Mid-Morning Art Thread

Vertical Mesquite
Tsuruoka Kakunen

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 05, 2026 09:30 AM (X8vlu)

2 It’s dead, Jim

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 05, 2026 09:30 AM (yEz+x)

3 Looks like the Liberty Tree right now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 05, 2026 09:31 AM (X8vlu)

4 Vertical Mesquite.... barely.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 05, 2026 09:32 AM (RORbl)

5 Needs BRAWNDO

Posted by: Don Black at November 05, 2026 09:33 AM (ZxPkt)

6
Thanks, CBD, just what I needed to cheer me up this morning.

Posted by: Auspex at November 05, 2026 09:33 AM (Y8DZL)

7 Sparse, but I like it.
Would hang.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 05, 2026 09:33 AM (8VNAp)

8 I'd say it's art.

It's an odd choice of subject, but it's art.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 05, 2026 09:34 AM (N1tpc)

9 November 2026 election as a painting?

Posted by: Read at November 05, 2026 09:34 AM (l3cgK)

10 Worst. Hanging Tree. Ever.

Posted by: tubal at November 05, 2026 09:34 AM (Gqar8)

11 Alternate title: America 2036, after 8 years of Democratic control of US government

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 05, 2026 09:34 AM (Dv3i1)

12 the vertical mesquite has gone horizontal...

Posted by: Read at November 05, 2026 09:35 AM (l3cgK)

13 Alternate title:

"Rejected Roadrunner Cartoon Background"

Posted by: naturalfake at November 05, 2026 09:35 AM (YSUhf)

14 He mailed this one in

Posted by: Skip at November 05, 2026 09:35 AM (NdbDd)

15 No boobs. No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 05, 2026 09:35 AM (iULbp)

16
Looking on the bright side, a decade's worth of BBQ smoking wood, just there for the taking.

Posted by: Auspex at November 05, 2026 09:35 AM (Y8DZL)

17 The mesquite was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at November 05, 2026 09:36 AM (2Ez/1)

18 Damn, left over sock...
When I use quotes in a name, it comes back truncated...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 05, 2026 09:36 AM (l3cgK)

19 Looking on the bright side, a decade's worth of BBQ smoking wood, just there for the taking.
Posted by: Auspex

Not a fan of mesquite. Too "salty".

Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2026 09:36 AM (mISmA)

20 That’s quite the moniker the artist has.

Posted by: Bulg at November 05, 2026 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

21
76% of all mesquite trees grow in Texas.

Political commentary?

Posted by: naturalfake at November 05, 2026 09:37 AM (YSUhf)

22 Title checks out.

Posted by: Person who checks out titles at November 05, 2026 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

23 Alternate title: America 2036, after 8 years of Democratic control of US government
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 05, 2026 09:34 AM (Dv3i1)
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That's basically what I was thinking.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 05, 2026 09:37 AM (s2iZv)

24 Is there a horizontal mesquite painting?

Posted by: dantesed at November 05, 2026 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

25 Poor little tree.

Posted by: Tuna at November 05, 2026 09:37 AM (lJ0H4)

26 This painting matches my mood today.

Posted by: Bulg at November 05, 2026 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

27 Not a fan of mesquite. Too "salty".

Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2026 09:36 AM

Some parts are edible.

Posted by: Euell Gibbons at November 05, 2026 09:38 AM (2Ez/1)

28 Some decent detail in the tree for a watercolor.
It's a lot more interesting when you click on it and see the brush strokes.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 05, 2026 09:38 AM (6ydKt)

29 Nicely rendered sky and background. I like it. I wouldn't hang it, but I'd appreciate it for a bit in a gallery.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 05, 2026 09:38 AM (ctC8W)

30 Looks like a watercolor.

Posted by: Tuna at November 05, 2026 09:38 AM (lJ0H4)

31 That should be Dead Mostly Vertical Mesquite, shouldn't it?

Posted by: GWB at November 05, 2026 09:39 AM (kU0PQ)

32 24 Is there a horizontal mesquite painting?
Posted by: dantesed at November 05, 2026 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

*rotates painting 90 degrees*

There.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 05, 2026 09:39 AM (aKiSo)

33 The Charlie Brown Christmas tree, Arizona edition.

Posted by: Schultz at November 05, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)

34 Needs watering …

Posted by: Dr_No at November 05, 2026 09:40 AM (ayRl+)

35 13 Alternate title:

"Rejected Roadrunner Cartoon Background"

Posted by: naturalfake at November 05, 2026 09:35 AM (YSUhf)

Sad meep.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 05, 2026 09:41 AM (aKiSo)

36 My hopes and dreams garden.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 05, 2026 09:41 AM (ndZc7)

37 Would hang. In the hallway leading to the restrooms of an Albuquerque lawn and garden center.

Posted by: Interior Design student at November 05, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)

38 Not a fan of mesquite. Too "salty".

Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2026 09:36 AM (mISmA)

Agreed! It's okay with fatty meats, but there are better woods.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 05, 2026 09:43 AM (k5CNB)

39 Is it standing in a puddle? Sure looks like it.

Posted by: Bulg at November 05, 2026 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

40 Better than horizontal mesquite I suppose. Sums up the mood 'round here.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 05, 2026 09:44 AM (vr4To)

41 Artist was in an internment camp in Arizona during WW2.

Posted by: Tuna at November 05, 2026 09:44 AM (lJ0H4)

42 Got some virga extending down from the towering cumulonimbus. The Learjet should be spit out any second now.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 05, 2026 09:44 AM (J4Dwc)

43
Not a fan of mesquite. Too "salty".

Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2026 09:36 AM

But, surely you catch the gentle wafting of springtime raspberry blossoms, the scent of snowfall in the Black Forest, the robust musk of wild horses running through desert sage?

Surely you must!!!

Give mesquite another chance to spice up your meal, like a lusty Valkerie spices up your nights!

Posted by: naturalfake, Food Critic at November 05, 2026 09:45 AM (YSUhf)

44 The spikes on its root system will play hell with the tyres on your riding lawnmower, too …

Posted by: Dr_No at November 05, 2026 09:47 AM (ayRl+)

45 I saw Vertical Mesquite open for Level 42 at the Arena in '92.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 05, 2026 09:48 AM (qRla/)

46 Lifeless. No color, no motion, nothing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 05, 2026 09:48 AM (RIvkX)

47 Despite its gnarled, twisted, bare, leafless branches, and its desiccated appearance, the mesquite tree is far and away the NOST vibrant thing in this landscape. Take that for what it's worth.

Posted by: muldoon at November 05, 2026 09:48 AM (qgHp7)

48 The Charlie Brown Christmas tree, Arizona edition.
Posted by: Schultz at November 05, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)
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If there's a dog lurking in the background, it's Snoopy's brother Spike.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 05, 2026 09:48 AM (s2iZv)

49 Ah, so I see that the artistic theme is “Our hopes for the future”.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 05, 2026 09:49 AM (jOQad)

50 He mailed this one in
Posted by: Skip at November 05, 2026 09:35 AM (NdbDd)
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Delivered by Pony Express.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 05, 2026 09:50 AM (s2iZv)

51 Ah, so I see that the artistic theme is “Our hopes for the future”.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 05, 2026 09:49 AM

Careful...you might summon naked fat guy on an ottoman for tomorrow.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 05, 2026 09:50 AM (ctC8W)

52
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 05, 2026 09:50 AM (eRlcH)

53 >>It's okay with fatty meats, but there are better woods.

The Paolo has, how you say, experience paring his wood with fatty meat.

Posted by: The Paolo at November 05, 2026 09:51 AM (J4Dwc)

54 Alas, but I bring a warm, woodsy welcome for the cabin, or the backyard fire pit. A rich, hearty aroma with notes of toasted oak, sweet bacon, and a hint of campfire, like a well-worn flannel, a cast-iron skillet, and one more story before the night turns in.

Posted by: Hickory Wood Chips from LL Bean at November 05, 2026 09:52 AM (2Ez/1)

55 No dog. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 05, 2026 09:50 AM

Starving coyote just out of frame.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 05, 2026 09:52 AM (ctC8W)

56 Lots of paintings have a vanishing point based on distance or light. Here, I think the vanishing point is the subject itself which finally peaks and disappears at its brittle crumbling top.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 05, 2026 09:54 AM (2ap+5)

57 The Hanging Tree....unused for years, finally gives up the ghost.

Posted by: Oh Well at November 05, 2026 09:54 AM (D5ixm)

58

Kakunen, not Jorma Kaukonen...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 05, 2026 09:54 AM (x0n13)

59 The Paolo has, how you say, experience paring his wood with fatty meat.
Posted by: The Paolo at November 05, 2026 09:51 AM

The Paolo should enjoy the new representative from TX-23.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 05, 2026 09:54 AM (ctC8W)

60 Thanks CBD. Morning Horde. Pray, hope, don't worry and buy ammo.

Posted by: Buck (Ofama) at November 05, 2026 09:55 AM (z6ONu)

61 58

Kakunen, not Jorma Kaukonen...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 05, 2026 09:54 AM (x0n13)

Embryonic Journey

Posted by: tubal at November 05, 2026 09:55 AM (Gqar8)

62 The Paolo has, how you say, experience paring his wood with fatty meat.
Posted by: The Paolo

Ah yes, closing time gambit.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 05, 2026 09:55 AM (bmMEr)

63 61 58

Kakunen, not Jorma Kaukonen...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 05, 2026 09:54 AM (x0n13)

Embryonic Journey
Posted by: tubal at November 05, 2026 09:55 AM (Gqar

That is one of my favorite guitar instrumentals.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 05, 2026 09:56 AM (x0n13)

64 'Mesquite' is filed in my brain adjacent to 'mess kit'.
Like the WWII surplus mess kits that consisted of two halves, one that could serve as a frying pan and the other that was a divided plate. The handle of the pan folded over into the groove in the plate to clamp it closed. Inside were utensils: knife, fork, spoon. We used those on many a Boy Scout backpacking trip.

Virtual Mess Kit > Vertical Mesquite

Posted by: muldoon at November 05, 2026 09:58 AM (qgHp7)

65 Embryonic Journey
Posted by: tubal at November 05, 2026 09:55 AM (Gqar

That is one of my favorite guitar instrumentals.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Malagueña by Roy Clark.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2026 09:58 AM (mISmA)

66 I like the soft colors and the opalescent sky.

Posted by: Emmie at November 05, 2026 09:58 AM (OlzlW)

67 Careful...you might summon naked fat guy on an ottoman for tomorrow.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

My mood's already in the toilet. The fat guy would have no effect.

Posted by: Bulg at November 05, 2026 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

68 I've been through the desert on a horse with no name.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 05, 2026 09:58 AM (1bYJp)

69
Starving coyote just out of frame.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 05, 2026 09:52 AM (ctC8W)

___________

Roadrunner racing by too fast to be shown in painting.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 05, 2026 09:59 AM (eRlcH)

70 Opalescent might be a fun word for a limerick.

Posted by: Limerick Lover at November 05, 2026 09:59 AM (2Ez/1)

71 >>Ah yes, closing time gambit.

Even The Paolo needs, how you say, a slump-buster every great once in a while.

Posted by: The Paolo at November 05, 2026 09:59 AM (J4Dwc)

72 Hey Muldoon! I also spent a good bit of time as an adult leader in the scouts.

Posted by: Buck (Ofama) at November 05, 2026 10:01 AM (z6ONu)

73 71 >>Ah yes, closing time gambit.

Even The Paolo needs, how you say, a slump-buster every great once in a while.
Posted by: The Paolo at November 05, 2026 09:59 AM (J4Dwc)

It'd be like humping an exercise ball full of cold bacon grease and covered in cookie crumbs.

The hell is wrong with you people.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 05, 2026 10:01 AM (aKiSo)

74 Ya gotta use mesquite netting to keep those pesky things away at night.

Posted by: Bulg at November 05, 2026 10:01 AM (77rzZ)

75 Excellent painting, would hang.

Posted by: Frenchjeton at November 05, 2026 10:03 AM (j0T5y)

76 Posted by: muldoon at November 05, 2026 09:58 AM (qgHp7)

Sounds like you could make quite a mes.

Posted by: Bulg at November 05, 2026 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

77 Jorma has video lessons for that, and the “Water Song”, a better tune I think. Very fun to play.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 05, 2026 10:04 AM (55dRY)

78 Jorma has video lessons for that, and the “Water Song”, a better tune I think. Very fun to play.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 05, 2026 10:04 AM (55dRY)

79 As I think about it, this work reminds me of the abbey in the oakwood.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 05, 2026 10:04 AM (2ap+5)

80 Sure, it's maybe 60% vertical. But it's got that other 40% that's gone horizontal.

Posted by: No Name Today at November 05, 2026 10:04 AM (8mulE)

81 The Paolo always carries a bag of flour.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 05, 2026 10:04 AM (X8vlu)

82 Try our new bacon grease and cookie crumb scented votives!

Just in time for the Holidays.

Posted by: Yankee Candle at November 05, 2026 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)

83 A dead tree....

Posted by: sven at November 05, 2026 10:05 AM (Int1s)

84 I've been through the desert on a horse with no name.

Randy Newman snarked that the song was about a kid who thinks he's taken acid.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 05, 2026 10:05 AM (qRla/)

85 "This is technically savannah. And my name is Steve, you asshole. Thanks for asking."

-The Horse

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 05, 2026 10:07 AM (aKiSo)

86 It'd be like humping an exercise ball full of cold bacon grease and covered in cookie crumbs.

The hell is wrong with you people.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Oddly specific.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 05, 2026 10:11 AM (IQpik)

87 He doesn't look like a happy little tree. He looks kind of gnarly. I like it.

It's a keeper.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at November 05, 2026 10:13 AM (5Op5D)

88 If you love your exercise ball very, very much....

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 05, 2026 10:13 AM (X8vlu)

89 This is an art thread I will ask a question and if the quorum answers in the affirmative I will discuss something here that is a rare ray of hope although once the USAID spigots are turned back on you will get to see that it *was* an organized leftist conspiracy.

Is the video game an art?

Posted by: sven at November 05, 2026 10:14 AM (Int1s)

90 Meh...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 05, 2026 10:14 AM (+gK6I)

91 You can eat bacon and cookies in my bed anytime.

Posted by: The grossly overweight Mandrell sister at November 05, 2026 10:15 AM (2Ez/1)

92 an exercise ball

Like one of them yoga ones, or a medicine ball?
Just trying to gauge how sore my dick is gonna be.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 05, 2026 10:16 AM (HFrEr)

93 *hits thread with cattle prod*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 05, 2026 10:19 AM (X8vlu)

94 Owwww!

Posted by: The thread at November 05, 2026 10:20 AM (2Ez/1)

95 It's art but it's also kinda ugly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 05, 2026 10:21 AM (s1VwS)

96 japanese watercolor... no goldfish, not art.

Posted by: cmeat at November 05, 2026 10:22 AM (Bep7s)

97 Trying go comment, but I gots nothing.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2026 10:23 AM (mISmA)

98 The dam is about to break

in 3...2...1...

Posted by: muldoon at November 05, 2026 10:25 AM (qgHp7)

99 Another from the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery

Painted during Tsuruoka's time as an inmate at the Poston incarceration camp during World War II, where gnarled, barren mesquite trees were a recurring subject in his work reflecting the isolation and landscape of the desert camp.

See Scholten Japanese Art,
Kakunen Tsuruoka, 1892-1977
untitled (vertical mesquite)
watercolor on paper, signed at lower right, Kakunen Tsuruoka, ca. 1944))

During his forced confinement at the Poston Incarceration Camp (specifically Camp III) in Arizona during World War II, Tokutaro "Kakunen" Tsuruoka’s artistic style underwent a drastic, profound shift. (Densho Encyclopedia)

Before the war, he was known for creating decorative, vibrant bird-and-flower paintings (kacho-ga) & picturesque California landscapes for art collectors. However, his camp watercolors discarded commercial appeal to capture the raw solitude, bleakness, and haunting beauty of the Arizona desert. (AZ Memory Project)

March 1943, Tsuruoka designed and curated the "Mojave Room" inside an empty barrack at Poston III. The installation featured 16 of his original paintings lining the walls.

An important lesson

Posted by: L - No nic... at November 05, 2026 10:25 AM (NFX2v)

100 I see this kind of art at sidewalk art shows. Not necessarily the same subject matter, but the same style. And I don't think this is done any better.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 05, 2026 10:26 AM (iOpI2)

101 Chuckie "Faustus" Schumer.

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The outspoken Israel critic signals growing divisions within the Democratic Party over its leadership and direction.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 05, 2026 10:27 AM (ndZc7)

102 would not hang

Posted by: Gref at November 05, 2026 10:27 AM (5rh/l)

103 Embryonic Journey
Posted by: tubal

Wymyns cheering abortion until birth.

https://tinyurl.com/2695mwsr

Well, you can't have a good utopia without mass murder.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 05, 2026 10:27 AM (ndZc7)

104 And the cherry on top!

Democrats’ “Decoy Dan” Ballot Scheme in Alaska Appears to Be Working

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 05, 2026 10:28 AM (ndZc7)

105 Could be worse.
Could be Transing.

Posted by: Igor at November 05, 2026 10:28 AM (J0bEY)

106 Japan and its people are beautiful and made our trip there in the '90s lovely, but I would starve to death if I had to live there.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 05, 2026 10:29 AM (2ap+5)

107 Democrats spent the entire campaign talking about affordability, groceries and the cost of living. It took them less than an hour after winning Congress to drop every word of it and show the country what the campaign was actually about.

The new agenda is already being said out loud. Arrest the political opponents. Seize Elon Musk's factories. Nationalize SpaceX. The mask did not slip over weeks or months. It came off before the victory parties even ended.

Anyone paying attention could have seen this coming. The affordability language was the wrapper, and the wrapper was never the product. The product is power, and power aimed at everyone who stood in the way.

America now gets to watch the real Democrat Party govern with both chambers. The country will remember who warned them and who sold them the story.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2026 10:29 AM (mISmA)

108 Okay obviously the answer is shrug at best or "no"...

the art was taken over at the worst or heavily influenced at best by banks and the government it was fixed by DOGE for a bit and you will watch when the spigots get turned back on it snap back to the junk that was getting studios shut down like Bioware....

carry on....go paints I guess

Posted by: sven at November 05, 2026 10:29 AM (Int1s)

109 NOW HONDURAN CARAVAN ENTERING: just like many predicted, a Honduran caravan has left San Pedro Sula yesterday, now headed towards the US. This something we've been reporting on extensively, that if Democrats took control of Congress, Caravans would be heading toward the US. Per DHS sources we've spoken to, and whom we trust, 12 caravans totalling over 12,000 people are en route to the US southern border. The cloest will reach El Paso in 4 days with plans to storm the border.
@RealRawNews

Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2026 10:29 AM (mISmA)

110 Treebeard entered a rapid decline after getting hooked on meth.

This shrub would be at its best as fuel for a meat smoker, not an artistic subject.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 10:29 AM (qlLNh)

111 EL-SAYED REFUSES TO BACK SCHUMER FOR SENATE MAJORITY LEADER

Sucks to be chuckie.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2026 10:30 AM (mISmA)

112 Bad news from the BNN (Boob News Network, AKA Me):

Based on recent photos, Billie Eilish is believed to have undergone breast-reduction surgery.

Posted by: Bulg at November 05, 2026 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

113 53 pairing?

Posted by: cmeat at November 05, 2026 10:31 AM (Bep7s)

114 Based on recent photos, Billie Eilish is believed to have undergone breast-reduction surgery.
Posted by: Bulg at November 05, 2026 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

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I think before-and-afters would be appropriate.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 05, 2026 10:31 AM (iOpI2)

115 I think before-and-afters would be appropriate.
Posted by: Seems Legit

There's an article linked at Instapundit that has 'em. Looks like she did to me.

Posted by: Bulg at November 05, 2026 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

116 Per Breitbart: Australia- Italian chef fired for refusing to put pineapple on pizza.

"An affront to my culture."

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 05, 2026 10:33 AM (X8vlu)

117 115 Posted by: Bulg at November 05, 2026 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

Billie or "William" as I and they prefer lost 15-20 pounds from appearances and could just be on vitamin H....

Posted by: sven at November 05, 2026 10:34 AM (Int1s)

118 Eilish is one of those women that I just find...repellent.

Not ugly in a conventional sense by any means, just creepy. She has an "avoid at all costs" aura about her.

Bitch be wrong, yo.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 10:34 AM (qlLNh)

119 Man, the markets are ... not happy. As a patriotic American, I am sorry but, I am sucking all the value out that I can. +4.12% in my trading account so far this morning continuing to short the techs.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 05, 2026 10:34 AM (1bYJp)

120 Markets yesterday: yay, Democrats are in charge!

Markets today: oh, wait...

Posted by: Vengeance at November 05, 2026 10:34 AM (wn0/z)

121 My summary of the election results:

Buy ammo.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 10:35 AM (qlLNh)

122 Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed declined to endorse Chuck Schumer for Democratic Senate leader, despite Schumer’s support for his campaign.

Oh, no!

Anyway....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 05, 2026 10:35 AM (ctC8W)

123 It’s kind of funny that the new democrat socialists think they don’t have to wait their turn to become leaders.

The old democrats, are they going to just relinquish their power to the newbies?

*pops popcorn*

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 05, 2026 10:36 AM (H3kqf)

124 All the info on X coming about about Texas voting... but what can be done out it?

Anyone telling themselves Texas voted this way due to A, B, C should look at the "anomalies" in the "software errors."

And the shift to blue in EVERY COUNTY in 21 states (1799 counties)? Yeah that seems real.

Posted by: Ann at November 05, 2026 10:36 AM (SHHm+)

125 the art was taken over at the worst or heavily influenced at best by banks and the government it was fixed by DOGE for a bit and you will watch when the spigots get turned back on it snap back to the junk that was getting studios shut down like Bioware....

I've worked in AAA for over 30 years. USAID was not involved, all the bad decisions were made by dumbass MBAs who were cucked by HR.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 05, 2026 10:36 AM (2ocoG)

126 Democrats are foaming at the mouth to get their guillotine built.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 05, 2026 10:36 AM (wn0/z)

127 "The country will remember who warned them and who sold them the story."

I doubt it. A country so clueless that it can't remember back 18 months (when gas prices had declined rapidly), and of course seems to have no understanding of why or how anything works, cannot be expected to "learn".

Every day I am more amazed that the US even survived, much less developed into the greatest country in history, given how ignorant, selfish, and stupid such a large % of the populace is.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 05, 2026 10:38 AM (U/Byj)

128 A Hamas lover won’t support a Jew for senate leader?

Shocked I am!!

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 05, 2026 10:38 AM (VYGAQ)

129 Durka-Durka Mohammed Jihad may have to learn the same lesson that AOC learned when she disrespected Pelosi.

Something akin to a horse head in her bed, I believe.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 10:38 AM (qlLNh)

130 118 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 10:34 AM (qlLNh)

William is very idealistic, "nobody is illegal on stolen land" it is why William gave the Arapazowie tribe their stolen mansion....

Posted by: sven at November 05, 2026 10:38 AM (Int1s)

131 101 Chuckie "Faustus" Schumer.

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Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed declined to endorse Chuck Schumer for Democratic Senate leader, despite Schumer’s support for his campaign.

“I do believe we need new leadership and I think people are hungry for it,” El-Sayed declared.

The outspoken Israel critic signals growing divisions within the Democratic Party over its leadership and direction.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 05, 2026 10:27 AM (ndZc7)

I think he's simply going public with telling Schumer (and other Majority Leader candidates) that his (Abdul's) vote for Majority Leader must be purchased. The final price will be determined behind closed doors. For example, Abdul wants to be assigned to choice Senate committees. Foreign Affairs, Defense, Budget, and one or two others. Abdul will not stand quietly if he's assigned to the Agriculture Committee and the like.

Posted by: Gref at November 05, 2026 10:38 AM (5rh/l)

132 Based on recent photos, Billie Eilish is believed to have undergone breast-reduction surgery.
Posted by: Bulg at November 05, 2026 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

Katy Segal has always denied she got implants during the run of Married. . .With Children, but her appearance says otherwise. Dolly, on the other hand, freely admitted to augmenting her embonpoint over the years.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 05, 2026 10:38 AM (qRla/)

133 Yeah it looks like the muslims in Congress are anxious to kick off their jihad from the inside. You’ve got supporters of 9-11 terrorists and others who support terror groups. Big tent ya got there Democrats.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 05, 2026 10:38 AM (wn0/z)

134 127 Posted by: rhomboid at November 05, 2026 10:38 AM (U/Byj)

We live in a country that looked at 3 dead kids and decided Lindsay Clancy was a heroine and lions don't kill their cubs and the only member of the family provably not there probably did it....

go long on paste and door knobs.

Posted by: sven at November 05, 2026 10:39 AM (Int1s)

135 Where's the rope?

Posted by: Eromero at November 05, 2026 10:39 AM (LHPAg)

136 Schumer didn’t know get the Jews meant him too?

Huh.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 05, 2026 10:39 AM (wn0/z)

137 Something akin to a horse head in her bed, I believe.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

AOC has a donkey head in her bed every time she lies down in it.

Posted by: Bulg at November 05, 2026 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

138 > given how ignorant, selfish, and stupid such a large % of the populace is.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 05, 2026 10:38 AM (U/Byj)

The next republic (in the optimistic belief that there will be a next republic) needs to keep communists far, far, FAR away from the schools and universities.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 10:40 AM (qlLNh)

139 Chuck U Schumer might want to hire a food taster and someone to start his car.

Or not. I don't give a fuck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 05, 2026 10:40 AM (X8vlu)

140 133 Posted by: Vengeance at November 05, 2026 10:38 AM (wn0/z)

I am not joining the MTGs and Tuq'rs in joining Abdul, I am also not getting between Durka Durka and the Donks who empowered them.

Posted by: sven at November 05, 2026 10:40 AM (Int1s)

141 Nice rendering of the clouds. I sense a theme? Or just nature is awesome any time.

Posted by: LizLem at November 05, 2026 10:41 AM (Toos7)

142 The next republic (in the optimistic belief that there will be a next republic) needs to keep communists far, far, FAR away from the schools and universities.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 10:40 AM (qlLNh)
----
I don't think any of us will be around to witness the rise of the New American Republic.

The lamp of freedom has been extinguished.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 05, 2026 10:41 AM (s2iZv)

143 @124

>>And the shift to blue in EVERY COUNTY in 21 states (1799 counties)? Yeah that seems real.

Political realignments happen.

People forget but the Democrats are the natural governing party of the US, they had a nearly 60 year run of both the house and Senate, only broken when the country realigned politically allowing the Republicans to take control of both the house and senate in 1995.

The GOP has largely been in charge of the house and Senate for the last 24 years and we've largely gotten wars and debt out of that.

So, the country may be aligning back to it's Democrat default.

Unfortunately.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 05, 2026 10:42 AM (XV/Pl)

144 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 05, 2026 10:42 AM (2614e)

145 Alternate title:

America in 2027

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 05, 2026 10:42 AM (2614e)

146 125 Posted by: Ian S. at November 05, 2026 10:36 AM (2ocoG)

USAID propped up some of the indies, they also worked with Canada to foster the SBI Extortion.....sorry "consulting" wing....

when the spigots, the Fed funding ESG to the 9s and everything turns back on the idiocy will resume full bore.....

Gotta love the Bioware hysteria.

Posted by: sven at November 05, 2026 10:42 AM (Int1s)

147 I doubt it. A country so clueless that it can't remember back 18 months (when gas prices had declined rapidly), and of course seems to have no understanding of why or how anything works, cannot be expected to "learn".
Every day I am more amazed that the US even survived, much less developed into the greatest country in history, given how ignorant, selfish, and stupid such a large % of the populace is.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 05, 2026 10:38 AM (U/Byj)

Agree. Not to mention the fat stoners and drunks and pill poppers running amok and queuing up for free handouts and gummies.

Posted by: Fat, Drunk and Stupid at November 05, 2026 10:42 AM (D5ixm)

148 all the bad decisions were made by dumbass MBAs who were cucked by HR.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 05, 2026 10:36 AM (2ocoG)

sadly, this is the story of most companies mid to large sized now....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at November 05, 2026 10:43 AM (nXhwP)

149 > AOC has a donkey head in her bed every time she lies down in it.
Posted by: Bulg at November 05, 2026 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

Is she still "engaged" to that pudgy little Birkenstock-wearing manlet?

I confess to some curiosity about how she actually gets it off, given that neither she nor any other woman has ever gotten wet for that guy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 10:43 AM (qlLNh)

150 We should be handing out axe handles with nails sticking out. Enjoy Democrats, those of you who voted for them.

BTW I see Temu Jefferies is saying Democrats won’t be doing investigations when every single potential chair and most members are saying the opposite.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 05, 2026 10:43 AM (wn0/z)

151 Has Whig weighed in on the midterms yet? I'd like to hear his analysis of what went wrong.

Posted by: Bulg at November 05, 2026 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

152 The DNC "infighting" is all WWE

Posted by: ... at November 05, 2026 10:44 AM (pjdUv)

153
Starving coyote just out of frame.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 05, 2026 09:52 AM (ctC8W)

Just before the empty Acme box goes blowing by.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 05, 2026 10:44 AM (2614e)

154
Diana and Dot are both in a tizzy. They see us going back and forth, carrying things outside and just know a car trip is in the offing. Their excitement will reach its peak when we get out travel collars for them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 05, 2026 10:45 AM (eRlcH)

155 And the shift to blue in EVERY COUNTY in 21 states (1799 counties)? Yeah that seems real.

—

I can’t remember the exact numbers but something similar happened in 2024.thousands of counties even in blue states shifted from Biden to Trump.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 05, 2026 10:45 AM (VYGAQ)

156 > sadly, this is the story of most companies mid to large sized now....
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at November 05, 2026 10:43 AM (nXhwP)

"I've never met one of you people who didn't suck."

-- Steve Jobs to a candidate, when Apple first got big enough to need an HR department.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 10:45 AM (qlLNh)

157 I think a lot of people underestimated how pissed people were when they got the run around on the Epstein files.

Trump saying they are a scam and "are we still talking about that?" was actually retarded.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 05, 2026 10:47 AM (iOpI2)

158 People assume that Democrats are the party of 10 even years ago. Hint, they are not and the up and coming members get more radical by the day. These people want a complete destruction of the republic, a fixed judiciary that keeps them in office, election chaos that does the same, unimpeded illegal immigration with amnesty, and nothing on the way of their fiscal profligacy that finds the whole scheme.

I suppose some people will learn the hard way.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 05, 2026 10:47 AM (wn0/z)

159 Had my weekly conference call this morning. The Euros were closely watching the US Election this week. I'm sure they're ecstatic to see the Dems take congress back so USAID and all the buttf*cking of America will be back in fashion as Eurofags bleed us dry again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 05, 2026 10:47 AM (2614e)

160
...America now gets to watch the real Democrat Party govern with both chambers. The country will remember who warned them and who sold them the story.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2026 10:29 AM (mISmA)

Yes! This is a great opportunity....if-

If the Republicans will use it, and shout the Dims lies and shortcomings loud nd long for the next two years, and, most important-

do not assist the Democrats in their rage and socialist fuckery at all.

Just keep the pressure on for two years every time they don't concentrate on "affordability", etc.

I know, i know I'm placing faith in a collection of complete poltroons and cowards.

But, hey, I'm White Pilling today!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 05, 2026 10:47 AM (YSUhf)

161 Say goodbye to yesterday’s market gains. lol.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 05, 2026 10:48 AM (wn0/z)

162
"I've never met one of you people who didn't suck."

-- Steve Jobs to a candidate, when Apple first got big enough to need an HR department.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 10:45 AM (qlLNh)

And yet he was a libtard and a supporter of the leftist commie regime.........

His widow is a HORRIBLE person.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 05, 2026 10:48 AM (2614e)

163 Today plus yesterday is definitely an official "correction"

NASDAQ Composite (^IXIC)
24,490.66 -1,245.85 (-4.84%)
As of 10:46:43 AM EST. Market Open.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 05, 2026 10:49 AM (1bYJp)

164 It'd be like humping an exercise ball full of cold bacon grease and covered in cookie crumbs.
___

*considers*

Posted by: A Man at November 05, 2026 10:49 AM (Dv3i1)

165 > The lamp of freedom has been extinguished.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 05, 2026 10:41 AM (s2iZv)

I'm not giving up just yet.

After the British defeat at Saratoga in 1777, Sir John Sinclair was alarmed and wrote to Adam Smith that if things continued at that rate, “the nation must be ruined.”

Smith wrote back: “Be assured, my young friend, that there is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 10:50 AM (qlLNh)

166 ___

*considers*
Posted by: A Man at November 05, 2026 10:49 AM (Dv3i1)

That seems more like something Florida Man would contemplate......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 05, 2026 10:50 AM (2614e)

167
"I've never met one of you people who didn't suck."

-- Steve Jobs to a candidate, when Apple first got big enough to need an HR department.

___________

He was your prototypical tech bro. A despicable human being.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 05, 2026 10:51 AM (eRlcH)

168 I think a lot of people underestimated how pissed people were when they got the run around on the Epstein files.

Trump saying they are a scam and "are we still talking about that?" was actually retarded.
Posted by: Seems Legit

Yep.

That and bombing Iran last summer was a 1-2 punch that turned a lot of people off a Trump.A lot of people also refuse to admit how much of a shit of Israel there has been in the country in the last 2 years.

The counter argument is but polls had Trump at 100% approval from maga. Yes but the size of maga shrank dramatically after those 2 events.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 05, 2026 10:51 AM (VYGAQ)

169 So, the country may be aligning back to it's Democrat default.

Unfortunately.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 05, 2026 10:42 AM (XV/Pl)

Unfortunately, this is not your father's Democrat party. Or the Democrat party of my youth, not all that long ago. This is now 100% tribal, and one tribe are the frigging Comanches.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 05, 2026 10:51 AM (QaH55)

170 167 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 05, 2026 10:51 AM (eRlcH)

An absolute asshole good at one thing, who was propped up by his mirror image who was better at business with businessmen.

Posted by: sven at November 05, 2026 10:52 AM (Int1s)

171 >>> 116 Per Breitbart: Australia- Italian chef fired for refusing to put pineapple on pizza.
"An affront to my culture."
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 05, 2026 10:33 AM (X8vlu)

I am the ultimate Heathen... my fave pizza is a supreme with pineapple on it!

But if your restaurant offers pineapple as a topping, you kind of have to use it if the customer wants it, no? Same if you are Muslim and you work at a pizza place. Customer wants ham, bacon, sausage... you gotta supply it.

Posted by: LizLem at November 05, 2026 10:52 AM (Toos7)

172 Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed declined to endorse Chuck Schumer for Democratic Senate leader, despite Schumer’s support for his campaign.

“I do believe we need new leadership and I think people are hungry for it,” El-Sayed declared.

The outspoken Israel critic signals growing divisions within the Democratic Party over its leadership and direction.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 05, 2026 10:27 AM (ndZc7)

I think he's simply going public with telling Schumer (and other Majority Leader candidates) that his (Abdul's) vote for Majority Leader must be purchased. The final price will be determined behind closed doors. For example, Abdul wants to be assigned to choice Senate committees. Foreign Affairs, Defense, Budget, and one or two others. Abdul will not stand quietly if he's assigned to the Agriculture Committee and the like.
Posted by: Gref

I bid four camels!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2026 10:52 AM (mISmA)

173 *considers*
Posted by: A Man at November 05, 2026 10:49 AM (Dv3i1)

That seems more like something Florida Man would contemplate......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Bath salts would be involved.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 05, 2026 10:53 AM (X8vlu)

174 Per Breitbart: Australia- Italian chef fired for refusing to put pineapple on pizza.
"An affront to my culture."
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Love pineapple and ham on pizza. The sweetness of the pineapple counteracts the acidity of the sauce.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2026 10:54 AM (mISmA)

175 > And yet he was a libtard and a supporter of the leftist commie regime.........

People assume that, but he really wasn't. He gave a total of $250K to the Democrats over the course of his life. Not much for a guy with $7 billion. His "support" was mostly lip service rather than tangible action.

His widow, though, is everything you say and more.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 10:54 AM (qlLNh)

176 Per Breitbart: Australia- Italian chef fired for refusing to put pineapple on pizza.
"An affront to my culture."

===

Stay strong!

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2026 10:54 AM (AKptf)

177 Big bye market gains. Did oil prices stay low (what a coincidence they were artificially propped up during the elections!), or did they go back up as well.

Posted by: LizLem at November 05, 2026 10:54 AM (Toos7)

178
“I do believe we need new leadership and I think people are hungry for it,” El-Sayed declared.

___________

"No dirty hook-nosed Yids," El-Sayed declared.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 05, 2026 10:55 AM (eRlcH)

179 Posted by: Seems Legit at November 05, 2026 10:47 AM (iOpI2)

Trump said tying it to him was a hoax. And it clearly was.

Bondi - Strike 3 on AG - fucked him as her first act. Shocker.

Longtime political operative knows what "it's on my desk" means.

Posted by: ... at November 05, 2026 10:55 AM (pjdUv)

180 168 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 05, 2026 10:51 AM (eRlcH)

The Epstein files were democrats, congress critters, some republicans probably like the Keating five and likely a joint op by the DOJ and Mossad.....

Trump was absolutely not in the files or it would have been leaked and in all likelihood the civil service likely explained divulgence would have imploded the security state....which while *I* favor that outcome would destabilize "too much"....

anyway if America's last chance at stability was on the 1-2 punch of needing the Epstein files, and Iran being able to nuke Israel then we do not need to be stable and deserve what we get.

Posted by: sven at November 05, 2026 10:55 AM (Int1s)

181 @169

>>Unfortunately, this is not your father's Democrat party.

Yes, they're f**** lunatics but what are you going to do when the people want f**** lunatics?

Again, the LA mayor race is a perfect illustration of how f**** insane people in this country have become.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 05, 2026 10:55 AM (XV/Pl)

182 In the Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates wrestling contest, I am 100% team Steve Jobs. Sure, he may have lifted an idea or two from Xerox or whomever, but a creative thought has never been welcome in Bill Gates's brain.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 05, 2026 10:56 AM (2ap+5)

183 There are 19 men and women in the TX senate to the 12 Dems.
They are all rated solid to strong conservatives.

It is up to them to save America by saving Texas.

They have to craft the perfect strategy--with no errors--of stopping and frustrating the Dems without being blamed.
While building an agenda of change, promises people believe.
A national agenda.

Maybe the smartest thing they can do is name Adam Hinojosa of Corpus Christi as the senate leader.
And have him everywhere--make him the shadow governor of Texas.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 05, 2026 10:56 AM (/Ki2A)

184 The lamp of freedom has been extinguished.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 05, 2026 10:41 AM
We will not see it lighted again in our time.

Posted by: Eromero at November 05, 2026 10:56 AM (LHPAg)

185 "Florida Man" comes from the fact that Florida has open books when it comes to arrests. You can go online and find the crazy that went on the night before.

Lots of states make it impossible to find this info.

Another win for Florida: act like an idiot, get idiot PR.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 05, 2026 10:56 AM (iOpI2)

186 Every day I am more amazed that the US even survived, much less developed into the greatest country in history, given how ignorant, selfish, and stupid such a large % of the populace is.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 05, 2026 10:38 AM (U/Byj)

Roughly, half of the population is below average intelligence.*

And that hasn't improved at all thanks to our new 3rd world neighbors.

*I know, I know, but I'm covered under the HQ's "No Math Clause".

Posted by: naturalfake at November 05, 2026 10:56 AM (YSUhf)

187 > tech bro.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 05, 2026 10:51 AM (eRlcH)

I don't even know what that means. Near as I can figure, it's like "fascist"... a semantically-null pejorative term for anyone you don't like.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 10:56 AM (qlLNh)

188 141 Nice rendering of the ~~clouds~~ other people's computers. I sense a theme? Or just nature is awesome any time.

fixt

Posted by: anachronda at November 05, 2026 10:57 AM (v3pYe)

189 Why do people freak out so much over day to day market fluctuations? Remember when stocks plummeted 10% after Tarriffs were announced? Only to recover and then go up 10% on top of the recovery within a month?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 05, 2026 10:57 AM (VYGAQ)

190 Of course many things have already become more "affordable" in the last nearly 2 years. Rents are down in many areas. Overall inflation has declined significantly. Real wages have been increasing (last time was 2019, before that last time was 80s, for most income levels - gee class what do those periods have in common?). Unemployment is at/just below long term average (which is below level that economists historically considered full employment).

Needless to say the Dems have literally zero ideas or changes that would improve "affordability" apart from short-term giveaways and subsidies that will bolster inflation.

But to the pathetic American audience, chanting "affordability", just like "hope and change", actually constitutes a "pitch".

Posted by: rhomboid at November 05, 2026 10:58 AM (U/Byj)

191 187 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 10:56 AM (qlLNh)

Tech Bros tend to be people skilled at tech or asset management ancillary to tech who consider themselves to be polymaths fit to with minimal scholarship be experts in multiple disciplines due to the money piles they have....see Gates, Bill the planet's most esteemed water purification expert AND epidemiologist....

Posted by: sven at November 05, 2026 10:58 AM (Int1s)

192 186 Roughly, half of the population is below average intelligence.

what a mean thing to say.

Posted by: anachronda at November 05, 2026 10:58 AM (v3pYe)

193 > Trump was absolutely not in the files or it would have been leaked

Believing that there is any negative information about Trump in the alleged "Epstein files" requires that one believe that Dopey Joe and the Ho sat on the information for four full years, even when the Ho was engaged in a contentious election with Trump.

It's sheer nonsense.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 10:59 AM (qlLNh)

194 179 Posted by: Seems Legit at November 05, 2026 10:47 AM (iOpI2)

Trump said tying it to him was a hoax. And it clearly was.

Bondi - Strike 3 on AG - fucked him as her first act. Shocker.

Longtime political operative knows what "it's on my desk" means.
Posted by: ... at November 05, 2026 10:55 AM (pjdUv)

-----

Yes, I agree. BUT HE DIDN'T release the files without redaction and that's on him. If it wasn't, he should have named names of those blocking him from doing so. It's ridiculous. People really care about those files and the depravity shown by many of our "elites and leaders."

I'm one of them.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 05, 2026 10:59 AM (iOpI2)

195 Median can be less than the mean.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 05, 2026 10:59 AM (2ap+5)

196 And yet he was a libtard and a supporter of the leftist commie regime.........

Jobs told Obama that he's economically illiterate. He most likely wouldn't approve of how his wife's spending his money, but that's kind of the male experience.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 05, 2026 11:00 AM (2ocoG)

197
I don't even know what that means. Near as I can figure, it's like "fascist"... a semantically-null pejorative term for anyone you don't like.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 10:56 AM (qlLNh)

___________

What I mean is someone so puffed up on his genius that they forget little things like ethics or morals, who makes himself a god and the little people are his subjects.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 05, 2026 11:00 AM (eRlcH)

198 Warp speed!

Influencer followed by Abdul El-Sayed says Elon Musk should be executed by Christmas, calls on El-Sayed to slash the throat of Stephen Miller

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 05, 2026 11:00 AM (ndZc7)

199 >Tech Bros tend to be...

Ah. So people who have opinions about shit they don't understand?

We already had a word for that: "people".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 11:00 AM (qlLNh)

200 The new agenda is already being said out loud. Arrest the political opponents. Seize Elon Musk's factories. Nationalize SpaceX. The mask did not slip over weeks or months. It came off before the victory parties even ended.

Anyone paying attention could have seen this coming. The affordability language was the wrapper, and the wrapper was never the product. The product is power, and power aimed at everyone who stood in the way.

America now gets to watch the real Democrat Party govern with both chambers. The country will remember who warned them and who sold them the story.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2026 10:29 AM (mISmA)

Funny how a plot of a particular banned movie (in Europe, especially) is basically about a very rich man who finally takes revenge on power hungry government officials. Hmm.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at November 05, 2026 11:00 AM (hmYU4)

201 > What I mean is someone so puffed up on his genius that they forget little things like ethics or morals, who makes himself a god and the little people are his subjects.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 05, 2026 11:00 AM (eRlcH)

What does "tech" have to do with it?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 11:01 AM (qlLNh)

202 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 10:59 AM (qlLNh)

That ain't gonna stop the Dems and a "Panel of Intelligence Officers" from cooking some shit up.

Fortunately the American People have seen enough of that bullshit to where only their lunatics will buy into it, again. And No one will give a shit cause Democrats decided to try and sell the public on the idea that they can shit "Affordability" out of their asses.

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 05, 2026 11:01 AM (lLeLE)

203 Damnit, forgot I said I'd revert to my ancient name for this site.

Posted by: cajun carrot at November 05, 2026 11:01 AM (lLeLE)

204 Rant up

Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2026 11:01 AM (mISmA)

205
anyway if America's last chance at stability was on the 1-2 punch of needing the Epstein files, and Iran being able to nuke Israel then we do not need to be stable and deserve what we get.
Posted by: sven at November

100%. Hello, friend!

Posted by: Piper at November 05, 2026 11:02 AM (ZdaMQ)

206 Markets yesterday: yay, Democrats are in charge!

Markets today: oh, wait...
Posted by: Vengeance
---------
VIX (volatility index for you non-stock market people) up over 50%.

Posted by: scampydog at November 05, 2026 11:02 AM (2bFN5)

207 This nation has thoroughly fucked itself. And contrary to popular belief (even on this blog), it wasn't Trump's fault. What we're seeing is the younger generations educated in our public school system coming into voting age. The boomers can't be blamed for this massive fuckup. There's not enough of us left to cause this.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 05, 2026 11:02 AM (BeZSp)

208 anyway if America's last chance at stability was on the 1-2 punch of needing the Epstein files, and Iran being able to nuke Israel then we do not need to be stable and deserve what we get.

Iran had ICBMs that could hit London and Paris. I don't think their ambitions were limited to Israel.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 05, 2026 11:03 AM (2ocoG)

209 >>> Again, the LA mayor race is a perfect illustration of how f**** insane people in this country have become.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 05, 2026 10:55 AM (XV/Pl)

To be fair, I see it as equal to the Cuomo vs Mamdami race. People refused to vote for the LA mayor that willingly let their houses burn down, their neighbors burnt alive, same as they refused to vote for the NYC mayor that sent their grannies back to the infected nursing homes to be killed.

They would rather vote for an unknown evil than the known evil. I can't blame them for that.

But I still wish that Spencer had even a sliver of a fair election for the mayor's race. He is awesome. LA and Cali doesn't deserve having him or Hilton in their corner.

Posted by: LizLem at November 05, 2026 11:03 AM (Toos7)

210 202 Posted by: Piper at November 05, 2026 11:02 AM (ZdaMQ)

Madam.

Posted by: sven at November 05, 2026 11:03 AM (Int1s)

211 I am about to be out for the day as I can't stand any more winning.

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Posted by: toby928(c) at November 05, 2026 11:03 AM (1bYJp)

212 Ah. So people who have opinions about shit they don't understand?

We already had a word for that: "people".
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See social media (and even the comment sections here) after every plane crash.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 05, 2026 11:04 AM (J4Dwc)

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What does "tech" have to do with it?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 05, 2026 11:01 AM (qlLNh)

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I see I've touched a nerve. I hadn't intended to do so. But a world where megalomaniacs call the shots isn't one attractive to me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 05, 2026 11:05 AM (eRlcH)

214 131. I think he's simply going public with telling Schumer (and other Majority Leader candidates) that his (Abdul's) vote for Majority Leader must be purchased.
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Posted by: L - No nic... at November 05, 2026 11:05 AM (NFX2v)

215 First order of business for the dems in 2027 will surely be to release the Epstein files, right? Since the dems control one whole branch of government?

Bueller?

What do you mean, no? It's all talk of revenge and subpoenas and impeachments, which the normie dems did NOT vote for. Who could have foreseen this, but everyone with any sense?

Posted by: LizLem at November 05, 2026 11:06 AM (Toos7)

216 anyway if America's last chance at stability was on the 1-2 punch of needing the Epstein files, and Iran being able to nuke Israel then we do not need to be stable and deserve what we get.
Posted by: sven at November

THERE IT IS

Posted by: ... at November 05, 2026 11:07 AM (pjdUv)

217 Influencer followed by Abdul El-Sayed says Elon Musk should be executed by Christmas, calls on El-Sayed to slash the throat of Stephen Miller
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 05, 2026 11:00 AM (ndZc7)

Maybe the richest man on the planet may decide to seek a little justice on his own. Just sayin'. I know damn well I would.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at November 05, 2026 11:07 AM (hmYU4)

218 By the way "there it is" is the highest praise I can give to a comment. I don't think I've ever done a fully uppercase there it is.

Posted by: ... at November 05, 2026 11:07 AM (pjdUv)

219 People forget but the Democrats are the natural governing party of the US, they had a nearly 60 year run of both the house and Senate...

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They're oldest and most powerful political party in the world.

You can't beat them in ten years, swinging around the flaccid remnant of the political party that last truly challenged them a hundred years ago.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's3 Dice at November 05, 2026 11:08 AM (BI5O2)

220 213 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 05, 2026 11:05 AM (eRlcH)

Yes Jack Dorsey and Bill Gates "having opinions" is JUST like Bob the Plumber noticing that the chick in DC ignoring the instructor and causing a crash in Jan of 25 was a lot of DEI coming home to roost....

the problem with "the tech elite" is the world is set up in such a way their genius can fuck shit up on a galactic scale....see Sam Altman and "your home PC having any ram is a waste....."

Posted by: sven at November 05, 2026 11:08 AM (Int1s)

221 Ah. So people who have opinions about shit they don't understand?

We already had a word for that: "people".

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As Stevie Wonder explained some decades ago . . .

When you believe in things that you don't understand
Then you suffer
~~Superstition~~ Socialism ain't the way

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 05, 2026 11:08 AM (ndZc7)

222 >>> They're oldest and most powerful political party in the world.

We just want our slaves back!

Posted by: The New Democrat party, same as the old party at November 05, 2026 11:11 AM (Toos7)

223 218 Posted by: ... at November 05, 2026 11:07 AM (pjdUv)

Thanks, I went up to Missouri to look at the craftsmanship and maybe drop the hammer on a 110,000 buck house near New Madrid made of stone...we literally don't build them like it any more....

the realtor a hot Gilf type ran with "this is one of the safest spots in the country far from any riots and away from the coasts if things go sideways only thing to worry about is the river".... me being me and lord knows you all know me I replied.... "of course this is the New Madrid fault line and if you roll bad dice you can have a quake so bad it alters the ground table in 35 feet in real time, reverses the MS river for a month and makes the sky blood red.....so yeah safe as houses.....

I really am pondering South America.

Posted by: sven at November 05, 2026 11:12 AM (Int1s)

224 208 Posted by: Ian S. at November 05, 2026 11:03 AM (2ocoG)

London and Paris are at this point allied states...

Posted by: sven at November 05, 2026 11:13 AM (Int1s)

225 Posted by: sven at November 05, 2026 11:12 AM (Int1s)

I am pondering just putting my head in the sand for all but me and mines.

Posted by: ... at November 05, 2026 11:16 AM (pjdUv)

226 Nice watercolor.

Posted by: Joe at November 05, 2026 11:24 AM (Uy/WF)

227 225 Posted by: ... at November 05, 2026 11:16 AM (pjdUv)

Keep your head up, the American people as a whole are made of good stock...the wife's progenitor ancestor started off in Norway as a simple fisherman, looked around the Hanseatic league thought "the money is in Holland" taught himself Dutch moved to Amsterdam was a loadmaster eventually made in six years Captain of a Fluyt mastered two native languages Huron and Ottawa and was sent to work the New Amsterdam coast.... he died after his son married an English woman....

about 125 years later the English were running "New York" for England....and after than they were "Americans" the wheel keeps spinning....I think the mistake was the Westphalian nation state and the massive concentration of power on this scale....and it destroys me on a level to type that given I have dedicated my life to service to a Westphalian nation state.

Posted by: sven at November 05, 2026 11:24 AM (Int1s)

228 You're right, just a crappy week.

Posted by: ... at November 05, 2026 11:28 AM (pjdUv)

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