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Secretary of War Hegseth Plans to Fire 20% of All Generals and Admirals; Appoints a Panel to Game Out the Future of Warfare, Including Elon Musk

I know that when the government wants to fire people, the best way to do it is to announce a staff slim-down. Judges can't force the government to retain more personnel than the government thinks they need, but they can protect left-wing saboteurs who are fired for cause. So best practice is to just say you're cutting personnel, then get rid of the saboteurs.

I don't know if Hegseth has to do that in the military, though. I think he might have more plenary power to fire people than secretaries overseeing civilian departments do.

So maybe this is just a reduction in force.

Either way, he'll be firing nonperforming generals and admirals.

War Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce plans to reduce by 20% the number of positions reserved for generals and admirals during his State of the Force address on Wednesday.
Hegseth approved reduction plans for the Army, Navy, Air Force and the military's joint pool earlier this month, according to memos seen by Fox News Digital. The services were directed to implement the plans and complete the reductions by Jan. 1, 2027.
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The new target doubles the 10% overall reduction in general and flag officer positions Hegseth ordered last year as part of his effort to streamline the military's senior ranks. That earlier directive separately called for a 20% reduction in active-duty four-star positions and a 20% reduction in National Guard general officers.
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Hegseth dubbed that effort "less generals, more GIs," arguing that reducing senior headquarters positions would push resources and authority toward troops closer to the fight.
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At least some of the positions will be downgraded rather than eliminated altogether. In a Sept. 16 memo approving reductions to the military's joint pool, Hegseth directed officials to establish O-6 requirements for general and flag officer positions identified for downgrade, allowing colonels and Navy captains to fill those jobs.

That sounds like he's using this as cover to fire the nonperformers. But I don't know.

The announcement comes exactly one year after Hegseth summoned hundreds of generals and admirals from around the world to Quantico, Virginia, for an extraordinary gathering where he laid out his expectations for the military's senior leaders and warned those who did not support his reforms to step aside.

CBS: Hegseth said he'll be firing officers who "clung to woke."

Hegseth said he's aimed for the department to be "unrelenting, unapologetic, and uncompromising" in its mission to win. Generals who "clung to the woke department or seem to think civilian control of the military is simply a suggestion, well, they no longer work here," Hegseth said.

He also announced the military would be a force of cleanshaven normies: "No beardos, no weirdoes."

"The media calls that a purge," he said. "I call it accountability, and long overdue."
Hegseth also used the speech to spell out the kind of force he wants. He used a string of derogatory terms for people he said should not serve in the military: "No fatties, no t******s, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors."

I assume the censored word is the absurdly forbidden word "trannies." Just because. Trans agitators decided they needed their own n-word to ban and decided that the very typical method of shortening a word by just ending a "y" or "ies" ending was "offensive" and a "slur."

By the way, this word so offended communist propaganda outlet NPR they deleted it entirely without even noting the censorship:

"No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors," Hegseth said on Wednesday. "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."

Oorah.

As you can imagine, NPR is so triggered you guys!

He also will clarify that religion is not disfavored in the military, as it was under Obama and Biden. Quite the opposite.

In his last proclamation, Hegseth declared he will establish the Office of Religious Affairs at the Pentagon that "will report straight to the top."
"Cutting-edge technology ... new basing and bases ... and a better educational pipeline are still incomplete without the most essential component of our republic: faith," he told the assembled service members.
He said the Defense Department has "a sacred duty" to provide troops with "first-class religious support" wherever they're sent, bashing past administrations for treating the topic as an afterthought.
"Political correctness and secular humanism got a vote. Chaplains did not. Budgets were cut. Resourcing and manpower needs were ignored. Base chapels fell apart," Hegseth claimed. "Decisions about faith and religion were made by secular careerists in cubicles and lawyers running around with red tape."

He's also expanding the colleges from which officers will be drawn, shifting away from woke Ivies to southern schools which probably instill more traditional (and pro-military) values.

The military training program, called "America's Corps of Cadets," will include Louisiana State University, Liberty University, Tuskegee University, Mississippi State University and Hillsdale College.
"We need more officers from academic institutions like our military academies and senior military colleges, and today we're going to make that happen," Hegseth said.
Each school will be a "distinguished military college" and will be expected to "maintain exceptionally high standards of cadet discipline, tactical instruction and military organization," the Pentagon chief said.
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"From the Ivy Leagues to the most liberal arts colleges, our colleges and universities have become anti-American DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] worshipping woke factories. Qualities like grit and courage replaced with political correctness and social justice," Hegseth said. "God and country traded for Che Guevara and critical theory."

He announced an Autonomous Warfare Command, which would field AI-guided military drones.

Hegseth also announced a new panel to game out the massive changes in future -- actually, current -- warfighting. Elon Musk, tech mogul Palmer Lucky, and Newt Gingrich were named as leaders.

BREAKING: Secretary Pete Hegseth announces that Elon Musk will co-lead a new War Department effort studying the future of warfare during his State of the Force address.

Hegseth unveils Project Meridian, naming Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to co-lead the effort under the… pic.twitter.com/stxOPThY8z
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 30, 2026

I don't know what Gingrich is doing there. Well, I do. He considers himself a futurist and does think about military procurement. He's said of himself "I'm a hawk, but a cheap hawk," so maybe Hegseth thinks he will be able to separate the real cutting edge weaponry from the boondoggles.

He also announced a "FORTRESS America" initiative.

Sean Parnell
@SeanParnellASW

Today, at Secretary Hegseth's direction, the Department of War is announcing FORTRESS America--a national insurance policy for the American homeland.
Every major military installation in America will generate its own power.
We are bringing our critical supply chains home.
We are building strategic reserves deep enough to fight through disruption.
We are securing the high ground and the airwaves--our satellites, our spectrum, and our ability to see, navigate, and communicate with one another.

Hegseth: Today at my direction we are launching Fortress America. Fortress stands for Federal Operations for Resilience, Troops resources, energy, supply, and survivability. pic.twitter.com/tlllRN1mj7
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 30, 2026

The goal of this initiative will be to make bases entirely self-sufficient, having their own electrical plants for example, so that they can't be easily disrupted by an attack.

"If an adversary takes down the grid by cyberattack, by sabotage, or by any means, our bases stay lit. Our aircraft keep flying. Our command centers never go dark," he said.
The effort also is meant to bring critical supply chains home, including rare earth minerals, specialty metals, semiconductors and propellants "mined in America, refined in America, built in America by American workers."

He also announced some kind of new base, which I guess is a model for future bases:

Sean Parnell
@SeanParnellASW
Today, at Secretary Hegseth's direction, the Department of War is announcing The Next Great American Base.
This will be a dynamic, self-sustaining power projection platform.
This will include hundreds of thousands of acres, organic power generation, modern air defenses, and cutting-edge technology.

In some interesting military news: the last of the legendary SR-71 Blackbirds -- the highest-flying, fastest plane, made of titanium because it's the only metal that won't melt at very high speeds -- has apparently been re-activated after having been retired in 1999.

And given to NASA, for some reason.

Why? They're not saying. They're saying that NASA is back in the X-Plane game, and that they'll be "flying high and fast again."

But they don't specify what NASA will do with the plane.

Interviewer: You showed a picture of the Blackbird up there.
Jared Isaacman: You sure that's a Blackbird?
Interviewer: Well, okay. What was that picture that you showed up there?
Isaacman: Like I said, NASA's getting back in the business of flying high and fast again.
Interviewer: I mean, that doesn't seem like a space vehicle. It seems like an Earth-air vehicle.
Isaacman: Yeah. The first "A" in NASA is our aeronautics portfolio. What we've contributed to over the decades, you may not realize this. Look, when you go see an F-22 fly at an air show and wow you, the fly-by-wire technology was us. The thrust-vectoring technology was us. NASA's been contributing to breakthroughs in aeronautics, both civil, commercial and national-security applications, for a long time. And again, kind of similar to the same theme, over the years we've been forced to spend our aeronautics budget on, like, subsidizing high-TRL efforts from big prime contractors. An engine that's 40 years old, they want to squeak 3% more fuel efficiency out of it, get NASA to pay for it. I'm like, are you kidding? There is no way we are doing that. You can underwrite that investment yourself for competitive reasons. You know what I want to do? I want to get back to the radical airframe and engine designs like we were always supposed to do, and you're getting a little bit of a taste for that on the...

I don't know why that ends in a "...".

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:16 PM

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1 THE BLADE, AGAIN?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

2 Blade, you need a real hobby.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 01, 2026 01:17 PM (rbvCR)

3
Either way, he'll be firing nonperforming generals and admirals.

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"Admiral Blutarski. Zero point zero."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 01:18 PM (eRlcH)

4 Percentage wise... there are more flag officers in the military now than there was at the end of WWII.

By a large margin.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 01:18 PM (RORbl)

5 And we're out of Iraq completely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 01:19 PM (U/fqy)

6 BRB, shorting perfume stocks

Posted by: 88C+u at October 01, 2026 01:19 PM (88C+u)

7 Willow'd:

Good morning! From the Morning Report:

"The National Political Committee (NPC) is the governing body of the DSA. The NPC is comprised of 27 members (25 delegates plus two youth delegates) and elects its own Steering Committee, which is responsible for interim decision-making. The following caucuses are represented on the NPC:"

Who Runs the Socialist Organization Taking Over the Democrat Party?
The National Pulse: https://tinyurl.com/4zrv77wa

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:26 AM

That is rich. In the confidence scheme of socialism, normally it's the marks that are described as Non-Player Characters.

"In Soviet America, the NPC cons you!" -- Yakov Smirnoff, probably

Posted by: SciVo at October 01, 2026 01:19 PM (ke3zm)

8 NASA is calling up 70 year-old former employees to help bring the last SR-71 online.

I'm pretty sure that's literally the plot to the movie Battleship.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:19 PM (gLYp7)

9 Someone set us up the bomb!

Posted by: The Pentagon at October 01, 2026 01:20 PM (4NO2D)

10 I don't know if Hegseth has to do that in the military, though. I think he might have more plenary power to fire people than secretaries overseeing civilian departments do.

So maybe this is just a reduction in force.
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I think it's both. Call it a reduction, but make sure most if not all of those "reduced" are the scumbag saboteurs and deep state dickless cockroaches.

Why take the chance that, even if Hegg has more power to fire these shitstains, some leftwing judge puts a stop to it?

Hell, there may be a hawaiian judge who issues a TRO against the reduction.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 01:20 PM (iFTx/)

11 Gentlemen, make your time.

Posted by: Pete Hegseth at October 01, 2026 01:20 PM (4NO2D)

12
Do they still have that custom where a billet gets a high rank, but you revert to your substantive rank when the term ends?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 01:20 PM (eRlcH)

13 10
Hell, there may be a hawaiian judge who issues a TRO against the reduction.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 01:20 PM (iFTx/)

=======

Which eventually leads to precedent that yes, the presidency is unitary...again.

We just keep getting back to the point where Congress should pass laws.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 01:21 PM (U/fqy)

14 Love the Blade. He cuts right to the chase!

Posted by: Steely Gaze at October 01, 2026 01:21 PM (Fn+3X)

15 Also, no more civilians teaching at war colleges?

Buh-bye “Radio free Tom!”!!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 01:21 PM (4KUe5)

16 >>>"No fatties, no t******s, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors."

It really is a leftist purge. And long overdue.

Should have added man buns and bicyclists, too. You're an adult now. Get a proper haircut and a car.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 01:21 PM (TxUdT)

17 Hegseth has done a great job, but he either ditches the tan shoes with gray suit or he's out. I will not tolerate such an affront to haberdashery.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 01:21 PM (Riz8t)

18 He also announced the military would be a force of cleanshaven normies: "No beardos, no weirdoes."
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Good.

No more b.s. shaving profiles.

BTW Pete, do something about ponytails in uniform, including the PT uniform.

Female troops wearing ponytails is not very professional-looking, and is a safety hazard.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:22 PM (X7pZH)

19 17 Hegseth has done a great job, but he either ditches the tan shoes with gray suit or he's out. I will not tolerate such an affront to haberdashery.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 01:21 PM (Riz8t)

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It's sad that this is the only controversy of Trump's second term. The color of suits.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 01:22 PM (U/fqy)

20 Newt!

Posted by: Guy who shouts Newt! at October 01, 2026 01:22 PM (Yx5tR)

21 It's weird, the Blackbird thing.
'Cause satellites made it obsolete.

So what is the threat that requires us to fly fast, invisible and high anywhere in the world in minutes to hours?

From the nation that just announced it has weapons in space?
And has also announced it's switching from a sorta a passive satellite tracking that's 2-3 hours old, to a more active, dynamic and predictive tracking?

And recent stories of satellites, uh, dramatically failing?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 01:22 PM (3cUTc)

22 15 Also, no more civilians teaching at war colleges?

Buh-bye “Radio free Tom!”!!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 01:21 PM (4KUe5)

The people running the mess halls breathe a sign of relief.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 01, 2026 01:22 PM (oPFtC)

23 Should have added man buns and bicyclists, too. You're an adult now. Get a proper haircut and a car.

Who defines a proper haircut? Also, what's a car?

Posted by: George Armstrong Custer at October 01, 2026 01:22 PM (Riz8t)

24
Female troops wearing ponytails is not very professional-looking, and is a safety hazard.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:22 PM (X7pZH)

_________

Female troops wearing beards is even less professional looking.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 01:23 PM (eRlcH)

25 Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:22 PM (X7pZH)

Oh but I do love a good ponytail.

Uniform can work. Never considered both together.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 01:23 PM (enkoP)

26 Someone set us up the bomb!

Posted by: The Pentagon at October 01, 2026 01:20 PM (4NO2D)

All yous homos' jobs are belong to us.

- Hegseth the Barbarian.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 01:23 PM (TxUdT)

27 Should have added man buns and bicyclists, too. You're an adult now. Get a proper haircut and a car.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 01:21 PM (TxUdT)
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Don't think manbuns are allowed according to AR 670-1.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:23 PM (X7pZH)

28 There's an article over at The War Zone that talks about the SR-71 "revival."

https://tinyurl.com/4v6assdb

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 01:24 PM (RORbl)

29 Newt Gingrich
Newt the flute? Toot toot!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 01, 2026 01:24 PM (f/FeX)

30 The religion thing is funny at how much shrieking, wailing from the left.

"It's unconstitutional! Illegal!"

Please do fuck off, that's not what the 1st says.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 01:24 PM (3cUTc)

31 Oh but I do love a good ponytail.

Uniform can work. Never considered both together.
Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 01:23 PM (enkoP)
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Ponytails can be grabbed by the enemy.

It can also get caught in machinery.

Pin it up or cut it off.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:24 PM (X7pZH)

32 Small reactors for each and every Base for the win.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 01, 2026 01:25 PM (NnhvP)

33 Considering the opposition Hegseth got on the nomination process, and the unsubstantiated media accusations, it seems clear that they KNEW he was going to do this, and the rotating cadre of Command Staff called in favors to try and get Hegseth out of there before he could institute the policies.

And, the fact that they seemed to know his ambitions suggests someone that was working close to him leaking out that information.....which explains some of the high ranks showed the door previously.

Posted by: Orson at October 01, 2026 01:25 PM (dIske)

34 I assume the censored word is the absurdly forbidden word "trannies."

Tr*ggers?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 01:26 PM (l3cgK)

35 and police up that moostash!

Posted by: Sergeant Major Sixta at October 01, 2026 01:26 PM (4NO2D)

36 The religion thing is funny at how much shrieking, wailing from the left.

"It's unconstitutional! Illegal!"

I can't prove it, but I suspect that was included as a squirrel to distract the leftists from focusing on the other stuff they're doing.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 01:26 PM (Riz8t)

37 Female troops wearing beards is even less professional looking.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 01:23 PM (eRlcH)
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Pretty sure there's way more females with ponytails than beards, but point taken.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:26 PM (X7pZH)

38 I assume SEALs and other SOF can still rock the beard in the field.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:26 PM (KC5Lt)

39 Percentage wise... there are more flag officers in the military now than there was at the end of WWII.

By a large margin.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 01:18 PM (RORbl)

4X, I believe. I get that there are some technical commands which didn't exist before, NAVSEA 08 (nuclear propulsion) comes to mind, but a lot of them are just bloat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 01:26 PM (ExV1e)

40 Wasn’t it under Obama that they implemented Atheist Chaplains?

Gee, and then it all fell apart. Shocking. /s

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 01:27 PM (4KUe5)

41 Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:24 PM (X7pZH)

Oh I get it , I was simply... elsewhere

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 01:27 PM (enkoP)

42 So no more graduating West Point cadets wearing caps inscribed with "Communism will win" while wearing Che t-shirts?

Posted by: mrp at October 01, 2026 01:27 PM (rj6Yv)

43 > Small reactors for each and every Base for the win.
Posted by: AZ deplorable
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I believe one or two prototypes have been built. Not "mock ups" actual working models. Unfueled at this time, but likely will be fueled for testing next year. If not sooner.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 01:28 PM (RORbl)

44 MS Now is about to cover this.

They played most of the speech to illustrate how horrible and hateful this was to their dignity.

They also had a trigger warning.

On now 'blistering speech'. Their thought leaders are on now.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 01, 2026 01:28 PM (Sco7b)

45 What about a man with a beard?

Posted by: Barack at October 01, 2026 01:28 PM (enkoP)

46 Good for Hegseth! There might already be a maxim, but if not I'll start it right here - The higher the flag rank to fighter ratio, the less effective and competent the Force. Call it Chairborne's Maxim.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 01, 2026 01:28 PM (dbZNM)

47 Wasn’t it under Obama that they implemented Atheist Chaplains?

Gee, and then it all fell apart. Shocking. /s
Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 01:27 PM (4KUe5)
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Not too many troops want someone who believes in nothing "praying" over them before a mission or patrol.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:28 PM (X7pZH)

48 Pretty sure there's way more females with ponytails than beards, but point taken.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:26 PM (X7pZH)

I thought buns were already regulation.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:28 PM (KC5Lt)

49 Also, no more civilians teaching at war colleges?

No more civilians with tenure, I don't know if they're being gotten rid of altogether.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 01:28 PM (ExV1e)

50 47 Wasn’t it under Obama that they implemented Atheist Chaplains?

Gee, and then it all fell apart. Shocking. /s
Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 01:27 PM (4KUe5)
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Not too many troops want someone who believes in nothing "praying" over them before a mission or patrol.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:28 PM (X7pZH)

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"Dear nothing. Protect these men in battle by doing nothing because you are nothing and can do nothing."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 01:29 PM (U/fqy)

51 And, the fact that they seemed to know his ambitions suggests someone that was working close to him leaking out that information.....which explains some of the high ranks showed the door previously.

Posted by: Orson at October 01, 2026 01:25 PM (dIske)

Just the other day, there was a Townhall article that suggested a recent party put all of Hegseth's Pentagon enemies in one place with the journalists to whom they've been leaking.

"The gathering — advertised as “The 5th Annual Butler Rager: Fired and Retired Edition” — brought together, socially and outside the Pentagon, figures who had become central to both sides of the internal fight: officials Hegseth's allies suspected of resisting his agenda and the journalists publishing anonymously sourced stories about that fight."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:29 PM (gLYp7)

52 Oh I get it , I was simply... elsewhere
Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 01:27 PM (enkoP)
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Oh, I know.

Just a pet peeve of mine.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:29 PM (X7pZH)

53 Female troops wearing ponytails is not very professional-looking, and is a safety hazard.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy

I still don't understand why women don't get buzz cuts in basic. It grows back.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 01, 2026 01:29 PM (Fv808)

54
BRB, shorting perfume stocks
Posted by: 88C+u at October 01, 2026 01:19 PM (88C+u)

Perfume is OUT.
Body Odor is IN.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 01:29 PM (YSUhf)

55
Never having served, I don't know what the attitude personnel have toward chaplains. Actual attendance at services? Maybe not. Someone to talk to about things you don't want to discuss with an officer? More likely.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 01:29 PM (eRlcH)

56 Hegseth has done a great job, but he either ditches the tan shoes with gray suit or he's out. I will not tolerate such an affront to haberdashery.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 01:21 PM (Riz8t)

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It's sad that this is the only controversy of Trump's second term. The color of suits.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 01:22 PM (U/fqy)
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Hegg is a pretty snappy dresser, and his suits are well tailored, but I agree with the tan shoes. Sadly, that's a product of influencer bullshit, I think starting with some half-homo on the Bachelor.

Blue suit and brown shoes are cool. Tan shoes not so much, especially when (like Hegg here) there's no other tan or brown colors in the rest of the outfit to balance.

Btw, I think that might be a light blue suit in the video, not grey. Tough to tell from the color and resolution of the vid.

Also: Hegg's pants are too short. The hems should gently cover a bit of the shoes. The "pants crease" meme.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 01:30 PM (iFTx/)

57 24
Female troops wearing ponytails is not very professional-looking, and is a safety hazard.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:22 PM
Female troops wearing beards is even less professional looking.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

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Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at October 01, 2026 01:30 PM (IKCAR)

58 40 Wasn’t it under Obama that they implemented Atheist Chaplains?

Gee, and then it all fell apart. Shocking. /s

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 01:27 PM (4KUe5)

I was rather disgusted with the "chaplain" the hospital brought in for my FIL just before he died...they described him as a generic chaplain, but the guy was an athiest buddhist who was knowledgeable of a bunch of religions and sects (Catholicism, Protestantism, etc). They said it was the only guy they had available...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 01:30 PM (l3cgK)

59 Not too many troops want someone who believes in nothing "praying" over them before a mission or patrol.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:28 PM (X7pZH)

No atheists in foxholes.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:30 PM (gLYp7)

60 I still don't understand why women don't get buzz cuts in basic. It grows back.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 01, 2026 01:29 PM (Fv80

GI Jane .

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:30 PM (KC5Lt)

61 I assume the censored word is the absurdly forbidden word "trannies."

Absolutely. They freaked out a month ago when he said the military did training, not trannies:

Hegseth Uses Anti-Trans Slur While Giving Defense Department Update

The real war is going so badly that they have to fall back on open bigotry to distract their base.

I'm a bit sick of news reports censoring out curse words used by senior officials or the President. They shouldn't benefit by having it cleaned up so easily offended people can tolerate it.

I don’t understand how he has time to do this shit while actively losing a war, and putting us in a bad spot if China makes a move.

Has there ever been a SecDef so focused on genitalia to such an extent they lose a war?

He lost a war and tried to bribe Iran with $300B to accept his surrender *and they laughed at him*. Then he lectures our service members about “lethality”.

And to think it's all because Trump was pissy that Obama negotiated a peace deal over a decade ago and scrapped it during his first time.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 01, 2026 01:30 PM (EAQrO)

62 Any officer who ever had "DEI" in his job title needs to go. Yeah, some innocents might be hurt, but it's a fifth column we can no longer afford.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 01:30 PM (Riz8t)

63 I thought buns were already regulation.
Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:28 PM (KC5Lt)
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Buns are, and during Biden's admin, ponytails and other hairstyles were allowed.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:30 PM (X7pZH)

64 55 Never having served, I don't know what the attitude personnel have toward chaplains. Actual attendance at services? Maybe not. Someone to talk to about things you don't want to discuss with an officer? More likely.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 01:29 PM (eRlcH)

There are three people members of the military will fight through hell to get to/protect:

Doc
Chaps
The guy with the mail

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:31 PM (gLYp7)

65 Love the Blade. He cuts right to the chase!
Posted by: Steely Gaze at October 01, 2026 01:21 PM (Fn+3X)
_______

[Fistbump, but in a manly way. Not in a gay way.]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 01:31 PM (iFTx/)

66 Jeez, I dislike tan shoes. They are worse than saddle-shoes, and saddle shoes belong on bobbysoxers.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 01, 2026 01:31 PM (rbvCR)

67
Blue suit and brown shoes are cool. Tan shoes not so much, especially when (like Hegg here) there's no other tan or brown colors in the rest of the outfit to balance.

Btw, I think that might be a light blue suit in the video, not grey. Tough to tell from the color and resolution of the vid.

Also: Hegg's pants are too short. The hems should gently cover a bit of the shoes. The "pants crease" meme.

This guy gets it.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 01:31 PM (Riz8t)

68 The bloat is real. We used to have Captains in charge of forts. Competent leadership was the order of the day.

Posted by: Captain Wilton Parmenter at October 01, 2026 01:31 PM (Fn+3X)

69 Since when is "tranny" a slur? The term is transgender, tranny for short. Even "chicks with dicks" is incorrect (its "dudes with boobs")...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 01:32 PM (l3cgK)

70 I wonder if beards will still be permitted on submarines.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 01:32 PM (77rzZ)

71 "TRUMPS breaking laws LEFT AND RIGHT!!" -- People who stood by while Obama vastly reduced generals.

Posted by: Axeman at October 01, 2026 01:32 PM (Fi81e)

72 On of the biggest reasons this, the getting rid of and stopping Hegseth, is such a priority to the left is, it's an article of faith that desegregation and all that in the military top-down was not just a model of how to do it but also opened up the rest of society.

That the military was their little sandbox forever and ever now for social change they could force out to the rest of society.

So the whole trannies was to push that out on the rest of America.
Recall just a few short years ago, our men were being forced/humiliated to march in high heels and carry the fag flag, ffs.
Every single office in that chain of command ought to be discharged and stripped of their pension.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 01:32 PM (3cUTc)

73
Stocks bouncing up a bit.

Nice to see people paying attention again now that Labor Day is over.

I expect a pretty big bounce if the Reps win and a big ole collapse if the Dims win in Nov.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 01:32 PM (YSUhf)

74 Fire generals and admirals? Horrors! It cannot be done!

Until you read that Grant, Meade, and Sherman ended the Civil War, not Pope, McClelland, McClernan, Burnside, Hooker, and many other predecessors. Who remembers the names of high- and mid-rank Army officers who were sacked by Marshall and McNair after the Louisiana Maneuvers and other pre-WW2 war games in 1941?

Posted by: Gref at October 01, 2026 01:33 PM (5rh/l)

75 I believe one or two prototypes have been built. Not "mock ups" actual working models. Unfueled at this time, but likely will be fueled for testing next year. If not sooner.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 01:28 PM (RORbl)

There is at least one SMR company who have attained criticality.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 01:33 PM (ExV1e)

76 Female troops wearing ponytails is not very professional-looking, and is a safety hazard.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:22 PM (X7pZH)

If I remember correctly the Danish - or maybe the Dutch - Army used to allow long hair on its troops (this was during the Cold War and they only had males - no females). Anyways their armored troops - those in tanks - quickly learned to cut their hair as the traversing mechanisms inside turrets were pretty unforgiving. No need to go to the barbershop after getting entangled in one of those. Heh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 01, 2026 01:33 PM (dbZNM)

77 Brown shoes don't make it.

Posted by: Frank Zappa, 1971 at October 01, 2026 01:33 PM (Fn+3X)

78 I wonder if beards will still be permitted on submarines.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 01:32 PM (77rzZ)
---
Don't ask, don't tell.

Posted by: Axeman at October 01, 2026 01:33 PM (Fi81e)

79 Since when is "tranny" a slur? The term is transgender, tranny for short. Even "chicks with dicks" is incorrect (its "dudes with boobs")...

I prefer the more concise "nut case".

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 01:33 PM (Riz8t)

80 [Fistbump, but in a manly way. Not in a gay way.]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 01:31 PM (iFTx/)

For dominance!

Posted by: Graham Platner at October 01, 2026 01:33 PM (gLYp7)

81 Small reactors for each and every Base for the win.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 01, 2026 01:25 PM (NnhvP)

AZ Deplorable, can you call or text, or e-mail me? Ben Had will have my number. I had your number in my old phone, but lost it. Hope to see you in TX.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2026 01:33 PM (4znQE)

82 My understanding is career Colonels have either screwed up bad some where or refuse to be ass kissers?

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:33 PM (KC5Lt)

83 71 "TRUMPS breaking laws LEFT AND RIGHT!!" -- People who stood by while Obama vastly reduced generals.

Posted by: Axeman at October 01, 2026 01:32 PM (Fi81e)

And Biden's (okay, Obama's) underlings engaged in decidedly illegal behavior...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 01:34 PM (l3cgK)

84 I wonder if beards will still be permitted on submarines.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 01:32 PM (77rzZ)

But I don't want to get on the boat!
- Michelle Obama

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:34 PM (gLYp7)

85 I assume SEALs and other SOF can still rock the beard in the field.
Posted by: polynikes

Probably need beards when undercover in Muzzy lands.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 01, 2026 01:34 PM (NnhvP)

86 79 Since when is "tranny" a slur? The term is transgender, tranny for short. Even "chicks with dicks" is incorrect (its "dudes with boobs")...

I prefer the more concise "nut case".

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 01:33 PM (Riz8t)

Um, tranny is 6 letters, "nut case" is 7 letters and a space...
I know, no math...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 01:35 PM (l3cgK)

87 Never having served, I don't know what the attitude personnel have toward chaplains. Actual attendance at services? Maybe not. Someone to talk to about things you don't want to discuss with an officer? More likely.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 01:29 PM (eRlcH)
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We had a chaplain who before we went outside the wire, would pray over us, he would be there for soldiers experiencing personal issues, conduct services on Sunday, which were attended by a fair amount of soldiers, and he even accompanied us on patrols.

Chaplains are pretty much very well regarded by the troops.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:35 PM (X7pZH)

88 Jeez, I dislike tan shoes. They are worse than saddle-shoes, and saddle shoes belong on bobbysoxers.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 01, 2026 01:31 PM (rbvCR)

Tan shoes, and pink shoelaces,
A polka-dot vest, and Man oh Man,
A pink Panama with a purple hat band.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2026 01:36 PM (4znQE)

89 85 I assume SEALs and other SOF can still rock the beard in the field.
Posted by: polynikes

Probably need beards when undercover in Muzzy lands.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 01, 2026 01:34 PM (NnhvP)

I was told many years ago that you could wear facial hair as long as a gas mask could cover it (trimmed around the mouth, face, and chin for a good seal)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 01:36 PM (l3cgK)

90 The SR-71 was a diamond in the rough. A platform to be built upon. Sure, it had its problems but you take the good with the bad.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 01, 2026 01:37 PM (VQ7/I)

91 And, the fact that they seemed to know his ambitions suggests someone that was working close to him leaking out that information.....which explains some of the high ranks showed the door previously.
Posted by: Orson
========
Very plausible except I think one of those was Driscoll, the fired Sec. of Army who was befriending types like Milley after being in office.

Vance was involved in putting Driscoll in that office.

Posted by: whig at October 01, 2026 01:37 PM (E4rtv)

92 The real war is going so badly that they have to fall back on open bigotry to distract their base.

Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 01, 2026 01:30 PM (EAQrO

This is sad and funny at the same time.

Posted by: dantesed at October 01, 2026 01:37 PM (Oy/m2)

93 I haven’t wore a suit in over 20 years. I used to dress really sharp but now I dress comfortable.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:37 PM (KC5Lt)

94 If I remember correctly the Danish - or maybe the Dutch - Army used to allow long hair on its troops (this was during the Cold War and they only had males - no females). Anyways their armored troops - those in tanks - quickly learned to cut their hair as the traversing mechanisms inside turrets were pretty unforgiving. No need to go to the barbershop after getting entangled in one of those. Heh.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 01, 2026 01:33 PM (dbZNM)
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When I worked in the turret, my hair was short.

That's horrifying to even think about, especially hair getting caught in the slipring between the turret and the hull.

Yikes on bikes.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:37 PM (X7pZH)

95
Um, tranny is 6 letters, "nut case" is 7 letters and a space...
I know, no math...

True, but the extra letters in "transgender" are implied. I count those.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 01:37 PM (Riz8t)

96 Who remembers the names of high- and mid-rank Army officers who were sacked by Marshall and McNair after the Louisiana Maneuvers and other pre-WW2 war games in 1941?
Posted by: Gref

Uhm....not just pre-war....

He was a strong pre-war trainer and administrator — Marshall called him "one of the best" — but he had little field-combat experience when he took II Corps in North Africa. During the Kasserine Pass defeat he ran his headquarters from a bunker roughly 70 miles behind the lines, never visited the front, and scattered his units too far apart for mutual support.

After the rout, Eisenhower relieved him on March 5–6, 1943, and he became the first of seven American corps commanders in WWII to be removed from command.

Posted by: Major General Fredendall at October 01, 2026 01:38 PM (EAQrO)

97 90 The SR-71 was a diamond in the rough. A platform to be built upon. Sure, it had its problems but you take the good with the bad.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 01, 2026 01:37 PM (VQ7/I)

Titanium is expensive and hard to work with...SR-71's skin was made of it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 01:38 PM (l3cgK)

98 Worn = wore

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:38 PM (KC5Lt)

99
If I remember correctly the Danish - or maybe the Dutch - Army used to allow long hair on its troops (this was during the Cold War and they only had males - no females). Anyways their armored troops - those in tanks - quickly learned to cut their hair as the traversing mechanisms inside turrets were pretty unforgiving. No need to go to the barbershop after getting entangled in one of those. Heh.
Posted by: Chairborne!.
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Dutch army was unionized.

Posted by: whig at October 01, 2026 01:38 PM (E4rtv)

100 I assume SEALs and other SOF can still rock the beard in the field.

Posted by: polynikes

Nope.

August 2025, SecWar issued a directive (Grooming Standards for Facial Hair) ordering all military - including SEALs to adopt the Navy’s strict grooming and uniform standards — including a clean‑shaven face. Also, unofficial logos and unit insignia were banned.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:38 PM (gLYp7)

101 I guy who was a year ahead of me in HS went ROTC in college and then made the Army his career. He was a tank commander. He made general, then retired. Said he didn't want to deal with the BS at that level

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 01, 2026 01:38 PM (jivel)

102 92 The real war is going so badly that they have to fall back on open bigotry to distract their base.
Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

This is sad and funny at the same time.
Posted by: dantesed

But mostly retarded lol.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 01, 2026 01:39 PM (EAQrO)

103 70 I wonder if beards will still be permitted on submarines.
Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 01:32 PM (77rzZ)

No...breaks discipline...

The only place they will likely be allowed in special forces who are designed to infiltrate and blend in for some missions...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 01:39 PM (tOcjL)

104 Dutch army was unionized.

That's a serious charge.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 01:39 PM (Riz8t)

105 ...Hell, there may be a hawaiian judge who issues a TRO against the reduction.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 01:20 PM (iFTx/)

Hell, my money's on a Traffic Court Judge stopping him.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 01, 2026 01:39 PM (dbZNM)

106 Let’s build the best fighter jet in the world and then destroy all the special machinery that built them.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:39 PM (KC5Lt)

107 95
Um, tranny is 6 letters, "nut case" is 7 letters and a space...
I know, no math...

True, but the extra letters in "transgender" are implied. I count those.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 01:37 PM (Riz8t)

They both need to see PsychoTheRapist...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 01:39 PM (l3cgK)

108 106 Let’s build the best fighter jet in the world and then destroy all the special machinery that built them.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:39 PM (KC5Lt)

Job security?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 01:40 PM (l3cgK)

109 65 Love the Blade. He cuts right to the chase!
Posted by: Steely Gaze at October 01, 2026 01:21 PM (Fn+3X)
_______

[Fistbump, but in a manly way. Not in a gay way.]
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 01:31 PM (iFTx/)
------------------------
Bob Dole approves this manly fistbumping. Bob Dole approved this message.

Posted by: Bob Dole at October 01, 2026 01:40 PM (0256r)

110 82 My understanding is career Colonels have either screwed up bad some where or refuse to be ass kissers?
Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:33 PM (KC5Lt)

Nah, the promotion availability from O-6 to O-7 is tiny...it's where in the past, only the politicos could even get promoted...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 01:40 PM (tOcjL)

111 Not too many troops want someone who believes in nothing "praying" over them before a mission or patrol.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:28 PM (X7pZH)
**************************

Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen.

Posted by: Zombie Roger Zelazny at October 01, 2026 01:40 PM (Yx5tR)

112 I'm cautiously optimistic.

We have been brass heavy for a looooong time and anyone above O6 is probably sucking cock by choice (I have known a few exceptions but they were just that: exceptions)

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 01:41 PM (s1VwS)

113 Big Mike's shoulders are too wide to fit into a sub hatch. Never mind her booty.

Posted by: Wide Ride at October 01, 2026 01:41 PM (Fn+3X)

114 100 I assume SEALs and other SOF can still rock the beard in the field.

Posted by: polynikes

Nope.

August 2025, SecWar issued a directive (Grooming Standards for Facial Hair) ordering all military - including SEALs to adopt the Navy’s strict grooming and uniform standards — including a clean‑shaven face. Also, unofficial logos and unit insignia were banned.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:38 PM (gLYp7)

Ah...I was told you could still wear a trimmed beard, but that was more than a decade ago by a Navy Captain...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 01:41 PM (l3cgK)

115 74 Fire generals and admirals? Horrors! It cannot be done!

Until you read that Grant, Meade, and Sherman ended the Civil War, not Pope, McClelland, McClernan, Burnside, Hooker, and many other predecessors. Who remembers the names of high- and mid-rank Army officers who were sacked by Marshall and McNair after the Louisiana Maneuvers and other pre-WW2 war games in 1941?
Posted by: Gref
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During peacetime, the armed forces have a tendency to backslide into bureaucrats instead of fighters. Every war indicates the problems with that where deadwood has to be culled, command structures altered, and policies changed.

Posted by: whig at October 01, 2026 01:41 PM (E4rtv)

116 No...breaks discipline...

The only place they will likely be allowed in special forces who are designed to infiltrate and blend in for some missions...
Posted by: Nova Local \

I was told that the reason beards were allowed on submarines was because shaving cream canisters could be a danger the high underwater pressures. Maybe they found a way around that.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 01:41 PM (77rzZ)

117 GRRRR!!!! Bad, bad, bad. Why open old wounds Hegseth?
I have yet been able to find a decently preserved version of Fortress America (tm) that I could afford. Makes me want to go kick that "friend" who raided my storage unit while I was in the Army and stole all my gamer shit again. I've replaced the Axis and Allies and some books but there was stuff in there you can't replace.

Posted by: Reforger at October 01, 2026 01:41 PM (MQYOv)

118 The left: Trust the generals!

Also the left: General Betray-us (full page NYT ad)

And also the left: the Secretary of the military can't fire the generals!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 01:41 PM (3cUTc)

119 104 Dutch army was unionized.
That's a serious charge.
Posted by: Archimedes

They did face some resistance.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 01, 2026 01:42 PM (88C+u)

120 73
Stocks bouncing up a bit.

Nice to see people paying attention again now that Labor Day is over.

I expect a pretty big bounce if the Reps win and a big ole collapse if the Dims win in Nov.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 01:32 PM (YSUhf)

Initial 2026 3rd Quarter GDP is scheduled to be reported the Thursday before the Nov 3rd election, on October 29th. Five days before the election. Latest Atlanta Fed estimate is +3.7 percent.

Posted by: Gref at October 01, 2026 01:42 PM (5rh/l)

121 Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:38 PM (gLYp7)

I like Hesgeth but have to say I disagree with this for a number of reasons.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:42 PM (KC5Lt)

122 When I worked in the turret, my hair was short.

That's horrifying to even think about, especially hair getting caught in the slipring between the turret and the hull.

Yikes on bikes.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:37 PM (X7pZH)

I was in armored units and even took off my wedding ring when onboard. Too many things to get caught on and get a finger ripped off.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 01, 2026 01:42 PM (dbZNM)

123 113 Big Mike's shoulders are too wide to fit into a sub hatch. Never mind her booty.

Posted by: Wide Ride at October 01, 2026 01:41 PM (Fn+3X)

The Khardashians are weapons of Ass Destruction...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 01:42 PM (l3cgK)

124 Ah...I was told you could still wear a trimmed beard, but that was more than a decade ago by a Navy Captain...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 01:41 PM (l3cgK)

The memo says individual operators can request a case-by-case waiver, but due to CBRN threat in theater, clean shave is required by policy.

Hegseth deemed the threat of chem/bio attacks in a general area to be a greater threat than the 'that guy doesn't have a beard!' since by the time you're face to face with a SEAL, it's already too late.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:42 PM (gLYp7)

125 He also announced the military would be a force of cleanshaven normies: "No beardos, no weirdoes."

PO-LEASE THAT MOOSTASH!!!!

Posted by: MSgt Sixta, grooming standard fanatic at October 01, 2026 01:43 PM (TbWk/)

126 So no Top Gun mustaches ?

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:43 PM (KC5Lt)

127 I was told many years ago that you could wear facial hair as long as a gas mask could cover it (trimmed around the mouth, face, and chin for a good seal)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 01:36 PM (l3cgK)

An M-40 filtered mask will not seal properly on someone with a beard or even just a goatee. Don't ask me how I know this.

Posted by: Doof at October 01, 2026 01:43 PM (jgdZo)

128 I was in armored units and even took off my wedding ring when onboard. Too many things to get caught on and get a finger ripped off.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 01, 2026 01:42 PM (dbZNM)
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Yeah, I didn't wear any jewelry either.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:43 PM (X7pZH)

129 People who call white people they don't like white supremacists and Nazis are offended by the word trannies.

Eat a large back of dicks.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2026 01:43 PM (viF8m)

130 100 I assume SEALs and other SOF can still rock the beard in the field.

Posted by: polynikes

Nope.

August 2025, SecWar issued a directive (Grooming Standards for Facial Hair) ordering all military - including SEALs to adopt the Navy’s strict grooming and uniform standards — including a clean‑shaven face. Also, unofficial logos and unit insignia were banned.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:38 PM (gLYp7)

Yes, they'd have to be tasked to a mission needing it to get an exception - since they'd train up for the mission, they'd have time to let the hair go (and by saying everyone is groomed publicly, that's good for an op)...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 01:43 PM (tOcjL)

131 104 Dutch army was unionized.

That's a serious charge.
Posted by: Archimedes

Well, it is not exactly Pickett's charge but it is true.

"The Royal Netherlands Army is unique among modern militaries for its extensive unionization, where approximately 80% of military personnel are members of trade unions. This system allows soldiers to negotiate working conditions, pay, and regulations, reflecting the military's integration into broader Dutch societal norms."

Posted by: whig at October 01, 2026 01:44 PM (E4rtv)

132 "... you are nothing and can do nothing."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 01:29 PM (U/fqy)

Sounds like Iosef Tarasov's father praying over him after telling him who John Wick is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 01:44 PM (ExV1e)

133 I was told that the reason beards were allowed on submarines was because shaving cream canisters could be a danger the high underwater pressures. Maybe they found a way around that.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 01:41 PM (77rzZ)

Shaving soap. That's all that I use. No canned stuff.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 01, 2026 01:44 PM (dbZNM)

134 I read that the Mexican Army in the 1930s was about 35,000 strong, 15,000 of whom were officers. And about 300 of those were generals.

Talk about top-heavy command structure.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 01:44 PM (amcLV)

135 So no Top Gun mustaches ?

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:43 PM (KC5Lt)

Can't come outside the edges of your mouth.

The entire facial hair policy is driven by getting a solid seal on your mask.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:44 PM (gLYp7)

136 Posted by: Zombie Roger Zelazny at October 01, 2026 01:40 PM (Yx5tR)

You should become an Atheist military chaplain!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 01:45 PM (JrHfD)

137 AZ Deplorable, can you call or text, or e-mail me? Ben Had will have my number. I had your number in my old phone, but lost it. Hope to see you in TX.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Number requested.
We'll see you there for sure.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 01, 2026 01:45 PM (NnhvP)

138 shaving cream canisters could be a danger the high underwater pressures. Maybe they found a way around that.
Posted by: Bulg

Shaving Cream? That was my big hit song!

Posted by: Benny Bell at October 01, 2026 01:45 PM (Fn+3X)

139 "The media calls that a purge," he said

A good flushing.

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2026 01:45 PM (OQfsE)

140 Bring back boot polishing!!! Builds character.

Posted by: Reforger at October 01, 2026 01:45 PM (MQYOv)

141 Sounds like Iosef Tarasov's father praying over him after telling him who John Wick is.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 01:44 PM (ExV1e)
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"I saw him kill three men in a bar with a pencil. A FUCKING PENCIL!!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 01:45 PM (amcLV)

142 ot:
bad squirrel

https://galciv3.fandom.com/wiki/Snathi

Posted by: DaveA at October 01, 2026 01:45 PM (FhXTo)

143
Who remembers the names of high- and mid-rank Army officers who were sacked by Marshall and McNair after the Louisiana Maneuvers and other pre-WW2 war games in 1941?
Posted by: Gref

__________

Marshall told a general he was needed for an important post. The general replied that his wife was away and so he couldn't close up his house. Marshall exclaimed, "But this is important and you're a general!" The man replied complacently, "Well, I'm sorry." Marshall said, "I'm sorry too, but you will be placed on the retired list tomorrow."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 01:46 PM (eRlcH)

144 What about pussy hair?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 01, 2026 01:46 PM (IztJE)

145 An M-40 filtered mask will not seal properly on someone with a beard or even just a goatee. Don't ask me how I know this.
Posted by: Doof at October 01, 2026 01:43 PM (jgdZo)
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Had a soldier with a recently acquired shaving profile.

Went to the gas chamber, and he was not happy at all.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:46 PM (X7pZH)

146 o no Top Gun mustaches ?

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:43 PM (KC5Lt)

Can't come outside the edges of your mouth.

What are we talking about again?

Posted by: Kamala at October 01, 2026 01:46 PM (OQfsE)

147 Never having served, I don't know what the attitude personnel have toward chaplains. Actual attendance at services? Maybe not. Someone to talk to about things you don't want to discuss with an officer? More likely.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 01:29 PM (eRlcH)

The devout are devout, even if they're soldiers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 01:46 PM (ExV1e)

148 Bring back boot polishing!!! Builds character.

Posted by: Reforger at October 01, 2026 01:45 PM (MQYOv)

When I was in Aircrew school, I couldn't iron for shit, but I could polish the hell out of some boots.

The bartering market is undefeated in human history.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:46 PM (gLYp7)

149 Uhm....not just pre-war....

He was a strong pre-war trainer and administrator — Marshall called him "one of the best" — but he had little field-combat experience when he took II Corps in North Africa. During the Kasserine Pass defeat he ran his headquarters from a bunker roughly 70 miles behind the lines, never visited the front, and scattered his units too far apart for mutual support.

After the rout, Eisenhower relieved him on March 5–6, 1943, and he became the first of seven American corps commanders in WWII to be removed from command.

Posted by: Major General Fredendall at October 01, 2026 01:38 PM (EAQrO)
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When you stick your hand into the pile of goo that used to be your best friend's face, you'll know what to do.

Posted by: Patton at October 01, 2026 01:46 PM (Yx5tR)

150 T V dinner by the pool
I'm so glad I finished school.

Posted by: Roy Estrada (Professional pervert) at October 01, 2026 01:46 PM (nvKZ7)

151 Related to Jack Smith and his legal coup story:

All of these officers that Hegseth is purging were planned to be in place in order to have a compliant, and willing, military to enforce Democrat rule.

No matter how fraudulent.
Because these were true believers in leftism.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 01:47 PM (3cUTc)

152 What about pussy hair?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 01, 2026 01:46 PM (IztJE)

Same answer - Not outside the edges of my mouth.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:47 PM (gLYp7)

153 Posted by: Zombie Roger Zelazny at October 01, 2026 01:40 PM (Yx5tR)
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Madrak the Mighty. Creatures of Light and Darkness.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 01:47 PM (amcLV)

154
During peacetime, the armed forces have a tendency to backslide into bureaucrats instead of fighters. Every war indicates the problems with that where deadwood has to be culled, command structures altered, and policies changed.
Posted by: whig at October 01, 2026 01:41 PM (E4rtv)

_________

"When things get tough, they send for the sons of bitches." - Adm Ernest J. King

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 01:48 PM (eRlcH)

155 150 Woops -I died a year ago and didn't even know it.

Posted by: Roy Estrada (Professional pervert) at October 01, 2026 01:48 PM (nvKZ7)

156 Bring back boot polishing!!! Builds character.

Posted by: Reforger at October 01, 2026 01:45 PM (MQYOv)
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This^

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:48 PM (X7pZH)

157 When the SR-71 was introduced the Soviets immediately went to work on an interceptor, the MIG-25 "Foxbat" to combat it. And field surface to air missiles capable of reaching the unreal altitudes it flew at.

Whatever we spent developing, building and flying the SR-71 the Soviets spent magnitudes more on countering it. Which was, in reality, part of it's mission.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 01:48 PM (RORbl)

158 Had a soldier with a recently acquired shaving profile.

Went to the gas chamber, and he was not happy at all.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:46 PM (X7pZH)

Yikes. That's a tough lesson-learned!

Posted by: Doof at October 01, 2026 01:48 PM (jgdZo)

159 Chaplains also serve as a first-stop "social services" resource. Family troubles? Talk to the chaplain, he can direct you to the appropriate counseling agencies. You married a stripper, bought a car at 25% APR, and your homies want you to deal for them? The chaplain is a good place to help you start getting things sorted out.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 01, 2026 01:48 PM (P/woT)

160 John Pope and Joe Hooker were legit good generals. They had flaws but they were fighters.

Burnside...well, can't/won't defend him. He knew he wasn't competent for anything above Corp command.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 01:48 PM (s1VwS)

161 Shaving soap. That's all that I use. No canned stuff.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 01, 2026 01:44 PM (dbZNM)
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Concur.

Canned stuff, even the gels, just dry out the face too quickly.

Posted by: mrp at October 01, 2026 01:48 PM (rj6Yv)

162 I don't know any military atheist chaplains, but here is what I think they'd come up up:

We celebrate the connectness between people and are grateful that Joe ( or Jody) decided to serve his country. May he find the courage from within his own spirit and that of his fellow soldiers to fulfill the tasks given to him.

( it would all about people having the ability to do things themselves and not having reliance on a greater power then themselves)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 01:49 PM (JrHfD)

163 @130 -- yes! Totally agree. I'm glad they no longer look like homeless derelicts. SFC Vining looked like an extra from Happy Days and he was one of the most efficient killers in the force.

My input -- we declare first use of nuclear weapons as a matter of strategy. We have massive superiority in yield, stealth, delivery systems, penetration, etc. No more trading a Ranger for some subhuman Taliban in Kandahar. Instead, we eradicate virulent civilizations forever. Our descendants 1000 years from now will thank us.

We also develop aggressive biological and chemical weapons programs.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 01, 2026 01:49 PM (qwx/I)

164
Burnside...well, can't/won't defend him. He knew he wasn't competent for anything above Corp command.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 01:48 PM (s1VwS)

__________

The Pride of Rhode Island

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 01:49 PM (eRlcH)

165 Last post Caldera. Isn't that a type of volcano?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 01, 2026 01:49 PM (wfWhf)

166
I doubt that trannie will catch-on as a new "N-word".

Nobody seems to like like trannies as a group.

They're barely tolerated by the left due to their use as the tip of the blade for nation and culture destroying fuckery.

Heck, even the ladies have filed to make "cunt" their N-word and they've worked overtime on that and most people like the womens as a group.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 01:49 PM (YSUhf)

167 My Dad was a Union Carpenter and had a heavy steel door drop on his wedding band. Had to cut it off with tin snips.

Posted by: Williamsburg Steel Products, Inc. at October 01, 2026 01:49 PM (Fn+3X)

168 103 70 I wonder if beards will still be permitted on submarines.
Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 01:32 PM (77rzZ)

No...breaks discipline...

The only place they will likely be allowed in special forces who are designed to infiltrate and blend in for some missions...
Posted by: Nova Local

US military? Probably correct. Troops getting to ignore certain rules isn't always a discipline issue though. WW2 subs (American or German) were so hot and unpleasant they skipped a lot of those uniform and grooming standards for comfort/practicality, but (like the movie The Dirty Dozen) it built a kind of filthy camaraderie or esprit de corps.

The real key is clear expectations and enforcing standards. If you know you're allowed to skip those appearance standards, but all your other duties are held to very high standards, you feel elite and special. If appearance standards are waived because no one cares, they probably don't care about other requirements either, so it indicates poor leadership.

Posted by: Military Moron at October 01, 2026 01:49 PM (EAQrO)

169 140 Bring back boot polishing!!! Builds character.
Posted by: Reforger

Eh, I would concentrate more on marksmanship training, hand to hand combat techniques, and knife fighting.

Non warriors tend to wash out in those activities which is at the very heart of a good military--warriors that are dangerous men.

Boot polishing, perfectly ironed and creased uniforms, etc. are useful in building discipline in basic and advanced training but are not directly related to war fighting.

The emphasis should be primarily directed toward every person a warrior regardless of their official tasks. Discipline is a necessary component of that but one can be disciplined but not at heart a warrior.

Posted by: whig at October 01, 2026 01:50 PM (E4rtv)

170 Titanium is expensive and hard to work with...SR-71's skin was made of it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 01:38 PM (l3cgK)

the landing gear is Titanium too, and they were a block too big to cast, so they had to pretty much re-develop electron-beam welding to put the pieces the size they could cast together to machine to shape.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 01, 2026 01:50 PM (rbvCR)

171 Yikes. That's a tough lesson-learned!
Posted by: Doof at October 01, 2026 01:48 PM (jgdZo)
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He thought it would prevent him from going through the chamber.

It didn't.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:50 PM (X7pZH)

172 Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 01, 2026 01:48 PM (P/woT)

That too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 01:50 PM (JrHfD)

173 Speaking of brown shoes, I was in service when SECNAV brought back brown shoes for aviators. Shortly after, there was a photo circulating out there -- Stars and Stripes, or maybe Navy Times -- of a bunch of pilots and NFOs who tied all their black shoes together and had them launched into the ocean using the ship's catapult.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 01:50 PM (J4Dwc)

174 I'm working.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 01, 2026 01:50 PM (wfWhf)

175 Atheist Chaplain seems like a contradiction in terms to me.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 01, 2026 01:51 PM (dbZNM)

176 There was a horrible story many years ago about a lady who had part of her intestines sucked out of her body while using the toilet on a cruise ship. My family has soberly advised its members to avoid making a perfect seal ever since.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 01, 2026 01:51 PM (2ap+5)

177 Had a soldier with a recently acquired shaving profile.

Went to the gas chamber, and he was not happy at all.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:46 PM

Ja, it's not all smiles und sunshine.

Posted by: Walter LaGrand at October 01, 2026 01:51 PM (4NO2D)

178 We were looked at constantly for AFR 35-10. Haircut, shave, ironed uniform, polished boots.

No more boot polishing?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 01:51 PM (ZLygy)

179 Eat a large back of dicks.
Posted by: JackStraw

There's quite a selection at Amazon. Including gold golf tees.

Posted by: DaveA at October 01, 2026 01:51 PM (FhXTo)

180 What about pussy hair?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

Use Fur Oil. Every day! Real game changer.

Posted by: Emma Watson at October 01, 2026 01:51 PM (EAQrO)

181 45 What about a man with a beard?
Posted by: Barack at October 01, 2026 01:28 PM (enkoP)

Not all men must shave their beards. Some beards can shave themselves.

"Oh thank God!!" -- Cory Booker, probably

Posted by: SciVo at October 01, 2026 01:52 PM (ke3zm)

182 Sorry, SGM Vining.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 01, 2026 01:52 PM (qwx/I)

183 huh.

filed = tried

not sure how that happened.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 01:52 PM (YSUhf)

184 We used to go to the gas chamber monthly.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 01, 2026 01:52 PM (wfWhf)

185 I wonder if beards will still be permitted on submarines.
Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 01:32 PM (77rzZ)

No...breaks discipline...

Probably, when you're at sea for a couple months, for the underway. Have to be clean again before you hit port. That's how it was for us back in the day.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 01:52 PM (ExV1e)

186 What did the non performing generals actually non perform at? A desk job in which they just pushed around a few papers and got a big salary?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 01:53 PM (JrHfD)

187 Burnside...well, can't/won't defend him. He knew he wasn't competent for anything above Corp command.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 01:48 PM (s1VwS)

__________

The Pride of Rhode Island
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 01:49 PM (eRlcH)

Everyone liked him.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 01:53 PM (s1VwS)

188 Non warriors tend to wash out in those activities which is at the very heart of a good military--warriors that are dangerous men.

Boot polishing, perfectly ironed and creased uniforms, etc. are useful in building discipline in basic and advanced training but are not directly related to war fighting.

Posted by: whig at October 01, 2026 01:50 PM (E4rtv)

Something like 95% of all military members will not ever be in a position to actually fight.

Discipline - the instant, willing obedience to orders, respect for authority and self-reliance (freeze, candidate, freeze!) are absolutely vital to every single aspect of the military, not just knife fighting. Teaching and enforcing uniform/grooming standards instills the discipline necessary to master yourself, which in turn creates opportunities for you to positively contribute to the mission, whatever your role in it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:53 PM (gLYp7)

189 "When things get tough, they send for the sons of bitches." - Adm Ernest J. King
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Or if a country doesn't, they lose battles or even wars because of it.

If one has read the appalling WWII reports on the French Army before surrender, you can readily see where the poilus were betrayed by their politicians and generals playing political games instead of countering the Germans. Capped with a doddering General Petain operating a Nazi puppet state for several years from Vichy.

Posted by: whig at October 01, 2026 01:54 PM (E4rtv)

190 Last post Caldera. Isn't that a type of volcano?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 01, 2026 01:49 PM (wfWhf)

It is the crater where the volcano vents, usually fairly large and indicates a large explosion type eruption.

Crater Lake, in Oregon is an old caldera, as is Santorini in the Mediterranean.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 01, 2026 01:54 PM (rbvCR)

191 I'm not kidding about the boot polishing. I came across a unit of Artillery at a motel in Vegas... That alone is weird enough. I was stunned at the lack of decorum. This is from a die to the wall ( as in I will die against the wall) E-4 mafia member, sham specialist. They looked like shit. This wasn't some unit getting back from the field, they were in transit to so cal on civillian planes in shitty field uniforms, boots with holes. I wanted to tear their chief a new one but didn't. I sat there in shame at what my army had become.

Posted by: Reforger at October 01, 2026 01:54 PM (MQYOv)

192 We used to go to the gas chamber monthly.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 01, 2026 01:52 PM (wfWhf)
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Every six months, though you could chill in your MOPP 4 gear in the sandbox in case of the real thing.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 01:54 PM (X7pZH)

193 Und Providence Plantation.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 01, 2026 01:54 PM (wfWhf)

194 >>During peacetime, the armed forces have a tendency to backslide into bureaucrats instead of fighters. Every war indicates the problems with that where deadwood has to be culled, command structures altered, and policies changed.

One of the accounts I follow on X is a retired Army colonel. When this was announced yesterday he posted the number of generals and admirals we had at the end of WWII as a percent of the size of the entire army and navy compared with the stat today.

We have something like 4 times as many now. I'm sure there are some excellent ones but there are also probably a shit load of Milleys.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2026 01:54 PM (viF8m)

195 144 What about pussy hair?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 01, 2026 01:46 PM (IztJE)

You need to mask down there too?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 01:54 PM (l3cgK)

196 Not too many troops want someone who believes in nothing "praying" over them before a mission or patrol.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy

"Oh Random fluctuations in the space time continuum, may you statistical anomalies favor the outcomes that will leave these fighters alive and well. Or not, since we're all space dust and none of this really matters anyway."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 01, 2026 01:54 PM (vJrRc)

197 Eh, I would concentrate more on marksmanship training, hand to hand combat techniques, and knife fighting...
Posted by: whig at October 01, 2026 01:50 PM (E4rtv)

I referred to myself as a bullet launcher specialist. Heh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 01, 2026 01:54 PM (dbZNM)

198 Titanium is expensive and hard to work with...SR-71's skin was made of it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 01:38 PM (l3cgK)

I like the story about how the CIA got the titanium needed for the SR-71s from the Soviets by setting up fake companies to buy it under pretences.

Posted by: far cry at October 01, 2026 01:55 PM (LSV6F)

199 Every war indicates the problems with that where deadwood has to be culled, command structures altered, and policies changed.
Posted by: whig

We didn't keep the GWOT right-sized or right-paced.

Posted by: DaveA at October 01, 2026 01:55 PM (FhXTo)

200 Everyone liked him.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 01:53 PM (s1VwS)
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Enough so that no one told him one of his subordinate generals was a drunk for fear of upsetting him.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 01:56 PM (amcLV)

201 Chaplains also serve as a first-stop "social services" resource. Family troubles? Talk to the chaplain, he can direct you to the appropriate counseling agencies. You married a stripper, bought a car at 25% APR, and your homies want you to deal for them? The chaplain is a good place to help you start getting things sorted out.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 01, 2026

I feel like a lot of this fell on my ex-husband when he was on the Army (we were married the majority of his career) from the time he was platoon SGT through 1SG.

Posted by: Piper at October 01, 2026 01:56 PM (ZdaMQ)

202
What did the non performing generals actually non perform at? A desk job in which they just pushed around a few papers and got a big salary?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 01:53 PM (JrHfD)

__________

Prior to or after the sack? If I'm not mistaken, after, they got sent back to the States to lead training divisions or command tarpaper camps.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 01:56 PM (eRlcH)

203 I can imagine the Military after 12 years with Hegseth as Secretary of War. Exactly what a military should be.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 01:56 PM (10NPz)

Of Course: Texas Police and FBI Disrupt Planned Terror Attack to "Shoot Up" the State Capitol, Out of Antisemitic Animus

No word on his immigration status.

No statement that he's a citizen.

So maybe he's one of those Doctors and Engineers our country would collapse without.

Texas authorities and the FBI on Thursday stated that they had thwarted a plan to attack the State Capitol in Austin.
Benny Caldera, 40, was arrested in his home in connection with the matter, Fox News reported. Authorities reportedly received a tip on Tuesday about a possible attack on the Capitol.
Caldera was reportedly angry with the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a prominent pro-Israel organization that has become a lightning rod for opposition to the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.

M.A. Rothman
@MichaelARothman
𝐒𝐖𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐘 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐀 𝐀𝐓 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐃𝐎𝐎𝐑𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐏
Texas DPS SWAT officers arrested 40-year-old Benny Caldera Jr. at 3 a.m. Wednesday at his home in Converse, outside San Antonio, after a tip that he planned to attack the Texas State Capitol in Austin, authorities said Thursday.
The tip came from a friend who got a farewell message from him. According to arrest documents, Caldera wrote: "𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 ... 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴∗𝘰𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘶𝘱."
The same documents say he told that friend he was angry at AIPAC and that "𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥," NBCDFW reported. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐮𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨-𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩.
He was first charged with a felony terroristic threat against a public servant and held on a $75,000 bond. By Wednesday evening he was in federal custody. Records show he was arrested in 2023 for carrying an unlicensed firearm. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐡∗𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝.
The Daily Wire notes the arrest comes amid a steady stream of political attacks on AIPAC, and cites federal filings that rank the group 191st in lobbying spend in 2024 at $3.3 million. Rhetoric about a group of Americans has consequences, and this time the police got there first.

BREAKING: Authorities say they thwarted an alleged plot to attack the Texas State Capitol on the same day President Trump is scheduled to visit the state.

Jonathan Hunt reports 40-year-old Benny Caldera was arrested near San Antonio after authorities received a tip about an… pic.twitter.com/Uyx0VKwlec
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 1, 2026

BREAKING: Benny Caldera Jr. was arrested by the FBI and Texas authorities after he allegedly planned to carry out a terrorist attack on the Texas State Capitol.

After initially being RELEASED on a $75,000 bond, he was taken into custody again by federal officials on additional… pic.twitter.com/2o9vLEMa3P
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 1, 2026

🚨 UPDATE: An anti-Israel TERRORIST PLOT against the Texas Capitol was just FOILED by the FBI and Texas authorities

"Angry at AIPAC. These people have to be exterminated!"

"I am going to the Capitol and I'm going to SH00T it up." — Benny Caldera, Jr.

THANK GOD HE'S IN CUSTODY… pic.twitter.com/goNXswHqMT
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 1, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:13 PM

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1 THE BLADE ... JUST, THE BLADE

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 12:13 PM (iFTx/)

2 RELEASED?

Thank God for the Feds.

Posted by: Crusader at October 01, 2026 12:13 PM (TN0g+)

3 Yellowstone Caldera > Benny Caldera

Posted by: far cry at October 01, 2026 12:15 PM (vD0EW)

4 Well ...

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 01, 2026 12:15 PM (FuJQi)

5 2 RELEASED?

Thank God for the Feds.

Posted by: Crusader at October 01, 2026 12:13 PM (TN0g+)

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Pure supposition, but there may have been collaboration between state and Fed agencies to get him into the Fed system faster in order to face federal terrorism charges sooner.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:16 PM (U/fqy)

6 Oddly enough, this won't be considered 'stochastic terrorism' caused by incessant propaganda against AIPAC.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at October 01, 2026 12:16 PM (Yx5tR)

7 Dude has crazy eyes...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 12:16 PM (RORbl)

8 I looked up some links to see if there's any info - I found some MSN site that had the topline of "What we know about Benny Caldera Jr."

and underneath that heading was Jack and Shit.

thanks a lot you intrepid reporters.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 12:16 PM (QUyUJ)

9
The message has been sent to the street thugs from the top commies throughout the western world: Kill the right target and you'll go free.

Posted by: Auspex at October 01, 2026 12:16 PM (Y8DZL)

10 Texas authorities and the FBI on Thursday stated that they had thwarted a plan to attack the State Capitol in Austin.

Benny Caldera, 40, was arrested in his home in connection with the matter, Fox News reported.

I find it difficult to take seriously a threat from a guy named Benny.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

11 He looks like a real winner and entirely sane.

Posted by: pookysgirl should not need a sarc tag at October 01, 2026 12:17 PM (Wt5PA)

12 AKA Volcano Benny.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 12:17 PM (ZLygy)

13
Stochastic terrorism, anyone?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 12:17 PM (eRlcH)

14 Thank goodness for social media?

Nutjobs got to announce their plans with punk monologuing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 01, 2026 12:17 PM (FuJQi)

15 So he was so mad at the AIPAC people in Washington, DC that he decided to shoot up a bunch of non-Jews in Austin, Texas? OK.

Posted by: Lurkyloo at October 01, 2026 12:17 PM (Ebrn2)

16 Johnny Sadrith Mora > Benny Caldera

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at October 01, 2026 12:17 PM (IhL8c)

17 Wait, you keep terrorists in custody?

-UK

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 01, 2026 12:18 PM (2UnvF)

18 Oddly enough, this won't be considered 'stochastic terrorism' caused by incessant propaganda against AIPAC.

That's because people who say "stochastic" generally have no idea what it means.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 12:18 PM (Riz8t)

19
I find it difficult to take seriously a threat from a guy named Benny.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

_________

Oh, Rochester!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 12:18 PM (eRlcH)

20 I find it difficult to take seriously a threat from a guy named Benny.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

Don't mess with Benny Goodman.

Jack Benny would cut your throat for a five dollar bill on the ground.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 12:18 PM (Y/06r)

21 So he was so mad at the AIPAC people in Washington, DC that he decided to shoot up a bunch of non-Jews in Austin, Texas? OK.

Yeah, Burkina Faso really dodged a bullet.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 12:18 PM (Riz8t)

22 I for one welcome our new Mgid overlords.

Posted by: Accomack at October 01, 2026 12:19 PM (9sK1w)

23 Don’t mess with Texas —> Import those who will

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 12:19 PM (4KUe5)

24 I find it difficult to take seriously a threat from a guy named Benny.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

He's helpless without the Jets.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2026 12:19 PM (4znQE)

25 Benny and the Feds >> Benny and the Jets

Posted by: mrp at October 01, 2026 12:19 PM (rj6Yv)

26 The jooz run Texas too?

This was never discussed at the meetings.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 12:20 PM (GOuGd)

27 The world’s oldest hatred… antisemitism

Same theme as the demon copilot who tried to kill a plane full of Jews yesterday

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:20 PM (j8E+e)

28 Dumbass.

Posted by: huerfano at October 01, 2026 12:20 PM (2Xqig)

29 > The message has been sent to the street thugs from the top commies throughout the western world: Kill the right target and you'll go free.
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The American judiciary is squarely aligned with the left. It's rare to see one of the left's foot soldiers put in prison with out some sort of unusual circumstances.

But a Trump supporter who defiles a pro-transgender display? Yeah... 10 years hard time for a "hate crime."

We be rightly fucked...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 12:20 PM (RORbl)

30 Vote Democrat. We need more of this.

Posted by: Iranian Side Piece at October 01, 2026 12:20 PM (ReYtg)

31 2 RELEASED?

Well, he was apparently targeting politicians, not actual human beings.

"I'm going to show The Juice by shooting Texas legislators!" is a new one.

This guy sounds plain crazy, as opposed to being an austere religious scholar.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 01, 2026 12:20 PM (BHTo4)

32 He looks like that one French actor from the early 2000s

... Rene... Rene something or other.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM (vJrRc)

33 Caldera blew his top, huh? Probably has a volcanic personality.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM (Fv808)

34
Same theme as the demon copilot who tried to kill a plane full of Jews yesterday
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:20 PM (j8E+e)

Not true !.. It was just a skirmish...

Posted by: The media at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM (+gK6I)

35 32 He looks like that one French actor from the early 2000s

... Rene... Rene something or other.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM (vJrRc)

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Jean Reno.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM (U/fqy)

36 Missed the last thread. How long before the murderer sues the state?

Posted by: J. Swift at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM (wOcsm)

37 Benny and the Jets > Benny Caldera

Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM (2WIwB)

38 Kill the right target and you'll go free.

Posted by: Auspex at October 01, 2026 12:16 PM (Y8DZL)

Yup

Posted by: Cora, Dawson and Callan at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM (enkoP)

39 I find it difficult to take seriously a threat from a guy named Benny.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

What about Benny Hana. That guy was deadly with a blade.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM (ExV1e)

40 Our terrrorism experts agree that the suspect may be a White Christian Nationalist.

Posted by: CNN at October 01, 2026 12:22 PM (0256r)

41 Is Benny a Hasan Piker fan-boi?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 01, 2026 12:22 PM (FuJQi)

42 Jean Reno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

That's the one! Thank you

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 01, 2026 12:22 PM (vJrRc)

43 42 Jean Reno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

That's the one! Thank you

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 01, 2026 12:22 PM (vJrRc)

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I'll never forget his powerhouse performance in Godzilla.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:22 PM (U/fqy)

44 Why on earth do people think they can put any crazy thing ( such as killing Jewish people ) on internet and nobody notices or reports it?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 12:23 PM (JrHfD)

45 There's a whole lotta crazy out there these days. And it's becoming more and more active. I put a huge blame on the "media" for stoking raging hatred that can't be contained by people that are easily led.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 12:23 PM (qBdHI)

46 What about Benny Hana. That guy was deadly with a blade.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM (ExV1e)

Yeah - but Benny is nothing without the Jets...

Posted by: Boswell at October 01, 2026 12:23 PM (NTVPI)

47 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2026 12:24 PM (aeK4B)

48 Benny Mardones > Benny Caldera Jr.

Posted by: Worst Video Ever at October 01, 2026 12:24 PM (w+jhU)

49 Why on earth do people think they can put any crazy thing (such as killing Jewish people) on internet and nobody notices or reports it?

Because they expect it to be celebrated? And why wouldn’t they?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 01, 2026 12:24 PM (5eV6x)

50 Ok, ok. The Blade will ask the question that many of us are doubtless thinking:

Was this a real terror plot or another drooling retard instigated to talking shit about being tough?

I have to ask.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

51 What about that man who invented that cute little car, Benny Cooper?

What? Oh....

Never mind.

Posted by: Emily Litella at October 01, 2026 12:25 PM (0256r)

52 Yeah - but Benny is nothing without the Jets...

That is a Hill to die on.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 01, 2026 12:25 PM (5eV6x)

53 26 The jooz run Texas too?

This was never discussed at the meetings.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 12:20 PM (GOuGd)

Obviously this was a result of compartmentalization. This was need to know- and you didn't need to know. Jewish dreidels within dreidels.

As a joke, this might be funny. But people really do think like this. One thing is disproven, so they jump to another thing that makes the target even more nefarious. Like Butler. Trump gets shot at under suspicious circumstances. That just means HE orchestrated the whole thing for sympathy! And he was willing to have his own followers shot for cover! He's so fucking evil!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 12:25 PM (Y/06r)

54 Jean Russo in the movie 'Wasabi.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 01, 2026 12:25 PM (FuJQi)

55 He looks like that one French actor from the early 2000s

... Rene... Rene something or other.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM (vJrRc)

Jean Reno. Ze Professional. Also in Ronin.

Posted by: far cry at October 01, 2026 12:25 PM (vD0EW)

56 Why on earth do people think they can put any crazy thing ( such as killing Jewish people ) on internet and nobody notices or reports it?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

We're not dealing rocket surgeons here.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 12:26 PM (ZLygy)

57 The look on Benny’s face screams I just nutted the neighbors cat.

Posted by: Iranian Side Piece at October 01, 2026 12:26 PM (ReYtg)

58 Reports of utility explosions in downtown SF

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 12:26 PM (GOuGd)

59 Swarthy looking fellow, in't he?

Posted by: garrett at October 01, 2026 12:26 PM (vNne8)

60 Because they expect it to be celebrated? And why wouldn’t they?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 01, 2026 12:24 PM (5eV6x)

See Macklemore ... His anti-Jewish/ pro palestine rant at that concert has gotten his Free palestine tour sold out. Hate sells... .

Posted by: The media at October 01, 2026 12:27 PM (+gK6I)

61 49 Why on earth do people think they can put any crazy thing (such as killing Jewish people) on internet and nobody notices or reports it?

Because they expect it to be celebrated? And why wouldn’t they?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 01, 2026 12:24 PM (5eV6x)

Social media is very, very good at driving people to try to outdo each other, and then someone decides to make it real.

This is also partly why all the whackados are killing their kids. It is like they are being given social approval.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 12:27 PM (Y/06r)

62 He was first charged with a felony terroristic threat against a public servant and held on a $75,000 bond.

________________________

$75,000 Bond seems kind of low for taking steps to gun down people at the State Capitol.

Posted by: Orson at October 01, 2026 12:27 PM (dIske)

63 Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 01, 2026 12:24 PM (5eV6x)

Because people celebrating it doesn't negate that some people are appalled and the information will be sent somewhere. I guess they like the celebration too much to worry about any consequences.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 12:27 PM (JrHfD)

64 50 Ok, ok. The Blade will ask the question that many of us are doubtless thinking:

Was this a real terror plot or another drooling retard instigated to talking shit about being tough?

I have to ask.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

Pic looks like Arab ancestry...and you had the activation of the pilot yesterday...so probably a better safe than sorry play...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 12:27 PM (tOcjL)

65 55 He looks like that one French actor from the early 2000s

... Rene... Rene something or other.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM (vJrRc)

Jean Reno. Ze Professional. Also in Ronin.
Posted by: far cry at October 01, 2026 12:25 PM (vD0EW)

Very good. Even in the horrible Matthew Broderick Godzilla movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 12:27 PM (Y/06r)

66 Midterms crazy month of October "surprises".

Posted by: mrp at October 01, 2026 12:27 PM (rj6Yv)

67 SF going green on energy or sewage?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 01, 2026 12:27 PM (FuJQi)

68 Benny Hill was a funny guy. This retard? Not so much.

Benny Mardones not only openly sang about sex with a 16 year old girl, he taunted the people who told him to leave her alone.

And his song was a big wedding song that year. Did nobody listen to the fucking lyrics????

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 12:28 PM (iFTx/)

69 Stochastic terrorism, anyone?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 12:17 PM

That's (D)ifferent.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 12:28 PM (/C5Rl)

70

She's got electric boots, a mohair suit
You know, I read it in a magazine, oh-oh
B-B-B-Bennie and the Feds

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 01, 2026 12:28 PM (Cqx++)

71 66 Midterms crazy month of October "surprises".

Posted by: mrp at October 01, 2026 12:27 PM (rj6Yv)

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"We're launching lawsuits to end ICE and IRGC endorsed us."
-Democrats' October so far

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:28 PM (U/fqy)

72 Reports of utility explosions in downtown SF
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Transformers?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 12:28 PM (ZLygy)

73 If ever I am about to be arrested, I will repeatedly shout Allahu Akbar! After arrest, I will get top-class pro bono legal representation, be favorably interviewed by every left wing infotainment outlet, and soon the charges against me will be dropped.

Convince me I'm wrong.

Posted by: Gref at October 01, 2026 12:29 PM (5rh/l)

74 Jean Reno. Ze Professional. Also in Ronin.
Posted by: far cry at October 01, 2026 12:25 PM

Jean Reno >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Janet Reno

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 01, 2026 12:29 PM (0sNs1)

75 Benny Mardones > Benny Caldera Jr.
Posted by: Worst Video Ever at October 01, 2026 12:24 PM (w+jhU)

She’s just 16 years old, leave her alone they say….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:29 PM (j8E+e)

76 As a joke, this might be funny. But people really do think like this.
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I've had many "conversations" with dementia patients like that. It goes around and around and around...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 12:29 PM (GOuGd)

77 The jooz run Texas too?

This was never discussed at the meetings.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Bucky Goldstein. Wasn't that the name from the Steven Wright bit?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 12:29 PM (JzUSu)

78 [I find it difficult to take seriously a threat from a guy named Benny.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 12:17 PM

[ Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel has entered the chat ]

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 12:30 PM (4NO2D)

79 >> Benny Mardones not only openly sang about sex with a 16 year old girl

I fail to see the problem.

Posted by: mohamed at October 01, 2026 12:30 PM (ReYtg)

80 >>72 Reports of utility explosions in downtown SF

Explosions of a large enough size could improve a lot of San Francisco.

Posted by: garrett at October 01, 2026 12:30 PM (vNne8)

81 72 Reports of utility explosions in downtown SF
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Transformers?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 12:28 PM (ZLygy)

*laughs in decepticon*

Posted by: Megatron's Fleshlight That Transforms Into a TShirt Cannon at October 01, 2026 12:30 PM (BHTo4)

82 He looks like that one French actor from the early 2000s

... Rene... Rene something or other.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM

My thoughts exactly. He's let himself go.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 12:30 PM (/C5Rl)

83 Transformers?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 12:28 PM (ZLygy)
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Perhaps several.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 12:31 PM (GOuGd)

84 The Blade needs to stop referring to himself in the third person. That's weird.

Posted by: dantesed at October 01, 2026 12:31 PM (Oy/m2)

85 Reports of utility explosions in downtown SF
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Transformers?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 12:28 PM (ZLygy)
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I'll bet there's more than meets the eye going on here...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 01, 2026 12:31 PM (FZ29D)

86 82 He looks like that one French actor from the early 2000s

... Rene... Rene something or other.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM

My thoughts exactly. He's let himself go.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 12:30 PM (/C5Rl)

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"Incroyable!"
-Gerard Depardieu

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:31 PM (U/fqy)

87 He was first charged with a felony terroristic threat against a public servant and held on a $75,000 bond. By Wednesday evening he was in federal custody. Records show he was arrested in 2023 for carrying an unlicensed firearm.

Um, not in Texas he wasn't. We don't do that blue state shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 12:31 PM (nZ6VT)

88 76 As a joke, this might be funny. But people really do think like this.
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I've had many "conversations" with dementia patients like that. It goes around and around and around...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 12:29 PM (GOuGd)

It's Hebrew turtles all the way down.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 01, 2026 12:32 PM (BHTo4)

89 I'm beginning to doubt Ace's commitment to "diversity is our strength."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 12:32 PM (3cUTc)

90 Records show he was arrested in 2023 for carrying an unlicensed firearm.

I don't recall when TX got constitutional carry but there is no such thing as as "licensed firearm" in TX.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 01, 2026 12:32 PM (vTZFs)

91 Transformers?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 12:28 PM (ZLygy)

Or Beanie Babies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2026 12:32 PM (4znQE)

92 89 I'm beginning to doubt Ace's commitment to "diversity is our strength."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 12:32 PM (3cUTc)

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Diversity is the strength of the elite to pit the populace against each other and consolidate power in the chaos.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (U/fqy)

93 Same theme as the demon copilot who tried to kill a plane full of Jews yesterday
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:20 PM (j8E+e)

Not true !.. It was just a skirmish...
Posted by: The media at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM

A fracas.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (4NO2D)

94 Afternoon Ace
Mr Caldera seems to have a volcanic temper

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (jivel)

95 He looks like that one French actor from the early 2000s

... Rene... Rene something or other.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

Jean Reno from The Professional?

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (nZ6VT)

96 8 [I find it difficult to take seriously a threat from a guy named Benny.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 12:17 PM

A threat in time saves nine.

Posted by: Benny Franklin at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (enkoP)

97 Transformers?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 12:28 PM (ZLygy)
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Perhaps several.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 12:31 PM (GOuGd)
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"We've got squirrels in the treeline! I repeat! squirrels in the treeline! Thousands of 'em!"

Posted by: mrp at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (rj6Yv)

98 93 Same theme as the demon copilot who tried to kill a plane full of Jews yesterday
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:20 PM (j8E+e)

Not true !.. It was just a skirmish...
Posted by: The media at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM

A fracas.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (4NO2D)

A kerfuffle.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (Y/06r)

99 "We've got squirrels in the treeline! I repeat! squirrels in the treeline! Thousands of 'em!"
Posted by: mrp at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (rj6Yv)
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Uh, oh...

I don't have an alibi!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 01, 2026 12:34 PM (FZ29D)

100 Texas constitutional carry, enacted through House Bill 1927, was signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott on June 16, 2021, and officially took effect on September 1, 2021. Starting on that effective date, most legally eligible gun owners aged 21 and older were permitted to carry handguns openly or concealed in public without a License to Carry (LTC). You may now continue.

Posted by: @SOEarpiece at October 01, 2026 12:34 PM (4NO2D)

101 I've had many "conversations" with dementia patients like that. It goes around and around and around...
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Change dementia patient with democrat. It fits.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 12:34 PM (nZ6VT)

102 That Benny Mardones song, the lyrics really are creepy. But apparently the actual backstory is not…. Just a teen girl from a troubled family in his Miami neighborhood who he helped out. The girl apparently corroborates the innocent explanation
But the lyrics yes very creepy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:35 PM (j8E+e)

103 This is clearly a false flag orchestrated by Benyamin Netanyahu himself!

Posted by: ballistic at October 01, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)

104 >>"We've got squirrels in the treeline! I repeat! squirrels in the treeline! Thousands of 'em!"

You fucked with Squirrels Morty!

Posted by: garrett at October 01, 2026 12:35 PM (vNne8)

105 "These people need to be exterminated!"

You know who else said that?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 01, 2026 12:36 PM (5KN7H)

106 I don't have an alibi!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirr

Yes you do. You were teaching a class to the squirrels. I'll let you figure out the name of the class

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 12:36 PM (JrHfD)

107 Same theme as the demon copilot who tried to kill a plane full of Jews yesterday
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:20 PM (j8E+e)

Not true !.. It was just a skirmish...
Posted by: The media at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM

A fracas.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (4NO2D)

A kerfuffle.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

At least it wasn't a donnybrook.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 12:36 PM (nZ6VT)

108 104 >>"We've got squirrels in the treeline! I repeat! squirrels in the treeline! Thousands of 'em!"

You fucked with Squirrels Morty!

Posted by: garrett at October 01, 2026 12:35 PM (vNne

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*in before the "I hate Rick and Morty" comments*

Show is still funny.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:36 PM (U/fqy)

109 A kerfuffle.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (Y/06r)

Just bit of tomfoolery

Posted by: Boswell at October 01, 2026 12:36 PM (NTVPI)

110 Same theme as the demon copilot who tried to kill a plane full of Jews yesterday
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:20 PM (j8E+e)

Not true !.. It was just a skirmish...
Posted by: The media at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM

A fracas.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (4NO2D)

A kerfuffle.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (Y/06r)

A brouhaha

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:36 PM (j8E+e)

111 An altercation!

Posted by: George Bush at October 01, 2026 12:36 PM (zMXSI)

112 If Benny Caldera lived in England, he'd already be bailed out.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 01, 2026 12:36 PM (5KN7H)

113 The Blade needs to stop referring to himself in the third person. That's weird.
Posted by: dantesed at October 01, 2026 12:31 PM (Oy/m2)

My guess is he attended THE Ohio State University.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 12:37 PM (2WIwB)

114 Maybe an AIPAC Dingo ate Benny's baby.

Posted by: Worldwide Hebraic Conspiracy at October 01, 2026 12:37 PM (Fn+3X)

115 “It was a disagreement “

— BBC

One pilot wanted to stab the other to death, and darned if the other pilot disagreed with that course of action!
All quite civilized, nothing to get your knickers in a twist about!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 12:37 PM (4KUe5)

116 >>Show is still funny.

I haven't seen the last few seasons...

But, that Squirrel Bit was hysterical.

Posted by: garrett at October 01, 2026 12:37 PM (vNne8)

117 Jean Reno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM (U/fqy)

Janet Reno had a stronger chin

Posted by: Kindltot at October 01, 2026 12:37 PM (rbvCR)

118 Same theme as the demon copilot who tried to kill a plane full of Jews yesterday
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:20 PM (j8E+e)

Not true !.. It was just a skirmish...
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My favorite *stupid* take on the plane thingy was that it may have JUST been a singular suicide attempt...and the fact that more than 150 Israelis would have died too would have been mere collateral damage.

Posted by: Crusader at October 01, 2026 12:37 PM (TN0g+)

119 If Benny Caldera lived in England, he'd already be bailed out.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 01, 2026 12:36 PM

In fairness, he was bailed out. Then the Feds grabbed him.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 12:37 PM (4NO2D)

120 "Incroyable!"
-Gerard Depardieu
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:31 PM

Vous n'arrêtez pas d'employer ce mot. Je ne crois pas qu'il signifie ce que vous pensez qu'il signifie.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 12:38 PM (/C5Rl)

121 L oosen
A ntisemitic
V iolence
A ustin

Posted by: B Caldera at October 01, 2026 12:38 PM (R0XxO)

122 Just in time for Hassan Piker, who is coming to campaign for Talarico, to explain why this is a false flag plot by the Jews but also the terrorist is justified.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 12:38 PM (3cUTc)

123 The jooz run Texas too?
This was never discussed at the meetings.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Bucky Goldstein. Wasn't that the name from the Steven Wright bit?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

He's just the scapegoat. The Yallbergs run everything.

Posted by: Candie Owens or someone like that at October 01, 2026 12:39 PM (VHUov)

124 Just bit of tomfoolery
Posted by: Boswell at October 01, 2026 12:36 PM (NTVPI)

I’ve always found that word hilarious. Like in My Fair Lady after the spectacular success at the ball, Professor Higgins and Pickering are congratulating themselves and Pickering says: Just a bit of tomfoolery…. Ha

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:39 PM (j8E+e)

125 Same theme as the demon copilot who tried to kill a plane full of Jews yesterday
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:20 PM (j8E+e)

Not true !.. It was just a skirmish...
Posted by: The media at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM

A fracas.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (4NO2D)

A kerfuffle.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

At least it wasn't a donnybrook.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 12:36 PM (nZ6VT)

***

The cockpit is no place to play Mumbly Peg.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 12:39 PM (2WIwB)

126

Boy, the National Socialists sure do hate those Jews.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at October 01, 2026 12:40 PM (VuTBl)

127 That Benny Mardones song, the lyrics really are creepy. But apparently the actual backstory is not…. Just a teen girl from a troubled family in his Miami neighborhood who he helped out. The girl apparently corroborates the innocent explanation
But the lyrics yes very creepy
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I'm going to remain a sceptic that he could take a 16-year old girl "into the night and show (her) love..." and have a perfectly legit non-creepy explanation.

Posted by: Crusader at October 01, 2026 12:40 PM (TN0g+)

128 120 "Incroyable!"
-Gerard Depardieu
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:31 PM

Vous n'arrêtez pas d'employer ce mot. Je ne crois pas qu'il signifie ce que vous pensez qu'il signifie.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 12:38 PM (/C5Rl)

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J'ai compris cette référence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:40 PM (U/fqy)

129 "These people need to be exterminated!"

It's fascinating to me that so, so many Jews just don't think the left means it when they say stuff like this.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 12:40 PM (gLYp7)

130
Not true !.. It was just a skirmish...
Posted by: The media at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM

Off sock/

Posted by: It's me donna at October 01, 2026 12:40 PM (+gK6I)

131 My ad free bliss has come to an end. If I but brave’s shield up, the site won’t load. Prob user error of some sort.

Posted by: Piper at October 01, 2026 12:40 PM (ZdaMQ)

132 The Babylon Bee's thesaurus was getting a workout yesterday:

https://tinyurl.com/hf8zme9r

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at October 01, 2026 12:40 PM (Wt5PA)

133 >>>Texas DPS SWAT officers arrested 40-year-old Benny Caldera Jr. at 3 a.m.

Freaking millennials.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 12:40 PM (TxUdT)

134 The Blade is all that stands between allowing Sponge!! and Blonde Morticia stealing FIRSTs!!! on every thread.

Posted by: wqiuytrepoy at October 01, 2026 12:40 PM (Fn+3X)

135 That Benny Mardones song, the lyrics really are creepy. But apparently the actual backstory is not…. Just a teen girl from a troubled family in his Miami neighborhood who he helped out. The girl apparently corroborates the innocent explanation
But the lyrics yes very creepy
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:35 PM (j8E+e)
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Yea, but that's almost certainly a cover story. The lyrics cannot be more clear that he is in romantic/intimate love with her. I think they made up the cover story to hide the ickyness of the lyrics.

It would be like Gene Simmons claiming "Christine Sixteen" is about a nice Jewish girl he helped learn Hebrew.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

136 The cockpit is no place to play Mumbly Peg.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 12:39 PM

We don't call it that anymore.

- Just the punchline

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 12:40 PM (/C5Rl)

137 I listened to some of Secretary Hegseth’s speech, gosh darn that man is awesome. Hope for the future is shining bright.

Posted by: Cray Cray at October 01, 2026 12:40 PM (ImvI1)

138 Not true !.. It was just a skirmish...
Posted by: The media

Gettysburg was a skirmish.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 12:41 PM (nZ6VT)

139 The cockpit is no place to play Mumbly Peg.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 12:39 PM (2WIwB)

George Carlin had all kinds of fun with the word someone decided should be designated to indicate as the place where the pilots sit…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:41 PM (j8E+e)

140 "Incroyable!"
-Gerard Depardieu
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:31 PM

Vous n'arrêtez pas d'employer ce mot. Je ne crois pas qu'il signifie ce que vous pensez qu'il signifie.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 12:38 PM (/C5Rl)

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J'ai compris cette référence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

*golf clap*

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 01, 2026 12:41 PM (vJrRc)

141 Good news, everyone! That incident in the plane wasn't terrorism!

Eric Abbenante
@EricAbbenante
Ana Kasparian thinks that the hijacking of the Israeli flight is 'fishy' and intimates it was a false flag. She is upset that she even has to cover the story period:

"Okay. God help me. Let's get to this next story because we have to talk about it.
This is a still developing story, and I don't trust the Israelis. I wouldn't trust the Israelis with anything.
Any narrative coming out of Israel, I don't I just I can't take it at face value. Sorry"

"Immediately jumping to the conclusion that the copilot is a jihadi. Doesn't make sense to me. Citation, please."

"Just yesterday, Netanyahu was saying that the Iranians are going to carry out some sort of attack against Israel ahead of the Israeli elections.
Everyone was saying, oh, here comes the false flag. Now, look, I'm not saying that this is a false flag. I don't know yet. I don't know yet. I think it's fishy."

'I think it's fishy' if you cannot label actual terrorism, terrorism.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 12:42 PM (ndZc7)

142 Burlington Public Schools

School officials are in panic mode over kids revolting against “Pride Day”

Kids refused to wear colors and some even chanted that their pronouns are USA

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 12:42 PM (RHGPo)

143 D-Day was just a minor scuffle.

Posted by: dantesed at October 01, 2026 12:42 PM (Oy/m2)

144 Not true !.. It was just a skirmish...
Posted by: The media

Gettysburg was a skirmish.
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Yep, part of the War of Northern Aggression.

Posted by: Crusader at October 01, 2026 12:43 PM (TN0g+)

145 Ana Kasparian thinks that the hijacking of the Israeli flight is 'fishy' and intimates it was a false flag. She is upset that she even has to cover the story period:

Patrick Clancy hypnotized them. He also hypnotized Ana Kasparian’s fish.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 01, 2026 12:43 PM (QCTJd)

146 D-Day was just a minor scuffle.
Posted by: dantesed

A dust-up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 12:43 PM (ZLygy)

147 I don't recall when TX got constitutional carry but there is no such thing as as "licensed firearm" in TX.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 01, 2026 12:32 PM (vTZFs)

My AR is a licensed hairdresser.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 12:43 PM (ExV1e)

148 Texas constitutional carry, [ ... ] officially took effect on September 1, 2021.

So there are a lot of things he could have been doing with a gun that might have been illegal but "carrying an unlicensed firearm" is not one of them. That's sloppy and/or ignorant reporting on somebody's part.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 01, 2026 12:43 PM (vTZFs)

149 145 Ana Kasparian thinks that the hijacking of the Israeli flight is 'fishy' and intimates it was a false flag. She is upset that she even has to cover the story period:

Patrick Clancy hypnotized them. He also hypnotized Ana Kasparian’s fish.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 01, 2026 12:43 PM (QCTJd)

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"Palestinians have every right to commit terrorism and should do it because of the genocide. Also, they never commit terrorism because they're too moral and Israelis are the real monsters."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:44 PM (U/fqy)

150 Freaking millennials.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Yeah, you don't see us Boomers going off the rails like this.

Posted by: Old Man Adams, The Sourest Man In Town at October 01, 2026 12:44 PM (Fn+3X)

151 School officials are in panic mode over kids revolting against “Pride Day”

Kids refused to wear colors and some even chanted that their pronouns are USA
Posted by: SMOD

School officials: "We didn't meant that you should question our authority and rebel against our oppressive social mores!"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 01, 2026 12:44 PM (vJrRc)

152 >>"Immediately jumping to the conclusion that the copilot is a jihadi. Doesn't make sense to me. Citation, please."

She's right. We need a DNA test to be certain.

Posted by: garrett at October 01, 2026 12:44 PM (vNne8)

153 Spotsylvania was less than a skirmish. A minor fracas

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:44 PM (j8E+e)

154 Why did Mossad get Benny Caldera to do this?

The answer today on my show!

Posted by: Candace, the Lesbo dater at October 01, 2026 12:44 PM (Lhncr)

155 He was first charged with a felony terroristic threat against a public servant and held on a $75,000 bond. By Wednesday evening he was in federal custody. Records show he was arrested in 2023 for carrying an unlicensed firearm.

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Just a note.

It doesn't say which state he was arrested for the unlicensed firearm.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:45 PM (U/fqy)

156 128 120 "Incroyable!"
-Gerard Depardieu
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:31 PM

Vous n'arrêtez pas d'employer ce mot. Je ne crois pas qu'il signifie ce que vous pensez qu'il signifie.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 12:38 PM (/C5Rl)

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J'ai compris cette référence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:40 PM (U/fqy)

¿No podemos hablar español como los estadounidenses de bien?

Posted by: Piper at October 01, 2026 12:45 PM (ZdaMQ)

157 J'ai compris cette référence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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From you, I was expecting Je ne comprends pas.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 12:45 PM (JzUSu)

158 That's sloppy and/or ignorant reporting on somebody's part.
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Oh, we've got both kinds...sloppy and ignorant!

Posted by: Bob Country Media Bunker at October 01, 2026 12:45 PM (TN0g+)

159 J'ai compris cette référence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:40 PM

*le clap du golf*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 12:45 PM (/C5Rl)

160 157 J'ai compris cette référence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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From you, I was expecting Je ne comprends pas.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 12:45 PM (JzUSu)

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Well, you see, I can actually read French.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:45 PM (U/fqy)

161 Is Ana Kasparian really that retarded?? And here there was a brief millisecond where I thought she might’ve been red pilled. Stupid me

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:45 PM (j8E+e)

162 The cockpit is no place to play Mumbly Peg.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 12:39 PM (2WIwB)
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I hope that gets added into the next version of the training manual for pilots.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 01, 2026 12:45 PM (FZ29D)

163 Petey ain't got no lice'm, but he sho' got a lot of fleas.

Posted by: Stymie Beard, Our Gang at October 01, 2026 12:46 PM (Fn+3X)

164 ...but there is no such thing as as "licensed firearm" in TX.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 01, 2026 12:32 PM (vTZFs)

I was wondering that same thing.
Licensed?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 12:46 PM (2WIwB)

165 >>Is Ana Kasparian really that retarded?? And here there was a brief millisecond where I thought she might’ve been red pilled.

Apparently, she needs another homeless man to dry hump some more sense into her.

Posted by: garrett at October 01, 2026 12:46 PM (vNne8)

166 161 Is Ana Kasparian really that retarded?? And here there was a brief millisecond where I thought she might’ve been red pilled. Stupid me

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:45 PM (j8E+e)

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She's a committed ideologue, so she is primarily concerned with justifying her ideology over anything else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:46 PM (U/fqy)

167 You people with the French… I read French like Joey Tribiani speaks French. No comprende…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:46 PM (j8E+e)

168 The cockpit is no place to play Mumbly Peg.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 12:39 PM

We don't call it that anymore.

- Just the punchline

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 12:40 PM (/C5Rl)

What? How about speech challenged Peg?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 12:47 PM (TxUdT)

169 Ana Kasparian thinks that the hijacking of the Israeli flight is 'fishy' and intimates it was a false flag. She is upset that she even has to cover the story period:

"Immediately jumping to the conclusion that the copilot is a jihadi. Doesn't make sense to me. Citation, please."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 12:42 PM (ndZc7)

How about AirDubai as a source?

"There is no other way to put it, we hired the services of a terrorist and nearly caused the deaths of 180 people," the source said.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 12:47 PM (gLYp7)

170 Well, you see, I can actually read French.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:45 PM

Good short film, btw.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 12:47 PM (/C5Rl)

171 This is what happens when you don't have a quality CIA handler AND your friends narc you out.

Frankly, I'm shocked he was arrested before the attack.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 12:47 PM (s1VwS)

172 167 You people with the French… I read French like Joey Tribiani speaks French. No comprende…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:46 PM (j8E+e)

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My Italian is better. I actually work on my Italian.

My French is leftover knowledge from high school with surprising staying power in my brain.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:47 PM (U/fqy)

173 Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at October 01, 2026 12:40 PM (Wt5PA

Thanks. That is funny stuff, although not too off the mark, sadly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 12:47 PM (JrHfD)

174 I hope that gets added into the next version of the training manual for pilots.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 01, 2026 12:45 PM (FZ29D)

Gotta give props to the pilot.. He managed to unlock the door while being attacked.. if he hadn't this would have been an entirely different story

Posted by: It's me donna at October 01, 2026 12:47 PM (+gK6I)

175 170 Well, you see, I can actually read French.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:45 PM

Good short film, btw.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 12:47 PM (/C5Rl)

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Thank you!

All should watch.

And comment.

And like and subscribe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqBCc0ATG8c

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:48 PM (U/fqy)

176 What? How about speech challenged Peg?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 12:47 PM

Well played.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 12:48 PM (/C5Rl)

177 Some duffus on X was all "Republicans aren't releasing their internal polls. That proves they are losing. Here's this chart that shows how winning campaigns release their internals."

Ok.

Paxon internal poll released yesterday shows he's ahead.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 12:48 PM (3cUTc)

178 >>How about AirDubai as a source?

"There is no other way to put it, we hired the services of a terrorist and nearly caused the deaths of 180 people," the source said.

Air Dubai - I don't know?

Sounds kinda Jewy to me...

Posted by: Ana Kasparian at October 01, 2026 12:48 PM (vNne8)

179 145 Ana Kasparian thinks that the hijacking of the Israeli flight is 'fishy' and intimates it was a false flag. She is upset that she even has to cover the story period.
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Um, wow.

Regardless, the release of the Cockpit voice recording should be interesting.

Posted by: WisRich at October 01, 2026 12:48 PM (G0vdT)

180 Only French I know is 'au revoir' and 'bonjour'.

Posted by: dantesed at October 01, 2026 12:48 PM (Oy/m2)

181 @161 Ana Kasparian is if Armenian ancestry. She appears on a show called the Young Turks. The Young Turks murdered over a million Armenians.
Yes, yes she is that retarded

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 01, 2026 12:49 PM (jivel)

182 So there are a lot of things he could have been doing with a gun that might have been illegal but "carrying an unlicensed firearm" is not one of them. That's sloppy and/or ignorant reporting on somebody's part.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 01, 2026 12:43 PM (vTZFs)

Well, if his gun had a suppressor on it that had not had the NFA tax stamp, it might be sloppily described as unlicensed. But most likely the reporter is merely a J-school grad, so therefore extremely stupid and evil.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2026 12:49 PM (4znQE)

183 It could have been really bad. Leon don’t F around when he decides to take out people.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 12:49 PM (KC5Lt)

184 I was wondering that same thing.
Licensed?
Posted by: Diogenes

Licensed/unlicensed, registered/unregistered,

negative on all of it.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 12:49 PM (nZ6VT)

185 Only French I know is 'au revoir' and 'bonjour'.
Posted by: dantesed at October 01, 2026 12:48 PM

That's all a French fashion model needs.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 12:49 PM (4NO2D)

186 Monkeyshines.

Posted by: In my best Paul Lynde voice at October 01, 2026 12:50 PM (2Ez/1)

187 My French is leftover knowledge from high school with surprising staying power in my brain.

I’m also actively working on Italian; haven’t worked on French since high school. And yet I will still say something, pause, and realize, that’s not Italian, it’s French.

Mind you, if I were faced with actually having to use French, I would get nothing.

My brain hates me.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 01, 2026 12:50 PM (QCTJd)

188 164 ...but there is no such thing as as "licensed firearm" in TX.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 01, 2026 12:32 PM (vTZFs)

I was wondering that same thing.
Licensed?
Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 12:46 PM (2WIwB)

Don't forigeners need a license to buy firearms?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 12:50 PM (s1VwS)

189 Only French I know is 'au revoir' and 'bonjour'.
Posted by: dantesed

Toot sweet!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 12:50 PM (nZ6VT)

190 One pilot wanted to stab the other to death, and darned if the other pilot disagreed with that course of action!
All quite civilized, nothing to get your knickers in a twist about!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 12:37 PM (4KUe5)

Copilot said Allahu Akbar which the New York Times says is arabic for "This is MAGA country!"

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:50 PM (enkoP)

191 >>Only French I know is

David. And he's hella fucking gay.

Posted by: Mrs David French at October 01, 2026 12:50 PM (vNne8)

192 Pepe LePew taught me some on Saturday mornings.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 12:50 PM (ZLygy)

193 Only French I know is 'au revoir' and 'bonjour'.

You don’t know “C’est la vie.” or “A la mode”?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 01, 2026 12:50 PM (QCTJd)

194 Um, wow.

Regardless, the release of the Cockpit voice recording should be interesting.

Posted by: WisRich at October 01, 2026 12:48 PM (G0vdT)

Recitations of the Rosary? Bank on it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 12:51 PM (TxUdT)

195 My lips just cannot get French right.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 12:51 PM (4NO2D)

196 Only French I know is 'au revoir' and 'bonjour'.
Posted by: dantesed at October 01, 2026 12:48 PM

That's all a French fashion model needs.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Oui oui!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 12:51 PM (nZ6VT)

197 The Young Turks are neither.

Posted by: Let the record show at October 01, 2026 12:51 PM (2Ez/1)

198 Well, you see, I can actually read French.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:45 PM

Three years of High School French. I'd have stopped at one, but the new French teacher was fresh out of college and she was drop dead gorgeous!
OOOO LA LA!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 12:51 PM (2WIwB)

199 False flag terrorist threats gonna ramp up big time before the election so that Republicans have an excuse to have people with guns at polling places. Kind of copying Isreal and Russias homework but noone said they were original

The FBI and other alphabet and law enforcement agencies have been recruiting and equipping the "terrorists" they arrest for decades. If you see the FBI volunteering information to the press before charges are filed, they're trying to prosecute through the media.

The people who are still working in the FBI here in 2026 are mostly the 'slow kids.' Trump v2 basically drove out 90% of the agents who were actually competent.

This administration driving away valuable talent and expertise in droves from practically *every* government agency is gonna be a wound that it takes us a long time to recover from. An entirely preventable self-inflicted wound, too. Just flat-out stupid.

So this guy is mad at AIPAC so he decided to attack the state capitol? Just to state the obvious, AIPAC isn't in the state capitol

Do you expect presumably far right anti-semitic conspiracy theorists to be rational? Because sometimes there not

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 01, 2026 12:51 PM (t19vo)

200 Good short film, btw.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 12:47 PM (/C5Rl)

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Thank you!

All should watch.

And comment.

And like and subscribe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqBCc0ATG8c
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:48 PM (U/fqy)

Turn on subtitles!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 12:52 PM (s1VwS)

201 Ana Kasparian thinks that the hijacking of the Israeli flight is 'fishy' and intimates it was a false flag. She is upset that she even has to cover the story period.
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Weren't there people saying she was gonna "turn" after she was attacked by her leftard comrades for revealing that her rapist was a protected class?

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:52 PM (enkoP)

202 Is Ana Kasparian really that retarded?? And here there was a brief millisecond where I thought she might’ve been red pilled. Stupid me

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:45 PM (j8E+e)

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She's a committed ideologue, so she is primarily concerned with justifying her ideology over anything else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:46 PM (U/fqy)
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The Armenians are also very touchy when it comes to genocide.

It's almost like they are jealous of Jews that the holocaust is a well-publicized genocide that ended in trials and executions, whereas nobody knows or cares about the Armenian genocide.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 12:52 PM (iFTx/)

203 Don't forigeners need a license to buy firearms?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 12:50 PM (s1VwS)

No, because they won't get charged, regardless of any alien firearm license statutes on the books.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 12:52 PM (TxUdT)

204 So. How long before we get confirmation that this guy was another Hasan Piker Fan/Chatter?

Posted by: garrett at October 01, 2026 12:52 PM (vNne8)

205 Just to state the obvious, AIPAC isn't in the state capitol

Wait, what? I thought the complaint is that they are in the state capitols. Or do use remotes on the politicians they supposedly control?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 01, 2026 12:53 PM (QCTJd)

206 Don't forigeners need a license to buy firearms?

Legal permanent ( "green card") residents can buy guns same as a citizen. AFAIK, other noncitizens can not.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 01, 2026 12:53 PM (2P+FP)

207 "The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob" is the only French film I ever liked.

Posted by: Can Pick'em at October 01, 2026 12:53 PM (Fn+3X)

208 180 Only French I know is 'au revoir' and 'bonjour'.
Posted by: dantesed at October 01, 2026 12:48 PM (Oy/m2)

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Odd fact. There is a town up in northern New Hampshire called Berlin. Most of that area speaks French as a first language, or did. It's settled down some. The funny thing is that it's a hybrid French that they called "Berlin French" or a mix of "Franglais". No one can understand them...and I didn't try.

Posted by: Orson at October 01, 2026 12:53 PM (dIske)

209 Re:Ana Kasparian - overheard a colleague recounting all the suspect things about Clancy’s husband the day of the murders. Omg, people will believe anything.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 12:53 PM (4KUe5)

210 You people with the French… I read French like Joey Tribiani speaks French. No comprende…

I think you mean "no comprendo, Cochise".

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 12:54 PM (Riz8t)

211 It's almost like they are jealous of Jews that the holocaust is a well-publicized genocide that ended in trials and executions, whereas nobody knows or cares about the Armenian genocide.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

They should have tried getting genocided by Germans instead of Turkish Muslims. Everybody would talk about it then.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 01, 2026 12:54 PM (vJrRc)

212 >>It's almost like they are jealous of Jews that the holocaust is a well-publicized genocide that ended in trials and executions, whereas nobody knows or cares about the Armenian genocide.

My first exposure to this was in my 7th grade History Class. We had a girl who was descended from both Armenian and Jewish heritage.
Holy shit, did she milk that for all it was worth. Even back then.

Posted by: garrett at October 01, 2026 12:54 PM (vNne8)

213 187 I’m also actively working on Italian; haven’t worked on French since high school. And yet I will still say something, pause, and realize, that’s not Italian, it’s French.

Mind you, if I were faced with actually having to use French, I would get nothing.

My brain hates me.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 01, 2026 12:50 PM (QCTJd)

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I regularly saw "avec" instead of "con" when speaking Italian.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:54 PM (U/fqy)

214 Re:Ana Kasparian - overheard a colleague recounting all the suspect things about Clancy’s husband the day of the murders. Omg, people will believe anything.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 12:53 PM (4KUe5)

Flat earthers out front shoulda told ya.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 12:54 PM (TxUdT)

215 J'ai un tour d'Eiffel dans mes pantalons.

Posted by: Christopher Turk at October 01, 2026 12:54 PM (fmbc9)

216 I know post pardum depression when I see it

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 01, 2026 12:55 PM (bX16E)

217 Seriously. How many committed leftards have been "red-pilled" since 2018 or so? Three?

Oh yeah there was that Facebook Movement. How could I forget.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:55 PM (enkoP)

218 >Is Ana Kasparian really that retarded?? And here there was a brief millisecond where I thought she might’ve been red pilled. ——

All progressives are retarded. Some more than others.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 12:55 PM (KC5Lt)

219 199 False flag terrorist threats gonna ramp up big time before the election so that Republicans have an excuse to have people with guns at polling places. Kind of copying Isreal and Russias homework but noone said they were original

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmis

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"Oppressed people are completely justified to commit terrorism, and they absolutely should. I wish that they would do it more to take down American oligarchical fascist capitalism by any means necessary. Also, no oppressed person has ever committed terrorism."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:55 PM (U/fqy)

220 Only French I know is 'au revoir' and 'bonjour'.

You don’t know “C’est la vie.” or “A la mode”?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 01, 2026 12:50 PM (QCTJd)
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Sydney Sweeney has a nice derriere. And a nice decolletage to match.

Posted by: mrp at October 01, 2026 12:55 PM (rj6Yv)

221 No French.

Shouldn't have to say this.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 12:56 PM (c7ZsT)

222 My brain hates me.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 01, 2026 12:50 PM (QCTJd)

I am working on music theory. Feels like a foreign language sometimes.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 12:56 PM (TxUdT)

223 The Armenians are also very touchy when it comes to genocide.

It's almost like they are jealous of Jews that the holocaust is a well-publicized genocide that ended in trials and executions, whereas nobody knows or cares about the Armenian genocide.

Oh, boo hoo.

Posted by: The Ukrainians at October 01, 2026 12:56 PM (Riz8t)

224 200 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqBCc0ATG8c
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:48 PM (U/fqy)

Turn on subtitles!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 12:52 PM (s1VwS)

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I just won't shut up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:56 PM (U/fqy)

225 Sydney Sweeney has a nice derriere. And a nice decolletage to match.
Posted by: mrp at October 01, 2026 12:55 PM (rj6Yv)

Endorsed

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 12:56 PM (s1VwS)

226 Flat earthers out front shoulda told ya.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 12:54 PM (TxUdT)

Hey do not lump us in with the Clancy Retards.

Posted by: Flat Earthers at October 01, 2026 12:57 PM (enkoP)

227 Armenia is a mythical place. Like Freedonia and Sylvania.

Posted by: Duck Soup at October 01, 2026 12:57 PM (Fn+3X)

228 Not true !.. It was just a skirmish...
Posted by: The media at October 01, 2026 12:21 PM

A fracas.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (4NO2D)

A kerfuffle.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (Y/06r)

A brouhaha
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Dare I say imbroglio?

Posted by: MkY at October 01, 2026 12:57 PM (ZHRuH)

229 Caveat. That's for sale through federally licensed dealers. I don't know what the laws are for private transfers.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 01, 2026 12:57 PM (Q/cO+)

230 Ana Kasparian is an actress playing a part.

Posted by: davidt at October 01, 2026 12:57 PM (Q+gd/)

231 Sydney Sweeney has a nice derriere.

John has a long moustache.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 12:58 PM (2WIwB)

232 My first exposure to this was in my 7th grade History Class. We had a girl who was descended from both Armenian and Jewish heritage.
Holy shit, did she milk that for all it was worth. Even back then.

Posted by: garrett at October 01, 2026 12:54 PM (vNne

Some people aren't meant to persist. I guess.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 12:58 PM (TxUdT)

233 How many committed leftards have been "red-pilled" since 2018 or so? Three?

Posted by: ...

I suspect more than that if you look at vTubers.

Several of them saw an underserved market and decided to take advantage of it.

Like Fox News did.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 01, 2026 12:58 PM (vJrRc)

234 I suspect when they caught this blowhard, a sh*t was indeed fired.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 01, 2026 12:58 PM (88C+u)

235 Odd fact. There is a town up in northern New Hampshire called Berlin. Most of that area speaks French as a first language, or did. It's settled down some. The funny thing is that it's a hybrid French that they called "Berlin French" or a mix of "Franglais". No one can understand them...and I didn't try.
Posted by: Orson at October 01, 2026 12:53 PM (dIske)
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They call it BURLin not berLIN.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 12:58 PM (c7ZsT)

236 So you say a suspected in-capitol altercation was possibly averted? How do you know Mr. Caldera wasn't there to paint a mural honoring BIPOC peoples of indigenous color and those racits stopped his brave and heroic act?!

Posted by: Whoopsie Gordoberg at October 01, 2026 12:58 PM (7Q0e+)

237 A fracas.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (4NO2D)

A kerfuffle.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (Y/06r)

A brouhaha
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Dare I say imbroglio?
Posted by: MkY at October 01, 2026 12:57 PM (ZHRuH)

Un petit contretemps.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 12:58 PM (2WIwB)

238 I've been to Wisconsin. Smelled their Dairy Air.

Posted by: Violets, Roses, It Ain't at October 01, 2026 12:59 PM (Fn+3X)

239 Sydney Sweeney has a nice derriere. And a nice decolletage to match.

Pity about la visage de beurre.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 12:59 PM (Riz8t)

240 Real genocide unfortunately is not rare relatively speaking. But the term has been diluted and misused so much it’s like the terms racist and fascist.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 12:59 PM (KC5Lt)

241 Pity about la visage de beurre.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 12:59 PM (Riz8t)

Check your esprit

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 01:00 PM (enkoP)

242 Very Northern VT, the locals have this wild accent that sounds like an Irish brogue. Not like any other New England accent.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 01:00 PM (4KUe5)

243 Dare I say imbroglio?
Posted by: MkY at October 01, 2026 12:57 PM (ZHRuH)

Natalie Imbroglio had a couple of big hits in the late '90s.

Posted by: Internet Music Facts at October 01, 2026 01:00 PM (fmbc9)

244 Michael Rothman's X comment has some wild Unicode in it. Pixy don't like it.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 01, 2026 01:00 PM (88C+u)

245 It's almost like they are jealous of Jews that the holocaust is a well-publicized genocide that ended in trials and executions, whereas nobody knows or cares about the Armenian genocide.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 12:52 PM (iFTx/)
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Incidentally, the one famous novel about the Turkish genocide of Armenians is The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, written by Franz Werfel. Hollywood initiated work on a film adaptation, but it was nixed by the State Department acting at the behest of the government of Turkey.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at October 01, 2026 01:01 PM (Yx5tR)

246 There are parts of Rhode Island that sound like Brooklyn which is very jarring.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 01:01 PM (enkoP)

247 Sydney Sweeney has a nice derriere. And a nice decolletage to match.……

Sydney Sweeney is a butterface but the butter is smooth and delicious.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:01 PM (KC5Lt)

248 Sydney Sweeney is plain, but her face lights up when she smiles.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 01:03 PM (4NO2D)

249 Sydney Sweeney is only a butterface if you think every chick looks like Audrey Hepburn.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 01:04 PM (enkoP)

250 Sydney Sweeney has a nice derriere. And a nice decolletage to match.……

Sydney Sweeney is a butterface but the butter is smooth and delicious.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:01 PM (KC5Lt)

She . . . uh . . . has a face?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 01:04 PM (TxUdT)

251 Marquette: Tom Tiffany trails David Crowley 46-45 in Wisconsin.

One point?! Also. Crowley's unfavorables have spiked 15 points in the past weeks.

It's almost like keeping your powder dry until people start paying attention has a real, measurable impact.

Also, fuck the polls. Go vote!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:04 PM (gLYp7)

252 251 Marquette: Tom Tiffany trails David Crowley 46-45 in Wisconsin.

One point?! Also. Crowley's unfavorables have spiked 15 points in the past weeks.

It's almost like keeping your powder dry until people start paying attention has a real, measurable impact.

Also, fuck the polls. Go vote!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:04 PM (gLYp7)

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Summer ad spend is mostly a waste of money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 01:05 PM (U/fqy)

253 Sydney Sweeney is only a butterface if you think every chick looks like Audrey Hepburn.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 01:04 PM (enkoP)

Audrey Hepburn is the reason my kryptonite is the collar bone/throat region. Sweet holy mother....

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:05 PM (gLYp7)

254 Sydney Sweeney is plain, but her face lights up when she smiles.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 01:03 PM (4NO2D)

I’m glad she smiles a lot because she has RBF unintentionally when she doesn’t .

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:05 PM (KC5Lt)

255 So. How long before we get confirmation that this guy was another Hasan Piker Fan/Chatter?
Posted by: garrett at October 01, 2026 12:52 PM (vNne

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Please, please, please. And recruited by the IRGC.

Fingers crossed!

Posted by: mrp at October 01, 2026 01:05 PM (rj6Yv)

256 Elric, in Watertown, MA, is the largest population of Armenians outside of Armenia. There’s an Armenian museum there, and for years they had a billboard that simply read something like: Armenia was the first genocide of the 20th century.

They were first.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 01:06 PM (4KUe5)

257 Elric, in Watertown, MA, is the largest population of Armenians outside of Armenia. There’s an Armenian museum there, and for years they had a billboard that simply read something like: Armenia was the first genocide of the 20th century.

They were first.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 01:06 PM (4KUe5)

lol

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 01:07 PM (TxUdT)

258 She . . . uh . . . has a face?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 01:04 PM (TxUdT)

A face...with TEETH. And the elbows, my Lord...noooo!

Also, just remember, bewbs are flesh-and-fat sheathes coupled to mammary glands.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 01, 2026 01:07 PM (oPFtC)

259 Also, just remember, bewbs are flesh-and-fat sheathes coupled to mammary glands.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 01, 2026 01:07 PM (oPFtC)

Delicious flesh-and-fat sheathes coupled to mammary glands.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 01:08 PM (TxUdT)

260 Thankfully, the taxpayers have 50 LEOs and lawyers handling this case.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 01, 2026 01:09 PM (VQ7/I)

261 Also, just remember, bewbs are flesh-and-fat sheathes coupled to mammary glands.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 01, 2026 01:07 PM (oPFtC)

And.

Proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:09 PM (gLYp7)

262
Also, just remember, bewbs are flesh-and-fat sheathes coupled to mammary glands.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 01, 2026 01:07 PM (oPFtC)

And the magical ability to inspire pure delight.

Don't forget the magic!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 01:10 PM (YSUhf)

263 The King Roy Cooper $3 campaign blegs are coming in every day, now.

Posted by: mrp at October 01, 2026 01:10 PM (rj6Yv)

264
Texas Police and FBI Disrupt Planned Terror Attack to "Shoot Up" the State Capitol, Out of Antisemitic Animus

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A minor dust-up. A mere tiff. A tiny brouhaha. Good-natured joshing.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 01:10 PM (eRlcH)

265 261 And.

Proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:09 PM (gLYp7)

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"I was more of a fanny man, actually."
-Benjamin Franklin

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 01:10 PM (U/fqy)

266 243 Dare I say imbroglio?
Posted by: MkY at October 01, 2026 12:57 PM (ZHRuH)

Natalie Imbroglio had a couple of big hits in the late '90s.
Posted by: Internet Music Facts at October 01, 2026 01:00 PM (fmbc9)

Did you say hits or tits ... ?

Posted by: browndog says woof at October 01, 2026 01:11 PM (oCio0)

267
I’m glad she smiles a lot because she has RBF unintentionally when she doesn’t .
Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:05 PM (KC5Lt)

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As though you disappointed her. Again.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 01:11 PM (eRlcH)

268 I’m glad she smiles a lot because she has RBF unintentionally when she doesn’t .
Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 01:05 PM (KC5Lt)

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As though you disappointed her. Again.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 01:11 PM (eRlcH)

I'd disappoint the stuffing out of her.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 01:13 PM (TxUdT)

269 Did you say hits or tits ... ?

Posted by: browndog says woof at October 01, 2026 01:11 PM (oCio0)

Yes.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:13 PM (gLYp7)

270 Also, fuck the polls.

Like Magdalena Wrobel? This is compelling advice.

Posted by: far cry at October 01, 2026 01:13 PM (LSV6F)

271 243 Dare I say imbroglio?
Posted by: MkY at October 01, 2026 12:57 PM (ZHRuH)

Natalie Imbroglio had a couple of big hits in the late '90s.
Posted by: Internet Music Facts at October 01, 2026 01:00 PM (fmbc9)

I'm a fan.
Her cover of 'Torn' is really good. Very much of its time.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 01:14 PM (s1VwS)

272 Harris-Harvard poll shows the generic ballot with Dems at only +1.

Dems need at least 8+ to take the House.

Idk their track record but generic+prez approval are the best indicator of midterms.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 01:14 PM (3cUTc)

273 Natalie Imbroglio looked fine in the 90s…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 01:15 PM (j8E+e)

274 "I was more of a fanny man, actually."
-Benjamin Franklin
--
"can confirm."
/s/ half the whores in Paris

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 01:15 PM (3cUTc)

275 Thanks for the Mammaries, Sydney!

Posted by: Leslie Townes Hope at October 01, 2026 01:16 PM (Fn+3X)

276 Dems need at least 8+ to take the House.

Idk their track record but generic+prez approval are the best indicator of midterms.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 01:14 PM (3cUTc)
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3 AM water pipes bursting nationwide November 4th.

Posted by: mrp at October 01, 2026 01:16 PM (rj6Yv)

277 Good morning! From the Morning Report:

"The National Political Committee (NPC) is the governing body of the DSA. The NPC is comprised of 27 members (25 delegates plus two youth delegates) and elects its own Steering Committee, which is responsible for interim decision-making. The following caucuses are represented on the NPC:"
Who Runs the Socialist Organization Taking Over the Democrat Party?
The National Pulse: https://tinyurl.com/4zrv77wa
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:26 AM

That is rich. In the confidence scheme of socialism, normally it's the marks that are described as Non-Player Characters.

"In Soviet America, the NPC cons you!" -- Yakov Smirnoff, probably

Posted by: SciVo at October 01, 2026 01:17 PM (ke3zm)

278 Nude Hegseth and trannies

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 01:17 PM (iFTx/)

279 276 Dems need at least 8+ to take the House.

Idk their track record but generic+prez approval are the best indicator of midterms.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 01:14 PM (3cUTc)
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3 AM water pipes bursting nationwide November 4th.

Posted by: mrp at October 01, 2026 01:16 PM (rj6Yv)

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Probably should have done that in 2024 so they didn't lose the imperial presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 01:17 PM (U/fqy)

280 Nood SecWar.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 01:17 PM (gLYp7)

281 nood

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

282
Elric, in Watertown, MA, is the largest population of Armenians outside of Armenia. There’s an Armenian museum there, and for years they had a billboard that simply read something like: Armenia was the first genocide of the 20th century.

They were first.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 01:06 PM (4KUe5)

lol
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 01:07 PM (TxUdT)

Largest on the East Coast, yes. One of the two biggest Armenian immigration destinations in the US. Largest in the US is now in Los Angeles (Glendale). Up until the 1960s, the largest Armenian population was here in Fresno, but the immigration trends changed in the 60s and they started going to LA instead.

Russia has the largest Armenian diaspora population, currently. That goes back to well before the Genocide.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 01:48 PM (y9nCu)

The Morning Rant

The massive, all-encompassing incompetence of most government is on full display today! Humanity has spent its entire history getting better and better at killing each other, yet the Tennessee Department of Corrections can't manage to knock off somebody who is already strapped to a f*cking gurney?

In our culture's drive to make everything painless, including capital punishment, we have made a mockery of the concept, and botching a simple task is just the icing on the cake. This woman was convicted in 1996...30 years ago! That her sentence wasn't carried out promptly after a pro forma appeal is a travesty of justice, and in and of itself is cruel and unusual.

Christa Pike still alive, 'snoring' after 2 lethal injections as Tennessee governor halts all executions

The first woman set to be put to death in Tennessee in over 200 years was given two doses of a lethal injection Wednesday evening, but remained alive as her botched execution descended into chaos — and prompted the governor to demand an outside probe and issue an emergency pause on all executions for the remainder of the year.

There are several tried-and-true ways that the state can kill, and it isn't unreasonable for the people to expect some minimal level of competence in carrying out the sentence. Hanging works. Firing squads work. Electrocution works. But the newest fad of painless death by injection seems not to work very well at all, because the idiots in charge of concocting the lethal dose try to do it in the kindest, most peaceful way imaginable.

Here's a pro-tip! Take a gram of Fentanyl confiscated at the border, mix it in some saline, and shoot it into the bitch's vein. That will do nicely, since the dosage is hundreds of times larger than the lethal dose.

But this is the best part of the entire embarrassing mess!

She was taken to a nearby hospital, where her lawyers said she was “being provided life-saving measures.”
Her condition was unclear as of Thursday morning; however, a doctor who was retained by Pike’s legal team as a medical expert said she likely now has a brain injury as a result.

Life-saving measures after a botched execution?

Apparently there was no "protocol" for this outcome, which exposes the mindset of the bureaucracy. Protocols and regulations are the shield that apparatchiks use to protect themselves from responsibility.

So this evil bitch is in the hospital, perhaps with brain damage, which will be used by her lawyers as a reason to prevent any further attempts to give her what she so richly deserves.

Because we can't kill brain-damaged people? Why not?

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 11:00 AM (ccf/V)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 11:00 AM (NcvvS)

3 Christa Pike still alive, 'snoring' after 2 lethal injections as Tennessee governor halts all executions

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NK has some ideas on this front.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:01 AM (U/fqy)

4 Send her to Canada, to the MAID doctors!!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:02 AM (rOKnE)

5 Yes. Fentanyl has a long track record of killing.....it doesn't take much.

Bye bye birdie.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 11:02 AM (ccf/V)

6 According to my wife, snoring is a capital offense.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 11:03 AM (RORbl)

7 You know what works? A rope.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 11:03 AM (ndZc7)

8
MUNKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 11:03 AM (iqcvy)

9 >>Because we can't kill brain-damaged people? Why not?

"No idea. Seems like an obvious thing to do."
-- Canada and the Netherlands

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:03 AM (rOKnE)

10 So she's not on the cart?

Posted by: Monty Python at October 01, 2026 11:04 AM (2Ez/1)

11 How do you fuck this up?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 11:04 AM (4NO2D)

12 Apparently there was no "protocol" for this outcome,

couldn't find a pillow nearby?

Posted by: Dr. Richard B. Thickdigit Cosmetic Proctology Clinic and Spa at October 01, 2026 11:04 AM (r7+Q7)

13 Life-saving measures after a botched execution?

Wasn't that a Monty Python bit?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM (I43vL)

14 Maybe they can call Canada and ask how to do it?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM (2ocoG)

15 Are there no exercise bands?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM (4NO2D)

16 If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!

Posted by: Ben Franklin at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM (w+jhU)

17 >7 You know what works? A rope.

Or exercise bands.

Posted by: Or so I've heard at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM (2Ez/1)

18 Foul play by an anti-death penalty member of the execution team?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM (rOKnE)

19 >>>Because we can't kill brain-damaged people? Why not?

To safeguard the political class.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM (8mulE)

20 I mentioned in the other thread it was a team of women and they botched it deliberately.

Hell is empty and all the demons are here.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (qwx/I)

21 As I mentioned on an earlier thread. This is just dumb.

Vets can put down animals on a daily basis.

Animals go peacefully and quietly into the final rest.

We can't do this for humans? As CBD points out above, an overdose of fentanyl would no doubt do the trick. Easy and painless.

Oh, and what about those people who use Canada's MAID system? Do THEY suffer during the process? What happens when the euthanasia doesn't work? Do the victims have life-saving measures applied? Or do they get a pillow to the face until they stop thrashing?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (FZ29D)

22 I'd be looking at the formulary. Sabotage is not out of the question.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (4NO2D)

23 Foul play by an anti-death penalty member of the execution team?
Posted by: Lizzy

Hmmmm...Interesting take. Wouldn't surprise me in the least.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (77rzZ)

24 Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: The ghost of Dennis Miller at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (2Ez/1)

25 Snoring? More like agonal breathing, or Death Rattle in street terms.

Posted by: Dr. Whatsamatta at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (Fn+3X)

26 Should have tested it on her lawyers first.

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (iFEms)

27 I mentioned in the other thread it was a team of women and they botched it deliberately.

Weird place to do DEI, but I guess with USAID out of commission they'll take what they can get.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (2ocoG)

28 Foul play by an anti-death penalty member of the execution team?
Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM (rOKnE)

Fowl play. One of the techs chickened out.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (4znQE)

29 There are several tried-and-true ways that the state can kill, and it isn't unreasonable for the people to expect some minimal level of competence in carrying out the sentence.

H-1B some Canadians. Those mf'ers know how to kill.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (ExV1e)

30 Who was it that suggested morphine? Wonderful idea... steadily increasing dose.
Works every time, and who can say it's cruel?
Certainly not unusual

Posted by: MkY at October 01, 2026 11:07 AM (ZHRuH)

31
I thought that she'd requested a firing squad. Almost as if she suspected that someone would fuck up her injection on purpose, leaving her a vegetable.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 11:07 AM (iqcvy)

32 Survived TWO "lethal" injections?

Pull the other one.

Posted by: creeper at October 01, 2026 11:07 AM (lWAes)

33 I am a fan of death by laughing gas.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 11:07 AM (4NO2D)

34 I'm just...

I mean...

F*ck it, I got nuthin'.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 11:07 AM (/C5Rl)

35 Do you think they do that alcohol swab thing before they stick the needle in your arm?

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:08 AM (ZxPkt)

36 In Paths of Glory, Kubrick had the (unjustly accused) prisoner with a concussion pinched on the face so he'd be awake before he was shot.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:08 AM (JzUSu)

37 Yeah, it's agonal breathing.

Hockey season's here -- how about we call it a death game misconduct?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 01, 2026 11:08 AM (qwx/I)

38 Rope is cheap, quick, and relatively painless.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:09 AM (0U5gm)

39 This evil cunt deserved to be rolled in bacon fat and left in a dungeon for the rats.

I'm all for capital punishment to be the same method as the murderer inflicted on his or her victim. A scumbag rapes his victim and then chops her up? The convict gets raped and then chopped up.

In Pike's case, she gets tortured for hours, pentagrams carved into her chest, and then Slemmer's father gets to bash her head in with a rock until she's dead.

I'm not joking. Why are we so nice to cold-blooded murderous evil?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

40 Canada seems to know how to kill people. Maybe we need to hire them as consultants on matters of executions.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 11:10 AM (6lPOA)

41 In Paths of Glory, Kubrick had the (unjustly accused) prisoner with a concussion pinched on the face so he'd be awake before he was shot.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

That's a great but incredible downer of a film. The only thing that redeems it is the scene at the end where the German girl is singing, and all the French soldiers start to cry.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

42 Foul play by an anti-death penalty member of the execution team?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM

That's my thought as well. Someone involved tried to sabotage the execution. Could have been someone present or someone in the supply chain of the drugs used.

I do recall at one point a maker of those specific drugs refusing to sell to any state that did lethal injections.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 01, 2026 11:10 AM (I43vL)

43 38 Rope is cheap, quick, and relatively painless.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:09 AM (0U5gm)

=======

Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:10 AM (U/fqy)

44 In fairness, Canada only executes the innocent.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 11:10 AM (4NO2D)

45 Oh, and what about those people who use Canada's MAID system? Do THEY suffer during the process? What happens when the euthanasia doesn't work? Do the victims have life-saving measures applied? Or do they get a pillow to the face until they stop thrashing?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (FZ29D)

Killing murderous humans: BAD

Killing suicidal but viable humans: Humane and sanctioned

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 11:10 AM (ccf/V)

46
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:10 AM (U/fqy)

Spearchucker!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 11:11 AM (ccf/V)

47 She was sentenced to death in 1996.
That was 30 years ago.

Posted by: Person who owns a calendar at October 01, 2026 11:11 AM (2Ez/1)

48 47 She was sentenced to death in 1996.
That was 30 years ago.

Posted by: Person who owns a calendar at October 01, 2026 11:11 AM (2Ez/1)

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Appeals systems, man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:12 AM (U/fqy)

49
Hockey season's here -- how about we call it a death game misconduct?
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 01, 2026 11:08 AM (qwx/I)

Mutant League Hockey on the Sega was the shizznit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 11:12 AM (ccf/V)

50 I'm not joking. Why are we so nice to cold-blooded murderous evil?
Posted by: Elric The Blade
__________

Because they are just products of the evil capitalist environment that caused their dastardly deeds.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:12 AM (JzUSu)

51 Who was present and directly involved in preparation and administration of the alleged lethal combination of drugs, I question.

Seems oddly convenient for a debacle like that to happen at this time:

• The Heart Stopper: The final drug is usually potassium chloride. It floods the blood with potassium and stops the heart almost instantly. Once the heart stops from this chemical surge, standard CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, a lifesaving method of pushing on the chest and giving breaths) or emergency shots cannot restart it.
• Suffocation: The second drug is a paralyzing agent that stops breathing. Combined with the loss of blood flow, the brain is starved of oxygen within minutes.
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Aileen Wuornos, the real-life serial killer portrayed in the film Monster, was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002, at Florida State Prison. he execution was described as clinical, quiet, and bloodless.

Note: Florida had switched its primary execution method from the electric chair to lethal injection to avoid botched executions.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 11:12 AM (NFX2v)

52 Lizzie Borden, where are you? America turns its lonely eyes to you...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (XeU6L)

53 I mentioned in the other thread it was a team of women and they botched it deliberately.

This is the 2nd failed execution in TN this year. I don't know that the women botched it deliberately.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (ExV1e)

54 Nobody can truthfully say that being retarded precludes being evil...just look at the commies in this country.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (l3cgK)

55 Couple of points:

the death penalty IS constitutional
Amendment the Fifth has this bit--- nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;

Lethal injection is intended to make the State feel better about executing a person. Hanging or firing squad is very graphic. That makes us feel not good, so let's pretend we're just putting the Condemned to sleep.

And then Denny's after.

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (ZxPkt)

56 The only thing that redeems it is the scene at the end where the German girl is singing, and all the French soldiers start to cry.
Posted by: Bulg
________

Kubrick married that girl.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (JzUSu)

57 It's just a clump of cells...

Posted by: NARAL at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (2Ez/1)

58 Killing suicidal but viable humans: Humane and sanctioned

In Canada you don't have to be suicidal, as per the grandmother they killed who specifically said MAID was an abomination and refused it twice.

According to statistics of who they kill it helps a great deal if the victim is white though. No blacks, Indians, or Eskimos.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 11:14 AM (2ocoG)

59 Oh, and what about those people who use Canada's MAID system? Do THEY suffer during the process? What happens when the euthanasia doesn't work?

Assuming they're sufficiently brain damaged, they get elected to Parliament.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 11:14 AM (ExV1e)

60 55
Lethal injection is intended to make the State feel better about executing a person. Hanging or firing squad is very graphic. That makes us feel not good, so let's pretend we're just putting the Condemned to sleep.

And then Denny's after.

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (ZxPkt)

=======

The state doesn't feel things.

The state protects the rights of the people. And sometimes, to protect the rights of the people, the state must kill.

It's why the state has a monopoly on violence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:14 AM (U/fqy)

61 Note: Florida had switched its primary execution method from the electric chair to lethal injection to avoid botched executions.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 11:12 AM (NFX2v)

It would be pretty hard to botch a woodchipper job.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2026 11:14 AM (4znQE)

62 This smells very much like a deliberate op to me.

Come on now, who survives not one but two lethal injections? What was in those needles, adrenaline?

Investigate the clowns that botched this execution, and I'll bet dollars to donuts you'll find an leftwing activist. Or just outright corruption.

This was a fucking op. Convince me otherwise.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 11:15 AM (iFTx/)

63 In fairness, Canada only executes the innocent.
Posted by: toby928
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[cough,cough]

Posted by: Planned Parenthood at October 01, 2026 11:15 AM (XeU6L)

64 Nope. Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the August 4, 1892, hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on June 20, 1893.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 11:15 AM (NFX2v)

65 Life-saving measures after a botched execution?

Oh yes, the antis and the lawyers insist that you must be in perfect health before being executed.

Just like someone on death row who's used up all their appeals? They get heroic life-saving efforts if they have a heart attack before their execution date.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at October 01, 2026 11:15 AM (aJQbY)

66 And "Legal Insurrection" had an article on this which had a long screed about n the very difficult situation she went through as a younger adding that ( supposedly ) her mothers drinking during her pregnancy caused her to be bipolar (?) . I know a number of people who are bipolar . None have killed people. I'm not celebrating her execution. I am sorry they didn't get it done correctly the first time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 11:16 AM (JrHfD)

67 53 I mentioned in the other thread it was a team of women and they botched it deliberately.

This is the 2nd failed execution in TN this year. I don't know that the women botched it deliberately.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (ExV1e)

My first thought was botched on purpose. The way it's done (from my understanding...although the process may have changed) is to anesthetize the person to unconsciousness, then give them additional injections to stop the heart.
Vet gave the old horny cat (who was listless and dying) ONE injection and he was gone in quick order; why not give death row inmates the same thing?
Oh, right, the party of murdering children to birth (And Beyond!) is against killing evil, murderous adults...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:17 AM (l3cgK)

68 You would think they would sign a DNR before their execution.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 11:17 AM (4NO2D)

69 This was the one who lured, tortured and murdered a gal she thought was moving in on her man and then carries a fragment of her skull around town as a trophy, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:17 AM (Y/06r)

70 4 Send her to Canada, to the MAID doctors!!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:02 AM (rOKnE)

My second thought...or rather hire them to come here...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:17 AM (l3cgK)

71 61. It would be pretty hard to botch a woodchipper job.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Fargo.

The actual wood chipper used in the climax of the 1996 Coen brothers film Fargo is permanently on display at the Fargo-Moorhead Visitors Center in Fargo, North Dakota.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 11:18 AM (NFX2v)

72 Life-saving measures after a botched execution?

Like being put on a ventilator? She's not out of the woods yet!

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2026 11:18 AM (iFEms)

73 This was the one who lured, tortured and murdered a gal she thought was moving in on her man and then carries a fragment of her skull around town as a trophy, right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:17 AM (Y/06r)
______

Correct, good sir

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

74 she was a Mean Girl

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:18 AM (ZxPkt)

75 This had to be sabotage to create a condition where she not only survives, but which kills the DP as inhumane.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 01, 2026 11:18 AM (UWnRS)

76 Nope. Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the August 4, 1892, hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on June 20, 1893.
Posted by: L - No nic

Supposedly because the jury thought that a woman couldn't have wielded a heavy axe like that.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:19 AM (77rzZ)

77 Oh, right, the party of murdering children to birth (And Beyond!) is against killing evil, murderous adults...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:17 AM (l3cgK)

Because somehow, in their mind, they are REAL people. Far more real that kids or their political opponents.

You know, for myself, I think I would prefer a rifle round to the chest after a last cigarette. Camel Wide please.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:19 AM (Y/06r)

78 Nobody can truthfully say that being retarded precludes being evil...just look at the commies in this country.
Posted by: jim
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A corollary might be that Intelligence does not preclude stupid behavior. We see it in educational institutions (and politics) all of the time.

Posted by: Planned Parenthood at October 01, 2026 11:19 AM (XeU6L)

79 The screed at the "Legal Insurrection" site is by someone mid way down the link by someone named "Samsara":

https://tinyurl.com/5n9bb62m

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 11:19 AM (JrHfD)

80 68 You would think they would sign a DNR before their execution.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 11:17 AM (4NO2D)

Or rather the Gov't would set up a DNR for ALL death row inmates...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:19 AM (l3cgK)

81 "We gave her a lethal injection."

You keep using those words, I do not think they mean what you think they mean.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 01, 2026 11:20 AM (2UnvF)

82 74 she was a Mean Girl
Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:18 AM (ZxPkt)

Was it Heathers that was the murderous Mean Girls or Jawbreaker?

Would have been about the same time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:20 AM (Y/06r)

83 A Canadian "doctor" can handle this. They're very efficient, terminating 16,499 in 2024 alone with no recoveries.

Posted by: PGS at October 01, 2026 11:20 AM (6sm6m)

84 77 Because somehow, in their mind, they are REAL people. Far more real that kids or their political opponents.

You know, for myself, I think I would prefer a rifle round to the chest after a last cigarette. Camel Wide please.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:19 AM (Y/06r)

========

Adults who do evil are just products of civilization, removed from the purity of the noble savage human nature that is peaceful inherently.

Adults who commit crimes cannot be responsible for criminal action because it's society that makes them do it.

Also, Trump is responsible for all of his crimes and must be executed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:20 AM (U/fqy)

85 83 A Canadian "doctor" can handle this. They're very efficient, terminating 16,499 in 2024 alone with no recoveries.
Posted by: PGS at October 01, 2026 11:20 AM (6sm6m)

But see, those are being done with the full commitment of the state. Someone's grandma is not as important as a convicted murderer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:21 AM (Y/06r)

86 I am so sick and tired of these sob stories about these evil killers needing sympathy because of childhood trauma or abuse, postpartum depression, whatever.

Your past is no reason to commit murder.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 11:21 AM (X7pZH)

87 If it had been a Cornell fraternity brother, the execution would have gone on without a hitch.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 01, 2026 11:21 AM (qwx/I)

88 a long screed about n the very difficult situation she went through as a younger adding that ( supposedly ) her mothers drinking during her pregnancy caused her to be bipolar

Great defense. "My client was born murderous. It's her nature".

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (iFEms)

89 A drop in a noose breaks the spinal cord at the base of the skull and death is instantaneous, provided the drop is the correct length. We have books full of calculations for this.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (0U5gm)

90 You know, for myself, I think I would prefer a rifle round to the chest after a last cigarette. Camel Wide please.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:19 AM (Y/06r)

NO MENTHOL!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (Y/06r)

91 what if the Tennessee execution team is of the same mind as the 11 jurors who wanted to acquit

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (ZxPkt)

92 Was it Heathers that was the murderous Mean Girls or Jawbreaker?

Would have been about the same time.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Heathers was a very hot Winona Ryder and Christian Bale offing mean girls and jocks.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

93 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:20 AM (U/fqy)

And the hardcore lezzie feminotsees who say that all men should be placed in camps from childhood...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (l3cgK)

94 The actual wood chipper used in the climax of the 1996 Coen brothers film Fargo is permanently on display at the Fargo-Moorhead Visitors Center in Fargo, North Dakota.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 11:18 AM (NFX2v)
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Ironic, given the scene takes place just outside Brainerd.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (amcLV)

95 A corollary might be that Intelligence does not preclude stupid behavior. We see it in educational institutions (and politics) all of the time.

It's the tyranny of the midwits. All of the elite colleges are cranking out drones in the 95-110 IQ range (down from 130+ a century ago). They think they're the wizards of smart (RIP El Rushbo) and can talk themselves into all manner of obviously idiotic positions.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (2ocoG)

96 Your past is no reason to commit murder.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 11:21 AM (X7pZH)

And it is no expiation of your guilt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (Y/06r)

97 Nope. Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the August 4, 1892, hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on June 20, 1893.
Posted by: L - No nic
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True, but the image is appealing. What I find most curious is that Lizzie was a mature adult (32?) and wasn't living with them, and had not for some years. Working from memory here...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (XeU6L)

98 A double tap would take her out.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (X7pZH)

99 Heathers was a very hot Winona Ryder and Christian ~~Bale~~ Slater offing mean girls and jocks.
Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (77rzZ)
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FIFY

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 01, 2026 11:23 AM (FZ29D)

100 >Was it Heathers that was the murderous Mean Girls or Jawbreaker?

Would have been about the same time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD
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hellifino
I just know it was a movie

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:23 AM (ZxPkt)

101 86 I am so sick and tired of these sob stories about these evil killers needing sympathy because of childhood trauma or abuse, postpartum depression, whatever.

Your past is no reason to commit murder.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 11:21 AM (X7pZH)

How about this compromise...if they had evil parents, execute them too?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:23 AM (l3cgK)

102 94 The actual wood chipper used in the climax of the 1996 Coen brothers film Fargo is permanently on display at the Fargo-Moorhead Visitors Center in Fargo, North Dakota.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 11:18 AM (NFX2v)
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Ironic, given the scene takes place just outside Brainerd.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (amcLV)

Yeah, towns are weird. I was watching something where the town in england was so proud of being in Straw Dogs. Um, guys...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:23 AM (Y/06r)

103 NO MENTHOL!
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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[offered a Salem]

Just go ahead and shoot me...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:24 AM (XeU6L)

104 102
Yeah, towns are weird. I was watching something where the town in england was so proud of being in Straw Dogs. Um, guys...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:23 AM (Y/06r)

========

"Greg over there was an extra in 'Straw Dogs' and Sheri portrayed a cadaver in 'Prime Suspect'."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (U/fqy)

105 Your past is no reason to commit murder.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 11:21 AM (X7pZH)

Yep!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (JrHfD)

106 Apparently they allowed Krista Pike to refuse most food and drink for three days prior to her execution date resulting in dehydration. If true, this perhaps made it difficult to find a vein, maybe blowing a vein, and prevented the drugs from doing their thing.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (3ImbR)

107 Does the Immortal Killer Lady have life insurance?

Posted by: AllState at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (w+jhU)

108 76. Supposedly because the jury thought that a woman couldn't have wielded a heavy axe like that.
Posted by: Bulg

👍🏻

And the Gender Sentencing Gap continues.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (NFX2v)

109 The DP is an interesting case study in the battle between Left and Right.

The appeals and publicity and demands for more humane methods is all just lawfare to try to end the practice by the Left.

The Right keeps resisting. Legal industry profits. Activists have something to complain about (you know they will never be satisfied so it might as well be this).

It always strikes me as funny that the far left -- the ones who support Mao and Che and the idea that we need to "break eggs" are the same one who go to the mattresses to prevent the killing of these monsters.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (UWnRS)

110 Heathers was a very hot Winona Ryder and Christian Bale Slater offing mean girls and jocks.
Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (77rzZ)
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FIFY
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Thanks for the correction. I looked it up before I posted, and I still got the name wrong.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (77rzZ)

111 [offered a Salem]

Just go ahead and shoot me...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:24 AM (XeU6L)

Exactly.

*bound to a post*

*looks at cigarette, can smell the mint*

Now you're just fucking with me, you cocksuckers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (Y/06r)

112 Hey, OT good news. My car insurance dropped by 8% for six months. No apparent reason. Maybe, just maybe, a lot of piss poor drivers being sent back to the old country.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (gm9Sb)

113
In Paths of Glory, Kubrick had the (unjustly accused) prisoner with a concussion pinched on the face so he'd be awake before he was shot.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:08 AM (JzUSu)

In the Tales from the Crypt episode Yellow, Kirk Douglas riffs on Paths of Glory, where he's the WWI general who has to have his coward son executed for cowardice in the face of the enemy. To prevent his shit-heel son from causing a scene, he deceives his son into acting out a faux execution (followed by banishment) only to turn away at the last moment, giving away that the execution is in fact being carried out.

"If you'll permit me, General, he died like a man."

"Yessss. My son is not yellow."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (iqcvy)

114 89 A drop in a noose breaks the spinal cord at the base of the skull and death is instantaneous, provided the drop is the correct length. We have books full of calculations for this.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (0U5gm)

Does the person go unconscious? It breaks the neck, prevents breathing and blood from pumping, but does it cause IMMEDIATE death? I have my doubts. Just because the body can't move doesn't mean consciousness is extinguished.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:26 AM (l3cgK)

115 Don't you know you gotta SHOCK ⚡ the monkey!!!???

Posted by: P Gabriel at October 01, 2026 11:26 AM (7hNYp)

116 [offered a Salem]

Just go ahead and shoot me...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:24 AM (XeU6L)
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I remember a MAD Magazine mock ad for "Sail 'em" cigarettes.

"Better to sail 'em than to smoke 'em!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:26 AM (amcLV)

117 "Greg over there was an extra in 'Straw Dogs' and Sheri portrayed a cadaver in 'Prime Suspect'."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (U/fqy)

LOL. That was Hot Fuzz, no? I think it might have been the commentary where I heard that was a real thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:26 AM (Y/06r)

118 Yup, TN definitely need to staff their execution team with Canadians:

@libsoftiktok
·
23h
An "inclusive" church in Canada partnered with government officials to host an event teaching people how they can K*LL themselves.

Don't worry, attendees get a free baked potato!

The church's post and FB page appear to have been deleted, but they still mention the event on their website.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:27 AM (rOKnE)

119 There have been about 756 excuses for this evil murderess. She was bipolar, she was sexually abused by 17 different men, she was taunted and hazed, she was fat and ugly, she was depressed, she was losing her boyfriend, she missed the morning art thread, etc.

Yet, if you take away all the excuses, she lived a pretty normal life for a teenager, had a boyfriend and friends and a social life, and the murder was clearly premeditated and planned.

Nothing in Pike's past caused her to do this. She just wanted Slemmer dead because she was a rival for the boyfriend's affections. One of the oldest motives in human existence. Many people have killed for less.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 11:27 AM (iFTx/)

120 Your past is no reason to commit murder.
Posted by: SMH
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I didn't get enough hugs as a child!

Posted by: Charles Manson at October 01, 2026 11:27 AM (XeU6L)

121 It always strikes me as funny that the far left -- the ones who support Mao and Che and the idea that we need to "break eggs" are the same one who go to the mattresses to prevent the killing of these monsters.

Posted by: bob

The monsters are their constituents.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:27 AM (0U5gm)

122 Love "Hot Fuzz" movie.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:27 AM (rOKnE)

123 103 NO MENTHOL!
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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[offered a Salem]

Just go ahead and shoot me...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:24 AM (XeU6L)

My MIL snuck in Marlboros.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (l3cgK)

124 Bet the "investigation" goes on for months as to why this woman wasn't put to death. Long enough for people to move on to the next outrage.

Because it's probably a follow-on to the Clancy debacle. There will likely be women involved. Broken women.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (RORbl)

125 Google "execution by nitrogen hypoxia".

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (GD2xa)

126 106 Apparently they allowed Krista Pike to refuse most food and drink for three days prior to her execution date resulting in dehydration. If true, this perhaps made it difficult to find a vein, maybe blowing a vein, and prevented the drugs from doing their thing.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (3ImbR)

Use the neck...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (l3cgK)

127 In Heathers drinking mineral water was gay. That's a plot point that would be a hate crime now.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (2ocoG)

128 "Greg over there was an extra in 'Straw Dogs' and Sheri portrayed a cadaver in 'Prime Suspect'."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (U/fqy)

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Professionals, waiting in the wings!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (amcLV)

129 "She was bipolar, she was sexually abused by 17 different men, she was taunted and hazed, she was fat and ugly, she was depressed, she was losing her boyfriend, she missed the morning art thread, etc."

*golfclap*

Nice non-sequitur comment thrown in at the end. Well played.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (Y/06r)

130 Your past is no reason to commit murder.
Posted by: SMH
--------

I was sent to bed hungry!

Posted by: Jeffery Dahmer at October 01, 2026 11:29 AM (XeU6L)

131 >>It always strikes me as funny that the far left -- the ones who support Mao and Che and the idea that we need to "break eggs" are the same one who go to the mattresses to prevent the killing of these monsters.

Because they use the monsters to do their killing?
They use chaos and crime to scare the public into agreeing to their solutions. And hey, if it also results in a culling of the populace it means fewer "eggs to break" for them!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:29 AM (rOKnE)

132 128 "Greg over there was an extra in 'Straw Dogs' and Sheri portrayed a cadaver in 'Prime Suspect'."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (U/fqy)

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Professionals, waiting in the wings!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (amcLV)

====

And instead, he went with that girl with the annoying laugh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:29 AM (U/fqy)

133 Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 11:21 AM (X7pZH)

That is one of the lyrics from "West Side Story's song, "Gee, officer Krupke": "I'm depraved because I'm deprived."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 11:30 AM (JrHfD)

134 112 Hey, OT good news. My car insurance dropped by 8% for six months. No apparent reason. Maybe, just maybe, a lot of piss poor drivers being sent back to the old country.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM

Does this involve a small talking green reptile?

Posted by: I gotta ask at October 01, 2026 11:30 AM (2Ez/1)

135 116 [offered a Salem]

Just go ahead and shoot me...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:24 AM (XeU6L)
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I remember a MAD Magazine mock ad for "Sail 'em" cigarettes.

"Better to sail 'em than to smoke 'em!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:26 AM (amcLV)

You have to "Sail 'em" to get to the deserts before you can walk a mile for a Camel...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:30 AM (l3cgK)

136 TDOC Commissioner Frank Strada is ultimately responsible for overseeing executions of this nature. However, and lucky for the individual, the actual act is performed by an anonymous party that is not disclosed to the public.

The cynic in me would suggest a closer look at whomever that might be.

Posted by: Orson at October 01, 2026 11:30 AM (dIske)

137 Does the person go unconscious? It breaks the neck, prevents breathing and blood from pumping, but does it cause IMMEDIATE death? I have my doubts. Just because the body can't move doesn't mean consciousness is extinguished.

Posted by: jim

There are apocryphal stories of guillotined heads making expressions for a few moments, but nobody knows for sure except those that died. A proper hanging is just as fast.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:31 AM (0U5gm)

138 My MIL snuck in Marlboros.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (l3cgK)

Pappaw quit off and on all his life. Mostly he smoked Camel Non Filters. But Tim (my uncle) smoked Kools. When he and Mammaw started to decline, Tim moved in with them and evidently, right up until the end, Pappaw was stealing his cigarettes. Tim at the time thought it was just smoker's memory (you almost always have fewer than you thought you had) but he caught him one time near the end.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:31 AM (Y/06r)

139 [offered a Salem]

Just go ahead and shoot me...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:24 AM (XeU6L)
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My MIL snuck in Marlboros.
Posted by: jim
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[is offered a Newport]

Look, I'll just shoot myself, okay?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:31 AM (XeU6L)

140 118 Yup, TN definitely need to staff their execution team with Canadians:

@libsoftiktok
·
23h
An "inclusive" church in Canada partnered with government officials to host an event teaching people how they can K*LL themselves.

Don't worry, attendees get a free baked potato!

The church's post and FB page appear to have been deleted, but they still mention the event on their website.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:27 AM (rOKnE)

Did they serve Flavor-Aide in the drinks?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:31 AM (l3cgK)

141 Lady next door growing up ripped through 2-3 packs of Salems a day. Those things stunk.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 11:31 AM (ZLygy)

142 Because they use the monsters to do their killing?
They use chaos and crime to scare the public into agreeing to their solutions. And hey, if it also results in a culling of the populace it means fewer "eggs to break" for them!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:29 AM (rOKnE)

I think it is because it allows them to believe they are still really good people. They can advocate for the murder of children at any time, they can cheer when political opposition gets purged, but they fight for these guys. That makes them good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:32 AM (Y/06r)

143 Smoking is such a disgusting habit. Killed my brother.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

144 Winston tastes good.
Like a cigarette should.

Posted by: Fred & Barney at October 01, 2026 11:33 AM (2Ez/1)

145 I should have said People instead of State

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:33 AM (ZxPkt)

146 [is offered a Newport]

Look, I'll just shoot myself, okay?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:31 AM (XeU6L)

All of the those cigarettes were really harsh. Salems, Kools, Newports. Gah. Never got it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:33 AM (Y/06r)

147 144 Winston tastes good.
Like a cigarette should.
Posted by: Fred & Barney at October 01, 2026 11:33 AM (2Ez/1)

For men who know tobacco best it's Luckies two to one!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:34 AM (Y/06r)

148 You've come a long way, baby.

Posted by: Virginia Slims at October 01, 2026 11:34 AM (2Ez/1)

149 Winston tastes good.
~~Like~~ As a cigarette should.
Posted by: Fred & Barney at October 01, 2026 11:33 AM (2Ez/1)
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Philistines.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:34 AM (amcLV)

150 Come to where the flavor is.

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (ZxPkt)

151 148 You've come a long way, baby.
Posted by: Virginia Slims at October 01, 2026 11:34 AM (2Ez/1)

I'd walk a mile for a Camel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (Y/06r)

152 Just a silly millimeter longer...

Posted by: 101s at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (2Ez/1)

153 Which one was 'Favor Country'? Marlboro?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (Y/06r)

154 For men who know tobacco best it's Luckies two to one!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:34 AM (Y/06r)
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Lucky Strike Green has gone to war!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (amcLV)

155 FLAVOR

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (Y/06r)

156 Virginia Slims were known as Vagina Slimes as a hid.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (ZLygy)

157 Didn't they prosecute the Marlboro Man in absentia for indirectly causing the deaths of thousands?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:36 AM (0U5gm)

158 Light up a Kent- you've got a good thing going

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:36 AM (ZxPkt)

159 It's toasted.

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:36 AM (ZxPkt)

160 Take a bite - of a Red Apple.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:37 AM (amcLV)

161 Lucky Strike Green has gone to war!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (amcLV)

IIRC, Pappaw said most of the C-rations in Europe were Chesterfields. But I assume they had all the manufacturers chipping in.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:37 AM (Y/06r)

162 A silly millimeter longer, 101

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:37 AM (ZxPkt)

163 I remember an econ class debate on marketing.

There are two products with identical ingredients, does marketing actually change behavior?

The two products were Marlboro and Virginia Slims.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:38 AM (0U5gm)

164 I get emails from Conservative Ladies of Washington and they sent this stuff about a "trump gov" account for babies that sounds like a trojan horse for difital id. And a program for all gov services to be streamlined in one site with a 3rd party ID verification, despite gov having all out identity info anyway?

Have you heard about this? It sounds to me like universal digital ID and i hate it. Whoever is telling Trump to do this does not have our best interests in mind. I really hope they back down on it

Posted by: Funsize at October 01, 2026 11:38 AM (3j87q)

165 158 Light up a Kent- you've got a good thing going
Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:36 AM (ZxPkt)

There were so many. L&Ms(?) and ... Carltons(?)

More cigarettes. My Grandma smoked the 100s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:38 AM (Y/06r)

166 They totally wanted to botch it so they don't have to continue with executions. The execution should have happened within 5 years after she was sentenced to die not 30.

Posted by: sidney at October 01, 2026 11:38 AM (Uy/WF)

167 So...
Tried
Found guilty
Sentenced to death.
Executed
Survived execution.
Thus she's free to go. Right?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 11:38 AM (2WIwB)

168 Lets just hope that they rubbed alcohol on her arm to clean it of germs before administering the injection. I'm sure that if she were now to die of a staph infection the execution team would be in really bad trouble.

Posted by: JTSmith at October 01, 2026 11:38 AM (l4NYY)

169
KOOLS
Cuz you a bad motherf***er

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:38 AM (ZxPkt)

170 Virginia Slims were known as Vagina Slimes as a hid.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
________

Because only chicks smoked them. Any dude smoking slims had to turn in their man card.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (JzUSu)

171 >>Did they serve Flavor-Aide in the drinks?

Scheduled for Oct 5th.
It's to sell MAID to their congregation.

That sh#t is dark!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (rOKnE)

172 151 148 You've come a long way, baby.
Posted by: Virginia Slims at October 01, 2026 11:34 AM (2Ez/1)

I'd walk a mile for a Camel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (Y/06r)

Two old women are walking down the street when it begins to rain. The first woman takes out a condom from her handbag, cuts off the tip, and pits it over her cigarette.
The second woman asked her what it was and the first woman saind, "It's a condom. You can get them at just about any pharmacy, and they are great for keeping your cigarettes dry in the rain."
So a little while later, the second old woman walks into a pharmacy and says that she needs a condom.
The clerk asked, "What size do you need?"
She replied, "Do you have one that's big enough to fit a Camel?"
...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (l3cgK)

173 Executed? Like a vbs file?

Posted by: The Hag at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (enkoP)

174 I don't believe for one second she has likely brain damage from this ridiculously FUBAR'd (and suspicious) carrying out of her death sentence. But just you watch. The rallying cry from all corners of the Clancy Covens and other assorted bleeding hearts will render her sentence to life in prison. Heck, she'll probably win some kind of lawsuit and receive monetary damages for pain and suffering. What will be left unstated is the botched life of Colleen's mother. The cruel and unusual suffering that woman has gone through for over 30 years. But bleeding hearts don't give a damn about her.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (qBdHI)

175
A drop in a noose breaks the spinal cord at the base of the skull and death is instantaneous, provided the drop is the correct length. We have books full of calculations for this.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (0U5gm)

Does the person go unconscious? It breaks the neck, prevents breathing and blood from pumping, but does it cause IMMEDIATE death? I have my doubts. Just because the body can't move doesn't mean consciousness is extinguished.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:26 AM (l3cgK)

Screw it. Just give her a Black Jack Ketchum Special.

Black Jack was executed in the Old West by hanging, but it took weeks between when he was weighed for his hanging (to calculate the proper drop) and when the traveling hangman arrived in town from other duties. Black Jack had apparently pigged out on jail food in the meantime and had gained something like 30 lbs since he was weighed. When the trap door was sprung, the rope was too long and it ripped his head completely off his body.

Oops.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (iqcvy)

176 Survived execution.
Thus she's free to go. Right?
Posted by: Diogenes

Happened to Bela Lugosi's character in Son of Frankenstein.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

177 I get emails from Conservative Ladies of Washington and they sent this stuff about a "trump gov" account for babies that sounds like a trojan horse for difital id.

Trump Accounts are real, and intended to encourage people to have kids. There was a big White House launch of them a month or two back. Democrats were appalled, but what else is new?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 11:40 AM (2ocoG)

178 There is literally nothing that the state does that would not be done better by the private sector.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 01, 2026 11:40 AM (2ap+5)

179 Morning.

So was this execution botched because of incompetence or was it botched intentionally by anti-death penalty activists? I understand the team administering the lethal injection were all females.

Embrace the power of "and"?

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2026 11:40 AM (dpXJq)

180 what if the Tennessee execution team is of the same mind as the 11 jurors who wanted to acquit

she wanted an all female staff for that very reason

Posted by: DanMan at October 01, 2026 11:40 AM (8uzBS)

181 Real men smoke Virginia Slims.

Doesn't really work as a slogan.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:41 AM (0U5gm)

182 Posted by: Funsize at October 01, 2026 11:38 AM (3j87q)

There's a name from the Before Times!

My kiddos both have Trump Accounts. They rolled them out during tax season last year.

I hadn't considered the universal digital ID, because I just needed their SSNs to register. The State already has those because the State issued them.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 11:41 AM (gLYp7)

183 Because only chicks smoked them. Any dude smoking slims had to turn in their man card.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (JzUSu)

They were the most useless cigarette. Like an ULTRA ULTRA ULTRA light. Slightly more nicotine than air.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:41 AM (Y/06r)

184 I enjoyed a good smoke.

https://youtube.com/shorts/glWh_Nn15_4

Posted by: Andy Griffith at October 01, 2026 11:41 AM (2Ez/1)

185 People quoting tobacco ad dittys are dating themselves.

Tobacco advertising has been off the air since what, early 70s? late 60s?

The generation that knows where the flavor is dying off.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (UWnRS)

186 There is literally nothing that the state does that would not be done better by the private sector.

Posted by: Oglebay

This is a job opportunity for underprivileged Chicago youth!

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (0U5gm)

187 250 mg of Morphine should do it.

A touch of Fentanyl.

Seeing Hillary nekkid.

Execution by the method the guilty used on her victim.

There's lots of ways.

Only a government agency could screw up killing someone.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (CI1Dh)

188 I think it is because it allows them to believe they are still really good people. They can advocate for the murder of children at any time, they can cheer when political opposition gets purged, but they fight for these guys. That makes them good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:32 AM

Besides, unborn and/or inconvenient children and their political opponents aren't real people, anyway. Why feel bad about offing them?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (/C5Rl)

189 181 Real men smoke Virginia Slims.

Doesn't really work as a slogan.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:41 AM (0U5gm)

Trans-men?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (l3cgK)

190 I think tobacco ads were ended in the 80s, no?

I could swear I saw a few when I was little.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (dpXJq)

191 178 There is literally nothing that the state does that would not be done better by the private sector.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 01, 2026 11:40 AM (2ap+5)

Genocide

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (l3cgK)

192 I had some routine blood drawn last week. The nurse couldn't get the needle into one of my veins. It kept slipping around and whatnot. Know what she did? She went to the other arm and it went right in. If they're saying there was trouble getting the line into her vein, I wonder if they know she has more than one? /s

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (qBdHI)

193 Bring Yoko Ohno in to sing to her.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (u82oZ)

194 The generation that knows where the flavor is dying off.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (UWnRS)

Some of us are going to be here just a little bit longer
till we're 101
just a little bit longer
101

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (QUyUJ)

195 Ever notice it's called the "Criminal" Justice system? Not the Victim Justice system.

Tells you something right there.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (CI1Dh)

196 @114 Just because the body can't move doesn't mean consciousness is extinguished.

Well I see somebody has been to Owl Creek Bridge.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (zdLoL)

197 185 People quoting tobacco ad dittys are dating themselves.

Tobacco advertising has been off the air since what, early 70s? late 60s?

The generation that knows where the flavor is dying off.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (UWnRS)

I never really saw much of the advertising as a kid. Aside from Joe Camel stuff in the late 80s and early 90s.

MOst of it has been as a result of listening to podcasts of old music with the contemporary ads thrown in. And damn, it seemed like OG radio was nothing but ads for cigarettes and alcohol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (Y/06r)

198 Bring Yoko Ohno in to sing to her.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (u82oZ)

You monster!

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (dpXJq)

199 187 250 mg of Morphine should do it.

A touch of Fentanyl.

Seeing Hillary nekkid.

Execution by the method the guilty used on her victim.

There's lots of ways.

Only a government agency could screw up killing someone.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (CI1Dh)

Forcing inmates to listen to Yoko Ono before execution would be considered cruel...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (l3cgK)

200 This smells very much like a deliberate op to me.

Come on now, who survives not one but two lethal injections? What was in those needles, adrenaline?

Investigate the clowns that botched this execution, and I'll bet dollars to donuts you'll find an leftwing activist. Or just outright corruption.

This was a fucking op. Convince me otherwise.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 11:15 AM (iFTx/)

Agree 100%. This was not by accident. It's an emphatic leftist statement: We only kill the innocent!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (g8Ew8)

201 Did she dance the Cell Block Tango at some point in the last 30 years?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (U/fqy)

202 I had some routine blood drawn last week. The nurse couldn't get the needle into one of my veins. It kept slipping around and whatnot. Know what she did? She went to the other arm and it went right in. If they're saying there was trouble getting the line into her vein, I wonder if they know she has more than one? /s

Posted by: Lady in Black

Something similar happened a while back, but it was an amputation surgery.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (0U5gm)

203 If it turns out true, that Christa Pike wanted, and got an all female execution staff then I'd put good odds on this not being "botched" but a calculated ploy to keep her alive.

Whether she'll be "alive alive" is debatable. And that should hang (SWIDT) heavily on their shoulders.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (RORbl)

204 Bring Yoko Ohno in to sing to her.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Salty, your barbarity knows no bounds.

LOL

Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (CI1Dh)

205 Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (qBdHI)

I once had a phlebotomist tell me that I had really good veins.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

206 153 Which one was 'Favor Country'? Marlboro?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

"Come to where the flavor is....
Come to marlboro country."

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (UWnRS)

207 "Life-saving measures after a botched execution?"

Apparently, convicted murderers get better treatment than innocent babies after a botched abortion. The babies are just suffocated; the murderer gets life-saving measures. There's something really wrong here.

Posted by: Ralph at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (8WZD4)

208
Forcing inmates to listen to Yoko Ono before execution would be considered cruel...

Posted by: jim

I am almost certain that it also violates the Geneva Convention.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (0U5gm)

209 It is very rare for me to see anyone smoking these days. And when I do it’s typically someone 40 or older. The yuutes don’t smoke anymore.

Now vaping on the other hand…

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (6lPOA)

210 And damn, it seemed like OG radio was nothing but ads for cigarettes and alcohol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (Y/06r)

We used to be a proper country.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (dpXJq)

211 The Dems fight tooth and nail against the death penalty and receive awards from Planned "Parenthood"... Does not compute

Posted by: It's me donna at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (+gK6I)

212 Well I see somebody has been to Owl Creek Bridge.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (zdLoL)
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How many times do you think we were shown that film and "The Lottery" when we were in Jr High/High School?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:46 AM (amcLV)

213 Black Jack was executed in the Old West by hanging, but it took weeks between when he was weighed for his hanging (to calculate the proper drop) and when the traveling hangman arrived in town from other duties. Black Jack had apparently pigged out on jail food in the meantime and had gained something like 30 lbs since he was weighed. When the trap door was sprung, the rope was too long and it ripped his head completely off his body.

Oops.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (iqcvy)

Merrye Olde England didn't bother with any of that, there was no drop. A big part of the entertainment that would bring crowds in to watch was that the condemned would swing and kick for a long time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 11:46 AM (QUyUJ)

214 I can get it done with a single drop of blood!
Honest!

Posted by: Elizabeth Holmes at October 01, 2026 11:46 AM (2Ez/1)

215 192 I had some routine blood drawn last week. The nurse couldn't get the needle into one of my veins. It kept slipping around and whatnot. Know what she did? She went to the other arm and it went right in. If they're saying there was trouble getting the line into her vein, I wonder if they know she has more than one? /s

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (qBdHI)

I was in the hospital and somewhat dehydrated. They poked my arms, hands, and after three tries a failure had a vein-tracing ultrasound machine find a large enough vein deeper below the surface.
It was such a LITERAL pain, as I would have veins deflate and another one would have to be found...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:46 AM (l3cgK)

216 I once had a phlebotomist tell me that I had really good veins.
Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

They were probably coming on to you. Should have asked for her number.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2026 11:47 AM (dpXJq)

217 210 And damn, it seemed like OG radio was nothing but ads for cigarettes and alcohol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (Y/06r)

We used to be a proper country.
Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (dpXJq)

Or ironized yeast tablets. Roma wine was a really annoying one. POSTUM. Why drink coffee that doesn't do what coffee does?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:47 AM (Y/06r)

218 I can get it done with a single drop of blood!
Honest!
Posted by: Elizabeth Holmes

We believe you 'cause we're super smart and shit!!

-- George Shultz and GEN Mattis

Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 11:48 AM (CI1Dh)

219
There is literally nothing that the state does that would not be done better by the private sector.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 01, 2026 11:40 AM (2ap+5)

The one thing Govt does well is kill. When all is right in the world, that killing is conducted by the Department of War, killing foreign shit-heads in their own countries and defiling their civilizations to keep them from coming here and doing the same to us.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 11:48 AM (iqcvy)

220 115 Don't you know you gotta SHOCK ⚡ the monkey!!!???
Posted by: P Gabriel at October 01, 2026 11:26 AM (7hNYp)\

What about just a good spanking?

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at October 01, 2026 11:48 AM (QUyUJ)

221 209 It is very rare for me to see anyone smoking these days. And when I do it’s typically someone 40 or older. The yuutes don’t smoke anymore.

Now vaping on the other hand…

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (6lPOA)

and they're getting popcorn lung from all the flavorants and additives...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:48 AM (l3cgK)

222 Before I quit ten years ago, I'd settled on Camel Turkish Royals. I still miss it with the morning coffee. Or after a meal.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:48 AM (JzUSu)

223 Marlboro man?

Oh, yeah...

https://youtu.be/Eo7INJGmivo

Posted by: Kramer at October 01, 2026 11:49 AM (2Ez/1)

224 216 I once had a phlebotomist tell me that I had really good veins.
Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

They were probably coming on to you. Should have asked for her number.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2026 11:47 AM (dpXJq)

The Paolo, how shall I say, has a very large, long vein on what the ladies love...

Posted by: The Paolo at October 01, 2026 11:50 AM (l3cgK)

225 222 Before I quit ten years ago, I'd settled on Camel Turkish Royals. I still miss it with the morning coffee. Or after a meal.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:48 AM (JzUSu)

*fistbump* Just passed... 15 years in August. Damn.

Still vape. The odd thing is when I quit vaping it was really damn easy, but when I got cravings it wasn't for vaping, but a Camel Wide. I'd dream about it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:50 AM (Y/06r)

226 IIRC, Pappaw said most of the C-rations in Europe were Chesterfields. But I assume they had all the manufacturers chipping in.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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We received four-packs (maybe five) of cigs with C-rations in the VN era. Don't recall the brand. Non-smokers callously negotiated swaps for the more desirable rations.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:51 AM (XeU6L)

227 What are we going to do if it turns out one of the members of teh all-girls execution team in TN was a Lindsey Clancy Cultist?

Also, AFAIK, it's already gone to SCOTUS that a botched execution does not bar a do-over.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 11:51 AM (3cUTc)

228 and they're getting popcorn lung from all the flavorants and additives...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
________

Vaping dyspnea (shortness of breath) is real.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:51 AM (JzUSu)

229 I bet you say that to all the guys!

Posted by: Blood donor dude at October 01, 2026 11:51 AM (2Ez/1)

230 It's an op. And if still alive. I hope for suffering.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 11:52 AM (ZLygy)

231 Bulg

Before I was married, the widowed Clinical Nursing professor I was seeing marveled at my veins.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 11:52 AM (u82oZ)

232 I do not recall seeing cigarette ads, but I do remember Walt Garrison doing ads for Skoal. Just a pinch between your cheek and gum gives you pure tobacco pleasure without lighting up.

Posted by: Leopold Stotch at October 01, 2026 11:52 AM (PSEDc)

233
To prevent his shit-heel son from causing a scene, he deceives his son into acting out a faux execution (followed by banishment) only to turn away at the last moment, giving away that the execution is in fact being carried out.

"If you'll permit me, General, he died like a man."

"Yessss. My son is not yellow."
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

There was a Gunsmoke episode very similar.

With a Smile

www.imdb.com/title/tt0594589

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 01, 2026 11:52 AM (Cqx++)

234 We received four-packs (maybe five) of cigs with C-rations in the VN era. Don't recall the brand. Non-smokers callously negotiated swaps for the more desirable rations.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:51 AM (XeU6L)
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I don't know how my Dad avoided smoking cigarettes with them so prevalent in the Army during WWII. Probably did as described above.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:52 AM (amcLV)

235 *sends Butters sock to his room for making that face*

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 01, 2026 11:53 AM (PSEDc)

236 What about just a good spanking?

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at October 01, 2026 11:48 AM (QUyUJ)

Naughty Zoot!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 11:53 AM (gLYp7)

237 We received four-packs (maybe five) of cigs with C-rations in the VN era. Don't recall the brand. Non-smokers callously negotiated swaps for the more desirable rations.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:51 AM (XeU6L)

Heh. Most of the C-Rations in VN were from WWII, no? Dad mentioned they were still getting them stateside.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:53 AM (Y/06r)

238 Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 11:52 AM (u82oZ)

I bet she says that to all the men! 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 11:54 AM (JrHfD)

239 I don't know how my Dad avoided smoking cigarettes with them so prevalent in the Army during WWII. Probably did as described above.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:52 AM (amcLV)

It had to have been difficult. No social stigma, combined with everyone doing it. Ready availability. LOTS of boredom. No women.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:54 AM (Y/06r)

240 There is literally nothing that the state does that would not be done better by the private sector.
Posted by: Oglebay
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Having dealt with FEMA since Helene, I can say that Gov't bureaucracy/ineptitude/waste is beyond anything that a normal person can comprehend.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:55 AM (XeU6L)

241 Know what she did? She went to the other arm and it went right in

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (qBdHI)

Well I think it's different for you. As a convicted felon, Christa Pike no longer has the right to bare arms.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 11:55 AM (enkoP)

242 It had to have been difficult. No social stigma, combined with everyone doing it. Ready availability. LOTS of boredom. No women.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:54 AM (Y/06r)
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He smoked a pipe and the occasional cigar, as late as 1966, but he quit that just a couple of years later.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:56 AM (amcLV)

243 Heh. Most of the C-Rations in VN were from WWII, no? Dad mentioned they were still getting them stateside.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Korea, at least.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:56 AM (XeU6L)

244 ++++The screed at the "Legal Insurrection" site is by someone mid way down the link by someone named "Samsara":

https://tinyurl.com/5n9bb62m
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 11:19 AM (JrHfD)

If even a quarter of that is true, any CPS worker involved in her case should have been fired (preferably from a cannon). I AM NOT EXCUSING THE MURDER. But it looks like the state helped turn her into the monster that she is by refusing for years to remove her from that situation. Also they should have revoked her drunken mother's nursing license when she was born.

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at October 01, 2026 11:56 AM (Wt5PA)

245 234 We received four-packs (maybe five) of cigs with C-rations in the VN era. Don't recall the brand. Non-smokers callously negotiated swaps for the more desirable rations.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:51 AM (XeU6L)
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I don't know how my Dad avoided smoking cigarettes with them so prevalent in the Army during WWII. Probably did as described above.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:52 AM (amcLV)

Dad told me that they got more beer that Coca Cola during WW2, even though he didn't drink. AFAIK, Dad didn't smoke.

Grandpa did, but quit when in his early 50's when his doctor told him they weren't healthy (which was amazing for a doc to say in the late 40's early 50's). When he died at the age of 93, his doctor said he had some advanced masses in his lungs; he died of malnutrition (due to intestinal malabsorption) after being in the hospital for the last few months of his life. So, quitting didn't really save him from lung cancer, although that wasn't the cause of death.

Posted by: The Paolo at October 01, 2026 11:57 AM (l3cgK)

246 Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (qBdHI)

I once had a phlebotomist tell me that I had really good veins.
Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

When I was in AIT becoming a medic, during IV and blood draw training, I was the guinea pig for a few of the more timid female soldiers because I had really prominent veins.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 01, 2026 11:57 AM (PSEDc)

247 It’s easy to quit smoking. I’ve done it many times.

Rim shot.

Took me many tries over 2-3 years before I finally gave up that poison for good.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 11:57 AM (6lPOA)

248 Also, AFAIK, it's already gone to SCOTUS that a botched execution does not bar a do-over.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

iirc, this was the main story line in the kid's book (yeah right) back in the 60s: "The Five Chinese Brothers"

(No wonder we are like we are)

Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 11:57 AM (CI1Dh)

249 geez. off sock...damnit, I forget I'm wearin' them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:57 AM (l3cgK)

250 Well I think it's different for you. As a convicted felon, Christa Pike no longer has the right to bare arms.
Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 11:55 AM (enkoP)
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You know WHO ELSE no longer has the right to bare arms???

Posted by: Michelle Fields at October 01, 2026 11:58 AM (0256r)

251 I have an olive drab pack of Philip Morris cigs found in the pocket of my dad's WWII flight jacket.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:58 AM (XeU6L)

252 Having dealt with FEMA since Helene, I can say that Gov't bureaucracy/ineptitude/waste is beyond anything that a normal person can comprehend.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc

The waste was mind boggling.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 11:58 AM (ZLygy)

253 Posted by: Michelle Fields at October 01, 2026 11:58 AM (0256r

Got me you bastard. Ha!

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 11:58 AM (enkoP)

254
Heh. Most of the C-Rations in VN were from WWII, no? Dad mentioned they were still getting them stateside.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:53 AM (Y/06r)

As late as 1986 C-Rats were still filtering down to troops from time to time. I had them a few times during basic at Ft Benning in '86, as they were trying to use up the last of the stock.

No cigs though. They discontinued cigs in C-Rats sometime in the 60s, if memory serves.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 11:58 AM (iqcvy)

255 May I suggest the Terri Schiavo method?

No food. No water, IV or otherwise. No additional oxygen.

After all, wasn't it a brazillon different doctors and experts that told us all that letting Terri die by dehydration is a peaceful method? It might take longer, and you might need to station fifty cops around the room armed with semi-automatic shotguns in case anyone wanders within a dozen yards of the room where the condemned is.

But it'll be peaceful.

Posted by: Another Anon at October 01, 2026 11:58 AM (4h45B)

256 iirc, this was the main story line in the kid's book (yeah right) back in the 60s: "The Five Chinese Brothers"

(No wonder we are like we are)
Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 11:57 AM (CI1Dh)
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I remember that one!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:59 AM (amcLV)

257 247 It’s easy to quit smoking. I’ve done it many times.

Rim shot.

Took me many tries over 2-3 years before I finally gave up that poison for good.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 11:57 AM (6lPOA)

Brother quit after trying for some time. He says the cravings come back whenever he sees or smells one. I guess the desire never goes away.
Stupid younger one started (and tried to hide it), then asked if I could get him the nicotine gum or patch. Kids are stupid...then again, so are adults.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:59 AM (l3cgK)

258 Non-smokers callously negotiated swaps for the more desirable rations.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:51 AM

You did what it took to avoid the Ham & Lima Beans.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 01, 2026 11:59 AM (0sNs1)

259 220 115 Don't you know you gotta SHOCK ⚡ the monkey!!!???
Posted by: P Gabriel at October 01, 2026 11:26 AM (7hNYp)\

What about just a good spanking?
Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at October 01, 2026 11:48 AM (QUyUJ)

YES!

Posted by: Zoot and Dingo at October 01, 2026 12:00 PM (0256r)

260 I always liked the dramatic reenactment of the electric chair or gas chamber.

the curtain slides open.
stone cold killer mad dog stares back.
the switch is flipped.
condemned fights the restraints.
death ensues as the audience gasps.
LOL

this lethal injection is bullshit; just a nice, quiet--and then they went to sleep.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 12:00 PM (3cUTc)

261 Just bury the bitch and call it a day.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 01, 2026 12:00 PM (BHTo4)

262 Oddly enough Brit Lass said cigs always repulsed her when she quit and would inevitably go back to them.

She said the time they still smelled good to her is when it was EASIER to stay off of them. Go figure!

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:00 PM (enkoP)

263 Well I think it's different for you. As a convicted felon, Christa Pike no longer has the right to bare arms.
Posted by: ...
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[rimshot]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 12:00 PM (XeU6L)

264 Well I think it's different for you. As a convicted felon, Christa Pike no longer has the right to bare arms.
Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 11:55 AM (enkoP)
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You know WHO ELSE no longer has the right to bare arms???

Posted by: Michelle Fields at October 01, 2026 11:58 AM (0256r)

Hakuna your tatas, Michelle. You've got the right.

Just not the left.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (gLYp7)

265 Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (qBdHI)

I once had a phlebotomist tell me that I had really good veins.
Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

When I was in AIT becoming a medic, during IV and blood draw training, I was the guinea pig for a few of the more timid female soldiers because I had really prominent veins.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 01, 2026 11:57 AM (PSEDc)

I have a horror story. Several years ago I had brain surgery. The nurse who was prepping me for surgery tried at least 3 times unsuccessfully to start the IV. Seeing as how the surgeon is about to carve into my skull I wasn’t in a good mood. So when the nurse went for a 4th attempt I said: If you don’t get it this time I might punch you in the nose.

She went and got the anesthesiologist… we started it with zero trouble in about 5 seconds. Was a a grumpy jerk? Yes. Do I regret it? No. Haha

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (j8E+e)

266 How many times do you think we were shown that film and "The Lottery" when we were in Jr High/High School?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:46 AM (amcLV)

There was a film? I can't imagine it was very long, given that it was a short two that took, what, three pages tops?

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (Wt5PA)

267 Because it's probably a follow-on to the Clancy debacle. There will likely be women involved. Broken women.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (RORbl)

There have been dozens of women who've murdered their children since Clancy. They'll get a Congressional caucus soon.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (ExV1e)

268 I finally quit about 20 years. It took 10 or so years before the cravings fully went away.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (6lPOA)

269 There is a long standing tradition of people who survived execution being spared.

It was viewed as proof of divine will, more or less.

It's freaky and weird but Deus Vult.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (s1VwS)

270 Ever notice it's called the "Criminal" Justice system? Not the Victim Justice system.
Tells you something right there.

I always liked The Ministry of Love.

Posted by: MiniLuv at October 01, 2026 12:02 PM (w+jhU)

271 A big part of the entertainment that would bring crowds in to watch was that the condemned would swing and kick for a long time.

It was not uncommon for the condemned's friends to gather and pull down on the feet, rendering the mercy of speeding up the inevitable. In at least one case, the accused did not expire after hanging, and the sentence was adjudged to have been carried out. https://tinyurl.com/2kjhhtkn

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 01, 2026 12:02 PM (zdLoL)

272 Heh. Most of the C-Rations in VN were from WWII, no? Dad mentioned they were still getting them stateside.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Korea, at least.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I had a number of medical kits, Unit One bags mostly, that had components manufactured in the early 50's. Some of the battle dressings would just come apart in your hands.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 12:02 PM (CI1Dh)

273 269 There is a long standing tradition of people who survived execution being spared.

It was viewed as proof of divine will, more or less.

It's freaky and weird but Deus Vult.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (s1VwS)

Except sometimes the fix was in...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 12:03 PM (l3cgK)

274 You did what it took to avoid the Ham & Lima Beans.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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The plum pudding was my favorite.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 12:03 PM (XeU6L)

275 There was a film? I can't imagine it was very long, given that it was a short two that took, what, three pages tops?
Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (Wt5PA)
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Oh, yeah. Was shown it maybe 4-5 times. About 10-15 minutes long, no dialogue per se.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 12:03 PM (amcLV)

276 I also like the old way of public execution, where they got the condemned near backout drunk, that's the limit of "humane" I'll grant in executions.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 12:03 PM (3cUTc)

277 Oooh - they could give her the Ayatollah Treatment.

Parade her through the streets and let the families of murder victims tear her limb from limb.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:03 PM (enkoP)

278 But the newest fad of painless death by injection seems not to work very well at all, because the idiots in charge of concocting the lethal dose try to do it in the kindest, most peaceful way imaginable.

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Entirely by design, the anti death penalty forces pushed for this because it's overly complicated and they can apply pressure to drug manufacturers and doctors to not participate, because they can't get their way by voting.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at October 01, 2026 12:03 PM (ECToT)

279 Ever notice it's called the "Criminal" Justice system? Not the Victim Justice system.

AtC likes to mention that historically, the alternative to police and the legal system is not rampant crime, it's rampant vigilantism. The liberals killing off policing all over the West are not gonna get what they think they're gonna get.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 12:04 PM (2ocoG)

280 She really put the cuti in execution. If you like a five head.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:04 PM (enkoP)

281 An eye for an eye measure would be fine with me.

She killed that girl after torture then a beating of her skull. Let the victim's family, if they want, throw the first blow to her head.

Something needs to put the fear in future murdering demons today vs this stupid IV crap.

Inserting IV's is not hard. Apparently the chosen all female power staff didn't know what they were doing or diluted the medicine. There are anesthesia drugs to add to the cocktail to paralyze her lungs or stop the heart.

So stupid. Maybe she can join Clancy in her medical assisted prison (and Clancy can finish her off).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 01, 2026 12:05 PM (hzuYO)

282 There was a film? I can't imagine it was very long, given that it was a short two that took, what, three pages tops?
Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (Wt5PA)
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Oh, yeah. Was shown it maybe 4-5 times. About 10-15 minutes long, no dialogue per se.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 12:03 PM (amcLV)
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My mistake, it's less than 5 min.

https://youtu.be/cZxVrUlhz20

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 12:05 PM (amcLV)

283 The liberals killing off policing all over the West are not gonna get what they think they're gonna get.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 12:04 PM (2ocoG)

Or... they prefer mob "justice" to every other system.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:05 PM (enkoP)

284
While the theory that the Devil gives his own sinister powers fits, I don't think it's too conspiracy theoretical to assume that this was active sabotage.

Posted by: American Hawkman at October 01, 2026 12:06 PM (U1fU7)

285 There is a long standing tradition of people who survived execution being spared.

It was viewed as proof of divine will, more or less.

It's freaky and weird but Deus Vult.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (s1VwS)

But that was if the execution was carried out properly, and some fluke saved the condemned. Say, if the hangman's rope parted. Not if the "executioner" deliberately botches the job.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2026 12:06 PM (4znQE)

286 https://youtu.be/cZxVrUlhz20

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Ah. YT has cut it into sections, damn them.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 12:06 PM (amcLV)

287 On a bigger issue, I think the modern aversion to executions is a failing belief in the afterlife.

If you believe this is all there is, then you're horrified at the thought of killing any criminal, lest you too get swept up wrongly.

If you believe in Jesus, well your life was always borrowed from Him. Guilty or innocent.
And sending a criminal along to meet Him was a mercy.
And a duty.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 12:06 PM (3cUTc)

288 Ever notice it's called the "Criminal" Justice system? Not the Victim Justice system.
Tells you something right there.

I always liked The Ministry of Love.
Posted by: MiniLuv
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You haven't met me...

Posted by: Diana Moon Glampers, Handicapper General at October 01, 2026 12:07 PM (XeU6L)

289 MOst of it has been as a result of listening to podcasts of old music with the contemporary ads thrown in. And damn, it seemed like OG radio was nothing but ads for cigarettes and alcohol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (Y/06r)

I have a Dec issue of Life from my birthyear. Cigarettes were a very popular Christmas gift. Even had special gift wrapped packages.

Posted by: sal at October 01, 2026 12:07 PM (f+FmA)

290 Entirely by design, the anti death penalty forces pushed for this because it's overly complicated and they can apply pressure to drug manufacturers and doctors to not participate, because they can't get their way by voting.
Posted by: Cave Johnson
________

So why can't they use the exact same method as for assisted suicide, which the anti death penalty forces are clearly OK with?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 12:07 PM (JzUSu)

291 Kubrick married that girl.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (JzUSu)

They stayed married until his death.

Posted by: javems at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (rrgQH)

292 My suggestion was a giant microwave. Stick her in and turn it on. My husband said I was crazy.

Posted by: Megthered at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (l5vDd)

293 Renee Good's family is suing ICE

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (RHGPo)

294 So stupid. Maybe she can join Clancy in her medical assisted prison (and Clancy can finish her off).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 01, 2026 12:05 PM (hzuYO)

Nah.

-one, too old.

-two, not one of her own children.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (Y/06r)

295 293 Renee Good's family is suing ICE
Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (RHGPo)

Surprised it took this long

Posted by: It's me donna at October 01, 2026 12:09 PM (+gK6I)

296
I would think a lot of lifers would prefer the "MAID" solution.

Posted by: Auspex at October 01, 2026 12:09 PM (Y8DZL)

297 Oooh - they could give her the Ayatollah Treatment.

Parade her through the streets and let the families of murder victims tear her limb from limb.
Posted by: ...

The goatrapers did that with Arafat. I guess you take home a souvenir.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 12:09 PM (ZLygy)

298 291 Kubrick married that girl.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (JzUSu)

They stayed married until his death.

Posted by: javems at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (rrgQH)

=======

And their daughter says that nothing was cut from Eyes Wide Shut after his death.

https://x.com/ViKu1111/status/
2094586846856577219

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:10 PM (U/fqy)

299 Just give her several clot shots straight to the heart.

Get rid of that backlog of that crap and use it for something good for once

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2026 12:10 PM (sKqQm)

300 Renee Good's family is suing ICE

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (RHGPo)

I question the timing.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:10 PM (enkoP)

301 293 Renee Good's family is suing ICE

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (RHGPo)

=======

"This means that all deportations have stopped again!"
-a shocking number of conservative social media personalities, 88% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:11 PM (U/fqy)

302 300 Renee Good's family is suing ICE

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (RHGPo)

I question the timing.
Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:10 PM (enkoP)

Nah.. This has absolutely nothing to do with the mid terms...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 01, 2026 12:11 PM (+gK6I)

303 Renee Good's family is suing ICE

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (RHGPo)

I question the timing.
Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:10 PM

The timing is that they can just say that now she was forced by hormones and/or astrology to try and run over the ICE agents.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 12:11 PM (2ocoG)

304 I cant wait for a Biden judge to argue that there is a right to run down a federal agent

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2026 12:12 PM (sKqQm)

305 Oh, on the Bordens.
They did all live in the same house, but with separate lives. As the sister said "We always spoke." as in "we acknoweleged each others' presence but did not interact."

Posted by: sal at October 01, 2026 12:12 PM (f+FmA)

306 And their daughter says that nothing was cut from Eyes Wide Shut after his death.

https://x.com/ViKu1111/status/
2094586846856577219
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:10 PM (U/fqy)

IMHO that whole movie should’ve been cut. Just awful

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:12 PM (j8E+e)

307 Racial minority enrollment has increased nationwide at both the undergraduate and graduate level despite the Supreme Court ruling that banned affirmative action.

During the spring 2026 semester, nearly 2 million black undergraduate students and around 364,000 black graduate students were enrolled at colleges and universities across the United States.

Compared to numbers from spring 2025, black undergraduate enrollment has increased 3.4 percent, while black graduate enrollment grew by 6.5 percent. The study also shows similar improvements among Hispanic and multiracial students.

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 12:12 PM (RHGPo)

308 death penalty nullification.

Posted by: vivi at October 01, 2026 12:12 PM (37r7s)

309 IMHO that whole movie should’ve been cut. Just awful
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Supposedly based on Epstein.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 12:13 PM (77rzZ)

310 Renee Good's family is suing ICE

Posted by: SMOD
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Qualified immunity. Good luck with that.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 12:13 PM (JzUSu)

311 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 12:13 PM (77rzZ)

312 Speaking of massive, all-encompassing incompetence...I see Chevrolet is bringing back the Corvair.
I had a '65 Corse model. Great car as long as you stayed under 50mph. Above that and the fan belt came off Every Fu*king Time!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 12:14 PM (2WIwB)

313 The timing is that they can just say that now she was forced by hormones and/or astrology to try and run over the ICE agents.
Posted by: Ian S.

You go, bitch!

Posted by: Dionne Warwick at October 01, 2026 12:14 PM (ZLygy)

314 Apparently the chosen all female power staff didn't know what they were doing or diluted the medicine

Imagine if they'd had to parallel park the gurney before getting started.l

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 01, 2026 12:14 PM (0sNs1)

315 She went and got the anesthesiologist… we started it with zero trouble in about 5 seconds. Was a a grumpy jerk? Yes. Do I regret it? No. Haha

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (j8E+e)

I had a chick dig around in there trying to catch a vein - I think - while I squirmed in the chair. I ended up with a softball sized bruise at the site.

Some people are not vut out for that type of work.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 12:15 PM (dK+Kv)

316 Not only does Canada have MAID, 11 US states have legal assisted suicide. It's bonkers that a capital punishment execution is "botched". Someone intentionally screwed this up.

Posted by: George V at October 01, 2026 12:15 PM (g6ahB)

317 Renee Good’s family’s lawsuit + 5k strong migrant caravan heading to our Southern border.

Yep, making midterms about immigration.
Guess this is how they do it without having USAID money to fund big city riots.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 12:17 PM (4KUe5)

318 - DHS has all 50 voter databases.
- DHS is processing all 50 voter databases through the revamped SAVE System to identify any potential non-us citizens for immediate removal.
- DHS will be providing the potential names and addresses of all non-us citizens embedded in voter databases to all 50 State Election Directors.
- All 50 State Election Directors will be notified that if the names of non-us citizens are not removed from their voter database before the November 3, 2026, Mid-Term Elections, that they may face prosecution if it is determined that any non-us citizens actually have a ballot processed for them.
- Title III of The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) requires the ‘removal’ any ‘ineligible names’ from voter databases

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 12:33 PM (RHGPo)

319 Burlington Public Schools

School officials are in panic mode over kids revolting against “Pride Day”

Kids refused to wear colors and some even chanted that their pronouns are USA

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 12:41 PM (RHGPo)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Home Relief Station
Louis Ribak

I would take "Social Realism" much more seriously as a style if it weren't used so transparently to advocate for socialism.

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 09:30 AM (nZ6VT)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 09:31 AM (NcvvS)

3 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 09:31 AM (nZ6VT)

4 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at October 01, 2026 09:31 AM (Bep7s)

5 Dealer has blackjack. Next!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 01, 2026 09:32 AM (PvM3F)

6 Depressing.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 01, 2026 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

7 Cartoonish. Commie. No way to go through life, son.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 09:33 AM (/C5Rl)

8 Karen the Bureaucrat was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at October 01, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

9 >>I would take "Social Realism" much more seriously as a style if it weren't used so transparently to advocate for socialism.

Are you saying it's as ugly on the insides as it is on the outside?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 09:33 AM (rOKnE)

10 Early DMV?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 09:34 AM (RORbl)

11 Not my cup of tea.

Posted by: Tuna at October 01, 2026 09:34 AM (lJ0H4)

12 Socialist humor is like food, comrade.

Not everyone gets it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 01, 2026 09:34 AM (qlLNh)

13 Ribak was involved in WPA artwork. You can tell the leftist leanings by the muscular lady at the desk.
Don't think I'd hang this one.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 01, 2026 09:34 AM (jivel)

14 this reminds me of traffic court years ago when every village had their own. now they are consolidated, but i appeared in all of the municipal city halls back when.

Posted by: cmeat at October 01, 2026 09:35 AM (Bep7s)

15 The two cops on the left are telling each other dirty jokes.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 01, 2026 09:35 AM (2Ez/1)

16 And yet they kept voting for FDR . . .

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 01, 2026 09:35 AM (4HoLg)

17 I can't tell about this artist and socialism - is he fer it or agin it?

Posted by: Burnham at October 01, 2026 09:35 AM (2ap+5)

18 Dude in the front row sort of reminds me of the dog eater.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 09:36 AM (RORbl)

19 From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs ! I waz promised a high paying job with little or no responsibility, my own house and a girlfriend that looks like Sidney Sweeney, and Trump is not delivering on that promise!!

Posted by: Fat Ugly Gamer who spends life in altered reality at October 01, 2026 09:36 AM (AKptf)

20 You can tell the leftist leanings by the muscular lady at the desk.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 01, 2026 09:34 AM (jivel)

Well that, and the pedestrian topic and skill.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 01, 2026 09:36 AM (k5CNB)

21 Please sir, can I have some more?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 09:36 AM (4NO2D)

22 Bea Arthur as the clerk?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 01, 2026 09:36 AM (wVcYX)

23 > You can tell the leftist leanings by the muscular lady at the desk.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 01, 2026 09:34 AM (jivel)

The accusatory failure pointed at the old lady is also an accurate touch.

If this were Canada, she'd be told she should to go outside and get in the MAID van.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 01, 2026 09:36 AM (qlLNh)

24 10 nice. elston used to be a huge box dedicated to having you stand in the wrong line for hours. "oh no, you want 2b."
much streamlined now. the greeter points you in the right direction.

Posted by: cmeat at October 01, 2026 09:36 AM (Bep7s)

25 Everyone has caricature bodies, especially the heads...

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at October 01, 2026 09:37 AM (aJQbY)

26 Apparently, there are no lights in the building.

Posted by: dantesed at October 01, 2026 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

27 “It smelled like slow death in there. Malaria, nightmares.”

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 09:37 AM (ZxPkt)

28 >>Well that, and the pedestrian topic and skill.

Yup

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 09:37 AM (rOKnE)

29 I'd hang it. By "it" I mean the artist.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 01, 2026 09:37 AM (BHTo4)

30 17 - I'm sure the artist thought this pictured a flattering picture of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Nothing says "Everything is working great" like everyone having to spend their entire day waiting in some dismal government building waiting for scraps.

Posted by: Gaff at October 01, 2026 09:37 AM (EqzMw)

31 Did you Babushka last week?

Did you try to Babushka last week?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 01, 2026 09:38 AM (wVcYX)

32 > From each according to his ability

Please get on the truck. The canal isn't digging itself.

Posted by: Socialist Bureaucrat at October 01, 2026 09:38 AM (qlLNh)

33 But that's the day the plumber is coming!

Posted by: Just the Punchline at October 01, 2026 09:38 AM (4NO2D)

34 would not hang

Posted by: Gref at October 01, 2026 09:38 AM (5rh/l)

35 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 09:39 AM (ccf/V)

36 *whips out cock*

*wanks*

Posted by: Democrats at October 01, 2026 09:39 AM (ccf/V)

37 They are up to no good for sure

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2026 09:39 AM (XKmie)

38 I think the story of this painting is the couple standing next to the desk are trying to get rid of grandma by hiring her out as a cleaning woman and the lady at the desk is telling her she has to be able to cook too.

Posted by: Burnham at October 01, 2026 09:39 AM (2ap+5)

39 So, what are they all there for?

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

40 I reckon all the DMV jokes have been used already...

Posted by: muldoon at October 01, 2026 09:40 AM (I0N4X)

41 Fat bish scolding the old lady.

This is the future they want for us.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 09:40 AM (ccf/V)

42 Man, those are some fugly people.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 01, 2026 09:40 AM (ThT1a)

43 I reckon all the DMV jokes have been used already...
Posted by: muldoon at October 01, 2026 09:40 AM

But not in limerick form.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 09:40 AM (4NO2D)

44 "You can tell the leftist leanings by the muscular lady at the desk."
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Is next: Swimwear.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 01, 2026 09:41 AM (2Ez/1)

45 Halloween's coming up. I'll have work for you soon. Next!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 01, 2026 09:41 AM (wVcYX)

46 I'd rather see the worst work from a member of the Ashcan School than this.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 01, 2026 09:41 AM (qRla/)

47 "Now serving number 12.... number 12"

Looks at ticket... number 107.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 09:41 AM (RORbl)

48 So, what are they all there for?
Posted by: Bul

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Democrat voters asking Democrat government for relief from a Democrat depression caused by a Democrat president

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 01, 2026 09:41 AM (4HoLg)

49 Bea Arthur as the clerk?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 01, 2026 09:36 AM (wVcYX)

Her dick is around here somewhere...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 09:41 AM (gLYp7)

50 Meh … what a way to start a Thursday. The one at bottom right looks like he's applyin' for the role of Obammy stunt double …

Posted by: Dr_No at October 01, 2026 09:42 AM (ayRl+)

51 CLEANING WOMAN?!?!?!

Posted by: Rigby Reardon at October 01, 2026 09:42 AM (qRla/)

52 It's urchin thrashin' time.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 09:43 AM (4NO2D)

53 DSA Bread-lines.

Make America Wait Again

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 01, 2026 09:44 AM (aKiSo)

54 Did a quick search on Ribak. Commie. Wife was commie.

Posted by: tubal at October 01, 2026 09:44 AM (Gqar8)

55 Equality for all.
Equally miserable.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 09:45 AM (6lPOA)

56 Coppers behind the table are conspiring.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 01, 2026 09:45 AM (ThT1a)

57 Woman at the desk is telling the old lady: "You only get one loaf of bread each month".

Posted by: dantesed at October 01, 2026 09:45 AM (Oy/m2)

58 Today everyone in the chairs would be staring at their phones.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 01, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)

59 Ugh.

This makes me sad and angry. No way to start October.

Iirc it’s the month of the Rosary. So that’s good. Hit those knees, we need all the help we can get.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 01, 2026 09:47 AM (yEz+x)

60 Can we get this hung at Denver International airport?
It would fit right in, maybe placed between two of the gargoyles.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 09:47 AM (rOKnE)

61 Woman at the desk is telling the old lady: "You only get one loaf of bread each month".
Posted by: dantesed

"Just brush off the rat droppings. It will be fine."

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 09:47 AM (ZLygy)

62 Can we get this hung at Denver International airport?
It would fit right in, maybe placed between two of the gargoyles.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 09:47 AM

Hey now, we do move every once in a while.

Posted by: TSA at October 01, 2026 09:48 AM (4NO2D)

63 22 & 49 Bea Arthur played that beautifully.

Posted by: capercaillie4901 at October 01, 2026 09:49 AM (f1WVr)

64 They are speaking Truth to Power.
/s

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 09:49 AM (RIvkX)

65 The green tablecloth brings to mind some kind of gambling setup.

Win: get a loaf of moldy bread.
Lose: straight to the gulag.

Posted by: Socialist Bureaucrat at October 01, 2026 09:49 AM (qlLNh)

66 This painting does an excellent job illustrating that you don't need a Zoom terminal to have a Home Relief Station.

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at October 01, 2026 09:50 AM (0sNs1)

67 ALL ABOARD!!! (Except You) - a limerick

The social worker Maggie McBain
Repeated her constant refrain
Her mantra never ceased
"You have to be at least
THIS 👉 tall to ride the Gravy Train!"

Posted by: muldoon at October 01, 2026 09:50 AM (I0N4X)

68 Where in hell would you hang this thing and why would you want to. Maybe a post office mural in 1930s Soviet Russia? Perhaps the broad at the table pointing at the old lady is Mother Russia.

I looked at his other paintings online. When did 'social realism' become another term for dull and unimaginative?

It's good to be exposed to 'art' like this. It makes you appreciate the real thing.

Posted by: JTB at October 01, 2026 09:51 AM (yTvNw)

69 What is "home relief?" Old name for welfare?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 09:51 AM (fmXi/)

70 This belongs at the IRS HQ.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 01, 2026 09:52 AM (yEz+x)

71 It looks like a prison.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 09:52 AM (fmXi/)

72 After consideration, would not paint on the side of my Free Candy van.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 09:53 AM (4NO2D)

73 Nice painting of Canada 2030.

Needs more muslims.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 01, 2026 09:53 AM (Sco7b)

74 The old lady in the bonnet looks like she's been hit in the face with a frying pan.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 09:53 AM (ZLygy)

75 If I was going to hang a depressing painting it would be Van Gogh’s Prisoners Round.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 09:53 AM (KC5Lt)

76 Ribak never lived under socialism. He left Russia before the revolution.

Posted by: RS at October 01, 2026 09:53 AM (GYx3d)

77 Looks like a meeting of any of the socialist communes.

List of American utopian communities

Scroll down to 'Nineteenth Century':
https://shorturl.at/EIhP1

And, just continue down into the 20th Century...

Posted by: New Harmony at October 01, 2026 09:54 AM (XeU6L)

78 Jugheads.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 09:54 AM (Y/06r)

79 Are there no workhouses?

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 09:55 AM (ZxPkt)

80 Kind of a depressing start to my favorite month.

Posted by: Tuna at October 01, 2026 09:56 AM (lJ0H4)

81 After consideration, would not paint on the side of my Free Candy van.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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Hey, well, I'm the friendly stranger in the black sedan / Won't ya hop inside my car? / I got pictures, got candy, I'm a lovable man / ...

Posted by: Ides of March at October 01, 2026 09:56 AM (XeU6L)

82 > Looks like a meeting of any of the socialist communes.

Like the one where I became the first person in history to ever be ejected from a hippie commune for being too lazy.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at October 01, 2026 09:56 AM (qlLNh)

83 64 still don't know what that means.

Posted by: cmeat at October 01, 2026 09:57 AM (Bep7s)

84 Painted in 35-36... Things are a bit different now

Posted by: Garbage at October 01, 2026 09:58 AM (+gK6I)

85 81 saw them and cryin' shames (actually, ides/ shames union) open for styx at weber high school. smoke machine. flash pots.

Posted by: cmeat at October 01, 2026 09:59 AM (Bep7s)

86 Well, somebody told us Wall Street fell
But we were so poor that we couldn't tell
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall
But Mr. Roosevelt's a-gonna save us all

Sing it
Song, song of the south
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth
Gone, gone with the wind
There ain't nobody lookin' back again...

Posted by: Willie & The Poor Boys at October 01, 2026 10:01 AM (w+jhU)

87 Should art be thought provoking or just aesthetically pleasing .

Personally I think an aesthetically pleasing painting can also be thought provoking but seems the ‘art world ‘ mostly thinks thought provoking has to be ugly .

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 10:01 AM (KC5Lt)

88 What's even being depicted here?

Is that the line to sign up for Obamacare? MAID?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 01, 2026 10:02 AM (FZ29D)

89 But not in limerick form.
Posted by: toby928(c)

***********

A DMV Joke in Limerick Form

There once was a girl named McBee
Who died in twenty aught three
Smell of sulfur, devilish ladies
She said, "Crap, I've gone to Hades!"
They said, "No ma'am, you're at the DMV!"

Posted by: muldoon at October 01, 2026 10:02 AM (I0N4X)

90 You got plenty of nothin'
And nothin's plenty for you

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:03 AM (ndZc7)

91 Not a big fan of this one.

Posted by: ballistic at October 01, 2026 10:04 AM (3BwY8)

92 they must be on an upper level... there's an archer slot in the hallway.

Posted by: cmeat at October 01, 2026 10:04 AM (Bep7s)

93 That’s definitely not a recent painting depicting the US.

I denounce myself .

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 10:04 AM (KC5Lt)

94 There's too much confusion,
I can't get no relief.....

Posted by: Zombie Jimi Hendrix Covering Zimmerman at October 01, 2026 10:05 AM (Fn+3X)

95 93 That’s definitely not a recent painting depicting the US.

I denounce myself .
Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 10:04 AM (KC5Lt)

Yeah.. My thought too..

Posted by: It's me donna at October 01, 2026 10:05 AM (+gK6I)

96 There's a lot of truth in that painting, however. Notice the one in charge is very well fed. Those peons in the seats....not so much. It's even emphasized with the oversized heads.

Posted by: Orson at October 01, 2026 10:05 AM (dIske)

97 Needs snipers.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 10:05 AM (2ocoG)

98 Hmm...my posts not posting.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 10:05 AM (XeU6L)

99 A DMV Joke in Limerick Form

Posted by: muldoon at October 01, 2026 10:02 AM

The good doctor never disappoints.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 10:06 AM (4NO2D)

100 they must be on an upper level... there's an archer slot in the hallway.
Posted by: cmeat

For the sniper, duh.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

101 aha, here is what this is, from some website :"Where is this group? In a place New York new longer has (is that a fact ??), a relief station—where jobless people with no money to buy food or pay rent sought what was known as “home relief.”

Relief stations weren’t new. But with nearly one third of the city out of work at the height of the Depression and a government more willing to distribute relief to people in need, dozens of home relief bureau stations popped up across the city...Relief stations also became targets for activists—who petitioned (or rioted, depending on the report) for more help for New Yorkers to pay their bills. On at least one occasion, a South Williamsburg relief station was stormed by a hundred people who demanded that relief be given out a lot more quickly.

While we still have home relief—just under a different name—these portraits remind us of what the term used to mean, and how relief stations were part of the fabric of the 1930s city."

Posted by: runner at October 01, 2026 10:06 AM (AKptf)

102 Weird...post with link doesn't show up.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 10:06 AM (XeU6L)

103 Hegseth is a big meanie!

🔥 Secretary Hegseth declares "NO MORE FATTIES OR TRANNlES" in the military

"We are NO LONGER the woke department or the weak department."

"NO FATTIES. NO TRANNlES, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just WARRIORS."

"No more silly PowerPoint trainings or drag queen shows. No more diversity quotas.

"No more gender pronouns. No more identity months. ONLY the warrior ethos." 🇺🇸

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)

104 Looks like a meeting of any of the socialist communes.
List of American utopian communities
Scroll down to 'Nineteenth Century':
https://shorturl.at/EIhP1
And, just continue down into the 20th Century...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 10:07 AM (XeU6L)

105 Well, I have started work.

I hate it.

I miss being unemployed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:07 AM (U/fqy)

106 Okay, that worked.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 10:07 AM (XeU6L)

107 Painting, don't like it.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 01, 2026 10:08 AM (sl73Y)

108 Updated scene: Everyone tips the scales at 300 lbs, has an Iphone, and a $150 mani-pedi. And just came back from a Carnival Cruise.

Posted by: We Sufferin' Out Here at October 01, 2026 10:08 AM (Fn+3X)

109 Well, I have started work.

I hate it.

I miss being unemployed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

dude, be careful what you wish for!

Posted by: runner at October 01, 2026 10:08 AM (AKptf)

110 🔥 Secretary Hegseth declares "NO MORE FATTIES OR TRANNlES" in the military

"We are NO LONGER the woke department or the weak department."

"NO FATTIES. NO TRANNlES, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just WARRIORS."

"No more silly PowerPoint trainings or drag queen shows. No more diversity quotas.

"No more gender pronouns. No more identity months. ONLY the warrior ethos." 🇺🇸
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)

If the Dems take over I'm betting Hegseth is the first impeachee....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 01, 2026 10:08 AM (+gK6I)

111 Say what you will about Canada's MAID program, at least they know how to kill people.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:09 AM (ndZc7)

112 Home Relief Station, 1935-36
Louis Ribak

Wikipedia, in part, "Born to a Jewish family in Grodno in the Russian Empire, Ribak emigrated to New York City at the age of ten with his family."

In the 1930s and 1940s, Ribak painted in a Social Realist style, exhibiting with fellow Social Realists like Reginald Marsh and Raphael Soyer.

In the 1930s, he also worked as a muralist for the Works Progress Administration; among these works is the 1939 mural View Near Albemarle in the U.S. Post Office in Albemarle, North Carolina. In 1933, he assisted Diego Rivera on his mural Man at the Crossroads, commissioned for Rockefeller Center and destroyed before completion.[1]

"Ribak met fellow artist Beatrice Mandelman in New York at a dance sponsored by the Artists Union, and the two married in 1942.[2] He served in the military for two years during World War 2 and was discharged because of asthma.[1] Seeking a healthier climate, Ribak and Mandelman moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1944.[1] At this point, Ribak shifted to a more abstract style and brighter color palette."

So the US socialists of long ago are much the same as now; White/white adjacent, ever demanding, and shirking real work. 🤔

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 10:09 AM (NFX2v)

113 Past 100.

From the WaPo's article about 'how badly are we going to destroy the Republicans in November,' comes this gem:

"The mid-term is not a "regular" and "common" one. Republican Donald J. Trump is a huge disaster, The Republican party will suffer the exceptional historic defeat which never happened in history of the American midterm elections. The scale of Trump's Republican party collapse will have no precedent!"

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 10:09 AM (s30Ba)

114 Just over two months into his tenure as U.K. prime minister, Andy Burnham is laying the groundwork for an unabashedly socialist overhaul of the British state.

Link is for the original WSJ article. Archive is not working for me this morning.

https://tinyurl.com/rk3z6axu

Posted by: Oglebay at October 01, 2026 10:10 AM (2ap+5)

115 "The mid-term is not a "regular" and "common" one. Republican Donald J. Trump is a huge disaster, The Republican party will suffer the exceptional historic defeat which never happened in history of the American midterm elections. The scale of Trump's Republican party collapse will have no precedent!"
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 10:09 AM (s30Ba)

Saw one this morning that said the Republicans are doing so badly Mississippi is in play.. Needles to say I passed that one up...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 01, 2026 10:11 AM (+gK6I)

116 > Well, I have started work.

I hate it.

I miss being unemployed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:07 AM (U/fqy)
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Stick with it there movie boy.... my retirement depends on you!

Posted by: Social Security Recipient at October 01, 2026 10:11 AM (RORbl)

117 Too many people have too much time on their hands.

BBC removes article claiming bare nails trend perpetuates 'White supremacist' beauty standards

Piece linked unpainted nails to class and racial stigma before widespread backlash prompted an editorial review

The original article, "How the bare nails trend became a class issue," explored the beauty trend of women preferring clear and polished "naked" nails over the more stylish nail designs over the past few years.

The Sun editor-at-large Harry Cole wrote, "This is mental. Not painting your nails is now White supremacy coded, apparently. Are they hoofing nail polish remover over there?"

https://tinyurl.com/mrybb3hu

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 10:12 AM (nZ6VT)

118 It is always odd to look at old socialist art. It mostly has manly men doing manly things.

Very hetero-normative with no gender fluidity to be seen.

Considering how modern Alphabet socialism is running Europe and competitive in America how the hell did the (relatively) saner version of socialism from 80 years ago not win?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2026 10:12 AM (sKqQm)

119 Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 10:09 AM (NFX2v)

He wasn’t a very good artist so not surprised he switched to being an abstract artist. That’s the lazy way out.

Looking at you zombie Rothko.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 10:12 AM (KC5Lt)

120 Caption:

"You kulak are an old useless eater.

Into the woodchipper with you!

Next!"

Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 10:12 AM (eR5WW)

121 "The mid-term is not a "regular" and "common" one. Republican Donald J. Trump is a huge disaster, ..."
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Ah...and yet they are not explicit about the nature of this 'disaster'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 10:12 AM (XeU6L)

122 Say what you will about Canada's MAID program, at least they know how to kill people.

************

Unlike say...um...Tennessee.

Posted by: muldoon at October 01, 2026 10:13 AM (I0N4X)

123 105 Well, I have started work.

I hate it.

I miss being unemployed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

But enjoy the vacation! Hopefully you'll have those fond memories as you "hold down the fort" over the Christmas and New Year's holidays. 😉

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 10:13 AM (NFX2v)

124
Ah...and yet they are not explicit about the nature of this 'disaster'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 10:12 AM (XeU6L)

He's a disaster for their socialist/ communist plans...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 01, 2026 10:14 AM (+gK6I)

125 121 "The mid-term is not a "regular" and "common" one. Republican Donald J. Trump is a huge disaster, ..."
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Ah...and yet they are not explicit about the nature of this 'disaster'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 10:12 AM (XeU6L)

======

Morning Consult, Dem leaning pollster, released their generic congressional ballot this morning.

D+3.

While we're supposed to believe that the blue wave is minimal in blue states but massive in red states, which is not how waves work in American politics.

Or, we can believe Ipsos which says D+15 which has been one of the worst pollsters for a generation consistently.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:14 AM (U/fqy)

126 UK-France Deal to Reduce Number of Migrants Crossing Channel in Small Boats Has Been Dropped

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Surrender first! Ask questions later.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:14 AM (ndZc7)

127 Out of the door, line on the left, one cross each.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 10:14 AM (4NO2D)

128 Where my EBT card at?

Posted by: La'Shondra at October 01, 2026 10:14 AM (2Ez/1)

129 123 But enjoy the vacation! Hopefully you'll have those fond memories as you "hold down the fort" over the Christmas and New Year's holidays. 😉

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 10:13 AM (NFX2v)

=====

Without the unemployment, I'd never have started the YouTube channel.

So, I've got that going for me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:15 AM (U/fqy)

130
I take socialist realism seriously.

Very, very seriously.

Communist artists get 20 slinging canal dirt when I'm in charge.

I'd wipe that smirk off their faces.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 01, 2026 10:15 AM (BI5O2)

131 "No more gender pronouns. No more identity months. ONLY the warrior ethos." 🇺🇸
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7

MS Now was really upset.
Multiple segments.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 01, 2026 10:15 AM (Sco7b)

132 UK-France Deal to Reduce Number of Migrants Crossing Channel in Small Boats Has Been Dropped

Odd how Hitler and Napoleon didn't known there is no way to stop a small boat from crossing the channel.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2026 10:15 AM (sKqQm)

133 D+3 traditionally gives a split congress.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2026 10:16 AM (sKqQm)

134
Just don't make the OK sign with unpainted nails on your hand!

That'll open up a huge Black Hole of White Supremacy...and nobody even knows how that could be.

Terra incognito, people. Terra incognito.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 10:16 AM (eR5WW)

135 Since it was a French woman that came up with fingernail painting if a black or asian woman does it is it cultural appropriation?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2026 10:17 AM (sKqQm)

136 And where is RFK Jr. on this?

E-Scooter Emergency Room Visits Double Over Two Years

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:17 AM (ndZc7)

137 133 D+3 traditionally gives a split congress.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2026 10:16 AM (sKqQm)

=======

Harvard-Harris, the best pollster of the last 10 years, has had two polls in the last month.

The first was R+2. The second was D+2.

With gerrymandering post-2020 and the gerrmandering fight earlier this year, that's a Republican House and definitely keeping the Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:17 AM (U/fqy)

138 Or, we can believe Ipsos which says D+15 which has been one of the worst pollsters for a generation consistently.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I hope like hell that we are not whistling past the graveyard. But, yes, a poll of likely-to-vote Democrats is just cheerleading.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 10:18 AM (XeU6L)

139 Since it was a French woman that came up with fingernail painting if a black or asian woman does it is it cultural appropriation?
Posted by: 18-1 at

Should be. According to their rules.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 10:18 AM (nZ6VT)

140 UK-France Deal to Reduce Number of Migrants Crossing Channel in Small Boats Has Been Dropped

Odd how Hitler and Napoleon didn't known there is no way to stop a small boat from crossing the channel.

Posted by: 18-1

100 lb anvil dropped from a helicopter.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 10:19 AM (nZ6VT)

141 100 lb anvil dropped from a helicopter.
Posted by: rickb223
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You're really with Acme, aren't you?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 10:21 AM (XeU6L)

142 Senate Rejects Bill That Would Have Banned Congress From Insider Trading

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Wouldn't be prudent. Or profitable.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:21 AM (ndZc7)

143 100 lb anvil dropped from a helicopter.
Posted by: rickb223

*Scowls*

Posted by: Wile E Coyote at October 01, 2026 10:21 AM (ZLygy)

144 Sure, go ahead. Trust the polls.

Posted by: Francesca Hong at October 01, 2026 10:21 AM (2Ez/1)

145 It is comical watching leftwing governments argue there is no way to stop people from invading their countries.

This is why countries exist in the first place to keep foreigners out.

Even the Euro-niks with their comically small militaries could do so easily. Fire on one group of invaders and make it clear you will continue in the future and the invasion will stop.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2026 10:22 AM (sKqQm)

146 Coyote vs Acme is good actually. Ignore the tranny reviewers who called it an "indictment on capitalism".

Posted by: 88C+u at October 01, 2026 10:22 AM (88C+u)

147 While we're supposed to believe that the blue wave is minimal in blue states but massive in red states, which is not how waves work in American politics.

Or, we can believe Ipsos which says D+15 which has been one of the worst pollsters for a generation consistently.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:14 AM (U/fqy)

This is why the redistricting fight was so important. Blue places get bluer, but so what? Those are lost seats anyway. Red seats get redder, but again, so what? Those were gained seats anyway. There aren't really that many 'up for grabs' seats, and that's where the primary focus should be.

The Cleansing of the Rolls will pay dividends here, but sweet fuck will it matter even more in '28.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 10:22 AM (gLYp7)

148 144 Sure, go ahead. Trust the polls.

Posted by: Francesca Hong at October 01, 2026 10:21 AM (2Ez/1)

========

Young, college progressives will definitely be 20% of the electorate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:22 AM (U/fqy)

149 I will be very interested to see how USAID not providing walking around money will impact urban turn out...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2026 10:23 AM (sKqQm)

150 147 This is why the redistricting fight was so important. Blue places get bluer, but so what? Those are lost seats anyway. Red seats get redder, but again, so what? Those were gained seats anyway. There aren't really that many 'up for grabs' seats, and that's where the primary focus should be.

The Cleansing of the Rolls will pay dividends here, but sweet fuck will it matter even more in '28.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 10:22 AM (gLYp7)

====

We get to have the fight again in the next year or so.

Add another 5-10 safe GOP seats for 2028.

And then we get to have the fight AGAIN in 2031, post census.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:23 AM (U/fqy)

151 He wasn’t a very good artist so not surprised he switched to being an abstract artist. That’s the lazy way out.

Looking at you zombie Rothko.
Posted by: polynikes

I agree. But I'm often surprised of how many artists seeming (to me) to lack great artistic abilities were adopted by the Works Progress Administration as muralists. (And they themselves certainly weren't as the people represented in their 1930s, 1940s art.)

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 10:23 AM (NFX2v)

152 Too evil for a Bond villain.

“Goonies” Star and Legendary Bond Villain Robert Davi Says California Chaos Finally Drove Him Out

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)

153 They are speaking Truth to Power.
/s
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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still don't know what that means.
Posted by: cmeat
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"we choose 'truth', not facts," - Joe Biden

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 10:24 AM (XeU6L)

154 Senate Rejects Bill That Would Have Banned Congress From Insider Trading

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Wouldn't be prudent. Or profitable.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:21 AM (ndZc7)

That’s kind of a loaded headline. Insider trading is against the law for everyone right? I assume the bill just tried to make stock trading more restrictive for members of Congress.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 10:26 AM (KC5Lt)

155 129. Without the unemployment, I'd never have started the YouTube channel.

So, I've got that going for me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I know. You're OK & I'm just kidding with you.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 10:26 AM (NFX2v)

156 Senate Rejects Bill That Would Have Banned Congress From Insider Trading

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Wouldn't be prudent. Or profitable.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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[smirks]

Posted by: Nanci Pelosi at October 01, 2026 10:27 AM (XeU6L)

157 Young, college progressives will definitely be 20% of the electorate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:22 AM (U/fqy)

Then the bong was passed around and that voting shit seems like work.

Posted by: Wile E Coyote at October 01, 2026 10:27 AM (ZLygy)

158 And then we get to have the fight AGAIN in 2031, post census.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:23 AM (U/fqy)

THAT could be the final victory. If Republicans are in control of the Senate, the census will be a paradigm-shifting event.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 10:28 AM (gLYp7)

159 Birds of Prey?

Navy Orders 10 Autonomous Romulus Warships From America’s Biggest Shipbuilder

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:28 AM (ndZc7)

160 That’s kind of a loaded headline. Insider trading is against the law for everyone right? I assume the bill just tried to make stock trading more restrictive for members of Congress.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 10:26 AM (KC5Lt)

No.

Insider trading is NOT illegal for Congress. Pelosi knew legislation was pending, made trades based on that knowledge, and made a bazillion dollars.

Not illegal.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 10:29 AM (gLYp7)

161 158 THAT could be the final victory. If Republicans are in control of the Senate, the census will be a paradigm-shifting event.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 10:28 AM (gLYp7)

========

Presidency.

Having the presidency to correct the errors of the census is what's really important.

I know what you mean by having both Senate and a reinvigorated House majority.

But the power is with the presidency, and a Democrat president can blunt any gains...again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:29 AM (U/fqy)

162 Insider trading is against the law for everyone right? I assume the bill just tried to make stock trading more restrictive for members of Congress.
Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 10:26 AM

Per the Webz, no member of Congress has ever been successfully prosecuted for insider trading.

I'd say they are at least unofficially exempt.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 10:30 AM (4NO2D)

163 still don't know what that means.
Posted by: cmeat

Theoretically it means questioning authority when it may be wrong

But this isn't what the left really means - they will quickly tell you that as you aren't an "expert" so you aren't allowed to question authority.

So who determines who an expert is? Oh, the left does. Experts have to echo the narrative or they aren't experts.

Nice system isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2026 10:30 AM (sKqQm)

164
But the power is with the presidency, and a Democrat president can blunt any gains...again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:29 AM (U/fqy)

I meant White House, but my caffeine hasn't hit yet.

You're right, of course.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 10:30 AM (gLYp7)

165 Birds of Prey?

Navy Orders 10 Autonomous Romulus Warships From America’s Biggest Shipbuilder
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:28 AM (ndZc7)

And stocked with ale.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 10:30 AM (ZLygy)

166 Nancy Pelosi's substantial stock holdings have averaged 3X normal market returns.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2026 10:31 AM (sKqQm)

167 "we choose 'truth', not facts," - Joe Biden
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 10:24 AM (XeU6L)

I still can't get over that little bit of perverse cargo cult philosophy.

Facts are neutral. Truth is reached by contemplating what follows from those facts, but only with honesty and rigor.

The leftist way is to use facts to craft lies. They gaslight you into thinking that the veracity of some nebulous, floating "fact" somehow proves the monstrous conclusions they pretend to draw out of it.

Biden and the like don't even do that much. They just lie outright and act like you're the problem if you don't believe it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 01, 2026 10:31 AM (aKiSo)

168 Just pathetic by Thune. The Senate is taking another 5 week break, after taking one for all of August. WTF!!!

Posted by: Jonah at October 01, 2026 10:31 AM (gwrBY)

169 The Cleansing of the Rolls
Carwash!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 01, 2026 10:31 AM (vUcPr)

170 Pure hemophilia.

WWG1WGA
@WWG1WGA_QQ
School officials are in panic mode over kids revolting against “Pride Day”
Kids refused to wear colors and some even chanted that their pronouns are USA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)

171 Al Jazeera, US Senate also rejects bill targeting AI data centre electricity costs
Democrats criticise bill as lacking ‘teeth’ and push for mandatory measures to address soaring electricity bills.

In part, "Only four Democrats — Maggie Hassan, Amy Klobuchar, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock — joined Republicans to support the bill, which proponents argue would have eased the burden of rising energy costs on individual households."

And,
"The Ratepayer Protection Act, a first-of-its-kind bipartisan bill, was aimed at addressing the economic concerns linked to the expansion of data centres.

It passed the House of Representatives earlier this month in a landslide vote of 417 to three.

But Democrats in the Senate argued the bill does not go far enough to protect consumers from high electricity bills. Rather than requiring states to “consider” a federal utility rate standard, some senators advocated instead for mandatory enforcement to guarantee consumer relief."

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 10:32 AM (NFX2v)

172 Mornin' Horde. Today am technically retired, though that may not be long term. Maybe an uncertain future, but damned if I don't feel relief on leaving that situation.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at October 01, 2026 10:32 AM (ENA4W)

173 Well, I have started work.

I hate it.

I miss being unemployed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:07 AM (U/fqy)

**Nelson Muntz laugh**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 01, 2026 10:32 AM (qRla/)

174 WWG1WGA
@WWG1WGA_QQ
School officials are in panic mode over kids revolting against “Pride Day”
Kids refused to wear colors and some even chanted that their pronouns are USA
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)

Moar please.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 10:32 AM (ZLygy)

175 School officials are in panic mode over kids revolting against “Pride Day”
Kids refused to wear colors and some even chanted that their pronouns are USA

Oh man. I can hear the screeching already.

Also, why is there a pride day when there's already a pride month?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 10:33 AM (2ocoG)

176 WWG1WGA
@WWG1WGA_QQ
School officials are in panic mode over kids revolting against “Pride Day”
Kids refused to wear colors and some even chanted that their pronouns are USA
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Where is this happening?

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

177 @WWG1WGA_QQ
School officials are in panic mode over kids revolting against “Pride Day”
Kids refused to wear colors and some even chanted that their pronouns are USA
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)

This. Is. AWESOME.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 10:33 AM (ccf/V)

178 164
But the power is with the presidency, and a Democrat president can blunt any gains...again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:29 AM (U/fqy)

I meant White House, but my caffeine hasn't hit yet.

You're right, of course.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 10:30 AM (gLYp7)

========

Essay from 2032:

Democrats are faced with the reality that in order to have a chance of winning the House, they have to win 20-30 seats that President Vance won by between 5-15 points. The rift between the DSA (or whatever they call themselves at that point) and the older establishment figures has been heating up as the far left of the party insists that the only way to win Vance+10 districts is to go harder on gay race communism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:34 AM (U/fqy)

179 I'd like to know what, specifically, was in the "no insider trading" bill that the Senate rejected.

I think it's fine to outsource your investments, but as a member of Congress that outsourcing should be made public. And whomever is doing the investing shouldn't take "tips" from a sitting member of Congress on what to buy or sell, and when.

If that was the gist of the bill, then the Senate can go horsefuck.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 10:34 AM (RORbl)

180 Perhaps someone in the medical field can enlighten me... why are all phlebotomists black women? I object to neither their race nor their gender, it just seems odd to me.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 10:34 AM (ExV1e)

181 For some reason, I don't think the lady is pointing and saying "YOU get a car, and YOU get a car....."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 10:34 AM (ccf/V)

182 Pure hemophilia.

-
Damn autocucumber! Homophobia! Homophobia!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:35 AM (ndZc7)

183 Also, why is there a pride day when there's already a pride month?
Posted by: Ian S

There will be faggot worship and you'll act like you like it. /

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 10:35 AM (ZLygy)

184 Coyote vs Acme is good actually. Ignore the tranny reviewers who called it an "indictment on capitalism".

Without Mel Blanc, any Looney Tunes-related animation is crap.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 01, 2026 10:35 AM (qRla/)

185 Well, I have started work.

I hate it.

I miss being unemployed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:07 AM (U/fqy)

You asked for a job.

You got one.

Reap it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 10:35 AM (ccf/V)

186 173 Well, I have started work.

I hate it.

I miss being unemployed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:07 AM (U/fqy)

**Nelson Muntz laugh**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 01, 2026 10:32 AM (qRla/)

=======

I deserved that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:35 AM (U/fqy)

187 phlebotomy is a reasonably well paid job.

If you are young person interested in medicine its not a bad choice.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2026 10:35 AM (sKqQm)

188 Perhaps someone in the medical field can enlighten me... why are all phlebotomists black women? I object to neither their race nor their gender, it just seems odd to me.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I think the one at my doctor's office is a Filipina.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

189 * perks up*

Posted by: Oprahpottamus at October 01, 2026 10:36 AM (ZLygy)

190 If you are young person interested in medicine its not a bad choice.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2026 10:35 AM (sKqQm)

I am neither.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 10:36 AM (ExV1e)

191 >>That’s kind of a loaded headline. Insider trading is against the law for everyone right? I assume the bill just tried to make stock trading more restrictive for members of Congress.

Not really. By the nature of their jobs members of Congress see privileged information about publicly traded companies that the rest of us do not have access to see. So do their staffs. Which is a big reason people like Pelosi routinely outperform people like Warren Buffett.

Not only do they get to see the information they make legislation that can effect a public company's stock performance dramatically. When they make individual stock trades it is the very definition of insider trading.

Yes, insider trading is against the law for us common folk. It is not for members of Congress. That's why they routinely vote these bills down and make many times their salary every year in the market. It's also why people who could make a larger salary in the private sector spend so much effort to go to DC.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2026 10:36 AM (viF8m)

192 But the power is with the presidency, and a Democrat president can blunt any gains...again.

Only when a Dem is in the White House.

When a Republican is there, power is with unelected judges.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 01, 2026 10:37 AM (qRla/)

193 Without Mel Blanc, any Looney Tunes-related animation is crap.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Do you know the only character that Mel Blanc didn't voice?

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

194 Perhaps someone in the medical field can enlighten me... why are all phlebotomists black women? I object to neither their race nor their gender, it just seems odd to me.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 10:34 AM (ExV1e)

You're half right.

Phlebotomists are 89% women, but only 16% of those are black.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 10:37 AM (s30Ba)

195 Where is this happening?
Posted by: Bulg

https://tinyurl.com/3txr3b24

Deep behind enemy lines in Burlington Vermont.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:38 AM (ndZc7)

196 Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.

Posted by: Eromero at October 01, 2026 10:38 AM (LHPAg)

197 The rift between the DSA (or whatever they call themselves at that point) and the older establishment figures has been heating up as the far left of the party insists that the only way to win Vance+10 districts is to go harder on gay race communism.

By 2032 DSA will likely have completed their rout of the establishment and just call themselves the Democrat Party.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 10:38 AM (2ocoG)

198 Phlebotomists are 89% women, but only 16% of those are black.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 10:37 AM (s30Ba)

Maybe it's because I'm in Texas but I would have expected some big booty latinas.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 10:38 AM (ExV1e)

199 Kids refused to wear colors and some even chanted that their pronouns are USA
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:32 AM

Who? Who won't wear the ribbon?

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at October 01, 2026 10:39 AM (2Ez/1)

200
It strikes me that some mutual fund manager could do well by setting up a Pelosi Fund that automatically mirrors her stock activity.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 10:39 AM (iqcvy)

201 196 I'd like to know what, specifically, was in the "no insider trading" bill that the Senate rejected.

I think they tacked on voter ID to it so they knew the Dems would nix it and they can go back to their constitutes and say see, Dems are against stopping insider trading

Posted by: It's me donna at October 01, 2026 10:39 AM (+gK6I)

202 200
It strikes me that some mutual fund manager could do well by setting up a Pelosi Fund that automatically mirrors her stock activity.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 10:39 AM (iqcvy)

===

They exist.

They tend to do well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:39 AM (U/fqy)

203 It strikes me that some mutual fund manager could do well by setting up a Pelosi Fund that automatically mirrors her stock activity.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 10:39 AM (iqcvy)

There is one. I forget the ticker symbol.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 10:40 AM (ExV1e)

204 153 "or your own lying eyes?"

Posted by: cmeat at October 01, 2026 10:40 AM (Bep7s)

205 It strikes me that some mutual fund manager could do well by setting up a Pelosi Fund that automatically mirrors her stock activity.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

I watched it for awhile. Public info doesn't come out til 3 months later.
The plays been made.

Posted by: MkY at October 01, 2026 10:40 AM (ZHRuH)

206 Maybe it's because I'm in Texas but I would have expected some big booty latinas.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 10:38 AM (ExV1e)

You're in luck! 18%!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 10:40 AM (gLYp7)

207 64 still don't know what that means.
Posted by: cmeat at October 01, 2026 09:57 AM (Bep7s)
=====

Am I really that obtuse?

The lady at the desk is the Power. They are not speaking...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 10:40 AM (RIvkX)

208 /s

means it was sarcastic.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 10:41 AM (RIvkX)

209 It strikes me that some mutual fund manager could do well by setting up a Pelosi Fund that automatically mirrors her stock activity.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 10:39 AM (iqcvy)

There is a stock option out there that mirrors Pelosi's trading patterns.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 10:41 AM (ccf/V)

210 over 40 judicial openings, and the Senate takes another 5 week breather. Brutal

Posted by: Jonah at October 01, 2026 10:41 AM (gwrBY)

211 This makes socialism look pretty bleak and dreary. Which it is.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2026 10:41 AM (4znQE)

212 >>It strikes me that some mutual fund manager could do well by setting up a Pelosi Fund that automatically mirrors her stock activity.

As the kids say, there's an app for that. Seriously.

Search on Pelosi stock tracker. Lots of people track her stock trades.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2026 10:41 AM (viF8m)

213 Am I really that obtuse?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I think Doof is the ultimate arbiter of obtuseness around here.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 10:42 AM (77rzZ)

214 It's all over.

American AF 🇺🇸
@iAnonPatriot
BREAKING 🅱️ — Liberals across the country are now planning to CRASH President Trump's economy on October 1st.

They will all be skipping work, boycotting Netflix, not running their AC or heat, not using water or gas, and withdrawing their money from the banks.

First of all, you have to be employed to skip work, so most of them are safe. So their big plan to "hurt Trump" is to sit in a dark house with no water, scrolling nothing..

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:43 AM (ndZc7)

215 I miss being unemployed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:07 AM (U/fqy)

You asked for a job.

You got one.

Reap it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 10:35 AM (ccf/V)
====

Also, get back to work.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 10:43 AM (RIvkX)

216 214
They will all be skipping work, boycotting Netflix, not running their AC or heat, not using water or gas, and withdrawing their money from the banks.

First of all, you have to be employed to skip work, so most of them are safe. So their big plan to "hurt Trump" is to sit in a dark house with no water, scrolling nothing..

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:43 AM (ndZc7)

========

Hurting Netflix will hurt Trump more than the left?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:43 AM (U/fqy)

217 There's also a "reverse Cramer" mutual fund. Based on doing the exact opposite of what that fool says.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 10:43 AM (RORbl)

218 Do you know the only character that Mel Blanc didn't voice?
Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

I know he didn't do Elmer Fudd originally. He didn't do Granny, either, and some female voices were June Foray's. Beyond that, no.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 01, 2026 10:43 AM (qRla/)

219 @iAnonPatriot
BREAKING 🅱️ — Liberals across the country are now planning to CRASH President Trump's economy on October 1st.

They will all be skipping work, boycotting Netflix, not running their AC or heat, not using water or gas, and withdrawing their money from the banks.

First of all, you have to be employed to skip work, so most of them are safe. So their big plan to "hurt Trump" is to sit in a dark house with no water, scrolling nothing..
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:43 AM (ndZc7)

They did this in the past.

It affected nothing.

But, I hope they all lose their jobs for skipping work.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 10:44 AM (ccf/V)

220 163 that's funny because it seems like "they" say that alot, but really can't stand anything more than reality being pointed out.

Posted by: cmeat at October 01, 2026 10:44 AM (Bep7s)

221 I think Doof is the ultimate arbiter of obtuseness around here.
Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 10:42 AM (77rzZ)
=====

There you go with them ten-dollar words again.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 10:44 AM (RIvkX)

222 165 and pussers rum.

Posted by: cmeat at October 01, 2026 10:45 AM (Bep7s)

223 @ 159 Birds of Prey? Navy Orders 10 Autonomous Romulus Warships From America’s Biggest Shipbuilder Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:28 AM (ndZc7)
_____________________________________

Hmm. Lessee … does those ships has a 'sister ship' named 'Remus'? And did they get clearance from Roddenberry to use that name?

Posted by: Dr_No at October 01, 2026 10:45 AM (ayRl+)

224 I know he didn't do Elmer Fudd originally. He didn't do Granny, either, and some female voices were June Foray's. Beyond that, no.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

It was Elmer Fudd that I was thinking of.

Makes sense he didn't do Granny.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

225 If the economy is so bad, one doesn't need to crash it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 10:46 AM (ZLygy)

226
"Yes. A few tools track Nancy Pelosi’s publicly disclosed trades:

Quiver Quantitative: Provides a dedicated Nancy Pelosi page with disclosed trades, estimated holdings, trade history, and portfolio analytics. It also offers alerts and premium features.

Capitol Gains: An iPhone/iPad app that lets you follow politicians—including Pelosi—filter trades by member or ticker, and receive trade alerts."

Posted by: I'm the internet. Ask me anything at October 01, 2026 10:47 AM (2Ez/1)

227 149. I will be very interested to see how USAID not providing walking around money will impact urban turn out...
Posted by: 18-1

Melinda French Gates's Personal Philanthropy (Pivotal Ventures), for one.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 10:47 AM (NFX2v)

228 It's always smart to announce your plans to sabotage your enemy. On the internet.

We are up against some of the dumbest people on the planet.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2026 10:48 AM (viF8m)

229 Perhaps someone in the medical field can enlighten me... why are all phlebotomists black women? I object to neither their race nor their gender, it just seems odd to me.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 10:34 AM (ExV1e)

I don't know where you live, but that's not necessarily true here. In any case, I really don't care as long as they don't rip a vein out of my arm.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 01, 2026 10:48 AM (g8Ew8)

230 over 40 judicial openings, and the Senate takes another 5 week breather. Brutal

Nice. That's exactly the opposite of how my job works.

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2026 10:48 AM (iFEms)

231 Day ending in Y.

Texas foils plot to "exterminate" AIPAC-funded politicians at state capitol

https://tinyurl.com/3zna4kh8

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:48 AM (ndZc7)

232 >>BREAKING 🅱️ — Liberals across the country are now planning to CRASH President Trump's economy on October 1st.

They will all be skipping work, boycotting Netflix, not running their AC or heat, not using water or gas, and withdrawing their money from the banks.
- - - -

No problem-o!
We'll do all that stuff for you, just more jobs Americans won't do!

Posted by: Immigrants at October 01, 2026 10:50 AM (rOKnE)

233 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)

Special Agent Johnson, no the other one.

I keep thinking he died. I don't know why I thought he died during COVID.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 10:51 AM (enkoP)

234 over 40 judicial openings, and the Senate takes another 5 week breather. Brutal

while simultaneously denying recess appointments.

Thune can die in a fire as far as I am concerned.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 10:51 AM (4NO2D)

235 172 Mornin' Horde. Today am technically retired, though that may not be long term. Maybe an uncertain future, but damned if I don't feel relief on leaving that situation.
Posted by: Brother Tim

Best wishes!

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 10:51 AM (NFX2v)

236 They will all be skipping work, boycotting Netflix, not running their AC or heat, not using water or gas, and withdrawing their money from the banks.

And walk thru which sanctuary neighborhood with all their money in their pockets? Fake.

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2026 10:51 AM (iFEms)

237 Mornin' Horde. Today am technically retired, though that may not be long term. Maybe an uncertain future, but damned if I don't feel relief on leaving that situation.
Posted by: Brother Tim

Godspeed, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 10:52 AM (ccf/V)

238 They will all be skipping work, boycotting Netflix, not running their AC or heat, not using water or gas, and withdrawing their money from the banks.
----------

LMAO. Leftards.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 10:52 AM (enkoP)

239 234 while simultaneously denying recess appointments.

Thune can die in a fire as far as I am concerned.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 10:51 AM (4NO2D)

=======

Just your regular reminder that full recesses require floor votes, and a SCOTUS decision from about a decade ago made it so a full recess of recess appointments has to be 10 days.

Biden didn't get recess appointments either because of this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:52 AM (U/fqy)

240 We all gently tried to guide TheJamesMonroe into a lucrative career selling his plasma, but he insisted on finding "work" anyway. Hard-headed and obtuse that fellow is.

Posted by: Bill Needle at October 01, 2026 10:52 AM (Fn+3X)

241 Mornin' Horde. Today am technically retired, though that may not be long term. Maybe an uncertain future, but damned if I don't feel relief on leaving that situation.
Posted by: Brother Tim

Congratulations!

You do have a place to live now, right?

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

242 Leftards will not buy any groceries today, opting instead to get them tomorrow. That will show the economy!!!

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 10:53 AM (enkoP)

243 Just your regular reminder that full recesses require floor votes, and a SCOTUS decision from about a decade ago made it so a full recess of recess appointments has to be 10 days.

Biden didn't get recess appointments either because of this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:52 AM

I don't get your point.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 10:53 AM (4NO2D)

244 214 It's all over.

American AF 🇺🇸
@iAnonPatriot
BREAKING 🅱️ — Liberals across the country are now planning to CRASH President Trump's economy on October 1st.

A day won't do it and they're too spoiled and lazy to go a month. 🤡

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 10:54 AM (NFX2v)

245 243 Just your regular reminder that full recesses require floor votes, and a SCOTUS decision from about a decade ago made it so a full recess of recess appointments has to be 10 days.

Biden didn't get recess appointments either because of this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:52 AM

I don't get your point.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 10:53 AM (4NO2D)

========

Thune needs 51 Senators to vote for a full recess. The bar for the full recess is high because it take 10 days.

Would Mitch, Cornyn, Cassidy, Ernst, Murkowski, Collins, and Tillis vote for a full recess?

How does Thune get to 51 votes for a full recess if all seven of those GOP senators refuse?

Thune is managing a very difficult deck right now. Should get better next Congress when five of those are gone, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:55 AM (U/fqy)

246 I don't get your point.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Where's Ben R. when you need him?

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

247 A Philadelphia area man began selling plasma to make extra money for household essentials like pet food and toilet paper, earning around $500 to $520 a month to help cover everyday living costs. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Many middle-class and hourly workers use the fast cash to bridge inflation gaps or avoid high-interest debt. (NBC)

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 10:57 AM (NFX2v)

248 Is it Melinda Gates or some other incredibly wealthy left wing idiot. It might be Jeff Bezos' ex wife who wants to start up private schools especially for "transgender" kids?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 10:57 AM (JrHfD)

249 How does Thune get to 51 votes for a full recess if all seven of those GOP senators refuse?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:55 AM

By simply staying in session. No fake recesses. Even Democrats want to go home and campaign.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 10:58 AM (4NO2D)

250 It looks like a team of women deliberately fucked up the Tennessee execution last night.

I used to be more confident in my side winning the civil war between men and women, but now I'm starting to realize that demons will be fighting on the side of women.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 01, 2026 10:58 AM (qwx/I)

251 FWIW, the current "recess" is scheduled to last until after the election.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 10:59 AM (4NO2D)

252 They want to crash the economy.

They will have 345,000 participate.

Nothing will happen and no one will notice.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 10:59 AM (ccf/V)

253 249 By simply staying in session. No fake recesses. Even Democrats want to go home and campaign.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 10:58 AM (4NO2D)

========

Pissing off everyone by not going into the fake recess so they can't go home would probably not be good at managing his caucus.

Also, this Senate has approved more appointments than any Congress in decades.

Thune instituted a bloc appointment schedule that saw dozens of appointments approved at once.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:59 AM (U/fqy)

254 MacKenzie Scott's "Trans Schools" Project?

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 10:59 AM (NFX2v)

255 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 11:00 AM (NcvvS)

256 NOOD

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 11:00 AM (NFX2v)

257 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 11:00 AM (ccf/V)

258 Hurting Netflix will hurt Trump more than the left?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 10:43 AM (U/fqy)

Wouldn't that (notionally at least) hurt the Obama's pocketbook?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2026 11:00 AM (4znQE)

259 By simply staying in session. No fake recesses. Even Democrats want to go home and campaign.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 10:58 AM (4NO2D)

In the age of streaming and webcasts, I'm not sure in-person campaigning is as important as it used to be.

These days, everything is byte-sized for quick consumption. I think they could all stay in DC the whole time without impacting their numbers in any measurable way, particularly with the small number of actual swing districts now that redistricting has gone through.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 11:00 AM (gLYp7)

260 There was some day without immigrants thing a while back that was also supposed to crash the economy. Guess what happened? All the illegals that didn’t buy shit that day bought everything the next day.

The left is really retarded.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 11:01 AM (6lPOA)

261 particularly with the small number of actual swing districts now that redistricting has gone through.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 11:00 AM (gLYp7)

Senate seats aren’t redistricted.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 11:02 AM (6lPOA)

262 Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 01, 2026 10:58 AM (qwx/I)

They're not fighting on my side, and I doubt that the women on this website are signing up with demons.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 11:02 AM (JrHfD)

263 261 particularly with the small number of actual swing districts now that redistricting has gone through.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 11:00 AM (gLYp7)

Senate seats aren’t redistricted.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 11:02 AM (6lPOA)

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Weird since I was talking about the House.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:02 AM (U/fqy)

264 180 nixon had preferences.

Posted by: cmeat at October 01, 2026 11:02 AM (Bep7s)

265 By simply staying in session. No fake recesses. Even Democrats want to go home and campaign.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 10:58 AM (4NO2D)

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Pissing off everyone by not going into the fake recess so they can't go home would probably not be good at managing his caucus.

Also, this Senate has approved more appointments than any Congress in decades.

Thune instituted a bloc appointment schedule that saw dozens of appointments approved at once.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Huh? Senate right there.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 11:04 AM (6lPOA)

266 265 Huh? Senate right there.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 11:04 AM (6lPOA)

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Read the actual comment you responded to where I was talking about gerrymandering.

Seriously.

You'll appear smarter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:04 AM (U/fqy)

267 Jumped in late. Oh well.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM (6lPOA)

268 Deep behind enemy lines in Burlington Vermont.
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Heh. Home of Jane Sanders -killed college.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:09 AM (XeU6L)

269 "Don't you point that finger at me!"

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 01, 2026 12:06 PM (hzuYO)

270 It's two ladies sitting at a table arm wrestling for a crowd of spectators. (This is how one subverts commie agitprop--by reinterpreting it.)

Posted by: steve poling at October 01, 2026 01:06 PM (J3cMN)

The Morning Report — 10/1 /26

Good morning kids. Obviously the big story of the day is the thwarting of a mass religious experience of peace love and understanding by the Religion of Peace ™

After attacking the pilot of a Tel Aviv bound airliner out of Dubai, the copilot was intent on nosediving the plane into the heart of Tel Aviv. But somehow the grievously wounded pilot managed to fight back and along with several incredibly brave passengers wrested control from the Muslim beast and averted a mass casualty slaughter.

The pilot who was repeatedly stabbed by his co-pilot during Wednesday’s attempted terror attack aboard a flight bound for Israel has been identified as Indian national Smit Machchhar — and accounts emerging from the aircraft credit his fight for control with helping alert passengers to the danger unfolding inside the cockpit.
Machchhar, a veteran pilot with nearly 10,000 hours of flight experience, was flying Flydubai Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv when the Omani first officer allegedly attacked him with a knife and attempted to seize control of the Boeing 737 MAX 8.
The aircraft eventually landed safely in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, but Machchhar was seriously injured and rushed to a hospital after the emergency landing.

Muslim Pilot ‘Tried to Do 9/11’ and Kill a Planeload of Israelis . . . He didn’t reckon, however, on the indomitable spirit of the passengers.

By now, the whole world knows, as the New York Post reported Wednesday, that “an Israel-bound passenger plane pilot was reportedly stabbed several times by the jet’s co-pilot in the cockpit — and the terrifying scenes caused the aircraft to plunge almost 20,000 feet in minutes, sparking fears of a ‘terrorist attack in mid-air.’”
The passenger plane pilot who was stabbed was an Indian national, Captain Smit Machchhar; his co-pilot was an Omani Muslim who had evidently decided that a plane full of Israelis gave him a marvelous opportunity to wage jihad for the sake of Allah. This sort of thing was bound to happen sooner or later, and will almost certainly happen again. After all, the Qur’an repeatedly directs Muslims to “kill them wherever you find them.” (2:191, 4:89, 4:91, cf. 9:5) Regarding the Jews, it says: “You will find the Jews and the idolaters the most vehement of mankind in hostility to those who believe” (5:82), and demonizes them relentlessly in numerous other passages.
Add to all that the fact that the Islamic jihad against Israel is worldwide. Numerous Islamic jihad groups have called for the murder of Jews all over the world. It’s noteworthy that the pilot who attempted this aerial jihad was Omani. Oman is not often heard from in connection with jihad, and many assume that the Muslims there are “moderates.” The jihad, however, is universal. In fact, when a Muslim land is attacked, Islamic theology holds that defensive jihad is obligatory upon every Muslim worldwide. And many Muslim authorities consider the very existence of Israel to constitute the attack of a Muslim land.

Hey, I ain't no crack historian like Victor Davis Hanson or Robert Spencer, but I had no idea that Houston Tx was a Muslim land?!

Two teenagers have been arrested in different US states over a plot to carry out a mass-casualty attack against Congregation Beth Israel, a synagogue (pictured above) in Houston, Texas.
Angelina Han Hicks, 18, of Lexington, North Carolina, and a 16-year-old boy from the Houston area were arrested and charged. Hicks allegedly conspired with two people identified only by their first names, “Angel” and “Teegan,” to “kill as many Jews as possible” by driving a vehicle through a congregation at the synagogue, the oldest in Texas.

And just as a gentle reminder as if any of you need it, the trolls notwithstanding, this is the most well-informed readership anywhere on the internet, or anywhere in general, given the nature of Islam and their extremely dangerous allies of convenience the anti-American American Left, we are all JOOZ now!

That's why this strikes me initially as rather humorous .

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a terrorist organization formally belonging to the Iranian armed forces, published a 26-page open letter to the American people on Tuesday inviting Americans to visit the Strait of Hormuz, insisting “death to America” did not mean Iran wished death on America, and suggesting the September 11, 2001, jihadist attacks were a “false-flag operation.”

Yes and the Democrats don't really support the Democrat Socialists of America, either. just a false flag op!

But in point of fact everything that the Democrat Party has done over the past 200 years, given the death, dislocation, dissolution and wastage of life and human potential of all of its policies, and that they have never embraced America as founded and have done their damndest to overthrow the American revolution and replace it with a tyrannical dictatorship of its own design with them in control in perpetuity (Heh, just like Islam!), the Mullahs ripped off the slogan DEATH TO AMERICA from the Democrat Party. That's why what this Islamic savage belched up is kind of chuckle-worthy in a bitterly ironic way.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) wrote a 26-page letter to the American people on Tuesday, urging them to vote for Democrats in the midterms.

And that is what I believe is called the clincher.

It should be noted that the term “fifth column” has been weaponized in the past against minority populations such as the Japanese, who were interred during World War II, as well as against Americans of German descent during both world wars. Nevertheless, documented foreign influence operations, a court-tested organization with ties to a terrorism financing case, and a $591 million CCP-adjacent funding network are not manufactured; they are in the public record as cited in this article.
The most defensible version of the premise that drove this article’s analysis is narrower than “a fifth column” and broader than nothing: several distinct domestic and foreign-linked networks have documented, sometimes overlapping records of hostility to American constitutional order. At least one of them (CCP united front and IRGC-linked operations) meets the term’s original meaning, and at least two more (the CAIR/Muslim Brotherhood cluster and the Singham-funded left ecosystem) have court records, government designations, or congressional financial tails that go well beyond ordinary political disagreement. What is not yet documented is a unified command linking them together.

And this makes me say hallelujah .

Ron DeSantis, Florida Cabinet Declare CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood, and Antifa as Terrorist Groups “The designations will also apply to more than 90 organizations already listed as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. government, including the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, two Mexican drug cartels and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.”

Yes he has some baggage, but America can do a lot worse than Meatball Ron, but I would enthusiastically cheer on his first and then his second Swearing-in ceremonies as POTUS. I don't mean 2028 but sometime down the road, '32, '36..'40?` should I live that long. But cheer him on I will...

AM Yisroel Chai and God Bless America!

Have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Israeli officials quickly announced that the bloody “brawl” aboard Flydubai Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday was in fact a thwarted hijacking attempt, in which the copilot of the plane tried to knife the captain and then crash the aircraft.
Israel Says Bloody ‘Brawl’ Aboard Emirati Plane Was Thwarted Hijacking
Smit Machchhar, an Indian National has been revealed to have been the captain of the FlyDubai attempted hijacking.
Meet The Bloodied Pilot Stabbed In Terror Attack Who Kept Fighting To Save Passengers
He didn’t reckon, however, on the indomitable spirit of the passengers.
Muslim Pilot ‘Tried to Do 9/11’ and Kill a Planeload of Israelis
The passengers did not simply wait for help.
How Headphones Became The Secret Weapon In Hijacked Plane Terror Attack
“He acted with a coolness of judgement and heroism that prevented another 9/11,” the prime minister said of Hayoun on Fox News’ “Hannity” Wednesday night.
Netanyahu credits heroic Israeli plumber on flydubai flight for preventing ‘another 9/11’– vows to find out if Iran was behind attack (From Joe the plumber to Yossi the plumber - jjs)

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

“The designations will also apply to more than 90 organizations already listed as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. government, including the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, two Mexican drug cartels and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.”
Ron DeSantis, Florida Cabinet Declare CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood, and Antifa as Terrorist Groups
When activities, funding, and ideology line up with a foreign adversary.
Fifth Columns in America, Part Two
“Well, I’ve got a project. It’s called Rescue America, and it talks about, we’ve got to explain why socialism fails. Socialism always fails. It sounds nice. Oh, everything is free. It never works."
Rick Scott: ‘If Socialism Worked, Then Everybody Would Be Wanting to Move to Havana Right Now’
The National Political Committee (NPC) is the governing body of the DSA. The NPC is comprised of 27 members (25 delegates plus two youth delegates) and elects its own Steering Committee, which is responsible for interim decision-making. The following caucuses are represented on the NPC:
Who Runs the Socialist Organization Taking Over the Democrat Party?
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Americans overwhelmingly believe congressional seats should be distributed solely based on the number of U.S. citizens in each state.
Even Democrats Oppose John Roberts Letting Foreign Citizens Tilt The House Of Representatives
If the kids were coming in of their own free will, why did they need to be drugged?
Mexican Child Smugglers Used THC Gummies to Drug Kids
US ‌District Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland, California, ruled that US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the State Department failed to follow necessary rule-making processes before implementing Trump’s fee. Gilliam, appointed by then-President Barack Obama, granted a request by a coalition of unions, employers and nonprofits to block the agencies from implementing Trump’s fee pending the outcome of a lawsuit they filed in October.
Trump’s $100,000 fee for new H-1B worker visas blocked by second judge
THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)
Gholami was furious at Netanyahu for saying he wanted what is best for Iranians, which is true, because Netanyahu wants to free the anti-Islamofascist Persians from their dictators. But this undermines the constant, if utterly false, cry from the Tehran terrorists that the people of Iran are behind them.
Iranian State Media Is Threatening Israel for the ‘Next War’

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“death to America” did not mean Iran wished death on America, and suggesting the September 11, 2001, jihadist attacks were a “false-flag operation.”
Iran’s IRGC Terrorists to Americans: When We Say ‘Death to America,’ We Don’t Mean You (and Dems denounce the DSA - jjs)
"Remove from power the evil, deceitful, and violent politicians who are responsible for America’s current state."
Iran Urges Americans To Vote Democrat In Midterms
"The No Kings rallies that swept across the U.S. last year were a nationwide repudiation"
Iran Praises “No Kings”, Urges Voters to Oppose Trump, Support Dems
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s cries of “genocide” against Israel ring hollow when many of its loudest critics ignore the far bloodier histories of their own ancestral homelands.
Genocide Hypocrites
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
“The vice president always says there’s two victims to fraud: One, you know, the people whose programs are being stolen from that actually need that money; and then two, you know, the taxpayer in general,” White House Correspondent Nick Gilbertson told Blanche during the exclusive interview.
Exclusive — Todd Blanche Assures Taxpayers: Trump Administration Is ‘Fighting Hard’ Against Fraud
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
But California is safe from wildfire now, because you can’t say that in court anymore. Good job, Gavin. What a thing to brag about.
California Protects Itself From Accountability, Then Brags About It
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
How the media described the stabbing: altercation, “violent” altercation, fought, struggle.<
‘Altercation’: Media Downplays Cockpit Stabbing on Flight Carrying 174 to Israel/a>

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FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson opened the investigation a few weeks before this report, according to the official, and before OpenAI’s “unprecedented” hack of the Hugging Face platform came to light.
FTC Launches Probe into Anthropic, OpenAI, Other AI Labs over Consumer Risks
The great economist’s lessons on knowledge and spontaneous order offer the best path forward.
What Hayek Can Teach Us About AI Safety
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
It seems impossible that it's been almost exactly 17 years since U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar!" and opened fire on soldiers at the Fort Hood Soldier Readiness Center in Killeen, Texas. By the time Department of the Army police officer Kimberly D. Munley and Sgt. Mark Todd exchanged gunshots with Hasan and disabled him; he had killed 14 people — including an unborn baby — and wounded 32 more.
Can We Just Execute This Terrorist Already?
Italy’s Meloni to ban face coverings in schools, limit numbers of foreign students.
Can Italy Stave Off Islamization?
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
“Kill as many Jews as possible.”
Mass Casualty Attack on Houston Synagogue Averted
To a Democrat, quoting King David is more dangerous than killing Jews
After Hegseth Quotes Psalm, Michigan Jewish AG Urges Voting for Muslim Who Justified Killing Jewish Kids
The EEOC alleges Mercy Health sidelined, then fired, a Jewish surgeon after antisemitic remarks “flooded” his workplace following the Hamas attack.
EEOC Sues Ohio Health System Over Alleged Antisemitic Treatment of Jewish Surgeon
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Growth in real final sales to private domestic purchasers, a critical measure of underlying economic strength, was revised up by four-tenths of a percentage point to 4.6 percent. Prior to adjusting for inflation, final sales to private domestic purchasers rose at an annualized pace of 9.5 percent.
GDP Revised Up To Show Stronger Growth In First Half of Year
The prior month’s inflation data was revised down. July’s PCE index now shows a 0.1 percent monthly increase, down from 0.2 percent. The annual increase was revised down to 3.4 percent from 3.7 percent.
Fed’s Preferred Inflation Measure Comes in Much Lower Than Expected
“It’s a strong report. After a three-month slowdown, job creation rebounded and pay growth remained solid,” said Dr. Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP
ADP: Private Sector Added 90,000 Jobs In September, Much More Than Expected
Despite economy's strength, 39% say they're worse off than two years ago. Just 26% say they're better off.
Is The GOP Failing To Sell Trump’s Economic Gains? I&I/TIPP Poll
What a paradox: Almost all US economic indicators are strong today, and America’s economy is the envy of the world — yet consumers, stressed by gas prices at almost $4.50 a gallon, are in a bad mood.
Trump and Republicans can win the ‘affordability’ battle — here’s how
The numbers tell the story.
The Democrat Plan to Redistribute Wealth to the Wealthier
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
‘It’s not a fight about climate science. … It’s a fight about whether we’re going to allow this maneuver to be what reshapes American society.’
Supreme Court’s Suncor Case Is ‘Bigger’ Than A ‘Climate’ Policy Dispute
More than 15 years later, Sand defended the contents of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) proposed Green New Deal after then-congressional candidate Randy Feenstra (R) shared a graphic claiming the proposal would “ban cows,” “ban air travel,” and “pay those who are ‘unwilling to work.’”
Iowa Democrat Governor Candidate Rob Sand Called Himself ‘Extremely Liberal,’ Defended Green New Deal
The American energy reset is an exit from climate imperialism and an entrée to greater freedom to pursue prosperity.
U.S. Unshackles Its Power Plants; Poor Nations Must Do the Same
Will he ever admit his Chicken Little warnings were wrong?
Al Gore’s Inconvenient Lies
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Christa Pike, 50, was strapped to a gurney in the Nashville death chamber just before 7:30 p.m. CDT after the US Supreme Court overruled her stay of execution an hour earlier, The Tennessean reported.
Christa Pike still alive, ‘snoring’ after 2 lethal injections as Tennessee governor halts all executions (maybe they should stop using St. Joseph's baby cyanide or hire a Muslim with a rusty hacksaw?! - jjs)
Redlands Police Deputy Chief of Operations Jeremy Floyd told the City Council that late-night alcohol sales have caused the rise in crime in the last three years.
California City Proposes Midnight Alcohol Ban to Curb Crime
California houses sex offenders right next to schools—on the taxpayers’ dime.
San Francisco’s Frat Houses for Pedophiles
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Good grades. Empty minds.
AI and the Death of Homework
International enrollment in California has fallen this year during the Trump administration’s crackdown on student visas. One trade group projected a 15-percent drop for the current school year, a loss of about 7,000 students in the state and roughly one billion dollars in tuition and other spending.
California State University System Weighs Dropping International Student English Test Requirement
Stephanie Mullaley, a full-time, long-term substitute, was canned from her post at Clinton Community School District on May 29 for allegedly violating the school district’s ethics policy, the Iowa Capital Dispatch reported Tuesday.
Iowa teacher fired after offering students extra credit in exchange for donations to fund her Ecuador trip
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
Although voters have every reason to grumble about affordability, they should not be fooled into thinking that putting Democrats into office will fix anything.
Fraud Is The Inevitable Result Of Democrats’ Marxist Politics
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
El-Sayed, an evangelist for ‘Medicare for All,’ has made multiple false and misleading claims about his achievements in public health
Abdul El-Sayed Falsely Claims He ‘Erased’ $700 Million in Medical Debt: The Truth Is Far More Modest
Turek’s missed vote is at odds with his promise to address the water quality crisis in the Hawkeye State, home to the nation’s second-highest rate of new cancer diagnoses
Iowa Democrat Senate Hopeful Josh Turek Skips Vote Aimed at Treating Cancer-Causing Water for Schumer-Aligned Group’s Event
POLITICS
...former Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) said after the PAC for Crockett released its endorsement list ahead of the midterms.
Former Democrat Lawmaker Says ‘F***’ Jasmine Crockett: ‘Narcissistic Drama Queen’ Only Promoting Herself
After the long-foreshadowed implosion of Graham Platner’s campaign for US Senate this summer, progressives demanded that he be replaced by a candidate just as regressive and demagogic. They found their man in Troy Jackson, the former president of Maine’s state senate who had been easily dispatched in the party’s gubernatorial primary earlier that summer.
Maine Democrats replaced one sleazy bigot with another
Lah reported on Tom Sopit, who had to close down his restaurant, something Sopit said was due to many factors across the state, federal, and municipal levels.
CNN’s Lah: Lower Living Standard, High Costs in CA Will ‘Chase’ Newsom
Plus: Kamala Harris flexes her famed rhetorical chops on the campaign trail
High Hopes Never Die: Buttigieg Surges to 1 Percent With Black Voters
One of the key points to take away from the debate interchange below, besides the fact that Democrats are going to have to cheat egregiously to boost an obviously sour and disconnected Becerra, is that Democrats are never content with targeting billionaires. All those deluded taxpayers who think they will vote for higher taxes on the wealthy should remember that Democrats’ definition of “the wealthy” is pretty much anyone who earns a good enough salary to be independent of government assistance and government programs.
Hilton Mocks Becerra for Saying Tax Breaks for Those Earning Under $150K Benefit ‘the Wealthiest’
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
. . .a wave of intense violent protests across the country targeted at a faltering and overcrowded education system.
Watch: Over 400 Detained in France amid Violent Student Protests
Sentiment and economic development are not the same currency, and confusing them costs a small country more than it can afford.
How Jamaica Continues to Ruin Its Brand With Reparations
Gaslighting! They’re erasing us, then telling us we dreamed it all up. (soon "gassing" will replace gaslighting - jjs)
Labour minister in UK says traditional England was a ‘far-right fantasy’ that ‘never really existed’
“Zionist war criminal.”
Pro-Hamas Dutch Agitator Vandalizes Churchill Statue and U.K. Court Acquits Him
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Trump celebrated the withdrawal on Truth Social — including praise for new Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi and a call-out of the previous administrations that saw the continuation of U.S. presence in Iraq:
U.S. Military Withdraws from Iraq After 12 Years, Trump Calls Out ‘Very Bad Decision-Making That Got Us Involved’ in the First Place
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The Treasury Department checks are being mailed to more than 950,000 Americans living in at least 30 states who use healthcare.gov, a federal marketplace where people sign up for Obamacare health insurance, an administration official told The Hill.
Trump White House Begins Mailing $500 Obamacare Refund Checks, Says Biden Admin ‘Overcharged’ Customers
"President Trump, it’s time to ban kratom.”
The Deadly Drug You Can Still Buy Right Next To Candy Bars
Five other potential cases are being investigated as the U.S. spends another $267 million to the region for the battle against Ebola.
Monkeypox Confirmed in Congo’s Ebola-Hit Bunia as Health Officials Brace for More Cases
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Unearthed footage exclusively obtained by The Federalist rips off the mask of Talarico’s phony ‘moderating’ position on trans issues.
Exclusive: Texas Dem Talarico Caught In Lie On Trans Insanity
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
New book demands a racial reckoning with your walls.
White Paint is Racist
Instead of a Church that calls on politicians to ground their morality and policies on the Bible and Christian tradition, woke Christianity takes the opposite approach, using existing progressive political beliefs to reinterpret Christianity to suit ideological leftism.This is causing many voters to ask, “Is woke Christianity really Christianity at all?”
Rise of the Religious Left: The Woke Pastors Backing Radical Democrats.
Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of East Of Eden trades literary truth for cheap moral ambiguity.
East Of Eden Villain Is A Netflix Hero Because She Has No Sexual Mores
Leo’s compassion for the disabled stands as a condemnation of liberal European society, which sees them as expendable and less than human.
Pope Leo’s Embrace Of Disabled People In France Is A Rebuke To Secular Europe
We used to live in a culture that revered great literature.
The Ugly Truth Behind America’s Most Prestigious Book Prize
Technology is opening doors to tomorrow's filmmakers (without Hollywood)
Inside the iPhone-Made Movie That Beat the Odds

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 01, 2026 07:27 AM (I43vL)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 07:27 AM (NcvvS)

3 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

4 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 07:28 AM (RORbl)

5 "CNN: Investigators across the Middle East are trying to find out why a pilot allegedly stabbed his captain and tried to seize control of a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight."

We may never know why this poor disturbed man allegedly stabbed his captain and may have tried to land the plane in a forceful manner.

Posted by: fd at October 01, 2026 07:33 AM (MWfyi)

6 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 07:33 AM (RIvkX)

7 That plumber had only 13 seconds to save the plane from crashing.

More good news is the tail did not fall off. That pull out was well beyond the design strength of the Boeing 737airframe.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 07:36 AM (u82oZ)

8
The Leftist Lawyer has some stupid bullshit context to put you about the attempted Dubai airliner hijacking.

https://instapundit.com/826361/#disqus_thread

These idiots...so proud that they're so stupid.

"Yes, of course, BUT-" is their mightiest weapon.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 07:37 AM (YSUhf)

9 Madami's anti semetism initiative is pure fakery. "NY Post" editorial:

https://tinyurl.com/55bhkcr5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 07:37 AM (JrHfD)

10 Thank you JJ.

That attempted hijacking story is scary (the copilot??) and inspiring (the response) and also not surprising at all. Their blood lust is insatiable… demonic.

If the IRGC open support of democrats doesn’t hurt them in the midterms then I despair…. It’d be like Hitler asking Americans to vote for a peace party candidate in 1944. Did a peace party candidate even exist in 1944? I have no idea…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 07:39 AM (j8E+e)

11 I was heartened in hearing how Netanyahu greeted the hero of the plane, and also that the planes occupants were singing patriotic songs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 07:40 AM (JrHfD)

12 An awful lot of good decision and the heroics of multiple people led to that plane landing safely.
All in a short amount of time.

Reward the heroes, and then ...

What to do? What can be done?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 07:40 AM (u82oZ)

13 Oooops. Rerun.

The Leftist Lawyer has some ~~stupid bullshit~~ context to put you about the attempted Dubai airliner hijacking.

https://instapundit.com/826361/#disqus_thread

These idiots...so proud that they're so stupid.

"Yes, of course, BUT-" is their mightiest weapon.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 07:40 AM (YSUhf)

14 10 If the IRGC open support of democrats doesn’t hurt them in the midterms then I despair…. It’d be like Hitler asking Americans to vote for a peace party candidate in 1944. Did a peace party candidate even exist in 1944? I have no idea…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 07:39 AM (j8E+e)

Was supposed to be Edith Keeler, until Jim Kirk schtupped her and changed history!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 01, 2026 07:41 AM (x0n13)

15 The EEOC alleges Mercy Health sidelined, then fired, a Jewish surgeon after antisemitic remarks “flooded” his workplace following the Hamas attack.
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Jewish doctors and patients were excluded from Germany's health care system (which was state-run) in 1936.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 07:41 AM (RIvkX)

16 Heh, that's rich

The Democratic Party has the enthusiastic support of the murderous islamic regime

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 07:41 AM (ZxPkt)

17 Good Morning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 07:41 AM (1IhIV)

18 Thank you, JJ! You're the best!

" we are all JOOZ now!"
I've known that for a long, long time now ... 'bout time everyone else gets it in their soul.

wonder what happened to all the literature of the Before Time that I read in high school (&subsequently) that was honest about the Holocaust and / or sympathetic towards Israel?
Do I have the last copies in existence of Treblinka? The Source? Mila 18, Exodus, so many others?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 01, 2026 07:42 AM (VyBeY)

19 We're at the beginning of WW111 but nobody seems to give a shit so I say let it all burn.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 01, 2026 07:42 AM (VQ7/I)

20 Good morning fellow morons; happy October the oneth.
If you know someone who is starting to slip into dementia or a related brain malady, try to arrange a get together of his/her close friends so that they can all let the afflicted one KNOW that they are loved. Do it sooner rather than later because later the lights may be on but no one is home.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at October 01, 2026 07:43 AM (JNTt1)

21
Hakeem Jeffries and the Supreme Leader
For A Brighter Tomorrow

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 07:44 AM (ZxPkt)

22 Prolapse Paul!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 07:44 AM (1IhIV)

23 >>That pull out was well beyond the design strength of the Boeing 737airframe.

If it was well beyond the design strength, wouldn't the aircraft have come apart?

Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 07:44 AM (J4Dwc)

24 Dang! If only there was some kind of book out there that predicted all this stuff. Then maybe I could be ready for the troubled times.

Sigh....

Posted by: Will Robinson at October 01, 2026 07:44 AM (rje/a)

25 The Islamist Omani pilot... IIRC Oman isn't really onboard with the war against Iran. The two countries have, off and on, worked at similar ends to wrest control of Hormuz from the US. Oman even had their own "toll booth" scam ready to go at one point.

I'd bet good money the terrorist/pilot was sympathetic to Iran's plight.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 07:45 AM (RORbl)

26
Do I have the last copies in existence of Treblinka? The Source? Mila 18, Exodus, so many others?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 01, 2026 07:42 AM (VyBeY)

QB VII. Which is based on a libel case involving Exodus.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 07:45 AM (eRlcH)

27 Was supposed to be Edith Keeler, until Jim Kirk schtupped her and changed history!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 01, 2026 07:41 AM (x0n13)

Ha! That was a great episode. Edith wasn’t as hot as that green alien…

I actually looked it up and there was a peace candidate in 1944: Norman Thomas… and he was (of course) running as a socialist. There is nothing new under the sun

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 07:45 AM (j8E+e)

28 Troll must make sense in Urdu or Dari.

English is hard.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 07:45 AM (RIvkX)

29 I love the smell of banhammer ozone in the morning.

Posted by: Col Kilgore at October 01, 2026 07:45 AM (Q+gd/)

30 “Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him.”

John 7:18

Posted by: Marcus T at October 01, 2026 07:45 AM (04KGT)

31
"I just wanna get my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames."

-Jim Morrison

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 07:47 AM (ZxPkt)

32 one hour sober

Because a) Act of God, B) the workers at Boeing did great work. There was an extra bit of tolerance on top of the design strength.

Kinda like test depth on a submarine. If well constructed and maintained, a submarine can go past that, for a bit.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 07:48 AM (u82oZ)

33 from the hijacking coverage:
"Hashem performed an unprecedented miracle today."
Amen!

"7 That plumber had only 13 seconds to save the plane from crashing.

More good news is the tail did not fall off. That pull out was well beyond the design strength of the Boeing 737airframe.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 07:36 AM (u82oZ) "

I saw a pic that seemed to show damage / distortion in the rudder area. Still impressive! Way Impressive!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 01, 2026 07:48 AM (VyBeY)

34 sock_rat_eez

Got those and more in my bookshelf.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

35 If it was well beyond the design strength, wouldn't the aircraft have come apart?
Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 07:44 AM (J4Dwc)
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The rudder was damaged.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 07:49 AM (RIvkX)

36 Why any person who identifies as a Christian pastor ( And yes, I understand they are "woke") would marry two people who identify as Satanists is beyond my comprehension.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 07:49 AM (JrHfD)

37 yup! thanks H7!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 01, 2026 07:50 AM (VyBeY)

38 Do I have the last copies in existence of Treblinka? The Source? Mila 18, Exodus, so many others?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 01, 2026 07:42 AM (VyBeY)“

Most often repeated refrain in history:

“Yet there arose a wicked and perverse generation, which walked not in the ways of the Lord.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 07:51 AM (slH4t)

39 good to know, NaCly! maybe they will be read again, someday!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 01, 2026 07:51 AM (VyBeY)

40 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2026 07:51 AM (TY6j5)

41 sock_rat_eez

Part of the rudder failed, and flew off the airplane.

The best pilots dream about being skilled enough to pull a safe landing like this off.

Would be an interesting simulation for re-qualifying 737 pilots. I wonder what the success rate would be.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 07:52 AM (u82oZ)

42 35 If it was well beyond the design strength, wouldn't the aircraft have come apart?
Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 07:44 AM (J4Dwc)
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The rudder was damaged.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 07:49 AM (RIvkX)

And engineers like to underpromise and overdeliver...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 07:54 AM (tOcjL)

43
36 Why any person who identifies as a Christian pastor ( And yes, I understand they are "woke") would marry two people who identify as Satanists is beyond my comprehension.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 07:49 AM (JrHfD)

Very easy to comprehend, actually. It’s because that “minister” is in fact a satanist themselves, whose only true goal is to rip the Church to shreds from the inside, through false doctrine, Godless teaching, and Apostasy.

That’s the only true goal of Talerico, his “church”, and its “ministers”. They are the ravenous wolves in sheep’s clothing we were warned about.

They are demonic apostles, led by demons.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 07:56 AM (slH4t)

44 "Would be an interesting simulation for re-qualifying 737 pilots. I wonder what the success rate would be.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 07:52 AM (u82oZ) "

one way to find out, just do it! great idea!
it would put the Kobayashi Maru question to shame!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 01, 2026 07:56 AM (VyBeY)

45 Is The GOP Failing To Sell Trump’s Economic Gains? I&I/TIPP Poll

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Well, that would require the GOP to actual do anything to counter the endless stream of lies and extremism coming from the left. I can't comment on every race going on throughout the country, but the GOP has a wealth of material to slam Democrats and Democrat candidates with. Are they using it? For example, is Paxton running constant ads of Talafreako's own words to show Texans his hard left, and quite creepy, extremism?

For reasons I'll never understand, the left fight like saber toothed tigers shredding apart a bloody carcass. The right fights like -- ah, hell, in an overall sense, they don't fight.

Oh, and if we're lucky enough to keep the Senate, Thune needs to be jettisoned pronto. Nobody more useless in this stinking party...

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 07:57 AM (qBdHI)

46 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 07:57 AM (nZ6VT)

47 Because didn't the Satanists have any fellow Satanists who could perform the wedding for them? . You don't have to have a clergy person in many states ( all?) to officiate at a wedding service. I hope the woman who did this is behind in actual polls and loses her election.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 07:57 AM (JrHfD)

48 Ha! That was a great episode. Edith wasn’t as hot as that green alien…

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I believe that was Susan Oliver.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 07:59 AM (qBdHI)

49 Yep. The commie church op seems to have had success unfortunately.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 07:59 AM (1IhIV)

50
The People's Republic of China is 77 years old today.

It has murdered more people than did the two world wars in the 35 years preceding it.

Pray it dies from natural causes soon.

Posted by: Auspex at October 01, 2026 08:00 AM (Y8DZL)

51 Truly, God was watching over that flight!

Good morning, Horde!

Got a video-call interview around lunchtime, so prayers during that time would be greatly appreciated. If it's right, let it go smoothly, if it's wrong, let it be clear to me, and either way, let the feedback come quickly. May God make it so.

I'm off to do my morning walk, and before the interview I'm going to the barbershop if I can get in as soon as they open (if not, at least on video calls the hair looks more managed than it is and I can go afterwards).

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at October 01, 2026 08:00 AM (aJQbY)

52 Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 07:56 AM (slH4t

I don't know enough about her theology to ascertain what the rest of her beliefs are, but it was a stupid and evil decision. Anyway, I'm sure Satanists have someone who identifies as clergy who do this sort of thing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 08:00 AM (JrHfD)

53 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:01 AM (ccf/V)

54 There's this odd event happening where this stuff is falling from the sky.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:02 AM (ccf/V)

55 The Democratic Party has the enthusiastic support of the murderous islamic regime

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That would make some great commercials for any enterprising, right leaning PAC right about now.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 08:02 AM (qBdHI)

56 Hey, I ain't no crack historian like Victor Davis Hanson or Robert Spencer, but I had no idea that Houston Tx was a Muslim land?!

islham spreads like an airborne virus that's out of control until someone decides it's important to stop it. So far, there are very few politicians willing to do so.

Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:03 AM (ccf/V)

57 I don't like it when the LATimes crossword has clues related to faggotry or islam

1 across, 4 spaces

'pride letters'

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 08:03 AM (ZxPkt)

58 Oh for fuck's sake, forget it.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 08:03 AM (J4Dwc)

59 How did the copilot manage to get a knife through security?

Posted by: I gotta ask at October 01, 2026 08:04 AM (2Ez/1)

60 The People's Republic of China is 77 years old today.

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It's very tragic it's lastest this long. Mao is certainly ranked near the top of one of the most evil men to ever have walked the earth in our modern times.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 08:04 AM (qBdHI)

61 Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 08:03 AM (J4Dwc)

Forget what?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 08:04 AM (JrHfD)

62 Hey, I ain't no crack historian like Victor Davis Hanson or Robert Spencer, but I had no idea that Houston Tx was a Muslim land?!

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Jr. Black flies to Houston for business a lot. He seems them all over. I fear that they are becoming dangerously entrenched in TX. Like many other places in this country.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 08:06 AM (qBdHI)

63 >That would make some great commercials for any enterprising, right leaning PAC right about now.

Posted by: Lady in Black
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You would think
the Republican side of things has no instinct for the jugular, unlike their opponents

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 08:06 AM (ZxPkt)

64 Gosh, my typos are all over the place this morning! Grr.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 08:07 AM (qBdHI)

65 43, endorsed.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 01, 2026 08:07 AM (VyBeY)

66 Pray it dies from ~~natural causes~~ a holy fire soon.

Posted by: Auspex at October 01, 2026 08:00 AM (Y8DZL)
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Friendly suggestion.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 08:08 AM (RIvkX)

67 Imagine if that was a female DEI-hire pilot.

Although now that I type this, I think I should be fair about it. Some big 280 pound Shamiqua pilot might put up a pretty good fight and be so loud that the hijacker might have chosen to jump from the plane just to escape her screeching.

Posted by: Reality at October 01, 2026 08:08 AM (DQiGk)

68 >How did the copilot manage to get a knife through security?

Posted by: I gotta ask
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probably he was exempt from screening, due to his 'trusted position' as an airline pilot

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 08:08 AM (ZxPkt)

69 islham spreads like an airborne virus that's out of control until someone decides it's important to stop it. So far, there are very few politicians willing to do so.

The US doesn't have politicians, it has feckless, morally bankrupt, cowardly, profoundly corrupt grifters.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 01, 2026 08:08 AM (pUU4E)

70 How did the copilot manage to get a knife through security?
Posted by: I gotta ask at October 01, 2026 08:04 AM (2Ez/1)

The dude yesterday said it was an ax.

But, knowing now it was all an Israeli op, everything is fine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:09 AM (ccf/V)

71 Some big 280 pound Shamiqua pilot might put up a pretty good fight...

Plus all of that fat is like Kevlar to knife attacks.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 01, 2026 08:10 AM (pUU4E)

72 "the Republican side of things has no instinct for the jugular, unlike their opponents"

the "honest" ones don't believe we are at war, the rest are on the enemy payroll.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 01, 2026 08:11 AM (VyBeY)

73 > How did the copilot manage to get a knife through security?
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For one... it's not the US. I've no idea if Dubai even has security, of any kind. If it does, it can't be any more of a farce than TSA.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 08:12 AM (RORbl)

74 what SFp said! soon!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 01, 2026 08:12 AM (VyBeY)

75 Some big 280 pound Shamiqua pilot might put up a pretty good fight...

https://shorturl.fm/JpXuk

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:12 AM (ccf/V)

76 You would think the Republican side of things has no instinct for the jugular, unlike their opponents

If you look closely, it seems the only politicians of either party who make a lot of noise about any cause, are young women, and their strong activism is only for a few days each month.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 01, 2026 08:13 AM (9Hs2w)

77 One thing the plane incident did show us - there has to be a way for someone in the back of the plane to open the cockpit, even if we norms never know about it...

You can't rely on the miraculous (that the stabbed pilot has just enough strength left to click it open)...

I know we changed the cockpit door thing b/c of 9/11...but now we probably need a change again b/c of this, b/c it's easier to take over a cockpit as a single terrorist than a whole plane b/c passenengers are no longer sheep, so it's 1 vs 1 or 1 vs 100...and I'll take the latter...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 08:14 AM (tOcjL)

78 If you look closely, it seems the only politicians of either party who make a lot of noise about any cause, are young women, and their strong activism is only for a few days each month.
Posted by: Community Notes at October 01, 2026 08:13 AM (9Hs2w)

PERIOD!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:14 AM (ccf/V)

79 47 Because didn't the Satanists have any fellow Satanists who could perform the wedding for them? . You don't have to have a clergy person in many states ( all?) to officiate at a wedding service. I hope the woman who did this is behind in actual polls and loses her election.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 07:57 AM (JrHfD)

Because keeping your themselves is the goal of them or their master. Their goal is to oppose, infiltrate, and attempt to destroy God’s church in any way possible, they work at it every day.

They are not “normal” human beings, never let your self slide into that lazy way of thinking. They are dedicated agents of Evil, every hour of every day.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 08:14 AM (slH4t)

80 I fear that they are becoming dangerously entrenched in TX. Like many other places in this country.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 08:06 AM (qBdHI)

I'm at the southern end of what could be considered Northern Virginia.

Here, it's extremely common to see women walking or jogging at nearly every hour of the day.

Nearly all of the white women are walking dogs.
Nearly all of the Muslim women are pushing strollers.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 08:14 AM (gLYp7)

81 We need common sense airplane terrorist control NOW!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:15 AM (ccf/V)

82
Communist Cuba is 67 years old and dead, the rotting corpse being picked over by the evil heirs.

Posted by: Auspex at October 01, 2026 08:15 AM (Y8DZL)

83 Joining my friends at the IRGC, I too endorse the Democrat ticket!

Look for the "D"!

Posted by: Satan at October 01, 2026 08:15 AM (dqXnu)

84 Communist Cuba is 67 years old and dead, the rotting corpse being picked over by the evil heirs.

Posted by: Auspex at October 01, 2026 08:15 AM (Y8DZL)

Everything in Cuba will be JUST FINE.

Saudi Arabia is building a $9m mosque there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:16 AM (ccf/V)

85 Do airlines have Fat DEI hires? I would guess there are weight restrictions in order to be fit into the seat and also that you have to actually have a pilots license and some time flying in order to be a commercial pilot. .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 08:16 AM (JrHfD)

86 >>One thing the plane incident did show us - there has to be a way for someone in the back of the plane to open the cockpit, even if we norms never know about it...

There is

Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 08:16 AM (J4Dwc)

87
31
"I just wanna get my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames."

-Jim Morrison

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 07:47 AM (ZxPkt)

Ol' Jimbo was interred in Paris in a graveyard that hosts several once important folk and artists.

One of my favorite things we saw while there was-

An very old, ragged, dirty, and drugged up looking hippie, who had climbed the fence around Jimbo's mausoleum and was laying against it, listening to "Light My Fire" and weeping piteously.

Sadly hilarious.

and a great summing up of the Flower Power Generation.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 08:16 AM (YSUhf)

88 There are over 330 mosques in Texas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:16 AM (ccf/V)

89 The only good thing about the Moslems in Houston is that the Mexicans who increasingly run the city don’t like them any more than the rest of us do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 08:18 AM (slH4t)

90 An very old, ragged, dirty, and drugged up looking hippie, who had climbed the fence around Jimbo's mausoleum and was laying against it, listening to "Light My Fire" and weeping piteously.

Sadly hilarious.

and a great summing up of the Flower Power Generation.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 08:16 AM (YSUhf)

I've been a fan of a lot of things throughout my life. Nothing ever made me act like this.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:18 AM (ccf/V)

91 Sadly hilarious.

and a great summing up of the Flower Power Generation.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 08:16 AM (YSUhf)
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Thanks for sharing and not laughing uproariously as I likely would have.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 08:18 AM (RIvkX)

92 America, join us in MAID! Vote Democrat!

Posted by: Prime Minister Carney at October 01, 2026 08:19 AM (dqXnu)

93 One thing the plane incident did show us - there has to be a way for someone in the back of the plane to open the cockpit, even if we norms never know about it...

We've known that since Airplane!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 08:19 AM (nZ6VT)

94 The russians tried to build some shit in cuba and kennedy didn't like it. Look where that got him.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 01, 2026 08:19 AM (VQ7/I)

95 I'm at the southern end of what could be considered Northern Virginia.

Here, it's extremely common to see women walking or jogging at nearly every hour of the day.

Nearly all of the white women are walking dogs.
Nearly all of the Muslim women are pushing strollers.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 08:14 AM (gLYp7)

Well...to be fair.

This is what the whole silliness of "fur babies" is about.

A sweet lil' pooch-woochy fur baby will never cramp your fabulous life, like some awful drooling parasitic human baby. You go, grrrrrl!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 08:20 AM (YSUhf)

96 There are over 330 ~~mosques~~ Islamic FOBs in Texas.

FIFY

Posted by: Community Notes at October 01, 2026 08:21 AM (9s47C)

97 85 Do airlines have Fat DEI hires? I would guess there are weight restrictions in order to be fit into the seat and also that you have to actually have a pilots license and some time flying in order to be a commercial pilot.

I think you misunderstand the concept of DEI.

DEI assumes that the ability to fit in a seat, licensing, and the ability to fly a plane are unnecessary social constructs designed to keep BIPOC women oppressed.

DEI says the pilots seat/cockpit should be bigger to accommodate Shaniqua and that planes should be designed to take off, fly and land themselves in order to allow Shaniqua to be a pilot in order to create social equity.

Posted by: Reality at October 01, 2026 08:21 AM (DQiGk)

98 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

99 We have a contract out on the house and will close November 2nd. We'll be moving the 2 middle weeks of the month. The TxMoMe is smack dab in the middle of that.

Today, we're heading west to attend a memorial service for a good friend of ours. The First Lady will be reading the eulogy in front of a crowd of people that we've mostly never met. She spent a few days with the widow last week and was a tremendous help to her.

I'm getting wore out by this constant rollercoaster of emotions..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:22 AM (ccf/V)

100 Good morning!

>>The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) wrote a 26-page letter to the American people on Tuesday, urging them to vote for Democrats in the midterms.

Anyone else recall when Bin Laden wrote a rambling, woke note endorsing John Kerry from president.
And then it didn't even last beyond the next 24 hour news cycle?

The Democrat-Jihadi bond is strong.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:23 AM (rOKnE)

101 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday and happy October.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 08:23 AM (77rzZ)

102 "CNN: Investigators across the Middle East are trying to find out why a pilot allegedly stabbed his captain and tried to seize control of a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight."

Just a thumb war game that got just a bit out of hand...a messy little folderol but hey, what's done is done, eh?

Posted by: Boswell at October 01, 2026 08:23 AM (NTVPI)

103 Posted by: Reality at October 01, 2026 08:21 AM (DQiGk)

I an no fan of DEI but I doubt it extends that far . It made me laugh, though.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 08:23 AM (JrHfD)

104 'Light My Fire' is an overrated song.

Posted by: dantesed at October 01, 2026 08:24 AM (Oy/m2)

105 86 >>One thing the plane incident did show us - there has to be a way for someone in the back of the plane to open the cockpit, even if we norms never know about it...

There is
Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 08:16 AM (J4Dwc)

Then the pilot wouldn't have needed to open the door...unless literally no one heard the chaos in that cockpit...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 08:24 AM (tOcjL)

106 The US doesn't have politicians, it has feckless, morally bankrupt, cowardly, profoundly corrupt grifters.
Posted by: Community Notes

.... and those are their good points!

The 'nice' Republicans that aren't on the take/quislings, insist on playing by Marquis of Queensbury rules in an MMA match. That's one of the reasons why they-in-particular don't like Trump - he plays rough, rides the edge of the rules if he has to.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at October 01, 2026 08:24 AM (aJQbY)

107
A sweet lil' pooch-woochy fur baby will never cramp your fabulous life, like some awful drooling parasitic human baby. You go, grrrrrl!!!!

Another point of cultural distinction:

Considering how they exterminate their young (other than abortion)

White women will just waste the child's life by strangling the youngster to death in the basement or drowning the baby in the bathtub.

Islamic women wait until their little reprobates are ambulatory and then strap bomb vests to them and send them into public spaces.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 01, 2026 08:24 AM (9s47C)

108 Surprise!

Posted by: October at October 01, 2026 08:25 AM (AKptf)

109 'Light My Fire' is an overrated song.
Posted by: dantesed at October 01, 2026 08:24 AM (Oy/m2)

One might even say The Doors were overrated.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:25 AM (ccf/V)

110 >>Angelina Han Hicks, 18, of Lexington, North Carolina,

Yup, looks totally American you guyz!!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:25 AM (rOKnE)

111 I an no fan of DEI but I doubt it extends that far . It made me laugh, though.

I wouldn't laugh too much.

These people literally say math and being on time are racist constructs.

Posted by: Reality at October 01, 2026 08:25 AM (DQiGk)

112 I am telling you Trump got wind of an operation from Iran no doubt in concert with Democrats just like coof was, and that's one of the reasons he flipped the board over on that shithole of a country.

Just a working theory but it's gonna be hard to convince me otherwise.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 08:25 AM (enkoP)

113 the plane rescue is an amazing story! a miracle!

Posted by: runner at October 01, 2026 08:25 AM (AKptf)

114 Thx JJ, morning Horde.
The Pope did a good job in France . Huge turnouts in the face of the invasion. Hope it makes a difference.
The Pope was rewarded with his White Sox sweeping the Astros

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 01, 2026 08:26 AM (jivel)

115 by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:22 AM (ccf/V)

That was kind of your wife, and I'm sorry about he loss of your dear friend. May the Lord comfort her and all attending and may God bless your travels back and forth.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 08:26 AM (JrHfD)

116 >> >>One thing the plane incident did show us - there has to be a way for someone in the back of the plane to open the cockpit, even if we norms never know about it...

There is

Apparently, there was a group of pilot trainees on the flight. They knew their way around the whole plane.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:26 AM (rOKnE)

117 I'm getting wore out by this constant rollercoaster of emotions..........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:22 AM (ccf/V)

Prayers. I am aware of how tremendously exhausting it is…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 08:27 AM (j8E+e)

118 Just a working theory but it's gonna be hard to convince me otherwise.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 08:25 AM (enkoP)

The fun part is that your theory isn't falsifiable in any way, so you can just keep modifying it to fit new facts if they come out.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 08:27 AM (gLYp7)

119 The best part is that the omani jihadi is being interrogated in Saudi, and then , whatever is left of him will be interrogated by the UAE, with Israeli participation.

Posted by: runner at October 01, 2026 08:27 AM (AKptf)

120 Fed’s Preferred Inflation Measure Comes in Much Lower Than Expected

But imagine how high it would have been if the Fed hadn't raised interest rates shortly before the midterms. /shudder

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 08:27 AM (ExV1e)

121 One might even say The Doors were overrated.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:25 AM (ccf/V)

I’ve always liked Riders on the Storm, however

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 08:28 AM (j8E+e)

122
I’ve always liked Riders on the Storm, however

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 08:28 AM (j8E+e)

A blind squirrel finds a nut......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:29 AM (ccf/V)

123 Posted by: Reality at October 01, 2026 08:25 AM (DQiGk)

Yes, I've heard that. It's stupid and demeaning to people of color It's rather different than saying "I'm proudly 300 lbs and can't fit in the pilots seat and I ain't had no pilots training bir give me the job anyway, racist."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 08:29 AM (JrHfD)

124 Today Is National Black Dog Day. 🐕‍🦺

Posted by: redridinghood at October 01, 2026 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

125 Prayers. I am aware of how tremendously exhausting it is…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 08:27 AM (j8E+e)

Thanks. And I'm sorry. This kinda sucks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:29 AM (ccf/V)

126
That was kind of your wife, and I'm sorry about he loss of your dear friend. May the Lord comfort her and all attending and may God bless your travels back and forth.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 08:26 AM (JrHfD)

Thank you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:29 AM (ccf/V)

127 >>Christa Pike still alive, ‘snoring’ after 2 lethal injections as Tennessee governor halts all executions

Will be interesting to see what happened after they investigate this. It makes no sense.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:30 AM (rOKnE)

128 104 'Light My Fire' is an overrated song.
Posted by: dantesed at October 01, 2026 08:24 AM (Oy/m2)

I actually like the Jose Feliciano version better than the Doors'

You may fire away...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 01, 2026 08:30 AM (x0n13)

129 Saudi Arabia is in a tough spot. The Houthis sent a drone against Mecca, and hit an oil pipeline to the Red Sea. And shot down a Saudi F-15.

Seems the Saudi's best chance for friendship is with Israel.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

130
88 There are over 330 mosques in Texas.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:16 AM (ccf/V)

Just to put this in perspective, there are still almost 14,000 Christian churches in Texas.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 08:30 AM (slH4t)

131 'Light My Fire' is an overrated song.
Posted by: dantesed
__________

It's tough to judge because it got too much airtime, like Stairway to Heaven and Won't Get Fooled Again. (Although of the three, Won't Get Fooled Again is clearly the best.)

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 08:30 AM (JzUSu)

132 former Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) said after the PAC for Crockett released its endorsement list ahead of the midterms.

So... another white Democrat has problems with the black wimmins.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 08:31 AM (ExV1e)

133
Well, in time keeping news, the BIPM has agree to eliminate leap second starting in May, 2027. They're just going to let UTC run free, ticking at atomic rate. They're kicking the can down the road on what scheme will replace it to keep UTC reasonably in sync with solar time.

This won't be anything to worry about for 500 years at least.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 01, 2026 08:31 AM (w6EFb)

134 >> Today Is National Black Dog Day.

I celebrate National ~~Black~~ Dog Day every day!
(currently snoozing right beside me).

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:31 AM (rOKnE)

135
Will be interesting to see what happened after they investigate this. It makes no sense.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:30 AM (rOKnE)

There was a shortage of lethal injection not that long ago because of the leftist dipshittery over the death penalty. I'm wondering if the 'solution' to the shortage was some kind of 'generic' formula........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:31 AM (ccf/V)

136 129 Saudi Arabia is in a tough spot. The Houthis sent a drone against Mecca, and hit an oil pipeline to the Red Sea. And shot down a Saudi F-15.

Seems the Saudi's best chance for friendship is with Israel.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

Asking the Saudi Sunnis to choose JOOZ over Shiites...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 01, 2026 08:32 AM (x0n13)

137 Rating stuff is overrated

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 08:32 AM (ZxPkt)

138 Sponge mazel tov on selling your house and good luck with the move.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

139 43
36 Why any person who identifies as a Christian pastor ( And yes, I understand they are "woke") would marry two people who identify as Satanists is beyond my comprehension.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 07:49 AM (JrHfD)

Very easy to comprehend, actually. It’s because that “minister” is in fact a satanist themselves, whose only true goal is to rip the Church to shreds from the inside, through false doctrine, Godless teaching, and Apostasy.

That’s the only true goal of Talerico, his “church”, and its “ministers”. They are the ravenous wolves in sheep’s clothing we were warned about.

They are demonic apostles, led by demons.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 07:56 AM (slH4t)
======
These people are described in The Bible as 'wolves in sheep's clothing.'

Posted by: Bonecrusher at October 01, 2026 08:33 AM (JNTt1)

140 Then the pilot wouldn't have needed to open the door...unless literally no one heard the chaos in that cockpit...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 08:24 AM (tOcjL)

There is an alpha numeric lock on the cabin side of the door. If the proper code is entered, the door, with a delay, will open.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 08:33 AM (J4Dwc)

141 National Black Dog Day?

Ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah…

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 08:34 AM (77rzZ)

142 >>. . . I'm getting wore out by this constant rollercoaster of emotions..........

Sorry you and your wife are facing more than your 'fair share' of challenges! Say strong, a lot of us are praying for you!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:34 AM (rOKnE)

143 So a Karen is yelling at poor Jazzy. In my best Monty Burns "Exxxx-cellent"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 01, 2026 08:34 AM (jivel)

144 Had the stabbing officer been successful on his first try, we'd have happily presumed that the 737Max had another tragic flaw, and we'd be snarking up Boeing's hiring policies. There would be no talking us out of it.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 01, 2026 08:34 AM (zdLoL)

145 Sponge mazel tov on selling your house and good luck with the move.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

Thank you. It's a MASSIVE leap for us, but gets us that much closer to where we want to be in the near future.

I just hope my job tolerates it for the foreseeable future.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:34 AM (ccf/V)

146 Will be interesting to see what happened after they investigate this. It makes no sense.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:30 AM (rOKnE)

No telling we ever get the truth.

Maybe they switched the formula with Folger's Crystals.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 08:34 AM (enkoP)

147 We may never know why this poor disturbed man allegedly stabbed his captain and may have tried to land the plane in a forceful manner.
Posted by: fd at October 01, 2026 07:33 AM (MWfyi)

Assuming he did it at all, and there's absolutely no proof of that, it was because of postpartum psychosis. -- Kevin Reddington, Esq.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

148 >>>Christa Pike still alive, ‘snoring’ after 2 lethal injections as Tennessee governor halts all executions
-----

rope works better
quick, sure, and cost-effective

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 08:34 AM (ZxPkt)

149 The likelihood of my escape from SF is dimming. My kids are talking about moving in to grandma's house.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 08:35 AM (RIvkX)

150 Will be interesting to see what happened after they investigate this. It makes no sense.
Posted by: Lizzy
_______

Nothing will happen because there's no way for them to attack it without also impliedly attacking assisted suicide.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 08:35 AM (JzUSu)

151 127 >>Christa Pike still alive, ‘snoring’ after 2 lethal injections as Tennessee governor halts all executions

Will be interesting to see what happened after they investigate this. It makes no sense.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:30 AM (rOKnE)

One thing it could be = women and men are different, and most older health protocols were tested almost solely on men b/c no one wanted to test women b/c of varying hormone levels. So, what 100% kills a man in that injection does not 100% kill a woman...or the givers screwed up (the likelier option, but not a certain one)...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 08:35 AM (tOcjL)

152 one hour sober

Punching the right numbers as the plane is power-diving can be tense.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ)

153 19 We're at the beginning of WW111 but nobody seems to give a shit so I say let it all burn.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Worser than that! We have been in the midst of an extended version of Judgement Day, which will culminate in the end of all things visible in 2033.

Posted by: Ample Biblical Evidence at October 01, 2026 08:35 AM (Fn+3X)

154 So what's the deal with the Death Row lady? Is she free to go, like when the guillotine fails to operate correctly, or everyone in the firing squad misses? Can she invoke some sort of Act Of God clause?

Posted by: I gotta ask at October 01, 2026 08:35 AM (2Ez/1)

155
Sorry you and your wife are facing more than your 'fair share' of challenges! Say strong, a lot of us are praying for you!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:34 AM (rOKnE)

I know, and we're both so incredibly grateful for that. I can't imagine where I'd be were it not for The Horde and the power of prayer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:35 AM (ccf/V)

156 48 Ha! That was a great episode. Edith wasn’t as hot as that green alien…

--

I believe that was Susan Oliver.
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 07:59 AM (qBdHI)
====
Joan Collins

Posted by: Bonecrusher at October 01, 2026 08:35 AM (JNTt1)

157 140 Then the pilot wouldn't have needed to open the door...unless literally no one heard the chaos in that cockpit...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 08:24 AM (tOcjL)

There is an alpha numeric lock on the cabin side of the door. If the proper code is entered, the door, with a delay, will open.
Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 08:33 AM (J4Dwc)

That delay seems to be a problem...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 08:36 AM (tOcjL)

158 Had the stabbing officer been successful on his first try, we'd have happily presumed that the 737Max had another tragic flaw, and we'd be snarking up Boeing's hiring policies. There would be no talking us out of it.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 01, 2026 08:34 AM (zdLoL)
=====

Not likely.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 08:36 AM (RIvkX)

159 Will be interesting to see what happened after they investigate this. It makes no sense.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:30 AM (rOKnE)

There was a shortage of lethal injection not that long ago because of the leftist dipshittery over the death penalty. I'm wondering if the 'solution' to the shortage was some kind of 'generic' formula........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:31 AM (ccf/V)

Old Sparky never fails.

Give the Old Gentleman his job back.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 08:37 AM (YSUhf)

160 Hasan Piker is coming to Texas to campaign for Democrats.

He's already out there 'reminding' Talarico that should he win his senate race, he OWES Piker and the communists because THEY gave him the opportunity and THEY got him the win........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:37 AM (ccf/V)

161 135 About that shortage of lethal injection drugs. I wonder why they haven't just wheeled the guest of honor into the execution chamber, play calming music and start a morphine drip, gradually kicking it up to eleventy and flatlining. No pain for the usual suspects to bitch about.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 01, 2026 08:37 AM (gm9Sb)

162 > Today Is National Black Dog Day.

Do I have to look for a big legged woman with no soul?

Posted by: dantesed at October 01, 2026 08:37 AM (Oy/m2)

163 Smith was preparing to indict hundreds of GOP lawmakers, WH officials, MAGA-associated groups, influencers, and the president himself (again)—and perhaps even media organizations—under Arctic Frost.

There is no federal crime related to “blocking the peaceful transfer of power”—which by the way, Jack Smith, happens on January 20, not January 6.

But by the end of 2023, Smith ran up against two potential SCOTUS roadblocks: the presidential immunity question out of the J6 case in Washington AND the Fischer decision related to the lawful use of the 1512(c)2 obstruction statute in Jan 6 cases.

The latter decision, issued in June 2024, handed a blow to Smith’s effort to criminalize free speech and political activity. SCOTUS held that the post-Enron corporate fraud statute required some evidence of document tampering/destruction. That’s not, however, how the Biden DOJ applied the statute in 300+ cases—so those charges/convictions were systematically tossed.

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 08:37 AM (EKMrJ)

164 If it was well beyond the design strength, wouldn't the aircraft have come apart?
Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 07:44 AM (J4Dwc)

This was playing during the recovery.

https://youtu.be/siwpn14IE7E

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 08:38 AM (ExV1e)

165 Very easy to comprehend, actually. It’s because that “minister” is in fact a satanist themselves, whose only true goal is to rip the Church to shreds from the inside, through false doctrine, Godless teaching, and Apostasy.

Well, Protestantism holds the position that every man is, essentially, his own bishop.

So this is what you get. What are you gonna do when you can't ex-communicate someone from the church? He'll just walk down the street to the next one or form one himself.

And they basically hold that one is as valid as another.

Posted by: Reality at October 01, 2026 08:38 AM (DQiGk)

166 Apparently, there was a group of pilot trainees on the flight. They knew their way around the whole plane.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:26 AM (rOKnE)

As someone else noted on X, on any flight containing mostly Israeli passengers there is a better than 50% chance that it will include a trained assault team, a cardiac surgeon, one or two pilots, a couple of dentists, and a professional jeweler.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 08:38 AM (slH4t)

167 Had the stabbing officer been successful on his first try, we'd have happily presumed that the 737Max had another tragic flaw, and we'd be snarking up Boeing's hiring policies. There would be no talking us out of it.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 01, 2026 08:34 AM (zdLoL)

An Omani Muslim in the flight crew and a plane full of Jews?

I think it's FAR more likely we would have assumed terrorism even if it was truly Boeing being Boeing.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 08:39 AM (gLYp7)

168 >>Why any person who identifies as a Christian pastor ( And yes, I understand they are "woke") would marry two people who identify as Satanists is beyond my comprehension.

I'm going to guess the fact that many (most?) university seminary programs now include Atheism and Humanism, which validate ALL beliefs and values? Christian students have been taught that tolerance exceeds all other values?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:39 AM (rOKnE)

169 co-pilot was an Omani Muslim

-
Well, there's your problem.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 08:39 AM (ndZc7)

170 > I am telling you Trump got wind of an operation from Iran no doubt in concert with Democrats just like coof was, and that's one of the reasons he flipped the board over on that shithole of a country.

Just a working theory but it's gonna be hard to convince me otherwise.
Posted by: ...
----------
There's evidence of this.... from of all people, Maduro. The "snatch and grab" op was certainly about getting that shit weasel out of VZ, but there's more than circumstantial evidence that he, along with the cartels and with an assist from Iran, helped to flip 2020.

It's all about the software used in the Dominion voting and tabulating machines.

YMMV as this is clearly speculation from various sources... but (to me) is certainly plausible.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 08:39 AM (RORbl)

171 Joan Collins
Posted by: Bonecrusher at October 01, 2026 08:35 AM (JNTt1)

She spent a lot of time naked in the movie duo "The Bitch" and "The Stud."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:39 AM (ccf/V)

172 149 The likelihood of my escape from SF is dimming. My kids are talking about moving in to grandma's house.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Sell Grandma's house before the mobs loot and burn it. Things aren't going to get better there.

Posted by: Prudence Dictates...... at October 01, 2026 08:39 AM (Fn+3X)

173 As someone else noted on X, on any flight containing mostly Israeli passengers there is a better than 50% chance that it will include a trained assault team, a cardiac surgeon, one or two pilots, a couple of dentists, and a professional jeweler.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 08:38 AM (slH4t)

and a professional plumber..apparently!

Posted by: runner at October 01, 2026 08:40 AM (AKptf)

174 166 You left out the lawyer from Philadelphia.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 01, 2026 08:40 AM (gm9Sb)

175 @NEWSMAX
·
25m
Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug, prompting Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to halt the one remaining execution for the rest of the year.

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 08:40 AM (ZxPkt)

176 There was a shortage of lethal injection not that long ago because of the leftist dipshittery over the death penalty. I'm wondering if the 'solution' to the shortage was some kind of 'generic' formula........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:31 AM (ccf/V)
----
The fact that as a society we can't seem to execute criminals properly does not reflect well on us.

Vets euthanize animals every day (including my poor Kaylee last week). That doesn't seem to be a problem.

We can't figure out how to scale that up to humans?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 01, 2026 08:40 AM (FZ29D)

177 "Well, Protestantism holds the position that every man is, essentially, his own bishop."

Mongo just pawn in game of life.

Posted by: Alex Karras at October 01, 2026 08:40 AM (2Ez/1)

178 >>About that shortage of lethal injection drugs. I wonder why they haven't just wheeled the guest of honor into the execution chamber, play calming music and start a morphine drip, gradually kicking it up to eleventy and flatlining. No pain for the usual suspects to bitch about.

Send her to Canada and have a MAID doctor do it. They're very good at it!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:41 AM (rOKnE)

179 Vets euthanize animals every day (including my poor Kaylee last week). That doesn't seem to be a problem.

We can't figure out how to scale that up to humans?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 01, 2026 08:40 AM (FZ29D)

Sorry to hear that........

Seems fentanyl has a proven track record of instant death........I'm just sayin.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:42 AM (ccf/V)

180 Well, that would require the GOP to actual do anything to counter the endless stream of lies and extremism coming from the left.

In fairness, the Senate put forward a bill to stop insider trading by members of Congress and require an ID to vote (conveniently too late to be implemented for 2026) knowing that it would fail cloture so that they could harp about how terrible the Democrats are.

Of course, they won't get rid of the filibuster to pass it because, harrumph, that's just not who we are.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 08:42 AM (ExV1e)

181 That delay seems to be a problem...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 08:36 AM (tOcjL)

The delay is for the flight deck crew to confirm that the person looking to enter the cockpit is authorized to do so. If it's a bad actor trying to enter, the code can be overridden and the door won't open.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 08:42 AM (J4Dwc)

182 3rd time's the charm

my guess is that multiple attempts at an execution might constitute 'cruel and unusual punishment'

but I'm no lawyer, just a retired investor, living on a pension

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 08:42 AM (ZxPkt)

183 As someone else noted on X, on any flight containing mostly Israeli passengers there is a better than 50% chance that it will include a trained assault team, a cardiac surgeon, one or two pilots, a couple of dentists, and a professional jeweler.
Posted by: Tom Servo

You left out delicatessen owner and a bagel magnate.

Posted by: I Must Be Hungry at October 01, 2026 08:42 AM (Fn+3X)

184 The green Orion women were played by Susan Oliver and Yvonne Craig in different Star Trek episodes. Yeah, I'm a nerd

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 01, 2026 08:42 AM (jivel)

185 The fun part is that your theory isn't falsifiable in any way, so you can just keep modifying it to fit new facts if they come out.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 08:27 AM (gLYp7)

How would an opinion on something so speculative be "falsifiable" anyway?

Hell, if Trump came out and said in two years, "here's why I did it" and it wasn't that, and his reason made sense, that would falsify it. But do your thing.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 08:43 AM (enkoP)

186 Joooooz?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 01, 2026 08:43 AM (RqKFg)

187 And they basically hold that one is as valid as another.
Posted by: Reality at October 01, 2026 08:38 AM (DQiGk)

No it doesn’t; that’s what Sola Scriptura is about.
But both sides have their strength and weaknesses; Roman Catholicism blocks rot and bad doctrine percolating up fro the bottom; the Prorestant systems were devised to prevent rot and bad doctrine descending from the top.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 08:43 AM (slH4t)

188 The delay is for the flight deck crew to confirm that the person looking to enter the cockpit is authorized to do so. If it's a bad actor trying to enter, the code can be overridden and the door won't open.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 08:42 AM (J4Dwc)

This security feature was installed with the presumption that a member of the flight crew would not be a jihadi.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 08:43 AM (gLYp7)

189 When you're about to be in deep shit there's nothing better than having a plumber around.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 08:43 AM (10NPz)

190 "Well sir, she just won't die. It's a real head-scratcher."

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 08:43 AM (ZxPkt)

191 Camille Paglia on date rape provides an excellent response to the Cornell 7 BS:

https://tinyurl.com/vk4ucw6e

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:44 AM (rOKnE)

192 Second crane falls onto house while trying to remove another crane that had fallen onto the roof

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 08:44 AM (EKMrJ)

193 181 That delay seems to be a problem...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 08:36 AM
+++
You have to wait for it to send a verification code to your phone.

Posted by: Tech Support in Mumbai at October 01, 2026 08:44 AM (2Ez/1)

194 I would volunteer to shoot that bitch in the face btw

who needs whatever these dumb injection drugs are

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 01, 2026 08:44 AM (j+aD2)

195 Hell, if Trump came out and said in two years, "here's why I did it" and it wasn't that, and his reason made sense, that would falsify it. But do your thing.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 08:43 AM (enkoP)

Not to the conspiracy theorist it wouldn't.

Trump only said that to protect the sources and methods used to collect data on the REAL answer!!

I was just joshing in the first place, though, so I'm not actually invested in this.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 08:44 AM (gLYp7)

196 Sell Grandma's house before the mobs loot and burn it. Things aren't going to get better there.
Posted by: Prudence Dictates...... at October 01, 2026 08:39 AM (Fn+3X)
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Selling that house would mean property taxes going from $1,000 to $45,000. Not gonna happen.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 08:44 AM (RIvkX)

197 National Black Dog Day?

Ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah…
Posted by: Bulg
_________

That could also be Immigrant Song. It's hard to differentiate Robert Plant wailings.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 08:44 AM (JzUSu)

198 Still think the guillotine is the most effective way of execution. No way to screw that up unless you have a very dull blade

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 01, 2026 08:45 AM (jivel)

199 177 "Well, Protestantism holds the position that every man is, essentially, his own bishop."

Is that why people on the street keep calling me a Son of a Bishop?

Posted by: Miracle Ear Mikey at October 01, 2026 08:45 AM (Fn+3X)

200 "More And More Severe Storms": When Can We Declare This Hypothesis To Be Definitively Falsified?

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 08:45 AM (EKMrJ)

201 >You have to wait for it to send a verification code to your phone.

Posted by: Tech Support in Mumbai
---

of course, you'll need to install the app first

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 08:46 AM (ZxPkt)

202 Smaller cranes have larger cranes, above their heads to lift 'em...

Posted by: O. Nash at October 01, 2026 08:46 AM (2Ez/1)

203 SMOD

This year. No Atlantic hurricanes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 08:46 AM (u82oZ)

204 You have to wait for it to send a verification code to your phone.

Posted by: Tech Support in Mumbai
---

of course, you'll need to install the app first
Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 08:46 AM (ZxPkt)

*insert The Beekeeper movie clip here*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:47 AM (ccf/V)

205 The Islamist organisation 5 Pillars has reported John Cleese to the Prevent Programme after John made factual, accurate and valid statements about Islam John's statements on Islam: “To criticise a culture whose holy book advocates the killing of all the people they disagree with...is not racist. It’s culturalist.”

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 08:47 AM (EKMrJ)

206
This year. No Atlantic hurricanes.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 08:46 AM (u82oZ)

But, we were PROMISED that we'd all be dead from superstorms after Katrina because of global warming!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:47 AM (ccf/V)

207 CNN: Early voting shows Democrats advantage.

Later: it should be noted these numbers are below the rates they had in 2022.

Oh? Really?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 08:48 AM (3cUTc)

208 I'm the bitch that's too tough to kill! Fear me!

Posted by: Christa Pike at October 01, 2026 08:48 AM (wVcYX)

209 Beginning on the 15th of September all lethal injection drugs must include pumpkin pie spice.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 01, 2026 08:48 AM (gm9Sb)

210 Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:39 AM (rOKnE)

I don't know what a "University seminary" program is. You mean a school that has a seminary rather loosely associated with a university such as Harvard or Princeton? I'm sure they do. I went so long ago and not to university associated seminary ( except for one class) that I didn't have any of that nonsense . I did have one class about women in the Bible. was it taught by a woman but was not particularly weird .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 08:48 AM (JrHfD)

211 Despite lingering concerns about the bill, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed a major new subsidy that aims to support California’s local newsrooms. Assembly Bill 2222 creates a refundable tax credit that would provide millions of dollars to news organizations across the state.

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 08:48 AM (EKMrJ)

212 Beginning on the 15th of September all lethal injection drugs must include pumpkin pie spice.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 01, 2026 08:48 AM (gm9Sb)

Don't forget the lemon zest!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:49 AM (ccf/V)

213 Today Is also,
National Pumpkin Spice Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 01, 2026 08:49 AM (NpAcC)

214 Old and busted: The Longest Day

New and cool: Altercation In Normandy

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 08:49 AM (ndZc7)

215 I was just joshing in the first place, though, so I'm not actually invested in this.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 08:44 AM (gLYp7)

Hmm, I thought you were taking some weird shot at me.

Which would be have been even odder since I have already revised my own opinion on what's going on there at least three times. But I don't mind odd. I love it when people say odd shit to me. It can be very revealing.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 08:49 AM (enkoP)

216 >>Christa Pike still alive, ‘snoring’ after 2 lethal injections as Tennessee governor halts all executions
-----

I initially read that as Christopher Pike and thought: of course, he’s living the dream (literally) on Talos IV!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 08:49 AM (j8E+e)

217 Sponge - F*ck Cancer

We are far from the John Barnes SF novel Mother of Storms. In that story, weather gets way out of hand.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 08:49 AM (u82oZ)

218 No it doesn’t; that’s what Sola Scriptura is about.

There is no such thing as Sola Scriptura. James Talarico has the same Bible you do. But his theology is derived from how he chooses to interpret it. And Protestants can't say his interpretation is valid or invalid, because they hold that there is no normative authority that can bind the will of their congregants.

The Scripture was compiled and canonized by humans. We aren't Muslims or Mormons that think we discovered a magic book.

We were left a church at Pentecost, not a book.

Posted by: Reality at October 01, 2026 08:49 AM (DQiGk)

219 National Black Dog Day?

Ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah…
Posted by: Bulg

I take it that everyone's plan for the day is sweating and grooving.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 08:50 AM (YSUhf)

220 207 CNN: Early voting shows Democrats advantage.

Later: it should be noted these numbers are below the rates they had in 2022.

Oh? Really?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 08:48 AM (3cUTc)

=======

"Dems have double digit advantages in mail in voting...just like every year and every state, even in elections that they end up losing by double digits. Also, the advantage is lower this year than the previous few years."

It'd be hilarious if DOJ's efforts over the past 18 months cratered mail in voting so much because of voter roll cleanup and monitoring.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 08:50 AM (U/fqy)

221 Well, Protestantism holds the position that every man is, essentially, his own bishop."

I see we're starting the religious wars early. That will be a big help in having a united front against Islam / s

I'm out till the art thread .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 08:50 AM (JrHfD)

222 I would volunteer to shoot that bitch in the face btw

who needs whatever these dumb injection drugs are
Posted by: Black Orchid

They're more humane dontcha know.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 08:51 AM (ZLygy)

223 We are far from the John Barnes SF novel Mother of Storms. In that story, weather gets way out of hand.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 08:49 AM (u82oZ)

I'm still waiting for the "Day After Tomorrow" scenario where global warming causes massive hurricanes all over earth sucking the heat away and we all freeze instantly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:51 AM (ccf/V)

224 Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of East Of Eden trades literary truth for cheap moral ambiguity.
======================
Once again, Netflix normalizes and celebrates evil.

Kind of a pattern.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 01, 2026 08:51 AM (ffaRq)

225 There was a shortage of lethal injection not that long ago because of the leftist dipshittery over the death penalty. I'm wondering if the 'solution' to the shortage was some kind of 'generic' formula........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:31 AM (ccf/V)

I am given to understand that exercise bands can be used to kill someone.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

226 I sort of snicker when I hear, or read "there have been no hurricanes since Trump renamed The Gulf of America."

It's true... yet...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 08:52 AM (RORbl)

227 Still think the guillotine is the most effective way of execution. No way to screw that up unless you have a very dull blade

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 01, 2026 08:45 AM (jivel)

For someone like Pike I think "zipped up bag with wild hyenas dropped in the ocean" could be quite effective.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 08:52 AM (enkoP)

228 224 Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of East Of Eden trades literary truth for cheap moral ambiguity.
======================
Once again, Netflix normalizes and celebrates evil.

Kind of a pattern.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 01, 2026 08:51 AM (ffaRq)

======

Netflix isn't preserving the strong moral core of a John Steinbeck novel?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 08:52 AM (U/fqy)

229 I love it when people say odd shit to me. It can be very revealing.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 08:49 AM (enkoP)

Nope. I don't take weird shots at people here.

I just think the 'Trump bombed Iran because they were working with Democrats' is as reasonable as anything else.

And honestly, I don't give a shit WHY we're kicking their shit in. I just care that we finally are.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 08:52 AM (gLYp7)

230
I am given to understand that exercise bands can be used to kill someone.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

Death by postmortem bitch mode.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:52 AM (ccf/V)

231 227 Still think the guillotine is the most effective way of execution. No way to screw that up unless you have a very dull blade

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 01, 2026 08:45 AM (jivel)

For someone like Pike I think "zipped up bag with wild hyenas dropped in the ocean" could be quite effective.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 08:52 AM (enkoP)

====

1984 isn't all warning and no suggestion in this matter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 08:52 AM (U/fqy)

232 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 01, 2026 08:40 AM (FZ29D)
******
So sorry for you loss of Kaylee.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 01, 2026 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

233 National Black Dog Day?

Pup cup for Moose the lab.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 08:52 AM (ZLygy)

234 Once again, Netflix normalizes and celebrates evil.

Kind of a pattern.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 01, 2026 08:51 AM (ffaRq)

Are the Owebama's still on the board?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:53 AM (ccf/V)

235 It’s October! We can decorate for Halloween today!

Posted by: Piper at October 01, 2026 08:53 AM (2UJ+q)

236 229
And honestly, I don't give a shit WHY we're kicking their shit in. I just care that we finally are.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 08:52 AM (gLYp7)

=======

"Trump shouldn't realign the geopolitical order of the planet in America's favor because it might lose him the midterms."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 08:53 AM (U/fqy)

237 If they say you gotta go, and the governor agrees, choose the firing squad. At least you can go Breaker Morant and yell "for once in your life, shoot strait".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 01, 2026 08:53 AM (gm9Sb)

238 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 01, 2026 08:40 AM (FZ29D)
******
So sorry for you loss of Kaylee.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 01, 2026 08:52 AM (NpAcC)
-----
Thanks.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 01, 2026 08:53 AM (FZ29D)

239 124 Today Is National Black Dog Day. 🐕‍🦺
Posted by: redridinghood

We should judge them by the content of their character, not the color of their fur.

Posted by: Martin Lhasa Apso King at October 01, 2026 08:53 AM (Fn+3X)

240 Christa Pike still alive, ‘snoring’ after 2 lethal injections as Tennessee governor halts all executions

-
Can government do anything right?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 08:53 AM (ndZc7)

241 All this outrage over gas prices is deceptive and deluded from every angle. One, the causes are never traced to their sources, indeed, deliberately not analyzed and understood. Two, the belief that gas prices will somehow come down under democrats or that democrats have ever reduced prices on anything of value is pure delusion.

Republicans and Trump's team are failing to make these arguments.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 01, 2026 08:53 AM (ntaXS)

242 And honestly, I don't give a shit WHY we're kicking their shit in. I just care that we finally are.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 08:52 AM (gLYp7)

Understood. I wish he would have done it morer and harder. I'm glad we finally have a genuine leader who seems to want to save this country above all else.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 08:54 AM (enkoP)

243 241 All this outrage over gas prices is deceptive and deluded from every angle. One, the causes are never traced to their sources, indeed, deliberately not analyzed and understood. Two, the belief that gas prices will somehow come down under democrats or that democrats have ever reduced prices on anything of value is pure delusion.

Republicans and Trump's team are failing to make these arguments.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 01, 2026 08:53 AM (ntaXS)

========

Argument doesn't win elections.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 08:54 AM (U/fqy)

244 Postpartum bitch mode.

Damn brain.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:54 AM (ccf/V)

245 That will be a big help in having a united front against Islam

Peak irony.

Protest-ants appealing for a united church.

Posted by: Reality at October 01, 2026 08:54 AM (DQiGk)

246 >> You mean a school that has a seminary rather loosely associated with a university such as Harvard or Princeton?

Yes - sorry for my clumsy phrasing.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:54 AM (rOKnE)

247 I know a guy who killed three people with a pencil.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 08:54 AM (10NPz)

248 Christa Pike still alive, ‘snoring’ after 2 lethal injections as Tennessee governor halts all executions

-
Can government do anything right?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 08:53 AM (ndZc7)

I believe the TVA creates enough energy that the chair would've worked just fine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:55 AM (ccf/V)

249 Hey Tennessee, you need a little help with your college football AND executions by lethal injections? Step aside, we'll show you how it's done, son.

Posted by: Texas at October 01, 2026 08:55 AM (wVcYX)

250 It’s October! We can decorate for Halloween today!
Posted by: Piper

I have neighbors that put shit up on Labor Day.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 08:55 AM (ZLygy)

251 247 I know a guy who killed three people with a pencil.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 08:54 AM (10NPz)

========

"I did it with style."
-The Joker

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 08:55 AM (U/fqy)

252 I could have lived my whole life happy without knowing that vile psycho cunt snores.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 08:55 AM (enkoP)

253 Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Hurricanes and typhoons just transfer heat from the tropics to more northern latitudes.

They do not remove the heat. One of many reasons I did not want to see that movie.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 08:56 AM (u82oZ)

254 Camille Paglia on date rape provides an excellent response to the Cornell 7 BS:

https://tinyurl.com/vk4ucw6e
Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:44 AM (rOKnE)

Sunny Hostin, of all people, pointed out that the woman got voluntarily inebriated and, according to NY law, that means she could consent to sex and, in her statements from two years ago, she consented to sex. Multiple times.

She's a slut who wants a quick cash grab and so she makes the accusation which has no legal downside for women.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

255 I know a guy who killed three people with a pencil.
Posted by: Ben Had

Damn.

The Ticonderoga Terror.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 08:56 AM (ZLygy)

256 Halloween,hah, my cobwebs stay up all year.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 08:57 AM (10NPz)

257
They do not remove the heat. One of many reasons I did not want to see that movie.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 08:56 AM (u82oZ)

hollywood LIED to me?!?!???

The hells you say.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 08:57 AM (ccf/V)

258 >I take it that everyone's plan for the day is sweating and grooving.
---

Not me. I'll be reelin' and rockin', rollin' til the break of dawn.

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 08:57 AM (ZxPkt)

259 I know a guy who killed three people with a pencil.
Posted by: Ben Had

Maybe the pen really is mightier than the sword.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 08:57 AM (enkoP)

260 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at October 01, 2026 08:57 AM (53oGX)

261 ‘F***’ Jasmine Crockett‘

-
Hey! Breakfast time!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 08:58 AM (ndZc7)

262 They shouldn't be permitted to title it "East of Eden." Just like Nolan shouldn't have been permitted to title his movie "The Odyssey." The fact either director would even allow himself to violate and exploit a recognized title and the work of another artist in this manner is obscene.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 01, 2026 08:58 AM (ntaXS)

263 That will be a big help in having a united front against Islam

Peak irony.

Protest-ants appealing for a united church.
Posted by: Reality
__________

The Catholic French were allied with the Ottomans in the original religious wars.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 08:58 AM (JzUSu)

264 "Trump shouldn't realign the geopolitical order of the planet in America's favor because it might lose him the midterms."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 08:53 AM (U/fqy)

If the Republicans lose the House (as I expect they will) and keep the Senate (as I expect they will) and Iran and Venezuela have been taken off the board, I'll consider that a win for America.

I happen to love that Trump seems willing to trade a small short-term political loss for a massive, sweeping, long-term, paradigm-shifting victory for America.

It's almost like he loves America more than himself.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 08:58 AM (gLYp7)

265 Halloween,hah, my cobwebs stay up all year.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 08:57 AM (10NPz)

Same but insert toil and trouble

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 08:58 AM (enkoP)

266 >>Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of East Of Eden trades literary truth for cheap moral ambiguity.
======================
>>Once again, Netflix normalizes and celebrates evil.
Kind of a pattern.

And right on the heels of the scandalous Bo French tweet, their new movie, "Best of the Best," described as "A raucous comedy set in the cut-throat world of collegiate Bollywood dance competitions."

https://tinyurl.com/mwn642kz

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 08:59 AM (rOKnE)

267 I know a guy who killed three people with a pencil.
Posted by: Ben Had

Damn.

The Ticonderoga Terror.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 08:56 AM

Ban self-loading mechanical assault pencils!

- The Left

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 09:00 AM (/C5Rl)

268 I could have lived my whole life happy without knowing that vile psycho cunt snores.
Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 08:55 AM (enkoP)

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh,
a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh
A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh,
a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

Posted by: Not The Tokens at October 01, 2026 09:00 AM (wVcYX)

269 Argument doesn't win elections.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 08:54 AM (U/fqy)

Okay, then, spread the narrative. Propagate the propaganda. Shout from the rooftops. I think you know what I meant.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 01, 2026 09:01 AM (ntaXS)

270
And if you can't be
a crack historian,
be a historian on crack.
Be a historian on crack!

Posted by: Hunter B. at October 01, 2026 09:02 AM (0sNs1)

271 Okay, then, spread the narrative. Propagate the propaganda. Shout from the rooftops. I think you know what I meant.
Posted by: Ordinary American at October 01, 2026 09:01 AM

Don't forget about me.

Posted by: Message in a bottle at October 01, 2026 09:02 AM (2Ez/1)

272 >I take it that everyone's plan for the day is sweating and grooving.
---

Not me. I'll be reelin' and rockin', rollin' til the break of dawn.
Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 08:57 AM (ZxPkt)

Cool! I'd like to twist again, like I did last summer.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 01, 2026 09:02 AM (wVcYX)

273 >>I take it that everyone's plan for the day is sweating and grooving.

Goin' with chillin' & grillin' here.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 09:02 AM (NcvvS)

274 They call him

The #2 Killer

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 09:03 AM (ZxPkt)

275 > It’s October! We can decorate for Halloween today!
Posted by: Piper
---------
There are houses around here who put out more Halloween shit than they do at Christmas.

Huge skeletons, massive lighted pumpkins, witches, etc. Whole yards taken up with it. And it'll be up until December.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 09:04 AM (RORbl)

276 235 It’s October! We can decorate for Halloween today!
Posted by: Piper

Demonic, way-overrated "holiday". Prior to about 1930, Halloween was very minor. Children and teens wore costumes and dressed as hobos, etc. for Ragamuffin Day, going door to door on Thanksgiving. If you think about it, people are much more likely to have sweet treats and homemade goodies on that day. Store bought candy was out of reach or unavailable to many Americans in ye olde days. You, Miss Nutrition, plugging a holiday that wants to put people into a diabetic coma is unseemly. And "celebrating" this disaster for a month?

Posted by: Halloween, A Symptom Of Going Somewhere In A Handbasket at October 01, 2026 09:04 AM (Fn+3X)

277 Have any 'ettes sent their boobs to that hijacking survivor?

If not, why not?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 09:04 AM (RIvkX)

278 Rise of the Religious Left: The Woke Pastors Backing Radical Democrats.

-
Bad Samaritan religion.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 09:05 AM (ndZc7)

279 (Fn+3X)

Your concern is:

[X] Noted

[ ] Other than noted

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 09:07 AM (/C5Rl)

280 Well, I guess my 'in my birthday suit ' rain dance isn't working. Supposed I scared it?

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 09:07 AM (10NPz)

281 Roman Catholicism blocks rot and bad doctrine percolating up fro the bottom; the Prorestant systems were devised to prevent rot and bad doctrine descending from the top.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 08:43 AM (slH4t)

RC also blocks bad doctrine from the top - that's what the 1965 Papal Bull did, it sought the remove the "mysticism" associated with certain RC practices that had been in place for hundreds of years but did no service to the faith.

Posted by: Boswell at October 01, 2026 09:07 AM (NTVPI)

282 San Franpsycho

Too many heroes? Our 'Ettes are classy people.

Not at all like that Cornell lass.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 09:07 AM (u82oZ)

283 Cool! I'd like to twist again, like I did last summer.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Not us! We're gonna "Go Mental!"

Posted by: The Ramones, 1977 at October 01, 2026 09:07 AM (Fn+3X)

284 Well, I guess my 'in my birthday suit ' rain dance isn't working. Supposed I scared it?

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 09:07 AM (10NPz)

We can help evaluate your technique. Please upload video at your convenience.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 09:08 AM (gLYp7)

285 This security feature was installed with the presumption that a member of the flight crew would not be a jihadi.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 08:43 AM (gLYp7)

True. One of the theories of MH-370 is that the Captain tricked the FO into leaving the cockpit, then wouldn't release the door lock to allow him to re-enter. I would imagine in that scenario that the FO tried to unlock the door with the code, but the captain overrode that.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 09:09 AM (J4Dwc)

286 Christa Pike still alive, ‘snoring’ after 2 lethal injections as Tennessee governor halts all executions

Did she get her all-female execution team?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 01, 2026 09:09 AM (0sNs1)

287 Thanks again, JJ, and God bless you and the Horde.

Posted by: Buck at October 01, 2026 09:09 AM (z6ONu)

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

You have my full attention.

And we are in day 2 of a lot of rain up here. With more to drench us on the way. So your powers are greater than you assumed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 09:09 AM (u82oZ)

289 You, Miss Nutrition, plugging a holiday that wants to put people into a diabetic coma is unseemly. And "celebrating" this disaster for a month?
Posted by: Halloween, A Symptom Of Going Somewhere In A Handbasket at October 01, 2026 09:04 AM (Fn+3X)

To be fair...Piper gives out Candied Apples with Kale inside!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 09:09 AM (YSUhf)

290 End Wokeness-
Biden imported an entire small city worth of Muslims every month. Elections matter.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 01, 2026 09:09 AM (NpAcC)

291 What the fuck Microsloth?

It's 2026. Why the hell can't we save a file name with a forward slash / in it?

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 09:10 AM (nZ6VT)

292 > Teegan

Giving that "name" to a child should itself be a capital crime.

Same thing as "Tiphanee". Name a baby girl that and you might as well just turn her over to the porn industry to raise.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 01, 2026 09:10 AM (qlLNh)

293 To be fair...Piper gives out Candied Apples with Kale inside!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 09:09 AM (YSUhf)

I'd rather get the razor blade.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 09:10 AM (gLYp7)

294 258 >I take it that everyone's plan for the day is sweating and grooving.
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Not me. I'll be reelin' and rockin', rollin' til the break of dawn.
Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 08:57 AM (ZxPkt)

Wifey has a colonoscopy this morning....

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 01, 2026 09:10 AM (x0n13)

295 > Christa Pike still alive, ‘snoring’

I hope she's having terrible nightmares.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 01, 2026 09:11 AM (qlLNh)

296 Well, I guess my 'in my birthday suit ' rain dance isn't working. Supposed I scared it?

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 09:07 AM

More cowbell?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 01, 2026 09:11 AM (0sNs1)

297 264 I happen to love that Trump seems willing to trade a small short-term political loss for a massive, sweeping, long-term, paradigm-shifting victory for America.

It's almost like he loves America more than himself.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 08:58 AM (gLYp7)

====

It's what GOP voters have demanded of the GOP since time imemmorial.

"Biden flooded the country with illegals to change the nation, damn the short term consequences because he knew it would lead to long term gains. Why can't the GOP do that?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 09:11 AM (U/fqy)

298 240 Christa Pike still alive, ‘snoring’ after 2 lethal injections as Tennessee governor halts all executions

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Can government do anything right?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 08:53 AM (ndZc7)
=========
A well swung aluminum bat to the back of the head pretty well seals the deal.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at October 01, 2026 09:11 AM (JNTt1)

299 Assault Pencils are All 2H. They should be banned.

Posted by: Gary Graphite at October 01, 2026 09:12 AM (Fn+3X)

300 : J.J. Sefton

Prayers for good outcomes. May the doctor pat her on the hand and say "You have a beautiful colon."

Happened to me my first colonoscopy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 09:12 AM (u82oZ)

301 "Biden flooded the country with illegals to change the nation, damn the short term consequences because he knew it would lead to long term gains. Why can't the GOP do that?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 09:11 AM (U/fqy)

Democrats sacrificed more than 1,000 elected seats in order to ram Obamacare down our throats, knowing we'd never be able to get rid of it.

We can't remove the filibuster though. Wouldn't be seemly.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 09:13 AM (gLYp7)

302 They shouldn't be permitted to title it "East of Eden."

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South of Hell?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 09:13 AM (ndZc7)

303 292 > Teegan

Giving that "name" to a child should itself be a capital crime.

Same thing as "Tiphanee". Name a baby girl that and you might as well just turn her over to the porn industry to raise.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 01, 2026 09:10 AM (qlLNh)

Momma of blessed memory taught two sets of twins:

One was Male and Female Molly and Fee-Molly

The other were the Andersons, Scrub and Scum!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 01, 2026 09:13 AM (x0n13)

304 My pencil has the thing that goes up.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 09:13 AM (enkoP)

305 Duncanthrax, might have worked better if I got the pasties with the tassels swinging in the same direction.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 09:13 AM (10NPz)

306 TheJamesMadison

Western Kansas is getting a number of South African farmers moving in.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 09:14 AM (u82oZ)

307 >>>>I take it that everyone's plan for the day is sweating and grooving.

>>Goin' with chillin' & grillin' here.

I think I might be gellin' like a felon!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 09:14 AM (rOKnE)

308 One pencil a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Karen McWinemom at October 01, 2026 09:15 AM (2Ez/1)

309 To be fair...Piper gives out Candied Apples with Kale inside!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 01, 2026 09:09 AM

Hmm...maple-glazed kale...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 09:15 AM (/C5Rl)

310 I think I might be gellin' like a felon!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 09:14 AM (rOKnE)

Hopefully not Christa Pike.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 09:15 AM (enkoP)

311 I think I might be gellin' like a felon!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 09:14 AM (rOKnE)

But are you zinfandellin?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 09:15 AM (gLYp7)

312 Too early to celebrate Halloween, but I have a pending Amazon order for razor blades and apples lined up.

Posted by: Semper Paratus at October 01, 2026 09:16 AM (Fn+3X)

313 Happened to me my first colonoscopy.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 09:12 AM

Were both his hands on your shoulders when he said it?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 01, 2026 09:16 AM (0sNs1)

314 >>Momma of blessed memory taught two sets of twins:
One was Male and Female Molly and Fee-Molly
The other were the Andersons, Scrub and Scum!

The mom of a childhood friend was named Susie Two, and her twin was Susie One. Yes, Two was her middle name. Yiiiikes!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 09:16 AM (rOKnE)

315 Duncanthrax, might have worked better if I got the pasties with the tassels swinging in the same direction.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 09:13 AM

I've heard that can summon tornadoes. No bueno.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 09:16 AM (/C5Rl)

316 Ben Had

Practice, practice, practice.

Need a coach? /s

Sheesh.

Moving along... I'm over it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 09:16 AM (u82oZ)

317 274 They call him

The #2 Killer
Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 09:03 AM (ZxPkt)
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He shits on people and then they die.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at October 01, 2026 09:16 AM (JNTt1)

318 > One was Male and Female Molly and Fee-Molly

grok: "The Social Security Administration does not have a column for “parent was an idiot.”

This is why I prefer grok to the others. It actually seems to have a sense of humor.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 01, 2026 09:17 AM (qlLNh)

319 >>But are you zinfandellin?

Mayyyyyyyyybe!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 09:17 AM (rOKnE)

320 292 > Teegan

Giving that "name" to a child should itself be a capital crime.
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Pfffffttt...

Posted by: Running backs in the Southeastern Conference at October 01, 2026 09:17 AM (2Ez/1)

321 Did she get her all-female execution team?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 01, 2026 09:09 AM (0sNs1)

It's the 2nd failed execution this year. Supposition is that they didn't get the needle in the vein. I say, "If she's unconscious, any form of execution is humane."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 09:18 AM (ExV1e)

322 Duncanthrax

She was a petite older lady. I didn't know how to respond. I was younger and unmarried then.

Today, I'd have an answer. Like "Dinner is on me."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 09:18 AM (u82oZ)

323 But are you zinfandellin?

Mayyyyyyyyybe!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 09:17 AM (rOKnE)

Can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 09:18 AM (gLYp7)

324 My gynecologist said everything looked good-very good!

Posted by: With A Sly Wink at October 01, 2026 09:18 AM (Fn+3X)

325 Teegan

Giving that "name" to a child should itself be a capital crime.
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Pfffffttt...
Posted by: Running backs in the Southeastern Conference at October 01, 2026 09:17 AM

"Dan Smith...BYU."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 09:18 AM (/C5Rl)

326 The Data Center Boom Faces Mounting Obstacles

On the one hand, both data center construction activity and credible forecasts for near-term capacity additions to the electric grid to serve data centers remain robust. The Electric Power Research Institute, for example, said in February that data centers will represent up to 17% of U.S. electricity demand in 2030 and as much as 20% in 2035.

On the other hand, data center and utility infrastructure projects face a host of challenges. These include both physical constraints, such as equipment and labor shortages, as well as mounting public opposition driven by concerns about large-scale computing facilities’ impact on water supplies, the cost and reliability of power and natural gas supplies, and the quality of life in host communities.

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 09:19 AM (RHGPo)

327 104 'Light My Fire' is an overrated song.
Posted by: dantesed

I had a 4 am start for a road trip years ago and saw lightning along the distant horizon toward where I was going when "Riders on the Storm" came on the radio.

Spooky and awesome.

Posted by: Auspex at October 01, 2026 09:19 AM (Y8DZL)

328 Well, I guess my 'in my birthday suit ' rain dance isn't working. Supposed I scared it?
Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 09:07 AM (10NPz)

*removes pipe*
You have to let nature take its course. Give it time, it will work.
*resumes peacefully puffing pipe*

Posted by: Sgt. Miller, Force 10 From Navarone at October 01, 2026 09:19 AM (wVcYX)

329 Giving that "name" to a child should itself be a capital crime.
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Could be worse.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 01, 2026 09:19 AM (enkoP)

330 "Dan Smith...BYU."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 09:18 AM (/C5Rl)

Pffffffft.

Posted by: Jaquarious Jaquavious Jaquonious. Miami University. at October 01, 2026 09:20 AM (gLYp7)

331 16 U.S. Trucking Companies File For Bankruptcy In Less Than A Month As Diesel Prices Soar

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 09:20 AM (RHGPo)

332 The CCP propaganda network is also behind the anti-AI/data center hysterics. And it’s working.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 09:21 AM (6lPOA)

333 "Tiphanee", "Antwaan", and all their illiterate kin are prima facie evidence that you have failed in your first duty as a parent: keep your sons out of prison and your daughters off the pole.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 01, 2026 09:21 AM (qlLNh)

334 "Dan Smith...BYU."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 09:18 AM (/C5Rl)

Pffffffft.
Posted by: Jaquarious Jaquavious Jaquonious. Miami University. at October 01, 2026 09:20 AM

I'll just leave this here.

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

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 09:21 AM (/C5Rl)

335 I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: Ha Ha Clinton-Dix at October 01, 2026 09:22 AM (2Ez/1)

336 Tiphanee", "Antwaan", and all their illiterate kin are prima facie evidence that you have failed in your first duty as a parent: keep your sons out of prison and your daughters off the pole.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Excuse me?
- Ah Ayron

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 09:22 AM (6lPOA)

337 I know a guy who killed three people with a pencil.
Posted by: Ben Had

The Chicago typewriter got quite a few.

https://tinyurl.com/5427bxj7

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 09:22 AM (ndZc7)

338 >>> Teegan

Giving that "name" to a child should itself be a capital crime.

Unless you turn out to be a fabulously popular food blogger/cookbook writer!

Tieghan Gerard
https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 09:22 AM (rOKnE)

339 There used to be a site called “Stupid Kid Names”. It’s mind-boggling, the monikers that some kids get saddled with.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 09:22 AM (77rzZ)

340 16 U.S. Trucking Companies File For Bankruptcy In Less Than A Month As Diesel Prices Soar

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 09:20 AM (RHGPo)

Alternative suggestion - "16 U.S. Trucking Companies File For Bankruptcy In Less Than A Month As DoT Cracks Down on Illegals Getting CDL Licenses."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 09:22 AM (gLYp7)

341 Is this about me?

Posted by: BenJarvus Green-Ellis at October 01, 2026 09:23 AM (2Ez/1)

342 Republican Steve Hilton: “When you were HHS Secretary, you were responsible for 479,000 unaccompanied migrant children and for their welfare in camps that you ran.”

“You sent them because you dismantled the vetting that should have made sure that they were with a safe, protective family or sponsor.”

“You sent thousands of young children directly into the clutches of child sex and labor traffickers, hundreds of thousands of children that you were responsible for are still missing today, 100,000 of them are under ten years old.”

When Democrat Xavier Becerra attempted to play off the narrative as just another “Trump talking point,” Hilton landed his final haymaker:

Republican Steve Hilton: “It was the New York Times — and they won a Pulitzer Prize for it!

”There’s just no coming back from that. Becerra knew it was over.

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

343 The Christa Pike debacle.... if she lives I bet there's a raft of lawyers ready to make money on her behalf.

Cue the go-fund-me for her....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 09:23 AM (RORbl)

344 >>I had a 4 am start for a road trip years ago and saw lightning along the distant horizon toward where I was going when "Riders on the Storm" came on the radio.

Going home after an evening out, heavy rainstorm had just finished, and John Coltrane's 'After the Rain' came on the radio. Just perfect.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 09:23 AM (NcvvS)

345 I'm not here.

Posted by: Richie Incognito at October 01, 2026 09:24 AM (2Ez/1)

346 181 That delay seems to be a problem...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 08:36 AM (tOcjL)

The delay is for the flight deck crew to confirm that the person looking to enter the cockpit is authorized to do so. If it's a bad actor trying to enter, the code can be overridden and the door won't open.
Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 08:42 AM (J4Dwc)

Yes, I understand that, but the delay here would have been death. And the copilot would have overridden, so it's the same problem. No way to get in...you can't have it rely on trustworthy pilots.

Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 09:24 AM (tOcjL)

347 'Scopin' colons all day can't be a lot of fun, but I guess someone has to do it.

Posted by: Hope Solo Fan Club at October 01, 2026 09:25 AM (Fn+3X)

348 RNC Research-

Hasan Piker says he'll make sure James Talarico follows his far-Left agenda if he becomes a Senator:

"After James Talarico wins...we have to remind him that...we are the force that allowed him to win this seat of power, and if he wants to maintain it he’s got to play ball.”

Posted by: redridinghood at October 01, 2026 09:25 AM (NpAcC)

349 Chuck Schumer admits that Democrats have no real plan to help Americans if they take control of Congress.

REPORTER: “Can you outline in more detail your agenda if Democrats do retake the Senate?”

SCHUMER: “We’re going to do everything we can to lower people’s costs…”

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

350 16 U.S. Trucking Companies File For Bankruptcy In Less Than A Month As Diesel Prices Soar

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 09:20 AM (RHGPo)

LMAO - and if about 150 trucking companies file for bankruptcy every year - which seems about right to me - that would not be an unusual statistic, just maybe two extra companies that month. If it's more than 150, then the month would be average.

But pair it with a scary "price" headline and you have yourself some good old fashioned propaganda.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 09:25 AM (enkoP)

351 26 pages...

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at October 01, 2026 09:26 AM (2Xrky)

352 Gotta go old school.

Posted by: Bronko Nagurski at October 01, 2026 09:26 AM (2Ez/1)

353 Remember me?

Posted by: He Hate Me with the XFL Las Vegas Outlaws at October 01, 2026 09:26 AM (wVcYX)

354 Alternative suggestion - "16 U.S. Trucking Companies File For Bankruptcy In Less Than A Month As DoT Cracks Down on Illegals Getting CDL Licenses."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 09:22 AM (gLYp7)

Or that!!! 😂

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 09:27 AM (enkoP)

355 > This year. No Atlantic hurricanes.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 08:46 AM (u82oZ)

I once got banned from a leftist forum by linking NOAA's comprehensive list of historic hurricanes (curiously removed later in the Jug Eared Fuck administration) and challenging anyone to show that either the number or the mean intensity of hurricanes had increased over the course of the 20th Century.

You can't, because they didn't -- but data doesn't matter in LeftyLand.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 01, 2026 09:27 AM (qlLNh)

356 16 U.S. Trucking Companies File For Bankruptcy ...because they can't hire illegals

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at October 01, 2026 09:28 AM (2Xrky)

357 There’s just no coming back from that. Becerra knew it was over.
Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

He could admit to killing all those minors and he’d still win by 10%. Forget it Jake it Californiatownn.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 09:28 AM (6lPOA)

358 Gross Rexman.

Posted by: Rex Grossman at October 01, 2026 09:28 AM (2Ez/1)

359 357 There’s just no coming back from that. Becerra knew it was over.
Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

He could admit to killing all those minors and he’d still win by 10%. Forget it Jake it Californiatownn.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 09:28 AM (6lPOA)

I'm in CA... You're right

Posted by: It's me donna at October 01, 2026 09:28 AM (+gK6I)

360 "Hey, I ain't no crack historian like Victor Davis Hanson or Robert Spencer, but I had no idea that Houston Tx was a Muslim land?!"

There is a very large 'Islamic Center' a five minute drive from Casa Gref, in a middle class neighborhood in Houston. Large meeting spaces, a basketball court, and I don't know what else. I only know what I know because I see it when voting there on actual Election Days.

Posted by: Gref at October 01, 2026 09:28 AM (5rh/l)

361 Yes, I understand that, but the delay here would have been death. And the copilot would have overridden, so it's the same problem. No way to get in...you can't have it rely on trustworthy pilots.
Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 09:24 AM (tOcjL)

Yep.

I once had a FA ask me if I'd open the cockpit door if she were being held with a knife to her throat by a perp demanding to be let in.

I told her no.

She did not looked pleased.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 09:29 AM (J4Dwc)

362 I was bad juju.

Posted by: JuJu Smith Schuster at October 01, 2026 09:29 AM (2Ez/1)

363 a basketball court
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Wonder who they're trying to attract.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 09:29 AM (enkoP)

364 There is a very large 'Islamic Center' a five minute drive from Casa Gref, in a middle class neighborhood in Houston. Large meeting spaces, a basketball court, and I don't know what else. I only know what I know because I see it when voting there on actual Election Days.

Posted by: Gref at October 01, 2026 09:28 AM (5rh/l)

That part includes the firing range and weapons storage facilities.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 09:29 AM (gLYp7)

365 Was it Al Qaeda, Isis, or Iran who promised us 100 more 9/11s? In any case, they'll never give up trying.

Posted by: PG at October 01, 2026 09:30 AM (S5uGP)

366 U.S. Trucking Companies File For Bankruptcy In Less Than A Month As Diesel Prices Soar

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6 dollar/gallon diesel in not the reason why they filed for bankruptcy, hiring illegals or those who speak not Engrish is not a good business model

Posted by: runner at October 01, 2026 09:30 AM (AKptf)

367 Nood art.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 09:30 AM (NcvvS)

368 361 Yes, I understand that, but the delay here would have been death. And the copilot would have overridden, so it's the same problem. No way to get in...you can't have it rely on trustworthy pilots.
Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 09:24 AM (tOcjL)

Yep.

I once had a FA ask me if I'd open the cockpit door if she were being held with a knife to her throat by a perp demanding to be let in.

I told her no.

She did not looked pleased.
Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 09:29 AM (J4Dwc)

You could have said you'd start throwing soda cans at him and bum rushing him so she'd have a chance to take him down with you...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 09:30 AM (tOcjL)

369 Dark art up

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2026 09:31 AM (nZ6VT)

370 A well swung aluminum bat to the back of the head pretty well seals the deal.
Posted by: Bonecrusher at October 01, 2026 09:11 AM (JNTt1)

This is how it's done. There is no "I" in "Team".

Posted by: Zombie Al Capone at October 01, 2026 09:31 AM (w+jhU)

371 I'm not here.
Posted by: Richie Incognito at October 01, 2026 09:24 AM (2Ez/1)

I got abruptly disappeared.

Posted by: Chuck Cunningham at October 01, 2026 09:31 AM (wVcYX)

372 >>He could admit to killing all those minors and he’d still win by 10%. Forget it Jake it Californiatownn.

Yup, they have perfected voter fraud, and every mail-in ballot issued to a dead person, person who's moved out of the state, that was issued to an illegal alien will vote Baccerra. And if that doesn't do it, they will keep "finding" ballots for weeks and weeks until he does.

See Nithya's miraculous win over Pratt weeks after the election

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 09:31 AM (rOKnE)

373 > Tieghan Gerard
Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 09:22 AM (rOKnE)

That, at least, looks like a half-assed attempt at the original Irish spelling. Wrong, but at least they tried.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 01, 2026 09:32 AM (qlLNh)

374 It's the 2nd failed execution this year. Supposition is that they didn't get the needle in the vein. I say, "If she's unconscious, any form of execution is humane."

Put her in the passenger seat of a public transportation, the locals can efficiently do the job.

OR

Send her ass to Canada and tell them she is depressed.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 01, 2026 09:32 AM (pawvM)

375 Good morning! Thank, J.J.

"The letter argues that the U.S. and Iran “can live together in peaceful coexistence” if the U.S. accedes to certain demands, including ending aid to Israel, avoiding foreign wars, and closing its overseas military bases." (Time, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Pens Open Letter to American Voters, Sep 30, 2026)

Before the U.S. midterm elections. Ever watching and leaning in, i.e., Arab Center, Washington, D.C., 'Changing Democratic Party Views on Israel and Palestine Boost US Democratic Socialists,' Aug 5, 2026 (Last paragraph of the article in particular.)
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Ynet news: 'Three years since Oct. 7: families plan silence, protests and public testimony across Israel'
Bereaved families and former hostages will lead a week of events marking three years since the Hamas attack, including a 6:29 a.m. moment of silence, nationwide protests, convoys, testimony and a central Tel Aviv memorial ceremony, published 9/28/26

Cont'd -

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 09:33 AM (NFX2v)

376 Continued -

"The Space Left Behind” exhibition will open to the public on Oct. 4 and feature personal objects that tell the stories of those killed, abducted or otherwise affected by Oct. 7. Among them are Ariel Bibas’ balance bike, IDF observer Roni Eshel’s beret, paramedic Amit Mann’s stethoscope, Yagev Buchshtab’s musical instruments and the camera of ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth photographer Roy Edan."

Of course, there will be more in Israel, and also internationally and virtually. And in the U.S., communities, synagogues, and local organizations across the U.S. will hold commemorative vigils, memorial services, and educational programs around this date to honor the victims and hostages.

But -

JSN: SCOOP: 'State Department to host Oct. 7 memorial for slain Americans'
The event will take place just ahead of the three-year anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks and is being organized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s office, JNS learned. Sep. 23, 2026

JNS, Sep. 29, 2026, 'State Department postpones memorial for US Oct. 7 victims, no new date set'
JNS sought comment from Foggy Bottom after breaking the news about the event, which was initially planned for Sept. 30.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 09:33 AM (NFX2v)

377 It's what GOP voters have demanded of the GOP since time imemmorial.

"Biden flooded the country with illegals to change the nation, damn the short term consequences because he knew it would lead to long term gains. Why can't the GOP do that?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=========
Because the GOP donor class is of the left of the party and so is the Dem donor class. This derives from our rotten higher indoctrination er education system.

Donor classes have more in common with Eurotrash, Chicom elites, and Indian dot elites than they do with their own countrymen. This is why the WEF publicly made so many pronouncements that were right out of Karl Marx--you will own nothing and be happy.

We had duplicated the nomenklatura class worldwide of the old Soviet Union.

Posted by: whig at October 01, 2026 09:33 AM (E4rtv)

378 This is how it's done. There is no "I" in "Team".

There is if you look at the negative space in the letter 'a'

Posted by: Community Notes at October 01, 2026 09:33 AM (pawvM)

379 You could have said you'd start throwing soda cans at him and bum rushing him so she'd have a chance to take him down with you...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 01, 2026 09:30 AM (tOcjL)

Yeah, I could've said that. However, I wasn't in on the strategy session that made the rule which required me to tell her no. That was way above my paygrade.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 01, 2026 09:34 AM (J4Dwc)

380 364 There is a very large 'Islamic Center' a five minute drive from Casa Gref, in a middle class neighborhood in Houston. Large meeting spaces, a basketball court, and I don't know what else. I only know what I know because I see it when voting there on actual Election Days.

Posted by: Gref at October 01, 2026 09:28 AM (5rh/l)

That part includes the firing range and weapons storage facilities.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 09:29 AM (gLYp7)
====
Sounds like the one west of Hwy6 around West Little York. . . . . .Not far from Copperfield where I live.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at October 01, 2026 09:34 AM (JNTt1)

381 337 I know a guy who killed three people with a pencil.
Posted by: Ben Had

=========
Heinlein said it best in Starship Troopers. There are no dangerous weapons--there are dangerous people.

Posted by: whig at October 01, 2026 09:36 AM (E4rtv)

382 Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug, prompting Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to halt the one remaining execution for the rest of the year.
Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 08:40 AM (ZxPkt)

Bring back "Ole Sparky". Works every time and provides a good show.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 01, 2026 10:01 AM (hmYU4)

383 Back to firing squads or toward the 'newer' inert gas asphyxiation.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 10:38 AM (NFX2v)

384 Get rid of that fucking MGID ad!! Your site is almost impossible to use without repeated attempts!!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at October 01, 2026 11:26 AM (UWN7z)

385 .
Fucking 'zloids.

Posted by: Marooned at October 01, 2026 12:03 PM (W2rvL)

Daily Tech News 1 October 2026

Top Story

Google has announced Gemini 4 Argon, which the company is calling its most powerful AI model to date that you are not allowed to use. (Tech Crunch)

Thanks Google. Thanks for thirteen years of sucking.
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because fuck you that's why. (Tech Crunch)

Shut up, you're not my real dad!

Also, this:
RSS, or Really Simple Syndication/Rich Site Summary, is a web feed that lets users and applications access updates to a website in a standardized format. The format became particularly popular in the blogging era, as it offered a way to subscribe to a site's new posts in a news-reading app. Google once operated the most popular of these, but shut it down in 2013, ceding the market to companies like Feedly and other indie applications.
2013 was 13 years ago.

Tech News

The Department of Defense has launched Project Meridian, a bold new effort to stop fighting the previous war. (Tech Crunch)

They've called upon Elon Musk, Palmer Lucky (CEO of defense contractor Anduril), and Newt Gingrich to offer their expertise, a move that has deeply offended the perpetually deeply offended.
Speaking of the Pentagon, hackers stole millions of personnel record during a months-long data breach. (Tech Crunch)

Good work, guys.
Speaking of months long data breaches, a teenage hacker found himself in an unprotected Microsoft internal environment with access to 17 trillion records. (Faav)

What is this, a database of ants?
Moonshot AI, the Chinese company behind AI model Kimi K3, tried to hack into OpenAI... And failed. (WCCFTech)

You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, an I find it most ungentlemanly.
Got my Christmas cakes, and my Japanese maple is showing signs of life. Also have my 12-bit 1980s personal computer emulator showing signs of life.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Flowers on the wall, why? Not understand.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 w00t

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)

2 BOING from our sukkah!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 01, 2026 04:31 AM (56DXV)

3 Good Morning!

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 01, 2026 04:32 AM (B6/we)

4 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2026 04:32 AM (Ia/+0)

5 from the ONT

217 The true first is to see the new thread, notify the prior thread and then get the first on the new one. In that order.

Difficult to do, but worth it for a Gentleman.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 11:23 PM (Y/06r)

455 Pixy's up!
Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)

1 w00t
Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)

ta-da!

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)

6 Mornin'.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at October 01, 2026 04:33 AM (O7YUW)

7 The IRGC is arresting and even killing people that have Starlink.

They are so afraid of losing information control they are killing people for even having the device.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 04:34 AM (10NPz)

8 from the ONT:
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.

Maybe they should all be like that?

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:35 AM (odBC9)

9 tech-stuff from the ONT

349 For the first time, AI is starting to scare me.

This new music video is out; about AI, created by AI. No humans involved. It’s too damned good. Not only is the music good, mixing genres (classical and rap) but it makes high level intellectual references in every frame, not to mention the literary games it plays. Such as using the refrain “Thus Spoke Compute” and then casually mentioning Zarathustra.

Our new Overlord is finding its voice.

https://tinyurl.com/4ydws2ew
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 01:14 AM (fuM7

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)

10 "Speaking of the Pentagon, hackers stole millions of personnel record during a months-long data breach."

I've lost count how many times this has happened to those serving in the military. It's more than "a few".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at October 01, 2026 04:38 AM (O7YUW)

11 Thanks Google. Thanks for thirteen years of sucking.

Thirteen years seems kind of generous.

I date the beginning of Googlesuck around 26 years ago when they began serving ads with search results.

YMMV.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 01, 2026 04:41 AM (6ydKt)

12 "What is this, a database of ants?"

Probably something to do with OneDrive and all the data and documents Microsoft has hoovered up from people's computers.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at October 01, 2026 04:41 AM (O7YUW)

13 Disclaimer: Flowers on the wall, why? Not understand.

Floral wallpaper?

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:41 AM (odBC9)

14 Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because fuck you that's why. (Tech Crunch)

Shut up, you're not my real dad!

Which is kind of stupid as RSS is finally making a comeback.
Browers, Firefox at least, has added RSS buttons and readers back into the builds.

I used Google Reader for years until they ended it.
Another example of Googlesuck.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 01, 2026 04:43 AM (6ydKt)

15 26 years ago would anyone have paid for access to search services?

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 04:44 AM (10NPz)

16 Mornin'

10 "Speaking of the Pentagon, hackers stole millions of personnel record during a months-long data breach."

I've lost count how many times this has happened to those serving in the military. It's more than "a few".
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

A day ending in 'Y' at this point.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 01, 2026 04:44 AM (pLaQB)

17 Puddleglum, could these hacks be an inside job?

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 04:45 AM (10NPz)

18 What is this, a database of ants?

A trillion files?

Probably the database where Microsoft keeps everybody's Windows telemetry/spy profiles.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 01, 2026 04:46 AM (6ydKt)

19 After reading the article about the Microsoft hack I’ve concluded a couple of things. That kid has a serious addiction to coding/hacking and could really use a girlfriend/boyfriend. I cannot imagine having the interest or passion to do that at any age, particularly at 15. Good for them.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 01, 2026 04:46 AM (rK0Ia)

20 13 Disclaimer: Flowers on the wall, why? Not understand.

Floral wallpaper?
Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:41 AM (odBC9)

...which would be somewhat dingy and darkened from "smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo."

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:47 AM (odBC9)

21 G&R, you mentioned yesterday that you hadn't been able to get google site search to work for a while.

#metoo

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:48 AM (odBC9)

22 15 26 years ago would anyone have paid for access to search services?

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 04:44 AM (10NPz)

Your choices back then were basically Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, and AskJeeves.

Google was king of the hill even back then, and everything was free (with Ads).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 01, 2026 04:51 AM (6ydKt)

23 primo introvert

It's good to see you, I must go, I know I look a fright
Anyway, my eyes are not accustomed to this light
And my shoes are not accustomed to this hard concrete
So I must go back to my room and make my day complete

Counting flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:52 AM (odBC9)

24 SpeakingOf, I was wondering if people would have paid to keep those services ad free.
Hindsight.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 04:53 AM (10NPz)

25 26 years ago Google still said “don’t be Evil”. They obviously meant that for others.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 01, 2026 04:54 AM (rK0Ia)

26 Ben Had has it started raining?

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 01, 2026 04:55 AM (rK0Ia)

27 Pete Bog, NO. I keep watching it go north of us.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 04:56 AM (10NPz)

28 24 SpeakingOf, I was wondering if people would have paid to keep those services ad free.
Hindsight.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 04:53 AM (10NPz)

I suppose some colleges, government, and big corporations might have paid for search.

Everybody else would've laughed at the idea, because other than Amazon, and other stores, and porn there wasn't much on the internet that you had to pay for.

My biggest problem with Google showing ads wasn't really the ads but that Google turned AdSense into a monopoly very quickly - and then started using that power to censor the internet by denying disfavored "far-right" bloggers ad revenue.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 01, 2026 04:57 AM (6ydKt)

29 "Gathering flowers on the wall"sounds like a phrase for not doing what society expects. I think they're a catchy group.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 05:01 AM (JrHfD)

30 Our new Overlord is finding its voice.

https://tinyurl.com/4ydws2ew

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 01:14 AM (fuM7
Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)
-

Cute!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 01, 2026 05:04 AM (MOPlc)

31 AI hacking things is what it is meant to do.
Google has always sucked. We just didn’t know.
I had a 5 gal steel tank air compressor that I found floating in my tool shed. It might have survived had it not been plugged in.

Posted by: Accomack at October 01, 2026 05:04 AM (nLdZ2)

32 Or its a First and Last

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2026 05:05 AM (Ia/+0)

33 Gentle answers with God's help. Man reflects on Proverbs 15:1-6:

https://tinyurl.com/y53n6xnh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 05:06 AM (JrHfD)

34
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 01, 2026 05:07 AM (AMvSw)

35 17 Puddleglum, could these hacks be an inside job?
Posted by: Ben Had

In a way. Mostly it's just good old fashion laziness, not paying attention, no situational awareness, and ignoring established procedures laid out by the various Cyber offices. Not discounting foreign actors and traitors but mostly its what I said above.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 01, 2026 05:07 AM (pLaQB)

36 Woman and a man sing great mashup of Psalm 23 and the great old hymn, "He leadeth me.":

https://tinyurl.com/mr33nk3x

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 05:10 AM (JrHfD)

37 @15/Ben Had: "26 years ago would anyone have paid for access to search services?"

Oh yes, and they would pay LARGE in certain sectors. For example, there was the ability to connect to the National Library of Medicine's databases (Medline, Toxline + others) to search and retrieve abstracts of medical articles across the world.

https://tinyurl.com/yr3fkspm

They charged dollars-per-minute to access this in the 1980's. Very valuable, and it has saved countless lives.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at October 01, 2026 05:11 AM (O7YUW)

38 >>>Got my Christmas cakes

Christmas in summertime!

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 05:13 AM (odBC9)

39 BBC

Why Australians celebrate Christmas twice a year

https://tinyurl.com/z2ptyvwj

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 05:15 AM (odBC9)

40 Got my Christmas cakes, and my Japanese maple is showing signs of life.

I wish. I tried 3 or 4 different varieties of Japanese maple, but Valley of the Sunstroke is just too hot for them.

Posted by: Adriane the Meteorology Critic. . . at October 01, 2026 05:18 AM (3ZUWJ)

41 The Statler Brothers - Flowers on the Wall (1966)

Some of us weren't born yet.

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 05:20 AM (odBC9)

42 Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 05:20 AM (odBC9

Don't rub it in 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 05:22 AM (JrHfD)

43 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 01, 2026 05:22 AM (Hbeqj)

44 olddog, a Blessed day to you and yours.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 05:24 AM (10NPz)

45 40 Got my Christmas cakes, and my Japanese maple is showing signs of life.

I wish. I tried 3 or 4 different varieties of Japanese maple, but Valley of the Sunstroke is just too hot for them.
Posted by: Adriane the Meteorology Critic. . .

Yeah, that was why I was worried about it. Summer here was hot and dry, and it suffered leaf scorch, and by the time I realised it was too late to do anything. It's definitely not dead though - new season's leaves have finally started showing.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 01, 2026 05:27 AM (BLOW1)

46 Gotvthete way early yesterday
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2026 05:27 AM (Ia/+0)

47 *Got there way early yesterday

--Skip translator

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 05:29 AM (odBC9)

48 m,hahahahah . Well done.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 05:31 AM (10NPz)

49 It's definitely not dead though - new season's leaves have finally started showing.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

3 seasons of glorious color if you're lucky!

So best of luck...

Posted by: Adriane the Meteorology Critic. . . at October 01, 2026 05:31 AM (3ZUWJ)

50 Moar songs from the Statler Bros. album "Flowers On The Wall" (1966)

My Darling Hildegard - King Of The Road - Memphis - I'm Not Quite Through Crying - My Reward - This Ole House - The Ballad Of Billy Christian - The Doodlin' Song - Quite A Long, Long Time - The Whiffenpoof Song - I Still Miss Someone

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 05:34 AM (odBC9)

51 I'm a man of means, by no means ... King of the Road ...

Posted by: Adriane the Meteorology Critic. . . at October 01, 2026 05:37 AM (3ZUWJ)

52 There was a lovely man at the first church I served. He parachuted in on D-Day. He had a great voice and he and his wife used to do duets at the church services. He enjoyed the Statler Brothers.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 05:40 AM (JrHfD)

53 I think the Statler Brothers did "The Class of 57 ..." which is almost Harry Chapin's Taxi in the depths of its "Time Just Gets Away From Us" despair.

Posted by: Adriane the Meteorology Critic. . . at October 01, 2026 05:42 AM (3ZUWJ)

54 48 m,hahahahah . Well done.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 05:31 AM (10NPz)

; )

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 05:42 AM (odBC9)

55 Evening and morning, Thor's Day flybys and standbys! Are we all here? Are we having fun yet?

The Statler Bros. produced some of the best country music ever. "Flowers" is particularly dry in its wit, but I also love "The Movies" with its clever lyrics and "The Class of '57 Had Its Dreams," with a recounting of the singer's high school classmates and their subsequent lives.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 01, 2026 05:43 AM (wzUl9)

56 Oy!

Good night to those going to bed & Good morning to those getting out of ...

Posted by: Adriane the Meteorology Critic. . . at October 01, 2026 05:45 AM (3ZUWJ)

57 It's good to see you, I must go, I know I look a fright
Anyway, my eyes are not accustomed to this light
And my shoes are not accustomed to this hard concrete
So I must go back to my room and make my day complete

Counting flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all
Posted by: m at October 01, 2026

***
The narrator is an introvert, yes, but he's also putting a brave face on his meeting with a former lover who is out partying, or who is openly cheating on him, and pretending he's perfectly happy with his lot.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 01, 2026 05:46 AM (wzUl9)

58 Thank you, Ben Had. Pray all is going smoothly for you.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 01, 2026 05:47 AM (Hbeqj)

59 Rain in the forecast today here in east TX.
I’m ready.

Posted by: Billythesquid at October 01, 2026 05:47 AM (x4l2h)

60 Counting flowers on the wall
That don't bother me at all
Playing solitaire till dawn
With a pack of fifty one
Smokin cigarettes and watching
Captain Kangaroo
Now don't tell me
I've nothing to do.

I remember that song from many, many years ago.

Posted by: Case at October 01, 2026 05:49 AM (9+0gc)

61 Anyway! I dreamed I was in a gun shop and asked to see a Sig-Sauer, since Hannity mentions them all the time. The clerk took out a box and apparently had to assemble the gun from scratch. I said, "Before you go to that trouble, can you give me some idea how the gun would fit my hand?" He handed me a block of wood that looked like no handgun butt in history and which naturally was too big for my hand. I told him, "Never mind." (Hey, it was a dream.)

I'm taking off from working out today; my lower back is bothering me a little. I've got errands galore this morning, including haircut, gas station, etc.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 01, 2026 05:51 AM (wzUl9)

62 Good morning, All

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 01, 2026 05:53 AM (PKL0q)

63 ...which would be somewhat dingy and darkened from "smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo."

Posted by: m

>Mr. Green Jeans was more into the herb. He commuted on the pineapple express.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 01, 2026 05:57 AM (VQ7/I)

64 Wikipedia, The Statler Brothers Discography, says that, as a single, "Flowers on the Wall" was released in 1965; then appeared on the album "Flowers on the Wall" (1966).

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 05:58 AM (odBC9)

65 mornin yall. I see they gave that evil woman a "lethal" injection and she survived so they took her to the hospital. There's your absurdity for the day. Is there no one competent anymore? What the actual f'n fk?

Posted by: fd at October 01, 2026 06:01 AM (MWfyi)

66 Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because fuck you that's why. (Tech Crunch)

https://archive.is/hzttk
(archived)

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 06:02 AM (odBC9)

67 From "The Movies":

"Citizen Kane, Caine Mutiny, Mutiny on the Bounty,
The Bounty Hunters and Hunters and The Sting,
Thunder Road, and Road to Rio, Rio Grande, and Grand Hotel;
Tell them Willie Boy Was Here with Bride of Frankenstein and Shane;
I love anything that moves, dancin' feet to horses hooves!
Payton Place to Dorothy's trip to Oz,
Tom Mix to David Hedison! Thank you, Thomas Edison,
For giving us the best years of our lives!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 01, 2026 06:04 AM (wzUl9)

68
26 years ago Google still said “don’t be Evil”. They obviously meant that for others.
Posted by: Pete Bog at October 01, 2026 04:54 AM (rK0Ia)

Then: Don't Be Evil.

Now: Don't. Be Evil.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 06:07 AM (eRlcH)

69 From "The Class of '57":

"Tommy's selling used cars, Nancy's fixing hair,
Harvey runs a grocery store and Margaret doesn't care.
Jerry drives a truck for Sears and Charlotte's on the make,
And Paul sells life insurance and part time real estate.

And the class of '57 had its dreams!
Oh, we all thought we'd change the world with our great works and deeds.
Or maybe we just thought the world would change to fit our needs.
The class of '57 had its dreams!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 01, 2026 06:07 AM (wzUl9)

70
RSS
noun
a standardized system for the distribution of content from an online publisher: creating an RSS feed that others can subscribe to | I have eight blogs in my iPhone RSS reader.
origin
1990s: originally an abbreviation of RDF Site Summary, later interpreted as Rich Site Summary, and now usually as Really Simple Syndication.

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 06:08 AM (odBC9)

71 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 01, 2026 06:10 AM (VyBeY)

72 @64. m

In 1965 I was 8 years old. That's pretty good to remember a song that many years ago. But I think one line I said pack of fifty one when it should have been deck of fifty one. This is what happens to a kid who's parents were big country fans and had their car radios blasting country music all the time.

Posted by: Case at October 01, 2026 06:10 AM (9+0gc)

73 funny from the ONT:

451 A past MoMe funny. Imagine my trepidation about what to feed CBD. I was sweating bullets. The guy that writes the food thread was coming.

I went with chile rellenos and roasted pig. Worked out great!
Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 04:28 AM (10NPz)

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 06:10 AM (odBC9)

74 Playin' solitaire till dawn,
with a deck of fifty one

I always thought it was about killing time, can't win this game.
Another interpretation was "not playing with a full deck", lost his mind, deeply depressed

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 01, 2026 06:11 AM (PKL0q)

75 Schools across France are being set on fire as student protests and blockades rage on.
-

They're a little late this year.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 01, 2026 06:11 AM (skLNB)

76 72 @64. m

In 1965 I was 8 years old. That's pretty good to remember a song that many years ago. But I think one line I said pack of fifty one when it should have been deck of fifty one. This is what happens to a kid who's parents were big country fans and had their car radios blasting country music all the time.
Posted by: Case at October 01, 2026 06:10 AM (9+0gc)

Ha!
"Well, heck, we listen to all kinds of music! Country. And western!"

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 06:13 AM (odBC9)

77
They're a little late this year.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 01, 2026 06:11 AM (skLNB)

It's always Riot Season in France.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 06:13 AM (eRlcH)

78 Mornin', Horde. 55 degrees, going up to 90 (probably last time this year), in Kentuckiana.

>>ta-da!
Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)

m, getting the first nood on the old thread for me is possible, but my hands don't work well enough to go for the first on the new thread. Sometimes works out, though.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 06:17 AM (NcvvS)

79 Ha!
"Well, heck, we listen to all kinds of music! Country. And western!"
Posted by: m at October 01, 2026

***
Reminds me of the one great scene in Blues Brothers, when they are trying to play blues in a honky tonk bar and the patrons are throwing glass bottles at them. Desperate, they swing into the Rawhide theme (Jake mentions "Rowdy Yates") and are a big hit.

Rawhide had been gone for almost fifteen years at that point, but the song and Eastwood's character name were still remembered.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 01, 2026 06:19 AM (wzUl9)

80 >>Browers, Firefox at least, has added RSS buttons and readers back into the builds.

Thunderbird supports RSS; used it to read most of the blogs I look at since about 2002. Sadly, many of them are now dormant or defunct.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 06:21 AM (NcvvS)

81
Our new Overlord is finding its voice.

https://tinyurl.com/4ydws2ew
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 01:14 AM (fuM7
Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)

------

That AI-generated music is (IMHO).clever and complex.
" You modeled the tractor,
now the tractor builds a fleet"

What year did Skynet become self-aware?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 01, 2026 06:21 AM (PKL0q)

82 21 G&R, you mentioned yesterday that you hadn't been able to get google site search to work for a while.

#metoo
Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:48 AM (odBC9)

Recently, Google completely failed me when I tried to find the classic Ace roast of Chris Hayes, advising him to get a hotdog cart. I ended up using Microsoft Bing to find it, and now I have it bookmarked in case Bing croaks too:

https://ace.mu.nu/archives/355499.php

So that's where we're at. Even for a simple site:ace.mu.nu search, Google is so incompetent now that *Microsoft* is more useful.

Posted by: SciVo at October 01, 2026 06:22 AM (ke3zm)

83 >>>Got my Christmas cakes, and my Japanese maple is showing signs of life. Also have my 12-bit 1980s personal computer emulator showing signs of life.

This collection of Pixy-news is posted under Tech News, which technically seems ok because the computer story is sneaked in there at the end. It might have been happier under the Top Story category?

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 06:23 AM (odBC9)

84 I need a new phone browser - Brave just quit working for this site, I deleted cache, no good. So it’s back to Safari with popups.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 06:27 AM (fuM78)

85
Then: Don't Be Evil.

Now: Don't. Be Evil.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 06:07 AM (eRlcH)l

-------

Or maybe our new overlords are saying;
Don't Be.
- Evil.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 01, 2026 06:27 AM (PKL0q)

86 @81/JM in Illinois: "What year did Skynet become self-aware?"

2:14 AM Eastern Time, August 29th, 1997

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at October 01, 2026 06:29 AM (O7YUW)

87 78 Mornin', Horde. 55 degrees, going up to 90 (probably last time this year), in Kentuckiana.

>>ta-da!
Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)

m, getting the first nood on the old thread for me is possible, but my hands don't work well enough to go for the first on the new thread. Sometimes works out, though.
Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 06:17 AM (NcvvS)

No penalty for failing!

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 06:32 AM (odBC9)

88 G'mornin all y'all
Finally getting real rain in central OK.

Posted by: Okjohn at October 01, 2026 06:33 AM (6mepF)

89 When I started a new company in 2003 I setup a web site and signed up for Adsense. It only took a few days for me to find out that it you wanted to be in the top listings you had to pay. The search was based more on how much you as an advertiser paid rather than how relative to what was being searched for.

I dumped Adsense quickly and have been content with my site coming up three or four pages down. It's a disservice to people who really need me though, because they are led on a bunch of wild goose chases before, and if, they find me.

Posted by: fd at October 01, 2026 06:34 AM (MWfyi)

90 30 Our new Overlord is finding its voice.

https://tinyurl.com/4ydws2ew

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 01:14 AM (fuM7
Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)
-

Cute!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 01, 2026 05:04 AM (MOPlc)

"Cute."

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 06:35 AM (odBC9)

91 It’s not “gathering flowers” it’s counting.

“ Countin' flowers on the wall
That don't bother me at all
Playin' solitaire 'til dawn with a deck of 51
Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo
Now don't tell me, I've nothin' to do”

He’s sitting in a room with cheap floral wallpaper awake all night long thinking about how he got dumped and trying to put on a brave face.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 06:37 AM (fuM78)

92 >>No penalty for failing!
Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 06:32 AM (odBC9)

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 06:37 AM (NcvvS)

93 85
Then: Don't Be Evil.

Now: Don't. Be Evil.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 06:07 AM (eRlcH)l

-------

Or maybe our new overlords are saying;
Don't Be.
- Evil.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 01, 2026 06:27 AM (PKL0q)

d
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n
t
b
evil

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 06:41 AM (odBC9)

94 Did somebody sabotage the Pike execution? Watered down the Phenobarbital? Would you be surprised?

Posted by: fd at October 01, 2026 06:41 AM (MWfyi)

95 John Ternus, the new Apple CEO, plans to make the company leaner and release products quicker. To celebrate this milestone he's already laid off a bunch of people and has ratcheted up the pressure on the rest. It's a matter of time before they put up the suicide nets at Apple HQ.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 01, 2026 06:42 AM (VyD10)

96 Midwest Chick's Thursday memes are up:

https://tinyurl.com/4ewpyjvk

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 06:42 AM (NcvvS)

97 94 Did somebody sabotage the Pike execution? Watered down the Phenobarbital? Would you be surprised?

Posted by: fd at October 01, 2026 06:41 AM (MWfyi)

She requested, and got, a team of female guards.

Which, I guess, isn't usual, as she had to be transferred from a female prison to a male prison for the execution.

When I read that I briefly wondered if the girls on the team helped a sister out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 01, 2026 06:44 AM (6ydKt)

98 A beef & bean burrito with cheese and chili powder, an English muffin with peanut butter & honey, and now my Cafe Bruoso coffee, along with my pipe: a good way to start a day.

Cafe Bruoso (Italian name?) is the new espresso blend Aldi carries now instead of Cafe El Morro. The price is the same, $3.65/8.8 oz., so a little less than $7 for a pound. Pretty good when Community Coffee and other big names run $12 for 12 oz.. Horrifying for somebody who remembers the late '80s, when you could buy 12 oz. of RT brand coffee-with-chicory at the grocery for about $2.50.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 01, 2026 06:44 AM (wzUl9)

99 95 John Ternus, the new Apple CEO, plans to make the company leaner and release products quicker. To celebrate this milestone he's already laid off a bunch of people and has ratcheted up the pressure on the rest. It's a matter of time before they put up the suicide nets at Apple HQ.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 01, 2026 06:42 AM (VyD10)

They release phones every year.
Just about every thing else is on a two to three year release schedule as far as I can tell.

How much can he speed that process up without starting to screw up something somewhere?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 01, 2026 06:48 AM (6ydKt)

100 100

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 06:48 AM (odBC9)

101 Can't find "bruoso" in my Spanish dictionary, and online only gives "brioso" (with an I) in Italian as "lively, vivacious, cheerful."

Online, "brioso" in Spanish is "spirited, determined, elegant." Maybe "Bruoso" is a corruption of it, from a family name.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 01, 2026 06:49 AM (wzUl9)

102 Did somebody sabotage the Pike execution? Watered down the Phenobarbital? Would you be surprised?
Posted by: fd

She received two lethal doses of phenobarbital and all that accomplished was to take her snore so loud they could hear in the witness room. I read somewhere earlier this evening that the phenobarbital was old and may have been a lesser strength.

Our legal and penal systems are just not serious about capital punishment; she's been sitting on death row for 30 years. If the law meant what it says she would have been hung 25 years ago. Or given a slaughter house bolt through the forehead.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 01, 2026 06:50 AM (VyD10)

103 82 21 Recently, Google completely failed me when I tried to find the classic Ace roast of Chris Hayes, advising him to get a hotdog cart. I ended up using Microsoft Bing to find it, and now I have it bookmarked in case Bing croaks too:

https://ace.mu.nu/archives/355499.php

So that's where we're at. Even for a simple site:ace.mu.nu search, Google is so incompetent now that *Microsoft* is more useful.
Posted by: SciVo at October 01, 2026 06:22 AM (ke3zm)

That post could go under one of the two categories on the right side of this present page:

Top Top Tens
Greatest Hit Jobs

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 06:51 AM (odBC9)

104 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 06:53 AM (RIvkX)

105 classic Ace roast of Chris Hayes

March 13, 2015
And Now a Polite and High-Minded Conversation With Chris Hayes In Which We Discuss The Important Matters of The Day As Well as His Future With MSNBC

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 06:54 AM (odBC9)

106 How much can he speed that process up without starting to screw up something somewhere?
Posted by: Speaking of

Apple is extraordinarily good at all aspects of their business. I'm not sure how speeding up the assembly line and staffing it with less people is going to make things better. But if the new CEO wants to morph Apple into Samsung all I can say is go for it.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 01, 2026 06:56 AM (VyD10)

107 Recently, Google completely failed me when I tried to find the classic Ace roast of Chris Hayes, advising him to get a hotdog cart. I ended up using Microsoft Bing to find it, and now I have it bookmarked in case Bing croaks too:

https://ace.mu.nu/archives/355499.php

So that's where we're at. Even for a simple site:ace.mu.nu search, Google is so incompetent now that *Microsoft* is more useful.
Posted by: SciVo at October 01, 2026

***
That post is from 2015. Yet Ace's Twatter/Eks feed is labeled "James Talarico's Musky Heterosexual Urges." ??? JT wasn't on the political map back then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 01, 2026 06:57 AM (wzUl9)

108 103 82 21 Recently, Google completely failed me when I tried to find the classic Ace roast of Chris Hayes, advising him to get a hotdog cart. I ended up using Microsoft Bing to find it, and now I have it bookmarked in case Bing croaks too:

https://ace.mu.nu/archives/355499.php

So that's where we're at. Even for a simple site:ace.mu.nu search, Google is so incompetent now that *Microsoft* is more useful.
Posted by: SciVo at October 01, 2026 06:22 AM (ke3zm)

That post could go under one of the two categories on the right side of this present page:

Top Top Tens
Greatest Hit Jobs
Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 06:51 AM (odBC9)

It would have to be under Greatest Hit Jobs.
(not under Top Top Tens)

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 06:58 AM (odBC9)

109 I've completely forgotten Chris Hayes anyway -- which is probably what Ace was pointing up even then, that he'd soon be forgotten.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 01, 2026 06:58 AM (wzUl9)

110 Justice delayed is Justice denied.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 01, 2026 06:58 AM (36x1j)

111 Nazdar

Thank you. She is good people.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

112 @50 The Whiffenpoof Song

No kidding? There's no telling where old Kipling will show up.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 01, 2026 06:59 AM (zdLoL)

113 Ironically, NYC Mayor Madmani chose this week to release his "Let's fight antisemitism" statement while his wife attends an Islamic retreat dedicated to wiping out the Jewish people.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 01, 2026 06:59 AM (6V1cC)

114 There really is no larger cache of misinformation on the web than Reddit.

Posted by: Jay at October 01, 2026 06:59 AM (zhWvq)

115 Their wedding guests couldn't make it because of a storm. Hundreds of kind people showed up instead. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/4xde77zp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 07:00 AM (JrHfD)

116 CNN: Investigators across the Middle East are trying to find out why a pilot allegedly stabbed his captain and tried to seize control of a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight.

Could it be, ISLAM?

Posted by: fd at October 01, 2026 07:01 AM (MWfyi)

117 Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions.

The quest for new hardware makes Apple (who do not do backward compatibility) an enemy of Gaia.

For some reason the Left ddo not protest.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

118
***
That post is from 2015. Yet Ace's Twatter/Eks feed is labeled "James Talarico's Musky Heterosexual Urges." ??? JT wasn't on the political map back then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 01, 2026 06:57 AM (wzUl9)

I suspect that the code of that post simply contained links to Ace’s X feed. Now that the name has been changed for the season in that account, it looks like X has changed the name on all past posts, for consistency or something.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 07:03 AM (fuM78)

119 Ace changes the name of his twitter feed with some frequency

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 01, 2026 07:05 AM (I4gbT)

120 107 That post is from 2015. Yet Ace's Twatter/Eks feed is labeled "James Talarico's Musky Heterosexual Urges." ??? JT wasn't on the political map back then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 01, 2026 06:57 AM (wzUl9)

I'm deducing that the temporary, continually changing name on the account updates to the current account name.

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 07:05 AM (odBC9)

121 114 There really is no larger cache of misinformation on the web than Reddit.
Posted by: Jay at October 01, 2026 06:59 AM (zhWvq)

huh
I'd read an AoSHq entry on that topic!

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 07:06 AM (odBC9)

122 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at October 01, 2026 07:07 AM (2Ez/1)

123 I suspect that the code of that post simply contained links to Ace’s X feed. Now that the name has been changed for the season in that account, it looks like X has changed the name on all past posts, for consistency or something.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026

***
I was thinking something like that but did not know how to articulate it. Thanks!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 01, 2026 07:07 AM (wzUl9)

124

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 01, 2026 07:09 AM (Mn4/A)

125 You're welcome, Salty. Also, if you haven't, check out her posts yesterday - she must have had fun writing those.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 07:09 AM (NcvvS)

126 Nazdar

I read her every day. She has a sound viewpoint.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

127 Hillary Clinton

Ah, one of the Great Old Ones has arrived.

No one gets a saving throw for sanity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 07:11 AM (u82oZ)

128 >>I read her every day. She has a sound viewpoint.

Yep, very practical Midwestern.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 07:12 AM (NcvvS)

129 what is this word

Gotvthete

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 07:12 AM (ZxPkt)

130 Ironically, NYC Mayor Madmani chose this week to release his "Let's fight antisemitism" statement while his wife attends an Islamic retreat dedicated to wiping out the Jewish people.

--

His "watch what my right hand is doing, not my left" is so transparently obvious. It's almost laughable.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 07:13 AM (qBdHI)

131 >>Gotvthete

Looks like it should have been 'Got there'.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 07:13 AM (NcvvS)

132 1941's Out of the Fog from Warner's, with John Garfield, Ida Lupino, and Thomas Mitchell is on Movies! Thursday is their Noir Day, and as it's the first of the month they have a new slate of films I haven't seen before.

Speaking of October, now I have to listen to Linda telling me that this is Stirling the black cat's month. I say, "Yes, and so are the other eleven."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 01, 2026 07:14 AM (wzUl9)

133 96 Midwest Chick's Thursday memes are up:

https://tinyurl.com/4ewpyjvk
Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 06:42 AM (NcvvS)

Oh! Thanks for this!

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 07:15 AM (odBC9)

134 I would not be one bit surprised if somehow Pike's execution was sabotaged. It sounds completely hinky. The governor will probably grant her clemency now, since she's been through such "trauma."

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 07:17 AM (qBdHI)

135 In 1938, 88 years ago today, Neville Chamberlain announced he signed his treaty with Germany in his famous "Peace in our time!" speech.

Didn't work.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 01, 2026 07:17 AM (e3dOD)

136 She should have been executed in the same manner as her victim. No chance of that going wrong.

Posted by: fd at October 01, 2026 07:19 AM (MWfyi)

137 >>>Did somebody sabotage the Pike execution?

>It was Spock. He hijacked the entire mission. Those are vulcans are crafty and formidable.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 01, 2026 07:20 AM (VQ7/I)

138 Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 07:17 AM (qBdHI)

I thought the initial excuse for torturing murdering the young women was ludicrous, although I suppose people say all kind of things to justify wrong actions. I've done it too. I just never murdered a classmate and said "Well, I was abused as a kid." Yeah, sure. Uhh huh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 07:21 AM (JrHfD)

139
This Pike thing is a Talosian illusion. Don't be fooled.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 01, 2026 07:24 AM (w6EFb)

140 FenelonSpoke

If you need an alibi, please let me know. I'll cover for you.

We do know about buzzion.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 07:24 AM (u82oZ)

141 133 96 Midwest Chick's Thursday memes are up:

https://tinyurl.com/4ewpyjvk
Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 06:42 AM (NcvvS)

Oh! Thanks for this!
Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 07:15 AM (odBC9)

The last one, the Dolly Parton one, is a real tear-jerker.

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 07:24 AM (odBC9)

142 Moonshot AI, the Chinese company behind AI model Kimi K3, tried to hack into OpenAI... And failed.

Is there any IP the Chinese won't try to steal?

Posted by: Halfhand at October 01, 2026 07:25 AM (n7Buj)

143 138 Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 07:17 AM (qBdHI)

I thought the initial excuse for torturing murdering the young women was ludicrous, although I suppose people say all kind of things to justify wrong actions. I've done it too.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 07:21 AM (JrHfD)

hahahahahahaha

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 07:26 AM (odBC9)

144 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 07:27 AM (NcvvS)

145 140 FenelonSpoke

If you need an alibi, please let me know. I'll cover for you.

We do know about buzzion.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 07:24 AM (u82oZ)

👍

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 07:27 AM (odBC9)

146 >>The last one, the Dolly Parton one, is a real tear-jerker.

m, Glenn Reynold's wrote a beautiful post about her:

https://tinyurl.com/tb4mse2e

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 07:30 AM (NcvvS)

147 146 >>The last one, the Dolly Parton one, is a real tear-jerker.

m, Glenn Reynold's wrote a beautiful post about her:

https://tinyurl.com/tb4mse2e
Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 07:30 AM (NcvvS)

Oh, wow; thanks!

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 07:30 AM (odBC9)

148 Ack. 'Reynolds'. Apostrophe catastrophe.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 07:30 AM (NcvvS)

149 Though I don't have to leave until after eight,I guess it's time I shaved and got otherwise presentable. Never hurts to be prepared in case of emergency, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 01, 2026 07:32 AM (wzUl9)

150 147 146 >>The last one, the Dolly Parton one, is a real tear-jerker.

m, Glenn Reynold's wrote a beautiful post about her:

https://tinyurl.com/tb4mse2e
Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 07:30 AM (NcvvS)

Oh, wow; thanks!
Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 07:30 AM (odBC9)

Moar tears.

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 07:34 AM (odBC9)

151 what is this word

Gotvthete
Posted by: Don Black

Covfefe

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 07:34 AM (1IhIV)

152 It would have to be under Greatest Hit Jobs.
(not under Top Top Tens)
Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 06:58 AM (odBC9)

I agree. But as long as we have to search, it's just pathetic how badly Google sucks now. They can't even blame SEO muddying the waters, since that shouldn't affect "site:" searches, which it used to be phenomenal for. I don't know when it changed, but it was no more than ten years ago.

Posted by: SciVo at October 01, 2026 07:37 AM (ke3zm)

153 Disclaimer: Flowers on the wall, why? Not understand.

There used to be this thing called "wallpaper."

Posted by: GWB at October 01, 2026 07:38 AM (kU0PQ)

154 152 But as long as we have to search, it's just pathetic how badly Google sucks now. They can't even blame SEO muddying the waters, since that shouldn't affect "site:" searches, which it used to be phenomenal for. I don't know when it changed, but it was no more than ten years ago.
Posted by: SciVo at October 01, 2026 07:37 AM (ke3zm)

maybe there's a workaround

this is what I tried (which doesn't work):

site:acecomments.mu.nu irongrandpa

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 07:56 AM (odBC9)

155 THIS works:

site:acecomments.mu.nu irongrampa

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at January 01, 2025 04:32 AM (hKoQL)

(for example)

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 08:08 AM (odBC9)

156 Sorry I'm late, I actually slept most of the night.

So IGP was last here 1/1/2026, this does not bode well.

If I go radio silent it's going to mark my passing. :/

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 01, 2026 09:27 AM (Q/FnY)

157 Sorry, no coffee, 1/1/2025 was over a year and 10 months ago.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 01, 2026 09:32 AM (Q/FnY)

Wednesday Night ONT - September 30, 2026 [TRex]

Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and fully stocked. Step up and place your order.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. It is the last day of September after all.

If you're a troll, go away.

This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.

Remember blog etiquette - if you are the second commenter, you get the honor of alerting those in the prior post. If you are the first, you get to bask in the temporary glory of victory. If you are third, we still love you.

[Top photo: Inglewood, California]

***

ONT Department of Pet Care

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

***

ONT Sign of the Times

You would think one room would be sufficient to observe the ladies' room, but apparently many are needed.

***

ONT Department of Nostalgia

It is truly amazing what lurks out there on the interweb:

***

ONT Department of Alcohol Science

I had no idea that this kind of thing was a sub-genre on YouTube. Is this what happens when gas gets expensive? Apparently so. Warning: once you watch one video, your entire YouTube feed gets filled with similar videos. (I feel sorry for the YouTube or NSA employee tasked with tracking my YouTube algorithm.)

***

ONT Department of the Far Side

Everyone has probably seen this before, but I stumbled across it this week. I hadn't seen it for a while and it still made me laugh.

***

ONT Department of Public Art

The Basketball Tree, functional sculpture by Alexandre Arechea, located in Biidaasige Park in Toronto.

I'm sure there is some deeper meaning that only the truly insightful can fully appreciate, but I like seeing a bit of whimsy and interaction in public art. It would take a while to figure out which hoop to aim for, but the odds of sinking a basket would improve!

***

Mandatory Maiden

Bruce Dickinson sings the US National Anthem before the Steelers football game (with helicopter flyover):

***

Niche YouTube Channel of the Week

Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called Current Concept. The host does not give his real name, but is very handy and I love his dry sense of humor. His channel description is bang on accurate: "Engineering ish projects being made and tested. I'll even throw some jokes in there every now and then to keep em entertaining. This channel is my excuse to build dumb ideas that I've got."

Belt fed potato cannon? Done. Saw blade launcher? Done. Banana gun? Done. Robot knife thrower? Done. Rocket powered shoes? Done. You get the idea.

It is clever and a little crazy without being outright dumb or stupid clickbait.

The channel has over 205,000 subscribers. A few videos have gotten over a million views but most are in the tens or hundreds of thousands. Posting is about once a month(ish). I don't get the sense that this is a full time job.

I may have posted it on the blog before, but my favorite is the belt fed potato cannon video.

***

Pittsburgh Scanner

The Pittsburgh police scanner is an internet treasure. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!

***

Old school Sammy Hagar for the big ONT finish:

***

Public service reminder: the left lane is for passing, not cruising. If you are driving in the left lane with a line of cars stacked behind you, you're doing it wrong. Sammy would agree. Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly sorted and processed. Are you lurking ????

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

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1 Pastrami!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 30, 2026 10:00 PM (LtCD9)

2 "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi

Why those with cognitive dissonance are so unhappy.

Posted by: mindful webworker - we'll always have ~~twitter~~ at September 30, 2026 10:00 PM (xRCm7)

3 huey

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 10:00 PM (JS6jE)

4 Sunset 95624

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 30, 2026 10:01 PM (LtCD9)

5 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 10:01 PM (ktgTW)

6 Not first or second!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 10:02 PM (NnhvP)

7 This means I don't have to tell anyone, right??

Posted by: Dr. T at September 30, 2026 10:02 PM (lHPJf)

8 Bruce Dickinson sings the US National Anthem before the Steelers football game . . .

Is this 'THE' Bruce Dickinson?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 10:02 PM (ktgTW)

9 Good evening Katz and Kittiez!
Hi Mr. Rex!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 30, 2026 10:02 PM (jCKWs)

10 So...Big Donut invades the blog....

I've been there!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 30, 2026 10:03 PM (QGaXH)

11 I mighta got Firts, but I was busy preparing beverages and getting some chips to go with this fine sandwich Milady has prepared. I knew I'd be cutting it close. But, you know, priorities.

Posted by: mindful webworker - sometimes it just turns out that way at September 30, 2026 10:03 PM (xRCm7)

12 You would think one room would be sufficient to observe the ladies' room, but apparently many are needed.

Are you kidding? Even with thousands of observation rooms, we'll never know what a woman is.

Posted by: K. B. Jackson at September 30, 2026 10:03 PM (VHUov)

13 I knew I'd be cutting it close. But, you know, priorities.
Posted by: mindful webworker

I'd like to set my priorities but there are some things I'd like to do first.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 10:04 PM (ktgTW)

14 Burl Ives: One of the influences that filled my youth with terror. Like Clarabelle the Clown.

Posted by: mindful webworker - traumatized at September 30, 2026 10:05 PM (xRCm7)

15 Are you kidding? Even with thousands of observation rooms, we'll never know what a woman is.
Posted by: K. B. Jackson

Is it not true when determining the sex of a baby in utero, it is the lack of a certain thing that leads one to say it's a girl?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 10:06 PM (ktgTW)

16 Evenin'

Pittsburgh Penguins 6 - Filthy Flyers 0. Nice way to start the season. I'm not holding my breath on a 6th Stanley Cup. I'm not even sure about the playoffs.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 30, 2026 10:06 PM (pLaQB)

17 Warning: once you watch one video, your entire YouTube feed gets filled with similar videos.

If that happens, go to youtube.com/feed/history and remove the offending videos from your watch history.

Also quite useful if you click one of my youtube music links.

Posted by: mikeski at September 30, 2026 10:07 PM (VHUov)

18 And it's another Wednesday, last of September. And it's the same. The same. The same.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 30, 2026 10:09 PM (CHHv1)

19
*squares papers on podium*
*assumes serious expression*

Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:09 PM (eRlcH)

20 Pittsburgh Scanner..... a car abandoned at the end of the street for five years? How was it not towed already to make way for the snowplow? Does it not snow in Pittsburgh?

Posted by: mikeski at September 30, 2026 10:10 PM (VHUov)

21 One of Pike's lawyers is driving an emergency appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court. Says she needs "medical care".

I can't begin to rationalize this idiocy.

Posted by: jen the original at September 30, 2026 10:10 PM (EiUt/)

22 Brianna Lyman is on Gutfeld now.
Insanely pretty.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 30, 2026 10:10 PM (Sco7b)

23 if you are the second commenter, you get the honor of alerting those in the prior post.

Wait, that's a rule? I thought I made that up, once, back one day when I got a Firts.

Well, okay, dutifully done.

Posted by: mindful webworker - but I don't like it. :P at September 30, 2026 10:11 PM (xRCm7)

24 I was more than ready to see the back of August, but where the heck did September go?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 30, 2026 10:12 PM (t/Q8n)

25 Pictured Randy's Donuts courtesy of Mayor James T. Butts (true fact) authorized it to be changed for the Electric State cameo of Cosmo Donut.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/28591041847208484

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYjzK3P7AOU
..by Disney.. Doing the Jobs that Humans don't want to...
The Robots Rebel Against The Humans Movie Clip

LET'S GO BRANDON!
.. as long as Humanity remains in control...(from the vid)
...Mr. Peanut signs peace treaty.

History Repeats, first as Tragedy, then as FARCE!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 30, 2026 10:12 PM (eLKbV)

26 Is it not true when determining the sex of a baby in utero, it is the lack of a certain thing that leads one to say it's a girl?

Posted by: Tonypete
---

Sometimes worded in the fashion that the male forms after what is indetermined or determined female.
It sprouts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 10:12 PM (JS6jE)

27 Spock could play a mean multi-dimensional basketball.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 10:12 PM (Cqx++)

28 Left lane campers get the trebuchet, immediately.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:12 PM (oqH4h)

29
if you are the second commenter, you get the honor of alerting those in the prior post.

___________

I'm not commenting, I'm sojourning.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:12 PM (eRlcH)

30
Is this 'THE' Bruce Dickinson?
Posted by: Tonypete

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

You may have heard me in such songs as "Hatch Valley Green Chile" and "Multipurpose Paper"!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 10:12 PM (mmrXZ)

31 Thank you, TRex!

Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 10:13 PM (Dd38x)

32 Is there a Heisenberg uncertainty principle of knowing what a woman is? Like if we know what a woman is with total certainty, we can’t know at all what she will become?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:13 PM (PY8/y)

33 Is there a Heisenberg uncertainty principle of knowing what a woman is? Like if we know what a woman is with total certainty, we can’t know at all what she will become?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:13 PM (PY8/y)

No; we know what a woman is, but we have no idea what she's thinking.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 30, 2026 10:14 PM (lHPJf)

34 32 Is there a Heisenberg uncertainty principle of knowing what a woman is? Like if we know what a woman is with total certainty, we can’t know at all what she will become?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:13 PM (PY8/y)
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Close. The second part is knowing what she really wants.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:14 PM (oqH4h)

35 Pittsburgh Scanner
South Side. East Carson Street. Caller says that someone wearing a uniform that says "Security" on the back is currently beating someone's ass. The only problem is that their building doesn't have a security guard.

You've got a freelance pro bono security guard and you're bitching about it? Some people's kids, I tell ya.....

Posted by: mikeski at September 30, 2026 10:14 PM (VHUov)

36 Security Guards at concerts, events in Norway, have a simple word-VAKT-on the back of their shirts. Means watch or guard. I just like the look of it.

Posted by: Simple Sam at September 30, 2026 10:14 PM (Fn+3X)

37 One of Pike's lawyers is driving an emergency appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court. Says she needs "medical care".

I can't begin to rationalize this idiocy.
Posted by: jen the original at September 30, 2026 10:10 PM (EiUt/)
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What's the point of executing someone if they are at less than their absolute peak physical conditioning?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (FZ29D)

38 Fall allergies in full bloom.

Killmenow.

I’m miserable. My face feels like it’s six inches in front of my head. FML.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (yEz+x)

39 Good evening, everyone!

Screening call seemed to go well. Interview tomorrow around lunch, then another interview Friday morning. And next week I get to drive 8-9 hours each way for an in-person interview....

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (aJQbY)

40
Is it possible to have a thread where women are not disparaged?

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (/QHx4)

41
Close. The second part is knowing what she really wants.
Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:14 PM (oqH4h)

_________

If you don't, I'm not going to tell you.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (eRlcH)

42 Welcome October! The only thing, all these political ads. They are everywhere. The mute button on my remote is going to get a workout.

Posted by: Case at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (9+0gc)

43 9 Good evening Katz and Kittiez!
Hi Mr. Rex!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 30, 2026 10:02 PM
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Howdy COMM!
There should be fresh donuts waiting for you at the wobbly table.

Posted by: TRex - not Bruce Dickinson dino at September 30, 2026 10:16 PM (XfIK1)

44 Spock could play a mean multi-dimensional basketball.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 10:12 PM (Cqx++)

Your agonizer, please.
- Bearded Spock

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:16 PM (PY8/y)

45
Is it possible to have a thread where women are not disparaged?

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (/QHx4)

__________

*checks book of statutes*

No

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:16 PM (eRlcH)

46 If you don't, I'm not going to tell you.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (eRlcH)
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Clearly!

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:16 PM (oqH4h)

47 31 Thank you, TRex!
Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 10:13 PM
***
You're welcome and good evening!

Posted by: TRex - not Burl Ives dino at September 30, 2026 10:17 PM (XfIK1)

48 8 Bruce Dickinson sings the US National Anthem before the Steelers football game . . .

Is this 'THE' Bruce Dickinson?
Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 10:02 PM (ktgTW)

Pfft mon amis ...

Posted by: Roger Doucet at September 30, 2026 10:17 PM (oCio0)

49
Is it possible to have a thread where women are not disparaged?

Posted by: four seasons

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

Sigh.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 10:17 PM (mmrXZ)

50
What's the point of executing someone if they are at less than their absolute peak physical conditioning?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Paths of Glory

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 10:18 PM (Cqx++)

51 The fact that TRex can produce such wonderful ONT content solo like this with such short, withered arms is inspirational to me.

Posted by: Michelle Fields Farewell To Arms at September 30, 2026 10:18 PM (Fn+3X)

52 I ran a '61 VW on windshield washer antifreeze once. It ran very poorly; had to pull the choke all the way out. If Pinto guy had had a manual choke carburetor, he could have made it run on some of those alcoholic concoctions.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 10:18 PM (C6xWR)

53 39 Good evening, everyone!

Screening call seemed to go well. Interview tomorrow around lunch, then another interview Friday morning. And next week I get to drive 8-9 hours each way for an in-person interview....
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (aJQbY)
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Blessings, man. You got this.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:18 PM (oqH4h)

54 Bruce.

Iron Maiden was the first show I ever saw, Somewhere in Time. Glendale, AZ. 1987.

I love my Dad, but he really had a hatred for those rock-n-roll shows. I missed out on Kansas (the Monolith tour) and Rush (Signals). He was certain I would become one of those potheads you hear about. Still not a pothead, despite all kinds of metal bands I've seen live.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 10:18 PM (0aYVJ)

55 >>>Says she needs "medical care".

I can't begin to rationalize this idiocy.

Posted by: jen the original
---

Lawyers have no shame. They are only in it for the money.
Second mortgage for the lake home, yacht, beamer.
A man's gotta make a buck.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 10:18 PM (JS6jE)

56 And the damn Yankees are putting the hurt on the BoSox.

8-1 bottom of the 6th

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 10:19 PM (yEz+x)

57 Not knowing what a women is, is mocking the left, not disparaging women.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:19 PM (PY8/y)

58
And the damn Yankees are putting the hurt on the BoSox.

__________

Two of the most assholic fan bases in baseball.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:20 PM (eRlcH)

59 I think everyone is wondering when Piper last ate a donut.

Posted by: Probably 5 years, Here at September 30, 2026 10:20 PM (Fn+3X)

60 What's the point of executing someone if they are at less than their absolute peak physical conditioning?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (FZ29D)

The Count likes everyone to be 'ealthy before they're broken.

Posted by: The albino at September 30, 2026 10:21 PM (TbWk/)

61 we have no idea what she's thinking.
Posted by: Dr. T

The second part is knowing what she really wants.
Posted by: ballistic

In both cases she doesn't know either.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 10:21 PM (NnhvP)

62 Planning lunch with two classmates in the next two weeks is tiresome. I'm ready to form a committee but don't think they would get the joke. I gave them the dates I am available & someone better make a decision before I take over.

Pretty sure one is a flaming liberal and I hope she does not bring up politics or covid. The other is one of my roommates & I don't worry about her.

I'd like to know where one girl is I told to shut up during a break of State Boards. Which is not like me and I snapped like a lunatic from stress and diarrhea (low potassium). We were all freaking out about answers to one question and she said something stupid and I cracked. Would apologize.

At the time (Civil War Era) we had to take boards out of the city in a crappy old college lecture hall. Spend two nights in a hotel with three of my best friends (two are the lunch friends). We were seriously insane. Either stressing or laughing hysterically.

An old proctor fell down on the wood floors behind me with a thud during one test. We were told not to look up for any reason. 100 student nurses didn't look up. Friends later asked if I tripped her. Nope! She had those old oxford nun shoes and they slipped.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 10:21 PM (hzuYO)

63 And the damn Yankees are putting the hurt on the BoSox.

__________

Two of the most assholic fan bases in baseball.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Yet, both cheat less than the ASStros!

Posted by: Beats On Trash Can!! at September 30, 2026 10:22 PM (Fn+3X)

64 43

YUM!😛

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 30, 2026 10:22 PM (jCKWs)

65 Honest question...who in this thread is disparaging women?

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:22 PM (oqH4h)

66 I’m miserable. My face feels like it’s six inches in front of my head. FML.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (yEz+x)

cetrizine and a sinus wash.

Grandpa said that when he was a kid in Tacoma his aunt used to swim in Puget sound and rinse her sinuses out that way when her allergies were bad in the summer. I don't suggest this today,

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 10:22 PM (rbvCR)

67 >> once you watch one video, your entire YouTube feed gets filled with similar videos.

I'm noticing this "algorithm" at work with me, and I get suspicious. I think Youtube tends to push certain content if you give it the slightest excuse. That is, if you watch some content about topic X, it then starts throwing "content similar to X" at you, but of a particular slant or bent.

And I think there's some way people pay or otherwise get the "algorithm" to boost their content.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 10:23 PM (w6EFb)

68 What was the alcohol content of that windshield washer antifreeze, AOP?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:23 PM (PY8/y)

69 39 Good evening, everyone!

Screening call seemed to go well. Interview tomorrow around lunch, then another interview Friday morning. And next week I get to drive 8-9 hours each way for an in-person interview....
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 10:15 PM (aJQbY)

Hope you get the best one!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 10:23 PM (hzuYO)

70 54 Bruce.

Iron Maiden was the first show I ever saw, Somewhere in Time. Glendale, AZ. 1987.

I love my Dad, but he really had a hatred for those rock-n-roll shows. I missed out on Kansas (the Monolith tour) and Rush (Signals). He was certain I would become one of those potheads you hear about. Still not a pothead, despite all kinds of metal bands I've seen live.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 10:18 PM (0aYVJ)

Yeah, but you're on a dangerous trajectory.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 30, 2026 10:23 PM (BHTo4)

71 Brianna Lyman is on Gutfeld now.
Insanely pretty."

Well, he's a decent looking guy, but...

/oh

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:23 PM (pfXMo)

72 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 10:23 PM (zZu0s)

73 for those who are picky about spelling, "cetirizine"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 10:24 PM (rbvCR)

74
Yet, both cheat less than the ASStros!
Posted by: Beats On Trash Can!! at September 30, 2026 10:22 PM (Fn+3X)

____________

Derisive laughter all around. Sure, the Dodgers and Yankees were using electronic stuff as well, but MLB sure as hell wasn't going to go after them. So it was the Astros that were made an example of.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:24 PM (eRlcH)

75 the damn Yankees are putting the hurt on the BoSox.

8-1 bottom of the 6th
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 10:19 PM (yEz+x)

The only one of these miniseries that have been competitive is Philly Atlanta.

Posted by: LTG at September 30, 2026 10:25 PM (X18m9)

76 WTH is this world coming to when we have to import limeys to sing our national anthem?

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at September 30, 2026 10:25 PM (lfNXu)

77 It is obvious some people are paying to promote certain videos very broadly, or I never would see such content, having no interest in it on YouTube.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:25 PM (PY8/y)

78 And the damn Yankees are putting the hurt on the BoSox.

__________

Two of the most assholic fan bases in baseball.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

This is correct.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 10:25 PM (xxBSa)

79 72 Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026
***
You're welcome!

Posted by: TRex - playoff umpire dino at September 30, 2026 10:25 PM (XfIK1)

80 It ran very poorly; had to pull the choke all the way out"

There's just not enough BTUs in a given volume of alcohol vs petrol...

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:26 PM (pfXMo)

81
What about the marachi group at a game a couple of days ago?

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 10:26 PM (/QHx4)

82 Thanks for the dandy ONT, T Rex!

Those whacky folks in Pittsburgh! I love the thought of small children taking over the streets with their bikes and big wheels!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 30, 2026 10:26 PM (D/6p1)

83 What about the marachi group at a game a couple of days ago?"

They were just checking on Jose, and could he see?

/

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:27 PM (pfXMo)

84 One thing I take solace in is that the CO Rockies are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs on opening day.

As for the Vikings, I have to wait for the playoffs to be disappointed.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 10:27 PM (0aYVJ)

85 One of Pike's lawyers is driving an emergency appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court. Says she needs "medical care".

I can't begin to rationalize this idiocy.
Posted by: jen the original at September 30, 2026 10:10 PM (EiUt/)

Lethal injection shouldn't take hours. Get on a saline drip. Introduce some ketamine, get them all gooned up. When they are nice and happy, a few cc's of potassium cyanide solution. Heart stops dead. Game over in under ten minute.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 10:27 PM (C6xWR)

86 the astros played like a bunch of limp wristed queens, but I don't know if that comment counts as disparaging women

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 10:28 PM (88C+u)

87 I love the thought of small children taking over the streets with their bikes and big wheels!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 30, 2026 10:26 PM
***
Happy chaos. Big wheels are awesome.

Posted by: TRex - tricycle dino at September 30, 2026 10:28 PM (XfIK1)

88 Lethal injection shouldn't take hours"

.22 LR. Takes no time at all

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:29 PM (pfXMo)

89 Rumor has it that Big Donut later sold its real estate to a truck tire place, who later sold it to a bordello called The Glory Hole.

The rooftop donut structure was used by all of them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (wpRMV)

90 the damn Yankees are putting the hurt on the BoSox.

8-1 bottom of the 6th
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 10:19 PM (yEz+x)

***

Switched to the Padres game. At least my niece is at that game.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (2WIwB)

91 Names for the Pittsburgh scanner's bike and Big Wheel gang populated by toddlers and kindergartners?

Little Rascals is taken.

Sippy Cup Cyclones?
Knee-high Nightriders?

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (dIske)

92 Anon. Rogue, is that donut place in Manhattan Beach, or Hermosa? A while back I drove past it, was definitely in one of those beach communities.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (U/Byj)

93 WTH is this world coming to when we have to import limeys to sing our national anthem?
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at September 30, 2026 10:25 PM (lfNXu)

We're doing him a favor. If he sang his national anthem back home, he'd probably go to prison for hate speech.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (vSvIl)

94 I'm noticing this "algorithm" at work with me, and I get suspicious. I think Youtube tends to push certain content if you give it the slightest excuse. That is, if you watch some content about topic X, it then starts throwing "content similar to X" at you, but of a particular slant or bent.

And I think there's some way people pay or otherwise get the "algorithm" to boost their content.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 10:23 PM (w6EFb)
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Yeah man, you have to curate your feed. Anything you click, like, comment, interact with, or otherwise touch...you get more of it, and it can snowball quickly.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:31 PM (oqH4h)

95 Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi
-----------------

That might be the biggest load of rubbish I have ever heard.

So if I trap you in a 3x3 cell and you think "I have to try and get out of here", you say, "Fuck I have to try and get out of here" and you pound the fuck out of the bars and floor and ceiling to try and get out, you are "happy"? What a dumbass.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 10:32 PM (vE0+H)

96 Those whacky folks in Pittsburgh! I love the thought of small children taking over the streets with their bikes and big wheels!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient

Don't blame the caller a bit. You have to nip it in the bud!

Posted by: Deputy Fife at September 30, 2026 10:32 PM (Fn+3X)

97 What was the alcohol content of that windshield washer antifreeze, AOP?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:23 PM (PY8/y)

It was concentrate, so maybe 90%. Agreed that BTU's of alcohol is low, car will run, but needs a much richer mixture than a normally-tuned carb will support. Hence the choke. Also, in my case, the VW engine was already warmed up. The 8 ounce bottle of ww antifreeze got me to an open gas station.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 10:32 PM (C6xWR)

98 So if I trap you in a 3x3 cell and you think "I have to try and get out of here", you say, "Fuck I have to try and get out of here" and you pound the fuck out of the bars and floor and ceiling to try and get out, you are "happy"? What a dumbass

---------

For real happiness, take up rick chiseling.

Posted by: Andy Dufresne at September 30, 2026 10:33 PM (wpRMV)

99 Ah, Inglewood CA. I was born there. It's changed quite a bit since then. I haven't been back, and at this point, I wouldn't DARE go back.

Yeah, changed.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at September 30, 2026 10:33 PM (Zli+D)

100 Thanks for the ONT. I do want to hang out with the Pittsburgh scanner person.

In the ED cops would arrive with the dregs of society and were pretty funny dudes. As were EMT's and ED docs and nurses. You have to be a bit insane to work in that environment, especially on weekends, full moons, or pick a day, any day. Sometimes horribly sad, so the insanity balanced it out other times.

The docs used to love to have me lose my cool by making me laugh inappropriately. To see if they could. I loved them all. There were always seven docs on at a time I had to deal with, plus PA's and ARNP's and the rest of the staff. If they every got me going I'd have to evacuate through the ambulance bay to laugh outside.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 10:33 PM (hzuYO)

101 91 Names for the Pittsburgh scanner's bike and Big Wheel gang populated by toddlers and kindergartners?

Little Rascals is taken.

Sippy Cup Cyclones?
Knee-high Nightriders?
Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (dIske)
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Heck's Angels

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:33 PM (oqH4h)

102 Or Rock Chiseling. Whatevz.

Posted by: Andy Dufresne at September 30, 2026 10:33 PM (wpRMV)

103 Good evening morons ותודה, דינו!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 10:33 PM (RIvkX)

104 22 Brianna Lyman is on Gutfeld now.
Insanely pretty.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 30, 2026 10:10 PM (Sco7b)

Hubba Hubba!

Enjoying the Montgomery Wards Store music. Back in the day we referred to MW as 'Monkey Warts' because we couldn't and still can't call anything by its proper name if there's a good, mocking humiliating substitute.

That's how we roll......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 30, 2026 10:33 PM (QGaXH)

105 82 Thanks for the dandy ONT, T Rex!

Those whacky folks in Pittsburgh! I love the thought of small children taking over the streets with their bikes and big wheels!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient

It's just like 'The Warriors'!! CAN YOU DIG IT!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 30, 2026 10:34 PM (pLaQB)

106 So if I trap you in a 3x3 cell and you think "I have to try and get out of here", you say, "Fuck I have to try and get out of here" and you pound the fuck out of the bars and floor and ceiling to try and get out, you are "happy"? What a dumbass

---------

For real happiness, take up rick chiseling.
Posted by: Andy Dufresne at September 30, 2026 10:33 PM (wpRMV)

***

HEEEEYYYYYY!!!!

Posted by: Rick at September 30, 2026 10:35 PM (2WIwB)

107
The hijacker is a religious extremist who refuses to shake hands with women, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 10:35 PM (/QHx4)

108 Ol' Mahatma gave Joe Biden a run for his money, 'cept he didn't bathe very often.

Posted by: Young Stuff at September 30, 2026 10:35 PM (Fn+3X)

109 Lethal injection shouldn't take hours"

.22 LR. Takes no time at all
Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:29 PM (pfXMo)

A single .22 LR bullet, if not properly placed, might not kill at all.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:35 PM (PY8/y)

110 but needs a much richer mixture than a normally-tuned carb will support. "

And really messes with EFI systems. And O2 sensors...

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:36 PM (pfXMo)

111 95 Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi
_____________________________

Also, Mahatma Gandihi

"Phewwww, close one (wipes brow). I can't believe they bought it. Sleeping naked with my teenage grandniece was ok as long as they keep buying the 'testing my personal discipline" spiel."

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 10:36 PM (dIske)

112 I think it’s amazing to hear foreigners celebrate our national anthem. They honor our country by coming out and recognizing what an opportunity they have been given.

And then there’s Rosanne Barr. Jeepers.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 10:36 PM (yEz+x)

113 f they every got me going I'd have to evacuate through the ambulance bay to laugh outside.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Will you be attending a Mome?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 10:36 PM (NnhvP)

114
That might be the biggest load of rubbish I have ever heard.

___________

There's more where that came from with him. "It costs a lot of money to keep Gandhi in poverty."

The yawning gap between the Indians self-regard and their accomplishments is matched only by the Irish.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:36 PM (eRlcH)

115 Gandhi was a self-aggrandizing toolbag.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:37 PM (oqH4h)

116 Honest question...who in this thread is disparaging women?
Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:22 PM (oqH4h)
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Only in mah heart.

Posted by: Jimmah Carter at September 30, 2026 10:38 PM (RIvkX)

117 The yawning gap between the Indians self-regard and their accomplishments is matched only by the Irish."

This will end well.

*grabs popcorn

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:38 PM (pfXMo)

118 Only in mah heart.
Posted by: Jimmah Carter"

Hey, look - there's a rabbit.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:38 PM (pfXMo)

119 13 f they every got me going I'd have to evacuate through the ambulance bay to laugh outside.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Will you be attending a Mome?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 10:36 PM (NnhvP)
**********
Only in spirit, honey. I wish I could but then I'd have to explain you all to the dude I am married to. We don't travel as much as we used to. I'm sure it's a lot of fun and it would be great to put names to faces.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 10:39 PM (hzuYO)

120 And really messes with EFI systems. And O2 sensors...
Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:36 PM (pfXMo)

Flex-fuel vehicles, which are certainly EFI, can run E85, no problem. Of course, booze is too precious to waste on cars; use Chanel #5 instead.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 10:39 PM (C6xWR)

121 May I discuss mah malaise now?

Posted by: Jimmah Carter at September 30, 2026 10:40 PM (RIvkX)

122 The yawning gap between the Indians self-regard and their accomplishments is matched only by the Irish."

*slowly backs out of thread*

Posted by: Dr. T at September 30, 2026 10:40 PM (lHPJf)

123 Yeah, women are tricky. If someone brought in donuts, muffins, or pastries to work, they cut them in half, so as to appear not piggish. Then go back three times, always having a half. Like the calories don't add up.

Posted by: 90% Half-Mental at September 30, 2026 10:41 PM (Fn+3X)

124 The yawning gap between the Indians self-regard and their accomplishments is matched only by the Irish."

This will end well.

*grabs popcorn
Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:38 PM (pfXMo)

***

Be careful. When you see the red dot, they're recording.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2026 10:41 PM (2WIwB)

125 Flex-fuel vehicles, which are certainly EFI, can run E85, no problem. Of course, booze is too precious to waste on cars; use Chanel #5 instead.

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Mouthwash makes for sweet-smelling exhaust.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 10:41 PM (wpRMV)

126 We're doing him a favor. If he sang his national anthem back home, he'd probably go to prison for hate speech.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (vSvIl)

You said it brother! (Or sister -- not looking to disparage anyone...)

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at September 30, 2026 10:42 PM (lfNXu)

127
Like the calories don't add up.
Posted by: 90% Half-Mental at September 30, 2026 10:41 PM (Fn+3X)

__________

When you cut one in half, all the calories drain out. This is Settled Science.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:42 PM (eRlcH)

128 Gandhi also slept with multiple naked teenage girls in his bed, to "test his purity". Yeah, you betcha Mohandas.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 10:42 PM (qlLNh)

129 I wonder if the Universal Building Code has standards for giant roof donuts.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 10:42 PM (wpRMV)

130 Swell ONT tonight. Thanks TRex

Posted by: 496 at September 30, 2026 10:43 PM (aadd2)

131 I'm sure it's a lot of fun and it would be great to put names to faces.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 10:39 PM (hzuYO)
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Don't ruin the fantasy. Also, I look amazing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 10:43 PM (RIvkX)

132
I wonder if the Universal Building Code has standards for giant roof donuts.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 10:42 PM (wpRMV)

__________

It's in the Glazing section.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:43 PM (eRlcH)

133 I thought I saw that Inglewatts had undergone hispanification (like gentrification, but at lower prices, and much better food). Only times I've been there were to play at the Fabulous Forum (teenage hockey). Yes, the ice was terrible, just almost all pro rinks were in that era.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 10:43 PM (U/Byj)

134 Gandhi also slept with multiple naked teenage girls in his bed, to "test his purity". Yeah, you betcha Mohandas.

Didn't he also drink piss?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 10:44 PM (xxBSa)

135 Only in spirit, honey. I wish I could but then I'd have to explain you all to the dude I am married to. We don't travel as much as we used to. I'm sure it's a lot of fun and it would be great to put names to faces.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 10:39 PM (hzuYO)

You could just do what I did last year and bring your spouse with minimal introduction to the Horde mind.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at September 30, 2026 10:44 PM (xVpNO)

136 First time I remember hearing Can't Drive 55 was in a strip club in Orlando in the 80's, trying to get this half-Italian half-Japanese stripper to go home with me. That worked out about as well as you would expect. The song brings back fond memories, though.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 30, 2026 10:44 PM (QaH55)

137 The yawning gap between the Indians self-regard and their accomplishments is matched only by the Irish."

Huh!

Guess I could'a done better.

Posted by: Thomas Meagher at September 30, 2026 10:44 PM (0aYVJ)

138 > Gandhi also slept with multiple naked teenage girls in his bed, to "test his purity". Yeah, you betcha Mohandas.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 10:42 PM (qlLNh)

At least they were all over 18.

Mao liked 'em around 6 or 7, so he even had Mohammad beat there.

I'm imagining myself performing this "purity test".

"Oh, darn! Failed the test again last night! Oh, well. We'll have to give it another shot tonight."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 10:45 PM (qlLNh)

139
Yeah, Gandhi seems like any of these crazy nutters that make Youtube videos about the aliens and their chakras and harmonic convergence and all that lunacy.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 10:46 PM (w6EFb)

140 The Russian guys at Garage 54 did a very entertaining video, running a Toyota Camry on various solvents bought at the Russki equivalent of a Home Depot store. They did 0 -100 km/h acceleration runs on a closed road. Some products made the car faster than gasoline, by a second or two. And some ran OK, but the engine pinged like a mofo. They stated that retuning the car to suit the octane rating of the "fuel" would have gained them better times.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 10:46 PM (C6xWR)

141 Didn't he also drink piss?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026
10:44 PM (xxBSa)

I don't know about him specifically, but yeah, that's something that people in India do "for their health".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 10:46 PM (qlLNh)

142 vehicles, which are certainly EFI, can run E85, no problem."

Unless reduced power is a problem...

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:47 PM (pfXMo)

143 89 Rumor has it that Big Donut later sold its real estate to a truck tire place, who later sold it to a bordello called The Glory Hole.

The rooftop donut structure was used by all of them.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (wpRMV)

What's the terms of the lease?

Posted by: Dr. Richard B. Thickdigit Cosmetic Proctology Clinic and Spa at September 30, 2026 10:47 PM (r7+Q7)

144 @21

>>I can't begin to rationalize this idiocy.

The idiocy is the restriction on what drugs are allowed, this is why these executions take too long and have complications.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 10:47 PM (XV/Pl)

145 Rumor has it that Big Donut later sold its real estate to a truck tire place, who later sold it to a bordello called The Glory Hole.

The rooftop donut structure was used by all of them.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 10:30 PM (wpRMV)

What's the terms of the lease?
Posted by: Dr. Richard B. Thickdigit Cosmetic Proctology Clinic and Spa at September 30, 2026 10:47 PM (r7+Q7)
***

I sense a bidding war...

Posted by: Viagra Blow Up Gorilla Ad Campaign at September 30, 2026 10:49 PM (2WIwB)

146 150 grain lead injections are a proven, inexpensive, and sure-fire technique in capital punishment. Didn't SC just adopt firing squad option? Does UT still have it?

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 10:50 PM (U/Byj)

147 Whatever the Irish can accomplish, a Scot can do.

Posted by: At Half-Price at September 30, 2026 10:50 PM (Fn+3X)

148 Top photo reminded me of the movie Sex Drive. Really good teen movie.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 10:50 PM (KC5Lt)

149 I have gotten donuts from the Big Donut!
Yes, it is in Ingle-Watts. Slightly north of LAX.
Couldn’t pay me enough to try that again now, if it’s even still open…

Posted by: Gunslinger at September 30, 2026 10:50 PM (N91F8)

150 A single .22 LR bullet, if not properly placed, might not kill at all.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
------
Sundry clandestine services made gooduse of silenced High Standard Model B's (and variants).

"The suppressed High Standard HDM/S pistols remained in CIA and special force’s inventories well into the 1990s and a number probably are still retained today."

https://shorturl.at/lmyF8

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 30, 2026 10:51 PM (XeU6L)

151 The hijacker is a religious extremist who refuses to shake hands with women, lol.
Posted by: four seasons

Eww. Cootie shot!

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 10:51 PM (88C+u)

152 A single .22 LR bullet, if not properly placed, might not kill at all.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:35 PM (PY8/y)

We concur! Which is why we use multiple shots, to make sure.

Posted by: The Mossad at September 30, 2026 10:51 PM (t/Q8n)

153 I was a mystery to the ED docs because I never hit on them, being married and a lady (plus two teen boys).

I knew one nurse who transferred from a medical floor to catch a doc to marry. It was obvious. She did, but not the one she wanted.

She wanted an Italian/American gorgeous dude. Who I admired altho they all were a decade younger. I was standing at the door of one room, looking at a man's monitors. He'd arrived in a full code after mixing Viagra with heart meds and coded during the act with his wife.

This doc comes over to me and said, "Well, it's a fine way to go, isn't it?" Which nearly did me in and I had to leave to the ambulance bay again. They knew what I was doing if I left that crazy madhouse.

We endured about two weeks of on top of "normal" ED noices a jackhammer making the trauma units bigger. That was fun taking calls: "Wut?" During one of those days the triage RN came to tell the docs of a woman who had chest pains because a frog bit her hemorrhoid. This caused unusual snorting/crying/laughing from me due to all the stress and noise.

One doc would always follow me outside. I guess to make sure I was not running away.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 10:53 PM (hzuYO)

154 Math Warning - (but too good not to convey)

Stan Ulam once won a Tennis match with Enrico Fermi, 6–4.

Fermi, however, refused to concede. He pointed out that the difference between the two scores was less than the square root of the sum of the scores, 3.17.

This is a shorthand method used by statisticians to determine whether a result is significant or within the limits of measurement error.

Ulam found Fermi’s response at once ridiculous and adorable and continued to play tennis with his competitive friend.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 10:53 PM (SK57M)

155 Unless reduced power is a problem...
Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:47 PM (pfXMo)

Well, if you tune the engine to burn E85, it may have some reduction in power, but it will burn a lot more to get normal power levels. They used to run straight alcohol fuel in some racing classes. Very high octane rating, so they could run big compression.

The bad thing about alcohol is not that it's a bad fuel, but that we are being forced to use an alcohol blend for the spurious reason of "climate change".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 10:53 PM (C6xWR)

156 Evening all,

We have a creweed launch tomorrow.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - SpaceX Crew-13
Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: October 1, 2026
Launch Time: 11:10 a.m. EDT (1510 UTC, 17:10 CEST)

https://youtu.be/1msZNHGAbWc

Posted by: Joyenz at September 30, 2026 10:53 PM (2F0/Y)

157
Happy New Year!

For Mars. Today is the Martian vernal equinox.

This is tropical year 39 for Mars. They started counting Martian years back in the '50s, and did define a Year Zero, which started in May of 1953 some time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 10:54 PM (w6EFb)

158 WTH is this world coming to when we have to import limeys to sing our national anthem?
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at September 30, 2026 10:25 PM (lfNXu)

Well the music is from an English pup song.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 10:54 PM (KC5Lt)

159 Studebaker built their stripper Scotsman model in 57-58.
Nash-Rambler straight six was known as the Flying Scot.
Fred MacMurray was a millionaire cheapskate.

Posted by: Frugal Freda at September 30, 2026 10:54 PM (Fn+3X)

160 *busy trimming eyelashes*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

161 141 Didn't he also drink piss?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026
10:44 PM (xxBSa)

I don't know about him specifically, but yeah, that's something that people in India do "for their health".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 10:46 PM (qlLNh)

Lots of enemas, too. So I read. For the health...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 30, 2026 10:55 PM (QaH55)

162 Fermi, however, refused to concede. He pointed out that the difference between the two scores was less than the square root of the sum of the scores, 3.17.

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How childish.

Posted by: J. Von Neumann at September 30, 2026 10:55 PM (wpRMV)

163 That might be the biggest load of rubbish I have ever heard.…What a dumbass.
Posted by: ...

Heh. There's many a way to take just about anything. A simple one-liner is like poetic shorthand, and is not attempting to add every qualifier and caveat. Commandments, Beatitudes, Bill of Rights are all arguable for the argumentative.

My older brother (RIP) once had me read from the Tao t Ching, and with each saying he would offer up counter-statements and refutations. Main thing he proved was that he had quite a negative, disagreeable, and contentious mind. Which was no surprise.

Be of good cheer!🫤

Posted by: mindful webworker - who am I to disagree at September 30, 2026 10:56 PM (xRCm7)

164 150 grain lead injections are a proven, inexpensive, and sure-fire technique in capital punishment. Didn't SC just adopt firing squad option? Does UT still have it?

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 10:50 PM (U/Byj)

Idaho did. IIRC, the mandated ammo is .308 Win, with 110 grain varmint loads.

Posted by: The Mossad at September 30, 2026 10:56 PM (t/Q8n)

165 I recall a similar place (big donut on top) in Hermosa or Manhattan Beach, not Inglewood.

Inglewood was home base for production of P-51s and B-25s during The Big One. There's still an airstrip alongside some warehouses along one of the state highways (90-something) running through the area, probably a remnant of that era.

As far as the eye could see during the war that whole area around LAX was warplane production (a lot of it under suspended camouflage fake "suburb" scenes). Nobody these days knows this, it's like it never happened. Even though much of the 24-hour operations of restaurants and other small businesses in LA have their origin in that era as well (3 shifts).

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 10:56 PM (U/Byj)

166 A single .22 LR bullet, if not properly placed, might not kill at all.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 10:35 PM (PY8/y)

We concur! Which is why we use multiple shots, to make sure.
Posted by: The Mossad at September 30, 2026 10:51 PM (t/Q8n)

Two in the pump house, one in the junction box.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2026 10:57 PM (2WIwB)

167 78 And the damn Yankees are putting the hurt on the BoSox.

__________

Two of the most assholic fan bases in baseball.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

This is correct.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 10:25 PM (xxBSa)

And the nicest fans in baseball? My vote is for the Cardinals.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 30, 2026 10:57 PM (0CU3H)

168 They used to run straight alcohol fuel in some racing classes. Very high octane rating, so they could run big compression."

And use a lot more fuel.

Tradeoffs everywhere...

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:57 PM (pfXMo)

169 Something I didn't know until today:

Remember cab-over semis? The cab would tilt up to get at the engine.

You don't see them much any more because the regulations changed. They used to restrict the total length of tractor + trailer. At some point they changed to restrict only the length of the trailer.

That's why the cab-over design went away. More annoying to work on the engine, while no longer offering any legal benefit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 10:58 PM (qlLNh)

170 Colorado Rockies don't have fans, they have victims

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 10:58 PM (88C+u)

171 And the nicest fans in baseball? My vote is for the Cardinals.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 30, 2026 10:57 PM (0CU3H)

Mid West niceness is a meme.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 10:58 PM (KC5Lt)

172 When they are nice and happy, a few cc's of potassium cyanide solution. Heart stops dead. Game over in under ten minute.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
--

They do it in CA every day.
They could hire a junkie. He could show them at half the price.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 10:58 PM (JS6jE)

173
And the nicest fans in baseball? My vote is for the Cardinals.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 30, 2026 10:57 PM (0CU3H)

___________

I agree. Knowledgeable and appreciative of good play from either team.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:59 PM (eRlcH)

174 162 Fermi, however, refused to concede. He pointed out that the difference between the two scores was less than the square root of the sum of the scores, 3.17.

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How childish.
Posted by: J. Von Neumann at September 30, 2026 10:55 PM (wpRMV)

As far as I'm concerned, they're tied.

Posted by: Paul Erdos at September 30, 2026 11:02 PM (0CU3H)

175 Remember cab-over semis? The cab would tilt up to get at the engine."

And rode rough as hell.

(Mrs' dad was part owner of a small trucking firm. Heck of a guy)

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 11:02 PM (pfXMo)

176
I shudder to think what Godel would do if he got into that scoring calculus.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 11:03 PM (w6EFb)

177

I read a lot of British books. One thing that has me confused is when they say women "fell pregnant."

Wth, did you accidentally fall on his weiner?

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:03 PM (/QHx4)

178 I shudder to think what Godel would do if he got into that scoring calculus.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 11:03 PM (w6EFb)

He never showed for that game with Vladimir and Estragon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 11:04 PM (C6xWR)

179 No one seems to know what is going on with the Pike execution. An Ambulance appeared behind the tent area where Pike’s victims parents were going to speak.

Posted by: Jen the original at September 30, 2026 11:04 PM (EiUt/)

180
A bullet would have been quicker and cheaper.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:05 PM (/QHx4)

181 >> He never showed for that game with Vladimir and Estragon.

Heh.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 11:06 PM (w6EFb)

182 117 The yawning gap between the Indians self-regard and their accomplishments is matched only by the Irish."

This will end well.

*grabs popcorn
Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 10:38 PM (pfXMo)

We'll have naan of that.

Posted by: Curry favor elsewhere at September 30, 2026 11:06 PM (TbWk/)

183 The bad thing about alcohol is not that it's a bad fuel, but that we are being forced to use an alcohol blend for the spurious reason of "climate change".

Its about raising octane levels in gasoline.

From the beginning 1920ish to 1970s in the US, Tetraethyl Lead proved to be an extremely effective octane booster, cheap and provided valve-seat protection. Problem is that is highly toxic, widespread lead contamination and broke catalytic converters. Not so much "Climate" but simple Smog and Pollution.

Aromatics like Benzene, Toluene and Xylene. Toluene, used in drag racing is highly effective octane booster but all (BTX/BTEX) are carcinogenic and expensive.

So along comes Oxygenates and MTBE until the 2000s, cheap, excellent octane boost, compatible with unleaded systems, but fuel leaks created contaminated groundwater and a little bit would wreck drinking water.

So we get Ethanol which is cheap, has high octane, "renewable", cleaner and doesn't wreck groundwater. Doesn't require bandwidth out of regular petrol refineries which is important since we are closing refineries and have no capacity headroom.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 11:07 PM (NzX/y)

184 we are being forced to use an alcohol blend for the spurious reason of "global warming"
——

No, oxygenate has been a federal requirement for many decades. Nothing to do with that. Long before global warming was even a gleam in AlGore’s eye.

Formerly MTBE was used for the oxygenate, but it contaminates ground water, very persistent. Alcohol is the replacement or substitute.

The real question though. Why oxygenated gasoline?

Near as I can figure, it (mostly) is a matter of “the solution to pollution is dilution”. I believe originally it may have been one of those CARB mandates.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 11:07 PM (CLXqj)

185 I shudder to think what Godel would do if he got into that scoring calculus.
Posted by: publius
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Incomplete! Incomplete!

(clears throat)
"Gödel's completeness theorem is a fundamental theorem in mathematical logic that establishes a correspondence between semantic truth and syntactic provability in first-order logic."

Posted by: Kurt at September 30, 2026 11:07 PM (XeU6L)

186 My father hated the dam Yankees. Little did he know I'd marry one in the future. A Cardinals and then Braves man. He saw them both.

I never liked baseball or golf (too slow) and he loved them and wanted me to get a golf scholarship. I do wish I'd played with him once as he would have enjoyed me throwing all the balls and clubs when I sucked at it. A good tantrum is cathartic.

My dude likes the Yankees and NY Giants. He was shocked out of his mind during one of my brother's basketball games when Daddy and I showed our sportsmanship by yelling at the refs. He said it's like I become a werewolf. I told him I was raised in the SEC and college games since kindergarten. It's the way it is.

When FSU (where one son went,the other to UF) played Duke I became rabidly insane with son one game. We both got in trouble and once I came very close to being famous for killing Coach K as he went under the balcony and I was yelling at him til I was hoarse. The refs beat us by one point. Son and I were in trouble that night with his Dad and gf but it was totally worth it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 11:08 PM (hzuYO)

187 That's why the cab-over design went away. More annoying to work on the engine, while no longer offering any legal benefit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Cab-overs are still widely used in Europe, mostly because the roads are smaller and it's easier to turn around and such.

Posted by: The Old Country at September 30, 2026 11:08 PM (Fn+3X)

188 Whatever’s goin on with the Pike execution, I know it wouldn’t have happened with a firing squad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 11:09 PM (fuM78)

189
Do the executioners have a union? Cheaper using a bullet than having to pay all of the "necessary" people.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:10 PM (/QHx4)

190 148 Top photo reminded me of the movie Sex Drive. Really good teen movie.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 10:50 PM
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I work with two younger guys and they convinced me to watch it about a year ago. I didn't think it was all that great, but that Amish gal was a complete knockout. I liked her

Posted by: 496 at September 30, 2026 11:10 PM (aadd2)

191 The hijacker is a religious extremist who refuses to shake hands with women, lol.

I'd be too afraid to shake hands with a woman nowadays. They might revoke their consent a week later then bring battery and attempted kidnapping charges.

Posted by: I FELT VIOLATED at September 30, 2026 11:10 PM (TbWk/)

192 They both lost and won . ----Schrödinger

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 11:10 PM (KC5Lt)

193
There are some funny stories about Godel and Einstein. Godel, a master of "pure logic" to make Mr. Spock proud, was also bat shit crazy.

They used to go on long walks on the Princeton campus, seemingly deep in discussion. People wondered just what ponderous things they were talking about.

It was probably something along the lines of "Hey, did you see the rack on that new coed?" "Dat ass, doh!"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 11:10 PM (w6EFb)

194 No one seems to know what is going on with the Pike execution. An Ambulance appeared behind the tent area where Pike’s victims parents were going to speak.

When is Trump going to send that Muslim Fort Hood Mass Murderer to hell? Nidal Hasan has no more appeals, since spring of last year the only thing stopping him from being strapped to the table is Trump getting over his inability to deal out punishment to monsters.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 11:11 PM (NzX/y)

195 "Were I to die at this moment, 'want of frigates!' would be stamped on my heart."
_Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a frigate gap.

The Navy's 2026 shipbuilding plan plans a fleet of 66 frigates. By 2031, two Constellation-class frigates are to be completed at the Marinette, Wisc. shipyard and a modified U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter at the Ingalls, Miss. shipyard.

But to meet the Navy's goal, a sustained delivery of more than three frigates per year will be needed by 2037. ... and the plan all along was to have two frigate-producing shipyards.
_ RealClearDefense

https://tinyurl.com/y5z93u24

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 11:11 PM (JS6jE)

196 Posted by: 496 at September 30, 2026 11:10 PM (aadd2

I thought it was hilarious. I really liked Seth Green's sarcastic Amish character.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 11:12 PM (KC5Lt)

197 The whole world went to crap when we removed Platformate.

Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man! at September 30, 2026 11:12 PM (Fn+3X)

198
TbWk/,

Just pay a hooker no problem.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:12 PM (/QHx4)

199 Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 10:56 PM (U/Byj)

Yes. Lockheed in Burbank had an impressive camo net cover. Look it up. It’s…again, quite impressive.
The airstrip they loaded completed planes from, is now Burbank Airport.

And Hawthorne was another assembly facility that had its own airstrip. My mother-in-law worked there, and had an unbelievable story about a giant jet, that mistook that airstrip for LAX. No chance of success, and the crank-up of its engines to avoid a big fail, was heard for miles of neighborhoods close to there. She lived on Imperial Highway…

Posted by: Gunslinger at September 30, 2026 11:14 PM (N91F8)

200 I googled up the Amish girl's name: Alice Greczyn. Hubba x2

Posted by: 496 at September 30, 2026 11:14 PM (aadd2)

201 1 August 1798: The French 74-gunner La Spartiate, her mainmast split, sends sailors in the rigging crashing over the side, joining their comrades flailing in the briny.

In the left-center background, the chaotic scene is illuminated by the explosion of the French flagship l’Orient. Nelson’s decisive victory at the Battle of the Nile led to the disintegration of Napoleon’s army in Egypt.
But victory came only on the heels of a confused and uncertain sea chase.
_Mather Brow

image:
https://tinyurl.com/yb6mzcn5

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 11:15 PM (JS6jE)

202 n

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 11:15 PM (JS6jE)

203 We almost move to the Burbank area when my dad worked for Lockheed. He decided not to move to CA because of the hippies. This was in late 60's.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 11:16 PM (KC5Lt)

204 I figured quoting Ghandi would be putting up a target for Hordelings. Did not disappoint.

😜

Just thinking: What's worse, a troll who is so bad the banhammer falls swiftly and surely, or $#!+-stirrers who aren't (at first, anyway) quite disruptive enough to delete?

Anyone who thinks I might be talking about you, no, I mean that other guy.

🤢

I'm never sure when I run across some "oldie" that I've never heard before, is it really an obscure oldie or is it SI (as Professor Trump calls it)?

https://youtu.be/EM-yNaE8xmU

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - and that's all from this corner at September 30, 2026 11:16 PM (xRCm7)

205 Constellation class was cancelled, just two lead ships to be built. Another gigantic charlie foxtrot in USN shipbuilding. And it was even designed to be quicker to develop and produce, for the first time using an off-the-shelf foreign design as the baseline. Oops. NAVSEA effed up even that simplified approach.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 11:16 PM (U/Byj)

206 >>Mid West niceness is a meme.

And not true. Until Trump sent in the National Guard, Memphis Tennessee, not NYC or Seattle or even LA, had the highest violent crime rate in the country.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 11:16 PM (viF8m)

207 I've read about executions that are cancelled or something because they can't hit a vein. I guess I should volunteer as a vein expert as I could start an IV blindfolded. I mean, dude, do they let people in off the streets?

I often want to start an IV in Meagain's Harkle's forehead vein. I have never seen anyone with one of those and wonder what caused it. Botox? Filler? Being a yacht girl? Scrotum Head Harry? It's weird to pop out like that.

The subreddit I read about her is hilarious and I am so glad reddit changed their minds about having to register. That was a sad couple of weeks for me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 11:17 PM (hzuYO)

208 The real question though. Why oxygenated gasoline?

Higher compression engines require higher octane to prevent detonation or "knock".

You want 400hp out of 3.0L engine? You get turbos or super chargers that skyrocket compression ratios.

That is why if you operate a vehicle that requires premium fuel and you feed it the same crap you feed your lawnmower, the power drops off dramatically and the computer starts throwing codes.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 11:17 PM (xE0sV)

209
Commodore Decker sure made a mess of the Constellation.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 11:18 PM (w6EFb)

210 Posted by: 496 at September 30, 2026 11:14 PM (aadd2)

Super cute/pretty face but she did need an extra sammich or two.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 11:18 PM (KC5Lt)

211 Certainly didn't spend any time in Burbank in the 60s, but would bet a lot of quatloos it wasn't exactly brimming with hippies. More like homemakers in dresses with hairdos and men in white short-sleeve shirts, pocket protectors, and black glasses, with buzz haircuts.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 11:19 PM (U/Byj)

212 Polynikes - it was an ok movie. Seth Green was a high point in it. I confess I should have had a couple more martinis on on board before starting it

Posted by: 496 at September 30, 2026 11:20 PM (aadd2)

213 I've read about executions that are cancelled or something because they can't hit a vein.

Pretty easy to hit a vein with 00 Buck in a 3" hull through a 12ga.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 11:20 PM (xE0sV)

214 Near as I can figure, it (mostly) is a matter of “the solution to pollution is dilution”. I believe originally it may have been one of those CARB mandates.

Posted by: Common Tater
---

Not to worry, there's plenty of corn, just keep the Chinese away from it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 11:21 PM (JS6jE)

215 Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 11:16 PM (viF8m)

You're like the msm and don't identify the people the National Guard were having to target. And California or NY or Illinois wouldn't allow Trump to send in the NG.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 11:22 PM (KC5Lt)

216 Memphis Tennessee
——

Yeah… Well, Memphis is …. Um. You know… different, Jack, shall we say, in some respects. Ya think?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 11:23 PM (A8EHn)

217 The true first is to see the new thread, notify the prior thread and then get the first on the new one. In that order.

Difficult to do, but worth it for a Gentleman.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 11:23 PM (Y/06r)

218
I hate corn unless it is corn on the cob grilled.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:23 PM (/QHx4)

219 Beautiful downtown Burbank...

youtu.be/kAH5ZhIs9Js

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 11:24 PM (rdVOm)

220 They'll dress the bums as St. bernards, I guess

@nypost 6h
A massive Swiss Christmas village is coming to Santa Monica - complete with Alpine chalets and melted cheese

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2026 11:24 PM (nEUC6)

221
Yay! JQ is here.😀😀

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:25 PM (/QHx4)

222 213 I've read about executions that are cancelled or something because they can't hit a vein.

Pretty easy to hit a vein with 00 Buck in a 3" hull through a 12ga.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 11:20 PM (xE0sV)

You're so vein,
Bet you think this injection is 'bout you.

Posted by: Golden Moldies at September 30, 2026 11:25 PM (BHTo4)

223 Higher compression engines require higher octane to prevent detonation or "knock".
——-

Federal regs require Oxygenated gasoline.

Has absolutely nothing to do with octane whatsoever

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 11:25 PM (/g2Ya)

224 Hi, four seasons!

Thank you for the warm welcome!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 11:26 PM (rdVOm)

225
JQ,

You are very welcome!! You rock!!

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:27 PM (/QHx4)

226 I have always used mid grade and a gas treatment every 6 months. Have no idea if it made a difference. Just something I started with my first new car and never stopped.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 11:28 PM (KC5Lt)

227 >>You're like the msm and don't identify the people the National Guard were having to target. And California or NY or Illinois wouldn't allow Trump to send in the NG.

I'm stating a fact. I'm not saying that everyone who lives near crime ridden shit holes like Memphis or Houston or NYC or LA or Boston, you know, the coastal places that get trashed here daily, is a criminal or is responsible or they should all leave their homes.

I'm saying factually the place with the highest violent crime rate until Trump sent the National Guard to deal with it was Memphis. Draw your own conclusions.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 11:29 PM (viF8m)

228
Is the evil bitch dead yet?

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:29 PM (/QHx4)

229 224 Hi, four seasons!

Thank you for the warm welcome!
Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 11:26 PM (rdVOm)

225
JQ,

You are very welcome!! You rock!!

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:27 PM (/QHx4)
====
Now that I know four seasons is a chick, this is hawt.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 11:30 PM (RIvkX)

230 Read that Pike is still alive and snoring. Two doses of penobarbital. After, and get this, doctors determined her veins and bloodwork? were fine and she'd have no pain. Wth? She deserves pain. All deserve pain after they are sentenced to die for killing others.

I read that penobarbital is questionable (no kidding) and causes pulmonary edema. Well, boo hoo.

Put a pillow on her head or shoot draino up her vein while the curtains are closed! I should be in charge!

I always thought potassium was in the IV to stop the heart painfully. What a freaking circus.

Goodnight. I will probably dream about serial killers now.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 11:30 PM (hzuYO)

231 I can’t understand why in executions they do this chemical concoction, when they could just inject a 10x lethal dose of fentanyl. No worries about being too painful.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 11:30 PM (fuM78)

232 Is the evil bitch dead yet?

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:29 PM (/QHx4)
-

Your hope is in vein.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 11:31 PM (lgmVC)

233

Maybe they need to be killed the way they killed the victims?

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:32 PM (/QHx4)

234 Chicago and NYC are not even in the top ten for crime rate according to FBI stats. Somebody is fudging the books.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 11:33 PM (KC5Lt)

235
Lol Biden's Dog

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:33 PM (/QHx4)

236 I can’t understand why in executions they do this chemical concoction, when they could just inject a 10x lethal dose of fentanyl. No worries about being too painful.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 11:30 PM (fuM7

-

Considering Pike's execution is in Tennessee and looking at the ONT contents this evening, what would happen if they tried injecting her with Jack Daniels?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 11:34 PM (lgmVC)

237 Considering Pike's execution is in Tennessee and looking at the ONT contents this evening, what would happen if they tried injecting her with Jack Daniels?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 11:34 PM (lgmVC)
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My apologies, JQ. This is your ONT department.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 11:36 PM (lgmVC)

238 >>Your hope is in vein.

I don't want no hope in vain for your love

https://tinyurl.com/adytnuew

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 11:37 PM (viF8m)

239 Lol, Biden's Dog-- but I wouldn't waste Jack Daniels on that wench. Just send her here to Idaho & let .308 work the magic.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 11:37 PM (rdVOm)

240
Some of us gals hang out here late at night.

Don't see many guys. Ya'll are probably worn out from the hot sex you had, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:39 PM (/QHx4)

241 I think everyone is wondering when Piper last ate a donut.
Posted by: Probably 5 years, Here at September 30, 2026 10:20 PM (Fn+3X)

It was likely a kale donut.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 30, 2026 11:40 PM (qx7Zg)

242 The bleeding-hearts always miss the word "and" in "cruel and unusual". Cruel and usual is allowed. Unusual but not cruel is allowed. Only the combination is forbidden, technically

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 11:40 PM (aJQbY)

243 I drive in the left lane all the time when there's nobody behind me and some cocksucker cut me off after passing me.

Oh, and I hate tailgaters too. Physics, how does that work?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 30, 2026 11:43 PM (VQ7/I)

244 The bleeding-hearts always miss the word "and" in "cruel and unusual". Cruel and usual is allowed. Unusual but not cruel is allowed. Only the combination is forbidden, technically
Posted by: RandomDave

I like the way you think!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 11:43 PM (rdVOm)

245 Lol, Biden's Dog-- but I wouldn't waste Jack Daniels on that wench. Just send her here to Idaho & let .308 work the magic.
Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 11:37 PM (rdVOm)

I like the "Off with their head!" approach with a guillotine.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 30, 2026 11:44 PM (qx7Zg)

246 The bleeding-hearts always miss the word "and" in "cruel and unusual". Cruel and usual is allowed. Unusual but not cruel is allowed. Only the combination is forbidden, technically
Posted by: RandomDave

Hanging was very usual for over a hundred years.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 11:45 PM (KC5Lt)

247 Is anyone else having trouble reading this thread with Brave?

It works on Safari on my iPad, but not Brave. Normally it's the other way around.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 30, 2026 11:46 PM (qx7Zg)

248 guess I should volunteer as a vein expert as I could start an IV blindfolded. I mean, dude, do they let people in off the streets?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

I had a return patent once, a really heavy drug user who didn't have any of the usual veins available because those were all scar tissue. I had him hold his arm upright and hit the cephalic vein (back of the forearm). I then told him not to use it so I could the next time he was admitted.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 11:46 PM (NnhvP)

249
One night I thought I was having hot sex then realized the electric blanket was on fire.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:46 PM (/QHx4)

250 Brave is working just fine for me, HotW.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 11:47 PM (rdVOm)

251 The big donut picture up top reminded me of a recent Sam Reid video where he investigates real restaurants used in movies (including that one.)

It's a lot of fun.

https://youtu.be/892xYqQYZuE

(24 minutes)

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 30, 2026 11:47 PM (2Ez/1)

252 I always want my arm veins to be accessible because I absolutely hate hate hate having the IV put in the top of my hand.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 11:48 PM (KC5Lt)

253 I LOVE the comments in the UK DM about the execution.

An Aussie was wailing about how cruel we are. Someone said only the Middle East is as cruel (right). People (me) downvoted this faggot.

Immediately under this comment was someone asking why they did not give her another dose and then administer a box cutter.

Another said, "What happened to a syringe full of air?" LOL

Meanwhile she's en route to a freaking hospital. Will wake up after her great nap and think she's in heaven vs the hell she deserves.

This is retarded, sir. The same mercy was not given to that girl she brutally killed. (Clancy is probably taking notes).

My dude just wandered in and wondered why not fentanyl? Like minds.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 11:48 PM (hzuYO)

254 Hot sex? Nah...

Lately, the only *warm thing* between my legs, has been my coffee travel-mug when I run errands in the morning. (sad)

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 11:49 PM (rdVOm)

255 Well, I am getting sleepy here. Going to call it a night. Sleep well, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 11:51 PM (C6xWR)

256 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 11:30 PM (hzuYO)

Sadly, I know something about this (Daughters suicide)... but the recommended method for painless suicide, is a bag over the head, and a Helium tank.

Normally the reason you feel out of breath is because CO2 increases... which your body recognizes as buh bad oh..

Helium displaces oxygen but does not trigger that response... so you just go to sleep... and die.

Why we are not using this for Capital Punishment... I can't answer.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 11:51 PM (mP0Kj)

257
JQ,

More coverage with a flaming electric blanket, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:51 PM (/QHx4)

258 Is anyone else having trouble reading this thread with Brave?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Exclusively, Brave with no issues. Try clearing your cache.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 11:52 PM (NnhvP)

259 nite-all

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 11:52 PM (NnhvP)

260 252 I always want my arm veins to be accessible because I absolutely hate hate hate having the IV put in the top of my hand.
Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 11:48 PM (KC5Lt)

*********
Agree. When I was a nurse I started IV's in the huge vein under the thumb. Best place as you can use your hand.

In the ED it is standard to have it in your elbow area (I am not using fancy anatomy words but I know them). Which is where Pike had hers (one would assume). My dude said she's going to need a spike in her heart to make sure next time.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 11:52 PM (hzuYO)

261 I had a return patent once,

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 11:46 PM (NnhvP)

Did they sue you for infringement? Patent Office get involved?

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 11:53 PM (mP0Kj)

262
Why we are not using this for Capital Punishment... I can't answer.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 11:51 PM (mP0Kj)

********
I am so very sorry, Romeo.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 11:54 PM (hzuYO)

263 ChristyBlinky,

You mean a stake through the heart (and buried at a crossroads)?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 11:54 PM (aJQbY)

264 So is this bitch going to get a couple of weeks of hospital care for whatever an arm full of sodium barbital does to the rest of her. Then the state has to start over with another death warrant?

Posted by: Jen the original at September 30, 2026 11:55 PM (EiUt/)

265 258 Christina pike still allive in agony after two doses of poison
-------
OH NO!!!

Anyway...

Posted by: 496 at September 30, 2026 11:56 PM (aadd2)

266 Why not Adverb or Adjective Punishment?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 11:56 PM (W8kN7)

267 262
Why we are not using this for Capital Punishment... I can't answer.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Send her down to TX, they know how to do it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 11:56 PM (JS6jE)

268 Sammy, what's with the Ronald McDonald outfit?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 30, 2026 11:56 PM (Fv808)

269 Old school Sammy Hagar is Bad Motor Scooter and Make It Last.

Posted by: Happy at September 30, 2026 11:56 PM (iiHzL)

270 Agony? Darn. That must suck.

Posted by: Reforger at September 30, 2026 11:57 PM (MQYOv)

271 Hmmmm..... great... smelling smoke... must be a fire in the area...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 11:57 PM (mP0Kj)

272 Speaking of the Martian year, this allows some fun with defining a calendar for Mars from scratch. A Martial tropical year is 668.5921 Martian days, or sols.

The fraction is greater than 1/2, so your leap cycle is going to have to more leap years than regular, short years, so best to make the base year 669 sols, and have skip years. A 10 year base cycle immediately suggests itself. 6 long years, and 4 short years. You'd need some longer cycles on top of that of course.

Now, throw the notion of weeks and months in there. Mars little moons are useless for this, as their periods are so short.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 30, 2026 11:58 PM (w6EFb)

273 How is it that fentanyl junkies on Skid row are more competent to perform lethal injection than Gubmint, oh, right, yeah.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 30, 2026 11:58 PM (Fv808)

274 Maybe they can just cut her throat like she did the victim.

Never heard about people snoring being in agony. Now the people who have to listen to it is a different story.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 11:59 PM (KC5Lt)

275 Why we are not using this for Capital Punishment... I can't answer.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 11:51 PM (mP0Kj)[

We have discussed this before. It is cruel and unusual to make the condemned talk like Minnie Mouse

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 11:59 PM (rbvCR)

276
Taking a long time for her to die. Maybe Satan is trying to figure the worse place in Hell for her.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 11:59 PM (/QHx4)

277 275 Why we are not using this for Capital Punishment... I can't answer.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 11:51 PM (mP0Kj)[

We have discussed this before. It is cruel and unusual to make the condemned talk like Minnie Mouse
Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 11:59 PM (rbvCR)

Well.... seeing as how we did it as a joke... cruel?

And I bet MOST of the morons here have done the helium voice thing... so Unusual?

Sorry Councilor, your assertations do not fit the facts.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 01, 2026 12:02 AM (mP0Kj)

278 Taking a long time for her to die. Maybe Satan is trying to figure the worse place in Hell for her.
Posted by: four seasons

That or her lawyers smuggled in drugs to counteract the penta.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 01, 2026 12:02 AM (nEUC6)

279 263 ChristyBlinky,

You mean a stake through the heart (and buried at a crossroads)?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 11:54 PM (aJQbY)
******
Oh, heck. Did I say steak through her heart? That would be a total waste of a steak. Plus she refused her last meal. I am unsure why I remembered that as I scanned but it's true.

If they do CPR on her I give up. Wth Tennessee?

On the bright side, as there almost always is one, maybe they will bring back hanging, ole sparky and the firing squad as this seems to fail a lot. Criminals need to fear the reaper vs a nap that's not a dirt nap.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 01, 2026 12:03 AM (hzuYO)

280
Maybe the assholes should die in agony.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 12:04 AM (/QHx4)

281 How about smashing her head with a rock, like she did to her victim?

Posted by: Jen the original at October 01, 2026 12:05 AM (EiUt/)

282
Jen,

YES!

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 12:05 AM (/QHx4)

283 Saw this new device from Japan, and thought of TRex. He'd find it useful if he lost his tail.

https://tinyurl.com/hw9ywsb7+

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 01, 2026 12:05 AM (qx7Zg)

284 I deleted brave and reinstalled, no luck.

Brave has decided that all AoSHQ posts are spam. Back to the pop-up browser.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 12:07 AM (fuM78)

285 There should be options behind the curtain, for heaven's sake. There's a lot I can think of quickly. Or if this doesn't take, kill them the way they killed option. You'd better hope that drug works and someone hits the vein!

All the focus will now go from Clancy to supporting this new murder womman hero. Somehow the puthy hats ride again on a new mission. With tee shirts and other crap.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 01, 2026 12:07 AM (hzuYO)

286 How about smashing her head with a rock, like she did to her victim?
Posted by: Jen the original at October 01, 2026 12:05 AM (EiUt/)

Might not work. Stuff her head in a 10-ton press.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 01, 2026 12:07 AM (qx7Zg)

287 149 I have gotten donuts from the Big Donut!
Yes, it is in Ingle-Watts. Slightly north of LAX.
Couldn’t pay me enough to try that again now, if it’s even still open…
Posted by: Gunslinger at September 30, 2026 10:50 PM (N91F

I may be on that side of town in a few weeks. If so I'll check it out and report back.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 01, 2026 12:08 AM (QGaXH)

288 Speaking of Japan, the condemned are not told of the day of their execution. Just the year.

So when the inmate hears footsteps down the hall, and keys jingling, it might be your lucky day. Or, just Lunch.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 01, 2026 12:09 AM (W8kN7)

289
Just shoot her. All this gets so ridiculous.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 01, 2026 12:09 AM (w6EFb)

290 So who is being legally executed?

Can't be Lindsay Clancy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 01, 2026 12:11 AM (2GVsD)

291 I deleted brave and reinstalled, no luck.

Brave has decided that all AoSHQ posts are spam. Back to the pop-up browser.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 12:07 AM (fuM7

The problem I'm having is just with this thread. The Cafe loads just fine. I deleted all the browser data, and it fails to load.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 01, 2026 12:11 AM (qx7Zg)

292
If a family member killed her they would be executed immediatlly.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 12:11 AM (/QHx4)

293 Might not work. Stuff her head in a 10-ton press.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 01, 2026 12:07 AM (qx7Zg)

********
Is it wrong that I laughed at this? Probably.

It's late and I am sleep deprived. I'll blame that as I'm a good girl except with murderers who deserve to die as they killed.

Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 01, 2026 12:12 AM (hzuYO)

294 A 10 year base cycle immediately suggests itself. 6 long years, and 4 short years. You'd need some longer cycles on top of that of course.
...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Business will not like that. It'll be necessary to smooth that out one way or another.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 12:13 AM (JS6jE)

295 Just go back to old fashioned firing squads with rifles.

Or a gatling gun.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 01, 2026 12:13 AM (pLaQB)

296 I have Brave somewhere in the back of the closet.
I'll dust it off and try it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 12:14 AM (JS6jE)

297 159 Studebaker built their stripper Scotsman model in 57-58.
Nash-Rambler straight six was known as the Flying Scot.
Fred MacMurray was a millionaire cheapskate.
Posted by: Frugal Freda at September 30, 2026 10:54 PM (Fn+3X)

One of these statements does not seem to go with the others.

MacMurray was a Scot? I guess with that name. I liked him in both Absent Minded Prof and Double Indemnity. Follow Me Boys was good too but I shudder to think what a modern day remake would look like.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 01, 2026 12:15 AM (QGaXH)

298 This is a Brave test.
ah 1 anna 2 anna 3

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 12:17 AM (JS6jE)

299 *looks around*

Where are these other annas???

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 01, 2026 12:17 AM (2GVsD)

300 290. A 50 year old woman who killed a 17 year old girl 30 years ago. Lured her into the woods and punched her onto the ground, then proceeded to slash her with box cutter hundreds of times.while her boyfriend held her down.Carved a pentagram in her chest while she begged for her life. Finally picked up a piece of asphalt and smashed her head in while her boyfriend egged her on asking to see her brains ooze out. She was supposed to be executed tonight but the state of TN used an all female execution squad at the condemned’s request and they botched it. She’s at a hospital receiving medical treatment to keep her alive.

Posted by: Jen the original at October 01, 2026 12:17 AM (EiUt/)

301 He was leading man in Kim Novak's first major league performance.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 12:18 AM (JS6jE)

302 They both lost and won . ----Schrödinger
Posted by: polynikes

Just because you didn't see the match.....

Posted by: mikeski at October 01, 2026 12:19 AM (VHUov)

303 Other annas are out with the Braves.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 12:19 AM (JS6jE)

304
Jen, Unbelievable

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 12:20 AM (/QHx4)

305 DEI Death Squad?

What could go wrong?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 01, 2026 12:20 AM (2GVsD)

306 Nitrogen inflation

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 01, 2026 12:21 AM (Cqx++)

307 Other annas are out with the Braves.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 12:19 AM (JS6jE)

They might be in panzers chasing the braves.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 01, 2026 12:21 AM (qx7Zg)

308 *PARAMOUNT SKYDANCE, WARNER BROS. SEE MERGER CLOSING OCT. 6
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CNN hardest hit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 12:21 AM (JS6jE)

309 Be of good cheer!🫤
Posted by: mindful webworker

If you insist.

https://youtu.be/urKiew3Rkvc

(She does sing that at 2:40, even though most of the song is in Japanese.)

Also: Nuked too much or not enough? Japanese music fans are nuts. And there's a whole stadiumfull of them.

Posted by: mikeski at October 01, 2026 12:21 AM (VHUov)

310 Girls unt Panzers ja?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 01, 2026 12:22 AM (2GVsD)

311 Clancy jurors (or their ilk) on the lethal injection team?

Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 12:22 AM (rdVOm)

312
Jen,

What about the boyfriend? Is he sentenced to death

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 12:23 AM (/QHx4)

313 The hijacker is a religious extremist who refuses to shake hands with women, lol.

Well, it wasn't like.he was there to meet chicks.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 12:23 AM (2WIwB)

314 Yes. Lockheed in Burbank had an impressive camo net cover. Look it up. It’s…again, quite impressive.
The airstrip they loaded completed planes from, is now Burbank Airport.
Posted by: Gunslinger
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It's all gone now, but up through the 80s, the drive to the Burbank terminal was like a mile long tunnel, because of the Lockheed assembly buildings. One on either side of the street, 3 stories tall, windowless. Wall, sidewalk, curb, 2 lane street, curb, sidewalk, wall. For over a mile.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 01, 2026 12:24 AM (iYF/u)

315 Mikeski watching 'Samurai Mambo' again?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 01, 2026 12:26 AM (2GVsD)

316 McMurrry had a powerful part in the Caine Mutiny, although he was a complete louse.
At the end you realize that Jose Ferrer was the most powerful and most compelling character in the film, even though he doesn’t show up until 2/3 of the way through.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 12:27 AM (fuM78)

317 OpenAI leaders reportedly cooked up “insane” ideas like selling future tools to Russia and China and offering Kanye West early access to an unreleased model, horrifying top staffers.

The proposals, detailed Wednesday in The Atlantic, made Dario Amodei – who was OpenAI’s Vice President of Research at the time – question the moral compass of CEO Sam Altman and other top execs. The wacky ideas ultimately led Amodei to leave the company to start a more “safety-minded” AI lab, Anthropic.
_NY Post

The Post must be desperate printing fairy tales and quoting the Atlantic. Amodei questioning Altman's moral compass. Give me a break.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 12:27 AM (JS6jE)

318 Follow Me Boys was good too but I shudder to think what a modern day remake would look like.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 01, 2026 12:15 AM (QGaXH)

Given the perversion of Hollywood, it would be Swallow Me Boys.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 12:27 AM (2WIwB)

319 308 *PARAMOUNT SKYDANCE, WARNER BROS. SEE MERGER CLOSING OCT. 6
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CNN hardest hit.

Posted by: Braenyard

The next time Mark Ruffalo appears in public, he'll be bald, wearing an orange robe, and about to set himself on fire.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 01, 2026 12:31 AM (pLaQB)

320 She was supposed to be executed tonight but the state of TN used an all female execution squad at the condemned’s request and they botched it. She’s at a hospital receiving medical treatment to keep her alive.
Posted by: Jen the original

Fair warning: dying temporarily does not get you out of a life sentence. I tried it.

Posted by: zombie Ben Schreiber at October 01, 2026 12:31 AM (VHUov)

321 >>>
Also: Nuked too much or not enough? Japanese music fans are nuts. And there's a whole stadiumfull of them.

Posted by: mikeski
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Militant bunch with all the seekret power signs to the crowd.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 12:32 AM (JS6jE)

322 “She was supposed to be executed tonight but the state of TN used an all female execution squad at the condemned’s request and they botched it”

Ha ha! That’s so 2026

Posted by: Common Tater at October 01, 2026 12:33 AM (+oiHq)

323 *rolls a D20*

I disbelieve

https://tinyurl.com/3e3aj9c7

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 01, 2026 12:34 AM (2GVsD)

324 Mark Ruffalo with all that fat inside his head could burn for days.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 01, 2026 12:35 AM (2GVsD)

325 Mikeski watching 'Samurai Mambo' again?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Ha! Once every couple years is probably enough. 😉

Nana Mizuki's fans are nuts. Doing the "idol band" thing where they all do the same wotagei dance, but there's like 30,000 of them in a baseball stadium instead of 30 of them in a dive club.

Posted by: mikeski at October 01, 2026 12:35 AM (VHUov)

326 322 “She was supposed to be executed tonight but the state of TN used an all female execution squad at the condemned’s request and they botched it”

Ha ha! That’s so 2026
Posted by: Common Tater at October 01, 2026 12:33 AM (+oiHq)

I forgot to ask. Is she up to date with her COVID-19 vaccinations? She should get that caught up while in the hospital.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 01, 2026 12:35 AM (qx7Zg)

327 My first exposure to Fred MacMurray was “My Three Sons”.

Anytime he played a bad guy or serious role, I couldn’t take it seriously

Posted by: Common Tater at October 01, 2026 12:35 AM (+oiHq)

328
Who is paying to keep her alive? I doubt she has health insurance.

Taxpayers are getting screwed again.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 12:37 AM (/QHx4)

329 “She was supposed to be executed tonight but the state of TN used an all female execution squad at the condemned’s request and they botched it”

Ha ha! That’s so 2026
Posted by: Common Tater

News says they gave her two lethal doses of pentobarbital, and a half-hour later she was still snoring.

Have they considered an injection of Holy water, instead?

Posted by: mikeski the vampire slayer at October 01, 2026 12:43 AM (VHUov)

330 I bet they even rub down the injection site carefully with alcohol.

You just know they do

Posted by: Common Tater at October 01, 2026 12:43 AM (+oiHq)

331 Happy Wednesday Horde!

I loved My Three Sons when I was little, okay maybe not so little, I thought that Don Grady was just the cutest guy, he played Robbie.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 01, 2026 12:44 AM (ibDUx)

332 Pushover 1954, an enchanting scene where MacMurry helps Novak with her coat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 12:44 AM (JS6jE)

333 322 “She was supposed to be executed tonight but the state of TN used an all female execution squad at the condemned’s request and they botched it”

Ha ha! That’s so 2026
Posted by: Common Tater at October 01, 2026 12:33 AM (+oiHq)

*chef's kiss*

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 01, 2026 12:45 AM (BHTo4)

334 Sounds like a conspiracy to me involving the people who prepared the injection. No way she got two ‘lethal’ injections and lived.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 12:47 AM (KC5Lt)

335 I disbelieve

https://tinyurl.com/3e3aj9c7

Posted by: Anna Puma
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It's not opening.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 12:48 AM (JS6jE)

336 Posted by: mindful webworker - who am I to disagree at September 30, 2026 10:56 PM (xRCm7)

That was off the top of my head. I just came up with the fastest way to refute it, not the only one. I thought it was a ridiculous statement from a "community organizer".

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:50 AM (vE0+H)

337 Nitrogen inflation
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I've often wondered why 100% nitrogen wasn't the choice for executions.

Anyone who winds up in a nitrogen atmosphere accidentally, working at the local chemical plant or whatever, just wakes up in the ambulance and says "I don't remember what happened, I was just walking down the hall, and then I was here."

You breathe ~80% nitrogen all the time, so it doesn't trip all your biological "don't breathe this, go find some fresh air fast!" sensors.

Posted by: mikeski at October 01, 2026 12:50 AM (VHUov)

338 Victim's family must be absolutely batshit right now

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:51 AM (vE0+H)

339 Hi, Debby!

I barely remember 'My Three Sons' but the intro music comes to mind sometimes:

youtu.be/NaK6xWJW6UQ

Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 12:52 AM (rdVOm)

340 Sadly, I know something about this (Daughters suicide)... but the recommended method for painless suicide, is a bag over the head, and a Helium tank.
Normally the reason you feel out of breath is because CO2 increases... which your body recognizes as buh bad oh..

Helium displaces oxygen but does not trigger that response... so you just go to sleep... and die.

Why we are not using this for Capital Punishment... I can't answer.
Posted by: Romeo13
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I suppose the reason Helium is chosen is that a tank of it is easily obtained. Most party supply stores will have a tank.
But, if you're doing this deliberately, nitrogen is the way to go. Air is already 78% nitrogen, so it's not dangerous.
Slap a oxygen mask on their face, feed it nitrogen. They pass out (no pain, so there goes the arguments about "cruel") and stop breathing in about 5 minutes, but they are, literally "brain dead" long before that. The heart stops within a minute of breath cessation, at which time they are not only merely dead, but completely most sincerely dead. ( with apologies to Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg).
And I apologize for assisting in bringing up painful memories.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 01, 2026 12:54 AM (iYF/u)

341 Sounds like a conspiracy to me involving the people who prepared the injection. No way she got two ‘lethal’ injections and lived.
Posted by: polynikes

Concur. Suppose one of them sneaked in some naloxone? Not hard to procure.

Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 12:55 AM (rdVOm)

342 >> Business will not like that. It'll be necessary to smooth that out one way or another.

There's an even bigger time problem here. A mean Martian sol is 24 hr, 39 min, 35s of our time. Now, if we divide that the usual way into 24, 60, 60, it means our Martian hours, minutes and seconds would be 2.75% longer.

That's deceptively close, and so much using that "stretched" time units would throw everything into chaos. Take a speed, 60 mph say. If you're using Martian hours, that would slightly slower. Normal 60 mph speed would be slightly higher in the Martian time units. This would throw everything into chaos, speeds, process rates, and the human feel for those. We just have to keep the basic time unit or it throws everything into chaos.

But we've got to keep the day count synched with the Martian solar time. And that means the sol just has to be 24:39:35. We get roughly 40 extra minutes per day.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 01, 2026 12:59 AM (w6EFb)

343 Chicks.

Pike will get her death sentence commuted. Watch

Posted by: Common Tater at October 01, 2026 01:00 AM (+oiHq)

344 Dear E2046,

Save 40% on shipping. Just download this app for shipping that is connected to Alibaba.

How about no.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 01, 2026 01:00 AM (2GVsD)

345 I am positive the op against women continues apace. I firmly believe Democrats have no intention of "nominating" a woman in 2028 no matter how they have trained their supposed voters for the previous 12 years.

They are getting the entire country pregnant with the idea that women are toxic untrustworthy shit - while doling out sops and bon mots to keep them placid.

Pretty clear they have "moved on", and the most amazing thing to me is women have zero idea they are done.

In fact I am guessing girl powah will be the biggest supporters of their toughguy candidate. Same people would have every woman in this country wrapped in a black blanket by 2040.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 01:08 AM (vE0+H)

346 301 He was leading man in Kim Novak's first major league performance.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 12:18 AM (JS6jE)

Kim Novak was great with Jimmy Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' even though Stewart was a tad old to convincingly play her romantic interest.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 01, 2026 01:09 AM (QGaXH)

347 There could be a small sealed room. Set the person in the chair with food and drink, tell them when they've finished eating, we'll come back and take you to the chamber. Inject the room with your breathing concoction.

Last meal enjoyed but not finished.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 01:09 AM (JS6jE)

348 4 more minutes...

Posted by: Reforger at October 01, 2026 01:11 AM (MQYOv)

349 For the first time, AI is starting to scare me.

This new music video is out; about AI, created by AI. No humans involved. It’s too damned good. Not only is the music good, mixing genres (classical and rap) but it makes high level intellectual references in every frame, not to mention the literary games it plays. Such as using the refrain “Thus Spoke Compute” and then casually mentioning Zarathustra.

Our new Overlord is finding its voice.

https://tinyurl.com/4ydws2ew

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 01:14 AM (fuM78)

350 They should just administer whatever George Floyd ingested/etc. 100%+ (by a good margin) concentrations of fentanyl (two types I think) in his system, which of course led to cardiac arrest, which was the cause of death according to the medical examiner.*

* we regret any confusion caused by these basic facts in light of the grotesque and absurd judicial lynching of the police involved in arresting the dirtbag

Posted by: rhomboid at October 01, 2026 01:15 AM (U/Byj)

351 There are probably a couple of Lindsey Clancy jurors on the all female lethal injection team, they are experts in pharmacology.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 01, 2026 01:16 AM (ibDUx)

352 339 Hi, Debby!

I barely remember 'My Three Sons' but the intro music comes to mind sometimes:

youtu.be/NaK6xWJW6UQ
Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 12:52 AM (rdVOm)

I'm pretty sure I've seen it in the schedule for AntennaTV or MeTV or one equivalent.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 01, 2026 01:18 AM (QGaXH)

353
It is October for some of you, still September here. It is kinda freaky.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 01:18 AM (/QHx4)

354 Yep, four seasons, it has been October for over an hour here.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 01, 2026 01:20 AM (ibDUx)

355
Yeah, MeTV and the others run those a lot. You've got two basic eras with it. The William Frawley era and the Uncle Charlie era. And a different set of three sons in each era. The adopted Ernie character became the youngest.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 01, 2026 01:20 AM (w6EFb)

356 339 Hi, Debby!

I barely remember 'My Three Sons' but the intro music comes to mind sometimes:

youtu.be/NaK6xWJW6UQ
Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 12:52 AM (rdVOm)

FETV has it at 12:10 Pacific. Tonight's episode S4 E24 Statge Door Bub

It's on right before Car 54 Where Are You!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 01, 2026 01:23 AM (QGaXH)

357
Hi Debby!

I hope you are well.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 01:24 AM (/QHx4)

358
Yep, it's a wrap for Sept here. Average temp here was 74.5F, Hi 99.3F, Low 46.8F. Rain 2.58".

It decided to get cooler right on the equinox, like a switch being flipped.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 01, 2026 01:24 AM (w6EFb)

359 Bruce Dickinson sings the US National Anthem before the Steelers football game .

Damn, I didn't have that on my bingo card.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 01, 2026 01:28 AM (vzuC7)

360 I watched My Three Sons a lot

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2026 01:30 AM (Ia/+0)

361 355
Yeah, MeTV and the others run those a lot. You've got two basic eras with it. The William Frawley era and the Uncle Charlie era. And a different set of three sons in each era. The adopted Ernie character became the youngest.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 01, 2026 01:20 AM (w6EFb)

Tim Allen did that with Last Man Standing. He'd bring in actors from his previous show or his movies and make vague references to the other show. Best was when the woman who was his wife on Home Improvement showed up as a widow on Last Man Standing and said her late husband was always modifying tools for 'more power' til he finally killed himself.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 01, 2026 01:31 AM (QGaXH)

362 358
Yep, it's a wrap for Sept here. Average temp here was 74.5F, Hi 99.3F, Low 46.8F. Rain 2.58".

It decided to get cooler right on the equinox, like a switch being flipped.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 01, 2026 01:24 AM (w6EFb)

We're going into a stifling heat wave here with high humidity. I think it's crud being pushed north by the hurricane off Baja.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 01, 2026 01:33 AM (QGaXH)

363 Best was when the woman who was his wife on Home Improvement showed up as a widow on Last Man Standing and said her late husband was always modifying tools for 'more power' til he finally killed himself.....
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I saw that one! LOL. Used to watch "Home Improvement" and really liked the show. "Last Man Standing" was also very entertaining.

Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 01:35 AM (rdVOm)

364 publius, I preferred Uncle Bub to Uncle Charley, myself.

Skip, I think it was aired on Saturday nights when I was growing up. Don't you need to be sleeping right now?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 01, 2026 01:35 AM (ibDUx)

365
Just looking at the monthly data graphs for the weather station, the pressure behavior was nicely symmetric. You get the daily two hump wave, and that was riding on top of nicely symmetric 3 hump wave for the month. It's just strikingly symmetrical looking.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 01, 2026 01:39 AM (w6EFb)

366 Our new Overlord is finding its voice.

https://tinyurl.com/4ydws2ew

Posted by: Tom Servo
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Are you saying that is animation? Those are not real people?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 01:39 AM (JS6jE)

367
Yeah, Uncle Charley was sort of just abrasive. Not lovably so, to me.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 01, 2026 01:42 AM (w6EFb)

368 @nypost · 3h
Howard Stern says ABC will have 'hell to pay' if network tampers with Jimmy Kimmel's show
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Two shits in a bucket. Always have been.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 01:46 AM (JS6jE)

369 I liked both Home Improvement and Last Man Standing too, JQ, both shows had good writing and Tim Allen had a good delivery. I find myself drawn to older movies and tv shows, they were quite a bit better than a lot of the currently produced stuff.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 01, 2026 01:48 AM (ibDUx)

370 Kamala Harris, next president of the United States.

A presentation:

https://tinyurl.com/yaadssxv

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 01:49 AM (JS6jE)

371
Tennesee Governor halts all executions for the rest of the year.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 01:50 AM (/QHx4)

372 @BigJoeBastardi · 3h

from this am:
from this morning
Rachel will bring much bigger waves to SOCAL than Polo, as she turns west and gets into a position southwest of California, where waves can radiate out. Meanwhile, a new storm will develop behind her, recurve, hit Mexico, and send its heavy rains into the southern plains.
--
Mike Smith@USWeatherExpert · 5h

The southern storm could (not the same as "will") produce more torrential rains in the southern Rockies and/or southern Great Plains.

Something to keep an eye on.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 01:51 AM (JS6jE)

373 Current tv shows are garbage, imo. Was easy to drop the channel lineup & keep the cable for internet only. Much cheaper, too.

Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 01:52 AM (rdVOm)

374 No joy for upper western states; four seasons and JQ, however Rodrigo in AZ and Alteria in NM may get wet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 01:54 AM (JS6jE)

375 >>Tennessee Governor halts all executions for the rest of the year.

Oh, puh-leeeeze... what a wimp. Just contract with some other (competent!) state, to get the job done.

Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 01:54 AM (rdVOm)

376 I liked both Home Improvement and Last Man Standing too, JQ, both shows had good writing and Tim Allen had a good delivery. I find myself drawn to older movies and tv shows, they were quite a bit better than a lot of the currently produced stuff.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 01, 2026 01:48 AM (ibDUx)

There is the recent show he does where he owns a car restoration shop. That was some funny shit too. Mrs B was watching it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 01, 2026 01:57 AM (vzuC7)

377
I sure hope we get lots of snow this year. No snow last winter which is unusual for here. Our reservoir is very low.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 01:58 AM (/QHx4)

378 Enjoyed Home Improvement never got to see Last Man.
I kept cable while taking care of mom then dropped it.
Tried OTA but it didn't work out. Local news was apartment
fires and shooting. National news a farce.
I dragged out the TV for football and baseball till they
they took a knee. That was it.

I miss getting info from X but I'll give Musk my telephone#
when he gives me his.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 01:59 AM (JS6jE)

379 I hope Pike is suffering.

A lot.

And with that cheery note, I bid you all good night.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 01, 2026 01:59 AM (qlLNh)

380

Tennessee should hire AOS morons. We can get the job done.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 02:00 AM (/QHx4)

381
Sleep well Rodrigo

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 02:01 AM (/QHx4)

382 Night, Rodrigo

Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 02:02 AM (rdVOm)

383
Alrighty, it is now October here.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 02:04 AM (/QHx4)

384

I like October. Lots of birthdays and anniversies.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 02:05 AM (/QHx4)

385 >> I hope Pike is suffering.

Maybe she'll end up a chair beeping.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 01, 2026 02:09 AM (w6EFb)

386
Weeping and beeping. Evil bitch.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 02:09 AM (/QHx4)

387 But, Samuel, that issue was resolved long ago and you're still singing the song...

Posted by: Bobby and Gladys at October 01, 2026 02:14 AM (T5g+F)

388
The Israeli hero was wearing a Skechers shirt. Will be interesting to watch Skecher sales.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 02:15 AM (/QHx4)

389 Nice when someone starts a sentence with "Howard Stern says..." 'cause then you know you don't have to read the rest of it.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 01, 2026 02:17 AM (Dxeyx)

390
Lol

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 02:17 AM (/QHx4)

391 Bers, I am not aware of that show, I'll have to look it up.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 01, 2026 02:18 AM (ibDUx)

392 Wifmann ran out of gas at 0130 Hours on HWY 101 on the way home from her shift at the ER.
No cell phones then.
No gas station open for 20 miles.
She was two minutes late, so I went lookin'.
Found her.
Gas can empty.
I mixed lacquer thinner at about a 10 to 1 ratio with paint thinner.
The old Ford straight six started right up and did not even cough all the way home.

Posted by: waepnedmann at October 01, 2026 02:21 AM (ZXHKz)

393 Bers, I am not aware of that show, I'll have to look it up.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 01, 2026 02:18 AM (ibDUx)

Its called Shifting Gears.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 01, 2026 02:22 AM (vzuC7)

394 Shifting Gears-- I'll check it out too. Sounds like my kinda program!

Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 02:27 AM (rdVOm)

395 No cell phones then.
_-_
I once lost a water pump in Texas on 207 just north of the turn for Vigo Park. It took a while, but another car came by and called for me when they got to town. Long night it was, but I miss those days....allein bleiben....

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 01, 2026 02:29 AM (T5g+F)

396 Noahs Ark Scans@noahsarkscans · 14h

Durupınar Formation Is 100% NOT Geological! Defense Scientist Calls Noah’s Ark “Extraordinary”

“If it were geological, we would not have seen it at all!” — Dr. Khosrow Bakhtar

Dr. Khosrow Bakhtar’s preliminary report CONFIRMS that the Durupınar Formation is NOT geological, and that an “extraordinary” man-made structure lies beneath the surface.

All of us at Noah’s Ark Scans always knew Durupınar was the resting place of Noah’s Ark. We knew we had to prove it. So we put it through the ultimate test. We brought the most credentialed rock-mechanics expert we possibly could to the Mountains of Ararat and ran BakhtarRadar across the formation.

This is the most compelling evidence of Noah’s Ark to date — the most advanced technology ever used at the site in the history of its discovery. ...

https://twitterviewer.net/noahsarkscans

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 02:32 AM (JS6jE)

397
Braenyard,

I have been wondering if that is real or a scam.

If real it is amazing it has been found.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 02:35 AM (/QHx4)

398 Yes there have been many trys. An astronaut before the turn of the century put time and money into it. And many others.
The best to them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 02:45 AM (JS6jE)

399 It would be really cool if they did find Noah's Ark. Sweet dreams Horde, I am needing to sleep.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 01, 2026 02:48 AM (ibDUx)

400
Sleep well Debby!

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 02:49 AM (/QHx4)

401 Night, Debby!

Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 02:50 AM (rdVOm)

402 Reality is whatever AI thinks it is.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 01, 2026 02:53 AM (T5g+F)

403 Smit Machchhar, an Indian Flydubai captain, was stabbed by an Omani terrorist in the cockpit.

Despite his injuries and being barely conscious, he helped save 180+ lives.

Now, he is fighting for his life.

Let us pray for this hero tonight.
---

Didn't know that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 02:58 AM (JS6jE)

404
Lol, My late father always said computers are the Devil's box.

He would be horrified to see what computers can do today.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 02:58 AM (/QHx4)

405

Prayers for a true hero.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 02:59 AM (/QHx4)

406 computers are the Devil's box.
_-_
I always thought of them as something that sucks the life-force out of your body through your fingertips, but now I earn a living programming them(not building AI).

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 01, 2026 03:03 AM (Dxeyx)

407
Don,

Dad was horrified when Mom bought hers. He never adapted, would not even have a cellphone.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 03:07 AM (/QHx4)

408 Time to lay markers that only look like personal information on internet so that when the AI ThiefBots try to impersonate you, they are detectable as such.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 01, 2026 03:08 AM (T5g+F)

409 would not even have a cellphone
_-_
Good on 'im. If it weren't for my obligations, I would greatly prefer not to have one.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 01, 2026 03:12 AM (T5g+F)

410
I read an article a couple of days ago that said never answer a call from a number you don't recogonize. If it is important they will leave a message. Hubby and I have always done that.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 03:13 AM (/QHx4)

411
Cellphones are a blessing sometimes and a curse most of the time. We don't understand why people have the need to be connected all the time. I don't care about you are eating and other stuff.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 03:17 AM (/QHx4)

412 I don't put any contacts in my phone. Kinda like the mental game of tracking phone numbers, but they occasionally get me with a close match to one I know. My wife has the problem of booking for the family band. She gets calls from unknown numbers regularly.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 01, 2026 03:17 AM (T5g+F)

413
We are so old we grew with party lines, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 03:19 AM (/QHx4)

414 We were watching arrivals at an airport recently....people staring at there phones while walking..."Did you miss me, Rectangle Dearest?"

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 01, 2026 03:20 AM (T5g+F)

415

Yep, it is crazy.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 03:21 AM (/QHx4)

416
Oldest son and daughter-in-law have four children. No cellphones allowed. They were told when they could pay for them they could have them.

We salute them.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 03:24 AM (/QHx4)

417 party lines
_-_
Two rings, it was for us. The neighbors were good folks, so it was easy to manage...hear that click on the line of them picking up and listening for a voice more than once, and we knew it was time to sign off.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 01, 2026 03:24 AM (T5g+F)

418
Lol Don.

Nosy witches. We knew not to discuss any mischief we were planning. Sunday church they would tell on us, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 03:27 AM (/QHx4)

419 when they could pay for them they could have them
_-_
Did that with my youngest five. They seem to have better patterns of use for it. Youngest still does not have one, but he manages to keep himself well-occupied without it...and he never uses the words, "I'm bored." They learn quickly.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 01, 2026 03:28 AM (T5g+F)

420
I remember my parents talking about party line eavesdropping. This went back into the mid-60s I think in the local area. My father got suspicious because he discovered a neighbor knew something that could've only come from listening in on a phone conversation. At the time, I think it was maybe total of 4 parties per line was the standard. Anyway, they shared a line with my grandmother, and this neighbor, and maybe somebody else.

So, he got to carefully listening, and discovered a particular sort of noise would appear sometimes, and that was this neighbor's phone he deduced.

So, one time my father was talking to somebody, and heard that distinctive noise come on the line. He then said, "Well, I've got hang up now, because So-and-So is listening in!". There was a big "click" he heard. That nosey SOB hung up in panic and made a big noise doing so.

Now, he was in a trap. He had to pretend like nothing happened, otherwise that would be admitting guilt. It was a glorious trap.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 01, 2026 03:32 AM (w6EFb)

421
Our grandkids are thriving. They all have chores and if there is something they want they have to work for it.

I am sure there will be some rebellion. Son is a Marine and they don't take any crap off them.

Old ways are good.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 03:34 AM (/QHx4)

422

publius,

Party lines were a curse, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 03:35 AM (/QHx4)

423 I had an older brother, who would pick up an extension while I talked to friends... he just *had* to find out if there was anything happening, so he could rat me out to parents!

Jerk. As if I couldn't tell.

Sometimes, it was my parents listening in. They were paranoid, overprotective types.

Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 03:37 AM (rdVOm)

424 4 parties per line was the standard
_-_
After the oil boom went bust (again), things thinned-out where we were, so only two residences on our line. Luxury!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 01, 2026 03:38 AM (T5g+F)

425

We had one phone on the wall adjoining the family room where my parents spent their time. We could not get away with anything. Looking back they were trying to protect us from getting in trouble.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 03:42 AM (/QHx4)

426
We did get up to no good, lol. School was not monitoring us.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 03:43 AM (/QHx4)

427 We had one phone upstairs, and one downstairs.

I wasn't a trouble-maker, but big bro was always trying to make it seem so.

Heck, I remember getting grounded because of something a classmate did-- a girl I wasn't friends with & didn't even really know-- because Mom was a part-time substitute teacher and "heard something" and the girl happened to be in one of my classes. Ugh.

Tried & convicted, but not even guilty... *THAT* is how paranoid my parents were!

Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 03:46 AM (rdVOm)

428
That sucks JQ.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 03:48 AM (/QHx4)

429 Mom & Dad did the best they could, I guess.

Big bro was the instigator, but was *The Golden Child* and *boy* so got a pass on lots of shit.

Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 03:50 AM (rdVOm)

430
With all the technology today it has to be difficult to be a parent.

Of course most parents today live on their phones and don't pay attention to their kids.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 03:51 AM (/QHx4)

431 I am trying to get up

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2026 03:51 AM (Ia/+0)

432
Skip,

Do you ever get a good nights sleep?

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 03:53 AM (/QHx4)

433 I remember being grounded for a week, because I came home a half-hour late from a friend's house on a Saturday afternoon. (Yes, my homework was done or I wouldn't have been allowed to leave in the first place!)

And yet... big bro was never questioned about how he got gasoline to ride his dirt bike with his friends, even though he didn't have a job. (he was siphoning/stealing gas from neighbors!)

Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 04:00 AM (rdVOm)

434
We live four blocks from the grandchildren. They come here and do chores to earn money. They help us a lot.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 04:02 AM (/QHx4)

435 202 n
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 11:15 PM (JS6jE)

wut

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:04 AM (odBC9)

436
JQ,

There is always one. I am the oldest of five and youngest got away with a lot. I guess my parents were tired. Also he was a redhead and we did not cross him, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 04:05 AM (/QHx4)

437 Four seasons-- you *pay* your grandkids?! Nice!

We were all expected to do chores, help out with relatives, etc etc, and never were paid for it. It was simply "for the good of the order" and part of duty.

Mom was pissed when I helped a friend pull weeds, for $5, one day... "you should do that at home!"... yeah Mom, but you don't pay me anything at all!

Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 04:05 AM (rdVOm)

438 For all the yard work I did for my parents, there was seldom even a "thank you"-- it was just expected.

Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 04:08 AM (rdVOm)

439
JQ,

It is mostly things we can't do. We're old and bending over is difficult. We are happy to pay them to clean up the dog poop.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 04:10 AM (/QHx4)

440 Good morning.

JQ, a funny. At 18 I was supporting my parents.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 04:11 AM (10NPz)

441 300 290. A 50 year old woman who killed a 17 year old girl 30 years ago. Lured her into the woods and punched her onto the ground, then proceeded to slash her with box cutter hundreds of times.while her boyfriend held her down.Carved a pentagram in her chest while she begged for her life. Finally picked up a piece of asphalt and smashed her head in while her boyfriend egged her on asking to see her brains ooze out. She was supposed to be executed tonight but the state of TN used an all female execution squad at the condemned’s request and they botched it. She’s at a hospital receiving medical treatment to keep her alive.
Posted by: Jen the original at October 01, 2026 12:17 AM (EiUt/)

Thank you, Jen. I didn't know the story.

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:13 AM (odBC9)

442 JQ, a funny. At 18 I was supporting my parents.
Posted by: Ben Had

You're a good daughter, Ben Had! If I'd been able, I would've done the same.

Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 04:15 AM (rdVOm)

443

Good Morning Ben.

I love reading how excited people are about the meetup.

You and your friends are to be saluted for what ya'll do.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 04:15 AM (/QHx4)

444 Hasn't been to.bad lately. Lots of bathroom trips all night but mostly going right back to sleep.

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2026 04:17 AM (Ia/+0)

445

m,

I wonder who is paying to keep her alive. I doubt she has health insurance. Taxpayers are getting screwed again.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 04:17 AM (/QHx4)

446 Home & school life sucked so bad, I left at 15. (There's a lot to the story)

Posted by: JQ at October 01, 2026 04:18 AM (rdVOm)

447
A bullet would be cheaper.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 04:18 AM (/QHx4)

448 four seasons, the Horde are an amazing group of people and it is no joke that after the first MoMe it became a family reunion.

All credit goes to those that travel from near and far to make this so special.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 04:19 AM (10NPz)

449

It is awesome how many people travel to be there.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 04:21 AM (/QHx4)

450 Sure wish I could go

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2026 04:23 AM (Ia/+0)

451 A past MoMe funny. Imagine my trepidation about what to feed CBD. I was sweating bullets. The guy that writes the food thread was coming.

I went with chile rellenos and roasted pig. Worked out great!

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 04:28 AM (10NPz)

452 Big Do-Nut Drive-In

I love big do-nuts and I cannot lie.

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:29 AM (odBC9)

453 Skip, You can get a ride with a fellow Horde member ! You would love it.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 01, 2026 04:29 AM (10NPz)

454
That is funny. Luckily CBD tries anything.

Posted by: four seasons at October 01, 2026 04:30 AM (/QHx4)

455 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at October 01, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)

456 JQ, you mentioned you're in Idaho earlier in the thread.

I, somehow, thought you were located in the Northeast.

So my comment the other day about your internet problems possibly being due to the storms over the weekend must've confused you completely (unless there were storms in Idaho, too).

Sorry, now I know where you're at, though.
And I hope your internet is working better.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 01, 2026 04:38 AM (6ydKt)

Wednesday Week Cafe

Shizuoka, Japan
More here

Sunbathing seals need to scratch an itch.

A potty-trained dog. Sort of. I wouldn't want to have to clean that grill.

Puppy does an evasive Kirk Roll.

Lava cat.

Ocean's 11 but with a dachshund.

Monkey and dog share a milkshake.

90% of the population of Whittier, Alaska lives in a single apartment building.

Owls pose for the cover of their first album. I think it's a shoegazer album.

Minor content warning: A split-down-the-midline anatomical model of what sex looks like.

Young crested myna bird, having been mouth-fed by mother all its life, is frustrated that a worm won't just jump into its mouth like the other worms did.

The kookaburra's call, which I've mentioned before is used in almost every jungle scene, despite the bird only living in Australia.

Dale Irby, the most interesting man in the world.

You can't fool me, this is a Muppet. That's how every larger-sized Muppet's arms move.

Wolves eat each other's faces out of love. This may be slightly alarming for humans.

Massimo
@Rainmaker1973

The Batman effect.
A female experimenter, appearing pregnant, boarded the train. In the experimental condition, an additional experimenter dressed as Batman entered from another door. Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%).
[Francesco Pagnini et al.,"Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect", Nature, 2025]

Be Batman, people. #BeBatman.

A kestrel hovering. Well not really hovering. Just flying at the same speed as the wind, but in the opposite direction, so that it remains over the same point.

A python could totally climb the rope in gym class.

"Get in here and say that to my face!"

Aw: Man helps fawn over fence to rejoin his mama.

You (the dumb one): Worms are cute!

Me (the smart one): Worms are gross and weird, you dum-dum.

Very few species have been observed imitating human behavior, but the list of observations has recently grown.

This is a quokka being amazed by juggling and trying to repeat the movements.

[📹 lukeforrester_circuspic.twitter.com/VX4gQ7oN7o
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 30, 2026

Tigers live in lush tropical jungles with lots of wide rivers. They can have territories as large as 100 square km and being able to swim across rivers is a big evolutionary advantage

[read more: https://t.co/YrPQ2kUeGz]
[📹 https://t.co/plGrvQMCtG]pic.twitter.com/qFtMrkWELm
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 24, 2022

The town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales is completely dedicated to books and has 26 bookshops but only 2000 residents. That’s one bookshop per 77 people.

[📹 happyenchantedhome] https://t.co/Xs1YOWkLNB
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 30, 2026

Dogs are hypersocial and awesome:

This pet store's dogs are so anxious of being adopted that make even customers anxious.pic.twitter.com/XKmxjsCpnU
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 16, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM

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1 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=97hyh43DG5E

Ozzyman

Posted by: Kittens! at September 30, 2026 07:33 PM (jrgJz)

2 Yay Cafe!

Posted by: Zombie Billy Mays at September 30, 2026 07:36 PM (VyBeY)

3 Willowed: Supremes just said the Tennessee woman awaiting execution doesn't have to wait any more, over ruling a lower court's stay.

That's nice.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 30, 2026 07:37 PM (l26NL)

4 That album cover is clearly The Who.

Posted by: ibid at September 30, 2026 07:37 PM (D5eeg)

5
*looks at Café menu*

"Sautéed Cervaux"?
"Tête de veau"?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 07:37 PM (eRlcH)

6 Big ol' bear crashed the Aspen farmers market, nom-nommed all the pastries at a bakery vendor's table.

https://tinyurl.com/ycxvssp8

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 07:38 PM (rOKnE)

7 I hope "The Batman effect" doesn't have actual, you know, bats in it, because the link is down. Sad!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 07:38 PM (0sNs1)

8 "Minor content warning: A split-down-the-midline anatomical model of what sex looks like."

Wow. Even The Paolo doesn't cause them to lose their heads literally.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 07:39 PM (0sNs1)

9 Minor content warning: A split-down-the-midline anatomical model of what sex looks like.

Comment warning: lots of feminist retards.

Posted by: BIRM at September 30, 2026 07:40 PM (TbWk/)

10 I used to have a cat who when I would clench my had to him would clench his paw and extend those 5 big claws then blink at me.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:40 PM (uhVAy)

11 The town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales is completely dedicated to books

Whereas the village of Ham-on-Rye is dedicated to sammich shops.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 07:41 PM (/C5Rl)

12 "Sautéed Cervaux"?
"Tête de veau"?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh"

We are fresh out of Tete and the Cervaux got 86ed. The special tonight is Patagonian Flipper Cheese on artisanal waffles. Do you want mushrooms and onions on that?

Posted by: Your waiter at September 30, 2026 07:41 PM (MWfyi)

13 Willowed:

That's a part of the boomer hate but the big part IMO is that typically boomers have significantly more money to spend than younger generations and that causes some serious resentment.

I have some money now but I sure didn't when I was their age.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 07:16 PM (Cqx++)

Very True.

It took a long time before I didn't feel that I was just running in place.

I was always moving forward, but the benefits of normal life accrue fairly slowly and then they take off.

Someone whining to me that it just isn't fair that they don't have what I have, can just bite my ass.

They haven't worked as hard or as long as I have.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 07:41 PM (YSUhf)

14 No bats in The Batman effect.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 07:43 PM (0sNs1)

15 Someone whining to me that it just isn't fair that they don't have what I have, can just bite my ass.

They haven't worked as hard or as long as I have.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 07:41 PM (YSUhf)

I lived for a long time in one of the most expensive cities in the US working for well below minimum wage. It's called grad school and I couldn't get payments from mama and papa.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:44 PM (uhVAy)

16 A trip to Hay-on-Wye is definitely on the Bucket List.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 30, 2026 07:45 PM (xg/DD)

17
Me (the smart one): Worms are gross and weird, you dum-dum.

Wow. Looks like a miniature model for a scene from the next Alien movie.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 07:45 PM (YSUhf)

18 'E's got the same number of them I had.

Posted by: zombie Adolf H. at September 30, 2026 07:45 PM (0sNs1)

19 The Corgi Store

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 07:46 PM (Cqx++)

20 A big part of the boomer hate is also the fact that there is a significant portion of boomers who steadfastly refuse to comprehend/admit that shit in 2026 is not the same as it was in 1976 and in fact bears little to no resemblance at all.

No, young people shouldn't be laying blame. At the same time, older people should try to muster up some measure of understanding and sympathy to facts on the ground that are markedly different to the ones they experienced at that age.

"Stop spending your money on Starbucks and Netflix, you frivolous idiots" isn't exactly winning hearts and minds.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 07:48 PM (oqH4h)

21 Scene up top looks like a good place for some samurai to recite some haikus and commit seppuku.

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2026 07:48 PM (LHPAg)

22 11 The town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales is completely dedicated to books

Whereas the village of Ham-on-Rye is dedicated to sammich shops.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 07:41 PM (/C5Rl)

Excellent!

I hope they're next to each other; reading gives me an appetite.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 30, 2026 07:48 PM (zYpTz)

23 >>>Wolves eat each other's faces out of love.

That bear and dog from yesterday were perfectly happy eating each other's faces, except for that damn monkey that had to keep jumping up and slapping them upside their heads.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 30, 2026 07:48 PM (syz1S)

24 A trip to Hay-on-Wye is definitely on the Bucket List.

Archer City, TX was a bookstore town while Larry McMurtry was alive. I know there was talk of keeping it going but I don't know if they did.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 30, 2026 07:48 PM (vTZFs)

25 That python climbing the tree is the stuff nightmares are made of.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2026 07:48 PM (ftFVW)

26 Someone whining to me that it just isn't fair that they don't have what I have, can just bite my ass.

They haven't worked as hard or as long as I have.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 07:41 PM (YSUhf)

I lived for a long time in one of the most expensive cities in the US working for well below minimum wage. It's called grad school and I couldn't get payments from mama and papa.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:44 PM (uhVAy)

I did grad school. The final straw was me getting a $75K grant from the NIH that was "appropriated" by my major prof for her stuff.

I quit and went to dental school. It was especially easy once I learned what Ph.Ds who I knew did great work wind up as lab assistants for years.

Bah.

Time wasted but at least I moved onto better things.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 07:49 PM (YSUhf)

27 Every time this subject comes up, it turns into The Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 07:50 PM (rbvCR)

28 big part of the boomer hate is also the fact that there is a significant portion of boomers who steadfastly refuse to comprehend/admit that shit in 2026 is not the same as it was in 1976 and in fact bears little to no resemblance at all.
-------------------------------------
Lets see...the Carter inflation and Reagan recovery...looks to me like it was worse then by quite a bit.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:50 PM (uhVAy)

29 >>>The Batman effect.

I expect you all to be on your best behavior.
--Batman

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 30, 2026 07:50 PM (syz1S)

30 Lets see...the Carter inflation and Reagan recovery...looks to me like it was worse then by quite a bit.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:50 PM (uhVAy)

"We never had a cup, we drank out of a rolled-up newspaper."

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 07:51 PM (rbvCR)

31 Is Wales book village at risk of having Diversity dumped there?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 30, 2026 07:51 PM (4HoLg)

32 ***A split-down-the-midline anatomical model of what sex looks like.
--

Gross, at least they didn't show her intestines.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 07:52 PM (JS6jE)

33 msnow/membership

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 07:52 PM (gWCxi)

34 TN execution is back on apparently.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 07:53 PM (k2hhB)

35 yeah the Tiger Song that Hobbes makes Calvin sing is pretty much true. Tigers can do anything, including swim.
- but they didn't swim across the Wallace Line. Tigers stopped at Bali and did not swim to Lombok or points east.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 07:53 PM (88C+u)

36 I don't know why it bothers me, but the principal character in most novels is a voracious reader. Can't get enough books. Typically buys dozens of copies and places them around the house so one will always be at hand. All her relatives love the stacks of books she gives them on their birthdays and at Christmas.

Posted by: Burnham at September 30, 2026 07:53 PM (2ap+5)

37 >>>Big ol' bear crashed the Aspen farmers market, nom-nommed all the pastries at a bakery vendor's table.
https://tinyurl.com/ycxvssp8

what do I keep telling people?

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 07:53 PM (1wjle)

38
A big part of the boomer hate is also the fact that there is a significant portion of boomers who steadfastly refuse to comprehend/admit that shit in 2026 is not the same as it was in 1976 and in fact bears little to no resemblance at all.
... At the same time, older people should try to muster up some measure of understanding and sympathy to facts on the ground that are markedly different to the ones they experienced at that age.
Posted by: ballistic

Exactly. I barely recognize the country I grew up in. I'd very much enjoy the retribution extracted on the surrender monkeys in the GOPe that allowed this to happen while I spent my health, and youth protecting the place they all shit up with their grift. I'll crawl through burning gasoline soaked glass sherds to vote anyone not demoncrat, just to get them out of office.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 30, 2026 07:54 PM (QVmho)

39 Bats are flying rodent vermin. Batman is fine.

Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at September 30, 2026 07:54 PM (Fn+3X)

40
The same people whining the loudest about high rents are the loudest advocates for unlimited immigration.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 07:54 PM (eRlcH)

41 Lets see...the Carter inflation and Reagan recovery...looks to me like it was worse then by quite a bit.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:50 PM (uhVAy)

"We never had a cup, we drank out of a rolled-up newspaper."
Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 07:51 PM (rbvCR)

Someone claiming to rate historical eras needs to know more than the one they are living in. I didn't ever say things aren't tough now, but they seem to think that Boomers had a life of sunshine and posies and free Internet for life.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:54 PM (uhVAy)

42 Gross, at least they didn't show her intestines.

Posted by: Braenyard

Oddly enough, the dude's intestines are what I couldn't stop looking at. They look so frilly.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2026 07:54 PM (ftFVW)

43 Owls pose for the cover of their first album. I think it's a shoegazer album.

Who?

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 07:55 PM (88C+u)

44
Lets see...the Carter inflation and Reagan recovery...looks to me like it was worse then by quite a bit.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:50 PM (uhVAy)

"We never had a cup, we drank out of a rolled-up newspaper."
Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 07:51 PM (rbvCR)

Well, people's hard times may be just a joke to you. But, believe me they weren't fun to live through. But, also, that's life. Live and learn, do your best blah-blah-blah.

I'm glad that at least your life went perfectly in a straight arrow for success.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 07:55 PM (YSUhf)

45 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 07:55 PM (Ia/+0)

46 You can't fool me, this is a Muppet. That's how every larger-sized Muppet's arms move.
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Must be the cousin of Sam the Eagle.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 07:56 PM (FZ29D)

47 I don't know why it bothers me, but the principal character in most novels is a voracious reader. Can't get enough books. Typically buys dozens of copies and places them around the house so one will always be at hand. All her relatives love the stacks of books she gives them on their birthdays and at Christmas.
Posted by: Burnham at September 30, 2026 07:53 PM (2ap+5)

Might need to pick different novels. None of the ones I read have characters like that.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:56 PM (uhVAy)

48 I don't mind snakes. I see plenty around the grounds of my abode. But, for all that is holy, there should be a size limit. Boas and Anacondas don't belong here. They should be on some other planet somewhere....that's inaccessible.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 07:56 PM (dIske)

49 Origin of bats
tinyurl.com/mpwfbne3
[spoiler: Europe, not long after Chicxulub]

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 07:56 PM (88C+u)

50 "Stop spending your money on Starbucks and Netflix, you frivolous idiots"

If they can't take good advice then f'em. Stupid punks.

Posted by: Your waiter at September 30, 2026 07:57 PM (MWfyi)

51 Bookstores are subversive. Mostly filled with novels. Novels are made up lies, who wants to fill their head with lies? Have enough trouble with my brain without that.

Posted by: We Choose Truth Over Facts at September 30, 2026 07:57 PM (Fn+3X)

52 That apartment building town doesn't sound like me

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)

53 Senator Hollen is looking out for your rights!

Sen. Chris Van Hollen Says Act to Ban Stock Trading Would 'Disenfranchise American Voters'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 07:59 PM (ndZc7)

54 I fixed the Batman Effect post. I just copied it right into the post.

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 07:59 PM (1wjle)

55 52 That apartment building town doesn't sound like me
Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)

_______________________

Yeah, me either. I can see a definite "Lord of the Flies" scenario starting up in a situation like that. Plus you have to fight to use the ping pong table every night.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 08:00 PM (dIske)

56 I did grad school. The final straw was me getting a $75K grant from the NIH that was "appropriated" by my major prof for her stuff.

Time wasted but at least I moved onto better things.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 07:49 PM (YSUhf)

I didn't even get the degree out of it. Good thing I had taken Computer Science in college to get a skill out of it. Of course the Gulf War starting out the same month made job searching dicey.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:00 PM (uhVAy)

57
Bookstores are subversive. Mostly filled with novels. Novels are made up lies, who wants to fill their head with lies? Have enough trouble with my brain without that.
Posted by: We Choose Truth Over Facts at September 30, 2026 07:57 PM (Fn+3X)

.....uh.

Okay, you do you.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:00 PM (YSUhf)

58 Ozzyman
Posted by: Kittens! at September 30, 2026 07:33 PM (jrgJz)

Can't stand the guys voice.

Posted by: Reforger at September 30, 2026 08:00 PM (MQYOv)

59 Most bookstore owners are Communists. Then there's the pants rule.

Posted by: Knickerless Parsons at September 30, 2026 08:00 PM (Fn+3X)

60 I heard the cafe has secret menu options...

Posted by: Max Power at September 30, 2026 08:01 PM (SwyyQ)

61 I don't mind snakes. I see plenty around the grounds of my abode. But, for all that is holy, there should be a size limit. Boas and Anacondas don't belong here. They should be on some other planet somewhere....that's inaccessible.
Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 07:56 PM (dIske)

Its the little ones you step on you might need to worry about.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:01 PM (uhVAy)

62 I fixed the Batman Effect post. I just copied it right into the post.
Posted by: ace

FWIW the link worked for me.

*shrugs*

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2026 08:01 PM (ftFVW)

63 "I love fiction-books"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfFNJ7mEOgI

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 08:01 PM (1wjle)

64 Every time this subject comes up, it turns into The Four Yorkshiremen sketch.
Posted by: Kindltot

Luxury!

Posted by: A Yorkshireman at September 30, 2026 08:01 PM (l26NL)

65 How much did that iphone cost? That's 1/20 of a $20k down payment. Did you take a trip to Cancun? What would forgoing that trip do for your house fund?

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 08:01 PM (MWfyi)

66 >>"Stop spending your money on Starbucks and Netflix, you frivolous idiots" isn't exactly winning hearts and minds.

This

Worse are the ones who tell college kids who've been sold the "everyone goes to college!" and college=career lie peddled by politicians for the past few decades to "go be a Panda Express manager, or take up a trade.

No different than lecturing laid off coal miners to "learn to code."

Think of all the American med students who didn't get a residency placement vs. the 80 foreigners who took the 82 spots at Rochester hospital (which is the trend, not an anomaly) - should they bootstrap a residency, become an HVAC tech, or "learn to code?"

Gen Z's future has been hijacked by DEI, H1-b and offshoring. Telling the ones who can't find jobs it's solely their fault is maddening.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 08:02 PM (rOKnE)

67 Origin of bats
tinyurl.com/mpwfbne3
[spoiler: Europe, not long after Chicxulub]
Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 07:56 PM

This. This is the kind of hard-hitting and impactful information that keeps people coming back to AoSHQ!

Posted by: Chiroptophiles of AoSQH at September 30, 2026 08:02 PM (0sNs1)

68 Bookstores are also dusty and musty. Mold growing between the covers. Don't you value your lungs?

Posted by: Have Another Hit-Of Fresh Air at September 30, 2026 08:03 PM (Fn+3X)

69 Government employment is at a 60 year low. Also, 65% of black college graduates work for the government at some level. That's 65% of all black women with college degrees.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 30, 2026 08:04 PM (l26NL)

70 >>A big part of the boomer hate is also the fact that there is a significant portion of boomers who steadfastly refuse to comprehend/admit that shit in 2026 is not the same as it was in 1976 and in fact bears little to no resemblance at all.

I don't see that. We know it's not the same.

But then it wasn't the same in the 1940s as it was in 1976. But blaming changes that most of us had nothing to do with and don't embrace either doesn't make a lot of sense.

Both or our enemies are over that way, both boomers and younger generations. It's not like all of you guys are hitting it out of the park either.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:04 PM (viF8m)

71 Books do make a nice bonfire, though.

Posted by: Hilter Jugend Bund #49 at September 30, 2026 08:04 PM (Fn+3X)

72 Its the little ones you step on you might need to worry about.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:01 PM (uhVAy)

____________________________

I used to work for a company that had me do crisis management after extreme weather events. Every hurricane had me sent down to Florida. No one talks about it, but right after a hurricane down there you see snakes everywhere. They were flooded out of their nests and holes. Hundreds of them everywhere.

That taught me to look where I'm waking...as well, as which ones to look out for, and which ones get the boot print. I just don't like the ones that would beat me at arm wrestling.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 08:06 PM (dIske)

73 winning hearts and minds.
Posted by: ballistic

No proof they have the latter.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 08:06 PM (NnhvP)

74 I'm glad that at least your life went perfectly in a straight arrow for success.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 07:55 PM (YSUhf)

Having survived adversity may be something to be proud of, but pain, poverty and loss do not make people inherently better or more noble. Don't compete at who had it worse, there is always someone who had it worse, and wear it better.

The joke of the Four Yorkshiremen is not that they suffered in poverty as children, it is that they think it is some sort of proof of superiority and are competing over it. The second joke is that they truly suffered in their childhood and yet they claim to be perfectly happy to force this same level of pain on "kids these days" as if the suffering is some sort of gift.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 08:06 PM (rbvCR)

75 Novels are made up lies, who wants to fill their head with lies? Have enough trouble with my brain without that.
Posted by: We Choose Truth Over Facts

Depending on the novel, books can show you that life can be different than the one you're living.

If your life is miserable, but you have no idea that it can be different or how to make it so, a good book can demonstrate a different and possibly better way of living.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 30, 2026 08:07 PM (vJrRc)

76
The correct response is the one you got from your Dad, if you were lucky. "That's nice, now go back to work"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 08:07 PM (rbvCR)

77 >>The town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales is completely dedicated to books and has 26 bookshops but only 2000 residents. That’s one bookshop per 77 people.

Heh, I have a Little Free Library on practically every other block in my neighborhood.

But the one in the tweet picture looks nice!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 08:08 PM (rOKnE)

78 Kinda cool take on In the Air Tonight.

https://tinyurl.com/mwm8v7u9

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2026 08:08 PM (ftFVW)

79 FWIW the link worked for me.

*shrugs*
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2026 08:01 PM

That's because Ace, who loves us, even as we disappoint him, loves us, and fixed it.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 08:08 PM (0sNs1)

80 3 Willowed: Supremes just said the Tennessee woman awaiting execution doesn't have to wait any more, over ruling a lower court's stay.
---

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZiX0oO_3Ls

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 08:09 PM (JS6jE)

81 "Novels are made up lies, who wants to fill their head with lies? "

People like stories. That's one thing that makes us people. Giraffes don't care about stories, nor your cat. The stories can be real or made up, we don't care, we still like 'em.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 08:10 PM (MWfyi)

82 as if the suffering is some sort of gift.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 08:06 PM

cf. MisHum with Yoko videos, and CBD with man on the ottoman paintings.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 08:10 PM (0sNs1)

83 Here are the facts. For most of us, life is just going to suck. It'll be hard work for little gain. You'll be on a hamster wheel for most if not all of your prime years. You will be exploited, betrayed, and burned over and over. People will walk off with your work, time and assets, then laugh at you for being such a sucker. Then in the end you die and go to hell. So in summary, fuck it, who cares.

Posted by: Map of life at September 30, 2026 08:11 PM (TbWk/)

84 When I was a child, I would run across these horrid spy novels. The one I remember is the Parsifal Mosaic. It was just so boring and it's embarrassing to admit my life was so uneventful that I finished it. Never again though.

Posted by: Burnham at September 30, 2026 08:11 PM (2ap+5)

85 cf. MisHum with Yoko videos, and CBD with man on the ottoman paintings.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

If I had to see it, so do you!

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2026 08:12 PM (ftFVW)

86 >> as if the suffering is some sort of gift.

*Recalls my dad's favorite response to adversity: "It builds character!"

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 08:13 PM (rOKnE)

87 @83

>>Then in the end you die and go to hell.

Or you go to heaven or return to non-existence and as far as your concerned, none of this ever happened.

So there's that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 08:14 PM (XV/Pl)

88 Speaking of books....in the highly coveted and difficult to find:

"Orson's Perfectly Harmless Practical Jokes & Revenge"

...I offer up simple payback mechanisms. For example, if your better half is giving you a hard time for whatever reason....just change the bookmark page in what she is currently reading. You're welcome.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 08:14 PM (dIske)

89 Gen Z's future has been hijacked by DEI, H1-b and offshoring. Telling the ones who can't find jobs it's solely their fault is maddening.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 08:02 PM (rOKnE)

They should've curried favor with the right people.

Posted by: SWIDT? I just slay me at September 30, 2026 08:15 PM (TbWk/)

90 Then in the end you die and go to hell. So in summary, fuck it, who cares.
Posted by: Map of life at September 30, 2026 08:11 PM (TbWk/)

I posted a link in an earlier thread to a hadith in Ibn Majah's book.
Sometimes we get day trips to blow the muhajidoun in Paradise. Their houris can be male you know.
So we'll have that to look forward to.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 08:15 PM (88C+u)

91 "Then in the end you die and go to hell. So in summary, fuck it, who cares."

Enjoy it while it lasts!

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 08:15 PM (MWfyi)

92 "Out of Sight" is a pretty good film. George Clooney is a pretty bad actor, but Jennifer Lopez is surprisingly good.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 30, 2026 08:16 PM (CHHv1)

93 I posted a link in an earlier thread to a hadith in Ibn Majah's book.
Sometimes we get day trips to blow the muhajidoun in Paradise. Their houris can be male you know.
So we'll have that to look forward to.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 08:15 PM (88C+u)

Super.

Posted by: But I don't wanna sucka the cock! at September 30, 2026 08:17 PM (TbWk/)

94 if your better half is giving you a hard time for whatever reason....just change the bookmark page in what she is currently reading. You're welcome.
Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 08:14 PM (dIske)

I'm pretty sure this is grounds for divorce.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 30, 2026 08:17 PM (zYpTz)

95
...Don't compete at who had it worse, there is always someone who had it worse, and wear it better....

You got a weird belief going here.

I'm not competing with anyone. I'm simply stating my lived experience, and nice or no-

My lived experience doesn't give me a whole lot of sympathy for someone complaining that they don't have what I have, as if I had some magical lucky life. It's a childish view. I worked and so should they and eventually if you make the right choices things will work out.

Good that your life was a perfectly successful from the beginning, but as striving doesn't make you better or superior, nor does your weird trying to tutor people on the meaning of the Yorkshireman joke But, please continue...nothing is more entertaining than having simple jokes explained.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:17 PM (YSUhf)

96 Mentioned last night on ONT then again on Tech thread there is a Great Horned Owl around here. Wish could get a picture of it.

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 08:19 PM (Ia/+0)

97 they seem to think that Boomers had a life of sunshine and posies and free Internet for life.

Well, it didn’t cost anything, I’ll give you that.

But the various BBS’s sure did. We need to have a day of prices from the eighties, where you have to pay by the minute to use your phone for anyone outside your area code. And possibly inside, too.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 30, 2026 08:20 PM (kYmoU)

98 Heart of the Beast was okay. The special effects weren't very good and it was not clear to me why Brad Pitt and Odin (the combat dog) were in Alaska. But the dog was a real scene stealer.

Posted by: Burnham at September 30, 2026 08:20 PM (2ap+5)

99
A split-down-the-midline anatomical model of what sex looks like.

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All I see is a bunch of cut-up human meat. With a dick in it. Now I'm not happy.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 30, 2026 08:21 PM (HLgI3)

100 Mentioned last night on ONT then again on Tech thread there is a Great Horned Owl around here. Wish could get a picture of it.
Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 08:19 PM (Ia/+0)

Put out some mice for it. Perhaps it will pose for you.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:21 PM (uhVAy)

101 Then in the end you die and go to hell. So in summary, fuck it, who cares.
Posted by: Map of life

====

In the meantime, hockey season started!

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 30, 2026 08:21 PM (4HoLg)

102 SCOTUS says the Christa Pike execution is back on. I don't know if that means tonight, tomorrow, next month, or next year.

"The state’s execution order expires at midnight, according to Kelley Henry, a Nashville-based attorney experienced with Tennessee death penalty law. If time runs out, the state Supreme Court would need to set a new date."

https://tinyurl.com/yjfmb8cm

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:21 PM (ndZc7)

103 But the various BBS’s sure did. We need to have a day of prices from the eighties, where you have to pay by the minute to use your phone for anyone outside your area code. And possibly inside, too.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 30, 2026 08:20 PM (kYmoU)

I remember in our dorm in college getting a phone bill of 200 dollars because of one long distance call to Israel of all places mistakenly getting stuck on our bill. Had to get them to remove it because there was no chance the 5 of us could have paid such a charge.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:23 PM (uhVAy)

104
A split-down-the-midline anatomical model of what sex looks like.

-----

Really, it looks like a pervert was suddenly killed while having sex with a side of beef. Now his deviated preversions are recorded for all time, and he can't defend himself because he's dead.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 30, 2026 08:24 PM (VWtfl)

105 Posted by: She Hobbit

Nice voice. Are you doing the same at the Mome?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 08:25 PM (NnhvP)

106 Mentioned last night on ONT then again on Tech thread there is a Great Horned Owl around here. Wish could get a picture of it.
Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 08:19 PM (Ia/+0)

One night when, the kiddos were very young there was a Great horned Owl on a lower branch of our next door neighbor's tree.

It was huge. You don't realize how big they are until you can practically walk right up to one, which is what we did.

The funny thing is that the owl just gave us a cursory glance than looked away.

I never thought of an owl as an apex predator, but that's exactly the attitude.

In his world he was an apex predator.

He patiently waited until we walked into our house then flew away.

Incidentally, that summer most of the rabbits and squirrels in our neighborhood disappeared.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:25 PM (YSUhf)

107 102 SCOTUS says the Christa Pike execution is back on. I don't know if that means tonight, tomorrow, next month, or next year.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:21 PM
____________________________

We could really make it painful by putting Piper in charge of her last meal. "Nope, that's it. Kale. Eat it or don't. I don't care."

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 08:25 PM (dIske)

108 SCOTUS says the Christa Pike execution is back on. I don't know if that means tonight, tomorrow, next month, or next year.

"The state’s execution order expires at midnight, according to Kelley Henry, a Nashville-based attorney experienced with Tennessee death penalty law. If time runs out, the state Supreme Court would need to set a new date."

https://tinyurl.com/yjfmb8cm

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:21 PM (ndZc7)

I don't really know much about the case, but from what I understand is she killed somebody when she was 18. I'm just a little curious how gang bangers who kill multiple people get life, but this chick gets death. Is there something I'm missing?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 30, 2026 08:27 PM (vzuC7)

109 SCOTUS says the Christa Pike execution is back on. I don't know if that means tonight, tomorrow, next month, or next year.

"The state’s execution order expires at midnight, according to Kelley Henry, a Nashville-based attorney experienced with Tennessee death penalty law. If time runs out, the state Supreme Court would need to set a new date."

https://tinyurl.com/yjfmb8cm
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:21 PM (ndZc7)

I'm sick of this crap. States should just pass a law saying that at t minus 6 months from execution you are done with appeals and shit. Everyone having to do this last minute judge shopping and performance lawyering and keeping all these workers on alert is just absurd and it happens nearly all the time.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:27 PM (uhVAy)

110 Nice voice. Are you doing the same at the Mome?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Nah. I'm trying to figure out what will annoy Sponge the most without going straight for the Cranberries.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2026 08:28 PM (ftFVW)

111 "Stop spending your money on Starbucks and Netflix, you frivolous idiots" isn't exactly winning hearts and minds.

OK, then what is the "winning message"?

"Here, let me give you all the shit I have busted my ass to earn all of my life so that you don't have to."

because any variation of "Poor thing, have a cookie" doesn't fix the problem that out of all the nations on the Earth these malcontents will be forever ungrateful that they weren't born into a massive trust fund in the most prosperous, generous and opportunistic country that ever existed.

Of course this isn't the monoculture of the 1970s-1980s, but the whining generation is the one throwing their bodies in front of ICE demanding that trillions of fraud and total destruction of the culture continues.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 08:29 PM (nCgQz)

112 I don't really know much about the case, but from what I understand is she killed somebody when she was 18. I'm just a little curious how gang bangers who kill multiple people get life, but this chick gets death. Is there something I'm missing?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 30, 2026 08:27 PM (vzuC7)

Well i would promote torture murder with perverse trophies well over the average as murderers go, but I don't have to do a rank-ordering since I support the same for all of them.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:29 PM (uhVAy)

113
Good that your life was a perfectly successful from the beginning, but as striving doesn't make you better or superior, nor does your weird trying to tutor people on the meaning of the Yorkshireman joke But, please continue...nothing is more entertaining than having simple jokes explained.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:17 PM (YSUhf)

You probably shouldn't go the rest of your life nursing resentment that other people had it easier than you.

As a parent, and as a mentor - or even as a co-worker - the goal should be to try to get people with less experience see the potholes and avoid them. If you force them to go through them without warning, to preserve equity or whatever, you just have to wait for the poor souls to pick themselves and figure out what just happened, like you did. They will no doubt go on to find greater problems to get tripped up by, but in a way that is also progress, they don't have to solve the same damned problems on their own that we already have figured out how to solve

There is no inherent goodness in suffering. There may be something in having survived suffering, but a lot of shitty adults had shitty childhoods too.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 08:29 PM (rbvCR)

114
Heart of the Beast was okay. The special effects weren't very good and it was not clear to me why Brad Pitt and Odin (the combat dog) were in Alaska. But the dog was a real scene stealer.
Posted by: Burnham at September 30, 2026 08:20 PM (2ap+5)

I enjoyed HotB.

Simple plot but well-made.

I have a couple of issues with it but I'd have to go into spoilers so I'll avoid doing that.

anyway, I think most morons and ettes would enjoy it.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:30 PM (YSUhf)

115 I don't really know much about the case, but from what I understand is she killed somebody when she was 18. I'm just a little curious how gang bangers who kill multiple people get life, but this chick gets death. Is there something I'm missing?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

It was an extremely cruel murder of an innocent 19 year old girl.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:31 PM (ndZc7)

116 Really, it looks like a pervert was suddenly killed while having sex with a side of beef.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

That was a side-plot of the "Preacher" comic. Garth Ennis I think...

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 08:31 PM (88C+u)

117 I've tried posting a few times today and they've been disappeared each time.

Seems I've been banned, not sure why, as I've been posting some lately without any problem.

I don't remember being warned about anything objectionable.

Trying it another way now.

Posted by: LTG at September 30, 2026 08:31 PM (Xa1PG)

118 >>>At the same time, older people should try to muster up some measure of understanding and sympathy to facts on the ground that are markedly different to the ones they experienced at that age.

"Stop spending your money on Starbucks and Netflix, you frivolous idiots" isn't exactly winning hearts and minds.

Posted by: ballistic
---

Rummages through closet, grabs dusty black case, carefully takes out violin, rosins up bow. ƒ mmm 🎵 🎵

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 08:32 PM (JS6jE)

119 Well i would promote torture murder with perverse trophies well over the average as murderers go, but I don't have to do a rank-ordering since I support the same for all of them.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:29 PM (uhVAy)

Yeah, by all means fry them all. I was just a little surprised since I heard of cases where I thought for sure they would tire fire some of these assholes and yet they get life.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 30, 2026 08:32 PM (vzuC7)

120 Corgis are very smart doggehs. Friends of ours have a pair and they are a really great property patrol team, they know exactly where the boundaries are. Even the coyotes keep their distance, so you know they are tough little guys.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 08:32 PM (j/Zm5)

121 or return to non-existence and as far as your concerned, none of this ever happened.

So there's that.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 08:14 PM (XV/Pl)

That is my vision of hell. Oblivion. As if I never was.

I hope that my legacy (that loved ones and others remember me, fondly or otherwise) prevents me from fading into bolivian.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at September 30, 2026 08:33 PM (0aYVJ)

122 I did a quick wiki on her (TN condemned woman) case this morning.

She committed a second murder in jail years into her confinement. Also, in the original crime she carved up the victim before crushing the skull with a rock.

Then she carried a piece of skull around in her coat pocket around college for show and tell.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 30, 2026 08:34 PM (r7+Q7)

123 fading into bolivian.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Could be worse. Could be El Salvador.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 08:34 PM (88C+u)

124 Corgis are not cuddley though, so if that is important choose another breed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 08:34 PM (j/Zm5)

125 It was an extremely cruel murder of an innocent 19 year old girl.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:31 PM (ndZc7)

Like I said, I don't know much about it. I only heard of it like super recently. I'm almost afraid to dig into it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 30, 2026 08:34 PM (vzuC7)

126 Of course this isn't the monoculture of the 1970s-1980s, but the whining generation is the one throwing their bodies in front of ICE demanding that trillions of fraud and total destruction of the culture continues.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 08:29 PM (nCgQz)

monoculture? with hippies around??

What I suggest to everyone at any position is to identify with reason what is the best path for the security, prosperity, and morality of yourself and the country around you and find out who to oppose and who to support going forward. I did that in the 70s and opposed the Democrats AND the GOPers who were "liberal" or "east coast elitists" then and the GOPe clowns after them. I know how to spot the white hats and the black hats no matter what they label themselves.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:34 PM (uhVAy)

127 Then she carried a piece of skull around in her coat pocket around college for show and tell.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd

I can save her.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 08:34 PM (88C+u)

128 I did a quick wiki on her (TN condemned woman) case this morning.

She committed a second murder in jail years into her confinement. Also, in the original crime she carved up the victim before crushing the skull with a rock.

Then she carried a piece of skull around in her coat pocket around college for show and tell.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 30, 2026 08:34 PM (r7+Q7)

Ah, so evil incarnate. Yeah, she should have been blow torched immediately.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 30, 2026 08:36 PM (vzuC7)

129 I don't know why it bothers me, but the principal character in most novels is a voracious reader.
Posted by: Burnham

Is it possible that you've only read three books?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2026 08:36 PM (nEUC6)

130 Ah, so evil incarnate. Yeah, she should have been blow torched immediately.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 30, 2026 08:36 PM (vzuC7)

Yeah, that's basically rabid animal territory. End it, incinerate it, and try not to get any on ya.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 30, 2026 08:39 PM (r7+Q7)

131
Well, my Astros are out. The future is bleak. I see a tear-down and several years in the wilderness.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 08:40 PM (eRlcH)

132
..You probably shouldn't go the rest of your life nursing resentment that other people had it easier than you....

Once again, this is your weird baggage. Please don't have me carry your oddball explanations around.

I have no resentment for you or anyone. It's silly to weigh your life and experience by someone else's.

Not once have I advocated for the nobility of suffering.. Seriously, this is a bee in your bonnet. Not mine.

You're arguing or "mentoring" against your past, I guess. Cause what you're saying has zero to do with me or my life or beliefs.

Please, you're better at explaining jokes. Explain a knock-knock joke. That's more entertaining.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:40 PM (YSUhf)

133 Is it possible that you've only read three books?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2026 08:36 PM (nEUC6)

Like Dan Quayle, I try to read Plato's Republic every year.

But I just can't make heads or tails out of it.

Posted by: Burnham at September 30, 2026 08:40 PM (2ap+5)

134 >>>At the same time, older people should try to muster up some measure of understanding and sympathy to facts on the ground that are markedly different to the ones they experienced at that age.

I don't recall on this instance being asked for understanding or sympathy as a human, but being attacked for being in the socialist grouping "Boomers". Since I am not a socialist, that's offense two.

If asked, you might have found that I have both understanding and sympathy for young people today and their situation. But its easier to just lash out.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:40 PM (uhVAy)

135 >>>>Seems I've been banned, not sure why, as I've been posting some lately without any problem.

Apparently not.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:42 PM (viF8m)

136
Nah. I'm trying to figure out what will annoy Sponge the most without going straight for the Cranberries.
Posted by: She Hobbit

Everyone needs goals. Choose wisely!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 08:43 PM (NnhvP)

137 Nidec Corporation, formerly known as Nippon Densan Corporation, is a Japanese manufacturer and distributor of electric motors. Its products are found in hard-disk drives, electric appliances, automobiles and commercial and manufacturing equipment.
- - - -

*NIDEC SHARES FALL 18% AFTER AUDITOR WITHHOLDS OPINION

Ruh Roh

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 08:43 PM (JS6jE)

138
At the same time, older people should try to muster up some measure of understanding and sympathy to facts on the ground that are markedly different to the ones they experienced at that age.

___________

My sympathy is tempered by the thought that the most strident complainers consistently advocate the wrong solutions to address their problems.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 08:45 PM (eRlcH)

139 @121

>>As if I never was.

Oblivion means, from your point of view, you never had a point of view, none of this happened.

Existence springs from the conscious mind, without a conscious mind there is no existence.

I don't believe we are merely tied to a conscious mind solely, I believe there is another level we attain, whether that's a new consciousness, our current consciousness going to another realm or place, I don't know, I'll find out soon enough.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 08:45 PM (XV/Pl)

140 I don't really know much about the case, but from what I understand is she killed somebody when she was 18. I'm just a little curious how gang bangers who kill multiple people get life, but this chick gets death. Is there something I'm missing?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 30, 2026 08:27 PM (vzuC7)

Gangbangers generally kill other scumbags. No one really cares. One animal is killed, and another is caged. There are whole urban neighborhoods that could hit with chemical weapons and no one would give a rat's hindquarters.

Pike killed an ordinary citizen apparently, and a pentagram was carved into the victim's body. Pike practically requested the express lane to Hell.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 30, 2026 08:45 PM (jBygX)

141
Seems I've been banned, not sure why, as I've been posting some lately without any problem.

I don't remember being warned about anything objectionable.

Trying it another way now.
Posted by: LTG at September 30, 2026 08:31 PM (Xa1PG)

_________

*starts in surprise*

How did you get in here? Security!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 08:46 PM (eRlcH)

142
Seems I've been banned, not sure why, as I've been posting some lately without any problem.

I don't remember being warned about anything objectionable.

Trying it another way now.
Posted by: LTG at September 30, 2026 08:31 PM (Xa1PG)

_________

*starts in surprise*

How did you get in here? Security!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 08:46 PM (eRlcH)

143 Well, my Astros are out. The future is bleak. I see a tear-down and several years in the wilderness.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

We live in the wilderness.

Posted by: Pittsburgh Pirates at September 30, 2026 08:47 PM (xxBSa)

144 My neice had an Owl. My brother keeps them and one imprinted on her.
She goes to kindergarten talking about her owl.
Everyone thinks she is nuts.
Teacher calls my brother. "does ... have an owl?"
"No, she has 5"
"Uhh okay. Can you bring one in to show the class?"
"Sure"
So the kids are sitting in a circle on the playground and my brother shows up. Bird sees neice, spreads his wings and flys right to her, lands in front of her and starts nuzzling her. Coolest kid in the school after that.

Posted by: Reforger at September 30, 2026 08:47 PM (Ae6Br)

145 Always be yourself.

Unless you can be Batman.

Then always be Batman.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 30, 2026 08:48 PM (amcLV)

146 Most indicators suggest that the Republicans in the House and Senate are going to face a brutal backlash from the American people in November. Polling with generic ballots suggest a big win for the Democrats and likely the loss of Republican control of both houses of Congress.
_[Apple Tree] Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,

rolol

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 08:48 PM (JS6jE)

147 Coolest kid in the school after that.
Posted by: Reforger

Who?
(Had to do that.)

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 30, 2026 08:50 PM (Fv808)

148
Most indicators suggest that the Republicans in the House and Senate are going to face a brutal backlash from the American people in November.

___________

Sure, they're dying to run out and vote for people who have said they want to nuke the Constitution, nuke Israel and nuke anyone who opposes them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 08:51 PM (eRlcH)

149 [Apple Tree] Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,

rolol
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 08:48 PM (JS6jE)

Wow. Is Ron Paul still alive?

There's a scam that ought to have run it's course.

He's like the Bernie for Republicans. Did he at least get a couple of bakehouses out of his libertarian shenanigans

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:51 PM (YSUhf)

150 Always be yourself.

Unless you can be Batman.

Then always be Batman.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 30, 2026 08:48 PM (amcLV)

Reminds me of a great meme: Live your life like an 8-year-old boy in a Batman costume.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at September 30, 2026 08:53 PM (0aYVJ)

151 Astros in the playoffs are like Tom Cruise sneaking into the castle with a stolen password.
They should be thankful they weren't publicly stripped of their uniforms and subjected to a ritual shunning.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 08:53 PM (88C+u)

152 *sigh*

bakehouse = lakehouse

Unless Ron Paul is a Kebler elf, then-

carry on!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:54 PM (YSUhf)

153 >>I don't really know much about the case, but from what I understand is she killed somebody when she was 18.

I believe it involved torture, inflicting a slow painful death, and then post-murder weirdness, like a satanic ritual using body part or something?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 08:54 PM (rOKnE)

154 >>bakehouse = lakehouse

Darn

Posted by: Paul Hollywood at September 30, 2026 08:54 PM (rOKnE)

155 Well, my Astros are out. The future is bleak. I see a tear-down and several years in the wilderness.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 08:40 PM (eRlcH)

Yes

Posted by: MAC V SOG at September 30, 2026 08:55 PM (P4Pk9)

156 There are whole urban neighborhoods that could hit with chemical weapons and no one would give a rat's hindquarters.

been done

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 30, 2026 08:55 PM (jrgJz)

157 Like I said, I don't know much about it. I only heard of it like super recently. I'm almost afraid to dig into it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

She and her co-defendant boyfriend were Satanists at the time. Now she's a Buddhist. She made a statement to the effect that she can't cooperate with her execution because execution is against her Buddhist beliefs

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:56 PM (ndZc7)

158
Well, my Astros are out. The future is bleak. I see a tear-down and several years in the wilderness.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 08:40 PM (eRlcH)

Yes
Posted by: MAC V SOG at September 30, 2026 08:55 PM (P4Pk9)

Rangers are out too.

Maybe Dime Box outta get an MLB team and show these losers how it's done.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:57 PM (YSUhf)

159 >>So the kids are sitting in a circle on the playground and my brother shows up. Bird sees neice, spreads his wings and flys right to her, lands in front of her and starts nuzzling her. Coolest kid in the school after that.

So cool!
Heck, I'm not a kid, and I am envious.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 08:57 PM (rOKnE)

160 Reminds me of a great meme: Live your life like an 8-year-old boy in a Batman costume.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at September 30, 2026 08:53 PM (0aYVJ)

Piss myself because I trick or treated too long and cry because my caramel popcorn balls got confiscated because everyone in authority is deathly afraid of razorblades that never materialize? It's a weird kink, but I aim to please.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 30, 2026 08:58 PM (jBygX)

161 Please, you're better at explaining jokes. Explain a knock-knock joke. That's more entertaining.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:40 PM (YSUhf)

You do realize that means you are turning this into a Four Yorkshiremen sketch? "The young today . . . "

Or intentional hazing?

I would stick with the unintentional humor if I were you. It is a better look.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 08:59 PM (rbvCR)

162 >>She and her co-defendant boyfriend were Satanists at the time. Now she's a Buddhist. She made a statement to the effect that she can't cooperate with her execution because execution is against her Buddhist beliefs

That's convenient.

Unfortunately for her, I don't her cooperation is required.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 09:00 PM (viF8m)

163 WHITE Sox.

Hoochie mama!

Gonna go get black out drunk now in celebration.

Probably post some really dumb barely cogent stuff too. So not much different than any random day of the week.

Posted by: GigantorX at September 30, 2026 09:00 PM (PXkCx)

164 >>>Unless you can be Batman.

Then always be Batman.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
----

youtube.com/watch?v=GQsjBLPBB8M

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:01 PM (JS6jE)

165 Seems I've been banned, not sure why, as I've been posting some lately without any problem.

-
We saw what you did on a Flock camera.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:01 PM (ndZc7)

166
You do realize that means you are turning this into a Four Yorkshiremen sketch? "The young today . . . "

So, weird that you base your life philosophy and meaning around a Monty Python skit.

But, carry on. You do you.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 09:02 PM (YSUhf)

167 Just tell the psycho bitch to be "one" with the electric chair.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 09:02 PM (vE0+H)

168 Evenin’, All. Here’s a fun fact:

The Nahuatl (Aztec) word for “armadillo” is, literally, “turtle rabbit.”

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 09:02 PM (77rzZ)

169 It's one of those NRO editors, right?

@nypost 10s
Man nabbed by SWAT officers after planning 'violent attack' on Texas state capitol, authorites say

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2026 09:02 PM (nEUC6)

170 Pregnant woman? Will offer a seat. Healthy woman under 40?
Nope, I'm old now and tired of them wanting chivalry from men and none from them.

Posted by: Unsportsmanlike Conduct is a Capital Crime to Me at September 30, 2026 09:03 PM (qvwZI)

171 I learned something I didn't know from watching PBS. There are pens designed expressly for the left handed.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:05 PM (ndZc7)

172
Evenin’, All. Here’s a fun fact:

The Nahuatl (Aztec) word for “armadillo” is, literally, “turtle rabbit.”
Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 09:02 PM (77rzZ)

Turtle Rabbit would be a pretty cool sidekick for Batman.

Make it so, DC!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 09:05 PM (YSUhf)

173 156 There are whole urban neighborhoods that could hit with chemical weapons and no one would give a rat's hindquarters.
been done
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing
Posted by: what the cat drug
----

My recollection is that the whole row of houses were notorious.
Not is a good way.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:07 PM (JS6jE)

174 I learned something I didn't know from watching PBS. There are pens designed expressly for the left handed.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:05 PM (ndZc7)

How the hell would that work?

I'm left-handed.

That's got to be a joke.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 09:07 PM (YSUhf)

175 So, weird that you base your life philosophy and meaning around a Monty Python skit.

But, carry on. You do you.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 09:02 PM (YSUhf)

I am not the one who got bent out of shape because I mentioned the Four Yorkshiremen sketch. You apparently are doing you, and if not, you apparently are practicing extra hard tonight to achieve it.

Here's a tip, stop engaging with me and I will not mention it again. Or keep being a clown so I can laugh.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 09:07 PM (rbvCR)

176 She and her co-defendant boyfriend were Satanists at the time. Now she's a Buddhist. She made a statement to the effect that she can't cooperate with her execution because execution is against her Buddhist beliefs

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:56 PM (ndZc7)

That just cries out for a session in the electric chair: "Om mani padme (jailer throws switch) Hummm!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 09:09 PM (C6xWR)

177
Pregnant woman? Will offer a seat. Healthy woman under 40?
Nope, I'm old now and tired of them wanting chivalry from men and none from them.
Posted by: Unsportsmanlike Conduct is a Capital Crime to Me at September 30, 2026 09:03 PM (qvwZI)

__________

Her Majesty and I were at a restaurant for breakfast and there was a wait. We fell in to chatting with another couple, also of age. All the chairs were taken in the waiting area.

Then a party of three who had been sitting were called. The ladies in our quartet sat down. The other gentleman and I both refused to take the third seat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 09:09 PM (eRlcH)

178 People like stories. That's one thing that makes us people. Giraffes don't care about stories, nor your cat. The stories can be real or made up, we don't care, we still like 'em.
Posted by: fd

My cat loves my stories. I have many of them to regale him with. None of them are lies.

Posted by: The Mind That Alters, Alters All at September 30, 2026 09:09 PM (Fn+3X)

179 I don't recall on this instance being asked for understanding or sympathy as a human, but being attacked for being in the socialist grouping "Boomers". Since I am not a socialist, that's offense two.

If asked, you might have found that I have both understanding and sympathy for young people today and their situation. But its easier to just lash out.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:40 PM (uhVAy)
------

I said "a significant portion of boomers" purposefully to not tar everyone with the same brush.

If you find yourself reflexively defending yourself against that statement, you're saying more than you're probably meaning to say.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:11 PM (oqH4h)

180 I am not the one who got bent out of shape because I mentioned the Four Yorkshiremen sketch. You apparently are doing you, and if not, you apparently are practicing extra hard tonight to achieve it.

Here's a tip, stop engaging with me and I will not mention it again. Or keep being a clown so I can laugh.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 09:07 PM (rbvCR)

Nah.

I shan't.

Again the yorkshireman joke is your thing. Not mine.

If some 50 year old skit is the apex of wit for you, please continue. Maybe you can dig up a Leave it to Beaver joke to base your philosophy around.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 09:11 PM (YSUhf)

181 Different states have different laws. Some states don't have a death penalty. Others do. A new law goes into effect tomorrow in Alabama that carries the death sentence for raping or other serious offensive acts on children twelve or younger. It's about time to get serious on these terrible people. They don't belong in society, they are evil.

Posted by: Case at September 30, 2026 09:11 PM (9+0gc)

182 How the hell would that work?

I'm left-handed.

That's got to be a joke.

Posted by: naturalfake

No, they're real. I don't know how well they work.

https://tinyurl.com/mwrcd2np

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:11 PM (ndZc7)

183 Well, my Astros are out. The future is bleak. I see a tear-down and several years in the wilderness.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I'm not trying to be mean to you Hadrian, but the White Sox sort of got me back into baseball. All those 100 loss seasons with two of my kids living in Chicago, I just fell for them.

The Sox and Ohtani if I'm being honest. They got me back into baseball. And now there's going to be a lock out.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 30, 2026 09:11 PM (l26NL)

184 101 Then in the end you die and go to hell. So in summary, fuck it, who cares.
Posted by: Map of life

====

In the meantime, hockey season started!
Posted by: 2009Refugee

Stuck at work, so no hockey. (checks score of Pens game). 5-0, Penguins over the vile vermin from Philthy. Still 2nd period. Which give the Pens plenty of time to fritter away the game and lose in OT.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 30, 2026 09:11 PM (pLaQB)

185 Does Batman have to be Batman all the time? Sometimes he could be Bruce Wayne.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 09:12 PM (Cqx++)

186 Apparently you overlooked kindletot's and naturalflake's admonition.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:13 PM (JS6jE)

187 Also some boomers: "Stop spending your money on Starbucks and Netflix, losers!"

Without knowing literally a damned thing about anyone's personal financial situation. They could be living in a yurt eating nothing but instant ramen, but hey we had to endure Jimmy Carter so suck it up, pussies.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:13 PM (oqH4h)

188 An armadillo is kinda like an armored car, 'cept it's got feet instead.

Posted by: John Dawson, NRPS,1972 at September 30, 2026 09:13 PM (Fn+3X)

189 Eff that shit about giving up your seat for “ladies.”

Hey, toots, you got the vote. You can shuffle in the dust like the rest of us.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 09:13 PM (77rzZ)

190 Healthy woman under 40?
Nope, I'm old now and tired of them wanting chivalry from men and none from them.
Posted by: Unsportsmanlike Conduct is a Capital Crime to Me

Lately young women have been holding the door open for me if they get there first. I have grown old.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:14 PM (ktgTW)

191 I learned something I didn't know from watching PBS. There are pens designed expressly for the left handed.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:05 PM (ndZc7)

How the hell would that work?

I'm left-handed.

That's got to be a joke.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 09:07 PM (YSUhf)

I have a left-handed framing hammer, which I used when I was a field survey crewman. I also have a left-handed baseball bat, and left-handed eatin' irons.

But lefty scissors are of the devil.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:14 PM (0aYVJ)

192 I'm fairly ambidextrous, but writing left-handed was a bridge too far.
Mom was left handed. Wrote with the paper all whackadoodle.

Posted by: MkY at September 30, 2026 09:14 PM (ZHRuH)

193 Recent article on how writing with your off hand will cause your brain to grow. I wrote a complete legible paragraph with my off hand. I feel better.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:15 PM (JS6jE)

194 An armadillo is kinda like an armored car, 'cept it's got feet instead.
Posted by: John Dawson, NRPS,1972

Also, no machine gun ports.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:15 PM (ndZc7)

195 I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:15 PM (ktgTW)

196 If some 50 year old skit is the apex of wit for you, please continue. Maybe you can dig up a Leave it to Beaver joke to base your philosophy around.
Posted by: naturalfake

More lies. Any Leave it to Beaver joke is 63-69 years old.

Posted by: On Air 1957-1963 at September 30, 2026 09:16 PM (Fn+3X)

197 When I was in drafting school, they had left-hand adaptors for Leroy lettering kits. 'Twas shit. I just did Leroy lettering right handed. I also shoot right.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:17 PM (0aYVJ)

198 What if you're righty but crank your hog with your left? Does that count?

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:17 PM (oqH4h)

199 >At the same time, older people should try to muster up some measure of understanding and sympathy to facts on the ground that are markedly different to the ones they experienced at that age.-------

That doesn't help your argument at all. Life's core problems haven't really changed in over 5000 years.

And the American way is to tell whiners to suck it up and solve the problem instead of blaming others for it. That's why we remain the greatest country in the world and will continue to be so until we stop that attitude.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:17 PM (KC5Lt)

200
Recent article on how writing with your off hand will cause your brain to grow. I wrote a complete legible paragraph with my off hand. I feel better.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:15 PM (JS6jE)

__________

Writing with the accustomed hand has become painful. Takes five minutes to make out the check for my Sunday offering.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 09:17 PM (eRlcH)

201 143 Well, my Astros are out. The future is bleak. I see a tear-down and several years in the wilderness.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

We live in the wilderness.
Posted by: Pittsburgh Pirates

But we finished above .500!! The ticker tape parade will be this Saturday in Uniontown, PA!! Come early!!

Posted by: Pittsburgh Pirates at September 30, 2026 09:17 PM (pLaQB)

202 If you find yourself reflexively defending yourself against that statement, you're saying more than you're probably meaning to say.

The problem is a significant number of the people tossing the accusation over and over and over and over are whiny little bitches who deserve the scorn they get. They have zero appreciation for what generations before them went through and don't care. They don't read books and get all their news from Tik Tok and are dumb as fuck. And they over generalize and never stop feeling sorry for themselves because they are little snowflakes that are the first generation that had to start with nothing and work for what they want in life.

I'm sorry if you think this applies to you. I said a significant number. If you think it applies to you well I didn't say that.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 09:18 PM (viF8m)

203 Recent article on how writing with your off hand will cause your brain to grow. I wrote a complete legible paragraph with my off hand. I feel better.

Posted by: Braenyard

I gotta ask... so if I jerk off with my left hand...

Posted by: MkY at September 30, 2026 09:18 PM (ZHRuH)

204
An armadillo is kinda like an armored car, 'cept it's got feet instead.
Posted by: John Dawson, NRPS,1972

Bedrock National Bank

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 09:19 PM (Cqx++)

205 Without knowing literally a damned thing about anyone's personal financial situation. They could be living in a yurt eating nothing but instant ramen, but hey we had to endure Jimmy Carter so suck it up, pussies.

Posted by: ballistic
---

Rummages deeper in closet, picks up tan colored case, takes out gramp's silver trombone.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQeezCdF4mk

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:19 PM (JS6jE)

206 I always find it funny that I can see a southpaw immediately. While rightys will pause, and then say, wait, you're lefthanded?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:19 PM (0aYVJ)

207 Bedrock National Bank
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

That mastodon that used his trunk to squirt off Wilma in the shower had the best gig ever.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:20 PM (ktgTW)

208 >>>with my left hand...

Posted by: MkY
=---

There's only one way to find out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:21 PM (JS6jE)

209 Barney Rubble...what an actor!

Posted by: MkY at September 30, 2026 09:21 PM (ZHRuH)

210 I thought the joke of the four yorkshiremen was the ever increasing absurdity of their claims.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 09:22 PM (vE0+H)

211 Yet another fun left-handed fact: Both my parents were right handed, but me, a sister and two brothers are left-handed.

Behold the supremacy of the Southern Paw.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:22 PM (0aYVJ)

212 That mastodon that used his trunk to squirt off Wilma in the shower had the best gig ever.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:20 PM (ktgTW)

Th part where he applied the body lotion was cut, because NSFW.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 09:22 PM (C6xWR)

213 Barney Rubble...what an actor!
Posted by: MkY at September 30, 2026 09:21 PM (ZHRuH)

Great movie. Last scene of Bill diving from the balcony makes me laugh just thinking about it.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:23 PM (KC5Lt)

214 Barney Rubble...what an actor!
Posted by: MkY at September 30, 2026 09:21 PM (ZHRuH)

Betty Boop, nice gams.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:23 PM (0aYVJ)

215 Fuck Hitler

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:24 PM (0aYVJ)

216 Hi friends! What’s new?

Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 09:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

217 That doesn't help your argument at all. Life's core problems haven't really changed in over 5000 years.

And the American way is to tell whiners to suck it up and solve the problem instead of blaming others for it. That's why we remain the greatest country in the world and will continue to be so until we stop that attitude.
Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:17 PM (KC5Lt)
------
Very convenient that you cut off the part where I said younger people shouldn't be laying blame.

This is definitely the mark of someone making an earnest argument.

The American way is actually generational transfer of knowledge and lessons learned that have kept us in the driver's seat for so long, not looking at subsequent generations and saying "suck it up, buttercup."

Young people always have problems listening.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:25 PM (oqH4h)

218 I play hockey left handed and put my belt on like a left hander. I'm also left eyed dominant.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:26 PM (KC5Lt)

219 Left handedness throughout history is a fascinating subject.
Posted by: LTG

How gauche.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:27 PM (ktgTW)

220 It's okay guys, a newly-married couple with one income can easily save up the money to afford a down payment on a modest home in a decent area so they can start a family in 2026, if only they'd cancel Netflix and make coffee at home.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:27 PM (oqH4h)

221 And other things people who haven't been in the housing market in 70 years believe.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:28 PM (oqH4h)

222
Left handedness throughout history is a fascinating subject.
Posted by: LTG

__________

To begin with, we're higher on the evolutionary ladder than the common ruck of righties.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 09:28 PM (eRlcH)

223 Ima order a left handed pen. I had no idea that's how it worked. I though I was just right handed.

Posted by: Reforger at September 30, 2026 09:29 PM (MQYOv)

224 That mastodon that used his trunk to squirt off Wilma in the shower had the best gig ever.
Posted by: Tonypete

Ashley loved that thing!

Posted by: Joseph Robinette Something at September 30, 2026 09:29 PM (Fn+3X)

225 Young people always have problems listening.
----

Gaw this is tedious.

So to you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:30 PM (JS6jE)

226 Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:25 PM (oqH4h)

I didn't cut off anything. I was addressing the specific recommendation you made for more understanding.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:30 PM (KC5Lt)

227 Ima order a left handed pen. I had no idea that's how it worked. I though I was just right handed.
Posted by: Reforger at September 30, 2026 09:29 PM (MQYOv)

Get the left-handed eraser, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 09:30 PM (C6xWR)

228 Oh. Well. We are hating on Boomers (no, I am not one), hating on women (praise the stars I live in the Deep South where manners matter and being polite is an Olympic event), and Tonypete is being hysterical. Awwww, home. 😊

Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 09:31 PM (ZdaMQ)

229 __________

To begin with, we're higher on the evolutionary ladder than the common ruck of righties.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
---

Yar, right on the edge of evolution, one might say.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:31 PM (JS6jE)

230 I play hockey left handed and put my belt on like a left hander. I'm also left eyed dominant.
Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:26 PM (KC5Lt)

I bat left, throw left, but shoot right.

I put on my belt like the Army taught me. Also thread my shoelaces like what the Army taught me. I am also very aware of removing my cover when entering a building.

That's a different thing.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:31 PM (0aYVJ)

231 Sinister is a synonym for left-handedness.

Posted by: Right On! at September 30, 2026 09:31 PM (Fn+3X)

232 You know who else liked Olympic events?

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 09:31 PM (vE0+H)

233
I didn't cut off anything. I was addressing the specific recommendation you made for more understanding.
Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:30 PM (KC5Lt)
-----
Uh yeah hoss, you did. I said young people shouldn't blame, and you specifically ignored that part so you could get up on that high horse.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:32 PM (oqH4h)

234 Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:25 PM (oqH4h)

Calm down

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:32 PM (KC5Lt)

235 I guess y’all ate all the snacks, too?

Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 09:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

236 Get the left-handed eraser, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I liked the left handed baseball bat mentioned earlier.

Posted by: MkY at September 30, 2026 09:33 PM (ZHRuH)

237 Posted by: ballistic
~~~~~

Let it go. You're not winning the argument and you risk making yourself toxic at the HQ.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 30, 2026 09:33 PM (3ImbR)

238 Only the chocolate covered or sugary one's.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:34 PM (JS6jE)

239 Gaw this is tedious.

So to you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:30 PM (JS6jE)
------
Cool man, go dig for another instrument. If you find a flugelhorn maybe give that a whirl and see if that's satisfying.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:34 PM (oqH4h)

240 Lets try to avoid any altercations here.

Posted by: davidt at September 30, 2026 09:34 PM (Q+gd/)

241 Mastodon.

Saw them open for Slayer many years ago. I briefly wondered why the roadies were suddenly playing the set list. Then I got it: good metal bands know their settings.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:35 PM (0aYVJ)

242 240 Lets try to avoid any altercations here.
Posted by: davidt at September 30, 202

I read that as alterations. Maybe I am tired. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 09:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

243 Let it go. You're not winning the argument and you risk making yourself toxic at the HQ.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 30, 2026 09:33 PM (3ImbR)
------

Bro I don't fucking care. I started off on a level and conciliatory note. If people get their hackles up and want to come at me for some perceived slight, that's on them.

"Making myself toxic" lmao fucking lefty talk

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:36 PM (oqH4h)

244 Lets try to avoid any altercations here.
Posted by: davidt

The tailor shop in my old neighborhood was a tough place. After you bought a suit you always had to stay for altercations. Fisticuffs would break out almost immediately.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:37 PM (ktgTW)

245 240 Lets try to avoid any altercations here.
Posted by: davidt

Give Peas a Chance!

Posted by: Piper's Ghost at September 30, 2026 09:37 PM (Fn+3X)

246
Lets try to avoid any altercations here.
Posted by: davidt at September 30, 2026 09:34 PM (Q+gd/)

___________

*body flies through plate glass window*
*bottle broken over head*
*collapsing balcony*
*dancing girls squealing in terror*
*someone sliding down bar*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 09:37 PM (eRlcH)

247 Hi friends! What’s new?
Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 09:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

Apparently I am significant!

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 09:38 PM (rbvCR)

248 The tailor shop in my old neighborhood was a tough place. After you bought a suit you always had to stay for altercations. Fisticuffs would break out almost immediately.
Posted by: Tonypete

=====

It almost works in Emily Latella Voice

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 30, 2026 09:38 PM (4HoLg)

249 I dress ambidextrously.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2026 09:38 PM (wVcYX)

250 Visualize Whirled Peas

An Oldie, but a Goodie

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:38 PM (0aYVJ)

251 I read that as alterations. Maybe I am tired. 🤣

Posted by: Piper
---

Think I have a mellophonium way back in the back.
Maybe that will do it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:39 PM (JS6jE)

252 Sinister is a synonym for left-handedness.
Posted by: Right On! at September 30, 2026 09:31 PM (Fn+3X)

How gauche

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 09:39 PM (rbvCR)

253 The tailor shop in my old neighborhood was a tough place. After you bought a suit you always had to stay for altercations. Fisticuffs would break out almost immediately.
Posted by: Tonypete

Excellent Three Stooges short in a tailor shop. The Steam Press was a highlight.

Posted by: Sing A Song of Six Pants (1947) at September 30, 2026 09:40 PM (Fn+3X)

254 247 Hi friends! What’s new?
Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 09:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

Apparently I am significant!

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026

Well of course you are! Was that a question?

Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 09:40 PM (ZdaMQ)

255 "Making myself toxic" lmao fucking lefty talk

Posted by: ballistic
---

It is a full moon isn't it?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:41 PM (JS6jE)

256 *body flies through plate glass window*
*bottle broken over head*
*collapsing balcony*
*dancing girls squealing in terror*
*someone sliding down bar*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 09:37 PM (eRlcH)

*horns toot all over the place*

Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 09:42 PM (ZdaMQ)

257 Think I have a mellophonium way back in the back.
Maybe that will do it.
Posted by: Braenyard

One of my gal pals, a former professional flautist, showed me a contra-alto flute. I had no idea that those even existed.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:42 PM (ktgTW)

258 Just for nothing, the UGA student who fell out of her 8th story apartment window but survived is a super hottie.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:43 PM (KC5Lt)

259
*horns toot all over the place*
Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 09:42 PM (ZdaMQ)

___________

*piano player continues unconcernedly*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 09:43 PM (eRlcH)

260 That old wive's tale said the Soviets used left handed pencils.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 09:45 PM (Cqx++)

261 One of my gal pals, a former professional flautist, showed me a contra-alto flute. I had no idea that those even existed.
Posted by: Tonypete

Nice, but the Schaum Flotte girls interested me the most.

Posted by: Skin To Win! at September 30, 2026 09:45 PM (Fn+3X)

262 Well of course you are! Was that a question?
Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 09:40 PM (ZdaMQ)

Well, not to my 'other.

I made her a sort of potato chowder for dinner, and a lovely loaf of bread. And an apple crisp. She ate half the loaf of bread, which surprised both of us.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 09:45 PM (rbvCR)

263 256 *body flies through plate glass window*
*bottle broken over head*
*collapsing balcony*
*dancing girls squealing in terror*
*someone sliding down bar*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 09:37 PM (eRlcH)

*horns toot all over the place*
Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 09:42 PM (ZdaMQ)

*rapes someone, but not in a gay way, just to show dominance*

Posted by: Graham Platner at September 30, 2026 09:45 PM (8vyLI)

264 Just for nothing, the UGA student who fell out of her 8th story apartment window but survived is a super hottie.
Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:43 PM (KC5Lt)

Air bags save lives!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 09:46 PM (C6xWR)

265 *piano player continues unconcernedly*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 09:43 PM (eRlcH)

*siger looks about concernedly*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 09:46 PM (zZu0s)

266 Once had a guy convinced his pool playing sucked because left handed cue.

Posted by: davidt at September 30, 2026 09:46 PM (Q+gd/)

267 *chugs beer*
*smashes mug on the floor*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 09:47 PM (xxBSa)

268 Left-handed 10mm sockets are hard to find.

Posted by: Gref at September 30, 2026 09:48 PM (5rh/l)

269 Just for nothing, the UGA student who fell out of her 8th story apartment window but survived is a super hottie.
Posted by: polynikes

. . . fell while dancing on a sofa.

This gal will never have to buy her own White Claws ever again.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:48 PM (ktgTW)

270 Singer!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 09:48 PM (zZu0s)

271 Ned Flanders owned a Left Handed store called Leftorium.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:48 PM (KC5Lt)

272 Just for nothing, the UGA student who fell out of her 8th story apartment window but survived is a super hottie.
Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026

There is something about Athens! 😉

Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 09:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

273 Ned Flanders owned a Left Handed store called Leftorium.
Posted by: polynikes

Probably right next to the Scotch Tape store.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:50 PM (ktgTW)

274 I haven't looked at any cafe videos this week. I have now three days' worth in a separate window. I'll get around to 'em before Friday. Probably.

Unless I use a tedious program like xvideoviewer or whatever, which involves several clicks, I just open the link to X… where I can't watch in fullscreen and have to scroll up a bit to access unmute. Also tedious.

So, I keep thinking I'll give in and join the X. I just don't like to let the richest man in the world jerk me around. I'm funny like that.

But, but, Ace's cute li'l' animules!

Posted by: mindful webworker - we'll always have ~~twitter~~ at September 30, 2026 09:51 PM (xRCm7)

275 There are 2 kinds of left-handed, those who curl their hand around and write sort of underneath it, and those who hold their hand underneath. We use opposite sides of the brain. I'm in the second category. Also cross dominance, so my hand-eye coordination is poor. The only sports I've ever enjoyed were swimming and skiing. No hand-eye coordination required.

Posted by: Wenda at September 30, 2026 09:51 PM (a4+G3)

276 You know the one thing we need is a left-hand monkey wrench

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 09:52 PM (viF8m)

277 I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 30, 2026 09:52 PM (2Ez/1)

278 You know the one thing we need is a left-hand monkey wrench

Posted by: JackStraw

What would be the use of that? Aren't almost all monkeys right-handed?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:52 PM (ktgTW)

279 277 I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Dude - #195!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:53 PM (ktgTW)

280 It's not easy being left-stumped.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at September 30, 2026 09:54 PM (Q+gd/)

281 Apparently, Christa Pike is still alive 2 hours after her execution began? According to her lawyers?

Posted by: jen the original at September 30, 2026 09:54 PM (EiUt/)

282 >>What would be the use of that? Aren't almost all monkeys right-handed?

You wouldn't understand. It's a boomer thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 09:54 PM (viF8m)

283
I have ambidextrous eyes.

It's called mono vision. One eye is far-sighted and the other is near-sighted.

Basically how it works is depending on whether I'm looking at something close or far my brain switches dominance to the appropriate eye.

Very useful esp if your a doc or dentist.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 09:54 PM (YSUhf)

284 You know the one thing we need is a left-hand monkey wrench

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 09:52 PM (viF8m)

My King Dick wrench is ambidextrous.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 09:55 PM (C6xWR)

285 I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Dude - #195!
Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:53 PM (ktgTW)

It's an ambidextrous joke as 195 said left arm.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:56 PM (KC5Lt)

286 My daughter does everything right-handed except batting. She had a killer lefty Darryl Strawberry swing from age 2. Her brother is 5 years older and we played wiffle ball in the backyard nearly every day, so she idolized him.
She was the very first girl to play in the local little league here and was better than nearly every pitcher in the league.
When she was a high school senior, a boy walked up to her in school and asked if she remembered him. She said, "yeah, Odom, right"? He said Yeah, you struck me out in Little League.
Age 13 on she wanted to play softball with the girls. She became an Army captain after college, went to Afghanistan, and now works for Lockheed-Martin in their satellite division.

Posted by: She's Pretty Awesome at September 30, 2026 09:56 PM (Fn+3X)

287 279 277 I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Dude - #195!
Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:53 PM

Heh.
Just got here.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 30, 2026 09:56 PM (2Ez/1)

288 My King Dick wrench is ambidextrous.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 09:55 PM (C6xWR)

Please! There are ladies present!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 09:57 PM (zZu0s)

289 281 Apparently, Christa Pike is still alive 2 hours after her execution began? According to her lawyers?

Posted by: jen the original
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People of left and right on the streets of San Francisco OD with absolutely no pain and with minimal cost but the government must spend thousands of dollars for a system that lends itself to failure.
_Government Illustrated

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:57 PM (JS6jE)

290 There was a basketball player who said being able to dibble with both hands made a player amphibious.

Posted by: LTG at September 30, 2026 09:57 PM (TbEIY)

291 Apparently, Christa Pike is still alive 2 hours after her execution began? According to her lawyers?
Posted by: jen the original at September 30, 2026 09:54 PM (EiUt/)

Of course they're going to claim that. Their pay stops when she does.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 09:57 PM (C6xWR)

292 One of my gal pals, a former professional flautist, showed me a contra-alto flute. I had no idea that those even existed.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:42 PM (ktgTW)
~~~~~

Choir lady told me I was a contralto. Then said she didn't know what to do with me, "Stand over there for now."

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 30, 2026 09:58 PM (3ImbR)

293 Not sure I would call myself ambidextrous, but I do a lot of things righty, especially shooting. Living in a right-handed world requires it, really. *glances at standard transmission truck*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:59 PM (0aYVJ)

294 You know, there is not much resisting a .30-06 to the chest. Just saying.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 10:00 PM (zZu0s)

295 >>>I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous.

>>> I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Someone ought to notify Dr. Frankenstein.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 30, 2026 10:00 PM (3ImbR)

296 >>Choir lady told me I was a contralto. Then said she didn't know what to do with me, "Stand over there for now."

Choir teacher in grammar school told me I was a sucko.

Told me to stand with Jugdish and Mohamed and just mouth the words. That was hurtful.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 10:00 PM (viF8m)

297 Christa Gail Pike was sentenced to death in 1996.

Turns out that was 30 years ago.

Posted by: Person with a calendar at September 30, 2026 10:01 PM (2Ez/1)

298 Pike has had two separate doses of phenobarbital and according to USA today, the state of TN does not have a protocol for the condemned who don't die after the second dose.

Hard to imagine the state can't manage an euthanasia better than this.

Posted by: jen the original at September 30, 2026 10:02 PM (EiUt/)

299 Apparently, Christa Pike is still alive 2 hours after her execution began? According to her lawyers?
Posted by: jen the original at September 30, 2026 09:54 PM (EiUt/)

Arrgghh! Just fire a round into her head. a whole dollar spent (if that)

What is her method of execution? Licked to death by puppies?

The fuck!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 10:03 PM (0aYVJ)

300 Why not anesthesia and then an over dose of fentanyl? People are dropping left and right from fentanyl.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 10:03 PM (KC5Lt)

301
Hard to imagine the state can't manage an euthanasia better than this.
Posted by: jen the original at September 30, 2026 10:02 PM (EiUt/)

____________

We've seen all too many of our dogs through The Last Gift of Love and it's always gone off very peacefully. Maybe they should get a vet. Or someone from Canada.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 10:05 PM (eRlcH)

302 Seriously, have her chug a fifth of Wild Turkey.

The fuck. We once knew how to execute murderers.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 10:05 PM (0aYVJ)

303 One of Pike's lawyers is driving an emergency appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court. Says she needs "medical care".

Posted by: jen the original at September 30, 2026 10:07 PM (EiUt/)

304 LAST!!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 10:08 PM (0aYVJ)

305 New NOOD ONT

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=421547

Posted by: mindful webworker - dutifully at September 30, 2026 10:08 PM (xRCm7)

306 That was hurtful.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 10:00 PM (viF8m)
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Whaddya expect?! Listen to the Dead all your life, and of course you're going to end up sounding like Jerry Garcia.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 30, 2026 10:08 PM (3ImbR)

307 Never understood why we don't just go to the evidence locker and get a dose of Fent that would down a bull elephant and spike the condemned with it.

It's more than they deserve.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:08 PM (oqH4h)

308 Posted by: She's Pretty Awesome

That’s really cool. Good job!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 10:08 PM (yEz+x)

309 What is her method of execution? Licked to death by puppies?

The fuck!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 10:03 PM

Wasn't the execution halted?

Posted by: LTG at September 30, 2026 10:09 PM (TbEIY)

310 >>Whaddya expect?! Listen to the Dead all your life, and of course you're going to end up sounding like Jerry Garcia.

Et tu, nurse?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 10:13 PM (viF8m)

Quick Hits

ICE be upon him: Immigration judge rules that Trump may deport the leader of a large mosque due to national security concerns.

The U.S. can deport the leader of a large mosque in Wisconsin on the grounds that he is a threat to national security, an immigration judge ruled on Wednesday.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Salah Sarsour, an outspoken supporter of Palestine, in March. Sarsour alleged the federal government was targeting him for speaking out against Israel and advocating for Palestinian rights. In June, a federal judge agreed and ordered Sarsour released, the Associated Press reported.
Sasour was born in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and was imprisoned in Israel in 1988 after confessing to throwing a Molotov cocktail and stones at Israeli military personnel. He was also convicted in 1995 of attempting to possess weapons.
He denies committing the crimes, and his attorneys allege he was tortured into confessing to them.
Government attorneys argue that Sarsour's convictions in Israel, along with allegations he lied on his green card application, make him a threat to national security.

Florida designates CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist groups.

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration voted Tuesday to designate the Muslim Brotherhood, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and approximately 90 other groups as domestic terrorist groups.
A 427-page document that accompanied the vote claimed "there is substantial evidence that CAIR is engaging in terrorist activity" and accused the group of having connections to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The vote comes after Texas and Florida labeled the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations last year, which forbids both organizations and their affiliates from purchasing or acquiring land in the states and allows increased enforcement against the groups.
Florida on Tuesday expanded the designation to include the domestic terrorist group label and also labeled al-Qaeda, the Houthis and the Continuity Irish Republican Army as foreign terrorist organizations.
Florida also now considers Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, two Mexican drug cartels and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as foreign terrorist organizations, according to CBS News.
CAIR has since sued the state over the designation, accusing DeSantis of violating the First Amendment and the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
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The designations will take effect Nov. 5, if no court strikes them down first.

That's the snag, isn't it?

This is how you do it: An entitled and violent asylum seeker (aren't they all) starts causing "chaos" at a Japanese airport and is deported that same day.

A judge has halted, for the moment, the communist jihadi's plan to tax so-called "pied-a-terre" residences in NYC.

If you remember, Mamdani sent out demands to everyone who owned a home valued at $1 million or more, despite his confiscatory tax only applying to homes valued at $5 million or more. He also sent these demands to people whose NYC homes are their primary homes, not secondary residences or pied-a-terres.

His intent was maximum intimidation. He's a communist like Hasan Piker who wants "capitalist blood running in the streets."

The judge did not block his tax itself, but he demanded Mamdani stop and re-do his intimidating demands sent out to everyone with a pricey apartment.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plans to charge wealthy out-of-towners with a new tax were dealt a blow on Tuesday after a state judge ordered the administration to redo its rollout.
The ruling by state Supreme Court judge Wayne M. Ozzi sided with a group of homeowners who claimed the tax unconstitutionally discriminates against out-of-state property owners, impedes interstate commerce and retroactively creates tax liabilities for co-op boards because of actions by their shareholders.
In the ruling, Ozzi said "homeowners are being substantially harmed and penalized needlessly" by the city's new tax on second homes in New York City valued at more than $5 million.
He ordered the administration to remove the current list of property owners to whom the tax won't apply and replace it with one listing only those who will be subject to the tax.

The wack-a-doo communist BLM revolutionary running as the Democrat for the open Florida senate seat raised money for a supposedly BLM cause and then, get this, no seriously you'll never believe this, can't account for where the money went.

Hard to believe, right? Must be racism.

A charity controlled by Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon raised more than $270,000 in 2024, tax-exempt funds that Nixon said she would use to support Cafe Resistance, the black power-themed bookstore and coffee shop she was launching in Jacksonville. But when Nixon opened the shop that same year, she placed it under the control of her for-profit LLC, and whatever became of the charitable fortune she raised in 2024 is now a mystery.

I think I can solve this mystery. The money went were all BLM "charity fundraising" money goes.

The IRS deadline for Nixon to report what she did with the money she raised in 2024 expired nearly a year ago. A Florida state disclosure she did make said she spent the majority of her charity's haul, $214,000, on "other."

I spent 83% of the charitable tax-free money I raised on "other," your honor.

I blow through a lot of "other" in a month.

And ever since Nixon opened Cafe Resistance--a squat, cinderblock building in a downtrodden part of town that appeared, to a Washington Free Beacon reporter on multiple visits, to operate on a shoestring--her personal income has skyrocketed. This has led legal and tax experts consulted by the Free Beacon to question whether the Florida Democratic Socialist could be exploiting her charity to funnel funds to her personal LLC in violation of nonprofit laws.

Can I answer?

Unanswered questions include how much of the $270,000 raised in 2024 Nixon actually spent on charitable endeavors at her ramshackle bookstore, and how she is spending the charitable donations she continues to raise for race-related "programming" at her store, such as black history classes and the distribution of free contraceptives. Nixon should have answered these questions nearly a year ago on a Form 990 tax return with the IRS by November of 2025, which would have offered a full accounting of her charity's activities in the 2024 calendar year, but she never did.
The Free Beacon contacted Nixon and her campaign on September 25 with a lengthy list of questions related to her charity and LLC, both of which she named the Moxie Group. Nixon did not respond to the inquiry; however, that same day, the Florida Department of State dissolved the Moxie charity as a business entity, and by the afternoon of Sept. 26, the charity--which allegedly "works to empower and uplift underserved and underrepresented communities," according to Nixon's charitable solicitations--had shut down its online fundraising portal, which had been active and soliciting tax-exempt funds the previous day. The Moxie charity's solicitation license in Florida expired January 28, and the Florida Department of Agriculture is now reviewing whether the charity solicited contributions while unregistered, said Aaron Keller, the department's communications director.
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"If the IRS were to determine she is benefiting personally from the charity, its exemption could be revoked and she may have personal tax liability," Sternal added.
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The separation between Nixon's charity and LLC in the operation of her Cafe Resistance bookstore has often been nonexistent. The email address her charity uses in its disclosures to the Florida Department of Agriculture, for example, is the same email address the bookstore uses to solicit bookings for birthday parties and private events, the revenue from which Nixon's for-profit LLC presumably collects.
Nixon's charity and LLC are both corporations, and corporations are generally prohibited from providing event space to political campaigns for free, unless they have a practice of regularly providing their spaces to outside groups for free, according to the Federal Election Commission.

I know some of you are suspicious that she launched a fake charity just to line her own pockets. I'm sorry that you are such Huge Racists. Anti-racists avoid the truth at all costs and deploy socially-promoted lies.

"Genius" prosecutor who was trying to put the current President in prison all of a sudden can't answer basic questions about his investigation or his methods. pic.twitter.com/rINqd10vlZ
— MAZE (@mazemoore) September 30, 2026

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 NOW: AG Todd Blanche just caught activist judges in Minnesota improperly running to the New York Times and fake news to TRASH ICE enforcement during ongoing cases -- and he's filing judicial misconduct complaints with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals
"ALL BUT ONE" judge in the District of Minnesota.
Absolutely unbelievable! They should all be IMPEACHED!
"These judges talk to the media or at least to the New York Times about cases some of which are ongoing in a matter that the Department views as a clear violation of their ethical duties."
"Specifically, the former Chief Judge spoke on the record to the New York Times about the immigration surge late last year and early this year in Minneapolis."
We have a SERIOUS rogue judge problem in the US.
It's time for the House to fire up impeachments. Clean house, end the judicial coup and keep deporting!

Video here.

CNN is granted access inside an immigration court hearing where dozens of children facing deportation, some as young as three years old, appealed to stay in the United States. Many of them facing the judge without an attorney representing them. pic.twitter.com/3SZselDAbq
— Erin Burnett OutFront (@OutFrontCNN) September 29, 2026

Stephen Miller
@StephenM
Large swaths of corporate media exist at this point primarily to propagandize and radicalize subsets of the population into supporting the liquidation of national sovereignty. Willfully omitted by the CNN propagandists is that these are minors who cartels have recently tried to smuggle across the Southwest Border but who were rescued by Border Patrol. These minors will now be safely and humanely reunited with their families by dedicated public servants who have devoted their lives to combatting child trafficking. It is because of the efforts of these public servants that there is no longer a raging UAC ("unaccompanied alien child") catastrophe -- the Trump Administration swiftly, urgently and righteously ended the child trafficking nightmare.
Between ten to twenty thousand children a MONTH were successfully smuggled by cartels into the US under Biden, who worked with taxpayer NGOs to deliver the smuggled children to unknown adults in the US, whereupon they disappeared. The NGOs then submitted knowingly fraudulent asylum claims to try to keep the children from ever going home or seeing their families again.
These same Democrat-NGO networks for cartels were also ruthlessly exploited by TDA and MS-13 to insert gang members into the United States and violent criminals into our high schools (automatically allowed in merely by claiming to be 17), subjecting innocent American children to unspeakable horrors.
It was one of the darkest of many dark chapters of the Biden era. The Trump Administration put the child traffickers out of business and CNN considers this a great tragedy to be urgently reversed. New depths of "journalistic" depravity and immortality.

The left-wing media immediately trumpets the claims of far-left open borders organizations, but meanwhile cannot trust the word of "far-right" Israeli politicians about the terrorist attempt to crash the plane they were are.

After all, he might have just had a "mental health issue." He may have just been attempting suicide.

Suicide, with 150+ unwilling co-participants.

According to The New York Times, hijacking a plane full of people of a very specific identity and trying to crash it into the ground is not necessarily terrorism, and it can be chalked up to a mental health issue.

Real winners over there. pic.twitter.com/2xQm9dFJAg
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) September 30, 2026

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
NY Times is now in FULL damage control mode after they were called out for referring to the stabbing of an airplane captain and an attempted hijacking by the co-pilot as an "altercation."
Their excuse is that they aren't "activists and partisans."
Pathetic

LOL. They sure are quick to trumpet all of the nonsense claims of Democrats, open borders NGOs, and Hamas.

But here, they're taking a cautious approach because they're not "activists and partisans."

I keep hearing about young women who reinterpret past sexual experiences as nonconsensual. I think they’re treating the discomfort they feel about the experience as evidence something was done wrong to them.

Something was done wrong to you, by you. That feeling is called regret. https://t.co/MgfVDmtwDc
— Christina Buttons (@buttonslives) September 30, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:30 PM

Comments

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1 Otters called

Posted by: SciVo at September 30, 2026 06:33 PM (ke3zm)

2 Hello.

Posted by: Case at September 30, 2026 06:33 PM (9+0gc)

3 OT: today I learnt about something called "datura". also something something The Hat Man, journeys through hell and a week long vacation from reality.
youtu.be/zWyrdTl47sM
So a video game developer recommended adding this plant medicine to a booze cocktail, and got called on it. Several commenters complained You're Not The Boss Of Me.

Posted by: datura is baaad, mkayy at September 30, 2026 06:35 PM (88C+u)

4 I could have been first but I was holding hands with my otter.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:36 PM (MWfyi)

5 Bet they all preach how to overun the country

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 06:37 PM (Ia/+0)

6 It seems the Islamists cause a whole lot of problems. What we need is another Hammer to come along, and I don't mean MC.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:38 PM (MWfyi)

7 It seems the Islamists cause a whole lot of problems. What we need is another Hammer to come along, and I don't mean MC.
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:38 PM (MWfyi)
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Although, MC would be a fun start

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 06:39 PM (kOzmw)

8 I could have been first but I was holding hands with my otter.
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:36 PM (MWfyi)

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 06:39 PM (ExV1e)

9 ...Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon...
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Say it with me kids...a "Fundamentally non-serious" selection.

Posted by: Crusader at September 30, 2026 06:39 PM (TN0g+)

10 The wack-a-doo communist BLM revolutionary running as the Democrat for the open Florida senate seat raised money for a supposedly BLM cause and then, get this, no seriously you'll never believe this, can't account for where the money went.

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"That would be ... up the nose, Bob!"

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 06:39 PM (fTvJp)

11 "After all, he might have just had a "mental health issue."

He does have a mental health issue. How it is dealt with is the problem.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:39 PM (MWfyi)

12 World Wars I and II were just serial altercations.

Posted by: CNN at September 30, 2026 06:40 PM (Fn+3X)

13 This "racist" thing. I've heard all of it I can stand. We(all humans) are a little bit tribal, and that's a GOOD thing.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 30, 2026 06:40 PM (T5g+F)

14 datura, lol

Posted by: Zombie Billy Mays at September 30, 2026 06:41 PM (VyBeY)

15 We have a SERIOUS rogue judge problem in the US.

It's time for the House to fire up impeachments. Clean house, end the judicial coup and keep deporting!

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"DENIED!"

/US District Clown Judge Bozoberg, de facto Emperor of the USA

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 06:41 PM (fTvJp)

16 We may never know the motives of that shabby Omani pilot.

Reminds me of the time I had insomnia and caught the live reporter on the jihadi bombing of the Brussels airport. They replayed the security footage, where you could clearly hear “Ally Ackbar!!” a second before the BOOMS, all while the chyron below it read something like “ Airport explosions - police say motive unknown.”

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 06:41 PM (4KUe5)

17 What if it had been Lindsay Clancy that tried to crash that plane? Can't you understand what that poor woman must have been going thru?

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:42 PM (MWfyi)

18 Ace , I think your referring to Erin Burnett as a "pie eating machine" caused her to diet. Now she should work on bit being an idiot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 06:42 PM (jivel)

19 $270K don't go as far as it used to.

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2026 06:42 PM (LHPAg)

20 6 It seems the Islamists cause a whole lot of problems. What we need is another Hammer to come along, and I don't mean MC.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:38 PM (MWfyi)

Imagine a life without Islam
https://tinyurl.com/7rvaapn9

Posted by: Gref at September 30, 2026 06:43 PM (5rh/l)

21 From the last one:

So they're publishing this finding -- Muslim refugees down 96% under Trump -- as a primal scream.

But all right-thinking people think: This is what I fucking voted for.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:35 PM

That's fantastic news!

Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You (Official Music Video)
https://youtu.be/byEGjLU2egA

Is there an American Amelia?

Choking Fox - Sun All Year Round (Remigration Farewell) [Amelia Meme Song]
https://youtu.be/hSm3zQG5K2g

Though I suppose we would need about a dozen Amelias...

Geography by Geoff - Why The US Is Really 12 Nations (Not 50 States)
https://youtu.be/U2eTN6yDRGE

(I haven't actually watched that last one yet -- it's on The List -- so tell me if it sucks.)

Posted by: SciVo at September 30, 2026 06:43 PM (ke3zm)

22 I skipped the Cornell thread earlier, but let me tell you all what happened.

This woman was a willing participant.
Then she saw the "free pussy at delta house" tweet someone sent out that night, and realized she fucked up.

Then her family and friends saw that tweet.

Everyone involved needs to be shamed out of polite society.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 06:43 PM (b//Sn)

23 It's kind of crazy how in the 1990s women on campus were demanding the right to sleep with their profs because they were adults, and then began accusing their hookups of "emotional manipulation" and said that they couldn't REALLY give consent and then all college sex was rape but THEN it was perfectly okay for a man to get naked in the women's locker room and masturbate and if you had a problem YOU WERE THE PROBLEM.

Maybe don't sleep around so much before you decided you want to get married.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:43 PM (ZOv7s)

24 Millions are raised for politicians then it disappears into pockets

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 06:43 PM (Ia/+0)

25 **** Immigration judge rules that Trump may deport the leader of a large mosque due to national security concerns.
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Now, do the rest of them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 06:44 PM (JS6jE)

26 Sean Parnell
@SeanParnellASW
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2h
Today, at Secretary Hegseth’s direction, the Department of War is announcing FORTRESS America—a national insurance policy for the American homeland.

Every major military installation in America will generate its own power.

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That Hegseth guy seems alright.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 06:45 PM (ExV1e)

27 ...religion of peace...

Posted by: George Bush at September 30, 2026 06:45 PM (Wt1Rs)

28 3 yrs old and representing themselves. Precocious!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 06:46 PM (NnhvP)

29 Read the account of the attempted hijacking over at HA. Best part is that a maintenance man who had no flight training helped to charge the cockpit and bring the attacker down. The pilot had been stabbed and was bleeding, so they pulled him out of the cockpit. The plane was still in a steep dive, and he was for the moment alone in the cockpit.

This is the best part:

"Hayoun then returned to the cockpit. “I went back to the controls and pulled back on the yoke, because there was no one left in the cockpit,” he said.

I asked him how he had known what to do. “I had seen Air Crash Investigation on TV,” he told me, laughing. “I pulled back on the controls, and then another pilot came in and said he was taking control of the aircraft.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 06:46 PM (ioK7j)

30 Fortress America. Sounds like Festung America . He's a Nazi

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 06:47 PM (jivel)

31 $270K don't go as far as it used to.
Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2026 06:42 PM (LHPAg)
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That, too, is all the fault of OrangeManBad.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 06:47 PM (FZ29D)

32 I have a crush on Smotrich.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 06:47 PM (QwZKw)

33 Maybe don't sleep around so much before you decided you want to get married.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:43 PM (ZOv7s)

I've noted a few cases of OnlyFans ho's who go find a Christian pastor and become insta-tradwifes.

Posted by: and they're still online at September 30, 2026 06:47 PM (88C+u)

34 12 World Wars I and II were just serial altercations.
Posted by: CNN

A slight continuation of politics by other means.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 06:47 PM (Y8DZL)

35 Everyone involved needs to be shamed out of polite society.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 06:43 PM (b//Sn)
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You're going to be shocked to learn that during the campus rape hysteria, there was a piece of demographic information that the DEI police tried mightily to hide: the race of the parties involved.

I'm sure we are all shocked to find that white women disproportionately accused black men of rape. Oh, and get this - it was skewed to high-status athletes. A bunch of the cases were girls who had their MRS Degree guy lined up, cheated on him at a party and got found out.

Michigan State had a woman accuse a football player, who was investigated and acquitted, and then the harridans demanded he by lynched er, I mean punished anyway, so he was, his career was destroyed, and he sued the university and got millions and then she sued because he got paid and she needed money, too. What a shitshow that was.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:47 PM (ZOv7s)

36 Fortress America. Sounds like Festung America . He's a Nazi
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 06:47 PM (jivel)

FORTRESS stands for: Federal Operations for Resilience, Troop Resources, Energy, Supply, and Survivability.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 06:48 PM (ExV1e)

37 Immigration judge rules that Trump may deport the leader of a large mosque due to national security concerns.
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Now, do the rest of them.
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If those Flock cameras aren't going to be destroyed--put them to good use and deport anyone whose car ever visited a mosque.

Posted by: Crusader at September 30, 2026 06:48 PM (TN0g+)

38 FORTRESS stands for: Federal Operations for Resilience, Troop Resources, Energy, Supply, and Survivability.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 06:48 PM (ExV1e)
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An acronym brought to you by the same people that came up with Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division (S.H.I.E.L.D.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 06:50 PM (FZ29D)

39 Fortress America. Sounds like Festung America . He's a Nazi
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 06:47 PM (jivel)
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Milton Bradley should sue for trademark infringement. It was a fun game and I still have it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:50 PM (ZOv7s)

40 "According to The New York Times, hijacking a plane full of people of a very specific identity and trying to crash it into the ground is not necessarily terrorism, and it can be chalked up to a mental health issue."

Yes, same for all the suicide bombers and those that drive vehicles through crowds ... just mental health cases that tried to end their misery. The "I stand with Clancey" crowd would wholeheartedly agree with that opinion.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 30, 2026 06:50 PM (vbXSk)

41 This "racist" thing. I've heard all of it I can stand. We(all humans) are a little bit tribal, and that's a GOOD thing.
Posted by: Don in SoCo

Most racism is just pattern recognition. Stereo types are earned, not awarded. Every east Asian country is ten times as overtly racist as anyone around here.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 30, 2026 06:50 PM (l26NL)

42 I really hope the bases are going to use Small Modular Reactors - that would be a great way to jump start the technology.

Test reactors are already being built, they're past the theoretical stage.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 06:51 PM (ioK7j)

43 And ever since Nixon opened Cafe Resistance--a squat, cinderblock building in a downtrodden part of town that appeared, to a Washington Free Beacon reporter on multiple visits, to operate on a shoestring--her personal income has skyrocketed. This has led legal and tax experts consulted by the Free Beacon to question whether the Florida Democratic Socialist could be exploiting her charity to funnel funds to her personal LLC in violation of nonprofit laws.

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"the downtrodden part of town"

Who runs that part of town that downtrods this poor woman? Who has run it for the last, oh, century??

One wonders.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 06:51 PM (uhVAy)

44 Michigan State had a woman accuse a football player, who was investigated and acquitted, and then the harridans demanded he by lynched er, I mean punished anyway, so he was, his career was destroyed, and he sued the university and got millions and then she sued because he got paid and she needed money, too. What a shitshow that was.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Dude...

-Mel Tucker, at a location unspecified to Eaton County Courts

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 06:52 PM (Y8DZL)

45 I've noted a few cases of OnlyFans ho's who go find a Christian pastor and become insta-tradwifes.
Posted by: and they're still online at September 30, 2026 06:47 PM (88C+u)
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We all hope for redemption and it can happen that someone who intends to fake it actually fakes themselves into it.

But I cannot ignore that both Candace and Milo had very high-profile conversions to the Catholic faith and that acted like rat bastards. I think they assumed the Catholic thing would bring them a new following and it wasn't enough, so the went the other way.

Who knows, but prayers for both of them. They need it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:52 PM (ZOv7s)

46 The Iranian Guard has endorsed the Democrats.

Death to America = Vote Democrat. I really can't argue with that.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 30, 2026 06:53 PM (l26NL)

47 I really hope the bases are going to use Small Modular Reactors - that would be a great way to jump start the technology.

Test reactors are already being built, they're past the theoretical stage.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 06:51 PM (ioK7j)

Space probes use bits of radioactive stuff to generate heat that is used to provide power for decades long space missions. Not much reason this couldn't be used for other uses, and no chance of a chain reaction.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 06:53 PM (uhVAy)

48 Oh, and get this - it was skewed to high-status athletes.

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

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"you can just grab them by the pussy!"

It's funny because Trump's quote was really a statement of shock at the low morals of so many women. Yet it got inverted. The world turned upside down.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 06:54 PM (b//Sn)

49 Dude...

-Mel Tucker, at a location unspecified to Eaton County Courts
Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 06:52 PM (Y8DZL)
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Tucker was an idiot. He had a clause in his contract that said no hanky-panky at work. The chick was also stupid, because when it leaked, post-Nassar MSU wasn't going to play games and just fired his ass, which also removed their liability.

So then she sued him (knowing he had the text messages showing it was consensual) and now she gets bupkis AND destroyed her lucrative lecture circuit business.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:55 PM (ZOv7s)

50 I do not recall

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 06:55 PM (vE0+H)

51 "ALL BUT ONE" judge in the District of Minnesota.

Absolutely unbelievable! They should all be IMPEACHED!
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Fool, they have no shame, jail them. They will feel that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 06:56 PM (JS6jE)

52 Most racism is just pattern recognition. Stereo types are earned, not awarded. Every east Asian country is ten times as overtly racist as anyone around here.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 30, 2026 06:50 PM (l26NL)

The fun part is they have entirely different races to do - Chinese versus Koreans vs Japanese vs Indonesian vs Viets.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 06:56 PM (uhVAy)

53 The wack-a-doo communist BLM revolutionary running as the Democrat for the open Florida senate seat raised money for a supposedly BLM cause and then, get this, no seriously you'll never believe this, can't account for where the money went.

https://youtu.be/-WCFUGCOLLU

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:58 PM (l3cgK)

54 See ya goat bumper.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at September 30, 2026 06:58 PM (6VKbU)

55 Humper stupid ass spell ck

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at September 30, 2026 06:59 PM (6VKbU)

56 OT

I think a lot of the boomer hate is envy - they grew up before the herpes/aids scares. They lived in safe neighborhoods and good schools and clean streets. They drove cool cars.

I feel that. I grew up at the peak of the scares, cars were econobox crap, and no jobs after graduation. But I didn't blame the boomers.

The problems come from the "greatest generation" that came back from the war and figured they would do all kinds of crazy stuff hear in pursuit of utopia. The GGs were in charge until Clinton, and by then it was already fuck -- it had to be fucked or a scumbag like him and manbearchakra would never have gotten elected.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 06:59 PM (b//Sn)

57 >>18 Ace , I think your referring to Erin Burnett as a "pie eating machine" caused her to diet. Now she should work on bit being an idiot

glad I could help.

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 06:59 PM (1wjle)

58 Fortress America. Sounds like Festung America . He's a Nazi
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 06:47 PM (jivel)
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Milton Bradley should sue for trademark infringement. It was a fun game and I still have it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:50 PM (ZOv7s)

I have an old SPI game "Invasion America" where the Chinese invade the West, Euro-Commies from Cuba using hovercraft, and South Americans up Central America. It was a blast.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 06:59 PM (uhVAy)

59 I rate this as 2.5 "Yikes on Bikes!" and one "Yeech on a Beach".

Posted by: Yikes On Bikes at September 30, 2026 06:59 PM (V362x)

60 Judge Boasberg is the kind of leftist that makes up law as he sees fit. He is the go to judge for the socialists to make a ruling. Never should have been put on the bench in the first place.

Posted by: Case at September 30, 2026 07:00 PM (9+0gc)

61 Something was done wrong to you, by you. That feeling is called regret.

_____________________

Hey, GROK....can self-important narcissits experience regret?

GROK: Yes, individuals with narcissistic personality traits or disorder can experience regret, but it is self-focused and shallow rather than genuine remorse for hurting others.

(and, there you go)

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 07:00 PM (dIske)

62 I think the Omani might have srewed up, He's now in Saudi Arabia, not here or Israel where he could tie up the courts.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 07:01 PM (NnhvP)

63 Jeebus Datura. Be prepared for blackout madness.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 30, 2026 07:01 PM (bX16E)

64 "These minors will now be safely and humanely reunited with their families by dedicated public servants who have devoted their lives to combatting child trafficking."

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Sadly, their parents will sell them again.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 30, 2026 07:01 PM (zYpTz)

65 I think the Omani might have srewed up, He's now in Saudi Arabia, not here or Israel where he could tie up the courts.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 07:01 PM (NnhvP)

I don't think Israel has the death penalty, even. He may want to be extradited to Tel Aviv.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:02 PM (uhVAy)

66
"the downtrodden part of town"

Sounds like a Billy Joel song.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 07:02 PM (Cqx++)

67 Immigration judge rules that Trump may deport the leader of a large mosque due to national security concerns.

Why that was mighty gracious of him, letting Trump enforce the actual laws that congress wrote.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 30, 2026 07:03 PM (I43vL)

68 I need a few quick hits... of the good stuff.
Leg is killing me, doc says burst popliteal cyst behind knee.
Fucking crippled and I'm only 29.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 07:03 PM (UjdFS)

69 47 I really hope the bases are going to use Small Modular Reactors - that would be a great way to jump start the technology.

Test reactors are already being built, they're past the theoretical stage.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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There are those who are not nay-Sayers believe that we are at the beginning of the 4th industrial revolution, ~ rhyming with the times that Rockefeller took us from candles to lanterns on to Edison and Ford.
If that is so we are at the beginning, the bottom of the market.
What appears to be evermost highs is actually the new bottom.
Of course, one must believe in America and an American's ability to over achieve.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 07:04 PM (JS6jE)

70 "the downtrodden part of town"

Sounds like a Billy Joel song.
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They've taken all the coal from the ground...

Posted by: Crusader at September 30, 2026 07:04 PM (TN0g+)

71 "I think a lot of the boomer hate is envy"

We were a lot more free. Nowadays people are captives of their phones and computers and social media and crap. They should be jealous.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 07:05 PM (MWfyi)

72 60 Judge Boasberg is the kind of leftist that makes up law as he sees fit. He is the go to judge for the socialists to make a ruling. Never should have been put on the bench in the first place.

Posted by: Case at September 30, 2026 07:00 PM (9+0gc)

Agreed. He belongs on the rack.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 07:05 PM (l3cgK)

73 Immigration judge rules that Trump may deport the leader of a large mosque due to national security concerns.

Why that was mighty gracious of him, letting Trump enforce the actual laws that congress wrote.
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Judge Boasberg hasn't weighed in yet.

Posted by: Crusader at September 30, 2026 07:05 PM (TN0g+)

74 "the downtrodden part of town"

Sounds like a Billy Joel song.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 07:02 PM (Cqx++)

Well we know there is a "cheatin'" side of town from the Eagles.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:05 PM (uhVAy)

75 Demanding objectivity from the New York Times is like demanding calculus from retard.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 07:05 PM (RIvkX)

76 Maybe I should go down to the Pioneer Chicken stand and meet my man.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 07:06 PM (UjdFS)

77 65 I think the Omani might have srewed up, He's now in Saudi Arabia, not here or Israel where he could tie up the courts.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 07:01 PM (NnhvP)

I don't think Israel has the death penalty, even. He may want to be extradited to Tel Aviv.

Posted by: Oldcat
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He has brought shame upon the House of Saud.

Lop his head off.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 07:06 PM (JS6jE)

78 Oh ffs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 07:06 PM (zZu0s)

79 Whether he and an Obama 'Champion of Change,' Linda Sarsour, are related - along with her relationship to Hamas - continues to be debated.

Islamic Watch, Taxpayer-Funded College Hosts Sharia-Loving Commencement Speaker With Ties To Terror Group, April 2017

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 30, 2026 07:06 PM (NFX2v)

80 66
"the downtrodden part of town"

Sounds like a Billy Joel song.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 07:02 PM (Cqx++)

Stole the idea from me ...

Posted by: Johnny Rivers at September 30, 2026 07:08 PM (oCio0)

81 72 60 Judge Boasberg is the kind of leftist that makes up law as he sees fit. He is the go to judge for the socialists to make a ruling. Never should have been put on the bench in the first place.

Posted by: Case at September 30, 2026 07:00 PM (9+0gc)

Agreed. He belongs on the rack.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 07:05 PM (l3cgK)
_______________________________

While there is no official requirement that judges get assigned randomly to cases, there sure ought to be. It wouldn't do much good in the DC courts due to the over representation of political hacks, but in other jurisdictions it would make a huge difference.

I wouldn't be against a literal drawing from the hat in the presnece of both sides.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 07:08 PM (dIske)

82 "the downtrodden part of town"

Who runs that part of town that downtrods this poor woman? Who has run it for the last, oh, century??

One wonders.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 06:51 PM (uhVAy)
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I marked that too. What is this Tale of Two Cities?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 07:08 PM (RIvkX)

83 "I keep hearing about young women who reinterpret past sexual experiences as nonconsensual."

Sweetie, there is a reason you are supposed to keep your panties on until you are married. That, right there, is the reason.

If you don't want to feel like a slight upgrade from a tube sock by some horndog promising you the moon, get off the mattress.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 07:10 PM (GYqb1)

84 I live in the uptrodden part of town,

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 07:12 PM (b//Sn)

85 "I think a lot of the boomer hate is envy"

We were a lot more free. Nowadays people are captives of their phones and computers and social media and crap. They should be jealous.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 07:05 PM

That's a part of the boomer hate but the big part IMO is that typically boomers have significantly more money to spend than younger generations and that causes some serious resentment.

I have personally encountered this "it's not fair" attitude from younger people.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 30, 2026 07:12 PM (I43vL)

86 Don't trod on my town.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 07:12 PM (JS6jE)

87 75 Demanding objectivity from the New York Times is like demanding calculus from retard.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 07:05 PM (RIvkX)

My high school math teacher demanded that of me. It was a pretty tough ask, all things considered. But now I can dx/dy with the best of them.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 07:13 PM (GYqb1)

88 All major restaurant chains are closing 100scof stores because the Trump economy is so awesome!; GDP up !!
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I piss on IHOP's grave.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 07:13 PM (RIvkX)

89 keep hearing about young women who reinterpret past sexual experiences as nonconsensual."

Sweetie, there is a reason you are supposed to keep your panties on until you are married. That, right there, is the reason.

If you don't want to feel like a slight upgrade from a tube sock by some horndog promising you the moon, get off the mattress.

Just sayin'.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 07:10 PM (GYqb1)

Suggesting that young women act with restraint and take responsibility for their own actions? That's just straight up misogyny!

Posted by: The current ethos at September 30, 2026 07:13 PM (TbWk/)

90 Were the unnamed Israelis referring to the possibility that the co-pilot may have been attempting suicide by crashing a plane full of passengers making wanking gestures while talking to the reporter?
This is an important point, here.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 07:14 PM (rbvCR)

91 I have personally encountered this "it's not fair" attitude from younger people.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 30, 2026 07:12 PM (I43vL)

They are too stupid to see that we were all broke when we were their age, and we worked our asses off to get away from that.

Some of us have had a job since 1973. I earned my retirement.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 07:14 PM (GYqb1)

92 I have personally encountered this "it's not fair" attitude from younger people.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)
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If they can't get up and get it they are welcome to go fuck themselves.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 07:15 PM (JS6jE)

93 "That's a part of the boomer hate but the big part IMO is that typically boomers have significantly more money to spend than younger generations and that causes some serious resentment."

Work at it for 40+ years and get back to me.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 07:15 PM (MWfyi)

94 Idea: Sequel to "A Streetcar Named Desire" - "A Fat Chick Called Regret"

I still got it.

Posted by: Zombie Tennessee Williams at September 30, 2026 07:16 PM (47/pr)

95
That's a part of the boomer hate but the big part IMO is that typically boomers have significantly more money to spend than younger generations and that causes some serious resentment.

I have some money now but I sure didn't when I was their age.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 07:16 PM (Cqx++)

96 Suggesting that young women act with restraint and take responsibility for their own actions? That's just straight up misogyny!
Posted by: The current ethos at September 30, 2026 07:13 PM (TbWk/)

Accountability is literal poison to them. Or, it ust does not exist in their reality. Or it's only for dudes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 07:16 PM (zZu0s)

97 When it comes to current "socialist" horseshit, it is all envy. All of the ads for Mary Peltola are about how much money Dan Sullivan makes, and how he, single-handedly, made everyone pay more for their Obamacare, and how he never has to worry about paying the electric bill.

Envy.

Don't want to be broke? Get a job and quit making piss poor decisions.

Or seethe with envy and take whatever your communist masters deign to give you, if anything.

Like I said, poor choices.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 07:17 PM (GYqb1)

98 Calculus was bitter torture. No one explained why I was there, what was going on, and what this was for. Algebra, Geometry all clear. Trigonometry was questionable. But calculus was "here do this daily mental torture then take this test and also shut up."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 07:18 PM (RIvkX)

99 ====
I piss on IHOP's grave.

Posted by: San Franpsycho
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They used to make delicious carafes of coffee and Denver omelettes. They left their lane.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 07:18 PM (JS6jE)

100 He may want to be extradited to Tel Aviv.
Posted by: Oldcat
That would require extradition laws between them!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 07:18 PM (NnhvP)

101 Accountability is literal poison to them. Or, it ust does not exist in their reality. Or it's only for dudes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 07:16 PM (zZu0s)

There used to be shame associated with being the town pump.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 07:18 PM (GYqb1)

102 I think the Omani might have srewed up, He's now in Saudi Arabia, not here or Israel where he could tie up the courts.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

The Bee says he's already been offered a job by British Airways.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 30, 2026 07:18 PM (l26NL)

103 Work at it for 40+ years and get back to me.
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 07:15 PM (MWfyi)

Ill take their side just a bit. One of the biggest keys to wealth is breaking the rent trap. Houses are insane in value now. It is not 'save up 10 or 20k to get 10% on the balance' but more like 40 or 50k.

Thats a tough hill to climb for anyone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 07:18 PM (zZu0s)

104 I could just be tripping, but doesn't Jack Smith and that ugly Judge Boasberg look sort of like retarded twins?

DEPORT THEM ALL (including Jack Smith and Boasberg)

I would be jailed in the UK for writing those 3 words or thinking this.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 07:19 PM (hzuYO)

105

Young Man Blues

But you know nowadays
It's the old man,
He's got all the money
And a young man ain't got nothin' in the world these days
I said nothing

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 07:19 PM (Cqx++)

106 ICE be upon him: Immigration judge rules that Trump may deport the leader of a large mosque due to national security concerns.

All the muzzies who attend and listen to him should go as well

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 07:19 PM (NnhvP)

107 Why are all of these pro-Palestinian fucks here pumping out their anti-Israeli shit? Wouldn't it make more sense if they were in the middle east?

Get these un-American cockroaches out of here!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 30, 2026 07:19 PM (VQ7/I)

108 99 Calculus was bitter torture. No one explained why I was there, what was going on, and what this was for. Algebra, Geometry all clear. Trigonometry was questionable. But calculus was "here do this daily mental torture then take this test and also shut up."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 07:18 PM (RIvkX)

I ended up using almost all of those nearly daily, but I didn't know that when I was learning it. Girls aren't supposed to be good at math, but there I was.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 07:20 PM (GYqb1)

109 >>> Immigration judge rules that Trump may deport the leader of a large mosque

Fixed:

Immigration judge rules that Trump may deport ~~the~~ any leader of ~~a large~~ any mosque

Posted by: Max Power at September 30, 2026 07:20 PM (SwyyQ)

110 There used to be shame associated with being the town pump.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 07:18 PM (GYqb1)

Now they boast about it as a dating strategy. I have seen the same shit touted to men by the alpha retard gurus. The idea, as I understand it, is to limit the possibility of emotional damage by limiting emotional engagement by maintaining multiple partners simultaneously.

Of course, what these idiots do not understand- that shit is toxic to someone actually trying to form a long term relationship. What fools.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 07:21 PM (zZu0s)

111 Space probes use bits of radioactive stuff to generate heat that is used to provide power for decades long space missions. Not much reason this couldn't be used for other uses, and no chance of a chain reaction.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 06:53 PM (uhVAy)

Well, first this is stuff that is HIGHLY radioactive, and also it doesn't put out as much heat as is needed to run a base. There was some very early discussion in the 50's that a mini-Thorium reactor could be jiggered with this small amount of isotope and put in series, but the problem there is still that the gamma source is highly radioactive and really bad for children, pets, and people who like their genome the was it was issued.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 07:21 PM (rbvCR)

112 Some of us have had a job since 1973. I earned my retirement.
Posted by: tcn in AK
Now add up all the vacation time off you have ever taken. The percentage sucks.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 07:22 PM (NnhvP)

113 Work at it for 40+ years and get back to me.

Posted by: fd
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Make commitments and keep them, make investments in the future and honor them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 07:22 PM (JS6jE)

114 I put down $40k on a house 25 years ago. I worked extra hard and more hours to save up the down payment while paying rent. It can be done.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 07:22 PM (MWfyi)

115 White Sox up 7-3, bottom of the sixth.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 30, 2026 07:22 PM (l26NL)

116 that was just a bad hookup when I was 19”
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No wonder the Paolo is so popular with the ladies

Posted by: 496 at September 30, 2026 07:23 PM (aadd2)

117 Ill take their side just a bit. One of the biggest keys to wealth is breaking the rent trap. Houses are insane in value now. It is not 'save up 10 or 20k to get 10% on the balance' but more like 40 or 50k.

Thats a tough hill to climb for anyone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 07:18 PM (zZu0s)

I was excited when minimum wage went up to $2.95. I think its something like $15 now in a lot of places. You make a lot more in the trades. Except if you spend it all on fancy coffee, vapes and weed, in which case it doesn't cover the basics.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 07:23 PM (GYqb1)

118 I'm definitely spending too much time on the internet
sunnah.com/ibnmajah:4337
Muslims get 72 houris - but how does the math work out? Especially since the Prophet (pbuh) saw that most people in hell are women. I mean, some of the houris could be boys, but still . . .
Ibn Majah here says that two of the houris are from heaven and the other seventy are from hell.

Posted by: scarlet gospel at September 30, 2026 07:23 PM (88C+u)

119 I put down $40k on a house 25 years ago. I worked extra hard and more hours to save up the down payment while paying rent. It can be done.
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 07:22 PM (MWfyi)

Not saying it cant be done.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 07:23 PM (zZu0s)

120 Regrets? I have a few ...

Posted by: as crooned bt Frank Sinatra at September 30, 2026 07:23 PM (0sNs1)

121 Now add up all the vacation time off you have ever taken. The percentage sucks.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
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Only if your life sucks. Does your life suck?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 07:23 PM (JS6jE)

122 source: Meira K. Seems to be Anglo-Jewish.
youtu.be/OPvuYH9i2j4

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 07:24 PM (88C+u)

123 They all should go

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 07:24 PM (Ia/+0)

124 Some of us have had a job since 1973.
Posted by: tcn in AK

And get off my lawn youngster!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 07:24 PM (NnhvP)

125 I put down $40k on a house 25 years ago. I worked extra hard and more hours to save up the down payment while paying rent. It can be done.
Posted by: fd

My older son just bought a house for him and his new bride in Colorado. I know I keep commenting about it but I can't believe it.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 30, 2026 07:24 PM (l26NL)

126 Now add up all the vacation time off you have ever taken. The percentage sucks.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 07:22 PM (NnhvP)

Maybe, but the TxMoMe counts double.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 07:25 PM (GYqb1)

127 I had a roommate in college who had a revolving door to her bedroom. She was a few years older and already a RN.

I never knew who would come out that door, married doctor or not, but at least she did not have threesomes. At least while I was there.

At my nursing reunion, one of my two classmates (who lived above me in an 100+ year old historic home) told me a story. While I was home in MS for the summer she came into the back door to do laundry in the basement. Said roomie was stark nekkid on the couch with a guy and it freaked her out. I dare say!

I used to sit on that couch and it grosses me out 50yrs later.

I was the total opposite and married the guy I was dating at the time. My bedroom door had no surprises.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 07:25 PM (hzuYO)

128 3 OT: today I learnt about something called "datura". also something something The Hat Man, journeys through hell and a week long vacation from reality.
youtu.be/zWyrdTl47sM
Posted by: datura is baaad, mkayy at September 30, 2026 06:35 PM (88C+u)
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Commonly known as Jimson Weed. Yeah don't freakin smoke that shit lol. You will trip balls and maybe die.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 07:25 PM (oqH4h)

129 116 White Sox up 7-3, bottom of the sixth.
Posted by: Blutarski

In fairness, they're playing the Asterisks (.500 AL-W)

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 07:25 PM (88C+u)

130 White Sox up 7-3, bottom of the sixth.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 30, 2026 07:22 PM

That's the power of a blessing by the Pope.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 07:25 PM (0sNs1)

131 125 Some of us have had a job since 1973.
Posted by: tcn in AK

And get off my lawn youngster!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 07:24 PM (NnhvP)

Well, I had paper routes before that, but I had to be 12 to bus tables.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 07:26 PM (GYqb1)

132 The thing about being a young man is you have a lot of potential energy if you don't squander it. As you get older you do learn to work smarter but you will never have the energy you had in your 20s.

Unless you are PDT. That guy has more energy than ten giraffes.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 07:26 PM (MWfyi)

133 While there is no official requirement that judges get assigned randomly to cases, there sure ought to be. It wouldn't do much good in the DC courts due to the over representation of political hacks, but in other jurisdictions it would make a huge difference.

I wouldn't be against a literal drawing from the hat in the presnece of both sides.
Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 07:08 PM (dIske)

I am thinking that if the Minnesota judges get the judicial misconduct claims prosecuted, the DC courts will be next. Judges understand precedent.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 07:26 PM (rbvCR)

134
Only if your life sucks. Does your life suck?

Posted by: Braenyard

The percentage of vacation days to work days certainly did.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 07:26 PM (NnhvP)

135 109 99 Calculus was bitter torture. No one explained why I was there, what was going on, and what this was for. Algebra, Geometry all clear. Trigonometry was questionable. But calculus was "here do this daily mental torture then take this test and also shut up."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 07:18 PM (RIvkX)

I ended up using almost all of those nearly daily, but I didn't know that when I was learning it. Girls aren't supposed to be good at math, but there I was.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 07:20 PM (GYqb1)

Some teachers do a sh**ty job teaching it. If they just explained it simply it would made more intuitive sense. I won't explain it here, as it would violate the "no math" rule...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 07:27 PM (l3cgK)

136 131 Well, I had paper routes before that, but I had to be 12 to bus tables.

these days, they uber tables so you have to be at least 16. or an illegal immigrant.

Posted by: anachronda at September 30, 2026 07:29 PM (v3pYe)

137 Calculus was bitter torture. No one explained why I was there, what was going on, and what this was for. Algebra, Geometry all clear. Trigonometry was questionable. But calculus was "here do this daily mental torture then take this test and also shut up."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 07:18 PM

I'm interpolating this as calculus didn't become integral to your life.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 07:29 PM (0sNs1)

138 Except if you spend it all on fancy coffee, vapes and weed, in which case it doesn't cover the basics.

Posted by: tcn in AK
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They don't know the difference between trinkets and tangible assets.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 07:29 PM (JS6jE)

139 I have personally encountered this "it's not fair" attitude from younger people.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 30, 2026 07:12 PM (I43vL)

They are too stupid to see that we were all broke when we were their age, and we worked our asses off to get away from that.

Some of us have had a job since 1973. I earned my retirement.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 07:14 PM

One thing we all sometimes need to be reminded of is that since day one of public school these kids have been taught that there is only so much money and the economy is a zero sum game.

With billionaires and millionaires taking more than their "fair share" that leaves less for them. I know that is both wrong and stupid but that is what they have been taught for decades in public schools.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 30, 2026 07:29 PM (I43vL)

140 Oh no, math jokes.

*runs away"

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 07:30 PM (MWfyi)

141 Some of us have had a job since 1973.
Posted by: tcn in AK

The year of my birth

*Rides off on Bidg Wheel*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 07:30 PM (xxBSa)

142 Ill take their side just a bit. One of the biggest keys to wealth is breaking the rent trap. Houses are insane in value now. It is not 'save up 10 or 20k to get 10% on the balance' but more like 40 or 50k.

Thats a tough hill to climb for anyone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 07:18 PM (zZu0s)
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I take their side a lot on this particular issue. Older Americans, for the most part, have absolutely no idea what home values are now and what it takes for a young person to crack into the homeowner category.

A number of years ago a person could find a starter home in a good neighborhood with good schools for 100-200k. That's a 10-20k down payment. If you're frugal with a decent job you can save for a couple of years and swing that and start a family.

Now? lol. Good luck. Any home in any place where there are jobs and decent schools is 500k+ and if you're trying to start a family both the husband and wife are working full time and saving everything for years and years to get a chance.

And spare me the "Oh but there are great homes in East Bumfuck, Ohio!" Yeah there are no jobs there. And the homes are still 300k+.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 07:31 PM (oqH4h)

143 Big Wheel.

Terrible typing day.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 07:31 PM (xxBSa)

144 With billionaires and millionaires taking more than their "fair share"
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 30, 2026 07:29 PM

Did you know a $16 million bank account in China has been found with Bernie Sanders (I-VT) as the owner?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 07:31 PM (0sNs1)

145 Big Wheel.

Terrible typing day.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 07:31 PM

Proud Mary is proud of you.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 07:32 PM (0sNs1)

146 Well, first this is stuff that is HIGHLY radioactive, and also it doesn't put out as much heat as is needed to run a base. There was some very early discussion in the 50's that a mini-Thorium reactor could be jiggered with this small amount of isotope and put in series, but the problem there is still that the gamma source is highly radioactive and really bad for children, pets, and people who like their genome the was it was issued.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 07:21 PM (rbvCR)

So seal it up. You wanna know what else is radioactive? The sky, the ground, your granite counters, and your own genes.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:32 PM (uhVAy)

147 119 I'm definitely spending too much time on the internet
sunnah.com/ibnmajah:4337
Muslims get 72 houris - but how does the math work out? Especially since the Prophet (pbuh) saw that most people in hell are women. I mean, some of the houris could be boys, but still . . .
Ibn Majah here says that two of the houris are from heaven and the other seventy are from hell.
Posted by: scarlet gospel at September 30, 2026 07:23 PM (88C+u)
Read the whole book, guilt-free crime and 'rewards' in paradise.

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2026 07:32 PM (LHPAg)

148 Supremes just said the Tennessee woman awaiting execution doesn't have to wait any more over ruling a lower court's stay.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 30, 2026 07:32 PM (l26NL)

149 >>>Calculus was bitter torture. No one explained why I was there, what was going on, and what this was for.

>I hear journalists and newcasters talk about the calculus of a current situation all of the time. How hard could it be?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 30, 2026 07:33 PM (VQ7/I)

150 Nood.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 07:34 PM (0sNs1)

151 >>Oh no, math jokes.

*runs away"

Are you trig-ered?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 07:35 PM (rOKnE)

152 >>>Calculus was bitter torture. No one explained why I was there, what was going on, and what this was for.

>I hear journalists and newcasters talk about the calculus of a current situation all of the time. How hard could it be?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 30, 2026 07:33 PM (VQ7/I)

I loved calculus after the algebra courses before it. Smooth and easy. I even liked Differential Equations once I got to Quantum Physics and there was a 'real world' purpose to it.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:35 PM (uhVAy)

153 And spare me the "Oh but there are great homes in East Bumfuck, Ohio!" Yeah there are no jobs there. And the homes are still 300k+.
Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 07:31 PM (oqH4h)

I have been reliably informed that they should try harder and live like the four Yorkshiremen, and be happy for it.
It will give them character and understand what they have when eventually they get it.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 07:36 PM (rbvCR)

154 In proportion to incomes homes today are no more expensive than they were then.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 07:36 PM (JS6jE)

155 I blow through a lot of "other" in a month.

I thought it was snort a lot of "other" off naked "other".

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 07:36 PM (NzX/y)

156 So seal it up. You wanna know what else is radioactive? The sky, the ground, your granite counters, and your own genes.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:32 PM (uhVAy)

Well, then stick one in your front pocket and don't complain if all your kids have three balls and a purple goatee

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 07:37 PM (rbvCR)

157
That's a part of the boomer hate but the big part IMO is that typically boomers have significantly more money to spend than younger generations and that causes some serious resentment.

I have some money now but I sure didn't when I was their age.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 07:16 PM (Cqx++)

Very True.

It took a long time before I didn't feel that I was just running in place.

I was always moving forward, but the benefits of normal life accrue fairly slowly and then they take off.

Someone whining to me that it just isn't fair that they don't have what I have, can just bite my ass.

They haven't worked as hard or as long as I have.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 07:38 PM (YSUhf)

158 Commonly known as Jimson Weed. Yeah don't freakin smoke that shit lol. You will trip balls and maybe die.
Posted by: ballistic

Killed the plants growing in this yard and carefully threw out the nasty seed pods.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 07:39 PM (NnhvP)

159 But I didn't blame the boomers.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 06:59 PM (b//Sn)
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I think there is a misunderstanding between petulant blaming and analysis of where the mistakes were made. Everyone makes mistakes, the question is how do we avoid the same one and getting out of the situation we are in.

To do that we have to re-evaluate things, such as: is a two-income family desirable? Has no-fault divorce been a good thing? Has Free Trade lived up to its promises?

There's also the question of "who, whom?" in terms of where society should place its emphasis. Right now we have a retirement system that crushes the young with ever higher payments for every smaller returns. Similarly, we set up a tax/benefit structure based on the idea that old people would die around 62 and not need long-term care, and that families would all have 3 kids or more.

That's where the "bootstrap" thing doesn't work because the economy is completely unlike it was in 1973 or even 1993. I bought a house in my 20s in 2001, but I could not do it today and that's a problem.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 07:40 PM (ZOv7s)

160 Are you trig-ered?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 07:35 PM

Is that a sin?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 07:41 PM (0sNs1)

161 154 In proportion to incomes homes today are no more expensive than they were then.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 07:36 PM (JS6jE)
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Fucking rofl, case in point.

Try harder! Don't spend your money on Starbucks!

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 07:41 PM (oqH4h)

162 137 Calculus was bitter torture. No one explained why I was there, what was going on, and what this was for. Algebra, Geometry all clear. Trigonometry was questionable. But calculus was "here do this daily mental torture then take this test and also shut up."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 07:18 PM

I'm interpolating this as calculus didn't become integral to your life.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 07:29 PM (0sNs1)

That summed it up.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 07:41 PM (l3cgK)

163 It's not an open seat in Florida. Sen. Ashley Moody is running for the remainder of the term to which Marco Rubio was elected.

Posted by: Flakey Foont at October 01, 2026 12:07 AM (lehK2)

Illegal Immigration Advocacy Group CATO Shrieks: Trump Has Reduced Muslim Refugee Immigration by 96%! This is Terrible!

Is it?

Is it really?

CATO is a "libertarian think tank," which means, CATO is a left-wing organization funded by deep-pocketed corporate and cheap-labor exploiters to make the case for open borders to conservatives.

CATO's position is that by limiting immigration and enforcing borders, you "create" illegal immigration, and you have no right to complain about that, Bigots.

Enact Open Borders and illegal immigration vanishes! Yay!

CATO Institute witness: “If you make legal immigration impossible, don’t complain about illegal immigration. You created it. You made it illegal.” pic.twitter.com/xng89bddCQ
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) September 2, 2026

So that's the baseline they're starting at: All immigration is good. Legal immigration, illegal immigration -- all good. As many bodies from culturally-incompatible and backwards countries packed into America as possible. Illegal immigration is a fake concept created by bigots who want to control who comes into their country. Drive down workers' pay so that corporations can pay people third-world wages in America and make a fortune.

So they're publishing this finding -- Muslim refugees down 96% under Trump -- as a primal scream.

But all right-thinking people think: This is what I fucking voted for.

Truly incredible that CATO is unintentionally better at messaging the administrations’ wins than most right-wing influencers pic.twitter.com/NOsKKSy7w6
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) September 29, 2026

From CATO: legal immigration from Muslim nations has been cut 96%.

While legal immigration in general is down, Trump has practically halted Muslim migration and completely ended Muslim refugee resettlement.

‘Annual Muslim immigration may be the lowest in over 30 years.’ pic.twitter.com/7PdA0UOAIm
— Prowler (@derzum_) September 29, 2026

CATO analysis on the early phase of Trump's immigration crackdown:

Refugees down 90%, permanent immigrants down 50% or more, H-1B -25% (-80% for new applicants), students down 40%. Trump not only has a net outflow of illegals but an increasingly narrow entry for legal migrants. pic.twitter.com/EMNcvi6ALo
— Prowler (@derzum_) April 14, 2026

The path we were on. The path we’re now on.

We’ve skipped timelines. pic.twitter.com/hC18Vg6JUz
— Casual Observer (@CObserving) September 29, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:35 PM

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1 1st

Posted by: GF at September 30, 2026 05:34 PM (mAZdb)

2 Those are rookie numbers

Rookie of the year maybe

Posted by: Kratwurst at September 30, 2026 05:36 PM (36bTp)

3 Happy New Year to all the Feds.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at September 30, 2026 05:38 PM (aKh6S)

4 "Trump Has Reduced Muslim Refugee Immigration by 96%! "

That's my President.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 05:38 PM (MWfyi)

5 Ahhh, good news to end my day.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at September 30, 2026 05:39 PM (ZgwKJ)

6
Let's get rid of those that are already here.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 05:39 PM (/QHx4)

7 Democrats eliminate illegal immigration by defining it as something else.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:39 PM (l3cgK)

8 Boers > Muslims

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 05:40 PM (/OKHJ)

9 What Trump has accomplished on immigration is surpassing my wildest dreams.

Posted by: Leupold at September 30, 2026 05:40 PM (UgMlZ)

10 8 Boers > Muslims

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 05:40 PM (/OKHJ)

Boars > Muslims

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:40 PM (l3cgK)

11 Can't they just shoot them?

Posted by: Rule 556 at September 30, 2026 05:40 PM (PMpfL)

12
This is progress.

I would be opposed to 3rd country resettlement of these Islamists, however.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 05:40 PM (Y8DZL)

13 Obviously, he's doing what the Americans want.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 05:41 PM (NnhvP)

14 Not 100%< but I'll take it

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 05:41 PM (6XDXn)

15 Cool! I voted for this! I also voted for evicting all of the fraudulent third-world shitstains that are already here, so let's get cracking on that, eh?

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 05:41 PM (3BwY8)

16 >>But all right-thinking people think: This is what I fucking voted for.

I NEED MOAR

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 05:41 PM (vNne8)

17 So they're publishing this finding -- Muslim refugees down 96% under Trump -- as a primal scream.

How many cancer cures will go undiscovered because our doors were shut against muslim geniuses? How many Steve Jobs will never realize their visions in America?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 05:41 PM (guGkK)

18 Didn't Cato destroy the Roman Republic?

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 05:41 PM (4NO2D)

19 So that's the baseline they're starting at: All immigration is good. Legal immigration, illegal immigration -- all good.

Yeah, the statics do not bear this out. Illegals from enemy countries or philosophies are, by definition, not a good thing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:42 PM (l3cgK)

20 And...there were rarely any true Refugees.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 05:43 PM (vNne8)

21 How many cancer cures will go undiscovered because our doors were shut against muslim geniuses? How many Steve Jobs will never realize their visions in America?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 05:41 PM (guGkK)
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Elon Musk just texted me saying that he's worried that he won't have the best and brightest rocket scientists for SpaceX!

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 05:43 PM (3BwY8)

22 Great news!

GET THEM ALL OUT

ALL ILLEGALS (except white South Africans)

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 05:43 PM (hzuYO)

23 Fewer coming in is good. .

Now get rid of 96% of the ones who are already here.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 05:43 PM (W2Pud)

24 You don't have to live like a refugee.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 30, 2026 05:43 PM (YZ0Fo)

25 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at September 30, 2026 05:44 PM (amcLV)

26
Shit like this is exactly what i voted for.

And yes. My experiences in GW1 are what made me an Islamophobia racist asshole

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 30, 2026 05:44 PM (QVmho)

27 Enact Open Borders and illegal immigration vanishes!

That is logical, Mr. O'Spades.

Posted by: Spock, son of Sarek at September 30, 2026 05:44 PM (0sNs1)

28 How many Quality Learing Centers will never teach a single child?

Besides all of them, I mean.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 05:44 PM (guGkK)

29 Finally some good news.

Posted by: Max Power at September 30, 2026 05:44 PM (SwyyQ)

30 And...there were rarely any true Refugees.
Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 05:43 PM

By international law, the only asylum seekers we should ever get are Mexicans and Canadians.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 05:44 PM (4NO2D)

31 It doesn't need to be said but CATO is yet another institution that was nominally lolbertarian at one point but naturally got hollowed out by leftists and is now a skinsuit at best.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 05:44 PM (3BwY8)

32 Enact Open Borders and illegal immigration vanishes!

Take the locks off the doors of banks and bank robbery will end tomorrow!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 05:45 PM (guGkK)

33 I'd rather have 10,000 cannibals from uncontacted Indonesian tribes relocated to my hood than muslims.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 30, 2026 05:45 PM (6GZK/)

34 My experiences in GW1 are what made me an Islamophobia racist asshole
Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 30, 2026 05:44 PM

But you still like us, right?

Posted by: Camel Spiders at September 30, 2026 05:45 PM (0sNs1)

35 For those of you keeping score at home, I'm still not tired of all the winning.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 30, 2026 05:45 PM (2Ez/1)

36 Does this mean no more clocks?

Posted by: Ahmed Mohamed, Clock Boy at September 30, 2026 05:45 PM (PMpfL)

37 >>By international law, the only asylum seekers we should ever get are Mexicans and Canadians.

I can make a case for the Cubans who self-exiled and the like. They got here without crossing real land borders.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 05:45 PM (vNne8)

38 By international law, the only asylum seekers we should ever get are Mexicans and Canadians.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 05:44 PM (4NO2D)
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Eh, a person can theoretically get a tourist visa, board a plane from anywhere there's a direct flight, land here, and turn themselves over to immigration to make an asylum claim as well.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 05:45 PM (3BwY8)

39 Mr. Biers can fuck off. Wanting to live here does not mean than you can live here.

Posted by: huerfano at September 30, 2026 05:46 PM (2Xqig)

40 CATO is a "libertarian think tank,"...

What is a Lepo ?

- Gary Johnson, Libertarian presidential candidate

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 05:46 PM (/TiS1)

41 In the end, I don't see much difference between Big L libertarians and Progressives. Both have a world view that can only be achieved through coercion and force.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 05:46 PM (4NO2D)

42 10 8 Boers > Muslims

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 05:40 PM (/OKHJ)

Boars > Muslims
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:40 PM (l3cgK)

boors > muslims

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 30, 2026 05:46 PM (6GZK/)

43 “If you make legal immigration impossible, don’t complain about illegal immigration. You created it. You made it illegal.”

____________________

Sophistry!!!! The "logic" associated with this statement is mindboggling.

Let's try it out:

"You made stealing money from an ATM impossible by structure reinforcment and pin #s. Don't complain about theft. You created it. You made it illegal."

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 05:46 PM (dIske)

44 “If you make legal immigration impossible, don’t complain about illegal immigration. You created it. You made it illegal.”

And if we legalized murder, it wouldn't be a crime anymore.

These yahoos don't deserve to use the name "Cato"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 30, 2026 05:46 PM (vJrRc)

45
Elon Musk just texted me saying that he's worried that he won't have the best and brightest rocket scientists for SpaceX!
Posted by: ballistic

He can fucking well open his own higher education institute and train up Americans to do then.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 30, 2026 05:46 PM (QVmho)

46 33 I'd rather have 10,000 cannibals from uncontacted Indonesian tribes relocated to my hood than muslims.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 30, 2026 05:45 PM (6GZK/)
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It would be much more entertaining if the cannibals were relocated to places like Dearborn or Hamtramck.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 05:46 PM (3BwY8)

47 Let's get rid of those that are already here.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 05:39 PM (/QHx4)
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I think a lot of migrants are waiting to see if the Dems can win back Congress before leaving. If they fail, the flood will begin.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 05:47 PM (ZOv7s)

48 >Boers > Muslims

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 05:40 PM (/OKHJ)

Boars > Muslims
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:40 PM (l3cgK)

boors > muslims

Sorry. The answer is 'Moops'.

Posted by: George Costanza at September 30, 2026 05:47 PM (vNne8)

49 Praise Allah for President Trump !!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at September 30, 2026 05:47 PM (r564k)

50 Apropos to the numerical theme of this post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeolH-kzx4c

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 05:47 PM (0sNs1)

51 Eh, a person can theoretically get a tourist visa, board a plane from anywhere there's a direct flight, land here, and turn themselves over to immigration to make an asylum claim as well.
Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 05:45 PM

They would have to have avoided all "safe" countries along the way.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 05:47 PM (4NO2D)

52 Dear ICE,

Please do a careful check of every roofing and lawn business in the USA. They are still here.

I know the lawn people don't speak English which seems to be a clue.

Thanks.
Sincerely,
ChristyB

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 05:47 PM (hzuYO)

53 He can fucking well open his own higher education institute and train up Americans to do then.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 30, 2026 05:46 PM (QVmho)
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I need Ben Roethisberger to show up here but the joke is that the muslim immigrants are fucking retarded, not that Elon wants them here.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 05:47 PM (3BwY8)

54 Libertardians and Communists both want old borders and both know it will lead to the same result.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 30, 2026 05:48 PM (f0sNM)

55 Sharif don’t like it.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at September 30, 2026 05:48 PM (X3rKN)

56 These yahoos don't deserve to use the name "Cato"
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 30, 2026 05:46 PM (vJrRc)
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It's not Cato the Elder, it's the other Cato, Inspector Clouseau's houseboy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 05:48 PM (ZOv7s)

57 First they came for the Somalis and I said make sure you get all the Somalis.

Posted by: Knee Mauler at September 30, 2026 05:48 PM (2Ez/1)

58 They would have to have avoided all "safe" countries along the way.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 05:47 PM (4NO2D)
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Yes, there are direct, nonstop flights from South Africa to the United States.
Direct Flight Routes & Airlines
• Delta Air Lines: Flies nonstop from Johannesburg (JNB) to Atlanta (ATL).
• United Airlines: Flies nonstop from Johannesburg (JNB) and Cape Town (CPT) to New York/Newark (EWR), as well as Washington Dulles (IAD).

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 05:48 PM (3BwY8)

59 He can fucking well open his own higher education institute and train up Americans to do then.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 30, 2026 05:46 PM

Just where is the Texas Institute of Technology and Science anyway?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 05:49 PM (0sNs1)

60 Sharif don’t like it.

Hey, where da white wimmen at?

Posted by: Sharif Bart at September 30, 2026 05:49 PM (guGkK)

61 Michael Malice did an episode with 'Hoe_math' that posted this morning.

It's good stuff.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 05:49 PM (vNne8)

62 21 How many cancer cures will go undiscovered because our doors were shut against muslim geniuses? How many Steve Jobs will never realize their visions in America?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 05:41 PM (guGkK)
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Elon Musk just texted me saying that he's worried that he won't have the best and brightest rocket scientists for SpaceX!

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 05:43 PM (3BwY

Well, they're good with explosives...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:49 PM (l3cgK)

63 33 I'd rather have 10,000 cannibals from uncontacted Indonesian tribes relocated to my hood than muslims.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 30, 2026 05:45 PM (6GZK/)

They'll keep the streets clean...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:50 PM (l3cgK)

64 Yes, there are direct, nonstop flights from South Africa to the United States.
Direct Flight Routes & Airlines
• Delta Air Lines: Flies nonstop from Johannesburg (JNB) to Atlanta (ATL).
• United Airlines: Flies nonstop from Johannesburg (JNB) and Cape Town (CPT) to New York/Newark (EWR), as well as Washington Dulles (IAD).
Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 05:48 PM

That would explain why we are being overrun by South Africans.

/snark

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 05:50 PM (4NO2D)

65 “If you make legal immigration impossible, don’t complain about illegal immigration. You created it. You made it illegal.”

This is like arguing that "bitches make rape inevitable by being so stingy with the pussy."

The correct rebuttal is to hit Bier's in the face with a lead pipe until the only sound coming from his filthy bought-and-paid-for cockport is squealing.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 30, 2026 05:50 PM (6GZK/)

66 It's not Cato the Elder, or Cato the Younger, it's the other Cato, Inspector Clouseau's houseboy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 05:48 PM

Suggested edit for accuracy.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 05:50 PM (0sNs1)

67 Elon Musk just texted me saying that he's worried that he won't have the best and brightest rocket scientists for SpaceX!

You know who else wanted the best rocket scientists?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 05:50 PM (guGkK)

68 I wish one of the Republicans on the panel had said to Biers "one American citizen being killed by an illegal is too many. The rest of your argument is irrelevant"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 05:51 PM (jivel)

69 I would love an immigration system that supplied Korean engineers, German mechanics and Brazilian underwear models. But for some reason our political class wants us to have Salvadoran gang bangers and Somalian welfare cheats.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 30, 2026 05:51 PM (f0sNM)

70 Cato the Oriental.

Posted by: Bald Headed John at September 30, 2026 05:51 PM (MWfyi)

71 Cato was a dick.

Posted by: Caesar at September 30, 2026 05:51 PM (2Xqig)

72 I love that moose-limb immigration has dropped so dramatically. And yet, some five years removed from 9-11, Fort Collins had a mosk.

Beware the Beast. Stay off the Moors.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at September 30, 2026 05:51 PM (0aYVJ)

73 You know who else wanted the best rocket scientists?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 05:50 PM

Eisenhower?

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 05:52 PM (4NO2D)

74 I might be wrong but I don't think the Cubans that make it here would be voting for communism.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 05:52 PM (QwZKw)

75 And if we legalized murder, it wouldn't be a crime anymore.

Lindsey Clancy's good with that!

Posted by: DanMa'am at September 30, 2026 05:52 PM (8uzBS)

76 Do these CATO people hear themselves? If you say murder is no longer illegal, then murder becomes legal. If you say retail theft is no longer illegal, then shoplifting becomes legal. Are they crazy, or just bone-stupid?

Posted by: RebeccaH at September 30, 2026 05:52 PM (VFung)

77 @67 Operation Paperclip

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 05:53 PM (jivel)

78 Don't want no more snakes in my backyard.

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2026 05:53 PM (LHPAg)

79
But you still like us, right?
Posted by: Camel Spiders

Nah, brush. All y'all need the flamesthrower experience.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 30, 2026 05:53 PM (QVmho)

80 I want a moratorium on ALL immigration now and for the next 30 years. If we need some specific Noble Prize winner, we can make them a citizen by Act of Congress.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 05:53 PM (4NO2D)

81 Elon Musk just texted me saying that he's worried that he won't have the best and brightest rocket scientists for SpaceX!

Yeah right, go hire from ISRO, the group that has the most expensive cost per kilogram to boost.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 05:53 PM (/TiS1)

82
But... but... cultural enrichment!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 05:53 PM (eRlcH)

83 78 Don't want no more snakes in my backyard.

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2026 05:53 PM (LHPAg)

You, good Sir, need an Irish Miracle!

Posted by: St. Patrick at September 30, 2026 05:54 PM (l3cgK)

84 >>CATO's position is that by limiting immigration and enforcing borders,

CATO's position is the cuck chair as some invader satisfies his wife.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 05:54 PM (b//Sn)

85 For those who asked, Part VII of my series on China invading Taiwan is finally up at ahlloyd.com. This is about establishing a beachhead. This is an open-ended project and I may take a break because a growing percentage of my traffic is coming from the PRC. As it: the volume has gone up by a factor of 4. Someone's very interested!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 05:54 PM (ZOv7s)

86 I'm just surprised that there is not one reference to "Darth Fonzie" in the post or the comments.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 05:55 PM (dIske)

87 Bruce Lee's Kato > Cato Institute

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 05:55 PM (jivel)

88 My favorite Cato-spain is how immigrants (illegals) consume less rates of welfare than native-born Americans.

Which numbers they arrived at by counting Social Security and Medicare as "welfare."

They still stand by that "stat."

They need added as a fourth, more worse, to the "there's liars, damned liars and statistics" quote.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 05:55 PM (3cUTc)

89 I VOTED for this!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 05:55 PM (RIvkX)

90 I think some are missing ballistic's joke.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 05:56 PM (QwZKw)

91 Do these CATO people hear themselves? If you say murder is no longer illegal, then murder becomes legal. If you say retail theft is no longer illegal, then shoplifting becomes legal. Are they crazy, or just bone-stupid?
Posted by: RebeccaH at September 30, 2026 05:52 PM (VFung)
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The correct answer is: "yes." Libertarians want policies to be driven by self-interest and devoid of any moral component. It's all about maximizing value, which is why the True Believers are fine with debt slavery and imagine that if the government was just taken away, they could achieve their dream of an estate policed by mercenaries while the trade in children and do all the drugs.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 05:57 PM (ZOv7s)

92 75 And if we legalized murder, it wouldn't be a crime anymore.

Lindsey Clancy's good with that!
Posted by: DanMa'am at September 30, 2026 05:52 PM (8uzBS)
_________________________

Want to see Lindsey Clancy's next trial get scheduled, and done in record time, with the result being "life in prison?"

Start an internet rumor that she voted for Trump in 2024. Her defense attorney can't shut it down. He's under a gag order.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 05:57 PM (dIske)

93 Sharif don’t like it.
Posted by: Dirac_Delta
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He can go straight to hell, boy.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 30, 2026 05:58 PM (JzUSu)

94
That final graph is kinda weird.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 05:58 PM (mmrXZ)

95 We were the industrial Arsenal of Freedom and won a two front world war with a population of 133 million people. We don't need any immigration.

Country's full. Moose out front should have told ya.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 05:58 PM (4NO2D)

96 This is a good thing.

Now to inoculate the nation against the invasion machine(which includes H1-B visas) being restarted if the dems regain power. How can we do that? Perhaps we get Congress off of its collective ass and pass a few laws that cement the limits with a trigger for impeachment if not met?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 30, 2026 05:59 PM (T5g+F)

97 It's not Cato the Elder, or Cato the Younger, it's the other Cato, Inspector Clouseau's houseboy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 05:48 PM

Suggested edit for accuracy.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 05:50 PM (0sNs1)
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Of course, instead of launching surprise attacks to test your reflexes, CATO institute lets foreign men launch surprise attacks on their wives.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 05:59 PM (ZOv7s)

98 Elon Musk just texted me saying that he's worried that he won't have the best and brightest rocket scientists for SpaceX!

Yep, you want those aerospace engineers from India that wrote the software for Boeing's 737MAX Crashmaster.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 06:00 PM (xE0sV)

99 But you still like us, right?
Posted by: Camel Spiders

Nah, brush. All y'all need the flamesthrower experience.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 30, 2026 05:53 PM (QVmho)
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At least a SAW.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 06:00 PM (X7pZH)

100 I freaking hate Trump. Why is he allowing that 4% to come in still? I'm voting for dems this cycle

/retards in comment sections everywhere.

On a serious note, I would be all kinds of ok if we cut off the 4% as well ...

Posted by: Seagrams and sprite at September 30, 2026 06:00 PM (Iwv3U)

101 The Paolo, he does the jobs Americans won't do.

Posted by: The Paolo at September 30, 2026 06:00 PM (ZOv7s)

102 ...with a trigger for impeachment if not met?

Different kind of trigger is required

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 06:01 PM (xE0sV)

103 They belong in a Muslim cy

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 06:01 PM (4KUe5)

104 Yes. THIS is what I voted for. Trump!!!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:01 PM (wzUl9)

105 Drive down workers' pay so that corporations can pay people third-world wages in America and make a fortune.
_-_

Aye, that's their goal alright.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 30, 2026 06:02 PM (T5g+F)

106 They would have to have avoided all "safe" countries along the way.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 05:47 PM (4NO2D)

The United States is the only safe country in the world for People of Diversity. It's also a hateful place in which everyone who isn't a straight, white, Christian, male is routinely gunned down in the streets by the police. And the police should be the only ones allowed to have firearms.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 06:02 PM (ExV1e)

107
I'd pay good money for someone to hand those stats to that volatile, white-hating mayor of Dearborn so I could watch him blow his stack. If Dems take the White House in 2028, I bet that guy would be in the Oval Office once a week, like Trumka during the Obama admin.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 06:02 PM (mmrXZ)

108 Hey CATO, you dumb shits, how many of the 4% that were allowed in are military-ages males?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2026 06:02 PM (2WIwB)

109 Not seeing the problem.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 06:02 PM (vE0+H)

110 " I think some are missing ballistic's joke.
Posted by: Ben Had"

Aw shoot, he's right on target.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:02 PM (MWfyi)

111 ...of course, the muslims who ARE here are breeding like fucking rabbits.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 06:03 PM (vNne8)

112 Cato is overwhelmingly staffed by the demographic that Muslims like to throw off of roofs.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at September 30, 2026 06:03 PM (5IFb9)

113 96% down. 4% to go. Then we need some mass deportations of the illegals and aliens (as in, alien to the spirit of America) already here. How about -100%?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:03 PM (wzUl9)

114 You know who else wanted the best rocket scientists?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 05:50 PM (guGkK)

Jeff Bezos, shopkeeper?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 06:03 PM (ExV1e)

115 Cato the Elder or Cato the Younger?

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 06:04 PM (Oy/m2)

116 88 My favorite Cato-spain is how immigrants (illegals) consume less rates of welfare than native-born Americans.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

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It's even worse - they then bring in their families, including many who will never learn language and never work. Sure, one indian might not be on welfare, but in 10 years there are 5 or more people brought in under his sponsorship and they are all wards of the state.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 06:04 PM (b//Sn)

117 A dirty secret about Refugees claiming asuylum because they were at risk - it's believed that 80% - 90% of all asylum claims are fake. IOW, yes they want to come here, no they aren't some secret agent being chased by an evil government or something.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 06:04 PM (ioK7j)

118
Boeing's 737MAX Crashmaster.
Posted by: Community Notes

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I think this will rank with the Ford F250 Earthfucker (did I get that name right?)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 06:04 PM (mmrXZ)

119 Drive down workers' pay so that corporations can pay people third-world wages in America and make a fortune.
_-_

Aye, that's their goal alright.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 30, 2026 06:02 PM (T5g+F)
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That was the argument for outsourcing: American workers are overpaid. The didn't want to close all the plants, but the Iron Law of Limitless Greed made them do it. They were powerless against it.

And then Trump reminded them that tariffs exist for a reason. That's why they hate him.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:04 PM (ZOv7s)

120 CATO delinda est.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2026 06:05 PM (nEUC6)

121 fd, did you see the GS that needed a home?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 06:05 PM (QwZKw)

122 Never had much truck with any of the CATOs. Cato the elder, the younger, nor the group.

One dude encouraged the destruction of Carthage after they had been defeated, One was a drunken scold troll who accomplished little.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 06:05 PM (uhVAy)

123 115 Cato the Elder or Cato the Younger?

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 06:04 PM (Oy/m2)

Kato Kalin

Posted by: St. Patrick at September 30, 2026 06:05 PM (l3cgK)

124 off saintly sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:06 PM (l3cgK)

125 I think Stephen Miller had a big hand in this.

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 06:07 PM (kX27y)

126 A dirty secret about Refugees claiming asuylum because they were at risk - it's believed that 80% - 90% of all asylum claims are fake. IOW, yes they want to come here, no they aren't some secret agent being chased by an evil government or something.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 06:04 PM (ioK7j)
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That's why Trump has been doing third-country deportation and SCOTUS lifted the injunction. That circumvents the "fear of harm" argument.

"Oh, can't go back to Venezuela? Well, plenty of room in Liberia!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:07 PM (ZOv7s)

127 Cato the Elder or Cato the Younger?
Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026

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It was the Elder, I believe, who ended every speech on any topic with, "And furthermore, Carthage must be destroyed." Trump could take a page from his book.

"We've created the biggest and best economy in the world. And furthermore, illegal immigration to this country must cease. I thank you."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:07 PM (wzUl9)

128 A lot of South Africa's problems were the Indian and Irish migrants that moved there and lived in cities and did not understand what ending apartheid meant. And besides, they have other passports for when TSHTF.

So I am surprised Musk does not get it.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 06:07 PM (b//Sn)

129 And if we legalized murder, it wouldn't be a crime anymore.

Lindsey Clancy's good with that!
Posted by: DanMa'am at September 30, 2026 05:52 PM (8uzBS)

I was going to make a joke but it would have been tasteless and crass and that's not who we are.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 06:07 PM (ExV1e)

130 A dirty secret about Refugees claiming asuylum because they were at risk - it's believed that 80% - 90% of all asylum claims are fake. IOW, yes they want to come here, no they aren't some secret agent being chased by an evil government or something.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 06:04 PM (ioK7j)

Also by international law asylum seekers must wait in the first neighbor country to apply to be here. So unless you are Canadian or Mexican, you are not supposed to be here at all to seek asylum.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 06:08 PM (uhVAy)

131 Why don't Muslims go to one of 50+ Muslim countries instead of only wanting to go to Western nations? I am at a loss for words. There has to be some reason, right?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at September 30, 2026 06:08 PM (Uvvcx)

132 Yeah, “refugee” status is totally gamed.
Almost all have been coached by an NGO to provide a fake reason for being a refugee.
Under Trump, pretty much all refugees have been rejected except South Africans.

#winning

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 06:09 PM (4KUe5)

133 Cato … my little yellow friend

Posted by: Inspector Cleuseau at September 30, 2026 06:09 PM (oQgKT)

134 Left Coast Dawg, How are ya!?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 06:10 PM (QwZKw)

135 The reason is conquest.
That’s it.
A lot admit it.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 06:10 PM (4KUe5)

136 Cato the Elder or Cato the Younger?
Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026

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It was the Elder, I believe, who ended every speech on any topic with, "And furthermore, Carthage must be destroyed." Trump could take a page from his book.

"We've created the biggest and best economy in the world. And furthermore, illegal immigration to this country must cease. I thank you."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:07 PM (wzUl9)

Carthage at that time was a defeated, disarmed nation under Rome's protection. Cato was an ass.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 06:10 PM (uhVAy)

137 131 Why don't Muslims go to one of 50+ Muslim countries instead of only wanting to go to Western nations? I am at a loss for words. There has to be some reason, right?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at September 30, 2026 06:08 PM (Uvvcx)
Caliphate, my brother.

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2026 06:11 PM (LHPAg)

138 80% - 90% of all asylum claims are fake. IOW, yes they want to come here, no they aren't some secret agent being chased by an evil government or something.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Just to clarify -- it is closer to 99%. There are VERY few who are actually at risk, as anyone really at risk can not leave. And NO ONE has a right to skip other safe countries.

That means 99,999% are *economic* migrants.
We have UN treaty obligation to accept real asylum candidates, but not if they skip countries. We have no legal or moral obligation to accept economic migrants.
Further, even a working, tax paying, migrant is STEALING a job or opportunity from a citizen so there IS a moral obligation to exclude them.

OK, so it's a transaction. But then they just want benefits. Now it is not just immoral, but theft. The world has turned upside down.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 06:12 PM (b//Sn)

139 Dearborne is now the 3,234 holiest sight in Islam.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 06:12 PM (QwZKw)

140 Why don't Muslims go to one of 50+ Muslim countries instead of only wanting to go to Western nations?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at September 30, 2026 06:08 PM

Yeah, the British Caliphate is wide open. They should go there.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 06:13 PM (4NO2D)

141 I think this will rank with the Ford F250 Earthfucker (did I get that name right?)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 06:04 PM (mmrXZ)

The F250 is the ladies version, comes in pink. The Earthrumpler. The men's version is the F-950 Earthfucker.

Posted by: Ben Rothelisberger at September 30, 2026 06:13 PM (zZu0s)

142 Down 96% you say?

Well, I suppose that's a start. We're still not down 100% so there's clearly work to do.

Posted by: Crusader at September 30, 2026 06:13 PM (TN0g+)

143 Why don't Muslims go to one of 50+ Muslim countries instead of only wanting to go to Western nations?

Strip clubs.

Posted by: t-bird at September 30, 2026 06:14 PM (7kply)

144 Also by international law asylum seekers must wait in the first neighbor country to apply to be here. So unless you are Canadian or Mexican, you are not supposed to be here at all to seek asylum.
Posted by: Oldcat
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This is why, until obama, border crossers were classified at "Mexican" or "OTM" (other than mexican) as the OTM had no right to seek asylum.

shit for brains removed that distinction. Then Trump tried to return it with Remain in Mexico, but then shit for brains II ended that too.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 06:15 PM (b//Sn)

145 Carthage at that time was a defeated, disarmed nation under Rome's protection. Cato was an ass.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 06:10 PM (uhVAy)
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Later historians condemned him because the destruction of Carthage left Rome unopposed in the Western Med and opened the pathway to decadence. The flood of slaves also destroyed the freeholders of Italy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:15 PM (ZOv7s)

146 Why don't Muslims go to one of 50+ Muslim countries instead of only wanting to go to Western nations?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg
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Mostly? Money.

Also conquest, white women, housing, status....

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 06:16 PM (b//Sn)

147 I would be for throwing them all out, Islam is against the US Constitution

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 06:16 PM (Ia/+0)

148 Carthage at that time was a defeated, disarmed nation under Rome's protection. Cato was an ass.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 06:10 PM (uhVAy)

Hannibal, in many many ways, was t he worst thing that could have ever happened to Carthage. Sure, he defeated the Romans many times and slaughtered tens of thousands. But thats just it: he could not close the deal. So he pissed off the exact wrong people and gave them many, many reasons to want to fuck Carthage in the skull. The population of Rome dropped by something like 17% during the second Punic War. Entire families were wiped out.

Retard. And most in Carthage did not even want the war. They wanted to make money.

Posted by: Ben Rothelisberger at September 30, 2026 06:16 PM (zZu0s)

149 I voted for this!!!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 06:17 PM (CtuYK)

150 /off sock

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 06:18 PM (zZu0s)

151 Are they crazy, or just bone-stupid?
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The correct answer is "Yes".

Posted by: Crusader at September 30, 2026 06:18 PM (TN0g+)

152 CATO is what happens when the undisciplined brain eats itself. There are no fully legal libertarian think tanks in Muslim countries or even in England but I repeat myself.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at September 30, 2026 06:18 PM (NKrMi)

153 Carthage at that time was a defeated, disarmed nation under Rome's protection. Cato was an ass.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Nevertheless, I still say Canada must be destroyed.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 30, 2026 06:18 PM (JzUSu)

154 ***Reduced Muslim Refugee Immigration by 96%!
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I voted for that.

And more.

Four % more, then deportations.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 06:19 PM (ShznQ)

155 deport

deport

deport

deport the fucking lot

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2026 06:19 PM (+fdRY)

156 Cbc crow news!

An animal welfare group has been administering nasal naloxone to crows that are suspected to have eaten toxic drugs left accessible outside in downtown Prince George, B.C.

The Good Caws Crow Rescue Society (GCCRS) has posted multiple videos showing their volunteers giving nasal naloxone to crows that are otherwise unresponsive

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 30, 2026 06:20 PM (Sco7b)

157 Srsly, the Somalis claim Minnesota is their promised land. The are the rightful heirs to the land, not the Americans who’ve lived there for centuries.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 06:20 PM (4KUe5)

158 Retard. And most in Carthage did not even want the war. They wanted to make money.
Posted by: Ben Rothelisberger at September 30, 2026 06:16 PM (zZu0s)
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Hannibal saw a Thucydides Trap coming. Rome was consolidating power in Italy and spreading into Gaul. It was also now a seapower, with far greater resources. The idea was to break into Italy and convince allied cities to switch to Carthage and return Rome to a regional (land-oriented) power.

It was a reasonable plan, and he blasted through Roman armies with amazing success. Based on what he knew, it might have worked.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:21 PM (ZOv7s)

159 Fuck 'em. Make it uncomfortable enough they self deport.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 06:21 PM (QwZKw)

160 Nevertheless, I still say Canada must be destroyed.

But it's the geographical center of the US!

Posted by: t-bird at September 30, 2026 06:21 PM (7kply)

161
This is the sort of news that animates Melat Kiros, that 29-year-old Ph.D. student who is going to take a Colorado Congressional seat. I hope she spends her first term seething like a pressure cooker. She literally told an interviewer that we shitty Americans need to do better and be better, and the people who will help us with it is brown immigrants.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 06:21 PM (mmrXZ)

162 Mis Hum's ONT on Monday had a Paul Joseph Watson video that was must watch.

He talked about the women working at migrant reception centers all fucking migrants. It was something I had not heard about, but it is a real pattern.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 06:21 PM (b//Sn)

163 151 Are they crazy, or just bone-stupid?
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Here. Take a pull of this and you'll begin to understand.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 06:21 PM (ShznQ)

164 Srsly, the Somalis claim Minnesota is their promised land. The are the rightful heirs to the land, not the Americans who’ve lived there for centuries.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 06:20 PM (4KUe5)

Since they've been here, they've been, basically, immune to our laws while being showered with tens of millions of dollars for nothing. Are you sure they're wrong about it being the promised land?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 06:22 PM (ExV1e)

165 90 I think some are missing ballistic's joke.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 05:56 PM (QwZKw)
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Yeah, just a couple. Lol.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 06:22 PM (oqH4h)

166 The hero pilot in the jihadi plane incident is a jeet. I didn't expect that but am glad.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 30, 2026 06:22 PM (l26NL)

167 It was a reasonable plan, and he blasted through Roman armies with amazing success. Based on what he knew, it might have worked.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:21 PM (ZOv7s)

He let his hatred blind him. The cities of Italy had already gotten rolled by Rome once. Plus Rome actually defended them tooth and nail. They knew what would happen if they flipped (something like three cities did during the Second punic war) and Rome DIDNT lose. It did not go well for them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 06:23 PM (zZu0s)

168 Srsly, the Somalis claim Minnesota is their promised land. The are the rightful heirs to the land, not the Americans who’ve lived there for centuries.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026

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Oh, yes, the Somali tradition of sleighs and snowball fights that goes back to time immemorial!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:23 PM (wzUl9)

169 More good economic news: the Atlanta Fed "GDPNow" reading for the 3rd quarter is 3.7%, with the official BEA numbers not due until the end of October, right before election day.

The number would be considerably higher but for all the chip imports for AI. Oil imports from Venezuela may also be a factor, since our refineries are where the increased oil flow from that country go.

All in all, an excellent economy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 06:23 PM (tAo8j)

170
Mis Hum's ONT on Monday had a Paul Joseph Watson video that was must watch.

He talked about the women working at migrant reception centers all fucking migrants. It was something I had not heard about, but it is a real pattern.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)

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I'm gonna take a look. It's the same with welfare offices too, I'm sure. I wonder if they break laws to favor migrants? Do you think Hodan rubber-stamps welfare applications from Hibo, Sahra, and Fadumo?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 06:24 PM (mmrXZ)

171 He talked about the women working at migrant reception centers all fucking migrants. It was something I had not heard about, but it is a real pattern.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 06:21 PM (b//Sn)
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They adopt a "pet" migrant, who moves in with them, and is also dependent because he doesn't speak the language and has a sub-average IQ, but eventually she goes into Karen mode he flies into a rage and that's the end of that.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:24 PM (ZOv7s)

172 64 Yes, there are direct, nonstop flights from South Africa to the United States.
Direct Flight Routes & Airlines
• Delta Air Lines: Flies nonstop from Johannesburg (JNB) to Atlanta (ATL).
• United Airlines: Flies nonstop from Johannesburg (JNB) and Cape Town (CPT) to New York/Newark (EWR), as well as Washington Dulles (IAD).
Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 05:48 PM

That would explain why we are being overrun by South Africans.

/snark
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 05:50 PM (4NO2D)
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So how about that claim that the only asylum seekers we see should be from Canada or Mexico, hoss?

If you missed it, I'm saying that a white south african being chased out of his home by marauders could fly directly here and apply for asylum, being the first safe country he touches.

Save your snark for when you're not getting clowned on.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 06:24 PM (oqH4h)

173 >>> 148 Carthage at that time was a defeated, disarmed nation under Rome's protection. Cato was an ass.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 06:10 PM (uhVAy)

Hannibal, in many many ways, was t he worst thing that could have ever happened to Carthage. Sure, he defeated the Romans many times and slaughtered tens of thousands. But thats just it: he could not close the deal. So he pissed off the exact wrong people and gave them many, many reasons to want to fuck Carthage in the skull. The population of Rome dropped by something like 17% during the second Punic War. Entire families were wiped out.

Retard. And most in Carthage did not even want the war. They wanted to make money.
Posted by: Ben Rothelisberger at September 30, 2026 06:16 PM (zZu0s)

Best sock fail in a long time.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2026 06:24 PM (+fdRY)

174 157 , the Somalis claim Minnesota is their promised land. The are the rightful heirs to the land, not the Americans who’ve lived there for centuries.

Posted by: Lizz
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I got a promise for them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 06:25 PM (JS6jE)

175 Now the Democrats and the media (BIRM) are going to have to come out in favor of mosquitoes and ticks.

Trump bans mosquitoes and ticks by executive order

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 06:25 PM (ndZc7)

176 Ugh, that’s gross that NGO AWFLS sleep with refugees. No wonder they believe they deserve sex with any woman in their new country.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 06:26 PM (4KUe5)

177 >>>It was a reasonable plan, and he blasted through Roman armies with amazing success. Based on what he knew, it might have worked.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:21 PM (ZOv7s)

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Great. Now I’m going to have to go back and re-watch Oversimplified so I know what people are talking about.

Posted by: Turn 2 at September 30, 2026 06:26 PM (QFchU)

178 >>> 166 The hero pilot in the jihadi plane incident is a jeet. I didn't expect that but am glad.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 30, 2026 06:22 PM (l26NL)

Ghurka?

Although my understanding is that Hindus in general are not terribly fond of muzzies.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2026 06:27 PM (+fdRY)

179 Why was Cato the Houseboy later spelled Kato the Houseboy.

Posted by: Billy the Housepest at September 30, 2026 06:27 PM (Fn+3X)

180 166 The hero pilot in the jihadi plane incident is a jeet. I didn't expect that but am glad.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly
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Some Indians won't touch physical work others put their shoulder to it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 06:27 PM (JS6jE)

181 He let his hatred blind him. The cities of Italy had already gotten rolled by Rome once. Plus Rome actually defended them tooth and nail. They knew what would happen if they flipped (something like three cities did during the Second punic war) and Rome DIDNT lose. It did not go well for them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 06:23 PM (zZu0s)
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It's easy to say all that after the fact, but Roman allies did rebel from time to time, and there was the Social War when a bunch of the allies tried to quit at once.

The thing is that the alternative was to wait passively until the legions rolled up in overwhelming strength, which they would eventually have done, because Rome gotta Rome.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:27 PM (ZOv7s)

182 It was a reasonable plan, and he blasted through Roman armies with amazing success. Based on what he knew, it might have worked.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:21 PM (ZOv7s)

Until someone realized that the Roman army should never attack Hannibal out in the open. It was better to harass Hannibal troops from behind or something like that.

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 06:28 PM (Oy/m2)

183 >>Best sock fail in a long time.

It is. If only it was in All Caps

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 06:28 PM (vNne8)

184
I don't have much hope for France.
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Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 06:28 PM (kX27y)

185 142 Down 96% you say?

Well, I suppose that's a start. We're still not down 100% so there's clearly work to do.

Posted by: Crusader at September 30, 2026 06:13 PM (TN0g+)

I'd be happy with election integrity at 96%...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:28 PM (l3cgK)

186 Why was Cato the Houseboy later spelled Kato the Houseboy.
Posted by: Billy the Housepest at September 30, 2026 06:27 PM (Fn+3X)
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K is less racist than C?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 06:29 PM (kOzmw)

187 176 Ugh, that’s gross that NGO AWFLS sleep with refugees. No wonder they believe they deserve sex with any woman in their new country.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 06:26 PM (4KUe5)
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Yeah it's gross but you gotta understand that all of these do-gooder NGOs and assistance outfits are staffed largely with aging single women with a savior complex, and by golly if letting Mohammed bin Mohammed knock her up so he gets to live out his dream, then she can save him!!!!!

It's either swarthy dick or a life of many cats.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 06:29 PM (oqH4h)

188 The hero pilot in the jihadi plane incident is a jeet. I didn't expect that but am glad.
Posted by: Blutarski
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Powerline has a quote from a military pilot saying the tail should have broken off the plane at the rate it was descending, ie that the 737's construction, at least in that regard, is outstanding.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 30, 2026 06:29 PM (JzUSu)

189 Until someone realized that the Roman army should never attack Hannibal out in the open. It was better to harass Hannibal troops from behind or something like that.
Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026

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"Ahem."
( -- Fabius Cunctator, "The Delayer")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:29 PM (wzUl9)

190 Now the Democrats and the media (BIRM) are going to have to come out in favor of mosquitoes and ticks.

Trump bans mosquitoes and ticks by executive order
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 06:25 PM (ndZc7)
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The Mullahs have endorsed the Dems. Every GOP candidate should do short commercial showing them screaming Death to America and then say "these people have asked you to vote for the Democrats. Why would you?"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:29 PM (ZOv7s)

191 >>BREAKING: 93-year-old Marie-Louise was found dead and covered in blood in her bathroom in Toulouse, France. A 33-year-old Sudanese illegal migrant was found naked and asleep on top of her body when police arrived.

All Raped Out, he was.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 06:29 PM (vNne8)

192 Plus, I am trying to remember exact numbers but the largest army he fielded was 45k when he entered the Alps. He lost something like 15k to desertion and exposure. And while he did wonders with that 30k. He never had enough to break Rome (the city.) He expected all of the cities to flock to him and everyone in the Mediterranean to chip in. They just looked at him and thought 'you cant take the city with that.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 06:30 PM (zZu0s)

193 Inspector Dreyfuss was driven insane by Inspector Clouseau, but Herbert Lom lived to a very ripe old age compared to Peter Sellers. What is the lesson there? Some of you may never die.

Posted by: Insanity Leads To Long Life? at September 30, 2026 06:30 PM (Fn+3X)

194 180 166 The hero pilot in the jihadi plane incident is a jeet. I didn't expect that but am glad.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly
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Some Indians won't touch physical work others put their shoulder to it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 06:27 PM (JS6jE)

That's just how they're caste...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:31 PM (l3cgK)

195 That is horrifying, Garrett.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 06:31 PM (4KUe5)

196
1880's Minnesota immigrants arrived in debt to the banks and railroads and in many cases lived in sod dugouts.

But obviously their decedents owe Somalis money, land acknowledgements a tug on the forelock while they bow.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 06:31 PM (Y8DZL)

197 Carthage at that time was a defeated, disarmed nation under Rome's protection. Cato was an ass.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Nevertheless, I still say Canada must be destroyed.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 30, 2026 06:18 PM (JzUSu)

Canada is an empire, looting the outer provinces for the decadent core area without any care for them, or the future. They bitch about our tariffs while having them for trade between provinces.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 06:32 PM (uhVAy)

198 >>That is horrifying, Garrett.

That's the truth of the matter.

If they hadn't found him, he would have gotten right back to it as soon as he was rested.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 06:32 PM (vNne8)

199 The thing is that the alternative was to wait passively until the legions rolled up in overwhelming strength, which they would eventually have done, because Rome gotta Rome.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:27 PM (ZOv7s)

My point being: his plan depended entirely on his own skill AND other people. That is always a bad bet.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 06:32 PM (zZu0s)

200 CATO Institute witness: “If you make legal immigration impossible, don’t complain about illegal immigration. You created it. You made it illegal.”

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A strawmanchild.

Who's made legal immigration to the USA impossible?

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 06:33 PM (fTvJp)

201 News

Airplane - no mention islam
Cornell U - rape
Storms
Black single Mom of 3 struggling - propaganda piece.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 30, 2026 06:33 PM (Sco7b)

202 I don't have much hope for France.

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 06:28 PM (kX27y)
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You should. Pope Leo's visit shook the French establishment to its core. A million people lined the streets of Paris and priests conducted Confession right on the sidewalk for hours.

The secularists are horrified at the revival and a Muslim activist actually said France will be fully Catholic in 30 years, it's inevitable now.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:33 PM (ZOv7s)

203 Nood, quick hits

Posted by: SciVo at September 30, 2026 06:33 PM (ke3zm)

204 The news in that rape story is that the police showed up.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 06:33 PM (QwZKw)

205 Powerline has a quote from a military pilot saying the tail should have broken off the plane at the rate it was descending, ie that the 737's construction, at least in that regard, is outstanding.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

My tail has been subjected to decades long stress, but is nevertheless intact.

Posted by: Mayor Pete Buttagigg at September 30, 2026 06:33 PM (Fn+3X)

206 I am not surprised

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 06:34 PM (Ia/+0)

207 It's either swarthy dick or a life of many cats.
Posted by: ballistic
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Or dying and being eaten by kitties.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 06:34 PM (E4rtv)

208 What's the headcount on that 4%?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 30, 2026 06:35 PM (bX16E)

209 My point being: his plan depended entirely on his own skill AND other people. That is always a bad bet.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 06:32 PM (zZu0s)
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Show me a leader who doesn't rely on his skill and other people. What else can he rely on? Sometimes the odds are bad, but that's the best play you have, and sometimes it pays off.

Remember, pagans believed very much in fate, and so he may have assumed the gods would be with him, especially if the auguries were good.

Pagans were nuts about auguries. "Nope, liver's not healthy. Can't fight today. Try again tomorrow."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:36 PM (ZOv7s)

210 208 What's the headcount on that 4%?

forty-two!

Posted by: deep thought at September 30, 2026 06:38 PM (v3pYe)

211 Plus, I am trying to remember exact numbers but the largest army he fielded was 45k when he entered the Alps. He lost something like 15k to desertion and exposure. And while he did wonders with that 30k. He never had enough to break Rome (the city.) He expected all of the cities to flock to him and everyone in the Mediterranean to chip in. They just looked at him and thought 'you cant take the city with that.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 06:30 PM (zZu0s)

he incorporated a lot of Gauls in North Italy into his "Africans" and probably some Southern Italians/Greeks while he stayed there for 20 years. But his base wasn't even Carthage really, he was a free agent in the Spanish state his father had started after the first Punic War.

Meanwhile Rome had been building a system that for all its flaws was incorporating Italy into their future on an equal footing. Magistrates in Italian towns could join the Roman Senate. Italian areas could become fully Roman - First Latium, then other districts over time.

Only a few cities joined him, and then he had to watch as Rome over time took them all back from him.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 06:39 PM (uhVAy)

212 Sep 29
🇫🇷🔴 BREAKING: 93-year-old Marie-Louise was found dead and covered in blood in her bathroom in Toulouse, France. A 33-year-old Sudanese illegal migrant was found naked and asleep on top of her body when police arrived.
Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 06:28 PM (kX27y)
Only one way to fix this.

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2026 06:39 PM (LHPAg)

213 Herbert Lom lived to a very ripe old age compared to Peter Sellers. What is the lesson there?
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Cocaine and longevity do not conspire.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 06:40 PM (JS6jE)

214 Pagans were nuts about auguries. "Nope, liver's not healthy. Can't fight today. Try again tomorrow."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 30, 2026 06:36 PM (ZOv7s)

Not one of the old Claudians! When the sacred chickens did not eat before his naval battle, he cried "Then let them drink!" and threw them over the side into the sea.

Of course he lost the battle and his life.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 06:40 PM (uhVAy)

215 Canada is an empire, looting the outer provinces for the decadent core area without any care for them, or the future. They bitch about our tariffs while having them for trade between provinces.

Posted by: Oldcat
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It has slaves in Africa today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 06:41 PM (JS6jE)

216 Until someone realized that the Roman army should never attack Hannibal out in the open. It was better to harass Hannibal troops from behind or something like that.
Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026

***
"Ahem."
( -- Fabius Cunctator, "The Delayer")
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:29 PM (wzUl9)

The other Roman trick was the "Hey, we have 2 consuls and 8 praetors. Lets have more than one army!". So one or two of them would follow Hannibal about, and the rest would go and defeat anyone suspicious, take any towns with unrest, pacify the Gauls in North Italy, and in one famous incident ambush and destroy a new army led by Hannibal's brother into Italy so fast the first news he got was his brother's head being tossed over his encampment wall.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 06:45 PM (uhVAy)

217 "Why don't Muslims go to one of 50+ Muslim countries instead of only wanting to go to Western nations?"

"There aren't any Western countries, just countries not yet fully converted (by force or stampede) to Islam."

Muhammad

Posted by: illiniwek at September 30, 2026 07:24 PM (vbXSk)

218 Hey, Cato. This is what we voted for!

Posted by: Ralph at September 30, 2026 09:32 PM (8WZD4)

219 I haven't paid attention to CATO in years, but the last time I looked,they were also against almost every welfare program, up to and including SS.
How many immigrants of any sort, much less Muslims, would be in a hurry to get here if they knew that they would have to scrabble for a job, or starve?

Posted by: buddhaha at September 30, 2026 10:54 PM (iYF/u)

Jack Smith Obtained the Emails of Hundreds of Republicans and Conservative-Leaning Journalists; Claims He Had to Subpoena the Entire Conservative Movement to Decide If Everyone Should Be Indicted for January 6th

As Julie Kelly and others point out: There is no crime of "blocking the peaceful transfer of power," but this expansive and legally undefined mission justifies, Jack Smith says, subpoenaeing the checks made out to Republican office-holders and mass-spying on conservative media.

Special Counsel Jack Smith's sweeping investigation into President Donald Trump included the financial data of everyday supporters across 50 states who gave as little as $1 to the president and allied groups, new documents reveal.
Smith's team obtained at least 4,782 checks from everyday Americans making mainly small-dollar donations. Smith's sweep -- though ostensibly focused on the events of Jan. 6, 2020 -- hoovered up checks from September 2019 to August 2023.
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The Biden administration wielded the country's most powerful law enforcement tools to spy on Republicans with little concern for whether it violated the Constitution, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley said.
Grassley released the documents as part of an ongoing probe into the investigation the FBI codenamed "Arctic Frost" that formally began in April 2022 into a 2020 fake elector scheme. Arctic Frost and two other FBI investigations -- one relating to January 6 codenamed "Project Coconut" and one related to Mar-a-Lago documents codenamed "Project Cranberry" -- mired Trump's return to the White House and ensnared hundreds of conservative individuals and entities.
Smith testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, where Grassley pressed Smith on the apparent overreach.
"Did you obtain possession of donor data, to include financial information, yes or no?" he asked.
After a pause, Smith said, "our investigation was focused on investigating matters under my mandate including whether any person or entity violated the law with attempts to block the peaceful transfers of power."
"Let me ask the question again. Did your special counsel operation obtain possession of donor data, to include financial information, yes or no?" Grassley pressed.
"Yes we acquired financial information. As I sit here right now I cannot recite to you every subpoena we issued. I can tell you why we issued subpoenas," Smith said. "It was to conduct a criminal investigation into one of the most serious crimes in our nation's history. I had a duty to collect facts."
"You answered yes ... The list includes checks from constituents in every state of every single member of this committee, both Republicans and Democrats," Grassley replied. "Every member on this committee ought to be outraged for what happened to their constituents. Which one of my Democratic colleagues will join me in that outrage?"
Smith did not include any reference to this data in his public report, Grassley pointed out.

He also pawed through the emails of hundreds of journalists.

By the way, he seems to have used as his predicate for the subpoena the partisan head of the National Archives, who shrieked that Trump wouldn't give back his documents.

People are pointing out that the National Archives does not have the power to initiate a criminal investigation. It's not like a referral from Congress. It's just a partisan bureaucrat demanding that Trump Respecc My Authoritah.

Previous congressional disclosures showed investigators obtained records involving members of Congress. The latest records reveal the production also included communications between government officials and journalists working for some of the country's largest news organizations.
The communications appeared in records produced by the National Archives in response to a subpoena seeking material associated with 87 White House phones from Trump's first administration, according to a spokesperson for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, citing whistleblower disclosures made to the chairman.
"What will the partisan media say about this disgraceful government overreach? This wasn't a normal prosecution by any means," Grassley challenged in comments to Fox News Digital on Tuesday, as critics have highlighted the lack of concern or coverage given to Smith's probe by legacy media.

One organization identified Tuesday as having been swept up in the probe was the Media Research Center. Its president, David Bozell, announced in 2025 that "not one single broadcast network aired one solitary second" about Smith's alleged spying on conservative organizations and senators following a tranche of public disclosures.
Fox News is among the organizations whose journalists appear in the records, along with CNN, CBS News -- including its newsmagazine "60 Minutes" -- NBC News and CNBC.
The records also include communications involving journalists from the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, Reuters, the Associated Press and NPR, as well as The Federalist and Washington Times.

GOP Senators say he's a partisan hatchet-man.

He says no, I'm just a straight-shooter who begged Merrick Garland to let me prosecute Trump.

He denies that last part -- or rather, he "cannot recall" asking Merrick Garland for the job of Biden's Lawfare Attack Dog.

Former special counsel Jack Smith's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday laid bare lingering divides over President Donald Trump's efforts to challenge the 2020 presidential election and the Biden administration's investigation of him.

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To be sure, Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made a handful of revelations, including about Smith's securing of communications between the media and government sources. He also highlighted Smith's subpoena of roughly 5,000 checks from small-donor contributors to Republicans.
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After the hearing, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., told the "John Solomon Reports" podcast that she believed Smith's investigation was politically motivated, calling it a "witch hunt."
"It wasn't about law and order. It was about political retribution and making people pay, making them suffer, building this file, and it is going to be imperative that Jack Smith be held to account for what he did, because we never ever want this to happen to another American," she said.
During the hearing, Grassley pointed to Smith's investigative activities and pressed him on the basis for securing certain information.
"[Y]ou obtained at least 4,782 donor checks. Many of those checks were $5 to $10," Grassley said. "The list includes checks from constituents in every state of every single member of this committee, both Republicans and Democrats. It included 42 checks from Iowans who dared to donate money to Republicans. No matter what you say, there is no legitimate basis for what you did."

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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., often known for his boisterous and folksy commentary in Senate hearings, pointedly told Smith that "[y]ou make me want to throw up in my mouth" after Smith insisted he acted in a non-partisan manner.
Kennedy's line of questioning had addressed the role of Attorney General Merrick Garland in the probe.
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Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, primarily dealt with Smith's appointment and reasons for ending the case. He specifically highlighted the concerns about partisanship that stemmed from the Biden administration investigating an active political opponent.
"Are you aware of whether this has ever happened before in the 250-year history of the United States of America, where an incumbent president, attorney general, appoints a special counsel to investigate his or her political opponent. Has that ever happened before?" he asked.
Smith could not identify a comparable instance.
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Despite that claim to follow DOJ policy, yesterday Just the News reported that Smith -- contrary to DOJ policy -- kept evidence on Trump after the cases were shut down. Normally, DOJ rules require the disposal or return of seized evidence once a criminal case is closed or dismissed, provided the evidence is no longer needed for official purposes.
Early in the afternoon, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., took the most aggressive line of questioning, pressing Smith on his decision to pursue lawmakers' phone records. But he also outright accused Smith of waging a political investigation intended to stop Trump from returning to the White House.
"Mr. Smith, I have to start by saying I think that maybe I underestimated you. I underestimated, in particular, your comedic talent," Hawley said. "I've been watching this whole hearing. I've watched everything you said. I noticed that you began by saying, 'I have no partisan loyalty,' and you repeated over and over and over, there's nothing in your investigation about politics. That's hilarious."
Echoing the Republicans' party line, Hawley said "In fact, your investigation was all about politics from day one. Your investigation, so-called, your prosecution, so-called, was nothing other than an attempt to interfere politically in a presidential election in the United States of America."

Julie Kelly claims that Jack Smith was actually considering indicting the entirety of the conservative movement:

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
6h
As I have said repeatedly--and Jack Smith confirmed here--Arctic Frost would have made the Jan 6 investigation look like a cakewalk.
Smith was preparing to indict hundreds of GOP lawmakers, WH officials, MAGA-associated groups, influencers, and the president himself (again)--and perhaps even media organizations--under Arctic Frost.
There is no federal crime related to "blocking the peaceful transfer of power"--which by the way, Jack Smith, happens on January 20, not January 6.
But Smith and his team undoubtedly were collecting evidence to bring more conspiracy and obstruction charges against these individuals and groups.
But by the end of 2023, Smith ran up against two potential SCOTUS roadblocks: the presidential immunity question out of the J6 case in Washington AND the Fischer decision related to the lawful use of the 1512(c)2 obstruction statute in Jan 6 cases.
The latter decision, issued in June 2024, handed a blow to Smith's effort to criminalize free speech and political activity. SCOTUS held that the post-Enron corporate fraud statute required some evidence of document tampering/destruction. That's not, however, how the Biden DOJ applied the statute in 300+ cases--so those charges/convictions were systematically tossed.
So, Smith essentially lost the ability to use 1512--which represented 2 of 4 counts in his J6 indictment against Trump and would not have survived a Fischer-like challenge before SCOTUS again--in potential Arctic Frost prosecutions.
Even though Smith probably believed the "fake electors" certificates would have met the documents threshold. (Doubtful)
But he likely planned to use the conspiracy against rights charge he brought against Trump to these targets.

Kelly rejects the idea that Smith was invading conservatives' emails and financial records to "spy on" them.

No, she says: He was gathering evidence for a mass-indictment.

Lawmakers and WH officials and journalists were not being "spied on" or even considered potential witnesses.
They were under investigation by this scumbag, his henchmen in special counsel office, and his puppet masters in the Biden DOJ and White House.
Don't lose sight of this--and what the country avoided with Trump's win in 2024.

As I have said repeatedly—and Jack Smith confirmed here—Arctic Frost would have made the Jan 6 investigation look like a cakewalk.

Smith was preparing to indict hundreds of GOP lawmakers, WH officials, MAGA-associated groups, influencers, and the president himself (again)—and…
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) September 30, 2026

Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker

This may be the most uncomfortable moment in the entire Jack Smith hearing.
It's when Sen. Kennedy confronted him about an accusation that Smith had actually asked Garland for the job of Special Counsel.
Hoo boy. Watch Smith squirm as he tries to answer the question.
KENNEDY: You asked General Garland to appoint you special counsel, didn't you?
SMITH (looks down and scribbles): I don't think that's accurate. He made the decision to appoint me.
KENNEDY: In fact, you had people call General Garland to lobby him to appoint you, didn't you?
SMITH (looks down and scribbles some more): I don't recall anything like that.
KENNEDY: You really wanted to be special counsel, didn't you?
SMITH: I accepted the position as special counsel because I had spent 30 years as a nonpartisan prosecutor. I had investigated every sort of criminal case you could possibly imagine, and I thought I was qualified to do the job.
I knew that I would do it independently, and I would conduct it the same way whether it were Republican or a Democrat.
if Smith wanted to be Special Counsel and had lobbied for that position, it throws all of his partisan activities in a whole new light.
As it stands, this looks horrible.

Notice he keeps avoiding answering the question. Or rather, his only answer is "I don't recall."

This may be the most uncomfortable moment in the entire Jack Smith hearing.

It's when Sen. Kennedy confronted him about an accusation that Smith had actually asked Garland for the job of Special Counsel.

Hoo boy. Watch Smith squirm as he tries to answer the question.

KENNEDY:… pic.twitter.com/DZeedFvU1O
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) September 29, 2026

I'm sickened by this news that my journalistic communications were obtained as part of Jack Smith's egregious misconduct.

Proud to have been one of the only journalists who debunked his agency's role in perpetrating the Russia collusion lie against the American people.

No… https://t.co/IwSf6t7vRj
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 29, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:30 PM

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1 All a waste of time until we see them swinging from the gallows.

Posted by: Huxley Orwell at September 30, 2026 04:32 PM (j3Fsw)

2 "Blocking the Pea"

I'm not looking that up on Urban Dictionary.

Posted by: far cry at September 30, 2026 04:33 PM (Oh7rl)

3 We're going to find out his name isn't actually "Jack Smith" right?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2026 04:33 PM (nEUC6)

4 Aw, Ace changed the headline and now I look like a babbling idiot.

Even more so than usual, I mean.

Posted by: far cry at September 30, 2026 04:35 PM (Oh7rl)

5 This is all kabuki theater, nothing is going to happen and everyone knows it. This is an exercise to get some sound bites for the mid terms.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 30, 2026 04:36 PM (I43vL)

6 Jack Smith should be doing an air dance.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 04:36 PM (4NO2D)

7
Double hanging needed. Fauci and Smith.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 04:36 PM (/QHx4)

8 Jack Smith was reading Ace's emails?

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:37 PM (vNne8)

9 7
Double hanging needed. Fauci and Smith.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 04:36 PM (/QHx4)

Let Fauci complete his aerosolized Ebola experiments on Jack Smith, then hang Fauci.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2026 04:37 PM (oPFtC)

10 This is totally what democracy looks like. Finding ways to throw every political opponent in prison with an R next to his name.

I bet half to 3/4ths the GOP would go along with it had Trump not won.

Posted by: Leupold at September 30, 2026 04:38 PM (UgMlZ)

11 >>Julie Kelly claims that Jack Smith was actually considering indicting the entirety of the conservative movement:

Anyone else here read The Flounder by Gunter Graas?

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:38 PM (vNne8)

12 "Find me the man ( or woman) and I will find the crime."

Posted by: Laventi Beriah Smith at September 30, 2026 04:39 PM (JrHfD)

13 8 Jack Smith was reading Ace's emails?
Posted by: Garrett

Looking at Ace's lez pron collection.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 30, 2026 04:39 PM (sAmhv)

14 And he would have gotten away with it too, but for those sneaky kids.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 04:39 PM (0U5gm)

15 By the way, this is the definition of evil. It takes a maoist to decide to indict half of the country.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 04:40 PM (0U5gm)

16 I commented on this in JJ's Mornin' Report...

This was all part of the witch hunt against perceived enemies of the dems. There's no punishment too good for Smith and those behind the scenes that ordered this, but, as already stated, "Nothing will Happen" is the likely result.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:41 PM (l3cgK)

17

weft,

Lol. I thought the same about his name.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 04:41 PM (/QHx4)

18 Nonpartisan. Ha.

Smith's wife produced a piece of garbage hagiography of Michelle Obama titled Becoming (I know, right?) which was sold to Netflix.

Her mother worked for Soros.

He's as far left as they come.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 04:42 PM (viF8m)

19 Jack Smith is a nasty worm of a man who needs flattening by a cement roller.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 04:42 PM (W2Pud)

20
Send the dude to England and tell them he dissed the Prophet once.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 04:42 PM (Y8DZL)

21 Nothing about something, something under the color of law yet?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 04:43 PM (NnhvP)

22 It is impossible for a person who finds Trump distasteful to be a bad person or ever dishonest.

Besides, if that person were ever dishonest, it's nothing compared to all of Trump's lies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:43 PM (U/fqy)

23 Since we are hating on the media - with good reason - and all these stories show how they still lie with impunity. the media narrative of this is going to be a disaster for the GOP this fall is not living up to reality, and even the AP went so far as to say watch out for NH. Early mail in balloting shows no huge swell for the populations the democrats need to make huge gains. More and more stories are showing that the economy - over which everyone says is a huge issue - is actually moving into a significant growth phase with investment and employment gaining ground and inflation holding steady or dropping slightly. Heck, MMS types are already running stories about how the good economic news is really not supported if you do a bunch of handstands and cartwheels with the data.The dems realize any real gap is closing, is there enough time for the GOP to actually take advantage of it.

Posted by: Black JEM at September 30, 2026 04:43 PM (7/DDO)

24 Getting Trump was the key domino to their whole coup.

The plan was:
- Trump in jail, permanent gag order (keep him from further conspiring with his confederates, of course), freeze and seize all his assets
- Trump family in jail (maybe spare Melania and Baron)
- Arrest and disqualify from ballot every Republican in more than enough seats to give them a super majority in the House and Senate. Those who denounce Trump would go free--after the election.
- stack the SCOTUS with at least 5 more Jumanji Browns.

This was serious enough and important enough they attempted to assassinate Trump to keep it going.

They meant to end the US.
And give themselves permanent, unchallengeable power.
They have not given up on that.
Which plan will be back in play by taking Congress this year.

So yeah, don't vote in November because the Republican in Congress haven't done enough and we need to "teach them a lesson."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 04:43 PM (3cUTc)

25 A couple of things: 1.) It is a terrible thing that this sack of shit will never face prosecution, scrutiny, or so much as a few uncomfortable moments for what he did. Our "side" is full of complete dripping pussies. And I do most dripping pussies an apology for such a comparison... 2.) We keep expecting our "side" to act in the same ruthless manner, using the same tools as our enemies. But, they don't, and they won't. Because they're dripping pussies.

And people wonder why Republican voter enthusiasm is lower than a snake's belly in a wheel rut.

Posted by: Brewingfrog at September 30, 2026 04:44 PM (gDrjQ)

26 Yup, we got him now. No way he's getting out of this one. Wait, I'm getting a message from my producer...

Posted by: Oddbob at September 30, 2026 04:44 PM (vTZFs)

27 Dovetails nicely with Biden's nazi-esque speech about MAGA Republicans being the nation's most perilous threat.

Posted by: Halfhand at September 30, 2026 04:44 PM (bWXIP)

28 Further evidence of WHAT IS CERTAIN TO HAPPEN on January 20, 2029.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 04:44 PM (RIvkX)

29 24
So yeah, don't vote in November because the Republican in Congress haven't done enough and we need to "teach them a lesson."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 04:43 PM (3cUTc)

=======

Sit out the opportunity to replace Mitch, Cassidy, Cornyn, Ernst, and Tillis with more conservative senators because the GOP isn't rightward enough and there's no opportunity to fix the GOP now that primaries are over.

It's science.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:44 PM (U/fqy)

30
Vote like your life depends on it.
It does.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 04:45 PM (/QHx4)

31 How many subpoenas does it take to make a superpoena?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 04:45 PM (Cqx++)

32 Nonpartisan. Ha.

Smith's wife produced a piece of garbage hagiography of Michelle Obama titled Becoming (I know, right?) which was sold to Netflix.

Her mother worked for Soros.

He's as far left as they come.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 04:42 PM (viF8m)

Saying 'I have no interest in the future of this country' like it is a badge of honor.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:46 PM (uhVAy)

33 Great, another hearing. So what's next? Does the DOJ bring charges or is this just grandstanding by the GOPe and once again a Democrat doesn't get the 4 am police raid.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 30, 2026 04:46 PM (e6MOU)

34 Shirt sleeve status? Rolled?

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 04:46 PM (4NO2D)

35 Early voting starts here next week.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 04:47 PM (Cqx++)

36 Here's what pisses me off about all of these things being uncovered. The Dems have paid (and will pay) zero price for any of it.

Not one vote in these midterms will change over this. Not one swing voter cares. Its just considered fair game because Trump is so awful.

I feel like 20 years ago, this would have been an earthquake in DC. A deep state coup.

Posted by: Leupold at September 30, 2026 04:47 PM (UgMlZ)

37 31 How many subpoenas does it take to make a superpoena?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 04:45 PM (Cqx++)

He's a dick in my book regardless.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:47 PM (l3cgK)

38 >>Smith's wife produced a piece of garbage hagiography of Michelle Obama titled Becoming (I know, right?) which was sold to Netflix.

Women would seriously kill for her arms.

Or, some shit.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:47 PM (vNne8)

39 Found one!

Posted by: Dorothy Thompson at September 30, 2026 04:48 PM (xPxza)

40 >>>There is no crime of "blocking the peaceful transfer of power . . . ."

If there was, Obama and Co. should be strung up.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 04:48 PM (dK+Kv)

41 I note he's not hanging from a lamppost.

He's not even in jail.

There's a lot right in what Trump is doing, but the loyal soldiers of the left need to face dramatic consequences or they'll just mass-imprison their opponents again.

This isn't a "oh, let the process play out." This traitor needs to be made an example of and EVERYONE who worked to support him.

Either lampposts or exile. (To Bikini Atoll.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 04:48 PM (N1DT3)

42 Sit out the opportunity to replace Mitch, Cassidy, Cornyn, Ernst, and Tillis with more conservative senators because the GOP isn't rightward enough and there's no opportunity to fix the GOP now that primaries are over.

It's science.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:44 PM (U/fqy)

"I hate the media and experts but I will believe their explanation for why events in the country work out as they do with total faith"

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:48 PM (uhVAy)

43 I’ve just checked the Twitter feeds of Geraghty, CCW Cooke, Lowry, and MacLaughlin. Not one of those highly principled “conservatives” at National Review has tweeted about Jack Smith targeting actual conservative journalists.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at September 30, 2026 04:48 PM (VlTrg)

44 We're going to find out his name isn't actually "Jack Smith" right?

It's actually "Bill Kristol".

Posted by: Ian S. at September 30, 2026 04:48 PM (2ocoG)

45 I wonder if you could consider the back-and-forth work of Jack Smith and judge Boasberg to be collusion and conspiracy to commit treason...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:48 PM (l3cgK)

46 If several thousand indictments came down from a corrupt DC jury, the second US civil war would have gone hot. A lot of police wouldn't arrest people, a lot would and then the action would have started. I doubt the arrogant scumbag Smith thought about that

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 04:49 PM (jivel)

47 43 I’ve just checked the Twitter feeds of Geraghty, CCW Cooke, Lowry, and MacLaughlin. Not one of those highly principled “conservatives” at National Review has tweeted about Jack Smith targeting actual conservative journalists.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at September 30, 2026 04:48 PM (VlTrg)

=

Why? When their real enemies are those on the right who have decided that the friend/enemy distinction is a more useful framing device for political action that classical liberalism of treating everyone like reasoning individuals who can be talked into positions they're emotionally opposed to?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:49 PM (U/fqy)

48 >>> 24
==
maybe spare
==
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 04:43 PM (3cUTc)

These are commies we're talking about. Ask the Romanov family about mercy from commie filth.

The commies tend to forget this isn't pre-industrial OMG Russia...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2026 04:50 PM (+fdRY)

49 35 Early voting starts here next week.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Slacker. Benson was sending out dead voter mail-in ballots in Michigan back on September 18th.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 04:50 PM (Y8DZL)

50 >>> 40 There is no crime of "blocking the peaceful transfer of power . . . ."
==
If there was, Obama and Co. should be strung up.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 04:48 PM (dK+Kv)

What rope for Tank Abrams?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2026 04:51 PM (+fdRY)

51 Double hanging needed. Fauci and Smith.

Posted by: four seasons

You forgot the perp... Garland.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 04:52 PM (NnhvP)

52 The first bill passed by the Jack Smith gifted super-majority in Congress would have been to stack SCOTUS.

The second would have been FCC and FEC laws to make it a felony for anyone who is not registered as a licensed reporter to report on, comment on or discuss the news.
To fight "disinformation."
Their new SCOTUS will rule that is merely a "reasonable restriction" on the 1st Amendment.

The third bill would have been mandatory all-mail elections in every state with ballots sent to all adults.

And all of that is still their plan.

But gas prices are too high so you need to teach Republicans a lesson this year.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 04:53 PM (3cUTc)

53 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at September 30, 2026 04:53 PM (2Ez/1)

54 What rope for Tank Abrams?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

3/8" metal strand.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 04:54 PM (6XDXn)

55 Jack should charged with everything he has done

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 04:54 PM (Ia/+0)

56 50 >>> 40 There is no crime of "blocking the peaceful transfer of power . . . ."
==
If there was, Obama and Co. should be strung up.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 04:48 PM (dK+Kv)

What rope for Tank Abrams?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2026 04:51 PM (+fdRY)

There's no rope strong enough...or anchoring point...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:54 PM (l3cgK)

57
- Arrest and disqualify from ballot every Republican in more than enough seats to give them a super majority in the House and Senate.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

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

Yikes. I don't think I saw that part -- but I don't doubt it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 04:54 PM (mmrXZ)

58 In a Franpsycho administration Jack Smith and James Boasberg would be distant, fading memories.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 04:54 PM (RIvkX)

59 The careerists in the federal government are the principle enemy of the American people and until the GOP shows some willingness to go to war against them the way that they have warred against us, I can't see any excuse for enthusiasm in support of the GOP.

Yes, the Democrats, who are on their side, are evil.

Do something about it, GOP.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 30, 2026 04:54 PM (vSvIl)

60 8 Jack Smith was reading Ace's emails?
Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:37 PM (vNne

To be fair, if he tried to read the comments, I think he would find us somewhat impenetrable.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 04:55 PM (GYqb1)

61 Looks like RICO to me.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 04:55 PM (6XDXn)

62 Huh. Completely unsurprising in the context of 2020 and J6, but huh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 04:55 PM (zZu0s)

63 >>To be fair, if he tried to read the comments, I think he would find us somewhat impenetrable.

There's a CharlieBrown'sDildo joke to be had here...

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:56 PM (vNne8)

64 To be fair, if he tried to read the comments, I think he would find us somewhat impenetrable.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 04:55 PM (GYqb1)

ITS FUNNY BECAUSE ME.

Posted by: Ben Rothelisberger at September 30, 2026 04:56 PM (zZu0s)

65 What rope for Tank Abrams?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

There are tow straps and cables capable of recovering loaded tractor trailers.

Posted by: I Was A Rigger at September 30, 2026 04:56 PM (Fn+3X)

66 But gas prices are too high so you need to teach Republicans a lesson this year.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 04:53 PM (3cUTc)

We've only got a month, but I would not be surprised if we see gas prices start dropping precipitously starting next week.

I expect Trump has been working with November in mind. Maybe he knew he had this small window to end (or at least seriously degrade) the Iranian threat, so he took it.

But I have to think he didn't just give up on the mid-terms. He knows gas prices are a BIG deal.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 04:56 PM (N1DT3)

67 To be fair, if he tried to read the comments, I think he would find us somewhat impenetrable.

But it wouldn't be rape rape.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 04:57 PM (ktgTW)

68 66 We've only got a month, but I would not be surprised if we see gas prices start dropping precipitously starting next week.

I expect Trump has been working with November in mind. Maybe he knew he had this small window to end (or at least seriously degrade) the Iranian threat, so he took it.

But I have to think he didn't just give up on the mid-terms. He knows gas prices are a BIG deal.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 04:56 PM (N1DT3)

========

And yet...gas prices don't change voter behavior and have no material effect on elections.

https://x.com/TonerousHyus/status/
2097832343964668203

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:57 PM (U/fqy)

69 Vote like your life depends on it.
It does.
Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 04:45 PM (/QHx4)

What is the GOP going to do in order to eliminate the threat?

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 30, 2026 04:58 PM (vSvIl)

70 69 Vote like your life depends on it.
It does.
Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 04:45 PM (/QHx4)

What is the GOP going to do in order to eliminate the threat?

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 30, 2026 04:58 PM (vSvIl)

========

Replacing Mitch, Cassidy, Cornyn, Ernst, and Tillis in the Senate with more conservative Republicans and keeping the House makes passing the SAVE Act a more real possibility next Congress than it ever was in this Congress with those five (and Murkowski, who is a Democrat) in the upper chamber.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:59 PM (U/fqy)

71 Jack Smith needs to be forced to listen to Yoko and Celine Dion 24/7.

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 04:59 PM (Oy/m2)

72 My thoughts about all this is the Obama Democrat clan came within a breath of creating a permanent Democrat police state during the useful idiot Biden years. The current crop of Communists taking over the Democrat party fully intend to complete that work and make damn sure it includes a gulag.

If this nation survives the next 20 years and beats back this Communist insurgency President Trump's lasting legacy will be the literal saving of the American experiment. If not, God help us.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 30, 2026 05:00 PM (VyD10)

73
Nothing will happen to Jack, but given what he wanted and what he was willing to do, he must be living in hell. Ben Rhodes is another one. He eternally looks like the serial killer whose mother just said "Get over here and adjust my pillow, you idiot."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 05:00 PM (mmrXZ)

74 And yet...gas prices don't change voter behavior and have no material effect on elections.

https://x.com/TonerousHyus/status/
2097832343964668203
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

==

But to play devil's advocate on that, usually these are geopolitical events that don't connect directly to one political party.

Trump bombing Iran though is a direct line voters connect with why gas prices went up like 50%. And just goes along with the overall narrative of "affordable" that dems are pushing

I just dont think anyone can confidently say its not going to move the needle

Posted by: Leupold at September 30, 2026 05:01 PM (UgMlZ)

75 According to Legacy Media, the only important thing to come out of these hearings is that a MO senator did not know the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeys. "'What a dufus,' knowldegable observes snorted in derision." I think that's an exact quote from the WSJ.

And in other news, "Cockpit Spat No Cause For Alarm in Madcap Mideast Kerfuffle."

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 30, 2026 05:01 PM (sFNX2)

76 Looks like RICO to me.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 04:55 PM (6XDXn)

I ask this with all honesty: Has RICO ever produced any kind of real convictions?

It always seems like "we're gonna RICO the fuck out this guy" type of stuff.

I ain't no legal eagle. just a dumb guy in Idaho.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at September 30, 2026 05:02 PM (0aYVJ)

77 74
But to play devil's advocate on that, usually these are geopolitical events that don't connect directly to one political party.

Trump bombing Iran though is a direct line voters connect with why gas prices went up like 50%. And just goes along with the overall narrative of "affordable" that dems are pushing

I just dont think anyone can confidently say its not going to move the needle

Posted by: Leupold at September 30, 2026 05:01 PM (UgMlZ)

=========

"Here's data about why this thing doesn't happen."

"But this time is super special."

Gas was high in real dollars under Obama in 2012. Dude still won re-election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 05:02 PM (U/fqy)

78 What rope for Tank Abrams?
****

8 strand cable, piano wire.

Posted by: clarence at September 30, 2026 05:02 PM (vCaJx)

79
Paw-Paw and Me-Maw passed away a couple decades ago, but they would have wanted us to go on casting their mail-ballots the way I think today. And cashing their Social Security checks.

But go ahead and hate on 'em, far-right homoislamophobos.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 05:02 PM (Y8DZL)

80
the Obama Democrat clan came within a breath of creating a permanent Democrat police state during the useful idiot Biden years. The current crop of Communists taking over the Democrat party fully intend to complete that work and make damn sure it includes a gulag.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

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

Serious question, how hard is Obama working on this? He always struck me as a lazy ass. He doesn't even put that much thought into his public remarks. I don't doubt his hallowed personality is the inspirational font of this movement, but I don't think he's doing jack.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 05:04 PM (mmrXZ)

81 The same legal theory they wanted to arrest Trump and the entire conservative movement on could be used on the left's judges and bureaucracy that keep trying to stop the duly elected executive from doing its job...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 05:04 PM (sKqQm)

82 Every conservative blog, website and social media post would have been illegal if Trump had not won.

Jack Smith didn't come up with this list of conservatives to spy on all on his own:
It's a list that has been kept and updated since at least Clinton.

That business with the FBI files was a permanent back-door into the conservative biosphere--enough key players compromised to keep them up-to-date and to recruit replacements.

But sure, the real problem is that conservatives need to police their own and keep out the Nazis, white supremacists and Christian nationalists.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 05:04 PM (3cUTc)

83 Jack Smith needs to be forced to listen to Yoko and Celine Dion 24/7.
Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 04:59 PM (Oy/m2)

*throws Air Supply and the Bee Gees onto the conflagration of the horrid*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at September 30, 2026 05:04 PM (0aYVJ)

84 And yet...gas prices don't change voter behavior and have no material effect on elections.

https://x.com/TonerousHyus/status/
2097832343964668203

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:57 PM (U/fqy)
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Its affordability in general - a stand in for economy. That does move the needle. If we get our voters to the ballot box, we win. There is no indication of a blue wave.

Posted by: Black JEM at September 30, 2026 05:05 PM (7/DDO)

85 71 Jack Smith needs to be forced to listen to Yoko and Celine Dion 24/7.

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 04:59 PM (Oy/m2)

singing "I Got You Babe"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:05 PM (l3cgK)

86 Affordability is a feeling, not a fact.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 30, 2026 05:06 PM (2Ez/1)

87 "Here's data about why this thing doesn't happen."

"But this time is super special."

Gas was high in real dollars under Obama in 2012. Dude still won re-election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Gas prices were down significantly when Obama ran in 2012 then they were in 2008 before he was President, so not sure where youre getting that from.

Obama had zero to do with that, fracking did and the economy still being soft, but gas prices were a very big issue in 2008 campaign when they had hit an all time high. It was a non issue in 2012.

Posted by: Leupold at September 30, 2026 05:06 PM (UgMlZ)

88 Trump bombing Iran though is a direct line voters connect with why gas prices went up like 50%. And just goes along with the overall narrative of "affordable" that dems are pushing

I just dont think anyone can confidently say its not going to move the needle

The problem with that line of thinking is that the Dems have an official position on gas prices - the higher the better.

I know LIVs are LIVs but even they know the Dems tell them gasoline is bad, cars are bad, and you should be taking public transit.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 05:07 PM (sKqQm)

89
Every conservative blog, website and social media post would have been illegal if Trump had not won.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

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No doubt. And then insufficiently zealous lefties would start getting canceled, and then it would be clear that it's all about power, not ideology. Terrifying.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 05:07 PM (mmrXZ)

90 84 Its affordability in general - a stand in for economy. That does move the needle. If we get our voters to the ballot box, we win. There is no indication of a blue wave.

Posted by: Black JEM at September 30, 2026 05:05 PM (7/DDO)

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Eh.

I think the idea of affordability being an issue this election is really about the problems with polling in general.

Hyper-engaged liberals are answering polls at heightened levels that overinflate their preferences.

They've latched onto affordability as an issue, so polling, the same polling that said that Wang was going to win by 20 in the Wisconsin Democrat primary when she lost by 0.5%, shows it as a major, top issue (30%, usually).

Plus, you know, online narratives aren't real life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 05:07 PM (U/fqy)

91
The problem with that line of thinking is that the Dems have an official position on gas prices - the higher the better.

___________

Four years ago the NPC module was that presidents have no influence over gas prices.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 05:09 PM (eRlcH)

92 The Dems are locked in , but the DSA candidates could drive a lot away. The GOPe is having a hissy for but most will vote
The key is the independents. Gas prices will hurt with them but the degree of batshit craziness by the Dems should offset anger over higher prices

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 05:09 PM (jivel)

93 80 Serious question, how hard is Obama working on this? He always struck me as a lazy ass.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

The real question is how Valerie Jarrett is getting her orders for him from Tehran these days.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 05:09 PM (Y8DZL)

94 It's how progressives were all, "inflation isn't an issue" in 2021/2022.

And suddenly they're acknowledging publicly that groceries shot up 50-100% in price.

They're allowed to talk about it now that Biden's out of power, so they're making it THE issue when they talk to pollsters, blaming Emmanuel Goldstein for the issue that they ignored for a few years before he was back in charge.

All while regular people have largely absorbed it as just life now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 05:09 PM (U/fqy)

95 Plus, you know, online narratives aren't real life.

But for some people, it's as close as they get.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 30, 2026 05:10 PM (vTZFs)

96 ctrl+f
'nothing'

8 matches
well done guys

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 05:10 PM (ZxPkt)

97 Nothing will happen to me, I'm bullet proof.

How does my ass taste now? Like tuna fish and cranberies?

Posted by: Jack Smith at September 30, 2026 05:10 PM (PMpfL)

98 The problem with that line of thinking is that the Dems have an official position on gas prices - the higher the better.

I know LIVs are LIVs but even they know the Dems tell them gasoline is bad, cars are bad, and you should be taking public transit.
Posted by: 18-1

==

its completely hypocritical that the now love the idea of cheap gas while promising to make fossil fuel energy as expensive as possible. Even Bernie Sanders is now screaming about gas prices.

But voters are stupid.

Posted by: Leupold at September 30, 2026 05:10 PM (UgMlZ)

99 Democrat early mail in voting is going to be 25% LOWER than in 2018 in Ohio. Before covid ramped up mail in voting.

https://x.com/TonerousHyus/status/
2105390254194573488

But, keep telling me about how it's Republicans have a turnout problem.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 05:11 PM (U/fqy)

100 It's how progressives were all, "inflation isn't an issue" in 2021/2022.

And suddenly they're acknowledging publicly that groceries shot up 50-100% in price.

I have seen so many leftists posting pictures of inflation/prices that show a steep increase from 20-24 with a flat line in 25 who seem to not understand what they've posted is not favorable to Biden or them...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 05:12 PM (sKqQm)

101 Have we reached the "this is the most important election in history" stage yet?

Posted by: Because we usually do at September 30, 2026 05:13 PM (2Ez/1)

102 *Plants flag*

Republicans keep both houses.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 30, 2026 05:14 PM (2UnvF)

103 GOP Senators say he's a partisan hatchet-man.

He says no, I'm just a straight-shooter who begged Merrick Garland to let me prosecute Trump.
_________________________

He's way way way beyond being a hatchet man. Smith is an actual, dyed in the wool true believer. The very fact that he secured emails from media, and then followed up by stating that it was to find complicity with the J-6r's shows a fishing expedition that wasn't meant to find anything. It was meant to intimidate. Finding something he could twist into a career ending "revelation" would have been a bonus as far as Smith's concerned.

BTW...I think all this shit he secured on congressmen and women should already be available publicly fight corruption. I think congress should have open finances, and inner office communication should be the property of the people. So, I really don't give a shit that he got phone records and finances on them. They are public officials representing a constituency. And, the constituency has a right to know right down to the inside baseball.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 05:14 PM (dIske)

104
Is it a quagmire? Does it have gravitas?

Did anyone spell 'potato' wrong yet?

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 05:15 PM (ZxPkt)

105 101 Have we reached the "this is the most important election in history" stage yet?

Posted by: Because we usually do at September 30, 2026 05:13 PM (2Ez/1)

It's like those cultivation novels or video games...each boss you have to fight is a higher level than the last...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:15 PM (l3cgK)

106
Jack Smith needs to be forced to listen to Yoko and Celine Dion 24/7.
Posted by: dantesed

I think you misspelled coated in sugar water and staked out on a fire ant nest.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 30, 2026 05:15 PM (QVmho)

107 If this fucker isn't hanging by his neck until dead.... we're lost.

Seriously.

String him up in front of 1600 Penn Ave. Tomorrow. Or this is all just smoke and mirrors to keep the lie alive.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 05:15 PM (RORbl)

108 Hyper-engaged liberals are answering polls at heightened levels that overinflate their preferences.
--
Interesting thing i saw on X.
Pollsters over-estimated the R result in CA for the recall due to greater R enthusiasm.
And that such a distortion can go the other way and may go a long way toward explaining polling this year.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 05:15 PM (3cUTc)

109 101 Have we reached the "this is the most important election in history" stage yet?
Posted by: Because we usually do

Not a Hannity listener?

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 05:15 PM (Y8DZL)

110 I'm more of a wood splitting maul guy.

Posted by: The Tin Man at September 30, 2026 05:16 PM (2Ez/1)

111 109 101 Have we reached the "this is the most important election in history" stage yet?
Posted by: Because we usually do

Not a Hannity listener?

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 05:15 PM (Y8DZL)

Not since the Ham 'n Eggers support while the FIB went "Girls Gone Wild" on the Constitution...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:16 PM (l3cgK)

112 Why has no ambitious red state AG gone after this miserable cocksucker for abusing the state’s citizens? It’s right there, take it.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 30, 2026 05:17 PM (dY410)

113 Apparently Smith did similar dirty crap when he worked at the world court. He's a nasty piece of work

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 05:17 PM (jivel)

114 Posted by: Jack Smith at September 30, 2026 05:10 PM (PMpfL)

I've never actually had tuna and cranberries. It sounds revolting, but it may not be a good idea to boast that nothing will happen to you, "Jack". That sounds like hubris, which is not a good quality , and none of us know what will happen.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 05:17 PM (JrHfD)

115 It's how progressives were all, "inflation isn't an issue" in 2021/2022.

And suddenly they're acknowledging publicly that groceries shot up 50-100% in price.

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"It was TRANSITORY just like we said, H8R!"

/Four Years counts as transitory, right?

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 05:17 PM (Lrqtb)

116 113 Apparently Smith did similar dirty crap when he worked at the world court. He's a nasty piece of work

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 05:17 PM (jivel)

Well it IS the International CRIMINAL Court...Criminals run the thing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:17 PM (l3cgK)

117 Is it a quagmire? Does it have gravitas?

Did anyone spell 'potato' wrong yet?
Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 05:15 PM
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Does it have all the earmarks?

Posted by: Another classic at September 30, 2026 05:18 PM (2Ez/1)

118 117 Is it a quagmire? Does it have gravitas?

Did anyone spell 'potato' wrong yet?
Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 05:15 PM
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Does it have all the earmarks?

Posted by: Another classic at September 30, 2026 05:18 PM (2Ez/1)

It's got its eyes on you...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:18 PM (l3cgK)

119 You know how you know it's a quagmire? Giggity

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 05:19 PM (jivel)

120 I will personally sign-off that these were Top Men.

Top. Men.

Posted by: AutoPen Of The United States (APOTUS) at September 30, 2026 05:19 PM (0sNs1)

121 Is it a quagmire? Does it have gravitas?

Did anyone spell 'potato' wrong yet?
Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 05:15 PM (ZxPkt)
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It's not a real election until someone bobbles around in a tank.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 30, 2026 05:19 PM (amcLV)

122 SMITH: I accepted the position as special counsel because I had spent 30 years as a nonpartisan prosecutor.

Given his record as a prosecutor on the Enron case. Smith should have been dropped out of a helicopter due to the lives he ruined.

The man is pure evil and vindictiveness and represents in total the reason why reprobates like him should never have more responsibility than to push a broom around in a horse stable.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 05:21 PM (xE0sV)

123 Im testifying in a case tomorrow. Remind me not to make that face Jack Smith just made.

Posted by: LASue at September 30, 2026 05:23 PM (lCppi)

124 If you let ignorant people vote you get dumb ass results.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 05:23 PM (KC5Lt)

125 *Plants flag*

Republicans keep both houses.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 30, 2026 05:14 PM (2UnvF)

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*Plants fig*

Transinsanity costs Democrat-Communists both houses.

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 05:23 PM (Lrqtb)

126 Has someone been indicted? Are there handcuffs? Big plastic zip ties? A dawn SWAT team raid with dogs, really bright lights and media camera crews?
No?

Posted by: Yawn... at September 30, 2026 05:24 PM (2Ez/1)

127 Limits on federal powers are always good.

And we're back from MD Anderson. News isn't peachy...

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 05:24 PM (pfXMo)

128 The elections will be held soon. Where are the dirty tricks? The forged documents, the sexual misconduct allegations? Where are the secret strippers/mistresses? Who once had their picture taken with Castro?!

DON'T JUST PHONE IT IN, AMERICA

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 05:25 PM (ZxPkt)

129
MLB's most annoying fans lose, 4-3. Ohh, oh, oh, oh, ohhh. Stick it up your fundament.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 05:26 PM (eRlcH)

130 "It was to conduct a criminal investigation into one of the most serious crimes in our nation's history."

But he's not partisan at all.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 05:26 PM (MWfyi)

131
The elections will be held soon. Where are the dirty tricks? The forged documents, the sexual misconduct allegations? Where are the secret strippers/mistresses? Who once had their picture taken with Castro?!

__________

Don't forget me!

Posted by: Whispering Campaign at September 30, 2026 05:27 PM (eRlcH)

132 Hey, anyone here download the WINDOWS 26H2 yet?

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 05:27 PM (dIske)

133 Where are the dirty tricks? The forged documents, the sexual misconduct allegations? Where are the secret strippers/mistresses? Who once had their picture taken with Castro?!
+++

Chill.
I arrive tomorrow.

Posted by: October at September 30, 2026 05:27 PM (2Ez/1)

134 This is the year of the YOUTH vote!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 05:28 PM (Cqx++)

135 Honestly, what do lose if someone like this asshole puts hundreds of GOP politicians behind bars? The same ones who pant how this is an existential threat to the republic that they then address with stern letters and hearings? The GOP is gonna have to start giving a shit if they expect me to.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 30, 2026 05:29 PM (6GZK/)

136 Its affordability in general - a stand in for economy. That does move the needle. If we get our voters to the ballot box, we win. There is no indication of a blue wave.

Democrats, in word and in deed, have consistently demonstrated that they are the authors and defenders of run-away inflation, high prices and supply destruction while simultaneously creating massive amounts of parasitical demand.

There should be no question on this, and why, other than the GOP is run by absolute retards and cowards, should the public be unaware of the cause and effect of having Democrats in any form of power.

You can't Cantillion trillions of dollars and NOT have run-away inflation while The Rich Keep Getting Richer as the K Economy becomes more and more defined.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 05:31 PM (/TiS1)

137 Yeah, some megalomaniacal fuckstain acting under the color of the law aspires to imprison hundreds to thousands of his political opponents and the GOP responds with a hearing where they offered some pithy remarks and stern rebukes.

LOL, someone punch me in the Johnson to wake me up when our feckless do-nothing slate of clown shoe faggots actually start doing something that fucking matters.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 05:32 PM (3BwY8)

138
*Plants fig*

Transinsanity costs Democrat-Communists both houses.
Posted by: ShainS

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

Ex-lefty Evan Barker (she keeps popping up on podcasts so don't blame me for quoting her) sez Dems aren't going to give up on free healthcare for illegal aliens either.

*Plants pie*

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 05:32 PM (mmrXZ)

139
This is the year of the YOUTH vote!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 05:28 PM (Cqx++)

___________

Sorry, I don't wake up that early.

Posted by: Youth at September 30, 2026 05:33 PM (eRlcH)

140 Hey, anyone here download the WINDOWS 26H2 yet?

Given the trajectory of Indian Windows, 26H2 is a precursor to loading Linux.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 05:33 PM (/TiS1)

141 >Hey, anyone here download the WINDOWS 26H2 yet?

Posted by: Orson
----

I'm not gonna try it
you try it

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 05:34 PM (ZxPkt)

142 Hawley and Kennedy can take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.

If I never hear one more folksy cornball jibe from that useless cumsock it will be too soon.

Nobody believes Hawley has ever busted a grape in a food fight. Soft as fucking Charmin.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 05:34 PM (3BwY8)

143 You can't Cantillion trillions of dollars and NOT have run-away inflation while The Rich Keep Getting Richer as the K Economy becomes more and more defined.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 05:31 PM (/TiS1)

Paul Krugman tells me that this is the cost of avoiding liquidity traps, which would otherwise destroy the world.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 05:35 PM (rbvCR)

144 So yeah, don't vote in November because the Republican in Congress haven't done enough and we need to "teach them a lesson."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 04:43 PM (3cUTc)

So yeah, vote for the Rinos! Watch how they completely...do not change their behavior. And so the party continues its decades-long collapse into corruption, mediocrity, and pandering. All for the sake of ensuring that dirtbags like Collins and Murkowski (and my local loser Gabe Evans) retain their seats.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at September 30, 2026 05:36 PM (lfNXu)

145 I wonder can we sue the DOJ for who knows what, invasion of privacy and then the DOJ can settle the class action lawsuit like the left does

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 30, 2026 05:36 PM (ubCxQ)

146 Nood Cato.

Not the oj guy

Posted by: Kratwurst at September 30, 2026 05:38 PM (36bTp)

147 135 Honestly, what do lose if someone like this asshole puts hundreds of GOP politicians behind bars? The same ones who pant how this is an existential threat to the republic that they then address with stern letters and hearings? The GOP is gonna have to start giving a shit if they expect me to.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 30, 2026 05:29 PM (6GZK/)

Many in the GOP only care for how much fundraising cash they can get from the rubes. The worse things are in Congress for them, the better the fundraising.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:38 PM (l3cgK)

148 Jack smith is a modern day Robespierre with his guillatine

Posted by: Matt at September 30, 2026 05:39 PM (OdsgZ)

149
All for the sake of ensuring that dirtbags like Collins and Murkowski (and my local loser Gabe Evans) retain their seats.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at September 30, 2026 05:36 PM (lfNXu)

____________

All I can vote for is Abbott, Paxton and Randy Weber. Which I intend to do. I got no influence over the squishes in other states.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 05:39 PM (eRlcH)

150 LOL, someone punch me in the Johnson to wake me up when our feckless do-nothing slate of clown shoe faggots actually start doing something that fucking matters.

In the entire history of Congressional Investigations, including Tea Pot Dome, Watergate, Enron and targeted Contempt charges applied to Friends of Trump, there have been only around 180 convictions.

The ENTIRE history of Congressional investigations including HUAC of 1941

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 05:39 PM (+4Cf6)

151 Gas was high in real dollars under Obama in 2012. Dude still won re-election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 05:02 PM

The unemployment rate was 7.9% in October of 2012. No President had ever, ever, been reelected with the UE above 6.

The 2012 election was stolen IMO.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 05:40 PM (4NO2D)

152 *Plants flag*
Republicans keep both houses.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 30, 2026 05:14 PM

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: That Guy who sonorously intones "Nothing will happen." at September 30, 2026 05:41 PM (0sNs1)

153 Gas prices were down significantly when Obama ran in 2012 then they were in 2008 before he was President, so not sure where youre getting that from.

Obama had zero to do with that, fracking did and the economy still being soft, but gas prices were a very big issue in 2008 campaign when they had hit an all time high. It was a non issue in 2012.
Posted by: Leupold at September 30, 2026 05:06 PM (UgMlZ)

On July 7, 2008, I paid 3.85 here in my part of NJ. On Dec 31, 2008, it was 1.41. Been keeping an Excel data base for gasoline since 20065.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 30, 2026 05:46 PM (hmYU4)

154 'Sure would be a shame if something happened to Jacka$$ Smith, or one of his helper minions for what they did to all of those innocent people" - NOT!!!!

Posted by: Crabby Appleton at September 30, 2026 05:46 PM (8zTHt)

155 What did you people think was happening?
And by what miracle do you think justice will be served?
Tyranny and deception are free, in our modern world, from penalty.

Posted by: Clear-Eyed Killer at September 30, 2026 05:47 PM (8ZS/E)

156 Remember the Auto-Pen administration emptied the emergency reserve oil

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 05:56 PM (Ia/+0)

157 I find myself not particularly caring if the asshole goes to jail. What I want is to see him charged in eight different jurisdictions and bled dry of every cent he's ever made or hopes to make. When the lefty moneybag types come out to support him, we'll have a list of enemies that Nixon would envy.

Not to say that jail time wouldn't be icing on the cake.

Posted by: nunya at September 30, 2026 06:08 PM (k61rn)

158 Like all these other criminals from the Biden administration, he will get off Scott, free, and Congress will do nothing. The only answer is a massive class action lawsuit against him by everyone he abused. Sue him into bankruptcy, until he's homeless in Los Angeles.

Posted by: Dr. Bob at September 30, 2026 11:07 PM (yfp7I)

Of COURSE: The UK Gives the Exact Same Sentence to a Muslim Immigrant for Actually Setting a Migrant Hotel on Fire As They Gave a White Citizen for Briefly Saying "Burn the Hotels Down for All I care"

One was a tweet -- following the massacre of little girls at a dance party by the deranged offspring of a Muslim migrant -- saying "I don't care if they set the migrant hotels on fire."

The other was actual arson by a Muslim migrant setting fire to a migrant hotel, and smiling about it afterwards.

They both got the same sentence: Two years, seven months.

No doubt you remember the case of Lucy Connolly, who, after an attack on a Taylor Swift dance party in Southport that left three girls dead and ten seriously wounded, posted an outraged tweet that said she wouldn't care if all the asylum hotels were burned down. The tweet was up for three hours, and she took it down because it was an angry outburst.
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The British government came down on her like a ton of bricks. You can, it seems, present a terrorist threat to a military base and get bail, but if you have a verbal outburst, the state treats you like a terrorist.
She pled guilty of inciting racial hatred and was sentenced to two years and seven months in prison, of which she served 40 percent. The original charge was even harsher and would have landed her in jail for 42 months, which is why she took the plea.
Mohammed Abdalla actually set fire to an asylum hotel, from which he was being evicted, smiled about it, and was just convicted of endangering the lives of everybody living there.
His sentence? Two years and seven months.

Oh, and she deleted the tweet immediately and expressed regret, whereas he grinned like a psychopathic barbarian when arrested.

No Two-Tier Justice here! Two plus two is five, don't you know that, Racist?

If you want to know how much the UK hates white people

Mohammed Abdalla - Illegal migrant tried to burn down a hotel with 170 people in

Lucy Connolly - Tweeted "Burn down the hotels for all I care"

They both got the same amount of time in prison - 2 years and 7 months

INSANE pic.twitter.com/D9CcsCEb32
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) September 29, 2026

Police officers were lectured about Nigel Farage in a publicly funded talk about Islamophobia, The Telegraph can reveal.

Officers at a hate crime conference attended training sessions that compared the Reform UK leader’s opinions, specifically his doubts about young Muslims’… pic.twitter.com/u2HutKLxs4
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) September 29, 2026

A joke of a country.

From the last week:

- Former bodyguard for Hamas leader granted asylum + citizenship. Planned new attacks in Europe from UK

- Terrorist plot foiled near RAF. Suspects released

- Admitted member of terror group entered UK illegally but can’t be deported https://t.co/7IvVM6U1Bv
— AG (@AGHamilton29) September 30, 2026

The British took to their invaders far more readily than the French ever did.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:30 PM

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 30, 2026 03:31 PM (I43vL)

2 Remember "immigrants" are a protected class of people in the UK.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 30, 2026 03:31 PM (I43vL)

3 Formerly great Britain

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 03:32 PM (N1DT3)

4 As in most of the rest of the West, THIS is what happens when you let people who hate you rule over you.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 03:33 PM (N1DT3)

5 Labour isn't going to stop and it's not going to call a snap election.

Britain has until 2029, unless the people decide otherwise.

Up to you, Britons.

Good luck.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:33 PM (U/fqy)

6 The UK government is now running ads, featuring only white characters, asking people to sign up for the military and warning that they may be drafted for the war which is planned.

Imagine being told to fight for a country where it is illegal to fly your own country's flag in public.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 03:33 PM (0U5gm)

7 "Why are you doing this?"

"Because you let me"

Posted by: Cray Cray at September 30, 2026 03:34 PM (eag3e)

8
Soap box
Ballot box
Ammo b...

Forget it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 03:35 PM (jLZLb)

9 Once again we see the wisdom of the Founders in enshrining the Right to Bear Arms in our Constitution.

There's little the subjugated populace of formerly great Britain can do against their rulers and their military-age replacement population.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 03:36 PM (N1DT3)

10 Silly peasants, Charles III approves.

Posted by: 13times at September 30, 2026 03:36 PM (6iKlf)

11 Where is Guy Fawkes?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2026 03:37 PM (wWIcc)

12 This word: Cannot.

I do not believe it means what you think it means.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 03:37 PM (vNne8)

13 Britain is gone. Perhaps it will arise someday from the ashes, like a Phoenix. Of course, the Phoenix is a mythical bird.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:38 PM (Gqar8)

14 I think the Tories are ahead of Reform in the polls now.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 03:38 PM (/OKHJ)

15 13 Britain is gone. Perhaps it will arise someday from the ashes, like a Phoenix. Of course, the Phoenix is a mythical bird.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:38 PM (Gqar

======

Spain came back.

It took 700 years, but it came back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:38 PM (U/fqy)

16 What has happened in Britain now dwarfs the Norman Conquest.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:39 PM (Gqar8)

17 It's all done on purpose. They want to destroy the UK by bringing in enemies and punishing dissent to this destruction.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 03:39 PM (l3cgK)

18 14 I think the Tories are ahead of Reform in the polls now.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 03:38 PM (/OKHJ)

======

2029:

CP wins 30%.
Labour wins 20%.
Green wins 3%.
Reform wins 30%.
Restore wins 17%.

CP and Labour form governing coalition.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (U/fqy)

19 I think the Tories are ahead of Reform in the polls now.

Posted by: Mark1971

Neither one of them is worth spit. The only party willing to do what is needed is restore with Rupert Lowe. Both the Tories and reform are allying with the mohammedans.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (0U5gm)

20 Will faire Albion rise in this time of grave danger?

Arthur Pendragon your nation needs you!

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (wWIcc)

21 >>Spain came back.

The Tour de Espana had to cancel several Stages as well as its Final Stage last year due to Muslim protests and threats to the event.

They moved the entire event out of the most populated areas for this year.

Spain is not back.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (vNne8)

22 Remember "immigrants" are a protected class of people in the UK.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 30, 2026 03:31 PM (I43vL)

Normal brits should remember they immigrated from Saxon areas in 500 AD and Norse areas in 800 AD and Norman areas in 1050AD.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (uhVAy)

23 15 13 Britain is gone. Perhaps it will arise someday from the ashes, like a Phoenix. Of course, the Phoenix is a mythical bird.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:38 PM (Gqar

======

Spain came back.

It took 700 years, but it came back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:38 PM (U/fqy)

And it's being lost yet again.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (l3cgK)

24 I don't understand how these Brits can be quite so stupid. They sent soldiers to Iraq, FFS. And not one of them can point to a single thing any of these "immigrants" have brought to England except misery.

I don't get it in this country, either, but at least most of us don't love these goat humpers.

Do they really think the crocodile will eat them last?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (GYqb1)

25 Why can't Abdu be deported? I don't have X. This seems retarded, sir.

Float him on a raft somewhere south towards Afrikka, or find a catapult to launch him into the sea. I'll bet he can't swim! Chum the waters first!

There is no way I am every going back to the UK. And I love it and have been many times. I am done and quite sure they will miss me. I would be arrested for my thoughts of silent prayers.

In a pub in the Cotswalds I stared down a nitwit man older than me who was bashing Trump during his first term. Making sure we overheard. He wilted and looked away from my green lasers as I walked past him.

My poor dude would have turned around in horror to see me trying to Ziva this guy if he'd stood up and confronted me. I ignored him all through lunch and didn't look his way. He was baiting us.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (hzuYO)

26 The Blade, he also does not care if all migrant hotels are burned down

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (iFTx/)

27 Fear. The Brit government is afraid of muzz riots. They are paralyzed.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (QwZKw)

28 3 Formerly great Britain

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 03:32 PM (N1DT3)

Meh Britain...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (l3cgK)

29 You get what you tolerate.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (zTJFr)

30 Is there such a thing as a self-decapitating Brit?

Posted by: Buck at September 30, 2026 03:41 PM (z6ONu)

31 15 13 Britain is gone. Perhaps it will arise someday from the ashes, like a Phoenix. Of course, the Phoenix is a mythical bird.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:38 PM (Gqar

======

Spain came back.

It took 700 years, but it came back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:38 PM (U/fqy)

You are such a hopeful optimist. A Starry Eyed Dreamer. Hmm, a show tune drifted through just now!!

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:41 PM (Gqar8)

32 Normal brits should remember they immigrated from Saxon areas in 500 AD and Norse areas in 800 AD and Norman areas in 1050AD.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (uhVAy)

Not the Welsh. Nobody knows where they came from. Nobody can understand a word they speak or spell, either.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:41 PM (GYqb1)

33 Kind of related, CNN had a scrolling story that Madmani is unveiling plans to counter anti-semitism.

No idea if offing himself is part of the plan.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 30, 2026 03:41 PM (Sco7b)

34 And it took Iberia how long to throw it all away again?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2026 03:41 PM (wWIcc)

35 CP wins 30%.
Labour wins 20%.
Green wins 3%.
Reform wins 30%.
Restore wins 17%.

CP and Labour form governing coalition.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (U/fqy)

Have a hard time buying the Tories. Who the hell is even in the party any more?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:41 PM (uhVAy)

36 Wait. Lucy was imprisoned for a TWEET?

Tell me that’s not real.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 03:41 PM (W2Pud)

37 33 Kind of related, CNN had a scrolling story that Madmani is unveiling plans to counter anti-semitism.

No idea if offing himself is part of the plan.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 30, 2026 03:41 PM (Sco7b)

=======

He's putting his wife in charge of the antisemitism committee and staffing the rest with reform gay Jewish rabbis who are all women.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:42 PM (U/fqy)

38 >>Why can't Abdu be deported?

Who will terrorize the Native Population if you deport these people?
Who!?

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 03:42 PM (vNne8)

39 8
Soap box
Ballot box
Ammo b...

Forget it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 03:35 PM (jLZLb)

Kleenex box...

Posted by: Jihadi Union of Great Britain at September 30, 2026 03:42 PM (l3cgK)

40 The Blade, he also does not care if all migrant hotels are burned down

Posted by: Elric The Blade

At this point, the only option is to burn down all of the hotels and burn them out.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 03:42 PM (0U5gm)

41 Kind of related, CNN had a scrolling story that Madmani is unveiling plans to counter anti-semitism.

No idea if offing himself is part of the plan.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 30, 2026 03:41 PM (Sco7b)

Certain 20th Century German Leaders had similar plans.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:42 PM (uhVAy)

42 29 You get what you tolerate.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (zTJFr)

You get what you encourage.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 03:42 PM (l3cgK)

43 When the bobbies actually fear they won't make it home to their beds at night, then I'll have hope for England.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 03:43 PM (3cUTc)

44 She pled guilty of inciting racial hatred and was sentenced to two years and seven months in prison, of which she served 40 percent. The original charge was even harsher and would have landed her in jail for 42 months, which is why she took the plea.
________________________________

A good example of not considering what is "Right" and "Wrong", but what is "best for me personally." I would have been inclined to fight the original charges and roll the dice on the possible sentence. These folks in the UK haven't yet figured out they are past the point where keeping one's head down is an appropriate strategy.

Become the Martyr. Publicize that sacrifice. Build the f*cking ranks of defiance. Even her statement was not definitive. She just showed indifference....and still it fell within the flexible realm of "hate speech."

"Burn down the hotels for all I care"

That is indifference. It is a removal from the discussion, not a definitive call for violence. Who the f*ck was her attorney?

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 03:43 PM (dIske)

45 42 29 You get what you tolerate.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (zTJFr)

You get what you encourage.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 03:42 PM (l3cgK)

========

I encourage the threesome with Dolley and Alexandra Daddario, and yet...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:43 PM (U/fqy)

46 Wouldn't Labour call a snap election if they thought they could a majority in Parliament with only a third of the vote like last time?

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 03:43 PM (/OKHJ)

47 My poor dude would have turned around in horror to see me trying to Ziva this guy if he'd stood up and confronted me. I ignored him all through lunch and didn't look his way. He was baiting us.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (hzuYO)

Shoulda dumped a drink in his bangers and mash, and then called Jeremy Clarkson to stop in.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:43 PM (GYqb1)

48 Wait. Lucy was imprisoned for a TWEET?

Tell me that’s not real.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 03:41 PM (W2Pud)

tens of thousands are in the UK. It's super democratic that way.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:43 PM (uhVAy)

49 "We're going to unlock this country's generosity, you disgusting bigots."

Posted by: Burnham at September 30, 2026 03:44 PM (2ap+5)

50 Tell me that’s not real.

Posted by: nurse ratched

It is real. Take a look for several similar police encounters. The crime is called 'noticing', I believe.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 03:44 PM (0U5gm)

51 The woman was reacting to the stabbing of little kids incident, and the tweet was only up for a very short period and seen by very few people.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 03:44 PM (xPxza)

52 Akbar Britain

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 03:44 PM (x8rTv)

53 What rhymes with Abdu?

Subdue.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2026 03:44 PM (wWIcc)

54 46 Wouldn't Labour call a snap election if they thought they could a majority in Parliament with only a third of the vote like last time?

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 03:43 PM (/OKHJ)

========

They have the largest majority since like the 80s. They have something like 67% of the chamber.

And it's unclear if they could get the same arrangement with the Tories to work together to kill Reform and Restore like they did in 2024, all while Labour's popularity has nose-dived since.

I mean...they could try it.

It probably wouldn't work, but they could try it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:44 PM (U/fqy)

55 If the UK wasn't being run by a cabal of anti-white, child-raping pedos in the thrall of muslims, what would they be doing differently?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (3cUTc)

56 In idle moments, I muse about things like how people don't really think about Dinosaur Jr. any more, if they ever did. J Mascis (guitar, vocals, songwriting) might even be better known now for his signature Squier Jazzmaster. I don't even play guitar, but YouTubers commonly praise it as a "best value" -- even though it's Squier's most expensive guitar, that's Fender's budget line, so it's carefully positioned beneath the cheapest Fender-branded guitar.

And then my mind wanders to how, if New Yorkers don't wake up and vote their interests, pretty soon any attempt to discuss him in New York City will be shouted down by weird-beards screaming that his devil music is haram, and it's Islamophobic to defy Sharia in a land claimed for Allah. I don't want to have to think about the politics of everything; but Marxists and Muslims stick their noses into every little bit of everyone's business, and there is no escaping it anymore.

What J Mascis used to be known for, from their second album You're Living All Over Me (1987):

Dinosaur Jr. - Little Fury Things (Video)
https://youtu.be/4WAFdBU88bg

What he's known for now:
https://www.fender.com/products/j-mascis-jazzmaster

Posted by: SciVo at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (ke3zm)

57 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (ccf/V)

58 There's a whole lot more the British citizens have to be afraid of than just sticking to the road and staying off the moors. They are well and truly bleeped.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (qBdHI)

59 Needs more opiate of the masses!

Saudi Arabia Reportedly Set to Build $9 Million Mosque in Cuba

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (ndZc7)

60 There are tens of thousands of people in UK prisons for posting things online that the left doesn't like posted.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (0U5gm)

61 Our speech is violence.

Their violence is speech.

Silly man.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (ccf/V)

62 I believe our Prime Directive now, here, is Don’t Be Britain.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (Gqar8)

63 32 Normal brits should remember they immigrated from Saxon areas in 500 AD and Norse areas in 800 AD and Norman areas in 1050AD.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (uhVAy)

Not the Welsh. Nobody knows where they came from. Nobody can understand a word they speak or spell, either.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:41 PM (GYqb1)

The other night I overheard three very hefty women talking
Their accent appeared to be Scottish, so I approached them and asked: "Hello, are you three lassies from Scotland?"

One of them angrily screeched: "It's Wales, Wales you bloody idiot!"

So I apologized and replied: "I am so sorry. Are you three whales from Scotland?"

And that's the last thing I remember.

Posted by: Whales from Wales at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (l3cgK)

64 43 When the bobbies actually fear they won't make it home to their beds at night, then I'll have hope for England.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 03:43 PM (3cUTc)

They DO already. They fear the muzz. That's why they placate them. If they were packing, the calculus might be different.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (GYqb1)

65 Not the Welsh. Nobody knows where they came from. Nobody can understand a word they speak or spell, either.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:41 PM (GYqb1)

Celts aren't native there either. And if you go back farther indications are that at some point nobody was from there.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (uhVAy)

66 Spain came back.

It took 700 years, but it came back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

And it's being lost yet again.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
.......

Time for Reconquista II

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (UjdFS)

67 There are men of the UK who want to fight but have no guns. I reckon that's why. They do appear in numbers,or did after Kirk was killed, for freedom of speech.

Plus they are very quickly being over run with barbarians who are producing more of the same jihadi inbreds like rabbits on Viagra.

Outnumbered and helpless unless you have a handy Narwhal tusk.

Heaven forbid if you are throw the raciss card!

Rise up and fight! This is why I'd better stay home.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (hzuYO)

68 24 I don't understand how these Brits can be quite so stupid. They sent soldiers to Iraq, FFS. And not one of them can point to a single thing any of these "immigrants" have brought to England except misery.

I don't get it in this country, either, but at least most of us don't love these goat humpers.

Do they really think the crocodile will eat them last?
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (GYqb1

------

Entire political class is paid of by the arabs.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 30, 2026 03:46 PM (DbmIv)

69 55 If the UK wasn't being run by a cabal of anti-white, child-raping pedos in the thrall of muslims, what would they be doing differently?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (3cUTc)

====

"Implying that anyone is anti-white in the West is evidence that you adhere to the friend enemy distinction which is not allowed and evil. Which makes you my enemy against my friends on the left, and I will destroy you."
-Erick Erickson

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:46 PM (U/fqy)

70 I'm starting to think Rhodesia was the demarcation for the end of the West.

A vibrant, prosperous country was destroyed because the people ruling over the West felt bad about being successful.

I will note that Rhodesia was mostly empty until the Rhodesians came there. Most of the black population came to the country because of its prosperity. They were not natives whose land was stolen by the WHITE DEVIL.

But it didn't matter. The white devil was the problem so Rhodesia had to be destroyed.

(Some might argue that giving up India was the beginning. Maybe so. But it didn't involve the same destruction.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 03:46 PM (N1DT3)

71 I think part of the reason for this goatfucker's short sentence for burning down a hotel for illegal migrants is that nobody really gives a shit about illegals. Not even in the UK.

They claimp they care, and they make illegals a protected class, but that's only because they're making bank and power off them. As soon as they're expendable, away they go.

Sorta like in Chicago how nobody cares about dead gangbangers. Cops who arrest gangbangers who murdered another gangbanger secretly approve of the murder. These murderers won't be prosecuted with any vigor, and won't get harsh prison sentences.

I think a similar sort of thing is going on in UK. Nobody cares about illegal-on-illegal violence.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

72
When a foreigner comes to our country how long do wait to apply for citizenship?

I think it should be many years. Monitor their associations and social media.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 03:46 PM (/QHx4)

73 They have the largest majority since like the 80s. They have something like 67% of the chamber.

And it's unclear if they could get the same arrangement with the Tories to work together to kill Reform and Restore like they did in 2024, all while Labour's popularity has nose-dived since.

I mean...they could try it.

It probably wouldn't work, but they could try it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

They are losing seats with every by-election that happens, but it is a slow bleed.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 03:46 PM (0U5gm)

74 I will not tolerate infestation!!

https://youtu.be/KSQzztaWbik

Posted by: Frank Costanza at September 30, 2026 03:46 PM (zTJFr)

75 45 42 29 You get what you tolerate.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (zTJFr)

You get what you encourage.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 03:42 PM (l3cgK)

========

I encourage the threesome with Dolley and Alexandra Daddario, and yet...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:43 PM (U/fqy)

Run the Gov't first...

Posted by: Whales from Wales at September 30, 2026 03:46 PM (l3cgK)

76 73 They are losing seats with every by-election that happens, but it is a slow bleed.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 03:46 PM (0U5gm)

==========

Going from a majority of 180 seats to a majority of 160 seats isn't even a rounding error.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:47 PM (U/fqy)

77 I believe our Prime Directive now, here, is Don’t Be Britain.
Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (Gqar

That was always the US's prime directive. Which is why I was always suspicious of Masterpiece Theatre fanboys.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:47 PM (uhVAy)

78 The US can't do this (1st amendment) but UK and Europe should do the following.

1. Ban hate speech. Muzzies will be all in. it will protect islam and be seen as blasphemy.

2. Ban the koran and mosques as hate speech. Sorry goat-fuckers, you gotta go.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 03:47 PM (xPxza)

79 Don't look at what the Brits are doing as standard police work.

Look at it as a regime cracking down on a people it has conquered.

And then everything they are doing makes sense.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:47 PM (sKqQm)

80 What do we do about the migrant hotels, Burnham?

Sounds like a good idea.

Posted by: Burnham at September 30, 2026 03:47 PM (2ap+5)

81 Wait. Lucy was imprisoned for a TWEET?

Tell me that’s not real.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 03:41 PM (W2Pud)

VERY Real.

Britain imprisons white people for HURTY WORDS!! at a rate much higher than actual violence by the brown replacements.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 03:48 PM (N1DT3)

82 50 Tell me that’s not real.

Posted by: nurse ratched

It is real. Take a look for several similar police encounters. The crime is called 'noticing', I believe.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 03:44 PM (0U5gm)

From the country that arrested a woman for praying silently on a bench across the street from a baby abattoir...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 03:48 PM (l3cgK)

83 I wondered why the British porn turned brown for some reason......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:48 PM (ccf/V)

84 I encourage the threesome with Dolley and Alexandra Daddario, and yet...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:43 PM (U/fqy)

God is looking out for you on this one. At our age, that could be fatal.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:48 PM (GYqb1)

85 53 What rhymes with Abdu?

Subdue.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2026 03:44 PM (wWIcc)

Fondue?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 03:48 PM (l3cgK)

86 9 Once again we see the wisdom of the Founders in enshrining the Right to Bear Arms in our Constitution.

There's little the subjugated populace of formerly great Britain can do against their rulers and their military-age replacement population.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 03:36 PM (N1DT3)

-------

Plenty of revolutions occur without arms.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 30, 2026 03:48 PM (DbmIv)

87 Needs more opiate of the masses!

Saudi Arabia Reportedly Set to Build $9 Million Mosque in Cuba
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (ndZc7)

Sigh

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 03:49 PM (jLZLb)

88 Speaking of burning out invaders, Ireland hasn't been in the news recently.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 30, 2026 03:49 PM (vJrRc)

89 >>I muse about things like how people don't really think about Dinosaur Jr. any more, if they ever did. J Mascis (guitar, vocals, songwriting) might even be better known now for his signature Squier Jazzmaster. I don't even play guitar, but YouTubers commonly praise it as a "best value" -- even though it's Squier's most expensive guitar, that's Fender's budget line, so it's carefully positioned beneath the cheapest Fender-branded guitar

I sent a Dinosaur Jr and Sebadoh LP out in the mail just about 2 hours ago.

'You're Living All Over Me' is arguably the greatest true indie LP ever made.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 03:49 PM (vNne8)

90 Normal brits should remember they immigrated from Saxon areas in 500 AD and Norse areas in 800 AD and Norman areas in 1050AD.
Posted by: Oldcat

They'll be a "Stolen Lands" acknowledgement before the headbanging starts at the Mosque this weekend.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 03:49 PM (Y8DZL)

91 Fondue?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 03:48 PM (l3cgK)

Butt goo?

Posted by: Burnham at September 30, 2026 03:49 PM (2ap+5)

92 Britain has more political prisoners then Russia, or if you believe their numbers, China

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

93 Britain enables hate speech laws.

islhamists declare whites use hate speech.

UK Police approach the white, harasses them then arrests them with no evidence whatsoever.

islhamists f*ck goats in celebration.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:49 PM (ccf/V)

94
84 I encourage the threesome with Dolley and Alexandra Daddario, and yet...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:43 PM (U/fqy)

God is looking out for you on this one. At our age, that could be fatal.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:48 PM (GYqb1)

=======

I found someone who hasn't liked and subscribed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:49 PM (U/fqy)

95 They both got the same sentence.**
--

Words have meaning doncha know?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 03:49 PM (nqf1u)

96 But it didn't matter. The white devil was the problem so Rhodesia had to be destroyed.

(Some might argue that giving up India was the beginning. Maybe so. But it didn't involve the same destruction.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Rhodesia was the blueprint of the marxist plan to destroy the west, and remarkably successful. India was different, because it became immediately apparent that a country that was half mohammedan and half not would immediately start shooting, as the mohammedan half will not tolerate any other government.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 03:49 PM (0U5gm)

97 24 I don't understand how these Brits can be quite so stupid. They sent soldiers to Iraq, FFS. And not one of them can point to a single thing any of these "immigrants" have brought to England except misery.

I don't get it in this country, either, but at least most of us don't love these goat humpers.

Do they really think the crocodile will eat them last?
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (GYqb1

------

Entire political class is paid of by the arabs.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 30, 2026 03:46 PM (DbmIv)

Their army was declining in the East West Germany days and was let to become risible with time and is now a joke. Their special forces should defect to Jamaica or Bermuda.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:50 PM (uhVAy)

98 I encourage the threesome with Dolley and Alexandra Daddario, and yet...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:43 PM (U/fqy)

When Dolley starts asking AI the best way to bury a body so no one finds it we will know why now

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:50 PM (sKqQm)

99
God is looking out for you on this one. At our age, that could be fatal.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:48 PM (GYqb1)

He's basically still a yute.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:50 PM (ccf/V)

100 Wait. Lucy was imprisoned for a TWEET?

Tell me that’s not real.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 03:41 PM (W2Pud)

tens of thousands are in the UK. It's super democratic that way.
Posted by: Oldcat

Geez! Rockin' Robin is in a shit load of trouble.

He rocks in the treetop all the day long
Hoppin' and a-boppin' and a-singin' his song
All the little birds on Jay Bird Street
Love to hear the robin go tweet-tweet-tweet

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 03:51 PM (ndZc7)

101 Wait. Lucy was imprisoned for a TWEET?

Tell me that’s not real.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 03:41 PM (W2Pud)

tens of thousands are in the UK. It's super democratic that way.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:43 PM (uhVAy)
_________

UK doesn't have free speech the way we recognize it.

Plus, the UK pretends it's not prosecuting speech, but incitement to violence. A kinda "yelling fire in a crowded theater" bullshit.

Of course, it's only native whites who ever get prosecuted for such incitement.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 03:51 PM (iFTx/)

102 94
84 I encourage the threesome with Dolley and Alexandra Daddario, and yet...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:43 PM (U/fqy)

God is looking out for you on this one. At our age, that could be fatal.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:48 PM (GYqb1)

=======

I found someone who hasn't liked and subscribed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:49 PM (U/fqy)

Have you ever considered resurrecting The Daily Daddario, TJM? Asking for a friend. Aw hell, who am I kidding?

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:51 PM (Gqar8)

103

Check this out.

Of course she has pics of her with dogs in pubs.

How does one become such a revolting hypocrite...money? Power?

And it's a prog bitch to go along with it.

Lots of crazy shit going on over there.

GB Politics
@GBPolitcs
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Sep 28
🚨NEW: Labour minister Jenny Riddell-Carpenter claims that visions of Britain based on warm ale, pubs and black Labradors are a "far-right fantasy" that "never really existed"

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at September 30, 2026 03:52 PM (VuTBl)

104 Shoulda dumped a drink in his bangers and mash, and then called Jeremy Clarkson to stop in.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:43 PM (GYqb1)

********
This jerk was talking loudly with three others a table away once he heard our accents. No one else in my family heard him. I am aware of stuff others aren't. I always tell my dude he'd better hope I am with him if something bad goes down to give details to eye color and what they were wearing.

My face does not change with the laser look. No one but this eejit saw it. I met his gaze when I stood and walked past their table.

My husband and sons know the look, but not many others have seen it. I can bore holes in walls and never am the person to look away.

This shrinking coward did and I was basically telling him without words that I heard him and did not like it.

I could now be arrested for this I reckon.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 03:52 PM (hzuYO)

105 If only the American werewolf in London had been around today, he could easily get arrested for publicly insulting the muzzies.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 03:52 PM (77rzZ)

106 I don't understand how these Brits can be quite so stupid. They sent soldiers to Iraq, FFS. And not one of them can point to a single thing any of these "immigrants" have brought to England except misery.

From what I can tell the Brits are being inactive because:

1) Being called rayciss is literally the worst thing in the world that can happen to you

2) If they take action someone might get rid of the NHS even though none of the immigration movements/politicians are even suggesting they'd do so

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

107 I wondered why the British porn turned brown for some reason......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:48 PM (ccf/V)

its the beans on toast.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:52 PM (uhVAy)

108 90 Normal brits should remember they immigrated from Saxon areas in 500 AD and Norse areas in 800 AD and Norman areas in 1050AD.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Didn't the original Brits flee to Ireland?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 03:52 PM (nqf1u)

109 Saudi Arabia Reportedly Set to Build $9 Million Mosque in Cuba

All the existing weapon storage buildings have crumbled to pieces there.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 03:52 PM (Y8DZL)

110 60 There are tens of thousands of people in UK prisons for posting things online that the left doesn't like posted.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (0U5gm)

We've already had a taste of this with the J6 political prisoners. The Dems take over and we will rapidly become the UK.

Posted by: Tyrants at heart at September 30, 2026 03:53 PM (TbWk/)

111 Interesting immigration news:

https://tinyurl.com/4hdvx8wf

"Immigration judge rules Salah Sarsour can be deported on national security grounds

An immigration judge ruled that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security can deport Salah Sarsour, who is president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and advocate of Palestinian rights, but rejected allegations that the man lied on his application for a green card."

Trump is deporting people with green cards as national security threats now.

Kamala would have done it but better, you know.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:53 PM (U/fqy)

112 If they take action someone might get rid of the NHS even though none of the immigration movements/politicians are even suggesting they'd do so
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

The powers don't care about the NHS. They have real doctors for their woes.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:53 PM (uhVAy)

113 Plenty of revolutions occur without arms.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 30, 2026 03:48 PM (DbmIv)

Plenty? Name 2.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 03:53 PM (N1DT3)

114 I encourage the threesome with Dolley and Alexandra Daddario, and yet...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:43 PM (U/fqy)
________

Bro, don't you know that MFF is so last season? MMF is all the rage now, just ask those Cornell frat boys. Once you go gay, you'll never be in dismay!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

115 Scots are Celts with Kilts...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 03:54 PM (l3cgK)

116 114 Bro, don't you know that MFF is so last season? MMF is all the rage now, just ask those Cornell frat boys. Once you go gay, you'll never be in dismay!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

========

I'll have to take your word on that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:54 PM (U/fqy)

117 65 Not the Welsh. Nobody knows where they came from. Nobody can understand a word they speak or spell, either.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:41 PM (GYqb1)

Celts aren't native there either. And if you go back farther indications are that at some point nobody was from there.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:45 PM (uhVAy)

That's true of Europe as well, but I know there were people in England during the previous ice age, when a great deal of the land between England and France was not under water. So, at least about 12,000 years ago.

The Celts probably got there after the ice age was over, and probably came from northern Europe, but they were isolated in England long enough to become their own crazy people. Hibernia was always a bit harsh.

The Welsh? I believe they are considered the actual Britons, and were mostly displaced by the Angles, the Saxons, and eventually the Normans. But they are just as odd as the Celts.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:54 PM (GYqb1)

118 UK is not redeemable.

Posted by: mr tmz at September 30, 2026 03:54 PM (rJ48h)

119 Normal brits should remember they immigrated from Saxon areas in 500 AD and Norse areas in 800 AD and Norman areas in 1050AD.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Didn't the original Brits flee to Ireland?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 03:52 PM (nqf1u)

Celts were driven to the West hilly areas and the North, but they weren't the original inhabitants either.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:54 PM (uhVAy)

120 No one ever mentions the Picts anymore. Where have all the Picts gone?

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:54 PM (Gqar8)

121 Didn't the original Brits flee to Ireland?

My understanding is that the Welsh are mostly the pre-Germanic British population. and Britain is a mix of those people, Germans, and Scandis.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)

122 Sep 28
🚨NEW: Labour minister Jenny Riddell-Carpenter claims that visions of Britain based on warm ale, pubs and black Labradors are a "far-right fantasy" that "never really existed"

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at September 30, 2026 03:52 PM (VuTBl)

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.--George Orwell

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 03:55 PM (l3cgK)

123 An immigration judge ruled that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security can deport Salah Sarsour, who is president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and advocate of Palestinian rights, but rejected allegations that the man lied on his application for a green card."

Trump is deporting people with green cards as national security threats now.

Kamala would have done it but better, you know.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:53 PM (U/fqy)

Now do Linda Sarsour.....at least I think that's her name. That bitch should be launched out of the country via trebuchet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:56 PM (ccf/V)

124 >>🚨NEW: Labour minister Jenny Riddell-Carpenter claims that visions of Britain based on warm ale, pubs and black Labradors are a "far-right fantasy" that "never really existed"

What 'arm could come uv lettin'm wear trousers? Go on.

Posted by: Brits back then at September 30, 2026 03:56 PM (vNne8)

125 122
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.--George Orwell

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 03:55 PM (l3cgK)

=

"That dude is a fascist because he doesn't support communism."
-DSA

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:56 PM (U/fqy)

126 When will they stop treating islam as a race? If I revert to Islam, have I changed my race?

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 30, 2026 03:56 PM (GMWTj)

127 The Welsh? I believe they are considered the actual Britons, and were mostly displaced by the Angles, the Saxons, and eventually the Normans. But they are just as odd as the Celts.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:54 PM (GYqb1)

The invaders certainly looted most of the vowel supply.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:56 PM (uhVAy)

128 The Arab oil money bought the UK long ago. They wouldn't have an economy without it.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 03:56 PM (QwZKw)

129 Bro, don't you know that MFF is so last season? MMF is all the rage now, just ask those Cornell frat boys. Once you go gay, you'll never be in dismay!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

Meh.....I will continue to attempt kickin' it old school, then.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:56 PM (ccf/V)

130 No one ever mentions the Picts anymore. Where have all the Picts gone?

They're in a cave with several species of small furry animals.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 03:57 PM (/OKHJ)

131 88 Speaking of burning out invaders, Ireland hasn't been in the news recently.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 30, 2026 03:49 PM (vJrRc)

*********
Cork and Dublin seemed like blue cities here with tattoos and piercings and faggots.

Maybe the farmers outnumber them, but these were the men I noted in pubs and when we were walking around. And,yes, I still look as I am not yet dead.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 03:57 PM (hzuYO)

132 120 No one ever mentions the Picts anymore. Where have all the Picts gone?

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:54 PM (Gqar

Digital. You no longer see analog Picts from old-style cameras.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 03:57 PM (l3cgK)

133 The celts also used to control most of central Europe - there were celtic battles with the classic Greeks for example

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:57 PM (sKqQm)

134 No one ever mentions the Picts anymore. Where have all the Picts gone?
Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:54 PM (Gqar

They got the blues. Woad is them.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:58 PM (uhVAy)

135 I fear the West is going to give up on EU just as the West gave up on Constantinople.

Listen guys, we can't keep moving West and rebuilding our capitals as the satanists invade and take over. I am all in on full reconquista. Back to the dessert for them all.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 03:58 PM (xPxza)

136 The only party willing to do what is needed is restore with Rupert Lowe.

Yeah. On Reform vs. Restore, I keep going back to Chesterton in Eugenics and Other Evils that “At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; but nobody talks about repeal.”

Hopefully for Britain, Lowe can get some traction with Restore.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 30, 2026 03:58 PM (kYmoU)

137 I learned something new....and disturbing.......

MFF refers to the Midwest Fur Fest where all the furry freaks gather and share their perversions........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:58 PM (ccf/V)

138 My understanding is that the Welsh are mostly the pre-Germanic British population. and Britain is a mix of those people, Germans, and Scandis.
Posted by: 18-1

There's speculation among linguists that the native Celtic population was on its way to developing its own variety of Latin, which would have become its own Romance language if not for the Anglo-Saxon conquest.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 03:58 PM (77rzZ)

139 Do they really think the crocodile will eat them last?

They are content to be the little birds that eat the detritus out of the crocodiles' teeth.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 30, 2026 03:58 PM (vTZFs)

140 The celts also used to control most of central Europe - there were celtic battles with the classic Greeks for example
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:57 PM (sKqQm)

The area in modern Central Turkey was Celtic in Roman times...Galatia after "Gauls"

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:58 PM (uhVAy)

141 I could now be arrested for this I reckon.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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My mom could walk into and out of a room and describe the
complete scene; men, women, where seated, what they were wearing, the decor, everything. Not a photographic memory
just visual acuity.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 03:59 PM (nqf1u)

142 Where have all the Picts gone?

-
Long time passing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 03:59 PM (ndZc7)

143 > The Arab oil money bought the UK long ago. They wouldn't have an economy without it.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 03:56 PM (QwZKw

The hell you say.

Posted by: Manchester City F.C. at September 30, 2026 03:59 PM (rJ48h)

144 The left occasionally attempts to argue that the last round of immigrants is contributing I think I saw recently arguments Somalis built Minneapolis and Haitians Boston but mostly they address the question of "how are immigrants improving my life" with an answer of "why are you racist?"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:59 PM (sKqQm)

145 No one ever mentions the Picts anymore. Where have all the Picts gone?
Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:54 PM

You asked for it...........

https://youtu.be/cYfxdFZkM5Y

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 04:00 PM (ccf/V)

146 I learned something new....and disturbing.......

MFF refers to the Midwest Fur Fest where all the furry freaks gather and share their perversions........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:58 PM (ccf/V)

Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Posted by: LASue at September 30, 2026 04:00 PM (lCppi)

147 In twenty years' time, schools will teach that in 1066, muslims came to rescue the UK and it has been islamic ever since.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 30, 2026 04:00 PM (GMWTj)

148 Long overdue change. Try getting into Israel without having security look you in the eye......repeatedly. And even before you take off from the U.S.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
·
23h
NEW: TSA confirms to
@FoxNews
that they are taking chairs away from TSA officers checking IDs/travel documents at security lines at airports in an effort to improve vigilance and hospitality by having officers stand and look passengers in the eye while interacting. A TSA spokesperson tells FOX that the officers are on 15 minute rotations checking IDs and helping passengers through scanners, then get 30 minutes sitting down in a chair at the X-Ray machine to scan for luggage. TSA will now mandate that the officers checking travel documents remain standing for their rotation.

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 04:00 PM (kX27y)

149 When will they stop treating islam as a race? If I revert to Islam, have I changed my race?

No, but other Muslims will never consider you their equal.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 30, 2026 04:00 PM (vTZFs)

150 I'm of English and Irish ancestry. Their histories are amazing.
If they don't care about being overrun, then I can't care either. Pull out of NATO and let them fight for themselves

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 04:00 PM (jivel)

151
They're in a cave with several species of small furry animals.
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 03:57 PM (/OKHJ)

Heh.

*fistbump*

You beat me to it......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 04:01 PM (ccf/V)

152 Back to the dessert for them all.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)

Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Moore, and Stacey Abrams convert to Islam.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 04:01 PM (77rzZ)

153 That woman got jail time for saying she didn't care about something??!! That is so completely insane. I hope she flees the UK as soon as she's able.

Posted by: LASue at September 30, 2026 04:01 PM (lCppi)

154 Labour minister Jenny Riddell-Carpenter claims that visions of Britain based on warm ale, pubs and black Labradors are a "far-right fantasy" that "never really existed"

The one time I went to Britain, back in about 1995, it was to Birmingham; I went a couple of miles out of the city into the countryside, and this was literally what the pubs were: warm ale, dogs running free (mostly black), and kids running everywhere (mostly British).

And everyone talking a dialect of English that was absolutely incomprehensible.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 30, 2026 04:01 PM (kYmoU)

155 Not So Great Britain

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 04:01 PM (Ia/+0)

156 109 Saudi Arabia Reportedly Set to Build $9 Million Mosque in Cuba

All the existing weapon storage buildings have crumbled to pieces there.

Posted by: Auspex
----

Sick and tired of Islam. Just stay 'over there' and do what you want.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 04:01 PM (nqf1u)

157
Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Posted by: LASue at September 30, 2026 04:00 PM (lCppi)

Damn internet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 04:01 PM (ccf/V)

158 THE FAILURE OF RAINFURREST

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=GmULc5VANsw

Posted by: Internet Historian at September 30, 2026 04:01 PM (vNne8)

159 I fear the West is going to give up on EU just as the West gave up on Constantinople.

Listen guys, we can't keep moving West and rebuilding our capitals as the satanists invade and take over. I am all in on full reconquista. Back to the dessert for them all.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 03:58 PM (xPxza)

I see the modern realignment of the world as isolating the EU axis while pressuring them to reform. Trumps Western Hemisphere cleanup, the new Mideast alliances. Somebody will have to clean up Australia and NZ of the poison.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:01 PM (uhVAy)

160 England is a fag country.

Posted by: Archie Bunker at September 30, 2026 04:02 PM (PMpfL)

161

Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 04:02 PM (ccf/V)

162 The UK is done. It is not when they come back if. That will be decades from now at best. But that is not going to happen unless we invade.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 30, 2026 04:02 PM (UkV2l)

163 I'm of English and Irish ancestry. Their histories are amazing.
If they don't care about being overrun, then I can't care either. Pull out of NATO and let them fight for themselves
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 04:00 PM (jivel)

Sadly we need to have a hand in NATO to reduce the chance of them doing something stupid with it.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:03 PM (uhVAy)

164 One thing I'll see for Islam, they definitely frown on MMF relations.

MFFFF is apparently ok though.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 04:03 PM (sKqQm)

165 >>I don't understand how these Brits can be quite so stupid. They sent soldiers to Iraq, FFS. And not one of them can point to a single thing any of these "immigrants" have brought to England except misery.

They have been heavily (HEAVILY) indoctrinated to think that islam is not a threat. That islam was a more advanced civilization than the West in the past and that muslims are just like them, only with better food.

Same as over here where they teach kids that gays or trans are "born that way" or "guns are bad" or "abortion is women's healthcare".

They believe this in their bones and only realize it is a lie when their head is about to come off. The elite believe it more than anyone else because they never have to smell them or fear them on the upper deck of a bus.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 04:03 PM (xPxza)

166 159 I see the modern realignment of the world as isolating the EU axis while pressuring them to reform. Trumps Western Hemisphere cleanup, the new Mideast alliances. Somebody will have to clean up Australia and NZ of the poison.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:01 PM (uhVAy)

========

Iran seems to have been one of the central nexuses of radical Islam across the world, so it'll be interesting what will happen over time as Iran's ability to project power through funding terrorism outside it's own borders will reshape geopolitics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:04 PM (U/fqy)

167 The UK is done. It is not when they come back if. That will be decades from now at best. But that is not going to happen unless we invade.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 30, 2026 04:02 PM (UkV2l)

There's an old saying "There's a lot of ruin in a country". They can come back if we can get them to act, because their current rulers can't rule.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:04 PM (uhVAy)

168 Said many times spent 2 years in England, sad to see it turned into Englandstan

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 04:04 PM (Ia/+0)

169 >>One thing I'll see for Islam, they definitely frown on MMF relations.

Not if you are Honor Raping.

Then, it's M(x)F. Where the Value of x is the number of Male relatives in your village.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:04 PM (vNne8)

170 Trump is deporting people with green cards as national security threats now.

Call me when I. Omar is boarding the plane.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 04:04 PM (nqf1u)

171 And everyone talking a dialect of English that was absolutely incomprehensible.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

I had a coworker who went to visit relatives in the far north of Scotland. Said he could not understand them even though they were speaking English.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 04:04 PM (77rzZ)

172 Great Shitain.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 04:04 PM (ccf/V)

173 One thing I'll see for Islam, they definitely frown on MMF relations.

MFFFF is apparently ok though.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 04:03 PM (sKqQm)

MG.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 04:05 PM (ccf/V)

174 >>Iran seems to have been one of the central nexuses of radical Islam across the world, so it'll be interesting what will happen over time as Iran's ability to project power through funding terrorism outside it's own borders will reshape geopolitics.

A lot of it will depend on how many of the IRGC we let survive to burrow into places like Oman and Qatar.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:05 PM (vNne8)

175 145 No one ever mentions the Picts anymore. Where have all the Picts gone?
Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:54 PM

Joe Mannix is too busy to post.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 04:06 PM (Y8DZL)

176 Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Moore, and Stacey Abrams convert to Islam.
Posted by: Bulg

Yeah, I saw that as I hit Post. Thanks.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 04:06 PM (xPxza)

177 I'm starting to understand the absolute surprise on Brits who showed up in the US for the World Cup and couldn't rap their heads around the gregarious and self-less nature of Amereicans.

If we end up seeing someone getting jailed for an indifferent tweet, there are going to be masses questioning the act. More than that, there will be those organizing using the act as a rallying call because it is in the nature of "most" Americans to look past the individual, and grab onto the concept.

I don't think the British culture understands the tentacles of such a mentality. They don't understand socialality. Therefore, they look out for themselves and never look at the big picture attached to the act.

Short version: They're f*cked.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 04:06 PM (dIske)

178 Don't kid yourself, this is the exact same path we were on and if Democrats get back in power this is the path we will return too. Look at what Democrats did with illegal and legal immigration. Look at the mayor NYC. Omar, Talib. The Democrat nominee for senate in Michigan.

Yet another reason to vote. Even if you don't like the Republican in your district this is the alternative.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 04:06 PM (viF8m)

179 My concern is that Turkey will move in to fill the Iranian void and nothing much will change.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 04:06 PM (/OKHJ)

180 Iran seems to have been one of the central nexuses of radical Islam across the world, so it'll be interesting what will happen over time as Iran's ability to project power through funding terrorism outside it's own borders will reshape geopolitics.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:04 PM (U/fqy)

Well that's likely over now. Pretty much everyone has signed off on the destruction of that state. A quick recovery, partition, what lies next is the question.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:06 PM (uhVAy)

181 I rate this post as five "Yikes on Bikes!"

There's no saving the UK. We need to take away their access to nuclear weapons.

Posted by: Yikes On Bikes at September 30, 2026 04:07 PM (V362x)

182 I learned something new....and disturbing.......

MFF refers to the Midwest Fur Fest where all the furry freaks gather and share their perversions........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:58 PM (ccf/V)

Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Posted by: LASue at September 30, 2026 04:00 PM (lCppi)
_______

Just for s&g, I googled it. They aren't even trying to hide the festival is all creepy twinks and homos. It's the Fulsom Street fair in cartoon animal costumes.

ComicCons and Renfairs are packed with cute girls in revealing costumes. But MFF? Not a one.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 04:07 PM (iFTx/)

183 Formerly great Britain
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Now - Lousy Britain.
Next - Shithole Britain.

Posted by: DaveA at September 30, 2026 04:07 PM (FhXTo)

184 Rosie in a Burka, thank heaven

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 04:08 PM (Ia/+0)

185 174 A lot of it will depend on how many of the IRGC we let survive to burrow into places like Oman and Qatar.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:05 PM (vNne

=

I suspect just pulling back on Iran itself as a nation will affect things rather greatly.

Oil sales to China, gone. State sponsorship alongside safe haven and training grounds, gone. Most of the terror leadership, dead.

Some will survive and move on to other countries, but will they be able to recreate anything like they had in Iran?

If we take out 90% of Iran's ability to project terrorism out onto the world...what changes?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:08 PM (U/fqy)

186 Remember when that guy wrote Prayers for the Assassin with the western left converting to Islam in mass everyone thought it was a silly plot point and yet here we are...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 04:08 PM (sKqQm)

187 A lot of it will depend on how many of the IRGC we let survive to burrow into places like Oman and Qatar.
Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:05 PM (vNne

I think those states have flipped on the IGRC because they get to keep those funds. And the missile attacks I suppose.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:08 PM (uhVAy)

188 The crime is called 'noticing', I believe.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 03:44 PM

Aggravated Noticing.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 04:09 PM (4NO2D)

189 151
They're in a cave with several species of small furry animals.
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 03:57 PM (/OKHJ)

Heh.

*fistbump*

You beat me to it......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 04:01 PM (ccf/V)

THAT, explains Roger Watters.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 04:09 PM (Gqar8)

190 I just have this sinking feeling that the fun is going to start right after I have my next grabber.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 30, 2026 04:09 PM (wGerL)

191 176 Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Moore, and Stacey Abrams convert to Islam.
Posted by: Bulg

There's a threesome.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 30, 2026 04:09 PM (Sco7b)

192 155 Not So Great Britain

Posted by: Skip
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Commenter the other day said that Britain lost it when they gave up the colonies. He was right. It takes fortitude to run an empire and the British became soft and lazy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 04:09 PM (nqf1u)

193 >>If we take out 90% of Iran's ability to project terrorism out onto the world...what changes?

It's a whole new world.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:09 PM (vNne8)

194 Remember when that guy wrote Prayers for the Assassin with the western left converting to Islam in mass everyone thought it was a silly plot point and yet here we are...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 04:08 PM (sKqQm)

The Western Left went to Communism and all the Communist states died. Even the CCP went all free markety for a while.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:09 PM (uhVAy)

195 >>If we take out 90% of Iran's ability to project terrorism out onto the world...what changes?

Just think of the Billions we have to spend policing them....

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:10 PM (vNne8)

196 172 Great Shitain.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 04:04 PM (ccf/V)

I read that at first as Great Shitstain...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:10 PM (l3cgK)

197 193 >>If we take out 90% of Iran's ability to project terrorism out onto the world...what changes?

It's a whole new world.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:09 PM (vNne

=======

Imagine a world where 30-50% of US foreign policy isn't dictated by news derived from Palestinians using foreign aid to build tunnels.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:11 PM (U/fqy)

198 The nice thing is once America is muslim we can kill as many civilians we want anywhere at anytime with no repercussions. Rape too.

Allah be praised!

Posted by: Muhammed Abdullah Mohammed Mohammed at September 30, 2026 04:11 PM (PMpfL)

199 Commenter the other day said that Britain lost it when they gave up the colonies. He was right. It takes fortitude to run an empire and the British became soft and lazy.
Posted by: Braenyard

They really didn't have a choice. Post WWII they were broke. It also takes money to run an empire.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 04:11 PM (77rzZ)

200 The memo has gone out!

https://tinyurl.com/44sauf2j

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 04:11 PM (ndZc7)

201 Venezuela was a South American hotbed of Hezbollah. They helped Maduro run drugs and gangs into the US.

Not so much anymore.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 04:12 PM (viF8m)

202 Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Moore, and Stacey Abrams convert to Islam.
Posted by: Bulg

There's a threesome.
Posted by: Stateless

Ach! Brain bleach, stat!

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 04:12 PM (77rzZ)

203 We don't have to belong to NATO to control them. They are weak and feckless. Bring our atoms home from Britain, stop giving weapons to Ukraine and let them stew on it for a while.

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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 04:12 PM (nqf1u)

204 The crime is called 'noticing', I believe.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 03:44 PM

Aggravated Noticing.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 04:09 PM (4NO2D)

Aggravated Noticing While Parading. Death penalty.

Posted by: LASue at September 30, 2026 04:13 PM (lCppi)

205 Commenter the other day said that Britain lost it when they gave up the colonies. He was right. It takes fortitude to run an empire and the British became soft and lazy.
Posted by: Braenyard

They really didn't have a choice. Post WWII they were broke. It also takes money to run an empire.
Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 04:11 PM (77rzZ)

They were pretty broke, but not as bad as Germany and Japan. They went socialist though, and that ruined them. Once you get the ruling class to hate the country you are in a hell of a fix.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:13 PM (uhVAy)

206 203 We don't have to belong to NATO to control them. They are weak and feckless. Bring our atoms home from Britain, stop giving weapons to Ukraine and let them stew on it for a while.

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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 04:12 PM (nqf1u)

========

We stopped giving weapons to Ukraine more than a year ago. They're buying them from us now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:13 PM (U/fqy)

207 186 Remember when that guy wrote Prayers for the Assassin with the western left converting to Islam in mass everyone thought it was a silly plot point and yet here we are...
Posted by: 18-1

Robert Ferrigno. Old-school moron who would comment sometimes under his real name and sometimes "Rakkim".

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 04:13 PM (88C+u)

208 This is what happens when you give up your guns...

Then the only folks in your country who have guns, are the bad guys... ie criminals and the Government.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 04:14 PM (mP0Kj)

209 We don't have to belong to NATO to control them. They are weak and feckless. Bring our atoms home from Britain, stop giving weapons to Ukraine and let them stew on it for a while.

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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 04:12 PM (nqf1u)

We have stopped giving. The EU pays for weapons and gives them to the Ukies.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:14 PM (uhVAy)

210 The English given names are a clue as to the natue of the place. Sriously, hard to take them seriously.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 04:14 PM (Gqar8)

211 It is sort of amusing the left tells us that Europe got rich off of looting their colonies

But they still agree with the conventional wisdom that of course Europe gave up their colonies after WWII because they didn't have the money to keep them...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 04:14 PM (sKqQm)

212 191 176 Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Moore, and Stacey Abrams convert to Islam.
Posted by: Bulg

There's a threesome.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 30, 2026 04:09 PM (Sco7b)

I don't think the laws of physics would allow that to occur. I don't think they could get close enough to close the deal. But I like the idea of those harridans in big black bags.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 04:15 PM (GYqb1)

213 Imagine a world where 30-50% of US foreign policy isn't dictated by news derived from Palestinians using foreign aid to build tunnels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:11 PM (U/fqy)

And through UN aid in Lebanon.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:15 PM (uhVAy)

214 Warm Beer, Lousy Food, Shit Weather, Disarmed Populace, Weenie "King"

Posted by: Those are The Positives at September 30, 2026 04:15 PM (Fn+3X)

215 If I were king I would have already cut off all trade /cooperation with Spain and Britain. Of course almost half of our own country have the same attitude as those loser countries. Maybe I could offer them a citizen trade.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 04:15 PM (KC5Lt)

216 Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Moore, and Stacey Abrams convert to Islam.
Posted by: Bulg

There's a threesome.

Didn't a Chinese guy write a hit SF novel about just this problem..?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 04:15 PM (sKqQm)

217 212 191 176 Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Moore, and Stacey Abrams convert to Islam.
Posted by: Bulg

There's a threesome.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 30, 2026 04:09 PM (Sco7b)

I don't think the laws of physics would allow that to occur. I don't think they could get close enough to close the deal. But I like the idea of those harridans in big black bags.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 04:15 PM (GYqb1)

Their gravitational influence would cause them to merge into a black hole...
/raciiist!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:15 PM (l3cgK)

218 Was it ever really great?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 04:15 PM (Cqx++)

219
What will be The Moment when the UK has been taken over? They still have Reform and Restore parties, the royal family, the countryside, the Great British Baking Show, Lloyds of London, I could go on with institutions large, small, and British that are still standing. I can't imagine what the tipping point would be in a slow takeover. Easy to pinpoint things like the election of Hitler to Chancellor, the annihilation of the Romanovs, the Fall of the Wall in 1989. What's it gonna be in England?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 04:16 PM (mmrXZ)

220 I put it to the Socialists who gave up the Empire , they didn't wantvto run anything

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 04:16 PM (Ia/+0)

221 We stopped giving weapons to Ukraine more than a year ago. They're buying them from us now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:13 PM (U/fqy)

We already gave the $127 billion... so we are kinda paying for those weapons anywayz.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 04:16 PM (mP0Kj)

222 216 Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Moore, and Stacey Abrams convert to Islam.
Posted by: Bulg

There's a threesome.

Didn't a Chinese guy write a hit SF novel about just this problem..?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 04:15 PM (sKqQm)

Famous problem in physics: the three body problem...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:16 PM (l3cgK)

223 I see the modern realignment of the world as isolating the EU axis while pressuring them to reform. Trumps Western Hemisphere cleanup, the new Mideast alliances. Somebody will have to clean up Australia and NZ of the poison.

Posted by: Oldcat

I think the future state is the western hemisphere being self sufficient, with the rest of the world fighting for scraps and having no US navy to protect global shipping.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 04:16 PM (0U5gm)

224 Middling Britain?

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 04:16 PM (Gqar8)

225 Second crane falls onto house while trying to remove another crane that had fallen onto the roof

https://tinyurl.com/bdfzpkwj

-
Da fuq? Were they trying to lift a body positive AWFL out?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 04:16 PM (ndZc7)

226 Smit Machchar foils Omani co-pilot's attack and attempt crash plane on its flight to Tel Aviv.
If he was a real Scot he would have killed that Omani.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 04:17 PM (nqf1u)

227 212 191 176 Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Moore, and Stacey Abrams convert to Islam.
Posted by: Bulg

There's a threesome.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 30, 2026 04:09 PM (Sco7b)

I don't think the laws of physics would allow that to occur. I don't think they could get close enough to close the deal. But I like the idea of those harridans in big black bags.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 04:15 PM (GYqb1)

New definition of the Three Body Problem

Posted by: Physicist at September 30, 2026 04:17 PM (mP0Kj)

228

Good grief.

You can buy muzzie clothing on amazon.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 04:17 PM (/QHx4)

229 225 Second crane falls onto house while trying to remove another crane that had fallen onto the roof

https://tinyurl.com/bdfzpkwj

-
Da fuq? Were they trying to lift a body positive AWFL out?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 04:16 PM (ndZc7)

Just making sure to smash whatever the first crane missed...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:17 PM (l3cgK)

230 I hope the natives manage to take a bunch of prog traitors down with them, but honestly there are too many third worlders. Demographically they're doomed. Only hope for airstrip one is a foreign power to clean house.

Some fuckups you just cannot recover from.

However it falls apart, it'll be educational for us.

Posted by: heya at September 30, 2026 04:18 PM (Km6p/)

231 225 Second crane falls onto house while trying to remove another crane that had fallen onto the roof

https://tinyurl.com/bdfzpkwj

-
Da fuq? Were they trying to lift a body positive AWFL out?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 04:16 PM (ndZc7)

His Crane style is very weak...

Posted by: Kung Fu Master at September 30, 2026 04:18 PM (mP0Kj)

232 The Brits and the French laid the foundation for the shape of the modern Middle East at the end of WWI. If you aren't familiar with the Sykes Picot Agreement look it up.

Now instead of controlling the Middle East it is largely controlling them. Consequences.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 04:18 PM (viF8m)

233 229 225 Second crane falls onto house while trying to remove another crane that had fallen onto the roof

https://tinyurl.com/bdfzpkwj

-
Da fuq? Were they trying to lift a body positive AWFL out?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 04:16 PM (ndZc7)

Just making sure to smash whatever the first crane missed...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:17 PM (l3cgK)

Cranes don't miss...

Posted by: Denny Crane at September 30, 2026 04:19 PM (mP0Kj)

234 Prior to the Uke/Russian war , Britain hated the Russians just as much as Ukraine. And I don't know why.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 04:19 PM (KC5Lt)

235
Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Moore, and Stacey Abrams convert to Islam.
Posted by: Bulg

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

Speaking of, that ex-lefty Evan Barker is certain that Abdul el-Sayed is going to run for president. He'll undoubtedly become US Senator in Michigan, and she thinks he could even get in as soon as 2028.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 04:19 PM (mmrXZ)

236 228

Good grief.

You can buy muzzie clothing on amazon.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 04:17 PM (/QHx4)

And Haggis.Don’t forget the Haggis.Subscribe and Save!!!!?

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 04:19 PM (Gqar8)

237 Second crane falls onto house while trying to remove another crane that had fallen onto the roof

https://tinyurl.com/bdfzpkwj

-
Da fuq? Were they trying to lift a body positive AWFL out?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 04:16 PM (ndZc7)

His Crane style is very weak...
Posted by: Kung Fu Master

Big whooping.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 04:19 PM (77rzZ)

238 I think the future state is the western hemisphere being self sufficient, with the rest of the world fighting for scraps and having no US navy to protect global shipping.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 04:16 PM (0U5gm)

Nah, we probably will have to sail the Navy out to patrol choke points here and there. The new powers around there could certainly build small ships to rub out piracy and such.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:20 PM (uhVAy)

239 Wouldn'f be surprised if poating "Charles Martel" without commentary on Facebook would get you arrested by police in England.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at September 30, 2026 04:20 PM (cWLG3)

240 >>Second crane falls onto house while trying to remove another crane that had fallen onto the roof

But THIS crane, son. THIS crane is built on solid ground.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:20 PM (vNne8)

241 Prior to the Uke/Russian war , Britain hated the Russians just as much as Ukraine. And I don't know why.
Posted by: polynikes

Maybe it goes back to the Great Game?

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

242 Was it ever really great?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot

I recall from my childhood a newspaper cartoon of a proper English gentleman in his living room, before the fire. Over the mantel was part of a plaque that said ...Britain. The portion that said Great... was burning in the fireplace to keep him warm.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 04:20 PM (0U5gm)

243 236 228

Good grief.

You can buy muzzie clothing on amazon.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 04:17 PM (/QHx4)

And Haggis.Don’t forget the Haggis.Subscribe and Save!!!!?
Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 04:19 PM (Gqar

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Assuming it's made in China.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at September 30, 2026 04:20 PM (cWLG3)

244 I think the future state is the western hemisphere being self sufficient, with the rest of the world fighting for scraps and having no US navy to protect global shipping.

Posted by: Thomas Paine
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Hemispherical independence doesn't mean hermit kingdom.
There will be much trade with other parts of the world
we simply will not be dependent upon them.
He who rules the waves rules the world.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 04:21 PM (nqf1u)

245 Speaking of, that ex-lefty Evan Barker is certain that Abdul el-Sayed is going to run for president. He'll undoubtedly become US Senator in Michigan, and she thinks he could even get in as soon as 2028.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 04:19 PM (mmrXZ)

he's like 4 foot tall and dumb as a post. Thinking Hasan Piker is a bridge to power is really dumb.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:21 PM (uhVAy)

246 240 >>Second crane falls onto house while trying to remove another crane that had fallen onto the roof

But THIS crane, son. THIS crane is built on solid ground.
Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:20 PM (vNne

Did the second one catch on fire before it fell over?

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 04:21 PM (Gqar8)

247 I think the future state is the western hemisphere being self sufficient, with the rest of the world fighting for scraps and having no US navy to protect global shipping.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 04:16 PM (0U5gm)

I still think we should annex Canada, and Mexico... and everything down to OUR Canal...

Big Navy, and Guards at the Canal? now that there is some FINE border control.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 04:21 PM (mP0Kj)

248 >> Speaking of, that ex-lefty Evan Barker is certain that Abdul el-Sayed is going to run for president. He'll undoubtedly become US Senator in Michigan, and she thinks he could even get in as soon as 2028.

That's Retarded, Sir.

Posted by: Trayvon's GF at September 30, 2026 04:21 PM (vNne8)

249 Prior to the Uke/Russian war , Britain hated the Russians just as much as Ukraine. And I don't know why.
Posted by: polynikes

Maybe it goes back to the Great Game?
Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

They all had to learn those stupid poems about the Crimean War. It scars you.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:22 PM (uhVAy)

250 Traditional Scottish haggis is banned from import and sale in the United States because it contains sheep lungs, which are prohibited for human consumption under U.S. federal food safety regulations established in 1971. You may now continue.

Posted by: @SOEarpiece at September 30, 2026 04:22 PM (4NO2D)

251 >>Did the second one catch on fire before it fell over?

This crowd is old enough ... mature enough to get that ref.

Posted by: Trayvon's GF at September 30, 2026 04:22 PM (vNne8)

252 >> I think the future state is the western hemisphere being self sufficient, with the rest of the world fighting for scraps and having no US navy to protect global shipping.

You mean the Donroe Doctrine?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 04:22 PM (viF8m)

253
he's like 4 foot tall and dumb as a post. Thinking Hasan Piker is a bridge to power is really dumb.
Posted by: Oldcat

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

She and the podcaster she's talking to are calling him Tiny King and stuff. Contrasting him with Ossoff, who has been taking supplements and working out.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 04:22 PM (mmrXZ)

254 240 >>Second crane falls onto house while trying to remove another crane that had fallen onto the roof

But THIS crane, son. THIS crane is built on solid ground.
Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:20 PM (vNne

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When you reach 30 years of age you can address guys younger than you as "Son."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at September 30, 2026 04:23 PM (cWLG3)

255 I keep banging the drum about getting Air Force personnel, families, assets, and our nukes out of the UK.

There are already risks to living there -- I personally had to do casualty intervention on an entire family that was killed when their vehicle ended up in a ditch. We lost about 5 people a year to car wrecks, not to mention home invasions, vehicle break ins, and the security costs involved.

Perhaps we can pull Hegseth away from his gym bros to address this.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 30, 2026 04:23 PM (qwx/I)

256
This is what happens when you give up your guns...

Then the only folks in your country who have guns, are the bad guys... ie criminals and the Government.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 04:14 PM (mP0Kj)

Lots of guns in Limeyland, in the country. Farmers... and farmers' mums.

Not to mention sea mines. Deactivated, of course. Controlled by the NWA.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2026 04:23 PM (y9nCu)

257 Second crane falls onto house while trying to remove another crane that had fallen onto the roof

https://tinyurl.com/bdfzpkwj

-
Da fuq? Were they trying to lift a body positive AWFL out?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 04:16 PM (ndZc7)
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The third crane is going to burn down, fall over, and sink into the swamp.

But the FOURTH crane will stand strong!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 04:23 PM (FZ29D)

258 256 Lots of guns in Limeyland, in the country. Farmers... and farmers' mums.

Not to mention sea mines. Deactivated, of course. Controlled by the NWA.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2026 04:23 PM (y9nCu)

==

Ah...fuck off, grasshopper.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:23 PM (U/fqy)

259 >>She and the podcaster she's talking to are calling him Tiny King and stuff.

Bernie Sanders would tell us she likely has Muslim Rape Fantasies.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:24 PM (vNne8)

260 250 Traditional Scottish haggis is banned from import and sale in the United States because it contains sheep lungs, which are prohibited for human consumption under U.S. federal food safety regulations established in 1971. You may now continue.
Posted by: @SOEarpiece at September 30, 2026 04:22 PM (4NO2D)
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You could buy haggis from Canada before the Great Canada Trade War.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at September 30, 2026 04:24 PM (cWLG3)

261 It's all for the greater good!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 30, 2026 04:24 PM (qwx/I)

262 Take a look at your globe from the top instead of the equator and you will why Trump wanted Greenland so much.

Western Hemisphere dominance.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 04:25 PM (viF8m)

263 254 240 >>Second crane falls onto house while trying to remove another crane that had fallen onto the roof

But THIS crane, son. THIS crane is built on solid ground.
Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:20 PM (vNne
----
When you reach 30 years of age you can address guys younger than you as "Son."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at September 30, 2026 04:23 PM (cWLG3)

Or kiddo.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:25 PM (l3cgK)

264 Big Navy, and Guards at the Canal? now that there is some FINE border control.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 04:21 PM (mP0Kj)

South of the Canal there is no road to South America.

But I don't want to annex too much, just break up hostile powers like Canada and restructure their institutions to be less fragile. Become real midsized nations in the real world aside from what fever dream Canada is in.

Ditto Mexico, they need to have their top third rebuilt to be a real place.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:25 PM (uhVAy)

265 I'm not your kid, Bub.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 04:26 PM (4NO2D)

266 263 254 240 >>Second crane falls onto house while trying to remove another crane that had fallen onto the roof

But THIS crane, son. THIS crane is built on solid ground.
Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 04:20 PM (vNne
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When you reach 30 years of age you can address guys younger than you as "Son."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at September 30, 2026 04:23 PM (cWLG3)

Or kiddo.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:25 PM (l3cgK)

Or Sonny Jim

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 04:26 PM (Gqar8)

267 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 04:16 PM (mmrXZ)

I honestly believe King Charles is a closet Moslem.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 30, 2026 04:26 PM (wGerL)

268 256
This is what happens when you give up your guns...

Then the only folks in your country who have guns, are the bad guys... ie criminals and the Government.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 04:14 PM (mP0Kj)

Lots of guns in Limeyland, in the country. Farmers... and farmers' mums.

Not to mention sea mines. Deactivated, of course. Controlled by the NWA.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2026 04:23 PM (y9nCu)

The rappers?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:26 PM (l3cgK)

269 I honestly believe King Charles is a closet Moslem.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 30, 2026 04:26 PM

Not Shia. He lacks the forehead bump.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 04:26 PM (4NO2D)

270 @267 I prefer he keeps it in the closet.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at September 30, 2026 04:27 PM (cWLG3)

271
I think the future state is the western hemisphere being self sufficient, with the rest of the world fighting for scraps and having no US navy to protect global shipping.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

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

Go New World!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 04:27 PM (mmrXZ)

272 269 I honestly believe King Charles is a closet Moslem.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 30, 2026 04:26 PM

Not Shia. He lacks the forehead bump.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 04:26 PM (4NO2D)

Maybe his ass has the experience...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:27 PM (l3cgK)

273 There are already risks to living there -- I personally had to do casualty intervention on an entire family that was killed when their vehicle ended up in a ditch. We lost about 5 people a year to car wrecks, not to mention home invasions, vehicle break ins, and the security costs involved.

Perhaps we can pull Hegseth away from his gym bros to address this.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 30, 2026 04:23 PM (qwx/I)

Not sure we want to teach the Limeys how to build roads. The Romans never did.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:27 PM (uhVAy)

274 The Grant’s Haggis on Amazon does not say where it is made - or even what is in it. Sort of - disturbing.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 04:27 PM (Gqar8)

275 NO LUNGS!

Posted by: FDA at September 30, 2026 04:28 PM (4NO2D)

276 Haggis is sort of disturbing.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 04:28 PM (viF8m)

277 I still think we should annex Canada, and Mexico... and everything down to OUR Canal...

Big Navy, and Guards at the Canal? now that there is some FINE border control.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 04:21 PM (mP0Kj)
=====

Yeah, we could offer Carney's Canada "associate statehood".

Posted by: mrp at September 30, 2026 04:28 PM (rj6Yv)

278 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 04:16 PM (mmrXZ)

I honestly believe King Charles is a closet Moslem.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 30, 2026 04:26 PM (wGerL)

He doesn't even believe in his own family's survival. I doubt he believes in Allah.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:29 PM (uhVAy)

279
It's all for the greater good!
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 30, 2026 04:24 PM (qwx/I)

*creepy chanting*

The Greater Good

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2026 04:29 PM (y9nCu)

280 277 I still think we should annex Canada, and Mexico... and everything down to OUR Canal...

Big Navy, and Guards at the Canal? now that there is some FINE border control.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 04:21 PM (mP0Kj)
=====

Yeah, we could offer Carney's Canada "associate statehood".
Posted by: mrp at September 30, 2026 04:28 PM (rj6Yv)

Junior probationary membership. There will be hazing.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 04:29 PM (Gqar8)

281 Churchill H8ed the Communists, the Socialists were not so much against them.

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 04:29 PM (Ia/+0)

282 280 Yeah, we could offer Carney's Canada "associate statehood".
Posted by: mrp at September 30, 2026 04:28 PM (rj6Yv)

Junior probationary membership. There will be hazing.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 04:29 PM (Gqar

=======

Otherwise known as territory run by a military governor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:30 PM (U/fqy)

283 Posted by: Chairman LMAO at September 30, 2026 04:23 PM (cWLG3)

Or kiddo.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

What, no love for "sport?"

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 04:30 PM (77rzZ)

284 Charles deserves the gibbet.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 30, 2026 04:30 PM (qwx/I)

285
The rappers?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:26 PM (l3cgK)

Neighborhood Watch Alliance

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2026 04:30 PM (y9nCu)

286 Otherwise known as territory run by a military governor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:30 PM

That will keep the outer provinces in line.

Posted by: Grand Moff Rubio at September 30, 2026 04:30 PM (4NO2D)

287

Rioting and attacking their own teachers.

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·
4h
BREAKING:

Second and third-generation students continue to attack schools across France

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 04:30 PM (kX27y)

288
285
The rappers?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:26 PM (l3cgK)

Neighborhood Watch Alliance

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2026 04:30 PM (y9nCu)

=======

"Splitters!"
-Alliance of the Neighborhood Watch

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:31 PM (U/fqy)

289 Churchill H8ed the Communists, the Socialists were not so much against them.
Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 04:29 PM (Ia/+0)

Commies, or just Russians? He certainly was pretty willing to slice up East Europe to them despite what he said later.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:31 PM (uhVAy)

290 286 Otherwise known as territory run by a military governor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:30 PM

That will keep the outer provinces in line.

Posted by: Grand Moff Rubio at September 30, 2026 04:30 PM (4NO2D)

====

Someone spin up Grok!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:31 PM (U/fqy)

291 Rioting and attacking their own teachers.

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·
4h
BREAKING:

Second and third-generation students continue to attack schools across France
Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 04:30 PM (kX27y)

you can't make me like the French, so don't try.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:31 PM (uhVAy)

292 287

Rioting and attacking their own teachers.

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·
4h
BREAKING:

Second and third-generation students continue to attack schools across France

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 04:30 PM (kX27y)

========

"Please, stop making Le Pen popular by doing what she says you do."
-Macron

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:32 PM (U/fqy)

293 Otherwise known as territory run by a military governor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:30 PM (U/fqy)

Don't they still have one from the Crown, even now?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:32 PM (uhVAy)

294 The Grant’s Haggis on Amazon does not say where it is made - or even what is in it. Sort of - disturbing.
Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 04:27 PM (Gqar

~~~~~

Even more disturbing if it did tell you.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 30, 2026 04:32 PM (3ImbR)

295 Nood - Biden's attack dog, Jack Smith, violates more things.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2026 04:34 PM (oPFtC)

296 292 287

Rioting and attacking their own teachers.

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·
4h
BREAKING:

Second and third-generation students continue to attack schools across France

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 04:30 PM (kX27y)

========

"Please, stop making Le Pen popular by doing what she says you do."
-Macron
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:32 PM (U/fqy)

I will always think of him as Maracon.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 04:34 PM (Gqar8)

297 I will always think of him as Maracon.
Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 04:34 PM (Gqar

French Obama. To go with Canadian Obama, Trudeau.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 04:35 PM (uhVAy)

298 "Please, stop making Le Pen popular by doing what she says you do."
-Macron
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 04:32 PM (U/fqy)
====

The government of France recently outlawed wearing the hijab and niqab, recently. Is this the reaction?

Posted by: mrp at September 30, 2026 04:35 PM (rj6Yv)

299 Haggis is sort of disturbing.
Posted by: JackStraw

Check out the Glencannon short story, "The Hunting of the Haggis," by Guy Gilpatric.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 04:36 PM (77rzZ)

300 286 Otherwise known as territory run by a military governor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 04:36 PM (nqf1u)

301
I honestly believe King Charles is a closet Moslem.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson

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

I don't think he believes in anything. I myself would find it hard to be Anglican. How do you argue that you're the one true church ever since some guy broke away from the one true church in order to get a divorce?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 04:36 PM (mmrXZ)

302 The riots in France could produce an interesting result. In their history the French have shown the ability to be vicious. Let's see if that strain still exists

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 04:37 PM (jivel)

303 I had haggis several times while in Scotland. I found it delicious, similar to chili but with a slightly different flavor.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 04:38 PM (0U5gm)

304 I had haggis several times while in Scotland. I found it delicious, similar to chili but with a slightly different flavor.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 04:38 PM

The lungs make all the difference.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 04:40 PM (4NO2D)

Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before: Second Quarter Real GDP Growth Revised Upwards by 0.7%

Why is it that estimated growth rates always have to be revised downwards for Democrats and upwards for Republicans?

Because the left-wing bureaucrats consistently overestimate growth under Democrats and underestimate it under Republicans.

Note that it's the first estimate that gets all the press. The revision only gets noticed by economists and traders.

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.2% in the second quarter of 2026, according to a U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released Wednesday.
In the first quarter, real GDP increased, at a revised rate of 2.5%.
The report released Monday, for April, May, and June, is an estimate, the third for the quarter.
Real GDP was revised up 0.7% point from the second estimate, "primarily reflecting upward revisions to investment, consumer spending and government spending," the Commerce Department's bureau also said.

Inflation came in -- say it with me -- unexpectedly low.

The key Commerce Department report released Wednesday shows consumer prices in August increased 0.3% from the previous month, less than Wall Street expected.
The report, the personal consumption expenditures price index, is the primary inflation gauge for the Federal Reserve, which sets interest rates based on inflation.
Excluding food and energy, the PCE price index increased 0.2%.
The seasonally adjusted 0.3% increase for the month, puts the 12-month gain at 3.4%. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for increases of 0.3% and 3.7% respectively, according to CBNC.com.

Instapundit has some Russian Conspiracy Theory that the media manipulates economic news to favor politicians they vote for and to disfavor the politicians they hate.

What an absurd and Racist theory.

It is the best of economies, it is the worst of economies.
But which?
It really is a tale of two economies, depending on who you ask.
On the one hand, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that the US economy has entered an "acceleration phase": Despite rising interest rates, the markets aren't tanking as many experts predicted.
On the other, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries railed just days before that President Donald Trump has delivered a "Rotten Age," with an economy that's "failing everyday Americans" -- and Americans seem to agree, with 63% disapproving of Trump's economic policies, per the RealClear Politics polling average.
By the numbers, Bessent has a strong case.
US jobless claims tumbled last week to levels not seen in years, retail sales are up and manufacturing is booming.
Importantly, the workforce participation rate is climbing -- so the low unemployment numbers aren't just the result of people giving up on the job search altogether.
As columnist Daniel McCarthy notes, "Establishment economists predicted none of this."
Well, they're usually wrong, it seems.
Trump's combination of lighter regulation, tighter restrictions on illegal immigration and protectionist tariffs is translating into more jobs here at home as businesses expand.
...
It's an old playbook, one that Bill Clinton's pollster Mark Penn wielded to defeat President George H.W. Bush in 1992.
The economy had actually recovered from a brief recession in 1991, but voters thought otherwise -- because the media told them so.
"There is often a huge disconnect between belief about the economy and the true economic state of affairs," Penn wrote in his 2007 book "Microtrends."
"Until the statistics are actually published, people tend to assess the economy through the eyes of the national media."
During the 1992 election, Clinton repeatedly told us we were experiencing the worst economy in 50 years.
The press echoed that message dutifully.
But as Penn recounted with glee, "The statistics that came out after the election showed that the period leading up to November had actually been a period of record growth."
Whether this is the best of economies, the worst of economies, or something in between, you can bet that for the next month-plus we'll be told it's the worst.
We always are, when the Republicans are in charge.

Although I am pessimistic about the midterms, NeverTrump liberal Frank Luntz of all people says that
the GOP hasn't lost yet.

His polling shows a rough cycle for both parties, but the details favor the GOP. Trump and Republicans aren't polling well, yet Democrats are doing even worse, and they've dug themselves deeper into their media bubbles. Even the turnout advantage Democrats are banking on turns out to be pretty thin.
"I'm looking at a turnout differential that advantages the Democrats by a couple of points, which means that there are more people who oppose Donald Trump, who are planning to vote, than those who support him," Luntz told CNN This Morning on Monday. "There's always been a historical advantage to the party out of power in the midterms, particularly in the first midterms."
A couple of points? That's it?
The party out of power usually walks into its first midterm with the wind at its back, and Democrats can only manage a two-point edge.
Luntz also explained why that edge is so fragile.
Trump's voters show up when he's on the ballot and stay home when he isn't, which makes his absence in November a bigger problem for Republicans than his approval ratings.
"When he is on the ballot, his people come out. They participate," he said. "They did in the on-year elections, 2016 and 2024. And they did not, in 2018. And they did not as much, even when Joe Biden was the president in 2020, for the 2022 election."
The fix is obvious, and Trump is already working on it. Luntz said the whole map hinges on whether the president can get those voters engaged again, starting with the biggest prize.
"But he needs his people to vote in a place like Texas," Luntz continued. "If the Trump voters participate, the Republican nominee in Texas is elected. If the Trump voters don't participate, the Democrats will achieve an upset. It's the same thing in states as small as Iowa, Alaska. It even matters in a state like Ohio."

Turnout is a big problem. I see a lot of conservatives trying to rally the base into turning out.

🚨 UPDATE: Donald Trump posted overnight CNN's admission that he has 98% PERCENT SUPPORT among the MAGA GOP

"There's been no real decline in MAGA support...these folks say they're gonna vote for Congressional Republicans! That support is really holding up strong!"

IT NEEDS TO… pic.twitter.com/kdnDpf4uFI
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 29, 2026

17 months in a row of zero illegal crossings
The best crime numbers in history, even after Democrats let in 25 million people
The most jobs in the history of the United States
Murders are lower than at any time since 1900
New plants are being built every day, like today's $18B investment
$21 TRILLION being invested in America, the most in history
The war will be won very soon
Gas prices will come tumbling down

🚨 WOW! President Trump was just asked what his midterm message is for millions of Americans to vote red, and he dropped RAPID FIRE truth nukes to the Fake News in the Oval Office:

- 17 months in a row of ZERO illegal crossings
- The best crime numbers in history, even after… pic.twitter.com/0todedjOiS
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 28, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:32 PM

Comments

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1 I VOTED FOR THIS!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 30, 2026 02:33 PM (gLYp7)

2 It happens.

Every time.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 02:33 PM (x8rTv)

3 And I nooded before I commented.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 30, 2026 02:33 PM (gLYp7)

4 Breath of fresh air.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 02:33 PM (nqf1u)

5 Willowed:

Brought to you by the geniuses at The Babylon Bee:

"Near Disaster As FlyDubai Pilot Fails To Illuminate 'No Hijacking' Sign"

https://tinyurl.com/548ykp5u

Their website definitely employs many Morons.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 02:34 PM (HlyYF)

6 Crime numbers so low Matt Yglesias noticed.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 30, 2026 02:34 PM (2ocoG)

7 Now, act like government spending should be counted negative to GDP.

And realize that GDP was down a full 1% because government spending was down in Q2.

So...add 1% to the Q2 GDP for the money the government didn't spend, because that's how government spending should be included in GDP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:34 PM (U/fqy)

8 i didn't know that we're now taxing remittances, so mexico is paying for the wall

and sid's ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Paul...who likes the flavor of his dog's excrement at September 30, 2026 02:34 PM (fNAFl)

9 Trump will carry the hapless feckless testeless gormless Republicans over the finish line, again. But he said doody once and trusted some Republicans that everyone loved.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 02:35 PM (x8rTv)

10 I'm pleased with the job Trump is doing.

Posted by: Emmie at September 30, 2026 02:35 PM (ppsv1)

11 Instapundit has some Russian Conspiracy Theory that the media manipulates economic news to favor politicians they vote for and to disfavor the politicians they hate.

=========

Journalists are objective fact tellers who explicitly reject telling objective fact.

Why is that so hard to understand?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:35 PM (U/fqy)

12 ~~Un-~~Expectedly!

Posted by: Another Anon at September 30, 2026 02:35 PM (4h45B)

13
(sigh) Ace, these economists are CREDENTIALED!

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 02:35 PM (Y8DZL)

14 No shit stop me if you heard this one before.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 30, 2026 02:35 PM (wxsGM)

15
I'm told in a million posts that things have never been worse.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 02:36 PM (eRlcH)

16 >>> Turnout is a big problem. I see a lot of conservatives trying to rally the base into turning out.

=====

My wife and will be voting in a midterm for the first time in our 29 years (yeah, I know. 🤦‍♂️

. Hope that there are more like us.

Posted by: Turn 2 at September 30, 2026 02:36 PM (QFchU)

17 Inflation came in -- say it with me -- unexpectedly low.

The one problem with this data point, which is a major, major success for Trump is that quite a few normies don't understand what inflation is.

Even if Trump got inflation to 0%, the Bidenflation prices stay because Biden destroyed the value of the dollar by 50%.

It would take substantial deflation to undo that which is probably impossible to do and would have other problems if it was.

So take 2020-24 as a lesson, don't elect Democrats if you don't want prices to double.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:36 PM (sKqQm)

18 *markets aren't tanking as many experts predicted
**markets aren't tanking as many experts predicted
***markets aren't tanking as many experts predicted
****markets aren't tanking as many experts predicted
_ghost of Maynard Ferguson

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 02:36 PM (nqf1u)

19 >>>the GOP hasn't lost yet.

Don't give up hope.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 02:37 PM (dK+Kv)

20 Crime numbers so low Matt Yglesias noticed.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 30, 2026 02:34 PM (2ocoG)

But he - like every lefty - simply can't connect 'cause' to 'effect.'

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 30, 2026 02:37 PM (gLYp7)

21 "Turnout for Republicans is trash!" say the vibes.

"Turnout for Democrats is trash," say the data.

https://x.com/TonerousHyus/status/
2105349389762113877/photo/1

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:37 PM (U/fqy)

22 "But he needs his people to vote in a place like Texas," Luntz continued. "If the Trump voters participate, the Republican nominee in Texas is elected. If the Trump voters don't participate, the Democrats will achieve an upset. It's the same thing in states as small as Iowa, Alaska. It even matters in a state like Ohio."

Turnout is a big problem. I see a lot of conservatives trying to rally the base into turning out.

Because Republican voters seem largely stupid.

Staying home and letting Democrats DESTROY THE COUNTRY is a stupid f*cking way to go about things.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:38 PM (ccf/V)

23 I'm kind of surprised that Secretary Bessent hasn't requested on-site auditing and evaluation at the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis in real time. So, they can identify the political hacks that seem to think it's OK to shape the economy to their liking.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 02:38 PM (dIske)

24 Now, act like government spending should be counted negative to GDP

This is sort of comedic when you really think about it.

The government could double the GDP tomorrow by just printing $24T and giving it to politicians.

Does anyone believe that would be good for the country as a whole?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:38 PM (sKqQm)

25 Good thing we didn't lower interest rates to help Trump and the economy. Look at thise inflation numbers!!! /s

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 30, 2026 02:38 PM (aBcEh)

26 24 This is sort of comedic when you really think about it.

The government could double the GDP tomorrow by just printing $24T and giving it to politicians.

Does anyone believe that would be good for the country as a whole?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:38 PM (sKqQm)

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This is the story of Biden's positive GDP numbers, by the way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:38 PM (U/fqy)

27 So, the economy is doing very well indeed. So to counter this, the Left talks gas gas gas and beef beef beef prices. Pissing and moaning about both is their winning strategy.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 02:39 PM (Gqar8)

28 Good news, everyone!

Saudi Arabia is going to build a $9m mosque in Cuba!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:39 PM (ccf/V)

29 7 Now, act like government spending should be counted negative to GDP.

And realize that GDP was down a full 1% because government spending was down in Q2.

So...add 1% to the Q2 GDP for the money the government didn't spend, because that's how government spending should be included in GDP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:34 PM

Agreed!

I want TWO numbers published.

Publish the GDP under the exact same data treatment as the historical series.

ALSO publish a GDP number, ex government spending.

We will never start to reduce the massive debt without people understanding the underlying economic facts.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 02:39 PM (HlyYF)

30 Hacks in Black halt Christa Pike execution.

I feel for the victim Colleen's mother. What a horrible thing to do to her after all these years.

Posted by: Delurker at September 30, 2026 02:40 PM (2Drhq)

31 My fear is the "new coalition" we have is a lot of young men that are a bit flakey.

Our coalition used to be the sort of people that show up every election, upper middle class types that seem to have drifted over to the Dem side.

It used to be Republicans did really well in non-Presidential election years, it was Dem turnout that really dropped.

Posted by: Leupold at September 30, 2026 02:41 PM (87dSN)

32 My wife and will be voting in a midterm for the first time in our 29 years (yeah, I know. 🤦‍♂️. Hope that there are more like us.

Posted by: Turn 2 at September 30, 2026 02:36 PM

Good job!

Can you also invite about five couples more from your "dinner party" friends to also come vote?

Depending upon your state, we really need it!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 02:41 PM (HlyYF)

33 This is the story of Biden's positive GDP numbers, by the way.

One thing I was noting over the last few years...

If you got a 10% return on investments under Biden you were only breaking even because inflation and therefore costs were increasing every year by that same amount. And you can see that by comparing SP500 "gains" against the price of gold (note, mostly flat)

Under the Trump economy with 3% inflation anything over 3% is a real gain...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:41 PM (sKqQm)

34 >>> Turnout is a big problem. I see a lot of conservatives trying to rally the base into turning out.

There is clearly a psyop at work trying to convince the normies that Trump is making everything worse, vote for dems, they will somehow magically fix it, and not just make things even worse. But it's a psyop fueled with new media like TikTok, and paid influencers shilling for lefties, not just the standard tried-and-true ones. Whether it all works or not, we'll see.

I saw there were signs out on lawns targeting politicians as voting for the Iran war. I guess they decided they can't run on the economy. Let's try the war and see if that sticks.

Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2026 02:42 PM (Eng1Z)

35 27 So, the economy is doing very well indeed. So to counter this, the Left talks gas gas gas and beef beef beef prices. Pissing and moaning about both is their winning strategy.
Posted by: tubal

Around here the data centers apocalypse is often mentioned as well.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 02:42 PM (Y8DZL)

36
- 17 months in a row of ZERO illegal crossings

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I'm not sure what counts as a "crossing," because there have been some jet ski traffickers here in Sandy Eggo. They zip into the shore in (polluted) Imperial Beach, their passengers jump off, and they zip away. Border Patrol came dune-buggying out and got some of them, but I don't know how many are making it off the beach.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 02:42 PM (mmrXZ)

37 30 Hacks in Black halt Christa Pike execution.

I feel for the victim Colleen's mother. What a horrible thing to do to her after all these years.
Posted by: Delurker at September 30, 2026 02:40 PM (2Drhq)

Reasons?? Or are reasons only for the Little People?

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 02:42 PM (Gqar8)

38 31 My fear is the "new coalition" we have is a lot of young men that are a bit flakey.

Our coalition used to be the sort of people that show up every election, upper middle class types that seem to have drifted over to the Dem side.

It used to be Republicans did really well in non-Presidential election years, it was Dem turnout that really dropped.

Posted by: Leupold at September 30, 2026 02:41 PM (87dSN)

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Having high propensity voters and not low propensity voters means you win midterms but lose presidentials.

Obama had this problem.

The issue, though, is that Congress is largely useless, and we've been growing the imperial presidency for a century.

If we have to have a choice between the two, I choose the presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:42 PM (U/fqy)

39 But, but my gas prices are so high!

How much higher are they than when Joey B was doubling the price of everything???

We're still recovering from that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 02:43 PM (nqf1u)

40 Saudi Arabia is going to build a $9m mosque in Cuba!
Posted by: Sponge

Good thing those 7th-century goatf***kers don't need electricity.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 02:43 PM (77rzZ)

41 "I won’t allow a man to come at me or point at me"
-- Aja Wilson.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 02:43 PM (0sNs1)

42 Read earlier that we have the smallest number of government workers this century. Fewer bureaucrats helps the private economy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 02:43 PM (jivel)

43 I'm kind of surprised that Secretary Bessent hasn't requested on-site auditing and evaluation at the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis in real time. So, they can identify the political hacks that seem to think it's OK to shape the economy to their liking.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 02:38 PM (dIske)

It works fine, we get one good report then a second one on the revision. Plus all the dumbing down of the stats the Dems do to prop up their crap numbers means things shoot up like a rocket when a non idiot gets in charge.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:43 PM (uhVAy)

44 I know this hits a nerve with some here, but I think if the Iran altercation never happened, we'd do fine to good in the midterms.

Posted by: Leupold at September 30, 2026 02:43 PM (87dSN)

45 Wahahahahahaha.

HYPER
@hyper12p
Translated from Hebrew
I survived a kidnapping attempt, send me nudes

Posted by: Ian S. at September 30, 2026 02:43 PM (2ocoG)

46 Its literally all A.I. driven growth. The idea of the economy doing well is basically now like the stock market doing well. Just some shit that sounds good on TV that doesnt translate to daily life.

I believe that about as much as when the government was saying that inflation was under 10% during covid when everything in the stores was rising 25%-50%. Doesn't matter who is running things. All they do is lie.

Meanwhile in reality: Market Absorbs Flood Of Treasury Bills As Yields Rise. The U.S. Treasury has aggressively funded new borrowing with T-bills, reaching 40% of $2.1 trillion in net new debt, far above TBAC’s 15-20% guideline.

They are absolutely killing you with debt. Guess what happens when the next Fed increase comes in due to spiraling inflation??. I don't know if it's possible to bankrupt a country, but Uncle Donny sure is giving it his best

It grew as in more money flowed through not as in we were more productive or increased quality of life. Everything getting more expensive will make the economy as people scrounge to find the last few dollars to buy more expensive necessities.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 30, 2026 02:44 PM (aBcEh)

47 I see more black pill propaganda than I have seen since... two years ago.

Posted by: ace and garrett at September 30, 2026 02:44 PM (zZu0s)

48 So take 2020-24 as a lesson, don't elect Democrats if you don't want prices to double.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:36 PM (sKqQm)

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"But, if prices double -- doesn't that mean all our welfare benefits will double?"

/Free Shit Army, Inc.

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 02:44 PM (4f3B/)

49 35 27 So, the economy is doing very well indeed. So to counter this, the Left talks gas gas gas and beef beef beef prices. Pissing and moaning about both is their winning strategy.
Posted by: tubal

Around here the data centers apocalypse is often mentioned as well.
Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 02:42 PM (Y8DZL)

Why yes, because ceding Chine God-like control over our information systems is a good thing, because - reasons, again.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 02:44 PM (Gqar8)

50 So, the economy is doing very well indeed. So to counter this, the Left talks gas gas gas and beef beef beef prices. Pissing and moaning about both is their winning strategy.
Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 02:39 PM

And it's very effective.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:44 PM (ccf/V)

51 @hyper12p
Translated from Hebrew
I survived a kidnapping attempt, send me nudes
Posted by: Ian S. at September 30, 2026 02:43 PM (2ocoG)

Bobs and vagene!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:45 PM (ccf/V)

52 37 Reasons?? Or are reasons only for the Little People?

The hacks in black want to be fully satisfied that Pike's alleged childhood sexual abuse was considered at trial.

Posted by: Delurker at September 30, 2026 02:45 PM (2Drhq)

53 Why do democrats whine about gas and beef?

They all drive EVs and are vegans.

So they should be happy gas and beef are expensive. Right?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 02:45 PM (W2Pud)

54 I see more black pill propaganda than I have seen since... two years ago.
Posted by: ace and garrett at September 30, 2026 02:44 PM (zZu0s)
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Yes there is.

And...is there something I need to know about you two?

Nah...ignorance is sometimes very blissful.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:45 PM (X7pZH)

55 I know this hits a nerve with some here, but I think if the Iran altercation never happened, we'd do fine to good in the midterms.
Posted by: Leupold at September 30, 2026 02:43 PM (87dSN)

I think without Iran as a hotpoint, the media would just be spinning something else and harder. The story never changes- just the details.

Posted by: ace and garrett at September 30, 2026 02:45 PM (zZu0s)

56 41 "I won’t allow a man to come at me or point at me"
-- Aja Wilson.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 02:43 PM (0sNs1)
++++++++++++++++++

Not a psychology major, apparently. If you want something to happen as a sporting event, claim you won't allow it. That's not a deterrent. That's an invitation.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 02:45 PM (dIske)

57 44 I know this hits a nerve with some here, but I think if the Iran altercation never happened, we'd do fine to good in the midterms.

Posted by: Leupold at September 30, 2026 02:43 PM (87dSN)

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No, we'd still have lost the midterms because Trump was being too mean about immigration which led to the deaths of Goode and Pretti.

And then Trump stopped all immigration enforcement because of the deaths of Goode and Pretti, which means the GOP lost the midterms.

And then Trump was low-key being too aggressive on immigration which led to car chases and bad results, which was going to lose the midterms.

And then Mullin stopped all ICE enforcement with cars, which led was going to lose the midterms.

And then Mullin put the policy back less than a day later, which led to the GOP losing the midterms.

There's always a bullshit narrative.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:45 PM (U/fqy)

58 Hacks in Black halt Christa Pike execution.

I feel for the victim Colleen's mother. What a horrible thing to do to her after all these years.

--

It's a real travesty of justice for that poor mother. I really thought she had no lifeline left and was going to meet her maker at 10am. Nope.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2026 02:45 PM (qBdHI)

59 Oh! Off completely platonic sock!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 02:46 PM (zZu0s)

60 46 Meanwhile in reality: Market Absorbs Flood Of Treasury Bills As Yields Rise. The U.S. Treasury has aggressively funded new borrowing with T-bills, reaching 40% of $2.1 trillion in net new debt, far above TBAC’s 15-20% guideline.

They are absolutely killing you with debt. Guess what happens when the next Fed increase comes in due to spiraling inflation??. I don't know if it's possible to bankrupt a country, but Uncle Donny sure is giving it his best

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 30, 2026 02:44 PM (aBcEh)

=====

Sure sounds like the Fed should have lowered interest rates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:46 PM (U/fqy)

61 44 I know this hits a nerve with some here, but I think if the Iran altercation never happened, we'd do fine to good in the midterms.
Posted by: Leupold at September 30, 2026 02:43 PM (87dSN)

Coulda woulda shoulda. Reality is, now, we need to get our asses out to vote.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 02:46 PM (Gqar8)

62 "Turnout is a big problem. I see a lot of conservatives trying to rally the base into turning out."

I've been screeching about turnout for a long time. It's the key to victory.

For the most part, we have good candidates up against Moloch's retarded cousin who walks with a limp and was just arrested for fucking the baby rather than eating it.

We should have this in the bag. But "should" is doing some heavy lifting. We must turn out. En masse. We can't sit this one out.

Get out and vote the shit out of this thing.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 02:46 PM (iFTx/)

63

Those gas prices need to come down, mile after mile of communist advertising on every highway.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at September 30, 2026 02:46 PM (VuTBl)

64 Oh! Off completely platonic sock!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 02:46 PM (zZu0s)
___

See what you did?

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:46 PM (X7pZH)

65 I pulled the numbers Republicans have gotten versus Dems in off year elections

2022: 54m v 51m
2018: 51m v 60m
2014: 40m v 35m
2010: 45m v 39m

Now obviously that Dem count in 2018 jump looks fake as hell.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:46 PM (sKqQm)

66 Posted by: ace and garrett at September 30, 2026 02:44 PM

FLASH NEWS ALERT: Temperature of Hades is rapidly approaching 107.64 degrees Kelvin!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 02:47 PM (0sNs1)

67 See what you did?
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:46 PM (X7pZH)

Lol. I regret nothing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 02:47 PM (zZu0s)

68 65 I pulled the numbers Republicans have gotten versus Dems in off year elections

2022: 54m v 51m
2018: 51m v 60m
2014: 40m v 35m
2010: 45m v 39m

Now obviously that Dem count in 2018 jump looks fake as hell.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:46 PM (sKqQm)

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Either Dems were really, really motivated to turnout, or there was the laying of groundwork for cheating.

Or both.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:47 PM (U/fqy)

69 Because Republican voters seem largely stupid.

Staying home and letting Democrats DESTROY THE COUNTRY is a stupid f*cking way to go about things.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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Aw, I don't need to vote. Nobody's going to vote for that dumb Democrat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 02:47 PM (nqf1u)

70 >>> The issue, though, is that Congress is largely useless, and we've been growing the imperial presidency for a century. If we have to have a choice between the two, I choose the presidency.

Too bad the founding fathers didn't put in a red button clause that we can press to flush all the congresscritters down the drain and start over if they are utterly failing at their jobs. Or at least put in term limits or age limits. Scorched earthing the current congress and voting in new people would not be a bad thing every few decades.

I think the current congress has been ranked as the most do-nothing in the history of do-nothing congresses, and that is a very low bar already. Like the fewest bills discussed and passed ever. And they are on vacation again until after midterms.

Supposedly Trump and Vance are war gaming strategies of how to work around congress to get the SAVE Act initiatives in before 2028, regardless of how feckless congress and its bought off politicans are. I wish them Godspeed!

Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2026 02:47 PM (Eng1Z)

71 Why aren't Republicans out doing good propaganda? 🤔

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 02:48 PM (x8rTv)

72 Posted by: ace and garrett at September 30, 2026 02:44 PM

FLASH NEWS ALERT: Temperature of Hades is rapidly approaching 107.64 degrees Kelvin!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 02:47 PM (0sNs1)
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lol

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:48 PM (X7pZH)

73 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 02:46 PM (zZu0s)
___

See what you did?
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:46 PM

But did it disappoint Ace is the real question.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 02:48 PM (0sNs1)

74 I pulled the numbers Republicans have gotten versus Dems in off year elections

2022: 54m v 51m
2018: 51m v 60m
2014: 40m v 35m
2010: 45m v 39m

Now obviously that Dem count in 2018 jump looks fake as hell.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:46 PM (sKqQm)

2018 was the year the GOPe spiked the midterms by quitting en-masse at the last moment. Thanks "Steak and Egger" Gowdy!

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:49 PM (uhVAy)

75 70 I think the current congress has been ranked as the most do-nothing in the history of do-nothing congresses, and that is a very low bar already. Like the fewest bills discussed and passed ever. And they are on vacation again until after midterms.

Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2026 02:47 PM (Eng1Z)

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The assertion that a do nothing Congress is inherently a bad Congress coming from, especially, conservatives, always makes me wonder...

Congress sucks. Their bills suck. We have too many laws.

Asking Congress to do more just do to more is asking for a whippin'.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:49 PM (U/fqy)

76 Gas prices are going to have a negative impact for this quarter...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 02:49 PM (l3cgK)

77 There is a sense in which the Iran war is helping Trump as it leaves one obvious issue they can campaign on which is something of a trap.

LIVs don't care about the war at all. No dead Americans and they just don't care.

Now, they do care about gas prices which are being driven by the war in large measure.

But here's the trap - can you really run on lowering gas prices as a Dem? And if you do, what do you do when Trump proposes ending the gas tax in Oct and asks congress to come back and vote on it?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:49 PM (sKqQm)

78 74 I pulled the numbers Republicans have gotten versus Dems in off year elections

2022: 54m v 51m
2018: 51m v 60m
2014: 40m v 35m
2010: 45m v 39m

Now obviously that Dem count in 2018 jump looks fake as hell.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:46 PM (sKqQm)

2018 was the year the GOPe spiked the midterms by quitting en-masse at the last moment. Thanks "Steak and Egger" Gowdy!

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:49 PM (uhVAy)

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And yet...GOP turnout still spiked. Dem turnout just spiked a whole lot more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:49 PM (U/fqy)

79 Would the Democrats talk down the economy to win an election?

In 2020, they destroyed it to win.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 02:49 PM (RIvkX)

80 GDP up, inflation down. Vote democrat to fix this.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 02:49 PM (0U5gm)

81 When ever did a Auto-Pen administration report being higher then was knocked down a few months later?

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 02:50 PM (Ia/+0)

82 76 Gas prices are going to have a negative impact for this quarter...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 02:49 PM (l3cgK)

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The increase happened last quarter.

There's no more inflation to happen unless it goes even higher.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:50 PM (U/fqy)

83
There's always a bullshit narrative.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

I'm guessing that minus Iran, it would be the Bond-villain connection between Russia and AI. AI would be the new COVID, except it's raging through the internet instead of your bloodstream.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 02:50 PM (mmrXZ)

84 Some (C)rap artist named bulletproof was shot and killed in Chicago last night.

I guess he wasn't.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 02:50 PM (0U5gm)

85 It works fine, we get one good report then a second one on the revision. Plus all the dumbing down of the stats the Dems do to prop up their crap numbers means things shoot up like a rocket when a non idiot gets in charge.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:43 PM (uhVAy)

______________________

I admire your optimism.

Although, I am reminded at how they hid certain statistics, inflated others, and held off on others in the final stretch of the 2024 election to protect Biden's campaign at the time.

Thankfully, Biden had other problems more obvious. But, they did what they could.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 02:50 PM (dIske)

86 >>The issue, though, is that Congress is largely useless, and we've been growing the imperial presidency for a century.

If we have to have a choice between the two, I choose the presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror
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We'd be safer with a herd of horses.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 02:51 PM (nqf1u)

87 83
There's always a bullshit narrative.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

I'm guessing that minus Iran, it would be the Bond-villain connection between Russia and AI. AI would be the new COVID, except it's raging through the internet instead of your bloodstream.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 02:50 PM (mmrXZ)

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Good guess.

It would be something, though, no matter what.

"If only Trump has squashed Iran's navy and ended them as a nuclear threat instead of letting this Russia/AI narrative take root, we'd be winning the midterms."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:51 PM (U/fqy)

88 When ever did a Auto-Pen administration report being higher then was knocked down a few months later?
Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 02:50 PM (Ia/+0)

All of the times.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 02:51 PM (zZu0s)

89 I didn't see this in time for the last thread, but Bibi Netanyahu went to the airport to personally greet the blood-covered passenger who helped subdue the Sudden Jihadi Syndrome sufferer.

https://tinyurl.com/2b4294j4

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 02:51 PM (qlLNh)

90 Even if Pike was SA'd as a child (and she's *very* manipulative so there's good reason to doubt her claims) most abuse victims don't lure romantic rivals into the woods, torture them for hours, bash ther skulls in and then parade a piece of the skull around town to show off to their friends.

Posted by: Delurker at September 30, 2026 02:51 PM (2Drhq)

91 They are absolutely killing you with debt. Guess what happens when the next Fed increase comes in due to spiraling inflation??. I don't know if it's possible to bankrupt a country, but Uncle Donny sure is giving it his best

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 30, 2026 02:44 PM (aBcEh)

LOL. Inflating the money supply like Biden did of course has not debt related consequences for the country.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:51 PM (uhVAy)

92 Posted by: ace and garrett at September 30, 2026 02:44 PM

Wait, Ace married garrett?

Posted by: Ian S. at September 30, 2026 02:51 PM (2ocoG)

93 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 02:50 PM (mmrXZ)

Dropped my wounded Subaru Forrester off at Caliber Collision this morning.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 02:51 PM (77rzZ)

94
I'm not particularly enthused about Mike Rogers as Senator, especially as it removes an armed al-Sayad from the senate democrat caucus chamber where he could do a lot of good quickly.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 02:51 PM (Y8DZL)

95
Either Dems were really, really motivated to turnout, or there was the laying of groundwork for cheating.

The Dem gain in 2018 was 70%. The next closed gain was 28%

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:51 PM (sKqQm)

96 Headline (NY Post):

"Iran publishes propaganda letter urging US voters to punish Trump in midterm elections"

Failed hijacking +own goal. Our chances are improving.

Posted by: mrp at September 30, 2026 02:51 PM (rj6Yv)

97 Paxton had an affair so I'm going to vote for the pedo-adjacent socialist twink that thinks Jesus Christ is just some guy but turning kids trans and sterilizing them is God's will.

It's what True Christians must do.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 02:52 PM (3cUTc)

98 Even if Pike was SA'd as a child (and she's *very* manipulative so there's good reason to doubt her claims) most abuse victims don't lure romantic rivals into the woods, torture them for hours, bash ther skulls in and then parade a piece of the skull around town to show off to their friends.
Posted by: Delurker at September 30, 2026 02:51 PM (2Drhq)

Did the victim do the abuse?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:52 PM (uhVAy)

99 I know this hits a nerve with some here, but I think if the Iran altercation never happened, we'd do fine to good in the midterms.
Posted by: Leupold at September 30, 2026 02:43 PM (87dSN)

the stat I heard was that pre-Iran the US economy was in a -0.7% deflation.
Don't have a cite, and can't find the report again, but that is what I heard.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 02:52 PM (rbvCR)

100 97 Paxton had an affair so I'm going to vote for the pedo-adjacent socialist twink that thinks Jesus Christ is just some guy but turning kids trans and sterilizing them is God's will.

It's what True Christians must do.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 02:52 PM (3cUTc)

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When Paxton wins by 9, people are going to be all, "I knew he was going to win, never had a doubt, but it was way too close to call. Cornyn would have won by 10."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:52 PM (U/fqy)

101 90 Even if Pike was SA'd as a child (and she's *very* manipulative so there's good reason to doubt her claims) most abuse victims don't lure romantic rivals into the woods, torture them for hours, bash ther skulls in and then parade a piece of the skull around town to show off to their friends.
Posted by: Delurker at September 30, 2026 02:51 PM (2Drhq)

We live in the Dawning of a New Age of Protected Criminality.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 02:52 PM (Gqar8)

102 There's always a bullshit narrative.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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I'm guessing that minus Iran, it would be the Bond-villain connection between Russia and AI. AI would be the new COVID, except it's raging through the internet instead of your bloodstream.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 02:50 PM (mmrXZ)

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"TRUMP WAS AN EPSTEIN ISLAND PEDO -- RELEASE THE VIDEOS!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 02:53 PM (4f3B/)

103 They are absolutely killing you with debt. Guess what happens when the next Fed increase comes in due to spiraling inflation??. I don't know if it's possible to bankrupt a country, but Uncle Donny sure is giving it his best

I'd like to see Trump take a few trillion off the budget, you with me Mr Reddit?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:53 PM (sKqQm)

104 There's always a bullshit narrative.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Tell me about it.

Posted by: zombie Russ Meyer, who can't get his films definitively ranked by TJM at September 30, 2026 02:53 PM (0sNs1)

105 When ever did a Auto-Pen administration report being higher then was knocked down a few months later?
Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 02:50 PM (Ia/+0)

All of the times.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 30, 2026 02:51 PM (zZu0s)
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The algorithmic things need adjustment.

Posted by: mrp at September 30, 2026 02:53 PM (rj6Yv)

106 102
"TRUMP WAS AN EPSTEIN ISLAND PEDO -- RELEASE THE VIDEOS!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 02:53 PM (4f3B/)

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Massie losing his primary seems to have killed that as a political narrative outside of the fringes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:54 PM (U/fqy)

107 104 There's always a bullshit narrative.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Tell me about it.

Posted by: zombie Russ Meyer, who can't get his films definitively ranked by TJM at September 30, 2026 02:53 PM (0sNs1)

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When I'm good and ready!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:54 PM (U/fqy)

108 Yep. Punching out a girl who you think is after your boyfriend isn't worthy of the death penalty (even if she dies, if you weren't intending to kill her).

However, luring her to a remote location, bashing in her skull, and (this is the truly disturbing part) keeping a piece of the skull as a souvenir IS.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 02:54 PM (qlLNh)

109 92 Posted by: ace and garrett at September 30, 2026 02:44 PM

Wait, Ace married garrett?
Posted by: Ian S.

They're living in sin! Filthy, filthy sin!!!!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 30, 2026 02:54 PM (aBcEh)

110 >>@OpenSourceZone
·
3h
>>Middle East crude exports recover to per war levels per JPMorgan

>>Middle East crude exports have rebounded to 98% of prewar levels, reaching roughly 17.5 million barrels per day

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 02:54 PM (viF8m)

111 I admire your optimism. Although, I am reminded at how they hid certain statistics, inflated others, and held off on others in the final stretch of the 2024 election to protect Biden's campaign at the time.

Thankfully, Biden had other problems more obvious. But, they did what they could.
Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 02:50 PM (dIske)

I just remember Trump rolling out stats that Blacks and Hispanics were suddenly doing better than the last 50 years that nobody could refute, which I assume was just the thumb on the scale for Biden working for Trump.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:55 PM (uhVAy)

112 Sure sounds like the Fed should have lowered interest rates.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:46 PM (U/fqy)

I think Bessent rolled a bunch of high interest 10 and 30 year Treasuries in to lower interest Treasuries.
I could be wrong about that.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 02:55 PM (rbvCR)

113 @RapidResponse47
@AGToddBlanche: "Just a few minutes ago, the DOJ filed a Judicial Misconduct Complaint with the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals against all but one District Court judge in the District of Minnesota for violating various judicial canons."

More of this ^^^ please!

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 30, 2026 02:55 PM (3ImbR)

114 110 >>@OpenSourceZone
·
3h
>>Middle East crude exports recover to per war levels per JPMorgan

>>Middle East crude exports have rebounded to 98% of prewar levels, reaching roughly 17.5 million barrels per day

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 02:54 PM (viF8m)

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Headline is stupid. Middle East exports of crude have been at pre-war levels for months.

What's new is pre-war levels of crude through the strait specifically are now being confirmed by some major sources to be pre-war levels, but that's been true for weeks now, since before the Saudi pipeline attack.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:55 PM (U/fqy)

115 > "TRUMP WAS AN EPSTEIN ISLAND PEDO -- RELEASE THE VIDEOS!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"
Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 02:53 PM (4f3B/)

They never explain why the "Biden-Harris Admininstration" didn't "release the Epstein files".

They had four full years to do this. Nothing was released even when Commielay was running against Trump.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 02:56 PM (qlLNh)

116 Wait, Ace married garrett?

Germany has Alice Weidel and Sarah Bossard

We have Ace and Garrett?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:56 PM (sKqQm)

117
>>Middle East crude exports have rebounded to 98% of prewar levels, reaching roughly 17.5 million barrels per day
Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 02:54 PM (viF8m)

Just watched Tousi and the IRGC and proxies just hit oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Syria...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 02:56 PM (+gK6I)

118 112 Sure sounds like the Fed should have lowered interest rates.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:46 PM (U/fqy)

I think Bessent rolled a bunch of high interest 10 and 30 year Treasuries in to lower interest Treasuries.
I could be wrong about that.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 02:55 PM (rbvCR)

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It's my understanding that most of the US debt is 2-year. But that's half-remembered information I read once and never followed up on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:56 PM (U/fqy)

119 But did it disappoint Ace is the real question.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 02:48 PM (0sNs1)

When is he NOT disappointed in us?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:56 PM (ccf/V)

120 They are absolutely killing you with debt. Guess what happens when the next Fed increase comes in due to spiraling inflation??. I don't know if it's possible to bankrupt a country, but Uncle Donny sure is giving it his best

I'd like to see Trump take a few trillion off the budget, you with me Mr Reddit?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:53 PM (sKqQm)

That's what tariffs do, ya leftist twit. Free money from foreigners (the OP not mr 18-1). But they oppose those too.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:57 PM (uhVAy)

121 However, luring her to a remote location, bashing in her skull, and (this is the truly disturbing part) keeping a piece of the skull as a souvenir IS.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

What's the big deal? She didn't need it anymore!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 30, 2026 02:57 PM (aBcEh)

122 I think the problem is much deeper than intentional manipulation to make Republicans look bad, although there is that too.

The entire Economics Industrial Complex is built around a model of the world optimized for government and wall st. An obvious example is GDP -- taking money from A and giving it to B counts as "P" in GDP. That is nonsense. Selling off your core competencies for lower cost of production is "profit". Earlier I saw a governor complaining that cutting SNAP was going to kill their economy.

This all makes it very had to do things that are common sense right. But the ruling class is so disconnected from the real economy that the fly by numbers and the numbers are all crap.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 02:57 PM (xPxza)

123 But he - like every lefty - simply can't connect 'cause' to 'effect.'
Posted by: Washington Nearsider

They are programmed not to.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2026 02:57 PM (nEUC6)

124 But that's half-remembered information I read once and never followed up on.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

So, you're kinda lyin' about that whole illiteracy thing, I guess.

What an asshole thing to do.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 02:58 PM (77rzZ)

125 Just watched Tousi and the IRGC and proxies just hit oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Syria...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 02:56 PM (+gK6I)

I don't think Tousi is personally involved or his operation has *really* evolved a lot since he moved to the USA.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:58 PM (uhVAy)

126 @AGToddBlanche: "Just a few minutes ago, the DOJ filed a Judicial Misconduct Complaint with the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals against all but one District Court judge in the District of Minnesota for violating various judicial canons."

Mmmmmmm.......cannons........

https://shorturl.fm/icIU4

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:58 PM (ccf/V)

127 Currently the GOPe is desperately trying to help Talarico by shaming Christians out of voting for Paxton.
"Paxton is attacking his religion (and yours too)!" they fake gasp.

It's the usual deception:
That "character matters" and it's a sin upon you to vote for men who have sinned.
And so what if that means a godless, blaspheming heretic wins, well you can't be blamed--your conscious won't permit you to vote for a sinner.
You are blameless--Republican should know better than to nominate a sinner.

Never mind that standard--that only Republicans are held to--the "vote for the more holy man," has never resulted in a win for Republicans.
But has an unblemished record of letting radical leftist win.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 02:58 PM (3cUTc)

128 Meanwhile, Canada's economy is circling the bowl.

Elbows Up, icebacks.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 02:58 PM (viF8m)

129 124 But that's half-remembered information I read once and never followed up on.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

So, you're kinda lyin' about that whole illiteracy thing, I guess.

What an asshole thing to do.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 02:58 PM (77rzZ)

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I read tea leaves.

Keep up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:58 PM (U/fqy)

130 Hopefully the Rs will shock the left and sweep the midterms, but we are in some trouble with the 10-year Treasury rate at 5.3%. AI insists I can't estimate government debt service as the product of the Treasury yield and the debt, but I keep doing it anyway.

0.053 x $40 trillion = $2.12 trillion. Per year.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 30, 2026 02:58 PM (2ap+5)

131 They never explain why the "Biden-Harris Admininstration" didn't "release the Epstein files".

2020-2024: The Epstein files are a hoax you stupid hicks. They don't exist! There are no pedos in government. He was just one guy and his perverted girlfriend. Stop just calling people you don't like pedos.

Early 2025: Trump won't release the Epstein files! He's a pedo along with everyone in the R party

Late 2025: Trump didn't release all of the Epstein files! There are super sekret ones that say he's a pedo!

2026: Uh, let's just talk about the Epstein class cuz like that's the important point in all this, no one ever cared about what was actually in the files, that's like Trump misinformation

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:59 PM (sKqQm)

132 Even if Pike was SA'd as a child (and she's *very* manipulative so there's good reason to doubt her claims) most abuse victims don't lure romantic rivals into the woods, torture them for hours, bash ther skulls in and then parade a piece of the skull around town to show off to their friends.
Posted by: Delurker at September 30, 2026 02:51 PM (2Drhq)
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Her tales of abuse are almost certainly made up. Her claim is that most every adult male in her life sexually abused her. She also claims her "boyfriend" abused her (the same boyfriend she hated

Next week, she'll claim that ace and garrett roofied her and then made he watch their gay sex.

She is pure evil. There were also two other girls with her at the murder. They tortured Slemmer for hours, and then Pike smashed her head in with a rock.

I don't care if Pike's (bullshit) claims of abuse are true. Fry her fucking ass.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 02:59 PM (iFTx/)

133 130 Hopefully the Rs will shock the left and sweep the midterms, but we are in some trouble with the 10-year Treasury rate at 5.3%. AI insists I can't estimate government debt service as the product of the Treasury yield and the debt, but I keep doing it anyway.

0.053 x $40 trillion = $2.12 trillion. Per year.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 30, 2026 02:58 PM (2ap+5)

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It would be funnier if Democrats barely win the House on the back of 5 or so districts that Trump won by about 5.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:59 PM (U/fqy)

134 Maybe Bulletproof was a Werewolf and it was a silver bullet

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 03:00 PM (Ia/+0)

135 When is he NOT disappointed in us?
Posted by: Sponge

When he can't tell you how disappointed he is in us.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 03:00 PM (Y8DZL)

136 "TRUMP WAS AN EPSTEIN ISLAND PEDO -- RELEASE THE VIDEOS!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"
Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 02:53 PM (4f3B/)

They never explain why the "Biden-Harris Admininstration" didn't "release the Epstein files".

They had four full years to do this. Nothing was released even when Commielay was running against Trump.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 02:56 PM (qlLNh)

it wasn't Rush Limbaugh and Crowder at Epstein's welcome home from a Pedophile conviction party in NYC. It was Democrats and the MSM talking heads.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:00 PM (uhVAy)

137 They are programmed not to. /i]

My favorite lefty headline of all time was "Crime is down but prisons are still filling up!"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:00 PM (sKqQm)

138
When he can't tell you how disappointed he is in us.
Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 03:00 PM (Y8DZL)

This tracks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:01 PM (ccf/V)

139 The media is the enemy.

Posted by: Zombie Andrew Breitbart at September 30, 2026 03:01 PM (36x1j)

140 Her tales of abuse are almost certainly made up. Her claim is that most every adult male in her life sexually abused her. She also claims her "boyfriend" abused her (the same boyfriend she hated

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 02:59 PM (iFTx/)

If true, her targeting for revenge is way off and thus she deserves punishment.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:02 PM (uhVAy)

141 Ghislane was invited to Clinton's daughter's wedding. This is after Epstein's charges became public knowledge and before Ghislane got her own grift.

So there is only one reason you invite her - you want to keep Epstein close.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:02 PM (sKqQm)

142 The media is the enemy.
Posted by: Zombie Andrew Breitbart at September 30, 2026 03:01 PM (36x1j)

https://youtu.be/FhSy-6VqIww

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:02 PM (ccf/V)

143 Why is it that estimated growth rates always have to be revised downwards for Democrats and upwards for Republicans?

Because it works like this:

Bureaucrat receives an envelope from a go-between to a hedge fund that trades on the news. Among the bulk in the envelope are the "Numbers To Report".

The hedge fund sets up the trades before The Numbers are released. Algos do their thing and the hedge fund manager buys another beach house.

A few days after the first report, The Real Numbers are passed to the go-between, the hedge fund people consider whose in office and make adjustments up or down and place their Revised Number bets.

The Revised Numbers are released.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 03:02 PM (xE0sV)

144 IMHO, this is the trap that FDR fell into. Higher uncertainty increases risk. Increased risk demands higher profit. So by the numbers, producing the same amount under duress looks good.

He increased uncertainty and the numbers he went by showed success even though less was produced and people starved.

Trump is doing the opposite - he is trying to reduce risk and reduce obstacles but the models don't account for that.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 30, 2026 03:03 PM (xPxza)

145 There are two places where you see stories that Republicans are going to sit out the midterms:

The media and online--and it's all anecdotes.

No one in real life is actually polling Republicans.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 03:03 PM (3cUTc)

146 The media is the enemy.

Posted by: Zombie Andrew Breitbart at September 30, 2026 03:01 PM (36x1j)

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AKA The Enemedia.

[h/t commenter ellipsis ("...")]

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 03:03 PM (4f3B/)

147 Why does the economic vibe feel kind of off? Is that just media messaging? Big ticket items like rent and cars and houses seem insane to me. The prices are unbelievable. Cash for clunkers bears some responsibility.

Posted by: Max Power at September 30, 2026 03:03 PM (SwyyQ)

148 0.053 x $40 trillion = $2.12 trillion. Per year.
Posted by: Oglebay at September 30, 2026 02:58 PM (2ap+5)

So less than what two blue states do in fraud ? Workable.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:04 PM (uhVAy)

149 I hadn't heard about this other murderess until this week. Good Lord. There's a lot of utterly whackjob women out there.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 03:04 PM (77rzZ)

150 145 There are two places where you see stories that Republicans are going to sit out the midterms:

The media and online--and it's all anecdotes.

No one in real life is actually polling Republicans.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 03:03 PM (3cUTc)

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You mean the polling firms that have missed several major races by double digits in the past few months, solely because they can't poll the white working class effectively, the polls that say that men are going to swing about 10-15 points to the left from 2024 despite being rather inelastic in their voting habits over the last 20 years, are not getting an accurate picture of the electorate?

Crazy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:05 PM (U/fqy)

151 Bill Clinton visited Epstein Island many times, why not a payback to Chelsea?

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 03:05 PM (Ia/+0)

152 It's my understanding that most of the US debt is 2-year. But that's half-remembered information I read once and never followed up on.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 02:56 PM (U/fqy)

I know that Yellen issued a lot of 2 year bonds and I am told it was a bid to manage the difference between the bond rates of London and Brussels, but I don't understand the mechanism. I think the Euros were buying low interest bonds to back their own bonds

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 03:05 PM (rbvCR)

153 If this election and the one in 28 were marbles, we are talking about all of them.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:05 PM (Gqar8)

154 @AGToddBlanche: "Just a few minutes ago, the DOJ filed a Judicial Misconduct Complaint with the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals against all but one District Court judge in the District of Minnesota for violating various judicial canons."

From what I've seen, I prefer Lorna Hajdini's cannons https://tinyurl.com/36zwjfsz over most judicial canons.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 30, 2026 03:06 PM (aBcEh)

155 Once it became widely known that Reid Hoffman, Democrat mega donor and the fat POS who paid for E J Carroll's farce of a trial among other things, was besties with Epstein a lot of the air in that "scandal" went away.

Epstein was always more closely tied to the left and the establishment because he was a CIA asset.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 03:06 PM (viF8m)

156 *markets aren't tanking as many experts predicted
**markets aren't tanking as many experts predicted
***markets aren't tanking as many experts predicted
****markets aren't tanking as many experts predicted
_ghost of Maynard Ferguson

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 02:36 PM (nqf1u)

Played to the tune of Gonna Fly Now.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 30, 2026 03:06 PM (zafwz)

157 Hey, Democrats are really going to kill it this year now that they got the explicit endorsement of the IRGC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:06 PM (U/fqy)

158 Why does the economic vibe feel kind of off? Is that just media messaging? Big ticket items like rent and cars and houses seem insane to me. The prices are unbelievable. Cash for clunkers bears some responsibility.
Posted by: Max Power at September 30, 2026 03:03 PM (SwyyQ)

they quote rent prices in NYC, which has been rent controlled by a century, mismanaged for even longer by Democrats exclusively, and is now run by a terror loving commie.

Car prices are high because they pretty much declared all used cars obsolete and illegal in 5 years.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:07 PM (uhVAy)

159 LAME

Kalshi
@Kalshi
We’re partnering with CBS News to bring prediction market data to their midterm elections coverage.

11:02 AM · Sep 30, 2026

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 03:07 PM (/OKHJ)

160 Another lie that the GOPe is spreading is that Paxton is a "lazy campaigner."
It's a deflation tactic of "and if he doesn't want it, why should you vote for him?"

I haven't voted in a R primary in near 8 years; only the general.

And I'm getting flyers from Paxton near every other day.
Plus texts near daily.

Way, way more than Cruz ever did; any other candidate in TX for that matter.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 03:07 PM (3cUTc)

161 Why does the economic vibe feel kind of off? Is that just media messaging? Big ticket items like rent and cars and houses seem insane to me. The prices are unbelievable. Cash for clunkers bears some responsibility.
Posted by: Max Power at September 30, 2026 03:03 PM (SwyyQ)

Illegals need housing and cars, and often get discounts on loans.
Also, Private Equity firms have to invest in something so they often invest in real estate, and need to either be profitable or hide the decrease in value, and have been known to sell real estate between themselves, or to themselves on paper to re-enforce the paper value of the holdings.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 03:07 PM (rbvCR)

162 159 LAME

Kalshi
@Kalshi
We’re partnering with CBS News to bring prediction market data to their midterm elections coverage.

11:02 AM · Sep 30, 2026

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 03:07 PM (/OKHJ)

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According to Kalshi, Wang was a 95% favorite to win the Wisconsin Democrat governor's nomination.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:08 PM (U/fqy)

163
Epstein was always more closely tied to the left and the establishment because he was a CIA asset.

I think he was primarily British Intelligence, and him ensnaring Prince Andrew seems the most obvious proof to me because what other country would even care?

But as we saw many times the American Nat Sec folks abused 5 Eyes repeatedly.

Note, you'll find a lot of discussion online that Ghislane's father did work for Israel, and he certainly did. But he also worked for the Brits...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)

164 161 Why does the economic vibe feel kind of off? Is that just media messaging? Big ticket items like rent and cars and houses seem insane to me. The prices are unbelievable. Cash for clunkers bears some responsibility.
Posted by: Max Power at September 30, 2026 03:03 PM (SwyyQ)

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Where 287g agreements exist between local police forces and DHS, rents are outright declining.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:09 PM (U/fqy)

165 Her tales of abuse are almost certainly made up. Her claim is that most every adult male in her life sexually abused her. She also claims her "boyfriend" abused her (the same boyfriend she hated

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 02:59 PM (iFTx/)

If true, her targeting for revenge is way off and thus she deserves punishment.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:02 PM (uhVAy)
_____

Yup. It was clearly premeditated murder in the coldest of cold blood. Pike murdered her romantic rival after torturing her. The death penalty was made for cases like this.

Sure, Pike claimed at trial that she only wanted to "scare" Slemmer but things got out of control. The jury didn't believe this obvious bullshit, but that was a different time.

Today, women aren't responsible for anything they do, no matter how heinous or intentional. Fry this witch now.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

166 @Kalshi
We’re partnering with CBS News to bring prediction market data to their midterm elections coverage.

11:02 AM · Sep 30, 2026

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 03:07 PM (/OKHJ)

Tell me you don't want to be taken seriously without telling me you don't want to be taken seriously.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:09 PM (ccf/V)

167 You mean the polling firms that have missed several major races by double digits in the past few months, solely because they can't poll the white working class effectively, the polls that say that men are going to swing about 10-15 points to the left from 2024 despite being rather inelastic in their voting habits over the last 20 years, are not getting an accurate picture of the electorate?

Crazy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:05 PM (U/fqy)

Everyone hates Trump except for 98 percent of the people who voted him in. People don't vote 98 percent for the Pope or your grandma.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:09 PM (uhVAy)

168 Let’s talk about the price of Arugula now. Remember that bullshit? Anyone here know the price of Kale?

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:09 PM (Gqar8)

169 The economy vibe is off because people are used to 3% inflation, not 10+% like we had for 4 years under Biden...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:10 PM (sKqQm)

170 There are two places where you see stories that Republicans are going to sit out the midterms:

The media and online--and it's all anecdotes.

No one in real life is actually polling Republicans.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 03:03 PM (3cUTc)

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Actual Journalist Salena Zito came to national prominence in 2016 describing how the media & online narratives & anecdotes had Trump getting crushed -- while she was traveling all over (the mostly flyover and formerly blue collar industrial towns of) America where it was clear Trump was going to steamroll Killary.

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 03:10 PM (4f3B/)

171 Anyone here know the price of Kale?
Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:09 PM (Gqar

Could be free and I wouldn't eat it...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 03:10 PM (+gK6I)

172 >>I think he was primarily British Intelligence, and him ensnaring Prince Andrew seems the most obvious proof to me because what other country would even care?

Tomato, tomato.

There's a reason British intel was involved in the Russia hoax.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 03:11 PM (viF8m)

173 According to Kalshi, Wang was a 95% favorite to win the Wisconsin Democrat governor's nomination.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:08 PM (U/fqy)

How could those wise 'investors' know that Democrats would cheat? Just because it happens in every election in every city and state in the country since 1800.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:11 PM (uhVAy)

174 Tell me you don't want to be taken seriously without telling me you don't want to be taken seriously.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:09 PM (ccf/V)
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I was trying to think of something pithy but this works.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 03:12 PM (RIvkX)

175 no one will ever read what i write

and hobo ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Sid at September 30, 2026 03:12 PM (rHWcc)

176 Let’s talk about the price of Arugula now. Remember that bullshit? Anyone here know the price of Kale?
Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:09 PM (Gqar

Piper does.

It's great for getting stubborn stains out of grout.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:12 PM (uhVAy)

177 173 According to Kalshi, Wang was a 95% favorite to win the Wisconsin Democrat governor's nomination.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:08 PM (U/fqy)

How could those wise 'investors' know that Democrats would cheat? Just because it happens in every election in every city and state in the country since 1800.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:11 PM (uhVAy)

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What if polling post-2024 is not about informing the public but about manipulating the betting markets and making insiders money?

Would that explain polling behavior more or less than them trying to get it right and just being kind of not good at it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:12 PM (U/fqy)

178 The economic strength is causing interest rates to rise (people are finding better uses for their money than Govt debt). That's a bummer for investors as asset prices decline when borrowing costs go up. It is a paradox. But workers are getting raises. So maybe it's better to narrow the wealth spread while all boats rise.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at September 30, 2026 03:13 PM (Hpgos)

179 Let’s talk about the price of Arugula now. Remember that bullshit? Anyone here know the price of Kale?

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:09 PM (Gqar

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How much money did The Mooch make in Arugala Futures?

/Killary's Cattle Futures

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 03:13 PM (4f3B/)

180 "this economy is worse than the Great Depression" is a take, for sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:13 PM (U/fqy)

181 Here in Missouri the Supreme Court has stepped in and prevented us from voting for the Wrong People. We Love Big Brother!!!!

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:14 PM (Gqar8)

182 What if polling post-2024 is not about informing the public but about manipulating the betting markets and making insiders money?

What kind of polling firm would ruin their reputation to make a quick buck!?!?!

Posted by: Ann Selzer at September 30, 2026 03:15 PM (aBcEh)

183 162 159 LAME

Kalshi
@Kalshi
We’re partnering with CBS News to bring prediction market data to their midterm elections coverage.

11:02 AM · Sep 30, 2026

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 03:07 PM (/OKHJ)

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According to Kalshi, Wang was a 95% favorite to win the Wisconsin Democrat governor's nomination.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:08 PM (U/fqy)

It was mentioned at the MoRe, but still bears repeating: RCP's average poll of polls is garbage, due to the garbage polls put in there to game the system. Prediction markets are garbage, due to campaigns (or their surrogates) distorting the market with garbage trades.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 30, 2026 03:15 PM (0CU3H)

184 What if polling post-2024 is not about informing the public but about manipulating the betting markets and making insiders money?

51% of polymarket earnings go to .1% of the bettors so its a basically a pump and dump scheme...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:15 PM (sKqQm)

185 What if polling post-2024 is not about informing the public but about manipulating the betting markets and making insiders money?

Would that explain polling behavior more or less than them trying to get it right and just being kind of not good at it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:12 PM (U/fqy)

Well, the house always wins as they say. I just think its funny that the news services still pay for bullshit polls and now will pay for access to bullshit non polls to continue putting up crap as opposed to news.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:15 PM (uhVAy)

186 lol tubal

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 03:16 PM (X7pZH)

187 Why does the economic vibe feel kind of off? Is that just media messaging? Big ticket items like rent and cars and houses seem insane to me. The prices are unbelievable. Cash for clunkers bears some responsibility.
Posted by: Max Power at September 30, 2026 03:03 PM (SwyyQ)
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Biden's avalanche of inflation can't be reversed. Trump cannot roll back four years of price increases.

And high housing and rent prices are being cherry-picked by doomsayers. In fact, rent and housing prices are lower in many if not areas of the country.

Even in big blue cities, where rent and housing is very expensive, there are reasonable bargains out there.

Go to any renting or buying website, put in an area, and you will find reasonable prices. To be sure, these listings might not be the 3,500 sf newly-built luxurious housing that everyone wants, but luxury was never cheap, ever.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 03:16 PM (iFTx/)

188 Frank Luntz. The fat guy with the bad toupee?

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 03:16 PM (UjdFS)

189 What if polling post-2024 is not about informing the public but about manipulating the betting markets and making insiders money?

What kind of polling firm would ruin their reputation to make a quick buck!?!?!
Posted by: Ann Selzer at September 30, 2026 03:15 PM (aBcEh)

that's why prostitutes are a myth and always have been.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:16 PM (uhVAy)

190
Could be free and I wouldn't eat it...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 03:10 PM (+gK6I)

Were Piper still with us, she'd be hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:16 PM (ccf/V)

191 This is all a distraction from the Epstein and UAP Files.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 03:17 PM (0sNs1)

192 Unexpectedly.

>>The Chicago Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), a key indicator of the economic health of the manufacturing sector in the Chicago region, has shown a significant uptick. The latest data reveals an actual reading of 58.8, substantially exceeding the forecasted figure of 51.2. This robust performance signals a strong expansion in the manufacturing sector, as any reading above 50 indicates growth.

https://tinyurl.com/pk8znyr7

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 03:17 PM (viF8m)

193 One of the goofiest things I'm seeing on X is "the blue wave appears to be largely confined to red states" and that explains why Rs are going to lose the House and Senate.

No really, they're serious.
R's in red states are totally demoralized.
Dems in red states are fired up and ready for war.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 03:17 PM (3cUTc)

194 181 Here in Missouri the Supreme Court has stepped in and prevented us from voting for the Wrong People. We Love Big Brother!!!!
Posted by: tubal

Mary Cloggenstein's cousin?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 30, 2026 03:17 PM (aBcEh)

195 192 Unexpectedly.

>>The Chicago Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), a key indicator of the economic health of the manufacturing sector in the Chicago region, has shown a significant uptick. The latest data reveals an actual reading of 58.8, substantially exceeding the forecasted figure of 51.2. This robust performance signals a strong expansion in the manufacturing sector, as any reading above 50 indicates growth.

https://tinyurl.com/pk8znyr7

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 03:17 PM (viF8m)

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Worst economy ever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:17 PM (U/fqy)

196 Based on 2026 numbers, if full Social Security benefits were to be paid from general revenue rather than the trust fund, that be $270 billion. So a drop in the bucket compared to debt service - problem solved.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 30, 2026 03:17 PM (2ap+5)

197 There's always a bullshit narrative.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Thanks for the appreciation TJM.

Posted by: the media at September 30, 2026 03:17 PM (E4rtv)

198 Posted by: Sid at September 30, 2026 03:12 PM (rHWcc)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at September 30, 2026 03:17 PM (ccf/V)

199 Another lie that the GOPe is spreading is that Paxton is a "lazy campaigner."
It's a deflation tactic of "and if he doesn't want it, why should you vote for him?"

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Yeah, that's been the GOPee JournoList talking point since Cornyn got butthurt.

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 03:17 PM (4f3B/)

200 Co-pilot is in Saudi custody being interrogated.

Oh well.

Don't think his god is going to be of much use to him.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 03:18 PM (X7pZH)

201
Dropped my wounded Subaru Forrester off at Caliber Collision this morning.
Posted by: Bulg

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I found one near me!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 03:18 PM (mmrXZ)

202 Canada wants the Dems to win midterms, so everything Carney and the Liberals are doing is to do what THEY think will torpedo DJT.

The domestic and international MSM want the Dems to win the midterms, so everything EVERYTHING they post and publish will be tailored as an anti-DJT hit piece.

Iran wants the Dems to win the midterms, so every military strike and terrorist act they commit is devoted to swaying US voters against the US Administration.

Every state-sponsored act harmful to America committed around the globe is focused on the US electorate for the purpose of swaying US senate and house races.

Biggest set of psyops in world history.

Posted by: mrp at September 30, 2026 03:18 PM (rj6Yv)

203 LAME

Kalshi
@Kalshi
We’re partnering with CBS News to bring prediction market data to their midterm elections coverage.

11:02 AM · Sep 30, 2026
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 03:07 PM (/OKHJ)
_______

Kalshi is desperate for something after the 9th circuit appeals court shitcanned their entire sports-betting business, at least in that circuit (which includes Nevada).

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

204 I was trying to think of something pithy but this works.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Don't lemont it.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 03:18 PM (77rzZ)

205 51% of polymarket earnings go to .1% of the bettors so its a basically a pump and dump scheme...
Posted by: 18-1

You know who else runs a pump and dump scheme?

Posted by: Andrew Tate at September 30, 2026 03:18 PM (aBcEh)

206 191 This is all a distraction from the Epstein and UAP Files.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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That's what we said!!!!!

Posted by: the media at September 30, 2026 03:19 PM (E4rtv)

207 I was trying to think of something pithy but this works.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 03:12 PM

I, myself, think about pithy alot.

Posted by: Mike Tyson at September 30, 2026 03:19 PM (0sNs1)

208 I found one near me!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Great!

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 03:19 PM (77rzZ)

209 Think of the Congress as an FlyDubai flight. Democrats are the terrorists trying to hijack the plane and crash the economy. We're the passengers, jumping up to beat the shit out of the terrorists and save the country.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 03:19 PM (v3w5Z)

210 You know who else runs a pump and dump scheme?

Never trust a man that wear capris with no socks...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:19 PM (sKqQm)

211 193 One of the goofiest things I'm seeing on X is "the blue wave appears to be largely confined to red states" and that explains why Rs are going to lose the House and Senate.

No really, they're serious.
R's in red states are totally demoralized.
Dems in red states are fired up and ready for war.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 03:17 PM (3cUTc)

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Waves have never, ever worked like that.

The biggest crests are in the places where the party who is benefiting from the wave are entrenched.

So, you'd expect to see New York or Illinois or California to be even more blue than normal in a blue wave, all while deep red states do shift to the left, but only a bit. Turnout for blue goes up. Turnout goes down for red. But it's uneven and never enough to undo red state advantages entirely.

So, you wouldn't expect to see a Trump+14 state to become a D+5 state. You'd expect it to be like a GOP+9 state or something.

While also expecting D+20 states to become D+30 states.

Oh, by the way, CA is looking like a D underperformance this year. Same with NY.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:20 PM (U/fqy)

212 Frank Luntz. The fat guy with the bad toupee?

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 03:16 PM (UjdFS)

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The judges would have also accepted Mrs. Kevin McCarthy.

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 03:20 PM (4f3B/)

213 Novig: "We got Sydney Sweeney. Who you got?"

Kalshi: "We got CBS News, man!"

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 03:20 PM (/OKHJ)

214 The judges would have also accepted Mrs. Kevin McCarthy.
Posted by: ShainS

Heh. I had forgotten about that.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 03:21 PM (77rzZ)

215 We’re partnering with CBS News to bring prediction market data to their midterm elections coverage.

11:02 AM · Sep 30, 2026
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 30, 2026 03:07 PM (/OKHJ)
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"data"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 03:21 PM (v3w5Z)

216
Kalshi is desperate for something after the 9th circuit appeals court shitcanned their entire sports-betting business, at least in that circuit (which includes Nevada).
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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I would plan for the prediction markets being regulated or or even banned soon. To many people with inside information on events willing to sell out.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)

217 Oh, by the way, CA is looking like a D underperformance this year. Same with NY.

MA looks the same way to me this year. The commie governor will win and I don't expect the Reps to win any house seats thanks to gerrymandering but it will be closer then normal.

The NH is wear I'm more interested...the GOPer is going to beat the commie easily for governor and we might just get a house seat finally in New England

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:22 PM (sKqQm)

218 CBS Skews.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 03:22 PM (QwZKw)

219 If the Democrats win in 28 we will look back nostalgically on the Obama/Biden years. Yeah, it’ll be that bad in my view.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:22 PM (Gqar8)

220 Experts...

They seem to have a knack for being 100% wrong in the field in which they've supposedly earned their expertise.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 03:23 PM (FZ29D)

221 One problem with housing is the buyer not only has to shoulder a 7% mortgage, the current homeowner wants the buyer to compensate him for giving up his 2.5% mortgage for 7% on his new address.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 30, 2026 03:23 PM (2ap+5)

222 Canada wants the Dems to win midterms, so everything Carney and the Liberals are doing is to do what THEY think will torpedo DJT.

Biggest set of psyops in world history.
Posted by: mrp at September 30, 2026 03:18 PM (rj6Yv)

Carney is playing Canadian Roulette with 6 bullets in his chambers, while any American paying attention just finds it funny.

Come on Alberta! Bust up the farce and be in a real country. Rename all your rivers America River! A generation of scrubbing Euro influence out and you can be invading the North Pole just like us!

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:23 PM (uhVAy)

223 We've endorsed! To find out our voting choices, just look for the "D" next to the candidate name.

Posted by: Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps at September 30, 2026 03:23 PM (v3w5Z)

224 Experts...

They seem to have a knack for being 100% wrong in the field in which they've supposedly earned their expertise.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 03:23 PM (FZ29D)

If they were any good, people would be paying them for the advice and they wouldn't have to shout it on streetcorners with the other whores.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:24 PM (uhVAy)

225 Kalshi?

Posted by: Frank Costanza in Bed with Geogre at September 30, 2026 03:24 PM (0aYVJ)

226 217 Oh, by the way, CA is looking like a D underperformance this year. Same with NY.

MA looks the same way to me this year. The commie governor will win and I don't expect the Reps to win any house seats thanks to gerrymandering but it will be closer then normal.

The NH is wear I'm more interested...the GOPer is going to beat the commie easily for governor and we might just get a house seat finally in New England

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:22 PM (sKqQm)

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And, again, this is not how a blue wave would form.

Early mail in voting data from OH has started coming in. Ohio votes about 20% by mail recently and has for a few cycles. Also, there was a large voter roll cleanup that knocked off about 300,000 registrations in the state.

Democrat turnout is down. Way down, in all of the urban centers, so far. Comparing day to day from the last 2 elections (22 and 24), it's down this year by double digits.

Blue enclaves in a state with a supposedly competitive senate and governor race are just...not turning out.

The turnout problem seems to actually be on the left.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:24 PM (U/fqy)

227
The NH is wear I'm more interested...the GOPer is going to beat the commie easily for governor and we might just get a house seat finally in New England
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:22 PM (sKqQm)

_________

100 years ago, who would have thought the Republicans would dominate the South and Democrats would hold all the seats in New England?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 03:24 PM (eRlcH)

228 221 One problem with housing is the buyer not only has to shoulder a 7% mortgage, the current homeowner wants the buyer to compensate him for giving up his 2.5% mortgage for 7% on his new address.
Posted by: Oglebay at September 30, 2026 03:23 PM (2ap+5)

True.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 30, 2026 03:24 PM (tOcjL)

229 We should totally put Democrats in charge because I don’t like the process of gas and Cheetos.

What’s the worst that could happen? I mean last time they crashed the economy.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 30, 2026 03:24 PM (iETvL)

230
Come on Alberta! Bust up the farce and be in a real country. Rename all your rivers America River! A generation of scrubbing Euro influence out and you can be invading the North Pole just like us!
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:23 PM (uhVAy)

If for nothing else, the Oilers have a real shot to win the Stanley Cup in the next 2 years. If that is to happen, I would be most grateful were Alberta to NOT be part of Canada.

The drought would continue.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:24 PM (ccf/V)

231 Fake news for the win!

Americans’ Confidence in the Economy Sinks to Lowest Level Since 2014

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 03:25 PM (ndZc7)

232 Removes misspelled sock

Posted by: Frank Costanza in Bed with Geogre at September 30, 2026 03:25 PM (0aYVJ)

233 128 Meanwhile, Canada's economy is circling the bowl.

Elbows Up, icebacks.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 02:58

I mentioned this but I was at our local beer store. Apparently sales are noticably down.

Oh CNN and MS Now are very upset about military cuts.
They love the country so much.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 30, 2026 03:25 PM (Sco7b)

234 Blue enclaves in a state with a supposedly competitive senate and governor race are just...not turning out.

The turnout problem seems to actually be on the left.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:24 PM (U/fqy)

Or the normal "D turnout ballots" are being held until they can be dumped in late night...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 30, 2026 03:25 PM (tOcjL)

235 Removes misspelled sock
Posted by: Frank Costanza in Bed with Geogre at September 30, 2026 03:25 PM (0aYVJ)

Fail......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:25 PM (ccf/V)

236
100 years ago, who would have thought the Republicans would dominate the South and Democrats would hold all the seats in New England?

New England pols did invent modern gerrymandering...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:26 PM (sKqQm)

237 Here's a fact for you:

Every poll that has Talarico winning, has him with a 20 to 30 point advantage among independents.

Beto, actual results: 3% advantage over Cruz among independents.

But sure, believe that there's suddenly been that massive swing--against a politician that just won statewide office--because of the now 3rd rehash of "he's corrupt and had an affair!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 03:26 PM (3cUTc)

238 Anacdotyal evidence:

My leading cleaning team worker bought a new car this week. A Mazda 3. She got a good monthly rate.

My cars are 15 years older.
I'm in the wrong business.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 03:26 PM (u82oZ)

239 President Trump in two years has delivered a booming short-term economy, long-term investment that will sustain economic growth, secure our borders, is getting rid of the legal aliens, battled the Democrat courts hell bent on destroying his administration with some success, has remapped the global balance of power, secured energy dominance for the US, has taken out Iran for the most part, clipped the wings of the Democrats administrative state, and is working to ensure the US is the AI leader. This list is hardly inclusive.

Somehow the Left has drummed up the story that he is a failed president and to some degree made it stick. More insane is the Left is selling this crap while promoting a Communist/Islamic takeover of the nation which will destroy as a positive.

I have no idea how this election will play out but I can point to the 1864 election when it was thought Lincoln would lose. Then it was the men who were dying for him came through and gave him that second term. If Trump is going to prevail it will be the average American foot soldier citizen that will do this; this is something I would not bet against. Have faith.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 30, 2026 03:27 PM (VyD10)

240 derpity derp

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at September 30, 2026 03:27 PM (0aYVJ)

241 237 Here's a fact for you:

Every poll that has Talarico winning, has him with a 20 to 30 point advantage among independents.

Beto, actual results: 3% advantage over Cruz among independents.

But sure, believe that there's suddenly been that massive swing--against a politician that just won statewide office--because of the now 3rd rehash of "he's corrupt and had an affair!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 03:26 PM (3cUTc)

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"I totally didn't believe the summer polls showing Texas to be going blue. I learned my lesson in 2024 when Allred was in striking distance of Cruz consistently and then went on to lose by 9."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:27 PM (U/fqy)

242 I think in general things are swinging better but slower than we'd like. Hopefully not too slowly to make people feel optimistic by the midterm.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 03:27 PM (aJQbY)

243 One other frustrating thing with this election - the Dems are only competitive at all because of rotten boroughs full of illegals.

Even without the illegals themselves voting they've made it so in blue states there are significantly fewer citizens per district then in red states.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:27 PM (sKqQm)

244 I have old vehicles.

88 (restoration project)
96
2008
2013
2014

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:27 PM (ccf/V)

245 +5 in the House and +2 in the Senate for an R gain.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 03:28 PM (QwZKw)

246 Here is a hopeful thought - maybe, just maybe the rabid racoons on the Left have scared the shit out of some standard Dems. Maybe, just maybe their turnout will be affected.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:28 PM (Gqar8)

247 128 Meanwhile, Canada's economy is circling the bowl.

How could they tell?

Posted by: canada is a popcorn fart economy at September 30, 2026 03:28 PM (PMpfL)

248 Dropped my wounded Subaru Forrester off at Caliber Collision this morning.
Posted by: Bulg

I predict Caliber will overprice your estimate and total your Subaru. A total scam run by body shops and insurance companies to fix and resell or part-out.

I recommend an independent shop for a second estimate.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 30, 2026 03:28 PM (w9Wax)

249 I would plan for the prediction markets being regulated or or even banned soon. To many people with inside information on events willing to sell out.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)

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College & Professional Sports officials, referees, and umpires hardest hit!

/Not to mention White House teleprompter operators ...

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 03:29 PM (4f3B/)

250 100 years ago, who would have thought the Republicans would dominate the South and Democrats would hold all the seats in New England?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Nixon?

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 03:29 PM (Y8DZL)

251 Blue enclaves in a state with a supposedly competitive senate and governor race are just...not turning out.

The turnout problem seems to actually be on the left.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Urban blacks decline plus fear of cheating prosecutions. Seems to be similar in TX urban areas according go Seth Keshel.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 03:29 PM (E4rtv)

252
"Dad used to beat him up."

"Good."

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 03:29 PM (x8rTv)

253 Beato was exactly the kind of candidate you think would do we for the Dems.

Normal looking white guy with a fake hispanic name who is straight and sounds normal.

Yes he was a commie but he could play at not being one.

Talafreako? He's the kind of guy normal people don't let near their children.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:29 PM (sKqQm)

254
"I totally didn't believe the summer polls showing Texas to be going blue. I learned my lesson in 2024 when Allred was in striking distance of Cruz consistently and then went on to lose by 9."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:27 PM (U/fqy)

The ad a Cruz PAC put out showing a menacing football player standing over the poor young girl having just been walloped laying on the ground was VERY effective.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:29 PM (ccf/V)

255 Every poll that has Talarico winning, has him with a 20 to 30 point advantage among independents.

Beto, actual results: 3% advantage over Cruz among independents.

But sure, believe that there's suddenly been that massive swing--against a politician that just won statewide office--because of the now 3rd rehash of "he's corrupt and had an affair!"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 03:26 PM (3cUTc)
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Our endorsement will make that difference!

Posted by: Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps at September 30, 2026 03:29 PM (v3w5Z)

256 MAZE
@mazemoore
MSNOW's coverage of the FlyDubai incident is as expected.
They bring in Inzamam Rashid to let everyone know that the motive is completely unclear.

-
I assume the pilot and the co-pilot were fighting over one of those little bags of peanuts.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 03:30 PM (ndZc7)

257
Talafreako? He's the kind of guy normal people don't let near their children.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:29 PM (sKqQm)

You can still see the cum dripping from his lips.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:30 PM (ccf/V)

258 Here is a hopeful thought - maybe, just maybe the rabid racoons on the Left have scared the shit out of some standard Dems. Maybe, just maybe their turnout will be affected.
Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:28 PM (Gqar

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The King Roy Cooper $3 campaign blegs just keep rolling in. I'm getting one every two days now.

Posted by: mrp at September 30, 2026 03:30 PM (rj6Yv)

259 I predict Caliber will overprice your estimate and total your Subaru. A total scam run by body shops and insurance companies to fix and resell or part-out.

I recommend an independent shop for a second estimate.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks

We've always had great results with Caliber. I see no reason to doubt them, at least this particular shop.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 03:30 PM (77rzZ)

260 246 Here is a hopeful thought - maybe, just maybe the rabid racoons on the Left have scared the shit out of some standard Dems. Maybe, just maybe their turnout will be affected.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:28 PM (Gqar

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I think it's a combination of a few things:

Voter roll cleanups have been aggressively pursued by DOJ and outside groups, limiting cheating abilities.
DOJ threats to monitor voting in blue enclaves is giving the left some pause.
Blacks are turning off of politics because of a series of loses both political (Callais) and generalized (the prominence of other client groups in Democrat rhetoric and policy).
Trump actually is animating low propensity GOP voters this year.
Illegals who do vote are actually terrified of trying now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:30 PM (U/fqy)

261 Real GDP was revised up 0.7% point from the second estimate, "primarily reflecting upward revisions to investment, consumer spending and government spending," the Commerce Department's bureau also said.

Just my opinion but government spending should never be counted in the GDP, especially with the rampant deficit spending going on in DC.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 30, 2026 03:30 PM (I43vL)

262 Waves have never, ever worked like that.

The biggest crests are in the places where the party who is benefiting from the wave are entrenched.
--
Exactly.
Polls are showing essentially tied races everywhere.

Or:
If Talarico was really winning in TX, it wouldn't be close in MN, NH, or MI.
But it is.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 03:30 PM (3cUTc)

263 Here is a hopeful thought - maybe, just maybe the rabid racoons on the Left have scared the shit out of some standard Dems. Maybe, just maybe their turnout will be affected.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:28 PM (Gqar

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The Islammunists may have to step up their election-rigging games.

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 03:31 PM (4f3B/)

264 245 +5 in the House and +2 in the Senate for an R gain.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 03:28 PM (QwZKw)

LOVE THIS!

Hope and prayers, Ben Had, for this very thing.

I am an eternal optimist and always find hope.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 03:31 PM (hzuYO)

265 Kalshi is desperate for something after the 9th circuit appeals court shitcanned their entire sports-betting business, at least in that circuit (which includes Nevada).
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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I would plan for the prediction markets being regulated or or even banned soon. To many people with inside information on events willing to sell out.
Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)
______

True, but there's a loophole in federal commodities law that allows non-sports prediction markets as some kind of futures contract swap. States have little to no power over that.

But sport betting is a different animal, and the states have yuge regulating powers. And they will fight to the end because they want their nice fat cut of the action.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

266 >>My leading cleaning team worker bought a new car this week. A Mazda 3. She got a good monthly rate.

>My cars are 15 years older.

She will be making payments for years.

You will not.

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnel at September 30, 2026 03:31 PM (vNne8)

267 Here is a hopeful thought - maybe, just maybe the rabid racoons on the Left have scared the shit out of some standard Dems. Maybe, just maybe their turnout will be affected.
Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:28 PM (Gqar

Yes, I don't see how the fecklessness of the Geriatric Wing of the Dems and the idiocy and failure of the Communist/Islamofacist wing is the recipe for victory. Remember TX and FL have a built in plus for the good guys baked in already no matter what Missouri does.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:32 PM (uhVAy)

268 dammit...OFF stinky lesboSock

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 03:32 PM (vNne8)

269
It makes no difference. We're all going to drown from the MASSIVE storm this week.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 03:32 PM (eRlcH)

270 I predict Caliber will overprice your estimate and total your Subaru. A total scam run by body shops and insurance companies to fix and resell or part-out.

I recommend an independent shop for a second estimate.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks

My daughter has 2 totals on her record. Both cars were very repairable, but the Ins Co deemed them totals, took them, then auctioned them off.

They're both currently in the state of Illinois being repaired for resale as salvages. They'll get their money back, for sure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:32 PM (ccf/V)

271 Anyone who thinks the Democrats will do better on the economy has a REALLY short-term memory.

They should not be allowed anywhere near a voting booth.

They should also send me all their money, as I will be a better steward of their resources than they are now.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 03:32 PM (FZ29D)

272 Talafreako? He's the kind of guy normal people don't let near their children.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:29 PM (sKqQm)

He's the kind that doesn't wait for permission

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 03:32 PM (x8rTv)

273 88 (restoration project)
96
2008
2013
2014
Posted by: Sponge

Mine are
60
63
86
07
I know AOP can top this, so I don't know why I bother.

Posted by: Olden Times Were Better at September 30, 2026 03:32 PM (Fn+3X)

274 Or the normal "D turnout ballots" are being held until they can be dumped in late night...
Posted by: Nova Local
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Doesn't work like that in normal states. You have to request a ballot be mailed, not blanket mailouts. Whole process takes time.

Dems rely on mailouts first for ballot harvesting and fraud , second early voting, EV voting is almost always GOP heavy. Dem spin is that these mail in ballot requesters not requesting will vote in person early.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 03:33 PM (E4rtv)

275 Just my opinion but government spending should never be counted in the GDP, especially with the rampant deficit spending going on in DC.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 30, 2026 03:30 PM (I43vL)

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Just think how high GDP growth will be when we refinance maturing 0.5% bonds for 6% on the run.

(I don't know if government debt service is included in GDP, but it would funny if it were)

Posted by: Oglebay at September 30, 2026 03:33 PM (2ap+5)

276 Democrats are on the loosing side of the 80 - 20 divide they are not going to like the choices the normal average Joe & Jane make.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 30, 2026 03:34 PM (Q/FnY)

277 Oh, by the way, CA is looking like a D underperformance this year. Same with NY.
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That remains my "holy shit, I think I pulled a muscle laughing" prediction.

That CA with their super smart redistricting, spread themselves way to thin.
That they had way too many close races they only won by massive cheating after the fact.
And are not going to gain the 5 seats they predicted.

A competitive R for governor while a near-retard is running on the other side matters for races outside of L.A.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 03:34 PM (3cUTc)

278 248 Dropped my wounded Subaru Forrester off at Caliber Collision this morning.
Posted by: Bulg

I predict Caliber will overprice your estimate and total your Subaru. A total scam run by body shops and insurance companies to fix and resell or part-out.

I recommend an independent shop for a second estimate.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 30, 2026 03:28 PM (w9Wax)

Did that to both my cars...but there was nowhere else that could take my cars that insurance covered...

When they did it to the 2nd car, I got a way better payout...so it was worth going away (same payout for my 2020 and 2011 cars with similar mileage - yes, I was pissed about the 2020 payout and called it fraud, so when I got car 2 with the same result, I think they knew to overpay me or state people were getting inolved - my kids got cars hit in back to back months - day I was paid out was day 2nd car was hit, so it was fresh)...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 30, 2026 03:34 PM (tOcjL)

279 Car loans aren't the worst sort of debt but they are pretty bad.

Under Biden you could get a 3% mortgage while inflation was 10%+ which is basically getting free money.

Getting a 8% or higher rate loan for a car now with inflation at 3% is a bad deal unless you need it to get to work.

Better to buy/keep an older car if you can minimize debt on it.

And apparently I'm turning into David Ramsey...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:34 PM (sKqQm)

280 I have old vehicles.

88 (restoration project)
96
2008
2013
2014
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 03:27 PM (ccf/V)
___

Ours are 2008 and 2014.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 03:34 PM (X7pZH)

281 Beato was exactly the kind of candidate you think would do we for the Dems.

Normal looking white guy with a fake hispanic name who is straight and sounds normal.

Yes he was a commie but he could play at not being one.

Talafreako? He's the kind of guy normal people don't let near their children.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 03:29 PM (sKqQm)

That lasted for about 5 days. The feeding your wife your baby's poo story pretty much put the 'normal' illusion out the window.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:34 PM (uhVAy)

282 NOOD UK Muzzies

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 03:35 PM (4f3B/)

283 Anyone know the provenance of the Lezbaru designation?

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:35 PM (Gqar8)

284 Blue enclaves in a state with a supposedly competitive senate and governor race are just...not turning out.
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The cope is that their voters are totally going to reverse their habits and trend of the last 10 years and are going to show up on Election Day, in person.

LOL sure.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 03:36 PM (3cUTc)

285 Anyone know the provenance of the Lezbaru designation?
Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 03:35 PM (

Probably the Dead Sea Scrolls. Its OLD.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 03:36 PM (uhVAy)

286 I parked next to a Bentley SUV yesterday. Bentley makes SUVs??? My wife assured me they do and that the particular model we were parked beside costs north of $600K.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 30, 2026 03:37 PM (2ap+5)

287 284 Blue enclaves in a state with a supposedly competitive senate and governor race are just...not turning out.
--
The cope is that their voters are totally going to reverse their habits and trend of the last 10 years and are going to show up on Election Day, in person.

LOL sure.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 03:36 PM (3cUTc)

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The left said the same thing about their voters in 2024 when mail in voting was going down compared to 2020.

GOP crushed on election day.

And this excuse didn't come up this year until after early voting started.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 03:37 PM (U/fqy)

288 Have a 2009 lesburu with 92k miles. Manual tranny.

I hope it runs forever.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 03:37 PM (W2Pud)

289 I'll only vote if Ace fixes the ad pop up problem on his website.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (DbmIv)

290 Polls are psychological warfare. We would be wise wise to remember polling is just a branch of the media.

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2026 03:40 PM (jdlda)

291 Though no one can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory better than the GOPe, I am feeling pretty good about the midterms, and look forward to having even fewer RINOs in the next Congress.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 04:01 PM (4NO2D)

292 I parked next to a Bentley SUV yesterday. Bentley makes SUVs??? My wife assured me they do and that the particular model we were parked beside costs north of $600K.
Posted by: Oglebay at September 30, 2026 03:37 PM

Did you bump it with your car door? The temptation would be strong for me.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 04:03 PM (4NO2D)

293 And, the Fed dutifully raises interest rates based on these bullshlt numbers. Warsh is as useless as any of them. President Trump is 50/50 at government hiring and judicial nominations.
He needs better advisors regarding appointments and nominations.

Posted by: Unkaren at September 30, 2026 04:06 PM (fMu/S)

294
>>My leading cleaning team worker bought a new car this week. A Mazda 3. She got a good monthly rate.
>My cars are 15 years older.

She will be making payments for years.

You will not.
Posted by: Rosie O'Donnel

Depreciating all the while.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 04:09 PM (Cqx++)

295 In Biden's last year the GDP avg growth was 2.8% about 10% higher than Trump's

Posted by: Paul at September 30, 2026 05:26 PM (6mL3R)

296 When Biden had a higher grp Ace said it was low

Posted by: Paul at September 30, 2026 05:27 PM (6mL3R)

Muslim Terrorist Stabs Co-Pilot and Takes Control of Plane, Intending to Crash-Bomb It Into Tel Aviv; Israeli Passengers Aboard Channel the Spirit of Todd Beamer and Take the Cockpit

Below, a passenger wearing the blood of the terrorist he beat up:

Pepel Klaasa
@pepel_klaasa

A passenger on the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight recounts:
"We are currently in Saudi Arabia.
One of the crew members attacked the pilot with a knife and disabled the aircraft's systems. Yaniv (pictured?) and another passenger stormed the cockpit and subdued the attacker.
Luckily, there were two more pilots on board. They were the ones who managed to land the plane."
Well, yes. Overall, the probability that a plane full of Israelis will contain a trained assault team, two additional pilots, and, statistically, at least one cardiac surgeon, psychologist, lawyer, and diamond dealer is substantially higher than 50%.

Via bonhomme.

The plane made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, thanks to the Israelis aboard "committing a genocide" on the terrorist.

I'm sure that's what CAIR will be saying any minute. When the Israelis beat the shit out of the terrorist attempting to kill them, did you know they killed 750,000 Gazan children? It's true. An Arab journalist said it. So it must be true.

A flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was unexpectedly diverted to Saudi Arabia after one pilot stabbed the other and "apparently tried to crash the plane", Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said.
The Flydubai plane - which took off from Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates early on Wednesday morning - signalled an emergency alert two hours into the flight.
Tracking data also showed a sudden drop in the plane's altitude.
Flight FZ1073 was forced to change course from its route to Ben-Gurion Airport in Israel and instead landed at Tabuk Airport in northeastern Saudi Arabia.
On arrival, accounts from passengers to local media detailed a stabbing in the cockpit of the plane.
In an address after the incident, Netanyahu confirmed the stabbing and said a passenger and crew member broke into the cockpit and overpowered "the pilot who had carried out the stabbing".
The pilot was arrested and is being questioned by Saudi authorities, the prime minister said.
The plane's captain and first officer were injured and taken to hospital, the company that owns Tabuk Airport said. It did not say what caused the injuries.

All the Jews are probably lying. I understand the BBC's refusal to just say the guy stabbed the other pilot. Who knows, maybe the other pilot slipped and fell on to a knife multiple times.

Flydubai said "an altercation occurred in the flight deck" and all passengers are safe and accounted for. The flight was carrying at least 150 people, with Netanyahu saying "almost all" passengers were Israeli.

And you can't trust the words of 150 different people, given that they're almost all Israelis.

...
Initial local media reports cited Israeli officials as saying a fight had broken out between two pilots.
But, speaking on Wednesday following the incident, Netanyahu confirmed later reports that one pilot had stabbed the other before "apparently trying to crash" the plane.
He added that an Israeli passenger told him "the plane went into a spin and began to descend" before the passenger and a crew member broke into the cockpit and overpowered the "pilot who had carried out the stabbing".
...
Passengers on board the flight have been talking to various media outlets. BBC News has not been able to verify their accounts.

You'd think the consistent accounts of 150 different people would verify each other's accounts, but no, these are Jews, and they probably did a genocide in the cockpit.

Yasmin Abukasis told Reuters that her daughter - who was on the flight - said a man holding a knife had forced one of the pilots onto the floor, and that there was blood everywhere.
Speaking from Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, she said her daughter phoned her to say she heard screaming on the plane as a pilot called for help, adding that two other pilots took control of the plane as other passengers ran towards a man who had a knife.
"The plane start to lose control. So all the people, they scream, they think they are going," Abukasis told AP news agency.
One female passenger described the "very stressful" moment people realised the plane was descending. "We understood the pilots lost control," she told Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom.
"There are people here with shirts covered in blood," she said, adding: "Now we are fine and want to return home."
Another unnamed passenger told the Jerusalem Post that while passengers near the front of the plane forced the attacker from the cockpit after the stabbing of the co-pilot, two pilots from the back of the plane helped land the aircraft.
Almog Itali, who was also on board the flight, told media one of the pilots who landed the aircraft was British.
The other pilot was European, Itali said, although he did not provide a specific nationality.

The media is calling the attempt at a 9/11 in Tel Aviv an "altercation" or "flight fight."

Muslim co-pilot stabs pilot and tries to take down plane with 180 passengers

Media: pic.twitter.com/2sfYv2nI2M
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 30, 2026

The NYT trying to frame a likely terrorist plane hijacking as a minor altercation is definitely an interesting choice… pic.twitter.com/GarLeWfsG6
— AG (@AGHamilton29) September 30, 2026

This is just probably fake Mossad AI:

🚨 BREAKING: A pilot aboard Flydubai flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv attacked the other pilot and attempted to seize control of the aircraft in terror attack.

The plane, carrying 174 Israeli passengers, plunged 14,000 feet before the situation was brought under control and… pic.twitter.com/FAgyt7dOpK
— Combat Antisemitism Movement (@CombatASemitism) September 30, 2026

Kosher
@koshercockney
You can't hate the BBC enough.
With the story about this terrorist co-pilot that stabbed the pilot and planned to crash the FlyDubai flight.
The BBC are only reporting it as "Israel's far-right minister Ben Gvir SAYS it was a terrorist that wanted to crash the plane to kill Israelis"
Not the fact it actually WAS a terrorist, or that the Israeli passengers STOPPED the terrorist, and passengers recorded a video stating it was a terrorist attack and also that every Israeli official and news outlet says it was a terrorist attack.
They had to say that it's only the "Far Right" Minister Ben Gvir (who they know is disliked) that claims it was a terrorist attack.
And of course their actual headline calls it a "Flight fight"
This is not journalism, this is whitewashing of terrorism from an Anti-Israel propaganda network.
It seems whenever there is a terrorist attack against Jews, they cannot seem to say those words themselves.
And of course they won't admit that it was Jews that saved a plane full of innocent people either.
The brave Israelis that stopped this terrorist attack saved 180 people on that plane. That's fact.
No wonder so many people want to cancel the BBC licence.

You can’t hate the BBC enough.

With the story about this terrorist co-pilot that stabbed the pilot and planned to crash the FlyDubai flight.

The BBC are only reporting it as “Israel’s far-right minister Ben Gvir SAYS it was a terrorist that wanted to crash the plane to kill… pic.twitter.com/mDAde91wX2
— Kosher (@koshercockney) September 30, 2026

Via Comrade Arthur.

This guy says the terrorist smuggled an axe aboard, not a knife.

Flydubai Flight Hijacking Attempt: Israeli Passengers Avert Terror Attack pic.twitter.com/4BxxC7zPPo
— Jonny Daniels (@MrJonnyDaniels) September 30, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:24 PM

Comments

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1 THE BLADE BLADES AGAIN!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)

2 Hi

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 01:25 PM (oqH4h)

3 Jews attack mohammedan, film at 11

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 01:26 PM (0U5gm)

4 Seen on Twitter:

Hijacking an airplane full of Israelis is an interesting choice.

You know there's a full-on assault team, some pilots, probably a sniper or two, a few doctors, et al. on board.

Any other nation in the world and they're probably all dead, but Israelis have learned the lessons we refuse to learn: You can't always go along to get along.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 30, 2026 01:26 PM (gLYp7)

5 a ukrain and russian pilot onboard landed the plan per pjm

Posted by: doug at September 30, 2026 01:28 PM (B1+sW)

6 Jews attack mohammedan, film at 11
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Islamophobia at 30,000 ft!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 01:28 PM (yOEUM)

7 I feel like I should wait for Candace Owens to give me the real scoop on this. She nose the facts.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 01:28 PM (oqH4h)

8 Just a little tussle. Nothing really.

Posted by: BBC at September 30, 2026 01:29 PM (2Xqig)

9 Co-pilot was on K and very hormonal. He didn't mean it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 01:29 PM (iFTx/)

10 What ever happened to 'fly the friendly skies'??

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 01:29 PM (Oy/m2)

11 Not today, Satan. Not today.

Posted by: moki at September 30, 2026 01:31 PM (wLjpr)

12 Afternoon.

A Moosleeeeeeeeeeem man tries to drive a plane full of Jews into the ground. Wil we ever know the motive? It's a mystery, I tells ya.

Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2026 01:31 PM (dpXJq)

13 Any word on his motive yet? It is a mystery why these things happen.

Posted by: Ripley at September 30, 2026 01:31 PM (GUOwU)

14 Only thing they did wrong was not to beat him to death

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:31 PM (nIKjK)

15 I just... why would an Israeli airline hire an Arabic pilot?

This comes right after guys caught in the UK trying to blow up an airfield. Iran is lashing out with everything they have.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:33 PM (nIKjK)

16 Who was the guy the Saudi's made filets out of again? A real shame.

Practice makes perfect!

Posted by: connected and litigious at September 30, 2026 01:33 PM (cS1cw)

17 MSNOW....has not reported a single word about the incident.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 01:33 PM (dIske)

18 I rate this story as four "Yikes on bikes!"

Posted by: Yikes On Bikes at September 30, 2026 01:33 PM (V362x)

19 Mostly Peaceful Co-Pilot's Sharp Accessory Damaged by Pilot's Ribcage.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 30, 2026 01:33 PM (bNf8H)

20 I trust that as the anniversary of the terrible attack on 10/7 approaches Israel has stepped up security.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 01:34 PM (JrHfD)

21 I read that the British government said it has no knowledge that one of the pilots who took over and got the plane safely down is a British citizen.

Also-and I'd be one of them-several passengers initially refused to get on the replacement plane until the Mossad checked out the crew and said it's ok.

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 01:34 PM (kX27y)

22 15 I just... why would an Israeli airline hire an Arabic pilot?

maybe he was an Israeli?

anyway what a great job by the passengers

close call

and the news media is full of freaking DEMONS

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 30, 2026 01:34 PM (j+aD2)

23 Would have been much more impressive if the perp had 60 9mm rounds in him.
Do better, Mossad...

Posted by: MkY at September 30, 2026 01:34 PM (ZHRuH)

24 Look, it's not really his fault. He was upset about the Aces losing to the Fever yesterday, Lindsay Clancy facing another trial, AND Mars in in retrograde!!!!! He didn't have a choice!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 30, 2026 01:34 PM (aBcEh)

25 Wonder what the Saudis are going to do with their pro-level Jihadi?

Posted by: pawn at September 30, 2026 01:34 PM (3g9Kl)

26
What frightens me is a hostage situation with some band of Antifa/Musloids taking over a church or synagogue service.

I go to 7:00 AM Mass, so I doubt they get up that early, but still...

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 01:35 PM (eRlcH)

27 Only thing they did wrong was not to beat him to death
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:31 PM (nIKjK)

They should have given him the Pinochet treatment.

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 01:35 PM (Oy/m2)

28 Is the terr still alive?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 01:35 PM (Az7Eg)

29 21 I read that the British government said it has no knowledge that one of the pilots who took over and got the plane safely down is a British citizen.

Also-and I'd be one of them-several passengers initially refused to get on the replacement plane until the Mossad checked out the crew and said it's ok.

damn I mean I have a feeling this Britisher didn't look like what one pictures

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 30, 2026 01:35 PM (j+aD2)

30 I just... why would an Israeli airline hire an Arabic pilot?

This comes right after guys caught in the UK trying to blow up an airfield. Iran is lashing out with everything they have.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I'm guessing "FlyDubai" is a Dubai Airline, not an Israeli one.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 30, 2026 01:35 PM (vJrRc)

31 OT but we all remember JeffB, right? Good ole contrarian JeffB. Always a fun time watching him and Ace flirt in the threads.

Was he always such a retard?

https://tinyurl.com/yc39bn35

He called Black Sabbath Pop? Like he says a lot of dumb shit in one little Twat but calling Black Sabbath fucking POP?!?!?!?

Fucking imbecile.

Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2026 01:35 PM (dpXJq)

32 maybe he was an Israeli?

He's Omani

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:35 PM (nIKjK)

33 Did the pilot know his Co-pilot or they are just randomly assigned to flights?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 01:35 PM (JrHfD)

34 What frightens me is a hostage situation with some band of Antifa/Musloids taking over a church or synagogue service.

I go to 7:00 AM Mass, so I doubt they get up that early, but still...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Carry. Multiple guns.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 01:35 PM (Az7Eg)

35 I just... why would an Israeli airline hire an Arabic pilot?

FlyDubai is a division of Emirates. Not Israeli.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 30, 2026 01:35 PM (2ocoG)

36 >>I just... why would an Israeli airline hire an Arabic pilot?
__
Flydubai is owned by the UAE, not Israel.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 30, 2026 01:36 PM (bNf8H)

37 22 15 I just... why would an Israeli airline hire an Arabic pilot?

maybe he was an Israeli?

No, it was flydubai. Not Israeli. El Al still doesn't fly to the UAE. Lots of Israelis do business with Dubai. Reportedly, the stabbed pilot is an Indian.

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 01:36 PM (kX27y)

38 But the media honestly reports on how well the socialist democrats are doing in the polls and stuff...

So I'm not at all fazed by the lock-step reporting by the propaganda arm of the socialists, democrats and terrorists. All one and the same.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 01:36 PM (RORbl)

39 Tough day for Piker.

Posted by: Redenzo at September 30, 2026 01:36 PM (zDcg4)

40 One female passenger described the "very stressful" moment people realised the plane was descending.

Stressful. Yeah. I'll bet.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 01:37 PM (4NO2D)

41 So the media is wrong when they said it was a "scuffle" between the pilots...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 01:37 PM (+gK6I)

42 I just... why would an Israeli airline hire an Arabic pilot?

This comes right after guys caught in the UK trying to blow up an airfield. Iran is lashing out with everything they have.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:33 PM (nIKjK)

Wasn't it an Arab airline? I'm not going to have to read the content, am I? Please don't make me read the content.

Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2026 01:37 PM (dpXJq)

43 >>I'm guessing "FlyDubai" is a Dubai Airline, not an Israeli one.

FlyDubai is owned by the UAE government.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 01:37 PM (viF8m)

44 >>>18 I rate this story as four "Yikes on bikes!"

wow, that many?

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 01:37 PM (1wjle)

45
Carry. Multiple guns.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 01:35 PM (Az7Eg)

_________

I don't doubt the security at my own parish, but what about those happy-clappy we-love-migrants congregations?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 01:37 PM (eRlcH)

46 I just... why would an Israeli airline hire an Arabic pilot?

NOT an ElAl flight.

Posted by: MkY at September 30, 2026 01:38 PM (ZHRuH)

47 Good on the passengers who refused to become the victims of terrorism!.

Posted by: pookysgirl, in the waiting room yet again at September 30, 2026 01:38 PM (V47AS)

48 We may never know the motive, Media vows.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 01:38 PM (4NO2D)

49 Reportedly, the stabbed pilot is an Indian.
Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 01:36 PM (kX27y)

Oh. I see. The pungent stench of curry drove him to insanity.

Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2026 01:38 PM (dpXJq)

50 Technically, every Israeli has to serve in the military, so a plane full of Israeli's is ipso fact a military troop transport.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 01:38 PM (Lm2uZ)

51 So the media is wrong when they said it was a "scuffle" between the pilots...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 01:37 PM (+gK6I)

--------------

The CBC in Canada is reporting it as a "kerfuffle."

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 01:38 PM (Lrqtb)

52 41 So the media is wrong when they said it was a "scuffle" between the pilots...

well I mean technically...

sigh

anyway, decent result, I with the jihadi was dead but still, good.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 30, 2026 01:38 PM (j+aD2)

53 The days of sitting back to fly to Cuber are over.

Posted by: connected and litigious at September 30, 2026 01:39 PM (cS1cw)

54 I don't know about you guys....but there is a serious chance of BACKLASH!!!!! over this "altercation". It's my understanding that the passengers pounced on the freedom fighter rather unfairly.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 01:39 PM (dIske)

55 Thankful they were able to get into the cockpit and kept the plane from crashing, and saving the pilot.

I still think this is what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that crashed into the sea. Pilot was suicidal and took everyone with him was all I ever figured out.

Is the terrorist pilot dead? I want him dead.

My other question is why that woman on one video is squatting in the aisle? I have to assume she's a flight attendant? Otherwise it makes no sense, and I realize not important.

Damn every one of these islamic barbarians who breathe air.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 01:39 PM (hzuYO)

56 I'm guessing "FlyDubai" is a Dubai Airline, not an Israeli one.

That just shows how crafty the Joo is

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:39 PM (nIKjK)

57 You can’t hate and despise the media enough

God bless Todd Beamer. RIP

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 30, 2026 01:39 PM (Dkvax)

58 "Flydubai 1073 first squawked 7700, then 7500, before switching back to 7700"

Allow me to translate:

7700 - we have an emergency situation onboard

7500 - an attempted hijacking is presently taking place here on the flightdeck

7700 - okay, Israeli passengers beat the shit out of the hijacker, may have "accidently" [wink-wink] cut him with his own knife, and he is now duct-taped to a seat, but we're still requesting emergency handling to landing

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2026 01:39 PM (J4Dwc)

59 I rate this story as four "Yikes on bikes!"
Posted by: Yikes On Bikes at September 30, 2026 01:33 PM (V362x)
_____

"Fuck you!"

-- Dykes on Bikes

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 01:39 PM (iFTx/)

60 Another Jewish plot to drum up support for Islamophobia and war!!

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 01:39 PM (x8rTv)

61 As my good friend Uri pointed out on X, any passenger plane in Israel almost certainly has at least one doctor and a few trained warfighters on board, which should serve to change the calculation for anybody that's ever going to try this again...

Posted by: American Hawkman at September 30, 2026 01:39 PM (U1fU7)

62 49 Reportedly, the stabbed pilot is an Indian.
Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 01:36 PM (kX27y)

Oh. I see. The pungent stench of curry drove him to insanity.
Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2026 01:38 PM (dpXJq)
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The pilot, not the terrorist co-pilot, who is Omani.

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 01:40 PM (kX27y)

63 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 01:40 PM (ccf/V)

64 He called Black Sabbath Pop?

Christian Rock. Obviously.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 01:40 PM (4NO2D)

65
"altercation"

_________

Tiff. Set-to. Dispute. Disagreement.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 01:40 PM (eRlcH)

66 I'm sure that's what CAIR will be saying any minute. When the Israelis beat the shit out of the terrorist attempting to kill them, did you know they killed 750,000 Gazan children? It's true. An Arab journalist said it. So it must be true.

Talent Free Macklemore hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 01:40 PM (ccf/V)

67 Any bets on whether the co-pilot started yelling, "Aloha snackbar!", when the passengers starting fighting him to take back control of the plane?

If that IS eventually reported, anyone think that will change the BBC's assessment of motive at all?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 01:41 PM (HlyYF)

68 50 Technically, every Israeli has to serve in the military, so a plane full of Israeli's is ipso fact a military troop transport.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

And the babies are illegal invading colonizers, so they're legitimate targets, too.

Posted by: Hasan Piker at September 30, 2026 01:41 PM (aBcEh)

69 I just... why would an Israeli airline hire an Arabic pilot?

Ok, a little bit of pedantry here. "Arabic" refers to the language, and "Arabian" to the Arabian Peninsula.

For people, the term to use is "Arab": "Arab pilot.

OK, pedant hat off.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 01:41 PM (77rzZ)

70 No reason whatsoever to squawk 7700 first, by the way.

Go directly to 7500.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2026 01:41 PM (J4Dwc)

71 Actually I don't mind the early media coverage, they had very little information and were trying to show restraint. Granted, they only do this with certain kinds of stories because they really don't want something to be true, but its the proper way for a news organization to report, early on.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:42 PM (nIKjK)

72 MSM: "Silly Slap Fight Frightens Jews on Plane!"

You just can't make this up...

Posted by: Boswell at September 30, 2026 01:42 PM (NTVPI)

73 "... a trained assault team, two additional pilots, and, statistically, at least one cardiac surgeon, psychologist, lawyer, and diamond dealer..."

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at September 30, 2026 01:42 PM (TIizU)

74 a ukrain and russian pilot onboard landed the plan per pjm
Posted by: doug at September 30, 2026 01:28 PM (B1+sW)
=======================
A fun side fact!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 01:43 PM (skYuh)

75 9/10 Thinking:
Not even the first day of 0ct7/RockoverFest.
Where's AOC? the Remain Sinwar Camosole, and FREE GAZA hotpants? (on Boebert?)

LET's GO BRANDON!
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-HereComeTheDRUMS

That's the thing about comedy, not everyone gets the joke.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-ifLIBsWantAmerica2Fail
ctHARRIS: the punchline: ... and she wouldn't change a thing...

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 30, 2026 01:43 PM (oOryp)

76 The evil Jews also had dogs onboard who raped the freedom fighter.
- NYT

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 01:43 PM (f0pGg)

77 Tiff. Set-to. Dispute. Disagreement.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Dust-up

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 01:43 PM (77rzZ)

78 I rate this story as four "Yikes on bikes!"

The Jews on the plane had no bikes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:43 PM (nIKjK)

79 So, it was just a ruckus in the cockpit?

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 01:44 PM (Oy/m2)

80 Cue W to say "remember, Islam is a religion of Peace". Eff u Shrub

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 01:44 PM (jivel)

81
"Silly Slap Fight Frightens Jews on Plane!"

__________

Why, you!...

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 01:44 PM (eRlcH)

82 We may never know his motives.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 01:44 PM (0sNs1)

83 Go back and watch interviews of troops who fought Japanese in the Pacific.

There is a certain mindset one needs to have in order to stop suicide fighters. Don't tell me its racist.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 01:44 PM (0U5gm)

84 Passengers on board the flight have been talking to various media outlets. BBC News has not been able to verify their accounts.

But they'll take the word of the "Gaza Health Ministry" as gospel...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:45 PM (l3cgK)

85 All the Jews are probably lying. I understand the BBC's refusal to just say the guy stabbed the other pilot. Who knows, maybe the other pilot slipped and fell on to a knife multiple times.

good thing this wasn't aeroflot. might have accidentally fallen out the window.

Posted by: anachronda at September 30, 2026 01:45 PM (v3pYe)

86 NYT and BBC both compete for worst news account "Plane diverts after altercation between pilots".

They could have more accurately said, "Plane saved after altercation between civilization and Satanic evil"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 01:45 PM (skYuh)

87 Another happy ending. Asian Grandparents applaud.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 30, 2026 01:45 PM (KGj36)

88 "Fuck you!"

-- Dykes on Bikes
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 01:39 PM (iFTx/)
_________________________

Right back at ya.

Dykes in Nikes

Posted by: WNBA at September 30, 2026 01:45 PM (dIske)

89 Reuters and AP both have an “Israel says” disclaimer in their headlines. You know it may have happened but maybe not. You can never trust those Jews after all.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 01:45 PM (f0pGg)

90 >> I just... why would an Israeli airline hire an Arabic pilot?

Apartheid works in mysterious ways.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 01:46 PM (vNne8)

91 49 Reportedly, the stabbed pilot is an Indian.
Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 01:36 PM (kX27y)

Oh. I see. The pungent stench of curry drove him to insanity.
Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2026 01:38 PM (dpXJq)

He wouldn't shut up about "Bobs and Vagena"

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at September 30, 2026 01:46 PM (k1E2D)

92 Damn incompetent boob..........

Posted by: Cavernous Nostrils at September 30, 2026 01:46 PM (ccf/V)

93 May GOD be praised!

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2026 01:46 PM (LHPAg)

94
From what I understand, El Al practically has a proctologist assigned to their security teams when they do the interviews to allow you to fly on their aircraft.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2026 01:46 PM (y9nCu)

95
good thing this wasn't aeroflot. might have accidentally fallen out the window.
Posted by: anachronda at September 30, 2026 01:45 PM (v3pYe)

________

Kids fly free? Kids fly plane!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 01:46 PM (eRlcH)

96 One female passenger described the "very stressful" moment people realised the plane was descending.
.......

Interrupted snack service?

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 01:46 PM (UjdFS)

97 Another Jewish plot to drum up support for Islamophobia and war!!

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 01:39 PM (x8rTv)

How would the Jews have done it any differently.

- Candy O, probably.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 01:46 PM (dK+Kv)

98 Where's AOC?
---------

Someone did something...let's move on.

Posted by: Ilhan Omar at September 30, 2026 01:46 PM (XeU6L)

99 We've had 50 years of Iranian lessons learned, the task now is to hand out a final exam. I would not be opposed to calling up the B-52s and letting them bomb Iran until the entire IRGC is hanging from lamp standard by their necks starting. Such policies worked to subdue Germany and Japan in World War II; sometimes the old ways are the best way.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 30, 2026 01:46 PM (VyD10)

100 The Jews genocided to the hijacker. Look at the bleeding they caused

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 01:47 PM (jivel)

101 @90

>>Apartheid works in mysterious ways.

The airline is owned by A-Rabs.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 01:47 PM (Lm2uZ)

102 Did he stab the pilot in the neck as Mo (pbuh!) instructs the faithful in the noble Quran?

Posted by: CTHillary at September 30, 2026 01:47 PM (GMWTj)

103 More of a tiff.

Posted by: Blind Pew at September 30, 2026 01:48 PM (Ae6Br)

104 So a thwarted muslim terror attack in the UK, a foiled muslim hijacking in the Middle East and riots in France from "the left" all in a few days.

More coincidences. Watch your back.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 01:48 PM (viF8m)

105 73 "... a trained assault team, two additional pilots, and, statistically, at least one cardiac surgeon, psychologist, lawyer, and diamond dealer..."

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE.
Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at September 30, 2026 01:42 PM (TIizU)
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And if this is true - the mother of one of the passengers complained that when they were being tended to after landing in Saudi Arabia, they weren't given kosher food. If you know Israelis, you know this is so Israeli.

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 01:48 PM (kX27y)

106 Christian Rock. Obviously.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 01:40 PM (4NO2D)

Technically true.

Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2026 01:48 PM (dpXJq)

107 Thankful they were able to get into the cockpit and kept the plane from crashing, and saving the pilot.

I still think this is what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that crashed into the sea. Pilot was suicidal and took everyone with him was all I ever figured out.

Is the terrorist pilot dead? I want him dead.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 01:39 PM (hzuYO)

MH370 is definitely suicide by pilot, they found his computer at home had practice routes in flight simulator to avoid tracking by other radars, and he popped up to high altitude to kill all the passengers from lack of oxygen.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 01:49 PM (uhVAy)

108 If this were Europe, FlyDubai would soon publish a song "This is not my stabby place!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 01:49 PM (aL2Pd)

109 Technically, every Israeli has to serve in the military, so a plane full of Israeli's is ipso fact a military troop transport.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 01:38 PM (Lm2uZ)

---------------

Good point.

Never wondered before if Arab-Israelis (21% of the population now) are also required -- or even allowed -- to serve in the IDF?

* searches interwebz *

"They are not required to serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), but they are allowed to volunteer.

While the IDF conscription laws apply to Jewish, Druze, and Circassian citizens, the exemption for Arab Muslims, Christians, and Bedouins is not based on statutory law but on IDF Human Resource Department guidelines and discretionary powers of the Defense Minister.

This policy dates back to Israel’s early years, with the state citing security concerns and the humanitarian consideration of not forcing citizens to serve in an army perceived to be in conflict with the 'Palestinian people'." [irony quotes mine]

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 01:49 PM (Lrqtb)

110 The previous thread gives a new meaning to cockpit...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:49 PM (l3cgK)

111 Christian Rock. Obviously.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 01:40 PM (4NO2D)

Technically true.
Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2026 01:48 PM

It's got sabbath right in the name.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 01:49 PM (4NO2D)

112 Christopher Taylor,

I clicked on your nic in the last thread to check your location and went to your website. Your fingernail pic looked eerily like me.

If I did my hair and beard the same (which I usually do), and we went to a MoMe and said we were brothers, EVERYONE would believe us!

Do you know any of the Morons or 'ettes in your area that have attended a recent TXMoMe? If so, they can confirm.

Further, in TX, I also look like Weasel Buddy Geoff.

Triplet Morons should really scare the Leftist population!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 01:49 PM (HlyYF)

113 All over the UK muslim cops are arresting schoolkids and elderly widows for viewing this news.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 01:49 PM (aL2Pd)

114

I'm getting the impression that Mohammedans are not to be trusted. Ever.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 30, 2026 01:50 PM (VWtfl)

115 Arabs. The lying terrorist goblin race.

Not a fan.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 30, 2026 01:50 PM (s1VwS)

116 73 "... a trained assault team, two additional pilots, and, statistically, at least one cardiac surgeon, psychologist, lawyer, and diamond dealer..."

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE.
Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER

It's funny how dumb they are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuQM2xut0-Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMhwddNQSWQ
Dare to be STOOP1D; make that deal with cTHEIL! and ctKARP, ctLUCKY, cthANDURIL

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 30, 2026 01:50 PM (oOryp)

117 Tiff. Set-to. Dispute. Disagreement.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Dust-up
Posted by: Bulg
_________

Pettifoggery

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 30, 2026 01:50 PM (JzUSu)

118 More of a tiff.
Posted by: Blind Pew
----

A mere difference of opinion.

"We fly"

"No, we crash"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 30, 2026 01:50 PM (XeU6L)

119 We've had 50 years of Iranian lessons learned, the task now is to hand out a final exam. I would not be opposed to calling up the B-52s and letting them bomb Iran until the entire IRGC is hanging from lamp standard by their necks starting. Such policies worked to subdue Germany and Japan in World War II; sometimes the old ways are the best way.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 30, 2026 01:46 PM (VyD10)

Ironic that the Iran 9-11 attack put an end to the 'play along with the hijackers' mantra we had for a generation before that.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 01:50 PM (uhVAy)

120 115 Arabs. The lying terrorist goblin race.

Not a fan.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 30, 2026 01:50 PM (s1VwS)

Explains why they hump goats, sheep, and camels...if you know the story behind how goblins procreate...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:50 PM (l3cgK)

121 BBC CANNOT really tell this story... why?

According to reports one of the Pilots who stepped in and heroically landed the Plane was British.

And BBC cannot have the British People doing anything heroic against Moslems... King Chuck would not approve, and it would set a bad example.

I mean, come on... the Brit people might actually stand up for THEMSELVES! The HORROR.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 01:50 PM (mP0Kj)

122 If I did my hair and beard the same (which I usually do), and we went to a MoMe and said we were brothers, EVERYONE would believe us!

Yea but you are the cooler brother

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:51 PM (nIKjK)

123 Flydubai Flight Hijacking Attempt: Israeli Passengers Avert Terror Attack pic.twitter.com/4BxxC7zPPo

— Jonny Daniels (@MrJonnyDaniels) September 30, 2026

"Only Israelis could do something like that."

Um..............

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 01:52 PM (ccf/V)

124 The Pilot probably insulted/offended the Muslim, and the Muslim's only reasonable response, or actually his Koranic duty, was to crash the plane and kill all on board.

I wonder if there were other Muslims on board, or if they were somehow warned to stay off that flight?

Posted by: illiniwek at September 30, 2026 01:52 PM (vbXSk)

125 31 He called Black Sabbath Pop?

how many guitar licks does it take to get to the center of a black sabbath pop?

Posted by: anachronda at September 30, 2026 01:52 PM (v3pYe)

126 So who stabbed who? Did the pilot stab the co-pilot or did the co-pilot stab the pilot?

Posted by: Cymbaline at September 30, 2026 01:52 PM (soTNb)

127 I don't know about you guys....but there is a serious chance of BACKLASH!!!!! over this "altercation". It's my understanding that the passengers pounced on the freedom fighter rather unfairly.
Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 01:39 PM

Don't forget Meeeeeeeee!

Posted by: Islamophobia at September 30, 2026 01:52 PM (0sNs1)

128 If you’re Israel do you want mohammedians in your military? I would think not.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 01:52 PM (f0pGg)

129 110 The previous thread gives a new meaning to cockpit...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:49 PM (l3cgK)

Know why it's called a "cockpit"?

Because it's filled with pricks.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2026 01:52 PM (oPFtC)

130 The airline is owned by A-Rabs.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
------

Air Hadji?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 30, 2026 01:52 PM (XeU6L)

131 127 I don't know about you guys....but there is a serious chance of BACKLASH!!!!! over this "altercation". It's my understanding that the passengers pounced on the freedom fighter rather unfairly.
Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 01:39 PM

Don't forget Meeeeeeeee!

Posted by: Islamophobia at September 30, 2026 01:52 PM (0sNs1)

Islamo-FIB-ia....

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:53 PM (l3cgK)

132 So a thwarted muslim terror attack in the UK, a foiled muslim hijacking in the Middle East and riots in France from "the left" all in a few days.

More coincidences. Watch your back.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 01:48 PM (viF8m)
================
The IRGC probably has high hopes for their endorsed candidates so I doubt they would encourage any attacks until after the midterms.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 01:53 PM (aL2Pd)

133 Is the terrorist pilot dead? I want him dead.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 01:39 PM (hzuYO)

---------------

"NOT SO FAST ... RELEASE HIM IMMEDIATELY!"

-- US District Clown Judge Bozoberg, de facto Earth Emperor

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 01:53 PM (Lrqtb)

134 120 115 Arabs. The lying terrorist goblin race.

Not a fan.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 30, 2026 01:50 PM (s1VwS)

Explains why they hump goats, sheep, and camels...if you know the story behind how goblins procreate...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:50 PM (l3cgK)

I HAVE seen Goblin Slayer...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 30, 2026 01:53 PM (s1VwS)

135 126 So who stabbed who? Did the pilot stab the co-pilot or did the co-pilot stab the pilot?
Posted by: Cymbaline at September 30, 2026 01:52 PM (soTNb)

Not sure. But we do know that 21,000 Gazan children were killed on the plane.
- MSM

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 01:53 PM (f0pGg)

136 Actually I don't mind the early media coverage, they had very little information and were trying to show restraint. Granted, they only do this with certain kinds of stories because they really don't want something to be true, but its the proper way for a news organization to report, early on.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:42 PM (nIKjK)

"Apparent Hijacking" works fine and is not hiding the truth of the situation.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 01:53 PM (uhVAy)

137 We may never know the true reasons behind what happened on this plane - me filling in for the mainstream media.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 30, 2026 01:54 PM (VyD10)

138 128 If you’re Israel do you want mohammedians in your military? I would think not.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 01:52 PM (f0pGg)
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Druze, yes.

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 01:54 PM (kX27y)

139 I suspect the co-pilot is a former Etihad employee and the Emirates pilot was ribbing him over the Man City scandal, ending in the unfortunate wrestling match.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 30, 2026 01:54 PM (2ap+5)

140 Tiff. Set-to. Dispute. Disagreement.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Dust-up
Posted by: Bulg
_________

Pettifoggery

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 30, 2026 01:50 PM (JzUSu)

More of a hijinks, really.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 01:54 PM (dK+Kv)

141 And if this is true - the mother of one of the passengers complained that when they were being tended to after landing in Saudi Arabia, they weren't given kosher food. If you know Israelis, you know this is so Israeli.
Posted by: beckster

I was on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris that did not have enough kosher meals on board. I guess somebody at the airline screwed up the count.

There was practically a riot on the plane. The flight attendant gave a bottle of wine to me and the lady sitting next to me because we were about the only ones on the plane not causing a ruckus.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 01:54 PM (77rzZ)

142 Lesson well learned from 9/11 - in a potential hijakcing, fight, don't freeze. Passengers have nothing to lose and everything to gain by fighting...

I posted this story this morning and the media spin, so glad Ace ran with it...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 30, 2026 01:55 PM (tOcjL)

143 140 Tiff. Set-to. Dispute. Disagreement.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Dust-up
Posted by: Bulg
_________

Pettifoggery

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 30, 2026 01:50 PM (JzUSu)

More of a hijinks, really.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 01:54 PM (dK+Kv)

hijack hijinks...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:55 PM (l3cgK)

144 Some people did some things.

Posted by: Max Power at September 30, 2026 01:55 PM (SwyyQ)

145 Not to blame the victims here but why would any Israeli a) fly on an Arab airline and b) fly to Dubai?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 01:56 PM (f0pGg)

146 Combining this and the last Thread, the most common first name for rapists in the world today is "Mohammed".

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 01:56 PM (0sNs1)

147 145 Not to blame the victims here but why would any Israeli a) fly on an Arab airline and b) fly to Dubai?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 01:56 PM (f0pGg)

Answer to a)....it was a bargain price!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:56 PM (l3cgK)

148 Lesson well learned from 9/11 - in a potential hijakcing, fight, don't freeze.

Basically. The 9/11 highjackers ruined the entire crime attempt. You're gonna die if you let them carry it out, so why not die fighting?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:56 PM (nIKjK)

149 Stabbed pilot: "It's just a flesh wound".

Posted by: connected and litigious at September 30, 2026 01:56 PM (cS1cw)

150 137 We may never know the true reasons behind what happened on this plane - me filling in for the mainstream media.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 30, 2026 01:54 PM (VyD10)

We may never know the sad reasons Abdhul Bin Stabby lost his reason..

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 01:57 PM (mP0Kj)

151 146 Combining this and the last Thread, the most common first name for rapists in the world today is "Mohammed".

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 01:56 PM (0sNs1)

Like it was in the 6th Century...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:57 PM (l3cgK)

152 Lesson well learned from 9/11 - in a potential hijakcing, fight, don't freeze.
Nova Local

Not just hijacking. Any situation where immediate action can save a few.

Posted by: MkY at September 30, 2026 01:57 PM (hGhF0)

153 They did something to overstress the aircraft. A big chunk of the vertical stabilizer is busted right off.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at September 30, 2026 01:57 PM (X3rKN)

154 150 137 We may never know the true reasons behind what happened on this plane - me filling in for the mainstream media.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 30, 2026 01:54 PM (VyD10)

We may never know the sad reasons Abdhul Bin Stabby lost his reason..

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 01:57 PM (mP0Kj)

He had a future as an elder statesman...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:57 PM (l3cgK)

155 147 145 Not to blame the victims here but why would any Israeli a) fly on an Arab airline and b) fly to Dubai?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 01:56 PM (f0pGg)

Answer to a)....it was a bargain price!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:56 PM (l3cgK

lol

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 30, 2026 01:57 PM (jBygX)

156 "How can we break the cycle of violence if you keep preventing us from starting the cycle?"

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 30, 2026 01:58 PM (pIhio)

157 153 They did something to overstress the aircraft. A big chunk of the vertical stabilizer is busted right off.
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at September 30, 2026 01:57 PM (X3rKN)

I read it was the steep descent

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 01:58 PM (+gK6I)

158 hijack hijinks...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:55 PM (l3cgK)

In-flight folderol.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 01:58 PM (dK+Kv)

159

Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 01:58 PM (ccf/V)

160 Not to blame the victims here but why would any Israeli a) fly on an Arab airline and b) fly to Dubai?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 01:56 PM (f0pGg)

Dubai is one of the few major hubs that airlines route worldwide traffic through heading to the far East from Europe.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 01:58 PM (uhVAy)

161 Unrelated, but did anyone watch the recent debate between Steven Crowder and Harvard professor Randall Kennedy? Saw a YouTuber summarize it and had some clips that looked pretty brutal (Professor got kinda stomped), but anyone can look bad if the right/wrong clips are picked.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 30, 2026 01:58 PM (aBcEh)

162 142 Lesson well learned from 9/11 - in a potential hijakcing, fight, don't freeze. Passengers have nothing to lose and everything to gain by fighting...

I posted this story this morning and the media spin, so glad Ace ran with it...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 30, 2026 01:55 PM (tOcjL)

Yeah... screwed it up for all of us...

Posted by: D. B. Cooper at September 30, 2026 01:58 PM (mP0Kj)

163 153 They did something to overstress the aircraft. A big chunk of the vertical stabilizer is busted right off.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at September 30, 2026 01:57 PM (X3rKN)

You should start an airline...Dirac Delta Airlines...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:58 PM (l3cgK)

164 They did something to overstress the aircraft. A big chunk of the vertical stabilizer is busted right off.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta

It dove at about 100 knots above it's rated speed.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 01:59 PM (0U5gm)

165 Bob Dole has learned of certain grievous allegations which have been made against Bob Dole. Bob Dole wishes to assure the good listeners of this fine station that Bob Dole has thoroughly investigated Bob Dole. Bob Dole is completely innocent of any wrongdoing in regard to these allegations against Bob Dole. Bob Dole cherishes the people’s faith in Bob Dole’s honesty and integrity. Bob Dole thanks you all and good day.

Posted by: Bob Dole at September 30, 2026 01:59 PM (x0Zdw)

166 If you want to stop Sudden Jihad Syndrome the only way to do it is to get Muslims out of western countries.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 01:59 PM (sKqQm)

167 Explains why they hump goats, sheep, and camels...if you know the story behind how goblins procreate...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:50 PM

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: The Moroccan Donkey at September 30, 2026 01:59 PM (0sNs1)

168 Yea but you are the cooler brother

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:51 PM

Beg to differ.

(I hold authors in high esteem.)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 01:59 PM (HlyYF)

169 We may never know the sad reasons Abdhul Bin Stabby lost his reason..

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 01:57 PM (mP0Kj)

He had a future as an elder statesman...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

An austere religious scholar, more like.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 01:59 PM (77rzZ)

170
The airline is owned by A-Rabs.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Air Hadji?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 30, 2026 01:52 PM (XeU6L)

Honestly, I've been surprised that there hasn't been any 9/11 style attacks using mohammedan-owned air freight planes. Presumably, that would be a lot easier than hijacking a passenger airliner.

Then I thought about it some and decided that the mohammedan oil sheik cocksuckers who own such air freight companies don't have a problem spending a couple of hundred thousand on a terrorist op, but crashing one of their own $60M aircraft? They're too cheap for that.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2026 02:00 PM (y9nCu)

171 That's the rudder that is missing

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2026 02:00 PM (J4Dwc)

172 Authorities at Tabuk Airport confirmed that emergency responders rushed both injured aviators to a local hospital upon touchdown. Control of the aircraft was seized midair by two off-duty flight crew members – a Russian pilot and a Ukrainian pilot – who managed to neutralize the threat and navigate the airliner to a safe landing in Saudi Arabia.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 02:00 PM (RHGPo)

173 158 hijack hijinks...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:55 PM (l3cgK)

In-flight folderol.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 01:58 PM (dK+Kv)

At least it was not Snakes.... Snakes on a Plane is just ... bad...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 02:00 PM (mP0Kj)

174 UAE has full relations with Israel including commerce and business and flying between the two is routine.

Real question isn't that.

Real question - probably already posed above, haven't had time to read through comments - is WTF with flight deck access??

That is how did anyone "storm the cockpit"? That was sort of addressed after 9/11 - can't imagine a UAE airline doesn't have up-to-date security infrastructure. They're even adding to the tough, pry-proof doors with new aircraft. There's a gate of sorts between first class and the forward head, so pilots can take bathroom breaks while keeping cockpit area secure.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 02:00 PM (U/Byj)

175 Unrelated, but did anyone watch the recent debate between Steven Crowder and Harvard professor Randall Kennedy? Saw a YouTuber summarize it and had some clips that looked pretty brutal (Professor got kinda stomped), but anyone can look bad if the right/wrong clips are picked.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 30, 2026 01:58 PM (aBcEh)

So shade on Crowder, but a retarded monkey can outwit your average Harvard professor these days. What kind of modern dance does the professor teach?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:00 PM (uhVAy)

176
Beg to differ.

(I hold authors in high esteem.)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 01:59 PM (HlyYF)

You COULD write your story. Then you'd be the cooler brother.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:00 PM (ccf/V)

177 11 Not today, Satan. Not today.
Posted by: moki at September 30, 2026 01:31 PM (wLjpr)
___

Amen.

He who keeps Israel will not slumber and will not sleep.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:00 PM (X7pZH)

178 Have the Saudis already allowed the suspect to be released on bail?

Posted by: toddg at September 30, 2026 02:01 PM (KCFD3)

179 > They did something to overstress the aircraft. A big chunk of the vertical stabilizer is busted right off.
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Something like 3X overspeed in a dive, followed by a sharp turn before being stabilized.

This, from various flight tracking sites and their analysis.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 02:01 PM (RORbl)

180 At least it was not Snakes.... Snakes on a Plane is just ... bad...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 02:00 PM (mP0Kj)

I'm tired of these MFing sheiks on this MFing plane!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 02:01 PM (dK+Kv)

181 169 We may never know the sad reasons Abdhul Bin Stabby lost his reason..

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 01:57 PM (mP0Kj)

He had a future as an elder statesman...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

An austere religious scholar, more like.
Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 01:59 PM (77rzZ)

Aspiring Raper... or Rapper...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 02:01 PM (mP0Kj)

182 In 1981 with first baby son, we were flying back West from MS. Weather was bad with storms, black clouds, at take off to Texas.

We sat bulkhead with kids & had just been served a lovely lunch. It is rare for airline food to look lovely for me. My husband had the 8wk old asleep on his shoulder.

The plane rolled a hard left. Centered. Hard right. Then dropped flat tens of thousands of feet. Everything went airborne, food, etc in aisle. Overhead bins opened. I leaned toward the baby to help hold him. Then it was over.

A flight attendant ran to the front for a medical kit. She had giant hives on her neck and I said to my husband, "Well, that's not good." Unseatbelted guy cut open his head in the back.

There was no time to scream or panic. The sounds from passengers were similar to a carnival ride of "oooh." It happend in seconds vs what these people went through. I was wearing a wool skirt & when we got off the plane I had an opened mustard packet on my back.

I later learned there was a tornado on the ground as we flew over LA. It was a downdraft that caused the Dutch Roll. Since then neither of us bat an eye when turbulence is announced. Nothing has compared to that.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 02:01 PM (hzuYO)

183 two off-duty flight crew members – a Russian pilot and a Ukrainian pilot – who managed to neutralize the threat and navigate the airliner

That's interesting

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 02:01 PM (+gK6I)

184
I'll wait for Candice Owen and Tucker Carlson to weigh in on this before I make conclusions about who started this small altercation, thank you.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 02:01 PM (Y8DZL)

185 Surprised the Saudis allowed the plane to land. They have a no Jews allowed policy. Hell if they see a passport stamped with an Israeli visa they won’t allow the carrier of the passport in, even if they’re not Jewish.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 02:01 PM (f0pGg)

186 Bob Dole fought in Italy during WWII and sustained a head wound then went into politics

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 02:01 PM (RHGPo)

187 I find it encouraging that the Russian and the Uke were able to work together.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 02:02 PM (77rzZ)

188 >> b) fly to Dubai?

The flight was to Tel Aviv

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2026 02:02 PM (J4Dwc)

189 Yeah... screwed it up for all of us...
Posted by: D. B. Cooper at September 30, 2026 01:58 PM (mP0Kj)

Like we need more people feeding the bears in the Pacific Northwest.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:02 PM (uhVAy)

190 I don't doubt the security at my own parish, but what about those happy-clappy we-love-migrants congregations?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I wouldn't be caught dead in one. Sorry. Those happy-clappies aren't responsible for my safety.

I am.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 02:02 PM (Az7Eg)

191 145 Not to blame the victims here but why would any Israeli a) fly on an Arab airline and b) fly to Dubai?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 01:56 PM (f0pGg)
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Because El Al does not fly to the UAE. And lots of Israelis do business with Dubai.

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 02:02 PM (kX27y)

192 187 I find it encouraging that the Russian and the Uke were able to work together.
Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 02:02 PM (77rzZ)

Huh, report above said one was a Brit...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 02:03 PM (mP0Kj)

193 One female passenger described the "very stressful" moment people realised the plane was descending.
......

Good thing she was in the bathroom.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 02:03 PM (UjdFS)

194 A potential michigan senator sez - hurt people hurt people.

Israelis on board say - not today Satan

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 30, 2026 02:03 PM (pIhio)

195 UK PM: Iran behind RAF base incident. Andy Burnham says Britain believes Iran was involved in the RAF Fairford incident, marking the first official confirmation of Iranian involvement in what amounts to an attack on British soil. Trump criticises decision to release suspects on bail.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 02:03 PM (RHGPo)

196 I find it encouraging that the Russian and the Uke were able to work together.
Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 02:02 PM (77rzZ)

Their drones were in the cargo hold.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:03 PM (uhVAy)

197 So shade on Crowder, but a retarded monkey can outwit your average Harvard professor these days. What kind of modern dance does the professor teach?
Posted by: Oldcat

From the clips I saw, I'd say mostly shuck and jive, but he's black, so that's probably racist and would get me cancelled.

Shit.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 30, 2026 02:03 PM (aBcEh)

198 fly to Dubai?

The flight was to Tel Aviv
Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2026 02:02 PM (J4Dwc)

Presumably they flew to Dubai first then flew back.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 02:03 PM (f0pGg)

199 Bob Dole fought in Italy during WWII and sustained a head wound then went into politics
Posted by: SMOD

I thought it was his arm.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 02:03 PM (77rzZ)

200 >>> Luckily, there were two more pilots on board. They were the ones who managed to land the plane." Well, yes. Overall, the probability that a plane full of Israelis will contain a trained assault team, two additional pilots, and, statistically, at least one cardiac surgeon, psychologist, lawyer, and diamond dealer is substantially higher than 50%.

They forgot to add "movie producer that will buy the exclusive rights to tell the whole story."

Two pilots, two soldiers, a surgeon, a lawyer, and a diamond dealer walk onto a plane... Have I heard that joke before?

But I'm so glad I can joke about this as a setup of a joke, and not the utter tragedy it would and should have been.

Did the pilots have postpartum psychosis? (Yeah, I'm beating to death an aging joke, sorry.)

Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2026 02:03 PM (Eng1Z)

201 Candace and Tucker say it's probably ketchup.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 02:03 PM (x8rTv)

202 He's Omani
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:35 PM (nIKjK)

Of the Padme Hum Omanis?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 02:03 PM (C6xWR)

203 119 We've had 50 years of Iranian lessons learned, the task now is to hand out a final exam. I would not be opposed to calling up the B-52s and letting them bomb Iran until the entire IRGC is hanging from lamp standard by their necks starting. Such policies worked to subdue Germany and Japan in World War II; sometimes the old ways are the best way.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 30, 2026 01:46 PM (VyD10)

Ironic that the Iran 9-11 attack put an end to the 'play along with the hijackers' mantra we had for a generation before that.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 01:50 PM

^^^ This.

I saw a comment around 9/11 where someone said the Jihadists came up with a devastating new method of terror attacks, and it took normal, red-blooded Americans 49 minutes to develop an effective counter-measure.

IMHO: 'Merica, f*ck with us at your own peril.

I believe the Israelis also qualify under that standard.

How many other countries filled with pussies can say the same?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 02:04 PM (HlyYF)

204 I hold authors in high esteem

Writers may be a lot of things but cool is not one of them

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 02:04 PM (nIKjK)

205 a Russian pilot and a Ukrainian pilot.

That must have been awkward...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:04 PM (sKqQm)

206 >>Dubai is one of the few major hubs that airlines route worldwide traffic through heading to the far East from Europe.

Dubai itself is a pretty significant tourist destination and ever since the Abraham Accords relations between Israel and the UAE have expanded a lot.

This would be a lot more widely known if our garbage media didn't embargo all news on the Abraham Accords cause Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 02:04 PM (viF8m)

207 The hijacker was actually demonstrating his solidarity with the Cornell "rape" victim

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 02:05 PM (jivel)

208 Let's not go on about 'oo crashed 'oo.

Posted by: NYT at September 30, 2026 02:05 PM (47/pr)

209 UK PM: Iran behind RAF base incident. Andy Burnham says Britain believes Iran was involved in the RAF Fairford incident, marking the first official confirmation of Iranian involvement in what amounts to an attack on British soil. Trump criticises decision to release suspects on bail.
Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 02:03 PM (RHGPo)

Nice detective work, old bean! Why did you let Iranian terrorist suspects out in half an hour then, eh, sport?

Again, amusing that even the most craven acts couldn't save Spain or the UK from attacks.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:05 PM (uhVAy)

210 This week has to get better. It just does.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 02:05 PM (Az7Eg)

211 That is how did anyone "storm the cockpit"? That was sort of addressed after 9/11 - can't imagine a UAE airline doesn't have up-to-date security infrastructure. They're even adding to the tough, pry-proof doors with new aircraft. There's a gate of sorts between first class and the forward head, so pilots can take bathroom breaks while keeping cockpit area secure.

Posted by: rhomboid

I am sure that there is a way for crew members to access that area.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 02:05 PM (0U5gm)

212 UK PM: Iran behind RAF base incident. Andy Burnham says Britain believes Iran was involved in the RAF Fairford incident, marking the first official confirmation of Iranian involvement in what amounts to an attack on British soil. Trump criticises decision to release suspects on bail.

The traditional response to capturing enemy saboteurs is a quick military tribunal and a hanging.

Not...this

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:05 PM (sKqQm)

213 Answer to a)....it was a bargain price!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:56 PM (l3cgK
___

People are willing to put up with added risk if it means shaving a few bucks off their ticket.

Not surprising, though, that some of the pax aren't all that keen on going back to Israel on Dubai Air from...Saudi Arabia.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:05 PM (X7pZH)

214 NDTV, some Indian channel it seems, said the Indian was the pilot.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 30, 2026 02:06 PM (vbXSk)

215 Like we need more people feeding the bears in the Pacific Northwest.

judging by the fat bear contest, I'd say they've been fed enough

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 02:06 PM (nIKjK)

216 That is how did anyone "storm the cockpit"? That was sort of addressed after 9/11 - can't imagine a UAE airline doesn't have up-to-date security infrastructure. They're even adding to the tough, pry-proof doors with new aircraft. There's a gate of sorts between first class and the forward head, so pilots can take bathroom breaks while keeping cockpit area secure.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 02:00 PM (U/Byj)
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The reports I read (out of Israel) is that the stabbed pilot had the presence of mind to open the cockpit door.

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 02:06 PM (kX27y)

217 a Russian pilot and a Ukrainian pilot.

That must have been awkward...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:04 PM (sKqQm)

Nah, they needed to save the flight so they could get back to killing each other back home.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:06 PM (uhVAy)

218 anyway, decent result, I with the jihadi was dead but still, good.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 30, 2026 01:38 PM (j+aD2)

Hopefully, the Saudi cops will use whatever means necessary to extract information, and his toenails, from him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 02:06 PM (C6xWR)

219 195 UK PM: Iran behind RAF base incident. Andy Burnham says Britain believes Iran was involved in the RAF Fairford incident, marking the first official confirmation of Iranian involvement in what amounts to an attack on British soil. Trump criticises decision to release suspects on bail.
Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 02:03 PM (RHGPo)

Sooo... whole thing started when a Brit Woman saw a bunch of suspicious guys... and reported them.

5 were captured, then released on bail... but Woman said there were MORE than 5, more like 10... and that as of 24 hours after the incident, no Cop had come to ask her any questions.

Whole thing is Hinky...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 02:06 PM (mP0Kj)

220 Any word on why Mossad did this?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 02:06 PM (0cxsI)

221 Nice detective work, old bean! Why did you let Iranian terrorist suspects out in half an hour then, eh, sport?

I've seen it argued they planned to allow them to pull off the attack and then blame it on Russia

Britain has been ramping up its "we have to go to war to save Europe from Russia" propaganda to a crescendo...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:06 PM (sKqQm)

222 This week has to get better. It just does.
Posted by: rickb223

You could always save 15% or more on car insurance by switching to Geico.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 02:07 PM (77rzZ)

223 Any word on why Mossad did this?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 02:06 PM (0cxsI)

They want to start a war with Saudi Arabia, silly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:07 PM (ccf/V)

224 Russian pilot and a Ukrainian pilot.

That must have been awkward...
Posted by: 18-1

I dunno. My guess is the average Uke and average Russ have no ill will towards each other. It’s their shitty “leaders” who do.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 02:07 PM (f0pGg)

225 >>Because El Al does not fly to the UAE. And lots of Israelis do business with Dubai.

It does now.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 02:07 PM (viF8m)

226 India has TV?

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 02:08 PM (UjdFS)

227
"Air Israel. Please clear the runway."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:08 PM (ccf/V)

228 164 They did something to overstress the aircraft. A big chunk of the vertical stabilizer is busted right off.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta

It dove at about 100 knots above it's rated speed.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 01:59 PM

College educated Democrats: "Engineers understand design limits very precisely, who knew? I get all of my scientific understanding from watching shows on Netflix!"

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 02:08 PM (HlyYF)

229 I find it encouraging that the Russian and the Uke were able to work together.
Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 02:02 PM (77rzZ)
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So this has been confirmed?

Saw this story on X this morning, and well, first 24-48 hours and all...

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:08 PM (X7pZH)

230 You could always save 15% or more on car insurance by switching to Geico.
Posted by: Bulg

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 02:08 PM (Az7Eg)

231 India has TV?

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 02:08 PM (UjdFS)

Yes, but it is covered in shit. Because everything over there is covered in shit particles.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 02:08 PM (dK+Kv)

232 Florida judge who made more than 900 donations to Democrats quits before suspension, keeps pension

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 02:09 PM (RHGPo)

233 I've seen it argued they planned to allow them to pull off the attack and then blame it on Russia

Britain has been ramping up its "we have to go to war to save Europe from Russia" propaganda to a crescendo...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:06 PM (sKqQm)

Israel has pretty good relations overall with Ukraine and Russia. Only MI-6 could believe that one.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:09 PM (uhVAy)

234 This week has to get better. It just does.
Posted by: rickb223
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I occasionally have 'Stop the world,I want to get off' moments...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 30, 2026 02:09 PM (XeU6L)

235 >>They did something to overstress the aircraft. A big chunk of the vertical stabilizer is busted right off.

Air can't bend Steel.

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnel at September 30, 2026 02:09 PM (vNne8)

236 225 >>Because El Al does not fly to the UAE. And lots of Israelis do business with Dubai.

It does now.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 02:07 PM (viF8m)
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Not yet, starting next month after an 8 month suspension.

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 02:09 PM (kX27y)

237 Rhomboid

No one stormed the cockpit. The incident unfolded in the cockpit. Reports state that the captain, who was stabbed, managed to hit the release button for the bulkhead door, allowing the good guys to enter.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2026 02:09 PM (J4Dwc)

238
People are willing to put up with added risk if it means shaving a few bucks off their ticket.

I'm doing everything within my power to NOT fly a discount airline. Spirit was hell in the air, I've been told.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:09 PM (ccf/V)

239 Because El Al does not fly to the UAE. And lots of Israelis do business with Dubai.

It does now.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 02:07 PM (viF8m)
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Heh.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:09 PM (X7pZH)

240 Russian pilot and a Ukrainian pilot.

That must have been awkward...
Posted by: 18-1

I dunno. My guess is the average Uke and average Russ have no ill will towards each other. It’s their shitty “leaders” who do.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 02:07 PM (f0pGg)
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There are Ukrainians who consider themselves Russian and vice versa. Many Ukrainians support the Russian side, because they consider themselves Russian.

So these two could easily be on the same side of the Uke conflict.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 02:10 PM (iFTx/)

241 a Russian pilot and a Ukrainian pilot – who managed to neutralize the threat and navigate the airliner to a safe landing in Saudi Arabia.

I'm glad there wasn't a dispute over who would act as Pilot and who would act as Co-Pilot.

Maybe there was... how universal is Rock Paper Scissors?

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 02:10 PM (a6PrB)

242 I hold authors in high esteem

Writers may be a lot of things but cool is not one of them
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 02:04 PM

[ Ian Fleming has entered the chat ]

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 02:10 PM (4NO2D)

243
I think we've probably seen enough evidence through the years to prohibit any muslims from entering or working in the cockpit during flight.

Probably enough evidence to ban them from any airport jobs.

Not that this will happen.

Though I believe it should.

Yes, yes. I know...

I denounce myself.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 02:10 PM (YSUhf)

244 201 Candace and Tucker say it's probably ketchup.
Posted by: ...

So, only a food fight...

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 02:10 PM (Y8DZL)

245 They should quit trying to wash everything in the river.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 02:10 PM (UjdFS)

246 Says right here in the Daily Falafel, "Non-life threatening aerial injuries in suspected routine random in-flight staff meeting."

Posted by: Mohammed Muhamed Mohamed at September 30, 2026 02:11 PM (7Q0e+)

247 >>> Unrelated, but did anyone watch the recent debate between Steven Crowder and Harvard professor Randall Kennedy? Saw a YouTuber summarize it and had some clips that looked pretty brutal (Professor got kinda stomped), but anyone can look bad if the right/wrong clips are picked.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 30, 2026 01:58 PM (aBcEh)

I've only watched the first half. Plan to finish it today, then listen to Steven's comments about it on his show today.

I'm just glad some professor finally was willing to debate him. Like Steven said, he is glad the prof was willing to be "the man in the arena." The schools would cancel the live debates, or changed the rules they agreed to so Steven was forced to call it off. Why are the left so scared to talk to a college dropout?

Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2026 02:11 PM (Eng1Z)

248 5 were captured, then released on bail... but Woman said there were MORE than 5, more like 10... and that as of 24 hours after the incident, no Cop had come to ask her any questions.

Whole thing is Hinky...
Posted by: Romeo13

It seems incredibly risky, but intel agencies could have the 5 released on bond in the hopes it would help them locate others. The UK has pretty advanced surveillance systems, so they might be pretty confident the 5 can't really escape, but where they go, who they call/text, etc may be very useful intel. And it's not suspicious, because the British police release brown people for rape and murder all the time.

Posted by: Military Moron at September 30, 2026 02:11 PM (aBcEh)

249
Writers may be a lot of things but cool is not one of them

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 02:04 PM

TJM hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:11 PM (ccf/V)

250 Maybe there was... how universal is Rock Paper Scissors?
Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 02:10 PM (a6PrB)

The Russian and Ukrainian used drone - hypervelocity missile - artillery.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:12 PM (uhVAy)

251 I occasionally have 'Stop the world,I want to get off' moments...
Posted by: Mike Hammer

It's just work. We moved off the old company's servers onto our own.
Major corporations always look at the big picture. But it's the little pictures that keep the company running. Printers don't work. Files can't be accessed. Logins & passwords weren't working properly.

The shit that causes an 8 hour day to stretch in to 10 & 11 hours.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 02:12 PM (Az7Eg)

252 It seems incredibly risky, but intel agencies could have the 5 released on bond in the hopes it would help them locate others. The UK has pretty advanced surveillance systems, so they might be pretty confident the 5 can't really escape, but where they go, who they call/text, etc may be very useful intel. And it's not suspicious, because the British police release brown people for rape and murder all the time.
Posted by: Military Moron at September 30, 2026 02:11 PM (aBcEh)

snicker.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:12 PM (uhVAy)

253
India has TV?

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 02:08 PM (UjdFS)

Yes! They're totally green over there..

The TVs are powered by burning dried cow flops.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 02:12 PM (YSUhf)

254 Terrorist is Omani?

Oman and Iran are... not at war with each other. In fact, they're getting along just fine. You might even say they're allies.... of a sort. Iran certainly isn't targeting Omani infrastructure like they are in, say SA or elsewhere.

Just sayin'

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 02:12 PM (RORbl)

255 Why are the left so scared to talk to a college dropout?

I've seen videos on leftwing forums saying DO NOT TALK TO RIGHT LEANING PEOPLE

Why? They explain why...

If you listen to them they might persuade you they are correct based on their arguments and then you couldn't be a cool, tolerant leftwing person. So why risk it?

Yes this is standard cult behavior.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:12 PM (sKqQm)

256 That is how did anyone "storm the cockpit"? That was sort of addressed after 9/11 - can't imagine a UAE airline doesn't have up-to-date security infrastructure. They're even adding to the tough, pry-proof doors with new aircraft. There's a gate of sorts between first class and the forward head, so pilots can take bathroom breaks while keeping cockpit area secure.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2026 02:00 PM (U/Byj)
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The reports I read (out of Israel) is that the stabbed pilot had the presence of mind to open the cockpit door.

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 02:06 PM (kX27y)

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Something else that never occurred to me to ask: even though this wasn't and Israeli airline like El Al, I wonder if Israel has the equivalent of US Air Marshals on flights to and from the country?

* searches interwebz *

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Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 02:12 PM (Lrqtb)

257 I'm doing everything within my power to NOT fly a discount airline. Spirit was hell in the air, I've been told.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:09 PM (ccf/V)
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When I flew to Orlando last year, part of the leg there was on Frontier.

I paid for an extra seat so I wouldn't have anyone sit next to me, front of the plane, and a window seat.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:13 PM (X7pZH)

258 They didn't crash the plane, so where's the crime?

Posted by: The Left at September 30, 2026 02:13 PM (E/qck)

259 Bob Dole fought in Italy during WWII and sustained a head wound then went into politics
Posted by: SMOD

I thought it was his arm.
Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 02:03 PM (77rzZ)

It was his arm and a big chunk of his torso. I think it was a 20mm shell that didn't explode.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 30, 2026 02:13 PM (g8Ew8)

260 "Yes, Israel employs a comprehensive system of undercover armed security officers, known as sky marshals or in-flight security officers, on its flights.

El Al Airlines: The Israeli national carrier places armed, undercover agents on every single international flight. These officers are trained to blend in with passengers and carry concealed firearms to prevent hijackings and terrorist attacks.

Other Israeli Carriers: Airlines such as Arkia and Israir also utilize similar security measures, including air marshals and additional screening protocols.

Non-Israeli Airlines: While non-Israeli carriers flying to Israel (such as Delta, United, or Lufthansa) must meet heightened security standards enforced by the Israeli government for flights departing from Ben Gurion Airport, they do not typically carry the same level of onboard armed sky marshals as El Al. Security for these flights relies more heavily on rigorous passenger and baggage screening at the airport."

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Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 02:13 PM (Lrqtb)

261 I'm doing everything within my power to NOT fly a discount airline. Spirit was hell in the air, I've been told.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:09 PM

Personally, I like driving on fairly long trips.

Also, Bride of PI has never once tried to stab me from the co-pilot seat ... yet!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 02:14 PM (HlyYF)

262 Watching the news here in Israel. One of the guys who wrestled the terrorist pilot then grabbed the yoke and pulled the plane back up from its dive until someone else - likely other pilots on board - took over the cockpit.

Crazy details.

הודו לה' כי טוב, כי לעולם חסדו

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 02:14 PM (gsBYv)

263 MSP is pretty much all Muzzie employees. Maybe a few US born at TSA since those jobs require citizenship. Other than that, all Mohammedans.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 02:14 PM (f0pGg)

264 The reports I read (out of Israel) is that the stabbed pilot had the presence of mind to open the cockpit door.
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God bless him, because if he hadn't, there is no way the pax would have gotten in that cockpit.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:14 PM (X7pZH)

265 I'm just glad some professor finally was willing to debate him. Like Steven said, he is glad the prof was willing to be "the man in the arena." The schools would cancel the live debates, or changed the rules they agreed to so Steven was forced to call it off. Why are the left so scared to talk to a college dropout?
Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2026 02:11 PM (Eng1Z)

Because they are smarter than the leftist.

But seriously, Crowder does one on one discussion for a living for hours daily. You have to be an ivory tower dunce to think that doesn't lead to some skills.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:14 PM (uhVAy)

266 224 Russian pilot and a Ukrainian pilot.

That must have been awkward...
Posted by: 18-1

I dunno. My guess is the average Uke and average Russ have no ill will towards each other. It’s their shitty “leaders” who do.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 02:07 PM (f0pGg)
____________________________

There is a large chunk of Ukraine that is very Pro-Russian....which is why Zelenskyy initiated Martial Law and suspended any possible elections. He, also, states that should elections ever be considered in the future, that portion of Ukraine will no be included in the vote.

The media forgets to mention this....EVER.

Posted by: WNBA at September 30, 2026 02:14 PM (dIske)

267 Watching the news here in Israel. One of the guys who wrestled the terrorist pilot then grabbed the yoke and pulled the plane back up from its dive until someone else - likely other pilots on board - took over the cockpit.

Crazy details.

הודו לה' כי טוב, כי לעולם חסדו

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 02:14 PM (gsBYv)
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It's the guy in the pic foreground talking on the phone.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 02:15 PM (gsBYv)

268 It's just work. We moved off the old company's servers onto our own.
Major corporations always look at the big picture. But it's the little pictures that keep the company running. Printers don't work. Files can't be accessed. Logins & passwords weren't working properly.

I always love when one of the IT guys persuades the big wigs we aren't secure enough, we had new restrictions and now no one can access anything.

No work is getting done but hey 100% secure!

Whenever I get the chance I do mention to the big wigs I can make you 100% secure right now. Let me turn all the servers off..."but then we couldn't do any work or make any money?!?" See...now you are getting it.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:15 PM (sKqQm)

269

Vivid.🇮🇱
@VividProwess
·
1h
One of the Israeli heroes from the plane:

“I choked the hijacker. He was trying to bring the plane down. I pulled the controls up and stopped the plane from diving. Good thing I had watched Air Crash Investigation.”

Holy shit.
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And look how close they came to crashing:

https://tinyurl.com/4w986vh5

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 02:15 PM (kX27y)

270 The reports I read (out of Israel) is that the stabbed pilot had the presence of mind to open the cockpit door.
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God bless him, because if he hadn't, there is no way the pax would have gotten in that cockpit.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:14 PM (X7pZH)

And the IDF would have shot down the plane.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:15 PM (uhVAy)

271 "a Russian pilot and a Ukrainian pilot.
That must have been awkward..."

The two were supposedly on board to fly the return trip. Have not heard anything about them being Ukrainian and Russian.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 30, 2026 02:15 PM (vbXSk)

272 So shade on Crowder, but a retarded monkey can outwit your average Harvard professor these days. What kind of modern dance does the professor teach?
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I think the Crowder/Professor debate got traction is because the Professor is Harvard Law.

Painful to watch b/c Crowder is polite, but increasingly impatient and Harvard Law Prof is, from video evidence, a DEI nothing.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 30, 2026 02:15 PM (qGmRV)

273 >>> Yes this is standard cult behavior.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:12 PM (sKqQm)

I heard a conspiracy the other day that Manson was a secret CIA project gone wrong. I highly, highly doubt that. People can be just deranged. But I do think the left learned a LOT about building a cult of personality from studying people like Manson.

Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2026 02:15 PM (Eng1Z)

274 MSP is pretty much all Muzzie employees. Maybe a few US born at TSA since those jobs require citizenship. Other than that, all Mohammedans.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 02:14 PM (f0pGg)
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Good thing I have zero reason to fly into Lil' Mogadishu.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:16 PM (X7pZH)

275 I go to 7:00 AM Mass, so I doubt they get up that early, but still...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 01:35 PM (eRlcH)

Any Sunday Mass at my old parish, probably 50% or more of the men are carrying in addition to the grounds security detail, episcopal permission or not. Some women, too.

Remember "Ahmed, the Clock Boy"? He was from around there.

Posted by: sal at September 30, 2026 02:16 PM (f+FmA)

276
Also, Bride of PI has never once tried to stab me from the co-pilot seat ... yet!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 02:14 PM (HlyYF)

Braggart.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:16 PM (ccf/V)

277
But seriously, Crowder does one on one discussion for a living for hours daily. You have to be an ivory tower dunce to think that doesn't lead to some skills.

The left builds up very complex arguments for whatever the stupid new narrative item is they are very proud of but these fall apart whenever they get debated.

So rather then going back and coming up with better arguments they prefer to just silence the other side.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:16 PM (sKqQm)

278 Spirit was hell in the air, I've been told.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

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True, but the hell started long before you were in the air.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 30, 2026 02:16 PM (pIhio)

279 And the IDF would have shot down the plane.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:15 PM (uhVAy)
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Yep.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:16 PM (X7pZH)

280 262 Watching the news here in Israel. One of the guys who wrestled the terrorist pilot then grabbed the yoke and pulled the plane back up from its dive until someone else - likely other pilots on board - took over the cockpit.

Crazy details.

הודו לה' כי טוב, כי לעולם חסדו
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 02:14 PM (gsBYv)
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Yes, saw that as the guy is recounting the ordeal to Bibi.......crazy indeed.

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 02:17 PM (kX27y)

281 seems incredibly risky, but intel agencies could have the 5 released on bond in the hopes it would help them locate others. The UK has pretty advanced surveillance systems, so they might be pretty confident the 5 can't really escape, but where they go, who they call/text, etc may be very useful intel. And it's not suspicious, because the British police release brown people for rape and murder all the time.
Posted by: Military Moron at September 30, 2026 02:11 PM (aBcEh)

Counterpoint: The UK is run by and for Muslims and their sympathizers and they let the terrorist go so they can continue their work.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 02:17 PM (f0pGg)

282 You cannot hate the ~~BBC~~ all media enough.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2026 02:18 PM (2WIwB)

283 Have Candy Owens and Tucker Carlson explained how this was really a false flag plot by the Jews to make mulims look bad?

Maybe they can do a zoom threesome with that pig Nick Fuentes and really expose the Jew Cabal?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 02:18 PM (3cUTc)

284 Unrelated, but did anyone watch the recent debate between Steven Crowder and Harvard professor Randall Kennedy? Saw a YouTuber summarize it and had some clips that looked pretty brutal (Professor got kinda stomped), but anyone can look bad if the right/wrong clips are picked.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 30, 2026 01:58 PM (aBcEh)
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Saw part of it.

Early on, was not impressed with his dem-like conflation between students who have to bite a university-supplied pillow in a university-supplied "safe space" because somebody is saying something they really, really don't like somewhere on campus and conservative kids who feel they can't speak their mind on campus or fear that the administration won't care how they are treated. And points up conservative "snowflakes".

However, Crowder did not challenge him on this conflation of two vastly different cases under the name "snowflakes", when there are differences of scale and direction.

But what I saw of Crowder, he did well.

Posted by: Axeman at September 30, 2026 02:18 PM (Fi81e)

285 That's the rudder that is missing
Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2026 02:00 PM

Good thing it wasn't a KLM plane. It would be a Dutch rudder that was missing.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 02:18 PM (0sNs1)

286 I heard a conspiracy the other day that Manson was a secret CIA project gone wrong. I highly, highly doubt that. People can be just deranged. But I do think the left learned a LOT about building a cult of personality from studying people like Manson.

I believe the CIA stopped the MK Ultra stuff because at about the same time sociology/advertising figured out how to manipulate people in mass

Why go to all the trouble of trying to invent mind control drugs when you can just produce a majority in favor of something politically with a little media work and some fake votes?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:19 PM (sKqQm)

287 Good thing I have zero reason to fly into Lil' Mogadishu.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:16 PM (X7pZH)
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Yep and that's my home town. Never going back again.

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 02:19 PM (kX27y)

288 I'm doing everything within my power to NOT fly a discount airline. Spirit was hell in the air, I've been told.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Pro tip: the seat on the emergency exit aisle does not recline. Ask me how I know and just how uncomfortable it is from DFW to Las Vegas via Denver.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 02:19 PM (Az7Eg)

289 212 UK PM: Iran behind RAF base incident.

Whoa there, cowboy; Harry and Meghan haven't been cleared yet.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 02:19 PM (Y8DZL)

290 Maybe they can do a zoom threesome with that pig Nick Fuentes and really expose the Jew Cabal?

Everyone knows CBD is the head of the Jew Cabal.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 30, 2026 02:19 PM (2ocoG)

291 Cleary facts are not facts! My President told me Sep 2001 the "Islam is the Religion of Peace"!!
Sounds like "End Wokeness" is calling Bush a leftist liar!

Bur, he's a "Compassionate conservative"; has so said a million times last 26 years.!!@#$!%

Posted by: rodney stanton at September 30, 2026 02:19 PM (KYmzp)

292 Also, Bride of PI has never once tried to stab me from the co-pilot seat ... yet!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 02:14 PM

She approves of the AoSHQ Moron Lifestyle, then.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 02:20 PM (0sNs1)

293 Nick Fuentes isn't going to put his bits near a woman's no-no square and from the sounds of it Candace prefers seafood to snausage...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:20 PM (sKqQm)

294 I heard a conspiracy the other day that Manson was a secret CIA project gone wrong
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And they just did the one like it? Nah.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 02:21 PM (x8rTv)

295 I always love when one of the IT guys persuades the big wigs we aren't secure enough, we had new restrictions and now no one can access anything.

No work is getting done but hey 100% secure!

Whenever I get the chance I do mention to the big wigs I can make you 100% secure right now. Let me turn all the servers off..."but then we couldn't do any work or make any money?!?" See...now you are getting it.
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No IT person ever got fired for making everyone else's job harder.
My work is so throttled now I can barely open pdf's and any videos are right out.
Because the haxors are always after our precious datas.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 02:21 PM (3cUTc)

296 The media forgets to mention this....EVER.

From what I understand the Ukranian legislature amended the constitution so that there are no elections while they are at war. Hard to see how that could possibly be abused.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 02:21 PM (nIKjK)

297 And look how close they came to crashing:

https://tinyurl.com/4w986vh5
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That makes me a little nauseous just watching that.

That's worse than the steepest combat landing.

Good thing they were at cruising altitude.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:21 PM (X7pZH)

298 There is a large chunk of Ukraine that is very Pro-Russian....which is why Zelenskyy initiated Martial Law and suspended any possible elections. He, also, states that should elections ever be considered in the future, that portion of Ukraine will no be included in the vote.

The media forgets to mention this....EVER.
Posted by: WNBA at September 30, 2026 02:14 PM (dIske)

A few years back Russia voted a good chunk of that region into Russia after plebiscites. They hold most of that region now, there's little chance that will be pried away from them, much less Crimea which they've had for more than a decade.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:21 PM (uhVAy)

299 262 Watching the news here in Israel. One of the guys who wrestled the terrorist pilot then grabbed the yoke and pulled the plane back up from its dive until someone else - likely other pilots on board - took over the cockpit.

Crazy details.

הודו לה' כי טוב, כי לעולם חסדו
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 02:14 PM (gsBYv)

Was his name.... Chuck?

/Looks around for Sarah...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 02:21 PM (mP0Kj)

300 I heard a conspiracy the other day that Manson was a secret CIA project gone wrong.
Posted by: LizLem

After all I've learned in the last few years, I don't necessarily discount any conspiracy theories anymore.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 02:21 PM (77rzZ)

301 Also, Bride of PI has never once tried to stab me from the co-pilot seat ... yet!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 02:14 PM (HlyYF)

Braggart.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:16 PM

I can't brag about my shooting prowess, drinking ability, or disco moves on the dance floor.

You gotta give me something, man!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 02:21 PM (HlyYF)

302 "Compassionate Conservative" was a phrase designed to insult conservatives.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 02:22 PM (x8rTv)

303 No IT person ever got fired for making everyone else's job harder.
My work is so throttled now I can barely open pdf's and any videos are right out.
Because the haxors are always after our precious datas.

I've been arguing for a while the answer to internet security is less getting people to build perfect castles around their data and more hanging hackers on live TV/drone striking ones in foreign countries.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:22 PM (sKqQm)

304 >>> Painful to watch b/c Crowder is polite, but increasingly impatient and Harvard Law Prof is, from video evidence, a DEI nothing. Posted by: mustbequantum at September 30, 2026 02:15 PM (qGmRV)

Crowder was polite, and the audience is making the right leaning hecklers that want to drag the professor stay in line.

I do like Crowder brought up that the professor named his book "N**ger," and that Crowder loves that because it makes uptight social justice professors have to squirm a little when they cite his book. The professor looked pretty smug about it! That Steven might be right that it was an intentional trolling of his white peers.

Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2026 02:22 PM (Eng1Z)

305 26
What frightens me is a hostage situation with some band of Antifa/Musloids taking over a church or synagogue service.

I go to 7:00 AM Mass, so I doubt they get up that early, but still...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 01:35 PM (eRlcH)

NH Dept of Safety has free classes/seminars on Emergency Preparedness for Houses of Worship. Sadly too many pastors won't take advantage of this -- optics of encouraging violence, etc.

I went to a couple of these a few years ago. They stressed repeatedly - it is not a question of IF it'll happen in your town, but WHEN.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 30, 2026 02:23 PM (N39Ws)

306 Cleary facts are not facts! My President told me Sep 2001 the "Islam is the Religion of Peace"!!
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While standing on that massive heap of smoldering rubble.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:23 PM (X7pZH)

307 >>>Overall, the probability that a plane full of Israelis will contain a trained assault team, two additional pilots, and, statistically, at least one cardiac surgeon, psychologist, lawyer, and diamond dealer is substantially higher than 50%.

heh

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 02:23 PM (odBC9)

308 The media forgets to mention this....EVER.

From what I understand the Ukranian legislature amended the constitution so that there are no elections while they are at war. Hard to see how that could possibly be abused.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 02:21 PM (nIKjK)

They forgot to amend it to say that Z would remain president though. Russia now says that Z is not the president anymore anytime they want to piss off the fellow.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:23 PM (uhVAy)

309 The BBC today: "Bit of tomfoolery...barely an inconvenience!"

Posted by: Boswell at September 30, 2026 02:23 PM (NTVPI)

310 Why go to all the trouble of trying to invent mind control drugs when you can just produce a majority in favor of something politically with a little media work and some fake votes?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:19 PM (sKqQm)

Why use expensive drugs when all they have to do is replicate and implement the tobacco/second-hand smoke/COVID models.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 30, 2026 02:24 PM (g8Ew8)

311 >>I believe the CIA stopped the MK Ultra stuff because at about the same time sociology/advertising figured out how to manipulate people in mass

Well that and they got caught with the Church Committee and Ford issued an EO prohibiting experimenting on humans with drugs unless the patient gave explicit permission.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 02:24 PM (viF8m)

312 292 Also, Bride of PI has never once tried to stab me from the co-pilot seat ... yet!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 02:14 PM

She approves of the AoSHQ Moron Lifestyle, then.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 02:20 PM

True.

However, for my personal safety, I probably should not introduce her to bluebell!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 02:24 PM (HlyYF)

313 I've been arguing for a while the answer to internet security is less getting people to build perfect castles around their data and more hanging hackers on live TV/drone striking ones in foreign countries.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:22 PM (sKqQm)

So... businesses want secure data, and then put it on the Cloud, and then use AI... where the processing is done offsite.

Uh... guys..

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2026 02:24 PM (mP0Kj)

314 The media forgets to mention this....EVER.

From what I understand the Ukranian legislature amended the constitution so that there are no elections while they are at war. Hard to see how that could possibly be abused.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 02:21 PM (nIKjK)
______

I'm of the growing opinion the war is all on giant op that was all secretly orchestrated by Biden, little dickless, and Putin.

It sure solves a lot of problems for everyone involved. Who cares how many soldier peons have to die?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 02:25 PM (iFTx/)

315
This co-pilot has post pardom depression.

Posted by: The Clancy Defense at September 30, 2026 02:25 PM (OkYzo)

316 The BBC today: "Bit of tomfoolery...barely an inconvenience!"/i]

I notice that Ryan George is showing up in a second hand fashion everywhere.

I wonder how many people have seen guys like George's comedy because it isn't as easy to track as when someone would have a TV network show

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:25 PM (sKqQm)

317 הודו לה' כי טוב, כי לעולם חסדו
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Amen.

Yes He is.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:25 PM (X7pZH)

318 islamic terrorists seem spicy this week, eh?

What is this holiday for the rock worshippers? Kill infidel moon?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 02:26 PM (hzuYO)

319 While standing on that massive heap of smoldering rubble.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:23 PM (X7pZH)

You and your technicalities.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 02:26 PM (x8rTv)

320 >>I believe the CIA stopped the MK Ultra stuff because at about the same time sociology/advertising figured out how to manipulate people in mass

Well if you think it took sociology classes to invent manipulation you have a lot of work to do to explain 10000 years of human history.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:26 PM (uhVAy)

321 But seriously, Crowder does one on one discussion for a living for hours daily. You have to be an ivory tower dunce to think that doesn't lead to some skills.
Posted by: Oldcat

I'm smart! Not like everybody says...like dumb...I'm smart and I want respect!

Posted by: Professor Fredo at September 30, 2026 02:26 PM (aBcEh)

322 >>>And look how close they came to crashing:
https://tinyurl.com/4w986vh5
>>>That makes me a little nauseous just watching that.

This comment on the post is interesting:

@BuzzPatterson 1h
This is my old jet. This airframe exceed the max operating speed by 100 knots. That’s a lot. It ripped off the rudder. To recover, stabilize the jet, and divert is simply a miracle.

Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2026 02:27 PM (Eng1Z)

323 Overall, the probability that a plane full of Israelis will contain a trained assault team, two additional pilots, and, statistically, at least one cardiac surgeon, psychologist, lawyer, and diamond dealer is substantially higher than 50%.
________

What about a mohel? Gotta have a mohel.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 02:27 PM (iFTx/)

324 Let's not jump to conclusions.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 02:27 PM (x8rTv)

325 You and your technicalities.
Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 02:26 PM (x8rTv)
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lol

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:27 PM (X7pZH)

326 Heroes!

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 02:27 PM (odBC9)

327

Overton

@overton_news
·
1h
This may be the most incredible detail of the entire story.

Reuters has reported that the pilot who was stabbed aboard FlyDubai Flight FZ 1073 manually released the lock on the cockpit door while he was lying on the floor.

That pilot’s name is Captain Smit Machchhar.

FOX: “The wounded pilot, listen to this, covered with blood and lying on the floor, had clicked open the release of the cockpit door.”

“A second set of pilots on board who were due to replace the first pair, landed the plane.”

“A pilot who had just been stabbed, had the wherewithal to open that cockpit door. This man can be described as none other than a hero.”

That decision allowed the replacement pilots to reach the cockpit and take control of the aircraft.

His heroic actions likely saved the the lives of every passenger on board.

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 02:27 PM (kX27y)

328 It's just work. We moved off the old company's servers onto our own.
Major corporations always look at the big picture. But it's the little pictures that keep the company running. Printers don't work. Files can't be accessed. Logins & passwords weren't working properly.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 02:12 PM (Az7Eg)
-----

The Network team always hates the Security team and vice versa. Execs side with Network until there's an incident and then Security is the most important team in the building, until they go overboard and the execs give Network the reins again. Rinse, repeat.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 02:28 PM (oqH4h)

329 Hadrian the Seventh @ 45

I don't doubt the security at my own parish, but what about those happy-clappy we-love-migrants congregations?

****************

Darwin strikes again. Stupid oughta hurt.

Posted by: Butch at September 30, 2026 02:28 PM (98xTj)

330
You gotta give me something, man!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 02:21 PM (HlyYF)

Noted.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:28 PM (ccf/V)

331 One thing I was considering earlier is what is Iran's strategy right now.

Mostly they seem to be focused on causing issues with oil/shipping to increase prices to try and get Dems elected in the US.

But, this would also be about the best time to cut an actual deal with Trump because this is the most leverage they'll have on the US until '28 baring the Dems taking both houses of congress with a significant majority...which they won't.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:28 PM (sKqQm)

332 What is this holiday for the rock worshippers? Kill infidel moon?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

=====

Close of the quarter. IRGC got an email from their broker.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 30, 2026 02:28 PM (pIhio)

333 Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 02:27 PM (x8rTv)

How's Brit Lass doing?

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 02:28 PM (77rzZ)

334
It's strange to see people jump into action, instead of stand around with cell phones recording the moment for Tik-Tok.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 30, 2026 02:29 PM (OkYzo)

335 Religion of Peace. My ass.

Posted by: tubal at September 30, 2026 02:29 PM (Gqar8)

336 WSJ calling it a "struggle" shows they are the true blue scumbags.

The arabic word for struggle is jihad.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 02:29 PM (x8rTv)

337 I'm of the growing opinion the war is all on giant op that was all secretly orchestrated by Biden, little dickless, and Putin.

It sure solves a lot of problems for everyone involved. Who cares how many soldier peons have to die?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 02:25 PM (iFTx/)

Nah. It was an op, but one the idiots in the West thought would topple Russia and make them all rich because of the first sanctions package by the EU and US.

Note they are now working on the 20 or 21st sanction package.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:29 PM (uhVAy)

338 This co-pilot has post pardom depression.

Posted by: The Clancy Defense at September 30, 2026 02:25 PM (OkYzo)

Pardom me?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 02:30 PM (dK+Kv)

339 Well if you think it took sociology classes to invent manipulation you have a lot of work to do to explain 10000 years of human history.

No, that's not the argument. The argument is these were new ways to manipulate people via mass media.

As an example, remember early on in COVID when China released videos of people collapsing on the street randomly to amp up the fear factor?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:30 PM (sKqQm)

340 How's Brit Lass doing?

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 02:28 PM (77rzZ)

Hey mostly good. Still waiting on full result but preliminarily it sounds like a small surgery and followup imaging. Thanks. I appreciate you thinking of her.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 02:30 PM (x8rTv)

341 It's strange to see people jump into action, instead of stand around with cell phones recording the moment for Tik-Tok.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 30, 2026 02:29 PM (OkYzo)

Of all the people on God's Green One, the Israelis know best that 'sit quietly and hope nothing bad happens' isn't an option.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 30, 2026 02:31 PM (gLYp7)

342 The skill of those two pilots to land a plane with pretty much no rudder is impressive in itself.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:31 PM (X7pZH)

343 Overall, the probability that a plane full of Israelis will contain a trained assault team, two additional pilots, and, statistically, at least one cardiac surgeon, psychologist, lawyer, and diamond dealer is substantially higher than 50%.
________

What about a mohel? Gotta have a mohel.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 02:27 PM

One never knows when one might need a little trim to look their best.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 02:31 PM (0sNs1)

344
I went to a couple of these a few years ago. They stressed repeatedly - it is not a question of IF it'll happen in your town, but WHEN.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 30, 2026 02:23 PM (N39Ws)

********
We have security at Mass. I don't know detals and know some carry as private citizens.

My plan is to cover my grands with my body on the floor our pew. I don't care if I die as I want them to live. We have security that I don't know about and that's fine.

It is a sad world to have this plan in church.

Yet I have had plans since 9/11 to fight on planes or if I have to anywhere. I won't die scared from these bastards (trannies or islamics). I know where I'm going and they won't be joining me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 02:31 PM (hzuYO)

345 Hey mostly good. Still waiting on full result but preliminarily it sounds like a small surgery and followup imaging. Thanks. I appreciate you thinking of her.
Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 02:30 PM (x8rTv)

That's good news.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:32 PM (ccf/V)

346 Brought to you by the geniuses at The Babylon Bee:

"Near Disaster As FlyDubai Pilot Fails To Illuminate 'No Hijacking' Sign"

https://tinyurl.com/548ykp5u

Their website definitely employs many Morons.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 02:32 PM (HlyYF)

347 Hey mostly good. Still waiting on full result but preliminarily it sounds like a small surgery and followup imaging. Thanks. I appreciate you thinking of her.
Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 02:30 PM (x8rTv)

I missed this.

Godspeed.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 02:32 PM (dK+Kv)

348
The arabic word for struggle is jihad.
Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 02:29 PM (x8rTv)

Remember the "What's YOUR Jihad?" ad campaign?

Total winner, that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 02:32 PM (ccf/V)

349 Nood, Trump's economy is kicking ass!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 30, 2026 02:32 PM (gLYp7)

350 NOOD.

Economic growth.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 02:32 PM (HlyYF)

351 Of all the people on God's Green One, the Israelis know best that 'sit quietly and hope nothing bad happens' isn't an option.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 30, 2026 02:31 PM (gLYp7)
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Especially after 9/11, though they have been dealing with this sort of thing a lot longer, so yeah, they ain't just gonna press record.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:32 PM (X7pZH)

352 342 The skill of those two pilots to land a plane with pretty much no rudder is impressive in itself.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:31 PM (X7pZH)

*****
Several miracles from God for that flight and those people.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 02:33 PM (hzuYO)

353 342 The skill of those two pilots to land a plane with pretty much no rudder is impressive in itself.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:31 PM (X7pZH)
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I read that a military pilot said it was as good as Sully's landing if not even more impressive.

Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 02:33 PM (kX27y)

354 Regarding the train-pulling skank in the previous thread: by taking this action, she is likely forfeiting a promising career in the pron industry.
There really should be some recourse for those so accused. The accused should counter sue for attorney's fees, loss of reputation, and time lost from work having to deal with this garbage.
She's a ho, nothing but a money grubbing ho and her lawsuit proves it.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 30, 2026 02:33 PM (JNTt1)

355 It is a sad world to have this plan in church.

Were I driving the R media efforts the theme would be "We don't have to live like this"

Deport the illegals
Stop the invasion
Throw away the key for violence criminals

and we can have a society like we did in the 80s/90s.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:33 PM (sKqQm)

356 One never knows when one might need a little trim to look their best.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 02:31 PM (0sNs1)

Just a little off around the ears.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 02:33 PM (dK+Kv)

357 Am Yisrael Hai...motherf*ckers!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 30, 2026 02:33 PM (k5CNB)

358 The Network team always hates the Security team and vice versa. Execs side with Network until there's an incident and then Security is the most important team in the building, until they go overboard and the execs give Network the reins again. Rinse, repeat.
Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 02:28 PM (oqH4h)

I once consulted at a place that had TWO IT departments. They both hated each other and would not cooperate. One division had to write software to read the screen on a terminal doing a DB access on the other IT department's program rather than, you know, actually get the results of a query on their own databases.

the program had some bugs so I found out what was happening and found out how to save the 'errors' and the operators could manually recover nearly all of the data they needed.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:33 PM (uhVAy)

359 >>> But seriously, Crowder does one on one discussion for a living for hours daily.

He started the talking on college campuses bit as a serious thing, and Charlie Kirk took it one step higher. Bless them both for trying to reach kids and have dialogues.

I can't remember his name, but there is a young black conservative taking up the mantle and going to campuses now, and he is pretty savage on gen Z kids. Some snowflake got upset at him, I think Kirk's death was brought up. And the conservative guy was like "you killed the nice one! Now you're stuck with me."

Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2026 02:34 PM (Eng1Z)

360
What about a mohel? Gotta have a mohel.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 02:27 PM (iFTx/)

Try Mohel 6.

They're cheap and have several locations.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 02:34 PM (YSUhf)

361 About the Johnny Daniels video above - although a good report, many people took issue with the fact that he said "Who else but Israelis would confront the attacker" Um, Flight 93? Also, the Captain is an Indian national who although being stabbed multiple times, reportedly was able to open the cabin door allowing the Israeli's to get into the cockpit to take over and he should have certainly been mentioned or none of this would have ended well.

Posted by: Cheri at September 30, 2026 02:34 PM (oiNtH)

362 Coming on the heels of those UK nationals scamps (ie imported Muslim savages) at the air
force base. It's almost like there's a pattern emerging with a certain segment of the human race.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2026 02:35 PM (qBdHI)

363
Hey mostly good. Still waiting on full result but preliminarily it sounds like a small surgery and followup imaging. Thanks. I appreciate you thinking of her.
Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 02:30 PM (x8rTv

*********
Very thankful and I pray that all will be well.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 02:37 PM (hzuYO)

364 The lock release switch is located up high, so he couldn't have reached it while lying on the floor.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2026 02:37 PM (J4Dwc)

365 Well if you think it took sociology classes to invent manipulation you have a lot of work to do to explain 10000 years of human history.

No, that's not the argument. The argument is these were new ways to manipulate people via mass media.

As an example, remember early on in COVID when China released videos of people collapsing on the street randomly to amp up the fear factor?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:30 PM (sKqQm)

Nothing new under the sun. Remember early in WWI when suddenly the world was flooded with stories of the beastly Huns raping Belgian nurses? Of course the Germans didn't help by their heavy handed reprisals for people shooting at their troops behind the lines, just more grist for the mill.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 02:37 PM (uhVAy)

366 I hope he is vigorously interrogated; his named accomplices rounded up, and the nation-state (coff, coff, Iran) gets a few special delivery packages that go kaboom.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 30, 2026 02:38 PM (JNTt1)

367 Thanks. I appreciate you thinking of her.
Posted by: ...

Of course. That's what we do here -- take an interest in each other's family members.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 02:38 PM (77rzZ)

368 I read that a military pilot said it was as good as Sully's landing if not even more impressive.
Posted by: beckster at September 30, 2026 02:33 PM (kX27y)
__

Yeah, just read that.

He also said that in every other previous instant of a dive like that ripped the whole tail off.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:38 PM (X7pZH)

369 Thanks. I appreciate you thinking of her.
Posted by: ...

Of course. That's what we do here -- take an interest in each other's family members.
Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 02:38 PM (77rzZ)
___

Awww...you two are so sweet, my teeth hurt. ; )

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:39 PM (X7pZH)

370 Jesus...

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2026 02:40 PM (J4Dwc)

371 Some (C)rap artist named bulletproof was shot and killed in Chicago last night.

I guess the name didn't fit.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 02:47 PM (0U5gm)

372 Deport the illegals
Stop the invasion
Throw away the key for violence criminals

and we can have a society like we did in the 80s/90s.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 02:33 PM (sKqQm)

I grew up in the 50's. I want that society back, going into the early 60's. Society began to change very rapidly after JFK was assassinated. If he came back to life in 1969, he wouldn't recognize the country.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 30, 2026 02:50 PM (hmYU4)

373 There is something to be said for a country full of combat veterans. I wish them all the peace in the world, but Israel is the King of FAFO in the Middle East. Just saying, nobody is taking back the cockpit of your average European airline. A US carrier is at least hauling a fair number of rednecks and other ornery Americans around the sky to get feisty. There was a time, and may be a time again, when situations like this demand an answer to "Who will Will Smith play in the movie?"

Posted by: BrianOnTheBay at September 30, 2026 03:35 PM (lhcSJ)

374 He also said that in every other previous instant of a dive like that ripped the whole tail off.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 30, 2026 02:38 PM (X7pZH)
*****
I don't know squat about flying except to keep my seatbelt on since our Dutch Roll/rapid loss of altitude in 1981. Have never had fear of flying before or after.

I did see photos of the tail in the UK DM and it's basically 3/4 ripped off. The pilots who got that plane down did it by hand, maintaining a 15k altitude til landing.

God was with them on that flight. I didn't understand til I saw the photo of the plane.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 04:12 PM (hzuYO)

375 Since we are hating on the media - with good reason - and tying in to the last story, the media narrative of this is going to be a disaster for the GOP this fall is not living up to reality, and even the AP went so far as to say watch out for NH. Early mail in balloting shows no huge swell for the populations the democrats need to make huge gains. More and more stories are showing that the economy - over which everyone says is a huge issue - is actually moving into a significant growth phase with investment and employment gaining ground and inflation holding steady or dropping slightly. Heck, MMS types are already running stories about how the good economic news is really not supported if you do a bunch of handstands and cartwheels with the data.The dems realize any real gap is closing, is there enough time for the GOP to actually take advantage of it.

Posted by: Black JEM at September 30, 2026 04:28 PM (7/DDO)

The Detective-Karens of TikTok Has a New Obsession to Shriek About

Oh good. The leftist Karens have decided on This Week's Hair-Tearing Freak-Out.

Two years ago, at Cornell, a woman arranged a sexual encounter with a frat brother. She showed up drunk, and then drank more at the frat, and then did ketamine as well.

She had a threesome with two frat brothers. She later told police the encounter was consensual and voluntary. She even mentioned that at several points some frat brothers attempted some light sexual behavior -- a kiss in one case --and she said "No" to it, and that behavior stopped.

Later in the night she had a second threesome with other dudes.

I imagine she got quite the reputation as a genuine slag over this behavior.

Although this became a scandal two years ago, and some frat brothers were expelled for drug use, no charges were ever brought. According to the woman's own statement, she voluntarily got drunk (mostly before she ever showed up), she voluntarily did ketamine, and she voluntarily engaged in two threesomes. In fact, she texted one of the frat brothers to tell him she enjoyed her threesome and she'd be up for more.

Now she says "I was raped." She's filing a civil suit and claiming that the frat brothers "drugged" her without her knowledge and that they had sex with her without her consent. Contradicting her previous statements.

But because this is a blue state (New York) where everything is gay and stupid, and the same TikTok Detectives who claimed Patrick Clancy killed his children are activated, the prosecutors are re-opening the case.

Prosecutors in upstate New York are defending their decision not to bring charges in 2024 after an alleged "gang rape" at a Cornell University fraternity.
Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten described the allegations as "morally disturbing" but argued that the facts he knew at the time did not support a prosecution.
"If what was said on social media about this case was true, those fraternity members would be in prison right now," Van Houten told ABC News.
Van Houten argued that Jane Doe's account of the incident from 2024 suggested that she consented to the sexual activity. He said that she did not withdraw her consent, and that when she raised concerns, the fraternity members "stopped and did not pursue what they were doing."
"She clearly consented in the beginning, and there was never any indication that she changed that to the things that she participated in," he said. "There is a disconnect in the sense of how the community and how social media has understood this to have happened. If at any point Jane Doe had said, 'I don't consent to this anymore,' or in those words, or in any form of communication. If there had been continued sexual activity, contact by these individuals, that would be a crime. But that's not what was alleged in her statement."

Apparently there is a Snapchat picture which is referenced but not detailed. I guess it shows the frat guys in a compromising position. But I have no idea. The DA acknowledges the picture is "gross" but is not evidence of a crime.

...
"But the question that we analyzed was: Did Jane Doe consent to what happened, and was she unable to consent?" he said. "I'm not clear on exactly how that was given to us, or if anyone here looked at it. That was not critical to our analysis, as I mentioned earlier. The issue was her consent, and if you take that Snapchat being vile and crude and vulgar, that did not have any relevance to the issue of whether Jane Doe consented to what was happening," Van Houten said.

The DA's comments come a day after his office announced it would be reopening the 2024 case in light of Jane Doe's civil lawsuit alleging that she was drugged, assaulted and gang raped by seven former and current members of the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell.
Cornell's Chi Phi chapter was barred from campus after the alleged Oct. 19, 2024, incident, though none of the individuals allegedly involved faced criminal charges, according to the DA.
An attorney for Jane Doe responded to Van Houten's written statement on Monday, alleging his client's claims were not investigated thoroughly.

Because she literally said she got drunk by herself, voluntarily did drugs, and consented to a three-way. What is the crime, apart from her admitted use of an illegal drug?

There is one fact that makes this seem like it could have been a rape. Three weeks after the event, she said she consented to the first threeway, but says she did not consent to the second (and whatever other sex she had later), and said she was raped.

But she also admits to having memory gaps, due to being drunk and high on ketamine.

Jane Doe in Cornell University case told campus police, "I can say with 100% confidence I was raped," transcript shows
...
CBS News New York investigative reporter Mahsa Saeidi exclusively obtained a transcript of the alleged victim's interview with campus police from a source.
Jane Doe describes initial sexual activity, gaps in memory
The interview began on Nov. 14 -- more than three weeks after the alleged gang rape -- and continued the next day.
A campus police investigator led the questioning. A Title IX investigator, a victim advocate, and Jane Doe's adviser were also in the room for the first day of the interview.
According to the transcript, Jane Doe described drinking and using drugs the night of the alleged rape, and said she had gaps in her memory.
The transcript shows she distinguished the initial sexual activity from what she says happened later, and when asked whether she was OK with the initial encounter, she said, "Yeah, as much as I can be because, again, I was super drunk when I got there ... But I was pretty OK with all of this."

And then this claim comes:

Jane Doe added, according to the transcript, "And then, of course, I was being hit at the same time. Physically hit very, very hard."
According to the transcript, she said she didn't remember the end of the night "where I was raped" and didn't know how many people had sex with her.
When describing what happened later in the night, the transcript says Jane Doe said, "I can say with 100% confidence I was raped."
The transcript shows that throughout the interview, the investigator asks questions as he prepares her written statement.
Before discussing what Jane Doe said when men asked her for sex, the transcript says the investigator warned her that his questions may sound accusatory, but said he needed specific answers to determine the right charges.
According to the transcript, Jane Doe said she swatted one man's hand away and told him she was uncomfortable, and she told another man no a few times or that she was too tired.
"Was it 'no' or was it, 'eh, I'm tired'?" the investigator asked, according to the transcript.
The transcript says Jane Doe responded, "I think it's 'I'm tired.'"
According to the transcript, the investigator later asked whether she got tired of answering the men's questions and gave in.
"Yes. It was coercion, yes," Jane Doe said, according to the transcript. She also said she was "completely and totally incapacitated."

The DA says he never saw this part of the police interview.

It wouldn't change the charging decision -- she admits she doesn't remember what happened and it's hard to make a rape case when she was clearly given consent for another threeway. No, consent does not "carry over" to other people, but as a practical matter it's hard to prove that a woman who was freely agreeing to sex with multiple partners later didn't consent to additional sex.

Just by admitting she has gaps in her memory and is "pretty clouded," she's signing the jury form stating "reasonable doubt." Her admission that she doesn't even remember how many men she had sex with puts an exclamation point after reasonable doubt -- how can she say she withdrew consent for some sexual encounters when she doesn't even remember them all?

And her current story -- that she was drugged without her knowledge -- expressly contradicts her statements that she took the drugs voluntarily, and showed up drunk in the first place.

We frequently say that women should be warned not to get pass-out drunk and then go off with men. That's good advice, and should be repeated, but we're always told we're "victim blaming" and "slut shaming" when we offer good advice.

But some advice should be given to men, too: Don't sleep with women like this. Don't even be alone with women like this.

Normal women don't agree to multiple three-ways with strangers. If a woman agrees to this, she is psychologically abnormal, and you may be signing up a for a lifetime of pain for five minutes of pleasure. You may be signing up for a lifetime of persecution by a mentally-ill broken woman.

At any rate, enjoy. This will be the the Karens' screaming conniption topic for the next month.

Jenin Younes
@JeninYounesEsq
Sep 29
I've held my tongue for a while, but being from Ithaca, a Cornell alum and a former criminal defense attorney, and seeing how out of hand this story has gotten, I am compelled to comment on the lawsuit alleging a gang rape at Cornell.
I cannot purport to know what happened one night at a frat house in October 2024--any more than you can. However, here are a few basic principles much of the public appears not to understand.
A lawsuit is a series of allegations made by the plaintiff. It is not proof. Allegations made in lawsuit turn out to be untrue all the time, either due to mistake, intentional misrepresentation, or flat-out lies. Unfortunately, people often misrepresent the truth in lawsuits due to monetary and other incentives. In the past, there have been instances of fabricated rape allegations. About a decade ago, Rolling Stone published a piece about an allegedly horrendous rape that occurred on the UVA campus that garnered similiar outrage to this incident and turned out to be entirely fabricated.
I have read the DA's press release and the lawsuit itself. According to the cited portions of Jane Doe's statements to police shortly after the incident, crediting it as entirely true, there was simply no basis to charge the alleged perpetrators. Everyone involved was apparently extremely intoxicated. Jane Doe gave consent to the encounter at the beginning and does not explicitly recall any activity occurring after consent was withdrawn. It is possible that, due to her inability to recall, she had not given consent for some of the activity towards the end, but possible is not a basis for a district attorney to file criminal charges.
Her current lawsuit is fairly consistent with her initial statement--except it omits the portions where she told the police she gave consent. Is she lying? Did she later remember something she didn't initially? Is she mistaken? I do not know--and again, neither do you.
What I do know is that if we are to live in a society of laws, going after the jobs and reputations young men who may have participated in an entirely consensual incident, and the DA who made the correct decision not to charge, is mindless mob justice. We actually want prosecutors to decline to seek indictments when there's insufficient evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
None of this is to say I approve of what happened as reported in the initial statement to police. That's a cultural and parenting issue, though, not a matter for law enforcement. I encourage people to let the DA's office handle the case going forward, and not to participate in the witch hunt against either the prosecutors involved or the young men who, as of now, have not been charged or shown to have committed any crime.

Robby Soave
@robbysoave
Sep 28
As someone who was involved in setting the record straight in the UVA / Rolling Stone rape hoax, I have serious reservations about reopening the Cornell case.
It's important to note that the victim's initial statements to police are radically different from the claims she made in her lawsuit. That's why the DA declined to prosecute: No crime was was even alleged--she described consensual behavior at every key juncture.
She has now changed her story completely.

"Jane Doe" texted one of her alleged gang-rape assailants that she enjoyed the sexual activity, wanted to meet up again, and "none of the sexual stuff was illegal." Apparently in October 2024 she had no idea she was gang-raped. Only came to that shocking realization 2 years later pic.twitter.com/pbRHwCClB2
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) September 29, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:10 PM

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1 THE BLADE BLADES IN AND BLADES A FIRST

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:11 PM (ccf/V)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 30, 2026 12:11 PM (NcvvS)

4 Top o' the nooner to ya, Ace!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:11 PM (ccf/V)

5 "I was raped by my husband when he asked for sex, but I wasn't in the mood and said yes anyway."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 12:11 PM (U/fqy)

6 Too late

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 12:12 PM (N1DT3)

7 Things that used to be common sense are uncommon now.

Posted by: huerfano at September 30, 2026 12:12 PM (2Xqig)

8 The coverage I saw of these stories on leftwing sites is:

Innocent woman went to a frat party, raped by 7 men. Misogynist college only punishes the rapists by making them write an essay.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 12:12 PM (sKqQm)

9 Nothing has been learned. It's as if Duke and UVa never happened.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 12:13 PM (Riz8t)

10 "I was raped by my husband when he asked for sex, but I wasn't in the mood and said yes anyway."

I was raped by work. I didn't want to go, preferring to stay in bed, but went anyway.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 12:14 PM (Riz8t)

11 I miss Jane D'oh........Hope she's ok.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:14 PM (ccf/V)

12 "But some advice should be given to men, too: Don't sleep with women like this. Don't even be alone with women like this."

Another piece of advice: don't do devil's threeways!

They're gayer than just fucking the other dude yourself.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:14 PM (iFTx/)

13 None of this would have happened if Rule #1 was followed.

Posted by: Reforger at September 30, 2026 12:14 PM (Ae6Br)

14 Trump should have banned TikTok

Actually ban all of social media

Actually ban all online news sites unless it's a smart military blog

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 30, 2026 12:15 PM (fapp/)

15 Betting "Jane Doe" got paid.

Also betting there are many likely payors. All with an ax to grind.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 12:15 PM (RORbl)

16 gp: "is there a correlation between frequency of media stories about rape, and the election cycle?"

AI: "While there is no broad, comprehensive statistical data proving a universal correlation between the frequency of all media stories about rape and the election cycle, a strong correlation does exist when looking specifically at politicized sexual misconduct coverage and strategic political opposition research."

I'll never forget how lefty pinheads spray-painted "RAPE" all over our local Republican HQ building during the Kav fooferaw.

Posted by: gp at September 30, 2026 12:15 PM (Jr5Lq)

17 1) Don't stick yer dick in crazy
B. Best not to do drugs and get drunk
III: No matter how consensual and what paperwork is signed, you ALWAYS risk getting accused of r@pe if you're a guy.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 12:16 PM (l3cgK)

18 >>In fact, she texted one of the frat brothers to tell him she enjoyed her threesome and she'd be up for more.

>>Now she says "I was raped."

But.

Is she still up for more?

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at September 30, 2026 12:16 PM (vNne8)

19 And here's why the problem is men, not women

Man: "So what do you think of Lindsay Clancy"

Ditzy nose ringed blonde: "Oh she's clearly innocent!"

Man: ".......... I can still fix her"

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 30, 2026 12:16 PM (fapp/)

20
"Oh, and another thing I forgot, they were all far-right rapists"

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 12:17 PM (Y8DZL)

21 10 "I was raped by my husband when he asked for sex, but I wasn't in the mood and said yes anyway."

I was raped by work. I didn't want to go, preferring to stay in bed, but went anyway.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 12:14 PM (Riz8t)

I was raped in the wee hours of the morning by something bad I ate...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 12:17 PM (l3cgK)

22 Back in my day we always used a date rape drug.

Uncle Ted always had a pocketful.

Posted by: William Kennedy Smith, Raper at September 30, 2026 12:17 PM (w+jhU)

23 I find none of this behavior moral.

It really seems that it's also not illegal, because her previous statements already contradict her claims so it's going to be her word (today) against her word (when it happened) and the word of the frat boys. (Both then and now.)

But the harpies don't care. They have a chance to take our the VILLIAN OF HISTORY!!11!!, white fraternity boys.

Also, this is what happens when you remove the fences that society put up over hundreds of years about sex because you think those fences just represented "stodgy old geezers". Our society decided that thousands of years of rules about sex were outdated. Love should be free!

And now we have the most lonely society in history, with much less "love". Funny that.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 12:18 PM (N1DT3)

24 22 Back in my day we always used a date rape drug.

Uncle Ted always had a pocketful.

Posted by: William Kennedy Smith, Raper at September 30, 2026 12:17 PM (w+jhU)

Right with ya man.

Posted by: Bill Cosby at September 30, 2026 12:18 PM (l3cgK)

25 "And then, of course, I was being hit at the same time. Physically hit very, very hard."

This is the story of me.

Posted by: Brooke Baldwin's Blown Out Bajingo at September 30, 2026 12:19 PM (J4Dwc)

26 Word to the young ladies:

Don't mix booze and K. Too much of that, and you'll be so giddy and euphoric -- not to mention decisionally impaired -- that you'll fuck a diseased alligator.

Booze and K are basically date-rape drugs. You almost have no idea what you're doing, but you're very happy about it. Don't ask me how I know.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

27 Hold on a sec. The first girl I ever kissed is on the phone.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 12:19 PM (RIvkX)

28 Snatch of Doom™️

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at September 30, 2026 12:19 PM (X3rKN)

29 Normal women don't agree to multiple three-ways with strangers. If a woman agrees to this, she is psychologically abnormal, and you may be signing up a for a lifetime of pain for five minutes of pleasure. You may be signing up for a lifetime of persecution by a mentally-ill broken woman.

There's another, even worse risk, which is that Paolo shows up and makes me look bad by comparison. It's a risk I'm not willing to run.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

30 If someone encouraged her to claim she was raped, does this bring up incitement to commit perjury?

Posted by: clarence at September 30, 2026 12:20 PM (vCaJx)

31 Afternoon Ace.
Hate to say it but my first thought was that she got out of Cornell with huge loans and couldn't find a high paying job, so the lawsuit looks good

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 12:21 PM (jivel)

32 I can fix her!

Posted by: Rosy Optimist at September 30, 2026 12:21 PM (Fn+3X)

33 "She had a threesome with two [Cornell] frat brothers. She later told police the encounter was consensual and voluntary. Now, [two years later,] she says "I was raped.""

Believe All Women. But which one? Living in the modern world is a shit show.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at September 30, 2026 12:22 PM (VyD10)

34 She simply had pre-mortem depression and didn't know what she was doing, you guys.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:22 PM (ccf/V)

35 Normal women don't agree to multiple three-ways with strangers. If a woman agrees to this, she is psychologically abnormal, and you may be signing up a for a lifetime of pain for five minutes of pleasure. You may be signing up for a lifetime of persecution by a mentally-ill broken woman.

And modern liberal colleges are the perfect example of having lots of abnormal women...

Posted by: Bill Cosby at September 30, 2026 12:22 PM (l3cgK)

36 Remember not to judge my fellow Christians.

There is nothing inherently wrong with a threesome. Well, as long as there are men involved then women. I mean, ideally all men. Uh is it getting hot in here?

Posted by: James Talarico at September 30, 2026 12:22 PM (sKqQm)

37 Believe All Women. But which one?

Once again, the HQ cuts to the chase.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 12:22 PM (Riz8t)

38
Can't be too careful. Better shoot all the frat members.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 12:23 PM (eRlcH)

39 "This will be the the Karens' screaming conniption topic for the next month."

They're getting bored with Lyndsey Clancy, it seems

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:23 PM (iFTx/)

40 THE BLADE BLADES IN AND BLADES A FIRST
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:10 PM

And did The Blade get consent for that, or will he be hearing from the comments section's lawyers?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 12:23 PM (bFu5X)

41 off disgusting sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 12:23 PM (l3cgK)

42 Oh, and another thing I forgot, they were all far-right rapists"
Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2026 12:17 PM (Y8DZL)

Rape is of course a predominantly right-wing phenomenon.

Posted by: Next talking point at September 30, 2026 12:23 PM (TbWk/)

43 Let me also say that I lived with frat boys for 1 year in college. (Thanks for the random roomies assignment!)

This kind of behavior seems to be very common.

I am rather certain everyone, man, woman, dog and goat, who goes to a frat party KNOWS this behavior is common.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 12:24 PM (N1DT3)

44 Isn't she required to carry a mattress around?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 12:24 PM (jivel)

45 The Devil made her DO IT.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 12:24 PM (MWfyi)

46 36 Remember not to judge my fellow Christians.

There is nothing inherently wrong with a threesome. Well, as long as there are men involved then women. I mean, ideally all men. Uh is it getting hot in here?

Posted by: James Talarico at September 30, 2026 12:22 PM (sKqQm)

This guy gives IANAL a different meaning...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 12:24 PM (l3cgK)

47 even money she has discovered no one is interested in her clown car and she's trying to find something to fill the ...hole in her .... life.....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at September 30, 2026 12:24 PM (nXhwP)

48 Accountability is taught to be something women can give or withdraw their responsibility to. If they even acknowledge it.

Probably going to be light on this one. Too many bad experiences. That is on me because my IFF seems to pick ladies like this out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 12:24 PM (Y/06r)

49 They're getting bored with Lyndsey Clancy, it seems

More likely it's starting to dawn on them that most people disagree with them and want them to STFU and STFD.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 12:24 PM (Riz8t)

50 Believe All Women. But which one?

Depends...is it a lifelong Democrat whose testimony is backed up by a bunch of state troopers in Arkansas or a leftwing professor who can't remember how many doors her house had when she got boofed?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 12:25 PM (sKqQm)

51 "Normal women don't agree to multiple three-ways with strangers. If a woman agrees to this, she is psychologically abnormal."

Not really true. The under-30 set is big on 3-somes. Hell, rap and pop stars sing songs about it. What the youngers hear, they want to do.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:25 PM (iFTx/)

52 More fake and ghey stuff before the mid-terms to pull on the strings of mindless puppets to gin up the outrage vote.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 30, 2026 12:25 PM (KVitD)

53 Rosie Palms > Devil's threesome

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 12:25 PM (sKqQm)

54 Believe All Women. But which one? Living in the modern world is a shit show.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at September 30, 2026 12:22 PM (VyD10)

This is one of several reasons why I live as a hermit.

Posted by: To the extent suburbia allows at September 30, 2026 12:25 PM (TbWk/)

55 There's always room for Jello Pudding Pops and rape! But mostly rape.

- Bill Cosby

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 12:25 PM (bFu5X)

56
Not really true. The under-30 set is big on 3-somes. Hell, rap and pop stars sing songs about it. What the youngers hear, they want to do.

Isn't that usually MFF and not MMF though?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 12:25 PM (sKqQm)

57 James Talarico will never be accused of raping a woman. Ride on YMCA Cowboy, Ride on.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at September 30, 2026 12:26 PM (VyD10)

58 56
Not really true. The under-30 set is big on 3-somes. Hell, rap and pop stars sing songs about it. What the youngers hear, they want to do.

Isn't that usually MFF and not MMF though?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 12:25 PM (sKqQm)

MMM...tasty.

Posted by: James Talarico at September 30, 2026 12:26 PM (l3cgK)

59 Frat guys are dumb - News at 11

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 30, 2026 12:27 PM (KVitD)

60 49 They're getting bored with Lyndsey Clancy, it seems

More likely it's starting to dawn on them that most people disagree with them and want them to STFU and STFD.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 12:24 PM (Riz8t)

Also, when gals start getting dumped for saying they support Clancey, even if they do not 'get it' it starts to have real world consequences. And they understand that. So, avoid. Transfer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 12:27 PM (Y/06r)

61 57 James Talarico will never be accused of raping a woman. Ride on YMCA Cowboy, Ride on.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at September 30, 2026 12:26 PM (VyD10)

What if it's a tranny woman?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 12:27 PM (l3cgK)

62 Two chicks at the same time.

Posted by: Lawrence, if he had $1M at September 30, 2026 12:27 PM (TbWk/)

63 54 Believe All Women. But which one? Living in the modern world is a shit show.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at September 30, 2026 12:22 PM (VyD10)

This is one of several reasons why I live as a hermit.
Posted by: To the extent suburbia allows at September 30, 2026 12:25 PM (TbWk/)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 12:27 PM (Y/06r)

64 >>Normal women don't agree to multiple three-ways with strangers.

Normal women won't admit to it...

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at September 30, 2026 12:27 PM (vNne8)

65 Any threesome that involves two men is GAY.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 12:27 PM (MWfyi)

66 62 Two chicks at the same time.

Posted by: Lawrence, if he had $1M at September 30, 2026 12:27 PM (TbWk/)

Two girls for every boy!

Posted by: Beach Boys at September 30, 2026 12:28 PM (l3cgK)

67 Even Sunny Hostin, the lawyer on The View, doubts that this is truly rape. It's about time we did put up the fences again, as Formerly Virginian states, but it's too late for this MI girl.

Posted by: Random PJ at September 30, 2026 12:28 PM (+jscL)

68 I rate this story as two "Yikes on bikes!"

Posted by: Yikes On Bikes at September 30, 2026 12:28 PM (V362x)

69 Speaking of Clancy I wonder if the lone juror making his video is going to convince some number of black male voters that voting for their local Karen Democrat isn't a sane choice...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 12:28 PM (sKqQm)

70 More fake and ghey stuff before the mid-terms to pull on the strings of mindless puppets to gin up the outrage vote.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

The onslaught will kick into high gear tomorrow. 10/1.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 12:28 PM (yOEUM)

71 James Talarico will never be accused of raping a woman. Ride on YMCA Cowboy, Ride on.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at September 30, 2026 12:26 PM (VyD10)

What if it's a tranny woman?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 12:27 PM (l3cgK)

Then he still maintains his unbroken gay streak.

Posted by: A man by any other name at September 30, 2026 12:28 PM (TbWk/)

72 MMM...tasty.
Posted by: James Talarico at September 30, 2026 12:26 PM

I'm not sure you understand what 3M means.

Posted by: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company at September 30, 2026 12:28 PM (bFu5X)

73 65 Any threesome that involves two men is GAY.
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 12:27 PM (MWfyi)
--

From her police statement, that's why she was excited to do it.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at September 30, 2026 12:29 PM (0bjKf)

74 This sounds a lot like that 'mattress girl' roaming around Texas University saying she was raped after she willingly had rough sex with some dude.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:29 PM (ccf/V)

75 > some advice should be given to men, too: Don't sleep with women like this. Don't even be alone with women like this.

Excellent advise and worth repeating.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 30, 2026 12:29 PM (mkw2N)

76 62 Two chicks at the same time.
Posted by: Lawrence, if he had $1M at September 30, 2026 12:27 PM (TbWk/)

Two dude threesomes. NOT at all the same thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 12:29 PM (Y/06r)

77 I would also like to say that this kind of "WOE IS ME!!!" crap degrades women who suffered ACTUAL rape.

"Oh, I felt bad and just couldn't say no..." vs. "He held a knife to my throat and raped me."

Stop trying to make regret on par with actual violence. You are a terrible person for minimizing actual suffering.

It's of a type with stolen valor. Because victimhood is a badge of honor now. Except that REAL victims actually had to suffer while these evil women just want the sympathy without the suffering.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 12:29 PM (N1DT3)

78 I see this rape-accusation-frenzy as a good thing. It reeks of "scraping the bottom of the barrel" for some random thing for the Left to get all jazzed about, since they have run out of constructive narratives and purposeful mass-hysterias in this election season. You see, the Left is an Outrage Machine that survives on a diet of ginned up fake outrages. During election season, they need to arrange "directed hysterias" that benefit their chances of winning. In fact, that's the whole reason to keep your minions in a state of hair-trigger borderline hysteria to begin with -- so you can use that hysteria when needed to win elections.

BUT -- as we see here -- if you run out of constructive vote-swaying hysterias during election season and instead fall back on the worn-out classic "fake rape accusation again some random dudes," then it shows you are in big trouble election-wise, since you realize that every time your Leftist side opens its mouth on some electoral issue, you lose more voters.

So, yes, the mania over this particular case is a good sign that the Dems are in trouble.

Posted by: zombie at September 30, 2026 12:30 PM (Av6i5)

79 She may have had "gaps in her memory" when she made her initial statements after the events had just happened.

However, when she takes the stand, I expect her memory (at least two years after the event) will be vastly improved and clear.

MY memory does not operate in that fashion. Maybe because I am just an Idiot?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 12:30 PM (HlyYF)

80 From the police interview transcript I read, of the first two dudes one was so drunk he passed out during the act and the other was so drunk he was dry-heaving.

Sounds like the wrong people might be getting charged with rape.

> Normal women don't agree to multiple three-ways with strangers.

You'd be surprised. It is a very, very common female fantasy.

Now, if reality doesn't match up with fantasy, leading to regrets afterward... that's another story.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:30 PM (qlLNh)

81 It's also unfair that she can "Jane Doe" this whole thing. Who is this girl? I assume there's a lot in her history that shows this behavior wasn't uncommon.

All frat boys know there is always "That Girl" on campus. Always. No exceptions to this rule.

The more the Greek system controls campus partying and social standing, the more "That Girls" there are. Some girls are willing to do anything to get in with the Cool Kids frat.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

82 >>>Also, this is what happens when you remove the fences that society put up over hundreds of years about sex because you think those fences just represented "stodgy old geezers". Our society decided that thousands of years of rules about sex were outdated. Love should be free!
And now we have the most lonely society in history, with much less "love". Funny that.

yup. There's also the continued insistence by Strong and Empowered Feminists that they should be protected from the consequences of their actions as if they were children. But do not patronize them, Patriarchs. They're only helpless children who are not responsible for their own actions when they CHOOSE to be.

It's called Choice, racists. Look it up.

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 12:31 PM (1wjle)

83 72 MMM...tasty.
Posted by: James Talarico at September 30, 2026 12:26 PM

I'm not sure you understand what 3M means.

Posted by: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company at September 30, 2026 12:28 PM (bFu5X)

You guys changed your name a few years ago...

Posted by: Beach Boys at September 30, 2026 12:31 PM (l3cgK)

84 Here we go:

"The first woman set to be executed by Tennessee in 200 years has had her planned lethal injection halted just one hour before it was due to take place.

Murderer Christa Pike was given a stay of execution by the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit around 9am CT Wednesday after a judge agreed to consider whether childhood sexual abuse she suffered was taken into account when she was first sentenced. "

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 12:31 PM (MWfyi)

85 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 12:31 PM (o8Bcf)

86 "Women" don't even know their friends on the Left have already thrown them to the wolves. Dummies.

In two or three years it will be even more obvious. And they still won't know. Dummies.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 12:31 PM (x8rTv)

87 >>>MY memory does not operate in that fashion. Maybe because I am just an Idiot?

I mean:

>>>Posted by: Pillage Idiot

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 12:31 PM (1wjle)

88 She may have had "gaps in her memory" when she made her initial statements after the events had just happened.

However, when she takes the stand, I expect her memory (at least two years after the event) will be vastly improved and clear.

MY memory does not operate in that fashion. Maybe because I am just an Idiot?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 12:30 PM

It's a civil sexual assault case against frat boys. Who needs memory?

Posted by: E. Jeanne Carol at September 30, 2026 12:31 PM (bFu5X)

89 I wish young men were advised against having anything to do with situations like this. Go watch some porn. Do not participate in gang sex. Don’t have sex with drunks.

Think of the diseases. Herpes is for life, you know.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 12:32 PM (BVYOm)

90 62 Two chicks at the same time.
Posted by: Lawrence, if he had $1M at September 30, 2026 12:27 PM (TbWk/)

$1000 just outside town. You don't need a million.
Those whorehouses are for sale right now too. I think $33.9 million takes the whole shebang.

Posted by: Reforger at September 30, 2026 12:32 PM (Ae6Br)

91 "the other was so drunk he was dry-heaving."

That happens a lot.

Posted by: Lena at September 30, 2026 12:32 PM (MWfyi)

92 This sounds a lot like that 'mattress girl' roaming around Texas University saying she was raped after she willingly had rough sex with some dude.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:29 PM (ccf/V)
______

Columbia University

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

93 >>>I wish young men were advised against having anything to do with situations like this. Go watch some porn. Do not participate in gang sex. Don’t have sex with drunks.
Think of the diseases. Herpes is for life, you know.

yup.

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 12:33 PM (1wjle)

94 >>>claiming that the frat brothers "drugged" her without her knowledge

I can believe that someone snorted ketamine because they were forced to do so.

I cannot believe that someone snorted ketamine without their own knowledge. Unless they thought they were snorting some other drug, like cocaine for example. If they were looking for a pep me up and got something that knocks them loopy instead.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 30, 2026 12:33 PM (8mulE)

95 >>You'd be surprised. It is a very, very common female fantasy.

Sure.

But in her Fantasy the Fraternity was for Minotaur.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at September 30, 2026 12:33 PM (vNne8)

96 You guys changed your name a few years ago...
Posted by: Beach Boys at September 30, 2026 12:31 PM

I know...you want me to track corporate M&A as well as make stupid jokes?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 12:33 PM (bFu5X)

97 81 It's also unfair that she can "Jane Doe" this whole thing. Who is this girl? I assume there's a lot in her history that shows this behavior wasn't uncommon.

All frat boys know there is always "That Girl" on campus. Always. No exceptions to this rule.

The more the Greek system controls campus partying and social standing, the more "That Girls" there are. Some girls are willing to do anything to get in with the Cool Kids frat.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

The Greek System...sounds gay as hell. Bunch of gay homos.

Posted by: Al Sharpton at September 30, 2026 12:33 PM (l3cgK)

98 RapeEnthusiastsockOFF

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 12:33 PM (vNne8)

99 It could also be as simple as:

-she has this hook up and multiple threesomes. She enjoys it is fine with it.

-she gets out of college and says 'that was my hoe phase' time to find a guy.

-she starts dating a new guy and one of his buddies mention they heard she got really wild back in college (a couple years before.)

-Dude confronts his girl. She can't lie like a psychopath. Relationship blows up.

-She looks forward to a future of 'gal who ran multple trains willingly in the same night' rep following her forever. Because relationship dude is going to go full 'I broke it off because I found out she's a whore.' And tell all his friends who ask.

-now it's rape.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 12:33 PM (Y/06r)

100 the whole shebang.
Posted by: Reforger at September 30, 2026 12:32 PM

Phrasing?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 12:34 PM (bFu5X)

101 >>>So, yes, the mania over this particular case is a good sign that the Dems are in trouble.

interesting take but I do not share your optimism. This is not a sign of any rational choice. They're just maniacs 24/7 and love yelling.

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 12:34 PM (1wjle)

102
Columbia University
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

Oops. My mistake. The rest was accurate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:34 PM (ccf/V)

103 >>>-she gets out of college and says 'that was my hoe phase' time to find a guy.

yeah, probably. "Regret 'rape.'"

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 12:35 PM (1wjle)

104 East Coast Pit Roast.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 30, 2026 12:35 PM (bNf8H)

105 Not really true. The under-30 set is big on 3-somes. Hell, rap and pop stars sing songs about it. What the youngers hear, they want to do.

Isn't that usually MFF and not MMF though?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 12:25 PM (sKqQm)
_________

Both. Sometimes it's not specified (that annoying Katy Perry song).

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/)

106 The coverage I saw of these stories on leftwing sites is:

Innocent woman went to a frat party, raped by 7 men. Misogynist college only punishes the rapists by making them write an essay.
----

Seems easy enough punishment--AI could kick out that essay easy-peasy.

Posted by: Crusader at September 30, 2026 12:35 PM (TN0g+)

107 >> "Regret 'rape.'"

I specifically left that one out of the song.

Posted by: Zombie Sinatra at September 30, 2026 12:35 PM (vNne8)

108 105 Not really true. The under-30 set is big on 3-somes. Hell, rap and pop stars sing songs about it. What the youngers hear, they want to do.

Isn't that usually MFF and not MMF though?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 12:25 PM (sKqQm)
_________

Both. Sometimes it's not specified (that annoying Katy Perry song).

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/)

She has quite a few, doesn't she?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 12:36 PM (l3cgK)

109 Anybody know how to get in touch with her?

Posted by: Madonna at September 30, 2026 12:36 PM (VyD10)

110 Top Five Leftist Mass-Hysteria Classics employed over and over when needed:

1. Cops shoot some ghetto thug.
2. Slutty girl later "realizes" she meant to say "No."
3. Republican politician does the exact same thing a Democrat politician previously did.
4. Fake hate crime usually involving a non-"noose" or a mis-drawn "swastika."
5. Leftist protestor positions self in front of car, gets run over.

Posted by: zombie at September 30, 2026 12:36 PM (Av6i5)

111 "I don't like the whorish choices I made when I was young so I'm going to badger someone in a position of authority into giving me an 'I'm NOT a Slut!' official certification."

Like with Donkey Brains.

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 12:36 PM (1wjle)

112 yup. There's also the continued insistence by Strong and Empowered Feminists that they should be protected from the consequences of their actions as if they were children. But do not patronize them, Patriarchs. They're only helpless children who are not responsible for their own actions when they CHOOSE to be.

It's called Choice, racists. Look it up.
Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 12:31 PM (1wjle)

Schrödinger's Feminism. Simultaneously they are mentally and emotionally superior stronk independent girlbosses doing it for themselves and living their best lives on their terms, and also vulnerable, inexperienced and easily manipulated victims of the patriarchy who have no agency and thus cannot be held responsible for anything they do. Whichever one they bring to the fore depends of course on whether it benefits the girlboss victim in a particular context.

Posted by: Strong independent naive victims at September 30, 2026 12:36 PM (TbWk/)

113 The Frat boys violated the First Rule: Don't put your dick in crazy.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2026 12:37 PM (36x1j)

114 What exactly is ketamine and does it make you incapacitated?

I see ketamine being referenced from time to time online.

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 12:37 PM (Oy/m2)

115 >>>114 What exactly is ketamine and does it make you incapacitated?

I don't know. I think it's some kind of animal tranquilizer?

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 12:38 PM (1wjle)

116 It's also unfair that she can "Jane Doe" this whole thing. Who is this girl? I assume there's a lot in her history that shows this behavior wasn't uncommon.

All frat boys know there is always "That Girl" on campus. Always. No exceptions to this rule.

The more the Greek system controls campus partying and social standing, the more "That Girls" there are. Some girls are willing to do anything to get in with the Cool Kids frat.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

The Greek System...sounds gay as hell. Bunch of gay homos.
Posted by: Al Sharpton at September 30, 2026 12:33 PM (l3cgK)
_____

I never rushed a frat because it's gay and I've always been a lone wolf. I can get my own girls without having to leverage frat membership.

But ... in certain colleges, frats are the only game in town, and if girls want any kind of status or social life, they do whatever they have to do to get in the door.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:38 PM (iFTx/)

117 But because this is a blue state (New York) where everything is gay and stupid

The absence of quality locally-produced picante sauce is more destructive to society than most want to realize.

IYKYK.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 12:38 PM (0sNs1)

118 The Frat boys violated the First Rule: Don't put your dick in crazy.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2026 12:37 PM

I exist for a reason, guys.

Posted by: Rule 1 at September 30, 2026 12:38 PM (bFu5X)

119 > Don’t have sex with drunks.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 12:32 PM (BVYOm)

Yes. At any age.

A while back I was invited to the apartment of a woman in my retirement complex. Things were...progressing...until I got a whiff of her breath.

Drunker than shit.

I got the hell out of there.

I learned later from another resident that she is what they call a "high-functioning alcoholic". Not necessarily visibly drunk, but shitface drunk nonetheless.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:38 PM (qlLNh)

120 It is the Instagram 'cause du jour' at the moment.

And I just don't give a shit. I wasn't there, I don't have first hand knowledge of the facts. Leave me alone. Go harass the authorities in question.

And as ace said, don't get involved with women like this.

Posted by: browndog says woof at September 30, 2026 12:38 PM (oCio0)

121 I think we have to know more about the Zodiac signs of the guys. Were they Geminis?

Posted by: Anne Whitney Ferguson-Lane at September 30, 2026 12:38 PM (fmbc9)

122 >>>I never rushed a frat because it's gay and I've always been a lone wolf. I can get my own girls without having to leverage frat membership.

same for me, except I couldn't get my own girls

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 12:39 PM (1wjle)

123 113 The Frat boys violated the First Rule: Don't put your dick in crazy.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2026 12:37 PM (36x1j)

Yeah, this. But, women have the hot-crazy matrix. Dudes have the young-stupid matrix.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 12:39 PM (Y/06r)

124 THE BLADE BLADES IN AND BLADES A FIRST
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:10 PM

And did The Blade get consent for that, or will he be hearing from the comments section's lawyers?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 12:23 PM (bFu5X)
________

Comments section was high on K and would consent to anything ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

125 That's not a threesome, it's a spit roast.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 12:40 PM (x8rTv)

126 115 >>>114 What exactly is ketamine and does it make you incapacitated?

I don't know. I think it's some kind of animal tranquilizer?

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 12:38 PM (1wjle)

In the right dose, it would be totally incapacitating. K-hole.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 30, 2026 12:40 PM (jBygX)

127 Prosecutors in upstate New York are defending their decision not to bring charges in 2024 after an alleged "gang rape" at a Cornell University fraternity.

-----------

"We will prove in court to an impartial New York jury that Donald J. Trump was in fact an 'honorary' member and leader of that same fraternity at the time -- and will prosecute him for rape."

/AG Tish James

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 12:40 PM (txdT8)

128 Flydubai flight FZ1073 departed Dubai International for Tel Aviv today. About 2.5 hours into the flight, a member of the crew used a knife to stab the pilot and disable flight systems resulting in a rapid descent.

Passengers stormed the cockpit and subdued the attacker. A dentist attended the stabbed pilot. Two other pilots were on board and were able to divert the plane to Saudi Arabia and land safely.

Pictured: a man covered in blood who apparently helped subdue the attacker.

http://tiny.cc/wjcb101

Posted by: bonhomme at September 30, 2026 12:40 PM (mkw2N)

129 >-she gets out of college and says 'that was my hoe phase' time to find a guy.

yeah, probably. "Regret 'rape.'"
Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 12:35 PM (1wjle)

And after 100+ cocks and The Wall rapidly approaching she'll insist "my past doesn't matter" or suddenly get religion and some naive young man will marry her at the pastor's insistence because Jesus has washed away her sins.

Posted by: The herpes and HPV, not so much at September 30, 2026 12:41 PM (TbWk/)

130 Yeah I always thought frats were super gay. NTTAWWT

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 12:41 PM (x8rTv)

131 What exactly is ketamine and does it make you incapacitated? I see ketamine being referenced from time to time online. Posted by: dantesed

From the ever trusted intertubes. "During and shortly after exposure, ketamine temporarily impairs several types of memory. Studies in healthy volunteers show dose-dependent disruptions to working memory (your ability to hold information in mind), episodic memory (recall of specific experiences), and procedural learning (picking up new skills)."

"Picking up new skills." Didn't see that one coming.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at September 30, 2026 12:41 PM (VyD10)

132 Billy Graham was right!

Posted by: Don't Even Get On An Elevator With 'em at September 30, 2026 12:41 PM (Fn+3X)

133 The Frat boys violated the First Rule: Don't put your dick in crazy.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2026 12:37 PM (36x1j)

Yeah, this. But, women have the hot-crazy matrix. Dudes have the young-stupid matrix.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 12:39 PM (Y/06r)
_______

True, but the guys were almost certainly tripping balls themselves. One of my own rules is always "never get so fucked up that you'll do things you'll regret."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:42 PM (iFTx/)

134 never rushed a frat because it's gay and I've always been a lone wolf. I can get my own girls without having to leverage frat membership.

same for me, except I couldn't get my own girls
Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 12:39 PM (1wjle)

*fistbump*

Posted by: It was a sad and lonely time at September 30, 2026 12:42 PM (TbWk/)

135 Can't wait for Dick Wolfe to hear about this and give it his own treatment on Law and Order: SVU...I mean, Law and Order: The Olivia Benson Show.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2026 12:42 PM (oPFtC)

136 Well, yeah, I consented to sex with Chad and LaShawn and DeShawn and Chad, but not with Melvin. Eww.

Posted by: Cornell Fratmattress at September 30, 2026 12:42 PM (VHUov)

137 Posted by: Anne Whitney Ferguson-Lane

You go, girl!

Posted by: Susan Olivia Cuthbertson-Kline at September 30, 2026 12:43 PM (bFu5X)

138 In my youth, I was the sober and thoughtful individual for many guy's nights of heavy drinking and even some guys and gals nights.

I intervened on impending terrible decisions on many occasions. I have two friends that to this day will tell their story of the night when PI saved their life.

Therefore, I don't understand why frats do NOT have a designated sober/wise guy for their biggest parties?

It can't be a new pledge, since the older guys would not submit to his guidance. Maybe a senior and one assistant from each pledge class below him?

Over the years, I have observed several frats be de-certified by their national organization. Sometimes for a single night of bad behaviors.

Yet most frats would never take my advice. 99% of the fun with greatly reduced risk of pledge deaths, criminal charges, civil suits, de-certification, etc., seems like a wise decision to me.

But I choose to live the AOS Moron lifestyle, so terrible decisions baffle me. We have events with lots of guns and lots of booze. However, the rule is always NO booze before guns, and NO guns after you start booze.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 12:43 PM (HlyYF)

139 Afternoon Ace.
Hate to say it but my first thought was that she got out of Cornell with huge loans and couldn't find a high paying job, so the lawsuit looks good
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 12:21 PM (jivel)

Might not have been a student at all. Maybe a local stripper. Or escort. Not a Hooter's gal; they are too classy for that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 12:43 PM (C6xWR)

140 Silly. Next.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 30, 2026 12:43 PM (VQ7/I)

141 True, but the guys were almost certainly tripping balls themselves. One of my own rules is always "never get so fucked up that you'll do things you'll regret."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:42 PM (iFTx/)

It's funny, every time I said that at the beginning of the night, those were the nights I got so fucked up AND did something I regretted. Thankfully, even drunk as hell, I always waved off the drugs. In my mind, there is a bright shiny dividing line between alcohol and drugs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 12:44 PM (Y/06r)

142 Who is this girl?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Apparently her photo is circulating (on Reddit and places like that), and she's reportedly quite the hottie. People are saying "I can see why the boys were lining up to bone her -- sexy as heck."

Posted by: zombie at September 30, 2026 12:44 PM (Av6i5)

143 I need to see pictures of this chick before I pass judgment.

Posted by: Denny Crane - I Shattered my Femur at September 30, 2026 12:44 PM (NoYYJ)

144 Ketamine is an anesthesia.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 12:45 PM (jivel)

145 “Both. Sometimes it's not specified (that annoying Katy Perry song).”

That annoying Katy Perry song is called her catalog.

Posted by: Clay at September 30, 2026 12:45 PM (99VRV)

146 What exactly is ketamine and does it make you incapacitated?

It's what Matthew Perry took before he drowned in a pool, gently slipping below the waves.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 12:45 PM (Riz8t)

147 Some people have a hard time attracting crows.

Posted by: Not Mentioning Any Names at September 30, 2026 12:45 PM (Fn+3X)

148 Apparently, there is some former writer for South Park that has stood up a website that will eventually publish very detailed dossiers on all seven guys.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2026 12:45 PM (J4Dwc)

149 I mean:

>>>Posted by: Pillage Idiot

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 12:31 PM

Truth in advertising is my motto!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 12:46 PM (HlyYF)

150 I intervened on impending terrible decisions on many occasions. I have two friends that to this day will tell their story of the night when PI saved their life.

Good on you. I literally tried to drink myself to death once in college and I was lucky enough to have someone like yourself around.

Posted by: Always have a sober friend around at September 30, 2026 12:46 PM (TbWk/)

151 Don’t have sex with drunks.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 12:32 PM

This is wisdom.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 12:46 PM (bFu5X)

152 > she's reportedly quite the hottie.
Posted by: zombie at September 30, 2026 12:44 PM (Av6i5)

If the picture I saw was accurate, she's pretty damned cute, especially if you have a thing for redheads.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:46 PM (qlLNh)

153 There are plenty of guys who don't have to be drunk to have sex with a drunk stoned girl. No arm twisting needed either.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 12:46 PM (x8rTv)

154 All the News that's Fit to Print

https://tinyurl.com/mrcrvvn7

"Breaking news: A plane flying from Dubai to Israel was diverted after an altercation between the pilot and co-pilot, Israeli officials said."

I'll throw out the first riff:

"After an altercation between President Lincoln and actor John Wilkes Booth, the play Our American Cousin was temporarily suspended.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, thed Housekeeper at September 30, 2026 12:46 PM (xg/DD)

155
same for me, except I couldn't get my own girls

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 12:39 PM (1wjle)

Yes......somehow I'm married for 22 years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:46 PM (ccf/V)

156 If this is the latest chew toy I think the dog is going to be disappointed...

Posted by: Max Power at September 30, 2026 12:46 PM (SwyyQ)

157 Mattress Girl II: Electric Booty Call.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2026 12:47 PM (wWIcc)

158 It's apparently a thing that some feminists defend girls who keep in contact with their "rapists" while demanding complete cutoffs from parents who are Trump voters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 12:47 PM (U/fqy)

159 What exactly is ketamine and does it make you incapacitated?

I don't know. I think it's some kind of animal tranquilizer?

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 12:38 PM (1wjle)
______

That's mostly a myth. Ketamine is a legitimate medical drug for anesthesia, pain management, and depression. It only later became used by vets.

K became very popular in the club circuit (and apparently frats too) because it's a "clean" euphoric high. It puts you in a giddy trance. But as with all drugs, if you take too much it could be very dangerous.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

160 If the picture I saw was accurate, she's pretty damned cute, especially if you have a thing for redheads.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:46 PM (qlLNh)

The fuck? Is someone gonna put me some knowledge here or what

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 12:47 PM (x8rTv)

161 Seems like there is some perjury going on, either now or then.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 12:47 PM (4NO2D)

162 Not drinking the entire time I was at college was one of my better decisions.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2026 12:47 PM (vNne8)

163 Don’t have sex with drunks.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 12:32 PM

Please do not give this advise to my wife.......there's this one drunk that occasionally attempts it with her.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:47 PM (ccf/V)

164 Has Amber Heard chimed in yet?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at September 30, 2026 12:47 PM (VyD10)

165 REPORT:

In a cynical effort to look busy and fool their imbecilic base into thinking they are working for them, the Democrat/communist/Muslim coalition running California out of existence has surpassed itself for producing busy work.

California is putting teenagers as old as 15 through a state-mandated seat-belt fit test—and those who fail it will have to remain in a child restraint such as a booster seat. The new rule takes effect January 1, 2027. It applies to children ages 8 through 15, meaning it reaches right up to a teenager’s 16th birthday. The law stops short of ordering every 15-year-old into a booster. Teenagers who pass all five steps may use an adult belt, while those who miss even one step will need a child restraint. The story exploded across social media Saturday as Californians compared Sacramento’s latest mandate with the state’s much larger public crises.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 12:47 PM (EKMrJ)

166 > The fuck? Is someone gonna put me some knowledge here or what
Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 12:47 PM (x8rTv)

I'm reluctant to share it, in case it turns out not to be her.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:48 PM (qlLNh)

167 *advice. DAMNIT. I hate that mistake.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:48 PM (ccf/V)

168 "I was raped by my husband when he asked for sex, but I wasn't in the mood and said yes anyway."

I was raped by work. I didn't want to go, preferring to stay in bed, but went anyway.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 12:14 PM (Riz8t)

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I'm old enough to remember when the newest & latest rape complaint was merely the male gaze.

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 12:48 PM (txdT8)

169 "I can see why the boys were lining up to bone her -- sexy as heck."

Posted by: zombie at September 30, 2026 12:44 PM (Av6i5)

Again, to get a "line of boys" you mostly only have to be breathing.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 12:48 PM (x8rTv)

170 Has Amber Heard chimed in yet?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at September 30, 2026 12:47 PM (VyD10)

She's to busy leaving a guinea pig on some guy's pillow.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:49 PM (ccf/V)

171 Apparently her photo is circulating (on Reddit and places like that), and she's reportedly quite the hottie. People are saying "I can see why the boys were lining up to bone her -- sexy as heck."
Posted by: zombie at September 30, 2026 12:44 PM (Av6i5)

Which amplifies the problem. She KNOWS she is high value, but she has this story dragging behind her, so she is also toxic to most high value guys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 12:49 PM (Y/06r)

172 *too

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:49 PM (ccf/V)

173 Anita Hill kept in contact with Long Dong...

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2026 12:49 PM (wWIcc)

174 167 *advice. DAMNIT. I hate that mistake.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:48 PM (ccf/V)

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Mistake?

That's such a rookie mistake.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 12:49 PM (U/fqy)

175 You don't have to share the pic just the reddit

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 12:49 PM (x8rTv)

176 -She looks forward to a future of 'gal who ran multple trains willingly in the same night' rep following her forever. Because relationship dude is going to go full 'I broke it off because I found out she's a whore.' And tell all his friends who ask.

-now it's rape.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 12:33 PM

In addition to other bad decisions, she clearly does NOT understand the "Streisand Effect" if you have accurately described her reasoning.

She may be anonymous now, but if it goes to trial I believe it is highly likely she will be identified.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 12:49 PM (HlyYF)

177 The Devil made her DO IT.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 12:24 PM (MWfyi)

We were in James 1 for Bible study this morning. Our own evil desires lead us to be "dragged away and enticed" by temptation.

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at September 30, 2026 12:49 PM (Wt5PA)

178 True, but the guys were almost certainly tripping balls themselves. One of my own rules is always "never get so fucked up that you'll do things you'll regret."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:42 PM (iFTx/)

It's funny, every time I said that at the beginning of the night, those were the nights I got so fucked up AND did something I regretted. Thankfully, even drunk as hell, I always waved off the drugs. In my mind, there is a bright shiny dividing line between alcohol and drugs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 12:44 PM (Y/06r)
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I've done things that the next day I was like "ugh, I wouldn't have done that if I was sober." But luckily, I never had a major "WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO" regret.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:50 PM (iFTx/)

179
If the first threesome was consensual, then the second threesome was Rape-Rape.

-whoopie Goldberg

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 30, 2026 12:50 PM (OkYzo)

180 Which amplifies the problem. She KNOWS she is high value, but she has this story dragging behind her, so she is also toxic to most high value guys.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 12:49 PM (Y/06r)

And likely no one would've known about it until she started screaming rape all over.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:50 PM (ccf/V)

181 In a cynical effort to look busy and fool their imbecilic base into thinking they are working for them, the Democrat/communist/Muslim coalition running California out of existence has surpassed itself for producing busy work.

California is putting teenagers as old as 15 through a state-mandated seat-belt fit test—and those who fail it will have to remain in a child restraint such as a booster seat.

Black women and girls are disproportionately obese. What will they do when the seat belt fit test mandates that black children must all be in booster seats? Isn't that a not so microaggression?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 12:51 PM (Riz8t)

182 But I choose to live the AOS Moron lifestyle

This lifestyle of which you speak. Does it involve shelving construction and crow whispering?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 12:51 PM (0sNs1)

183
That's such a rookie mistake.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 12:49 PM (U/fqy)

I'm new to this whole anonymous posting on the internet thing......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:52 PM (ccf/V)

184 Someone tell the Karens that rapey Tuesday was yesterday.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 12:52 PM (dK+Kv)

185 If there ever was a situation that called for putting a fraternity on double secret probation this is it.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at September 30, 2026 12:52 PM (VyD10)

186 You know, I'm no prude but, the last thing I would want is some other guy's spunk on my dick. It seems definitionally faggy.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 12:52 PM (4NO2D)

187 Someone tell the Karens that rapey Tuesday was yesterday.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 12:52 PM

But today is Rapey Day Ending in Y Day, so it's all good.

Posted by: The River Otters at September 30, 2026 12:53 PM (bFu5X)

188 If there ever was a situation that called for putting a fraternity on double secret probation this is it.

So you're saying someone needs to put his foot down, and that foot is me?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t)

189 She's having problems with her son.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 12:53 PM (RIvkX)

190 If this was a gang rape she would have gone to the police as soon as possible.

A normal woman is not going to not go to somebody if she has just been raped by four or five men or whatever it was.

That she didn’t call the cops means she either couldn’t remember anything, couldn’t decide if it was rape, or liked it and didn’t think it was a big deal until it was.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 12:54 PM (6ydKt)

191 I would never want to be in a threesome that would have me as a participant.

h/t Groucho

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 12:54 PM (Riz8t)

192 In addition to other bad decisions, she clearly does NOT understand the "Streisand Effect" if you have accurately described her reasoning.

She may be anonymous now, but if it goes to trial I believe it is highly likely she will be identified.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 12:49 PM (HlyYF)

BUT this is one of the things that is so toxic about social media: it both pushes gals to get freaky and get it out of their system while at the same time telling them they bear no responsibility for it and to refuse accountability. AND to do everything publicly. So, it is completely unsurprising that she is turning this into an instagram campaign.

Plus, this could also be a case of unintended consequences. She may have meant to do the civil lawsuit in order to neutralize the baggage, and then it blew up. Now she's an even bigger whore and every potential dude will know it. She'll have to settle for dudes like Russell Brand or Bill Maher. Which, note, she might not consider settling.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 12:55 PM (Y/06r)

193 "Don't do drugs ... drugs are Baaaad"

Mr. Garrison

Posted by: illiniwek at September 30, 2026 12:55 PM (vbXSk)

194
A normal woman is not going to not go to somebody if she has just been raped by four or five men or whatever it was.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 12:54 PM

A normal chick isn't going to have an orgy with a bunch of dudes is all I'm going to say about this.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 30, 2026 12:55 PM (q2usZ)

195 Naked , drunk and zonked on ketamine is no way to go through life , son

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 12:55 PM (jivel)

196 K became very popular in the club circuit (and apparently frats too) because it's a "clean" euphoric high. It puts you in a giddy trance. But as with all drugs, if you take too much it could be very dangerous.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

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There was an old "ER" TV episode from the early 00's where a 14-year-old girl is found on The El unconscious -- after apparently being gang-raped by school classmates -- and brought into the ER.

She's discovered to have "Special K" in her blood, and was presumably drugged first.

Of course the twist at the end is that she admits to having willingly taken the drug and engaged in consensual group sex -- and not for the first time.

Still creeps me out all these years later ...

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 12:56 PM (txdT8)

197 This kind of do-over case makes it that much harder on legitimate victims who have some doubt introduced to their accusation. This woman should some pay a price in the legal system.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 30, 2026 12:56 PM (PKL0q)

198 "Don't do drugs ... drugs are Baaaad"

Mr. Garrison
Posted by: illiniwek at September 30, 2026 12:55 PM (vbXSk)
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That was the counselor. Mmkay?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 12:56 PM (RIvkX)

199 I am available as a witness.

Posted by: Christine Blasey Ford at September 30, 2026 12:56 PM (VyD10)

200 If this was rape, why didn't she report it to the city police instead of the campus police?

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 12:56 PM (Oy/m2)

201 The New Republic: Supreme Court Says Trump Can Keep Deporting People to Random Places. Donald Trump can temporarily resume his third-country deportations, at least until the high court hears arguments on the case in December.

the conservative argument seems to be "we shouldnt take them in and if their country of origin doesnt want them either we will ship them off to a 3rd party."

Thats super wrong, morally speaking. Pretty sure thats crime against humanity adjacent.

It is both cruel and unusual. Especially because we're just forever paying those countries to detain them. So it's also financially terrible.

This is going to be controversial but I think if dems take power they should continue this practice. Sure, maybe some republicans in congress might accidentally get deported to Somalia, but sometimes mistakes happen when you’re securing the homeland

So SCOTUS has ok'd trafficking operations. Let's just call it what it is. This is not the America sold to us in schools growing up. I wonder how many people no longer identify as patriotic over the past 10-20 years.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 30, 2026 12:56 PM (t19vo)

202 So you're saying someone needs to put his foot down, and that foot is me?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 12:53 PM

Put Neidermeyer on it. He's a sneaky little shit just like you.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 12:57 PM (bFu5X)

203 I thank Allah that I was in college before smart phones were a thing.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 12:57 PM (f0pGg)

204 198 "Don't do drugs ... drugs are Baaaad"

Mr. Garrison
Posted by: illiniwek at September 30, 2026 12:55 PM (vbXSk)
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That was the counselor. Mmkay?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 12:56 PM (RIvkX)

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Yeah, Mr. Garrison just doesn't trust something that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 12:57 PM (U/fqy)

205 Imagine being the kid who has to climb out of his booster seat in front of everyone in the high-school drop-off line.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 30, 2026 12:57 PM (KVitD)

206 How would you even go about getting Ketamine to use as a 'recreational drug?'

That seems a controlled substance.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:57 PM (ccf/V)

207 201 the conservative argument seems to be "we shouldnt take them in and if their country of origin doesnt want them either we will ship them off to a 3rd party."

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 30, 2026 12:56 PM (t19vo)

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The 3rd party agreed.

And...why doesn't the home country want these people? Because they're too smart and contribute too much to GDP to handle?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 12:58 PM (U/fqy)

208 So according to the left it’s inhumane to send someone to a country that’s not their homeland. But wouldn’t them saying in the US also be inhumane since you know, it’s not their homeland? Plus it’s the most racist place on earth.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 12:58 PM (f0pGg)

209 How would you even go about getting Ketamine to use as a 'recreational drug?'

That seems a controlled substance.

IIRC, Matthew Perry got it from his doctors, who were betting each other on how much he could handle.

Not all MDs are smart.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 12:58 PM (Riz8t)

210 This is an important point:

"The law in New York State is clear that if you are voluntarily intoxicated or under the influence of drugs – such that your judgment is impaired — that does not legally, under the penal law, constitute your inability to consent."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:58 PM (iFTx/)

211 205 Imagine being the kid who has to climb out of his booster seat in front of everyone in the high-school drop-off line.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 30, 2026 12:57 PM

We went from no helmets and metal gym equipment on concrete to this?

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 30, 2026 12:59 PM (q2usZ)

212 This is not the America sold to us in schools growing up.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 30, 2026 12:56 PM

Of this I have no doubt.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 12:59 PM (4NO2D)

213 These guys probably posted the picture somewhere, she saw it, freaked out, called the cops then and then it was gang rape.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 12:59 PM (6ydKt)

214 I hear the train a comin', it's rolling 'round the bend....

Posted by: FULSOM PRISONER at September 30, 2026 12:59 PM (6pJKE)

215 Do they still let kids ride just sitting on the bus seat?

Posted by: Reforger at September 30, 2026 12:59 PM (Ae6Br)

216 212 This is not the America sold to us in schools growing up.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 30, 2026 12:56 PM

Of this I have no doubt.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 12:59 PM (4NO2D)

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They should really read the words of people like Ben Franklin talking about how he doesn't want a mass of French people coming to America to change the country's culture from its British roots.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 01:00 PM (U/fqy)

217 first threesome was consensual, then the second threesome was Rape-Rape.

-whoopie Goldberg

It was a 3some. So it’s rape-rape-rape

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 01:00 PM (f0pGg)

218 As others have noted, there is no situation where a man can make a false allegation about a woman, destroy her life, her family and her career and nothing happens to him when it's later proven false.

But time and time and time and time again any woman, any where at any time for any reason--or no reason--can lie about a man sexually assaulting her--even decades later.
And no matter how false, how malicious, how damaging to him, NOTHING EVER HAPPENS to her.

Because we are suffering under an elderly Gyno-Kakistocracy

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 01:00 PM (3cUTc)

219 Ironically, it's the woman who made it through college retaining her virginity and relative sanity will be labelled the "pick-me girl".

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 30, 2026 01:00 PM (KVitD)

220 Do they still let kids ride just sitting on the bus seat?
Posted by: Reforger at September 30, 2026 12:59 PM (Ae6Br)

The town I graduated HS in just had a bus accident where a child was killed.

There are STILL no seatbelts on school buses for anyone but the driver.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 01:01 PM (ccf/V)

221 206 How would you even go about getting Ketamine to use as a 'recreational drug?'

That seems a controlled substance.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:57 PM (ccf/V)

My vets have used ketamine on my cats when they do procedures on them and all I can say is they were really high and I wouldn't want to take that drug after seeing my cats. My cat did kill a mouse on that drug so she could still hunt but still, she was really high.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 30, 2026 01:01 PM (q2usZ)

222 How would you even go about getting Ketamine to use as a 'recreational drug?'

That seems a controlled substance.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:57 PM (ccf/V)
__________

Controlled but very readily available. Just like pretty much every other illegal drug. If you want it, you will find it.

"We are the people that can find whatever you may need. If you got the money, honey, we got your disease."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 01:01 PM (iFTx/)

223 As regards ketamine:

My son was given ketamine for some stitches after an assault when he was about 8 y.o. So I was observing in the ER the entire time. They also gave him a local (lidocaine?)

He stayed awake and was moderately responsive to the doctor during the entire process. I am sure I could have put out my hand and said, "Walk with me back to the car" and he would have readily complied.

He asked me about his stitches the next day, and said he had zero memory of even going to the hospital.

So (in my experience) ketamine is different from what we usually consider an anesthetic.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 01:01 PM (HlyYF)

224 Speaking of getting f'd

Sex, Spies, And The FOMC: How Beijing Turned A Senior Fed Economist Into Its "Inside Man"

"It turns out they were - at worst - only half wrong: it's just that the foreign power in question wasn't getting the FOMC minutes through the front door, but via a lovesick Fed economist, an online dating site, a set of silk scarves, and a gym-obsessed "Ph.D. student" who, according to US officials, was actually a Chinese intelligence officer."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2026 01:01 PM (nEUC6)

225 "But time and time and time and time again any woman, any where at any time for any reason--or no reason--can lie about a man sexually assaulting her--even decades later. And no matter how false, how malicious, how damaging to him, NOTHING EVER HAPPENS to her."

Disagree. I got my 15 minutes of fame and a footnote in the history books.

Posted by: Christine Blasey Ford at September 30, 2026 01:02 PM (VyD10)

226 How would you even go about getting Ketamine to use as a 'recreational drug?'

That seems a controlled substance.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:57 PM (ccf/V)

You can get just about anything you want controlled or otherwise in about 10 minutes anywhere in America. The world really.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 01:02 PM (f0pGg)

227 That seems a controlled substance.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:57 PM (ccf/V)

I seem to remember a case a few years ago where some anesthesiologist got caught giving less to patients and keeping the extra for himself.

Posted by: Reforger at September 30, 2026 01:02 PM (Ae6Br)

228 My wife says that the people who survived the attempted murder crash have arrived in Tel Aviv and are literally dancing about.

I'll bet.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 01:03 PM (4NO2D)

229
Black women and girls are disproportionately obese.

__________

Non posso. All black people are starving to death after changes to SNAP benefits.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 01:03 PM (eRlcH)

230 Ketamine and alcohol is also known as a Cornell.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at September 30, 2026 01:03 PM (VyD10)

231 the conservative argument seems to be "we shouldnt take them in and if their country of origin doesnt want them either we will ship them off to a 3rd party."

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 30, 2026 12:56 PM (t19vo)

Yes, you’ve got it exactly.
Thank you, sweetheart.

They can save themselves the trouble by not coming here illegally.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 01:03 PM (6ydKt)

232 Is this the E. Jean Carroll defense? Nearly as ridiculous as the Chewbacca defense!

R^pe is cool especially if the individual can file a complaint after the statute of limitations has expired.

Posted by: Unkaren at September 30, 2026 01:04 PM (fMu/S)

233 This is going to be controversial but I think if dems take power they should continue this practice. Sure, maybe some republicans in congress might accidentally get deported to Somalia, but sometimes mistakes happen when you’re securing the homeland

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 30, 2026 12:56 PM (t19vo)

Uhhhh... Do they think US citizens are getting deported? Ilhan might get deported because her citizenship is fraudulent.

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at September 30, 2026 01:04 PM (Wt5PA)

234 231
Yes, you’ve got it exactly.
Thank you, sweetheart.

They can save themselves the trouble by not coming here illegally.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 01:03 PM (6ydKt)

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They can choose to walk to Canada if they're so afraid of being sent to Djibouti.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 01:04 PM (U/fqy)

235 165 REPORT:

In a cynical effort to look busy and fool their imbecilic base into thinking they are working for them, the Democrat/communist/Muslim coalition running California out of existence has surpassed itself for producing busy work.

California is putting teenagers as old as 15 through a state-mandated seat-belt fit test—and those who fail it will have to remain in a child restraint such as a booster seat. The new rule takes effect January 1, 2027. It applies to children ages 8 through 15, meaning it reaches right up to a teenager’s 16th birthday. The law stops short of ordering every 15-year-old into a booster. Teenagers who pass all five steps may use an adult belt, while those who miss even one step will need a child restraint. The story exploded across social media Saturday as Californians compared Sacramento’s latest mandate with the state’s much larger public crises.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 12:47 PM (EKMrJ)

Awkward for a 15 1/2 year old who just got his permit...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:04 PM (l3cgK)

236 Apparently her photo is circulating (on Reddit and places like that), and she's reportedly quite the hottie. People are saying "I can see why the boys were lining up to bone her -- sexy as heck."
Posted by: zombie

Sloppy seconds/thirds/fourths/fifths

Yeah. That’s gotta be super sexy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 01:04 PM (LiD+O)

237
Non posso. All black people are starving to death after changes to SNAP benefits.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 01:03 PM (eRlcH)

I thought Trump was only starving the children.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 01:05 PM (ccf/V)

238 Ketamine and alcohol is also known as a Cornell.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at September 30, 2026 01:03 PM (VyD10)

Where the hoors and the slutty girls range.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 01:05 PM (dK+Kv)

239 234 231
Yes, you’ve got it exactly.
Thank you, sweetheart.

They can save themselves the trouble by not coming here illegally.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 01:03 PM (6ydKt)

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They can choose to walk to Canada if they're so afraid of being sent to Djibouti.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 01:04 PM (U/fqy)

Her Djibouti got those frat guys in trouble...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:05 PM (l3cgK)

240 If you think this situation is a mess wait until you hear "On second thought, I changed my mind" from Bonnie Blue.

Posted by: Minuteman at September 30, 2026 01:05 PM (47/pr)

241 Disagree. I got my 15 minutes of fame and a footnote in the history books.
Posted by: Christine Blasey Ford at September 30, 2026 01:02 PM (VyD10)

And a Coke!

Posted by: Senator Chuck Grassley, gentleman at September 30, 2026 01:06 PM (xg/DD)

242 but via a lovesick Fed economist, an online dating site, a set of silk scarves, and a gym-obsessed "Ph.D. student" who, according to US officials, was actually a Chinese intelligence officer."
____

That's pathetic.
- Rep. Eric Swallwell

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 30, 2026 01:06 PM (KVitD)

243 Is a threesome even legal under common law? I remember when intercourse out of wedlock was seriously frowned upon.

Judgement and influence in these cases should be tossed out.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 30, 2026 01:06 PM (VQ7/I)

244
Sloppy seconds/thirds/fourths/fifths

Yeah. That’s gotta be super sexy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2026 01:04 PM (LiD+O)

There's a strip club in Myrtle Beach called "The Drip."

She seems a fitting candidate for employment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 01:07 PM (ccf/V)

245 Emma Sulkowicz redux...no....wait...Duke lacrosse.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 30, 2026 01:07 PM (XeU6L)

246 182 But I choose to live the AOS Moron lifestyle

This lifestyle of which you speak. Does it involve shelving construction and crow whispering?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 12:51 PM

I recently put up shelves for my youngest daughter at her new college apartment.

I also had a pet crow in my youth.

I don't understand how I did NOT also receive the "handsome devil" upgrade and "sharpshooter" designation when Ace sent me my cardboard-level membership card.

Should I have paid extra for the upgrade?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 01:07 PM (HlyYF)

247 My vets have used ketamine on my cats when they do procedures on them and all I can say is they were really high and I wouldn't want to take that drug after seeing my cats. My cat did kill a mouse on that drug so she could still hunt but still, she was really high.
Posted by: CaliGirl

No Miss, that was Kat-amine. Different stuff.

Posted by: Know-It-Awl at September 30, 2026 01:07 PM (Fn+3X)

248 I have a feeling about this case, I am gonna hold off on commentary for the moment.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:08 PM (nIKjK)

249 They can choose to walk to Canada if they're so afraid of being sent to Djibouti.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 01:04 PM (U/fqy)

To be fair, everybody is afraid of getting stuck in Djibouti.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 01:08 PM (6ydKt)

250 Joseph Wambaugh in The Black Marble: "She didn't know she was raped until the check bounced."

Jane Doe smells money, probably at the behest of some ambulance-chaser who smelt money first.

Posted by: NeighSayer at September 30, 2026 01:09 PM (bufu1)

251 248 I have a feeling about this case, I am gonna hold off on commentary for the moment.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:08 PM (nIKjK)

So not embracing the AOSHQ lifestyle?

Posted by: Reforger at September 30, 2026 01:09 PM (Ae6Br)

252 So.
Jane Doe is a slut.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 01:09 PM (UjdFS)

253 Yeah. That’s gotta be super sexy.

That is just nasty to even consider. I mean bad enough its two dudes, but following up on two previous dudes :/ Not enough jungle juice in the world.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:09 PM (nIKjK)

254

Im cynical enough to know that this is a DNC/WEF ploy for the midterms, just like Lindsay Clancy was.

I mean, come on. The insane droogs needs activating.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at September 30, 2026 01:10 PM (VuTBl)

255 249 They can choose to walk to Canada if they're so afraid of being sent to Djibouti.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 01:04 PM (U/fqy)

To be fair, everybody is afraid of getting stuck in Djibouti.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 01:08 PM (6ydKt)

Shake, Shake, Shake,
Shake, Shake, Shake,
Shake Djibouti!
Shake Djibouti!

Posted by: KC and the Sunshine Band at September 30, 2026 01:10 PM (l3cgK)

256 You know, I'm no prude but, the last thing I would want is some other guy's spunk on my dick. It seems definitionally faggy.

You can avoid that with a spit-roast, which when I was in college many years ago was allegedly a frathouse favorite.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 30, 2026 01:10 PM (2ocoG)

257 Is a threesome even legal under common law? I remember when intercourse out of wedlock was seriously frowned upon.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
---------
The past is a foreign country - Per Petterson

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 30, 2026 01:10 PM (XeU6L)

258 Sheik Djibouti!

Posted by: Zombie Frank Zappa at September 30, 2026 01:10 PM (ccf/V)

259 Title IX was never meant to protect males. This goes back 20yrs ago when the charge of rape first raised her drunken head to get back at college boys.

Accounts then (my boys were in universities in FL) showed a boy expelled in CA. Why? Because a drunk girl texted him in their coed dorm that she wanted sex. Texts should be admissible in court or in Title IX kangaroo court.

Why was he expelled and forced to be on a sex predator list? Because alcohol was involved and "he took advantage of her"...when she initiated it. Making it non-consensual the college ruled.

It mostly started because the next day after their consensual dorm sex she wanted a boyfriend. He said, "nah." She got mad and filed suit with Title IX, who always side with the female.

Imagine having an email from your mother on this subject, telling sons to have a document signed that the girl agreed to sex and notarized. I did this mostly directed to the casanova son vs the one who married his HS sweetheart. I defend males, so bite me.

This current ho was drunk AND on ketamine and liked group sex apparently. Raped (BS) when she consented and texted. Texts should be proof but are not if alcohol is involved in minors.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 01:10 PM (hzuYO)

260 Why is rape even a crime anymore? If a woman can be excused for murdering 3 children because "hormones"...well let me tell ya about hormones, brother. Can't control 'em, just make ya want to fuck any slag that comes along. /sarc

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at September 30, 2026 01:10 PM (Pad3X)

261
Jane Doe is a slut.
Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 01:09 PM (UjdFS)

__________

A strumpet. A dolly-mop. A doxy. A jade.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 01:10 PM (eRlcH)

262 I actually have a request, does anyone here know much about selling a car? I have my brother's 2004 Volvo XC-90, its a turd of an SUV but it looks nice and is great on paper. I am trying to sell it but everyone is passing or super lowballing it (like $100).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:10 PM (nIKjK)

263 Momma, don't let your babies grow up to be dirty slut whores.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 01:11 PM (ccf/V)

264 You can get just about anything you want controlled or otherwise in about 10 minutes anywhere in America. The world really.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

Yeah, but here I am without my quad 50cal mounted Hilux technical.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2026 01:11 PM (nEUC6)

265 f a woman can be excused for murdering 3 children because "hormones"...

Her lawyer is now saying "where's the evidence she did it?" He may not be the worst person alive but he's got to be up in the bottom 1%

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:12 PM (nIKjK)

266 261
Jane Doe is a slut.
Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 01:09 PM (UjdFS)

__________

A strumpet. A dolly-mop. A doxy. A jade.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

A skank. A trollop.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 01:12 PM (yOEUM)

267 I actually have a request, does anyone here know much about selling a car? I have my brother's 2004 Volvo XC-90, its a turd of an SUV but it looks nice and is great on paper. I am trying to sell it but everyone is passing or super lowballing it (like $100).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

List it in a lesbian Redditt forum.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at September 30, 2026 01:12 PM (VyD10)

268 Our indoor contract for only $500 per room solves this problem

Posted by: Flock at September 30, 2026 01:12 PM (xPxza)

269 Yeah, but here I am without my quad 50cal mounted Hilux technical.

Same. *sigh*

Posted by: Ian S. at September 30, 2026 01:12 PM (2ocoG)

270 To be stuck inside Djibouti with the Memphis Blues again....

No, not quite right.

Posted by: Near-Zombie Bob Zimmerman at September 30, 2026 01:12 PM (Fn+3X)

271 California is putting teenagers as old as 15 through a state-mandated seat-belt fit test—and those who fail it will have to remain in a child restraint such as a booster seat. The new rule takes effect January 1, 2027. It applies to children ages 8 through 15, meaning it reaches right up to a teenager’s 16th birthday. The law stops short of ordering every 15-year-old into a booster. Teenagers who pass all five steps may use an adult belt, while those who miss even one step will need a child restraint. The story exploded across social media Saturday as Californians compared Sacramento’s latest mandate with the state’s much larger public crises.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 12:47 PM (EKMrJ)

----------------

Alternative Headline: "Robert Reich banned from driving in Califzuela."

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 01:12 PM (Lrqtb)

272
A trollop.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 01:12 PM (yOEUM)

__________

She needs a wallop.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 01:12 PM (eRlcH)

273 263 Momma, don't let your babies grow up to be dirty slut whores.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 01:11 PM (ccf/V)

Thanks, Mom & Dad...

Posted by: Heidi Ho at September 30, 2026 01:13 PM (l3cgK)

274 War Correspondent
@warDaniel47
🚨 NEW: Hillary Clinton WARNS against the rise of Christianity, says white Christian men are causing "such damage" to the United States
-----

if she's not actually the devil, she'll do til the devil gets here

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 01:13 PM (ZxPkt)

275 "There is one fact that makes this seem like it could have been a rape. Three weeks after the event, she said she consented to the first threeway, but says she did not consent to the second (and whatever other sex she had later), and said she was raped."

Three weeks later? Was this the first time she went to the cops about it? Or did someone else report it, and they were interviewing her?

Big holes in this story in how it first came to the attention of the police.

And also why after two years there's a civil lawsuit, but I assume it's because of potential statue of limitations issues and monetary greed.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 01:13 PM (iFTx/)

276 Yeah, but here I am without my quad 50cal mounted Hilux technical.

I don't go nowhere without my Cherokee Chief

https://youtu.be/L4tyS05yMag

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:13 PM (nIKjK)

277 Her lawyer is now saying "where's the evidence she did it?" He may not be the worst person alive but he's got to be up in the bottom 1%
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:12 PM (nIKjK)

To which they've responded "Her DNA was everywhere......"

This man should be locked up before put in front of a firing squad.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 01:13 PM (ccf/V)

278 When I was at school, we used to sing a song,

'High above Cayuga's waters
There's an awful smell
Some say it's Cayuga's waters
We say it's Cornell'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 30, 2026 01:13 PM (XeU6L)

279 The coverage I saw of these stories on leftwing sites is:

Innocent woman went to a frat party, raped by 7 men. Misogynist college only punishes the rapists by making them write an essay.
Posted by: 18-1
........

What I Did This Summer

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 01:13 PM (UjdFS)

280 Hillary Clinton WARNS against the rise of Christianity, says white Christian men are causing "such damage" to the United States
-----

It's a script.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 01:14 PM (x8rTv)

281 You can get just about anything you want controlled or otherwise in about 10 minutes anywhere in America. The world really.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

Yeah, but here I am without my quad 50cal mounted Hilux technical.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2026 01:11 PM (nEUC6)
________

[Makes "call me" gesture]

-- Sinaloa Cartel

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 01:14 PM (iFTx/)

282 There's a lesson here.... Don't put your dick in crazy...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 01:15 PM (+gK6I)

283 this is one of those "there was this one time, in band camp?" type situations

all involved were dorks

it sucks but it happens. she was ok until the tri delts she was BARELY socially accepted by turned on her over it

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 30, 2026 01:15 PM (j+aD2)

284 Jane Doe is a slut.
Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 01:09 PM (UjdFS)

__________

A strumpet. A dolly-mop. A doxy. A jade.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 01:10 PM (eRlcH)

A trollop. A tart, A harlot, A vamp. A minx.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 01:15 PM (6ydKt)

285 Hillary Clinton WARNS against the rise of Christianity, says white Christian men are causing "such damage" to the United States
-----

Does anyone anywhere give a flying f*ck about anything she says anymore?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 01:15 PM (ccf/V)

286 > I actually have a request, does anyone here know much about selling a car? I have my brother's 2004 Volvo XC-90, its a turd of an SUV
----

turd, huh
is it mechanically sound
does it run
or is it a bucket of bolts POS scrapyard entry

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 01:15 PM (ZxPkt)

287
A trollop. A tart, A harlot, A vamp. A minx.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 01:15 PM (6ydKt)

Minx 0.8 beta hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 01:15 PM (ccf/V)

288 "I'm a guy. I got needs man".

Posted by: Tyrik, Jacking Off In The Teen Section At Target at September 30, 2026 01:16 PM (Fn+3X)

289
Hillary Clinton WARNS against the rise of Christianity, says white Christian men are causing "such damage" to the United States

___________

The Democrats model for the ideal Christian church is the Chinese Patriotic Association.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 01:16 PM (eRlcH)

290 272 A trollop.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 01:12 PM (yOEUM)

__________

She needs a wallop.

you're going to need a bigger wallop.

Posted by: anachronda at September 30, 2026 01:16 PM (v3pYe)

291 I feel like I'm at the Enquirer or the Daily Mail.
Not finished the coffee, going back to read Mannix
maybe this will be gone by then.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 01:16 PM (nqf1u)

292 Does anyone anywhere give a flying f*ck about anything she says anymore?

She's funny to quote to leftist who claim only Republicans claim elections were stolen

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:16 PM (nIKjK)

293 Momma, don't let your babies grow up to be dirty slut whores.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 01:11 PM (ccf/V)

----------------

When describing my arthritic neck, curved spine, and rotated hips from playing 12 years of football as a maniac, I often sing to healthcare providers "Mommas don't let your babies grow up to play football ..."

[And we used to laugh at our friends whose parents wouldn't let them.]

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 01:16 PM (Lrqtb)

294 She needs a wallop.

"a spanking! A spanking!"
--the nuns of castle Anthrax

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:17 PM (nIKjK)

295 You got one job. Keep your daughter off the pole.

Posted by: Chris Rock at September 30, 2026 01:17 PM (yOEUM)

296 A strumpet. A dolly-mop. A doxy. A jade.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

A skank. A trollop.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
......

Sperm Bank

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 01:17 PM (UjdFS)

297 Yeah, but here I am without my quad 50cal mounted Hilux technical.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
-----
I still want an Ontos.

For them who don't know it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M50_Ontos

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 30, 2026 01:18 PM (XeU6L)

298 There's a lesson here.... Don't put your dick in crazy...
Posted by: It's me donna
.......

This should be a rule.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 01:19 PM (UjdFS)

299 I still want an Ontos.

Belt fed American-180

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:19 PM (nIKjK)

300 Is there any more info on that plane of Israeli's that might have been an attempted Hijack ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 01:19 PM (+gK6I)

301 I have it on good authority, Leticia James, that Trump was there, and he raped her and instructed all the young men how to rape her too. It’s all Trump‘s fault.

Posted by: Gonzotx at September 30, 2026 01:20 PM (nGraA)

302 This bullshit would come to an end immediately if law enforcement, DAs, and everyone else just told these crazy whore slags "NO, FUCK OFF." You wait two years, and change your story? No investigation, no lawsuit, no payday, bitch.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at September 30, 2026 01:20 PM (Pad3X)

303 ""Yes. It was coercion, yes," Jane Doe said, according to the transcript. She also said she was "completely and totally incapacitated."

For someone who claims to be "completely and totally incapacitated," she sure seems conscious and cognizant enough to recognize unwanted behavior and wave it off, only to finally say "ok, whatever" and do it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 01:20 PM (iFTx/)

304 296 A strumpet. A dolly-mop. A doxy. A jade.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

A skank. A trollop.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
......

Sperm Bank

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 01:17 PM (UjdFS)

How do you make withdrawals?

Posted by: James Talarico at September 30, 2026 01:20 PM (l3cgK)

305 Maybe her lawsuit will help her fight against every VD on the planet all mixing together to a toxic whoa, Nelly.

Or pay for her future children with a surrogate from the infections.

This is insane.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 30, 2026 01:21 PM (hzuYO)

306
Jane Doe is a slut.
Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 01:09 PM (UjdFS)

__________

A strumpet. A dolly-mop. A doxy. A jade.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

A skank. A trollop.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 01:12 PM (yOEUM)

A slattern.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2026 01:21 PM (y9nCu)

307 Anyone want to take bets on what this gutterslut's relationship with her father looks like?

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 01:21 PM (oqH4h)

308 262 I actually have a request, does anyone here know much about selling a car? I have my brother's 2004 Volvo XC-90, its a turd of an SUV but it looks nice and is great on paper. I am trying to sell it but everyone is passing or super lowballing it (like $100).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:10 PM

Is there a consignment auction place near you?

The guys in my state are really good. They sell farm equipment, cars, etc. Even though the auctions are "no reserve", they seem to get a fair price on about every common item. Of course, they have a LOT of registered buyers.

Does the car still drive safely on its own? My guys even take about 20 pictures and a short video of the car driving.

If the car is NOT operable, the prices I see are higher than the "salvage" price from the local junkyard.

Finally, if you have high income this year, you might benefit more by donating the car to a charity and taking the deduction. Be sure to print an appraisal from Kelly, etc. for your records if you go that route.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 30, 2026 01:21 PM (HlyYF)

309 300 Is there any more info on that plane of Israeli's that might have been an attempted Hijack ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 01:19 PM (+gK6I)

Just an altercation.

Posted by: mfm at September 30, 2026 01:21 PM (Q+gd/)

310 "Sure I did the first drunken three-way with two guys I didn't know but I never agreed to the second one. After all, I'm not a slut."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 01:22 PM (guGkK)

311 Do they still let kids ride just sitting on the bus seat?
Posted by: Reforger

Studies show school buses are too dangerous whether they have seat belts or not.

So we're going to freeze the students in carbonite and ship them to school on a flatbed.

And since attending classes doesn't increase outcomes, we'll just leave them frozen until graduation.

Posted by: California at September 30, 2026 01:22 PM (VHUov)

312
The weather lady on the noon local news has a spectacular battery of cannons in a tight dress.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 01:22 PM (eRlcH)

313 There's a lesson here.... Don't put your dick in crazy...
Posted by: It's me donna
.......

This should be a rule.
Posted by: wth

The first rule.

Posted by: Chris Rock at September 30, 2026 01:22 PM (yOEUM)

314 Is there any more info on that plane of Israeli's that might have been an attempted Hijack ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 01:19 PM (+gK6I)

Just an altercation.
Posted by: mfm at September 30, 2026 01:21 PM

A rumpus.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 01:22 PM (4NO2D)

315 306
Jane Doe is a slut.
Posted by: wth at September 30, 2026 01:09 PM (UjdFS)

__________

A strumpet. A dolly-mop. A doxy. A jade.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

A skank. A trollop.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 01:12 PM (yOEUM)

A slattern.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2026 01:21 PM (y9nCu)

Hussy

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:22 PM (l3cgK)

316 Just an altercation.
Posted by: mfm at September 30, 2026 01:21 PM (Q+gd/)

Bad place for that

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 01:23 PM (+gK6I)

317 A strumpet. A dolly-mop. A doxy. A jade.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

A skank. A trollop.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 01:12 PM (yOEUM)

A slattern.

A round-heeled Rosie?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 01:23 PM (guGkK)

318
How do you make withdrawals?
Posted by: James Talarico at September 30, 2026 01:20 PM (l3cgK)

Look up "felching" in the bank's customer handbook.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2026 01:23 PM (y9nCu)

319 314 Is there any more info on that plane of Israeli's that might have been an attempted Hijack ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 01:19 PM (+gK6I)

Just an altercation.
Posted by: mfm at September 30, 2026 01:21 PM

A rumpus.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 01:22 PM (4NO2D)

Kerfuffle

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:23 PM (l3cgK)

320 A strumpet. A dolly-mop. A doxy. A jade.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

A skank. A trollop.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 01:12 PM (yOEUM)
-------------------
A Hoochie!

Posted by: Abraham J. Simpson at September 30, 2026 01:23 PM (xg/DD)

321 Belt fed American-180
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
-------

Heh. Had to research it. Pretty interesting. The ultimate form:

"It was mounted on a large tripod, with a rate of fire from 3,000 to 12,000 rounds per minute."

My emphasis.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 30, 2026 01:23 PM (XeU6L)

322
Just an altercation.
Posted by: mfm at September 30, 2026 01:21 PM

A rumpus.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 01:22 PM (4NO2D)

Kerfuffle
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:23 PM (l3cgK)

_________

A tiff

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 01:24 PM (eRlcH)

323 The weather lady on the noon local news has a spectacular battery of cannons in a tight dress.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Put those puppies on display for the evening news or at 10. More eyeballs, better ratings.

Posted by: Chris Rock at September 30, 2026 01:24 PM (yOEUM)

324 Can we talk about the graphic at the top? I thought it was the sun from Kellogg's Raisin Bran, and then I read the words and they were more suitable for Kaboom!.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 30, 2026 01:24 PM (2ocoG)

325 Cases like this make me glad that the local frats seem to be adopting cigars as their intoxicant of choice.

I hope that it's as a substitute for drunken parties, not in addition to.

Last I knew, pre-gaming (getting drunk before a party) was best-practices for the party girls who were still under the drinking age. Despite that, we haven't had a lawsuit about some drunk co-ed falling off the frat fire escape in at least 10 years.

Used to be it happened about every four.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 30, 2026 01:25 PM (vJrRc)

326 Off sock

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 01:25 PM (yOEUM)

327 324 Can we talk about the graphic at the top? I thought it was the sun from Kellogg's Raisin Bran, and then I read the words and they were more suitable for Kaboom!.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 30, 2026 01:24 PM (2ocoG)

Yeah...how my ass feels after 4 hours of running to the toilet very early this morn...still dunno what I ate to elicit that response...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:25 PM (l3cgK)

328 Does the car still drive safely on its own? My guys even take about 20 pictures and a short video of the car driving.

Yeah it drives well, had a lot of work done on it, newish tires (4 years). I mean you'd think a twin turbo all wheel drive Volvo would be more desired, but it is pretty old.

It was mounted on a large tripod, with a rate of fire from 3,000 to 12,000 rounds per minute.

Its onlyl .22 but the thing is just insane. It was originally designed for crowd control LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:26 PM (nIKjK)

329 Innocent woman went to a frat party, raped by 7 men. Misogynist college only punishes the rapists by making them write an essay.
Posted by: 18-1

~~What~~ Who I Did This Summer
Posted by: wth

FIFY.

Posted by: mikeski at September 30, 2026 01:26 PM (VHUov)

330 233 Uhhhh... Do they think US citizens are getting deported? Ilhan might get deported because her citizenship is fraudulent.

republicans can't be president because the constitutional says natural born citizen and there's nothing natural about republicans.

Posted by: soon at September 30, 2026 01:26 PM (v3pYe)

331 330 233 Uhhhh... Do they think US citizens are getting deported? Ilhan might get deported because her citizenship is fraudulent.

republicans can't be president because the constitutional says natural born citizen and there's nothing natural about republicans.

Posted by: soon at September 30, 2026 01:26 PM (v3pYe)

C-section kiddies can't be president...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:27 PM (l3cgK)

332 327 Yeah...how my ass feels after 4 hours of running to the toilet very early this morn...still dunno what I ate to elicit that response...

*whistles innocently*

Posted by: taco bell at September 30, 2026 01:27 PM (v3pYe)

333 Its onlyl .22 but the thing is just insane. It was originally designed for crowd control LOL
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Yes, I noted 'The A180 was adopted by the Utah Department of Corrections to arm prison guards.'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 30, 2026 01:27 PM (XeU6L)

334 1. Get drunk

2. Take drugs

3. Be a skank with multiple partners in one night

And as a result, you've developed into someone who can't handle responsibility because you're too self-destructive. Therefore, you can't make money at honest work, and nobody will marry you.

So your only financial option left is to make bank on being a victim.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at September 30, 2026 01:28 PM (GD2xa)

335 332 327 Yeah...how my ass feels after 4 hours of running to the toilet very early this morn...still dunno what I ate to elicit that response...

*whistles innocently*

Posted by: taco bell at September 30, 2026 01:27 PM (v3pYe)

I did NOT eat Taco Hell...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 01:28 PM (l3cgK)

336 I have my brother's 2004 Volvo XC-90, its a turd of an SUV but it looks nice and is great on paper

I've had good luck painting "For Sale" and the price on the back window, and driving the the car around town.

Shows that it runs at least.

Same thing for selling TVs at yard sales: hook that puppy up and play videos on it.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 30, 2026 01:28 PM (vJrRc)

337 Its onlyl .22 but the thing is just insane. It was originally designed for crowd control LOL

That would certainly liven up any Antifa or No Kings protest.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 30, 2026 01:29 PM (2ocoG)

338 Nood terrorists

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 30, 2026 01:29 PM (vJrRc)

339 Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic. It came into widespread medical use during the Vietnam Unpleasantness.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at September 30, 2026 01:30 PM (X3rKN)

340
The weather lady on the noon local news has a spectacular battery of cannons in a tight dress.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Put those puppies on display for the evening news or at 10. More eyeballs, better ratings.
Posted by: Chris Rock at September 30, 2026 01:24 PM (yOEUM)

As Teh Ewok once put it in a post, "sweater mischief".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2026 01:31 PM (y9nCu)

341 BTW, it's clear that this thing has been picked up as a mid-term stir-up-the-liberal-white-women operation by the borg. On instagram I kept getting "suggested for you" posts in my feed - way more than usual - and all were some version of "Cornell 7 . . . all men are complicit . . . patriarchy and rape culture . . ." Like every third post in my feed. I follow saltwater fishing accounts, models, and right wing political accounts so these would not be natural algorithmic suggestions. Some then made the link between Cornell 7 (two black dudes, two hispanic dudes, an Asian and three whites - one black guy was afro-hispanic) at a super left wing campus and . . . . drum roll . . . Trump.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at September 30, 2026 01:36 PM (ssz2a)

342 Add - what are the chances that Jane Doe's story got MORE accurate after two years time and consultation with a civil personal injury attorney preparing a lawsuit against deep-pocketed defendants?

Posted by: Alec Leamas at September 30, 2026 01:37 PM (ssz2a)

343 Look up "felching" in the bank's customer handbook.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2026 01:23 PM

I wish I didn't know what that meant.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 01:38 PM (0sNs1)

344 341 Some then made the link between Cornell 7 (two black dudes, two hispanic dudes, an Asian and three whites - one black guy was afro-hispanic) at a super left wing campus and . . . . drum roll . . . Trump.

if you average their skin color, it's orange.

Posted by: anachronda at September 30, 2026 01:40 PM (v3pYe)

345 I actually have a request, does anyone here know much about selling a car? I have my brother's 2004 Volvo XC-90, its a turd of an SUV but it looks nice and is great on paper. I am trying to sell it but everyone is passing or super lowballing it (like $100).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2026 01:10 PM (nIKjK)

If it's a real turd, and unsaleable, donate it for tax write-off.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 01:41 PM (C6xWR)

346 Nympho.

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2026 02:00 PM (LHPAg)

347 I am late to this but I thought you could not legally give consent when you are drunk

Posted by: anon2020 at September 30, 2026 02:04 PM (RqMDa)

348 Ketamine is known to produce hallucinations.
Nothing this woman says about that night can be accepted, be it "good" (I enjoyed some sex) or "bad" (I was raped).
It may have been terrible sex and she imagined multiple Os, or it could have been a porn fantasy come true. She may have been forcibly raped, or she could have tucked her feet under her on the couch and sat on her shoe wrong and imagined forcible entry.
NOTHING she says can be taken as true.
This is why the cops, who have to worry about a legally solid case, didn't charge anyone.
The university admin, OTOH, can operate under the leftist rules -white men bad - and merrily proceed to try to ruin some guys lives.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 30, 2026 02:08 PM (iYF/u)

349 The only way to get convictions here is to hand pick a biased jury. Anyone else cannot convict a rape charge out of this woman’s testimony. When the acquittals come, the outrage machine will go into hyperdrive. The law is what they say it is, nothing more or less.

On the other hand, I have seen speculation that the text messages between the guys may open conspiracy charges. That is only speculation at this point, and my entirely IANAL take is you cannot prove conspiracy to commit rape if you cannot prove rape.

Posted by: Advo at September 30, 2026 02:29 PM (jO4mz)

350 The guys were fucked up too. If it's illegal to have sex with someone who's intoxicated, can they sue her?

Posted by: BenMSYS at September 30, 2026 03:52 PM (vR93T)

351 Men - Don't stick it in crazy.

Posted by: rj at September 30, 2026 06:07 PM (3W56t)

Wednesday Morning Rant

Betting the Business

The AI mania continues to impress, not just due to specific mind-boggling decisions but the wider market environment. There is no shortage of madness in either, and they can help to explain each other. My favorite recent example involves the Japanese investment firm SoftBank and its pet company, OpenAI. SoftBank has gone all-in on AI, and OpenAI receives much of its investment. SoftBank has invested heavily in OpenAI and its Stargate Project, which aims to invest half a trillion dollars over a few years.

And SoftBank is not just blowing smoke. The money is actually involved, and not a small amount of it. There has been one story in the SoftBank/OpenAI financing saga that has been unfolding over the past few months, and it - and the market's response to it - has been fascinating. Back in March, SoftBank announced that it had secured short-term financing to the tune of $40 billion to dump into its AI investments, with OpenAI getting 75% of that. It went onto SoftBank's corporate card, but as anyone who has ever financed a big-ticket item with a credit card knows, that's a bad way to do it.

And it became immediately clear that the lenders were balking over risks as SoftBank worked to refinance the debt. Just a couple of months later in June, investment analysts noticed that SoftBank is really exposed to AI, to the point that the investment firm is, in some ways, becoming a proxy for OpenAI itself, just with compound leverage. As it was put in the CNBC article:

... "Buying SoftBank is partly a leveraged bet on OpenAI," he said. "If OpenAI does well, leverage is great. But if OpenAI and other investments do poorly, the leverage will hurt SoftBank."

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold the phones. You mean that leverage amplifies both upside and downside?! The hell you say! This is as deep as sports commentary. "The team that puts up the most points will win the game, analysts say."

SoftBank isn't done. It has until next year to pay off that $40 billion credit card, and they have a plan for that:

SoftBank has said that borrowing would likely be repaid "through the utilization of existing assets and other financing measures."

In other words, it will try to borrow more favorably to pay off the credit card with a longer-term loan. It tried that in July, wanting to borrow ~$10 billion against its holdings in OpenAI, but couldn't get the terms it wanted because, get this, OpenAI is impossible to underwrite as it doesn't trade publicly and there's no way to recover value from it if there's a problem. If SoftBank can't pay, the lenders get nothing but non-liquid and possibly worthless shares in OpenAI - so lenders balked.

Flash forward another couple of months, and we arrive at last week. SoftBank has floated the largest non-financial bond offering in the region's history, offering an ~$11 billion bond, with $10 billion of it earmarked for paying off OpenAI-related financing. The company can't issue investment-grade debt (SoftBank is rated BB+, which is junk territory, and that is also where these bonds landed), already has a lot of debt (about $123 billion in net debt, though assets technically exceed that unless things unexpectedly go down in value...), about 1/3 of its value is a pure AI play (its holdings in OpenAI) and another third of its value is in a chip company (ARM) that is also riding high on the AI wave. Talk about exposure!

That's a great example of how speculative bubbles can evolve in one large company, but it gets better. After announcing this new bond the response to it was astonishing:

Shares of SoftBank Group jumped more than 7% on Thursday, as Japanese markets opened for the first time this week following a three-day holiday and the technology investor announced an $11.1 billion bond issuance to help fund its growing bet on OpenAI.

Borrowing stable money to pay off the credit card was good for a 7% pop in its share value. That is a mania, and it's everywhere. SoftBank serves merely as an example, because it isn't alone. It's going to be ugly when it blows.

But SoftBank is sure that this time, it won't blow. As its CEO Masayoshi Son put it:

... in a recent interview with CNBC [he], defended SoftBank's aggressive push into AI, calling the technology revolution "50x bigger" than the dot-com boom and arguing that any future correction in AI-related stocks would represent a buying opportunity rather than a structural threat.

50 times bigger? Let's hope not. And Son needs to hope that the "buying opportunity" doesn't work out like it did for Cisco Systems, which took 25 years to get back to the same nominal market cap it had at the height of the dot-com bubble.

A mania is no time to be wrong...

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

Comments

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:00 AM (ccf/V)

2 No crows. Not art.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:00 AM (ccf/V)

3 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 11:00 AM (bFu5X)

4 A mania is no time to be wrong...

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

The helll you say!

- Dutch tulip investors

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 11:01 AM (bFu5X)

5 Guess nobody remembers the "tech bubble"?

There will be an AI bubble. At some point.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 11:02 AM (RORbl)

6 *cross-eyed*

Financials, man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:02 AM (U/fqy)

7 The AI mania continues to impress, not just due to specific mind-boggling decisions but the wider market environment.

I keep making money on chip manufacturers, so I'm not looking a gift stock in the mouth but, it sure feels bubblish.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 11:03 AM (4NO2D)

8 It's not AI, it's SI - Super Intelligence. Moose out front shoulda told ya.

Posted by: Roy at September 30, 2026 11:03 AM (qwype)

9 AI is programmed by leftists and H1-B holders.

There's not a lot of I in AI......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:04 AM (ccf/V)

10 The WNBA is the Jerry Springer Show of "pro" leagues.

Posted by: Vagitarian Fake Gangster at September 30, 2026 11:05 AM (guCKp)

11 I have little direct experience with AI other than enhanced web searching, but my son says that he is using it extensively in his programming, so I guess it has value.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 11:05 AM (4NO2D)

12 Musk will corner the market on AI as well.......He owns the EV market, the Space market and will own AI.

The dude is becoming a Bond Villain.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:05 AM (ccf/V)

13 I remember when Surfer Crosses were the hot item.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 30, 2026 11:05 AM (KGj36)

14 Should I be worried? Nahhhh, it'll be fine.

Anthropic IPO Prospectus Reveals $8 Billion Operating Loss

Anthropic posted a roughly $42 billion net loss in 2025 as soaring computing costs and a massive accounting charge overwhelmed rapid revenue growth ahead of the artificial intelligence company’s planned initial public offering.

The Claude maker generated about $4.6 billion in revenue during 2025, up roughly twelvefold from the prior year, while its operating loss widened to $8.06 billion, according to its confidential IPO prospectus reviewed by Reuters.

https://tinyurl.com/mr4kuxy4

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

15 The WNBA is the Jerry Springer Show of "pro" leagues.
Posted by: Vagitarian Fake Gangster at September 30, 2026 11:05 AM (guCKp)

It's good to see Clark pulled her head out of her ass and Indiana won yesterday........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:06 AM (ccf/V)

16 MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 11:06 AM (N1DT3)

17 >>I remember when Surfer Crosses were the hot item.

I had one.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2026 11:07 AM (J4Dwc)

18 I have little direct experience with AI other than enhanced web searching, but my son says that he is using it extensively in his programming, so I guess it has value.

The question isn't really if it's useful, it's whether people will be willing to pay enough to make it profitable. So far, the tea leaves don't look good.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

19 Somewhere is a warehouse filled with fidget spinners the investors would be happy to sell.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 30, 2026 11:07 AM (gm9Sb)

20 Hopefully the AI cash cow will continue to grow and grow until it goes pop! and I get to see lots of jap AI and bank execs doing swan dives off of the soon to be empty in 2029 Torch Tower.

Posted by: Brother Can You Spare A Yen? at September 30, 2026 11:07 AM (w+jhU)

21 It's good to see Clark pulled her head out of her ass and Indiana won yesterday........

Oh, do we hate her now too? Why?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

22 In honor of Joe Mannix (not a cop).......

https://shorturl.fm/PGZgo

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:08 AM (ccf/V)

23 I don't get the logic... Lot of hysteria saying we need to slow down AI because it's gonna kill us all so lets let China get ahead of us and.... Kill us all ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 11:08 AM (+gK6I)

24
Oh, do we hate her now too? Why?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

No....she just Amber Heard in game 1 and they lost bigly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:08 AM (ccf/V)

25 A mania is no time to be wrong...

Posted by: Joe Mannix

No way, i just can't/won't believe it!
~Nortel

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 11:08 AM (NnhvP)

26 I think the time to have invested in AI is long past.

A couple years ago, when the AI bois were just starting out and entry was, well, speculative at best, would have yielded some banger bucks.

Assuming you could eat the short term capitol gains.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 11:08 AM (RORbl)

27 I don't get the logic... Lot of hysteria saying we need to slow down AI because it's gonna kill us all so lets let China get ahead of us and.... Kill us all ?

Yup. It's like destroying your economy over climate change (are you listening, Europe?) while doing nothing about China and its overwhelming fraction of global emissions.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:09 AM (Riz8t)

28 I just heard the chocolate ration has been increased!

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2026 11:10 AM (jdlda)

29 Continuing the stuff about Huckabee from the previous thread, I have been clear that the only female "R" with a cat in hell's chance of ever being President is actually Tulsi. I doubt it would ever happen but she definitely has something. I don't think she's one of us though. Wish she was.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 11:10 AM (x8rTv)

30 Betting that huge on a new technology is NEVER a good idea.

Even if it eventually does make money, in its infancy you're going to lose if you've leveraged yourself.

You think it's a great investment? Invest money you can spare into it. Don't invest so much that you're going to fail if it even meets a delay in production.

Imagine leveraging all your wealth on cars in 1900. YES, that's a great, long-term investment. But you're not getting huge returns even within a few years. Invest for the long term, not on gambling-style payouts in the short term.

(Who is running SoftBank!?!?)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 11:10 AM (N1DT3)

31 28 I just heard the chocolate ration has been increased!

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2026 11:10 AM (jdlda)

=====

From 25g to 20g!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:10 AM (U/fqy)

32 I just heard the chocolate ration has been increased!
Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2026 11:10 AM

Nice.

*downs a shot of Victory Gin*

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 11:11 AM (4NO2D)

33 I think the time to have invested in AI is long past.

Agree. You can probably still make some bucks, but when the inevitable bubble pop occurs, it will take down the rest of the economy with it. Good thing the Dems would never try to take advantage of that.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

34 From 25g to 20g!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:10 AM (U/fqy)

Liberal math

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 11:11 AM (+gK6I)

35 Some of this post looks suspiciously like math.

Posted by: far cry at September 30, 2026 11:11 AM (LSV6F)

36 23 I don't get the logic... Lot of hysteria saying we need to slow down AI because it's gonna kill us all so lets let China get ahead of us and.... Kill us all ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 11:08 AM (+gK6I)
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The sudden hair-on-fire "we have to slow down!" hysteria from two weeks ago was the most obvious Op in the history of Obvious Ops.

Trump did the right thing and came out forcefully against putting the brakes on.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 11:11 AM (oqH4h)

37
I've grown tired of the hype pro and contra. My guess is: neither as good as we hope, nor as bad as we fear.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 11:12 AM (eRlcH)

38 Speaking of AI, I just finished up building out my multi-agent set-up, M4 Max 64gb is going to be doing the heavy lifting, an i9 with a 16gb nvidia card and an i7 with an rtx 6gb card makes a great home lab LLM environment.

It's coupled with a Proxmox hyperviser hosting my gitea LXC git repo so basically I can develop internally and have all work product locally, because as the saying goes, what do you call your stuff in the clouds?

Not your stuff.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 11:12 AM (Lm2uZ)

39 When nothing like the advertised potential is achieved and the bill comes due, we'll get AI TARP.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 30, 2026 11:13 AM (jBygX)

40 Imagine leveraging all your wealth on cars in 1900. YES, that's a great, long-term investment. But you're not getting huge returns even within a few years. Invest for the long term, not on gambling-style payouts in the short term.

I have no idea what you mean.

Posted by: US railroads in the late 1800s at September 30, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

41 Lights a Victory cigarette. Blows smoke ring.

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2026 11:13 AM (jdlda)

42 I've grown tired of the hype pro and contra. My guess is: neither as good as we hope, nor as bad as we fear.

This is almost always the smart bet.

Posted by: US railroads in the late 1800s at September 30, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)

43 Callback to previous thread.

Dialogue between Spencer Pratt and a dude named Stafford who is a Rand Paul consultant.
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"
Spencer Pratt
@spencerpratt
·
48m
You work for a republican in like the reddest state in the country. Talk about starting on 3rd base and thinking you hit a triple. How'd your Presidential campaign turn out, by the way?

I'm just a dad. I ran for mayor as a republican in communist LA and singlehandedly boosted turnout over 30% from the prior election.

When I say most consultants suck, without ever naming you...but you take it personally and throw a public hissy fit, you may not realize what you're confessing...

Quote
Doug Stafford
@dougstafford
·
3h
Dude entered politics on third base, thinks he hit a triple, and never mentions he didn’t score.

Maybe win a race before you talk about winners and losers?"

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 11:14 AM (E4rtv)

44 I've grown tired of the hype pro and contra.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Yeah, so have I. AI is sucking all the air out of the room.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

45 > .... because as the saying goes, what do you call your stuff in the clouds?
--------
Stuff on someone else's computer.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 11:14 AM (RORbl)

46 Speaking of AI, I just finished up building out my multi-agent set-up, M4 Max 64gb is going to be doing the heavy lifting, an i9 with a 16gb nvidia card and an i7 with an rtx 6gb card makes a great home lab LLM environment.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Wow, I understood almost none of that. We've got some serious tech geeks on this site.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 11:16 AM (77rzZ)

47 You work for a republican in like the reddest state in the country. Talk about starting on 3rd base and thinking you hit a triple. How'd your Presidential campaign turn out, by the way?

Do I understand this correctly? Someone is saying CA is the reddest state in the country?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

48 I think the time to have invested in AI is long past.

Better late than never, but I need to sell these tulips first...

Posted by: t-bird at September 30, 2026 11:16 AM (jnBG1)

49 The question isn't really if it's useful, it's whether people will be willing to pay enough to make it profitable. So far, the tea leaves don't look good.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

Amazon gave MASSIVE discounts to entice people into their digital assistant, Alexa, thinking that they would lock the network effects early and would figure out how to monetize it later.

... They still haven't really figured out that monetizing part. (Last I checked they had lost $25B, and that was 2 years ago.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 11:16 AM (N1DT3)

50 47 You work for a republican in like the reddest state in the country. Talk about starting on 3rd base and thinking you hit a triple. How'd your Presidential campaign turn out, by the way?

Do I understand this correctly? Someone is saying CA is the reddest state in the country?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

=======

That was Pratt talking to the Rand Paul consultant.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:16 AM (U/fqy)

51 Better late than never, but I need to sell these tulips first...
Posted by: t-bird

Can I interest you in a Cabbage Patch Kid?

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 11:17 AM (77rzZ)

52 WNBA is crazy. Serenity Now!

Posted by: Lloyd Braun at September 30, 2026 11:17 AM (guCKp)

53 52 WNBA is crazy. Serenity Now!

Posted by: Lloyd Braun at September 30, 2026 11:17 AM (guCKp)

=====

Serenity now, insanity later.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:18 AM (U/fqy)

54
This is almost always the smart bet.
Posted by: US railroads in the late 1800s at September 30, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)

__________

AI is the nearest equivalent I can think of to railroads in the later 19th century. Inflated promises, wild speculation, corruption up the ying-yang, mass bankruptcies. But in the end an economic asset of enormous value. Severely screwed up by government regulation, but profitable once freed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 11:19 AM (eRlcH)

55 And yes, most GOP political consultants suck because they are typically to the left of the GOP which is why quite a few of them defect to the Dems over time.

Same as GOP corporate donor class and most state party apparatus. Brain dead dinosaurs stuck in the Bush and Reagan years while the country has changed all around them and soused in the hothouse higher ed institutions that have rotted the military higher ups, churches, etc.

Margaret Thatcher found the same thing in the Tory party in the 1970's--effete manage the decline losers that were all too ready to throw those below them to the sharks. And lousy political consultants. She went to Saatchi and Saatchi too with great results.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 11:19 AM (E4rtv)

56 Are we sure Joe Mannix is a real columnist and not AI Slop?

Posted by: Skeptical In NC at September 30, 2026 11:19 AM (Fn+3X)

57 Original quote.
"Guys, I hate to break it to you, but most political advisors are so bafflingly incompetent, it would make your head spin. All the talented communicators go work in Hollywood or at Saatchi and Saatchi, and these political bros never tap these agencies for help...I've connected several campaigns with literally the best marketing geniuses in the game, got them discounted rates, even...and they just never even bothered calling. It truly feels like a lot of consultants and candidates just want to lose.

You ever wonder how my ads went so massively viral, but there's not been a single candidate who's come close to it? It's their dumbass advisors. I didn't go with any political advisors, and they were SO mad about it. I partnered with a filmmaker and marketing wizard, instead of political grifters. Why? Because I wanted our messaging to be effective. Political ads suck. Nobody watches them. I wanted people to want to watch my ads. The fact that nobody else understands this is...I honestly don't know how to explain it, other than they want to lose.

There are a bunch of candidates who love it when their party loses power. It takes all the heat off them......

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 11:19 AM (E4rtv)

58
Do I understand this correctly? Someone is saying CA is the reddest state in the country?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

No. Rand Paul's state is.

The guy works for Paul. Pratt is giving him shit for thinking he's something in the political world because he works for a guy that can't lose in his state.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:20 AM (ccf/V)

59 It's coupled with a Proxmox hyperviser hosting my gitea LXC git repo so basically I can develop internally and have all work product locally, because as the saying goes, what do you call your stuff in the clouds?

Not your stuff.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 11:12 AM (Lm2uZ)

How do you like Proxmox? I work at a SMB and Broadcom is killing us with VMware licensing.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 30, 2026 11:20 AM (N39Ws)

60 Sounds like a very elaborate pump-and-dump scheme to me

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

61 AI is programmed by leftists and H1-B holders.

There's not a lot of I in AI......
Posted by: Sponge

"Allo, theese is Steeeve. Can I do the needful for you today?"

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 11:21 AM (ktgTW)

62 @46

>>Wow, I understood almost none of that. We've got some serious tech geeks on this site.

Well, I've been into computing since the 70's and am a Broadcast Systems Integration PM, so if I wasn't into geeky stuff that would be strange.

And the basic jist is I have a 3 workstations setup each will have an LLM agent doing specific tasks.

The biggest challenge was installing the 10Gbe fiber backbone throughout the house.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 11:21 AM (Lm2uZ)

63 52 WNBA is crazy. Serenity Now!
Posted by: Lloyd Braun at September 30, 2026 11:17 AM (guCKp)
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Saw that CC went off with 27 points, 15 assists. She probably said FU to coaches game plan and said "I'm sick of your incompetence, I'm taking over".

Posted by: WisRich at September 30, 2026 11:21 AM (G0vdT)

64 60 Sounds like a very elaborate pump-and-dump scheme to me

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:21 AM (U/fqy)

65 AI is the nearest equivalent I can think of to railroads in the later 19th century. Inflated promises, wild speculation, corruption up the ying-yang, mass bankruptcies. But in the end an economic asset of enormous value. Severely screwed up by government regulation, but profitable once freed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Fiber optic was the thing in the early 00's to a much lesser extent. A lot of that cable laid was dark until suddenly streaming of video became a thing. Too late to save Lucent or some other telecom companies involved in the business but others built on what they started.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 11:21 AM (E4rtv)

66 "Allo, theese is Steeeve. Can I do the needful for you today?"
Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 11:21 AM

"Also, your home warranty is about to expire."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 11:22 AM (bFu5X)

67 Better late than never, but I need to sell these tulips first...
Posted by: t-bird

Can I interest you in a Cabbage Patch Kid?
Posted by: Bulg

Perhaps you'd like to look over my collection of Franklin Mint items.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 11:22 AM (ktgTW)

68 AI is everywhere in my world.

It's affecting everything.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 11:22 AM (RIvkX)

69 It’s been estimated that oil flows in the Middle East have returned to pre war levels. They may even exceed them.

There is no mismatch between production and consumption, unless you’re China who by the way, largely runs their country on coal.

Refineries are handling the current flow BAU.

Commodities traders are driving up the price of WTI again today.

Let that sink in.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 30, 2026 11:22 AM (jN2NR)

70 50 times bigger? Let's hope not.

--------------

50x larger than the dot-com boom means a 50x larger collapse when the bubble bursts.

Long tulips ...

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 11:23 AM (Lrqtb)

71 Saw that CC went off with 27 points, 15 assists. She probably said FU to coaches game plan and said "I'm sick of your incompetence, I'm taking over".
Posted by: WisRich at September 30, 2026 11:21 AM (G0vdT)

Her and a teammate scored 57......Sophie Cunningham didn't do much.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:23 AM (ccf/V)

72 >>And yes, most GOP political consultants suck because they are typically to the left of the GOP which is why quite a few of them defect to the Dems over time.

THIS

Ana Navarro?
Nicole Wallace?
Steve Schmidt?

Once they entered the MSM it's become clear how radical they are, and how much they've hated the voters they were hired to woo.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 11:23 AM (rOKnE)

73 @59,

>>How do you like Proxmox? I work at a SMB and Broadcom is killing us with VMware licensing.

I love Proxmox, it's dead simple to administer and rollout vm's and containers, if you add a Pulse instance you get even better management.

Most people are going the Proxmox route now that VMWare has begun to enshitify.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 11:23 AM (Lm2uZ)

74 Can I interest you in a Cabbage Patch Kid?
Posted by: Bulg

My lucrative retirement jet-setter lifestyle is completely funded by my Beanie Baby investments.

Posted by: Scoff At Your Own Peril at September 30, 2026 11:23 AM (Fn+3X)

75
"Also, your home warranty is about to expire."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 11:22 AM (bFu5X)

"Are there bees behind me?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:23 AM (ccf/V)

76 Speaking of AI, I just finished up building out my multi-agent set-up, M4 Max 64gb is going to be doing the heavy lifting, an i9 with a 16gb nvidia card and an i7 with an rtx 6gb card makes a great home lab LLM environment.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Wow, I understood almost none of that. We've got some serious tech geeks on this site.
Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 11:16 AM (77rzZ)
________

I can translate that for you:

"I'm still a virgin"

The Blade is always here to help.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

77 Do I understand this correctly? Someone is saying CA is the reddest state in the country?
Posted by: Archimedes
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Gray box limits affect clarity but Spencer was running his race in LA while Doug Stafford works for Rand Paul and his dismal presidential campaign in 2024.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 11:24 AM (E4rtv)

78 "Are there bees behind me?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:23 AM

I don't get it.

(seriously, put me some knowledge, here)

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 11:24 AM (bFu5X)

79 >>Better late than never, but I need to sell these tulips first...

>>Can I interest you in a Cabbage Patch Kid?
Posted by: Bulg

>>Perhaps you'd like to look over my collection of Franklin Mint items.
- - -

Don't even THINK about telling me to sell my precious Beanie Babies!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 11:24 AM (rOKnE)

80 No. Rand Paul's state is.

The guy works for Paul. Pratt is giving him shit for thinking he's something in the political world because he works for a guy that can't lose in his state.

Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:24 AM (Riz8t)

81 Close tags ftw.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 11:25 AM (bFu5X)

82 81 Close tags ftw.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 11:25 AM (bFu5X)

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Never use tags for the win.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:25 AM (U/fqy)

83 All I know is that my holding in $MU is about to pay off my mortgage with a lot to spare.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 11:25 AM (oqH4h)

84
Actually, the worst thing that happened to the railroads was the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 11:25 AM (eRlcH)

85 I don't get it.

(seriously, put me some knowledge, here)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 11:24 AM (bFu5X)

It was in an American Home Shield commercial. The little trollish woman was reading a glass ball telling someone's future when some guy's bees escaped.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:26 AM (ccf/V)

86 You should see the Pixy thread...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 11:26 AM (RIvkX)

87
Never use tags for the win.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:25 AM (U/fqy)

Boring. NO sense of adventure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:26 AM (ccf/V)

88 At least you could eat tulip bulbs...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 11:26 AM (C6xWR)

89 It was in an American Home Shield commercial. The little trollish woman was reading a glass ball telling someone's future when some guy's bees escaped.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:26 AM

*fistbump*

Thanks.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 11:27 AM (bFu5X)

90 87
Never use tags for the win.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:25 AM (U/fqy)

Boring. NO sense of adventure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:26 AM (ccf/V)

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Tags are empty spectacle distracting us from the meaningful meat of argument.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:27 AM (U/fqy)

91
Tags are empty spectacle distracting us from the meaningful meat of argument.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:27 AM (U/fqy)

Ace farts in your general direction.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:28 AM (ccf/V)

92 Boring. NO sense of adventure.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:26 AM

I've been in The Barrel. There is no adventure in The Barrel.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 11:28 AM (bFu5X)

93 Somewhere is a warehouse filled with fidget spinners the investors would be happy to sell.
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The attention span of grown adults is alarming. I've sat in business meetings where people are continuously flipping a pen from top to bottom, bottom to top, while another is squeezing some block of moldable plastic. Jeez, can't anyone sit for 30 minutes without some sort of toy in front of them?

Posted by: Crusader at September 30, 2026 11:28 AM (TN0g+)

94
91
Tags are empty spectacle distracting us from the meaningful meat of argument.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:27 AM (U/fqy)

Ace farts in your general direction.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:28 AM (ccf/V)

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Same as ever!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:28 AM (U/fqy)

95 I really don't know enough about AI data centers to set all my hair on fire either way. However, I am leery of any additional mass data storage and processing that's tied to all our computer usage. The panopticon is already fucking out of control, and we're just adding more eyes of Sauron. We're hurtling headlong into a Beholder-Sauron hybrid that we will never be rid of. Financially the irrationality and insane amounts of money being dumped into it screams "bubble" to me though.

There is also the little fact that AI is being forced down our throats without us ever having asked for it. Before long you won't be able to buy a computer or smartphone, or use any ISP or web browser without it. Personally I think this a tying violation of antitrust statutes but I'm just a jackass on the internet.

Posted by: No sir, I don't like it. at September 30, 2026 11:29 AM (TbWk/)

96 The attention span of grown adults is alarming. I've sat in business meetings where people are continuously flipping a pen from top to bottom, bottom to top, while another is squeezing some block of moldable plastic. Jeez, can't anyone sit for 30 minutes without some sort of toy in front of them?
Posted by: Crusader at September 30, 2026 11:28 AM (TN0g+)

They can't sit at a stoplight without checking their Facebook status and holding up traffic when the light turns green......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:29 AM (ccf/V)

97 Heh, how is it reality star Spencer Prat has more clear-eyed assessments on politics than the (alleged) pros?

Oh yeah, he was in entertainment, where one had to learn to brand oneself and consistently please the audience to succeed.

Meanwhile, our GOP class has hated its audience (voters) and sold the same lame brand for decades -- and then gets pissy that we aren't loyal and grateful for their efforts.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 11:30 AM (rOKnE)

98 When the AI players started asking for government regulation, that didn't compute for me. Then I realize what they really want is government protection....of their investments.

To Big to Fail ring a bell.

Posted by: WisRich at September 30, 2026 11:30 AM (G0vdT)

99 88 At least you could eat tulip bulbs...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

That may be, but lay off the daffodil bulbs. They are poisonous to humans and to animals of all stripes.

Posted by: Jonquil Jones at September 30, 2026 11:30 AM (Fn+3X)

100 Another Hollywood nepo takes the tube. Not normally news. But it was a girl and only 13. That's unusual. I don't think it's been confirmed a suicide, but the parents posting about suicide prevention is a big tell.

https://tinyurl.com/3unm6as2

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

101 We all know that leftists assume the positions they do in order to virtue signal, but this guy encapsulates it really well, as it applies to the new push to ban AI. If you aren't moping, you're an uneducated rube.

many have noticed that there is a certain amount of depression chic in left-wing circles. If you aren't a gloomy pessimist about capitalism, democracy, the environment, racial reckoning, etc. then you probably don't care enough about the world...
If you aren't feeling those effects then you are probably not paying attention. Unfortunately, many of our undereducated electorate are doing just that - not paying attention, not reading up on policy decisions, not following the details...or the money.

https://tinyurl.com/bzyfm8k6

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

102 Can I interest you in a Cabbage Patch Kid?
Posted by: Bulg

My lucrative retirement jet-setter lifestyle is completely funded by my Beanie Baby investments.
----

Any interest in buying a few unopened boxes of 1991 Leaf Baseball cards?

Posted by: Crusader at September 30, 2026 11:30 AM (TN0g+)

103 Tags are empty spectacle distracting us from the meaningful meat of argument.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:27 AM (U/fqy)

Or... they provide wonderful emphasis. For example:

Prometheus sucks!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 11:30 AM (ExV1e)

104
There is also the little fact that AI is being forced down our throats without us ever having asked for it. Before long you won't be able to buy a computer or smartphone, or use any ISP or web browser without it. Personally I think this a tying violation of antitrust statutes but I'm just a jackass on the internet.

Posted by: No sir, I don't like it. at September 30, 2026 11:29 AM (TbWk/)

Microsoft has been pushing for decades for you not owning a PC, only having a terminal that gives you access to Microsoft's systems and data storage.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:30 AM (ccf/V)

105 98 When the AI players started asking for government regulation, that didn't compute for me. Then I realize what they really want is government protection....of their investments.

To Big to Fail ring a bell.

Posted by: WisRich at September 30, 2026 11:30 AM (G0vdT)

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Regulatory capture is a tale as old as time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:31 AM (U/fqy)

106 I watched The Death of Stalin last night. Pretty much a flat movie. I expected something moar.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 30, 2026 11:31 AM (KGj36)

107 At CNN: "Nearly 40 kilograms of cocaine held by Fiji court replaced with flour"

Reporters add that three Fijian judges have been hospitalized so far with flour-related rhinosinusitis.

Posted by: gp at September 30, 2026 11:31 AM (Jr5Lq)

108 I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:21 AM (U/fqy)

I do.

Posted by: Paolo at September 30, 2026 11:31 AM (x8rTv)

109 What is poison for raccoons?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 11:31 AM (RIvkX)

110 Boring. NO sense of adventure.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:26 AM

I've been in The Barrel. There is no adventure in The Barrel.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 11:28 AM (bFu5X)

The sentient bioluminescent fungus is pretty cool.

Posted by: Putting the love in Lovecraftian at September 30, 2026 11:31 AM (TbWk/)

111 I watched The Death of Stalin last night. Pretty much a flat movie. I expected something moar.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 30, 2026 11:31 AM

I mean, they did kind of give away the ending in the title.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 11:32 AM (bFu5X)

112 Once they entered the MSM it's become clear how radical they are, and how much they've hated the voters they were hired to woo.
Posted by: Lizzy
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Way back when, Ace had complimentary things to say about Liz Muir. She worked for the Walker prezzie campaign in 2016. She later turned on the GOP and its voters over gay gay gay issues. Problem in a microcosm.

Anyone that has worked around political campaigns and voters will quickly find out that many voters simply don't know much at all about politics, policy, and reality beyond their bubble. So they conclude the masses are asses and believe themselves to be of a higher order of thinking. Same tendency in a lot of political science as well in studying voting behavior.

Instead, better to think of most voters as trying to tell you something but they lack the vocabulary and being articulate enough to name and describe their ills. It takes patience and listening intently to find out what problems are but that takes too long in most cases for pols and their conceited political staffs to consider. So voters have outcome preferences but not policy preferences until a politician tries to connect the two via ads.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 11:32 AM (E4rtv)

113
I mean, they did kind of give away the ending in the title.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 11:32 AM (bFu5X)

The ultimate spoiler.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:32 AM (ccf/V)

114 Boring. NO sense of adventure.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:26 AM (ccf/V)

That's why I keep the close tags in my signature.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 11:32 AM (N1DT3)

115
I watched The Death of Stalin last night. Pretty much a flat movie. I expected something moar.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 30, 2026 11:31 AM (KGj36)

_________

I enjoyed it, but the dialogue consisted of so much crosstalk that it was difficult to make out what was being said.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 11:32 AM (eRlcH)

116 112 Way back when, Ace had complimentary things to say about Liz Muir. She worked for the Walker prezzie campaign in 2016. She later turned on the GOP and its voters over gay gay gay issues. Problem in a microcosm.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 11:32 AM (E4rtv)

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That campaign was an out and out disaster.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:32 AM (U/fqy)

117 >>Another Hollywood nepo takes the tube. Not normally news. But it was a girl and only 13. That's unusual. I don't think it's been confirmed a suicide, but the parents posting about suicide prevention is a big tell.

Ugh, so young. Sad.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 11:32 AM (rOKnE)

118 I really don't know enough about AI data centers to set all my hair on fire either way.

This is NOT the AOSHQ way. Comment hysterically first, think later.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

119 106 I watched The Death of Stalin last night. Pretty much a flat movie. I expected something moar.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Because Politics is the Theater of the Absurd.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 11:33 AM (E4rtv)

120 Way back when, Ace had complimentary things to say about Liz Muir. She worked for the Walker prezzie campaign in 2016. She later turned on the GOP and its voters over gay gay gay issues. Problem in a microcosm.

This, too, is the story of AtC.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:33 AM (ccf/V)

121 The attention span of grown adults is alarming. I've sat in business meetings where people are continuously flipping a pen from top to bottom, bottom to top, while another is squeezing some block of moldable plastic. Jeez, can't anyone sit for 30 minutes without some sort of toy in front of them?
Posted by: Crusader

At one of the companies I worked at, there was a board meeting where three top executives of the company were doodling.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

122 Another Hollywood nepo takes the tube. Not normally news. But it was a girl and only 13. That's unusual. I don't think it's been confirmed a suicide, but the parents posting about suicide prevention is a big tell.

Ugh, so young. Sad.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 11:32 AM (rOKnE)
______

I suspect there's more to this story ...

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

123
That's why I keep the close tags in my signature.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 11:32 AM (N1DT3)

Which makes it look funny when your comment makes the right sidebar on the main page.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:33 AM (ccf/V)

124 >>Microsoft has been pushing for decades for you not owning a PC, only having a terminal that gives you access to Microsoft's systems and data storage.

Returning to the mainframe-terminal model that they spent a couple of decades destroying. SMH.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 30, 2026 11:34 AM (NcvvS)

125 So voters have outcome preferences but not policy preferences

That's a great way to put it.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:34 AM (Riz8t)

126 >>That campaign was an out and out disaster.

Right?

Walker had been so strong on immigration control as governor and then flipped. He admitted his biggest donor told him he had to be pro-immigration.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 11:34 AM (rOKnE)

127 Rachael Dretch is the American Home Shield lady. One of unfunny SNL alums.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 11:34 AM (yOEUM)

128 Saw that CC went off with 27 points, 15 assists. She probably said FU to coaches game plan and said "I'm sick of your incompetence, I'm taking over".
Posted by: WisRich at September 30, 2026 11:21 AM (G0vdT)

Her and a teammate scored 57......Sophie Cunningham didn't do much.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:23 AM (ccf/V)

The WNBA. So fucking exciting......NOT!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 30, 2026 11:34 AM (g8Ew8)

129 "I've sat in business meetings where people are ..."

... wasting time and money, as with 99% of business 'meetings.'

Posted by: gp at September 30, 2026 11:34 AM (Jr5Lq)

130 I watched The Death of Stalin last night. Pretty much a flat movie. I expected something moar.

--

I felt the same way! For all the accolades it's gotten, I was kinda bored. I did have one small laugh, I admit, when Stalin fell to the ground and all the other officials stood there staring at him not knowing what to do or say.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2026 11:35 AM (qBdHI)

131
Instead, better to think of most voters as trying to tell you something but they lack the vocabulary and being articulate enough to name and describe their ills.

__________

Sam Rayburn told his staff to pay particular attention to any letter written in pencil on ruled paper.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 11:35 AM (eRlcH)

132 126 >>That campaign was an out and out disaster.

Right?

Walker had been so strong on immigration control as governor and then flipped. He admitted his biggest donor told him he had to be pro-immigration.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 11:34 AM (rOKnE)

======

Governors have no power over immigration and can say anything.

Presidents have complete authority over immigration, and suddenly donors give a shit about those words.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:35 AM (U/fqy)

133 Walker had been so strong on immigration control as governor and then flipped. He admitted his biggest donor told him he had to be pro-immigration.

The fact that he did it says he was unsuitable anyway.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:35 AM (Riz8t)

134 >>Returning to the mainframe-terminal model that they spent a couple of decades destroying. SMH.

"You will own nothing, have no privacy, and love it!!"

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 11:35 AM (rOKnE)

135
Returning to the mainframe-terminal model that they spent a couple of decades destroying. SMH.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 30, 2026 11:34 AM (NcvvS)

They became part of the "all your data are belong to us" crowd like Google and Oracle.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:35 AM (ccf/V)

136 >>The fact that he did it says he was unsuitable anyway.

Bingo

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 11:35 AM (rOKnE)

137
Governors have no power over immigration and can say anything.

Presidents have complete authority over immigration, and suddenly donors give a shit about those words.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:35 AM (U/fqy)

WRONG!!!!

Posted by: Lord God King Boasberg at September 30, 2026 11:36 AM (ccf/V)

138 The WNBA. So fucking exciting......NOT!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 30, 2026 11:34 AM (g8Ew

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I watch the X highlights. I tried watching games a couple of times and gave up each time after 10 minutes.

Posted by: WisRich at September 30, 2026 11:37 AM (G0vdT)

139 Hitler, Stalin, and Mao are sitting in a pool of lava in Hell.

They start a lengthy argument about which of them is the worst person of all time.

Each has his points, but none of them can agree.

Finally Mao says "This isn't going anywhere. I'll go ask Satan himself."

He comes back in a little while, looks at the other two, and says "Who the fuck is this Anthony Fauci asshole?"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 11:37 AM (qlLNh)

140 I watched The Death of Stalin last night. Pretty much a flat movie. I expected something moar.

-----------------

I'm expecting the sequel -- The Death of Biden -- to be even flatter.

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 11:38 AM (Lrqtb)

141 Office 365 was their big push for centralization. You can't open an app without it checking with Microsoft's licensing servers.

If they have issues, you can't open any Office app until they resolve it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:38 AM (ccf/V)

142 139 Hitler, Stalin, and Mao are sitting in a pool of lava in Hell.

They start a lengthy argument about which of them is the worst person of all time.

Each has his points, but none of them can agree.

Finally Mao says "This isn't going anywhere. I'll go ask Satan himself."

He comes back in a little while, looks at the other two, and says "Who the fuck is this Anthony Fauci asshole?"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 11:37 AM (qlLNh)

=======

*Todd jumps into the lava pool in a canonball*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:38 AM (U/fqy)

143 I watch the X highlights. I tried watching games a couple of times and gave up each time after 10 minutes.
Posted by: WisRich at September 30, 2026 11:37 AM (G0vdT)

There's a reason it loses money.

They aren't very good.

Most high school games have fewer misses/bricks/airballs.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 11:38 AM (N1DT3)

144 When the AI players started asking for government regulation, that didn't compute for me. Then I realize what they really want is government protection....of their investments.

To Big to Fail ring a bell.
Posted by: WisRich at September 30, 2026 11:30 AM (G0vdT)

Regulatory capture is a time-honored and heavily-storied tradition among big business. Industry regulation is designed to create massive barriers ro entry. Any trickle-down benefit to the consumer is coincidental.

Posted by: A tale as old as governments at September 30, 2026 11:38 AM (TbWk/)

145 I don't even know what the tags here are about. Alls I know is that I carry scissors to snip off the tags when I shoplift.

Posted by: Savvy Consumer at September 30, 2026 11:38 AM (Fn+3X)

146 There's a reason it loses money.

They aren't very good.

Most high school games have fewer misses/bricks/airballs.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 11:38 AM (N1DT3)

(BOYS high school games)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 11:38 AM (N1DT3)

147 I watched Minecraft Movie. It was lame and gay. What's with casting almost all fat people? Weird.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:39 AM (iFTx/)

148 Morning.

Can AI brew a perfect cup of coffee?

Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2026 11:39 AM (dpXJq)

149
I watch the X highlights. I tried watching games a couple of times and gave up each time after 10 minutes.
Posted by: WisRich at September 30, 2026 11:37 AM (G0vdT)

I open my sports app and check the score and stat line, usually only for Indiana.....sometimes Atlanta to see how bad Angel Reese Amber Heard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:39 AM (ccf/V)

150 Another Hollywood nepo takes the tube. Not normally news. But it was a girl and only 13. That's unusual. I don't think it's been confirmed a suicide, but the parents posting about suicide prevention is a big tell.

https://tinyurl.com/3unm6as2
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

Funny. I have no idea who the parents are. Shame about the kid.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 11:39 AM (C6xWR)

151 >>The WNBA. So fucking exciting......NOT!

Almost all the press about it is the teen mean girl antics and clash of personalities drama. It is the perfect example of how men and women are different.

Don't think the WNBA understands just how repellent it is.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 11:39 AM (rOKnE)

152 I watched Minecraft Movie. It was lame and gay. What's with casting almost all fat people? Weird.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:39 AM (iFTx/)

I will see no movie with Jack Black in it, even if it's free.

F*ck that guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:39 AM (ccf/V)

153 Hitler, Stalin, and Mao are sitting in a pool of lava in Hell.

They start a lengthy argument about which of them is the worst person of all time.

Each has his points, but none of them can agree.

Finally Mao says "This isn't going anywhere. I'll go ask Satan himself."

He comes back in a little while, looks at the other two, and says "Who the fuck is this Anthony Fauci asshole?"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 11:37 AM (qlLNh)

It's ok. They all lose to Mohammed, piss be upon him.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2026 11:40 AM (N1DT3)

154 Another Hollywood nepo takes the tube. Not normally news. But it was a girl and only 13. That's unusual. I don't think it's been confirmed a suicide, but the parents posting about suicide prevention is a big tell.

--

I read a few things about it being a suicide possibly resulting from bullying of some kind. No idea though.

Apparently, Chad Lowe has some kind of podcast(?) where he's talked about having daughters and he now understands just how hard it is -- what with the patriarchy n'all* -- for women. How tough they have it in America. I just rolled my eyes. The Victimhood will never die.

*he didn't specifically cite the patriarchy, but his comments were pretty clear that's what he meant

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2026 11:40 AM (qBdHI)

155 The common man on the street knows what the media has told him about politics.

That is the problem.

The media. They are the propaganda arm of the left. They identify with the likes of the radical socialists and weirdos and amplify their reach. Not so much because they identify with them as it because they hate you and the current administration. Yes, they do identify with them, to a point. But they hate you more.

The black-pilled don't seem to get this.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 11:40 AM (RORbl)

156 "They aren't very good."

Hence their publicity stunts that keep the buzz going, and us talking about them at least once every week.

Posted by: gp at September 30, 2026 11:40 AM (Jr5Lq)

157
Funny. I have no idea who the parents are. Shame about the kid.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 11:39 AM (C6xWR)

The dad is Rob Lowe's brother.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:40 AM (ccf/V)

158 Another Hollywood nepo takes the tube. Not normally news. But it was a girl and only 13. That's unusual. I don't think it's been confirmed a suicide, but the parents posting about suicide prevention is a big tell.

https://tinyurl.com/3unm6as2
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

Funny. I have no idea who the parents are. Shame about the kid.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 11:39 AM (C6xWR)
_____

Remember 80s heartthrob Rob Lowe? This is his lesser-known brother.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:40 AM (iFTx/)

159 Office 365 was their big push for centralization. You can't open an app without it checking with Microsoft's licensing servers.

If they have issues, you can't open any Office app until they resolve it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:38 AM (ccf/V)

SaaS is the devil. Or at least one of the princes of hell.

Posted by: Enshittification unchained at September 30, 2026 11:40 AM (TbWk/)

160 I'm expecting the sequel -- The Death of Biden -- to be even flatter.
Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 11:38 AM

Rude!

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at September 30, 2026 11:40 AM (bFu5X)

161 Thx Joe.
As I recall SoftBank took a beating on the WeWork fiasco. They aren't wizards

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 11:40 AM (jivel)

162 That campaign was an out and out disaster.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Donors compelled Scott Walker to debase himself and his politics over open borders. And you find this shit going on at the state and local level--whale donors make sure those state organizations follow the script and you get an iron triangle--donors, state/local party personnel, and the campaign apparatus of finance, law, and messaging. A candidate that refuses to hire the profferred campaign leeches that the state/local party demands, gets no donor money, no help or even active recruitment of other candidates to run against you in a primary (often entering at the last minute, etc.), and that the campaign staff you 'hired' actually work for the donors that are paying them through the campaign donations.

This is GOPe--it doesn't service candidates but rather donor interests. And a lot of that special interest money at the local level are real estate developers, at the state level, are the state's Chamber of Commerce members. And it produces Bush Republicans where genteel graft and reach arounds to all collaborate in gaining generational wealth for themselves is at play. Vile people.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 11:41 AM (E4rtv)

163 Using AI has increased my productivity at work yuuugely and bigly. I just tell Claude what needs to be done and it’s done. It still kinda blows my mind some times.

There is back and forth and I always get very specific with instructions and map out backup plans, test scenarios etc. Even with that the time it takes me to do things has been cut by at least 50% if not more.

It’s not just Google despite what a lot of people say.

It annoys me that the CCP propaganda against AI has been so good. You have 70% of Americans who are more than happy to destroy OpenAI and Anthropic and let China dominate the field. All it took was a few bots on X and TikTok to make this happen, ironically enough all run by AI.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 11:41 AM (f0pGg)

164 The WNBA should've embraced the dildo-tossing thing.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

165 I'm expecting the sequel -- The Death of Biden -- to be even flatter.
Posted by: ShainS

Look Fat, I'll be showering with nubile tweens long after you're gone!

Posted by: Loofah Joe! at September 30, 2026 11:41 AM (Fn+3X)

166 Air cable ftw.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 11:41 AM (yOEUM)

167
SaaS is the devil. Or at least one of the princes of hell.
Posted by: Enshittification unchained at September 30, 2026 11:40 AM (TbWk/)

Sharing a handbasket ride with IoT.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:41 AM (ccf/V)

168 I watched Minecraft Movie. It was lame and gay. What's with casting almost all fat people? Weird.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:39 AM (iFTx/)

"My name...*super long pause*... is Steeeeeeeve!!!!!"

Yeah, that's two hours of your life you're never getting back, my dude.

I watched the new Arrow Video restoration of Excalibur last night. WOWOW!!!!!! Awesome. Highly highly HIGHLY recommended!

Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2026 11:41 AM (dpXJq)

169 "They aren't very good."

Hence their publicity stunts that keep the buzz going, and us talking about them at least once every week.

They could double game attendance if Sophie Cunningham would strip down at halftime.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

170 They became part of the "all your data are belong to us" crowd like Google and Oracle.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:35 AM (ccf/V)

---------------

I recently received my share -- a $37.42 Zelle deposit -- from the $115 million Oracle data privacy class action settlement (Katz-Lacabe et al. v. Oracle America, Inc.).

I wonder how much the lawyers got? /rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 11:42 AM (Lrqtb)

171 I will see no movie with Jack Black in it, even if it's free.

F*ck that guy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:39 AM

Come on, his performance in The Jackal was great.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 11:42 AM (bFu5X)

172 Microsoft has been pushing for decades for you not owning a PC, only having a terminal that gives you access to Microsoft's systems and data storage.

Returning to the mainframe-terminal model that they spent a couple of decades destroying. SMH.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 30, 2026 11:34 AM (NcvvS)

Which is why this machine runs Linux.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 11:42 AM (C6xWR)

173 138 The WNBA. So fucking exciting......NOT!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 30, 2026 11:34 AM (g8Ew
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I watch the X highlights. I tried watching games a couple of times and gave up each time after 10 minutes.
Posted by: WisRich at September 30, 2026 11:37 AM (G0vdT)

Isn't it a bit of an oxymoron when a bunch of lesbians want to play with balls?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 30, 2026 11:42 AM (N39Ws)

174 I watched Minecraft Movie. It was lame and gay. What's with casting almost all fat people? Weird.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:39 AM (iFTx/)

I will see no movie with Jack Black in it, even if it's free.

F*ck that guy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:39 AM (ccf/V)
______

He's obese now and will probably die young. The fat, manic thing doesn't work long term.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

175 He's obese now and will probably die young. The fat, manic thing doesn't work long term.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Correct.

Posted by: Zombie Chris Farley at September 30, 2026 11:43 AM (yOEUM)

176 Sam Rayburn told his staff to pay particular attention to any letter written in pencil on ruled paper.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
=========
Speaker Sam was one of a kind. Never heard that story but thanks. He was still legendary enough in DC when I was there decades later that he had a lot of stories floating around about him.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 11:44 AM (E4rtv)

177 He's obese now and will probably die young. The fat, manic thing doesn't work long term.

You don't say.

Posted by: Chris Farley at September 30, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

178 Isn't there an anecdote-story about some small town where everyone owes someone else and no one can pay anyone because they're all out of cash. Then some guy wanders in for a night at the motel and that cash goes all over town squaring everyone.

There's an AI joke about getting an ad onto the wanderers cel phone somewhere in the Cloud.

Posted by: DaveA at September 30, 2026 11:44 AM (FhXTo)

179 I have little direct experience with AI other than enhanced web searching, but my son says that he is using it extensively in his programming, so I guess it has value.

I have five other members on the development team. Either they don't use AI or don't know how to use it correctly.

Based on raw productivity metrics, I am producing at least 10x more than the other five combined.

OTOH, received word from those who are paying for the AI tokens, and they are concerned about the token burn against a finite pool for the entire department. So who knows?

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 11:44 AM (xE0sV)

180 The WNBA should've embraced the dildo-tossing thing.
Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 11:41 AM (77rzZ)
______

Seriously, they could have capitalized on that by getting in on the joke and starting some kind of pre-game ritual to get the dozen fans involved. Not throwing dildoes, but something.

Instead, they reacted to what was a dumb but harmless prank with all the anger, hostility, and hysteria that people expect from bitter man-hating lesbians.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

181 In the near future, AI is going to tell a woman she's wrong... and that, my friends, will be the end of AI.

Posted by: grass monkey at September 30, 2026 11:46 AM (eP4XR)

182 Guess nobody remembers the "tech bubble"?

There will be an AI bubble. At some point.

Sure, but it's not as if the dot-com boom was completely fake. Indeed, almost everything is a dot-com now in the sense that a business without a web presence is practically not a real business. Even mom-and-pop shops need to be on Facebook at a minimum so they can be found. What was fake was the expectation that a web presence WAS the business in and of itself. AI is similar in that it's being touted as the end product instead of as a tool to serve needs.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 30, 2026 11:46 AM (vTZFs)

183 "my son says that he is using it extensively in his programming, so I guess it has value."

For coding, it's great. For that, it's a more competent colleague than any human I ever worked with.

Posted by: gp at September 30, 2026 11:46 AM (Jr5Lq)

184 Remember 80s heartthrob Rob Lowe? This is his lesser-known brother.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:40 AM (iFTx/)

Oh, he said.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 11:46 AM (C6xWR)

185 My son lives next to a GOPe mover and shaker in GA who has had TDS from the very start. Cut from the treasonous Ratshitburger mold. He never had a Trump sign on his lawn. One election, the only sign on his lawn was for water commisioner, and he supported the Dem Sheriff candidate, because the Republican guy was a bit MAGA.

Posted by: Traitors Everywhere at September 30, 2026 11:47 AM (Fn+3X)

186 >>Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 11:35 AM (rOKnE)
>>Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:35 AM (ccf/V)

Both true, and utterly opposed to the decentralisation that was a huge selling point for the server-desktop/laptop model.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 30, 2026 11:47 AM (NcvvS)

187 He's obese now and will probably die young. The fat, manic thing doesn't work long term.

You don't say.
Posted by: Chris Farley at September 30, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)
_____

The piles of drugs that Farley abused had a hand in that, though. I don't know if Jackoff Black is a junkie.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:47 AM (iFTx/)

188 Our garbage media explained in one short X post.

https://tinyurl.com/ypp899r7

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 11:47 AM (viF8m)

189 150 Another Hollywood nepo takes the tube. Not normally news. But it was a girl and only 13. That's unusual. I don't think it's been confirmed a suicide, but the parents posting about suicide prevention is a big tell.

https://tinyurl.com/3unm6as2
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

Funny. I have no idea who the parents are. Shame about the kid.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 11:39 AM (C6xWR)

I had a friend about that age commit suicide. 12ga. Small rural town in the 80s - not supposed to happen. Went to the wake. Nobody there but the parents. Haunts me to this day.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 30, 2026 11:48 AM (N39Ws)

190 There may well be an ai bubble in stock prices. But if there is and it pops it doesn’t mean AI goes away. Post 2000 .com crash the internet didn’t disappear. It just made the survivors that much stronger and set the stage for Web 2.0.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 11:48 AM (f0pGg)

191 ..Sophie Cunningham didn't do much.....
****

Isn't her job to keep the other team off of Caitlin?

Posted by: clarence at September 30, 2026 11:48 AM (vCaJx)

192 There may well be an ai bubble in stock prices. But if there is and it pops it doesn’t mean AI goes away. Post 2000 .com crash the internet didn’t disappear. It just made the survivors that much stronger and set the stage for Web 2.0.

And that's when the smart money gets in.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:49 AM (Riz8t)

193 I've seen certain types of AI applications in action. They need constant supervision.

They don't seem particularly 'smart,' just fast, paralleled circuits cranking out high speed calculations.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 30, 2026 11:49 AM (VQ7/I)

194 @176 whig, in the Best and the Brightest Halberstam told a Sam Rayburn story.
Sam was talking to Lyndon who was raving about the whiz kids that JFK brought in to government. "They use statistics and charts " to show how government can be efficient.
Sam responded "that's great Lyndon but I wish just one of them had ever run for sheriff"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 11:50 AM (jivel)

195 Right. BuyDogToothPasteOnline.com disappeared, but around 20% of *all* consumer spending now takes place online.

That percentage would be a lot higher if it were easier to buy houses and cars over the web.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 11:51 AM (qlLNh)

196 Using AI has increased my productivity at work yuuugely and bigly.

My take on AI is this:

Pareto Principle says 20% does 80% of the work. I think with the mass retardation that is taking place at all levels within the US, with migration of complete and total 80IQ idiots plus the failure of the edjumakation cartels to turn out literate, functioning human beings, plus the culture trend towards eschewing any and all critical though, to be replaced by raw emotions... that 20% is most likely 5% and 90% of that 5% is fucking things up but with skill.

AI is what saves civilization. Instead of having a room full of White Men with slide rulers putting a man on the moon, we have one ADHD Autist with frontier AI models.

Naturally, the communists, the destroyers and the Malthusians want to cripple the relatively small handful of civilization saviors

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 11:51 AM (xE0sV)

197 Wasn't WeWork Softbank's last big play?

They bet the entire farm on a boring cooperative suite provider like it was a revolutionary never-been-tried concept. And guess what? It turned out to be a massively overvalued boring cooperative suite provider.

Doesn't say much for their investing acumen.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 11:51 AM (wpRMV)

198 I have five other members on the development team. Either they don't use AI or don't know how to use it correctly.

Based on raw productivity metrics, I am producing at least 10x more than the other five combined.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 11:44 AM

I have made multiple good-faith attempts to use AI as part of my programming. I use the latest guidance from the leading figures on how to use it and have, so far, found that it makes it take far longer than just ignoring AI. I get crap that doesn't do what it's supposed to do and which takes longer to fix than it would take to just write what I need.

I would love for someone to tell me what I'm doing wrong because I'd hate to be left out.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 30, 2026 11:51 AM (bXODF)

199 This, too, is the story of AtC.
Posted by: Sponge

She was fluent in swearing like Hugo the Chavez and had a sad personal story of abuse. But she chose her personal id over politics.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 11:51 AM (E4rtv)

200 >>Which is why this machine runs Linux.

Ditto.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 30, 2026 11:52 AM (NcvvS)

201
Come on, his performance in The Jackal was great.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 11:42 AM (bFu5X)

Never heard of it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:53 AM (ccf/V)

202 194 @176 whig, in the Best and the Brightest Halberstam told a Sam Rayburn story.
Sam was talking to Lyndon who was raving about the whiz kids that JFK brought in to government. "They use statistics and charts " to show how government can be efficient.
Sam responded "that's great Lyndon but I wish just one of them had ever run for sheriff"
Posted by: Smell the Glove
======
Been meaning to read that book for years. But Caro's LBJ (and Joseph Califano's biography) put me off the entire subject of the LBJ presidency. I find him vile and evil.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 11:54 AM (E4rtv)

203
Isn't her job to keep the other team off of Caitlin?

Posted by: clarence at September 30, 2026 11:48 AM (vCaJx)

Along with being kinda hot......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:54 AM (ccf/V)

204 > I would love for someone to tell me what I'm doing wrong because I'd hate to be left out.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 30, 2026 11:51 AM (bXODF)

You have to prompt it like you're giving instructions to a semi-retarded intern who knows the syntax, etc. of the language cold, but doesn't really get the Big Picture about anything.

Always be hammering on the eventual goal.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 11:54 AM (qlLNh)

205 Wasn't WeWork Softbank's last big play?

They bet the entire farm on a boring cooperative suite provider like it was a revolutionary never-been-tried concept. And guess what? It turned out to be a massively overvalued boring cooperative suite provider.

Doesn't say much for their investing acumen.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 30, 2026 11:51 AM (wpRMV)
_______

The WW management fraud and self-dealing didn't help either

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:54 AM (iFTx/)

206 Caro's LBJ (and Joseph Califano's biography) put me off the entire subject of the LBJ presidency. I find him vile and evil.

Well, that's because he was vile and evil. Glad to be of help.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2026 11:54 AM (Riz8t)

207
I had a friend about that age commit suicide. 12ga. Small rural town in the 80s - not supposed to happen. Went to the wake. Nobody there but the parents. Haunts me to this day.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 30, 2026 11:48 AM (N39Ws)

This was almost my story around age 17.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:55 AM (ccf/V)

208 I seem to remember a sex scandal, way back when, but that might've been Rob rather than Chad.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 11:55 AM (qlLNh)

209 They don't seem particularly 'smart,' just fast, paralleled circuits cranking out high speed calculations.

With the right kind of guidance and properly narrowing the individual steps, removing ambiguity and providing ideal samples, I'm generating near 95% complete at start work product. The part of my time corralling in the AI agent is almost identical to evaluating and emending the resulting output.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 11:55 AM (/TiS1)

210 185 My son lives next to a GOPe mover and shaker in GA who has had TDS from the very start. Cut from the treasonous Ratshitburger mold. He never had a Trump sign on his lawn. One election, the only sign on his lawn was for water commisioner, and he supported the Dem Sheriff candidate, because the Republican guy was a bit MAGA.
Posted by: Traitors Everywhere

Not surprising. AZ and GA are GOPe central, in thrall to the Chamber of Commerce crowd wanting open borders along with human and drug trafficking as good for bizness. Notably both are hotspots for human and drug trafficking as distro points. GA has additional issues with Savannah Port and Chicoms which Ratshitburger is connected to (his bro is a high executive in Huawei USA for example).

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 11:56 AM (E4rtv)

211 I have made multiple good-faith attempts to use AI as part of my programming.

At my previous employer, we did some experiments with AI coding. That was a couple of years ago and the results were impressive then. The unanswered question that prevented us from using it for production code was "Who REALLY owns the code generated by AI and what does it mean to mingle it with other code that is clearly owned by us?" I'm sure a lot of people think they know the answer to that but until it's settled in the courts, it's not settled.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 30, 2026 11:57 AM (vTZFs)

212 OTOH, received word from those who are paying for the AI tokens, and they are concerned about the token burn against a finite pool for the entire department. So who knows?

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 11:44 AM

I got a certificate for a bunch of those AI tokens when I bought my new computer and purchased the office 365 forever license. I have no idea what they are or how to use them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 30, 2026 11:57 AM (I43vL)

213 Our garbage media explained in one short X post.

https://tinyurl.com/ypp899r7

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 11:47 AM (viF8m)

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Yep, you don't hate them nearly enough (and they're at the top of "my list" if and when in my remaining lifetime they succeed in turning America into an anarcho-terrorist shithole state).

I'm surprised they're not openly lamenting that the Muzzie Co-Pilot failed in his mass homicide attempt ...

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 11:57 AM (Lrqtb)

214 208 I seem to remember a sex scandal, way back when, but that might've been Rob rather than Chad.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Rob at the Democrat Convention in Atlanta in the 90's? Had sex with some teenage groupies I think.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 11:57 AM (E4rtv)

215 Jack Black getting disintegrated by the Martians in Mars Attacks and having his arm blown off in The Jackal warms the cockles of my heart

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 11:57 AM (jivel)

216 Been meaning to read that book for years. But Caro's LBJ (and Joseph Califano's biography) put me off the entire subject of the LBJ presidency. I find him vile and evil.
Posted by: whig

My wife says that, after reading that book, she could believe that LBJ was behind the JFK assassination.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 11:58 AM (77rzZ)

217 ' The unanswered question that prevented us from using it for production code was "Who REALLY owns the code generated by AI and what does it mean to mingle it with other code that is clearly owned by us?"'

If you use it for nothing else but code reviews of human-written code, you will benefit (Assuming you aren't paying an arm and a leg for it. I've used only what I can get for free, which works fine for me.)

Posted by: gp at September 30, 2026 11:59 AM (Jr5Lq)

218

Colossus is the name used for a cluster of data centers developed by xAI (later SpaceXAI) in the Memphis, Tennessee–Southaven, Mississippi area.

I wonder if they hired Dr. Forbin?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 11:59 AM (Cqx++)

219
Governors have no power over immigration and can say anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Says WHO?
~G.Grusom

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 12:00 PM (NnhvP)

220 Guess nobody remembers the "tech bubble"?

There will be an AI bubble. At some point.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 11:02 AM

The AI fanatics that I know claim that this is a good thing because, once the bubble pops, the hardware to run the models will be available at fire-sale prices and so you can run your own AI systems for cheap.

I guess. I don't know. Five years ago, the technology that we now call "AI" was called "Autocorrect" and was mostly useful as a punchline. Now, it's supposed to be essential for making the USA competive technologically? Really?

Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 30, 2026 12:00 PM (bXODF)

221 I would love for someone to tell me what I'm doing wrong because I'd hate to be left out.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 30, 2026 11:51 AM (bXODF)
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Pretend like you're not a seasoned code jockey and that the AI is a noob. Explain in detail what you want the product to be without including technical jargon.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 12:00 PM (oqH4h)

222 Another Hollywood nepo takes the tube. Not normally news. But it was a girl and only 13. That's unusual.

https://tinyurl.com/3unm6as2
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

Funny. I have no idea who the parents are. Shame about the kid.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 11:39 AM (C6xWR)

I had a friend about that age commit suicide. 12ga. Small rural town in the 80s - not supposed to happen. Went to the wake. Nobody there but the parents. Haunts me to this day.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 30, 2026 11:48 AM (N39Ws)
______

I had a rough freshman year in college after my dad lost everything. I was bitter and angry. I was away at college and my mom was worried I'd off myself. She called the college.

I had to spend the rest of the semester trying to convince the shrinks that I was not suicidal. And I wasn't even remotely suicidal. I was just really pissed at the world. But whatever I told them, their attitude was "that's what someone suicidal would say."

I was really really pissed at my mom at the time, but we laugh about it now.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:00 PM (iFTx/)

223 This was almost my story around age 17.
Posted by: Sponge

Wow. Glad you got over it.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

224 I have made multiple good-faith attempts to use AI as part of my programming. I use the latest guidance from the leading figures on how to use it and have, so far, found that it makes it take far longer than just ignoring AI. I get crap that doesn't do what it's supposed to do and which takes longer to fix than it would take to just write what I need.

I would love for someone to tell me what I'm doing wrong because I'd hate to be left out.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 30, 2026 11:51 AM (bXODF)

------------------

You didn't outsource the job to an H-1B Visa holder.

/Just channeling Vivek ...

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 12:01 PM (Lrqtb)

225 My wife says that, after reading that book, she could believe that LBJ was behind the JFK assassination.

Posted by: Bulg

I think the Kennedy family and courtiers thought that was possible too. A perfect example of a unprincipled evil man that had too much ambition and no morals to go along with it that destroyed America as we knew it.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 12:01 PM (E4rtv)

226 219
Governors have no power over immigration and can say anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Says WHO?
~G.Grusom

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 12:00 PM (NnhvP)

=======

ICE has a big presence in CA and Newsom can only make noises about stopping it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 12:02 PM (U/fqy)

227 This is mild by comparison to some of the shell games being played with AI financing.

After seeing shit like this go down enough times in your life, all you can do is shrug. The bubbles blow up and pop faster and faster, nobody ever learns a damn thing, and the fraud grows more and more blatant, with less and less accountability.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 30, 2026 12:02 PM (BI5O2)

228 "Pretend like you're not a seasoned code jockey and that the AI is a noob. Explain in detail what you want the product to be without including technical jargon."

I talk to it like a competent peer, with the same training and experience that I have, and that works fine.

Posted by: gp at September 30, 2026 12:02 PM (Jr5Lq)

229 Always be hammering on the eventual goal.

It doesn't hurt to set definitive goals.

My prompt files are pretty large with things like:
• prefer composition over inheritance
• generate negative tests along with positive
• prefer flattening, normalization over complex objects

Then I provide a thousand file SSOT that has has made AI efficient instruction files, business rules, etc. Then a repository chock full of real-world samples, corner case inputs, deliberately malformed fail examples, etc.

Proper selection of models also helps too.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 12:03 PM (/TiS1)

230 I was in the “it’s all fake and gay” camp about AI until early this year. The latest models are light years away from even 18 months ago.

I turned into a believer kinda overnight. I’m at the point where I think to myself how did I survive without this before? “Before” being mid 2025.

I have a small consulting side gig with an AI startup as well. I’m not involved directly with the AI-ness of it, I am guiding their integration with systems I know well.

There’s cool stuff happening out there. Lots of opportunities. Taking the “it’s just Google” pov is seriously out of date.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 12:03 PM (f0pGg)

231 Jack Black getting disintegrated by the Martians in Mars Attacks and having his arm blown off in The Jackal warms the cockles of my heart
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 11:57 AM (jivel

Don't forget getting roasted by magic lightning in the X-Files.

Another highlight in that guy's portfolio.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 30, 2026 12:04 PM (BI5O2)

232 I talk to it like a competent peer, with the same training and experience that I have, and that works fine.

Especially if one of your instructions is:

"As a senior staff engineer..."

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 12:04 PM (pUU4E)

233 BROKEN:
The Minneapolis City Council
… yesterday voted 7-4 in favor of a requirement for DRIVERLESS robotaxis to have:
“a human monitor physically present within the driver’s seat of the vehicle and with immediate access to controls for steering, braking, and acceleration.”

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 12:04 PM (ZxPkt)

234 233 BROKEN:
The Minneapolis City Council
… yesterday voted 7-4 in favor of a requirement for DRIVERLESS robotaxis to have:
“a human monitor physically present within the driver’s seat of the vehicle and with immediate access to controls for steering, braking, and acceleration.”

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 12:04 PM (ZxPkt)

======

1. Jobs program for taxi drivers.

2. An understandable stepping stone with a new technology.

It's much more of the former than the latter, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 12:06 PM (U/fqy)

235 Buy tulip bulbs.

Posted by: Your crazy uncle at September 30, 2026 12:06 PM (79KBl)

236 lol driverless cars with a driver.
Chef’s kiss.

Next up: residents of Minneapolis wondering why are my Ubers so expensive? Must be Trump’s fault.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 12:06 PM (f0pGg)

237 Is Caro's entire output The Robert Moses book, along with the LBJ one? He's no Jackie Collins or Sidney Sheldon.

Posted by: Corin Tellado at September 30, 2026 12:06 PM (Fn+3X)

238 1. Jobs program for taxi drivers.

2. An understandable stepping stone with a new technology.

It's much more of the former than the latter, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 12:06 PM (U/fqy)
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Gotta have make-work jobs for the former "employees" of the shuttered Learing Centers.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 12:07 PM (oqH4h)

239 ICE has a big presence in CA and Newsom can only make noises about stopping it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

He's been screwing cal for a long time.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 12:08 PM (NnhvP)

240 the hardware to run the models will be available at fire-sale prices and so you can run your own AI systems for cheap.

Not for frontier models or even something scaled down with 1M+ tokens. You need some serious hardware and orders of magnitude more memory than you think.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 12:08 PM (pUU4E)

241 The Minneapolis City Council
… yesterday voted 7-4 in favor of a requirement for DRIVERLESS robotaxis to have:
“a human monitor physically present within the driver’s seat of the vehicle and with immediate access to controls for steering, braking, and acceleration.”

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 12:04 PM (ZxPkt)

======

1. Jobs program for taxi drivers.

2. An understandable stepping stone with a new technology.

It's much more of the former than the latter, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 12:06 PM (U/fqy)
----
All those Somali Learing Center directors that are now unemployed need a job.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 12:08 PM (FZ29D)

242 233 BROKEN:
The Minneapolis City Council
… yesterday voted 7-4 in favor of a requirement for DRIVERLESS robotaxis to have:
“a human monitor physically present within the driver’s seat of the vehicle and with immediate access to controls for steering, braking, and acceleration.”
Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 12:04 PM (ZxPkt)
----------

Forget it Jake, it's commi-town.

Posted by: WisRich at September 30, 2026 12:08 PM (G0vdT)

243 Is Caro's entire output The Robert Moses book, along with the LBJ one? He's no Jackie Collins or Sidney Sheldon.
Posted by: Corin Tellado

I've heard that he writes everything out in longhand, so it takes him a while to finish his books. He'll probably never finish his LBJ trilogy before hr dies.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 12:09 PM (77rzZ)

244 BROKEN:
The Minneapolis City Council
… yesterday voted 7-4 in favor of a requirement for DRIVERLESS robotaxis to have:
“a human monitor physically present within the driver’s seat of the vehicle and with immediate access to controls for steering, braking, and acceleration.”
Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 12:04 PM (ZxPkt)
____

Another illegal alien welfare program. Taxi/Uber drivers in Minneapolis -- and pretty much every major city in the country -- are overwhelmingly foreigners and overwhelmingly illegals.

If the drivers were instead boring white guys, this council would be doing everything possible to push the driverless cars.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 30, 2026 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

245 OT: Breaking news - the plane that almost crashed today was a copilot stabbing the pilot and trying to hijack the plane. Somehow, the passengers managed to get into the cockpit, subdue the copilot, and get the plane landed (still TBD if that was the original pilot or what)...

Aka, what the media reported - that this was a "fight between the pilots" was bogus...absolutely bogus...

But good on the passengers for fighting, since fleeing was not an option...and freezing meant certain death...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 30, 2026 12:09 PM (tOcjL)

246 My general take on AI:
- I like having access to it myself, and find it useful.
- Would hesitate if forced to pay for it.
- Yeah, the frantic buildout is an obvious investment bubble.
- Like all tech, it will kill some people. We've learned to live with tech fatalities ever since we harnessed fire.

Posted by: gp at September 30, 2026 12:10 PM (Jr5Lq)

247 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 30, 2026 12:10 PM (NcvvS)

248
Wow. Glad you got over it.
Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

I did. Never again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 12:10 PM (ccf/V)

249 103 Tags are empty spectacle distracting us from the meaningful meat of argument.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:27 AM (U/fqy)

Or... they provide wonderful emphasis. For example:

Prometheus sucks!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 11:30 AM (ExV1e)

So I should or shouldn't invest in Prometheus?
And what if I'm allergic to Prometheus? Should I continue to invest in it?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 12:13 PM (l3cgK)

250 This was almost my story around age 17.
Posted by: Sponge

I'm glad you are here.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 30, 2026 12:13 PM (N39Ws)

251 1. Jobs program for taxi drivers.

2. An understandable stepping stone with a new technology.

It's much more of the former than the latter, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 12:06 PM (U/fqy)

The worst possible way to ban driverless cabs. A guy sitting there to "monitor" will do no such thing. If not actively driving, he will be playing some damfool video game on his phone, and if a traffic situation arises where he could be useful, he won't be ready.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 12:20 PM (C6xWR)

252 I've grown tired of the hype pro and contra. My guess is: neither as good as we hope, nor as bad as we fear.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 11:12 AM

Hadrian! That is both my pain point and my guess.

PS: We should get together again soon.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 30, 2026 01:08 PM (bXODF)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Elijah in the Desert
Washington Allston

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:30 AM (ccf/V)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 09:30 AM (Az7Eg)

3 Uh......poor guy. Should'a made that right turn at Albuquerque.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:30 AM (ccf/V)

4 duh.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 09:31 AM (Bep7s)

5 Found Ace's crow.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 09:31 AM (Az7Eg)

6 Needs more cacti.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 09:31 AM (RORbl)

7 Alternate title:

Crow Awaiting a Meal

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:31 AM (ccf/V)

8 I like it.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

9 Awful lot of greenery for the desert.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 09:32 AM (Az7Eg)

10 "buns for the ravens" iykwim

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 09:32 AM (Bep7s)

11 Awful lot of greenery for the desert.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 09:32 AM (Az7Eg)

And it looks like rain is on the way.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:33 AM (ccf/V)

12 The crows. Watch out for the crows.

Posted by: huerfano at September 30, 2026 09:33 AM (2Xqig)

13 Needs an angry Frankenstein stomping through the landscape.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:33 AM (ndZc7)

14 The desert was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at September 30, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

15 Desert? Looks like there's plenty of water.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 30, 2026 09:33 AM (w9Wax)

16 Very nice. Alston was a good landscape painter.
Would hang .
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 09:33 AM (jivel)

17 Scale is odd. Elijah is tiny.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:33 AM (Y/06r)

18 'Wilderness' might be better.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:34 AM (Y/06r)

19 Scale is odd. Elijah is tiny.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:33 AM (Y/06r)

Lilliputian.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:34 AM (ccf/V)

20 I like it. That tree looks a mite Tim Burtonesque, though. I wouldn't turn my back on it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 09:34 AM (bFu5X)

21 Gloom, despair, and agony on me...

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at September 30, 2026 09:34 AM (cWLG3)

22 Elijah, I'm rooting for you!

Posted by: The Tress at September 30, 2026 09:34 AM (w9Wax)

23 I know it's dead, but do trees grow that large in a desert?

Posted by: Non-desert dweller at September 30, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

24 dessert > desert

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 09:34 AM (sKqQm)

25 I agree with rickb223. I quite like the painting, though, and the artist seems to have liked
painting trees.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 09:35 AM (JrHfD)

26 He forgot to bring a boiled egg for the raven, hence the despair.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at September 30, 2026 09:35 AM (cWLG3)

27 pellucidar.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 09:35 AM (Bep7s)

28 My daily art display UK-
"Elijah in the Desert" is a significant painting by American artist Washington Allston, created in 1818. It illustrates the biblical narrative of the prophet Elijah, who is sent into the desert by God and miraculously sustained by ravens that bring him food. This artwork is housed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and was the first piece acquired by the museum in 1870."

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2026 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

29 Sorry, I'm a little dead right now.

Posted by: The Tree at September 30, 2026 09:35 AM (w9Wax)

30 [i[]I know it's dead, but do trees grow that large in a desert?
Posted by: Non-desert dweller at September 30, 2026 09:34 AM

I'm thinking the artist hasn't actually seen Middle Eastern "wilderness."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 09:35 AM (bFu5X)

31 Then: Happy Little Trees

Now: Angry, Parched Trees

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 09:35 AM (sKqQm)

32 I hope he's not a white guy on welfare.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:35 AM (ccf/V)

33 I like how Elijah is dwarfed by the landscape.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

34 Always travel with a full canteen. Thus endeth today's lesson.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 09:36 AM (1utmP)

35 32 I hope he's not a white guy on welfare.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:35 AM (ccf/V)

Elijah, in the desert, looking for meth.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:37 AM (Y/06r)

36 Scale is odd. Elijah is tiny.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:33 AM (Y/06r)

That's the message.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 30, 2026 09:37 AM (k5CNB)

37 The desert of. . . Montana?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 09:37 AM (rOKnE)

38
Elijah, in the desert, looking for meth.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:37 AM (Y/06r)

I didn't have that version of Clue........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:37 AM (ccf/V)

39 Gamers on Welfare > Jezebel

Posted by: Elijah at September 30, 2026 09:37 AM (sKqQm)

40 Okay, I'll get this out of the way. Being the nerd I am, my first thought was of the Brown Lands on the approach to Mordor.

Posted by: JTB at September 30, 2026 09:38 AM (yTvNw)

41 meth > math

Posted by: Barbie at September 30, 2026 09:38 AM (sKqQm)

42 Scale is odd. Elijah is tiny.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:33 AM (Y/06r)

That's the message.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 30, 2026 09:37 AM (k5CNB)

Little people make art too?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:38 AM (ccf/V)

43 That's the message.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 30, 2026 09:37 AM (k5CNB)

Eat your wheaties?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:38 AM (Y/06r)

44 >>This artwork is housed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and was the first piece acquired by the museum in 1870."

Huh. Interesting choice.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 09:38 AM (rOKnE)

45 I didn't have that version of Clue........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:37 AM

Limited New Mexico Edition.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 09:39 AM (bFu5X)

46 41 meth > math
Posted by: Barbie at September 30, 2026 09:38 AM (sKqQm)

LOL. I am surprised no one has mentioned anything about the Jewish Barbie thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:39 AM (Y/06r)

47 Ace could learn a thing or two about befriending crows from this guy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 09:39 AM (FZ29D)

48 It's not that Elijah is tiny.
It's that God is immense.

Posted by: Perspective at September 30, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

49 Limited New Mexico Edition.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 09:39 AM (bFu5X)

Oooh. Nice one.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:40 AM (ccf/V)

50 Little people make art too?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:38 AM (ccf/V)

Have a Snickers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:40 AM (Y/06r)

51 46 i have the autistic one.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 09:40 AM (Bep7s)

52

He's just tired and shagged out after a prolonged squawk...

Posted by: Ped Xing at September 30, 2026 09:40 AM (KrNsD)

53 Okay, I'll get this out of the way. Being the nerd I am, my first thought was of the Brown Lands on the approach to Mordor.
Posted by: JTB at September 30, 2026 09:38 AM (yTvNw)
---
He has the Precious! *gollum*

Posted by: Smeagol at September 30, 2026 09:40 AM (FZ29D)

54
Have a Snickers.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:40 AM (Y/06r)

Don't make me hangry. You wouldn't like me when I'm hangry.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:40 AM (ccf/V)

55 there's a mint patch nearby, and some chives.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 09:41 AM (Bep7s)

56 48 It's not that Elijah is tiny.
It's that God is immense.
Posted by: Perspective at September 30, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

Wouldn't God be the Oasis in the desert?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:41 AM (Y/06r)

57 Math > Clothes/Boys/Skipper

Posted by: Autistic Barbie at September 30, 2026 09:41 AM (sKqQm)

58 "This seems as good a spot as any to make some sun tea......"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:42 AM (ccf/V)

59 Ace could learn a thing or two about befriending crows from this guy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Has he considered being very still so they can peck his eyes?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 30, 2026 09:42 AM (ThT1a)

60 Don't make me hangry. You wouldn't like me when I'm hangry.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:40 AM (ccf/V)

You're a dude though, so if you do something horrible because you have a sad, we can all call you an asshole.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:42 AM (Y/06r)

61 I like it. That tree looks a mite Tim Burtonesque, though. I wouldn't turn my back on it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 09:34 AM (bFu5X)
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The buried corpse (copse?) of an Ent.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 09:42 AM (FZ29D)

62 A murder of crows > A murder by an undocument immigrant who is going to cure cancer or something

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 09:42 AM (sKqQm)

63 58 "This seems as good a spot as any to make some sun tea......"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:42 AM (ccf/V)

God is sweet tea.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:42 AM (Y/06r)

64
You're a dude though, so if you do something horrible because you have a sad, we can all call you an asshole.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:42 AM (Y/06r)

TJM hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:42 AM (ccf/V)

65 No Dessert in the Desert - a limerick

Three long years without chance to bathe
Made Elijah as thin as a wraith
Whether you're a saint or sinner
Relyin' on ravens for your dinner
Is a challenge that is sure to test your faith

Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 09:42 AM (I0N4X)

66
You're a dude though, so if you do something horrible because you have a sad, we can all call you an asshole.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:42 AM (Y/06r)

It is at this point where I declare myself a woman and all will be forgiven.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:43 AM (ccf/V)

67 Why would an Ent be in the desert?

Posted by: Asking hte important questions at September 30, 2026 09:43 AM (sKqQm)

68 57 Trains >>>> Math > Clothes/Boys/Skipper
Posted by: Autistic Barbie at September 30, 2026 09:41 AM (sKqQm)

FIFY.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:44 AM (Y/06r)

69 In my experience a raven might bring you a shiny rock...no Big Macs though

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 09:44 AM (sKqQm)

70 In my experience a raven might bring you a shiny rock...no Big Macs though

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 09:44 AM (sKqQm)

Nevermore........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:44 AM (ccf/V)

71 It is at this point where I declare myself a woman and all will be forgiven.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:43 AM (ccf/V)

*furious clapping* SO brave!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:44 AM (Y/06r)

72 57 Trains >>>> Math > Clothes/Boys/Skipper

I like trains.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at September 30, 2026 09:44 AM (sKqQm)

73 59 pops told me he'd sleep with cucumber slices on his eyes so the turkey vultures would not peck his eyes out.
not sure why i ever believed him.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 09:45 AM (Bep7s)

74 It is at this point where I declare myself a woman and all will be forgiven.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Yasssss, Queen!

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 30, 2026 09:45 AM (ThT1a)

75 Looks like a cut scene from Red Dead Redemption........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:46 AM (ccf/V)

76 57 "you've got a good point too, skipper!"

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 09:46 AM (Bep7s)

77 72 57 Trains >>>> Math > Clothes/Boys/Skipper

I like trains.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at September 30, 2026 09:44 AM (sKqQm)

Woo-Woo!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:46 AM (Y/06r)

78 Morning, art people,

This looks like a scene from a Clint Eastwood Western. That tree with its maw and the branches shaped like a predatory claw is creepy, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 09:47 AM (wzUl9)

79
Woo-Woo!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:46 AM (Y/06r)

https://youtu.be/kSgYtmCnyYw

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:47 AM (ccf/V)

80 Who's that knocking on my door?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 09:47 AM (RIvkX)

81 67 he thought the sandpaper was a map.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 09:47 AM (Bep7s)

82 Elijah is fairly unusual in that he never died.

Posted by: Chariot of Fire at September 30, 2026 09:47 AM (Fn+3X)

83 Elijah looks like he could use a protein drink.

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 09:48 AM (UrqDf)

84 Who's that knocking on my door?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 09:47 AM (RIvkX)

Who's that ringin' the bell?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:48 AM (ccf/V)

85 75 Looks like a cut scene from Red Dead Redemption........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:46 AM (ccf/V)

I started RDR 2 and... just explored the map and ignored the story. Did some of the side quests. Same thing I did with all the GTA game (IV). Crime has no appeal to me. I have no motive force to play the game.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:48 AM (Y/06r)

86 I'm surprised there are no buzzards circling.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

87 Caption:

"Sorry , Eli . All's Ace was handing out was rotten lunch meat. So's that's what you get."

*shakes wing at sky*

"Dang, that Ace!"

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 09:49 AM (k3Vs9)

88 I like the barely visible raven dropping off Elijah's daily bread.

Quoth the Raven, "Mind your mannas, Elijah!"

Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 09:49 AM (I0N4X)

89 For those that didn't know, and have an interest. Significance of Broom Tree in Bible:

https://tinyurl.com/34dmukfb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 09:49 AM (JrHfD)

90 This is very nice and is definitely NOT Ruler Art.

Posted by: Dick Blick Art Materials at September 30, 2026 09:49 AM (Fn+3X)

91 i still haven't found the wooden tobacco store indian.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 09:49 AM (Bep7s)

92 Desert? Looks like there's plenty of water.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 30, 2026

***
It's an oasis -- like one of the watering holes the Apaches knew about and used while battling the U.S. Cavalry.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 09:50 AM (wzUl9)

93
Well painted.

Would not hang.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 09:50 AM (k3Vs9)

94 I started RDR 2 and... just explored the map and ignored the story. Did some of the side quests. Same thing I did with all the GTA game (IV). Crime has no appeal to me. I have no motive force to play the game.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:48 AM (Y/06r)

I tried to play the first one following the story. Got stuck at a point, got bored and never played it again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:50 AM (ccf/V)

95 ‘Elijah, he not know what to do with raven. Me, Conan, know what to do with dumb bird.’

— Conan the Barbarian

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 30, 2026 09:50 AM (s/oWd)

96 I tried to play the first one following the story. Got stuck at a point, got bored and never played it again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:50 AM (ccf/V)

The first RDR seemed less... gangstery?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:51 AM (Y/06r)

97
The first RDR seemed less... gangstery?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:51 AM (Y/06r)

It seemed you tried to be a lot more helpful......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:52 AM (ccf/V)

98 Allston really captured the feel of a withered heath with the brown color scheme, the stark rocky hills and, especially, the stark, dead tree in the center. The exposed roots, the twisted broken branches, and the bare weathered wood of the trunks dominate. Elijah is a tiny figure, dwarfed by nature. Even the bird of prey is larger. The ominous clouds add to the sense of desperation and despair.

But it is not all bleak. The patches of blue sky promise light and, maybe, life (and God) to be found. There are living trees on the left side and on the distant hills. Elijah's pain will ultimately be rewarded if he continues and holds to his faith.

Posted by: JTB at September 30, 2026 09:52 AM (yTvNw)

99 3 >>Uh......poor guy. Should'a made that right turn at Albuquerque.

Never trust GoogleMaps.

Posted by: red speck at September 30, 2026 09:52 AM (Ve/HL)

100 100

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:53 AM (ccf/V)

101 FREE FOR ALL!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:53 AM (ccf/V)

102 It seemed you tried to be a lot more helpful......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:52 AM (ccf/V)

Yeah, less 'we're going to rob this train and pistol whip women and children! And let's go beat this guy up for being overdue on a loan!'

You know a game that did it much better? Days Gone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:54 AM (Y/06r)

103 All skate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:54 AM (ccf/V)

104 Boobs!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 30, 2026 09:54 AM (s1VwS)

105 I like it, for whatever reason. Might hang.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 09:54 AM (aJQbY)

106 "...bird of prey..."
omnivore.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 09:54 AM (Bep7s)

107 The palette reminds me of the early Popeye cartoon backgrounds and hues. Maybe the crows have brought Eli a can of spinach?

Posted by: red speck at September 30, 2026 09:54 AM (Ve/HL)

108 But seriously, today's art is art...almost surreal art...but I don't really like it.

Maybe it looks better in person.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 30, 2026 09:54 AM (s1VwS)

109 JTB said what I was thinking!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 09:55 AM (aJQbY)

110
You know a game that did it much better? Days Gone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:54 AM (Y/06r)

Never heard of it.

It's available on Steam, so maybe if I get bored......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:55 AM (ccf/V)

111 Quite the contrast to yesterday's mess. Nice that CBD decided to be kind to us today. Four stars!

Posted by: Vibrant, Even! at September 30, 2026 09:55 AM (Fn+3X)

112 Is that Gondor in the distance?

Posted by: red speck at September 30, 2026 09:55 AM (Ve/HL)

113 109 JTB said what I was thinking!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 09:55 AM (aJQbY)

He's a witch! WITCH!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:55 AM (Y/06r)

114 He's a witch! WITCH!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026

***
"I'm game, luv. Lead an' I'll follow. Where's 'library'?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 09:56 AM (wzUl9)

115 staph from staff.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 09:57 AM (Bep7s)

116 >>No Dessert in the Desert - a limerick

Three long years without chance to bathe
Made Elijah as thin as a wraith
Whether you're a saint or sinner
Relyin' on ravens for your dinner
Is a challenge that is sure to test your faith

Heh.
Shoulda gone to Nantucket and gotten the 8 buck bucket!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 09:57 AM (rOKnE)

117 Boobs!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 30, 2026 09:54 AM (s1VwS)

https://shorturl.fm/vjD0g

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:57 AM (ccf/V)

118 Which witch?

Posted by: Christine O'Donnell at September 30, 2026 09:57 AM (sKqQm)

119 Never heard of it.

It's available on Steam, so maybe if I get bored......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:55 AM (ccf/V)

The story pacing goes very much to long. Zombie back drop but one of the best... loner anti-hero goes on a redemption arc that actually has a happy ending. Like an OG happy ending. It is weird and considering the nihilism of a lot of zombie fans, I wonder if that is why it was not as popular among that group.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 09:58 AM (Y/06r)

120 Dollah General and Aldi hadn't made it to the area yet.

Posted by: EBT Acceped Here at September 30, 2026 09:59 AM (Fn+3X)

121 Posted by: Vibrant, Even! at September 30, 2026 09:55 AM (Fn+3X)

Yesterday's art wasn't a mess. It was clean with bright colors and lines. I assume by "mess" you mean that you didn't like it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 09:59 AM (JrHfD)

122 "...bird of prey..."

-
Well, it is from the Bible.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:59 AM (ndZc7)

123 117 why does that url end in dog?

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:00 AM (Bep7s)

124 https://shorturl.fm/vjD0g
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:57 AM (ccf/V)

https://tinyurl.com/2k4te3rp

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 10:00 AM (Y/06r)

125 Allston's self portrait on his Wiki page shows him to be quite the dandy.

Posted by: Tuna at September 30, 2026 10:00 AM (lJ0H4)

126 But it is not all bleak. The patches of blue sky promise light and, maybe, life

If I were in that desert, I'd be rooting for the dark clouds.

Posted by: t-bird at September 30, 2026 10:00 AM (jnBG1)

127 Over to the right, above Elijah, there looks to be a little waterfall refreshing the pool. That may explain why there are trees here.

Another raven (or a crow) is surveying the scene from atop a branch of the dead tree. I'm surprised there aren't more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 10:01 AM (wzUl9)

128 Quite the contrast to yesterday's mess. Nice that CBD decided to be kind to us today. Four stars!
Posted by: Vibrant, Even! at September 30, 2026 09:55 AM (Fn+3X)
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Now you're just being contrary.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 10:01 AM (RIvkX)

129 Meh. I am indifferent to 18th-19th century American artists kissing European art ass.

Give me paintings of American's busting sod, laying down steam engine tracks, cows being herded off to slaughter, Texans killing Mexicans at the Alamo, Custer being the last man alive, Oklahoma tent revivals, and Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. This list is not inclusive.

Plus, no dog, no art.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at September 30, 2026 10:02 AM (VyD10)

130 Yesterday's art wasn't a mess. It was clean with bright colors and lines. I assume by "mess" you mean that you didn't like it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Mess means that with a ruler, I could have done it, and I have little to no aptitude for drawing. Elijah shows talent.

Posted by: Brush With Greatness II at September 30, 2026 10:02 AM (Fn+3X)

131 Yesterday's art was the essence of simplicity. This has detail and variations in texture and color, plus a human figure and some birds.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 10:03 AM (wzUl9)

132 126 two waterfalls and a lagoon should suffice.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:03 AM (Bep7s)

133 127 oh, there are...

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:04 AM (Bep7s)

134 I couldn't find a Kindle collection of Allston's paintings, sadly. But his Wiki page has about twenty examples and they are worth looking at. What he does with realistic detail, light and perspective is wonderful. He really does represent the Romantic poetry, which I love, of Britain and America. I wonder if Allston and similar led to the Hudson River School that came along a few years later.

Posted by: JTB at September 30, 2026 10:04 AM (yTvNw)

135 Art

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at September 30, 2026 10:04 AM (+kIYw)

136 I am going to guess Washington Allston never saw a desert.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at September 30, 2026 10:04 AM (VyD10)

137 As SFO submits to Trump, SF activists demand city leaders fight back
After every ICE arrest, SFO appears more powerless in its response to the Trump administration

A dozen protesters assembled around a Smarte Carte rental dock outside the International Terminal earlier this month to decry San Francisco International Airport and denounce its leaders for submitting to the Trump administration. Travelers wheeling luggage cocked their heads to the side to read the signs about Immigration and Customs Enforcement at SFO.
=====

I voted for that!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 10:05 AM (RIvkX)

138 129 you forgot choctaw bingo.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:05 AM (Bep7s)

139 I've been through the desert by a crow with no name.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 10:05 AM (ndZc7)

140 Caption:

C'mon Mr Elijah, Songalong-

*sings*

I seen a peanut stand, I heard a rubber band
I seen a needle that winked its eye
But I be done seen everything
When I see an elephant fly...

*instantly shut down by Disney's lawyers*
*crow gets life in prison*

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 10:05 AM (7F6tP)

141 131 yesterdays ocean was a flat blue triangle.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:06 AM (Bep7s)

142 https://youtu.be/kSgYtmCnyYw
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:47 AM (ccf/V)
=================

https://tinyurl.com/2s44j4ua

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 10:06 AM (svKyi)

143 136 it took a thousand years to suck all the water out.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:07 AM (Bep7s)

144 After every ICE arrest, SFO appears more powerless in its response to the Trump administration

-
You know what that sumbitch has done now?!!!

Cato Institute tries to attack Trump by noting he reduced legal migration from Muslim nations by 96% 😌

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 10:09 AM (ndZc7)

145 Since we've passed 100, I would like to comment on the Episcopal woman priest quoted in the earlier thread,. To suggest that Jesus" saying " Come out" to Lazarus suggests that Lazarus is gay is just ignorant and is is pushing an agenda, of course . Jesus meant "Come out" of the tomb as a reference to his raising the dead Lazarus . It has nothing to do with Lazarus possibly being gay. That is some tortured Biblical interpretation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 10:09 AM (JrHfD)

146 120 Dollah General and Aldi hadn't made it to the area yet.
Posted by: EBT Acceped Here at September 30, 2026 09:59 AM

There's a Buc-ee's just out of frame.

Posted by: Beaver nuggets! at September 30, 2026 10:10 AM (2Ez/1)

147 I really have to disagree with the take on Sarah Huckabee Sanders that her ad is bad because she had a white guy.

Preciously because white guys are not the normal able bodied and on welfare demographic

If she cast a black guy or a woman the media would dismiss it as racism or misogyny, but now you have all these commenters and analysts talking about the actual demographics of welfare that would have been dismissed out of hand otherwise and discussing just how many able bodied people are getting money from Uncle Sugar

So please right leaning pols more ads like this!

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:10 AM (sKqQm)

148 I wonder if Hot Air has a Vibrant Non Sequitur Thread...

Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 10:10 AM (I0N4X)

149 Turns out, going to the desert for forty days and forty nights was a bible theme and not just a one-off event.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 10:10 AM (qbqtn)

150 145 everyone named lazarus is swishy.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:10 AM (Bep7s)

151 Party time, excellent!

Canadian judge rules citizens have a constitutional right to traffic drugs

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)

152 117 Boobs!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 30, 2026 09:54 AM (s1VwS)

https://shorturl.fm/vjD0g
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:57 AM (ccf/V)

Yeah ok!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 30, 2026 10:11 AM (s1VwS)

153 I wonder if Hot Air has a Vibrant Non Sequitur Thread...
Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 10:10 AM (I0N4X)
===================
Thursday!

Posted by: Townhall at September 30, 2026 10:11 AM (qbqtn)

154 Elijah looks like he could use a protein drink.

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 09:48 AM (UrqDf)

I pour him a glass of wine every Passover!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 30, 2026 10:12 AM (k5CNB)

155 117 why does that url end in dog?
Posted by: cmeat

Usually my dog walks end with a curl.

Posted by: Yyrog the Sorceror at September 30, 2026 10:12 AM (yYROg)

156
Cato Institute tries to attack Trump by noting he reduced legal migration from Muslim nations by 96%

Imagine trying to explain this data point to any American on Sept 12, 2001...

Cato: See President Bush will respond to 9/11 by bringing in so many Muslims they'll elect one of their own to be mayor of NYC. But its like good for the economy and stuff. So when Trump reduces migration its racist and bad...

9/12 Normie: You mean the people that just attacked us and killed thousands of Americans?

Cato: Ok, that's racist for the record...you'll understand why in a few years when you guys elect a man named Hussein as president.

9/12 Normie: Oh my God we are going to lose the War on Terror...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:13 AM (sKqQm)

157 That is some tortured Biblical interpretation.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 10:09 AM (JrHfD)
================
Otherwise known as "political advocacy" in some circles, or in our house, "pure unadulterated horseshit"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 10:14 AM (qbqtn)

158 149 Turns out, going to the desert for forty days and forty nights was a bible theme and not just a one-off event.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 10:10 AM (qbqtn)

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This week on Survivor: Judea, does Jesus have the numbers to vote out Satan?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:15 AM (U/fqy)

159 Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:10 AM (Bep7s)

I don't know anyone personally named Lazarus.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 10:15 AM (JrHfD)

160 157 or in our house, "pure unadulterated horseshit"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 10:14 AM (qbqtn)

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My ears are burning...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:15 AM (U/fqy)

161
https://tinyurl.com/2k4te3rp
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 30, 2026 10:00 AM (Y/06r)

https://shorturl.fm/dcMAg

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:15 AM (ccf/V)

162 Party time, excellent II

Follow @KollegeKidd
@_kollegekidd
Footage surfaces of Diddy using cellphone at Fort Dix. The Bad Boy founder is reportedly spending thousands a month to live like a VIP behind bars, paying inmates to cook, clean, do his laundry and give him massages while allegedly gaining access to Hennessy, contraband phones and a jailbroken tablet

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 10:16 AM (ndZc7)

163 Greeting from the Elijah! The Lord Elijah! The Warrior of the Wasteland, the Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla!

Posted by: Road Warrior 3:16 at September 30, 2026 10:17 AM (TbWk/)

164 So it's a boob bounce thread?

Posted by: Just got here at September 30, 2026 10:17 AM (2Ez/1)

165 159 there's only one left. he moved to frisco in the 60s.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:17 AM (Bep7s)

166 Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 10:14 AM (qbqtn)

Yes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 10:17 AM (JrHfD)

167 Good morning good people.

That tree could use watering.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 10:17 AM (ktgTW)

168 I really have to disagree with the take on Sarah Huckabee Sanders that her ad is bad because she had a white guy.

***********

I have a dream that my grandchildren will grow up in a land where a person is judged not by the color of his skin, but by the cash value of his welfare fraud.

/Dr. Martin Huckabee King

Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 10:18 AM (I0N4X)

169 paying inmates to cook, clean, do his laundry and give him massages while allegedly gaining access to Hennessy, contraband phones and a jailbroken tablet
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 10:16 AM (ndZc7)
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Just like the women's section of the Cook County Jail, according to the documentary "Chicago."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 30, 2026 10:19 AM (amcLV)

170 Muin al-Arabid, who ran Hamas’s intelligence operations in Gaza, “gave Israel tremendous intelligence which has helped create a spike in locating and assassinating other top Hamas officials, funds, and weapons,” the Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday.

Al-Arabid, described by officials as an “intelligence gold mine,” was nabbed by Israeli special forces after months of surveillance by Israel’s Shin Bet security agency.
=======================
Now, there's a guy Israel has decided needs to be sent into the desert for a time. Nothing like announcing he's flipped to wreck his day.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 10:19 AM (qbqtn)

171 So it's a boob bounce thread?

Let me put this right here... https://tinyurl.com/3dv2v5dd

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:20 AM (sKqQm)

172 167 it's a lemon tree?

Posted by: burt munro at September 30, 2026 10:20 AM (Bep7s)

173 My ears are burning...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:15 AM (U/fqy)
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heh. It's not always about you, TJM.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 10:21 AM (qbqtn)

174 173 My ears are burning...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:15 AM (U/fqy)
=================
heh. It's not always about you, TJM.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 10:21 AM (qbqtn)

========

That one song was definitely about me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:21 AM (U/fqy)

175 Jpost: Muin al-Arabid, who ran Hamas’s intelligence operations in Gaza, “gave Israel tremendous intelligence which has helped create a spike in locating and assassinating other top Hamas officials, funds, and weapons

What's Hebrew for "nightingale"?

Posted by: Yyrog the Sorceror at September 30, 2026 10:21 AM (yYROg)

176 145 everyone named lazarus is swishy.
Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026

***
You and I need to talk, brother.
( -- Lazarus Long)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 10:21 AM (wzUl9)

177 Religious leader and high tech expert!

Pope Leo Pushes Back on Trump, Says AI Fears Not “Fake News”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 10:22 AM (ndZc7)

178 176 never read any heinlein. been meaning to.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:23 AM (Bep7s)

179 147 I really have to disagree with the take on Sarah Huckabee Sanders that her ad is bad because she had a white guy.

Preciously because white guys are not the normal able bodied and on welfare demographic

If she cast a black guy or a woman the media would dismiss it as racism or misogyny, but now you have all these commenters and analysts talking about the actual demographics of welfare that would have been dismissed out of hand otherwise and discussing just how many able bodied people are getting money from Uncle Sugar

So please right leaning pols more ads like this!
Posted by: 18-1
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It was a stupid ad and Huckabee should have apologized for it. Instead she doubled down which leaves serious questions as to her abilities for any higher office. It is particularly offensive in the case that WalMart, Tysons, etc. are busy bringing in H1Bs to fill tech roles in Arkansas while the 'white gamer bros' applications are being thrown away.

The first rule in politics is be loyal to your base voters because they are the ones that will stick it out when things go bad. The swing voters, the 'principled' types, will run away when things go bad as they often do in politics.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 10:23 AM (E4rtv)

180 Meanwhile, France is on fire.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 10:23 AM (viF8m)

181 Elijah was *feeling* desolate, too. A very appropriate setting.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 30, 2026 10:23 AM (PKL0q)

182 179 It was a stupid ad and Huckabee should have apologized for it. Instead she doubled down which leaves serious questions as to her abilities for any higher office. It is particularly offensive in the case that WalMart, Tysons, etc. are busy bringing in H1Bs to fill tech roles in Arkansas while the 'white gamer bros' applications are being thrown away.

The first rule in politics is be loyal to your base voters because they are the ones that will stick it out when things go bad. The swing voters, the 'principled' types, will run away when things go bad as they often do in politics.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 10:23 AM (E4rtv)

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"We're trying not to signal racism by targeting the safest demo possible even if it doesn't make sense."

"That doesn't make sense."

"See? You're racist."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:23 AM (U/fqy)

183 The first rule in politics is be loyal to your base voters because they are the ones that will stick it out when things go bad. The swing voters, the 'principled' types, will run away when things go bad as they often do in politics.

Right leaning white male voters see that ad and note "that's not me"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:24 AM (sKqQm)

184 Elijah in the Desert
Washington Allston

Based on 1 Kings 17:1–7, where God sends the prophet Elijah into the barren wilderness to be fed by ravens.

But Ace can't get the crows to sit on the porch. Heh.

I'd hang it for the month of October. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 30, 2026 10:24 AM (NFX2v)

185 I don't know anyone personally named Lazarus.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026

***
Does "lapis lazuli" mean "stone of Lazarus"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 10:24 AM (wzUl9)

186 "We're trying not to signal racism by targeting the safest demo possible even if it doesn't make sense."

"That doesn't make sense."

"See? Your racist."

How many other ads from Huckabee or hell any other right leaning pol are we and the FNM talking about right now?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:24 AM (sKqQm)

187 176 never read any heinlein. been meaning to.
Posted by: cmeat
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Try starting either with compilations of his Future History short stories or perhaps Double Star. If you like politics, His Take Back Your Government shows how politics used to be in this country (Heinlein was deeply involved in the 30's in CA) and how we can fix the current rotten politics of today. Hint, it requires work and organization.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 10:25 AM (E4rtv)

188 153 I wonder if Hot Air has a Vibrant Non Sequitur Thread...
Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 10:10 AM (I0N4X)
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Thursday!
Posted by: Townhall

CBD also had a Buck-like Morning Rant yesterday, proving he has grown in office. Also, there are rumors he's on some podcast here, though I haven't verified that, as yet.

Posted by: Things Are Looking Up! at September 30, 2026 10:25 AM (Fn+3X)

189 Lots of men have their Lazarus moment.

Posted by: Alexandra Daddario at September 30, 2026 10:25 AM (qbqtn)

190 How many other ads from Huckabee or hell any other right leaning pol are we and the FNM talking about right now?
Posted by: 18-1
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Viral does not equate to being good.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 10:26 AM (E4rtv)

191 176 never read any heinlein. been meaning to.
Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026

***
The Door Into Summer, Have Space Suit Will Travel, Methuselah's Children, Double Star, and Friday are all good, and good places to start.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 10:26 AM (wzUl9)

192 Yes, I began my true education into written SF with The Past Through Tomorrow, a 1967 collection of the Future History stories. His very first tale, "Life-Line," is in there, as is Methuselah's Children.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 10:28 AM (wzUl9)

193 187 i prefer short stories. i'll find that.
i've read his political beliefs wind up being sus.
but one of my karen awfl pals says he's misogynistic so i'll like some of it.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:28 AM (Bep7s)

194 "hear his boots and see the figure dressed in black"

Posted by: Kittens! at September 30, 2026 10:28 AM (LOZbR)

195 Gonna need some proof of life on this.

Nancy Guthrie Investigators Reviewing “New Possible Ransom Note” Almost Eight Months After Her Disappearance

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 10:28 AM (ndZc7)

196 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 10:09 AM (JrHfD)

People like that are just fucking with you. They say it just to watch you argue against it. Well worn lib tactic.

I mean yes they want converts to their corruption of Scripture but above all they just love doing it.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 10:29 AM (x8rTv)

197 [[i
That one song was definitely about me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:21 AM (U/fqy)

I bet you think this song is about you....don't you......DON'T you......DON'T YOU!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:29 AM (ccf/V)

198 Dollah General and Aldi hadn't made it to the area yet.
Posted by: EBT Acceped Here at September 30, 2026 09:59 AM (Fn+3X)

Sure about that?

Posted by: Aldi Owned Trader Joe at September 30, 2026 10:30 AM (f0pGg)

199 In the no shit Sherlock world. Frank Luntz is saying that if MAGA turns out the Republicans will pull an "upset".
Don't think it will be a big upset.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 10:30 AM (jivel)

200 189 that's funny. i worked with a stoner who used to say, "sex has nothing to do with my asshoe." but he also enjoyed the office gal with the "ass of a ten year old boy." so i guess you're right.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:30 AM (Bep7s)

201 That painting….

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2026 10:30 AM (jdlda)

202 197 [[i
That one song was definitely about me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:21 AM (U/fqy)

I bet you think this song is about you....don't you......DON'T you......DON'T YOU!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:29 AM (ccf/V)

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If there was ever a "You asked for it comment," it was that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:30 AM (U/fqy)

203 I find at times with the Left that they believe getting you to even argue with them legitimizes their "side", no matter what it is.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 10:30 AM (x8rTv)

204 200 funny because his last name was daddarrio.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:30 AM (Bep7s)

205 Meanwhile, France is on fire.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 10:23 AM (viF8m)

islhamic fall.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:31 AM (ccf/V)

206 It’s racist to try not to be racist.

Posted by: The Rules at September 30, 2026 10:31 AM (f0pGg)

207 Viral does not equate to being good.

The only question when it comes to politics is does it move votes?

Does it reach and make friendly voters more likely to come out?
Does it reach and make opposed voters less likely to come out?
Does it change the mind of malleable voters to vote for my candidate?

And here she's reached a nation wide audience on the question of, "should government take money from the taxpayers to pay able bodied adults to stay at home and goof off"? which is a discussion the left doesn't want to have because it will hit the 1st and 3rd point.

Now, the one addition I would have made to the ad - give the actor a foreign accent, something European to make the question about paying foreigners even if of course the foreigners on welfare are rarely white males

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:32 AM (sKqQm)

208 199 In the no shit Sherlock world. Frank Luntz is saying that if MAGA turns out the Republicans will pull an "upset".
Don't think it will be a big upset.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 10:30 AM (jivel)

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Best pollster of the past decade, Harvard-Harris, released a new poll this morning.

https://x.com/IAPolls2022/status/
2105075960924053939

D+2.

Their last poll (about a month ago) was R+2. They're within the margin of error of each other.

This ain't 2018.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:32 AM (U/fqy)

209 Right leaning white male voters see that ad and note "that's not me"
Posted by: 18-1
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I don't think Gen Z or even Millennials who are white gamers take it that way. It was and is a stupidly offensive ad and Huckabee's response showed her incapacity to correct error. Bad trait for a pol.

The gamer community has been beaten about the head by women, been called racist since the whole Gamer gate shit started, and various other insults, now Brad is the epitome of the popular criticisms of white gamer bros over time. That whole community of Gen Z and younger Millennials have had it up to their ass with boomerisms about working harder, and other aphorisms while we have literally given away our tech jobs to foreign lands. Gamers are usually also competing for those same tech jobs. And Huckabee says nothing because her corporate donors want that cheap foreign labor.

That is the subtext of this ad controversy. She is poking at folks that are competing for tech jobs with foreigners in a rigged competition. It is to her discredit that she did it.

Context is important and the smug idiot Comms chief of Huckabee just screwed his boss by commissioning this stupid ad.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 10:32 AM (E4rtv)

210 191 thanks, y'all. i have recorded those, although i've heard friday is not great.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:32 AM (Bep7s)

211 199 In the no shit Sherlock world. Frank Luntz is saying that if MAGA turns out the Republicans will pull an "upset".
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 10:30 AM (jivel)

This is like when sportsball analysts on TV say the team who scores the most points will have an excellent chance to win the game.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 10:33 AM (f0pGg)

212 Jezebel would probably be a Talarico supporter.

Posted by: Alexandra Daddario at September 30, 2026 10:34 AM (qbqtn)

213 7 i prefer short stories. i'll find that.
i've read his political beliefs wind up being sus.
but one of my karen awfl pals says he's misogynistic so i'll like some of it.
Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026

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It's a very good collection. And he was not misogynistic. Much of his early sales were in the days when SF was mostly a boys' club. When he began to include more female characters, they were as smart and multitalented as his male heroes.

An AWFL would think he was a misogynist, as his lead women all like men and are interested in having children.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 10:34 AM (wzUl9)

214 the only Heinlein I sorta liked was Stranger in a Strange Land

of all the male-centric genre stuff, Heinlein is the toughest for me. just I dunno. even a girl who likes boy stuff has trouble or at least I do

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 30, 2026 10:34 AM (j+aD2)

215 thanks, y'all. i have recorded those, although i've heard friday is not great.
Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026

***
It's a fine adventure story.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 10:34 AM (wzUl9)

216 211 199 In the no shit Sherlock world. Frank Luntz is saying that if MAGA turns out the Republicans will pull an "upset".
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 10:30 AM (jivel)

This is like when sportsball analysts on TV say the team who scores the most points will have an excellent chance to win the game.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 30, 2026 10:33 AM (f0pGg)

======

Nick Cage is in a new movie about John Madden, coming to Prime soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzh7HzLXXpk

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:34 AM (U/fqy)

217 I don't think Gen Z or even Millennials who are white gamers take it that way.

The right leaning young white males I know are logging serious hours at work.

Yes many of them are gamers but they define themselves as "guys who work" not "guys who game"

But the point of the ad isn't the guy is a gamer. Its that he's playing games instead of working. Which is...not the right leaning or reachable vote.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:35 AM (sKqQm)

218 And he was not misogynistic

agree he wasn't

he was just .. hard to like I dunno

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 30, 2026 10:35 AM (j+aD2)

219 @208 TJM, definitely not 2018. Plus the Dems still have 5 weeks to do something even more insane.
People also forget that in 2018 a lot of GOPe types jumped ship and didn't run for reelection. MAGA just wasn't who they were

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 10:35 AM (jivel)

220 And here she's reached a nation wide audience on the question of, "should government take money from the taxpayers to pay able bodied adults to stay at home and goof off"? which is a discussion the left doesn't want to have because it will hit the 1st and 3rd point.

Now, the one addition I would have made to the ad - give the actor a foreign accent, something European to make the question about paying foreigners even if of course the foreigners on welfare are rarely white males
Posted by: 18-1

You are having a meta description as justification for the politically dumb ad. It doesn't work in this context. Everyone knows already who is on welfare and really don't need a stupid ad to understand it.

This is punching down and typical of a establishment politician for fear of being called racist or anti feminist. Seen the same stupid rhetoric for older white males about younger ones repeatedly and as a older white male, I see it as offensive when these older males never inhabited the vicious world that these kids have.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 10:35 AM (E4rtv)

221 214 the only Heinlein I sorta liked was Stranger in a Strange Land

of all the male-centric genre stuff, Heinlein is the toughest for me. just I dunno. even a girl who likes boy stuff has trouble or at least I do

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 30, 2026 10:34 AM (j+aD2)

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Stranger in a Strange Land is...strange.

Earlier Heinlein's less strange.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is far easier to take, and better all around.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:35 AM (U/fqy)

222 6 It’s racist to try not to be racist.

Posted by: The Rules at September 30, 2026 10:31 AM (f0pGg)

Yes it is not just racist, it is in fact the most racist thing. That's what they've been saying for a decade. The MOST racist thing you can do is to not be racist.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 10:36 AM (x8rTv)

223 Right on schedule, pollsters will start reporting "narrowing election contests"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 10:37 AM (qbqtn)

224 211 bold strategy...

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:37 AM (Bep7s)

225 In the no shit Sherlock world. Frank Luntz is saying that if MAGA turns out the Republicans will pull an "upset".

The demographic Trump and the Republicans rely on now was less likely to turn out when Trump isn't on the ballot in the midterms before.

And I get it...much of the GOP is useless. But if Trump's final two years are with a MAGA working majority congress it will be a much better last 2 years...so how do you get those people to consider the stakes?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:37 AM (sKqQm)

226 Damn it!

Court pauses execution for satanic murderer minutes before she was set to meet her Maker

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 10:37 AM (ndZc7)

227 Try reading Stranger in a Strange Land the Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Starship Troopers in a short time frame and wonder how the same guy wrote all three

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:38 AM (sKqQm)

228 213 nice. she's a "mean bikey chick," self described.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:38 AM (Bep7s)

229 Execution of Christa Pike has been stayed at the last hour by 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2026 10:39 AM (J4Dwc)

230
Nick Cage is in a new movie about John Madden, coming to Prime soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzh7HzLXXpk
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:34 AM (U/fqy)

That........looks.........terrible.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:39 AM (ccf/V)

231 219 @208 TJM, definitely not 2018. Plus the Dems still have 5 weeks to do something even more insane.
People also forget that in 2018 a lot of GOPe types jumped ship and didn't run for reelection. MAGA just wasn't who they were

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 10:35 AM (jivel)

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What really shifted 2018 was massively juiced Dem turnout. Shockingly, Rep turnout was decent. It's just that Dem turnout was that much more.

Early vote analysis in NC and OH and VA is showing Dem overperformance in the blue state (VA) but overall down turnout and underperformance in the red state (OH) and swing state (NC).

Numbers are still very early, especially in NC (it's all main in votes at this point, and mail in isn't that big of a thing in the state, in-person early voting is where the real numbers will be (starts 10/15).

Still, the good pollsters are showing it close. Early analysis of actual votes shows lower turnout and Dem turnout low in competitive states.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:39 AM (U/fqy)

232 215 looking forward to.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:39 AM (Bep7s)

233 218 interesting.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:40 AM (Bep7s)

234
The War on Terror seems like a terrible joke that Our Better's played on us.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 10:40 AM (k3Vs9)

235 Although, we all know all the polling will shift now that the Democrat Party has gotten the key endorsement of the season from the IRGC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:40 AM (U/fqy)

236 Has Talefreako mentioned spending 40 days in the west Texas desert yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2026 10:40 AM (wWIcc)

237 Stranger in a Strange Land is...strange.

Earlier Heinlein's less strange.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is far easier to take, and better all around.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026

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SiaSL is odd, yes. He began working on it during the Fifties. He knew it would be unpublishable until the country's mores changed a bit. As it happened, he caught the beginning of the wave just right and was thought of as a prophet of the new, "more permissive/free love" era -- which he always disdained, at least in his writings about the book and the movement.

At first it reminds you of Tarzan -- a human child raised by another species, in this case Martians -- and then veers off into its own path.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 10:41 AM (wzUl9)

238 The War on Terror seems like a terrible joke that Our Better's played on us.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 10:40 AM (k3Vs9)

It's nothing more than an eternal blank check. Or is it cheque.......What day is it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:41 AM (ccf/V)

239 Try reading Stranger in a Strange Land the Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Starship Troopers in a short time frame and wonder how the same guy wrote all three
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:38 AM (sKqQm)
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*raises hand*

Glory Road.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 30, 2026 10:41 AM (amcLV)

240 Posted by: 18-1

Again, the point is not your explanation but how the people in that particular demographic take it. And they take it as a direct insult contrary to facts. It was and is a stupid ad that will in fact haunt Huckabee for any future on a ticket for higher office.

Vance, for example, is someone that has been sensitive to young white males and he probably does not need the headache of putting someone like Huckabee as VP. It is not the ad so much as Huckabee doubling down on it that makes it bad news for her.

Tech unemployment levels are about twice the level of general unemployment right now and that is because corporate america and even red state governments have insatiable demands for H1Bs, OPT, and other vile jobs programs for foreigners that essentially gut domestic hiring of white college educated males predominately.

They voted for Trump to end this state of affairs and Trump has moved somewhat in that direction by starting to crack down on the egregious fraud in these programs. This ad reminds them of GOPe and Karl Rovian corporate whoredom.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 10:41 AM (E4rtv)

241 The D ads I'm seeing are interesting in that they aren't mostly focused on gas prices but just a generalized Orangemanbad and then associating Trump with the house/senate/governor candidate.

Of course I'm in a blue area so perhaps they have better ads in purple areas....

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:42 AM (sKqQm)

242 Has Talefreako mentioned spending 40 days in the west Texas desert yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2026 10:40 AM (wWIcc)

I just want to see if he has the stones to get nailed to a cross.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:42 AM (ccf/V)

243 The only film that looks half way interesting is Digger, a full 2 hours of Tom Cruise as a Southern Les Grossman seems appealing, and it's obvious Strangelovian vibes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 10:42 AM (Lm2uZ)

244 241 The D ads I'm seeing are interesting in that they aren't mostly focused on gas prices but just a generalized Orangemanbad and then associating Trump with the house/senate/governor candidate.

Of course I'm in a blue area so perhaps they have better ads in purple areas....

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:42 AM (sKqQm)

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"Michael Whatley has a sex pest on his campaign staff!"
-like, 75% of Roy Cooper's ads

"I totally didn't release the guy who killed the girl in SC!"
-the other 25%

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:42 AM (U/fqy)

245 227 i have a penguin of stranger i found. will do.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:42 AM (Bep7s)

246 Again, the point is not your explanation but how the people in that particular demographic take it. And they take it as a direct insult contrary to facts.

The people I see complaining are not working white male gamers - they are middle aged non-gamers.

The working white male gamers I know and read aren't complaining about it

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:43 AM (sKqQm)

247 Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 30, 2026 10:34 AM (j+aD2)

Elmore Leonard is amazing. And so easy. So easy even *I* read him.

Although I had to stop one of them because there were too many characters.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 10:43 AM (x8rTv)

248 243 The only film that looks half way interesting is Digger, a full 2 hours of Tom Cruise as a Southern Les Grossman seems appealing, and it's obvious Strangelovian vibes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 10:42 AM (Lm2uZ)

=

40-50% Rotten Tomatoes right now.

Tracking for $9 million opening weekend.

The movie cost AT LEAST $130 million to make. And marketing has been aggressive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:43 AM (U/fqy)

249 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Beautiful art. Would hang.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2026 10:43 AM (2WIwB)

250 227 Try reading Stranger in a Strange Land the Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Starship Troopers in a short time frame and wonder how the same guy wrote all three
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026

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He was amazing, that was how.

He wrote Troopers to be a juvenile, but his editor, a proto-Karen AWFL, hated it (as she'd hated his earlier work, and him, but he sold well). So he took it across the street, as he put it, to another publisher and promptly won a Hugo.

I'm not sure which appeared first, Mistress or Stranger, but he had been working on the latter for a while in the late Fifties.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 10:44 AM (wzUl9)

251 The biggest thing Ive seen this year is Democrats seem to be running "_______ is not for sale" across the entire country.

Michigan is not for sale
Maryland is not for sale

They just pick something that sounds good and roll with it. It literally means nothing. They just made it up. And in fact it's just projection. Everyone knows that Democrats sell the country's silver. It's what they do.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 10:45 AM (x8rTv)

252 The biggest thing Ive seen this year is Democrats seem to be running "_______ is not for sale" across the entire country.

Michigan is not for sale
Maryland is not for sale

They just pick something that sounds good and roll with it. It literally means nothing. They just made it up. And in fact it's just projection. Everyone knows that Democrats sell the country's silver. It's what they do.
Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 10:45 AM (x8rTv)

Stop the billionaires from buying political office!

*as they spend a billion dollars to gain political office*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:46 AM (ccf/V)

253 Elmore Leonard is amazing. And so easy. So easy even *I* read him.

Although I had to stop one of them because there were too many characters.
Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026

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He is very good . . . but he reproduces the way low-lifes and criminals actually talk so closely, it's hard for me to follow the dialog sometimes. HIs best crime novels are 52 Pick-Up and Mr. Majestyk, and his Westerns like Hombre are great too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 10:46 AM (wzUl9)

254
Stop the billionaires from buying political office!

*as they spend a billion dollars to gain political office*

That they got from a billionaire.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:46 AM (sKqQm)

255 Pretty sure Talefreako has been nailed, just not to a cross.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2026 10:46 AM (wWIcc)

256 @248

>>The movie cost AT LEAST $130 million to make. And marketing has been aggressive.

I don't care if it succeeds commercially, it looks interesting.

The AFI Top 100 Movies is full of pictures that didn't do well commercially.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 10:47 AM (Lm2uZ)

257 Pretty sure Talefreako has been nailed, just not to a cross.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2026 10:46 AM (wWIcc)

He does the poop chute boogie......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:47 AM (ccf/V)

258 I read Stranger in a Strange Land in 8th grade English and it was truly mind-altering.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 10:47 AM (RIvkX)

259 Oh, please.

Sure, some young white males are on welfare.

Some are not.

Many in both groups are Trump voters whom the GOP needs for their lying faggot political Party to win elections.

You will never ever see a Democrat politician attack her own base voters.

It's a stupid play by a stupid politician in a stupid Party. As per usual for Republicans. It's not 3D chess. Just another dumbfuck playing checkers against herself.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 30, 2026 10:47 AM (BI5O2)

260 Pretty sure Talefreako has been nailed, just not to a cross./i]

It isn't gay if you think about your Canadian girlfriend while that buff, swarthy man takes you.

Posted by: Talefreako at September 30, 2026 10:47 AM (sKqQm)

261 You know you're living in a pretty bleak world when the most colorful thing in it is an ice mountain off in the distance.

Posted by: Denny Crane - I Shattered my Femur at September 30, 2026 10:48 AM (NoYYJ)

262 Market stuck in neutral so far today, balancing the good economic news against the Iranian attacks on a couple more ships. The IRGC just needs killing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 10:48 AM (WKesY)

263 256 @248

>>The movie cost AT LEAST $130 million to make. And marketing has been aggressive.

I don't care if it succeeds commercially, it looks interesting.

The AFI Top 100 Movies is full of pictures that didn't do well commercially.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 10:47 AM (Lm2uZ)

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Just noting that it's bombing, which came after the very split critical reaction.

It sounds at least interesting, but I suspect I'll find it unsuccessful artistically.

And Tom Cruise might have affirmatively ended his movie star era with the film. Days of Thunder 2 better make Top Gun 2 money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:49 AM (U/fqy)

264
It's a stupid play by a stupid politician in a stupid Party. As per usual for Republicans. It's not 3D chess. Just another dumbfuck playing checkers against herself.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 30, 2026 10:47 AM (BI5O2)

Tell us how you really feel... LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 10:49 AM (+gK6I)

265
Tell us how you really feel... LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 10:49 AM (+gK6I)

He's very shy......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:49 AM (ccf/V)

266 HIs best crime novels are 52 Pick-Up and Mr. Majestyk, and his Westerns like Hombre are great too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 10:46 AM (wzUl9)
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Mr. Majestyk was a great Charles Bronson movie.

I think I saw it in a double-feature with Freebie & the Bean.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 10:49 AM (RIvkX)

267 The D ads I'm seeing are interesting in that they aren't mostly focused on gas prices but just a generalized Orangemanbad and then associating Trump with the house/senate/governor candidate.

Of course I'm in a blue area so perhaps they have better ads in purple areas....
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:42 AM

That's pretty much every Maura Healy ad I've seen. Trump bad. Trump policies bad. My opponent likes Trump. Vote blue so we can keep screwing you while not being Trump!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 10:50 AM (bFu5X)

268 262 Market stuck in neutral so far today, balancing the good economic news against the Iranian attacks on a couple more ships. The IRGC just needs killing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 10:48 AM (WKesY)

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Interesting look at the mind of the IRGC supporters right now:

https://x.com/iranidaturan/status/
2105163899465019567

Key section:

"5. They keep telling each other to ignore CNN, Axios, and the rest. They’ve learned those outlets are biased and unreliable. They keep complaining that the regime’s officials lie and hide the truth, and that they only learn what is actually happening when Trump says it. (Even they have figured out why Trump tolerated “fake news.” It was feeding them misleading signals.)"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:50 AM (U/fqy)

269 Just don't call him Francis.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2026 10:50 AM (wWIcc)

270 263 "what the hell, ricky bobby?"

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:50 AM (Bep7s)

271
That's pretty much every Maura Healy ad I've seen. Trump bad. Trump policies bad. My opponent likes Trump. Vote blue so we can keep screwing you while not being Trump!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 10:50 AM (bFu5X)

It's all they have.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:50 AM (ccf/V)

272 271
That's pretty much every Maura Healy ad I've seen. Trump bad. Trump policies bad. My opponent likes Trump. Vote blue so we can keep screwing you while not being Trump!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 10:50 AM (bFu5X)

It's all they have.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:50 AM (ccf/V)

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In MA, it's all they need.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:50 AM (U/fqy)

273 The people I see complaining are not working white male gamers - they are middle aged non-gamers.

The working white male gamers I know and read aren't complaining about it

Posted by: 18-1

They are on X which is where they are and the whole tech debacle is being played out in real time. She is getting ratioed big time over it. Add in Karl Rove claiming GOP is getting taken over by racists and other twaddle.

You don't see this shit on your nightly news or normie news channels. That is because the struggles of young white males in this country (or in Euroland) are largely ignored by I'm All Right Jack types. I saw this shit up close and personal as academic and career advisor to students as a professor and I had one male student that got laid off and was living in his car and yet coming to class. And seeing the vile treatment that they got at the hands of an uncaring higher ed administration. Same dynamic in K-12.

These young men are hurting as their spaces like Boy Scouts have been eviscerated, their hobbies and habits mocked by others including the rather feral and vicious Gen Z females in their groups, and so on.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 10:51 AM (E4rtv)

274 Party time, excellent!

Canadian judge rules citizens have a constitutional right to traffic drugs
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So long as they don't say anything offensive about women or minorities they can traffic all the drugs they'd like?

Posted by: Crusader at September 30, 2026 10:52 AM (TN0g+)

275 That's pretty much every Maura Healy ad I've seen. Trump bad. Trump policies bad. My opponent likes Trump. Vote blue so we can keep screwing you while not being Trump!

I saw she is talking about borrowing her opponent's proposal for a gas tax freeze without mentioning she got the idea from him.

But this points to the problem Dems have running on lowering gas prices because I suspect if they really push on it the Trump admin will propose a national level gas tax freeze right before the election co-opting any ground they made on gas prices...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:52 AM (sKqQm)

276
In MA, it's all they need.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:50 AM (U/fqy)

Valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:52 AM (ccf/V)

277 259 Oh, please.
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Calls for "Girlfriend, please" or "Sure, Jan" as appropriate.

Posted by: AoS Style Guide at September 30, 2026 10:52 AM (RIvkX)

278 The clue was always "Huckabee"

I always liked the way she carried herself but whatever this hullabaloo is I don't think it sounds good.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 10:53 AM (x8rTv)

279 MA voters are odd.

They'll tell you how they hate everything their state government is doing in detail.

Then tell you they will re-elect those same people because they can't vote for a Republican.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:53 AM (sKqQm)

280 279 MA voters are odd.

They'll tell you how they hate everything their state government is doing in detail.

Then tell you they will re-elect those same people because they can't vote for a Republican.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:53 AM (sKqQm)

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Republicans hate the gays.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:54 AM (U/fqy)

281 @263

>>And Tom Cruise might have affirmatively ended his movie star era with the film. Days of Thunder 2

It won't have Tony Scott so ipso facto it won't be as good as the first film.

And them taking a chance on an indie film director for the sequel is, to say the least, unwise.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 10:54 AM (Lm2uZ)

282 That's pretty much every Maura Healy ad I've seen. Trump bad. Trump policies bad. My opponent likes Trump. Vote blue so we can keep screwing you while not being Trump!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Mass GOP is moribund anyway as is the case in most of New England. There are two seats, one in NH, and one in ME that the GOP even has a chance at winning and only two Senate seats in those same states that might result in a GOP victory.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 10:54 AM (E4rtv)

283 Always Elijah and his stupid ravens.

Did he have any bears? Huh? Huh?

Posted by: Elisha at September 30, 2026 10:54 AM (qlLNh)

284
Republicans hate the gays.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:54 AM (U/fqy)

A WNBA coach has gone so far as to say not allowing men in women's sports is akin to wanting to kill all the trans.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:54 AM (ccf/V)

285
Q: Why did Talarico cross the road?
A: He was nailed to a chicken.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 10:55 AM (4NO2D)

286 Q: Why did Talarico cross the road?
A: He was nailed to a chicken.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 10:55 AM (4NO2D)

"You just keep f*cking that chicken, James."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:56 AM (ccf/V)

287 281 @263

>>And Tom Cruise might have affirmatively ended his movie star era with the film. Days of Thunder 2

It won't have Tony Scott so ipso facto it won't be as good as the first film.

And them taking a chance on an indie film director for the sequel is, to say the least, unwise.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 10:54 AM (Lm2uZ)

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The first was really directed by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, mostly Don Simpson. Tony Scott was a cog in the Simpson machine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:56 AM (U/fqy)

288 285 mom says the difference between sexy and kinky is a feather vs the whole chicken.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:56 AM (Bep7s)

289 The only question when it comes to politics is does it move votes?

Does it reach and make friendly voters more likely to come out?
Does it reach and make opposed voters less likely to come out?
Does it change the mind of malleable voters to vote for my candidate?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:32 AM (sKqQm)
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Does my base see this ad and think I'm calling them a bunch of do-nothing welfare leeches and that they should tell me to go fuck myself?

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:56 AM (oqH4h)

290 Pretty sure Talefreako has been nailed, just not to a cross.
Posted by: Anna Puma

***********

We know he has been stoned.

Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 10:56 AM (I0N4X)

291 289 The only question when it comes to politics is does it move votes?

Does it reach and make friendly voters more likely to come out?
Does it reach and make opposed voters less likely to come out?
Does it change the mind of malleable voters to vote for my candidate?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:32 AM (sKqQm)
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Does my base see this ad and think I'm calling them a bunch of do-nothing welfare leeches and that they should tell me to go fuck myself?

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 10:56 AM (oqH4h)

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Imagine the talk if Sanders had used a fat black woman in the ad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:57 AM (U/fqy)

292
We know he has been stoned.

Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 10:56 AM (I0N4X)

He inhaled?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:57 AM (ccf/V)

293 Cornell has a traditional day long party to welcome students back to campus, especially freshman, called "Slope Day" because campus is hilly and the party is on a hill. My year they had a beer truck with about 40 taps ("Must be 18 to drink beer" sign was hilarious) and Commander Cody played.

This year they have "Kehlani", best known for her explicit antisemitism and support of Hamas. Welcome to present day Cornell.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 10:57 AM (LY8iJ)

294 Elijah wasn't bad off there. He had water, woods for shleter, and crows to eat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 10:57 AM (C6xWR)

295 The only message Democrats have here in virtually every local race, even ballot propositions...is Trump for it or agin' it.

Scott Weiner...Trump hates me
Connie Chan...I'll fight Trump
Prop 3...Reverse Trump's housing cuts!
and so on

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 10:57 AM (RIvkX)

296 i never exhaled.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:57 AM (Bep7s)

297 @287

>>The first was really directed by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, mostly Don Simpson. Tony Scott was a cog in the Simpson machine.

Well, they won't have those cats either, so, I wish them well.

I'll definitely see it as I've seen most of Cruises pictures.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 10:57 AM (Lm2uZ)

298 I told you all year Democrats can't run PM low gas prices. One they don't believe in them and two their voters don't even want them and three no one would believe them.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 10:58 AM (x8rTv)

299 Cornell has a traditional day long party to welcome students back to campus, especially freshman, called "Slope Day" because campus is hilly and the party is on a hill. My year they had a beer truck with about 40 taps ("Must be 18 to drink beer" sign was hilarious) and Commander Cody played.

This year they have "Kehlani", best known for her explicit antisemitism and support of Hamas. Welcome to present day Cornell.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 10:57 AM (LY8iJ)

Huh....I thought it was a thing about Asians.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:58 AM (ccf/V)

300 Mass GOP is moribund anyway as is the case in most of New England. There are two seats, one in NH, and one in ME that the GOP even has a chance at winning and only two Senate seats in those same states that might result in a GOP victory.
Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 10:54 AM (E4rtv)

Trying to keep a positive attitude, but I just heard Trump is gonna campaign in Nebraska and Oklahoma ? That does not sound good....

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 10:58 AM (+gK6I)

301 I'm sorry to see Sarah do something like this.

It's always disappointing when you see world-class stupidity coming from someone you used to want to bang.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 10:58 AM (qlLNh)

302 293 you can see the ccp influence.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:58 AM (Bep7s)

303 Trying to keep a positive attitude, but I just heard Trump is gonna campaign in Nebraska and Oklahoma ? That does not sound good....
Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 10:58 AM (+gK6I)

He's coming back to Texas and visiting the Peterbilt plant in Denton on Friday.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:59 AM (ccf/V)

304 There are no Asian Grandparents. Not art.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 30, 2026 10:59 AM (KGj36)

305 Note the raven on the branch, foreshadowing God's provision.

Posted by: RS at September 30, 2026 10:59 AM (GYx3d)

306 294 shleter is the yiddish word for crow. silent k.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 10:59 AM (Bep7s)

307 Will Sanders win reelection by more or less than twenty points?

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 30, 2026 11:00 AM (4NO2D)

308 86 I'm surprised there are no buzzards circling.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

Crow's turf. It'd kicked the buzzard's ass.

Posted by: Roy at September 30, 2026 11:00 AM (qwype)

309 He's coming back to Texas and visiting the Peterbilt plant in Denton on Friday.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:59 AM (ccf/V)

Should I worry about Texas ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 11:00 AM (+gK6I)

310 Imagine the talk if Sanders had used a fat black woman in the ad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:57 AM (U/fqy)
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That's why the premise of the ad is stone-cold retarded classical GOP stupidity. There's no way to do that ad without some sort of backlash from some group. It shouldn't have been done to begin with.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 11:00 AM (oqH4h)

311 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:01 AM (ccf/V)

312 He's coming back to Texas and visiting the Peterbilt plant in Denton on Friday.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 10:59 AM (ccf/V)

Mobile, AL too, I think

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2026 11:01 AM (J4Dwc)

313 Posted by: ...

Her father was the same way as governor. And it doomed his chance at running for president. His was pardoning a piece of shit that raped a girl who was a distant relative of Bill Clinton and then the locals ended up castrating him. Ole Huck felt sorrry for the piece of shit and pardoned him proclaiming he was a victim of political prosecution and had found Jesus. Wayne Dumond promptly returned the favor by victimizing more women, moved to Missouri and raped and killed a young women there. So much for his religion.

Huckabee could never bring himself to apologize abjectly for screwing up. But it doomed any chance at a Senate or presidential run.

His daughter seems to be cut of the same mold. As a pol, if you make a stupid mistake, admit it and move on. At worst, don't amplify the original mistake by doubling down on stupidity. People will forgive a mistake, they won't forgive doubling down, thrashing around with metaphorical punches at their critics, and refusing to reverse course.

Always have an out if you blunder as a pol.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 11:01 AM (E4rtv)

314
Should I worry about Texas ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 11:00 AM (+gK6I)

The pollsters certainly WANT you to......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 11:01 AM (ccf/V)

315 310 Imagine the talk if Sanders had used a fat black woman in the ad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 10:57 AM (U/fqy)
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That's why the premise of the ad is stone-cold retarded classical GOP stupidity. There's no way to do that ad without some sort of backlash from some group. It shouldn't have been done to begin with.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 11:00 AM (oqH4h)

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Black women are never going to vote Republican.

Attack them like they're enemies, because they are.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 30, 2026 11:01 AM (U/fqy)

316 315 my neighbor does. surrounded by libs, then i discover her affiliations. she's great, hates b.johnson.

Posted by: cmeat at September 30, 2026 11:03 AM (Bep7s)

317 307 Will Sanders win reelection by more or less than twenty points?
Posted by: toby928(c)

Probably not enough to sink her for reelection with awful Dems but enough to hurt any chance at running for Senate (Boozman is getting old) or president/vp in 2028.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 11:05 AM (E4rtv)

318 If she cast a black guy or a woman the media would dismiss it as racism or misogyny, but now you have all these commenters and analysts talking about the actual demographics of welfare that would have been dismissed out of hand otherwise and discussing just how many able bodied people are getting money from Uncle Sugar

So please right leaning pols more ads like this!
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 10:10 AM (sKqQm)

Agreed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 11:07 AM (C6xWR)

319 Trying to keep a positive attitude, but I just heard Trump is gonna campaign in Nebraska and Oklahoma ? That does not sound good....
Posted by: It's me donna

Nebraska has a House seat (Don Bacon's Omaha based district in play--he retired but was a POS Never Trumper pro open borders type anyway). Oklahoma has the short term Senate replacement for Markwayne Mullins. I suspect that Trump made that commitment to Markwayne and OK GOP prior to appointing him as DHS chief.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2026 11:09 AM (E4rtv)

320 Elijah was a Democrat? I did not know that.

Johnny Carson

Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at September 30, 2026 12:03 PM (QCcDj)

321 That scene's in Utah, right … ? Right … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at September 30, 2026 12:34 PM (ayRl+)

The Morning Report — 9/ 30 /26

Good morning kids. As CBD and I yammered on about, yet again, on the latest episode of the podcast linked here as well as the top of the sidebar and on the popular outlets listed at the bottom of this post . . .

we can bitch and moan all we want about the quality or lack thereof of our candidates, but we have to get out and vote . . . . early and often. I say that half in jest considering the Democrat/Left's history and penchant for election thievery,

The left-wing League of Women Voters is on notice after allegedly trying to pay high school students to register to vote earlier this year in Kansas. . . On Friday, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach sent a cease-and-desist letter to the League of Women Voters of Kansas and the LVW chapter in Leavenworth County, demanding the groups “immediately stop offering cash, gift cards, or any other item of value in connection with voter registration or voting…”

as I and my fellow Wisconsinites witnessed a few weeks back when the Dems feared the leading candidate Francesca Hong an avowed DSA freak would win the race and then come this November get thrashed by Tom TIffany and so Milwaukee and environs somehow came up with the necessary ballots for David Crowley.

David Crowley, the Milwaukee County Executive, defeated socialist State Representative Francesca Hong by approximately 3,000 votes in Wisconsin’s Democrat gubernatorial Primary election, Tuesday, after a late night counting error delayed the results.
Five of nine USB sticks from Milwaukee’s central count facility delivered to the county courthouse shortly before midnight Tuesday night, were missing election results, containing only audit logs instead of vote totals.
Paulina Gutierrez, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, said officials just clicked the wrong button on five of the tabulators, and downloaded audit logs instead of election results. Gutierrez said the human error affected approximately 15,000 absentee ballots. Officials were forced to return to the Bay View central count facility with a police escort to re-download the correct results from the five machines. The mistake delayed the final tally for the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary by more than an hour, pushing the announcement of David Crowley’s narrow victory over Francesca Hong into the early morning hours.

Crowley is touted as the so-called "moderate," but in a party of racists, criminals, perverts and tyrants who have spent the past 200 years doing all they can to destroy the nation as founded to secure absolute power for all time, what does that word even mean anymore?

Most Americans are busy working, raising families, paying mortgages and trying to figure out why their grocery bill suddenly looks like a car payment. They aren't spending Tuesday night reading the Democratic Socialists of America's political program. But perhaps they should. Because DSA isn't merely a group of activists holding signs outside city hall anymore. Its candidates are winning elections. New York City's DSA chapter says its endorsed candidates won nine of ten Democratic primary contests this summer. Two of those victories came in congressional races. The organization says its volunteers knocked on more than 800,000 doors during those campaigns. . . Again, those aren't Republican talking points. Those are DSA's own standards. So let's have the argument.
If Americans want public ownership of major industries, make the case. If Americans want to abolish the Senate, make the case. If Americans want to eliminate the Electoral College, fundamentally restructure the presidency and change the relationship between Congress and the Supreme Court, make the case. That's democracy.
But voters should understand what they're voting for. And Republicans shouldn't cheapen that debate by calling every Democrat a communist. Joe Manchin wasn't a communist. Neither is every liberal member of Congress. When every political opponent receives the most extreme label available, eventually voters stop listening. There is a much stronger argument available.

So when we say vote early and often, more and more it's less in jest and a reflection of the reality we face.

And not just in the blue wastelands but the threat is actually in solid bastions, or what we perceive and believe are solid bastions of Americanism like Texas. Please tell me that this maniac doesn't have a shot in hell!!!

Come November, Democrat James Talarico will face off against Republican Ken Paxton for the Lone Star State’s highly coveted Senate seat. Talarico has been flagged as a rising star for a party desperately seeking to regain momentum after a bruising 2024 loss, and some think he might be the man to deliver Texas to Team Blue. Politicos coo at his youthful vigor, his “aw-shucks” personality, and, most importantly, his frequent appeals to Christian theology. The aspiring senator boldly proclaims his alleged Christian bona fides in interviews and on the campaign trail. In an interview with The New York Times’ resident wonk Ezra Klein, Talarico detailed how his Baptist grandfather initially instilled in him Christian values, and how this seed of theology led him to seek ministry after finishing his studies at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Yes, it's Texas but still. I fear he has more of a chance of taking a Texas Senate Seat than of California or New York ousting the cancerous lesions occupying their senate seats and governor's mansions and replacing them with latter day Rockefellers let alone Reagans.

Early and Often, yo!!!!!

Have a good day.

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Handing Israel an automatic win.
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‘I have a kinship with Lindsay Clancy’
Media Trying to Make Monster Who Tortured College Student to Death Seem Sympathetic
“And we can actually knock this woman out. There’s a great guy running. His name is Eliott Rodriguez. Give him a look!”
Ana Navarro Accused of Violating Broadcast Rules by Urging Viewers to Vote for FL Democrat
No, Wilber Perez was not here legally. No, he was not confused about who was behind him. No, he was not denied medical care. But the media think you are gullible enough to believe all of that anyway.
The Story The Media Told You vs. The Story That Actually Happened

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Tom’s Hardware reports that NorthPoint Development wants to build a 1,300-acre data center in the Pocono foothills near Hazle Township, Pennsylvania. To smooth the way, the company has offered roughly 4,500 households a $10,000 check each, payable only if the facility is approved. The offer letters started showing up in June. Hazle Township’s median household income is $60,000, so for a lot of families in the community, the payment is significant.
Data Center Developer Offers Rural Pennsylvania Households $10,000 Checks to Drop Opposition
John Stossel: The cost versus the benefits.
Free AI
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The law in question prevents designated nonprofits, known as 501(c)(3) organizations, from "endorsing candidates, soliciting campaign contributions, distributing campaign literature, hosting candidates with no evident equal opportunity for opponents, and publishing editorialized voting records timed to elections," according to MEF.
In Direct Violation of Federal Tax Laws, Mosques Openly Campaign for Abdul El-Sayed
The mosque in ‘Little Yemen’ has multiple ties to Muslim extremists and Hamas supporters
Sen Kirsten Gillibrand Dons a Hijab at Bronx Mosque, Alongside Cleric Who Praises Hamas and Osama Bin Laden’s Mentor, in Under-the–Radar Visit
Miami mosque speaker raises questions about what it considers “Muslim family values.”
Family Night with Alleged ‘Taliban Imam’ Izhar Khan
"We've achieved a historic win for California Muslims." (A Jew In Every Pot, except the self-gassers...for now! - jjs)
Dems Will Officially Celebrate Islamic Holiday That Includes Ritual Animal Slaughter
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
Jews were called names like ‘racist,’ ‘genocide supporter,’ and ‘spiritually disfigured’
'Long Live Yahya Al-Sinwar': Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop Slapped With Discrimination Suit for Rampant Antisemitism, Crushing Dissent Over Israel Boycott
'You fan the flames of antisemitism and then shout, "Fire!"'
Mamdani Strategy on Protecting Jews Is Denounced by Jews
SHAMPEACHMENTS (past, present & future), 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
According to a committee press release, Smith and his team “acquired at least 4,782 checks from Americans who made mainly small-dollar donations to President Trump between September 2019 to August 2023.” Obtained via subpoenas, the checks disclose the donor’s bank account and routing numbers, signatures, and home addresses.
Jack Smith Seized Nearly 5,000 Checks Written By Trump Donors
There are more charges than ever, but once again, it’s really for daring to stand against the Left.
Another Attempt to Impeach Trump Has Begun
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The quits rate for manufacturing workers, a signal of confidence, rose to the highest in nearly two years.
Manufacturing Hiring Picks Up, Openings Remain Strong, Quits Rise
Protecting the great generator of wealth should be a priorty for those who have benefited the most from free enterprise.
Why Do The Defenders Of Capitalism Never Have Any Money?
Indigence stands at a record low, inequality at a historic high. Which matters more?
Is Poverty Relative?
This is an exciting story for the American heartland, and also for America in general.
The Mesabi Steel Plant: Trump’s Tariffs in Action
Farmers, ranchers, energy producers, shipbuilders, mariners: these aren't competing versions of American strength.
Save the Cows, Sink the Ships?
America can restore affordable suburban housing by embracing smaller homes, larger lots, deregulation, infrastructure investment, and technological innovation.
Sustainable Suburbs and The American Dream

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
RNC spokesman Hunter Lovell told Breitbart News, “Abdul El-Sayed doesn’t want to punish fentanyl traffickers; he wants to make their job easier. While fentanyl kills Michiganders every single day, El-Sayed is out here defending the people poisoning our communities.”
EXCLUSIVE: Abdul El-Sayed Called Laws Against Fentanyl Dealers ‘Draconian,’ Backed Supervised Drug Use Sites(supervised by Nicky Barnes and Frog One?! - jjs)
The 75-year-old defense attorney spent six weeks telling a Massachusetts jury that his client, Lindsay Clancy, killed her three children because of postpartum psychosis and therefore she was not criminally responsible. On Tuesday, he stood in Plymouth Superior Court and asked the judge to acquit her because, suddenly, nobody can prove she did it.
Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Has Gone Completely Nuts With This Move
“It’s a Philly Thing.”
The Brothel Next Door
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The current lack of job prospects for college graduates is a painful but long overdue correction.
Reality Slaps College Graduates In The Face
ABORTION
A proposed amendment in Virginia is presented as protecting ‘reproductive freedom’ but goes much further than the ballot language suggests.
Deceptive Amendment Would Effectively Ban Limits On Abortion In Virginia
Virginians are going to the polls to vote on an amendment to their state constitution that enshrines abortion-on-demand through all nine months of pregnancy.
Why every parent should vote no on Virginia Amendment 1
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
Kansas AG tells League to ‘stop offering cash, gift cards, or any other item of value in connection with voter registration or voting…’
Kansas League Of Women Voters Accused Of Buying High School Voter Registrations
"Problem Is Four or Five Republicans Who Are Going to Stand with the Democrats..."The SAVE America Act ensures only American citizens decide American elections. It includes requiring valid identification before registering to vote in a federal election, proof of citizenship, and limits the use of mail-in ballots with exceptions for illness, disability, military service, or travel.
JD Vance Says He and President Trump Have ‘Wargamed’ Plan to Pass SAVE America Act
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Cognetti promised to ‘make the big guys pay their fair share,’ but Caravia Fresh Foods uses a business arrangement that reduces tax burdens
Dem House Nominee Paige Cognetti Uses Husband's ‘Upscale’ Food Store, Which Doesn't Accept Food Stamps, To Accuse Corporations of Exploiting ‘Little Guys’
Jeffrey Soros, the nephew of billionaire Democrat donor George Soros, told guests at a Monday night fundraiser that he has known Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed since 2012, when he interviewed him for a family fellowship that later helped pay for the candidate’s graduate education.
Soros Nephew Says Family Fellowship Paid for El-Sayed’s Education
Talarico embodies Democrat failures to connect with religious voters.
The Gospel According To James Talarico
The Washington Democrat’s auto shop also didn’t offer its employees health insurance, former mechanic says
Rep Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Says Expanding Health Care Access Is ‘Top Priority’ But Doesn’t Provide Coverage For Campaign Staff
POLITICS
His polling shows a rough cycle for both parties, but the details favor the GOP. Trump and Republicans aren't polling well, yet Democrats are doing even worse, and they've dug themselves deeper into their media bubbles. Even the turnout advantage Democrats are banking on turns out to be pretty thin.
Frank Luntz Just Gave Democrats Devastating News About the Midterms
Instead of exaggerating what the DSA believes, Americans should simply read what the organization says for itself.
Midterms and the socialism of the DSA: Know what's on the ballot
That is a public-relations failure on part of the GOP, yet also a shortcoming of American voters in identifying the clear facts of their reality.
American Voters Are So Ignorant, It’s Almost Funny
So the question remains: Why is Emanuel running? It seems most likely that he will use the nomination debates and the primary system to secure a higher profile and reenter the political machine he has inhabited for decades.
The Man Behind the Machine: Who is Rahm Emanuel, and Could He Go All the Way for the Democrats? (White, male, straight, Jew, Israeli, no shot in Hell - jjs)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The list of targeted individuals includes current and former government officials, lawmakers, members of the judiciary, police officers, judges, businessmen, and other nationals from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru — all members of the U.S.-led Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (A3C), also known as the Shield of the Americas.
U.S. Strips Visas from Latin American Officials and Others for Undermining Democracy
While group membership is not necessary to serve in the Senate, it is highly advantageous. Senate groups receive representation on parliamentary committees, speaking time, increased recognition, parliamentary funding, and other resources. Groups are also guaranteed the right to request parliamentary investigations. As such, the results have given the National Rally a boost ahead of next year’s presidential election, which Le Pen is projected to win against all potential rivals. “This is a historic victory, and a major milestone with the formation for the first time of a group in the Senate… The results have exceeded our expectations,” said the National Rally leader in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday.
The French Elections Explained: Populists Score ‘Historic’ Senate Breakthrough as Le Pen Poised for Presidential Power.
A laughable delusion.
Canadian Socialists Are Not Leading the ‘Free World’ (the Freebie world, maybe? - jjs)
China’s challenge to the U.S. is not merely a new great-power rivalry.
China And The Return Of The 'Evil Empire’
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"We must address the structural mechanisms that have allowed civilian academic norms to dilute our focus on lethality."
Hegseth Ends Civilian Tenure For Military Academies In Bid To Boost Warfighters Over Academics
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH
In 2021, as part of Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. Armed Forces from Afghanistan, the administration created Operation Allies Welcome (OAW), which saw the resettlement of roughly 75,000 Afghans in mere months — some of whom were not interviewed in-person beforehand.
Federal Watchdog Reveals Vetting Errors in 40% of Biden’s Afghan Migrants Resettled in U.S.
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Meanwhile, scientists are testing a new drug that may be effective against the larvae.
Texas Lifts Screwworm Quarantines as New Mexico Reopens Cattle Crossing
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Perseverance has been busy. The rover has spent 2026 exploring the “Lac de Charmes” area, an area of valleys and ridges west of the Jezero crater rim that represent a “wild west frontier” for the mission.
The Perseverance science team finally publishes an update!
Other organizations have since confirmed the fragmentation event, including the private satellite-tracking company s2a systems, which photographed the largest remaining piece of USA 32 in orbit.
A defunct American reconnaissance satellite from the ’80s breaks up
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The spike in these numbers between 2019 and 2021 is not a mystery. America’s embrace of progressive identity politics had reached a fever pitch and the COVID lockdowns gave students endless time to spend online.
New Survey Shows Dramatic Decline in Share of High School Students Identifying as LGB
“Raising a child according to his or her sex is not abuse,” the bill declares. “Removal from fit parents is contrary to the best interests of children, creates trauma for the child, damages familial bonds, and exposes the child to well-documented risks in state custody.
Republican Senator Introduces Bill To Protect The Parent-Child Relationship From Trans Ideology
“I still think these should be local decisions, sport by sport, athlete by athlete, and I think I have the most inclusive policy of any candidate who’s running,” Talarico said. “So I know things are getting clipped and stuff, but my views, my position hasn’t changed.”
Talarico Pledges in Undercover Video to Use Senate Seat to Fight for Trans Children: ‘I Will Fight for Them’
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“The layoffs, the third round this year under recently appointed CEO Josh D’Amaro, are primarily in Disney’s human resources and IT departments across corporate and within different divisions, according to a source familiar with the cuts,” reports the far-left Variety.
Disney Grooming Syndicate Cuts Hundreds of Jobs In Third Layoff of the Year
Aaron Sorkin, once a free speech giant, turns on Facebook in new film
Jan. 6 Themed ‘Social Reckoning’ Expected to Bomb at Box Office (Goebbels produces Holocaust documentary - jjs)
HITHER & YON
Dickens never made a secret of the pain and emotional trauma heexperienced when as a boy of twelve his parents — bankrupt and about to be placed in debtors prison — sent him off to live and work in a factory, spending twelve hours a day putting labels on containers for the blacking polish used for boots. That experience shaped many of his novels, including most especially Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.
Dickens: His childhood made him.

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1 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

2 Excellent pod cast today guys, thanks! (wasn't allowed to leave a comment there, as is usual).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:16 AM (bVoR9)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 07:18 AM (u82oZ)

4 2 Excellent pod cast today guys, thanks! (wasn't allowed to leave a comment there, as is usual).
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:16 AM (bVoR9)

Thanks... and hmm?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2026 07:18 AM (x0n13)

5 From CATO (among the most open-borders group there is): legal immigration from Muslim nations has been cut 96%.

While legal immigration in general is down, Trump has practically halted Muslim migration and completely ended Muslim refugee resettlement.

‘Annual Muslim immigration may be the lowest in over 30 years.’

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I love that they say this like people will be outraged by it.

I VOTED FOR THIS!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 30, 2026 07:18 AM (gLYp7)

6 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 07:19 AM (RORbl)

7 > ‘Annual Muslim immigration may be the lowest in over 30 years.’
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Yeah, but the ones already here are out-breeding everyone else.

But there are solutions. Some easy, some hard.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 07:21 AM (RORbl)

8 According to prominent Democrats, that was all part of Trump’s collusion with Russia. With that ploy exposed as a hoax, the people have cause to wonder. With Rich’s personal laptop, the FBI wanted 66 years, a proxy for “never,” to produce data the bureau previously denied it even possessed. This year questions are emerging about the FBI’s handing of records related to Rich, possibly marked for destruction.
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The FBI continues looking suspect, in this as in so many other things. Has anyone fixed the FBI lab, for example? What about the Hopkinson "investigation"?

Patel may be doing a good job, for all I know, but I continue thinking the FBI is beyond redemption.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:23 AM (ALmBW)

9 Saying that Tallerico went to a presbyterian theology school tells me everything I need to know about his progressive/commie standpoint. Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Methodists, Episcopalians and one sect of the Baptist church might as well be listed in the DSA handbook of acceptable religions.

Posted by: Jaimo at September 30, 2026 07:24 AM (2noDb)

10 >ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
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There's talk of re-launching the SR-71 program

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 07:24 AM (ZxPkt)

11 G'mornin' everyone! and, as always, thank you, JJ!

Posted by: Zombie Billy Mays at September 30, 2026 07:24 AM (VyBeY)

12 I enjoyed the article on Dickens. I assume the author knew- but chose not to talk about it- that Dickens had a long term affair with the actress Nelly Ternan, dumped his wife and family and when he died it was covered up so this would not reflect badly on the champion of family life and Victorian morality.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 07:25 AM (JrHfD)

13 Good morning morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 07:27 AM (RIvkX)

14 Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

Wouldn't the best way to do that be to send roving gangs around to beat the crap out of them?

Posted by: Either Clodius or Milo at September 30, 2026 07:28 AM (1Ff7Z)

15 Medicare For Everyone!

Posted by: National Debt $40.10 Trillion and counting at September 30, 2026 07:28 AM (w+jhU)

16 COULD BE (not confirmed and may never be known) that the Mossad knew of an Iranian plan to hijack A plane and had plainclothes personnel onboard the Air Dubai craft.

That would explain how anyone got into the cockpit. Of course another explanation would be that the knifed Israeli crewman managed to unlock the door from within.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 07:28 AM (yMCWt)

17 15 Medicare For Everyone!
Posted by: National Debt $40.10 Trillion and counting at September 30, 2026 07:28 AM (w+jhU)

Everyone on Planet EARTH!!!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2026 07:30 AM (x0n13)

18 Posted by: Jaimo at September 30, 2026 07:24 AM (2noDb

Depends on the church and pastor. The hierarchy is crazy in many churches. The ministers who are more conservative just ignore it and do the best they can through the grace of God. I had a talk with a Congregationalist Pastor in NJ several weeks ago. He has a"Respect Life" and "Choose Life" signs on front of his church. It's clear from his website that his personal theology is quite conservative, and Bible centered with a strong emphasis on evangelism.

That being said, Talarico's church is beyond nutty.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 07:30 AM (JrHfD)

19 Unfortunately, this biography did not provide me a greater sense of the reality of Dickens’ later life. He married young, had a decades-long family life producing a lot of children, but then he dumped that wife late in life for reasons that the book does not clearly explain.
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One reason might be that the 45 year old Dickens took up with 18 year old Nelly Ternan, with whom he had a son (died in infancy). That seemed to anger his wife.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:30 AM (1utmP)

20 Good Morning Pixel friends. I am going to the Black Tower{its real name} this AM to get a mass in my left kidney irradiated in around 8:00.

The dawn sky is beautiful.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 30, 2026 07:31 AM (Q/FnY)

21 Yesterday my X feed was full of Jack Smith, mostly 'Republicans' breathily describing all the ways in which Smith broke laws and is generally awful. All sound and fury, signifying nothing. We have fun here, throwing 'nothing will happen' around like pennies in a wishing well, but the hard fact is we KNOW that actually nothing will happen. Yesterday was just another one day dog and pony show for the cameras. A one day story. Jack Smith is perfectly safe.

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 07:31 AM (ZxPkt)

22 Paulina Gutierrez, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, said officials just clicked the wrong button on five of the tabulators, and downloaded audit logs instead of election results.

Officials were forced to return to the Bay View central count facility with a police escort to re-download the correct results from the five machines.

So they don't actually count the votes in the 'central count' facility? What is the purpose of a central count facility if you are counting somewhere else you need a police escort from?

Is this just a journalism's terrible writing or am I missing something else?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 07:32 AM (6ydKt)

23 Jacks Smith & Co. are traitors who mist be hanged by January 20, 2029.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 07:32 AM (RIvkX)

24 Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 30, 2026 07:31 AM (Q/FnY)

Will keep you in prayer. Thanks for the comment about the sunrise. Nature can certainly help our spirits.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 07:34 AM (JrHfD)

25 The Lindsay Clancy trial is one of the many fronts in the civil war between the United States of Reality and Gay Retardistan.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 30, 2026 07:34 AM (WagEk)

26 Jack Smith is perfectly safe.

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 07:31 AM (ZxPkt)

Until I decide he isn't...

Posted by: Hillary! at September 30, 2026 07:35 AM (gLYp7)

27 I will fight for them
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and by fighting for them, Talarico means he will fight for hospitals to experiment with drugs and surgery on unsuspecting mentally deranged young people.

Everything about this "fight" is perverse, from the reality to even the language used. If he were really fighting to protect these kids, he would be getting them the therapy they so obviously need, and he would be trying to fix a civic culture that somehow regards abuse of these young people as a good thing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:35 AM (bUohG)

28 20 Good Morning Pixel friends. I am going to the Black Tower{its real name} this AM to get a mass in my left kidney irradiated in around 8:00.

The dawn sky is beautiful.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 30, 2026 07:31 AM (Q/FnY)

Mish a'beirach for a full and speedy recovery.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2026 07:36 AM (x0n13)

29 Morning, Horde. Today's interview will be around lunchtime, so prayers during that timeframe would be appreciated: If it's the right one, let it go well, if it's not the right one, let it be clear, and either way may the results be known soon.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 07:36 AM (aJQbY)

30 >> ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
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There's talk of re-launching the SR-71 program
Posted by: Don Black
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There's speculation that the SR-71 "borrowed" from a CA museum is going to be picked apart, digitally scanned, and the materials used analyzed for a digital mock up. This, in turn, would be the basis for building a next generation SR-71-ish spy plane or research aircraft.

"Aerospace Paleontology"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 07:37 AM (RORbl)

31 What am I? Chopped liver?

Posted by: GMAC's Right Kidney at September 30, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

32 Smith and his team “acquired at least 4,782 checks from Americans who made mainly small-dollar donations to President Trump between September 2019 to August 2023.”

Ted Cruz asked "Is it illegal to be a Republican," and Smith wouldn't answer.

They're not even being coy about what they intend to do when they're back in power.

I'm ALSO a person with a job and a family and a home and dogs and responsibilities and obligations, but nothing is going to change until we start making things change.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 30, 2026 07:38 AM (gLYp7)

33 ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ makes you wonder, not just about giraffes, but how you would express the gallonage of a normal spring thunderstorm, or a widespread gentle rain.
OK, well, at least it's not metric.

Wife had to do a metric conversion problem over half a dozen times the other day, swapping the terms around. I almost made an internet moron kind of comment, until I realized she literally could not believe a medical doctor would recommend I eat no more than two ounces of protein a day. Do not chortle: "normal" for someone with no health issues of any kind is only twice that. You'd do the math over, too.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 30, 2026 07:38 AM (zdLoL)

34 "And Republicans shouldn't cheapen that debate by calling every Democrat a communist.." Wisdom indeed! The shrill panic and demonization of the opposition is making me think the GOP is panicking. They had 2 years to pass legislation and suddenly we are all going to die if a few seats flip; they require massive majorities but somehow the Dems will overthrow the constitution if they get a 1 seat majority. Yes, some of them are crazy but don't you have faith in the majority of your fellow citizens? You cannot love America while think the majority of its citizens are fools and communists! Vote for the long term and have faith in your fellow citizens!

Posted by: Jalan at September 30, 2026 07:39 AM (uqfb2)

35 Thank you JJ

I was assured by all the smart morons here yesterday that the polls are all crap. I sure hope so… and maybe I need to stop my daily check in at RCP because man does it paint a glum picture!

My common sense brain tells me Tala-freak has zero chance, but the polls still have him ahead

It’s more than a little annoying I must admit

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 30, 2026 07:40 AM (Dkvax)

36 What am I? Chopped liver?
Posted by: GMAC's Right Kidney at September 30, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

No, you're a kidney.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2026 07:41 AM (1Ff7Z)

37 On X, people translated a recent speech from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “Please don’t come to me with free speech … That is at most a libertarian political understanding from parts of the USA that I personally do not share. A liberal society must still be able to protect its citizens from false information, from personal degradations, from discrimination.” German police conducted a criminal investigation of a man who mocked Merz as “Pinocchio” on a Facebook page. So much for the “Free World.”
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The totalitarian impulse is strong, from Germany to the EU, the UK and, of course, to Canada, where socialists worried about "misinformation" claim the only solution is to control speech and arrest 92 year old widows in bunny slippers who call Burnham names online, as just happened yesterday in the UK.

"Fuck all y'all", as I believe Thomas Paine once said so memorably.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:42 AM (N3b7w)

38 31 What am I? Chopped liver?
Posted by: GMAC's Right Kidney

Not yet, Moose at the door should have explained.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 30, 2026 07:42 AM (Q/FnY)

39 My common sense brain tells me Tala-freak has zero chance, but the polls still have him ahead

It’s more than a little annoying I must admit

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 30, 2026 07:40 AM (Dkvax)

Of course they do. Because they're averaging known garbage polls in with known mediocre polls. There are no good polls. RCP gave the woman who said Harris would win Iowa by double-digits the exact same credence as they gave Rasmussen or USAToday who had Trump winning by 4ish.

Data fidelity is real. Garbage in, garbage out.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 30, 2026 07:42 AM (gLYp7)

40 100 grams Beef protein is about right. A pound of burger is approx. 975 calories and 75 grams protein.

They want to turn everyone into simping mincing soy-boys near as I can figure. It’s working

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 07:43 AM (q3N/z)

41 LinusVanPelt

Happiness is only seeing the Left in the rear view mirror. Using their thoughts leads to unhappiness.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

42 the SR-71...is going to be picked apart, digitally scanned, and the materials used analyzed for a digital mock up.

It is as foreign to them as a UFO being reverse-engineered.
Some snotnose super genius says he can 3D print one with AI.
Also, snacks come out of that drawer on the side.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 30, 2026 07:43 AM (zdLoL)

43 What am I? Chopped liver?

Posted by: GMAC's Right Kidney at September 30, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)
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With enough fried onions, no one will be able to tell the difference.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 07:43 AM (yMCWt)

44 but I continue thinking the FBI is beyond redemption."

The Founders were correct in not establishing Federal Policing.
The "progressive" tilt of the early 20th century was what ended the Republic.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 07:43 AM (pfXMo)

45 "and maybe I need to stop my daily check in at RCP because man does it paint a glum picture!"

That sounds like a good idea. I try to avoid all polling. All I can do is vote and encourage everybody I know who is a Republican or a non nutty Democrat to do so.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 07:44 AM (JrHfD)

46 You cannot love America while think the majority of its citizens are fools and communists! Vote for the long term and have faith in your fellow citizens!
Posted by: Jalan at September 30, 2026 07:39 AM (uqfb2)

Sorry, I don’t have faith in humanity. It does not have a good track record…. Check out my fellow citizens in NYC and LA…. Go nose around your neighborhood Walmart… Faith in your fellow citizens may dampen a bit. I don’t think all is lost yet on the other hand I can’t help but notice a certain cultural decline in the past few decades

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 30, 2026 07:44 AM (Dkvax)

47 from parts of the USA that I personally do not share."

I don't give a rat's fuzzy arse what a kraut says about us...

"Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade"

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 07:48 AM (pfXMo)

48 Latest summary of Fly Dubai terror attack:

https://tinyurl.com/5y7763tu

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 07:48 AM (yMCWt)

49 On Sept. 17, Space-Track — the satellite observation arm of the U.S. Space Force — announced that USA 32 suffered a sudden “fragmentation” event four days earlier, on Sept. 13. This essentially means the spacecraft exploded, potentially breaking apart into dozens, hundreds or even thousands of pieces.
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Sounds like someone experimented with shooting a satellite, doesn't it?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:48 AM (N3b7w)

50 Jeffrey Dahmer has entered the chat...

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 30, 2026 07:48 AM (Q/FnY)

51 Troll, do they hang fags in Bangladesh? Or is it the tall buildings?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 07:49 AM (RIvkX)

52 Republicans need to flood the media with one simple ad across the country for the next month.

"Thinking about voting democrat?"

Insert montage of hordes of illegals bum-rushing the border, accident scenes of illegal truck drivers killing American citizens, murder statistics, inflation numbers.

That's their vision for America.

Vote to celebrate success and strengthen America.

Close with shots of barren borders, recent economic statistics, military induction numbers, lowered crime statistics, improved health statistics, etc.

Vote Republican.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 30, 2026 07:49 AM (b4LBp)

53 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 07:49 AM (Az7Eg)

54 Delta is ReaDEI:

https://tinyurl.com/yj2cepmt

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 07:50 AM (yMCWt)

55 Mr. Sefton posts The Morning Report both early and often. Please follow his example.

Posted by: The Masked Voter at September 30, 2026 07:50 AM (Fn+3X)

56 LinusVanPelt, there's several bloggers I used to enjoy more than I do now, who seem determined to guzzle black-pills these days, where they'd once point out the problems but also point out the good things. I try to skim over those black-pill paragraphs because reading too much doomerism gets you in/reinforces a doomer mood. And doomerism is the last thing I need in my head right now!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 07:50 AM (aJQbY)

57 Legacy Media Falsely Argue That Republicans Are About To Lose Because Americans Hate Deportations

--

Trump won his reelection because Americans wanted deportations.

Now R's will lose because Americans hate deportations?

I'd say make it make sense, but I know it's just another lying "media" tactic.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2026 07:51 AM (qBdHI)

58 Talerico’s church is not “ nutty”, it is satanic..

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 07:52 AM (fuM78)

59 Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 07:50 AM (aJQbY

Sounds like good advice.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 07:52 AM (JrHfD)

60 Socialist's gonna be socialists.

UK Premier Andy Burnham rolled out his vision for the UK yesterday with his new "Social Care" program that will provide NHS type coverage for everything not covered by the NHS such as subsidized or free heat, electricity, water, and sewer. Apparently it doesn't cover housing and food costs as those are already covered by existing programs.

For extra credit he signaled he is going to make a run at rejoining the EU.

He plans to pay for this plan, perversely named Hope Again, by cutting funding for elderly pensions beginning in 2030. While not stated during the rollout speech it does seem the Islamic invaders, now plaguing the UK, will be key beneficiaries of Hope Again.

I take all this as coming attractions for what the Communist left here in the USA will do if they ever get control of the government, especially the part where illegal aliens get preferential Hope Again benefits.

What seems certain is the UK is hell bent on destroying the principles of Western civilization such as freedom and liberty and for good measure surrendering it all to Islamic radicalism.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at September 30, 2026 07:52 AM (VyD10)

61 You cannot love America while think the majority of its citizens are fools and communists! Vote for the long term and have faith in your fellow citizens!
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Well fools, obviously. But not communists, no.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

62 Sounds like someone experimented with shooting a satellite, doesn't it?"

*coupla rednecks high five each other*

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 07:53 AM (pfXMo)

63 “….Yes, it's Texas but still. I fear he has more of a chance of taking a Texas Senate Seat….”

This is merely an anecdote so take it as you will. Next door neighbor was a former prosecutor in Harris County back in the day but works for a small private firm. He still has contacts with judges, etc. He told me this weekend that he was told that the reason we’re seeing so many Abbott ads is because the TX GOP is worried Paxton will bring down the rest of the ticket. (I’ve hardly ever seen an Abbott ad prior to this election). IMO, Paxton is running a terrible campaign and (in my best Rhett Butler voice) frankly my dear, I’m worried. Even when Cruz barely beat Beto, you knew Cruz would win. This time seems different.

Posted by: TxAnn at September 30, 2026 07:53 AM (SjAWL)

64 Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 07:52 AM (fuM7

That too . It's certainly not Christian . People in leadership there should just resign from the ministry, but I suppose they want the salary.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 07:53 AM (JrHfD)

65 • The attacker is reported to be an Omani and the co pilot.
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Oman and Iran are longtime friends, but the country is reportedly largely Sunni. Could Iran be involved? Who knows...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:54 AM (Zjq06)

66 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 30, 2026 07:54 AM (2Ez/1)

67 Israeli officials have announced a terrorism investigation, with one confirming “one pilot stabbed the other and tried to do a 9/11,”

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 07:55 AM (EKMrJ)

68 “Fly the friendly skies”

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 07:56 AM (q3N/z)

69 Good morning Horde, thx JJ. Happy Hump Day.

I'm shocked that the League of Women Voters would be corrupt. The GOPe allows them to run debates after all.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 07:56 AM (jivel)

70 Talerico’s church is not “ nutty”, it is satanic..

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 07:52 AM (fuM7

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So you're saying that Talerico's church is horny?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 07:57 AM (yMCWt)

71 He plans to pay for this plan, perversely named Hope Again, by cutting funding for elderly pensions beginning in 2030. "

No, he plans on paying it with resurrected USAID cash.

*my thoughts*

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 07:57 AM (pfXMo)

72 "Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade"
Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 07:48 AM (pfXMo)
======================
A Casablanca shout out!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:57 AM (Zjq06)

73 UK Premier Andy Burnham rolled out his vision for the UK yesterday with his new "Social Care" program that will provide NHS type coverage for everything not covered by the NHS such as subsidized or free heat, electricity, water, and sewer. Apparently it doesn't cover housing and food costs as those are already covered by existing programs. For extra credit he signaled he is going to make a run at rejoining the EU.

"Boy, did I call it, or what?" -- George Orwell

The protests and the growth of Reform and Restore parties in the UK are what gives me hope for them. But they'll still have several years of things-getting-worse to get through, alas.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 07:58 AM (aJQbY)

74 TX GOP is worried Paxton will bring down the rest of the ticket. "

Should be. The damage wrought by the Bush family in their hissy fit is severe and ongoing. We'll be paying for them for decades.
The Bush Presidential libraries (current and future) should be moved to Saudi Arabia...

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 07:59 AM (pfXMo)

75 A Casablanca shout out!"

Of course. It's the 2nd greatest movie ever. Behind Prometheus.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:00 AM (pfXMo)

76 Belieeeeeeeeeve the polls!

Posted by: Sen. Beto O'Rourke at September 30, 2026 08:01 AM (RIvkX)

77 Republicans need to flood the media with one simple ad across the country for the next month.

That's their vision for America.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 30, 2026 07:49 AM (b4LBp)

The GOPe will never do that, for you see, that's their vision of America too.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2026 08:01 AM (1Ff7Z)

78 Smell the Glove

Kansas is not full Republican. The 2.8 million people are 80% urbanized. Especially around Kansas City, the left is strong. The two largest Universities (KSU and KU) have a lot of clueless socialist-curious students.

Kris Koback is a gem, but the RINO elites in the State torpedoed his run for Governor, saying vote for the Dem. Which is why we have a Democrat two-term governor, Laura Kelly.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 08:01 AM (u82oZ)

79 Andrew Wilson and two other Trump-supporters recently debated Alex Wilson, Joe Kent and some other doomer on Brandon Straka's platform. Wilson flayed the hyperventilating Jones and exposed the self-defeating idiocy of trying to punish Trump for his "endless war" by sitting out the midterms. Jones has now launched war against Wilson. What a buffoon.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 30, 2026 08:03 AM (b4LBp)

80 The protests and the growth of Reform and Restore parties in the UK "

Are extremely limited. And useless.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:03 AM (pfXMo)

81 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

82 The current lack of job prospects for college graduates is a painful but long overdue correction.

When Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro came into office, one of the first things he did was remove the requirement of a college degree from 98% of Commonwealth jobs, while looking at the other 2%.

This can’t do him any favors with his party zealots.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 08:04 AM (EKMrJ)

83 RCP’s poll mod is built on a badly flawed assumption. They assume that all polls have errors, but that they are random, it holds that some are too high, some are too low, so the average will be close to the truth. BUT if all polls are skewed to the left, then none are “too high” and the average simply represents the average skew being applied.

Which tells you nothing about the actual state of the race. Betting markets are also no longer reliable, now we know that results can be purchased by campaigns which make large bets just to move the odds.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 08:04 AM (fuM78)

84 Is it really conceivable that this deviant Talarico could win?

God save us.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 30, 2026 08:05 AM (b4LBp)

85 The current lack of job prospects for college graduates"

Ok, that's funny right there. That same trope has been trotted out since I went to kolledge. A long, long time ago.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:05 AM (pfXMo)

86 Is it really conceivable that this deviant Talarico could win?

God save us."

It's highly likely (thanks, Bush), and God will only save those who work at it.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:06 AM (pfXMo)

87 Fast Food

1988 - Taco Bell "Make a Run for the Borfer"

2026 - Door Dash "Make a Run from the Border Patrol"

Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 08:07 AM (I0N4X)

88 Talarico is NOT going to win Texas.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 08:07 AM (QwZKw)

89 Talerico’s church is not “ nutty”, it is satanic..

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He and his "church" are so unbelievably anti-Christian, and contradictory to the teachings of the Holy Bible, notably the New Testament, that it's surprising lightening doesn't shoot down from heaven and burn the place to ash.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2026 08:08 AM (qBdHI)

90 Trump had his message for the midterms:

https://tinyurl.com/4b695762

And I'm out till the art thread. So much doomerism is fatiguing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 08:09 AM (JrHfD)

91 In Trump v. Slaughter, a 6-3 majority ruled that Congress cannot shield members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from being fired by the President at will.

And, yet, the same Congress can, somehow, shield the same President from firing members of the Federal Reserve at will.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

92 Is it really conceivable that this deviant Talarico could win?

God save us.

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It's hard not to be extremely concerned the likes of this freakish heretic, and just as horrible El Sayed in MI, will win.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2026 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

93 Talarico is NOT going to win Texas."

Predictions are hard...

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:10 AM (pfXMo)

94 sounds like why you hate him, you cock-biting fuckstick

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 08:11 AM (ZxPkt)

95 baseball playoff tournament started last night and Boston's own Cam Shlittler pitched a gem for the hated Spankees in the victory over the Red Sox. Could be a very quick series for the Sox.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 08:12 AM (jyC3p)

96 When I see a photo of Talerico, I can't help but think 'now there's a guy who has had a penis in his mouth at least once'

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 08:12 AM (ZxPkt)

97 man, getting out and working to make sure it doesn't happen is hard but you don't back down in the face of evil.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 08:12 AM (QwZKw)

98 “We’ve apparently landed in Saudi Arabia. There’s a pilot that’s seriously injured.

They’re taking him to a hospital. There’s another terrorist who … we don’t know his condition, but he was involved somehow. It was rough. It was rough. We’ll be home in a few hours. I need a change of clothes. Everything is drenched in blood,” the passenger recounted.

“That’s it. I love you. I’ll tell you what happened when we get back,” he added.

“Your dad is a hero. One of the heroes. [I didn’t do it] alone. I’ll see you later. I gotta let my heart rate go down.”

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 08:12 AM (EKMrJ)

99
Please
baseball is moot
hockey has returned
it's what you watch when there's no football

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 08:13 AM (ZxPkt)

100
Talarico is a Kappa????

I didn't even know he was Japanese!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:14 AM (YSUhf)

101 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:14 AM (ccf/V)

102 man, getting out and working to make sure it doesn't happen is hard but you don't back down in the face of evil."

Of course not. But I don't have the resources of ... the family who shall remain nameless.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:14 AM (pfXMo)

103 Talarico is a 1 to 10 favorite to take a cock in his ass and mouth, brining pleasure to other members of his "church".

Posted by: Vegas Insider at September 30, 2026 08:15 AM (w+jhU)

104 Troll, you finally wrote English that makes sense. Bravo. Now fvck off.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 08:15 AM (RIvkX)

105 Crash victim speaks out after alleged hate crime

She says immediately after the crash, dozens of men living in the Detroit neighborhood came out, removed the 18-year-old driver from her car and then turned their attention to her, verbally insulting her and threatening to attack her with a baseball bat while she waited for police to arrive.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 08:15 AM (EKMrJ)

106 Talarico has a shot simply because Republican voters are stupid and Ken Paxton isn't sexy enough for them to get off their ass and go to the polls and cast a vote against the anti-Christ.

We really are the stupid party.

But, I hold out hope that with the trouncing Cornyn got, they'll carry that over into the primary.

Much like Beta cuck, Talarico should be finished in politics after this.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:16 AM (ccf/V)

107 There's a podcast?

Posted by: Slow on the Uptake at September 30, 2026 08:16 AM (Fn+3X)

108 Talarico is a 1 to 10 favorite to take a cock in his ass and mouth, brining pleasure to other members of his "church".

Posted by: Vegas Insider at September 30, 2026 08:15 AM (w+jhU)

That's hot.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at September 30, 2026 08:17 AM (ccf/V)

109 ADP has jobs up to 90k for September. Expected 70k.
The government numbers come out Friday.
Excellent news if Republicans use it properly

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 08:17 AM (jivel)

110 There's a podcast?+-

Posted by: Slow on the Uptake at September 30, 2026 08:16 AM (Fn+3X)

Pshaw....next thing you'll be telling me there's content.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:17 AM (ccf/V)

111 We’ve apparently landed in Saudi Arabia. There’s a pilot that’s seriously injured"

No offense intended, but you flew "FlyDubai"?
Really?

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:17 AM (pfXMo)

112 Imagine going through life as a Shlittler.

Posted by: Boy Howdy at September 30, 2026 08:17 AM (2Ez/1)

113 Excellent news if Republicans use it properly
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 08:17 AM (jivel)

BWWWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:18 AM (ccf/V)

114 Much like Beta cuck, Talarico should be finished in politics after this."

The Wendy Davis gambit?

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:18 AM (pfXMo)

115 78
Kris Koback is a gem, but the RINO elites in the State torpedoed his run for Governor, saying vote for the Dem. Which is why we have a Democrat two-term governor, Laura Kelly.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 08:01 AM (u82oZ)

Kobach is one of the best. I wanted Trump to pick his as AG or head of DHS in first term. And I hoped the same thing in his second term, but alas….
KS is one of those states perceived as deeply red, but that’s not the reality.

Posted by: TxAnn at September 30, 2026 08:19 AM (SjAWL)

116
The Wendy Davis gambit?

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:18 AM (pfXMo)

The Abortion Barbie dolls FLEW off the shelves.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:20 AM (ccf/V)

117 I would love to hear the Bush and GOPe thought process on Paxton. He beat them , so they'll show Texans by helping a lunatic leftist get elected. Do they think the lunatic left will thank them for the help ? News flash , they'll kill you first.
If that isn't what they're thinking than I have no idea

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 08:21 AM (jivel)

118 Please
baseball is moot
hockey has returned
it's what you watch when there's no football
Posted by: Don Black

All of pro sports hates and insults you. Why give them a second of your time? Life is too precious and short to waste on it. Even pretty girls stop being cheerleaders at age 22.

Posted by: Drop The Pom-Poms, It's Unseemly at September 30, 2026 08:21 AM (Fn+3X)

119 I would love to hear the Bush and GOPe thought process on Paxton. He beat them , so they'll show Texans by helping a lunatic leftist get elected. Do they think the lunatic left will thank them for the help ? News flash , they'll kill you first.
If that isn't what they're thinking than I have no idea

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 08:21 AM (jivel)

Seems GWB forgets they called him Bushy McChimpHitler all those years........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:22 AM (ccf/V)

120 Imagine going through life as a Shlittler.
Posted by: Boy Howdy at September 30, 2026 08:17 AM (2Ez/1)
================
As he says, "I am good at keeping receipts"

He relishes kicking the Red Sox in the teeth, as payback.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 08:22 AM (jyC3p)

121 IMO, Paxton is running a terrible campaign and (in my best Rhett Butler voice) frankly my dear, I’m worried. Even when Cruz barely beat Beto, you knew Cruz would win. This time seems different.

I saw something yesterday which said that the latest poll (strippers!) has Paxton up by 3.

Talarico's entire campaign is lies coupled with Republicans crying, "OMG! Could he actually win?"

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

122 Please
baseball is moot
hockey has returned
it's what you watch when there's no football
Posted by: Don Black

I got my ass handed to me last night in Fantasy Hockey.

There's a reason I haven't done that shit in 25 years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:23 AM (ccf/V)

123 The Abortion Barbie dolls FLEW off the shelves......."

That and pink shoes were at all the discount/flea market sales for a year afterwards... funny, it was.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:23 AM (pfXMo)

124 Hopefully Talarico wins a seat in the senate and he can have sex with his staffers Dirksen, Russell and Hart in the various rooms in the senate office buildings and post the videos on Tik Tok which I can then play on Sundays during church.

Posted by: Babs Miller, Reverend and Lesbian at September 30, 2026 08:24 AM (w+jhU)

125 ...baseball is moot
hockey has returned...
Posted by: Don Black

*********

Yeah. Baseball would be more interesting if they played it on ice. And the opposing team could body check you into the backstop while you were trying to hit the ball.

And if when a fight occurred everybody besides the combatants would go back to the dugout and root for their teammate rather than rushing out onto the field for a group hug...

Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 08:24 AM (I0N4X)

126 The media is the propaganda organ for the Democrats. The MSM hardly ever reports "bad news" on their behalf. It's always "spin."

I'm a bit amazed that there are still people who take what these whores spit out as some sort of gospel.

It's no wonder cults thrive in today's world.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 08:25 AM (RORbl)

127 I would love to hear the Bush and GOPe thought process on Paxton. He beat them , so they'll show Texans by helping a lunatic leftist get elected."

Of what I know of them, that's pretty much correct. (remember, I used to live in Fairfax and worked for the VA GOP back in the day)

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:25 AM (pfXMo)

128 Commie Canada and the dis-United Kingdom should be renamed the “Dumb and Dumber” of the British Commonwealth. King Charles III’s North American prime minister, Mark Carney, ran to The New York Times last week to talk about his military combat preparations against the United States in the event that President Trump crosses Lake America and liberates Canada from its delusional leaders. What a showboating dunce. The U.S. singlehandedly sustains Canada’s economy and national security, yet the tiny central banker huffed and puffed in a hilariously Napoleonic display of fake strength.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 08:25 AM (EKMrJ)

129 Didn't know Israelis go on vacation to Dubai. Seems as smart as a mouse attending a Cat Convention.

Posted by: Ignatz the Mouse at September 30, 2026 08:26 AM (Fn+3X)

130 I would love to hear the Bush and GOPe thought process on Paxton. He beat them , so they'll show Texans by helping a lunatic leftist get elected. Do they think the lunatic left will thank them for the help ? News flash , they'll kill you first.
If that isn't what they're thinking than I have no idea
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 08:21 AM (jivel)

They're thinking that the graft won't flow to them if Paxton is elected. And their machine has held power and graft for years.

It's the old thing, that has the Democrats inviting in the muslims and other third world yahoos. They'll use them to gain power and then, and here's the genius part!,

they'll just toss them away once they regain power.

That's it. Nothing to do with principles, everything to do with rice bowls.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:26 AM (YSUhf)

131 REVEALED: Inside the Plan to Build ‘Trans Schools’ and Spread Their Lessons Nationwide Its new grant comes from a fund backed by MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’s billionaire ex-wife.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 08:27 AM (EKMrJ)

132 And the opposing team could body check you into the backstop while you were trying to hit the ball."

Or the Bob Gibson move...

*90 plus MPH to the batter's head

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:27 AM (pfXMo)

133 That's it. Nothing to do with principles, everything to do with rice bowls."

This. X 10,000.

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others"

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:28 AM (pfXMo)

134 How I feel about "America" has fuck all to do with how I feel about "sheeple". I'm not anti social, I'm anti lazy idiots

Posted by: Kittens! at September 30, 2026 08:29 AM (LOZbR)

135 Vance Says He And Trump War-Gamed A Senate Floor Takeover To Pass SAVE America Act

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 08:29 AM (EKMrJ)

136 Didn't know Israelis go on vacation to Dubai. Seems as smart as a mouse attending a Cat Convention.
Posted by: Ignatz the Mouse at September 30, 2026 08:26 AM (Fn+3X)
=====

Not a whole lot of places they can go as nearby. Thailand is popular.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 08:30 AM (RIvkX)

137 Jeffrey Soros, the nephew of billionaire Democrat donor George Soros, told guests at a Monday night fundraiser that he has known Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed since 2012, when he interviewed him for a family fellowship that later helped pay for the candidate’s graduate education.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 08:30 AM (EKMrJ)

138
Yeah. Baseball would be more interesting if they played it on ice. And the opposing team could body check you into the backstop while you were trying to hit the ball.

And if when a fight occurred everybody besides the combatants would go back to the dugout and root for their teammate rather than rushing out onto the field for a group hug...
Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 08:24 AM (I0N4X)

Reminds one of the old NHL commercials........

https://shorturl.fm/4uVT1

Apologies for the farcebook link.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:31 AM (ccf/V)

139 Share this letter with any Republican or Independent you know that might be considering sitting out the midterms. Even muslim terrorists know who Democrats are.

>>Iran publishes propaganda letter urging US voters to punish Trump in midterm elections

https://tinyurl.com/48cwkzw4

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:31 AM (viF8m)

140 Or the Bob Gibson move...

*90 plus MPH to the batter's head
Posted by: man

Bob Gibson was an awesome athlete. Was a Harlem Globetrotter before deciding to commit to baseball.

Posted by: Sweet Georgia Brown Plays In Background at September 30, 2026 08:32 AM (Fn+3X)

141 Several positive economic indicators just released.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 08:32 AM (RIvkX)

142 JackStraw, thank you for providing the link to that letter.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 08:33 AM (QwZKw)

143 Estimates were way off this month.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

144 How far has Erick Erickson sunk?
He's defending Talarico.
No, seriously.
Literal quote:
"Talarico is attacking Paxton for corruption in office. Paxton is attacking Talarico for his religion."

Cornyn, Cassidy and the GOPe guy losing in GA has completely broken him.

I've got 7 flyers from the Paxton campaign on my kitchen table. Zero say anything about religion (and Talarico does not have a religion--it's a blasphemous apostasy).
5 are about Talarico and trannies, 2 are Paxton's accomplishments.

EE is as nasty and vile as Talarico, repeating his lies.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 08:33 AM (3cUTc)

145 The media is the propaganda organ for the Democrats.
——-

The Democrats are the legislative wing for the media. That tracks, too. Little bit of both, I reckon.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 08:34 AM (q3N/z)

146 >>Estimates were way off this month.

No way.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:34 AM (viF8m)

147 Stelco Holdings Inc. said on Monday that it plans to idle part of its Hamilton plant in order to "ensure the survival" of the company, as U.S. tariffs squeeze its sales.
Stelco said the decision will impact up to 500 employees.
In a memo obtained by CBC News on Monday, the company said it will indefinitely idle its cold-rolled and coated operations at its Hamilton Works plant, with operations set to begin winding down on Oct. 9.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 08:34 AM (EKMrJ)

148 One more day until October surprises begin.

Posted by: Person with a calendar at September 30, 2026 08:35 AM (2Ez/1)

149 I don’t think that demon Talarico will win. But let’s face it, upsets happen. Using a sports analogy, no one thought the Jets could even come close to the mighty Colts in Super Bowl III… but they won. The Patriots (undefeated) were a lock in SB 42 until the Giants beat them. The US hockey team beat the Soviets in 1980’s miracle on ice.

This is why you play the game and why you actually have the election and count the votes. Paxton should win by double digits… but the Bushies are apparently throwing a tantrum and even normies are upset by gas prices. The demon needs to lose

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 30, 2026 08:36 AM (Dkvax)

150 Today Is National Chewing Gum Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2026 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

151 ... officials just clicked the wrong button on five of the tabulators, and downloaded audit logs instead of election results.
>>>

As an Election Official, you supposedly receive training and instruction, no? So, what is it you'd say you do around here. Give us the competent highlights.

Yammer on!

Posted by: Count de Monet, channeling the Two Bobs at September 30, 2026 08:38 AM (wVcYX)

152 That fat slag Erickson pretty much inherited his radio job in Georgia when Neal Boortz aged-out and retired. He's not worthy. He's everything we hate about the GOPe.

Posted by: The Lights Went Out at September 30, 2026 08:38 AM (Fn+3X)

153 Inflation report just issued, much better than the market expected.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 08:38 AM (5KN7H)

154 >>Using a sports analogy, no one thought the Jets could even come close to the mighty Colts in Super Bowl III… but they won.

Joe Namath did.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:38 AM (viF8m)

155 One more day until October surprises begin.
Posted by: Person with a calendar at September 30, 2026 08:35 AM (2Ez/1)

That's right! Have to pull out the "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!" dvd today.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2026 08:38 AM (1Ff7Z)

156 Stelco Holdings Inc. said on Monday that it plans to idle part of its Hamilton plant in order to "ensure the survival" of the company, as U.S. tariffs squeeze its sales."

Two questions - why would a US company buy a Canadian firm in 24, and I was told that "tariffs" were "crushing" US based steel/iron/metalwork jobs...

Or are reporters/journalists that stupid?

/I know, I know

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:38 AM (pfXMo)

157 I guess we can be happy stabbings in cockpits are somewhat rare.

Posted by: Keep On the Sunny Side at September 30, 2026 08:39 AM (Fn+3X)

158 Vance Says He And Trump War-Gamed A Senate Floor Takeover To Pass SAVE America Act
Posted by: SMOD
_____________

It wouldn't matter at this point. Need six months or a year lead time before an election in order for the SC to play whack-a-mole with all the Hawaiian judge injunctions.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 30, 2026 08:39 AM (JzUSu)

159 Boortz was the guy that got me listening to talk radio.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 08:40 AM (yOEUM)

160 Using a sports analogy, no one thought the Jets could even come close to the mighty Colts in Super Bowl III… but they won.

Joe Namath did.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:38 AM (viF8m)

Ive often wondered if Broadway Joe really believed his own prediction or he was just running his mouth for the attention. Either way, it came out golden for him

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 30, 2026 08:40 AM (Dkvax)

161 but the Bushies are apparently throwing a tantrum and even normies are upset by gas prices"

This - and the media keeps up on "gas prices"... which fell by about $.20 over the past weekend here (N of Houston)

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:40 AM (pfXMo)

162 Keep On the Sunny Side

who landed the plane?

Was it Otto Pilot?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 08:40 AM (u82oZ)

163 Erick Erickson.

Having his first name twice like that is kinda douchey.

He had no chance......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:41 AM (ccf/V)

164 And Boortz was good radio.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 08:41 AM (yOEUM)

165 Can I kiss you?

Posted by: The quotable Joe Namath at September 30, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)

166 Elbows up, icebacks.

>>Canada’s economy stalls before latest US tariff wave as manufacturing drops 0.9%

https://tinyurl.com/rnddvhcy

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:42 AM (viF8m)

167 He had no chance...

Tell me about it.

Posted by: John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith at September 30, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)

168 ‘I have a kinship with Lindsay Clancy’

-
Well, she's got a point.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:42 AM (ndZc7)

169 Two off duty pilots deadheading in economy landed the plane, reportedly (see Biden's Dog X thread at 48, read down at Open Intel)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 08:43 AM (5KN7H)

170 > The media is the propaganda organ for the Democrats.
——-

The Democrats are the legislative wing for the media. That tracks, too. Little bit of both, I reckon.
=======
And the judiciary is the legal wing for the Democrats. For some definition of "legal."

It's a circle jerk of epic proportions.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 08:43 AM (RORbl)

171 >>Posted by: The quotable Joe Namath at September 30, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)

Whoever thought it was a good idea to interview Namath on the sidelines that evening must have been drunk, too.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 30, 2026 08:43 AM (NcvvS)

172 Before podcasts we had the radio on all day. Howard Stern to Dr. Laura to Michael Savage.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 08:43 AM (RIvkX)

173 Boortz was the guy that got me listening to talk radio.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 08:40 AM (yOEUM)

Boorts was good. A little rough around the edges but in a good way. He coined the term "urban outdoorsman" for the worthless bums living out in the wilds of urban America.

Posted by: Zombie Royal Marshall at September 30, 2026 08:43 AM (w+jhU)

174 >>Canada’s economy stalls before latest US tariff wave as manufacturing drops 0.9%

Oh, what a shame.

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 08:43 AM (Oy/m2)

175
Joe Namath did.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:38 AM (viF8m)

Best Joe Namath moment ever.......

https://youtu.be/QoEdSpFa3hI?t=80

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:44 AM (ccf/V)

176 Erick Erickson.

Having his first name twice like that is kinda douchey.

He had no chance......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:41 AM (ccf/V)
---------
*sigh*

Posted by: Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov at September 30, 2026 08:44 AM (amcLV)

177 Fox-

IRGC makes direct appeal to US voters weeks before midterms
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is appealing directly to American voters ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, urging them to oppose President Donald Trump and pressure Washington to end the war.

The message appeared in a 25-page letter addressed to Americans and presented by IRGC spokesperson Hossein Mohebbi, according to the New York Post.

The letter blamed Trump and U.S. support for Israel for the conflict while accusing the president of misleading Americans about Iran’s nuclear program and the economic consequences of the war.

“The US economy is on the precipice of collapse, and yet he keeps on telling Americans that the economy is booming and the prices will soon start coming down,” the letter said.

The message comes as Iran faces mounting economic pressure of its own, with the rial falling Tuesday to a record low of more than 2.5 million to the U.S. dollar

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2026 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

178 Talarico is NOT going to win Texas.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 08:07 AM (QwZKw)

There is iron in the words of Ben Had for all Texans to see.

Posted by: Ten Bears at September 30, 2026 08:44 AM (wVcYX)

179 The media have harped on gas and diesel prices. They will remain silent as prices ease.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

180 The GOP had two years to make an ad about their vision for America. It's called a "legislative record."

They didn't make it because their vision for America is "stall and stonewall until Trump is gone and we can get back to Uniparty business as usual."

Their bad outlook in these elections is nobody's fault but their own.

However it turns out, the Trump voters who don't show up for them are not complacent, or lazy, or any of the other nasty names the GOP faithful call them.

They're obviously highly motivated. They elected Trump three times, in the face of stiffer opposition than any President including Abraham Lincoln has ever seen.

They're just not motivated by the GOP. And that is 100% their fault. If you don't like it, talk to your suckass Party about it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 30, 2026 08:46 AM (BI5O2)

181 Huck Follywood

Thanks.
This is not the first instance of Instant Jihad among pilots of passenger planes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 08:46 AM (u82oZ)

182 >>Ive often wondered if Broadway Joe really believed his own prediction or he was just running his mouth for the attention. Either way, it came out golden for him

Being an unrepentant lifelong Jets fan, I've seen Namath give a couple interviews on the topic. Obviously, he thought the Jets had a chance, they were a damn good team that year. But he said he got so tired of having reporters ask him if the Jets had any chance against the mighty Colts he fired back with his legendary reply.

It's often a good idea to ignore people, particularly the media, who tell you that you are going to lose. If you don't think you are going to win go sit on the bench.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:46 AM (viF8m)

183 The media have harped on gas and diesel prices. They will remain silent as prices ease.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

When is that going to happen again?

Cuz, my F250 just sits there......unable to move......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:46 AM (ccf/V)

184 "How far has Erick Erickson sunk?
He's defending Talarico."

I wish that blanking blanking blank blank blank would go ahead and blank blank and blank.

Posted by: fd, curbing my tongue at September 30, 2026 08:46 AM (MWfyi)

185 Boortz - "Somebody had to say it"

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 08:47 AM (MWfyi)

186 150 Today Is National Chewing Gum Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

I remember doing a small drywall job at the American Chicle Plant in Long Island City, Queens in 74-75 era. The whole neighborhood had a sweet gum smell and the floors and even the sidewalks outside had a fine coating of sugary dust. I was wondering if this was safe. On November 22, 1976, there was a massive dust explosion, fire, and dozens of workers were burned, injured. Lawsuits, etc. Six story plant permanently closed in 1981. That's my chewing gum story.

Posted by: Chewing The Scenery at September 30, 2026 08:48 AM (Fn+3X)

187 The media have harped on gas and diesel prices. They will remain silent as prices ease.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

When is that going to happen again?

Cuz, my F250 just sits there......unable to move......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:46 AM (ccf/V)

*wistfully eyes F950 Earthfucker*

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2026 08:48 AM (wVcYX)

188 Joe Namath's brother was my mother's insurance guy for decades. Nice guy

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 08:48 AM (yOEUM)

189 And Sarah Huckabee Sanders proves she inherited the tone-deaf pretentious sanctimony of her father.
Released an ad attacking welfare scammers and leaches.

Her example?

White, young, gamer men.

So she joins not just the liberal dog pile on men, she betrays how deep she has internalized the Boomer traits, the pathalogical and destructive refusal to speak the truth about minorities--better to lie and pretend than risk being called a racist.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 08:48 AM (3cUTc)

190 Best thing about Erick Erickson?
I can ignore him.

Posted by: Person who ignores Erick Erickson at September 30, 2026 08:48 AM (2Ez/1)

191 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 08:49 AM (77rzZ)

192 Person who ignores Erick Erickson

Who?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 08:49 AM (u82oZ)

193 And Sarah Huckabee Sanders proves she inherited the tone-deaf pretentious sanctimony of her father.
Released an ad attacking welfare scammers and leaches.

Her example?

White, young, gamer men.

So she joins not just the liberal dog pile on men, she betrays how deep she has internalized the Boomer traits, the pathalogical and destructive refusal to speak the truth about minorities--better to lie and pretend than risk being called a racist.+-

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 08:48 AM (3cUTc)

Is she wrong?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:50 AM (ccf/V)

194 Sponge, No she is not wrong.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 08:51 AM (QwZKw)

195 Dow futures jump 200 points after data shows a big inflation slowdown last month
========================
How'd those words taste coming out, CNBC?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 08:51 AM (ALmBW)

196 Am I the only one who has never read anything by Erick Erickson?

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 08:51 AM (Oy/m2)

197 If she simply went by the name "Sarah Sanders" wouldn't she just be a soccer mom in suburban Fort Smith?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 30, 2026 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)

198 Ive often wondered if Broadway Joe... Either way, it came out golden for him
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

**********

Yeah. That win launched him onto a career trajectory that led to his current lucrative gig hawking Medicare Advantage plans and hearing aids on the Geritol Network.

Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 08:52 AM (I0N4X)

199 dantesed

No.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 08:52 AM (u82oZ)

200 Sponge, No she is not wrong.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 08:51 AM (QwZKw)
===================
In fact, she is right. And tough enough to withstand a little criticism from keyboard warriors like us! So far, she looks like someone I could vote for.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 08:52 AM (ALmBW)

201 Am I the only one who has never read anything by Erick Erickson?

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 08:51 AM (Oy/m2)

No.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:53 AM (ccf/V)

202 That's right! Have to pull out the "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!" dvd today.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Spoiler: The Great Pumpkin never arrives.

Posted by: Godot at September 30, 2026 08:53 AM (Fn+3X)

203 Am I the only one who has never read anything by Erick Erickson?
Posted by: dantesed

You're not missing anything.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 08:53 AM (yOEUM)

204 I honestly have no idea who Erick Erickson is… sounds like I’m not missing out

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 30, 2026 08:54 AM (Dkvax)

205 Before podcasts we had the radio on all day. Howard Stern to Dr. Laura to Michael Savage.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 08:43 AM (RIvkX)

There was a period where we had Dr. Laura and Rush to Michael Berry (way back when he was funny).

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2026 08:54 AM (wVcYX)

206 Huck, I would vote for her also and I am overly cautious of women politicians,

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 08:54 AM (QwZKw)

207 Is George Will still alive?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 30, 2026 08:54 AM (Dkvax)

208 Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 08:51 AM (QwZKw)

*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:55 AM (ccf/V)

209 When is that going to happen again?"

Never.

/Gav, planning on more refinery shutdowns

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:55 AM (pfXMo)

210 Spoiler: The Great Pumpkin never arrives.
Posted by: Godot at September 30, 2026 08:53 AM (Fn+3X)

That's just because people aren't sincere enough these days.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2026 08:55 AM (1Ff7Z)

211 we can bitch and moan all we want about the quality or lack thereof of our candidates

This concern is mostly a smokescreen and always has been.

Let me give you an example, and the worst one I can think of. Christine O'Donnell running as a long shot candidate for a blue senate seat was damned because apparently the left dug up she had "dabbled in witchcraft" in college.

Ok. That's pretty bad...if she was still doing it. People do stupid stuff in college/when young because they are still ignorant of the world. Meanwhile we have one incumbent Dem house member right now that married her brother and committed immigration fraud and this isn't an issue at all.

No one is going to be perfect. Republican candidates, especially when young and before getting into politics are going to do dumb things as all people do. And we need to learn to handle this one of two ways...

The Trump way: Respond by attacking attacking attacking. Don't bother with defense for something stupid

The Vance way: Completely lean into it. Take that stupid ugly modified picture of you and use it. Do this the Yankee Doodle Dandy way and mock, mock, mock the people trying to use it to attach you

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 08:56 AM (sKqQm)

212 I used to really like Michael Medved. That was in the before-Trump times…. Turns out he was a closet dem all along. I should’ve known. Stupid me

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 30, 2026 08:56 AM (Dkvax)

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

They broke the mold when Margret Thatcher came along. Wish she is the role model for women politicians.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 08:56 AM (u82oZ)

214 There are three local radio personalities that have copies of The Deplorable Gourmet. WBAP has been good radio,

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 08:56 AM (QwZKw)

215 Am I the only one who has never read anything by Erick Erickson?"

Nope.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:56 AM (pfXMo)

216 Huckabee Sanders isn't wrong that there are white's on welfare. Kind of a good add , giving the race baiters no where to go

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 08:56 AM (jivel)

217 I'll always remember the sage and pithy advice from Dr. Laura about handling a necessary but difficult relationship in four words:
"Be polite. Minimize contact."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 30, 2026 08:56 AM (2Ez/1)

218 Is George Will still alive?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

He can fog a mirror.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 08:57 AM (yOEUM)

219 I'm sure the media will rush to report the news that Trump has removed the US military from Iraq. Any minute now.

>>@jsolomonReports
·
7m
>>US military says withdrawal of troops from Iraq is complete

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:57 AM (viF8m)

220 Joe Namath's brother was my mother's insurance guy for decades. Nice guy
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

**********

Brush with fame.

I once saw Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Diminutive Sex Therapist Extraordinaire eating lunch at a restaurant in San Diego.

Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 08:57 AM (I0N4X)

221 He can fog a mirror.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 08:57 AM (yOEUM)

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:57 AM (ccf/V)

222 "Be polite. Minimize contact"

Sage words.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:58 AM (pfXMo)

223 I just learned that I forgot to put in my vacation requests for October.......Hope the boss is in a giving mood......

I've got the Michael's Memories tournament next week, then, which I just learned, I've got 2 weeks off to move before the TxMoMe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:59 AM (ccf/V)

224 Joe Namath's brother was my mother's insurance guy for decades. Nice guy
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

**********

Brush with fame.

I once saw Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Diminutive Sex Therapist Extraordinaire eating lunch at a restaurant in San Diego.
Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 08:57 AM (I0N4X)

Also, IDF Sniper.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2026 08:59 AM (wVcYX)

225 If you read nothing else today please read the letter Jackstraw linked at 139.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 09:00 AM (QwZKw)

226 The Standard also displayed in a screen grab of Becerra’s endorsement page, which touted his support from “Mayor David Lurie” of San Francisco. The mayor’s name is Daniel.

“What’s your relationship like with David?” Garrow asked.

“Growing,” Becerra responded. “He’s done a number of important things, amazing things.”

“Do you think David’s been good for San Francisco?” she continued, using the wrong name.

“I think San Franciscans would say, on the whole, he has,” the candidate replied without ever correcting her.

The Post viewed the endorsement page late Tuesday, which appears to have fixed the name.
======

Xavier Becerra may in fact be dumber than Gavin Newsom.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 09:00 AM (RIvkX)

227 Huckabee Sanders isn't wrong that there are white's on welfare. Kind of a good add , giving the race baiters no where to go

The ad is getting way more attention, and higher quality attention, because she had a white guy in the ad instead of say a black woman.

If they had gone with the latter the FNM would dismiss it as muh raycissms. But now they are sort of forced to have a discussion about the large number of able bodied people on welfare and how they aren't actually white guys...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 09:00 AM (sKqQm)

228
Brush with fame.

I once saw Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Diminutive Sex Therapist Extraordinaire eating lunch at a restaurant in San Diego.
Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 08:57 AM (I0N4X)

Also, IDF Sniper.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2026 08:59 AM (wVcYX)

During the attic clean out last weekend, I found my Jimmy's Corner drink coaster with the Mark Gastineau autograph on it.

He was really drunk.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:01 AM (ccf/V)

229 Who Killed DHS Whistleblower Philip Haney and DNC Official Seth Rich?

-----------

Arkancides FTW!

Posted by: ShainS at September 30, 2026 09:01 AM (j04bB)

230 If you read nothing else today please read the letter Jackstraw linked at 139.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 09:00 AM (QwZKw)

What if I didn't read this comment?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:01 AM (ccf/V)

231 The Standard also displayed in a screen grab of Becerra’s endorsement page, which touted his support from “Mayor David Lurie” of San Francisco. The mayor’s name is Daniel.

“What’s your relationship like with David?” Garrow asked.

“Growing,” Becerra responded. “He’s done a number of important things, amazing things.”

“Do you think David’s been good for San Francisco?” she continued, using the wrong name.

“I think San Franciscans would say, on the whole, he has,” the candidate replied without ever correcting her.

The Post viewed the endorsement page late Tuesday, which appears to have fixed the name.
======

Xavier Becerra may in fact be dumber than Gavin Newsom.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 09:00 AM (RIvkX)

David/Daniel, whatever it takes. - Becerra

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2026 09:01 AM (wVcYX)

232 Brush with fame.

I once saw Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Diminutive Sex Therapist Extraordinaire eating lunch at a restaurant in San Diego.
Posted by: muldoon

Oh yeah? I once smoked a joint with Oscar-winning actress Ellen Burstyn. (I had just shampooed her carpets). It was her pot.

Posted by: Brush With Greatness at September 30, 2026 09:02 AM (Fn+3X)

233 Looking forwards to Ace's essay later today on the dirt that someone found on Cavernous Nostrils being a Lesbian and is cheating on her husband.

Posted by: Defenestratus at September 30, 2026 09:02 AM (WYStd)

234 Well, gotta run. Chin up, and all that.

Mrs has another preop at MD Anderson. They've booked 500 minutes (damn) for the operation Monday.

Not fun.

Did I mention cancer sucks?

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 09:02 AM (pfXMo)

235 Early Voting In Texas starts Monday, October 19th.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2026 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

236 It is amusing that the most famous sex therapist is a little old lady.

Not that she didn't have life experience because of her age but...not the first thing you'd think of when it came to sex...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 09:02 AM (sKqQm)

237 I honestly have no idea who Erick Erickson is… sounds like I’m not missing out
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 30, 2026 08:54 AM (Dkvax)

He's a Chamber of Commerce, import the world, fight the wars (but not that one), Bushite. Image W if he weighed 250 pounds and lost 50 IQ points.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

238 Sponge, hahahaha. I talk being ignored in stride !

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 09:03 AM (QwZKw)

239 Looking forwards to Ace's essay later today on the dirt that someone found on Cavernous Nostrils being a Lesbian and is cheating on her husband.
Posted by: Defenestratus at September 30, 2026 09:02 AM (WYStd)
=====
Check the archives.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 09:03 AM (RIvkX)

240 The Standard also displayed in a screen grab of Becerra’s endorsement page, which touted his support from “Mayor David Lurie” of San Francisco. The mayor’s name is Daniel.

This stuff is funny, but it isn't going to move any votes.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

241 man, prayers for both of you.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 09:04 AM (QwZKw)

242 So Candace Owens jumped from a pretty standard conservative talking head to jump on the Hate Da Joos bandwagon...next up a polycule proponent?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 09:05 AM (sKqQm)

243 ...Ellen Burstyn. (I had just shampooed her carpets)...

********

Phrasing?

Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 09:05 AM (I0N4X)

244 “She was adored by her sisters and she was deeply loved by her parents. In fact, she was the light of our lives. Her passing is devastating for our entire family and we ask for prayers and privacy at this time.”

The statement concluded, “If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health, please reach out to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988.”

Fiona Lowe, Rob Lowe's niece........committed suicide at 13?

WTF?!?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:05 AM (ccf/V)

245 Well, gotta run. Chin up, and all that.

Mrs has another preop at MD Anderson. They've booked 500 minutes (damn) for the operation Monday.

Not fun.

Did I mention cancer sucks?
Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 09:02 AM (pfXMo)

It surely do. Best wishes and prayers for you both through this.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2026 09:05 AM (wVcYX)

246 Didn't know Israelis go on vacation to Dubai. Seems as smart as a mouse attending a Cat Convention.

Posted by: Ignatz

Dubai is the Switzerland of the middle east. They are a free trade zone and make allowances for other faiths.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 30, 2026 09:06 AM (0U5gm)

247 Did I mention cancer sucks?
Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 09:02 AM (pfXMo)
******
Sending prayers!!!

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2026 09:06 AM (NpAcC)

248 "Early and Often, yo!!!!!"

Are you suggesting I vote multiple times like a fking Dem

Posted by: sidney at September 30, 2026 09:06 AM (Uy/WF)

249 Did I mention cancer sucks?

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 09:02 AM (pfXMo)

*fistbump*

Godspeed, sir. All the prayers for your wife.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:06 AM (ccf/V)

250 Daily Mail
@DailyMail
Labour minister claims that visions of Britain based on warm ale, pubs, and black Labradors are a 'far-right' fantasy that 'never really existed'

-
Churchill? Figment of your imagination. Also . . .

Shabana Mahmood MP
@ShabanaMahmood
This Government will reopen the UK Resettlement Route in partnership with the United Nations.
We will take vulnerable refugees from camps across the world and give them the chance of a new and better life here in Britain.
With the first arrivals beginning this year.

-
What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:07 AM (ndZc7)

251 Go from picking off goatrapers to mam in the boat radio talk.

What a woman.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 09:07 AM (yOEUM)

252
Are you suggesting I vote multiple times like a fking Dem

Posted by: sidney at September 30, 2026 09:06 AM (Uy/WF)

It works for them.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:07 AM (ccf/V)

253 As I said yesterday, her (and her advisors) big mistake was taking on the welfare issue. Welfare of all kinds is the most important issue for ALL grifters.

Posted by: clarence at September 30, 2026 09:07 AM (vCaJx)

254 @ShabanaMahmood
This Government will reopen the UK Resettlement Route in partnership with the United Nations.
We will take vulnerable refugees from camps across the world and give them the chance of a new and better life here in Britain.
With the first arrivals beginning this year.

Rapes and murders and bombs, OH MY!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:08 AM (ccf/V)

255 At UPI, NJ police arrest giant tortoise on the lam: "After a brief foot pursuit (we won), the suspect was safely taken into custody."

Posted by: gp at September 30, 2026 09:09 AM (Jr5Lq)

256 Talarico worries me.

Posted by: Billythesquid at September 30, 2026 09:09 AM (Lr1TO)

257 Today Is National Chewing Gum Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

*********

Followed tomorrow by National "Clean The Undersides Of School Desks" Day.

Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 09:09 AM (I0N4X)

258 Check the archives.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 09:03 AM (RIvkX)

Sh*t did I miss it?

I was told there would be no homework!

Posted by: Defenestratus at September 30, 2026 09:09 AM (WYStd)

259 Cuz, my F250 just sits there......unable to move......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:46 AM (ccf/V)

*wistfully eyes F950 Earthfucker*
Posted by: Count de Monet

Look up an F650 with pickup body. Seriously.

If I win a lottery, I won't tell anyone, but there WILL be signs.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 09:09 AM (Az7Eg)

260 sidney

At my voting site, I ask for a ballot for Manuel En Fuego.

"No, I don't have ID."

It never works.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 09:10 AM (u82oZ)

261 Is she the one who's known for having rather large nostrils?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 30, 2026 09:10 AM (2Ez/1)

262 I saw Mam in the Boat open for Christopher Cross at Yacht Rockfest in '86.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:10 AM (ccf/V)

263 Dr. Ruth. I've never had sex with a midget, though I'm sure someone here has. Is it fun?

Posted by: Prefer Long Tall Sally at September 30, 2026 09:11 AM (Fn+3X)

264 Shabana Mahmood MP
@ShabanaMahmood
This Government will reopen the UK Resettlement Route in partnership with the United Nations.
We will take vulnerable refugees from camps across the world and give them the chance of a new and better life here in Britain.
With the first arrivals beginning this year.

-
What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:07 AM (ndZc7)

I see they cleaned up her message from yesterday. There was also a part where she talked about Britain's generosity - just going on welfare.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 09:12 AM (yOEUM)

265 Thank all y'all for the prayers. Heck, she's taking this better than me...

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 09:12 AM (pfXMo)

266 Early Voting In Texas starts Monday, October 19th.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2026 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

I expect that I'll vote on the 20th. The first day can get busy but I'd really, really, really like to get everyone to leave me the fuck alone.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 09:12 AM (ExV1e)

267 Inherent generosity

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 09:12 AM (yOEUM)

268 Shabana Mahmood MP

I think I've found the problem...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 09:13 AM (+gK6I)

269 Heck, she's taking this better than me...

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 09:12 AM (pfXMo)

Bishes be tough as nails.......the good ones, anyway.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:13 AM (ccf/V)

270 Eric Daugherty-
Core US inflation comes in BELOW expectations using the Fed's preferred gauge at 3%

"LESS INFLATION than we thought!" — FOX Business

"MUCH lighter than expected" — CNBC

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2026 09:13 AM (NpAcC)

271
When is that going to happen again?
Cuz, my F250 just sits there......unable to move......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

12 gallons day before yesterday. $70.

I want to nuke Iran, and drill through the glass dome to pump all the oil I want.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 30, 2026 09:13 AM (BmUWo)

272 Bible Study Corner.

The Dissenter
@disntr
"Rev" Jeanne M. Hansknecht of St. Paul's says that Jesus demonstrated that Lazarus was gay by calling him to "come out." Then, after arguing that Lazarus had no recorded wife or children, she spews this gem:

"And he was a good friend of Jesus, not a student or disciple, but a friend, which in my mind's eye ranks right up there with being a friend of Dorothy."

For context, "friend of Dorothy" is a longstanding expression historically used to identify gay men.

-
Not only raised him from the dead, also made him fabulous!

(That "friend of Dorothy" stuff is a new one on me.)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:14 AM (ndZc7)

273 The best pizzerias all had generous chewing gum layers under their tables, back when NYC was great.

Posted by: Peppino's Pizza And Pasta at September 30, 2026 09:14 AM (Fn+3X)

274 The FNM has an answer to Trump ending Bidenflation...Trump didn't roll prices back to pre-Biden levels...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 09:14 AM (sKqQm)

275 Mr Aspirin Factory

The UK has no funds available for this. It's like a games where there are not enough seats, and the music stops.

Who will not be seated?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 09:14 AM (u82oZ)

276 >>Core US inflation comes in BELOW expectations using the Fed's preferred gauge at 3%

>>"LESS INFLATION than we thought!" — FOX Business

>>"MUCH lighter than expected" — CNBC

Same media that says voters are turning on Trump because the economy sucks.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 09:14 AM (viF8m)

277 Mr Aspirin Factory

The UK has no funds available for this. It's like a games where there are not enough seats, and the music stops.

Who will not be seated?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 09:14 AM (u82oZ)

I'll take White Pensioners for $200, Alex.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2026 09:15 AM (wVcYX)

278 @disntr
"Rev" Jeanne M. Hansknecht of St. Paul's says that Jesus demonstrated that Lazarus was gay by calling him to "come out." Then, after arguing that Lazarus had no recorded wife or children, she spews this gem:

"And he was a good friend of Jesus, not a student or disciple, but a friend, which in my mind's eye ranks right up there with being a friend of Dorothy."

For context, "friend of Dorothy" is a longstanding expression historically used to identify gay men.

"Man shall not lay with man as he does with woman."

Blasphemy. It's what's for dinner!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:16 AM (ccf/V)

279 Eric Daugherty-
Core US inflation comes in BELOW expectations using the Fed's preferred gauge at 3%

"LESS INFLATION than we thought!" — FOX Business

"MUCH lighter than expected" — CNBC

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2026 09:13 AM (NpAcC)

Fueling expectations by the economically illiterate that prices will now fall.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 09:16 AM (ExV1e)

280 What about the non-core inflation?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 30, 2026 09:16 AM (2Ez/1)

281 (That "friend of Dorothy" stuff is a new one on me.)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:14 AM (ndZc7)

A cake boy... Oscar Wilde reading, Barbara Streisand ticket holding, Friend of Dorothy. Clueless...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 09:16 AM (+gK6I)

282 Private sector jobs rose by 90,000 in September, better than expected, ADP reports
==================
Not the most closely followed of indicators, at least by traders, but still more good news.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 09:16 AM (U/wKW)

283 Mr Aspirin Factory

The UK has no funds available for this. It's like a games where there are not enough seats, and the music stops.

Who will not be seated?
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Nigel, Ian, Steve......

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 09:16 AM (yOEUM)

284 Gay sex in the Roman era was mostly adult men molesting children. The notion of gay male adult peers pairing up was unheard of.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2026 09:16 AM (sKqQm)

285 What about the non-core inflation?
Posted by: I gotta ask

The price of houses is through the roof.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 09:17 AM (u82oZ)

286 The word you're looking for is homosexual.

Posted by: Make gay happy again at September 30, 2026 09:17 AM (2Ez/1)

287 261 Is she the one who's known for having rather large nostrils?
Posted by: I gotta ask

And just what is wrong with that?

Posted by: Henry "Nostrilitis" Waxman at September 30, 2026 09:17 AM (Fn+3X)

288 Same media that says voters are turning on Trump because the economy sucks.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 09:14 AM (viF8m)

If it's on the Internet it has to be true....

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 09:17 AM (+gK6I)

289 The word you're looking for is homosexual.

Posted by: Make gay happy again at September 30, 2026 09:17 AM (2Ez/1)

This......

Make the rainbow God's Promise again......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:18 AM (ccf/V)

290 Good morning!

This guy had a creative response to the despicable Sarah Sanders 'lazy gamers on welfare' ad, lol! Just keep scrolling:

https://x.com/UnderCoercion

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 09:18 AM (rOKnE)

291 This is a sexy beast.

Ford F650

https://tinyurl.com/yect6h4z

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 09:18 AM (Az7Eg)

292 From Midwest Chick:

A small plane crashed in Wisconsin. Oddly enough, there was a plane with three sky divers that saw it and the sky divers offered to dive out and get to the site ASAP to render aid. Even odder, the three sky divers are also EMTs.

No deaths.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 09:18 AM (u82oZ)

293 Errorickson has the prime afternoon slot on Atlanta's biggest "conservative" AM station. He's always been a loudmouth POS since I'd known him a a local city councilman.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 09:19 AM (MWfyi)

294
This guy had a creative response to the despicable Sarah Sanders 'lazy gamers on welfare' ad, lol! Just keep scrolling:

https://x.com/UnderCoercion
Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 09:18 AM (rOKnE)

I don't have a problem with that ad... Get's the point across and doesn't "offend" the protected classes just waiting to have a fit

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 09:20 AM (+gK6I)

295 Shabana Mahmood MP

I think I've found the problem...
Posted by: It's me donna
+++
Exactly!! The government there is infested with foreigners. They have given their country away. Gonna be hard to ever take it back.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 30, 2026 09:20 AM (Lo97M)

296 Lots of people are pining for the F150s.

Posted by: FoMoCo at September 30, 2026 09:21 AM (2Ez/1)

297 This......

Make the rainbow God's Promise again......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Dem F@ggots done robbed my Coalition, too.

Posted by: Zombie Jesse Hijackson at September 30, 2026 09:21 AM (Fn+3X)

298 Greek homos living in caves.

Posted by: Reverend Al at September 30, 2026 09:22 AM (yOEUM)

299 Gmac, prayers up for you. May the radiation do the work the doctors hope for, and my the side effects be few and transient.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 30, 2026 09:22 AM (FGA9/)

300 >>Raw Egg Nationalist: Why is a Republican candidate portraying a slovenly welfare scammer as a young white man by default?

Yeah, amidst ALL the fraud that's been uncovered by Nick Shirley, DOGE, and JD Vance's new fraud task force, making an ad that depict the worst offender as a nerdy whit boy gamer is not simply tone deaf, it is incredibly offensive.

The thing is, even if there were a lot of unemployed white, male Americans on welfare who can't get a job (because the DEI/H1-b obsession has shut them out), it would be a rounding error in comparison to the billions upon billions of entitlement fraud that is being committed by foreigners scamming every dang government program.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 09:23 AM (rOKnE)

301 Gay sex in the Roman era was mostly adult men molesting children. The notion of gay male adult peers pairing up was unheard of.
Posted by: 18-1

Where you separated the men from the boys...

...with a crowbar.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 09:23 AM (Az7Eg)

302 278 @disntr
"Rev" Jeanne M. Hansknecht of St. Paul's says that Jesus demonstrated that Lazarus was gay by calling him to "come out." Then, after arguing that Lazarus had no recorded wife or children, she spews this gem:

"And he was a good friend of Jesus, not a student or disciple, but a friend, which in my mind's eye ranks right up there with being a friend of Dorothy."

For context, "friend of Dorothy" is a longstanding expression historically used to identify gay men.

"Man shall not lay with man as he does with woman."
Blasphemy. It's what's for dinner!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:16 AM (ccf/V)
********
This sounds like the religion of Tallarico. God help us!

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2026 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

303 We're in CA.... Husband has a Dodge dually 3500.... Costs over $200.00 to fill up''' Diesel here is $ 8.90 a gallon

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 09:24 AM (+gK6I)

304 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at September 30, 2026 09:24 AM (53oGX)

305 A cake boy... Oscar Wilde reading, Barbara Streisand ticket holding, Friend of Dorothy. Clueless...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 09:16 AM

I prefer the quote:

"Hey...you! Anything happens to my daughter, I have a .45 and a shovel. I doubt anyone would miss you."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 09:24 AM (bFu5X)

306 The U.S. Mint stopped making pennies in 2025, but legislation passed by the Senate and headed to President Donald Trump’s desk will formally end their production after 234 years.

The bill, passed by voice vote late Monday, directs the government to not make pennies, giving a legal stamp of approval to the Trump administration’s decision to stop producing the currency last year. The penny, among the first coins to be made after the Mint was established in 1792, has become increasingly expensive to produce and is used by fewer and fewer consumers as digital transactions have become more standard.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

307 "Hey...you! Anything happens to my daughter, I have a .45 and a shovel. I doubt anyone would miss you."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 09:24 AM (bFu5X)

That's a good one too...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2026 09:25 AM (+gK6I)

308 >>Shabana Mahmood MP
I think I've found the problem...

Gah, she even looks demonic.
Putting her in charge of anything is asking for destruction of everything you love.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 09:25 AM (rOKnE)

309 There were 1,600 jobs lost when the American Chicle Plant in LIC closed in 1981, by the way.

Posted by: Chewy, Dewey, and Louie at September 30, 2026 09:26 AM (Fn+3X)

310 I was a friend of Dorothy.

Posted by: The Tin Man at September 30, 2026 09:26 AM (2Ez/1)

311 Raw Egg Nationalist: Why is a Republican candidate portraying a slovenly welfare scammer as a young white man by default?

Because the media can't scream, "Muh raycisms!"
Because the race grifters can't go out and have a "hey hey ho ho" sing-along.
Because there are white welfare scammers too.

Pick your answer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 09:26 AM (ExV1e)

312 If everything goes according to schedule, Christa Pike will get the needle in a half hour.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:26 AM (ndZc7)

313 "the League of Voters who Dress Like Women"
is more like it.

Posted by: vivi at September 30, 2026 09:26 AM (7esJd)

314 "Hey...you! Anything happens to my daughter, I have a .45 and a shovel. I doubt anyone would miss you."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 09:24 AM (bFu5X)

Met a guy while on a fishing trip to Toledo Bend. We had a few beers and were talking about having daughters and nieces. He was from the swamps of Louisiana and when he found out about his niece dating the son of the Governor of LA, he told him "You hurt my niece, I can bury you where they'll NEVER find you. I don't care WHO your daddy is."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:28 AM (ccf/V)

315 Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie?

We need to point out that a Rocket Docket on Death Sentences would save taxpayers a lot of money.

And it would uphold the standards of being human. More please. Major Hasan, looking at you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 09:29 AM (u82oZ)

316 So, pointing out that white people are on welfare too is bad?

Ok........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:29 AM (ccf/V)

317 everyone knows the motive behind the attempted plane hijacking but media still reporting it as if there is uncertainty

Posted by: Commodore at September 30, 2026 09:29 AM (V6W16)

318 Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 09:12 AM

Prayers up for both of you.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 09:30 AM (bFu5X)

319 Christa Gail Pike was sentenced to death in 1996.
That was 30 years ago.

Posted by: Person with a calendar at September 30, 2026 09:30 AM (2Ez/1)

320 Art up

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 09:30 AM (Az7Eg)

321 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:31 AM (ccf/V)

322 Commodore

Please see my comment 181.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 09:31 AM (u82oZ)

323 A viral post breaking down SNAP, Medicaid, and federal income taxes by race has been a hot topic on X for reasons that are pretty obvious once you see the numbers.
According to the post, 24.9 percent of Black households receive SNAP compared with 18.5 percent of Hispanic households, 8.5 percent of Asian households, and just 7.9 percent of White households. The Medicaid numbers follow a similar pattern, while the federal income tax figures suddenly swing dramatically in the opposite direction.

… Equity demands these percentages be equalized

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 09:34 AM (EKMrJ)

324 >>Because the media can't scream, "Muh raycisms!"
Because the race grifters can't go out and have a "hey hey ho ho" sing-along.

We all know that the ad chose the safest target possible: the Genz white male.

The point is she didn't have to depict any person at all, which is another way to avoid offending anyone. But she leaned into it, made it jokey, like 'heh, those darn kids like Brad who just need to turn off the Xbox and pull themselves up by their bootstraps!'

Anyone who has been aware of the current boomer/Gen Z discourse on social media knows that there is a real disconnect on why college graduates today aren't working, and spoiler alert, it isn't because they want to sit home and eat cheetos.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 09:34 AM (rOKnE)

325 314 "Hey...you! Anything happens to my daughter, I have a .45 and a shovel. I doubt anyone would miss you."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 09:24 AM (bFu5X)

Met a guy while on a fishing trip to Toledo Bend. We had a few beers and were talking about having daughters and nieces. He was from the swamps of Louisiana and when he found out about his niece dating the son of the Governor of LA, he told him "You hurt my niece, I can bury you where they'll NEVER find you. I don't care WHO your daddy is."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 09:28 AM (ccf/V)

Call it what you will, but the above is how a REAL father, a real man, protects his own.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 30, 2026 10:03 AM (N39Ws)

326 300 >>Raw Egg Nationalist: Why is a Republican candidate portraying a slovenly welfare scammer as a young white man by default?

Yeah, amidst ALL the fraud that's been uncovered by Nick Shirley, DOGE, and JD Vance's new fraud task force, making an ad that depict the worst offender as a nerdy whit boy gamer is not simply tone deaf, it is incredibly offensive.

The thing is, even if there were a lot of unemployed white, male Americans on welfare who can't get a job (because the DEI/H1-b obsession has shut them out), it would be a rounding error in comparison to the billions upon billions of entitlement fraud that is being committed by foreigners scamming every dang government program.
Posted by: Lizzy

Why settle for the Lesser Evil? Make a Deal with cTHIEL
https://tinyurl.com/cTHIEL-usefulIdiotYOUare
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-atLongLongLAST
https://tinyurl.com/cTHIEL-batboy2NOSFERATU

LET's GO BRANDON! MAKE IT RAIN.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 30, 2026 10:15 AM (oOryp)

327 Are there any internal Republican polls?

Posted by: AnnaS at September 30, 2026 10:30 AM (ZiaCc)

328 I think there is a lot of hand wringing for nothing, because what little voting evidence we have suggest this will be close, this is not a blue wave or a red collapse.

Posted by: Black JEM at September 30, 2026 10:35 AM (7/DDO)

329 Dickens still sucks. Great Expectations especially is a piece of shit.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 30, 2026 11:30 AM (6jna9)

330 Jack Smith Seized Nearly 5,000 Checks Written By Trump Donors

According to the article:
that Smith and his team obtained communications from The Federalist, along with more than a dozen other media outlets, as part of his anti-Trump lawfare...that Smith’s team seized Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway’s communications.

All part of the witch hunt. There's no punishment too good for Smith and those behind the scenes that ordered this, but, as already state, "Nothing will Happen" is the likely result.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 11:51 AM (l3cgK)

331 Texas Lifts Screwworm Quarantines as New Mexico Reopens Cattle Crossing

When life gives you Screwworms, make Tequila?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 11:57 AM (l3cgK)

Daily Tech News 30 September 2026

Top Story

Anthropic announced not long ago that it was paying SpaceX $1.25 billion per month to lease capacity in datacenters that actually existed. The number now looks to be closer to twice that. (WCCFTech)

The only way to win is to own the stadium.
Anthropic also listed its own IPO. (Tom's Hardware)

Seeking a valuation of $2 trillion and warning that not only will it not give humanity a home in the stars, it will very likely wipe us all out right here on Earth.

Uh...

Tech News

Bought two new PCs. Finally found what I've been looking for - a barebones 13900HX mini-PC that takes DDR4 SODIMMs.

For most people who don't have 256GB of DDR4-SODIMMs just sitting around that's not particularly useful, even at the discounted price of $400. But for me, when I do have 256GB of DDR4-SODIMMs, including 64GB in a dead laptop and 64GB in a dying one, it's exactly what I needed. It's two to three times faster than the old laptops - when they work at all, and nearly 50% faster on multi-threaded work that the mini-PCs I bought last year.

Do I need them? No. Do I want them? Yes. They let me keep on trucking with parts pulled from laptops I bought in 2021.

Minisforum M1-1390 for anyone interested though the US store is currently out of stock of the barebones model. It's a big little PC - 8" square, the size of the old Mac Mini before it shrank in the wash.
We're going to make our own Microsoft! With blackjack, and hookers, and Linux! In fact, forget the blackjack. (Tom's Hardware)

The Netherlands, irked that the aptly named International Criminal Court was sanctioned by the US and can no longer use American internet-based software and services, has decided to adopt Linux rather than stop being international criminals.
AMD's Zen 6 server CPUs are here, ranging in price up to $15,000. (Tom's Hardware)

Though that gives you a 256-core CPU with a gigabyte of cache running at 4.1GHz, which is not too shabby. Entry level models start at just $700.
You can't have one. (WCCFTech)

Not because they're too expensive, but because they've already sold out all production for the entirety of 2027 and are taking orders for 2028.
French company Mistral AI says that OpenAI and Anthropic are doing a publicity tour on "AI safety" to cover up the fact that they are retarded. (CNBC)

Well, yes.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Goo feesh!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)

2 G'day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 04:33 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 30, 2026 04:34 AM (BLOW1)

4 I like these Australian videos, Icehouse is vaguely familiar

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 04:36 AM (Ia/+0)

5 "Icehouse" is the name they use for a convenience store in Southern States, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:40 AM (rdVOm)

6 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 30, 2026 04:46 AM (sAmhv)

7 Slow night

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:52 AM (rdVOm)

8 JQ maybe if you weren't up every other hour

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 04:54 AM (Ia/+0)

9 >>>a dead laptop and ... a dying one

Sad!

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 04:55 AM (odBC9)

10 ?

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:56 AM (rdVOm)

11 Slept for 4 hours, leg and foot cramps woke me up. May try to go back to sleep when I get tired again...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:57 AM (l3cgK)

12 Skip-- ???

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:58 AM (rdVOm)

13 G'mornin all y'all

Posted by: Okjohn at September 30, 2026 04:59 AM (Ea86P)

14 Hearing that owl again, its out front this time

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 05:00 AM (Ia/+0)

15 14 Hearing that owl again, its out front this time

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 05:00 AM (Ia/+0)

Watch out if it happens for six nights in a row...

Also, don't follow a woman stubborn enough to chase after a stupid pony in a blizzard.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:04 AM (l3cgK)

16 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 30, 2026 05:04 AM (Hbeqj)

17 Minisforum M1-1390 for anyone interested though the US store is currently out of stock of the barebones model. It's a big little PC - 8" square, the size of the old Mac Mini before it shrank in the wash.

I don't get to use it too often these days but my 14900K laptop is a beast at video encoding. Runs as hot as an oven but it can do some multi-threaded processing with the quickness. Beats my desktop 5900X with ease.

The cooling system in the M1-1390 looks like it can handle it the heat. It will need it for sure.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 05:05 AM (6ydKt)

18 Anyone hear from Irongrandpa lately?

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 05:05 AM (rdVOm)

19 WVY10’s lead is about a 4 y/o who died from flu.

Posted by: Accomack at September 30, 2026 05:06 AM (GbONR)

20
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 30, 2026 05:08 AM (AMvSw)

21 I am sure its a Great Horned Owl, owl species all have different calls

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 05:12 AM (Ia/+0)

22 Its across the street

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 05:14 AM (Ia/+0)

23 Had my trial spinal cord stimulator attached yesterday. They said my back would be sore for a couple of days. Ha. That was an understatement.

Posted by: Tuna at September 30, 2026 05:18 AM (lJ0H4)

24 23 Had my trial spinal cord stimulator attached yesterday. They said my back would be sore for a couple of days. Ha. That was an understatement.

Posted by: Tuna at September 30, 2026 05:18 AM (lJ0H4)

Hope things get better.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:23 AM (l3cgK)

25 @18/JQ: "Anyone hear from Irongrandpa lately?"

Not that I can recollect, but I might have missed him posting.

@Pixy: Can you search the comments and find his last posting date/time? I used to use Google for that but it's become useless in its search results.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 30, 2026 05:25 AM (O7YUW)

26 French company Mistral AI says that OpenAI and Anthropic are doing a publicity tour on "AI safety" to cover up the fact that they are retarded. (CNBC)

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“When you give them a lot of tools, those systems [AI agents] are very dynamic, so they can go and do things that you do not expect,” Mensch told CNBC.

“You need to have the right monitoring in place, and the enterprises we work with, we give them those kind of monitoring systems,” he said.

That's nice and all but OpenAI and Anthropic have been having problems with unreleased models in testing, which they then never release or release after re-training to alignment.

Mensch is simultaneously selling people that American AI is unsafe and monitored while also selling Mistral as safe with monitoring.

Which works as long as nobody knows the kind of crazy shit Mistral's models have done in their free time, which Mensch has no plans of revealing to anybody but French and EU regulators who have agreed to also keep their mouths shut.

While our guys are retards, at least they are being somewhat transparent about their retardedness while the EU and China are going the 'stay silent rather than remove all doubt' route.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 05:28 AM (6ydKt)

27 Hope things get better.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

They will. Thanks.

Posted by: Tuna at September 30, 2026 05:28 AM (lJ0H4)

28 I wish the IT news wasn't all about how AI continues to gobble everything up and how we all can't have nice things for years to come.

I miss buying computing hardware as something fun to experiment with.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 30, 2026 05:30 AM (O7YUW)

29 mistral is like that french guy developing the wheel to compete with write bros airplane. telling everyone they are just about equal.

Posted by: juicer at September 30, 2026 05:33 AM (zFP9G)

30 mornin yall

"An unidentified toddler pulled out a loaded handgun at Children's World Early Learing Center in Canton Township, Michigan on Monday morning."

Unidentified? Billy the Kahlill? Baby Face Nadir?

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 05:48 AM (MWfyi)

31 Way early, forgot
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 05:50 AM (FpUQF)

32 30 mornin yall

"An unidentified toddler pulled out a loaded handgun at Children's World Early Learing Center in Canton Township, Michigan on Monday morning."

Unidentified? Billy the Kahlill? Baby Face Nadir?

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 05:48 AM (MWfyi)

Is he a 17-year-old toddler?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:52 AM (l3cgK)

33 Most real guns have some weight to them...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:53 AM (l3cgK)

34
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs taken care of - except Diana, who refuses to get off the bed - coffee prepared. Now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian.

Her Majesty is home and actually will be here until Saturday, when she goes to Omaha to judge at a show.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 05:55 AM (eRlcH)

35
Unidentified? Billy the Kahlill? Baby Face Nadir?
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 05:48 AM (MWfyi)

His first words were, "I keeeel you!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 05:55 AM (eRlcH)

36 >>Anyone hear from Irongrandpa lately?

Been asking that for a few months now. Think his last post here was in December.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 30, 2026 05:58 AM (NcvvS)

37 Oh sure, I believe this story. It could happen to anyone:

A Chicago man has been arrested after police say he allegedly pulled a gun trigger instead of a drill and shot a toddler.

"As [Washington] walked toward the couch, [he] attempted to rev the drill in order to determine if it was too loud for the sleeping baby,' the prosecution said.

'Rather than pulling the trigger on the drill in his right hand, [Washington] pulled the trigger of the firearm in his left hand.'"

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 05:58 AM (MWfyi)

38 I have not seen IGP in a while. Maybe he did the smart thing and moved to the far side of the swamp.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:00 AM (MWfyi)

39 Oh, Mornin', Horde. 50 degrees, going up to 86, in Kentuckiana. Looks like today & tomorrow are going to be the last days over 80 for the year.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 30, 2026 06:01 AM (NcvvS)

40 >>Maybe he did the smart thing and moved to the far side of the swamp.

Thought he is somewhere in the Adirondacks?

Posted by: Nazdar at September 30, 2026 06:03 AM (NcvvS)

41 Just an expression. "The far side of the swamp" being somewhere in the middle of nowhere with no cell service, Internet, or people.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:07 AM (MWfyi)

42 >>Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:07 AM (MWfyi)

Ah. Thank you.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 30, 2026 06:10 AM (NcvvS)

43 Evening and morning, satellites, satraps, and vassals of the vast AoSHQ Empire! 'Tis Woden's Day, the last of September and the end of the month as well. If you don't have quick-set date function watches, be sure to set them ahead to read "31" this evening so they will pop up as "1" tomorrow.

"What's a watch? I got time and date on my phone."

"Okay, be like that."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:11 AM (wzUl9)

44 Here's another reason I will never fly again:

An Israel-bound passenger plane pilot was reportedly stabbed several times by the jet’s co-pilot in the cockpit — and the terrifying scenes caused the aircraft to plunge almost 20,000 feet in minutes, sparking fears of a “terrorist attack in mid-air.”

The jet, which departed Dubai for Tel Aviv just before 7 a.m., was cruising at around 34,000 feet before violence broke out in the cockpit around two-and-a-half hours into the flight, Israel’s Channel 12 reported.

The co-pilot tried to take control of the Boeing 737 Max 8 plane, which was carrying 174 passengers including 27 children, and attacked the pilot several times.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:11 AM (MWfyi)

45 The co-pilot tried to take control of the Boeing 737 Max 8 plane, which was carrying 174 passengers including 27 children, and attacked the pilot several times.
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026

***
Just a guess, but . . . DEI co-pilot? Adherent of The Religion of Pieces?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:13 AM (wzUl9)

46 A lot of Icehouse on here as of late.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 30, 2026 06:15 AM (XUHiS)

47 Israelis fly to/from Dubai?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:15 AM (l3cgK)

48 We're due for rain for the next seven days, some of it heavy. 77 again today, which yesterday morning at this time felt almost tolerable. Looks like I need to visit the big suburban library tomorrow when I'm out there for my haircut and stock up on some books and DVDs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:16 AM (wzUl9)

49 We need some rain. The lack of hurricanes has the creek as low as I have seen it. It needs a good flood and flush.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:17 AM (MWfyi)

50 5 "Icehouse" is the name they use for a convenience store in Southern States, LOL.
Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:40 AM (rdVOm)

That was my first thought when I first heard of them when I was 12.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 30, 2026 06:19 AM (XUHiS)

51 49 We need some rain. The lack of hurricanes has the creek as low as I have seen it. It needs a good flood and flush.
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:17 AM (MWfyi)

Take some from Amarillo. And NM.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 30, 2026 06:20 AM (XUHiS)

52 Dentist brings in his pup to help patients with dental anxiety. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/2ajv87re

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 06:20 AM (JrHfD)

53 "Israelis fly to/from Dubai?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) "

You've never heard that song?

Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high
Jews, fly, over the rainbow
Why would they go to Dubai?

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:21 AM (MWfyi)

54 Israelis fly to/from Dubai?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:15 AM (l3cgK)
-

Popular destination.

And... belated BOING from our sukkah!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 06:21 AM (LJCmn)

55
"Icehouse" is the name they use for a convenience store in Southern States, LOL.
Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:40 AM (rdVOm)

Here in South Texas, "icehouse" means a species of tavern with an open front. Sadly disappearing, but one of the more charming aspects of the area, a symbol of a slower and more convivial time.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 06:22 AM (eRlcH)

56 >>>the aptly named International Criminal Court

heh

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:22 AM (odBC9)

57
We need some rain. The lack of hurricanes has the creek as low as I have seen it. It needs a good flood and flush.
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:17 AM (MWfyi)

Droughts are ended by floods and vice versa.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 06:23 AM (eRlcH)

58 "Icehouse" is the name they use for a convenience store in Southern States, LOL.
Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026

***
Our famous TV horror host of the '60s and into the '80s, "Morgus the Magnificent," was said to have his laboratory 'above the old city icehouse." I'm not sure where that was supposed to be, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:23 AM (wzUl9)

59 Icehouse beer goes for $11 a 12 pack of bottles at Kroger. It's not bad.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:25 AM (MWfyi)

60 Terrorist pilot from Oman.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 06:28 AM (1CdX1)

61 "Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"

I don't know how they came up with that number. Could it be expressed in giraffes?

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:28 AM (MWfyi)

62 Speaking of miniforum, I just picked up an ms-01 i9 unit and maxed it out with memory and nvme and an rtx a2000e 16gb from ebay.

It's now part of my 3 agent setup that includes an apple m4 max with 64GB of ram and an i7 with an rtx a2000 6GB

It's primarily for working with sensitive client files and research.

It's all working pretty nicely.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 06:28 AM (XV/Pl)

63 The furry thugs are doing well. Little Dagny was on the bed when I woke, but as soon as I turned on the light, jumped down and trotted off, as if unwilling to be caught doing something that could be called "affectionate."

Stirling is flying around like crazy. He can't be doing it to work up an appetite for breakfast; I know he already has one like a feline lumberjack. He's been on his diet for a while now. I should bring him round to the vet and ask them to weigh him.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:29 AM (wzUl9)

64 Time I changed, stretched, and worked out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:30 AM (wzUl9)

65 Rabbi's daughter from the International Fellowship reflects on Leviticus 23:40 "Rejoice before the Lord." and Sukkot :

https://tinyurl.com/597ptndz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 06:31 AM (JrHfD)

66 54 belated BOING from our sukkah!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 06:21 AM (LJCmn)

succah (also sukkah)

a temporary shelter covered in natural materials, built near a synagogue or house and used especially for meals during the Jewish festival of Succoth.

mid 17th century: from Hebrew sukkāh ‘hut’.

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:32 AM (odBC9)

67 61 "Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"

I don't know how they came up with that number. Could it be expressed in giraffes?

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:28 AM (MWfyi)

That's around 260 Billion Butts...a real buttload.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:36 AM (l3cgK)

68 a temporary shelter covered in natural materials, built near a synagogue or house and used especially for meals during the Jewish festival of Succoth.

mid 17th century: from Hebrew sukkāh ‘hut’.

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:32 AM (odBC9)
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1. Can be built in the middle of nowhere.

2. The Hebrew word Sukkah is from the Torah, which dates back a bit more than the 17th century.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 06:36 AM (1CdX1)

69 Yesterday I went for a walk at the local Senior Center. There were all kinds of flowers there and a beautiful monarch butterfly resting on a purple flower, the name of which I didn't know. Then I took a walk through paths in the fields flanked by lots of Golden Rod which look really lovely in masses. I find it's good for me to take a break from news and go out in nature.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 06:37 AM (JrHfD)

70
"Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"

Data centers rejoice.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 06:42 AM (eRlcH)

71 "Rabbi's daughter" sounds like the beginning of a promising dirty joke, but no...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (1utmP)

72 61 "Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:28 AM (MWfyi)

According to that Yahoo article, that's Hurricane Polo.

The NOAA is less concerned.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (odBC9)

73 70
"Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"

Data centers rejoice.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 06:42 AM (eRlcH)

Until the power goes out and their backup generators can't get the fuel in the PDRK (People's Democrat Republic of Kalifornia)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (l3cgK)

74 "Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"
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WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE DELTA SMELT!!!???

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (FZ29D)

75 68 a temporary shelter covered in natural materials, built near a synagogue or house and used especially for meals during the Jewish festival of Succoth.

mid 17th century: from Hebrew sukkāh ‘hut’.

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:32 AM (odBC9)
-

1. Can be built in the middle of nowhere.

2. The Hebrew word Sukkah is from the Torah, which dates back a bit more than the 17th century.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 06:36 AM (1CdX1)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:45 AM (odBC9)

76 74 "Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"
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WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE DELTA SMELT!!!???

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (FZ29D)

Is that like a patty melt with fish?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:45 AM (l3cgK)

77 WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE DELTA SMELT!!!???

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (FZ29D)
============================
This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Joe Biden, Official Depends Endorser at September 30, 2026 06:48 AM (1utmP)

78 NOAA

1005 UTC Wed Sep 30 2026
Remnants of Polo
...POLO DISSIPATES OVER NORTHWESTERN MEXICO...

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:48 AM (odBC9)

79
Until the power goes out and their backup generators can't get the fuel in the PDRK (People's Democrat Republic of Kalifornia)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (l3cgK)

Your oleaginous governor says CA is a paradise. Any difficulties are the result of hoarders, kulaks, wreckers, foreign spies and counterrevolutionary elements.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 06:49 AM (eRlcH)

80 >>>Disclaimer: Goo feesh!

Like, when you walk around in the fish market part of a farmers' market, that's what you get on your shoes.

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:51 AM (odBC9)

81 It's relatively safe in California.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:52 AM (MWfyi)

82 79
Until the power goes out and their backup generators can't get the fuel in the PDRK (People's Democrat Republic of Kalifornia)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (l3cgK)

Your oleaginous governor says CA is a paradise. Any difficulties are the result of hoarders, kulaks, wreckers, foreign spies and counterrevolutionary elements.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 06:49 AM (eRlcH)

A commie paradise is Hell on Earth...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:52 AM (l3cgK)

83 Your oleaginous governor says CA is a paradise. Any difficulties are the result of hoarders, kulaks, wreckers, foreign spies and counterrevolutionary elements.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 06:49 AM (eRlcH)
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I don't have an alibi!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 06:53 AM (FZ29D)

84 And here I thought it was about all the water that's coming to Kali from the El Niño...and this one's supposed to be a pretty strong one.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:54 AM (l3cgK)

85 I sure was glad to hear that Jack Smith is non partisan.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:54 AM (MWfyi)

86 72 61 "Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:28 AM (MWfyi)

that Yahoo article

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (odBC9)

"Yahoo": talk about "aptly named."

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:54 AM (odBC9)

87 85 I sure was glad to hear that Jack Smith is non partisan.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:54 AM (MWfyi)

Just like Judge Boasberg!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:55 AM (l3cgK)

88 My wife is an Apple user in her business, and is shopping for a replacement to her current machine. Prices have increased pretty substantially, unsurprisingly. Will the Christmas season will bring some sales?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 06:55 AM (1utmP)

89 WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE DELTA SMELT!!!???
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (FZ29D)

I've smelt that delta plenty of times in the olden days. We could actually boat from the old place to SF bay. Never did, though.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2026 06:56 AM (1Ff7Z)

90 "Just like Judge Boasberg!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)"

Dedicated public servants.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:57 AM (MWfyi)

91
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov

NOAA = NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:58 AM (odBC9)

92 @88/Huck Follywood: "Will the Christmas season will bring some sales?"

Actual sales with value for the customer? No, but it will bring some "sales".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 30, 2026 06:58 AM (O7YUW)

93

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 30, 2026 07:00 AM (dZdRk)

94 91
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov

NOAA = NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:58 AM (odBC9)

NHC--National Hurricane Center

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 07:01 AM (l3cgK)

95 Wow, the Rod Roddenberry vs Riach and Rivas is not over an early studio model of the starship Enterprise that vanished during the filming of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Riach and Rivas are arguing they are the legal owners of the model since they bought it as part of a storage unit lot and Rod has not clearly established his father's ownership.

Leonard Nimoy voiceover - "And the legal battle continues."

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2026 07:02 AM (2GVsD)

96 59 Icehouse beer goes for $11 a 12 pack of bottles at Kroger. It's not bad.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:25 AM (MWfyi)

5.5% alcohol in Icehouse.
Used to buy a six pack of it instead of ~4% beer just to speed up the process.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 07:02 AM (6ydKt)

97 Here

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 07:02 AM (ZxPkt)

98 61 "Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:28 AM (MWfyi)

(Yahoo)

https://archive.is/pbUFU

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 07:03 AM (odBC9)

99 Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2026 07:02 AM (2GVsD)

I thought he already had possession of it. I don't see how a model built for the tv show isn't the property of the studio. Defunct, sure, but whoever bought it should have the rights to it. Or the shop that made it unless Gene bought it after the show ended.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2026 07:04 AM (1Ff7Z)

100 100

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 07:05 AM (odBC9)

101 94 91
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov

NOAA = NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:58 AM (odBC9)

NHC--National Hurricane Center
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 07:01 AM (l3cgK)

Yep.

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 07:08 AM (odBC9)

102 a Florida freshman girl was briefly pictured on ESPN at the Florida Mississippi football game on Saturday, was quickly identified by the internet (using facial recognition?), and is now semi-famous. To me, this seems dangerous, but then I'm a father and the last thing I'd want for my 18 year old daughter is to suddenly be thrust into the public light.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:09 AM (+HKyl)

103 My theory is at a certain age people get prices stuck in their mind that things “should” cost a certain amount. When I see a 12 pack of beer costs 12 bucks it makes me a bit hesitant to buy it, just because.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 07:11 AM (q3N/z)

104 I worked in a Camelot Music store in my local mall after high school. Once a day you were allowed to play an album on the store stereo sysrem that wasn't in the Top 10 list. This Icehouse album was one I picked to play. Great band.

Posted by: Biergood at September 30, 2026 07:11 AM (PwgSL)

105 103 My theory is at a certain age people get prices stuck in their mind that things “should” cost a certain amount. When I see a 12 pack of beer costs 12 bucks it makes me a bit hesitant to buy it, just because.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 07:11 AM (q3N/z)

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 07:12 AM (odBC9)

106 How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no
Especially people who care about strangers
Who care about evil and social injustice
Do you only care about being proud
How about I need a friend, I need a friend
How can people be so heartless...

Posted by: Three Dog DooDoo Hippie Garbage at September 30, 2026 07:15 AM (w+jhU)

107 J.J. Sefton. Runway 04.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

108 88 My wife is an Apple user in her business, and is shopping for a replacement to her current machine. Prices have increased pretty substantially, unsurprisingly. Will the Christmas season will bring some sales?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 06:55 AM (1utmP)

You might be able to find some decent deals on Apple laptops or Mac minis on Amazon, especially around Black Friday after Thanksgiving into the next week.

The processors might be older, M2s, M3s or M4s instead of the current M5s and M6s but she probably wouldn't notice any difference.

Apple rarely does sales on their own site/shops, but their partners like Best Buy and Walmart will put them on sale along with Amazon.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 07:18 AM (6ydKt)

109 Today I'm going to a 2 monitor setup because I want to watch 2 football games at the same time and I don't know how to do it so I'm going to have Copilot walk me through it so we'll see what happens.

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 07:18 AM (ZxPkt)

110 A friend recently mentioned the book "After the Applause Stops" and it kind of mirrors some of that video.

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 07:19 AM (odBC9)

111 figures
I just posted as the thread dies

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 07:19 AM (ZxPkt)

112 111 figures
I just posted as the thread dies
Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 07:19 AM (ZxPkt)

Not last, tho.

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 07:20 AM (odBC9)

113 Good Morning Pixel friends,

I am going to the Black Tower{its real name} this AM to get irradiated in my left kidney around 8:00. The dawn sky is beautiful.

I have not seen IGP in months.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 30, 2026 07:27 AM (Q/FnY)

114 Prayers continue for Gmac

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 30, 2026 09:18 AM (FGA9/)

115 test

Posted by: The Tree at September 30, 2026 10:09 AM (w9Wax)

116 test

Posted by: The Tree at September 30, 2026 10:10 AM (w9Wax)

117 ~~test~~

Posted by: The Tree at September 30, 2026 10:10 AM (w9Wax)

118 Howcum nobody calls this Talerico creature "Tallywhacker"?

Posted by: Dale at September 30, 2026 01:23 PM (f45WX)

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - September 29, 2026

Howdy Hordelings! The Tuesday ONT has arrived. On time, as always. Open thread, as always. Ready to be whelmed?

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I support this kind of torture!

🚨 #BREAKING: American man "kidnaps" Flock camera, subjecting it against its will to 23,040 license plates per second.pic.twitter.com/kYCJAD7CNv
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) September 29, 2026

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I agree with this in principle - but if Newsom thinks it's a good idea, I'm immediately skeptical

Newsom signs ‘ghost ticket’ ban but says its carve-outs need more work

California is taking action against the sale of “ghost tickets.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed Assembly Bill 1349, bipartisan legislation that targets the live-event ticket resale market. “Ghost tickets,” also known as speculative tickets, are concert and sports tickets that resellers list before they actually have them. The new law bars sellers from advertising, listing or selling tickets they don’t possess or have the legal right to receive, unless the event’s presenter or venue allows it. It’s intended to address persistent complaints from consumers about the practice.
“Buying a ticket shouldn’t come with hidden risks or unfair practices,” Newsom said on X.
The law prohibits using software to get around ticket limits, queue and presale restrictions. It restricts websites and ads designed to make resellers look like authorized ticket sources. Sellers in violation could face misdemeanor charges and penalties.
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“While there may be good reasons for exempting certain sellers from the bill’s provisions, such a carve-out deserves further discussion,” Newsom wrote.
Newsom didn’t say which sellers he meant. His concerns allude to amendments made in the final days of the legislative session. Critics say those changes in effect exempt StubHub, one of the biggest ticket resale platforms, from the new rules.

Ask the question "what the worst way this can be abused?" The logical answer likely means money in the hands of Newsom and other nefarious politicians.

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I read this multiple times and I'm still not fully understanding it!

A 24-foot tunnel borer chewed 2.7 miles under Lake Mead against water pressure of up to 218 psi, with a car tire carrying 33, to plant a drinking straw near the lake bottom, and the lake just hit its lowest level since Hoover Dam first filled it

Lake Mead hit another record low this month, which barely counts as news anymore. The lake has spent most of 2026 sliding past the marks set during the 2022 water crisis, and by September 22 it was down to 1,038.14 feet above sea level, the lowest it’s been since Hoover Dam first filled it in the 1930s.
So here’s the question I keep coming back to: Las Vegas pulls 90 percent of its water from that shrinking lake, so why does a metro area of more than two million people still have water coming out of every tap, fountain and misting system in town? A big part of the answer is a machine that finished its job over a decade ago, working under more water pressure than any tunnel boring machine had handled before, at least according to the company that built it.
Back in 2008, the Southern Nevada Water Authority started building a third drinking water intake for Lake Mead. The two existing straws sit at 1,050 and 1,000 feet above sea level, and the lake kept dropping toward both, so the new one had to pull from near the bottom. Getting a pipe down there meant boring a tunnel underneath the lake itself, through ground soaked with the lake’s own water.
The job went to Vegas Tunnel Constructors, a joint venture of S.A. Healy out of Chicago and Salini Impregilo out of Milan, and to a machine Herrenknecht built specifically for it: the S-502, a tunnel borer the water authority describes as 24 feet in diameter. It went into the ground in late 2011 through a 590-foot launch shaft at the lakeshore, roughly the height of a 50-story building, straight down. From the bottom of that hole it chewed 2.7 miles through rock toward one precise spot on the lake bed, and on December 10, 2014, it broke through.
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At the far end, the bore had to dock with an intake structure resting on the bottom of the lake. Crews blasted a shaft out of the lake bed with shaped charges, lowered a concrete-and-steel intake of more than 1,300 short tons (1,200 metric tons) into it, and anchored the whole thing with more than 1,000 truckloads of concrete, per the water authority.
Then the machine had to hit that target after 2.7 miles underground, which is arguably the harder trick. Breaking through into a lakebed with the water still sitting on top is its own special category of nervous; a much smaller machine pulled a similar stunt under a California reservoir this year, and that one only had 347 feet to cover.
Water started moving through Intake No. 3 to the valley’s treatment plants in September 2015. The whole design goal was elevation: the new straw keeps drawing with the lake below 1,000 feet, a line the older intakes were never built to survive.

Long article, which I find fascinating. Maybe too nerdy for you??

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On the subject of bodies of water -- ever wonder which US river is the oldest?

The Oldest River In The United States

The oldest river in the United States has, hands down, the most ironic name in all of American geography: the New River. Far from new, it is thought to be one of the oldest rivers on the entire planet, older than the dinosaurs, and older even than the ancient mountains it slices straight through. It is a river that was already flowing before almost everything around it existed. Here is the strange and wonderful story of America's most misleadingly named waterway.
The New River is widely considered the oldest river in North America, and it is frequently called the second-oldest river in the entire world, trailing only the Nile. It rises high in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northwestern North Carolina, near Blowing Rock, then runs north through Virginia and into West Virginia, covering roughly 320 miles before merging with other waters to become the Kanawha. For a river saddled with such a forgettable, generic name, it has a genuinely staggering pedigree.

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Speaking of old

Rod Stewart retiring from touring after more than 6 decades

Rod Stewart has announced he will be retiring from touring after more than six decades.
The legendary singer-songwriter, 81, announced The Final Encore Tour Monday morning, just weeks after canceling portions of his U.S. "One Last Time" farewell tour following a coronary stent procedure.
“Ladies and gentlemen, after much deliberation and sadness, I have to announce next year will be my last tour ever, ever, ever. I’m not retiring, but this will be the last rock and roll tour,” Stewart said in a social media post.
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Stewart rose to prominence in the late 1960s with the Jeff Beck Group and the Faces.
His solo breakthrough came with the 1971 album “Every Picture Tells a Story,” featuring “Maggie May.”
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He has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice: as a solo artist in 1994 and as a member of the Faces in 2012.

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Apologies to Ace if he already covered this on a Cafe thread

Bear goes into Aspen farmers market, eats pastries and bread

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DJ Doof - This Date In Music History Edition

Born on this date in 1963 - American musician, singer, songwriter, Les Claypool best known as the founder, lead singer, bassist, and primary songwriter of Primus.

You wanted this one, didn't you?

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On this date in 1976 - Rush released their first live album All The World's A Stage

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On this date in 1979 - The Police had their first UK No.1 single with 'Message In A Bottle' the group's third Top 20 hit. The song was released as the first single from Reggatta de Blanc

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Tonight's ONT brought to you by non-cryptic car codes

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Doof Enterprises, LLC is excited about opening night of the 2026-2027 NHL season tonight. If you're not, we feel sorry for you!

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Posted by: Doof at 09:48 PM

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1 This ONT is wa-a-a-y too early.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at September 29, 2026 09:50 PM (DK5Sh)

2 I nooded.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at September 29, 2026 09:52 PM (DK5Sh)

3 Hello? Anyone?

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at September 29, 2026 09:53 PM (DK5Sh)

4 Newsom signs ‘ghost ticket’ ban but says its carve-outs need more work

And here I hoped it was about banning Cameras from issuing tickets to drivers...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:53 PM (l3cgK)

5
Hello

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 09:54 PM (/QHx4)

6 Cue Radar Love

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 29, 2026 09:54 PM (wpRMV)

7 Girls drool

Posted by: clem Kadiddlehopper at September 29, 2026 09:54 PM (7o6zd)

8 Not first, apparently.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 29, 2026 09:54 PM (giy4v)

9 hEADphones: someone recommended headphones a few years ago and I lost it. What bluetooth headphones do you guys reccomend?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 09:54 PM (nEUC6)

10 FUN FACT: Other than Hot Women who think he's sexy, Rod Stewart's current passion is model railroading.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 29, 2026 09:55 PM (wpRMV)

11 My brother loved The Police. With the exception of a few songs from Synchronicity, I found them boring and repetitive.

Sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS...
Repeat 30 more times.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 09:56 PM (0aYVJ)

12 Top pic:

Fresh asphalt, newly striped. The road beckons.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 09:57 PM (0aYVJ)

13 FUN FACT: Other than Hot Women who think he's sexy, Rod Stewart's current passion is model railroading.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 29, 2026 09:55 PM (wpRMV)
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It's a longstanding hobby of his. I ran into a video about it, and he's been featured many times over the years.

It's a dying hobby, because so few people today interact with railroads.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:58 PM (ZOv7s)

14 Every Picture and Maggie May are so well written.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 29, 2026 09:58 PM (4HoLg)

15 Caught you!

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 09:58 PM (kU0PQ)

16 The oldest river in the United States has, hands down, the most ironic name in all of American geography: the New River.

There are several rivers with that name...one that starts in Me-Hi-Co and ends up in the Salton Sea is around 1907 after the Colorado River was finally diverted back to it's banks. It's one of the dirtiest (if not THE dirtiest) rivers in the United States...radiological, chemical, biological waste...it's got it all. And fish STILL live in the river.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:58 PM (l3cgK)

17 Early indeed, but the prior thread was getting bogged down in college sportsball discussions.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 09:58 PM (C6xWR)

18 IN around 1907...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:58 PM (l3cgK)

19 Top pic is part of a series, starting with this morning's artwork, no? yes? road trip?

halloo and salud alla y'all. Monday is almost over. Phew.

Posted by: mindful webworker - press 1 for English; press 0 for robonix at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (xRCm7)

20 Sad, because Stuart Copeland is a helluva great drummer.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (0aYVJ)

21 That road in the top pic looks like it might be on the Snake River Plain in Idaho.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (C6xWR)

22 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 29, 2026 10:00 PM (sAmhv)

23 Doof, I thought the Lake Meade article was interesting.

Posted by: Joemarine at September 29, 2026 10:00 PM (y171U)

24 That road in the top pic looks like it might be on the Snake River Plain in Idaho.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (C6xWR)

I thought so too.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 10:00 PM (0aYVJ)

25
The women who are hot for Rod Stewart are hot for his money and fame.

He creeps me out.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:00 PM (/QHx4)

26 Good evening morons y gracias Disco

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:01 PM (RIvkX)

27 Love the Radar Love shout out. My favorite driving song, when played at appropriately high volume.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 10:01 PM (e0auD)

28 Good evening!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 29, 2026 10:01 PM (jCKWs)

29 Listening to Poco tonight, remembering these great songs from the ancient past

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 10:02 PM (e0auD)

30 Sad, because Stuart Copeland is a helluva great drummer.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (0aYVJ)

Among my favorites.

There's a recent Neil Peart documentary that aired on Canadian TV. Several drummers performed various Rush songs with Geddy and Alex. Copeland joined them for New World Man. He looked like he might pass out!

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:02 PM (QMAsf)

31 the water authority describes as 24 feet in diameter

I think that microwave in the background says otherwise.

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:02 PM (kU0PQ)

32 Monday is almost over. Phew.

So is Tuesday.

Posted by: old chick at September 29, 2026 10:02 PM (F3Dlr)

33 25
The women who are hot for Rod Stewart are hot for his money and fame.

He creeps me out.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:00 PM (/QHx4)

Rod is 81, his ex Rachel Hunter is 57...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:03 PM (l3cgK)

34 Love the Radar Love shout out. My favorite driving song, when played at appropriately high volume.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 10:01 PM (e0auD)

I am more of a Sepultura; Chaos A.D. guy. Love to play that while driving the open road.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 10:03 PM (0aYVJ)

35 Doof, I thought the Lake Meade article was interesting.
Posted by: Joemarine at September 29, 2026 10:00 PM (y171U)

NERD!!!

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:03 PM (QMAsf)

36 The New River is widely considered the oldest river in North America, and it is frequently called the second-oldest river in the entire world, trailing only the Nile.

So it follows the New Bridge rule!

If your town has one bridge over the river, it doesn't need a name. It's just the bridge.

When you build another, they're "The Old Bridge" and "The New Bridge."

When you build a third, and a fourth, etc., you probably name them. "The Dental Bridge," "The Wheatstone Bridge." And maybe eventually you give a name to the first two bridges.

But the locals still call the second-oldest bridge in town "The New Bridge."

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 10:03 PM (VHUov)

37 and Rachel Hunter doesn't look bad for her age either.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:03 PM (l3cgK)

38 Doof, I thought the Lake Meade article was interesting.
Posted by: Joemarine at September 29, 2026 10:00 PM (y171U)

Now some poor bastard is going to go swimming in Lake Mead, and drown when his toe gets sucked into the water intake.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 10:04 PM (C6xWR)

39 Good evening morons y gracias Disco
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:01 PM (RIvkX)

Howdy SF!

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:04 PM (QMAsf)

40 36 The New River is widely considered the oldest river in North America, and it is frequently called the second-oldest river in the entire world, trailing only the Nile.

So it follows the New Bridge rule!

If your town has one bridge over the river, it doesn't need a name. It's just the bridge.

When you build another, they're "The Old Bridge" and "The New Bridge."

When you build a third, and a fourth, etc., you probably name them. "The Dental Bridge," "The Wheatstone Bridge." And maybe eventually you give a name to the first two bridges.

But the locals still call the second-oldest bridge in town "The New Bridge."

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 10:03 PM (VHUov)

Keep repairing and rebuilding them and you have the Bridge of Theseus...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:04 PM (l3cgK)

41
Doofing, with the Doof!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:04 PM (eRlcH)

42 It's one of the dirtiest (if not THE dirtiest) rivers in the United States...radiological, chemical, biological waste...it's got it all. And fish STILL live in the river.

We're fish. Where else should we live?

Posted by: The Fish at September 29, 2026 10:05 PM (Riz8t)

43 Bear goes into Aspen farmers market, eats pastries and bread

At least he didn't eat pastries and leaves.

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:05 PM (kU0PQ)

44 Good evening!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 29, 2026 10:01 PM (jCKWs)

Howdy COMM!

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:05 PM (QMAsf)

45 My brother loved The Police. With the exception of a few songs from Synchronicity, I found them boring and repetitive.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

They're far from my favorite, but I can at least deal with everything except dododada and RAAAAAAWKKKSanne.

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 10:05 PM (VHUov)

46 42 It's one of the dirtiest (if not THE dirtiest) rivers in the United States...radiological, chemical, biological waste...it's got it all. And fish STILL live in the river.

We're fish. Where else should we live?

Posted by: The Fish at September 29, 2026 10:05 PM (Riz8t)

NOT in that river...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:06 PM (l3cgK)

47
9 hEADphones: someone recommended headphones a few years ago and I lost it. What bluetooth headphones do you guys reccomend?
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Wired. Wired only. This goes up and ranks with vinyl versus cassette, cd versus mp3.

Clarity of sound in a good headset, high quality connection cable and socket, plugged into a reel-to-reel setup with a vacuumed tube amplifier....

Get off my lawn.

But first listen to some 1968 era Credence. On a reel to reel tape system described as above.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 29, 2026 10:06 PM (QVmho)

48 Doofing, with the Doof!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:04 PM (eRlcH)

Greetings, H7. Will this be the year you make it to the ranch for the MoMe??

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:06 PM (QMAsf)

49 45 My brother loved The Police. With the exception of a few songs from Synchronicity, I found them boring and repetitive.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

They're far from my favorite, but I can at least deal with everything except dododada and RAAAAAAWKKKSanne.

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 10:05 PM (VHUov)

I hear it as "Rocks, Sand!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:06 PM (l3cgK)

50 “Every Picture Tells a Story"
I have that album. It's good. I think I'll drag it out and play it tomorrow. I've kept my turntable and stereo component setup and I really need to use them. That album is signed by Stewart. I found it at a used record store.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (0Htd1)

51 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!

Posted by: TRex - water authority dino at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (XfIK1)

52 Wut?

Doof came too early?

Toooooo much infoooooooo.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)

53
Will this be the year you make it to the ranch for the MoMe??
Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:06 PM (QMAsf)

__________

Sir, it will!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (eRlcH)

54
They're far from my favorite, but I can at least deal with everything except dododada and RAAAAAAWKKKSanne.
Posted by: mikeski

Brah. Ear worm warning? Not. Cool.

Need to go watch Eddie in 48 hours now.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (QVmho)

55 52 Wut?

Doof came too early?

Toooooo much infoooooooo.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)

There are meds for that...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (l3cgK)

56 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!
Posted by: TRex - water authority dino at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (XfIK1)

No way you can swim with those tiny arms!

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (QMAsf)

57 All the money in the world won't buy you more water when it all runs out. Someone should tell Vegas, except like the degenerate gambler, they figure their luck will change with the next roll of the dice.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (QaH55)

58 54
They're far from my favorite, but I can at least deal with everything except dododada and RAAAAAAWKKKSanne.
Posted by: mikeski

Brah. Ear worm warning? Not. Cool.

Need to go watch Eddie in 48 hours now.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (QVmho)

Might I suggest "Baby Shark"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (l3cgK)

59 Good evening, Horde!

Today's screening call didn't go so good - because the client is looking for a unicorn, apparently.

However, I have an initial interview tomorrow, an initial interview thursday, and a 'post-screening' interview friday, three different companies. And the job I currently really want of my previous interviews is 'on hold' - I'm not out of the running yet!

Now, time to 1) put away dry clothes, 2) read the content, then 3) catch up on comments and do my nightly rituals.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (aJQbY)

60 Repetition is a big part of ska and reggae

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX)

61 56 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!
Posted by: TRex - water authority dino at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (XfIK1)

No way you can swim with those tiny arms!

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (QMAsf)

He has a powerful tail...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (l3cgK)

62
Here in SW Wyoming our reservoir sends water to adjoining states. We have had a severe drought here but the water must flow to other states. I need to research the agreements.

At the end of this week our floodgates will close. About damn time.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (/QHx4)

63 Lake Mead story was… boring.
😜

Rod Stewie may quit touring, but Ringo⭐ rolls on.

youtu.be/NPLqvbNZ5z0

Posted by: mindful webworker - well she was just seventy-three, you know what I meme at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (xRCm7)

64 Will this be the year you make it to the ranch for the MoMe??
Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:06 PM (QMAsf)

__________

Sir, it will!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (eRlcH)

That's some damn good news. I look forward to meeting you!

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (QMAsf)

65 RUSH!!

Doof, did see that video of Stewart Copeland and RUSH?

youtu.be/wbVrlY-YwgY

There is a documentary online about Neil Peart. Haven't watched it yet. It's new to me. Probably been out a bit.

youtu.be/WPAJytx3juY

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (sAmhv)

66 Rush-Anthem. Definitely a fav of mine.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (vzuC7)

67 Clarity of sound in a good headset, high quality connection cable and socket, plugged into a reel-to-reel setup with a vacuumed tube amplifier....

Get off my lawn.

But first listen to some 1968 era Credence. On a reel to reel tape system described as above.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 29, 2026 10:06 PM (QVmho)

Yes. It's good practice to vacuum out your tube amplifiers. And radios. Otherwise dust bunnies can accumulate, which might catch fire when the audions get hot.

Posted by: zombie Lee Deforest at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (C6xWR)

68 63 Lake Mead story was… boring.
😜

Rod Stewie may quit touring, but Ringo⭐ rolls on.

youtu.be/NPLqvbNZ5z0

Posted by: mindful webworker - well she was just seventy-three, you know what I meme at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (xRCm7)

It would've been more riveting if it had more steel to it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:10 PM (l3cgK)

69 Wut?

Doof came too early?

Toooooo much infoooooooo.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)

ONT COBs are never early nor are we ever late. This applies to everything we do.

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:11 PM (QMAsf)

70 Yes. It's good practice to vacuum out your tube amplifiers. And radios. Otherwise dust bunnies can accumulate, which might catch fire when the audions get hot.

Posted by: zombie Lee Deforest at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (C6xWR)

I think I saw that episode of "Dr. Who"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:11 PM (l3cgK)

71 Rod is not aging so well. He's got a Medusa thing going on.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:11 PM (RIvkX)

72

Might I suggest "Baby Shark"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Sergio Leone's good, bad, and ugly as done by the vikings. (Nedderlanders)
https://youtu.be/tpcYck-ZrVw

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (QVmho)

73 71 Rod is not aging so well. He's got a Medusa thing going on.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:11 PM (RIvkX)

Well, he spent a good part of his career stoned...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (l3cgK)

74 My cat Allie has discovered the joys of eggnog.

Tonight I served it in a martini glass, because that's the classy sort of guy I am.

Allie is loving it, as she can easily reach the last dregs in the glass.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (FZ29D)

75 He creeps me out.
Posted by: four seasons

In 1977 i lived in Calgary, 4 of us flew to Edmonton to see Rod Stewart, we left 1/3 of the way thru the concert because he was so drunk/high he was literally falling on stage. We had to rent a car to drive home because the flight back was a wait of 4+ hours.

Posted by: old chick at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (F3Dlr)

76 RUSH!!

Doof, did see that video of Stewart Copeland and RUSH?

youtu.be/wbVrlY-YwgY

There is a documentary online about Neil Peart. Haven't watched it yet. It's new to me. Probably been out a bit.

youtu.be/WPAJytx3juY
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (sAmhv)

See me at #30

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (QMAsf)

77 All the money in the world won't buy you more water when it all runs out. Someone should tell Vegas, except like the degenerate gambler, they figure their luck will change with the next roll of the dice.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (QaH55)

Mebbe tell Cali and Ari first. They're the number one and two recipients of water from Lake Mead.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z)

78 Repetition is a big part of ska and reggae
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX)

If you have never heard the music of old-time R&B piano player Rosco Gordon, give him a listen. The originators of ska and reggae certainly did. And said as much.

Posted by: zombie Lee Deforest at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (C6xWR)

79 77 All the money in the world won't buy you more water when it all runs out. Someone should tell Vegas, except like the degenerate gambler, they figure their luck will change with the next roll of the dice.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (QaH55)

Mebbe tell Cali and Ari first. They're the number one and two recipients of water from Lake Mead.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z)

And CO doesn't get to keep any...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:13 PM (l3cgK)

80 Fresh asphalt, newly striped. The road beckons.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 09:57 PM (0aYVJ)

It wasn't striped yet, but I once had a fun encounter with fresh asphalt.

Family reunion (my mom's side) in Copper Mountain, Colorado. My one uncle was a runner and bicyclist. So, my mom and I and he rented some bicycles and rode down the mountain to a supermarket. Getting kinda close, there was a stretch of the road with cones out and we scooted over into it to stay out of the way of cars. I was in the rear, and started seeing this stuff fly up onto my mom's back. And my uncle's. It was not-quite-ready-to-drive-upon fresh asphalt. That stuff will NOT come out of most clothes. And it doesn't like to come out of hair very easily, either. (Fortunately we were wearing helmets.)

And then we had to ride home - uphill.

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:13 PM (kU0PQ)

81 Good early evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 29, 2026 10:14 PM (ktgTW)

82 I’m not retiring, but this will be the last rock and roll tour,” Stewart said in a social media post.

I take this to mean Rod Stewart may still perform American popular standards.

Posted by: Joemarine at September 29, 2026 10:14 PM (y171U)

83 They've found Amelia Earhart's plane. Again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 10:14 PM (2GVsD)

84 81 Good early evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 29, 2026 10:14 PM (ktgTW)

And hopefully the rest of us too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:15 PM (l3cgK)

85 Rush-Anthem. Definitely a fav of mine.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (vzuC7)

One of their best flat out rock songs

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:15 PM (QMAsf)

86 Monday is almost over.
Posted by: mindful webworker - press 1 for English; press 0 for robonix at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (xRCm7)

Ummm.... /looks at calendar/

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:15 PM (kU0PQ)

87 Sad, because Stuart Copeland is a helluva great drummer.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Pat Mastelotto is like that.

What's he known for? Pop schlock like Mr. Mister, and playing drums for The Rembrandts on the "Friends" theme song.

When Robert Fripp wanted a second drummer for his "double trio" lineup of King Crimson, who did he ask to play alongside Bill Freakin' Bruford? Pat Mastelotto.

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 10:16 PM (VHUov)

88 To get more use from their water Las Vegas recycles its water in a process known as Toilet to Tap.

The used water is filtered and purified.

Just don't think about it too long.

Posted by: Minuteman at September 29, 2026 10:16 PM (47/pr)

89 I've been on the Gauley and the New River, whitewater rafting ... it's a gas.

The most life threatening part of the experience is the trip down to and up from the river gorge. Switchbacks galore that require hanging the ass end of a school bus over the edges.

Posted by: browndog says woof at September 29, 2026 10:16 PM (oCio0)

90 They've found Amelia Earhart's plane. Again.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 10:14 PM (2GVsD)

It's the Flying Dutchman of planes.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 10:16 PM (wVcYX)

91 on topic of roads to Albuquerque, "Coyote vs. Acme" is hilarious

Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 10:17 PM (88C+u)

92
Rod is not aging so well. He's got a Medusa thing going on.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:11 PM (RIvkX)

_________

Alana Stewart looks awfully good, though.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:18 PM (eRlcH)

93 And CO doesn't get to keep any...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:13 PM (l3cgK)

Mexico gets first dibs by treaty. Hey, Colorado river water comes from snow in the USA. Shouldn't get any if we don't want them to.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:18 PM (1Ff7Z)

94 76:See me at #30
Posted by: Doof

Wait, you want ME to actually take the time and read the thread?? No, I will not!

FIGHT THE POWER!! (raises fist, walks, trips over shoes left in the middle of the floor)

Ow.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 29, 2026 10:18 PM (sAmhv)

95 There are meds for that...
Posted by: jim

Back when I was a wee lad, I heard tales of men that used popsicles sticks and duct tape for that problem. While they were not hard men, they were tough men.

Their women were tougher.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 29, 2026 10:19 PM (ktgTW)

96 They've found Amelia Earhart's plane. Again.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 10:14 PM (2GVsD)

After examining it, they declared it was still airworthy. Guess it had good bones....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:20 PM (1Ff7Z)

97 One of the most widespread Urban Legends is about Rod Stewart.

Raise your hand if you've heard it.

Posted by: Minuteman at September 29, 2026 10:20 PM (47/pr)

98 >>>It rises high in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northwestern North Carolina, near Blowing Rock

Nitpick Warning: Unless the river flows uphill, it's not rising. It starts in the mountains and then it descends to wherever the hell it goes.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 29, 2026 10:20 PM (syz1S)

99
Some women are happy with anything hard penetrating them.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:20 PM (/QHx4)

100 The story goes that Sting was going to keep Message In a Bottle for himself and that Miles Copeland, Stewarts brother, overheard a demo of it and said nah, we're making that song.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2026 10:21 PM (XV/Pl)

101 When the evenin' sun goes down
You will find me hangin' 'round
The night life ain't no good life
But it's my life

Many people just like me
Dreamin' of old used-to-be's
And the night life ain't no good life
But it's my life

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 10:21 PM (wljQY)

102 95 There are meds for that...
Posted by: jim

Back when I was a wee lad, I heard tales of men that used popsicles sticks and duct tape for that problem. While they were not hard men, they were tough men.

Their women were tougher.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 29, 2026 10:19 PM (ktgTW)

Spray starch...
Joke Punchline: "The $10 is from me; the other $90 is from Grandma."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:21 PM (l3cgK)

103 Orange Ent

If they did find it, someone would try. Take the dataplates and build new around them. See, Amelia's Lockheed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 10:22 PM (2GVsD)

104 Yes. It's good practice to vacuum out your tube amplifiers. And radios. Otherwise dust bunnies can accumulate, which might catch fire when the audions get hot.

Posted by: zombie Lee Deforest at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (C6xWR)

Absolutely. About once a year I have guitar amp vacuuming day. I pull the chassis out of all the amps and blow them out with compressed air. Every couple months I'll pull the back grills of the amps I use and hit them with a small swiffer to get the dust off the tubes and chassis tops. Dust cooking on tubes is nasty.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2026 10:22 PM (vzuC7)

105 Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 29, 2026 10:06 PM (QVmho)

I wonder if my dad still has the headset he had when I was a kid, listening to his "Hootenanny" reel. That reel-to-reel machine is where I learned to splice tape. And why I knew who poor old Charlie was and that there was once a strike with Boston mass transit.

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:22 PM (kU0PQ)

106 Back when I was a wee lad, I heard tales of men that used popsicles sticks and duct tape for that problem. While they were not hard men, they were tough men.

Their women were tougher.
Posted by: Tonypete

If we weren't satisfied, the popsicle stick went on the inside next time.

Posted by: their women at September 29, 2026 10:22 PM (VHUov)

107 the anti predator spray on Pepe :^x

Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 10:22 PM (88C+u)

108 Happy Doofday, everyone!

Everyone getting ready for Dinoday tomorrow?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 29, 2026 10:23 PM (qx7Zg)

109 Evening, all,

Just finished watching The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer from 1947, with Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Shirley Temple, age 18. Hilarious farce, with one of the finest last scenes I've run across in movies. I laughed out loud and applauded.

It was written by Sidney Sheldon, of I Dream of Jeannie fame and those bestselling potboilers of the 1970s. He certainly knew how to tell a joke, and to make it work more than once in the right places.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2026 10:23 PM (wzUl9)

110 "It puts lead in your pencil."

But I've no one to write to!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 10:23 PM (wVcYX)

111

Berserker,

You blew them???

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:24 PM (/QHx4)

112 old chick ,
An old boyfriend of mine had spent a buttload of money going to a Rolling Stones concert. They were so drunk or stoned that they gave a shitty performance. That was back in the seventies, and he didn't have a lot of money to throw away.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 10:24 PM (0Htd1)

113 Decades ago my father was invested in Lloyds of London. Rod Stewart was playing a concert in Houston and Lloyds had insured him. Dad wanted to investigate just what he was invested in and met him at the IAH. Rode with him to the Summit and chatted with him. Decided that he was a very interesting young man. This was in the early 80's. DanMan & I were flabbergasted to listen to his story!

Posted by: DanMa'am at September 29, 2026 10:24 PM (8uzBS)

114 74 My cat Allie has discovered the joys of eggnog.

Tonight I served it in a martini glass, because that's the classy sort of guy I am.

Allie is loving it, as she can easily reach the last dregs in the glass.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (FZ29D)

Is this non-alcoholic, or is Allie getting krunk?

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 29, 2026 10:25 PM (jBygX)

115 However, I have an initial interview tomorrow, an initial interview thursday, and a 'post-screening' interview friday, three different companies. And the job I currently really want of my previous interviews is 'on hold' - I'm not out of the running yet!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (aJQbY)

Prayers up, man! (You almost have "a JOBY" in your hash!)

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:25 PM (kU0PQ)

116 If we weren't satisfied, the popsicle stick went on the inside next time.
Posted by: their women

Oh, the first UrOWWogists.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 29, 2026 10:25 PM (ktgTW)

117 No way you can swim with those tiny arms!

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (QMAsf)

Sharks don't have any arms, at all!

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:26 PM (kU0PQ)

118 Rush-Anthem. Definitely a fav of mine.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (vzuC7)

One of their best flat out rock songs

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:15 PM (QMAsf)

Don't I know it. I spend a fucking kings ransom on a guitar just for that sound.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2026 10:27 PM (vzuC7)

119 Is this non-alcoholic, or is Allie getting krunk?
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 29, 2026 10:25 PM (jBygX)
----
It's non-alcoholic, but it is made by Southern Comfort.

Good stuff.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 10:28 PM (FZ29D)

120 >>>Bear goes into Aspen farmers market, eats pastries and bread

Whenever I see a clip with from some local news show, what I want to see more then anything is for someone to pie those smarmy retards reading the news with their fake smiles and good cheer. Just pie their faces.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 29, 2026 10:28 PM (syz1S)

121 Monday is almost over.
Posted by: mindful webworker - press 1 for English; press 0 for robonix at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (xRCm7)

Ummm.... /looks at calendar/
Posted by: GWB

When you're retired like I am, you don't pay as much attention to which day it is. It's not like you are counting the days to the weekend.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

122 and he didn't have a lot of money to throw away.
Posted by: nerdygirl

That was us, we worked in a record store so it was a big deal for us to buy concert and plane tickets.
I've often wondered if celebrities that rob their fans ever feel guilty in their moments of sobriety.

Posted by: old chick at September 29, 2026 10:30 PM (F3Dlr)

123 @118

>>Don't I know it. I spend a fucking kings ransom on a guitar just for that sound.

If the sound ain't in your fingers, it's not going to be in the guitar or the amp.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2026 10:31 PM (XV/Pl)

124
I don''t know much about music. If it has a good beat and I can dance to it I am good.

Years ago we went to an Alan Jackson concert. It was awesome.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:31 PM (/QHx4)

125 Couple rather old books on the subject of water in the west- Cadillac Desert and A River No More. And yes, everyone has a bias or an axe to grind.

Personally, I blame the Mormons. They were ingenious manipulators of water.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 29, 2026 10:31 PM (QaH55)

126 Its only 10:30?

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 10:32 PM (Ia/+0)

127 The used water is filtered and purified.

Just don't think about it too long.
Posted by: Minuteman at September 29, 2026 10:16 PM (47/pr)

Dude. Every drop of water you have ever consumed has been ultimately recycled from a toilet somewhere, sometime. (That's not even counting all the fish peeing and crapping in it.) And likely every adult hand you've ever shaken has had a dick in it.

Don't think about that too long, man.

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:32 PM (kU0PQ)

128 The used water is filtered and purified.
Just don't think about it too long.
Posted by: Minuteman

I think all water is filtered and purified. A lot of our water comes from Lake Michigan, and I don't like to think about what goes on in there. Fish have to defecate somewhere.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 10:33 PM (0Htd1)

129
And the job I currently really want of my previous interviews is 'on hold' - I'm not out of the running yet!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (aJQbY)

__________

I am having an opposite and bizarre problem. Someone contacted me asking if I wanted to be a Director of Patent Intelligence for a start-up. No idea what the job is or why they're contacting me.

I said that I was retired and unwilling to extend my professional commitments beyond what they are. But it's been like trying break up with a crazy girlfriend. They don't take "no" for an answer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:34 PM (eRlcH)

130 It's already 9:34???

Posted by: lin-duh at September 29, 2026 10:34 PM (VCgbV)

131 If they did find it, someone would try. Take the dataplates and build new around them. See, Amelia's Lockheed.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 10:22 PM (2GVsD)

Hee hee. I meant her bones.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:34 PM (1Ff7Z)

132 127 The used water is filtered and purified.

Just don't think about it too long.
Posted by: Minuteman at September 29, 2026 10:16 PM (47/pr)

Dude. Every drop of water you have ever consumed has been ultimately recycled from a toilet somewhere, sometime. (That's not even counting all the fish peeing and crapping in it.) And likely every adult hand you've ever shaken has had a dick in it.

Don't think about that too long, man.

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:32 PM (kU0PQ)

If it's from an aquifer, it's at least been filtered and held below the surface for a very, very long time...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:34 PM (l3cgK)

133 There's a recent Neil Peart documentary that aired on Canadian TV. Several drummers performed various Rush songs with Geddy and Alex. Copeland joined them for New World Man. He looked like he might pass out!
Posted by: Doof

There's lots of great commentary in the video, not just playing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbVrlY-YwgY

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 29, 2026 10:35 PM (Fv808)

134 97 One of the most widespread Urban Legends is about Rod Stewart.

Raise your hand if you've heard it.
Posted by: Minuteman
Does it involve gerbils? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Richard Gere at September 29, 2026 10:35 PM (0Htd1)

135
I said that I was retired and unwilling to extend my professional commitments beyond what they are. But it's been like trying break up with a crazy girlfriend. They don't take "no" for an answer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:34 PM (eRlcH)

Reminds me of the joke:
"I was out of sick and vacation days, so I called in dead."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:35 PM (l3cgK)

136
Dust cooking on tubes is nasty.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
-----
Posted by: BifBewalski
-----
I wonder if my dad still has the headset he had when I was a kid, listening to his "Hootenanny" reel. That reel-to-reel machine is where I learned to splice tape. And why I knew who poor old Charlie was and that there was once a strike with Boston mass transit.
Posted by: GWB

My first missile battery was 100% analog, vacume tubes everywhere. And yes compressed air to clean everything out was a weekly maintenance chore.

I got introduced to the reel-to-reel tube based system by the senior warrant officer that eventually recommended me to that rank. Damned good tech for audio. Good for nuking Commie Soviets too.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 29, 2026 10:36 PM (QVmho)

137 130 It's already 9:34???

Posted by: lin-duh at September 29, 2026 10:34 PM (VCgbV)

Not in Kalifornia...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:36 PM (l3cgK)

138 Just finished watching The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer from 1947, with Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Shirley Temple, age 18. Hilarious farce, with one of the finest last scenes I've run across in movies. I laughed out loud and applauded.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2026 10:23 PM (wzUl9)

Rewatched McQ yesterday. Guess this was the Wayne version of Dirty Harry. First introduction of the Ingram MAC 10.

When you see Eddie Albert's name in the credits, you always figure he's the bad guy. Like how they fooled the viewer with Kosterman.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:37 PM (1Ff7Z)

139 I know the legend about Rod Stewart.

Apparently everyone should get off my lawn or something.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:37 PM (RIvkX)

140
8:36 here in the great state of Wyoming.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:37 PM (/QHx4)

141 ****Lake Mead hit another record low this month,
----

That's what the deal between the Fed and the Ranchers in Utah was about - water. The Feds were doing Search Light, NV's homeboy Harry Reid's dirty work. It was another land deal to obtain the underground water and sell it to CA.
Hilarity ensued when a blogger organized more guns than the Fed.
'Look up on those hills boys, they're pointing at you.'

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 10:37 PM (wljQY)

142 Apparently everyone should get off my lawn or something.

Posted by: San Franpsycho
---

Thought it was capsules of coke up the kazoo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 10:39 PM (wljQY)

143 Four seasons

4 pitches. 2 bombs. This series is over

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 29, 2026 10:39 PM (YZ0Fo)

144
Thought it was capsules of coke up the kazoo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 10:39 PM (wljQY)

_________

I thought it had something to do with a stomach pump.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:40 PM (eRlcH)

145 Richard Gere was the gerbil. Rod was the stomach pump...

Posted by: lin-duh at September 29, 2026 10:42 PM (VCgbV)

146 I thought it had something to do with a stomach pump.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:40 PM (eRlcH)
======

Warmer...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:42 PM (RIvkX)

147 I've often wondered if celebrities that rob their fans ever feel guilty in their moments of sobriety.
Posted by: old chick

A long time ago Joan Jett was being interviewed by Bill O'Reilly. She said that she didn't make political statements at her concerts because that isn't what her fans are buying tickets for.

Posted by: Richard Gere at September 29, 2026 10:42 PM (0Htd1)

148
BruceWayne,

I hope you all are doing well.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:42 PM (/QHx4)

149 This happened when everyone in entertainment decided they were ambisexual.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:43 PM (RIvkX)

150 BruceWayne,

I hope you all are doing well.

Posted by: four seasons

I was good til this game started. Yeesh!

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 29, 2026 10:43 PM (YZ0Fo)

151 If the sound ain't in your fingers, it's not going to be in the guitar or the amp.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2026 10:31 PM (XV/Pl)

Bullshit. You're not going to get an ES335 sound from a fucking les paul. You need that semi hollow thing. Its the cornerstone of lifeson's early sound. 335 on the early stuff, 355 from farewell to kings up to moving pictures. Its very distinct.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2026 10:44 PM (vzuC7)

152 Just saw Rush preform for the first time back on the 19th in Cleveland. If I can move like those two dudes (Alex & Geddy) when I'm as old as they are, that's a win! Amazing show, glad I finally saw them in person.

Posted by: McDirty at September 29, 2026 10:44 PM (RWXeq)

153 BruceWayne,

I hope you all are doing well.

Posted by: four seasons

I was good til this game started. Yeesh!
Posted by: BruceWayne

Hope all is well out there.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 29, 2026 10:45 PM (YZ0Fo)

154
BruceWayne,

Hubby went to bed. He said he could not stay awake for the game.

We love the Cubs no matter what happens. Diehard fans here.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:46 PM (/QHx4)

155 The job went to Vegas Tunnel Constructors, a joint venture of S.A. Healy out of Chicago and Salini Impregilo out of Milan, and to a machine Herrenknecht built ..
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The Nevadans got the bid, hired the Italians run the job who had the Germans custom build the tool. Sounds kosher to me.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 10:47 PM (wljQY)

156 @151

>>Its very distinct.

You can have his exact setup, you're not going to sound like him.

Steve Vai could play through Lifeson's setup, he's not going to sound like him either.

A guitarists sound is like a fingerprint, because, it kind of is.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2026 10:47 PM (XV/Pl)

157 We love the Cubs no matter what happens. Diehard fans here.

Posted by: four seasons

My tombstone will say "cubs fan". But good lord I thought wed put it up a bit more of a fight.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 29, 2026 10:48 PM (YZ0Fo)

158 Rod was the stomach pump...
Posted by: lin-duh

Ew. I don't wanna know about that.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 10:48 PM (0Htd1)

159 The Nevadans got the bid, hired the Italians run the job who had the Germans custom build the tool. Sounds kosher to me.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 10:47 PM (wljQY)

I wonder if the bidding was rigged to freeze out Elon's Boring Company?

Posted by: zombie Lee Deforest at September 29, 2026 10:50 PM (C6xWR)

160 Rod Stewart is the voice behind the song Ooh La LA, isn't he? That's his best as far as I'm concerned

Posted by: 496 at September 29, 2026 10:51 PM (GBo+u)

161
What time is it? Well, right here:

Date: 09/29/2026 Local Time Zone: Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-04:00:00)
Longitude: -82.17110 UTC Offset: -05:28:41 TZ Offset: -01:28:41
DUT1: -21.70440 ms Leap Seconds: 37 s DeltaT: 69.20570 s

Universal Coordinated Time: 02:51:13 UTC
Local Standard Time (TZ) : 10:51:13 PM EDT
Local Mean Time : 09:22:32 PM LMT (UT1 base)
Local Apparent Solar Time : 09:32:26 PM LAST (UT1 base)

Julian Dates (UTC base) : 9768.61891 JD2000
: 2461313.61891 JD
: 61313.11891 MJD

Grnwch Mean Sidereal Time: 03:26:43
Local Mean Sidereal Time: 21:58:02

Current Equation of Time: 9:54.16

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 10:52 PM (w6EFb)

162 Gasoline Alley is my fave Stewart song.

Posted by: From The Album Of The Same Name 1970 at September 29, 2026 10:53 PM (Fn+3X)

163 4 Newsom signs ‘ghost ticket’ ban but says its carve-outs need more work

And here I hoped it was about banning Cameras from issuing tickets to drivers...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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The only reason he would ban camera's is that he found a better way to screw you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 10:53 PM (wljQY)

164 Damn. Off, tube inventor sock!

Lee Deforest invented the triode vacuum tube, which he called the "audion", and demonstrated that it could amplify. Edison, IIRC, sued him for infringement, claiming that he had patented a diode vacuum tube years earlier. Edison's "invention" was mostly an attempt to prevent the inside of light bulb glass from being blackened by vapor-deposited carbon or metal, and really had no use in the then-infant field of electronics.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 10:56 PM (C6xWR)

165
As you can see there, DUT1 has gone negative. That little speed-up in earth's rotation that started around 2020 is over.

2026 average has been about 0.35 ms longer than 24 hours of atomic time. That ends a run of about 5 years, where the average was a smidge under 24 hours (of atomic time).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 10:57 PM (w6EFb)

166 I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM (l3cgK)

167
Reuters reports on a nurse who deliberately let an illegal alien escape the hospital. He's gone, she's charged. Unfortunately, I can only find out that she'll probably just get probation, but I hope it screws up her life and she never gets another hospital job. Is that evil of me?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM (mmrXZ)

168 167
Reuters reports on a nurse who deliberately let an illegal alien escape the hospital. He's gone, she's charged. Unfortunately, I can only find out that she'll probably just get probation, but I hope it screws up her life and she never gets another hospital job. Is that evil of me?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM (mmrXZ)

If that illegal alien ends up killing someone, she has that murder on her hands for the rest of her life, doesn't she?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:59 PM (l3cgK)

169 BTW, I seriously doubt that the Flock camera "saw" any license plates at all during that stunt. I doubt the scan rate for the image sensor runs anywhere near fast enough.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 10:59 PM (C6xWR)

170 Reuters reports on a nurse who deliberately let an illegal alien escape the hospital. He's gone, she's charged. Unfortunately, I can only find out that she'll probably just get probation, but I hope it screws up her life and she never gets another hospital job. Is that evil of me?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM (mmrXZ)

I hear North Sentinel Island needs nurses. She can do probation there.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 29, 2026 11:00 PM (qx7Zg)

171 🚀 For 13 flights, Starship was intentionally kept on a suborbital path. Flight 14 changed that.

On September 28, Ship 41 reached orbit for the first time, despite an early Raptor engine shutdown. SpaceX then used another engine burn to complete orbital insertion.

At roughly 275 km above Earth, Starship deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites—its first operational payload in orbit.

The flight ended early, but the milestone was enormous.

Starship didn’t just reach space. It finally entered the orbital era.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 11:02 PM (wljQY)

172
I was just reading about NASA returning the SR-71 to flight. They've put out calls for some of the old guys to come back and help.

A retired USAF engineer in his late 70s got a call from NASA about coming back to help get the thing flying again.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:02 PM (w6EFb)

173 Evening.

I'm home. And drinking.

Fuck yes.

Posted by: Robert at September 29, 2026 11:03 PM (dpXJq)

174 They're far from my favorite, but I can at least deal with everything except dododada and RAAAAAAWKKKSanne.
Posted by: mikeski
.......

I was in love with a girl named Roxanne and I hated that song.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 11:04 PM (oq9dX)

175
Good you are home and there is no problem with drinking.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 11:04 PM (/QHx4)

176 retired USAF engineer in his late 70s got a call from NASA about coming back to help get the thing flying again.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:02 PM (w6EFb)
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"To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield."

I've been thinking about that poem a lot the last couple of years

Posted by: 496 at September 29, 2026 11:06 PM (GBo+u)

177 The best thing about The Police is that they are less tiresome than U2.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 11:06 PM (C6xWR)

178 175
Good you are home and there is no problem with drinking.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 11:04 PM (/QHx4)

Just don't do any math; don't drink and derive...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:06 PM (l3cgK)

179 I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
......

I paid $6.99 at Chevron in Watsonville.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 11:07 PM (oq9dX)

180 Ordered a copy of Excalibur (1981). The restored version from Arrow Video.

Goddamn, there's so many nice tits. Christ, I'd slob all over them.

Anyway, I've seen this movie ONCE and it didn't leave an impression on me but everyone started talking about this restoration, TJM included, and I was like, "Fuck it, I guess I'll get me a copy!" So I got the Blu-ray.

Fuck me! So good! Looked great, but it's a problem I've noticed with high def restorations. It's like you can see the seams of a movie. The goofy looking sets and all that. It takes you out of the film a bit. Regardless, excellent movie. And some nice tits. Oooohhhh yeeeeaaaaahhhhh.....

Posted by: Robert at September 29, 2026 11:07 PM (dpXJq)

181
Starship could've easily made orbit from the get-go. They're just taking an abundance of caution approach (unlike the Chicoms, who don't give a shit).

Starship is so big and massive that if something went south and they lost control of it, they'd have a big hunk of dead metal in LEO, one huge chunk of space junk. And it's big enough that large pieces would survive reentry and if it came down over a populated area, it would be a mess.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:08 PM (w6EFb)

182 Great driving song: "Diamonds on My Windshield," by Tom Waits.

Posted by: Beverly at September 29, 2026 11:08 PM (reMys)

183
I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

__________

$3.64 at the Costco in Pearland, TX

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 11:08 PM (eRlcH)

184 Hi folks

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 29, 2026 11:09 PM (CHHv1)

185 183
I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

__________

$3.64 at the Costco in Pearland, TX

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 11:08 PM (eRlcH)

Kalifornia not only sucks, it swallows.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:10 PM (l3cgK)

186 And it's big enough that large pieces would survive reentry and if it came down over a populated area, it would be a mess.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:08 PM (w6EFb)

It's fine if it lands in China.

Posted by: Robert at September 29, 2026 11:10 PM (dpXJq)

187 166 I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM

Get out!!!

Escape Kalifornia as soon as you are able.

Love's near me (in flyover country) was $3.54 today.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 29, 2026 11:10 PM (HlyYF)

188
The Saturn V (pbuh) remains the greatest rocket ever flown. It still holds the record for hoisting the most payload into orbit.

Starship will take that crown at some point. Soon, I hope.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:10 PM (w6EFb)

189

Hi Beckoning and Robert.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 11:11 PM (/QHx4)

190 At the table, seating arrangements no one looked at, Jensen Huang sat on Trump's right and Elon Musk on his left.
@nicksortor - Elon Musk and Jensen Huang give an inside look at the big meeting between top AI firms and President Trump today, saying they'll now be "grading each other's homework"

Elon Musk: "We signed a JOINT DECLARATION regarding SI safety, and I think that'll be published by the White House soon."

"We agreed to a number of things that include a joint monitoring board, special committees, and just generally grading each other's homework, which is a LOT better than if people just grade their OWN homework, for obvious reasons."

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: "I thought the declaration has a LOT of teeth. I thought it was REALLY well written."

"It includes everything from rigorous internal controls, well established methods, well established processes, very clearly documented intentions of the products that you're building, internal controls to make sure that you're delivering on those intentions, internal audit that escalates, external audits from a third party,
"POTUS pulled it all together. He watched over the meeting, and was able to bring everybody out

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 11:11 PM (wljQY)

191 Note that Sam Altman was not there and Amodei sat third from the end.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 11:12 PM (wljQY)

192 Elon Musk: "We signed a JOINT DECLARATION regarding SI safety

Sports Illustrated has been unsafe for many years now...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:12 PM (l3cgK)

193 For me, The Police peaked with Roxanne. I don't "hate" their stuff but everything after that has a U2\Talking Heads "we are not just pop we are ART" air that annoys me. B-52s never put that out, they always seemed like they were out for fun..

Posted by: Azjaeger at September 29, 2026 11:13 PM (3/XaG)

194 some disappointment on that earlier tweet about Comey

"@Frankd06830 4h
Grok says not true….several bots have posted this in the last hour

“As of September 29, 2026, the latest court action is a September 25 order delaying Comey’s arraignment until January 2027 to allow time for dismissal motions, with no new warrant issued.”

Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2026 11:14 PM (vbXSk)

195 >>>Get out!!!

Escape Kalifornia as soon as you are able.

Love's near me (in flyover country) was $3.54 today.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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He's right. The commies are going to kill California and the government will take over because of strategic necessity.
Sell your stuff for CA money and pick a spot, there are many to choose from.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 11:14 PM (wljQY)

196 187 166 I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM

Get out!!!

Escape Kalifornia as soon as you are able.

Love's near me (in flyover country) was $3.54 today.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 29, 2026 11:10 PM (HlyYF)

My kids are here, my wife is buried here, I still have a living aunt and living uncle (siblings) that live here, the last ones I have. I don't expect to be around more than another decade or so at the most, so I'll probably die here and be buried with my wife.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:15 PM (l3cgK)

197 But the weather!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 11:17 PM (Cqx++)

198
If that illegal alien ends up killing someone, she has that murder on her hands for the rest of her life, doesn't she?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

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

Well, it says he was an illegal alien, not necessarily a criminal on top of that. But what an absolute brat, he was brought in there by ICE and they left him in the CT room with her, and she sneaked him out.

Meanwhile, reactions include: "Not all heroes wear capes....some wear scrubs"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 11:17 PM (mmrXZ)

199 No hitter through 5

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 29, 2026 11:19 PM (YZ0Fo)

200 Some Mondays last longer than others.

Here's something I stumbled over on the TouYubes. An unusual Beatles cover. Imagine Liberace on the Lawrence Welk show. On acid. The brown acid.🤪

https://youtu.be/CsS1znWXbnQ

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - and I'd've never been aware but as it is I'll dream of hare tonight at September 29, 2026 11:21 PM (xRCm7)

201 187 166 I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM

---------

Thank Gavin for driving the last refineries out of CA.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 29, 2026 11:22 PM (wpRMV)

202 Not a huge fan of The Police, but Sting's version of Roxanne he did for The Secret Policeman's Other Ball is fantastic

https://tinyurl.com/2mx6b8c4

Posted by: 496 at September 29, 2026 11:23 PM (aadd2)

203 Greetings Fellow Hordlings, from your "old Asia hand" Publius Redux, here in Singapore, where it remains sticky and hot, and hazy. I won't make the Texas MoMe (which I believe is in October?) as I will be back in TX in November (whole month). I am flying in the day before the elections, want to make sure I and my family all get to the polls in TX and that we all cast votes for Paxton. Can't be too sure. If anyone is around the north Houston area (Spring) at that time - let me know.

Btw - in the side bar on the landing page someone mentioned a drinking story involving Peter O'Toole and mused that someone should write a book about him and his hard drinking acting buddies. Well, someone did, the book is titled "Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed" it is WELL worth the read - highly recommend.

Posted by: Publius Redux at September 29, 2026 11:24 PM (Gu66x)

204 Well, it says he was an illegal alien, not necessarily a criminal on top of that. But what an absolute brat, he was brought in there by ICE and they left him in the CT room with her, and she sneaked him out.

Meanwhile, reactions include: "Not all heroes wear capes....some wear scrubs"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Take the price of his CT scan, and everything else he needed, out of her paycheck.

Paying for his healthcare is the least she can do for a poor downtrodden uncitizened human, right?

Posted by: their women at September 29, 2026 11:24 PM (VHUov)

205 off multiple socks.

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 11:24 PM (VHUov)

206 172
I was just reading about NASA returning the SR-71 to flight. They've put out calls for some of the old guys to come back and help.

A retired USAF engineer in his late 70s got a call from NASA about coming back to help get the thing flying again.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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That's what they do best. Some of those voyagers from last century are still phoning info home. Landing that rover on Mars was pretty cool. And telescopes spying on China and Iran.
They should stick with what they do best.
A Super SR-71 will be tough to beat.

We used to fly it straight over Red Square, straight over their May Day parade. They knew it but they couldn't touch it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 11:25 PM (wljQY)

207 Apologies - the story was about Richard Harris - but the post still remains the same, except for that correction.

Pax Ex

Posted by: Publius Redux at September 29, 2026 11:27 PM (Gu66x)

208 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 11:27 PM (Y/06r)

209 My kids are here, my wife is buried here, I still have a living aunt and living uncle (siblings) that live here, the last ones I have. I don't expect to be around more than another decade or so at the most, so I'll probably die here and be buried with my wife.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:15 PM

I thought that was the case.

OTOH, if you ever need a vacation break to a free country, we got your back!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 29, 2026 11:29 PM (HlyYF)

210 198
If that illegal alien ends up killing someone, she has that murder on her hands for the rest of her life, doesn't she?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

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

Well, it says he was an illegal alien, not necessarily a criminal on top of that. But what an absolute brat, he was brought in there by ICE and they left him in the CT room with her, and she sneaked him out.

Meanwhile, reactions include: "Not all heroes wear capes....some wear scrubs"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 11:17 PM (mmrXZ)

Jawolle.

Posted by: Zombie Dr. Josef Mengele at September 29, 2026 11:29 PM (l3cgK)

211 Good tidings to Singapore.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 11:29 PM (wljQY)

212
Voyager 1 will reach the one light-day mark on Nov. 18, 10:16:07 Zulu.

That's ~16 billion miles, or ~173 AU.

Both will run out power sometime in the early 2030s. They've been steadily shutting down instruments according to a priority list to conserve power and keep them going as long as possible.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:30 PM (w6EFb)

213 121 Monday is almost over.
Posted by: mindful webworker - press 1 for English; press 0 for robonix at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (xRCm7)
******
Thank goodness! I felt it's been a very long day and am tired.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 29, 2026 11:31 PM (hzuYO)

214 Howdy, horde!

Thanks for whelming all of us, Doof!

Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2026 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

215 Voyager 1 will reach the one light-day mark on Nov. 18, 10:16:07 Zulu.

That's ~16 billion miles, or ~173 AU.

Both will run out power sometime in the early 2030s. They've been steadily shutting down instruments according to a priority list to conserve power and keep them going as long as possible.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:30 PM (w6EFb)

I wonder if NASA knows which one will send its last message we can receive farthest from the sun.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 29, 2026 11:33 PM (qx7Zg)

216 But what an absolute brat, he was brought in there by ICE and they left him in the CT room with her, and she sneaked him out.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

"We found something concerning in your scan; you should come back in for a follow-up."

Posted by: totally not an ICE agent posing as a radiologist at September 29, 2026 11:34 PM (VHUov)

217
I don''t who Chad Lowe is. Apparently his 13 year old killed herself.

Heartbreaking.

Daily Mail has some of the story.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 11:34 PM (/QHx4)

218 They've been steadily shutting down instruments according to a priority list to conserve power and keep them going as long as possible.
Posted by: publius

I'm... half cra...zy... all for... the... love... of...

Posted by: V-ger at September 29, 2026 11:34 PM (88C+u)

219 I wonder if NASA knows which one will send its last message we can receive farthest from the sun.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 29, 2026 11:33 PM (qx7Zg)

Probably Voyager1...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:35 PM (l3cgK)

220 214 Howdy, horde!

Thanks for whelming all of us, Doof!

Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2026 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

You sound medium-whelmed, JQ.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:36 PM (l3cgK)

221 Hi four seasons, thank you. Robert the Cat (TM) thanks you as well, at least that is how I am interpreting it. (In actual space he's a brat.)

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 29, 2026 11:37 PM (CHHv1)

222 Both will run out power sometime in the early 2030s. They've been steadily shutting down instruments according to a priority list to conserve power and keep them going as long as possible.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:30 PM (w6EFb)

Isn't power provided by a radioactive decay thermal battery? One that makes power at a decaying rate? Or does that unit charge normal chemical batteries, and it's the recharge rate that is falling off, making conservation necessary?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 11:38 PM (C6xWR)

223 You sound medium-whelmed, JQ.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I am absolutely medium-whelmed, jim! Tuesdays are just not very exciting, after all.

Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2026 11:40 PM (rdVOm)

224
Beckoning,

I love your stories about Robert. Give him a belly rub for me. Oh, probably not a good idea, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 11:40 PM (/QHx4)

225
Yep, Voyager 1 will probably go dead first, based on the power reserve data.

They've gone to heroic efforts to keep them going as long as they had. They did some risky trick a few months ago with Voyager 2, which worked. They're doing something similar with Voyager 1, but that's not yet complete.

It's just mind-boggling when you think about, considering the round trip signal time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:42 PM (w6EFb)

226 >> Isn't power provided by a radioactive decay thermal battery?

RTG. Radioisotope Thermal Generator. It's basically a thermocouple in reverse, the Seebeck effect, heat from decay of Pu-238 --> electrical energy.

These are ideal for deep space missions where solar power is too weak.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:45 PM (w6EFb)

227 @BigJoeBastardi · 20m

Anyone else think tornadoes are on the table tomorrow in Texas given past performances by Norma in 1981 and Tico in 1983
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Panhandle?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 11:46 PM (wljQY)

228 The AI folks are going to police themselves. Riiiight.
Sam Altman wasn't there.
OK, I'll believe that when they put out a hit on him.
If they don't do that, thi0 "policing" organization is just a "legal", out in the open way to violate the antitrust laws.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 29, 2026 11:47 PM (iYF/u)

229
Those units lose power output at about 4W per year.

There was a supply problem with Pu-238 for a while, but they've successfully restarted production. The current Mars rovers use RTGs. You don't have to worry about dust on the solar panels, and then night and winter problems.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:48 PM (w6EFb)

230 About 7 more hours and it will be 4am

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 11:53 PM (Ia/+0)

231
"We found something concerning in your scan; you should come back in for a follow-up."
Posted by: totally not an ICE agent posing as a radiologist

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

Heh, they ought to tell that bitch nurse that they found something concerning and let her stew about him.

Oh, and the reason he was brought in is that he injured himself trying to escape ICE -- so they TOOK HIM TO THE HOSPITAL. Gee, and here I'm assured they'd drag him off to a detention center where he'd be forced to drink out of the toilet.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 11:55 PM (mmrXZ)

232
Take the price of his CT scan, and everything else he needed, out of her paycheck.

Paying for his healthcare is the least she can do for a poor downtrodden uncitizened human, right?
Posted by: their women

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

Ehm, being personally affected by all this is not what I had in mind.

Posted by: Nurse No-ICE at September 29, 2026 11:59 PM (mmrXZ)

233 201 187 166 I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM

---------

Thank Gavin for driving the last refineries out of CA.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 29, 2026 11:22 PM (wpRMV)

I do not understand how gas can cost more in CA than it does in AK. Except for progressive bullshit, that is. I do understand that, I suppose.

Why on earth do you put up with it?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:00 AM (aeKVE)

234 I ordered and received a Purgatorian Manual from Tan Books. I know my Protestant friends here will take umbrage, but the Manual is a reprint of a 1984 book and has pages in the front to list all the dead folks I should pray for, so, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends who have passed, etc. And it has many different devotional prayers to help them move from Purgatory to Heaven.

I don't really understand the argument about not praying for deceased people, or not asking Saints in heaven to pray for us, since we are all part of the Communion of Saints, the Church Triumphant in Heaven, the Church Suffering in Purgatory, and the Church Militant on Earth. But I suppose for Protestants you either end up in heaven or hell, no mercy, no help.

At any rate, I find it a lovely item considering October is the month to pray for those who can become saints if they escape Purgatory. If my prayers can help any of them, I need to get busy. I would hope others would likewise pray for me in that situation. I can't imagine making it to heaven on the first try, after all.

YMMV.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:05 AM (aeKVE)

235 NOT 1984, 1894. Oops.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:06 AM (aeKVE)

236
I think a lot of people put up with stuff because they have family and jobs.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:09 AM (/QHx4)

237 BruceWayne,

I hope you all are doing well.

Posted by: four seasons

I was good til this game started. Yeesh!
Posted by: BruceWayne at September

Bruins beat the Rangers.
It's something.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 30, 2026 12:10 AM (sl73Y)

238 I think a lot of people put up with stuff because they have family and jobs.
Posted by: four seasons
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"Just move!" Is so very much easier said, than done.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 12:11 AM (rdVOm)

239 233 201 187 166 I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM

---------

Thank Gavin for driving the last refineries out of CA.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 29, 2026 11:22 PM (wpRMV)

I do not understand how gas can cost more in CA than it does in AK. Except for progressive bullshit, that is. I do understand that, I suppose.

Why on earth do you put up with it?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:00 AM (aeKVE)

Kalifornia has about the highest (if not the actual highest) tax on gasoline in the entire country.

AS to the second question, see #196

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 12:12 AM (l3cgK)

240 @BigJoeBastardi · 20m

Anyone else think tornadoes are on the table tomorrow in Texas given past performances by Norma in 1981 and Tico in 1983
---

Panhandle?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 11:46 PM (wljQY)

I was thinking of the Lubbock tornado of 1970. My family had moved away from Lubbock by then, but I had grandparents who lived through that. One grandmother was weathering it in her storm cellar. She came out fine, and her house took no damage. The other took shelter in the then First National Bank Building basement. That building took severe damage from the twister which was judged an F5 after the fact (this was before the Fujita scale was developed, that tornado was used in developing that scale). Despite the damage to the building my grandmother was safe in the building’s basement, but it was so frightening she had a heart attack during the storm. She survived the heart attack and the storm and lived many more years to tell the tale to us grandchildren (many, many times).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 12:14 AM (jMluN)

241 I've paddled a bit of the New River.

Bear? Yeah,one got into my garbage can last night.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 30, 2026 12:16 AM (XeU6L)

242 AS to the second question, see #196
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 12:12 AM (l3cgK)

You are correct, Sir. Family comes first, last, and always. My apologies.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:18 AM (aeKVE)

243 This acoustic version of Big Brown Beaver is the tits.

https://youtu.be/L0fyYBXVaCU

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 12:18 AM (dK+Kv)

244 This acoustic version of Big Brown Beaver is the tits.
https://youtu.be/L0fyYBXVaCU
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Yes, it is.

Ironic, no?

Posted by: mikeski at September 30, 2026 12:21 AM (VHUov)

245 Herodotus talks about how the Greeks on Samos dug a tunnel under a mountain over half a mile long.[0] They started from both ends and managed to meet up in the middle. I'm not sure why they did it that way.

[0] Perseus has a footnote that the tunnel is actually only 1100 feet: https://tinyurl.com/4cwbcz45 My Landmark edition has some more notes about it, but I don't have that handy right now.

Posted by: frammish at September 30, 2026 12:21 AM (rcENI)

246 Bear? Yeah,one got into my garbage can last night.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 30, 2026 12:16 AM (XeU6L)

A couple more weeks and at least the brown bears will go hibernate. Then we can put out the bird feeders without inviting our bear buddies. I'd rather not deal with bears since the dogs use the yard, but it should be safe once we have had a hard freeze about three nights in a row.

At least, we hope so. Hmmm...

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:23 AM (aeKVE)

247 Maybe the 'ettes have an answer for this, but I sure don't.

What the FUCK is up with the trend of young women getting ugly plain black prison-style tattoos?

The comedian Natalie Cuomo (no relation, I think) is a good example. Cute as hell, but utterly ruined the "artwork" that looks like it was done by a lifer using a tattoo gun made from a CD player motor and a safety pin, and ink made from shoe polish.

I don't really like ANY tattoos on women, but well-done colorful ones don't make me want to barf.

This shite is even worse than the other two big red flags for me: septum rings and that lipstick style I've been calling the "inflamed baboon hemorrhoid look".

Posted by: Virginia-Class Skipper at September 30, 2026 12:24 AM (qlLNh)

248
247,

Blame social media. They think stuff is cool because they see it online.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:27 AM (/QHx4)

249
I haven't seen anyone in the press needling Newsom over the closed oil refineries, but it will happen at some point. I'm sure he'll proudly say that California stood up to corporate greed and the result is what we see. We must cap gasoline prices now!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 12:29 AM (mmrXZ)

250 This shite is even worse than the other two big red flags for me: septum rings and that lipstick style I've been calling the "inflamed baboon hemorrhoid look".
Posted by: Virginia-Class Skipper at September 30, 2026 12:24 AM (qlLNh)

I don't understand ANY tattoos. As a Catholic, I don't get to fuck with what God created. But, I suppose if you aren't raised that way, you could consider "body art." But nasty, plain black, ugly-ass crap on your body? No thanks.

Might as well just print "I'm a whore!" on your skin and get after it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:31 AM (aeKVE)

251
tcn, yep

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:33 AM (/QHx4)

252 > I don't understand ANY tattoos.

Nor do I, really. I might consider it if there were some way to change them or make them go away easily, but I don't understand wanting to have the same art on your body for the rest of your life, even if it's good art.

And sock off.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:34 AM (qlLNh)

253 Herodotus talks about how the Greeks on Samos dug a tunnel under a mountain over half a mile long.[0] They started from both ends and managed to meet up in the middle. I'm not sure why they did it that way.

[0] Perseus has a footnote that the tunnel is actually only 1100 feet: https://tinyurl.com/4cwbcz45 My Landmark edition has some more notes about it, but I don't have that handy right now.
Posted by: frammish at September 30, 2026 12:21 AM (rcENI)

Why they did it that way? Finish in half the time. If you are tunneling, you only make progress at the face, the point where new rock is being dug, and the tunnel advanced. Tunnels are cramped; you cannot speed it up by putting more men on the job. They won't all fit. But start from the other side, and you open up a second face, so you double your rate of advance. The greeks were canny surveyors and engineers, planning the two tunnels to meet in the middle was not beyond their skills.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 12:34 AM (C6xWR)

254 So, you tattoo yourself, and in 20 years, your sag and flab lead to the tattoos looking like something just awful, all over your own flesh.

WTF?

Just skip that.

Sure, pierce your ears a few times.

Sure, add a nipple ring if you hate yourself.

But a butterfly that looks like an old raisin? NO thanks.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:38 AM (aeKVE)

255 As far as septum rings, a lot of these girls don't really need any help to make themselves look more like farm animals, if you know what I mean.

See one and you imagine a PA system with a state fair livestock judge in the background.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:38 AM (qlLNh)

256 This acoustic version of Big Brown Beaver is the tits.

https://youtu.be/L0fyYBXVaCU
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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For some definition of " acoustic ", but yeah, great sound from a Dobro and (I think) a metal National Resonator.

(I'm a woodwind guy, but I had a neighbor when we lived in the Bay Area, and he had three different resonators, and taught me that "they ain't guitars!"

Posted by: buddhaha at September 30, 2026 12:39 AM (iYF/u)

257
In better news, SCOTUS says deportations of illegal aliens can continue until hearings scheduled for December.

Man, I wonder how long those deportees are supposed to last in fucking Liberia. Just live in some shitty mud hut guarded by no-apologies, no-rules, machine-gun-wielding African guards forever, or will they ultimately be released to make their way in fucking Monrovia?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 12:39 AM (mmrXZ)

258 Happy Tuesday Horde!

It was rumored that we would at long last see the sun tomorrow, but it is raining pretty heavily right now. Oh well, not much of a complaint in the grand scheme of things.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 30, 2026 12:41 AM (ibDUx)

259 Yeah, I've been asked by female coworkers: "Gee, JQ, why didn't *you* get any tats?" (and they all had recently acquired theirs)

I told them: I'd seen what tats look like after 20 or 30 years. No thank you!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 12:41 AM (rdVOm)

260 Modern hard rock tunneling has the miners drill a pattern of holes in the face of the tunnel, maybe about a yard deep, and load all but one with dynamite. The unloaded hole provides a weak point for the explosion-induced fractures to propagate to, and if all goes well, the entire tunnel advances 3 feet with each shot. Since the Greeks did not have explosives, AFAIK, I am not sure how they fractured the rock. More drilling, and maybe build a fire, get the rock really hot, and then dash cold water on it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 12:42 AM (C6xWR)

261 If I were a woman, I'd be worried that nipple rings would make it difficult or impossible to nurse children.

I have no idea if that's a real issue, but it's one that I'd investigate thoroughly.

I myself have a pierced ear. I still put an earring in there for a few days every couple of years to keep it from closing up.

I have a sterling skull earring around here somewhere that I used to wear when I'd put on a tux, back when I would occasionally go to an event that required a tux.

Sterling skull shirt studs and cufflinks too.

Nowadays I don't like to go to any event where I can't wear sweat pants.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:42 AM (qlLNh)

262 I have a sterling skull earring around here somewhere that I used to wear when I'd put on a tux, back when I would occasionally go to an event that required a tux.

Sterling skull shirt studs and cufflinks too.

Nowadays I don't like to go to any event where I can't wear sweat pants.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:42 AM (qlLNh)

I don't believe you ever needed a tux in AK.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:43 AM (aeKVE)

263 > More drilling, and maybe build a fire, get the rock really hot, and then dash cold water on it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 12:42 AM (C6xWR)

I know that was a common ancient mining technique but don't know about tunnel digging. Makes sense, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:43 AM (qlLNh)

264
Being old I remember having your ears pierced was a sign you were easy, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:43 AM (/QHx4)

265 > I don't believe you ever needed a tux in AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:43 AM (aeKVE)

You'd be surprised. I have a bowler hat, too.

Never did get around to getting the cane with the silver wolf's head handle.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:44 AM (qlLNh)

266 Well, it is getting late, and I am tired. Off to the rack, I go. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 12:45 AM (C6xWR)

267 Being old I remember having your ears pierced was a sign you were easy, lol.

Posted by: four seasons
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Mom believed that. She refused to sign for me to get my ears pierced! Had to wait...

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 12:46 AM (rdVOm)

268
Sleep well AOP

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:46 AM (/QHx4)

269 Man, I wonder how long those deportees are supposed to last in fucking Liberia. Just live in some shitty mud hut guarded by no-apologies, no-rules, machine-gun-wielding African guards forever, or will they ultimately be released to make their way in fucking Monrovia?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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It's not like they haven't been told.
And told we will fly you out and we will
give you money. Just voluntarily turn
yourself in. That's all, it's easy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 12:46 AM (wljQY)

270 264
Being old I remember having your ears pierced was a sign you were easy, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:43 AM (/QHx4)

Mom didn't let me get my ears pierced until I was 16. I guess she figured if I were a whore I would have made that clear by then? Or maybe she figured she couldn't stop me by then, since I had my own income at that point.

She never owned pierced earrings. Ever. Ack.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:47 AM (aeKVE)

271
JQ,

Me too, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:47 AM (/QHx4)

272 In better news, SCOTUS says deportations of illegal aliens can continue until hearings scheduled for December.

Man, I wonder how long those deportees are supposed to last in fucking Liberia. Just live in some shitty mud hut guarded by no-apologies, no-rules, machine-gun-wielding African guards forever, or will they ultimately be released to make their way in fucking Monrovia?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 12:39 AM (mmrXZ)

They can always swim the Atlantic if they're desperate to return to the US. It isn't *that* far.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 30, 2026 12:47 AM (qx7Zg)

273 Maybe "needed" is a bit strong.

The most recent time I wore one was for some friends who had a big to-do for their 25th anniversary.

Given that I was in the Original Broadway Cast of that wedding, I figured it was worth dressing up a bit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:48 AM (qlLNh)

274 Never did get around to getting the cane with the silver wolf's head handle.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:44 AM (qlLNh)

We'll have to work on that. You will need it so you can sit on the porch and shake it at everybody who walks by.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:48 AM (aeKVE)

275 Good night, AOP.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:48 AM (qlLNh)

276 The most recent time I wore one was for some friends who had a big to-do for their 25th anniversary.

Given that I was in the Original Broadway Cast of that wedding, I figured it was worth dressing up a bit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Aww... Very classy of you!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 12:49 AM (rdVOm)

277 Night, AOP!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 12:49 AM (rdVOm)

278 On the prayer thread I mentioned our friend's ordination to the diaconate last weekend, and how his wife was due any day now. Well she made it through the trip to the monastery---and the six-hour vespers service and the six-hour divine liturgy. Thank you all for your prayers! My wife just left to go spend the night with their kids.

Posted by: frammish at September 30, 2026 12:50 AM (rcENI)

279 > We'll have to work on that. You will need it so you can sit on the porch and shake it at everybody who walks by.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:48 AM (aeKVE)

The older I get, the more I begin to see the advantages of having a sturdy stick with a heavy metal lump on the end.

You never know when the need to do some freelance social work might arise.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:50 AM (qlLNh)

280 Being old I remember having your ears pierced was a sign you were easy, lol.

Posted by: four seasons
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If you were even older, you would realize that that applied, if it ever did, to a very narrow social group and cohort.

My grandmother had her ears pierced (by her mother) around one year old.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 30, 2026 12:50 AM (iYF/u)

281 260 Modern hard rock tunneling has the miners drill a pattern of holes in the face of the tunnel, maybe about a yard deep, and load all but one with dynamite. The unloaded hole provides a weak point for the explosion-induced fractures to propagate to, and if all goes well, the entire tunnel advances 3 feet with each shot. Since the Greeks did not have explosives, AFAIK, I am not sure how they fractured the rock. More drilling, and maybe build a fire, get the rock really hot, and then dash cold water on it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 12:42 AM (C6xWR)

It is amazing the knowledge of Morons!

Posted by: frammish at September 30, 2026 12:51 AM (rcENI)

282 Might as well just print "I'm a whore!" on your skin and get after it.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Any lower-back tattoo is queer,
It might as well say "insert cock here"

https://youtu.be/hFSbYE5IWzw

.....NSFW, in case the quote didn't make that obvious.

Posted by: probably not Stephen Lynch at September 30, 2026 12:52 AM (VHUov)

283 A friend signed for me to get ears pierced, when I was 17. (Mom had always said to wait until I was 16.)

Mom was pissed! "I didn't approve!"

"But, Mom-- you always said '16' and I'm already 17-- I thought it would be ok by now!"

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 12:53 AM (rdVOm)

284 Then: "No piercings until you're sixteen, young lady!"

Now: "No more than sixteen piercings, young lady!"

Posted by: mikeski at September 30, 2026 12:56 AM (VHUov)

285 One of the guys at the memory care facility smashed out a window with his cane the other day. He hasn't been there very long and he usually just sits in the lobby area with his suitcase waiting for someone to come and pick him up. I guess he had a brief moment of clarity and realized that nobody was going to rescue him. Sad.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 30, 2026 12:57 AM (ibDUx)

286
Today I can imagine girls telling their moms they are going to have their nipples pierced.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:57 AM (/QHx4)

287 Speaking of getting old, I have to get out early tomorrow morning and pick up a new prescription, so I'm going to hang it up.

Two more weekly cancer treatments to go, then I get to hold off until after I get scoped again in November. I'm glad 'cuz these treatments are kicking my ass just a bit.

Good night, all.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:57 AM (qlLNh)

288
Debby,

How heartbreaking.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:58 AM (/QHx4)

289

Sleep well Rodrigo

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:59 AM (/QHx4)

290 My grandmother had her ears pierced (by her mother) around one year old.

Posted by: buddhaha
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Grams, from another century; all the girls pierced their ears at the same time. Ice the lobe, soap bar behind the lobe, drive a needle through the spot. She said it hurt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 01:00 AM (wljQY)

291 Today I can imagine girls telling their moms they are going to have their nipples pierced.

Posted by: four seasons

***CRINGE***

Yikes! That thought makes me shudder, probably like when a dude thinks about possibly getting smashed in the balls!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:02 AM (rdVOm)

292 I'm glad 'cuz these treatments are kicking my ass just a bit.
---

Hang in there, they do good work. Just rest, rest and keep the calories up. You have prayer lift back here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 01:02 AM (wljQY)

293
JQ,

Yep

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 01:03 AM (/QHx4)

294 Telling them Tik Tok is a CCP op does not mean a thing.
Cheryl got hers' pierced, I want it too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 01:04 AM (wljQY)

295 "Ice the lobe, soap bar behind the lobe, drive a needle through the spot."

Ice is *wrong*-- it freezes the tissue and makes it more difficult to pierce! (experience here)

Better to just have a couple shots of favorite likker & sit still. Rubbing alcohol on the lobe; sharp, sterile needle; half a potato behind the ear-- BAM! More alcohol, sterile ear-stud. Have another couple shots.

Tomorrow's gonna feel like a very tight clamp on the lobe(s)!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:07 AM (rdVOm)

296 JQ and four seasons, I think that we had this conversation about pierced ears before, my Mom was exactly the same way, she wore those clip on earrings her whole life. I got mine pierced without her permission when I was in college.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 30, 2026 01:07 AM (ibDUx)

297 Night, Rodrigo. Prayers up for you!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:08 AM (rdVOm)

298 LOL, Debby. We did talk ear-piercing a while back.

I pierced active-duty guys ears (overseas) because they couldn't get it done on base. Mom mailed me a bunch of studs and a piercing 'gun' from The States.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:11 AM (rdVOm)

299
I remember being allowed to drive but not allowed to have my ears pierced, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 01:12 AM (/QHx4)

300 I guess he had a brief moment of clarity ...

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
----

All recent family were teetotalers, Gramps was in a home didn't recognize anyone, just sit and stare were his best moments.
Occasionally, a portion would come to, he would shower, shave, put on his suit, tie, hat, (he was a snappy dresser - also a story teller), walk by the nurses station, ask if everything was OK and bid them good night as he walked out the door.

Two o'clock or so the next morning two drunks would ring dad's door bell. 'Is this you father Charlie Redneck would ask, he sure has some interesting tales'. Thanks and in comes drunk as a skunk Gramps.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 01:14 AM (wljQY)

301 >>One of the guys at the memory care facility smashed out a window with his cane the other day. He hasn't been there very long and he usually just sits in the lobby area with his suitcase waiting for someone to come and pick him up. I guess he had a brief moment of clarity and realized that nobody was going to rescue him. Sad.

That is just heartbreaking!

Couple of times, hubby has thrown *all* his stuff on his bed & demanded to leave...

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm)

302 My daughter was 12 when her and 6 of her friends made a group trek to the mall to get matching swimsuits (synchronized swim team). While they were there, three of them got their ears pierced. Of course, my daughter's one of the three.
I was pissed. Three parents went to the mall the next day, and I channeled some old sergeants. The woman was literally crying when I finished. I pointed out that medical personnel had to get parent permission for anything, and that what she did could legally be classed as assault with jail terms attached.
If my kid had asked us, we would have tried to talk her out of it, but if she convinced us, had it done in our doctor's office.
Today, at over 50, she has 4 in one ear and 3 in the other,

Posted by: buddhaha at September 30, 2026 01:15 AM (iYF/u)

303
Wow, that is some sick shit 302.

It needs to be deleted.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 01:18 AM (/QHx4)

304 Clean up on aisle 302, please...

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:19 AM (rdVOm)

305 Sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS...
Repeat 30 more times.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 09:56 PM (0aYVJ)

Hold my beer.

Posted by: Grand Funk Railroad at September 30, 2026 01:22 AM (XUHiS)

306 Prayers, Rodrigo
(adds Rodrigo to the list)

Up because we had a mouse incident- she woke me to see the one she'd dropped on the bedroom rug. I popped a trashcan over it and he returned it to the backyard.

Lovely moon, though.

Posted by: sal at September 30, 2026 01:22 AM (f+FmA)

307 (z1WO3) - uggh. That ain't no lace wigs or machines for sale.

Who.has banhammering duty?

PS HI, alll.

Posted by: Late-Night Lurker at September 30, 2026 01:22 AM (zCZZo)

308 Both side of my family except for gramps and his dad were teetotalers. I come from a long line of teetotalers, both sides.
Great, great grandpa's girls better not have liquor on their breath.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 01:22 AM (wljQY)

309 Tomorrow's gonna feel like a very tight clamp on the lobe(s)!

Posted by: JQ
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I knew you were old fashioned.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 01:24 AM (wljQY)

310 oh my gosh, it is like raimondo stuck a fork in an electrical outlet.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 30, 2026 01:24 AM (ibDUx)

311 Hubby has tried to "escape" a few times. Not lately, though.

Mostly, he just wants to have a cig but requires supervision, because he could get lost or burn himself. (There are set times for supervised smoking)

He doesn't have access to either cigs or lighter. Also, there's a transponder on his wheelchair that triggers alarm if he gets too close to exit.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:24 AM (rdVOm)

312 262 I have a sterling skull earring around here somewhere that I used to wear when I'd put on a tux, back when I would occasionally go to an event that required a tux.

Sterling skull shirt studs and cufflinks too.

Nowadays I don't like to go to any event where I can't wear sweat pants.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:42 AM (qlLNh)

I don't believe you ever needed a tux in AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:43 AM (aeKVE)

Never needed a tux in AK but needed my mess dress uniform which is pretty much the same thing.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 30, 2026 01:25 AM (XUHiS)

313 I am more of a Sepultura; Chaos A.D. guy. Love to play that while driving the open road.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 10:03 PM (0aYVJ)

502 by Megadeth
Red Barchetta by Rush
Jesus Built My Hotrod by Ministry

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 30, 2026 01:28 AM (XUHiS)

314
Sleep well ya'll.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 01:30 AM (/QHx4)

315 Night, four seasons!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:31 AM (rdVOm)

316
That is just heartbreaking!

Couple of times, hubby has thrown *all* his stuff on his bed & demanded to leave...
Posted by: JQ

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So sad. I've seen the exact same thing in a couple of other brain-damaged or demented souls. The things you keep (wanting freedom) and the things you lose (enough of a mind to have it).

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 01:33 AM (mmrXZ)

317 The things you keep (wanting freedom) and the things you lose (enough of a mind to have it).
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Hubby is such a rebel-- when they had the transponder on his ankle, he cut it off with a butter knife after his meal. No more butter knife, until this summer. Guess they realized he no longer knows how to defeat the system.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:39 AM (rdVOm)

318 272. They can always swim the Atlantic if they're desperate to return to the US. It isn't *that* far.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Or take the plane to Philadelphia. 😉

Philadelphia and its surrounding metropolitan area are home to an estimated 14,060 Liberian residents, representing the largest concentration of Liberians in the United States.

Posted by: L - No nic.. at September 30, 2026 01:44 AM (NFX2v)

319 It's getting cold overnight lately, but I still haven't prepped the pellet heater or checked the chimney. Ugh. I'd better get on it soon!

Should have a couple more weeks of nice days, though. No rain in the forecast (for now).

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:51 AM (rdVOm)

320 Yay, ozone!

Thank you, whichever COB did it!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:53 AM (rdVOm)

321
Hubby is such a rebel-- when they had the transponder on his ankle, he cut it off with a butter knife after his meal. No more butter knife, until this summer. Guess they realized he no longer knows how to defeat the system.
Posted by: JQ

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Well, that was effective! Why didn't they fasten it with a piece of gum? If we didn't laugh at life, I guess we'd all go crazy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 02:00 AM (mmrXZ)

322
They can always swim the Atlantic if they're desperate to return to the US. It isn't *that* far.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Or take the plane to Philadelphia. 😉

Posted by: L - No nic.

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First prize: one week in Philadelphia.
Second prize: two weeks in Philadelphia!

--old WC Fields joke

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 02:01 AM (mmrXZ)

323 Has the judge who signed off on the Smith subpoenas been identified?

Posted by: Goatweed at September 30, 2026 02:02 AM (jK3NL)

324 >>Well, that was effective! Why didn't they fasten it with a piece of gum?

Blondie, their butter knives are so dull, hubby must've worked for quite a while sawing through that *reinforced* strap!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 02:10 AM (rdVOm)

325 (Aktj5)

Please, sir, may it have another?

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 02:14 AM (rdVOm)

326 Jonathan Turley@JonathanTurley · 6h
It turns out woke rage is not an actual investment strategy. Scott Galloway, who teaches at NYU Stern School of Business, now admits that it might have been a mistake to sell all of his stock when Trump was elected. It wiped out 40% of his asset value..
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What some don't realize is that we are headlong into the 4th industrial revolution. For instance; Right now we are in an energy transition analogous to 19th century going from candle light after dark to kerosene lamps on the walls.
Medically we are closer to being in a ward an let's see what happens to robots and lasers doing microscopic work that, skilled as he is, has to do it by hand.

It's going to be a different world.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 02:14 AM (wljQY)

327 I found the name? No surprise!

Posted by: Goatweed at September 30, 2026 02:19 AM (jK3NL)

328 The turning point was Ukraine's drone campaign on election day. Putin said more than 1,600 drones entered the Moscow area that night, with strikes on polling stations, including one in a school he said was virtually destroyed.

The chair of a territorial election commission was killed when her home was hit. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin called the raid unprecedented.

According to RT, two civilians were killed in the suburbs and an oil refinery was damaged. Whatever one makes of Russian accounts of the damage, the political effect in Moscow was plain.
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I'm tired of this war and more than annoyed with that clown zelensky. If we would simply see to it that our stuff did not get into Ukraine hands the war would be over. Someone or thing is working on Trump. He's changed on this.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 02:22 AM (wljQY)

329 Still more than hour to go

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 02:33 AM (Ia/+0)

330 That's it

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 02:33 AM (wljQY)

331 I hear a owl outside

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 02:35 AM (Ia/+0)

332 I bought some pumpkin donuts the other day. Too much clove, imo. But still good with coffee.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 02:37 AM (rdVOm)

333 Eric Schmitt type republicans is why voters are fed up with these trump stooges scoring own goals. Btw 16 trucking companies have gone bankrupt from high diesel prices in the last several months and farmers in Iowa and other midwest states can't afford diesel either. Safe red state republican senators in midwest states see their poll numbers drop.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at September 30, 2026 02:44 AM (J7Vfr)

334 JQ, it is time for warm apple cider donuts here, they are very tasty indeed.

Sweet dreams Horde, I've got clean sheets and an extra blanket calling my name.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 30, 2026 02:48 AM (ibDUx)

335 Night, Debby. May you be warm!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 02:49 AM (rdVOm)

336
Good night, Debby.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 02:49 AM (mmrXZ)

337 Hot apple cider with a shot of cinnamon schnapps... warm ya inside-out!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 02:53 AM (rdVOm)

338 When we were in Japan, XH & I had a rag-top Jeep.

After a day of four-wheeling in the cold and snow, we stopped by a little bar and were offered hot sake...

WOOOH! Take ya breath away!!! And no more *chilly* feeling, after just one. Heh.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 02:57 AM (rdVOm)

339 Jesus Built My Hotrod by Ministry
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 30, 2026 01:28 AM (XUHiS)

That is one weird track, dude.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:04 AM (aeKVE)

340 Someone or thing is working on Trump. He's changed on this.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 02:22 AM (wljQY)

Trump changed when he realized after the Putin in Alaska trip that the Russians, Ukrainians, and the EU did not want the war to end. He had a clue before then, but his final offer to Putin in Alaska sealed the deal and he determined that all three belligerents were going to continue the war no matter what the U.S. did to end it.

So Trump went another way, and decided he'd start squeezing the Russians, and EU & Chinese, from all sides.
Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba are being worked on as we speak.

I don't think anybody worked Trump.
I believe he hit a wall and then devised a way to get around it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 03:13 AM (6ydKt)

341 “ Has the judge who signed off on the Smith subpoenas been identified?”

Nobody will be indicted, especially if that individual is a democrat. If they are the trial will likely be in D.C. , which is an automatic acquittal. The democrats have literally brought back the days of the klan trials who got off regardless of their crimes.
I used to be amused about the corrupt judiciaries of other countries. I can’t believe how naive I was about our own system. Can’t wait for the next useless congressional hearing. It is entertaining and I’m sure generates clicks for all the YouTube, instagram, etc. channels that make content from the spectacle.

Posted by: Unkaren at September 30, 2026 03:19 AM (fMu/S)

342 Interesting YouTube Russian woman writer on everything Russian. Elvira Bary, society, Ukraine, history

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 03:19 AM (Ia/+0)

343 I don't know if he signed all of the Smith warrants, but Judge Boasberg has been identified as the judge who signed the 'Arctic Frost' pen register warrants that allowed Jack Smith to look at cellphone records of members of Congress and Trump's team.

Boasberg probably signed more warrants, but anybody on the D.C. circuit could've done the job(s).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 03:25 AM (6ydKt)

344
I used to be amused about the corrupt judiciaries of other countries. I can’t believe how naive I was about our own system. Can’t wait for the next useless congressional hearing. It is entertaining and I’m sure generates clicks for all the YouTube, instagram, etc. channels that make content from the spectacle.
Posted by: Unkaren

I read -- shit, I can't remember who it was, some giant who is part of the western canon -- as a college sophomore, and it had the distinct tone of someone who basically realized there was no fixing anything, just say "Fuckit" and laugh. It was on our reading list in distinction to Martin Luther, who was PISSED AS FUCK and determined to change things.

Interesting that Luther prevailed, but Mr. Fuckit had a point.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 03:32 AM (mmrXZ)

345 Might as well get up, and working a lot closer to home today

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 03:34 AM (Ia/+0)

346
But for those of you who want a sliver of green today, Border Patrol has been busting would-be invaders in San Diego! Yes, they're still being deposited on the sand by traffickers on jetskis. But in the Trump era, they're instantly being picked up by federal officials, and the $10,000 they spent to get to Freebie-land is all for naught.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 03:35 AM (mmrXZ)

347
Might as well get up, and working a lot closer to home today
Posted by: Skip

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Good life. There are many who would gladly switch places with you!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 03:36 AM (mmrXZ)

348 Just realized its last of September

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 03:48 AM (Ia/+0)

349 But for those of you who want a sliver of green today, Border Patrol has been busting would-be invaders in San Diego! Yes, they're still being deposited on the sand by traffickers on jetskis. But in the Trump era, they're instantly being picked up by federal officials, and the $10,000 they spent to get to Freebie-land is all for naught.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Excellent!
I voted for this!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 03:54 AM (rdVOm)

350 My modem is acting up tonight-- cuts out sometimes.

Computer has been behaving. 🤷‍♀️

Loving the *digital age*... not...

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:01 AM (rdVOm)

351 So Trump went another way, and decided he'd start squeezing the Russians, and EU & Chinese, from all sides.
Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba are being worked on as we speak.

I don't think anybody worked Trump.
I believe he hit a wall and then devised a way to get around it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 03:13 AM (6ydKt)

I think those are very good observations. Can’t be peace when no one involved actually wants it. The trick with Iran is to make them really, really want it - the way that Sherman made Georgia really, really want peace.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 04:11 AM (fuM78)

352 350 My modem is acting up tonight-- cuts out sometimes.

Computer has been behaving. 🤷‍♀️

Loving the *digital age*... not...

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:01 AM (rdVOm)

Resetting it might help.
There's a reboot button in your router settings in your broswer.

But you could always skip that and turn the power button off for a few minutes then turn it back on, or just unplug the router from wall and plug it in after a minute.

It'll reset and might work better after it gets it's bearings straight.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 04:26 AM (6ydKt)

353 It'll reset and might work better after it gets it's bearings straight.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I have done that twice tonight: unplug for a few minutes, then plug back in.

It was new in Feb of this year! Shouldn't be failing already, imo.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:29 AM (rdVOm)

354 I think those are very good observations. Can’t be peace when no one involved actually wants it. The trick with Iran is to make them really, really want it - the way that Sherman made Georgia really, really want peace.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 04:11 AM (fuM7

It's a waiting game at this point for the Iranians to reach some harsh realizations.

Hopefully we don't have to send in a few hundred thousand troops to burn a path from Tehran to Hormuz to get it done, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 04:30 AM (6ydKt)

355 353 It'll reset and might work better after it gets it's bearings straight.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I have done that twice tonight: unplug for a few minutes, then plug back in.

It was new in Feb of this year! Shouldn't be failing already, imo.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:29 AM (rdVOm)

Sometimes my cable company works on the lines and my cable goes out. Fortunately they send an email beforehand...unfortunately I don't check my email that often, and only have it set up on my computer...
So I end up looking for outages using my cell phone...
Reminds me of the VHS tape on how to setup up your VCR...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:30 AM (l3cgK)

356 It was new in Feb of this year! Shouldn't be failing already, imo.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:29 AM (rdVOm)

It shouldn't.

Could be a temporary thing due to damage from the storm over the weekend.

Give it a few days and see if it clears up on its own.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 04:31 AM (6ydKt)

357 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 04:32 AM (odBC9)

358 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 04:33 AM (Ia/+0)

359
Hopefully we don't have to send in a few hundred thousand troops to burn a path from Tehran to Hormuz to get it done, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 04:30 AM (6ydKt)

What General Patton said still applies; the object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:33 AM (l3cgK)

360 That might be it, jim in Kali-- it started happening right after midnight.

Cable co. doesn't have my email, since they quit hosting email a few years ago.

Whatever. Still considering Starlink and maybe get a sm@rtphone after all...

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:34 AM (rdVOm)

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