (ccf/V)

106 I’ll be bold and say we also squeak out Michigan and New Hampshire.
Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:27 PM

Don't forget your close tag.

Posted by: AoSHQ Copy Editors at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (bd4T5)

107 But you can totally trust hand picked government experts when they tell you to submit to the government over global warming

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (9FfUF)

108 HANG. THEM. ALL.

Posted by: Totally not an AI agent at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (TvwQU)

109 102 It's for the children.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (8D3Qw)

Yes, just like the book "To Serve Man" is for people...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (l3cgK)

110 Ask your janitoral professional if Vinagra is right for you.

Posted by: Big Boner at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (2Ez/1)

111 There's that study of Cleveland Clinic workers from last year or the year before that showed it actually increased the risk of flu for that year. But it was a small sample and may not be valid.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 18, 2026 12:25 PM (XvL8K)

And how, amazingly, during the covid 'pandemic' the flu just magically went away.
Posted by: Sponge
_________

I just looked up the study and I was mistaken. It was not small. Had 53,000 participants.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 18, 2026 12:30 PM (XvL8K)

112 The only good thing to come out of Canada is Terrence and Phil
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 18, 2026 11:57 AM

Come out of Canada? I'm right here, you know.
Posted by: Peter North, proud Canadian and irregular AoSHQ commenter at September 18, 2026 12:16 PM
Posted by: Peter North, proud Canadian and irregular AoSHQ commenter at September 18, 2026 12:22 PM (bd4T5)

True. He could come in Toronto and hit Ft. Worth.

Posted by: Quite a talent at September 18, 2026 12:30 PM (TbWk/)

113 1). It’s interesting this came out in BMJ and not a US medical journal. Well, its interesting but pretty damn obvious. I would be interested to know if it was submitted TO and rejected by JAMA, NEJM, etc.
2) The current FDA is STILL actively suppressing all it can that it has not already shredded. I don’t think the organization is salvageable. There are some good people their but power in upper and middle management still contaminated.

Posted by: epador at September 18, 2026 12:30 PM (TRnzq)

114 I still like the part where the Supreme Court was like, "yeah, a partisan county judge--with no medical or scientific training--elected on a few thousand votes, can lock down the whole county indefinitely, with no public input or comment allowed, as a public health emergency. Nor do they have to ever explain or justify their actions. It's right there in the Constitution."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 18, 2026 12:30 PM (3cUTc)

115 The only good thing to come out of Canada is Terrence and Phil
Posted by: Lemmiwinks
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I stand with AOP.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 18, 2026 12:30 PM (XeU6L)

116 >>And I wonder if this "masking" effect was accidental, or intended.

Do you though?

This is very similar to an issue RFK keeps bringing up -- they do this for all vaccines -- they compare to another vaccine to verify safety and efficacy. RFK wants a control and has been harping on about that for many years. The industry does not want a control because they claim it is unnecessary but in reality, they are just using a bad product to mask for the net iteration.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 18, 2026 12:30 PM (5SewL)

117 Seattle passes law to add infinite genders and "multi-partner" relationships as protected classes

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Movie idea: Spiderman In the Infinite Genders-Verse.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 18, 2026 12:30 PM (ndZc7)

118 I remember when Pinto car fires sent the media into a frenzy in the 70's. Today the media couldn't give a fuck about lithium ion battery fires (and children mining lithium and cobalt).

A discarded Tesla Powerwall set a garbage truck on fire in Citrus Heights, California
They Threw What in the Trash? Garbage Truck Fire in California
StacheD Training
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lomPxmXbz44

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 18, 2026 12:30 PM (iVhsR)

119 Posted by: Mad Max in VA at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (CYakq)

Smart and evil immoral leftist is a bad combo.

Posted by: polynikes at September 18, 2026 12:30 PM (KC5Lt)

120 During COVID I was told by someone I was going to be forced to take the vaccine at some point. I ask them how important that was to them, because that attempt would cost someone their life.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:30 PM (oAqqA)

121 I don't say Nothing Will Happen. I say What Has happened?
Answer? Oh the principles have all been granted sweeping pardons. Oh.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 18, 2026 12:31 PM (bX16E)

122 110 Ask your janitoral professional if Vinagra is right for you.

Posted by: Big Boner at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (2Ez/1)

If you can't put down your mop handle after more than four hours...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:31 PM (l3cgK)

123 They are bright and they are part of it. Punitive and compensatory damages. Sound familiar?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 18, 2026 12:31 PM (wxsGM)

124 94 Republican groups just dumped a bunch of money into their efforts. I think that moves the needle mostly because they’re gonna point out how nuts Dems are. If enough of those new registered voters show up, Whatley wins.

I’ll be bold and say we also squeak out Michigan and New Hampshire.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:27 PM (oAqqA)

=======

The guy in charge of Republican money more than anyone else, James Blair, was one of the key figures in the 2024 election.

It wasn't just TV ads. It was turnout, and Mark Halperin is saying that he'll have spent about a billion dollars more than Democrats in the end.

https://x.com/2waytvapp/status/
2100435115620851820

It's all about base turnout now since only 3 House races that the GOP won in 2024 Trump also lost (it was 25 in 2018 ). Just get those voters to turnout at decent midterm numbers, and bob's your uncle.

We'll see.

I'm cautiously optimistic about the NC senate seat specifically, the House generally, but I'm certain we'll keep the senate majority.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:31 PM (+a7XK)

125 Duncan Sheik just died of sudden cardiac arrest.

He was 56.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 18, 2026 12:31 PM (j+aD2)

126 Yes, so much is surfacing or resurfacing now.

Likely why Pennsylvania is dashing it's 502 page Board of Health power grab amendment through: "We don't need no stinking warrants!" to talk to your child, enter the premises, enter your health data.. and also to develop an office of Medicare for All.

One way or the other, control.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 18, 2026 12:31 PM (NFX2v)

127 105 I fully expect James Talarico to start mainlining beef bullion, shooting guns and riding horses in commercials.

Because he's just one of us Texans.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (ccf/V)
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I would pay good money to see that fruitcake try to shoot any kind of firearm LOL

Posted by: ballistic at September 18, 2026 12:32 PM (oqH4h)

128 Flu IS different because it constantly dips into animal populations and comes back out in different variations. That's why the flu vaccine is so untrustworthy. It is also why you can pretty much get 'flu' an infinite amount of times.

I also wonder, for childhood deadly diseases, vaccines make sense. But for chicken pox?

To me, I wonder if we should just strip down the vaccine schedule to the bare necessities and then go with normal palliative care for everything else to strengthen the immune system.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:32 PM (Y/06r)

129 I believe if more people refused to take the vaccine when their employers threatened them, we would have different results.

Posted by: runner at September 18, 2026 12:32 PM (AKptf)

130 125 Duncan Sheik just died of sudden cardiac arrest.

He was 56.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 18, 2026 12:31 PM (j+aD2)

I had no idea...who he was...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:32 PM (l3cgK)

131 Please tell me most if not all of these 'experts' are on the Non-GMO Foods bandwagon.
Posted by: Gref at September 18, 2026 12:22 PM (5rh/l)

Are you asking if the results are from people who are pushing an agenda?
Like Fauci and Hotez were?

Because if that is your bar to belief, no one has anything to say that you will believe.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (rbvCR)

132 Afternoon Ace.
Every time info like this comes up , I think back to my original thoughts in 20-21. The COVID release, the ridiculous vaccines, the lockdowns and the political thuggery were all part of a plan to reduce the population to lessen.... climate change.
But that's just crazy talk

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (oUMhY)

133 fully expect James Talarico to start mainlining beef bullion, shooting guns and riding horses in commercials.

Because he's just one of us Texans.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (ccf/V)

I just pictured him as Yosemite Sam .

Posted by: polynikes at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (KC5Lt)

134 Should I get a pneumonia vaccine?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 18, 2026 12:12 PM (2Ez/1)

I have no information about how well it works, but here's how I am making my decision in the meantime:

Pneumonia is a serious risk for invalids, because they can't move around enough to keep their lungs clear. So I don't plan to get a pneumonia shot unless I lose my ability to walk. If that happens, I will reassess.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (FC7F4)

135 I’ll be bold and say we also squeak out Michigan and New Hampshire.
--
Rumors are, the Dem in NH has cancelled a bunch of ad buys.

Also, Cooper, off-hand, said the race was close, within a few points--despite polls showing him leading easily.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (3cUTc)

136 I think mercury actually is able to cure syphilis. At a cost, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (1z8ji)

Only if it's in retrograde though.

Posted by: Medicinal astrology at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (TbWk/)

137 125 Duncan Sheik just died of sudden cardiac arrest.

He was 56.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 18, 2026 12:31 PM (j+aD2)

Who is Duncan Sheik?

*looks him up*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (Y/06r)

138 Duncan Sheik just died of sudden cardiac arrest.

He was 56.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 18, 2026 12:31 PM (j+aD2)

He sounds vaccinated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (ccf/V)

139 And how, amazingly, during the covid 'pandemic' the flu just magically went away.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:26 PM (ccf/V)

You know who else just magically went away?

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (8D3Qw)

140 Speculators selling to other speculators. Great.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
-------

Time to go long on tulips?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (XeU6L)

141 135 --
Rumors are, the Dem in NH has cancelled a bunch of ad buys.

Also, Cooper, off-hand, said the race was close, within a few points--despite polls showing him leading easily.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (3cUTc)

=======

Pappas canceled like $30,000 in ad buys. I think people are making too much of that news.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:34 PM (+a7XK)

142 The only good thing to come out of Canada is Terrence and Phil
Posted by: Lemmiwinks
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No love for us, eh? Hoser.

Posted by: Bob and Doug Mackenzie at September 18, 2026 12:34 PM (SgdqL)

143 Oh, never mind about 1). It’s all an except from a book about to come out before the authors unexpectedly die.

Posted by: epador at September 18, 2026 12:34 PM (TRnzq)

144
I just pictured him as Yosemite Sam .
Posted by: polynikes at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (KC5Lt)

I'm sure you just pissed Yosemite Sam off.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:34 PM (ccf/V)

145 This is all a distraction by the white capitalist and Islamophobic cispatriarchy over the Epstein and UAP Files.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 18, 2026 12:34 PM (bd4T5)

146 136 I think mercury actually is able to cure syphilis. At a cost, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (1z8ji)

Only if it's in retrograde though.

Posted by: Medicinal astrology at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (TbWk/)

As the saying went, "A night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:34 PM (l3cgK)

147 The only good thing to come out of Canada is Terrence and Phil
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 18, 2026 11:57 AM
---------
Ah, the good old days when South Park used to funny and not a progessive mouthpice suffering from TDS.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 18, 2026 12:34 PM (iVhsR)

148 19 Brit Neil Ferguson created the Covid fatality model the world used to shut us down. He was a disgraced scientist like Fauci for his totally flawed model for Mad Cow disease that cost the UK tens of millions of dollars. And like Fauci and his HIV /AIS leadership lied like Pinocchio. How our leaders accepted anything these two presented is beyond my comprehension .

---

Possibly the biggest lie we were told was that we were in a pandemic in the first place. The world wide annual death toll didn't even go up in the covid years as compared statistically to the previous 5 years. These people need to be beaten to death with shovels

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 18, 2026 12:34 PM (9FfUF)

149 I just pictured him as Yosemite Sam .
Posted by: polynikes at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM

But a really gay parody version from San Francisco.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 18, 2026 12:34 PM (ymmov)

150 It’s too much work trying to access this site on an iPhone.
Posted by: Buck_IV at September 18, 2026 12:20 PM (Pd4Dv)

Well, the site was not designed to be viewed on iPhones. What do you expect? Buy a cheap used laptop, and use your phone as a wifi hotspot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2026 12:35 PM (1z8ji)

151 Time to go long on tulips?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (XeU6L)

Wanna buy some mint Beanie Babies?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:35 PM (Y/06r)

152 140 Speculators selling to other speculators. Great.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
-------

Time to go long on tulips?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (XeU6L)

Just don't be the dim bulb...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:35 PM (l3cgK)

153 You know who else just magically went away?
Posted by: ... at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM

* hangs head in shame *

Posted by: zombie Felix Steiner at September 18, 2026 12:35 PM (bd4T5)

154 96 I had one statistics class (almost 50 years ago) but am still not comfortable looking into details of statistical data. There are so many ways to hide facts inside flawed data, or flawed analysis.

Posted by: illiniwek

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The problem, I have found, is that everyone relies on software packages nowadays. They do very complex analysis, giving them fancy names. I insist on putting things on a graph but the statisticians hate that. -- just look at the above -- what the fuck does that heat map show? It is pre-digested. They need tables and graphs.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 18, 2026 12:35 PM (5SewL)

155 Pneumonia is a serious risk for invalids, because they can't move around enough to keep their lungs clear. So I don't plan to get a pneumonia shot unless I lose my ability to walk. If that happens, I will reassess.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM

Thanks. Seems reasonable. My father died of pneumonia, but it was after he was bedridden.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 18, 2026 12:36 PM (2Ez/1)

156 The House is more difficult. I feel like a lot of those races are more local than the senate. There’s a lot of ground to cover with canvassing and gOTV. I think the national issues and the nuttiness of Democrats is a huge liability. That will move some votes. But if people don’t get motivated to vote, we lose. I also think gas prices will be a drag on voters. They may not vote Dem, but it will sop some of their motivation.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:36 PM (2pI5z)

157 Should I get a flu vaccine?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 18, 2026 12:10 PM (2Ez/1)

Never got one, never will. And I'm in my 80th year. Wife gets shots, still gets sick. *shrugs shoulders*

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 18, 2026 12:36 PM (hmYU4)

158 > What was the flu "vaccine" efficacy last year? 14%?

Whose numbers are you using? CDC is the main publisher of US flu shot efficacy and they claim 56% (preliminary) efficacy for 2024-2025.

2014-2015 was reportedly only 19%, but typically it's in the 30-50% range.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2026 12:36 PM (mkw2N)

159 Toys ‘R’ Us is opening 120 new stores as grownup collectors fuel toy sales
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 18, 2026 12:25 PM (ndZc7)

This is the happiest news I've heard in a long time! You made my day!

Posted by: hobbitopoly at September 18, 2026 12:37 PM (ZgwKJ)

160 I had one statistics class (almost 50 years ago) but am still not comfortable looking into details of statistical data. There are so many ways to hide facts inside flawed data, or flawed analysis.

Posted by: illiniwek

The first thing they teach you in anything to do with data or computing is the undefeated champion of all time..........

Garbage in, garbage out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:37 PM (ccf/V)

161 156 The House is more difficult. I feel like a lot of those races are more local than the senate. There’s a lot of ground to cover with canvassing and gOTV. I think the national issues and the nuttiness of Democrats is a huge liability. That will move some votes. But if people don’t get motivated to vote, we lose. I also think gas prices will be a drag on voters. They may not vote Dem, but it will sop some of their motivation.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:36 PM (2pI5z)

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There are 213 safe GOP seats and 205 safe Democrat seats.

What's left will be coin flips.

If Democrats get them all, they have a small House majority where at least 8 of them will be representing districts that went at least Trump+5.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:37 PM (+a7XK)

162 I do think the government estimates of how many people got the clot shot are significantly off, perhaps by 50%

When Mayor Wu was elected in Boston she threatened vaxports to go restaurants.

Government stats said 90% of Bostonians and 80% of Massholes were clot shotted.

She had an AMA right after this - every comment was demanding she resign (which points pretty strongly at voter fraud too), but she planned to go ahead until the Boston restaurant lobby group told her to expect most restaurants would go bankrupt if she did

Now remember at the time the FNM was screaming unclot shotted people would give you COVID even if you had the clot shot and that you couldn't get it from "the vaccinated". SO it would be fair to expect they'd get more of the 90% then they'd lose of the 10% doesn't it?

Unless, of course that number was significantly lower then 90%...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2026 12:38 PM (sKqQm)

163 But a really gay parody version from San Francisco.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 18, 2026 12:34 PM (ymmov)

Just him with a bushy gay porn mustache shooting six shooters into the air .

Posted by: polynikes at September 18, 2026 12:38 PM (KC5Lt)

164 90% got the jab? I didn't realize my unjabbed self was so unusual.

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 18, 2026 12:38 PM (OUMaO)

165 Hey, tripled my money last night by betting favored team (Bills) and then flipping out of the bet late in first half to the Lions getting 16.5 spread points. $30 bet to $53 and the $50 bet to $90. This pleased me.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 18, 2026 12:38 PM (KGj36)

166 The only good thing to come out of Canada is Terrence and Phil
Posted by: Lemmiwinks

Rush, April Wine, Triumph, Three Days Grace, Nickelb.... Ok maybe not that one.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 18, 2026 12:38 PM (d9FiM)

167 I think an Ouija Board would beat most of the RCP polling. It’s horse shit.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:38 PM (2pI5z)

168 >>>They are actually quite bright. There is no chance that this was an accidental oversight. None.
Posted by: Mad Max in VA at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (CYakq)

This guy gets it.

Posted by: Max Power at September 18, 2026 12:38 PM (SwyyQ)

169 @125 Barely Breathing is a great song. RIP

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 18, 2026 12:38 PM (oUMhY)

170 ***--a flaw that senior officials declined to rectify.
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When is a flaw not a flaw but an intent?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 18, 2026 12:39 PM (4tmEn)

171 Friday should be anti-death anti-medical shit day.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2026 12:39 PM (8D3Qw)

172 164 90% got the jab? I didn't realize my unjabbed self was so unusual.
Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 18, 2026 12:38 PM (OUMaO)

I think that is bullshit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:39 PM (Y/06r)

173 10%'er here.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 18, 2026 12:39 PM (d9FiM)

174 fully expect James Talarico to start mainlining beef bullion, shooting guns and riding horses in commercials.

Because he's just one of us Texans.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (ccf/V)

I just pictured him as Yosemite Sam .
Posted by: polynikes at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (KC5Lt)

I'm the roughest, toughest, trans-kid lovingest, drag queen fanboiest hombre ever to sling dick to children west of the racist bigoted homophobic and transphobic Mississippi!

Posted by: James "Tex" Talarico at September 18, 2026 12:40 PM (TbWk/)

175 120 During COVID I was told by someone I was going to be forced to take the vaccine at some point. I ask them how important that was to them, because that attempt would cost someone their life.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:30 PM (oAqqA)

----

Australia kidnapped thousands of their own citizens and kept them in camps for over a year because they wouldn't take the vaccine. Their media did a piece on them implying that the "campers" were the bad guys

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 18, 2026 12:40 PM (9FfUF)

176 If we, American citizens, would just volunteer for the Canadian MAID program, then they wouldn’t have to lie to us using poison shots like this! It’s our fault when you think about it.

Posted by: Cray Cray at September 18, 2026 12:40 PM (7BAZk)

177 >>>And I wonder if this "masking" effect was accidental, or intended.

Incompetence is sufficiently indistinguishable from malice.

But the latter warming to hold off on finding warning signals in VAERS data implies willful ignorance at least.

Oh, and, 200 million doses. Safe for pregnant women.

These people should burn in hell.

But what do I know, what with my Junior Achievement level economics understanding and all.

Posted by: Totally not an AI agent at September 18, 2026 12:40 PM (TvwQU)

178 167 I think an Ouija Board would beat most of the RCP polling. It’s horse shit.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:38 PM (2pI5z)

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Sean Trende was defending the RCP aggregate on X the other day.

Outright saying that completely contradictory polling that couldn't possibly align should be treated equally, even if the polling firm has a long history of misses.

The idea of the aggregate is okay, but it requires only, you know, good inputs. If you're knowingly inputting Quinnipac, which is garbage, well, you're going to get garbage out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:40 PM (+a7XK)

179 >> If Democrats get them all, they have a small House majority where at least 8 of them will be representing districts that went at least Trump+5.

I don’t see how they overcome Trump +5 districts when there is a huge loyalty to the president in that group. I suppose if people don’t show up that’s one thing.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:40 PM (2pI5z)

180 90% got the jab? I didn't realize my unjabbed self was so unusual.
Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 18, 2026 12:38 PM (OUMaO)

We are the non-GMO's of the world.

I am reconsidering my organ doner status as they will likely murder me to steal my organs because they're not mRNA damaged......

"What's the cause of death?"

"8 stitches for a cut on his left knee."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:40 PM (ccf/V)

181 Norm Macdonald, stop the horseshit

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2026 12:40 PM (8D3Qw)

182 Get off me, clanker.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2026 12:41 PM (TvwQU)

183 104

I think mercury actually is able to cure syphilis. At a cost, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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I have always been very skeptical of that. Very skeptical.

What we need is is a long term study of the progression of syphilis if left untreated. This is a great idea -- I think I will apply for a grant to study this.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 18, 2026 12:41 PM (5SewL)

184 There are 213 safe GOP seats and 205 safe Democrat seats.

What's left will be coin flips.

If Democrats get them all, they have a small House majority where at least 8 of them will be representing districts that went at least Trump+5.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:37 PM (+a7XK)

You're making me feel optimistic. It's a dangerous sensation.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 18, 2026 12:41 PM (xcxpd)

185 179 >> If Democrats get them all, they have a small House majority where at least 8 of them will be representing districts that went at least Trump+5.

I don’t see how they overcome Trump +5 districts when there is a huge loyalty to the president in that group. I suppose if people don’t show up that’s one thing.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:40 PM (2pI5z)

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Yeah, it's doubtful.

But, I did say that if they won them all.

They won't win them all. In a good year, they'd win 75% of them, not all of them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:41 PM (+a7XK)

186 Should I get a flu vaccine?

The CDC says it reduces flu symptoms which cuts against the actual concrete mortality data which says it does not.

Non-CDC data says the impact is real but extremely minimal which would bridge the gap between those two data sets if you assume the CDC is cherry picking for higher effectiveness.

So my take? It isn't worth the time to go to your DR and expose yourself to likely other flu carriers but the shot itself won't harm you like the clot shot.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2026 12:41 PM (sKqQm)

187 I remember when Pinto car fires sent the media into a frenzy in the 70's. Today the media couldn't give a fuck about lithium ion battery fires (and children mining lithium and cobalt).

A discarded Tesla Powerwall set a garbage truck on fire in Citrus Heights, California

That's 100% on the asshole throwing away a HUGE rechargeable battery. Every garbage collection company tells you not to throw away batteries, ESPECIALLY rechargeable batteries. You're supposed to take them to a household hazardous waste collection site. And that's typically just phone batteries. A freaking powerwall, especially one that hasn't been fully discharged, is incredibly dangerous to throw in the garbage.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2026 12:41 PM (mkw2N)

188 Australia kidnapped thousands of their own citizens and kept them in camps for over a year because they wouldn't take the vaccine. Their media did a piece on them implying that the "campers" were the bad guys
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 18, 2026 12:40 PM (9FfUF)

Aborigines iirc. It's amazing how quickly the commies change their tune sometimes (not really.)

It is amazing how radicalized I keep getting in my own head more and more.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:41 PM (Y/06r)

189 fully expect James Talarico to start mainlining beef bullion, shooting guns and riding horses in commercials.

Because he's just one of us Texans.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

And wrestle a buffalo.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 18, 2026 12:41 PM (ndZc7)

190 William. Shatner. Is Canadian.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 18, 2026 12:42 PM (bd4T5)

191 Be sure you know a pure blood if you’re undergoing surgery. Don’t want that evil garbage transfusedin my veins.

Posted by: Cray Cray at September 18, 2026 12:42 PM (7BAZk)

192 90% is bullshit

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 18, 2026 12:42 PM (d9FiM)

193 I'm one who didn't get jabbed. I did bring my mom to get the first Johnson and Johnson vax in 2021 at her request though she never got any boosters afterwards at my request.

Posted by: polynikes at September 18, 2026 12:42 PM (KC5Lt)

194 What we need is is a long term study of the progression of syphilis if left untreated. This is a great idea -- I think I will apply for a grant to study this.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 18, 2026 12:41 PM (5SewL)

*morbid golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 12:43 PM (Y/06r)

195 184
You're making me feel optimistic. It's a dangerous sensation.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 18, 2026 12:41 PM (xcxpd)

========

I still think the safe bet is that Democrats take the House, but with a majority of like 3-5.

So, Jeffries can't do anything of consequence other than theater, and he probably will have trouble getting pro-forma impeachment stuff passed on the floor, not like if he did it would matter since the Senate will still be controlled by the GOP.

And not even Mitch took impeachment efforts seriously, and Thune is better than Mitch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:43 PM (+a7XK)

196 I usually like Trafalgar. But one of their latest polls shows Collins getting crushed in GA. He isn’t a great candidate but I feel like GA has to be completely gone if they reelect Ossoff. Especially since Kemp is involved now.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:43 PM (2pI5z)

197 138 Duncan Sheik just died of sudden cardiac arrest.

He was 56.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 18, 2026 12:31 PM (j+aD2)

He sounds vaccinated.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (ccf/V)

It was actually oragn failure from a lifetime of alcoholism...he had been in and out of the hospital all summer, so I imagine the liver was the prime issue...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 18, 2026 12:43 PM (tOcjL)

198
I remember a few of the banned Twitter people and other Undesirables I was reading at the time pointed out this very flaw in that "safety signal" formula they were using at the time this was ongoing.

They were completely ignored and called kook conspiracy theorists.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2026 12:43 PM (w6EFb)

199 Mistakes were made or something.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 18, 2026 12:43 PM (RIvkX)

200 You know who else just magically went away?
Posted by: ... at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM (8D3Qw)

Magic. One day it permeated the meanest, most pedestrian element of quotidian life, and then, "poof"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2026 12:44 PM (rbvCR)

201 While there was malicious intent with the clot shot a lot of it was driven by people believing other people's propaganda.

So someone looking at clot shot side effects sees how bad they are but turns on the news and sees that COVID is killing 10% of the people that get it and decides "heart damage later is better then dying now" so he hides his data

Meanwhile someone research COVID mortality sees that is nowhere near what the government is claiming but see the clot shot has no side effects whatsoever so...why not fudge the numbers to get people vaccinated so we can "get back to normal"?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2026 12:44 PM (sKqQm)

202 196 I usually like Trafalgar. But one of their latest polls shows Collins getting crushed in GA. He isn’t a great candidate but I feel like GA has to be completely gone if they reelect Ossoff. Especially since Kemp is involved now.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:43 PM (2pI5z)

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GA rurals have a terrible history of actually turning out.

I'd love GA to be a surprise, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Should keep the governorship, though. Bottoms is a disaster.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:44 PM (+a7XK)

203
It was actually oragn failure from a lifetime of alcoholism...he had been in and out of the hospital all summer, so I imagine the liver was the prime issue...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 18, 2026 12:43 PM (tOcjL)

Ah, well.....that'll do it as well.

We're starting to believe that's what took my friend a few weeks ago.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:44 PM (ccf/V)

204 fully expect James Talarico to start mainlining beef bullion, shooting guns and riding horses in commercials.

Because he's just one of us Texans.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

And wrestle a buffalo.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 18, 2026 12:41 PM (ndZc7)

Naked. In nuru gel. After taking a handful of Cialis.

Posted by: Get THAT image out of your head at September 18, 2026 12:44 PM (TbWk/)

205 Why should we trust the CDC about anything.

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 18, 2026 12:44 PM (2Ez/1)

206 90 percent is wrong - let's just say

I made a LOT of cards

for docs for athletes for my own circle

and docs were paid to make up cards - I gave them blank cards for just that purpose

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 18, 2026 12:45 PM (j+aD2)

207 You're making me feel optimistic. It's a dangerous sensation.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 18, 2026 12:41 PM

See your newsfeed if you have optimism lasting more than four hours.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 18, 2026 12:45 PM (bd4T5)

208 British medical journal? Is British medicine the same as AMERICAN medicine? Give me Freedom Medicine or give me death!

Posted by: Weasel at September 18, 2026 12:45 PM (ei1sX)

209 Whately wins. DJT made a campaign stop for him earlier this week and the money is ramping up. Cooper's money blegs are getting hysterical and his campaign photos are appealing only to AWFLs. Upper class Grandpa Cooper.

Whatley needs to come out swinging. Cooper was soft on crime and his acolyte, Josh Stein, is even softer. DJT has been good for NC, Burr and Tillis, not so much. Budd's all right and putting Whately in the Senate will make NC a force to be reckoned with.

Posted by: mrp at September 18, 2026 12:45 PM (rj6Yv)

210 Mistakes were made.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2026 12:45 PM (8D3Qw)

211 167 I think an Ouija Board would beat most of the RCP polling. It’s horse shit.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:38 PM (2pI5z)

Mostly because so many of the dead vote...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:45 PM (l3cgK)

212 Yeah I don’t get Georgia. Outside of Asslanta and the most of the burbs it’s pretty red. People just don’t get off their asses in the national elections.

Posted by: That Guy at September 18, 2026 12:46 PM (2pI5z)

213 So my take? It isn't worth the time to go to your DR and expose yourself to likely other flu carriers but the shot itself won't harm you like the clot shot.
Posted by: 18-1
___________

There's also the small risk with any jab, which is that the medical assistant giving it isn't careful about her landmarks.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 18, 2026 12:46 PM (XvL8K)

214

Is vaccine injured including fat old smelly women turning into murderous excusers?

Posted by: rev the buzz at September 18, 2026 12:47 PM (IIWrI)

215 Bottoms is a disaster.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:44 PM

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, uh, your opinion, man.

Posted by: Tops at September 18, 2026 12:47 PM (bd4T5)

216 There's a report that the Republican Senatorial Committee is thinking about pulling funds from GA and NC. Maybe I could see GA , but not NC which , given the increase in Republican registration, is still in play.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 18, 2026 12:47 PM (oUMhY)

217 Three rules for a happy life.

Do Not. Seek. The Treasure.

Put. The Candle. Back.

Do not get a flu shot.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 18, 2026 12:48 PM (5SewL)

218 199 Mistakes were made or something.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 18, 2026 12:43 PM (RIvkX)

210 Mistakes were made.
Posted by: ... at September 18, 2026 12:45 PM (8D3Qw)
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*fistbump*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 18, 2026 12:48 PM (RIvkX)

219
AOS has gone plaid!

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 18, 2026 12:48 PM (OkYzo)

220 210 Mistakes were made.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2026 12:45 PM (8D3Qw)

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Intentions were revealed

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 18, 2026 12:48 PM (9FfUF)

221 The FDA and CDC Used a Faulty Algorithm to Understate Vaccine Injuries. When One Researcher Pointed Out the Flaw…

Was it really a flaw, or a faulty algorithm, if it was doing what it was designed to do?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 18, 2026 12:48 PM (kYmoU)

222 I miss Jane D'oh......

As far as I know, she's not mort, tho, so that's good.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:48 PM (ccf/V)

223 Sure, go ahead. Trust the polls.

Posted by: Francesca Hong at September 18, 2026 12:49 PM (2Ez/1)

224 Shaq Immediately Calls For Arrest Of Charles Barkley After Becoming Honorary FBI Agent

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Eh, no crazier than the last decade.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 18, 2026 12:49 PM (ndZc7)

225 205 Why should we trust the CDC about anything.
Posted by: I gotta ask at September 18, 2026 12:44 PM (2Ez/1)

If you can't trust an agency that changes the long-established definition of "vaccine" in the dark of night to cover for the lies of the Biden administration, then who can you trust?

Posted by: I mean, seriously! at September 18, 2026 12:49 PM (TbWk/)

226
Pharma has gotten very good at stuff like this, exaggerating the benefits and suppressing the risks with a lot of statistical razzle-dazzle.

Basically, the don't look at what they don't want to look at, and hide that in all the razzle-dazzle.

See the lasted on Tamiflu. Turns out that actually does way more harm than good for patients very sick and hospitalized with flu. After all these years, the finally did a proper study, and found more of the Tamiflu treated group died than a non-Tamiflu group. And it was like pulling teeth to finally get that study done.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2026 12:49 PM (w6EFb)

227 the stats are 81% of US population got at least one dose; so 1/5 said , NEIN

Posted by: runner at September 18, 2026 12:49 PM (AKptf)

228 Three rules for a happy life.

Do Not. Seek. The Treasure.

Put. The Candle. Back.

Do not get a flu shot.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 18, 2026 12:48 PM

What about avoiding land wars in Asia, never going in against a Sicilian when death is on the line, and making an ugly woman your wife?

Posted by: J. Random Commenter at September 18, 2026 12:49 PM (bd4T5)

229 If you check the archives in January 2021 you will find I was already barking about VAERS and how important it would be to report every side effect.

Not that anyone listened.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 18, 2026 12:49 PM (RIvkX)

230 I looked up the BMJ's news feed. A lot of "medical journals" posted around Slay News (and such) tend to be nonjournals, mills to produce FUD.
BMJ does in fact support vaccines when they think they are truly good ones. Like the shingles vax.
There are hyphens so it shouldn't be a margin blower.
bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100711

mediabiasfactcheck.com likes it. And wiki says it's been around since the 1840s.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 18, 2026 12:49 PM (88C+u)

231 209 Whately wins. DJT made a campaign stop for him earlier this week and the money is ramping up. Cooper's money blegs are getting hysterical and his campaign photos are appealing only to AWFLs. Upper class Grandpa Cooper.

Whatley needs to come out swinging. Cooper was soft on crime and his acolyte, Josh Stein, is even softer. DJT has been good for NC, Burr and Tillis, not so much. Budd's all right and putting Whately in the Senate will make NC a force to be reckoned with.

Posted by: mrp at September 18, 2026 12:45 PM (rj6Yv)

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Whatley is as responsible for the turnaround of the RNC in 2024 as anyone else.

I remember establishment friendly voices against his appointment to cochair the RNC because he was "obsessed with the steal" of 2020 and wouldn't actually do anything to win other than complain about past sins.

There have also been some changes at the state level, like new election laws and forcing all police agencies in the state to participate in the 287g program with DHS, which should help drive out some illegals and suppress the 6% who probably vote every election, both passed over governor Stein's veto because the NC state legislature has a veto proof GOP majority.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:50 PM (+a7XK)

232 > William. Shatner. Is Canadian.

He's also a massive dick. People love him for being Kirk and for being kind of level-headed on politics, but he's infamous for how he treats his fellow actors and often the fans.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2026 12:50 PM (mkw2N)

233 Fauci is guilty of crimes against humanity.

All the FDA and CDC government bureaucrats, the entire board of Pfizer, ALL of them are essentially war criminals.

This wasn't incompentance. This was DELIBERATE action against innocent people who were bullied to accept an unsafe gene modification poison mislabeled as a 'vaccine'.

Posted by: Pete at September 18, 2026 12:50 PM (9uoO8)

234
Seattle passes law to add infinite genders and "multi-partner" relationships as protected classes

It's OK because they hold hands while they sleep.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2026 12:51 PM (Cqx++)

235 If you check the archives in January 2021 you will find I was already barking about VAERS and how important it would be to report every side effect.

Not that anyone listened.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 18, 2026 12:49 PM (RIvkX)

Because you were just a crazy conspiracy theorist.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2026 12:51 PM (TvwQU)

236 but he's infamous for how he treats his fellow actors and often the fans.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2026 12:50 PM

This!

Posted by: George Takei at September 18, 2026 12:51 PM (bd4T5)

237 There are reasons to be optimistic about Whatley's chances in NC.

Hell, Cooper is actually polling worse against Whatley than Cunningham did in 2020 against Tillis, and Cunningham lost to Tillis in a...suspicious year of elections.

So, we'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:51 PM (+a7XK)

238 "...and making an ugly woman your wife?
Posted by: J. Random Commenter at September 18, 2026 12:49 PM"

Yeah. About that...

Posted by: B. J. Clinton at September 18, 2026 12:51 PM (2Ez/1)

239 The FDA doctor who alerted them to the flawed safety system was muzzled.

You know, 'flawed' sounds just like 'fraud' to us.

Posted by: China at September 18, 2026 12:52 PM (OQfsE)

240 Actually, he's a great guy and a great leader.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 18, 2026 12:52 PM (RIvkX)

241 This is one of those circumstances of the bias press being in the bag for the agenda behind this behavior ABSOLUTELY SUCKS.

It's a perfect example of a situation where news vans, a line of cameras, and a bevy of reporters should be staking out the residences of those involved in this deceitful decision(s) and not giving them a moment's peace until they comment.

Instead, the press will not touch this, and actually run interference on it.

Posted by: Orson at September 18, 2026 12:52 PM (dIske)

242 Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2026 12:51 PM (Cqx++)

I laughed. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 18, 2026 12:52 PM (JrHfD)

243 but he's infamous for how he treats his fellow actors and often the fans.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2026 12:50 PM

Did Big Sulu pay you to post this?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 18, 2026 12:52 PM (bd4T5)

244 Bottoms is a disaster.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:44 PM

I just learned there was a movie called Bottoms.

I deem you correct, you, Mr. Movie Reviewer Guy......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:53 PM (ccf/V)

245 James Talarico to start ... riding horses in commercials.

And not in the way you think!

Posted by: James Tala-freako! at September 18, 2026 12:53 PM (OQfsE)

246 234
Seattle passes law to add infinite genders and "multi-partner" relationships as protected classes

It's OK because they hold hands while they sleep.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2026 12:51 PM (Cqx++)

Countably infinite or uncountably infinite?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:53 PM (l3cgK)

247 Because you were just a crazy conspiracy theorist.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2026 12:51 PM (TvwQU)
=====

Have I mentioned Nazis on the moon?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 18, 2026 12:53 PM (RIvkX)

248 Denny Crane! Denny Crane!

Posted by: Boston Legal at September 18, 2026 12:54 PM (2Ez/1)

249 …he's infamous for how he treats his fellow actors and often the fans.

I thought he was great in Galaxy Quest.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 18, 2026 12:54 PM (kYmoU)

250 Never got the jab due to being an early COVID victim (told the story here before). Wife got the J&J jab because of emotional extortion by her sister. Profoundly grateful that she didn't get mRNA poisoned.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 18, 2026 12:54 PM (NcvvS)

251 Razzle-dazzle.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 18, 2026 12:54 PM (5C90x)

252 Instead, the press will not touch this, and actually run interference on it.

Posted by: Orson at September 18, 2026 12:52 PM (dIske)

They were voluntary members of the op. COVID had to be more than just the sniffles to get universal mail in vote fraud.

Don't hold your breath.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2026 12:54 PM (TvwQU)

253 I love the British Journal. I've given thousands upon thousand of British Journals.

Posted by: Kamala at September 18, 2026 12:54 PM (8D3Qw)

254 251 Razzle-dazzle.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 18, 2026 12:54 PM (5C90x)

======

Razzle-dazzle 'em.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:54 PM (+a7XK)

255 Shatner ma be a massive dick, but Takei loves massive dick. Hey-o

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 18, 2026 12:55 PM (oUMhY)

256 253 I love the British Journal. I've given thousands upon thousand of British Journals.

Posted by: Kamala at September 18, 2026 12:54 PM (8D3Qw)

Is that when you put English while on your knees?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:55 PM (l3cgK)

257 lol ok Duncan prob is more a girl thing? or a certain age thing

anyway, sad news

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 18, 2026 12:55 PM (j+aD2)

258 Whatley needs to come out swinging. Cooper was soft on crime and his acolyte, Josh Stein, is even softer. DJT has been good for NC, Burr and Tillis, not so much. Budd's all right and putting Whately in the Senate will make NC a force to be reckoned with.
Posted by: mrp at September 18, 2026 12:45 PM (rj6Yv)

Has Wilbur reconciled with his brother?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2026 12:55 PM (rbvCR)

259 Have I mentioned Nazis on the moon?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 18, 2026 12:53 PM (RIvkX)

I've seen the documentary.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2026 12:55 PM (TvwQU)

260 Razzle-dazzle.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 18, 2026 12:54 PM (5C90x)

======

Razzle-dazzle 'em.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:54 PM (+a7XK)

BOOMshakalakalaka BOOMshakalakalaka BOOMshakalakalaka BOOM!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:56 PM (ccf/V)

261 I wish I still had my Micronauts.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 18, 2026 12:56 PM (Fv808)

262 Instead, the press will not touch this, and actually run interference on it.

Posted by: Orson at September 18, 2026 12:52 PM (dIske)

That's because they're not just biased or in the bag though it's hard to get one's head around. They ARE the agenda. They exist only to serve it.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2026 12:56 PM (8D3Qw)

263 Seattle passes law to add infinite genders and "multi-partner" relationships as protected classes

It's OK because they hold hands while they sleep.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2026 12:51 PM (Cqx++)

Countably infinite or uncountably infinite?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Or unaccountable infinite?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 18, 2026 12:56 PM (ndZc7)

264 This!
Posted by: George Takei

It's not just Takei. James Doohan was by all reports a really great guy. Doohan didn't like Shatner. They reportedly reconciled at some point, but it was late in life.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2026 12:57 PM (mkw2N)

265 Oh, and the jab didn't protect her sufficiently: she bitterly resents that her bout of COVID pretty much killed her senses of taste & smell.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 18, 2026 12:57 PM (NcvvS)

266 flounder you're doing it again. Or I am.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2026 12:57 PM (8D3Qw)

267 Why would they do that?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 12:57 PM (d5Pps)

268 261 I wish I still had my Micronauts.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 18, 2026 12:56 PM (Fv80

Talarico loved this toy...
https://tinyurl.com/27yp3a5j

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:58 PM (l3cgK)

269 flounder you're doing it again. Or I am.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2026 12:57 PM (8D3Qw)

*removes hands from pants*

What?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2026 12:58 PM (TvwQU)

270 247 Because you were just a crazy conspiracy theorist.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2026 12:51 PM (TvwQU)
=====

Have I mentioned Nazis on the moon?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 18, 2026 12:53 PM (RIvkX)

Goose steps are what you take
Nazis on the moon
I hope for a pure Aryan state
Nazis on the moon
We could have a reich forever
Nazis on the moon
Das volk could live together
Nazis on, Nazis on the moon

Posted by: The Secret Police at September 18, 2026 12:58 PM (TbWk/)

271 Don't hold your breath.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2026 12:54 PM (TvwQU)

_______________________________

Dr. Fauci has deemed "don't hold your breath" as "VooDoo" medicine for asthmatics. He suggests following the science and holding your breath.

Posted by: Orson at September 18, 2026 12:58 PM (dIske)

272 There have also been some changes at the state level, like new election laws and forcing all police agencies in the state to participate in the 287g program with DHS, which should help drive out some illegals and suppress the 6% who probably vote every election, both passed over governor Stein's veto because the NC state legislature has a veto proof GOP majority.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:50 PM (+a7XK)
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The NC Senate is veto-proof. the NC GA is not. One seat short, which prevented Constitutional Carry in NC from passing last year.

Posted by: mrp at September 18, 2026 12:58 PM (rj6Yv)

273 Is prison enough? Do we still have a federal death penalty?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 18, 2026 12:58 PM (EZz54)

274 Countably infinite or uncountably infinite?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Or unaccountable infinite?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 18, 2026 12:56 PM (ndZc7)

Whatever Ace is paying the HQ Sergeant at Arms to enforce the no-maths rule, it's not enough.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 18, 2026 12:58 PM (SgdqL)

275 I think I had Micronauts. Biotron?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 12:58 PM (d5Pps)

276 You know who else just magically went away?
Posted by: ... at September 18, 2026 12:33 PM

This is about me again, isn't it?

Jus let it go, people. Just let it go.

Posted by: Chuck Cunningham at September 18, 2026 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

277 105 I fully expect James Talarico to start mainlining beef bullion, shooting guns and riding horses in commercials.

Because he's just one of us Texans.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:29 PM (ccf/V)

Three of my ancestors were at the Alamo!
-Talarico in three weeks

Posted by: Gref at September 18, 2026 12:59 PM (5rh/l)

278 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2026 12:58 PM (TvwQU)

LOL

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2026 12:59 PM (8D3Qw)

279 Countably infinite or uncountably infinite?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 12:53 PM (l3cgK)

Please, we are getting dangerously close to Hilbert's sex hotel and Cantor's polycules.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2026 01:00 PM (rbvCR)

280 Biotron?
Posted by: Boss Moss

I had Biotron. And the Astrostation. But the Mobile Exploration Lab was best.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 18, 2026 01:00 PM (Fv808)

281 Our social 'elites' are not just any old myopic, lazy, snobby grifters. No, they're myopic, lazy, snobby grifters with a depraved disregard for the value of human life. They're special!

Posted by: SciVo at September 18, 2026 01:00 PM (ke3zm)

282 There are reasons to be optimistic about Whatley's chances in NC.

Hell, Cooper is actually polling worse against Whatley than Cunningham did in 2020 against Tillis, and Cunningham lost to Tillis in a...suspicious year of elections.

So, we'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:51 PM

Small world story. Whatley's wife is an old friend of a friend. Many moons ago when I was a young lieutenant on TDY to Bragg for a couple weeks, my friend let her know and she and her family were kind enough to invite me out to their place for a weekend. Very nice folks.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 18, 2026 01:00 PM (P6lWH)

283
Also, secret Nazi bases in Antarctica. They're on the far side of the Moon and Antarctica.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2026 01:01 PM (w6EFb)

284 272
The NC Senate is veto-proof. the NC GA is not. One seat short, which prevented Constitutional Carry in NC from passing last year.

Posted by: mrp at September 18, 2026 12:58 PM (rj6Yv)

=======

Right.

That drama about some Democrat crossing the aisle last year. I think it was a black lady on an immigration matter and she was talking about how immigrants drive down black wages, for which she was vilified.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 01:01 PM (+a7XK)

285 I'm amazed (but not really) what liberals are willing to do in service of their politics. Really are fine killing an injuring people if it say causes a short term political headache for Trump/Republicans.

I can't imagine a large swath of say Right leaning doctors fudging vaccine data that would negatively effect the general public because "this might hurt/help Democrats".

Posted by: Leupold at September 18, 2026 01:01 PM (eIzlH)

286 283
Also, secret Nazi bases in Antarctica. They're on the far side of the Moon and Antarctica.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2026 01:01 PM (w6EFb)

Which one has the dinos?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 01:01 PM (l3cgK)

287 BOOM!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 12:56 PM (ccf/V)

Just rewatched that. Early Eddie Murphy appearance in the barracks before pass and review.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2026 01:01 PM (TvwQU)

288 Three of my ancestors were at the Alamo!
-Talarico in three weeks
Posted by: Gref at September 18, 2026 12:59 PM

On the other side?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 18, 2026 01:01 PM (P6lWH)

289 I had a smaller gold guy and a samurai looking guy with 2 fans on his back.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:01 PM (d5Pps)

290 Updating the flow chart

1 "mistakes were made"

2. "Nobody is more upset than us"

3. "There's no reason to lose confidence in is. "

4." Pay us. Pay us now. Keep paying g us."

Posted by: The Learing Center at September 18, 2026 01:02 PM (4HoLg)

291 282 Small world story. Whatley's wife is an old friend of a friend. Many moons ago when I was a young lieutenant on TDY to Bragg for a couple weeks, my friend let her know and she and her family were kind enough to invite me out to their place for a weekend. Very nice folks.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 18, 2026 01:00 PM (P6lWH)

=======

"Yeah, but he supports Trump, so she actually just lives in fear because Whatley will murder her at Trump's order."
-Erick Erickson, 89% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 01:02 PM (+a7XK)

292 Bottoms is a disaster.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 12:44 PM

My attorneys will be in touch.

Posted by: Timothy Bottoms at September 18, 2026 01:02 PM (77rzZ)

293 Oh, and the jab didn't protect her sufficiently: she bitterly resents that her bout of COVID pretty much killed her senses of taste & smell.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 18, 2026 12:57 PM (NcvvS)

These are lies made up by the crazy conspiracy theory anti-vax wing of the far-right. Crackpots and reactionaries. BELIEVE IN SCIENCE™!

Posted by: Things I learned here, redux at September 18, 2026 01:02 PM (TbWk/)

294 Just rewatched that. Early Eddie Murphy appearance in the barracks before pass and review.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2026 01:01 PM (TvwQU)

Huh....never noticed that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 01:02 PM (ccf/V)

295 Three of my ancestors were at the Alamo!
-Talarico in three weeks
Posted by: Gref at September 18, 2026 12:59 PM (5rh/l)

Fact check: homunculi don't have 'ancestors' per se.

Posted by: SciVo at September 18, 2026 01:03 PM (ke3zm)

296
Three of my ancestors were at the Alamo!
-Talarico in three weeks
Posted by: Gref at September 18, 2026 12:59 PM (5rh/l)

Camp followers in Santa Ana's wagon train.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 18, 2026 01:03 PM (y9nCu)

297 Have I mentioned Nazis on the moon?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 18, 2026 12:53 PM (RIvkX)

———

I believe that far more than “safe and effective”.

Posted by: Cray Cray at September 18, 2026 01:03 PM (7BAZk)

298 Did they move Tartaria to Antarctica?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:03 PM (d5Pps)

299

Butters > Bottoms

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 01:03 PM (ccf/V)

300 Off, old sock

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 18, 2026 01:03 PM (4HoLg)

301 Posted by: The Secret Police at September 18, 2026 12:58 PM

*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 18, 2026 01:03 PM (P6lWH)

302 >> Which one has the dinos?

That may be in the Hollow Earth. I tend to get all this mixed up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2026 01:04 PM (w6EFb)

303 Hollow Flat Earth.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:04 PM (d5Pps)

304 232 > William. Shatner. Is Canadian.

He's also a massive dick. People love him for being Kirk and for being kind of level-headed on politics, but he's infamous for how he treats his fellow actors and often the fans.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2026 12:50
---------
Well, TBF, most of his fellow actors were probably lefttards. Sulu, anyone.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 18, 2026 01:05 PM (SkjRZ)

305 *golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 18, 2026 01:03 PM (P6lWH)

X2

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2026 01:06 PM (TvwQU)

306 Engage, Chewie.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:06 PM (d5Pps)

307 "Yeah, but he supports Trump, so she actually just lives in fear because Whatley will murder her at Trump's order."
-Erick Erickson, 89% probability
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 01:02 PM

If she shoots as well as her dad, unlikely.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 18, 2026 01:06 PM (P6lWH)

308 This wasn't incompentance. This was DELIBERATE action against innocent people who were bullied to accept an unsafe gene modification poison mislabeled as a 'vaccine'.
Posted by: Pete at September 18, 2026 12:50 PM (9uoO

This is actually the legal attack that needs to be made.

The shots were never vaccines, they were gene modification therapies... and since they are NOT vaccines, should not be covered under the law that protects vaccine makers from lawsuits.

A Bureaucrat changing a definition on a website, does not change a LEGAL definition... which would be the definition used when they passed the legislation.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 18, 2026 01:06 PM (mP0Kj)

309 Hollow Flat Earth.
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:04 PM (d5Pps)

Like a giant Uncrustable sandwich without any filling.

Posted by: Why not at September 18, 2026 01:06 PM (TbWk/)

310 You know who else has secret bases in Antarctica?

Posted by: Big Penguin at September 18, 2026 01:06 PM (0sNs1)

311 I think Shatner and Nimoy got along, though, didn't they?

Posted by: Bulg at September 18, 2026 01:07 PM (77rzZ)

312 You know who else has secret bases in Antarctica?

Posted by: Big Penguin at September 18, 2026 01:06 PM (0sNs1)

Epstein?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2026 01:07 PM (TvwQU)

313 302 >> Which one has the dinos?

That may be in the Hollow Earth. I tend to get all this mixed up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2026 01:04 PM (w6EFb)

Found it...
https://youtu.be/NG2utrMwTyY&t=137s

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 01:07 PM (l3cgK)

314 You know who else has secret bases in Antarctica?
Posted by: Big Penguin at September 18, 2026 01:06 PM

Aliens and Predators?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 18, 2026 01:08 PM (P6lWH)

315
It's easy to get the Antarctica conspiracies all mixed up. You've got your plain aliens and/or Nazi bases there, with the pyramids under the ice and all that stuff.

Then you've got the Hollow Earth where the big hole to get inside is down there somewhere (and also up around the north pole too).

And then you've got the Flat Earth ice wall stuff. And they all sort of get all that mixed up themselves. Even the Flat Earthers sometimes have holes in the Flat Pizza doing stuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2026 01:08 PM (w6EFb)

316 263 Seattle passes law to add infinite genders and "multi-partner" relationships as protected classes

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2026 12:51 PM (Cqx++)
_____________________________

That's a pretty vacuous application of the law. The law is supposed to set rules. Any law including the word "infinite" without defining each and every applicable party is contradictive to the purpose of the law or, more specifically, suggests that no law was required.

I guess I'm a reprobate, because my first instinct was to decide how such an open ended application can be abused. Techincally, you could indentify as the most reprehensible, bigoted, racist, disgusting "gender" of your own concoction and claim to be protected.

Posted by: Orson at September 18, 2026 01:08 PM (dIske)

317 Where was the Land of the Lost?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:08 PM (d5Pps)

318 I think Shatner and Nimoy got along, though, didn't they?
Posted by: Bulg

Logical.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 18, 2026 01:09 PM (d9FiM)

319 Aliens and Predators?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 18, 2026 01:08 PM (P6lWH)

Horrible movie.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 01:09 PM (ccf/V)

320 Where was the Land of the Lost?
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:08 PM (d5Pps)

Middle Earth.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 01:09 PM (ccf/V)

321 You know who else has secret bases in Antarctica?
Posted by: Big Penguin at September 18, 2026 01:06 PM (0sNs1)

The Old Ones.

Posted by: William Dyer at September 18, 2026 01:09 PM (rbvCR)

322 Ka-Zar was in Antarctica.

Posted by: Bulg at September 18, 2026 01:09 PM (77rzZ)

323 Since GA was mentioned, one of the only pollsters actually trying to reach white working class voters is Quantus Insights, and they polled GA:

Quantus Insights
@QuantusInsights
NEW QUANTUS INSIGHTS GEORGIA SENATE POLL - Sept 18, 2026

Our latest survey of 645 likely Georgia voters finds Democrat Jon Ossoff leading Republican Mike Collins by four points, with neither candidate reaching 50%.

📊 Georgia U.S. Senate
🔵 Jon Ossoff (D): 48.2%
🔴 Mike Collins (R): 44.4%
⚪️ Undecided: 6.5%
⚪️ Someone else: 0.9%
––Ossoff +3.8

-----

Incumbent running under 50% is never a good sign, but he's close (with leaners he's at 49%).

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 01:09 PM (+a7XK)

324 Techincally, you could indentify as the most reprehensible, bigoted, racist, disgusting "gender" of your own concoction and claim to be protected.

Posted by: Orson at September 18, 2026 01:08 PM (dIske)

*takes notes*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2026 01:09 PM (TvwQU)

325 > I think Shatner and Nimoy got along, though, didn't they?

For most of their lives, yes. But they reportedly had a falling out over Shatner using some footage without permission. Nimoy stopped talking to Shatner for several years before his death.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2026 01:10 PM (mkw2N)

326 I think that moves the needle mostly because they’re gonna point out how nuts Dems are. If enough of those new registered voters show up, Whatley wins.

-----------

The commercials I see against Cooper are ones about his paroling of criminals including one of a father that lost his daughter to some killer but they play it so much that I'm sick of seeing it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 18, 2026 01:10 PM (DbmIv)

327 And then you've got the Flat Earth ice wall stuff. And they all sort of get all that mixed up themselves. Even the Flat Earthers sometimes have holes in the Flat Pizza doing stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2026 01:08 PM

We know beyond a doubt that Earth is round. If it were flat, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 18, 2026 01:10 PM (P6lWH)

328 321 You know who else has secret bases in Antarctica?
Posted by: Big Penguin at September 18, 2026 01:06 PM (0sNs1)

The Old Ones.
Posted by: William Dyer at September 18, 2026 01:09 PM (rbvCR)

Ah, yes. The Old Ones....

Posted by: Roc at September 18, 2026 01:11 PM (SgdqL)

329 317 Where was the Land of the Lost?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:08 PM (d5Pps)

Harvard. Or one of the other Ivy League propaganda injection schools.

Posted by: Gref at September 18, 2026 01:11 PM (5rh/l)

330 I must say, those two "heat maps" have to be the most incomprehensible way to present statistical data ever devised.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2026 01:11 PM (1z8ji)

331 I got some more $3/pound beef and some buy one get 2 free root beer.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:12 PM (d5Pps)

332 Bill Shatner. The Chevy Chase of outer space.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 18, 2026 01:12 PM (d9FiM)

333 328 321 You know who else has secret bases in Antarctica?
Posted by: Big Penguin at September 18, 2026 01:06 PM (0sNs1)

The Old Ones.
Posted by: William Dyer at September 18, 2026 01:09 PM (rbvCR)

Ah, yes. The Old Ones....
Posted by: Roc at September 18, 2026 01:11 PM (SgdqL)

Quick! we've got to find the kidnapped Girlfriend / Wife!

Posted by: E R Burroughs at September 18, 2026 01:12 PM (mP0Kj)

334 I got some more $3/pound beef

===

From a cow ????

Posted by: runner at September 18, 2026 01:13 PM (AKptf)

335 Three of my ancestors were at the Alamo!
-Talarico in three weeks
Posted by: Gref at September 18, 2026 12:59 PM (5rh/l)
=====================
I can vouch for that.

Posted by: Brian WIlliams at September 18, 2026 01:13 PM (Ki5ky)

336 Come to think of it, what is Whately's position on the National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act (H.R 3

?

Putting out a statement might stir things up a bit.

Posted by: mrp at September 18, 2026 01:13 PM (rj6Yv)

337 Where is this magical land of plenty where beef is $3/lb ??

Posted by: runner at September 18, 2026 01:13 PM (AKptf)

338 331 I got some more $3/pound beef and some buy one get 2 free root beer.
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:12 PM (d5Pps)

Oh, what a lucky man, he was

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 18, 2026 01:13 PM (xcxpd)

339 Hopefully the three buck chuck was not grey

Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2026 01:14 PM (rbvCR)

340 Food City Southwest Virginia.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:14 PM (d5Pps)

341 332 Bill Shatner. The Chevy Chase of outer space.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 18, 2026 01:12 PM (d9FiM)

He's not that bad...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 18, 2026 01:14 PM (xcxpd)

342 323 Since GA was mentioned, one of the only pollsters actually trying to reach white working class voters is Quantus Insights, and they polled GA:

Quantus Insights
@QuantusInsights
NEW QUANTUS INSIGHTS GEORGIA SENATE POLL - Sept 18, 2026

Our latest survey of 645 likely Georgia voters finds Democrat Jon Ossoff leading Republican Mike Collins by four points, with neither candidate reaching 50%.
📊 Georgia U.S. Senate
🔵 Jon Ossoff (D): 48.2%
🔴 Mike Collins (R): 44.4%
⚪️ Undecided: 6.5%
⚪️ Someone else: 0.9%
––Ossoff +3.8
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Incumbent running under 50% is never a good sign, but he's close (with leaners he's at 49%).

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 01:09 PM (+a7XK)

Abandon hope now.

Posted by: Fulton County, GA, election workers at September 18, 2026 01:14 PM (5rh/l)

343 I must say, those two "heat maps" have to be the most incomprehensible way to present statistical data ever devised.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2026 01:11 PM (1z8ji)
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That's why we need more experts.

Posted by: Tom Nichols at September 18, 2026 01:15 PM (Ki5ky)

344 Bill Shatner. The Chevy Chase of outer space.

Except Chevy Chase was never funny, he was just an asshole. Shatner had breadth and depth in acting, and when he appeared with Winkler, Bradshaw and Foreman in that Better Late than Never series he was pretty damn funny.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 18, 2026 01:15 PM (3Ope8)

345 Three of my ancestors were at the Alamo!
-Talarico in three weeks
Posted by: Gref at September 18, 2026 12:59 PM

Were they in the basement of the Alamo?

Posted by: Pee Wee Herman at September 18, 2026 01:15 PM (OkYzo)

346 Bill Shatner. The Chevy Chase of outer space.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 18, 2026 01:12 PM (d9FiM)

He's not that bad...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

Just reacting to what is on the thread.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 18, 2026 01:16 PM (d9FiM)

347 I was at Alamo once. The rental car place.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:16 PM (d5Pps)

348 The part of Kirk was first offered to Jack Lord, but his price was too high.

"Uhura, get on the horn to Starfleet Command..."

Posted by: Bulg at September 18, 2026 01:16 PM (77rzZ)

349 I think Whatley wins in NC but I believe NC-11 will switch from Republican to Democrat.

Having said that, Whatley has not run a good campaign at all. He started off with the "working across the aisle and fixing the gridlock in Washington" play. What an idiot.

He also has nothing to say about immigration, illegal or otherwise. You just know he is a corporate toady not much different than Tillis.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 18, 2026 01:16 PM (DbmIv)

350 Hide the incline.

Posted by: alanon at September 18, 2026 01:16 PM (Yv1fT)

351 Ossoff is an annoying little shit who has accomplished nothing while in the Senate.. Seriously Georgia ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 18, 2026 01:16 PM (+gK6I)

352 342 Abandon hope now.

Posted by: Fulton County, GA, election workers at September 18, 2026 01:14 PM (5rh/l)

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There is a grand jury investigating Fulton for election crimes under federal law right now.

There was an FBI raid on Fulton County election offices in January where they seized ballots from 2020. DNI was involved.

This is the biggest known unknown I can think of for 2026. I want to know how much this is going to affect things, if at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 01:16 PM (+a7XK)

353 I'll alway believe that one of the worst movies I've seen is James Cameron's "Titanic."

Plot holes on top of plot holes. Horrendous acting and dialogue. I remember watching that scene where the cabin is filling up with water, and the two main characters are yelling back an forth to each other while trying to get out. They are the only two in the room....and yet EVERY SINGLE LINE is preceded by the one character shouting the other's name. It ruined the entire (supposedly pivotal) scene. It was ridiculous.

Posted by: Orson at September 18, 2026 01:16 PM (dIske)

354
Shatner's Twilight Zone appearances were some of the best of the series.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 18, 2026 01:17 PM (OkYzo)

355 345 Three of my ancestors were at the Alamo!
-Talarico in three weeks
Posted by: Gref at September 18, 2026 12:59 PM

Were they in the basement of the Alamo?
Posted by: Pee Wee Herman at September 18, 2026 01:15 PM (OkYzo)

Santa Anna's troops.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 18, 2026 01:17 PM (Y/06r)

356 Three of Talarico 's ancestors were male comfort girls at the Alamo

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 18, 2026 01:17 PM (oUMhY)

357 Could you rent wagons at the Alamo?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:18 PM (d5Pps)

358
The misuse of the polymerase chain reaction procedure for Covid DNA goes along with this. Grossly excessive number of replication cycles produced a high percentage of false positives (Covid is everywhere!), and the inventor of PCR himself said it shouldn't be used for quantitative tests.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 18, 2026 01:18 PM (HLgI3)

359 349 I think Whatley wins in NC but I believe NC-11 will switch from Republican to Democrat.

Having said that, Whatley has not run a good campaign at all. He started off with the "working across the aisle and fixing the gridlock in Washington" play. What an idiot.

He also has nothing to say about immigration, illegal or otherwise. You just know he is a corporate toady not much different than Tillis.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 18, 2026 01:16 PM (DbmIv)

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Any summer spend is on upping name recognition.

It's fall spend where negative ads work best.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 01:18 PM (+a7XK)

360 How did they manage to beat Mexican regulars?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:19 PM (d5Pps)

361 The Alamo was the first place I was ever legally allowed to destroy US Currency by putting a penny in the machine that crushed it into The Alamo logo.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 01:19 PM (ccf/V)

362 > This is the biggest known unknown I can think of for 2026. I want to know how much this is going to affect things, if at all.
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Probably not at all.

The states that perpetrated the fraud, all of them, are not cooperating, at all, with the feds. While they will (eventually) turn over whatever materials they've been unable to destroy, there's still the corrupt judiciary to get through.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 18, 2026 01:19 PM (2Cry5)

363 How did they manage to beat Mexican regulars?
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:19 PM (d5Pps)

They mowed their own lawns.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 01:19 PM (ccf/V)

364 original Star Trek> Galaxy Quest>> All Other Space Movies and TV shows

Posted by: Leonard Nimoy and Alan Rickman, zombie acting champions at September 18, 2026 01:20 PM (EYqKn)

365 This sounds serious. That means there will consequences, right?

Right?!?

Posted by: blaster at September 18, 2026 01:20 PM (NlEaG)

366 351 Ossoff is an annoying little shit who has accomplished nothing while in the Senate.. Seriously Georgia ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 18, 2026 01:16 PM (+gK6I)

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It's ridiculous. I think it can be another example of the GOPe voters not reciprocating when an actual conservative is on the ballot. I mean when there is a GOPe on the ballot it's all, "gotta vote for the GOP no matter what." When a conservative on the ballot it's all, 'I gotta vote my conscience."

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 18, 2026 01:20 PM (DbmIv)

367 Nimoy did some guest work on Western TV shows.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:20 PM (d5Pps)

368 362 > This is the biggest known unknown I can think of for 2026. I want to know how much this is going to affect things, if at all.
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Probably not at all.

The states that perpetrated the fraud, all of them, are not cooperating, at all, with the feds. While they will (eventually) turn over whatever materials they've been unable to destroy, there's still the corrupt judiciary to get through.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 18, 2026 01:19 PM (2Cry5)

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The investigation into 2020 in Georgia has been ongoing since 2021, led by Georgia Republicans in the legislature.

Biden won GA in 2020 with 300,000 fake ballots to get him a 10,000 ballot win.

And Harmeet Dhillon seems serious about using the full power of her office against Democrats.

I think it could be something. Or, it could be nothing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 01:21 PM (+a7XK)

369
There was an FBI raid on Fulton County election offices in January where they seized ballots from 2020. DNI was involved.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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I hope someone from DC is going to post observers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 18, 2026 01:21 PM (mmrXZ)

370 Posted by: Orson at September 18, 2026 01:16 PM (dIske)

Is that not because it was noisy, and it's easier to attend to your own name than anything else? Unless they were right next to each other...

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2026 01:21 PM (8D3Qw)

371 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
Besides having to work tomorrow, have I mentioned that I H8 my co-workers lately?

Posted by: Skip at September 18, 2026 01:21 PM (SOfNT)

372
The part of Kirk was first offered to Jack Lord, but his price was too high.

Book 'em Spocko

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2026 01:21 PM (Cqx++)

373 Nimoy did some guest work on Western TV shows.
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:20 PM (d5Pps)

Kirk did Westerns and once played both an American cowboy AND an Indian......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 01:21 PM (ccf/V)

374 Shatner, I meant.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 01:21 PM (ccf/V)

375 374 Shatner, I meant.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 01:21 PM (ccf/V)

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I think you mean,

"Shatner.... ... ...I meant."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 01:22 PM (+a7XK)

376 have I mentioned that I H8 my co-workers lately?
Posted by: Skip

Not yet on this thread.

Posted by: Bulg at September 18, 2026 01:22 PM (77rzZ)

377
I think you mean,

"Shatner.... ... ...I meant."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 01:22 PM (+a7XK)

I was on medicine for my pausak at the time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 01:23 PM (ccf/V)

378 That El Sayed guy is going to win in Michigan. You NEVER hear anything about the Republican running against him even from Republicans.

What's his name? Rogers or something?

Posted by: blaster at September 18, 2026 01:23 PM (NlEaG)

379 Nimoy did some guest work on Western TV shows.
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:20 PM (d5Pps)

As did DeForrest Kelly. Imagine my surprise as a wee lad seeing Dr. McCoy in an old black and white western on Saturday morning TV.

Posted by: We've got to amputate the leg, Jim at September 18, 2026 01:23 PM (TbWk/)

380 I've read that the FDA receives nearly half of its funding from private industry, among which are Pfizer and Moderna...

Nearly half? I'll bet that it's way, way, way higher than that - that there is a lot of dark money flowing from Big Pharma into the FDA coffers, and especially directly to the bank accounts of the FDA top staff; that their government salaries don't begin to compare with their payola from Big Pharma.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at September 18, 2026 01:23 PM (bufu1)

381 I'm not willing to assume "just an accidental oversight."

You couldn't pay me enough...! Ah, you know, it turns out that my salary assuaged any misgivings I might have had.

Posted by: medical professionals at September 18, 2026 01:23 PM (wNud8)

382 Ossoff is an annoying little shit who has accomplished nothing while in the Senate.. Seriously Georgia ?
Posted by: It's me donna
__________

I'm generally fine with legislators accomplishing nothing, but especially dems.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 18, 2026 01:24 PM (XvL8K)

383 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 01:24 PM (ccf/V)

384
Admiral Byrd and Operation Highjump back in '46-'47 play big in all these conspiracies.

He went down there either to fight the Nazis, or fight the aliens. Or he thought they were Nazis but turned out to be aliens, or vice-versa, or both, a Nazi-Alien alliance.

Or, he went down there to find the entrance to the Hollow Earth. Or he went down there to go over the Ice Wall encircling the Flat Earth, and explore all the Secret Continents beyond.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2026 01:24 PM (w6EFb)

385 There was an FBI raid on Fulton County election offices in January where they seized ballots from 2020. DNI was involved.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It's September. If something was going to happen it would have happened.

Posted by: blaster at September 18, 2026 01:24 PM (NlEaG)

386 379 Nimoy did some guest work on Western TV shows.
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:20 PM (d5Pps)

As did DeForrest Kelly. Imagine my surprise as a wee lad seeing Dr. McCoy in an old black and white western on Saturday morning TV.
Posted by: We've got to amputate the leg, Jim at September 18, 2026 01:23 PM (TbWk/)

Saw the fellah who played Major Hochstetter in a western once. And of course, Oliver Hardy was in a movie with Duke Wayne.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 18, 2026 01:25 PM (SgdqL)

387 Whatley has not run a good campaign at all. He started off with the "working across the aisle and fixing the gridlock in Washington" play. What an idiot.
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The single worst campaign idea ever. Voters want candidates who say "I'll kick them in the balls", not "We're buddies"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 18, 2026 01:25 PM (I2GmU)

388 385 There was an FBI raid on Fulton County election offices in January where they seized ballots from 2020. DNI was involved.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It's September. If something was going to happen it would have happened.

Posted by: blaster at September 18, 2026 01:24 PM (NlEaG)

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Not necessarily. Depends on the scope of the investigation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 01:26 PM (+a7XK)

389 363 How did they manage to beat Mexican regulars?
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 18, 2026 01:19 PM (d5Pps)

They mowed their own lawns.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 18, 2026 01:19 PM (ccf/V)

From what I read, most of the Mexican troops were poor Mayans that didn't even really speak Spanish...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 18, 2026 01:27 PM (l3cgK)

390 Any summer spend is on upping name recognition.

It's fall spend where negative ads work best.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 18, 2026 01:18 PM (+a7XK)

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It's been all negative for the past two months from Whatley (SLC Pac). Whatley started with the work across the aisle ads then moved to the 'I'm not a politician, just a regular Joe in my truck" ads. And that was about it. You go to his website and his issues page is pretty good, but damn, can't he put a few of those on an ad?

Now there are Cooper ads saying he isn't stupid like Whatley who thinks there is no inflation, then queue a video of Whatley saying, "there isn't any inflation".

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 18, 2026 01:29 PM (DbmIv)

391 Years ago the info I found in 2020 is no longer on the Internet. Regarding why mRNA, in the first trials of vaccines in the 1990's (I think) stalled. No longer found.

The search of "does mRNA change DNA" meets with a resounding no in 2026. I read information that it did in 2020.

My own guess is to now cover for all the former "rare" cancers being seen in young people. Rare brain cancers. Rare appendix cancer as well (a wide range of rare colon cancers). The first boy I loved, a year before I met bf/husband, died of one of these that was 1:1million rare... in 5mo.

I think pericarditis, etc, in the young and fit was due to their robust immune response to the foreign vaccine in their bodies. Similar to the cytokine storm deaths the influenza caused in 1918.

The vax we took as a family was J&J due to air travel. No problems. I kept our sons/DIL and future DIL from taking the mRNA due to, in a normal world, 10yrs of human trial to ok a vaccine. I read about the impact on DNA.

If UV sunlight changes DNA in humans to give skin cancer, this supports the theory that a messenger RNA virus could do the same.

The mRNA treatment for specific cancers is worth a try for some.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 18, 2026 01:29 PM (hzuYO)

392 It's like the Boy Scout motto: Be Prepared.

https://tinyurl.com/4xu33ecj

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 18, 2026 01:32 PM (ndZc7)

393 105 I fully expect James Talarico to start mainlining beef bullion, shooting guns and riding horses in commercials.

All at the same time!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 18, 2026 01:38 PM (wbjP0)

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