For 20 Years, Climate Alarmists Have Been Claiming That "Global Warming" Made Hurricanes More Numerous and More Severe.<br>For the First Time in Over 100 Years, We've Had a Hurricane-Free Summer.

For 20 Years, Climate Alarmists Have Been Claiming That "Global Warming" Made Hurricanes More Numerous and More Severe.
For the First Time in Over 100 Years, We've Had a Hurricane-Free Summer.

For the first time in more than a century, there has been not one single hurricane by September 21st.

Chris Martz
@ChrisMartzWX
Sep 22
For the first time in 112 years, there have been ZERO Atlantic hurricanes by this point in the calendar year.
The last time this happened was in 1914, two years after the R.M.S. Titanic sank. 1914 was the year that my great-grandmother was born. It was also the year World War I broke out, and when the Panama Canal officially opened to traffic. Charlie Chaplin directed his first film, Caught in a Cabaret, that year too.
Year-to-date accumulated cyclone energy (ACE), an integrated metric that accounts for tropical cyclone frequency, intensity, and duration, is lowest on record in the satellite era (since 1966) with 6.3 units generated. Overall since 1851, North Atlantic ACE is lowest year-to-date since 1929 (although pre-satellite era data should be taken with a grain of salt).
To have a TOP FIVE end-of-year total overall, Atlantic ACE must remain below 18.1 units. To have a TOP FIVE satellite-era end-of-year total, ACE must remain below 34.4 units. The latter is almost certainly doable I think. A top five finish since 1851 is going to be hard to accomplish, but is possible. October will ultimately decide our ranking.
Interestingly and perhaps unsurprisingly, of the top ten lowest year-to-date ACE totals, all were either El Niño or ENSO netural.

You'd think the media would be talking about this, because they love stories about weather anomalies, but no, it's mostly just Fox and conservative outlets reporting the story.

The climate mongers are of course absolutely silent about this.

Michael Schellenberger notes that the leftist "climate scientists" have been torturing the data until it confesses what they want it to say for a long, long time.

Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
Climate change makes hurricanes more frequent and intense, they said. But for the first time in 112 years, the Atlantic hasn't produced a single one. On storms, sea level, and droughts, manipulated models can show, under equally valid assumptions, the exact opposite trends.
For two decades, scientists have said that human emissions have made hurricanes stronger, seas rise faster, and droughts more severe.
"This combined PDI has nearly doubled over the past 30 yr," said the 2005 Nature paper by Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with PDI being his index of storm power. Warming raised the odds that a storm reached major hurricane strength by "about 8% per decade," said the 2020 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by James Kossin of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Climate change made a storm like Hurricane Melissa more frequent "by a factor of about 5," said the Nov. 6, 2025 report by World Weather Attribution (WWA).
The seas would rise "0.5 to 1.4 meters above the 1990 level" by 2100, said the 2007 Science paper by Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
The atmosphere's thirst had "made droughts 40% more severe across the globe," the University of Oxford said in June 2025 of a paper in Nature, which the journal retracted on Sept. 2. "It is likely that the global proportion of major (Category 3-5) tropical cyclone occurrence has increased over the last four decades," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in 2021.
But in every case, the instruments directly measuring the phenomenon in question (storm strength, tide gauges, and rain gauges) show no trend, or no acceleration, beyond natural variability.
Atlantic hurricane counts rose across the 20th century only because ships and satellites found storms that earlier detection methods had missed, and the recorded increases "are consistent with changes in observing practices and not likely a true climate trend," concluded the 2021 Nature Communications paper by Gabriel Vecchi of Princeton and Chris Landsea of the National Hurricane Center.
Meanwhile, 2026 is the first year since 1914 that the Atlantic has produced six named storms and no hurricanes.
In terms of sea level rise, "There is no evidence for an apparent acceleration in the past 100+ years that is significant either statistically, or in comparison to values associated with global warming," found a 1992 study by Bruce Douglas.
That remains the case today. "In both datasets, approximately 95% of the suitable locations show no statistically significant acceleration of the rate of sea level rise," said an August 2025 paper by Hessel Voortman and Rob De Vos, which ran the test at 204 stations in one global network and 39 in another.
"Meteorological droughts do not show any substantial changes at the global scale in at least the last 120 years," concluded a 2022 review by Sergio Vicente-Serrano of the Spanish National Research Council, who co-wrote the Oxford paper. "We find no significant acceleration of drought trends across ~99% of quasi-global land area under either PET type," said a September 2026 paper in Communications Earth & Environment by Jiameng Xu, Kaighin McColl of Harvard and seven co-authors, PET being the atmosphere's potential to evaporate water.

Know-nothing Democrat propagandist Jake Tapper, as non-expert as a non-expert can be in all matters, has been pushing the climate hoax all his life.

Media misinfo, based on activist scientists manipulating models and formulas, caused people to believe insane things. A survey of 15,793 young Americans found that 63% believe humanity is doomed and 52% are "hesitant to have children." Total sample on left and Dems on right pic.twitter.com/2ZPp38e15I
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) September 23, 2026

Hey @CapitalWeather, remember this? 'Worsening and multiplying' Atlantic hurricanes due to global warming was a trending thing in the Washington Post six years ago.🤥 https://t.co/JgQ1Jw8ZV0 pic.twitter.com/9H9nnCjkme
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) September 21, 2026

"97% of scientists agree that climate change is making hurricanes stronger..."

Also... https://t.co/3h73ch5OLv pic.twitter.com/pZIwWtbmpw
— MAZE (@mazemoore) September 23, 2026

When I said the climate mongers were silent, I meant they weren't reporting on the first hurricane-free summer in 112 years.

But they are predicting that the routine and recurring El Nino weather pattern, now called a "Godzilla-level phenomenon," is just building up in strength to deliver Super-Hurricanes later on in the season.

Hi there. Meteorologist here. ⛈️

It’s called “El Niño,” not a “Godzilla-level phenomenon.”

It’s just a natural mode of internal climate variability. This year, we are in an unusually strong warm phase of it.

But it’s not supercharging the imaginary “climate crisis.” For… https://t.co/Bj8YEjdwyt
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) September 22, 2026

Non-Scientist Bill Nye the "Science" Guy has nothing to say about this, but now becomes a History Expert, and says Drumpf is Hitler. He's pored over the data and can now confirm this.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:32 PM

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1 Global warming has destroyed hurricanes! We must do something!

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 23, 2026 05:33 PM (0U5gm)

2 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 23, 2026 05:33 PM (iulL+)

3 "People aren't panicking! We have to do something!"

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 23, 2026 05:34 PM (aJQbY)

4 "97% of scientists agree that climate change is making hurricanes stronger..."

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1. Since when do we vote on science?
2. If we have that many stupid scientists, perhaps we should be shutting down some universities.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 23, 2026 05:35 PM (0U5gm)

5 SRV weather

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1u_oHpSTKs

Posted by: DaveA at September 23, 2026 05:35 PM (FhXTo)

6 Where is Greta Horse Face????

Iran is hitting ships with projectiles, and they are leaking chemicals into the Strait of Hormuz ..

What about the fish and the children !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at September 23, 2026 05:36 PM (jGtoG)

7 Hadn't something like this happened within living memory?

I'm sure back when Katrina and Gustav were doing their thing to the Gulf coast, that we had a year with the most hurricanes ever (I think they ran out of alphabet, or were near to it). The fear mongers insisted that that was the way it was always going to be from there on out, and then there were none the following year.

Maybe it was none that made landfall?

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 23, 2026 05:36 PM (vSvIl)

8 This proves that the Brattleboro FART Tubes are working !!

Posted by: Mike Hunt at September 23, 2026 05:37 PM (hWyO8)

9 Sure wouldn't throw a tropical storm out of bed right now. Need some rain . Last one's remnants went on either side of my area.

Posted by: polynikes at September 23, 2026 05:38 PM (KC5Lt)

10 The general public is so bored by the Climate Change hoax that it doesn't even register any more as something people don't care about.

Posted by: zombie at September 23, 2026 05:39 PM (Av6i5)

11 I'm surprised the Leftists are doing a misdirection and pointing out the Pacific activity.

Posted by: polynikes at September 23, 2026 05:40 PM (KC5Lt)

12 I'm sure back when Katrina and Gustav were doing their thing to the Gulf coast, that we had a year with the most hurricanes ever (I think they ran out of alphabet, or were near to it). The fear mongers insisted that that was the way it was always going to be from there on out, and then there were none the following year.

Maybe it was none that made landfall?

Posted by: Methos,

It doesn't really matter, because global warming will destroy the earth by 2012.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 23, 2026 05:40 PM (0U5gm)

13 I've read that since Trump renamed the Gulf of America - no hurricane has the cojones to attack us.

Posted by: Cheri at September 23, 2026 05:40 PM (oiNtH)

14 Aren't =are

Posted by: polynikes at September 23, 2026 05:40 PM (KC5Lt)

15 We just need to tweak our models.

Posted by: The Experts at September 23, 2026 05:40 PM (MWfyi)

16 greta the doom goblin squealed that the joos had kidnapped her

Sweden opined that they should keep her

as long as her body isn't found I don't care what the sharks eat

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 23, 2026 05:40 PM (jrgJz)

17 Heck, even Greta Thunberg stopped caring about the Climate Change hoax, and that should tell you something.

Posted by: zombie at September 23, 2026 05:40 PM (Av6i5)

18 For the first time in more than a century, there has been not one single hurricane

Will you look at that, climate change went away and I didn't do a darned thing. Maybe that was the key.

Posted by: t-bird at September 23, 2026 05:40 PM (UlN4g)

19 Obama lowered the oceans with such a dramatic effect that here we are a whole decade later still reaping the benefits of his gifted touch. /sarc /puke

Posted by: Roy at September 23, 2026 05:41 PM (qwype)

20 >>>For the First Time in Over 100 Years, We've Had a Hurricane-Free Summer.

So . . . climate is changing?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 23, 2026 05:41 PM (QfE5e)

21 They are as interested in this as they are in the 2019-20 Flu Data.

Because Science.

Posted by: garrett at September 23, 2026 05:41 PM (q7KFe)

22
The weather must serve the Revolution.

Posted by: Auspex at September 23, 2026 05:42 PM (Y8DZL)

23
About time for another Ebola outbreak.

Posted by: Roy at September 23, 2026 05:42 PM (qwype)

24 >>SRV weather

Judges would have accepted Scorpions, as well.

Posted by: garrett at September 23, 2026 05:43 PM (q7KFe)

25 Celebration!

*Lights pole of tires*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 23, 2026 05:43 PM (iulL+)

26 Cause and effect is not the Left's strong suit.

Posted by: polynikes at September 23, 2026 05:43 PM (KC5Lt)

27 Huh. We changed just one variable in the model and now there's an ice age coming.

Posted by: The Experts at September 23, 2026 05:43 PM (MWfyi)

28 Yeah, when Oprah, the Obamas, and the rest of the Hollywood and political elite were snatching up mansions at sea level, you were assured this was all bullshit. Just like during COVID when these same shit-bags were caught mask-less at restaurants, night clubs, etc. partying like it was Studio 54 during the '70's.

Posted by: Cheri at September 23, 2026 05:43 PM (oiNtH)

29 The correct term is climate weirdening. No matter what happens, it's some kind of weird. To fix it, we must stop using carbon based fuels. And no nukes. And no dams. Etc.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 23, 2026 05:43 PM (8mulE)

30 "...they are predicting that the routine and recurring El Nino weather pattern, now called a "Godzilla-level phenomenon..."

They keep repeating on the California news station, "This is the strongest El Nino in recorded history!!!"

And then you see at the bottom of the chart that "recorded history" only goes back to when they have satellites capable of measuring seawater temperatures -- i.e. the 1980s.

Ooops.

For all we know, this is a typical El Nino patterm.

Posted by: zombie at September 23, 2026 05:44 PM (Av6i5)

31 As someone that lives in Florida... shhhhhhhh Don't curse it.

Posted by: Ann at September 23, 2026 05:44 PM (SHHm+)

32 The correct term is climate weirdening. No matter what happens, it's some kind of weird. To fix it, we must stop using carbon based fuels. And no nukes. And no dams. Etc.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 23, 2026 05:43 PM (8mulE)

Climate queering.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 23, 2026 05:44 PM (QfE5e)

33 The weather machines seemed to run on USAID, didn't they? I think the real reason we had no hurricanes is that Donald Trump didn't want any.

Posted by: t-bird at September 23, 2026 05:45 PM (UlN4g)

34 Out of curiosity.... what's the solar max and minimum right now? Comparatively speaking.

It's not like the sun has any influence on Earth's weather.

I get so tired of this shit...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 23, 2026 05:45 PM (2Cry5)

35 Edge of a Nor'easter here, wind blowing 30-40MPH. Panicking, think the power is going ou....

Posted by: Powerless To Resist at September 23, 2026 05:45 PM (Fn+3X)

36 OT: X is full of doom pron about the mid-terms. I mean, they could be right but I suspect this is yet another op. Baseball Cuck doing his cuck thing is what caught my attention to it. Otherwise I just skip the Doomers.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 23, 2026 05:46 PM (sAmhv)

37 In a sane world, we'd be 100%, absolutely thrilled to get a break from hurricanes. But there's a little part of me that knows that every little area of calm just gives more cover to the morons in the world (and the oil company liars.)
"Oh, we're supposed to get worse weather??? Well, how come we have fewer storms than ever, brainiac??? You guys keep crying wolf, all part of your liberal agenda."

Hurricanes reduce ocean heat content. In the absence of hurricanes, ocean heat content will rise, causing greater sea level increases. And the additional ocean heat content will accelerate hurricane intensity when they next emerge.

Hurricanes are vital for replenishing underground aquifers and lakes.

The el Nino will indeed be ridiculously strong. Another once in a lifetime event I get to live through!

There's also been a lot of Sahara dust this season. It also slows down the formation of hurricanes.

We may have no hurricanes, but my kid has been weather delayed 3 times in the past two weeks due to lightning storms. There were zero delays *last year*.

There sure seems to be a lot of unprecedented events happening lately.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 23, 2026 05:46 PM (UirZC)

38 I think everyone here is forgetting that science to democrats is whatever they want it to be at that moment. It has a fluid definition depending on what type of grift/fraud they are trying to perpetuate at that time.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 23, 2026 05:47 PM (I43vL)

39 Deport all non native species. Screen for non native species at city limits, county lines and park entrances. It works for bugs, nutria, mussels and trailing arbutus. Right? Glassy winged sharpshooter anyone? Mediterranean fruit fly? Hanta virus? West nile virus? But measles, leprosy, HIV, HPV, AIDS no problema. I mean don't be a H8er.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 23, 2026 05:47 PM (wxsGM)

40 Might golf tomorrow. Took an extra day off this week so I could get some golf in but kLImAte ChANge got in the way. Chilly and rainy pretty much the whole week. Suppose to be not raining tomorrow. Just cool and cloudy. I can golf in that.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 23, 2026 05:48 PM (sAmhv)

41 We may have no hurricanes, but my kid has been weather delayed 3 times in the past two weeks due to lightning storms. There were zero delays *last year*.....

This person was allowed to breed.

Posted by: polynikes at September 23, 2026 05:48 PM (KC5Lt)

42 greta the doom goblin squealed that the joos had kidnapped her

Sweden opined that they should keep her

as long as her body isn't found I don't care what the sharks eat
Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 23, 2026 05:40 PM (jrgJz)

***

HEY!!!
We have standards too ya know.

Posted by: The Sharks at September 23, 2026 05:48 PM (2WIwB)

43 Climate queering.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 23, 2026 05:44 PM (QfE5e)
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Climate sodomy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 05:48 PM (ZOv7s)

44 Weather machine? I just want them to turn on the Bubble Machine.

Posted by: Lawrence Welk Fan. at September 23, 2026 05:49 PM (Fn+3X)

45 "...they are predicting that the routine and recurring El Nino weather pattern, now called a "Godzilla-level phenomenon..."

They may have used a fictional character on purpose.

Posted by: t-bird at September 23, 2026 05:49 PM (UlN4g)

46 Well, okay, we will have a storm pretty soon, but first, you will blow me.

Posted by: The Wind at September 23, 2026 05:49 PM (vSaT+)

47 Don't fall into this Catch 22 spitting contest. This is how it works.

El Nino strong this year. So, Pacific based storms are plentiful due to goblal climate change.

El Nino strong this year due to climate change and the wind shear is disallowing Atlantic storms to form

Next year when El Nina increases, and Atlantic storms go back to normal they will say exactly the opposite.

It's a no lose situation for the Climate alarmists, and they always set themselves up with a contradictory position. It's just best not to play the game.

Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 05:50 PM (dIske)

48 Might golf tomorrow. Took an extra day off this week so I could get some golf in but kLImAte ChANge got in the way. Chilly and rainy pretty much the whole week. Suppose to be not raining tomorrow. Just cool and cloudy. I can golf in that.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 23, 2026 05:48 PM (sAmhv)

I golfed yesterday with the Geezers. A bit of drizzle to start but sun broke out at the turn. Had a good round.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 23, 2026 05:50 PM (2WIwB)

49 42 greta the doom goblin squealed that the joos had kidnapped her

Sweden opined that they should keep her

as long as her body isn't found I don't care what the sharks eat
Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 23, 2026 05:40 PM (jrgJz)

***

HEY!!!
We have standards too ya know.
Posted by: The Sharks at September 23, 2026 05:48 PM (2WIwB)

Yeah, I suspect she would be tough and mostly poison.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 05:50 PM (vSaT+)

50 Climate change is real. Man made climate change is an op.

Posted by: polynikes at September 23, 2026 05:51 PM (KC5Lt)

51 OT: X is full of doom pron about the mid-terms. I mean, they could be right but I suspect this is yet another op. Baseball Cuck doing his cuck thing is what caught my attention to it. Otherwise I just skip the Doomers.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 23, 2026 05:46 PM (sAmhv)
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It is an op. A very obvious one. They do it every election year. Watch what they do, not what polls say.

El-Sayed is actually bringing Harris to campaign with him. He must be down by 10 points in internal polling.

He's the top of the ticket, so they are going to try to prop him up to prevent down-ballot annihilation.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 05:51 PM (ZOv7s)

52 43 Climate queering.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 23, 2026 05:44 PM (QfE5e)
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Climate sodomy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Yummy!! That's HOT!!

Posted by: Pete Butigiegiggity at September 23, 2026 05:51 PM (sAmhv)

53 Cliff Mass is a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Washington. He was fired from the University affiliate NPR station for questioning man caused global warming and the “climate“emergency”

He has a blog. Google him. He’s worth a read.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 23, 2026 05:51 PM (W2Pud)

54 It's a no lose situation for the Climate alarmists, and they always set themselves up with a contradictory position. It's just best not to play the game.
Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 05:50 PM (dIske)

If we ever figure out how these fuckwits can hold diametrically opposing notions at the same time, maybe we can start to cure the disease.

I know it boggles my mind.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 05:52 PM (vSaT+)

55 Is there anything the halfwits, and I'm generous with the half part, at Reddit aren't experts in?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2026 05:52 PM (viF8m)

56 We are now... with weather and other natural events... primordial apes with cell phones.

*insert 2001 ape motif here*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 23, 2026 05:52 PM (2Cry5)

57 Climate change is real. Man made climate change is an op.
Posted by: polynikes at September 23, 2026 05:51 PM (KC5Lt)
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Global warning is real and it's spectacular. Without it my house would be under a mile-thick sheet of ice. Yay warming!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 05:52 PM (ZOv7s)

58 Our sample size of data fucking sucks for an open system as co.plex as weather and climate. This has always been the problem.

Can't tell that to relative retards who do not have sense enough to just fucking say 'I don't fucking know.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 23, 2026 05:52 PM (zZu0s)

59 Actual quote from a Nebraska Newspaper:

"I don't ever recall it being this windy before they put those Wind Farms up in Eastern Colorado." - noted one local resident.

Posted by: garrett at September 23, 2026 05:53 PM (q7KFe)

60 >>Hurricanes reduce ocean heat content. In the absence of hurricanes, ocean heat content will rise, causing greater sea level increases. And the additional ocean heat content will accelerate hurricane intensity when they next emerge.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 23, 2026 05:46 PM (UirZC)

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Ah. Makes perfect sense. All good news is really bad because it means we really have to worry more. Murder rate down? --- that's bad because it means more people alive to be killed. Wife not cheating? -- that's bad because she wants to even more...

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 23, 2026 05:53 PM (wb0lP)

61 It's worse than a hoax. It was and is a systematic program to destroy Western economy and induce neo-aristocracy domination and serfdom. It's not just a trans-national scam, it's evil.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 23, 2026 05:53 PM (HeG1i)

62 I'm going out on a limb here but it's been my opinion all along that they were BS shakedowns to grift taxpayers.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 23, 2026 05:53 PM (Q/FnY)

63 The "climate" idiocy is just a redundant, though dramatic and incredibly destructive, confirmation that much of the population and most of the "educated" population isn't really educated, can't think critically, and in too many cases simply aren't intelligent enough to make decisions affecting other people.

It's all absurd, on its face, and always has been. What was the great physicist Feyman's observation: "the greatest scandal in scientific history" (though he didn't experience the The Great Idiocy of 2020).

And in the specific case in question, of course, there's no reason a "warming" climate would necessarily result in more, or more powerful, tropical storms. Not how it works. Jeebus.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 23, 2026 05:53 PM (U/Byj)

64 Baseball Cuck doing his cuck thing...

George Will?

Posted by: Confused Moron at September 23, 2026 05:54 PM (UirZC)

65 I get so tired of this shit...
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I found a very interesting cheapie paperback book at a thrift store: It was the first volume of what was intended to be an annual series, titled something like "Wild Earth: A Compendium of the year's most extreme natural phenomenon: 1972 edition," (forget exact wording of title), which turned out to be exactly that: 300 pages detailed all the crazy weather that happened that year, around the world.

And -- it was indeed "wild"! All sorts of crazy-ass shit happened all over the globe. In 1972. And if that had been in the internet era, each and every incident would have been touted as "proof" that "Climate Change" was happening.

And this of course goes on every year, since the beginning of time -- there is ALWAYS crazy weather SOMEWHERE in the world. That's not "change," that's saying the same. Real
Climate change" would be a year of nothing happening, no extremes and no trends.

But then they'd invent a new crisis:

Climate Stasis!

Panic everyone -- nothing is happening! Without weather, we'll all die!

Posted by: zombie at September 23, 2026 05:54 PM (Av6i5)

66 Cliff Mass is a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Washington. He was fired from the University affiliate NPR station for questioning man caused global warming and the “climate“emergency”

He has a blog. Google him. He’s worth a read.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 23, 2026 05:51 PM (W2Pud)
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We are going to see a lot of universities closing in the next few years and the baby bust has its long-delayed effect. Boutique majors are going to bust first, and without government subsidies "climate change" will also collapse.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 05:54 PM (ZOv7s)

67 But they are predicting that the routine and recurring El Nino weather pattern, now called a "Godzilla-level phenomenon," is just building up in strength to deliver Super-Hurricanes later on in the season.

Climate scientists (real ones) have understood the El Nino and La Nina effects for a long time.

El Nino causes more wind shear in Atlantic basin, which is deadly to the formation of hurricanes because they need calm wind to enable circulation.

In the Pacific the opposite happens and they get less wind shear and more hurricanes. Since this has been an exceptionally large and warmer El Nino this year the Western Pacific has been getting hammered with major hurricane after major hurricane all summer.

The opposite effects occur during La Nina events when the waters in the equatorial Pacific cool down instead of warm up.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 23, 2026 05:54 PM (6ydKt)

68 Leftists catastrophizing everything and ignoring facts when the facts don't support their zombie-like march toward global communism?

Color me shocked!

Posted by: ballistic at September 23, 2026 05:54 PM (oqH4h)

69 59 Actual quote from a Nebraska Newspaper:

"I don't ever recall it being this windy before they put those Wind Farms up in Eastern Colorado." - noted one local resident.
Posted by: garrett

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Again, impeccable logic. I did a study and wind farms tend to be the windiest placed in the country -- Coincidence???!??

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 23, 2026 05:55 PM (wb0lP)

70 Non-Scientist Bill Nye the "Science" Guy has nothing to say about this, but now becomes a History Expert, and says Drumpf is Hitler. He's pored over the data and can now confirm this.

Is there a double-blind study? Because that's the gold standard.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 05:55 PM (guGkK)

71 Wife not cheating? -- that's bad because she wants to even more...
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 23, 2026 05:53 PM (wb0lP)

This is... how you say? Unsurprising.

Posted by: The Paolo at September 23, 2026 05:55 PM (zZu0s)

72 greta the doom goblin squealed ~~that the joos had kidnapped her~~

Shhh....you had me at "Greta squealed."

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 23, 2026 05:55 PM (UirZC)

73 I'm afraid that Michigan has its cheat machine turned to eleven in the urban centers. I don't know what the GOP is doing to monitor that given.

Posted by: polynikes at September 23, 2026 05:55 PM (KC5Lt)

74 Were I Prime Minister of Canada, I would be cheering and hoping for man-made climate change. It would make a significant percentage of their tundra wastelands fertile farming areas. I'd institute "Wasteful Wednesdays" where I'd encourage citizens to go out and start their cars and keep them running all day just to help things along.

Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 05:55 PM (dIske)

75 Global warning is real and it's spectacular. Without it my house would be under a mile-thick sheet of ice. Yay warming!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 05:52 PM (ZOv7s)

You'd better clear that with your HOA.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 23, 2026 05:55 PM (2WIwB)

76 The weather....

It brings down to Africa.

Posted by: Toto at September 23, 2026 05:55 PM (2Cry5)

77 Again, impeccable logic. I did a study and wind farms tend to be the windiest placed in the country -- Coincidence???!??

It's like how all the deer know to cross at the deer crossings. A mystery of nature.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 05:55 PM (guGkK)

78 4 "97% of scientists agree that climate change is making hurricanes stronger..."

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1. Since when do we vote on science?
2. If we have that many stupid scientists, perhaps we should be shutting down some universities.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 23, 2026 05:35 PM (0U5gm)

Who counted the scientists? Did they get them all? Or was it just Fred downstairs polling the custodians?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 05:56 PM (vSaT+)

79 Baseball Cuck doing his cuck thing...

George Will?
Posted by: Confused Moron at September 23, 2026 05:54 PM (UirZC)

No, this is a different baseball cuck: BaseballCrank.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 23, 2026 05:56 PM (zZu0s)

80 61 It's worse than a hoax. It was and is a systematic program to destroy Western economy and induce neo-aristocracy domination and serfdom. It's not just a trans-national scam, it's evil.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

And gay.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 23, 2026 05:56 PM (UirZC)

81 We are now... with weather and other natural events... primordial apes with cell phones.

*insert 2001 ape motif here*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 23, 2026 05:52 PM (2Cry5)
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Mel Brooks' version where they all jerk off is much more appropriate.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 05:56 PM (ZOv7s)

82 Out of curiosity.... what's the solar max and minimum right now? Comparatively speaking.

It's not like the sun has any influence on Earth's weather.

I get so tired of this shit...

Posted by: Martini Farmer

Max was a little over a year ago.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 23, 2026 05:56 PM (0U5gm)

83 It's like how all the deer know to cross at the deer crossings. A mystery of nature.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 05:55 PM (guGkK)

In my experience, moose can't read and don't care about those signs.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 05:56 PM (vSaT+)

84 Accuweather keeps referencing "Super El-Niño" this and that... Ermegerd, it's apocalyptic!!!

Posted by: JQ at September 23, 2026 05:57 PM (rdVOm)

85 Aetius, exactly, and just one of the obvious fundamental flaws in the entire outlandish hypothesis (that's all it is).

Put in a comparable context, you couldn't get approval for a veterinary cosmetic medicine with the sample size and direct observations used to promote the outlandish hypothesis. Yet much of the world economy is saddled with this enervating, destructive mass looting.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 23, 2026 05:57 PM (U/Byj)

86 Who counted the scientists? Did they get them all? Or was it just Fred downstairs polling the custodians?

Next thing you'll tell me is that 4 out of 5 dentists don't really recommend sugarless gum to their patients who chew gum.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 05:57 PM (guGkK)

87 >>Panic everyone -- nothing is happening! Without weather, we'll all die!

We have a nice nor'easter bearing down us. Assuming a tree limb doesn't fall on my house I'm looking forward to it.

If any of you are worried about me, I set up a GoFundMe beer account.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2026 05:57 PM (viF8m)

88 So, you're saying we *used* to have hurricanes, and now we don't? OMG THAT'S CLIMATE CHANGE! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Posted by: Dipshit McGee at September 23, 2026 05:58 PM (baA/K)

89 >>'I don't fucking know.'

My absolute favorite answer. No other answer makes me half as happy to use.

Posted by: garrett at September 23, 2026 05:58 PM (q7KFe)

90 It's a no lose situation for the Climate alarmists, and they always set themselves up with a contradictory position. It's just best not to play the game.
Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 05:50 PM (dIske)

If we ever figure out how these fuckwits can hold diametrically opposing notions at the same time, maybe we can start to cure the disease.

I know it boggles my mind.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 05:52 PM (vSaT+)
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Double-think is real, but it ain't spectacular.

Unless you mean spectacularly awful at perceiving reality.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 23, 2026 05:58 PM (FZ29D)

91 In my experience, moose can't read and don't care about those signs.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 05:56 PM (vSaT+)

To be fair, who's going to argue with them? Not this guy. *two thumbs to chest*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 23, 2026 05:58 PM (zZu0s)

92 But they are predicting that the routine and recurring El Nino weather pattern, now called a "Godzilla-level phenomenon," is just building up in strength to deliver Super-Hurricanes later on in the season.

Godzilla is a wimp!!!

Posted by: Ramtha at September 23, 2026 05:59 PM (2WIwB)

93 It's not global warming. It's global weirding!

Posted by: Tom Friedman at September 23, 2026 05:59 PM (2ap+5)

94 I'm afraid that Michigan has its cheat machine turned to eleven in the urban centers. I don't know what the GOP is doing to monitor that given.
Posted by: polynikes at September 23, 2026 05:55 PM (KC5Lt)
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The feds will be here, just like in the primaries, probably more of them. I mean, Trump carried the state, and the GOP took the House, so some parts work.

Benson might be indicted in October. There are rumblings of clerks preserving records and feds digging stuff up the Biden's people tried to bury. We shall see.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 05:59 PM (ZOv7s)

95 "97% of scientists agree that climate change is making hurricanes stronger..."

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1. Since when do we vote on science?
2. If we have that many stupid scientists, perhaps we should be shutting down some universities.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 23, 2026 05:35 PM (0U5gm)

Who counted the scientists? Did they get them all? Or was it just Fred downstairs polling the custodians?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 05:56 PM (vSaT+)

I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that just maybe they were making it all up.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 23, 2026 05:59 PM (QfE5e)

96 83 It's like how all the deer know to cross at the deer crossings. A mystery of nature.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 05:55 PM (guGkK)

___________________

I have a decades old deer trail that goes directly through the middle of my property (which I love). But, down the road, my neighbor absolutely hates them. I believe he might actually have a phobia....and the hilarious thing is that the deer trail continues down to his property. He puts out pie plates on trees and all kinds of other nonsense, and they just plow through there anyway. It's wonderful.

Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 05:59 PM (dIske)

97 Baseball Cuck doing his cuck thing...

George Will?
Posted by: Confused Moron

No, this is a different baseball cuck: BaseballCrank.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I'm surprised Will is still active. Latest X post?

Weighing the ‘disastrous, cascading consequences’ if China takes Taiwan

So...still a neocon warhawk.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 23, 2026 05:59 PM (UirZC)

98 Just remember that we're about three elections away from the left throwing virgins into volcanoes to appease their Weather Gods.

Posted by: ballistic at September 23, 2026 05:59 PM (oqH4h)

99 It was sunny here in northern AZ this am but is now it's raining. Should I be terrified?

Posted by: Duke at September 23, 2026 06:00 PM (hyQrc)

100 It's not global warming. It's global weirding!
Posted by: Tom Friedman at September 23, 2026 05:59 PM (2ap+5)
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Global buggering! Or, since Ace is on a lesbian bender of late, global scissoring!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 06:00 PM (ZOv7s)

101 62 I'm going out on a limb here but it's been my opinion all along that they were BS shakedowns to grift taxpayers.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 23, 2026 05:53 PM (Q/FnY)

Has anything like that ever happened before?

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 23, 2026 06:00 PM (dXMch)

102 wishcasting instead of forecasting

Posted by: Margaret Thatcher at September 23, 2026 06:00 PM (Wkrcf)

103 Willowed (no nood given)

227 Uh...what? -

United employees forced a 25 year old woman to return to her seat next to a man who was masturbating because the flight was full. After landing, the airline told the woman it was her responsibility to contact police and gave her a $100 travel credit.

https://tinyurl.com/2cdw63rh

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 23, 2026 06:00 PM (Dv3i1)

104 Climatemaxxing, just accused of rape.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 23, 2026 06:00 PM (YcOeP)

105 Heard today we here in se Pa are in a cooler than normal Sept

Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2026 06:00 PM (Ia/+0)

106 But they are predicting that the routine and recurring El Nino weather pattern, now called a "Godzilla-level phenomenon," is just building up in strength to deliver Super-Hurricanes later on in the season.

Godzilla is a wimp!!!
Posted by: Ramtha at September 23, 2026 05:59 PM (2WIwB)
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"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 23, 2026 06:00 PM (FZ29D)

107 In the 60's in Anchorage, we routinely got a good six feet of snow, and it piled up everywhere. Then in the 80's, we got some snow, but nothing like that. OMG!! Globull Warmening!! Except that a couple years ago, we had those six feet snows again, and you would think that would shut 'em up, but no.

Also, there are photos of Anchorage in February in the 1950's without a lick of snow.

How could that be?

Oh, yeah, every year "climate" varies. Huh.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:01 PM (vSaT+)

108 My absolute favorite answer. No other answer makes me half as happy to use.

Posted by: garrett at September 23, 2026 05:58 PM (q7KFe)

I hate to use or hear it. It says (as a postscript) 'i also fo not care much.' Ill usually say 'Ill find out' or 'I don't know right now.' When people use it on me, I once said 'then what is the point of you?'

But in this case, I don't know.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 23, 2026 06:01 PM (zZu0s)

109 I'm surprised Will is still active. Latest X post?

Weighing the ‘disastrous, cascading consequences’ if China takes Taiwan

So...still a neocon warhawk.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 23, 2026 05:59 PM (UirZC)
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Maybe, but I'm neither and I have a muti-part series of posts at my blog (link in nic) examining how it might happen how it might turn out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 06:01 PM (ZOv7s)

110 Game delays due to lightning storms are more a product of scaredy-cat league rules than weather. The SEC has postponed games for an hour or more because of lightning strikes as far as8 miles from the stadium. Doesn't matter that the system's passed and is moving away.

Back in the day I attended games played in monsoons, with Zeus throwing bolts all over the place.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at September 23, 2026 06:01 PM (NYInA)

111

What does Neil deGrasse Tyson have to say about it?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 23, 2026 06:01 PM (Cqx++)

112 98 Just remember that we're about three elections away from the left throwing virgins into volcanoes to appease their Weather Gods.

Does the left have any virgins? Let me rephrase this: Does the left have anyone who identifies as virgins?

Posted by: Margaret Thatcher at September 23, 2026 06:01 PM (Wkrcf)

113 I was wondering why I'm seeing clips about a big storm in the Pacific down by Peru or something.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 23, 2026 06:01 PM (uhVAy)

114 We have a nice nor'easter bearing down us. Assuming a tree limb doesn't fall on my house I'm looking forward to it.

If any of you are worried about me, I set up a GoFundMe beer account.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2026 05:57 PM (viF8m

Probably a good idea to store the beer at my place.
Tots secure!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 23, 2026 06:02 PM (2WIwB)

115 ...He puts out pie plates on trees....
Posted by: Orson

*****

How does he know they prefer to eat cake?

Posted by: Duke at September 23, 2026 06:02 PM (hyQrc)

116 111

What does Neil deGrasse Tyson have to say about it?

He's in a holding pattern, still waiting on the USAID NGO check that was supposed to be in the mail.

Posted by: Margaret Thatcher at September 23, 2026 06:03 PM (Wkrcf)

117 Hunga tonga anyone? "The most recent eruption, in January 2022, triggered a tsunami that reached the coasts of Japan and the Americas, along with a volcanic plume that soared 58 km (36 miles) into the mesosphere. It was the largest volcanic eruption since the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo and the biggest explosion recorded in the atmosphere by modern instrumentation, far surpassing any 20th-century volcanic event or nuclear bomb test.[3] NASA determined that the eruption was "hundreds of times more powerful" than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.[4] It is believed that the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa is the only eruption in recent centuries that rivaled the atmospheric disturbance it produced.[5] The January 2022 eruption is the largest volcanic eruption in the 21st century.[6]"

Posted by: Max K at September 23, 2026 06:03 PM (F1PEw)

118 Game delays due to lightning storms are more a product of scaredy-cat league rules than weather. The SEC has postponed games for an hour or more because of lightning strikes as far as8 miles from the stadium. Doesn't matter that the system's passed and is moving away.

Back in the day I attended games played in monsoons, with Zeus throwing bolts all over the place.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at September 23, 2026 06:01 PM (NYInA)

You'd think some lighting rods would reduce any chance of a strike inside a stadium. They certainly keep church steeples safe.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 23, 2026 06:03 PM (uhVAy)

119 "Must be somethin' wrong with this heer weather model."

*shakes monitor*

Posted by: Climate Scientist No. 2 at September 23, 2026 06:03 PM (guGkK)

120 Second time Fenway Park has avoided.any chance of hurricane damage. Hope they got a break on their insurance.
And should I have invested in property insurers last spring. They are clearing a bundle. Dividend time?

Posted by: From about That Time at September 23, 2026 06:03 PM (sl73Y)

121 227 Uh...what? -

United employees forced a 25 year old woman to return to her seat next to a man who was masturbating because the flight was full. After landing, the airline told the woman it was her responsibility to contact police and gave her a $100 travel credit.

https://tinyurl.com/2cdw63rh
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 23, 2026 06:00 PM (Dv3i1)

Bailiff, whack his pee pee.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:04 PM (vSaT+)

122 Does the left have any virgins? Let me rephrase this: Does the left have anyone who identifies as virgins?
Posted by: Margaret Thatcher at September 23, 2026 06:01 PM (Wkrcf)
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Lots of virgins on the left, but mostly men.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 06:04 PM (ZOv7s)

123 Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 23, 2026 06:00 PM (Dv3i1)

An attorney can get her way more than $100.

Posted by: polynikes at September 23, 2026 06:04 PM (KC5Lt)

124 It really says something about humans that we can look back at so many terrible mistake in history, and conclude that we are past that. No more lobotomies, no more water treatment, or witch trials, or leeches. No more evil invaders or child sacrifice.

Humans are now perfect, but only if brown, gay, and Democrat.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 23, 2026 06:04 PM (wb0lP)

125
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"

Def Leppard Woo Hoo!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 23, 2026 06:04 PM (Cqx++)

126 Does the left have any virgins? Let me rephrase this: Does the left have anyone who identifies as virgins?
Posted by: Margaret Thatcher at September 23, 2026 06:01 PM (Wkrcf)

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The no kings protests were majority virgin. Post-menopausal, memory home resident virgin. The weather gods are asking the left for virgins with a monkey's paw.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 23, 2026 06:05 PM (2ap+5)

127
Does the left have any virgins? Let me rephrase this: Does the left have anyone who identifies as virgins?
Posted by: Margaret Thatcher at September 23, 2026 06:01 PM (Wkrcf)
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*waves hand at legions of neckbeards with cheeto-stained penises*

Posted by: ballistic at September 23, 2026 06:05 PM (oqH4h)

128 93 It's not global warming. It's global weirding!

It's the Weirding Way. The Kwizatch Haderach will have awakened!

Posted by: Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam at September 23, 2026 06:06 PM (Dv3i1)

129 Lighting rods don't attract lightning, they just protect objects that are struck by lightning. If you have something sticking way up in the air that is likely to be hit, then a rod is a good idea.

Posted by: fd at September 23, 2026 06:06 PM (MWfyi)

130 United employees forced a 25 year old woman to return to her seat next to a man who was masturbating because the flight was full. After landing, the airline told the woman it was her responsibility to contact police and gave her a $100 travel credit.

Not even $100 and a poncho?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 06:06 PM (guGkK)

131 Probably a good idea to store the beer at my place.
Tots secure!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at September 23, 2026 06:02 PM (2WIwB)

I see how it is. Beware of morons offering to help.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:06 PM (vSaT+)

132 If humanity, with all it's awesome shit, can't keep the rain off the fucking roads...

... I just don't know what to think.

Other than some serious blood letting is in order.

Seriously... this is an argument. Every time here in KY we have a torrential rain... there's accidents. And there's a bunch of; "global warming" idiots that flood the feed.

Yes.. bots... but where are the "sane bots"?

Posted by: Toto at September 23, 2026 06:06 PM (2Cry5)

133 >>Probably a good idea to store the beer at my place.
Tots secure!!!

Your generosity is noted but I prefer a shorter walk to the fridge.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2026 06:06 PM (viF8m)

134 *waves hand at legions of neckbeards with cheeto-stained penises*
Posted by: ballistic at September 23, 2026 06:05 PM (oqH4h)
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Don't forget David French and Jonah Goldberg. Neither have known the warmth of a woman.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 06:06 PM (ZOv7s)

135 122 Does the left have any virgins? Let me rephrase this: Does the left have anyone who identifies as virgins?
Posted by: Margaret Thatcher at September 23, 2026 06:01 PM (Wkrcf)

______________________________

Judging by the bitter, obese, power glasses, flourscent haired, snarling menagerie of a selection pool, I'd be willing to guess that the Left has an over-abundance of virgins, and that's part of the reason they are so angry all the time, and willing to cancel those they envy at the drop of a hat.

Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 06:07 PM (dIske)

136 *insert 2001 ape motif here*
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I much prefer the 2001 Tim Burton Planet of the Apes! https://tinyurl.com/mr3kjcpa

Well, just the parts with Estella Warren. It was crap otherwise. 2001 a Space Odyssey was just a sausage fest.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 23, 2026 06:08 PM (UirZC)

137 134 *waves hand at legions of neckbeards with cheeto-stained penises*
Posted by: ballistic at September 23, 2026 06:05 PM (oqH4h)
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Don't forget David French and Jonah Goldberg. Neither have known the warmth of a woman.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 06:06 PM (ZOv7s)

Puts me in mind of an earlier comment here: Last time that dude smelled pussy he was being shot out of one.

Disgusting terminology, but accurate description.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:08 PM (vSaT+)

138 It's not global warming. It's global weirding!

It's the Weirding Way. The Kwizatch Haderach will have awakened!
Posted by: Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam at September 23, 2026 06:06 PM (Dv3i1)
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The global fappening.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 06:08 PM (ZOv7s)

139 Lighting rods don't attract lightning, they just protect objects that are struck by lightning. If you have something sticking way up in the air that is likely to be hit, then a rod is a good idea.
Posted by: fd at September 23, 2026 06:06 PM (MWfyi)

The rod is a 'better' place to strike than your average 6 foot dude on the field if mounted on the roof. The pointed shape increases the charge faster, making it a more probable place for the strike to hit.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 23, 2026 06:08 PM (uhVAy)

140 If you have something sticking way up in the air that is likely to be hit, then a rod is a good idea.
Posted by: fd at September 23, 2026 06:06 PM (MWfyi)

The Paolo, he smiles to himself.

Posted by: The Paolo at September 23, 2026 06:09 PM (2WIwB)

141 United employees forced a 25 year old woman to return to her seat next to a man who was masturbating because the flight was full. After landing, the airline told the woman it was her responsibility to contact police and gave her a $100 travel credit.
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Takes "skyjacking" to a whole new level.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 23, 2026 06:09 PM (FZ29D)

142 Well, just the parts with Estella Warren. It was crap otherwise. 2001 a Space Odyssey was just a sausage fest.

You have to admit that one Russian woman on the space station was pretty hot.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 06:09 PM (guGkK)

143 It appears Javier Milei tried to one up Trump with his UN speech. He gave them both barrels.

Posted by: polynikes at September 23, 2026 06:09 PM (KC5Lt)

144 Well, just the parts with Estella Warren. It was crap otherwise. 2001 a Space Odyssey was just a sausage fest.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 23, 2026 06:08 PM (UirZC)

You missed the cute stewardess on the flight to the moon.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 23, 2026 06:09 PM (uhVAy)

145 "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"

Damn...I was WAY off.

Posted by: Ash at September 23, 2026 06:09 PM (UirZC)

146 They are now talking about a Category 6 in the Pacific, with Hurricane Polo growing stronger. So the climate hoaxers can start talking about that soon.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 23, 2026 06:09 PM (vbXSk)

147 When I was very young, my area had some very bad snowstorms. Then as a pre-teen, there was not a lot of snow. I thought "wow, things can change from year to year." Then as a teen, we had bad snowstorms again. I understood that climate shifts. I looked in history books and read about the Delaware freezing, etc.

Something changed in the society -- maybe we lost contact with the land and farming, but people have to have a villain to everything that happens. They want to control the world, and when they can't they blame Trump, or corporations, or Jews... there always has to be something.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 23, 2026 06:09 PM (wb0lP)

148 129 Lighting rods don't attract lightning, they just protect objects that are struck by lightning. If you have something sticking way up in the air that is likely to be hit, then a rod is a good idea.
Posted by: fd at September 23, 2026 06:06 PM (MWfyi)
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Or a 1-iron.

Posted by: ballistic at September 23, 2026 06:10 PM (oqH4h)

149 I can usually refrain from jacking off until the plane lands.

Posted by: Iron Will at September 23, 2026 06:10 PM (Fn+3X)

150 66 We are going to see a lot of universities closing in the next few years and the baby bust has its long-delayed effect.

this right here is why we need to import more third-world scholars!

Posted by: university regents at September 23, 2026 06:11 PM (v3pYe)

151 They are now talking about a Category 6 in the Pacific, with Hurricane Polo growing stronger. So the climate hoaxers can start talking about that soon.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 23, 2026 06:09 PM (vbXSk)
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China has been getting wrecked by storms, lots of flooding, huge dam failure, bridges washed away, but it make communism look bad, no it must not be talked about.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 06:11 PM (ZOv7s)

152 Emperor Trump has calmed all the storms

Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 23, 2026 06:11 PM (Ydd86)

153 "Are there any seats left in non-wanking?"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 06:11 PM (guGkK)

154 Lighting rods don't attract lightning, they just protect objects that are struck by lightning. If you have something sticking way up in the air that is likely to be hit, then a rod is a good idea.
Posted by: fd at September 23, 2026 06:06 PM (MWfyi)
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Or a 1-iron.
Posted by: ballistic at September 23, 2026 06:10 PM (oqH4h)

***

Naaaa. Even God has a tough time hitting a 1-iron.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 23, 2026 06:12 PM (2WIwB)

155 Milei at the UN

https://tinyurl.com/2wfmzfnf

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 23, 2026 06:12 PM (Dv3i1)

156 Judging by the bitter, obese, power glasses, flourscent haired, snarling menagerie of a selection pool, I'd be willing to guess that the Left has an over-abundance of virgins, and that's part of the reason they are so angry all the time, and willing to cancel those they envy at the drop of a hat.
Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 06:07 PM (dIske)

Leftism is based entirely on envy. How dare someone else be successful while I make the morning coffee for a bunch of overdressed lawyers? How dare real men want to date women who dress like women and behave with manners and morals? Why am I not a millionaire when I really want to be but can't get out of bed to go to work? Why am I not paid a high salary for my empowering women's studies advanced degree? Why don't the members of the WNBA make the millions that the men of the NBA do?

It is all envy, by fuckwits, who cannot figure out how to get ahead without being a complete slug and drain on the national economy. They really haven't a clue about how the world works.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:12 PM (vSaT+)

157 Or a 1-iron.
Posted by: ballistic at September 23, 2026 06:10 PM (oqH4h)

Great Lee Trevino line!

Posted by: Oglebay at September 23, 2026 06:12 PM (2ap+5)

158 I still remember Hurricane Agnes, I think 1972, it was a once in a lifetime event here.

Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2026 06:12 PM (Ia/+0)

159 When I was very young, my area had some very bad snowstorms. Then as a pre-teen, there was not a lot of snow. I thought "wow, things can change from year to year." Then as a teen, we had bad snowstorms again. I understood that climate shifts. I looked in history books and read about the Delaware freezing, etc.
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Same thing with inflation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2026 06:12 PM (RIvkX)

160 >>United employees forced a 25 year old woman to return to her seat next to a man who was masturbating because the flight was full. After landing, the airline told the woman it was her responsibility to contact police and gave her a $100 travel credit.

Fly the friendly skies with United.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2026 06:13 PM (viF8m)

161 Seriously... this is an argument. Every time here in KY we have a torrential rain... there's accidents. And there's a bunch of; "global warming" idiots that flood the feed.

Matt Jones enters the chat. Right before he has another stroke or seizure.

Posted by: Greetings and Salutations at September 23, 2026 06:13 PM (1/wqL)

162 141 United employees forced a 25 year old woman to return to her seat next to a man who was masturbating because the flight was full. After landing, the airline told the woman it was her responsibility to contact police and gave her a $100 travel credit.
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Takes "skyjacking" to a whole new level.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 23, 2026 06:09 PM (FZ29D)
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Why would she just stand up and say, "Hey, scooter here sitting next to me thinks it's A-OK to rub one out on this airplane. I'm looking for biggest, meanest, most intimidating man to switch seats with me. Any takers?"

I question the veracity of the 25 year old's claims.

Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 06:13 PM (dIske)

163 I would not depend on a lightning rod to protect me on the ground from a strike. The best thing to do is get inside a building or car. The second best is get to the lowest place you can and squat with your feet together.

Posted by: fd at September 23, 2026 06:13 PM (MWfyi)

164 Emperor Trump has calmed all the storms
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 23, 2026 06:11 PM (Ydd86)

I heard the claim that since it has been named Gulf of America, the storms can't get in anymore. Note no hurricanes in Lake America either.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 23, 2026 06:13 PM (uhVAy)

165 129 Lighting rods don't attract lightning, they just protect objects that are struck by lightning. If you have something sticking way up in the air that is likely to be hit, then a rod is a good idea.
Posted by: fd

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ugh. I had an EM fields proof who would put this crap on the test after not covering it at all.

From what I recall, the protective effect is very very limited. Like at most a radius equal to the height of the rod. the main benefit is the cable down to earth that avoids pipes and wires and structures inside the house.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 23, 2026 06:13 PM (wb0lP)

166 152 Emperor Trump has calmed all the storms
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 23, 2026 06:11 PM (Ydd86)

Obozo promised, but Trump delivered.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:14 PM (vSaT+)

167 It is all envy, by fuckwits, who cannot figure out how to get ahead without being a complete slug and drain on the national economy. They really haven't a clue about how the world works.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:12 PM (vSaT+)
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Envy, greed, pride and wrath.

Toxic brew.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 06:14 PM (ZOv7s)

168

The dispute over Missouri's new congressional map returned to the Supreme Court for the third time, with justices considering whether the state can use the GOP-backed map in the midterm elections.

People Not Politicians, the group opposing the redrawn congressional map, filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 22 after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled that using the 2022 map in the Nov. 3 general elections would be unconstitutional, as the state had already used the redrawn 2025 map in the August 2026 primaries.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 23, 2026 06:14 PM (Cqx++)

169 Not a single climate change /global warming prediction has come true. But those are just anecdotes, climate change caused by humans is real.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 23, 2026 06:14 PM (I6R/i)

170 Andrew Jackson cured our inflation problem and it stayed cured until 1913.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 23, 2026 06:15 PM (2ap+5)

171 The second best is get to the lowest place you can and squat with your feet together.
Posted by: fd at September 23, 2026 06:13 PM (MWfyi)

Is that so you are ready to take a quick dump when the lightning gets close?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:15 PM (vSaT+)

172 Hurricanes reduce ocean heat content. In the absence of hurricanes, ocean heat content will rise, causing greater sea level increases. And the additional ocean heat content will accelerate hurricane intensity when they next emerge.

So... fewer hurricanes causes more hurricanes? Joseph Heller bows. "That's some catch, that Catch-22."

Hurricanes are vital for replenishing underground aquifers and lakes.

Damn you, Donald Drumpf!!! Give us back our hurricanes!!

Posted by: Oddbob at September 23, 2026 06:15 PM (vTZFs)

173 gunter glieben glauchen globen.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 23, 2026 06:15 PM (6ydKt)

174 The year I took an environmental studies course (fall of 1973), the prof gave us typed handouts, because there were no books available for the syllabus. The prevailing "fear" was global cooling (which was news to me).

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 23, 2026 06:15 PM (w6EFb)

175 "From what I recall, the protective effect is very very limited. Like at most a radius equal to the height of the rod."

The cone of protection. It's not very wide.

Posted by: fd at September 23, 2026 06:16 PM (MWfyi)

176 These precedented events are making me feel a bit whelmed.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at September 23, 2026 06:16 PM (VtGHd)

177 "The alleged 'defenders of human rights' have sheltered bloodthirsty dictatorships and regimes that stone women in the streets!"

"Good people do not think about controlling the lives of their fellow human beings."

"Those who were supposed to guarantee collective security and human rights failed in their task. Instead, they allowed chaos, violence and international terrorism to flourish."
-Javier Milei
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Love this man.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2026 06:17 PM (RIvkX)

178 Why would she just stand up and say, "Hey, scooter here sitting next to me thinks it's A-OK to rub one out on this airplane. I'm looking for biggest, meanest, most intimidating man to switch seats with me. Any takers?"

I question the veracity of the 25 year old's claims.
Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 06:13 PM (dIske)

By the time a woman is 25, she had a pretty good idea how to kill a boner. If a dirty look doesn't suffice, she could always point and laugh.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:17 PM (vSaT+)

179 The second best is get to the lowest place you can and squat with your feet together.
Posted by: fd at September 23, 2026 06:13 PM (MWfyi)

Is that so you are ready to take a quick dump when the lightning gets close?
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:15 PM (vSaT+)

A lightening strike close enough is gonna scare the crap outta you anyway so might as welk be ready.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 23, 2026 06:17 PM (2WIwB)

180 Weather isn't Hurricanes!

i mean.... Hurricanes aren't Climate!

i mean... uhh... Shut up!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 23, 2026 06:17 PM (aKiSo)

181 $100 travel credit
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Usually it's $20, same as in town.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 23, 2026 06:18 PM (Dv3i1)

182 I would not depend on a lightning rod to protect me on the ground from a strike. The best thing to do is get inside a building or car. The second best is get to the lowest place you can and squat with your feet together.
Posted by: fd at September 23, 2026 06:13 PM (MWfyi)

When I was about to go off to college my brother and I were walking the fields to the mall when we saw a thunderstorm coming with lightning so we turned back. It caught up with us walking along a tree line towards a metal shed about 20 foot away. Then a stroke hit a tree branch behind us even closer, setting the branch on fire. We took off to the house across the yard and one stroke hit behind us and one hit the TV antenna of the house and it glowed white. The people in the house let us in until the storm passed a bit later.

So lighting may not hit the same place, but it can get pretty damn close.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 23, 2026 06:18 PM (uhVAy)

183 Disgusting terminology, but accurate description.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:08 PM (vSaT+)
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I had always heard it as the slightly less gross redneck version: "That boy ain't had pussy since pussy had him."

Posted by: ballistic at September 23, 2026 06:18 PM (oqH4h)

184 173 gunter glieben glauchen globen.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 23, 2026 06:15 PM (6ydKt)

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Heh...I had a high school teacher who used throw that in when doing attendance every time he got to the "G's".

Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 06:18 PM (dIske)

185 Lighting rods don't attract lightning, they just protect objects that are struck by lightning.

Absolute bullshit. Complete, and total, bullshit. Ignores everything known about how to install grounding for anything.

Lighting happens because, for the sake of simplicity, a voltage develops in those clouds and the ground. The literally fucking ground.

An arc happens. It goes where it goes. Not always in big enough values to bother with the least resistive path. Its a wave event.

In that instance ? A lightning rod is ABSOLUTELY like sticking a golf club in the air. A dumb damn idea.

Posted by: Greetings and Salutations at September 23, 2026 06:18 PM (1/wqL)

186 https://youtu.be/nhSdljm909Y

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 23, 2026 06:18 PM (6ydKt)

187 173 gunter glieben glauchen globen.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 23, 2026 06:15 PM (6ydKt)

Uno dos tres quatro cinco cinco seis.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:18 PM (vSaT+)

188 "Is that so you are ready to take a quick dump when the lightning gets close?
Posted by: tcn in AK "

No, it's to prevent voltage passing thru your body because of a potential difference between your feet. It's called "step voltage".

Posted by: fd at September 23, 2026 06:18 PM (MWfyi)

189 By the time a woman is 25, she had a pretty good idea how to kill a boner. If a dirty look doesn't suffice, she could always point and laugh.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:17 PM (vSaT+)

Ask for some ice water, spill it on his lap.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 23, 2026 06:19 PM (uhVAy)

190 By the time a woman is 25, she had a pretty good idea how to kill a boner. If a dirty look doesn't suffice, she could always point and laugh.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:17 PM (vSaT+)
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Gen X women would have offered commentary so loud the whole plane could have heard it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 06:19 PM (ZOv7s)

191 A lightening strike close enough is gonna scare the crap outta you anyway so might as welk be ready.
Posted by: Diogenes

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and a one, and a two, and a three.....

Posted by: Larry at September 23, 2026 06:20 PM (wb0lP)

192 165 129 Lighting rods don't attract lightning, they just protect objects that are struck by lightning. If you have something sticking way up in the air that is likely to be hit, then a rod is a good idea.
Posted by: fd

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ugh. I had an EM fields proof who would put this crap on the test after not covering it at all.

From what I recall, the protective effect is very very limited.
Posted by: bob

For CONVENTIONAL lightning rods, sure. In the former Yugoslavia (and elsewhere in the Soviet sphere, probably), factories and critical infrastructure were protected by rods tipped with radioactive Cobalt 60, which was supposed to attract lightning due to their ionizing rays or something. I guess they kind of worked, but having exposed chunks of radioactive material everywhere was a problem, especially after governments fell, factories were abandoned, and lightning rods started falling over or getting scavenged for metal...

Posted by: Military Moron at September 23, 2026 06:20 PM (UirZC)

193 My only experience with lightning was a ball lightning event on a flight from Orange County in a thunderstorm.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2026 06:20 PM (RIvkX)

194 The preposterous nitwit Newsom's announcement of a weather emergency included the absurd claim that El Nino intensity has been increasing since the Industrial Era, due to the "climate warming". A meaningless (and dubious) factual claim with an incorrect claim tossed in after. Just what the airhead population that buys this nonsense is used to - and laps up.

Oh, the claim about El Nino trends was from the journal Science. Come on folks, the journal is called "Science". You simply must accept whatever's in there. Including ridiculous articles about the origins of SARS-COV-19, for example. Lol.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 23, 2026 06:20 PM (U/Byj)

195 I still go back to the sun's influence on weather.

We've documented... perhaps poorly, but probably not, that the sun has a huge influence on our climate.

We should use "climate" and not "weather" to con the rubes....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 23, 2026 06:21 PM (2Cry5)

196 By the time a woman is 25, she had a pretty good idea how to kill a boner. If a dirty look doesn't suffice, she could always point and laugh.
Posted by: tcn in AK

That's the hottest part!!!

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at September 23, 2026 06:21 PM (UirZC)

197 Lighting happens because, for the sake of simplicity, a voltage develops in those clouds and the ground. The literally fucking ground.

The pointed shape creates an intense field at the point which makes it an attractive location relative to other areas. It is also higher. When it gets hit, the charge is sent through the ground through the ground wire instead of a path that will burn or explode.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 23, 2026 06:21 PM (uhVAy)

198 Gen X women would have offered commentary so loud the whole plane could have heard it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 06:19 PM (ZOv7s)

I only travel with DH. He would have taken care of it for me. But had it been only me, I would have announced it to the damned world. Humiliation usually works wonders.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:21 PM (vSaT+)

199 >>By the time a woman is 25, she had a pretty good idea how to kill a boner. If a dirty look doesn't suffice, she could always point and laugh.

He has Hormones, too. It's not like he's killing three babies next to her.

Posted by: garrett at September 23, 2026 06:22 PM (q7KFe)

200 In that instance ? A lightning rod is ABSOLUTELY like sticking a golf club in the air. A dumb damn idea.
Posted by: Greetings and Salutations at September 23, 2026 06:18 PM (1/wqL)
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Calm down, Beavis.

Posted by: ballistic at September 23, 2026 06:22 PM (oqH4h)

201 "Absolute bullshit. Complete, and total, bullshit. Ignores everything known about how to install grounding for anything."

The object is to provide a safe ground when lighting does strike, which it usually does to the highest object around, regardless of whether it has a rod on it or not.

That's not to say lighting won't strike a lower object too, it often does.

Posted by: fd at September 23, 2026 06:22 PM (MWfyi)

202 United employees forced a 25 year old woman to return to her seat next to a man who was masturbating because the flight was full
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Is a full flight really that sexy?

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 06:22 PM (vE0+H)

203

SoCal Beach Homes Are Already in Danger and Another Hurricane Is on the Way

https://t.ly/vmqRv

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 23, 2026 06:22 PM (Cqx++)

204 Why the woman didn’t just start calling a play by play in a rather loud voice, is beyond me.

I would have shamed that bastard.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 23, 2026 06:22 PM (W2Pud)

205 Imma be prezident!
*gesticulates wildly*

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at September 23, 2026 06:22 PM (RIvkX)

206 Gen X women would have offered commentary so loud the whole plane could have heard it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 06:19 PM (ZOv7s)

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That's why I'm not buying the story. A flight attendant is not going to ignore such behavior. Neither are the people sitting around the guy.

I'm going with Ms. 25 year old being a Karen, and perhaps even having an ulterior motive.

Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 06:22 PM (dIske)

207 Is this where we frog march that sweaty, stinky fuck, Al Gore, out to the gallows pole? First, they stole his election, then they stole his global scam.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 23, 2026 06:23 PM (5C90x)

208 By the time a woman is 25, she had a pretty good idea how to kill a boner. If a dirty look doesn't suffice, she could always point and laugh.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:17 PM (vSaT+)

My guess is he's not turned off and on by expected things.

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 06:23 PM (vE0+H)

209 Eromero is our resident expert on lightning and being struck by it,

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2026 06:23 PM (UdrMW)

210 Maybe the poor guy had a really important decision to make when he arrived at his destination and he was just seeking some Clarity?

Posted by: garrett at September 23, 2026 06:24 PM (q7KFe)

211 That's why I'm not buying the story. A flight attendant is not going to ignore such behavior. Neither are the people sitting around the guy.

I'm going with Ms. 25 year old being a Karen, and perhaps even having an ulterior motive.
Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 06:22 PM (dIske)
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"If you don't refund my flight, I shall tell on you."

"Get bent."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 06:24 PM (ZOv7s)

212 Ask for some ice water, spill it on his lap.
Posted by: Oldcat

Yeah-- "cold cock" him! LOL

Posted by: JQ at September 23, 2026 06:24 PM (rdVOm)

213 207 Is this where we frog march that sweaty, stinky fuck, Al Gore, out to the gallows pole? First, they stole his election, then they stole his global scam.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

They can have my Chakra when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Posted by: Al Gore at September 23, 2026 06:24 PM (UirZC)

214 Why the woman didn’t just start calling a play by play in a rather loud voice, is beyond me.

I would have shamed that bastard.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 23, 2026 06:22 PM (W2Pud)

Pretty likely he would have got off on that. Then what do you do other than slug him in the fucking face.

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 06:24 PM (vE0+H)

215 204 Why the woman didn’t just start calling a play by play in a rather loud voice, is beyond me.

I would have shamed that bastard.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 23, 2026 06:22 PM (W2Pud)

Oh, honey, I would pay money to hear that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:25 PM (vSaT+)

216 181 $100 travel credit
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Usually it's $20, same as in town.

shrinkflation.

Posted by: anachronda at September 23, 2026 06:25 PM (v3pYe)

217 >>Is a full flight really that sexy?

I bet she wouldn't have complained if he was a Billionaire Minotaur.

Posted by: garrett at September 23, 2026 06:25 PM (q7KFe)

218 There is a lot of debate in the lighting protection field about whether those fancy rods, globes, stream emitters, etc are any better than a plain on copper Franklin rod. From what I have seen they are not any better and a lot of times get blown up.

Posted by: fd at September 23, 2026 06:25 PM (MWfyi)

219 Isn't that what those little rooms in the back of the cabin are for?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2026 06:25 PM (RIvkX)

220 Milei really is amazing. Latin America has produced him, Bukele, and we'll see, possibly promising new leadership in Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia. Seems Europe doesn't even try (Meloni's OK by recent standards I guess).

Posted by: rhomboid at September 23, 2026 06:25 PM (U/Byj)

221 ...accumulated cyclone energy (ACE)
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Ah, I always wondered whether "Ace" was a nickname--instead its an acronym.

Posted by: Arizona, 2020 at September 23, 2026 06:25 PM (TN0g+)

222 Aren't you scared Luke? Aren't you scared of dying?

Posted by: Dragline at September 23, 2026 06:25 PM (wb0lP)

223 I recently wasted 20 minutes watching a video about what the "Super El Nino" would mean for the part of Oregon I live in. The conclusion by the meteorologist was "we're not sure"

"Science"

Posted by: Halfhand at September 23, 2026 06:25 PM (CHq+B)

224 Ask for some ice water, spill it on his lap.
Posted by: Oldcat

Yeah-- "cold cock" him! LOL
Posted by: JQ at September 23, 2026 06:24 PM (rdVOm)
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I think hot tea or coffee would produce an immediate cessation.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 06:25 PM (ZOv7s)

225 China has been getting wrecked by storms, lots of flooding, huge dam failure, bridges washed away, but it make communism look bad, no it must not be talked about.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Pretty much Chinese influence is wrapped around the entire political and media to the extent that asshole members of those institutions and their miserable grifting families are selling out their native countries just to get a buck. Apparently the defense contractors and many of the senior flag officers were in on it too until Hegseth.

Witness how Lockheed just recently sent ultra top secret F-35 parts to Australia via Chinese owned logistics company--the goods never arrived for the Australians. Or Los Alamos and other nuclear research labs opening themselves up wide to bring in Chicom visiting profs and grad students.

Basically the US ruling class is so resistant to Trump because they have been pimping Uncle Sam to all of our country's strategic and economic rivals so they can take turns screwing us.

I don't think we have ever seen such a group of asshole ruling class folks in the West--even before WWI as they were just stupid, not corrupt and evil.

Posted by: whig at September 23, 2026 06:26 PM (E4rtv)

226 We've documented... perhaps poorly, but probably not, that the sun has a huge influence on our climate.

How could that be? It's, like, a hundred miles away.

Posted by: t-bird at September 23, 2026 06:26 PM (isOGd)

227 Remember that guy who got caught crankin' it on the plane and claimed he spilled Tabasco Sauce on himself?

That was like 10+ years ago.

Posted by: garrett at September 23, 2026 06:26 PM (q7KFe)

228 The pointed shape creates an intense field at the point which makes it an attractive location relative to other areas. It is also higher. When it gets hit, the charge is sent through the ground through the ground wire instead of a path that will burn or explode.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 23, 2026 06:21 PM (uhVAy)

And ... bullshit.

Any arc big enough to bridge that air gap ? Like, you know, lightning ?

It doesn't stop just because it hit the ground. Because it had a bunch of potential just to arc to the ground.

The only effective thing I've seen against lightning ... and John Q Homeowner ain't going to pay for it ... is a very spider-web like grid of ground bars. With welding cable thick conductors to shit bonded to structural steel.

And even then. Transients fuck everything up. Because lightning is, by definition, a transient event.

Yet folks on the internet try to apply whatever they learned in high school. Loudly. With confidence.

Posted by: Greetings and Salutations at September 23, 2026 06:26 PM (1/wqL)

229 Climate alarmists:

"It's a trap! There will now be hurricanes in the winter!"

Or, "This is building up to next season where there will be 4x the number of CAT 5's!!11!!

The ice is melting! Where is Greta Thundermug?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 23, 2026 06:27 PM (hzuYO)

230 There is a lot of debate in the ~~lighting protection field~~ kink community about whether those fancy rods, globes, stream emitters, etc are any better than a plain on copper Franklin rod.

One minor change and the statement may still be true.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 23, 2026 06:27 PM (UirZC)

231 219 Isn't that what those little rooms in the back of the cabin are for?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2026 06:25 PM (RIvkX)

Well, they sure as heck aren't big enough for anything else.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:27 PM (vSaT+)

232 Remember when Hurricane Sandy hit NYC and some people got their shoes wet and it was a national catastrophe?

But when American citizens were forced to spend the winter in tents in North Carolina, it was "fuck those guys, these illegal aliens need that FEMA money more."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 23, 2026 06:27 PM (3cUTc)

233 In the former Yugoslavia (and elsewhere in the Soviet sphere, probably), factories and critical infrastructure were protected by rods tipped with radioactive Cobalt 60, which was supposed to attract lightning due to their ionizing rays or something. I guess they kind of worked, but having exposed chunks of radioactive material everywhere was a problem, especially after governments fell, factories were abandoned, and lightning rods started falling over or getting scavenged for metal...
Posted by: Military Moron at September 23, 2026 06:20 PM (UirZC)

The decay emits a Beta two gamma rays. The Betas momentum will strip off electrons from the air, and perhaps the gamma might too. I suppose it might make it a better target than average. The cloud chambers you might have seen in physics class use supersaturated air to form water droplets around these ionized atoms as the beta rips past them, making a visible track at each decay. Pretty cool.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 23, 2026 06:27 PM (uhVAy)

234 Oh, honey, I would pay money to hear that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:25 PM (vSaT+)

So would he, I'm guessing.

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 06:28 PM (vE0+H)

235 218 There is a lot of debate in the lighting protection field about whether those fancy rods, globes, stream emitters, etc are any better than a plain on copper Franklin rod. From what I have seen they are not any better and a lot of times get blown up.
Posted by: fd at September 23, 2026 06:25 PM (MWfyi)

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To avoid lightning strikes...just don't stand next to Roy Sullivan....who was hit by lightning seven times. Including while sitting in his back yard, and while driving his truck. Of course, Roy is now deceased....but it wasn't the lightning that got him.

Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 06:28 PM (dIske)

236 What, exactly is the alure of beating off on a plane?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 23, 2026 06:28 PM (2Cry5)

237 gunter glieben glauchen globen.

Pyromania was the first cassette I bought. 10 years old.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 23, 2026 06:28 PM (iulL+)

238 rhomboid. Milei's speech was a thing of beauty.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2026 06:28 PM (UdrMW)

239 202 United employees forced a 25 year old woman to return to her seat next to a man who was masturbating because the flight was full
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Is a full flight really that sexy?
Posted by: ...
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Incurable pron addict or exhibitionist. But tell me, was the pron busty lesbian pron that was instigating this--might he have been an Ewok perchance? Was he dressed in hobo pelts?

Posted by: whig at September 23, 2026 06:29 PM (E4rtv)

240 Here's the the IEEE has to say about lighting attracting contraptions:

"Theoretical models, including those based on leader propagation dynamics, demonstrate that the fundamental assumptions underlying ESE technology are inconsistent with established principles of atmospheric physics and high-voltage engineering."

Posted by: fd at September 23, 2026 06:29 PM (MWfyi)

241 Well, they sure as heck aren't big enough for anything else.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:27 PM (vSaT+)
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Heh, well, yes, The Paolo, he knows this too from unhappy experience.

Posted by: The Paolo at September 23, 2026 06:29 PM (RIvkX)

242 236 What, exactly is the alure of beating off on a plane?
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Look, I'm joining the Mile High Club with or without assistance!

Posted by: Dedicated Perv at September 23, 2026 06:29 PM (UirZC)

243 Yet folks on the internet try to apply whatever they learned in high school. Loudly. With confidence.
Posted by: Greetings and Salutations at September 23, 2026 06:26 PM (1/wqL)

Well the stoppage of church steeples being burned out in the 1750s and after must have just been God, then. Good to know.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 23, 2026 06:29 PM (uhVAy)

244 Lightning hit my house when I was a kid. The floodlight outside on a tree, which led to the breaker box in the basement.

Us kids were down there playing right near the box, and I guess crack made my cousin drop his lollipop. Then the break box 'sploded. Must have been the breaker, as it blew open the door.

We thought his lollipop blew up

Posted by: Dragline at September 23, 2026 06:30 PM (wb0lP)

245 a man who was masturbating because the flight was full

Wouldn't he stop if the seat were empty? I guess they wanted him to finish.

Posted by: t-bird at September 23, 2026 06:30 PM (isOGd)

246 236 What, exactly is the alure of beating off on a plane?
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Welp, the airlines have already screwed you coming and going and I guess that gets some people up for more action.

Posted by: whig at September 23, 2026 06:30 PM (E4rtv)

247 The only effective thing I've seen against lightning ... and John Q Homeowner ain't going to pay for it ... is a very spider-web like grid of ground bars. With welding cable thick conductors to shit bonded to structural steel.

And even then. Transients fuck everything up. Because lightning is, by definition, a transient event.

Yet folks on the internet try to apply whatever they learned in high school. Loudly. With confidence.
Posted by: Greetings and Salutations at September 23, 2026 06:26 PM (1/wqL)

I think you are likely to be full of crap on this topic. I designed plenty of lightening protection systems on military bases, and those systems are engineered and tested, and they work.

I don't know what axe you need to grind, but honestly, if it were fake, I doubt we would have spent the money on it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:30 PM (vSaT+)

248 Posted by: whig at September 23, 2026 06:29 PM (E4rtv)

No no it said he was masturbating because the flight was full. Nevermind...

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 06:30 PM (vE0+H)

249 225 China has been getting wrecked by storms, lots of flooding, huge dam failure, bridges washed away, but it make communism look bad, no it must not be talked about.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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You know that world's longest and highest suspension bridge they just opened and are so proud of in China. Just wait. It is smack dab in the middle of earthquake territory. I give it two years tops.

Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 06:30 PM (dIske)

250 "Theoretical models, including those based on leader propagation dynamics, demonstrate that the fundamental assumptions underlying ESE technology are inconsistent with established principles of atmospheric physics and high-voltage engineering."

No shit. Because when it comes to lightning ? Its an analog world. Wood is a conductor with enough voltage. So is concrete. And on and on.

Posted by: Greetings and Salutations at September 23, 2026 06:31 PM (1/wqL)

251 Phone battery is dying

Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2026 06:31 PM (Ia/+0)

252 Ask for some ice water, spill it on his lap.
Posted by: Oldcat

Yeah-- "cold cock" him! LOL
Posted by: JQ at September 23, 2026 06:24 PM (rdVOm)
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I think hot tea or coffee would produce an immediate cessation.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2026 06:25 PM (ZOv7s)

Yes, but that could be considered assault and get the woman in trouble.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 23, 2026 06:31 PM (uhVAy)

253 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 23, 2026 06:31 PM (iulL+)

254 Forget the ice water-- won't leave a mark.

Forget the hot coffee/tea-- don't want any injury lawsuit.

A glass of tomato juice! Guaranteed to stain the trousers front (and back, since he's sitting). Fifty bucks to reimburse and the jerk has to wear it publicly until he can change clothes.

Posted by: JQ at September 23, 2026 06:32 PM (rdVOm)

255 The only effective thing I've seen against lightning ... and John Q Homeowner ain't going to pay for it ... is a very spider-web like grid of ground bars. With welding cable thick conductors to shit bonded to structural steel.

Oh, there's a specific group of tiny hat wearing people that can VERY effectively control lightning!!!!

Posted by: Candace Owens at September 23, 2026 06:32 PM (UirZC)

256 236 What, exactly is the alure of beating off on a plane?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 23, 2026 06:28 PM (2Cry5)

I suppose some people can never raise themselves up from their animal urges, even to just keep it to themselves. So much for advanced behavior in primates.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 23, 2026 06:32 PM (vSaT+)

257 In what way is what Al Gore doing any worse than what Tony Fauci did? A firing squad is almost too good for them.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 23, 2026 06:32 PM (5C90x)

258 I think you are likely to be full of crap on this topic. I designed plenty of lightening protection systems on military bases, and those systems are engineered and tested, and they work.

Then why are you here ? Because every data-center in the country is paying big, big money to do exactly what you apparently already perfected.

Go get paid.

And tell us, how did you prevent the back-current from ground potential coming right into the house ? I'd love to hear this.

Posted by: Greetings and Salutations at September 23, 2026 06:33 PM (1/wqL)

259 Forget the ice water-- won't leave a mark.

Forget the hot coffee/tea-- don't want any injury lawsuit.

A glass of tomato juice! Guaranteed to stain the trousers front (and back, since he's sitting). Fifty bucks to reimburse and the jerk has to wear it publicly until he can change clothes.
Posted by: JQ at September 23, 2026 06:32 PM (rdVOm)

Where are you going to get that on a plane?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 23, 2026 06:33 PM (uhVAy)

260 I've spent some time doing lighting protection and you can do effective protection with just rods, cables, and good grounds. There are some basic rules to follow that have been around for 100 years.

Mark Twain wrote a short story about having lighting rods put on his house. It's pretty funny if you want to look it up.

Posted by: fd at September 23, 2026 06:34 PM (MWfyi)

261 Where are you going to get that on a plane?
Posted by: Oldcat

Don't they make bloody marys on flights?

Posted by: JQ at September 23, 2026 06:35 PM (rdVOm)

262 Military Moron, there was an expression back in the Glorious Days of Soviet Power - "Russians, nuclear energy - children, matches".

As nutty as some of the immediate post-war ideas in the US were for using nuclear power and explosives, the Soviets walked the walk. I recall when the word went out that we might need to help them find remote weather stations scattered around the former USSR (powered by fuels suitable for dirty-bomb applications). And of course the long sad record of Northern Fleet health outcomes.

I remember guys involved in scouting out candidate factories for our defense conversion aid program in the 90s talking about how they wore their dosimeter badges under their shirts. One time they came out of a former light industry factory with their badges maxed out, and they were having fun trying to decide where in the building the "stuff" was.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 23, 2026 06:35 PM (U/Byj)

263 Glass of Clamato would make him smell, too...

Posted by: JQ at September 23, 2026 06:36 PM (rdVOm)

264 @141...why didn't the 25yr old laugh and point like I would have? I would have arranged tours to witness. "Row 16, your turn!"

Granted, if he was a stinky old illegal from Haiti there might have been some freak out and asked for zip ties and gloves to take care of things myself.

Why didn't the flight attendants talk sternly to him? Were there any burly men on the flight? I would have found a few to have a discussion with the perv.

I need to see a photo of the offended as she may have made it up.

I find this difficult to believe.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 23, 2026 06:37 PM (hzuYO)

265 Of course, Roy is now deceased....but it wasn't the lightning that got him.
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No, his heart stopped.

Posted by: Crusader at September 23, 2026 06:38 PM (TN0g+)

266 I'd especially love to hear this because, for quite some time, a ton of folks have tried to figure out how to put active devices ... simple as a diode and more complex ... on that ground.

The problem is ... as soon as you isolate that ground ? You've got a floating system. Which was done, in American Industry, for decades.

Which worked well until thing become locally not-grounded. Bonded is the word. And then some poor fuck touches the box.

I really, really want to hear this "I designed the anti-lightning" shit. I really do.

Posted by: Greetings and Salutations at September 23, 2026 06:38 PM (1/wqL)

267 There are sick people out there

Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2026 06:39 PM (Ia/+0)

268 United should stop showing in flight pron

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 23, 2026 06:42 PM (I6R/i)

269 Milei really is amazing. Latin America has produced him, Bukele, and we'll see, possibly promising new leadership in Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia. Seems Europe doesn't even try (Meloni's OK by recent standards I guess).
Posted by: rhomboid at September 23, 2026 06:25 PM (U/Byj)

Milei is from a completely different school of economics, and has the benefit of 80 years of failed mainstream economics to both show what to avoid and to give the Argentinians enough desperation to avoid doing what they always have done (Peronism).
Bukele was accused early on with having secret advisors who were chased out of Venezuela by Chavez, and enough desperation to try what had never been done before
Both El Salvador and Argentina are both rich countries, but the governments have stolen that wealth to buy votes and never gave anything back for running the country. They are an example to the rest of the West - it might work since most of South America is rich in resources and labor - and it looks like it might work.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 23, 2026 06:45 PM (rbvCR)

270 I recently wasted 20 minutes watching a video about what the "Super El Nino" would mean for the part of Oregon I live in. The conclusion by the meteorologist was "we're not sure"

"Science"
Posted by: Halfhand at September 23, 2026 06:25 PM (CHq+B)

Previous years like this in western Oregon were "lots of snow with risks of mid-winter Chinooks to melt the accumulated snow" but not so many 17F nights. We might get an ice storm or two also.
Get that extra cord of firewood and make sure you can switch to batteries or propane for a couple of days.

And sandbags if you are down near the river in Portland.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 23, 2026 06:49 PM (rbvCR)

271 No no it said he was masturbating because the flight was full. Nevermind...
Posted by: ...

Full of what? Perverts? Scientologists? Amish? Questioning minds want to know. Or at least Qatarlson might have a podcast on the problem and come out on the side of the person who is no longer Master of his Domain.

Posted by: whig at September 23, 2026 06:50 PM (E4rtv)

272 And sandbags if you are down near the river in Portland.

Still a great idea. If you live anywhere near Portland. For who knows what reason.

Posted by: Greetings and Salutations at September 23, 2026 06:51 PM (1/wqL)

273 268 United should stop showing in flight pron
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Why, was United showing Cuties reruns? or Nickelodeon/Disney kids' shows?

Posted by: whig at September 23, 2026 06:52 PM (E4rtv)

274 All those Al Gore Carbon Credits have paid off finally .........

My $200K investment in carbon credits is saving the world

Posted by: Mike Hunt at September 23, 2026 06:53 PM (jGtoG)

275 Hahaha

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Candace Owens and Harvey Weinstein deal? Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein groveled for “mercy” during his sentencing in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday, where prosecutors revealed his alleged plot to pay a podcaster $1.75 million to “instill fear” in his victims. The New York Post thinks that podcaster is Candace Owens.

“Prosecutors alleged during the hearing that they had recordings of Weinstein offering a podcaster $1.75 million in a jailhouse phone call to release videos to help his defense by “contaminating the jury pool and reaching the seated jurors before and after the trials.”

“Blumberg did not identify the podcaster, but Candace Owens released a podcast series in 2025 called “Harvey Speaks,” which featured videos of Weinstein at the notorious city lockup. She didn’t return requests for comment Wednesday.”

Posted by: whig at September 23, 2026 06:54 PM (E4rtv)

276 Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein groveled for “mercy” during his sentencing in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday, where prosecutors revealed his alleged plot to pay a podcaster $1.75 million to “instill fear” in his victims.

This is on Weinstein. If you can't convince Manhattan to pardon you ?

Posted by: Greetings and Salutations at September 23, 2026 06:56 PM (1/wqL)

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For 20 Years, Climate Alarmists Have Been Claiming That "Global Warming" Made Hurricanes More Numerous and More Severe.
For the First Time in Over 100 Years, We've Had a Hurricane-Free Summer.