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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - December 10, 2025 [Frosty Rex]
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
This is the Winter Egg, commissioned by Emperor Nicholas II from the firm of Faberge, and presented to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, on Easter Day, 1913.
The naturalistic design is not the only outstanding thing about this egg. The approach to materials, too, is rare and peculiarly timeless. Rock crystal, from which the shell and the base are made, is not the most lavish choice - and it had been used in previous eggs to create a kind of ovoid display case. But the Winter Egg is different. Transparent quartz is deployed here, because in the right hands it can be made to emulate both hoar-encrusted glass and jagged ice. A beautiful material has been rendered priceless by the artistry invested in it, by an ineffable human touch. There are, of course, plenty of precious metals and gems in the egg, too - but always they serve the design. The trickling meltwater on the craggy base is made of platinum, while the sparkling effect of the whole ensemble is produced by the careful placement of minuscule diamonds, more than 4,000 of them in all. The surprise inside the egg is a separate work of art, and also a feat of botanical mimicry. The wood anemones are arranged informally in a woven basket that is made of platinum and set with rose-cut diamonds. Some of the windflowers - as wood anemones are also known - are fully in bloom, some still half-closed. Their pale petals are of white quartz, and at the centre of each head is a demantoid garnet set within a gold stamen. The leaves on the golden stems are carved from pale green nephrite. Source: ChristiesOne of 50 made. Only 43 survive. Sold at auction recently for USD$30.2 million. Where are you going to find another one for sale?
On November 4, 1965, CDR Clarence W. Stoddard, Jr., Executive Officer of VA-25 "Fist of the Fleet," flying A-1H Skyraider Bu. No. 135297, NE/572, from Carrier Air Wing Two aboard USS Midway, carried a special bomb to the North Vietnamese in commemoration of the 6-millionth pound of ordnance dropped. This bomb was unique because of the type... it was a toilet! Also unique to this mission is the fact that this aircraft was named "Paper Tiger II" (a temporary name used for just this one flight.) The following is an account of this event, courtesy of Clint Johnson, Captain, USNR Ret. Captain Johnson was one of the two VA-25 A-1 Skyraider pilots credited with shooting down a MiG-17 on June 20, 1965. "I was a pilot in VA-25 on the 1965 Vietnam cruise. 572 was flown by CDR C. W. "Bill" Stoddard. His wingman in 577 (which was my assigned airplane) was LCDR Robin Bacon, who had a wing station mounted movie camera (the only one remaining in the fleet from WWII.) The flight was a Dixie Station strike (South Vietnam) going to the Delta. When they arrived in the target area and CDR Stoddard was reading the ordnance list to the FAC [Forward Air Controller], he ended with "and one code name Sani-Flush." The FAC couldn't believe it and joined up to see it. It was dropped in a dive with LCDR Bacon flying tight wing position to film the drop. When it came off, it turned hole to the wind and almost struck his airplane. It made a great ready room movie. The FAC said that it whistled all the way down. The toilet was a damaged toilet, which was going to be thrown overboard. One of our plane captains rescued it and the ordnance crew made a rack, tailfins and nose fuse for it. Our checkers maintained a position to block the view of the air boss and the Captain while the aircraft was taxiing forward. Just as it was being shot off we got a 1MC message from the bridge, "What the hell was on 572's right wing?" There were a lot of jokes with air intelligence about germ warfare. I wish that we had saved the movie film. CDR Stoddard was later killed while flying 572 in Oct. 1966. He was hit by three SAMs over Vinh." Source
Robert L. May created Rudolph in 1939 as an assignment for Chicago-based Montgomery Ward. The retailer had been buying and giving away booklets for Christmas every year and it was decided that creating their own book would save money. May considered naming the reindeer Rollo or Reginald before deciding upon using the name Rudolph. May chose a reindeer because of his daughter's love of the deer at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, IL. May also said he was treated like Rudolph as a child. In its first year of publication, Montgomery Ward distributed 2.4 million copies of Rudolph's story.
While May was staring out his office window in downtown Chicago, pondering how best to craft a Christmas story about a reindeer, a thick fog from Lake Michigan blocked his view - giving him a flash of inspiration. "Suddenly I had it!" he recalled. "A nose! A bright red nose that would shine through fog like a spotlight."You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen
Comet and Cupid and and Donner and Blitzen
But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all - LEROY!!!
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Mary: "I thought it was supposed to be Immanuel."
Gabe: facepalm 🤦
Isaiah 7:14 and Matthew 1:23 v Luke 1:31 —
Posted by: mindful webworker - Embrace the power of 'and' at December 10, 2025 10:01 PM (zKAC0)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 10:01 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Joyenz at December 10, 2025 10:02 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:02 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 10, 2025 10:03 PM (MmTZZ)
Nicholas II spent too much time chasing Faberge eggs and not enough time killing commie rabble-rousers.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:03 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:03 PM (77rzZ)
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who bought it I wonder...
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:04 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:04 PM (zZu0s)
Found the Pittsburgh Moron!
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:04 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: TRex - mid-week dino at December 10, 2025 10:04 PM (IQ6Gq)
lobe of the liver.
He will also be taking a few lymph nodes to see if the cancer has progressed outside of the liver, but so far none of the imaging over the past year has shown any lymphatic involvement.
He isn’t anticipating any surprises, and thinks that I should be able to go home in 5-7 days after surgery. We plan on traveling to South Texas on the 20th to have Christmas with both of our older daughters and their families.
I have always recovered remarkably quickly from surgery, and we are hoping/expecting that this one will be no different.
All of the Christmas presents this year are “wrapped” in the festive cardboard boxes/mailing envelopes they arrived in, as the chemo made me tireder than I realized when it came time to start wrapping everything. (Continued....)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (SRRAx)
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his reign was doomed from the start me thinks...even his mommy did not think he was a good monarch...
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (g47mK)
I'll give you 500 bucks for it, right now.
Posted by: Antiques Roadshow at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (VmDLh)
Trump HAS to go after these GOPe pretenders who haven't gotten the memo:
Washington — Republican moderates in the House revolted against leadership on Wednesday as they seek to force a vote on expiring health insurance premium tax credits — an issue that could have major political ramifications for the party in next year's elections.
Facing an end-of-year deadline, Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania introduced a discharge petition to try to bring a bill to the floor that would extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies by two years. A handful of GOP moderates quickly signed on.
The move is the latest rebellion by rank-and-file Republicans to force votes on issues that leadership would rather avoid.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:02 PM (COQGW)
Disagree: when she's in one of my shirts.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: browndog kicking up dirt at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (3sXRv)
We are bringing wrapping paper and accessories with us as usual for the girls to wrap their presents (they send them to our house so that they don’t have to carry them on the plane), so they may decide to wrap everything for me when they get to town 🤣🤣🤣
I will try and have Paul update everyone when I am in recovery – he should be posting something on my Facebook page. He may stay overnight in the hospital with me, but I will probably be in ICU overnight, just because I won’t be done with surgery aftermath until early evening. He may just decide to drive home (surgery is in Dallas) and come back on Friday morning.
Anyway, prayers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
***Important Update***
My doctor called with a proposition in case he has to bail on liver resection – he can implant something called an HAI pump, which can deliver medication directly into the liver. I asked if we could do both 🤣🤣🤣
Will know more tomorrow.
Apparently my case is already considered “outside the box”. Of course…🙄🙄🙄 (Cont.)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (6p0Jv)
Spent a fair amount of time in Leningrad and of course explored the Hermitage a fair bit (it was a 20 minute walk) but don't recall seeing any of the eggs.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (U/Byj)
That photo slays me.
It's me and my wife when I try to explain THAC0 to her and insist that ascending AC is for innumerate children.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (UGyV5)
Thank you SO MUCH for all of the prayers - we really do appreciate it! 😊♥️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:09 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:09 PM (xcxpd)
I wish I could find one like it now. Wonder if eBay has one . . .?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (SRRAx)
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Make sure those hot irons are from the official AoSHQ medical stores...
We'll be praying for you!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (ESVrU)
I believe I saw several in the Kremlin museum a few years ago, but I might have been drunk.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: TRex - praying dino at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:11 PM (KDPiq)
Good luck Teresa, you're in our prayers!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:11 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 10:11 PM (OoFl2)
MiladyJo and I got to watch them, Saturday night and Sunday matinee, in their original show in NY. Astor Place Theatre in 1991 says Wiki? Guess so. We had a good time in NY. Won't be going back.
Posted by: mindful webworker - how we got there is a whole nother story at December 10, 2025 10:11 PM (zKAC0)
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 10:11 PM (OoFl2)
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he was not an idiot per se, just a man not suited for the job, surrounded by vicious and dirty intrigues, collapsing empire, wars, enemies all around and a rotting social structure; it was meant to collapse
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:12 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:12 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: PabloD at December 10, 2025 10:12 PM (GALGA)
My 95 yr old mother had another platelet crash right before Thanksgiving. They changed around the medications they're giving, and he platelets didn't dip below normal range for a week, so that's good.
She also seems to be perkier and more aware.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:12 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 10:12 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM
***
Submissions are required to be neither magnificent or fabulous.
Still no macaroni art yet...
Posted by: TRex - glimmers of hope dino at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (SRRAx)
Wishing you all the best, Teresa. You are one tough lady, and you will beat this thing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (npFr7)
Zarah Sultana MP
@zarahsultana
Five hunger strikers for Palestine have been hospitalized since beginning their hunger strike.
Lives are at immediate risk.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:03 PM (COQGW)
Nicky was done in by his own aristocracy who thought the Czar and his court were too reactionary and backward to be cool like those Europeans who understood state socialism and industrialization, like Bismarck and the Wedgewoods
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (rbvCR)
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The band?
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (Cjcf6)
Yes?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (ESVrU)
Want to fill in for me some time?
Great stuff tonight, Dino!
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (XvF0J)
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (Cjcf6)
Say hi to Bobby Sands!
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (g47mK)
Like this
https://tinyurl.com/yvykejny
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (COQGW)
Maybe hidden click shoulda been Viva Las Vegas?
https://youtu.be/B6WnnZRSKYs
Posted by: mindful webworker - (not Viva Las Vegas) at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (zKAC0)
Sometimes the Pittsburgh scanner seems waaaay too good to be true!
Love the crystal egg. Fabulous!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (kB9dk)
Does not happen at home.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (g47mK)
We did not have a church choir trip the next year.
Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Rex B at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (r6f6k)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: GO ARMY beat Navy at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: TRex - glimmers of hope dino at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
*pops up head.*
*maybe?*
Thank you, Mr Dino.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (6p0Jv)
Great stuff tonight, Dino!
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (XvF0J)
----
I doubt I could ever do the ONT justice.
The Disco, the Dino, and the Doggo are awesome, if only for the alliteration.
I'm pretty comfortable in my own corner of the AoSHQ media empire.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (ESVrU)
Lives are at immediate risk.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (Cjcf6)
I hope their hospital rooms are downwind from a barbecue joint.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (77rzZ)
https://tinyurl.com/yvykejny
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (COQGW)
Is that rasputin?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (zZu0s)
She also seems to be perkier and more aware.
Posted by: publius
Good, that's the right direction.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:16 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (wzUl9)
I have a few very old Polish glass ornaments from my mother. The glass is impossibly thin. Mrs. Meta and I began collecting ornaments anytime time we'd travel. It's fun to reminisce while decorating the tree.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 10, 2025 10:16 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025
***
Coca-Cola did, and then 7UP started their "Man From Uncola" campaign, using their concept of 7UP as "The Uncola."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 10:16 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (ESVrU)
The pimp hat helps
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: TRex - workout dino at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (IQ6Gq)
You go girl!
Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (COQGW)
Is that rasputin?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (zZu0s)
Juan Valdez
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (ESVrU)
The pimp hat helps
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (xcxpd)
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It's not as comfortable as it looks. But it is very stylish!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:18 PM (ESVrU)
hunger strikers...have been hospitalized since beginning their hunger strike.
oh, then crisis averted
because now they're in hospital, their stunt is over
because the hospital isn't going to not feed them
and the whole thing was a big fucking stupid waste that accomplished nothing
FUCKING IDIOTS
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:19 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM
***
[Respectful and grateful bow in the direction of LS]
Posted by: TRex - dino says danke! at December 10, 2025 10:19 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 10:19 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:18 PM (ESVrU)
It definitely marks you as a suave and debonair man of the world.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:19 PM (npFr7)
Wrong Jesus holiday. Couldn't hold this one back until Easter, huh?
Well, the winter part fits the season. In the Northern hemisphere, at least.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Excused at December 10, 2025 10:20 PM (zKAC0)
Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM
***
When real life is so entertaining, who needs fiction? Can't make this stuff up!
Posted by: TRex - dino on duty at December 10, 2025 10:20 PM (IQ6Gq)
and the whole thing was a big fucking stupid waste that accomplished nothing
FUCKING IDIOTS
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:19 PM (H1HTt)
Give them those Olestra potato chips. And Haribo sugar-free Gummi Bears.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:21 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (g47mK)
Unfortunately for Russia, Nicholas listened a little too much to his wife, Alexandra. And her choice of 'psychotic religious adviser' wasn't so great, either.
Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 10:21 PM (gKDq2)
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The band?
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (Cjcf6)
Yes?
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I belonged to a guitar forum that kicked me out when I didn't go along with the "guitar companies are price gougers" when COVID money suddenly showed up and drove prices upward.
Prior to getting kicked out, I was on good terms with a regular who earned my respect by acknowledging that Ritchie Blackmore had played a huge and ongoing influence on the metal guitar scene via both Deep Purple and Rainbow. Blackmore was his SECOND favorite guitarist. The guitarist from Savatage (Chris Oliva) was his favorite.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (Cjcf6)
The hardest one to read is Mirror Dance, it is downright brutal. Start with Warrior's Apprentice, A Civil Campaign or Captain Vorpatril's Alliance to get your toes wet. She is as good a prosist as David Drake, but they are like Drake was writing Restoration novels.
her first two books in the series about Cordelia are a bit rough, much better than most first books, but she was still shaking out her universe.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM
***
Thank you, Disco!
Hey, do you think JQ needs help putting up more lights for the Club ONT Christmas party on Saturday?
Posted by: TRex - drinkerating dino at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq)
"Give me my way, or I'll starve myself!" Ok.
Has anyone, anywhere, anytime said,"Oh, those poor dears. Better do what they want."?
Have a sandwich. Or don't. I don't care.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (UGyV5)
It seems counterproductive because as you are looking at a range of products you aren't going to take the time to differentiate "ugly mode/nice shirt" from just ugly shirt...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:23 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: steevy at December 10, 2025 10:24 PM (YwEeS)
As for Lewis, I know more about his life than I do his work -- and I don't know much about his life. Basically anecdotes, and that he preferred a pipe tobacco called Three Nuns.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 10:24 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:25 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 10, 2025 10:25 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 10, 2025 10:25 PM (1Yy3c)
https://youtu.be/prPyAPrOliM
If you like British humor, this series is a hoot!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 10, 2025 10:25 PM (S/Y4j)
The hardest one to read is Mirror Dance, it is downright brutal. Start with Warrior's Apprentice, A Civil Campaign or Captain Vorpatril's Alliance to get your toes wet. She is as good a prosist as David Drake, but they are like Drake was writing Restoration novels.
her first two books in the series about Cordelia are a bit rough, much better than most first books, but she was still shaking out her universe.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025
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This library had a bunch of her stuff, but none of those that I recall. I'll be out at the big suburban library on Saturday morning and can have a look.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 10:25 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:26 PM (npFr7)
Doof thanks for the pickleball info, it will be put to good use.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 10:26 PM (TfUTr)
The "E" is for excellence. Can't you just feel the sarcasm for it being placed on the toilet?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:27 PM (2GVsD)
Savatage is fucking outstanding.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 10, 2025 10:25 PM
***
I'm pleased to know that Savatage finds favor among the Horde. I wasn't sure about including it.
Posted by: TRex - deep cut dino at December 10, 2025 10:27 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: TRex - drinkerating dino at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq
I volunteer to help JQ drunkorate. No one at home enjoys the colored lights and Blow Mold santa .
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:27 PM (6p0Jv)
Best possible luck and blessings to you tomorrow, TiFW. I'll sure send up a prayer, but be advised I might not have a lot of pull up there.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:27 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 10:28 PM (0ZmKh)
TSO's first big hit, "Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24," was originally on Savatage's album "Dead Winter Dead." A concept album set during the Bosnian War.
"CE/S" was a tribute to "The Cellist of Sarajevo," Vedran Smailović, who would go out and play cello solos in the middle of the ruins of Sarajevo while it was under siege.
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:28 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 10:28 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: RickZ
I had a huge coc......I was the perfect advisor, jerk!
Posted by: Rasputin at December 10, 2025 10:29 PM (MmTZZ)
Your dealing with your cancer has been inspiring.
Posted by: mindful webworker - CST for the cyst? at December 10, 2025 10:30 PM (zKAC0)
So grab a Monogram or a Tamiya 1/48 Skyraider and go to town.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:30 PM (2GVsD)
Lives are at immediate risk"
Well... bye.
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 10:31 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: RickZ
I had a huge coc......I was the perfect advisor, jerk!
Posted by: Rasputin at December 10, 2025 10:29 PM (MmTZZ)
Not to mention, you could hardly kill the guy. He just kept ticking!
Posted by: V. Purishkevich at December 10, 2025 10:31 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:26 PM (npFr7)
Sounds like the opening of the series 'Dead Like Me', a toilet seat flying down from the Mir Space Station killing Ellen Muth, the lead character.
Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 10:31 PM (gKDq2)
Can we just sever relations with the UK unless they reform?
Andy Hughes
@AndyHughesCrime
EXCLUSIVE: A Met officer was accused of running a VIP paedophile ring, which included an MP and a judge, that sexually abused young girls in care.
A Met whistleblower claims it was “covered up” by the force.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:32 PM (Cjcf6)
The picture of the guy explaining and the expression on the girl's face does not foretell a continuing relationship.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:32 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:32 PM (eZ5tL)
You will respect my knife hand!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 10, 2025 10:33 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:33 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 10, 2025 10:34 PM (+8v88)
Posted by: Hospital admin who has enough problems at December 10, 2025 10:34 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (2GVsD)
Prayers for complete success of the surgery, record healing with no complications that leaves the docs amazed, and a great Christmas with your beloved family.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (aa8rj)
Thank you for the reminder, will definitely be praying for you. Yes, you are "outside the box", I've never heard of anyone with your diagnosis having this surgery. And I pray that it is a huge success and you are with us for many more MoMes
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:30 PM
***
for you:
https://tinyurl.com/mr2env24
Posted by: TRex - scaled down dino at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 10:21 PM (gKDq2)
I've read a little about Rasputin, and the situation was not ...monosemantic. He was very possibly maligned, as Marie Antoinette was. Much intrigue surrounded the czar, many interests pulling in all directions. Rasputin did seem to have some healing abilities. He wanted to improve the plight of peasants, the common folks. He was shrewd, was popular with some at court, and maybe provided unvarnished opinion to the royal couple.
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:36 PM (g47mK)
Guess this is as good a day as any to drag this out:
Rudolfo
The Culturally Insensitive Pseudo-Hispanic Version
(should play from 1:10 in the video)
https://bit.ly/rudy-red-nose
Posted by: mindful webworker - CST for the cyst? at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (zKAC0)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (2GVsD)
Shoulda read the text. It says it right there.
Anyway, I don't think the Hellcat had hard points like that.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (COQGW)
I think whoever first named hoar frost "hoar" vs fairy frost or beauty frost is a nitwit. I think it is a rude name for something so beautiful.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (WONhk)
I mean, have you ever been stuck in a conversation with someone who just talks and talks and never really has a theme of what they're talking about and goes down all kinds of little side trails that don't link up with the rest of what they're saying and they just like the sound of their voice and think they're so smart you'll be impressed by the never-ending cascade of words and....
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (DoBxX)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (M4qcY)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM
***
Thank you! Your wobbly table is available if you want it. Limited menu tonight though.
Posted by: TRex - host dino at December 10, 2025 10:38 PM (IQ6Gq)
Nerdrotic thought he was cleverly not disclosing that while disclosing that, so it seems there's a pretty good chance it's true.
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (UGyV5)
The intelligence service of Denmark, a NATO ‘ally’ currently under the rule of left-liberal globalists, has caused quite the stir across Europe and the globe after it labeled the United States as a potential security concern, a stunning shift for a country long conditioned to defer to NATO orthodoxy.
The new intelligence assessment claims Washington, under the Trump administration, is aggressively reasserting its national interests—something globalist governments in Europe have thus far not been prepared to deal with.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:41 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (DoBxX)
134
I mean, have you ever been stuck in a conversation with someone who just talks and talks and never really has a theme of what they're talking about and goes down all kinds of little side trails that don't link up with the rest of what they're saying and they just like the sound of their voice and think they're so smart you'll be impressed by the never-ending cascade of words and....
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (tgvbd)
Is one of the possible answers "every woman I'm related to"???
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (M4qcY)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (aa8rj)
Lives are at immediate risk.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (Cjcf6)
Banana anyone?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
Heck, seat him at our table, while not good, I myself have been spectacularly mediocre.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 10:43 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Wait until you see the fire.
Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 10:43 PM (41CYW)
It was the same Korean War bombs aboard Forrestal that killed so many. The more modern bombs have a 30 second delay you could say before cooking off. All these old bombs did not.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:43 PM (2GVsD)
FUCKING IDIOTS
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
Yeah, something tells me that they never intended to actually starve to death. The posers.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:43 PM (0Htd1)
The new intelligence assessment claims Washington, under the Trump administration, is aggressively reasserting its national interests—something globalist governments in Europe have thus far not been prepared to deal with.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (Cjcf6)
___________
Apparently the duty of the US is to shut up and do what the EU says. To which I say, piss on that noise.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:43 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2025 10:44 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10
You know, some of us have copies of the keys to the new ballroom addition. We could relocate him upon making a command decision. Only thing they can do is stamp our meal card no dessert, JQ would ignore that anyway.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 10:44 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:44 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
That would unfairly punish hospital staff.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:44 PM (0Htd1)
Oh. That explains why I don't get it.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 10:45 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:45 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:46 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus
I'm pleased to know that Savatage finds favor among the Horde. I wasn't sure about including it.
Posted by: TRex - deep cut dino
Be sure!
The counterpoint vocals that show up in some TSO songs? That was a Savatage thing, too.
First heard near the end of "Chance," in 1994:
https://youtu.be/pqWg3QRAMSA
And in the closer of the Dead Winter Dead concept album, "Not What You See":
https://youtu.be/PR17ynfz8qI
"Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24" is DWD's penultimate track.
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (rdVOm)
Dang, just looking at the weather station data, I had a quite a pressure drop today, going from 30.06" to 29.67". Wonder my ears didn't pop...
Back during that winter storm of the century in '93, which set low pressure records all over the SE and east coast on up north pretty good, it fell so fast, some did swear their ears did pop.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Full, Up To Here at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Whine to the u.n. who will send a strongly worded letter to President Trump...who will wipe his ass with it.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Taunt us a second time?
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (nhCoE)
Act 1
92 I don't understand hunger strikes.
"Give me my way, or I'll starve myself!" Ok.
Has anyone, anywhere, anytime said,"Oh, those poor dears. Better do what they want."?
Have a sandwich. Or don't. I don't care.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (UGyV5)
Act 2
144 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (DoBxX)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (UGyV5)
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Ok, so Trump should do a couple of things:
1. Symbolically "donate" the oil to The Strategic Reserve.
2. Then "donate" the tanker to the Naval Academy as a training vessel.
The left will howl, but they always howl. Those who get what's going on will love it.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (Cjcf6)
Act 1
92 I don't understand hunger strikes.
"Give me my way, or I'll starve myself!" Ok.
Has anyone, anywhere, anytime said,"Oh, those poor dears. Better do what they want."?
Have a sandwich. Or don't. I don't care.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (UGyV5)
Act 2
144 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (DoBxX)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (UGyV5)
I guess I'm indecent...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: TRex - drinkerating dino at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq
I volunteer to help JQ drunkorate. No one at home enjoys the colored lights and Blow Mold santa .
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:27 PM (6p0Jv)
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Sure! Bring your favorite decorations!
TRex, you found that special box of lights in the store room, didn't you?
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Orangeman, Lord of the Oceans at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (COQGW)
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Ok, so Trump should do a couple of things:
1. Symbolically "donate" the oil to The Strategic Reserve.
2. Then "donate" the tanker to the Naval Academy as a training vessel.
The left will howl, but they always howl. Those who get what's going on will love it.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (Cjcf6)
Use it to transport illegal aliens back home?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 10:49 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: KT at December 10, 2025 10:49 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:49 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: KT at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Piper
*******
Girlfriend! Yes, please. Seriously, what are they thinking? I dropped off the Santa suit at the dry cleaners, and now they want it back. I left the receipt near the cash register and hope someone picks it up before Saturday at noon, when they close. I'd do it, but I'm busy with cookie dough, icing and sprinkles for dozens of cookies...I'm beginning to feel like you on Sunday night!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (IQ6Gq)
Use it to transport illegal aliens back home?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (ynpvh)
________
Operation Magic Carpet 2!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (tgvbd)
I'd gladly assist, with duct tape and clothespins!
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: No Soup For you !! at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (2WIwB)
A Mel Tucker / Sharonne Moore podcast / radio show is more than what you want.
It's what America needs.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (Y8DZL)
Oh. That explains why I don't get it.
Posted by: Oddbob
It might be a Gen X thing. We were told to finish our meals and not waste food because there were starving children in Africa.
So some political such-and-such intentionally not eating his food has to be evil, right? Think of the children!
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (nhCoE)
I was reading that Trump 1.0 wanted to seize Venezuelan tankers, but the RINOs and cucks balked. Trump 2.0 learned his lesson about putting the right people in.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (w6EFb)
Sure. There was this lady who said "won't somebody help that poor man? "
Might have been in a movie....
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM
***
Yes! I plugged them in and they looked marvelous! Then I stepped on one of the bulbs and the whole string went out. Damn vintage light strings. Sorry about that. There may be others in the storeroom, but I didn't look out of fear of doing more damage.
Posted by: TRex - clumsy dino at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (IQ6Gq)
Well, that does it. I'm boycotting cheese Danish.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:52 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (IQ6Gq)
I am making snow globe cookies tomorrow. 😂. Stay tuned on it being amazingly cute or amazingly not.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (Wmg4n)
Judging from the seating and his shirt, they're at a baseball game and he's mansplaining the infield fly rule.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)
And butter cookies are right out!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (COQGW)
https://youtu.be/OqvHWUZZdP0
I actually like the entire Peer Gynt suite.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:46 PM (6p0Jv)
Yep. Bobby Sands and his diet.
Sinn Fein (Shin Fain). Proper commie rat bastards they are.
Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: RickZ
Heh. I thought the same. We binge-watched the whole series earlier this year. Enjoyed it. Decided not to watch the follow-up movie to avoid disappointment.
Posted by: mindful webworker - reap what you sew at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (zKAC0)
Posted by: nerdygirl
And sugar cookies in those metal cans.
Posted by: Danegeld at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
Hunger strikes work on decent people? Uh, oh.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (0Htd1)
Well, that does it. I'm boycotting cheese Danish.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)
That's what you get for sticking fingers in dykes...
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Piper
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Here's the "outdoor" space. Thought I posted it the other night?
https://tinyurl.com/4y2v6rzy
****Don't worry, Doof! Pic was taken before I added COLORED LIGHTS and put up the plexiglass panels for wind-block****
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (tcsrY)
Posted by: Piper
**********
Excellent, have none of those. Let me get thru tomorrow and I'll list what I'll be bringing.
I think we need to be considered for the dental plan...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
You think "decent people" would resort to this "rectal feeding"?!
Just glad that lobster wasn't on the menu...
- GITMO Prisoner No 153
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (/lPRQ)
Yours truly,
The United States of America.
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (g47mK)
155 So what is Venezuela going to do now that we have their oil tanker?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:44 PM (2GVsD)
Hey Anna, I posted this in the previous thread, but nobody in media has noticed or understood what just happened - most brilliant move by Trump and Hegseth yet. 3 primary effects:
1) this tanker was headed for Cuba, which has an antiquated, failing oil powered system for all of their power production. The loss of this tanker might cause the grid to go down for the entire island (again)
2) Maduro desperately needed the money from this shipment for his associates and other expenses, since the loss of the drug boats is hurting him and his partners badly.
3) this ship was part of the Russian "shadow fleet" so it was a nice little way to kick Putin in the teeth as well.
That's a lot of billiard balls to get moving with one little shot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (M4qcY)
I am making snow globe cookies tomorrow.
Posted by: Piper
You shake the cookies and "snow" flies?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (H1HTt)
The US have more QF-16 drones than some nations who operate the F-16 with pilots.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (2GVsD)
Oh. That explains why I don't get it.
Posted by: Oddbob
It might be a Gen X thing. We were told to finish our meals and not waste food because there were starving children in Africa.
So some political such-and-such intentionally not eating his food has to be evil, right? Think of the children!
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (nhCoE)
I was told about the starving children in China...Maybe that was pre-1980...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh)
Just glad that lobster wasn't on the menu...
Looking forward to Pineapple Night!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (2GVsD)
Sinn Fein (Shin Fain). Proper commie rat bastards they are.
Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (gKDq2)
That's the guy! I remember the helpful media counting down the days he was hungry. Oh noes.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
Heh!
Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (TfUTr)
Just reading that while Cuba has publicly condemned the imperial US military build up, they are privately talking about "what the region will look like without Maduro".
They've already got the message.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:58 PM (2GVsD)
Have him chilling in a retirement home when he finds out there is a plot by a new version of Spectre to kill off the elderly via a fake vaccine and he has to stop Faucifinger and Bidenfeld from killing off a bunch of people...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:58 PM (sKqQm)
I am making snow globe cookies tomorrow.
Posted by: Piper
You shake the cookies and "snow" flies?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (H1HTt)
In theory and on paper, yes.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 10:58 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (L8VMA)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:58 PM (2GVsD)
As far as I know, but Diaz-Canel Singao is probably still in charge
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (rbvCR)
Have him chilling in a retirement home when he finds out there is a plot by a new version of Spectre to kill off the elderly via a fake vaccine and he has to stop Faucifinger and Bidenfeld from killing off a bunch of people...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:58 PM (sKqQm)
If only Brian Dennehy was still alive...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh)
I got told the 'the starving children in Africa' sob story in the 1960s.
Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 11:00 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
But morons are allowed to not wear pants, so it's okay.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:00 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (IQ6Gq)
of course
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (sKqQm)
Is that a parrot on your shoulder, Captain?
-reporter at press conference
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (2GVsD)
He has been stealing stockings and killing them all day. He is still traumatized currently from my sneeze that resulted in a scared cat accidentally landing on him.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (Wmg4n)
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That's okay. Those were old but not especially valuable.
No, there should be a few strings of these in there, I was saving them for you!:
https://tinyurl.com/2hfrh4t6
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (rdVOm)
144 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (DoBxX)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (UGyV5)
I guess I'm indecent...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (ynpvh)
Did she mean easily deceived people? Cause decent people would tell that brat to stop emotionally blackmailing others.
Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (2GVsD
And he got a pup cup from Starbucks today. They thought he was adorable.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
But morons are allowed to not wear pants, so it's okay.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:00 PM (0Htd1)
Yeah, I was sitting there in the recliner, watching TV without my pants...the trouble came in when they kicked me out of the store.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (Exvay)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh)
I got told the 'the starving children in Africa' sob story in the 1960s.
Posted by: RickZ
Ok mom, feel free to mail them my portion of whatever this lower middle class glop is.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (TfUTr)
Rev was bad shape, last I heard.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (H1HTt)
Seems like I saw grammie a couple weeks ago.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (bss/y)
Yours truly,
The United States of America.
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Love it. Of course we could just announce that we were no longer committed to the defense of nations who didn't respect the very rights our nation was founded on.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (Cjcf6)
Is there any reason why I shouldn't believe Maduro (and Chavez before him) are propped up by the CIA?
Am I being too cynical & paranoid?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Don't panic, Grateful! See my @199
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (rdVOm)
How nice. It must be like walking through scary dark alley and realizing that David Hogg is right there at your side.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (COQGW)
they have to say that, even muslim baristas
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (L8VMA)
Were arrestor claws used?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025
No, I didn’t realize just sneezing would cause that chain of events. No claws, but very nasty language like somehow it was Saijo’s fault.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:04 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (COQGW)
And he brought his backstabbin' knife.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:04 PM (bss/y)
Am I being too cynical & paranoid?
everything is an op these days, trust nobody unconditionally
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (L8VMA)
And sugar cookies in those metal cans.
Posted by: Danegeld at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (oftw2)
I thought those all had sewing stuff in them - ours NEVER had cookies!
Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (wLjpr)
they have to say that, even muslim baristas
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (L8VMA)
I don’t think we have those in Alabama and I will have you know he is disgustingly cute. 😂
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (Wmg4n)
"No matter how cynical I get, I can never keep up."
-- Lily Tomlin
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh)
I got told the 'the starving children in Africa' sob story in the 1960s.
Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 11:00 PM (gKDq2)
It was the starving children of Cambodia in the early 70s. I remember the TV commercials
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM
***
Outstanding! They will add a touch of class to the place. I'm sure you'll find a good place for them!! Thank you!
Posted by: TRex - light up my life dino at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Don't panic, Grateful! See my @199
Posted by: JQ
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Thank goodness someone is taking this seriously...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Anna Puma
The Forrestal? I was there...
- Some old dude who happened to be in our open office when a few of us were joking on John "My Turn" McCain.
Old dude answered they question, "Didn't he also almost sink an aircraft carrier?"
Old Dude told us hiw his flight just got back from a mission when shit hit the fan...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (/lPRQ)
business is slow for sbux
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (L8VMA)
Posted by: Anna Puma
As much as you can be at his age and situation.
If Trump topples the Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships there is no mountain high enough to make a marble bust of him out of.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (Y8DZL)
And sugar cookies in those metal cans.
Posted by: Danegeld at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (oftw2)
I thought those all had sewing stuff in them - ours NEVER had cookies!
Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (wLjpr)
Hah! Yeah, I know. Reminds me when I was in Mexico visiting my maternal grandmother and great-grandmother...my Mom said when we heard the music (the popsicle guy, it turned out), she told us NOT to go outside as it was the tax man...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (ynpvh)
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:07 PM (XvF0J)
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Someone earlier today pointed out that their oil is rougher than ours and requires a higher level of refining.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:07 PM (Cjcf6)
His grandfather, Alexander II, was a reformer who liberated the serfs, was still assassinated by radicals despite his liberalism.
So Nicholas’ father, Alexander III, was quite the reactionary after his father was killed and he proceeded to crack down hard on the radicals and revolutionaries for decades.
By the time Nicholas was crowned the die was cast for revolution. WWI pretty much ended any chances things would turn out differently.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 11:07 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:07 PM (L8VMA)
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (0Htd1)
I'm so happy for her about that.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:07 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (ynpvh)
The tax man had a jingle???? In Jordan the music van was for propane tanks!
Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Crusader
yeah its garbage, we and the chinese have the ability to refine such garbage not sure anybody else does
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (L8VMA)
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.
Posted by: nerdygirl
And she's already been traumatized by Trump calling her fat. I mean, geez, how much should the chunky cow have to endure.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (0Htd1)
Yeah. For some reason it's full of sulphur.
Go figure.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (ynpvh)
The tax man had a jingle???? In Jordan the music van was for propane tanks!
Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (wLjpr)
He didn't; she didn't want us clamoring for mexican popsicles...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (2GVsD)
Thank you SO MUCH for all of the prayers - we really do appreciate it! 😊♥️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (SRRAx)
Teresa - I'm praying for you (and Paul) now.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Doof
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Sounds good...just as long as someone picks up the Santa suit from the dry cleaners before Saturday at noon. The dry cleaners on Main St, not the one on State St.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (IQ6Gq)
His legs got blown off by an anarchist's bomb.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (2GVsD)
Oh, THAT'S what Hugo meant when he mentioned the smell of Sulphur while at the podium at the UN...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (ynpvh)
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.
Posted by: nerdygirl
And she's already been traumatized by Trump calling her fat. I mean, geez, how much should the chunky cow have to endure.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (0Htd1)
Watch out or she'll go whaling on you...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (2GVsD)
What would you be having today, shish kabob or en Fuego California burrito? Chef's surprise? OK.
- GITMO Guard
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (/lPRQ)
Am I being too cynical & paranoid?
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I believe the government is untrustworthy. I help people I know. And not all of them. Not everyone is helpable.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 11:11 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:11 PM (XvF0J)
why do you need some simulator, easier to go indoors
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:11 PM (L8VMA)
He didn't; she didn't want us clamoring for mexican popsicles...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (ynpvh)
Hmmm...just realized that Mom also told us she never lied...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:11 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma
As much as you can be at his age and situation.
If Trump topples the Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships there is no mountain high enough to make a marble bust of him out of.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (Y8DZL)
Blast out TR's face and replace it with Trump on Rushmore.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 11:12 PM (0CU3H)
He didn't; she didn't want us clamoring for mexican popsicles...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (ynpvh)
Dang, your mom was tough! My kids were little when we were in Jordan and asked for money for popsicles when they heard the music. The disappointment that followed when the driver started to hand them a tank of gas...
Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:12 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (2GVsD)
Hidden musical themes are dumb
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11
You know what else is dumb? Pamela Anderson’s hair and beans.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (snZF9)
He didn't; she didn't want us clamoring for mexican popsicles...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (ynpvh)
Dang, your mom was tough! My kids were little when we were in Jordan and asked for money for popsicles when they heard the music. The disappointment that followed when the driver started to hand them a tank of gas...
Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:12 PM (wLjpr)
LOL! The looks on their faces must've been priceless!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (Y8DZL)
______________________
I'm starting to wonder whether Trump dangled a carrot in front of Marco Rubio. "Look. If you show me complete allegiance, and do what I say rather than whomever was giving you your marching orders before, I'll take a stab at Cuba. Still have relatives down there, don't you?"
Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (dIske)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (IQ6Gq)
Have we figured out who's wearing said suit?
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (XvF0J)
Hidden musical themes are dumb
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11
You know what else is dumb? Pamela Anderson’s hair and beans.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)
She has beans?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (ynpvh)
Hell, let's name Olympus Mons on Mars after him, the biggest mountain in the whole damned solar system...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (w6EFb)
Hidden musical themes are dumb
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:11 PM (XvF0J)
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"Hey!" - Sir Edward Elgar
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (tgvbd)
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.
Posted by: nerdygirl
FINGERS CANNOT MELT PUSSY!
Posted by: rosie o'doughnuts at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (AX0w3)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (2GVsD)
Heh. I remember during the 90s, one of the areas that Clinton made a nature preserve and hence not allowed to be exploited by mining, had a vast field of coal with an ultra LOW sulfur content... which was opposed to the Chinese coal which had a high sulfur content.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (L8VMA)
The Cubans probably use it for bunker fuel to power the power stations.
It is also useful for making diesel, which sweet light crude doesn't do so well.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (rbvCR)
Are we at war with any of the participants in this?
Kinda puts the whole US Navy Freedom of the Seas mission in perspective.
We are now using Military power to blatantly interfere in the economies of countries we are not at War with... How can we complain about Iran grabbing oil Tankers, when we are doing the exact same thing?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (mP0Kj)
Back when Nixon first went to China, the Doonesbury character Duke (I think it was, based on Hunter S. Thompson) went with him. They were at a state dinner, and Duke did a great double-take when a mother sitting near him said to her child, "Eat. There are starving children in Appalachia."
Once upon a time, Doonesbury was still funny.
Posted by: mindful webworker - At last as funny as first-season SNL at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (zKAC0)
Is there any reason why I shouldn't believe Maduro (and Chavez before him) are propped up by the CIA?
Am I being too cynical & paranoid?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (H1HTt)
There were rumors (just rumors, no public evidence or public accusations) that the General in charge of the Southern Command, who was forced into early retirement by Hegseth just prior to this all starting, had way too many personal contacts and personal relationships with those running both Venezuela and Columbia.
And on a completely unrelated note, the CFO of the DEA under Obama was just arrested and charged with setting up a multimillion dollar money laundering scheme for the Cartels.
(OH but no he never took money from the cartels while he was part of the DEA's top level, nah why would you think that?)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (M4qcY)
It is also useful for making diesel, which sweet light crude doesn't do so well.
Posted by: Kin
asphalt
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (L8VMA)
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.
Posted by: nerdygirl
FINGERS CANNOT MELT PUSSY!
Posted by: rosie o'doughnuts at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (AX0w3)
The Paolo has his ways...
Posted by: The Paolo at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)
Beans?
Boobs autocucumber?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)
Haha! Nice callback
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (XvF0J)
Posted by: Piper
I've made stained glass cookies a time or two. They came out okay, kind of a pain to make. Snow globe cookies sound...complicated.
Posted by: JuJuBee, fact checker hammered by events at December 10, 2025 11:16 PM (B1U/i)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:16 PM (2GVsD)
Hell, let's name Olympus Mons on Mars after him, the biggest mountain in the whole damned solar system...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (w6EFb)
I dunno. Whenever I hear about Olympus Mons, Mons Pubis pops in my head...
Posted by: The Paolo at December 10, 2025 11:16 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (Y8DZL)
Carve his face on the moon. Leftists will be forced to see it until the end of the solar system.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 11:16 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:17 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 11:17 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)
Beans?
Boobs autocucumber?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10
Apparently I caused a ruckus last night and then dipped on the ONT, leaving the mess in my wake to Doof. Some people are just touchy about their fiber, I guess!
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:17 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (2GVsD)
I am making snow globe cookies tomorrow. 😂. Stay tuned on it being amazingly cute or amazingly not.
Posted by: Piper
________
If not, you have a mobile garbage disposal to take them off your hands.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (tgvbd)
https://youtu.be/qLEdrGFQ9nM
Guess, hahahahaha!
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:19 PM (L8VMA)
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)
Beans?
Boobs autocucumber?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (bss/y)
If she was Mexican, that WOULD be an insult. Never insult a Mexican woman's beans...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:19 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (dIske)
Marco has always had it in for Castroagonia, I think that was why he was a neocon to begin with. It is part and parcel to being a Cuban in Florida. The end of Communist Cuba was probably his ask.
Rubio is going to give a speech in the Plaza de la Revolucion to announce the new, free Cuba if he has anything to say about it,
It was pointed out to me that Rubio is the most powerful SoS since Kissinger. That is not by accident on anyone's part
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:19 PM (rbvCR)
I've made stained glass cookies a time or two. They came out okay, kind of a pain to make. Snow globe cookies sound...complicated.
Posted by: JuJuBee, fact checker hammered
I know. I don’t know why I get myself into these things.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:20 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Romeo13
They made the rules. And yes, they're at war with us.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:20 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:21 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:21 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 10, 2025 11:21 PM (3ZUWJ)
Back in 2020, the IIRG was going to kidnap an American citizen who was born in Iran, stuff her on a boat, take her to Venezuela, and then fly her to Tehran to make her vanish.
Luckily the FBI was not asleep this time or working for the other side. They stopped the plot by relocating the woman.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)
Beans?
Boobs autocucumber?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Thank you for that. I was trying to figure out what "beans" was a euphemism for.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (L8VMA)
I saw a vid that supposedly of the outflow of a Cuban oil well. It was so thick that the workers standing at the end of the pipe were cutting it with machetes as it came out like it was some unending can of jellied cranberry sauce.
Funny, but I had no way of telling what it actually was.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (mP0Kj)
What we are doing right now is telling the entire world that WE rule the seas now, and they do not. Sure Iran, go ahead and FA ; your FO is coming.
Both Cuba and Venezuela are tottering on the edge of collapse. I think it was Nietzche who said that anything ready to fall deserves to be pushed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (4IClK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:24 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: JB1000 at December 10, 2025 11:24 PM (tLjC6)
Funny, but I had no way of telling what it actually was.
Posted by: Kin
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:24 PM (L8VMA)
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Its pretty easy once you embrace that announced wars don't come even close to the number of enemies that are already actively working against you.
And I could complain about Iran putting plastics into a regular garbage can--I look forward to the day its referred to again as "Persia".
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:24 PM (Cjcf6)
Both Cuba and Venezuela are tottering on the edge of collapse. I think it was Nietzche who said that anything ready to fall deserves to be pushed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (4IClK)
Nietzche was a cat?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:25 PM (ynpvh)
House dogs given a last turnout, kennel dogs put up and fed, evening prayers said. Good night, Hordians.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 11:25 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Romeo13
They made the rules. And yes, they're at war with us.
Posted by: Auspex
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Yes. Be done with formalities and take them over. Or, in cases like Ukraine, disassociate from them.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:26 PM (CnLH3)
he's great in theory, otherwise not so much
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:26 PM (L8VMA)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:27 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:28 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:28 PM (CnLH3)
Posted by: KungPow at December 10, 2025 11:29 PM (Rw2Dy)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:29 PM (ynpvh)
Funny, but I had no way of telling what it actually was.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (rbvCR)
That sounds like some of the Venezuelan fields, too. People who say "Venezuela has more oil than the Saudis" don't understand that a lot of it is thick hard to deal with glop like that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:30 PM (4IClK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
God Bless. May your surgery go well
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 11:31 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Doof
**************
Excellent question, but way above my pay grade. Night all....
Posted by: The Grateful at December 10, 2025 11:31 PM (IQ6Gq)
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His legs got blown off by an anarchist's bomb.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (COQGW)
Lenin's brother was hanged in the aftermath of that assassination. Some say it helped radicalize ol' Vlad. That's not something easily dismissed.
Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 11:32 PM (gKDq2)
I absolutely love polynike's painting on top. Energy, color, and creativity. *chef's kiss*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 11:32 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: nerdygirl
It was a euphemism for beans, believe it or not. Previous ONT wanderings included the health benefits of beans, after the Content included record-breaking farts.
And also Pamela Anderson.
Though it should have been George Wendt.
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 11:32 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:26 PM (L8VMA)
"The difference between theory and practice; well in theory there isn't any. But in practice, there is."
- Yogi Berra
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:34 PM (4IClK)
JQ, I will grab the Santa suit at the dry cleaners, no worries. How did things go with your BIL?
Seems like everybody is making cookies, I'll bring a pot of meatballs and a big tray of chicken wings on Saturday.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 11:35 PM (0nHVk)
She calls it the hub of all sorts of anti-US subversion, foreign (China being a big one) and domestic (they support Antifa, and Soros shit).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 11:36 PM (w6EFb)
Hitting my knees for ya.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 11:37 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (Y8DZL)
Blast out TR's face and replace it with Trump on Rushmore.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
Crazy Horse would work.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2025 11:39 PM (/lPRQ)
You know what's not "medical"? "Assisting" people commit suicide. Every damned individual who lifted a finger to make this happen deserves a lot more than just being called out for it.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:39 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: mindful webworker - At last as funny as first-season SNL at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (zKAC0)
I remember one from the Sunday funny pages in the 1990s.
It had the college prof guy talking to a class about what would be required.
He said 10 years ago, it was 7 books and two papers. 5 years ago it was 4 books and a paper. This year is 1 book.
A kid in the back stood up and said, 'I have to read a book? I'm outta here.'
Yep, it could still be funny.
Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 11:39 PM (gKDq2)
JQ, I will grab the Santa suit at the dry cleaners, no worries. How did things go with your BIL?
Seems like everybody is making cookies, I'll bring a pot of meatballs and a big tray of chicken wings on Saturday.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Thanks, DDS! You're a life-saver!
Hmm. Can never go wrong with a crockpot of Lil Smokies in BBQ sauce. I'll bring that.
*Chivas rocks for Debby*
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:41 PM (rdVOm)
Trump, "Hey Elon can you build a giant solar pumped laser in space?"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (2GVsD)"
I kinda had that idea first you bastards!
Posted by: Chainface Chipendale at December 10, 2025 11:42 PM (ZfTMG)
As Trump continues to manufacture a cover story for armed conflict with Venezuela, I'm calling on Congress to block him from using taxpayer dollars to launch a regime change war.
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Before the communists took over Venezuela was a jewel.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:43 PM (CnLH3)
Posted by: Chairface Chipendale at December 10, 2025 11:43 PM (ZfTMG)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:45 PM (rdVOm)
See you later. In time.
https://youtu.be/52Imasc8Zw8
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - all in due time, my dear, all in due time at December 10, 2025 11:45 PM (zKAC0)
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I earnestly believe God Himself has a sense of humor. I also believe, with no basis, that God sometimes despite being God is mildly surprised with what we humans come up with. I think God Himself's first reaction to Lil Smokies in BBQ sauce was "Ok...I didn't see that one coming...its way better than I imagined."
Forgive me for my heresy.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:46 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:46 PM (rdVOm)
https://tinyurl.com/ym2xndwu
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:48 PM (CnLH3)
Posted by: Crusader
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I think you made a fair point... Uh-oh...
(not Catholic, but maybe I should *confess* anyway?)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:48 PM (rdVOm)
As Trump continues to manufacture a cover story for armed conflict with Venezuela, I'm calling on Congress to block him from using taxpayer dollars to launch a regime change war.
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Cover story? So many anti-American politicians in Congress.
And this mf'er can tweet that with a straight face wihile voting to send Ukraine billions more on top of the 140 billion we've already given. Ukraine who completed a coup with our help.
Talk about cover stories.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:50 PM (KDPiq)
You know what's not "medical"? "Assisting" people commit suicide. Every damned individual who lifted a finger to make this happen deserves a lot more than just being called out for it.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:39 PM (Cjcf6)
____________________
Well now...that explains something I was curious about. NJ recently had an aggressive effort to push through legislation that would change the state from an "Opt In" organ donation to "Opt-Out" organ donation.
What this means is currently you have to sign up to donate organs. But, in changing to Opt-Out, you would be required to remove yourself from default donation.
Why is this important? Well, consider that Canada has the MAID program for assisted suicide. Canada now leads the world in organ donations resulting from Euthanasia. There is mucho dinero to be made on organ donation from a bunch of different parties. Opt Out increases the "stock"...so once again...follow the money, and you have your ghoul.
Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 11:51 PM (dIske)
Reddit field experiment examines what distinguishes lurkers from power users
https://tinyurl.com/5ddvmet7
Online discussions are often dominated by a small group of active users, while the majority remain silent. This imbalance can distort perceptions of public opinion and fuel polarization. The question is to understand why a small minority are highly active while the majority remain silent—and what that means for perceptions of public opinion.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:52 PM (rbvCR)
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal . 6h
"CHINA'S CARIBBEAN OIL REFINERY IS THE REAL REASON TRUMP IS CIRCLING VENEZUELA WITH CARRIER GROUPS"
China built a massive refinery in the Caribbean to process Venezuela's ultra-heavy crude after U.S. sanctions.
Now Beijing refines it on-site, skips the Atlantic crossing, and pockets the profit.
Ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou just dropped the quiet part out loud on stream:
"If you want to know when America is serious about attacking a country, always watch for naval movements.
A month ago, I said 'no invasion of Venezuela' because we hadn't sent one. Then the USS Gerald R. Ford and 11 warships showed up.
Now we're serious
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:53 PM (CnLH3)
I'm praying it goes well, Teresa.
Posted by: GWB at December 10, 2025 11:53 PM (01WzZ)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:54 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 11:35 PM (0nHVk)
DDS -- Hello!!
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:55 PM (Wc8sE)
Trump, "Hey Elon can you build a giant solar pumped laser in space?"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (2GVsD)"
I kinda had that idea first you bastards!
Posted by: Chainface Chipendale at December 10, 2025 11:42 PM (ZfTMG)
Give me a 'C'!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:56 PM (xcxpd)
Now we're serious.
We're not at war with Venezuela. We don't buy their oil anymore. The drugs transiting Venezuela are Colombian/Ecuadorian headed to Europe, not America.The Indians and the Chinese built new refineries to handle Venezuelan oil, and they ship the oil there.
The Chinese are swimming in money.
They decided instead of shipping the Venezuelan oil all the way to China, they'll just build the refinery in the Caribbean, refine it right there, and ship it out from the Caribbean.
And the United States doesn't like that."
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:57 PM (CnLH3)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:00 AM (CnLH3)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:52 PM (rbvCR)
This isn't difficult: The small minority are highly active because we're mouthy. It's not bloody rocket science.
Posted by: RickZ at December 11, 2025 12:00 AM (gKDq2)
Back in 2020, the IIRG was going to kidnap an American citizen who was born in Iran, stuff her on a boat, take her to Venezuela, and then fly her to Tehran to make her vanish.
Luckily the FBI was not asleep this time or working for the other side. They stopped the plot by relocating the woman.
Posted by: Anna Puma
Iran has Magic Dirt too.
I did not know that.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 11, 2025 12:01 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 12:04 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 12:06 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 12:07 AM (0nHVk)
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The Regarding Venezuela, US naval deployments aren't about regime change—they're enforcing hemispheric sovereignty under the Monroe Doctrine 2.0.
China's refinery gambit in the Caribbean is economic warfare, exploiting Venezuela's collapsed state to bypass sanctions and control energy flows. Every barrel processed there funds Beijing's aggression and cartel pipelines poisoning our streets.
Strategic deterrence isn't optional; it's essential to prevent hostile powers from turning our backyard into a launchpad for chaos. Weakness invites predation—strength secures peace.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:08 AM (CnLH3)
I think Trump (and Rubio -- he's a big player in this, too) want to do a regime change without firing a shot.
Venezuela is a hub for all sorts of anti-US subversion by our enemies, Chicoms, Iran, globohomo, etc. This is Trump asserting the Monroe Doctrine, call it the Donroe Doctrine. Stay out of our hemisphere, you fuckers.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 12:10 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Paco at December 11, 2025 12:10 AM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Paco at December 11, 2025 12:11 AM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Paco at December 11, 2025 12:12 AM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 12:07 AM (0nHVk)
I'd be honored. Bourbon. Neat. Highest proof they have here tonight!
Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 12:12 AM (Wc8sE)
Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 12:15 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:16 AM (CnLH3)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 11, 2025 12:17 AM (3ZUWJ)
John Candy had a bit on an old episode of SCTV where he was going to eat continuously until there was peace in the Middle East.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 12:19 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 12:15 AM (rdVOm)
*nods and smiles*
Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 12:19 AM (Wc8sE)
Trump, "Hey Elon can you build a giant solar pumped laser in space?"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (2GVsD)"
I kinda had that idea first you bastards!
Posted by: Chairface Chipendale at December 10, 2025 11:42 PM (ZfTMG)
Give me a 'C'!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:56 PM (xcxpd)
Makes me proud that my then 12 year old son wanted to be Chairface for Halloween last year even though no one at school would get it. Unfortunately, met by my wife's Tick strenghed eye-roll and 'No'...
Posted by: tRusty Hudson at December 11, 2025 12:20 AM (ZfTMG)
They've already got the message.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (w6EFb)
I think Trump could pull Cuba out of Communism. Practice some heavy-duty carrot and stick diplomacy with Cuba's current leaders. Offer them safe haven in the USA if they abandon Communism, and hold "free" elections to put a Trump-approved figure in control. Then back the new guy to the hilt with money and supplies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:26 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 11, 2025 12:29 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 12:30 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (2GVsD)
More effort to refine it, but the pure sulfur byproduct is an important industrial feedstock, and has market value. There used to be giant blocks of sulfur next to gas plants in Alberta that processed "sour" gas into sweet gas. Gone now; the sulfur was all sold.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:32 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 12:34 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: No Soup For you !! at December 11, 2025 12:34 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 12:34 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: tRusty Hudson at December 11, 2025 12:35 AM (ZfTMG)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 11, 2025 12:35 AM (KDPiq)
Doof, the honor is mine, and thanks for the h/t the other day, made me smile.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 12:36 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 12:38 AM (snZF9)
We have a city in SW Louisiana named Sulphur . Yes sulphur was once mined there.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 11, 2025 12:39 AM (KDPiq)
Funny, but I had no way of telling what it actually was.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (rbvCR)
I was on a job with a Canadian drilling engineer who worked some wells in Cuba, and he told me about witnessing that. Some of the Cuban wells tap reservoirs in porous volcanic rock that were fed from hydrocarbon-rich shales out in the basin.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:39 AM (npFr7)
Exxon is the only US refinery that cracks Venezuelan tar.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:42 AM (CnLH3)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:30 PM (4IClK)
The oil in the Athabaska "tar" sands is like that too. Took a huge capital investment to build the mines, and separating plants, and the upgrader that hydrogenates the heavy crude, and makes a lighter sweet crude with it, but the resource is so huge, it was worth the effort.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:43 AM (npFr7)
I want a Joe Diffie mullet for Christmas. I'll leave some cookies and moonshine out for you and Leroy.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 12:48 AM (1zOXE)
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Smartmatic was founded in 2000 by three engineers: Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola, and Roger Piñate, who are Venezuelan. However, Smartmatic is now a UK-based company
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:54 AM (CnLH3)
Trump wants all the Smartmatic and Dominion voting machine corruption exposed before the 2026 election so the Dems can't cheat as much anymore!
Venezuela was the center of that as the Smartmatic machines were set up in order for Maduro to steal his elections( which he did in the last election, look it up) and then they used them in the USA
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:54 AM (CnLH3)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 12:48 AM (1zOXE)
I'm sure some here would just settle for hair for Christmas, no special cut needed.
Posted by: RickZ at December 11, 2025 12:55 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 11:00 PM (gKDq2)
It became true after Sally Struthers showed up there...
Posted by: As not seen on TV at December 11, 2025 01:06 AM (l5srl)
This is the real focus of us being in Venezuela. They helped OVERTHROW OUR GOVT AND 71 OTHERS
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https://tinyurl.com/yk3hae74
youtube.com/watch?v=PJpjrgPrdHY
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 01:07 AM (CnLH3)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 01:11 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 01:14 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Was there a big ferris wheel thingy on the west side of the strip at any time? I don't remember that but there have been long periods, like 10+ years, where I didn't hit LV. Today, there's the High Roller, but that's right behind Paris.
Posted by: buddhaha at December 11, 2025 01:42 AM (49MXB)
Posted by: Maj. Snoozefest at December 11, 2025 01:52 AM (O1WpD)
Anybody a fan of Centerville Pies ?
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic
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I'm not sure. Maybe I want to be?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 11, 2025 02:05 AM (1N/bM)
ONT has us snoring
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Posted by: Maj. Snoozefest at December 11, 2025 01:52 AM (O1WpD)
yup, paint is dry.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 02:28 AM (snZF9)
Exciting Innovations in Photography Cafe
Grand Central Station, 1929
The caption noted that this shot is no longer possible,
as tall buildings outside the station block the sun
But what does it mean? Cutting edge baby photography. Yesterday I posted a too-good-to-be-true video I was sure was AI. Today, I present one that's even more obviously fake as f***. I don't even need your help in finding the fakery and AI slop here.
High speed photographs of goofy dogs catching treats in dey moufs. Firefighting helicopter drops water with laser accuracy. Osprey catches a barracuda.
Cute little lizard hides in water, using his own scuba tank. Four day old giraffe is a shortie. An "ice shove." Big horn sheep butt heads. Humpback mom and calf.
Pupper living his best life..🐶🐾⛲😍 pic.twitter.com/6Q81bXkpQQ
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 8, 2025
Felix Hernandez is a photographer, digital artist, and miniature creator who builds detailed scale models and dioramas by hand, then blends them with photography and digital compositing to craft immersive, surreal scenes.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 22, 2025
[📹hernandez_dreamphography]pic.twitter.com/dkMkscb3v7
Tilt-shift photography of life size vehicles
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) November 17, 2025
pic.twitter.com/lvHPzaAO50
1981 Retro Commercial:
— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) June 28, 2025
— Kmart’s Double Take Photography pic.twitter.com/VtEFkGOsuJ
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 07:22 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 10, 2025 07:25 PM (0sNs1)
The caption noted that this shot is no longer possible,
as tall buildings outside the station block the sun
Even if the buildings weren't there, there's probably not enough cigarette smoke in the air to replicate the effect.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 10, 2025 07:25 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: DaveA at December 10, 2025 07:25 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:26 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 10, 2025 07:27 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 10, 2025 07:28 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 07:28 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 10, 2025 07:29 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 07:29 PM (g47mK)
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Close up of ice crystals on my deck.
https://ibb.co/whnntkSh
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 07:29 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 07:30 PM (pkeXY)
please keep our dear Teresa in your prayers & hearts for tomorrow's surgery
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 07:30 PM (H1HTt)
Barracuda thinks he's the meanest thing on fins until... the osprey. Ospreys have very few natural predators, it turns out.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 10, 2025 07:31 PM (1N/bM)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 10, 2025 07:31 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: the barracuda at December 10, 2025 07:31 PM (nhCoE)
Candace Owens is just awful. I was just reading -- she's posting *private messages* between her and Charlie Kirk well before he met Erika, where Charlie asks her for advice on how to dress for dates and stuff.
And accusing TPUSA of financial fraud. Erika ripped her today on FOX without calling her by name.
Somebody called Candace a Jezebel. That fits perfectly. TPUSA needs to take the gloves off and just sue and destroy this Jezebel.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 07:31 PM (w6EFb)
I have 2 x 4 poster of my lovely wife's 80's era Glamor Shot that was used as a advertisement. I told her if she goes first that bad boy is going up at the funeral service.
She's gonna live forever.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 07:31 PM (cYBz/)
That's pretty darn clever.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 10, 2025 07:32 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Surgeon General Emerita Jocelyn Elders at December 10, 2025 07:32 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 10, 2025 07:32 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 07:32 PM (sDNVV)
Water is back on here at Schloss Hadrian. An electrician came out and found a bad connector in the breaker panel. He replaced it, flipped the breaker on and the well started filling up. Waited about half an hour for the water to heat up, then had a luxurious shower.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:32 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Except for bald eagles, who kick sand in their faces and beat them up to steal their lunch money fish
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 10, 2025 07:33 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 10, 2025 07:34 PM (a+4eV)
Anybody up for some humptybacked camels and chimpanzees ?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 07:32 PM (sDNVV)
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Chimpanzees are stupid, violent and utterly amoral. Proto-Democrats, as it were.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:35 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Felix, Stifel, and Floyd (My Cats) at December 10, 2025 07:35 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 07:30 PM (H1HTt)
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Absolutely. Lord, hear our prayer.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 10, 2025 07:35 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 07:36 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 07:36 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 07:36 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: steevy at December 10, 2025 07:37 PM (YwEeS)
Andrew McCarthy, who is damned good, just posted this. He caught the 2023 supernova in the Pinwheel galaxy from his backyard and made this little GIF today:
https://is.gd/vCaLqj
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 07:37 PM (w6EFb)
Wow, there were some beautiful pups in the Orlando Hound Group. Even we have to admit it.
Posted by: Felix, Stifel, and Floyd (My Cats) at December 10, 2025 07:35 PM (oftw2)
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Including ours.
*smugly preens*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:37 PM (tgvbd)
The electrician?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 10, 2025 07:37 PM (Kt19C)
please keep our dear Teresa in your prayers & hearts for tomorrow's surgery
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
Most certainly!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 10, 2025 07:38 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: steevy at December 10, 2025 07:37 PM (YwEeS)
Yes. I was a double dork. It was painful.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 10, 2025 07:39 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Felix Unger, Portraits A Specialty at December 10, 2025 07:39 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Born Free at December 10, 2025 07:39 PM (raD1m)
please keep our dear Teresa in your prayers & hearts for tomorrow's surgery
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
Most certainly!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
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She's in my Rosary intentions every day.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:40 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 10, 2025 07:40 PM (k9OZB)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 07:41 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2025 07:41 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 07:42 PM (viF8m)
The tanker we seized and pounced on was apparently transporting free oil to Cuba.
There goes the one hour a day electricity.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 07:42 PM (Y8DZL)
So why does that focus pattern fool our brain? Is it that when we are staring at something very close our eyes produce that same focus pattern too? I guess that could be it. I looked online and all the explanations just dealt with how it mimics a close up camera shot which doesn't really explain the optical illusion.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2025 07:41 PM (3uBP9)
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*removes finger from nose*
I dunno.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:43 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 07:44 PM (g47mK)
The tanker we seized and pounced on was apparently transporting free oil to Cuba.
Posted by: Auspex
Says who?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 07:44 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 07:30 PM (H1HTt)
Absolutely!
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 10, 2025 07:44 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 07:44 PM (viF8m)
Tomorrow we'll hear Maduro's oil tanker had 50 Nuns on it, bringing Bibles and blankets to Haiti.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 07:45 PM (H1HTt)
There goes the one hour a day electricity.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 07:42 PM (Y8DZL)
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I'd say that oil is not generally used for electricity production, but, hey, it's Cuba. As far as I know they might burn bagasse .
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:46 PM (tgvbd)
Plus, I'll bet my left nut that Tanker had a ton of Narcotics aboard, too.
Because of course it did/does.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 07:46 PM (H1HTt)
I got to reading about this. Best I can frame it is it both a real optical effect and a brain effect. The optical effect is to make the brain think it is very shallow depth of field, and thus the objects must be very small.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 07:48 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 07:49 PM (Ia/+0)
Rangers defense is saying, "Let's let Shesterkin handle it."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:50 PM (tgvbd)
Rep. Tim Burchett Says NeoCon REPUBLICAN Congressmen Are Sabotaging Trump Ahead of The Midterms.
"A lot of folks are undermined. I think you've got staffers in key spots that are crooked. I think they're in bed literally or figuratively with, with lobbyists and they kill very good pieces of legislation."
"That's why you see study committees say they're gonna study this bill for a year and then it magically goes away. That's part of the design because they want to undermine Trump. Ultimately, they hate him because he is cutting off their money."
"They've got the ear of a paid lobbyist, who's probably taken them out for drinks, steak dinner, maybe they went to some fancy place, Qatar, or Myrtle Beach. You've got speakers and people in leadership and people are undermining them."
X video: https://bit.ly/4oNGmG0
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 10, 2025 07:53 PM (P5BPp)
@LeadingReport
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BREAKING: House advances bill to overturn Trump executive order after 13 Republicans vote with Democrats.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 10, 2025 07:56 PM (mlg/3)
Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson
Rep. Tim Burchett Says NeoCon REPUBLICAN Congressmen Are Sabotaging Trump Ahead of The Midterms.
@LeadingReport
BREAKING: House advances bill to overturn Trump executive order after 13 Republicans vote with Democrats.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 10, 2025 07:59 PM (P5BPp)
Looks like Trump has his work cut out for him for primary season.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 07:59 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 08:01 PM (Ia/+0)
please keep our dear Teresa in your prayers & hearts for tomorrow's surgery
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
Most certainly!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 10, 2025
Absolutely this will happen!
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 08:03 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 08:03 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:04 PM (g47mK)
'House advances bill to overturn Trump executive order after 13 Republicans vote with Democrats.'
That doesn't sound like a veto-proof majority. Veto and take names for future punishment.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 08:04 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:04 PM (g47mK)
That doesn't sound like a veto-proof majority. Veto and take names for future punishment.
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Primary the 13.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 08:04 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:06 PM (g47mK)
Or, more cromulently, why bother?
Good even, friendlies and folks. Hope you're staying warmish.
And your water is flowing. 💧
Posted by: mindful webworker - observationally observant at December 10, 2025 08:06 PM (zKAC0)
That doesn't sound like a veto-proof majority. Veto and take names for future punishment.
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Primary the 13.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 08:04 PM (TN0g+)
Yes indeed.
Posted by: Eromero at December 10, 2025 08:07 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 08:08 PM (KDPiq)
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I would take anything Benny Johnson says with a grain of salt. Could be the woke right Republicans are sabotaging Trump. You know, the MTG types.
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:08 PM (g47mK)
I'm shocked, shocked! than anyone would think our wonderful elected defenders of the Republic could be doing anything but making America greater than ever!
Shocked!
(your graft, sir)
Posted by: mindful webworker - frequently piqued at December 10, 2025 08:08 PM (zKAC0)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:08 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 08:09 PM (fd80v)
Where does one even begin, the shitshow of Cuba?
I read an interview with an elderly Cuban the last time their power plant went TU and widespread electricity blackouts were routine. Maybe a year ago or so. She was not happy, though trying not to complain too much.
She pointed out just how patient she has been since Batista was overthrown - that was 1959, by the way, or near enough, but apparently patience has its limits even with the coming Socialist Utopia right around the corner. Very sad.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 08:09 PM (0Sa8x)
Immediately noticed the arrow in the hindquarters white in the car.
Front quarter while entering the Vet
Didn’t watch any further.
Probably ended up as a head-shot…
Posted by: Gunslinger at December 10, 2025 08:10 PM (7hdjp)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:11 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 08:12 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:12 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 08:09 PM (0Sa8x)
Communism causes dead people and lack of electricity.
Posted by: Eromero at December 10, 2025 08:12 PM (LHPAg)
She pointed out just how patient she has been since Batista was overthrown - that was 1959, by the way, or near enough, but apparently patience has its limits even with the coming Socialist Utopia right around the corner. Very sad.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 08:09 PM (0Sa8x)
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I'm told by my betters that the US embargo is the sole reason Cuba is a poverty-stricken ruin.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 08:13 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Dr. Claw
From last thread:
Here's the 13 turncoat Republicans who voted with the Democrats and against Trump's executive order:
Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa., Don Bacon, R-Neb., Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., Tom Kean, R-N.J., Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa., Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, Chris Smith, R-N.J., Pete Stauber, R-Minn., and Mike Turner, R-Ohio.
Posted by: Crusader
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 08:14 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:14 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 08:12 PM (KDPiq)
All helicopter pilots are badass. It's the big watch.
Posted by: Eromero at December 10, 2025 08:15 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:15 PM (g47mK)
Mostly east coast shitheads. (No offense, east coast people) I guess they need democrat votes.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 08:16 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 08:16 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:17 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:17 PM (g47mK)
Shocked!
(your graft, sir)
Posted by: mindful webworker - frequently piqued
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Some will think of this as the best pallet cleanser
some may not
[It] certainly change a few minds…
_James Woods
https://tinyurl.com/kt5cfwpn
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:18 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 07:32 PM
(sDNVV)
Some cats and rats and ellyphants...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 10, 2025 08:20 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 08:09 PM (0Sa8x)
Communism causes dead people and lack of electricity.
Posted by: Eromero
Learn to make candles, prole.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 10, 2025 08:21 PM (LjSYW)
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 08:04 PM (TN0g+)
This requires republicans to get off their booties and vote, we need to RNC to hire fire marketing groups and get engaged way more on the streets and on socials. We cannot campaign like a bunch of “29” year olds.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 08:21 PM (pZEOD)
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Well, right! And simultaneously all the abject failures of Socialism, the millions of dead, never happened, and besides, that was also because “Real Socialism hasn’t been tried.”
It’s just completely idiotic, the 60s generation grew old, but they never grew up. I really want to see if I can get my crazy uncle to stroke out, one of these days I’m going to off-handedly opine “Well, real Naziism hasn’t been tried” when he starts bitching about some nonsense.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 08:22 PM (0Sa8x)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:22 PM (g47mK)
I'm told by my betters that the US embargo is the sole reason Cuba is a poverty-stricken ruin.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
The far left even refers to that as a "blockade."
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 08:23 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 08:23 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Dr. Claw
The MN guy represents the "arrowhead" in the northeast. Iron Range mining unions, Lake Superior shipping unions, and UofM-Duluth teacher's unions.
It's a 60-40 district, so being a union patsy on a vote that's going nowhere isn't going to get him unelected.
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 08:24 PM (nhCoE)
Some will think of this as the best pallet cleanser
some may not
[It] certainly change a few minds…
_James Woods
https://tinyurl.com/kt5cfwpn
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:18 PM (Hm8Vv)
Dayum! Didn't see that one comin'.
Posted by: Eromero at December 10, 2025 08:24 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 08:26 PM (pkeXY)
Mostly east coast shitheads. (No offense, east coast people) I guess they need democrat votes.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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NY, NJ, (deep red) Ohio, Nebraska, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and one other maybe.
But not Susan Collins.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:26 PM (Hm8Vv)
If the US Army in the ETO was like the GOP, Mark Clark would be telling the Germans when and where Eisenhower would come ashore.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 08:27 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:27 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Piper
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Put Laura Trump back at RNC.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:28 PM (Hm8Vv)
'
Here's the 13 turncoat Republicans who voted with the Democrats and against Trump's executive order:
....Posted by: Crusader
Posted by: mikeski
Thanks. By the way.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 08:29 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:31 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:32 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:33 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Accomack at December 10, 2025 08:33 PM (nLdZ2)
My favorite part is when the woman opened the hospital door by slamming the injured cub into it.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 10, 2025 08:34 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:34 PM (Hm8Vv)
There goes the one hour a day electricity.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 07:42 PM (Y8DZL)
Well, there is that embargo on Cuba, but I was wondering if besides "Trump and Rubio Play Hardball", a tanker could carry a lot of cocaine that would otherwise get splodey on the Gulf if sent by fast-boat.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 08:39 PM (rbvCR)
I'm taken the train from Boston and RI many times to Grand Central. Very cool building.
We used to build great train stations but most airports are awful.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 08:41 PM (viF8m)
"Has Charlie's murder changed how you do things or were you already locked down pretty well before that?"
Musk responded:
"It certainly reinforced the severity of the situation where life is on hardcore mode. You make one mistake, and you're dead, and it only takes one mistake."
youtu.be/bz5Hjk40FD4?t=758
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:42 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:42 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:43 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: runner's monomania at December 10, 2025 08:43 PM (irVum)
==
AI..snow leopards do not do this Disney shit
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:44 PM (g47mK)
'Sanae Takaichi is up to something...'
Hahahaha! That picture. Trump must give her a warm feeling.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 08:44 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:46 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:46 PM (tgvbd)
Per a Cuban website, the electrical generation is from natural gas, bunker fuel and fuel oil. I think the bunker fuels is mostly massaged crude, since the term used is "national crude". Maduro could be sending fuel oil or bunker grade. [shrug]
The plants are mostly from Eastern Bloc countries and are ooooooold.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 08:46 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:46 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 08:46 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:47 PM (g47mK)
'Musk responded:
"It certainly reinforced the severity of the situation where life is on hardcore mode. You make one mistake, and you're dead...'
If I had Musk's money, I would make sure some of these leftists met an early demise in addition to protecting myself.
Kind of vindictive. I know.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 08:47 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:47 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Kindltot
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They should send it to Exxon (not too far away) and have them analyse it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:48 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:48 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:49 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:51 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:52 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:52 PM (g47mK)
If you want to defang the trolls, try not to lose your shit over their opening comment.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 08:52 PM (zZu0s)
Some Philadelphia high school football players went to Polk County, FL for a championship. They FAFO'd. With Sheriff Grady Judd:
https://is.gd/d4uL3N
I hadn't seen that clip of his when some guy asked him, "Why did you shoot him 68 times?!" Judd replied, "Cause we ran out of bullets".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 08:53 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:54 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:54 PM (77rzZ)
My cat Penny is snoring loudly on her cat tree behind my desk.
For some reason that makes me smile.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 08:54 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:54 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:51 PM (g47mK)
Runner, get help. She is clearly living in your head, making you afraid that someone other than you is listening to her
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 08:54 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 08:52 PM (zZu0s)
you have your fun your way, I will mine
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:54 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 08:55 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 08:56 PM (pZEOD)
tell us more about properties of steel, my friend
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:56 PM (g47mK)
I'm no cat expert, but don't they make "trees" out of anything they want?
Usually shelves, with glass objects on them?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 08:56 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: runner
Why do you bother? Maybe 10 people read the comment(s) and by the time they do the offending comment has been removed.
Posted by: old chick at December 10, 2025 08:57 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: Ronster at December 10, 2025 08:57 PM (Z7eKX)
why can't I have nice things ? y'all shitpost all day , and as soon as I slap some antisemite, you all are agog
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:57 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 08:58 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:56 PM (g47mK)
“When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.”
Don't hate, boychick. You wind up lying to yourself about why to justify the hate, instead of the other way around. Live your life with joy and piss on the ones that want you to be as hateful as they.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 08:58 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: old chick at December 10, 2025 08:57 PM (F3Dlr)
oh.... OK then! I am done!
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:58 PM (g47mK)
Hmm. Looks like a clearcut case of folie de penguin-animus. Poor fellow. Almost impossible to eradicate without utilizing my patented system for curing mental illness, the Psychological Arsenal of Cerebral Ordnance.
Now available, just in time for Christmas! Very reasonable rates.
Posted by: Paco at December 10, 2025 08:59 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:59 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:01 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 08:59 PM (g47mK)
You could have prevented the confusion by quoting the troll, thus preserving it for everyone on the blog, and amplifying it by your bitching about it over and over again.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 09:01 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:01 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:02 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 08:58 PM (H1HTt)
Fe?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:02 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 07:31 PM (w6EFb)
Erika should just say, "Well, the woman is batshit crazy. Cut her a little slack."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 09:02 PM (npFr7)
I heard of dogwoods but...
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 08:55 PM (H1HTt)
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Pussy willow?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 09:02 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Paco at December 10, 2025 09:02 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: runner
I meant no disrespect, runner. It's just that some commenters think they have a worldwide audience to convince or entertain or influence, when in fact it's usually just the regular crew sliding up to the bar.
Posted by: old chick at December 10, 2025 09:03 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:01 PM (H1HTt)
Its organized into periods. The tables' shape shows with visuals the composition and geometry of the elements. Sort of.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:03 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:04 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:04 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:04 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:06 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:04 PM (g47mK)
Can you blame the general public for thinking this when so many people scream endlessly about it?
When did Mark Levin become the "voice of commonsense conservatism" by the way?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 09:06 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ronster at December 10, 2025 09:06 PM (Z7eKX)
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And why is it called a "periodic" table, anyway?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:01 PM (H1HTt)
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The chemical properties of elements more or less repeat over a period of atomic number. Elements in the same column of the table have similar chemical and physical properties.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 10, 2025 09:07 PM (HLgI3)
Posted by: old chick at December 10, 2025 09:03 PM (F3Dlr)
lol, maybe!
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:08 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Whispering Bill Anderson at December 10, 2025 09:09 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:09 PM (g47mK)
No one locally sells sausage casings. No one. This is a travesty, this modern age is missing so many good things. I had to make patties.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 09:10 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 09:11 PM (xDJJe)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:12 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Sad! at December 10, 2025 09:12 PM (SutU1)
It's funny how your hash is nearly "shut up," which is what I was going to tell you.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:13 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: Kindltot
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In the beginning, Rush named him the great one.
Later on he quit referring to him that way.
Later he didn't refer to him much at all.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:14 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 09:14 PM (xDJJe)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 09:02 PM (ESVrU)
And the old man said, "Wait up, kid. I'm coming with you."
Posted by: just the punchline at December 10, 2025 09:15 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:16 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 09:17 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: runner
I've been here close to 20yrs. MANY commenters have changed nics over the years. Some hit the sock list every single week and no one knows it's them. I suppose there is some value to them?
Some like to threadjack under their known nic, some like to disrupt when they've been kicked to the curb. Again, they seem to find value in it.
Posted by: old chick at December 10, 2025 09:18 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 09:14 PM (xDJJe)
We're legends in our own minds!
We'll show you, Dad!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:19 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 10, 2025 09:19 PM (MmTZZ)
Posted by: Bulg
But not that poor, misshapen, middle-aged KU lady.
Posted by: Can Pick'em at December 10, 2025 09:19 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 09:17 PM (KDPiq)
That was always Y5's opinion.
I would like the shakespearean word battle (to watch) but people often take shit way too seriously.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:20 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:21 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: old chick at December 10, 2025 09:18 PM (F3Dlr)
well, the english challenged one above is a coward of course, like all of them, rotating hash, VPN
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:22 PM (g47mK)
Didn't have to drive long distance today, yay! BIL took care of his trailer & got on down the road.
Turns out he was about 400 miles away, not 250 like it seemed when he was talking about which towns he was near. (Fact is: he wasn't "near" either of those towns.)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 09:22 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 09:14 PM (xDJJe
You might be surprised. But listen, we feel like we “know” each other, and that means we may, on occasion, get on each other’s nerves. The COBs do amazing things in putting out the trash. The standards may be low, but they exist.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 09:22 PM (OoFl2)
OK, so am I. I still know how to conduct myself properly on a public forum.
I’ve had much more heated arguments on here when I’ve been stone-cold sober.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:23 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 09:23 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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I miss all the good stuff.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:23 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 09:23 PM (ESVrU)
And for putting on some pants!
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 09:24 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:23 PM (Hm8Vv
That's my point, im asking whether there is stuff I missed.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:24 PM (zZu0s)
Thou shits all retarded and thou speaketh as a fag.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 09:25 PM (KDPiq)
Didn't have to drive long distance today, yay! BIL took care of his trailer & got on down the road.
Turns out he was about 400 miles away, not 250 like it seemed when he was talking about which towns he was near. (Fact is: he wasn't "near" either of those towns.)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 09:22 PM (rdVOm)
Good news!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 09:25 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: GigantorX at December 10, 2025 09:25 PM (J/Pij)
128 Well, there is that embargo on Cuba, but I was wondering if besides "Trump and Rubio Play Hardball", a tanker could carry a lot of cocaine that would otherwise get splodey on the Gulf if sent by fast-boat.
Posted by: Kindltot
Ackshully - I think this one is pretty significant in several ways. In fact one of the biggest TY things Trump and Hegseth have done yet. Caribbean interests me, I follow events there for my own reasons. 3 big things result from this:
1) the biggest - Cuba uses oil to generate electricity, and their grid is always on the edge of collapsing (again). The loss of this tanker probably takes down the grid for the entire island.
2) Maduro desperately needed the money from this sale since his drug money is getting blowed up. Big hit to his finances, and to his supporters,
3) the ship was part of the Russian "shadow fleet" so it's a big kick in the teeth for Putin, too.
That's a lot of billiard balls put in motion by one little ship seizure.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 09:26 PM (xDJJe)
128 Well, there is that embargo on Cuba, but I was wondering if besides "Trump and Rubio Play Hardball", a tanker could carry a lot of cocaine that would otherwise get splodey on the Gulf if sent by fast-boat.
Posted by: Kindltot
Ackshully - I think this one is pretty significant in several ways. In fact one of the biggest TY things Trump and Hegseth have done yet. Caribbean interests me, I follow events there for my own reasons. 3 big things result from this:
1) the biggest - Cuba uses oil to generate electricity, and their grid is always on the edge of collapsing (again). The loss of this tanker probably takes down the grid for the entire island.
2) Maduro desperately needed the money from this sale since his drug money is getting blowed up. Big hit to his finances, and to his supporters,
3) the ship was part of the Russian "shadow fleet" so it's a big kick in the teeth for Putin, too.
That's a lot of billiard balls put in motion by one little ship seizure.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 09:26 PM (xDJJe)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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I miss all the good stuff.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:23 PM (Hm8Vv)
I think he got banned again. He was certainly gunning for it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 09:26 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: runner
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Well, HotShot, I didn't get a VPN until I read, from a trusted commenter, that someone with tech knowledge could pretty much pinpoint where we lived.
You know that old Sly Stone song?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:26 PM (Hm8Vv)
189 Did qdp get banned again or just been out?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:21 PM (zZu0s)
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Banned I believe. A few days ago.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 10, 2025 09:28 PM (HLgI3)
So...yeah...
Pepsi A.M. was a real thing. It was marketed as the new coffee. Lasted a whole year, then PepsiCo went back to thinking of worse ideas.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:28 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 09:28 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 09:28 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:28 PM (H1HTt)
Didn't have to drive long distance today, yay! BIL took care of his trailer & got on down the road.
Turns out he was about 400 miles away, not 250 like it seemed when he was talking about which towns he was near. (Fact is: he wasn't "near" either of those towns.)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 09:22 PM (rdVOm)
*yoda voice*
Dodged a bullet you did.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 09:28 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:29 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: JQ at December 10
So good you didn’t need to leave!
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 09:29 PM (OoFl2)
That's a lot of billiard balls put in motion by one little ship seizure.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Trump is going light on the ship.
Ukrainiums are using drone submersibles aimed at the propulsion area. They've nailed 3 ships so far.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:30 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 10, 2025 09:28 PM (HLgI3)
really?? why ?
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:30 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 09:30 PM (xDJJe)
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I'm not sure what I missed tonight, but you've always been nice to me. Hang in there and all of this will be eventually sorted out.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 09:30 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 09:25 PM (KDPiq)
I forgot my Christmas themed bar wench outfit. Crap.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 10, 2025 09:31 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:30 PM (g47mK)
Because he gets in arguments about trivialities, and when it doesn't go his way, he gets abusive.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 09:32 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: runner
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Don't know but the comment made me a believer and I got a VPN the next day. Charlie Brown challenged me with your question - I responded same and he didn't counter.
I'll take that as a valid.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:33 PM (Hm8Vv)
wacky prediction: gretl thoonberg will make Venezuela her new fake "cause."
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:34 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 09:34 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:35 PM (77rzZ)
Glad BIL got on his way. I suggested that he give up the RV life and get on housing list "back home" where his doctors are. He'd have a sturdy roof overhead, dependable water, power, sewer, heat & a/c, more secure living area... He actually agreed.
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 09:36 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:35 PM (77rzZ)
All yoga pants, all the time?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 09:36 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 09:25 PM (KDPiq)
Thy mother leaves the back gate open for the town guard!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:37 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at December 10, 2025 09:37 PM (gHSfI)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:35 PM (77rzZ)
All yoga pants, all the time?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December
Tonight is worse. Sweatpants.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 09:38 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: mindful webworker - the innkeeper got a bum rep at December 10, 2025 09:38 PM (zKAC0)
I'll take that as a valid.
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I am not following, what is this about ??
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:38 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Zombie Jimmy Doolittle at December 10, 2025 09:38 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 10, 2025 09:38 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:39 PM (g47mK)
213
really?? why ?
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:30 PM
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I didn't see. There was a fairly vile comment posted and then erased quickly right then, but I don't know if that was him playing around using a sockpuppet, or a coincidence.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 10, 2025 09:39 PM (HLgI3)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 09:36 PM (rdVOm)
He could dock his RV in a nice long-term park, and continue to live in it, while hooked up to water, power, and sewer.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 09:39 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:30 PM (g47mK)
Because he gets in arguments about trivialities, and when it doesn't go his way, he gets abusive.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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That's not the way he used to be. He has a hard on for being, unrighteously set up and, banned the first time, so much so that he didn't see that he had been more than graciously accepted, even by his detractors, back into the HQ.
Anger can distort perceptions.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:40 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Ben Rothelisberger at December 10, 2025 09:40 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:41 PM (g47mK)
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Ok, the Episcopalian Church should just announce they transferring all membership rolls to the Unitarian Church and be done with it.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 09:41 PM (Cjcf6)
189 Did qdp get banned again or just been out?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:21 PM (zZu0s)
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Banned I believe. A few days ago.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 10, 2025 09:28 PM (HLgI3)
I don't know if I should pity him or not...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 09:41 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:42 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:42 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:42 PM (77rzZ)
Saw them in an article a few months back.
The one crossing his eyes on the treats coming at his nose is hilarious and then all the goofy ones come behind him.
The snow leopard video seems plausible.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 09:43 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 10, 2025 09:43 PM (0IwHf)
And flammable!
Posted by: Zombie Jimmy Doolittle at December 10, 2025 09:38 PM (COQGW)
snort
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 09:43 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: The Coasters at December 10, 2025 09:43 PM (r6f6k)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 10, 2025 09:44 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: runner
He's a threadjacker and even though there are a couple of others that feel their opinions/comments/breaking personal news are more important than the time the cobs spent on the post, he constantly tries to divert a thread and he's sent away as an example.
He's not the only one, just the only one that's not cool and part of the family. Like Vic. and, the others that don't get to be absent friends.
Posted by: old chick at December 10, 2025 09:44 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:44 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:44 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 09:41 PM (xcxpd)
I'd say not. It is too bad, but everyone always kinds of ends up fucking themselves.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:44 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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His trailer is a p.o.s. and ready to fall apart. He's 70+ years old and has health problems (and, IMO, can't handle a trailer for sh!t) and is deaf.
He would easily qualify for subsidized housing and doesn't need/can no longer handle the daily hassles of RVing, which he can't really afford anyway.
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 09:44 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bulg
Ben Shapiro's sister?
Posted by: mindful webworker - Embrace the power of 'and' at December 10, 2025 09:44 PM (zKAC0)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:35 PM (77rzZ)
All yoga pants, all the time?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December
Tonight is worse. Sweatpants.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 09:38 PM (OoFl2)
Could be better, could be worse.
I've admired many a girl in sweatpants. Usually when I was in college.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 09:44 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: mindful webworker - the innkeeper got a bum rep at December 10, 2025 09:38 PM (zKAC0)
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Isn't Jedi vs. Sith kinda played out by now?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 09:45 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:42 PM (77rzZ)
Christian Era, and Before Christian Era? What's wrong with that?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 09:45 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: The Old In And Out.... at December 10, 2025 09:45 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 09:41 PM (xcxpd)
Pity as I believe he has a lack of self awareness and literally doesn't know when he crosses a line.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 09:45 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bulg
Ben Shapiro's sister?
Posted by: mindful webworker - Embrace the power of 'and' at December 10, 2025 09:44 PM (zKAC0)
*perks up*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 09:45 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 09:41 PM (xcxpd)
Pity as I believe he has a lack of self awareness and literally doesn't know when he crosses a line.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 09:45 PM (KDPiq)
Yeah, he seems a little on the spectrum....or more on the spectrum than most of us.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 09:46 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:46 PM (g47mK)
All I got was the regular old single angle takes and school portraits.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 09:46 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:38 PM (77rzZ)
But ... what about Hebrew breasts?
Posted by: how many angels? at December 10, 2025 09:46 PM (IVZwn)
189 Did qdp get banned again or just been out?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:21 PM (zZu0s)
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Banned I believe. A few days ago.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 10, 2025 09:28 PM (HLgI3)
I don't know if I should pity him or not...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 09:41 PM (xcxpd)
A little of qdp went a lonnnnnnng way, and he (to me) was always tiresome.
I'm not sad to see him banished once again.
If only Pixy could devise an ignore feature.
Posted by: browndog kicking up dirt at December 10, 2025 09:46 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Bulg
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Did that with DDG AI the other day.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:47 PM (Hm8Vv)
Or, alternatively the Civil War, or “War of Northern Aggression” the preferred term by bluebelly yanks.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 09:47 PM (fjEsA)
Posted by: browndog kicking up dirt at December 10, 2025 09:46 PM (3sXRv)
Jah...I just scroll past some folks. Pixy's low tech existence is part of its charm.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 09:47 PM (xcxpd)
But that's what makes autism charming!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 09:47 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 10, 2025 09:44 PM (6p0Jv)
That is a long running thing. Certain folks live and work in... shall we say not hospitable to our view point areas. They have concern about being 'outed'- id say a bit overblown, but it is their life and job, so I figure they are allowed.
Qdp would not understand that. He kept wanting the momes to livestream or do stuff like that. It pissed folks off. This is something that went on for years. It was one of his manias.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:48 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 10, 2025 09:44 PM (6p0Jv)
You know we had a ringer show up there? "Nathan" IIRC. Showed up at the pistol range, and Ben Had asked him to to leave, which he did. And no, no connection to QDP Steve, as far as I know.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 09:48 PM (npFr7)
Well Mary for one thing we can stop smoking the wacky weed.....
Posted by: Jackson at December 10, 2025 09:48 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:42 PM (77rzZ)
Christian Era, and Before Christian Era? What's wrong with that?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 09:45 PM (npFr7)
Nothing, if it was 'Christian' but atheists prefer 'common era' and that's just linguistic thought control.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 09:49 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: runner
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Especially since ace said that they are all open unless otherwise designated.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:49 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Hoarding Hal at December 10, 2025 09:49 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Hoarding Hal at December 10, 2025 09:49 PM (oftw2)
I bet half are from arcade tickets.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 09:51 PM (KDPiq)
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Like that Star Track episode where Cap’n Kirk is lost in space but periodically appearing on the bridge, kinda ghost like wearing a space suit.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 09:51 PM (fjEsA)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 09:45 PM (npFr7)
Common Era / Before Common Era is what the Godless commies are attempting to impose.
Posted by: Fountains of Wayne at December 10, 2025 09:51 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 09:47 PM (xcxpd)
I really do try to scroll by certain folks, but I'm like a moth to the flame.
And I agree, Minx is a charming anachronism
Posted by: browndog kicking up dirt at December 10, 2025 09:51 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Hooo weee, being asked to leave around that crew and objecting. I don't think so.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:51 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:52 PM (77rzZ)
Hours and hours for one perfected image.
The tilt-shift makes me think of the title sequence of Fraggle Rock for some reason.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 09:52 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 09:48 PM (npFr7)
Yes. Followed the threads and was at MoMe, even though late.. It all gave me pause. To think of the creeps.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 10, 2025 09:52 PM (6p0Jv)
*reaches for cups and ladle*
Merry Christmas Season, horde! Cheers!
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 09:52 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 09:49 PM (xcxpd)
See? That's how you bollix the atheists. Let them think that their preferred date notation really reinforces the Christian paradigm. They will correct you: "Not Christian era, Common Era." Me, "Well, that's stupid, ain't it?"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 09:53 PM (npFr7)
*reaches for cups and ladle*
Just don't hand out cigars.
Posted by: The Blind Hermit at December 10, 2025 09:53 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: Horseshoe Player at December 10, 2025 09:54 PM (Q+gd/)
I reckon we can add "war crime" to phrases the Democrats burnt out and are now meaningless.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:54 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 09:54 PM (KDPiq)
Otoh, I also agree with ms oldchick in that some get away with the exact same shit qdp did- it's just they are Hawkeye Pierce to his Frank Burns.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:54 PM (zZu0s)
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Like that Star Track episode where Cap’n Kirk is lost in space but periodically appearing on the bridge, kinda ghost like wearing a space suit.
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Lol, I literally used the "interphase" a half dozen times when I was banned from posting from home (but not elsewhere). My posts would appear...and then vanish the moment I hit refresh (and probably sooner than that for the rest of you). That was a great Star Trek episode.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 09:54 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: The Blind Hermit
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Hahaha! No-- cigars are okay, but *bring yer own* LOL
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 09:55 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: runner
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Especially since ace said that they are all open unless otherwise designated.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:49 PM (Hm8Vv)
A quick off topic post, with maybe one or two follow-ups is OK.
qdp was like a damn dog on a bone once he got off topic and always with some inane commentary to boot.
He needs / needed a Gibbs head slap ...
Posted by: browndog kicking up dirt at December 10, 2025 09:55 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:55 PM (H1HTt)
*reaches for cups and ladle*
Merry Christmas Season, horde! Cheers!
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 09:52 PM (rdVOm)
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Thank you, Ma'am. May I have another?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 09:55 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 09:51 PM (fjEsA)
Tholian Web.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 09:56 PM (zZu0s)
This is why conservatives are losing.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:56 PM (77rzZ)
The joke is really on them. "Common era" was first used in some treatise by Kepler (at least as far as they know). Common (or vulgar -- it didn't have the negative connotation it does now) mean not royal/noble. The commoners were using the AD Christian year numbering, as opposed to some regnal year numbering, like The Year of King Chuckles III such-and-such.
So "common era" didn't come about to get rid of Christ/Christian. It was only later some of these types began to use it that way. Joke is on them.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 09:56 PM (w6EFb)
They could teach Los Angeles a thing or two.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 09:57 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Braenyard
Yup, Ace said about 7-8 years ago he didn't care if people went off topic on the first comment on his posts.
That's when aos changed. It became the sisterhood of the travelling pants and if the pants didn't fit, sucks to be you.
Posted by: old chick at December 10, 2025 09:57 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 09:54 PM (Cjcf6)
I think you were "bycatch" in the net that was created to block QDPSteve. Your posting problems began at the same time he vanished from here.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 09:57 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Ding! That was one of the things that put him on the list first time. He couldn't understand why he/they/it couldn't/wouldn't/ set up a gambling table.
He likes to gamble - feels comfortable at the table - but didn't see that desire was crossing the line.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:57 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:42 PM (77rzZ)
Christian Era, and Before Christian Era? What's wrong with that?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 09:45 PM (npFr7)
AOP, you have no idea…
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:52 PM (77rzZ)
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AOP, inside joke -- we had this debate in a thread a couple days ago.
And I believe the "C" in those terms among academics is for "Common" and not "Christian."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 09:57 PM (enCV9)
https://tinyurl.com/2nuuz3d8
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 10, 2025 09:58 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 09:58 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Newbomb Turk at December 10, 2025 09:58 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 09:58 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 09:59 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 09:59 PM (6p0Jv)
Qdpsteve isn't even here and we're close to "threadjack" territory over him.
LOL
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:00 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:00 PM (g47mK)
And I believe the "C" in those terms among academics is for "Common" and not "Christian."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 09:57 PM (enCV9)
I know that! Just pointing out that you can use that to jerk their chains.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:00 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Newbomb Turk
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This is why we can't have nice things...
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:01 PM (rdVOm)
LOL
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:00 PM (rdVOm)
Heh. Yeah.
It is sad. I wanted to tell him when he started stimming to cool it. But one, people don't take that well/the right way. Two, I have my own shit that probably annoys the fuck out of people.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:02 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:02 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:02 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Newbomb Turk
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This is why we can't have nice things...
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025
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*Looks at my box wine and nods.*
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:03 PM (6p0Jv)
Washington — Republican moderates in the House revolted against leadership on Wednesday as they seek to force a vote on expiring health insurance premium tax credits — an issue that could have major political ramifications for the party in next year's elections.
Facing an end-of-year deadline, Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania introduced a discharge petition to try to bring a bill to the floor that would extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies by two years. A handful of GOP moderates quickly signed on.
The move is the latest rebellion by rank-and-file Republicans to force votes on issues that leadership would rather avoid.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:03 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Tehran at December 10, 2025 10:03 PM (0ZmKh)
Don't tell TJM.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:04 PM (xcxpd)
https://tinyurl.com/2nuuz3d8
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy
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If the pilot had honked his horn she would have moved out of the way.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (Hm8Vv)
The National Republican Senate Committee Tricked Jasmine Ratchet Into Running for Texas Senate;
Kumala Harris Still Wants to Run for President
Marxist rag the New Republic reports on Republicans high-fiving each other for manipulating low-IQ narcissist into running for Senate. Apparently the Democrats were not polling to see how the plus-sized imbecile would do in a primary, so the Republicans did run one. And then they publicized the results when it showed her as a genuine threat to win the primary.
A source familiar with the process told NOTUS that GOP machinations to prop up Crockett's run first began in June, when Texas Democrats met to discuss 2026 midterm elections--and the firebrand Democrat wasn't invited, or included in any initial polls. In July, the National Republican Senatorial Committee published a poll that found that Crockett was the preferred candidate among Democratic voters. "When we saw the results, we were like, 'OK, we got to disseminate this far and wide,'" the source told NOTUS. After the NRSC included Crockett's name in their poll, other surveys started to include her too. The source told NOTUS that those polls were then aggressively seeded into progressive digital spaces by NRSC allies to "orchestrate the pile on" of promising polling numbers and drive the narrative that support for Crockett was "surging." The source dubbed the system of trying to pull in a weaker candidate who would lose to the Republican challenger as an "AstroTurf recruitment process."This is a deception campaign that will go down in history as the greatest since the Allies convinced Hitler they would invade at Calais rather than Normandy:
We now go live to Jasmine Crockett's Senate announcement where a rapper just performed a song about her. pic.twitter.com/gcArf3U4mb
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 8, 2025
Jasmine Ratchet is denying she previously said that Latinos who voted for Trump have a "slave mentality," despite being confronted with the exact quote.
Tapper literally read Jasmine Crockett her OWN quote where she suggested Latino Trump voters have a “slave mentality.” Her response?
— Kambree (@KamVTV) December 10, 2025
“That’s not what I said at all.” Girl… he just read it to you. 😂
She is the greatest gift the right could ask for.
pic.twitter.com/QAKDY37Wc4
Defeat hit Ms. Harris deeply. She had not felt such grief since the death of her mother, she has said, a line that sears even as she repeats it so often as to become a talking point.2, She's engaged in a passive-aggressive womanly sniping contest with Gavin Newsom. In other words: she's not happy about Mr. High T being anointed the next nominee. 3, Her allies are out in primary state knocking the "white boys" of the Democrat Party, trying to gin up black and especially black female interest in Kumala 2.0 by ginning up racial/sexual hate against her expected primary opponents. Like Gavin Newsom, again. (And Josh Shapiro, too.)
"That's what so many of the white boys -- the Josh Shapiros, the Gavin Newsoms of the world and even Pete, although I would vote for Pete -- that's what they miss about Kamala," said Bakari Sellers, a former South Carolina legislator who has been an informal Harris adviser, referring to the governors of Pennsylvania and California and to Mr. Buttigieg, the former transportation secretary. "She is so important to so many people."And there's this:
I have said it since late Spring, when I heard from two birdies in her orbit: @KamalaHarris badly wants to run again in 2028. https://t.co/gR7dlePc9N
— dan turrentine (@danturrentine) December 9, 2025
Friends and allies swear she is more relaxed now. She is certainly more relaxed about swearing. On a recent long-form podcast, the likes of which she got so much heat for avoiding last year, Ms. Harris let fly a two-word phrase -- rhyming with "bucket" -- to describe her new ethos. She says she is now on her "freedom tour." This is Kamala Harris unleashed. But it is still Kamala Harris, the profanity a proxy for plain-spokenness. She is the first woman to serve as vice president, and well attuned to the double standards of gender and race. Lawyerly language remains her safe space, and she still defaults to acting as if every question is part of a deposition where answers can and will be used against her.Lawyerly language? You mean her ding-a-ling word salads? That's not lawyerly language. That's a retard who doesn't know the answer when she's called on in class and is just scatting and babbling until the class bell rings.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 10, 2025 06:19 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 10, 2025 06:19 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 10, 2025 06:19 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 06:20 PM (IifOV)
Jake Tapper is a Racciss Klan Motha Fu*ka!
Posted by: Jasmine Crockett at December 10, 2025 06:21 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 10, 2025 06:22 PM (ZOv7s)
Yeah, but that bullshit works to at least half the voting population
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 06:22 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:23 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 06:23 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 06:24 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Hystery In The Making at December 10, 2025 06:24 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 06:22 PM (IifOV)
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When why do the Dems have to cheat so hard?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 10, 2025 06:24 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 06:24 PM (W7XSX)
She has no chance of winning the senate seat even if she wins the primary which is not a done deal by any means. This is her last gasp at grifiting a bunch of money now that she is done in politics.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 06:24 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 06:25 PM (ufetp)
Run Harris again. The R will rip her apart and Kamahaha gets the woman’s sympathy vote. Only Gabbard can overcome that.
Posted by: Accomack at December 10, 2025 06:25 PM (AUlwe)
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Geeze...another RNC black op?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 06:25 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 06:26 PM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 06:26 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:26 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 10, 2025 06:26 PM (cS1cw)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 06:26 PM (D+mpw)
Lol, you betcha. Top.flight.talent.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 06:27 PM (TN0g+)
But betting against the Dems being dumb is a sucker bet.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:27 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 06:25 PM (ufetp)
I thought it was For A Few Dollars More.
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 06:27 PM (Oy/m2)
Prop up the opposition. What could possibly go wrong.
Whether or not the candidates are sane, qualified, or whatever isn't remotely relevant.
The GOP will, inevitably, fuck us over.
The only "trick" is on you. They desperately want Trump's agenda to die in a fire. We all know why.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 06:28 PM (NwnyJ)
Lufkin to El Paso.
Electra to Vernon to Childress.
Just getting to Houston to Dallas to Austin is over a 400 mile day that makes Planes Trains and Automobile look like a comedy movie.
She will quit in June if she wins Primary.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:28 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 06:28 PM (0N4FZ)
I'll warn you, again: I think it's foolhardy to jeopardize a safe seat in 2026 by nominating Ken Paxton.
What you're all overlooking is Paxton has a lot of Republican party Enemies in Texas who will do Everything they can to torpedo Paxton in the election.
Same goes for Kentucky. Beware the McConnell "Republicans" in Kentucky -- they will try to torpedo the R nominee.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:28 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: Caligirl at December 10, 2025 06:28 PM (gpah0)
Surely not intentionally.
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 06:28 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Brer Rabbit strategy--please don't throw Jasmine Crockett into that race, that would be awful Dems.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 06:28 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 06:28 PM (D+mpw)
The primary is in March.
If the DeceptiCons were so clever, they'd have waited to crow about it until afterward. Not 3 months in advance, in time for Dems to realize they've been duped and adjust.
You really can't underestimate the stupidity and fecklessness of the GOP. It truly has no fecks to give.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 06:28 PM (DL7HR)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 10, 2025 06:26 PM (cS1cw)
I wouldn't be shocked if she's trolling for post election slush fund jobs to get her out of the way...but Trump as hurt a lot of those.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:28 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:29 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 10, 2025 06:29 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: LASue at December 10, 2025 06:29 PM (GOOc7)
I'm guessing they want the uniformed/misinformed dummies to believe her word salads are really "Lawyerly Language", as if that is why commoners think it is gibberish.
She's just speaking over their heads, don't you see?
Posted by: illiniwek at December 10, 2025 06:29 PM (vbXSk)
But I often feel like I am drowning in a big dumb sea of retards.
Not you guys. you guys keep me from sinking like Leo in Titanic.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 10, 2025 06:30 PM (0aYVJ)
I forgot about that. Ha. Donors must be so proud.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 10, 2025 06:30 PM (cS1cw)
Hadrian,
I drove past the Orlando convention center today on my way to my MIC job. The sign now is advertising the AKC Dog Show.
Hope Her Majesty and the Big Dummy did okay today. I'd stop and watch, but I gotta teach a damned class from 0800-1700 and am too tired afterwards to stop and see if anything is still going.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 10, 2025 06:30 PM (G6LBI)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 06:28 PM (D+mpw)
WHo pushed Babs in the pool?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:30 PM (gbOdA)
Jasmine Crockett could win the Mayorship of Austin handily.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 06:30 PM (IifOV)
Ace: "This is a deception campaign that will go down in history as the greatest since the Allies convinced Hitler they would invade at Calais rather than Normandy"
Can someone Fact Check this, please.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:31 PM (H1HTt)
And let's not forget her elegant, polished, beautiful, stepdaughter!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 10, 2025 06:31 PM (xTIDn)
But Gavin belongs to Nancy. Kamala belongs to Obama.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 06:31 PM (A0sqA)
Run Harris again. The R will rip her apart and Kamahaha gets the woman’s sympathy vote. Only Gabbard can overcome that.
Posted by: Accomack at December 10, 2025 06:25 PM (AUlwe)
The Nom could just go to the ropes, tag in Tulsi had have her gut Kamala like a fish like she did in 2000.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:31 PM (8avO+)
If the DeceptiCons were so clever, they'd have waited to crow about it until afterward. Not 3 months in advance, in time for Dems to realize they've been duped and adjust.
You really can't underestimate the stupidity and fecklessness of the GOP. It truly has no fecks to give.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025
I don't know. This tarnishes her badly (even more than her own ridiculous opinions and ghetto speak) right out of the gate and could stop donations and big supporters from getting behind her. It's Probably easier to do this at the beginning than once they are personally committed.
Posted by: LASue at December 10, 2025 06:31 PM (GOOc7)
I'm guessing they want the uniformed/misinformed dummies to believe her word salads are really "Lawyerly Language", as if that is why commoners think it is gibberish.
She's just speaking over their heads, don't you see?
Posted by: illiniwek
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She ain't got nuffin on Justice Action Jackson splaining the law. Like the 4th Branch no one ever thought to look for in the Constitution.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 06:32 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 06:32 PM (tgvbd)
What's most funny is jizz ratchet's biggest problem right now is people on her side think she's too supportive of Israel.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:32 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:31 PM (H1HTt)
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I've got my Quality Assurance hash, so Approved.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 06:32 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 10, 2025 06:33 PM (s0JqF)
I forgot about that. Ha. Donors must be so proud.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 10, 2025 06:30 PM (cS1cw)
Who is the pretty/smart Asian woman who is (WAS) a big dem bundler who came out loudly against Kamalalalala?
Posted by: LASue at December 10, 2025 06:33 PM (GOOc7)
Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 06:35 PM (dIske)
Also obvious that she'd win the Dem nomination easily. She's exactly what the Dems want today.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 06:35 PM (uWKK8)
She has no chance of winning the senate seat even if she wins the primary which is not a done deal by any means. This is her last gasp at grifiting a bunch of money now that she is done in politics.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 06:24 PM (0N4FZ)
She carpetbagged her way INTO Texas, she could be picked up by another blue state if they really think she's a star. But yes, it seems this is a Beto type run for hype
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:35 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: LASue at December 10, 2025 06:35 PM (GOOc7)
Posted by: LASue at December 10, 2025 06:31 PM (GOOc7)
The only way the strategy makes sense is if she gets the Dem nomination to run (the point being to saddle the Dems with a weak candidate that any GOP pol could handily whip in the general). If the GOP runs around braying about how they've put this weak horse in the race beforehand, that's counterproductive, as Dems, slow as they are, might wake up and choose someone better in the primary (which would be virtually anyone other than Crockett).
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 06:35 PM (DL7HR)
She spoke at my sister's HS graduation in '74. She would be a rock ribbed republican today.
Posted by: DanMan at December 10, 2025 06:36 PM (8uzBS)
Who is the pretty/smart Asian woman who is (WAS) a big dem bundler who came out loudly against Kamalalalala?
Posted by: LASue
Lucy Lu?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:36 PM (H1HTt)
They hate MAGA way more than they hate the Dems.
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 10, 2025 06:36 PM (pd4dZ)
They both suck.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 06:36 PM (2WIwB)
Cindy Lou Who
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:36 PM (H1HTt)
Don't you goofs try to comprehend, Kamala is speaking about Einstein levels of calculus and relativity here.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 10, 2025 06:36 PM (vbXSk)
He would always make up this word salad when replying to a question in court where he often chose to represent himself. And include sexual terms randomly, “your honerousness I abstinent from the testicular motion before the court and point to the vas deferens between myself…”
Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2025 06:36 PM (3uBP9)
I forgot about that. Ha. Donors must be so proud.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 10, 2025 06:30 PM (cS1cw)
Who is the pretty/smart Asian woman who is (WAS) a big dem bundler who came out loudly against Kamalalalala?
Posted by: LASue at December 10, 2025 06:33 PM (GOOc7)
Getting fooled by the likes of Harris would make me reconsider my life choices.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:36 PM (8avO+)
Oh, the big dope looked nice. Animated and happy. Fran did a great job handling him. Give him treats and he'll respond.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 06:37 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: DanMan at December 10, 2025 06:37 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Accomack at December 10, 2025 06:37 PM (AUlwe)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 06:37 PM (EWq0C)
_________
Unlike her old ethos, which started with an "s".
Posted by: Eeyore at December 10, 2025 06:37 PM (s0JqF)
What you're all overlooking is Paxton has a lot of Republican party Enemies in Texas who will do Everything they can to torpedo Paxton in the election.
Same goes for Kentucky. Beware the McConnell "Republicans" in Kentucky -- they will try to torpedo the R nominee.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:28 PM (H1HTt)
You also forget that he's won 3 state elections in a row while going up exactly those same people, who hated him just as much then as they do now.
But I could go with Hunt, he just doesn't have much name recognition. Cornyn has Got to Go.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 06:37 PM (uWKK8)
I forgot about that. Ha. Donors must be so proud.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 10, 2025 06:30 PM (cS1cw)
Who is the pretty/smart Asian woman who is (WAS) a big dem bundler who came out loudly against Kamalalalala?
Posted by: LASue at December 10, 2025 06:33 PM (GOOc7)
McCornyn is going to burn $100 MILLION
on jerking himself off.
$100 M could win a close Rep race by 10 points
Trump should pull him aside and threaten to cut tiny balls off.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:38 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 06:38 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 06:28 PM
Some compare the GOP to us. While we're neither feckless nor stupid, unlike them, we both laugh all the way to the bank.
Posted by: Washington Generals at December 10, 2025 06:38 PM (0sNs1)
Another potential presidential *losing* run is how she keeps Dougie in the marital fold for another 2 years.
Posted by: LASue
This causes Bif to query whether or not his house by name is Colonel Ingus.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 10, 2025 06:38 PM (G6LBI)
If the DeceptiCons were so clever, they'd have waited to crow about it until afterward. Not 3 months in advance, in time for Dems to realize they've been duped and adjust.
You really can't underestimate the stupidity and fecklessness of the GOP. It truly has no fecks to give.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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Most voters don't read political stories. And Dems in the primary have a difficult time using the GOP story in attack ads for coalitional reasons.
And I guarantee you that Crockett is not going to bow out for Talarico. Her career is dead if she waits to lose her seat in 2026. Alred has already pivoted to running for the remnant part of the seat anyway.
Small donors on Act Blue, when not actual smurfed ones, go for the bizarre and emo types. GOP as well as Dem actually as activists are to the right of the median GOP primary voter and Dem activists to the left in their party.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 06:38 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:39 PM (gbOdA)
But I often feel like I am drowning in a big dumb sea of retards.
Not you guys. you guys keep me from sinking like Leo in Titanic.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 10, 2025 06:30 PM (0aYVJ)
Howdy, neighbor!
Posted by: The Walzes at December 10, 2025 06:39 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:39 PM (sDNVV)
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The bell which tells us of the passage of time.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 10, 2025 06:39 PM (s0JqF)
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Why are they telling?
So they can strut around with thumbs in their lapels?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 06:39 PM (Hm8Vv)
Hey, that's a new one. It's so very unexpected. That's typically not in the Democrats' arsenal.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 10, 2025 06:39 PM (gLikB)
So, vote for Jasmine because she gots back...........
Posted by: Jackson at December 10, 2025 06:39 PM (J9q9v)
Does this mean that she understands a white male with her intellect and political acumen couldn't be elected as HOA president the only other households in the neighborhood were owned by her children?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 10, 2025 06:39 PM (pOA6U)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 06:40 PM (EWq0C)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 06:37 PM (EWq0C)
SCENE: Harris sitting on the shitter.
Thought Bubble over her head.
"If I think more, I'll have more thoughts."
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 06:40 PM (2WIwB)
on jerking himself off.
$100 M could win a close Rep race by 10 points
Trump should pull him aside and threaten to cut tiny balls off.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:38 PM (gbOdA)
Only problem with that is that Cornyn is a sitting US Senator. Trump has to play this one very carefully because he still needs Cornyn's vote. Otherwise, you're looking at him pulling an MTG in the Senate.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 06:40 PM (0CU3H)
Can someone Fact Check this, please.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:31 PM (H1HTt)
The US made a fake army corps HQ under Patton to suggest the invasion would be in the Calais area. Story checks out. Though the Soviets had a pretty good deception campaign going for their Bagration offensive about the same time.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:41 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 06:41 PM (E0p3T)
Thought Bubble over her head.
"If I think more, I'll have more thoughts."
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 06:40 PM (2WIwB)
I just spit my beer. I think that’s probably a direct quote.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 06:41 PM (EWq0C)
Prop up the opposition. What could possibly go wrong.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Why change? They've been doing it since forever to clear the path for RINO incumbents in GOP primaries.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 10, 2025 06:41 PM (mlg/3)
What you're all overlooking is Paxton has a lot of Republican party Enemies in Texas who will do Everything they can to torpedo Paxton in the election.
Same goes for Kentucky. Beware the McConnell "Republicans" in Kentucky -- they will try to torpedo the R nominee.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:28 PM
A whole bunch of people on this blog said the exact same thing about cruz running against beto in 2018.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 06:41 PM (0N4FZ)
...said no one ever and believes no one ever.
Sometimes, even the Big Lie is unbelievable.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 10, 2025 06:42 PM (gLikB)
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The bell which tells us of the passage of time.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 10, 2025 06:39 PM (s0JqF)
Because time... is for and in all of us. We are all in time and so we MUST tell the time of which we are in.
Posted by: LASue at December 10, 2025 06:42 PM (GOOc7)
What you're all overlooking is Paxton has a lot of Republican party Enemies in Texas who will do Everything they can to torpedo Paxton in the election.
Same goes for Kentucky. Beware the McConnell "Republicans" in Kentucky -- they will try to torpedo the R nominee.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:28 PM (H1HTt)
you must be new around here...Paxton beat Karl Rove's guy in 2014 and he fought off his minions ever since, Paxton has defeated Johnny Sullivan and a host of Houston's best legal pests for a decade.
Posted by: DanMan at December 10, 2025 06:42 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 06:42 PM (dIske)
What's best about this Ratchet candidacy is we'll have 11 months of her team attempting to make "viral videos," each worse than the last.
jizz ratchet is a HUGE LOLCOW and doesn't know it
All these Democrats are big lolcows, but they think they're "owning" us & Trump with their stupid antics.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:42 PM (H1HTt)
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Why are they telling?
So they can strut around with thumbs in their lapels?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 06:39 PM (Hm8Vv)
It just throws more dust into the Primary. Do we dump Crockett because the GOP says to? Or are they lying about thinking she's weak, so we should beat her ourselves?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:43 PM (8avO+)
.......
But there are a lot of breakfast tacos.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 06:44 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 06:40 PM (EWq0C)
GopE
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:44 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 06:45 PM (EWq0C)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 06:45 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 10, 2025 06:45 PM (8CIFn)
Small donors on Act Blue, when not actual smurfed ones, go for the bizarre and emo types. GOP as well as Dem actually as activists are to the right of the median GOP primary voter and Dem activists to the left in their party.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 06:38 PM (WDjG6)
I was posting here yesterday that I have to guffaw every time I see some idiot Reddit user who knows nothing about the state pretend that Talarico is a viable candidate.
His "constituency" consists of gays, trannies, university professors, and the Only Fans girls he has accounts with you.
Some dem party types are putting out polls claiming to show Talarico doing well - what a joke! Texas Dem primary electorate, unlike the general, is majority Black and Hispanic. Pasty white twink boy is gonna appeal to that crowd? ROFL.
But online he has all the same fans as Pete Buttiegieg does.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 06:46 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:41 PM (8avO+)
Cardboard and fabric tanks. Fake bodies.
A potenkim village of nothingness.
Definitely tracks with Kamalalla's "campaign."
Posted by: LASue at December 10, 2025 06:46 PM (GOOc7)
on jerking himself off.
$100 M could win a close Rep race by 10 points
Trump should pull him aside and threaten to cut tiny balls off.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:38 PM
cornyn has bush money to spend while paxton is able to fund raise everything else. I do not think it is going to be close. I do expect cornyn to go the distance but I think he will lose the primary by 4-5 points.
We won't get many bleed over democrats voting as they will be all tied up in the fight over getting crockett the democrat nomination.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 06:47 PM (0N4FZ)
2. Lawless Attorney General
3. Useless Senator
4. Pointless Presidential candidate
5. Failed Vice President
6. Profit???
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 06:47 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 10, 2025 06:47 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 10, 2025 06:45 PM (8CIFn)
Nope. Because Hispanic voters hate the Nasty Black Ghetto Bitch type even more than anglo's do, they've got way too much experience with them in day to day life.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 06:47 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 06:47 PM (EWq0C)
Talarico is quite popular with the Left's "israel" haters.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:48 PM (H1HTt)
But I could go with Hunt, he just doesn't have much name recognition. Cornyn has Got to Go.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 06:37 PM (uWKK
Seems like the sort of thing an Ambassadorship could help out with to get him clear. He's over 70 and then could get some cushy post.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:48 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 06:48 PM (Da1lH)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 06:48 PM (D+mpw)
Or since the famous Rock Ridge incident.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 06:48 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 06:40 PM (0CU3H)
In Texas, if a senator resigns, the governor can appoint a temporary replacement.
Abbot needs Trump.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:49 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 06:49 PM (p4NUW)
For the same reason they lie, insult and libel when there is no up side to doing so.
They do it because they are totally given over to their carnality (and the demons within them)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 06:49 PM (a4flb)
We won't get many bleed over democrats voting as they will be all tied up in the fight over getting crockett the democrat nomination.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 06:47 PM (0N4FZ)
Hunt??
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:50 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 06:50 PM (TR2dy)
Footage of us seizing the tanker:
https://is.gd/W1CzF5
Trump said this was the biggest seizure in history. Only the biggest, classiest seizures.
Apparently, this was carrying "sanctioned oil", so pounce and seize away.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 06:50 PM (w6EFb)
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Yeah, eye of the tiger baby...
Posted by: Apollo Creed at December 10, 2025 06:51 PM (TN0g+)
She can shake her jowls for the camera. Don’t count that out. That’s a gift.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 06:51 PM (EWq0C)
Well, it's possible President endorses a candidate *before* the primary if he thinks the seat is in jeopardy.
Would you be all butthurt if President endorses Cornyn?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:51 PM (H1HTt)
Abbot needs Trump.
Resigning is not Cornhole's character, he will remain inside and sabotage the country and MAGA because he is evil.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 06:51 PM (a4flb)
That 1% represents some of the worst betrayals you can imagine and it ain't just one vote either. He is notorious for siding with dems after November elections.
Posted by: DanMan at December 10, 2025 06:51 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 06:45 PM (EWq0C)
She's in the bubble. She has *never* advanced on her merits herself, its outside her world.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:51 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 06:50 PM (w6EFb)
No oil for blood
Now liberals need to say communist must sell oil to Kill Americans.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:52 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: UNPROGRESSIVE at December 10, 2025 06:52 PM (IUmF8)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2025 06:52 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 10, 2025 06:52 PM (0sNs1)
Trump said this was the biggest seizure in history. Only the biggest, classiest seizures.
Posted by: publius
Nobody has seen anything like it.
(he says that a lot, too)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:53 PM (H1HTt)
Trump: "Large tanker, very large. Largest one in history, actually".
Reporter: "What happens to the oil?"
Trump: "We keep it, I guess."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 06:53 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: steevy at December 10, 2025 06:53 PM (YwEeS)
youtu.be/mPz6aw7VkL4?&t=65
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 06:53 PM (Hm8Vv)
If The Big Dummy gets a piece of this group, I'll be the most surprised person in Christendom. All the high rollers are there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 06:54 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Oldcat
Well, she advanced on one merit.
Posted by: Willie Brown's Willie at December 10, 2025 06:55 PM (nhCoE)
Literally. All rap sucks. Except 3 or 4 songs by Eminem and 3 or 4 songs by Run DMC. "No", Beastie Boys don't have any good rap songs. They have at least 5 good songs, but none that are rap.
Rap is for retarded people who wish they had musical talent or who wish they had bothered to learn how to play an instrument but didn't. Jazzy's rapper should take no special criticism, because he's not fundamentally any worse than 99.9% of his peers.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 06:55 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:51 PM (H1HTt)
Nope
Battle v War
He can then go aip shit on McCornyn to vote his way.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:55 PM (gbOdA)
But Venezuela only has two sources of income - Oil sales, and the drug trade. Trump is cutting off both of them; you gotta figure that each drug boat blown up costs Maduro about $50 million in lost income. That's adding up, and now stopping the oil trade with it?
And the idea, obviously, is to convince some of Maduro's generals that Life could suddenly be a whole lot easier if they wised up and got rid of that asshole. Every paycheck they miss brings that day closer.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 06:55 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: DanMan
Medved would say things like that all the time without telling his listeners that percentage is derived from counting the votes on final passage of bills that have already gone through the Swamp sausage grinder. So, 12 votes a year. Not a significant sample for anything ever.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 10, 2025 06:55 PM (mlg/3)
I didn't want to mention it, but Tucker just dropped a 5 min video on Charlie Kirk's assassin.
Didn't watch it...because I'm kinda certain Tucker expresses an idiotic Conspiracy Theory that the fag didn't do it, and is being framed by the "government." A fake conspiracy theory that candace ratchet has been pushing for months.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:55 PM (H1HTt)
Talarico is quite popular with the Left's "israel" haters.
Posted by: Soothsayer's
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White males are not the preferred Dem candidate in a race anymore as the party core is feminist and POC pokemon points over white between those categories. Talarico could mebbe try the troon alphabet route but that seems to be a literally shrinking political market.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 06:55 PM (WDjG6)
Huh? She never had a presidential run in her before. I mean, Willie Brown was never gonna run for President....
Posted by: GWB at December 10, 2025 06:56 PM (j11BI)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:56 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Accomack at December 10, 2025 06:56 PM (CI8I+)
I call it a fake conspiracy theory because neither Tucker nor Candace nor any of their jihadis really believe it.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:56 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 06:57 PM (EWq0C)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2025 06:52 PM (3uBP9)
Sounds close to the Nine Billion Names of God by Clarke. Monks in the Himalayans hire a computer to aid them in their sect's purpose in like, to write down the 9 billion names of god in their alphabet. The run is going well and the programmers decide to ride out early since the monks might be angry when it doesn't work...
on the way down on their ponies they look up and the stars are going out...
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:57 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:57 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:57 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 06:57 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Soothsayer's
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I think Tucker is secretly a furry nowadays pondering transitioning to Tuckina soon so calling him Tucker will be dead naming him then.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 06:57 PM (WDjG6)
-Contraband
- Drugs
- Prohibited merch
- Human trafficking
- Weapons smuggling
- etc
The only reason the Democrats and their propaganda arm are pissed off it because it looks bad for them.
Because they are on the other side.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 06:57 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 06:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 10, 2025 06:57 PM (Cjt/F)
on the way down on their ponies they look up and the stars are going out...
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:57 PM (8avO+)
6x7
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:58 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:56 PM (H1HTt)
all the better if they don't.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:58 PM (8avO+)
Wait, so when Cricket said "the Republicans are afraid of me", that was bullshit the republicans fed top her massive ego?
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 10, 2025 06:58 PM (C3IAS)
Also in that DM piece, play the clip of Trump talking about Columbia, and it's El Presidente.
Asked about him Trump said "He's been very hostile to the United States. I haven't given him a lot of thought. He's .... he's gonna have himself some big problems if he doesn't wise up."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 06:59 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 06:57 PM (EWq0C)
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From your mouth to God's ears, sir. They shouldn't win the local dog catcher race.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 10, 2025 06:59 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Marcus T
They got horrible mileage.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 07:00 PM (cYBz/)
Didn't they snatch a Woods Hole Oceanographic ship after finding ONE Marijuana seed?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 10, 2025 07:00 PM (Kt19C)
hahahaha
Posted by: rhennigantx
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It doesn't matter and Crockett knows it. Unlike Canela she has a brain. The real race is which Republican will win their primary.
Crockett is doing this for name recognition establishing her new thoughtful persona in pursuit of a different and achievable goal.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:00 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: banana Dream
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"That's the Night that the Lights Went Out in Georgia"
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 07:01 PM (WDjG6)
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I miss black music
before rap
before disco
dude that's my lawn you're getting close to
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 07:01 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 07:01 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 07:01 PM (EWq0C)
on the way down on their ponies they look up and the stars are going out...
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:57 PM (8avO+)
Paul referred to the "Unknown God" during his speech in Athens, where he found an altar dedicated to this deity. He used this as an opportunity to introduce the Athenians to the true God.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 07:01 PM (gbOdA)
Harris '28: A chicken in every pot and a slob on every knob
Harris '28: The United Stats is a big country next to a smaller country called Canada. And that's wrong.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 07:02 PM (sKqQm)
Was the promise of a bottomless bucket at KFC with free refills involved?
Was that wrong?
Posted by: Dantes at December 10, 2025 07:02 PM (j6+zg)
Posted by: steevy at December 10, 2025 06:53 PM (YwEeS)
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This, a thousand times this. Remember what a crappy candidate Obama was? And look who Virginia just elected attorney general.
And then there was Marion Barry.
I never rule any Democrat out no matter how crazy they are.
Posted by: bluebell at December 10, 2025 07:03 PM (79pEw)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 06:57 PM
I agree 100%.
What I think is happening is the democrats are letting their freak fly by letting the fringe candidates duke it out in Texas so they can say "I told you so" in 2028 and run a moderate candidate like shapiro or newsome.
In other words they are letting the extreme freaks run and get curb stomped to get them out of the way for 2028.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 07:03 PM (0N4FZ)
One thing I'll say for Clarke, HE didn't feel the need to add random kid-orgies in his stories like a certain Richard Bachmann...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 07:03 PM (sKqQm)
And the fun story out a couple days ago about Fuentes is that almost all of those online accounts that were supposedly following him and being influenced by him were actually sources from giant bot farms in India and Nigeria. LOL it was all a fake astroturf performance from the start, obviously intended to rip Trump's supporters to pieces.
They caught everyone by surprise, had a good couple of weeks, but it's all burning out now, and the three of them are finished. (except as small time grifters milking the darker corners of the web)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 07:04 PM (uWKK8)
Also in that DM piece, play the clip of Trump talking about Columbia, and it's El Presidente.
Asked about him Trump said "He's been very hostile to the United States. I haven't given him a lot of thought. He's .... he's gonna have himself some big problems if he doesn't wise up."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 06:59 PM (w6EFb)
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Is this the answer to Kindletot's question; Why are they blowing up boats in the Caribbean but shooting out the engines and boarding in the Pacific?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:04 PM (Hm8Vv)
And really, Temu Kamala will get rich even if she loses so why not?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 07:04 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Medved returned to his true home, Democrats. Almost like he never actually was of the Right. Lots of grifters on the Right as 'influencers' and pundits that are actually Dems trying to make a buck and put a stick in the spokes of the GOP tricycle.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 07:05 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 07:06 PM (EWq0C)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 10, 2025 07:07 PM (YlWIZ)
We love to flog ourselves for stupid political moves and we deserve some of it but who would be stupid enough to give Crockett a frigging nickel to run for Senate from Texas?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 07:07 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: steevy at December 10, 2025 06:53 PM (YwEeS)
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This, a thousand times this. Remember what a crappy candidate Obama was? And look who Virginia just elected attorney general.
And then there was Marion Barry.
I never rule any Democrat out no matter how crazy they are.
Posted by: bluebell at December 10, 2025 07:03 PM (79pEw)
Illinois was coming off the lows of the Dem party screwing up statewide to becoming the dominant party, and the incumbent GOPers were being scooped out and replaced one by one. Anyone they put up was gonna win, remember Carol Mosely Braun?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 07:07 PM (8avO+)
Crockett is doing this for name recognition establishing her new thoughtful persona in pursuit of a different and achievable goal.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:00 PM (Hm8Vv)
The achievable goal being the never- ending democrat grift.
Posted by: LASue at December 10, 2025 07:07 PM (GOOc7)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 07:07 PM (viF8m)
They gave Beto money how many times?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 07:08 PM (8avO+)
In other words they are letting the extreme freaks run and get curb stomped to get them out of the way for 2028.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)
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Sounds good, except, where are the normal one's hiding?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:08 PM (Hm8Vv)
Remember Georgia.
Can a conservative win state-wide in Georgia? Don't say "but Trump won in '24."
Kemp won, when, in '22, the Republicans' year?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 07:09 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 07:07 PM (viF8m)
After the big $$$ dems were burned by Kamalall, I think that anyone like Crocket (or equally low-IQ) will be a very tough sell
Posted by: LASue at December 10, 2025 07:09 PM (GOOc7)
So, theoretically, anyone can win, anywhere, anytime.
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 07:09 PM (ZxPkt)
They caught everyone by surprise, had a good couple of weeks, but it's all burning out now, and the three of them are finished. (except as small time grifters milking the darker corners of the web)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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I think that it true for a lot of the You Tubers and also in blog comment sections like in Instapundit.
Fake pieces of paid shit from other countries and bots. Also true for a lot of the left's celebutards and candidates.
DataRepublican mentioned the report but Musk put the cats among the pigeons when he turned on country temporarily (or permanent--I hear it both ways but not on X).
I think Reddit is a place where real people are scarce except in extreme niche topics and it is dominated by bots, party activists, and foreign paid idiots posting.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 07:09 PM (WDjG6)
Here's the 13 turncoat Republicans who voted with the Democrats and against Trump's executive order:
Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa., Don Bacon, R-Neb., Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., Tom Kean, R-N.J., Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa., Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, Chris Smith, R-N.J., Pete Stauber, R-Minn., and Mike Turner, R-Ohio.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 07:09 PM (TN0g+)
No cut. Straight pull. Oh well. The Big Dummy looked nice and was in there. That's what we care most about.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:09 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 07:03 PM (0N4FZ)
They also know the prize is the House. Allred is going to chase that seat while the GOP is busy with Crockett who has zero chance of winning. I mean none. Anyone who even suggests she could win, or spends resources on that race, should be dragged by a horse around the floor of NRG Stadium u til they don’t have flesh in a PPV special.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 07:09 PM (EWq0C)
Didn't they snatch a Woods Hole Oceanographic ship after finding ONE Marijuana seed?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
If that's all it takes, they should own Carnival's entire fleet.
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 07:10 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 07:07 PM (viF8m)
They gave Beto money how many times?
Posted by: Oldcat
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This. Beto was never going to win crap doodly here in TX. But the smooth brained folk from the blue states love to give $$$$$.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 10, 2025 07:10 PM (6p0Jv)
In other words they are letting the extreme freaks run and get curb stomped to get them out of the way for 2028.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 07:03 PM (0N4FZ)
Nationally that might be; but in Texas it's even worse than that. For all practical purposes, there *is* *no* organized Democrat Party in Texas anymore. All the money comes from out of state, which is why it is so easy for any loud mouthed idealogue, or a freak with an online following, to vault to the top of the Dem Charts with very little effort. The Texas Dem Party is completely broke; one of the biggest reasons Beto was popular was that he financed all his campaigns with his own donors, the party had very little to do with it.
Not to mention that with no dems having won any statewide races in 30 years or so, they don't have any candidates with any experience doing anything except for a few congressmen from deep blue districts. (Like Beto and Jasmine and Talarico)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 07:11 PM (uWKK8)
Since when have low-IQ narcissists had to be manipulated into running for Senate? Isn't that their natural habitat?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 10, 2025 07:11 PM (a+4eV)
Anyone who does or has voted for a democrat is a dumbass and they have much to apologize for but they won't. Shame, shame, shame.
Posted by: Zombie Woodrow Wilson, closeted homosexual at December 10, 2025 07:11 PM (R/m4+)
And every time, he got schlonged.
Crockett is an even worse candidate than Beto by a long measure. In what universe is she going to be a US Senator from Texas?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 07:11 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at December 10, 2025 07:11 PM (BXUnK)
Apparently, this just the beginning of the oil tanker seizures. This is indeed cutting off Maduro's cash line. Do business with him, get your ships seized, etc.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 07:12 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 07:13 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 07:11 PM (viF8m)
Precisely. And you’d think people would then ask themselves- what’s going on here? What’s the real objective? But, nah, you know the GOP is probably in Aruba doing planning sessions or something. It hey, Lara Trump got her gif at Fox so it’s all good.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 07:13 PM (EWq0C)
Here's the 13 turncoat Republicans who voted with the Democrats and against Trump's executive order:
Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa., Don Bacon, R-Neb., Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., Tom Kean, R-N.J., Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa., Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, Chris Smith, R-N.J., Pete Stauber, R-Minn., and Mike Turner, R-Ohio.
Posted by: Crusader
So, if it passes the House, and then the Senate, presumably Trump vetoes it, and they don't have the votes to override that. So who are they virtue-signalling to?
Or is there some parliamentary wingnuttery that means Trump doesn't get a vote on bills related to his own executive orders?
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 07:13 PM (nhCoE)
Oil is 95% of Maduro's exports, and 60% of this revenue, I was just reading. So, cut that off, and you squeeze him pretty good.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 07:13 PM (w6EFb)
Be best, people.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 10, 2025 07:14 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at December 10, 2025 07:11 PM (BXUnK)
HAHA! Hillary will never be President!
Posted by: Bad Orange Man at December 10, 2025 07:14 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 07:11 PM
I suspect it is a universe where Spock sports a goatee.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 07:14 PM (0N4FZ)
Abbot needs Trump.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:49 PM (gbOdA)
Abbott, unlike Cornyn, actually likes Pres. Trump.
Posted by: LASue at December 10, 2025 07:15 PM (GOOc7)
Or is there some parliamentary wingnuttery that means Trump doesn't get a vote on bills related to his own executive orders?
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 07:13 PM (nhCoE)
Not sure what 'advance' means here, its possible its just through one step and it can quietly die and not come to a vote, while the turncoats have done their duty for the union interests.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 07:15 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 07:09 PM (EWq0C)
The fun thing about Allred is that the District he's going to run in (his home district), but he's going to have to run against an incumbent Julie Johnson (D). They used to be friends, I'll bet not now.
If you look up District 33 you'll see it's currently represented by Marc Vesey (R), but he's going to run for reelection in Fort Worth, since the redistricting bill has shifted all the lines around for everyone.
Jasmine's old district really isn't going to exist anymore, it got chopped up.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 07:16 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 07:10 PM (nhCoE)
I want another drink!
Posted by: Zombie Michael Virgil, Fat, Drunk And Stupid at December 10, 2025 07:16 PM (R/m4+)
Be best, people.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 10, 2025 07:14 PM (6Bc8
on the other hand, they *might* be
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 07:16 PM (8avO+)
DH had to go into Anchorage, so I wrapped all his presents, too.
Most happy.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 10, 2025 07:16 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 10, 2025 07:17 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 07:16 PM (8avO+)
An excellent point.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 10, 2025 07:17 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 07:18 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 07:18 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 07:18 PM (EWq0C)
DH had to go into Anchorage, so I wrapped all his presents, too.
Most happy.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 10, 2025 07:16 PM (6Bc8
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Good for you! I have that old Sinatra Christmas album and you have inspired me. We can't let these bastards wear us out.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 10, 2025 07:19 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 10, 2025 06:45 PM (8CIFn)
Nope. Because Hispanic voters hate the Nasty Black Ghetto Bitch type even more than anglo's do, they've got way too much experience with them in day to day life.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 06:47 PM (uWKK
And unlike the weak-willed, self-hating, guilty for nothing white colleges educated women, hispanic voters are not swayed by shouts of "racism" and "sexism".
Posted by: LASue at December 10, 2025 07:19 PM (GOOc7)
LOL, in sports news UM has fired Sherrone Moore for doing a Midnight Mel.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 07:20 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 07:20 PM (ZxPkt)
Honestly Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite made better speeches than she did. I don't even remember her name; nobody else does either.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 07:20 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 07:21 PM (ZxPkt)
Apparently, this just the beginning of the oil tanker seizures. This is indeed cutting off Maduro's cash line. Do business with him, get your ships seized, etc.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 07:12 PM (w6EFb)
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Trump is being nice to Putin. (bigger fish to fry)
Ukrainiums are targeting Putin's tankers with submersible drone bombs targeted at the propulsion system. Three ships so far.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:22 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 07:23 PM (ZxPkt)
since when do we steal oil tankers
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 07:20 PM (ZxPkt)
Think of it as a long term lease.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 07:23 PM (8avO+)
since when do we steal oil tankers
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 07:20 PM (ZxPkt)
Elvis steals oil tankers.
Because Elvis wants Boats.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 07:23 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Fantasy Island. I can hear Tattoo calling her plane down for Mr. Rourke.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 07:23 PM (WDjG6)
Ukrainiums are targeting Putin's tankers with submersible drone bombs targeted at the propulsion system. Three ships so far.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:22 PM (Hm8Vv)
Gotta be the English fighting the Crimean war again.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 07:24 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 07:24 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 10, 2025 07:25 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: LASue
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Pinche gringos.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:25 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 07:12 PM (w6EFb)
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Might depend on who actually owns the tankers.
China, Russia and Iran (among other not friendly countries) are all prime movers. Might get... messy.
Or not.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 07:25 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 07:12 PM (w6EFb)
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Might depend on who actually owns the tankers.
China, Russia and Iran (among other not friendly countries) are all prime movers. Might get... messy.
Or not.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 07:25 PM (NwnyJ)
If there is any trouble they can just offload the cargo and send them on their way.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 07:26 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 07:20 PM (uWKK
The last democrat governor candidate I remember is Abortion Barbie. Wendy Davis and her stupid shoes. I don't even pay attention to their candidates anymore.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 10, 2025 07:27 PM (6p0Jv)
https://is.gd/W1CzF5
Trump said this was the biggest seizure in history. Only the biggest, classiest seizures.
Apparently, this was carrying "sanctioned oil", so pounce and seize away.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 06:50 PM (w6EFb)
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The tanker was heading towards Cuba. Cuba's energy infrastructure is a joke. Large swaths of the country suffer from blackouts. Power outages sometimes last for days. Cuba had no response for today's seizure. I hope the commies in Cuba paid for that oil in advance.
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 07:27 PM (rj6Yv)
--Wesley Hunt
Posted by: coba at December 10, 2025 07:31 PM (IuIym)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 07:13 PM (sDNVV)
She's a furry, too?!
Posted by: GWB at December 10, 2025 07:35 PM (j11BI)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 10, 2025 07:51 PM (gm9Sb)
We thought Jay Jones was through in the so-called conservative state of VA too, didn't we?
I don't think TX is that far gone yet, but it's way too early to gloat.
Posted by: clams on the half shell and roller skates, roller skates at December 10, 2025 08:02 PM (kvDvI)
Posted by: LASue
This causes Bif to query whether or not his house by name is Colonel Ingus.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 10, 2025 06:38 PM (G6LBI)
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I doubt Dougie has seen her marital fold in many a year.
Posted by: Bigsmith at December 10, 2025 08:26 PM (1Au9i)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 08:38 PM (rQwsY)
I'll warn you, again: I think it's foolhardy to jeopardize a safe seat in 2026 by nominating Ken Paxton.
What you're all overlooking is Paxton has a lot of Republican party Enemies in Texas who will do Everything they can to torpedo Paxton in the election.
Same goes for Kentucky. Beware the McConnell "Republicans" in Kentucky -- they will try to torpedo the R nominee.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:28 PM (H1HTt)
Paid for by the Committee to Reelect John Cornyn
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 08:41 PM (rQwsY)
SOROS WINS AGAIN
90,% of Cracker barrel' political contributions went to GOP candidates historically
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 10, 2025 08:56 PM (TxTRY)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 10:00 PM (rQwsY)
Fed Cuts Prime Rate 0.25%; Trump Pivots to "Make America Affordable Again"
A big reason for the loss of support from independents is the persistent Biden inflation and not-yet-hot economy.
The Fed is resisting actually boosting the economy, making the smallest possible reductions in the prime lending rate incrementally to have the smallest possible positive impact on the economy. Remember, Powell cut interest rates shortly before the 2024 election despite still out-of-control inflation.
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced its third interest rate cut of the year as policymakers moved forward with the cut to support the labor market despite elevated inflation. Fed policymakers voted to lower the benchmark federal funds rate by 25 basis points to a new range of 3.5% to 3.75%. The move follows rate cuts of that size in September and October, which were the first of the year. Policymakers have been tracking economic data showing a slowdown in the labor market in recent months as companies adjust to shifts in trade and immigration policy. Meanwhile, inflation has trended higher as tariff-related price hikes filter through the economy. Those dynamics have put the Fed in a difficult spot as it looks to fulfill its dual mandate goals of stable prices in line with the 2% long-run target for inflation as well as promoting maximum employment.Trump has sensed the dissatisfaction and the complaint that he's too focused on foreign policy. He's now on tour pushing his Make America Affordable Again agenda.
President Trump began his affordability tour in northeastern Pennsylvania on Tuesday, telling supporters he's focused on one thing -- driving prices down nationwide. Steering clear of insider chatter about political fallout or what the pundits say Republicans "should" be worried about, Trump framed the stop as the opening salvo of a national push to restore economic sanity. "I have no higher priority than making America affordable again," he told supporters, hammering Democrats for driving prices higher and insisting his policies are already reversing the trend. "They caused the high prices, and we're bringing them down. It's a simple message." ... On energy, Trump pointed to what he called "the greatest amount of drilling" and fuel production the country has seen in years -- a supply boost he credits for driving oil prices down. "When energy comes down, your other prices come down," he said, arguing that lower fuel and shipping costs ripple across grocery aisles, construction, and manufacturing. Trump also previewed what he cast as immediate relief coming on January 1, when key provisions from his Big Beautiful Bill take effect. "We're putting thousands of dollars in the pockets of hard-working Pennsylvanians," he said. "No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security for our great seniors." He blasted the "four years of disaster" under the Biden administration, reminding the crowd that inflation hit 9.1% on Biden's watch and insisting that Democrats have no credibility lecturing anyone about affordability. "When Biden and congressional Democrats had power, they blew up our economy, sent prices soaring," he said. "Now they want to take us right back to Bidenomics."He also got the UK to drop artificial drug price controls, which will allow him in turn to reduce tariffs on imported British drugs, thus reducing some drug prices in America.
Under the terms of the deal, the U.K. will relax its artificial drug price controls, and in return the U.S. will refrain from imposing tariffs on British medicines, pharmaceutical ingredients and medical devices. That constitutes a win/win for both nations. For decades, America has led the world in drug innovation, accounting for approximately two-thirds of all new medicines introduced to the world annually. That's the direct result of our greater emphasis on free markets and protection of intellectual property (IP) -- patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets -- compared to the rest of the world. Unfortunately, over time that has cultivated a "free rider" problem vis-a-vis the rest of the world. ... Simply put, for too long Americans have disproportionately subsidized the world's drug innovation pipeline.
President Trump's top priority is to create a STRONG economy for ALL Americans. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/lpnuoRx0Wu
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 10, 2025
The rule is that the public forms its final opinions about the economy six months before an election. Trump doesn't have much time to change the public's mind about the economy in time for November 2026.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 05:10 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:11 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:11 PM (H1HTt)
I believe you mean inflation, not employment.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 05:11 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 05:12 PM (Hm8Vv)
Deuterium is a heavy hydrogen isotope. Heavy water contains deuterium atoms and is used in nuclear reactors. Semi heavy water (HDO) is more common than pure heavy water, while heavy-oxygen water is denser but lacks unique properties. Tritiated water is radioactive due to tritium content.
Posted by: Jackson at December 10, 2025 05:12 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Voters at December 10, 2025 05:13 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: Voters at December 10, 2025 05:13 PM (AoMt0)
Voters only know what they're told on tiktok.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 05:13 PM (ExV1e)
Moral of the story, if the government would stop flooding the world with trillions of dollars it would be great.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 10, 2025 05:14 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Voters at December 10, 2025 05:13 PM (AoMt0)
Voters only know what they're told on tiktok.
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We know a dipshit when we see one.
Posted by: Voters at December 10, 2025 05:15 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 10, 2025 05:15 PM (a+4eV)
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good; now cut beef prices in half , and get rid of Powell and you are Golden!
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 05:15 PM (g47mK)
In fact, 1981 began with a shitty economy getting worse, and then Reagan got shot by a Democrat*. Not a good start for President Reagan.
*We were Gaslit into believing john hinkley tried to assassinate Reagan for jodi fucking foster. Bullfuckingshit. Oh, he's just insane, they said. FUCK YOU.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:15 PM (H1HTt)
It took Reagan about 18 months to reverse Jimmy Carter's Charlie Fox of an Economy.
Of course, the Fake News will blame everything on Trump.
Posted by: Jackson at December 10, 2025 05:16 PM (J9q9v)
I hope the tax rates themselves come down a bit, too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:16 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: NCKate at December 10, 2025 05:16 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 05:16 PM (Oy/m2)
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Wait. What happens to the free shit???
Posted by: Voters at December 10, 2025 05:16 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 05:16 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 05:17 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: beckster at December 10, 2025 05:17 PM (I7J98)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:17 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 05:18 PM (0N4FZ)
>>These NRO guys seem to nitpick everything Trump says.
C***s, the word you are looking for is c***s.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 10, 2025 05:18 PM (XV/Pl)
You mean about defense, right?
/$38T debt
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 05:18 PM (qRoBZ)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:18 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:19 PM (ufetp)
My choice is Ringworld by Larry Niven, from 1970. Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards in the same year. I'm the one who talks about books published before some of these people were even *born.*
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:19 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Paco at December 10, 2025 05:19 PM (2L+MU)
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Which will likely increase due to the reduced interest rate, because more lending means more money sloshing around chasing the currently available goods.
Maybe bringing gas, and therefore transportation, costs will be enough to hide that.
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 05:20 PM (vSvIl)
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Oh boy it went up 0.1% after Trump cut to a third of Biden inflation.
Economics is much better than sociology.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 10, 2025 05:20 PM (oYdJH)
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🛳🚢 he is trying to earn a birth on the upper deck on the next cruise.
Posted by: Earned at December 10, 2025 05:20 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:20 PM (H1HTt)
Deuterium is a heavy hydrogen isotope. Heavy water contains deuterium atoms and is used in nuclear reactors. Semi heavy water (HDO) is more common than pure heavy water, while heavy-oxygen water is denser but lacks unique properties. Tritiated water is radioactive due to tritium content.
Posted by: Jackson at December 10, 2025
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Not really seeing the problem here . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:20 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 10, 2025 05:20 PM (s0JqF)
Of course, the Fake News will blame everything on Trump.
Posted by: Jackson
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That's when it began to take off for the average Joe.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 05:21 PM (Hm8Vv)
Well, it's working. Especially fuels....
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 05:21 PM (qRoBZ)
Jay Powell is an unscrupulous Bond villain of a fed chair. Asshole propped Biden's saggy balls up to take a crap for 4 years and does nothing but hamstring Trump at every turn.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 05:21 PM (IifOV)
Trump is still going to replace Powell next year.
We'll probably be seeing another rate cut shortly afterwards.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 05:22 PM (6ydKt)
American savings are in the shitter because you hardly make any interest and then they tax you on the little interest you do get.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 05:22 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 05:22 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Fritz at December 10, 2025 05:22 PM (k3OpT)
How is that pronounced?
MAH-ah-ah
Mah-AH-ah
Mah-ah-AH
Or is it just one big shout of MAAAAAAH! like Will Ferrell in "Wedding Crashers" when he's shouting at his mom wondering where tf is the meatloaf?
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 10, 2025 05:22 PM (P5BPp)
Award winners? How about something from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contests (sadly defunct, now)?
Posted by: Paco at December 10, 2025 05:22 PM (2L+MU)
You'd think wrong.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2025 05:23 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: cherries in season at December 10, 2025 05:23 PM (0XI+v)
*We were Gaslit into believing john hinkley tried to assassinate Reagan for jodi fucking foster. Bullfuckingshit. Oh, he's just insane, they said. FUCK YOU.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:15 PM (H1HTt)
Is there a "real reason" other than him being a Democrat?
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to fix what Lil Pooky broke at December 10, 2025 05:24 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 05:24 PM (qRoBZ)
Maybe bringing gas, and therefore transportation, costs will be enough to hide that.
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Yeah its a multifactorial equation for sure. Oil is a big factor. Tarriffs are a factor but have other effects- Trade balance shifts, increased demand for domestic sources. Its a very interesting economic juggeling act.
Posted by: Voters at December 10, 2025 05:24 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 05:24 PM (cYBz/)
The dollar is on the ground bleeding out with the FED's knife in its back.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 10, 2025 05:24 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 05:25 PM (g47mK)
AND out of control inflation.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 10, 2025 05:25 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: Paco
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His bills don't kick in until Jan. 1,. It will take at least three months before its effects begin to reach us.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 05:25 PM (Hm8Vv)
He has named his Achilles Heel... Hold your prices, Comrades!
Posted by: The Left Media-Corporate Alliance at December 10, 2025 05:25 PM (0ZmKh)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 10, 2025 05:26 PM (1N/bM)
Firing him is a waste of political capital as his term is up 5/15/26
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 05:26 PM (D+mpw)
American savings are in the shitter because you hardly make any interest and then they tax you on the little interest you do get.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 05:22 PM (KDPiq)
The folks pushing for lower interest rates don't care that you behave responsibly and save for a rainy day. They want everyone incentivized into spending every penny they earn right now, and better yet, borrowing to get by (which seems easier when people hear 'lower rates').
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 05:26 PM (vSvIl)
Fake News cranked up their scare-mongering against Reagan in 1980 -- saying he'll ruin everything, kill us all, etc.
Of Course they were trying to get Reagan killed or scare him out of the race. That's how John Hinkley got all jazzed up -- by the Fake News.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:27 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: runner
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So, forget history?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 05:27 PM (Hm8Vv)
If we could get those three problems under control we'd be set for some decent growth.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 05:27 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 05:28 PM (qRoBZ)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 10, 2025 05:28 PM (0IwHf)
How is there "more" lending? They already lend out everything. If there's more demand for loans (real or as an excuse) they'll just raise their rates.
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 05:28 PM (0ZmKh)
So in today's NRO Morning Jolt by Jim Geraghty, he said Trump's affordability message (in last night's PA speech) was: buy less dolls. Kids don't need so many dolls. These NRO guys seem to nitpick everything Trump says.
Posted by: beckster
Fewer dolls.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 05:29 PM (pkeXY)
Like the next time they buy whatever.
But Democrat increases in the same vein are... "transitory." In that it will take some undetermined number of months/years to see some change that benefits them.
The sad part? A lot of the public are willing to wait for 10, 20 or 100 years.
As long as the Democrats are in charge.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 05:29 PM (NwnyJ)
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"The poors" shouldn't be using credit cards at all, since the money they waste on interest means what little income they have doesn't go as far.
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 05:29 PM (vSvIl)
Oh, I forgot to take my vitamin D. Sorry, Oregon winters are brutally dark, and so my mood is too.
Posted by: SciVo at December 10, 2025 05:29 PM (Sy6m/)
I agree. Even if true, it won't move the needle with respect to most people's perceptions of the current scene.
Posted by: Paco at December 10, 2025 05:29 PM (2L+MU)
Wow. With 9% "inflation", that's....
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 05:24 PM (qRoBZ)
Not at the time. But put more money in the economy and the more risk of inflation. It’s a delicate balancing act.
But printing more dollars and raising rates was insane.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 05:29 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: runner
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So, forget history?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 05:27 PM (Hm8Vv)
People who do not remember history are Leftists.
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 05:30 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 10, 2025 05:30 PM (yhEB+)
*looks at fifty million illegals*
How's he going to do all that?
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 05:30 PM (0ZmKh)
I don't think Bessent, Trump and the rest of his economic team pushing for lower rates want everyone to act irresponsibly. High interest rates aren't virtuous just because they are high. There's a balance. There can be both lower rates and responsible financial actions.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 05:30 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 05:31 PM (pDt9x)
Printing yes.
Raising Rates is actually the Pill we need. Bitter though it is.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 05:31 PM (TR2dy)
Award winners? How about something from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contests (sadly defunct, now)?
Posted by: Paco at December 10, 2025
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Or some of Bulwer-Lytton's actual work?
I want these people to think I'm smart.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:31 PM (wzUl9)
Now I'm picturing President Trump showing up at the SOTU wearing an outrageously feathered cap like Bartholomew Cubbins.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 05:32 PM (ESVrU)
Not the point. Some changes take time...
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 05:32 PM (qRoBZ)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 10, 2025 05:32 PM (fGaR0)
Insane to do it at the same time. It defeated the purpose of raising rates.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 05:33 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Jackson at December 10, 2025 05:33 PM (J9q9v)
Your math checks out, but you didn't give a reason.
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 05:33 PM (0ZmKh)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 05:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Headband like Fauxcahantis?
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 05:33 PM (qRoBZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:34 PM (wzUl9)
AND out of control inflation.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law
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That's more dollars chasing the same goods and services. However if you also have more goods and services those dollars are not competing with each other; therefore no inflation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 05:34 PM (Hm8Vv)
Headband like Fauxcahantis?
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 05:33 PM (qRoBZ)
He called it Macaroni.
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 05:34 PM (pDt9x)
1980
I mentioned yesterday that 1980 is my personal "benchmark" for the beginning of the "modern era."
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:34 PM (H1HTt)
Bring the price of beef down and everyone will notice.
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:34 PM (W7XSX)
Doing what I want him to do.
When I want him to do.
How I want him to do it.
Might as well add in...
Where I want him to do it, because everybody knows I am an expert at everything and drumpf is just a toopid doodyhead!
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 10, 2025 05:35 PM (pcnhy)
Bring the price of beef down and everyone will notice.
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:34 PM (W7XSX)
Feed prices are an issue.
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 05:35 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 05:26 PM
That's pretty much the chamber of commerce plan. Everyone spends their paychecks before they get them and max out those credit cards.
Actually saving money is for suckers because the average savings account doesn't even pay 2% unless you have big bucks to put in the account up front and meet all sorts of minimum deposit requirements.
As a plan goes it certainly does benefit the top 1% that came up with the plan.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 05:35 PM (0N4FZ)
That is worth explaining - American companies develop the drug, for say $10 billion. They need to make $10 billion + back to make it worthwhile. They also only have 10-15 years of patent protection before the drug is available for generics, so they have to make that back quick.
They calculate out how many doses they are likely to sell, divided by $10 billion, and figure out what they can sell the drug per dose. Say it is $50.
Along comes Great Briton, with socialized medicine. They say, we won't pay $50 a dose, we'll pay $10. Also, if you don't give it to us for $10, we'll not uphold the patent, and give away the formula to anyone, and get it as a generic for $10 anyway. So, GB gets if for $10. The drug companies then raise the cost for Americans to $90/dose, to cover what GB didn't pay. And so on. It's WHY drugs cost less in other countries - they force Americans to pay the full freight for development. If every country paid a little more for new drugs, we would pay a LOT less.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 10, 2025 05:36 PM (C3IAS)
How is there "more" lending? They already lend out everything. If there's more demand for loans (real or as an excuse) they'll just raise their rates.
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 05:28 PM (0ZmKh)
What are you talking about? The only economic benefit of lower rates is that businesses are more willing to borrow (towards productive ventures), which eventually leads to more productivity. That means there is more lending going on.
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 05:36 PM (vSvIl)
Well, then fix Feed prices.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:36 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:36 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 05:37 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 05:37 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 05:37 PM (sDNVV)
We just had the best Black Friday spending in history. Sometimes we are guilty of believing the bullshit the media puts out.
The reason we are in this mess is because Biden decided to crush the power production capability while simultaneously flooding the economy with billions for the idiotically named Inflation Reduction Act and other out of control spending on green energy and other doomed projects.
Trump's team has been working on this stuff. We didn't get falling gas prices by magic. But it takes time not just for policies to kick in but also for perceptions to kick in. We'll see where we are in a few months.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 05:37 PM (viF8m)
Yeah, because that's what everyone purchases most...
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 05:37 PM (qRoBZ)
Posted by: Jeff Carter (@pointsnfigures1) at December 10, 2025 05:37 PM (ZiwLX)
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at December 10, 2025 05:37 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:38 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: garrett
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Trump is the man with the plan. Go with the plan.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 05:38 PM (Hm8Vv)
My choice is Ringworld by Larry Niven, from 1970. Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards in the same year. I'm the one who talks about books published before some of these people were even *born.*
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:19 PM (wzUl9)
I liked that book, though later Niven undid the theme in the sequel. I didn't read any of the later books. Niven had a lot of novel ideas but tended to write himself into corners. His collaborations with Pournelle tended to be better.
Lois Bujold won a mess of Hugos in the late 80s/90s. She's a good author if you need more ideas.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 05:39 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 05:37 PM (sDNVV)
You mean he’s not the wish Fairy, or Santa Claus, or a lamp Genie?
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 05:39 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 05:39 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:39 PM (H1HTt)
Trump has reduced inflation to its historical norm but to reduce prices would require significant deflation which I don't think he will do.
But he should be making the point that Biden gave trillions to immigrants and that's why many thing cost double what they did in 2019.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 05:39 PM (sKqQm)
The drug thing is especially icky - they are playing with people's lives. Some Americans will DIE because the drug price was too high - nobody outside the U.S. gives a shit. They want the drug a buck cheaper than what we pay.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 10, 2025 05:39 PM (C3IAS)
Having 4 meat processing companies dominating 80%+ of the meat industry is also a problem.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 05:39 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 05:31 PM (TR2dy)
It might stabilize the dollar and provide savers with more interest but it would hammer the economy for a few years getting all of that back to balance.
Corporations were living off of basically free money since 2008.
Since 2021 they've seen that spigot completely cut off and then the layoffs & mergers started.
AI bubble is keeping the stock market indexes up, though.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 05:40 PM (6ydKt)
I'd bet $1000 cash that most don't know that...
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 05:40 PM (qRoBZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:40 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:36 PM (ufetp)
I just bought a number of Nolan Ryan beef products.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 05:40 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:40 PM (H1HTt)
I recall 1980 well. I was busy framing houses in Houston in what was the hottest summer since 1936. 21 days of heat over 100 deg. By the end of 1982 Mexico took over the task of construction in Texas so I went to college.
Posted by: DanMan at December 10, 2025 05:41 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:41 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2025 05:41 PM (3uBP9)
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There can be snow and thunder, too.
What matters is the incentives you're creating.
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 05:41 PM (vSvIl)
Bring the price of beef down and everyone will notice.
Posted by: no one
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That bull is exhausted, his dick is dragging the ground.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 05:42 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 10, 2025 05:36 PM (C3IAS)
Blame Canada.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 05:42 PM (6ydKt)
Exactly my point. Things aren't as gloomy as the left and their partners in the media would have everyone believe.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 05:42 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (ExV1e)
You been talking to Mrs D?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 05:42 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 05:42 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:42 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 05:39 PM (sKqQm)
YES. people don't get that - deflation is MUCH more dangerous than inflation. The only solution to Biden's inflation is increasing wages over the rate of inflation.
That said, some prices have come down this year, some quite significantly. I have been modestly surprised this Christmas by some of the things that have gotten cheaper than there have been recently.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 10, 2025 05:43 PM (C3IAS)
MAH-ah-ah
Mah-AH-ah
Mah-ah-AH
I like the first one. With just a little inflection on the first syllable, it could be a cartoon villain laugh.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 05:43 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 05:30 PM (viF8m)
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Correct. Interest rates pale in terms of increasing the money supply next to massive deficit spending.
It is possible to lower interest rates without inflation if one cuts government spending and balances the budget.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 10, 2025 05:43 PM (ZOv7s)
If only Republicans controlled Congress...
why, they could pass bills to improve the economy for Americans...
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:44 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2025 05:41 PM (3uBP9)
Not sure how burning down your home base city and cutting off your genitals goes into the master plan, but you do you.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 05:44 PM (8avO+)
Anyway, there it is. Let the economists smack this post around like a piñata.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 05:44 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:44 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 05:44 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: National Cattlemens Beef Association at December 10, 2025 05:45 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: DanMan at December 10, 2025 05:41 PM (8uzBS)
1980, my grandpa who lived in central Wisconsin got me a job driving farm equipment that summer, it was pretty fun. I would write letters back to my friends here in Texas and Louisiana, and say "Hey Wisconsin is really nice this summer! It was even cool enough to have a fire the other morning!"
Posted by: Famous lines from Blackadder at December 10, 2025 05:45 PM (uWKK8)
Agreed. Our daily living expenses have flattened or even decreased, but to listen to the news, we're 2 weeks from bankruptcy or something.
FWIW, Prime well trimmed brisket was $5/lb at costco a few hours ago...
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 05:45 PM (qRoBZ)
Of course. But low rates don't necessarily imply bad incentives. Lots of people living in homes thanks to lower interest rates. I'm told younger people would like to buy homes. Seems like a good idea.
Lower rates also incentivize economic activity which means higher stock prices. There's nothing sacred about CDs. Find investments with better returns based on market conditions.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 05:45 PM (viF8m)
I want these people to think I'm smart.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
May I suggest selected classic verse from J. Gordon Coogler?
Posted by: Miklos got Cultcha at December 10, 2025 05:46 PM (N7hqt)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 05:46 PM (pDt9x)
I dunno, maybe make it Illegal for fucking filthy foreigners to own major parts of our Food Supply.
Why does china "own" anything in the USA?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:46 PM (H1HTt)
they're fine. you just gotta mix in some candy corn to make 'em palatable.
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 05:47 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 05:47 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 05:40 PM
We are just starting this bubble. The dot com bubble lasted for almost five years. But when it broke it reset the entire economy overnight. The ai bubble is going to be worse I suspect.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 05:47 PM (0N4FZ)
FWIW, Prime well trimmed brisket was $5/lb at costco a few hours ago...
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 05:45 PM (qRoBZ)
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See also: homelessness is only a problem with Republican presidents.
Weird how no one worried about "affordability" when it was collapsing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 10, 2025 05:47 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:48 PM (ufetp)
Trump is the man with the plan. Go with the plan.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025
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Or, as Reagan put it, "Stay the course."
(Did he actually say that? I was not a politics person back then. Though I recall someone at work goofing on it and saying, "Stay the Curse!")
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:48 PM (wzUl9)
If Things went "the other way" in 2024, Beef would be 2X as much right now, and they'd pushing BUGS on us as "alternative" "source" of "protein."
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:48 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 05:48 PM (uWKK8)
Of course. But low rates don't necessarily imply bad incentives. Lots of people living in homes thanks to lower interest rates. I'm told younger people would like to buy homes. Seems like a good idea.
Lower rates also incentivize economic activity which means higher stock prices. There's nothing sacred about CDs. Find investments with better returns based on market conditions.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 05:45 PM (viF8m)
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This. Plus, the idea that we should target interest rates to benefit CDs is … not a good one.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 10, 2025 05:49 PM (yhEB+)
Also Shrinkflation ain’t going away.
F’ing Ivy League MBAs.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 05:49 PM (KDPiq)
I am an Indian Princess from the Hekawis Tribe and demand respect !!!!!
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren
You're no Silver Dove!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 05:49 PM (pkeXY)
Anyway, there it is. Let the economists smack this post around like a piñata.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 05:44 PM (Dv3i1)
The inflation started after a year of subsidy spending with checks to everybody, supply chain shocks causing shortages, and then another trillion more of spending.
It was an usual set of coinciding circumstances that caused it all, which is why the inflation hit so quickly as opposed to the inflation of the 70s - early 80s which was a slow burn due to excessive government spending on Vietnam and social spending increases with the Great Society.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 05:49 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 10, 2025 05:49 PM (Da7Vv)
(Did he actually say that? I was not a politics person back then. Though I recall someone at work goofing on it and saying, "Stay the Curse!")
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
SNL (Dana Carvey) parody of Bush in 1991 pulled that shit.
"Stay the course."
"Thousand points of light."
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:49 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 05:50 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: DanMan at December 10, 2025 05:41 PM (8uzBS)
1980, my grandpa who lived in central Wisconsin got me a job driving farm equipment that summer, it was pretty fun. I would write letters back to my friends here in Texas and Louisiana, and say "Hey Wisconsin is really nice this summer! It was even cool enough to have a fire the other morning!"
Posted by: Famous lines from Blackadder at December 10, 2025 05:45 PM (uWKK
I think that was the year i had a summer job with Manpower doing odd jobs. One was to meet on the Ohio River Bank and meet the Delta Queen Riverboat and unload luggage from the staterooms over the plank to the bricked surfaced landing and set it down for the passengers. Pretty fun for a history buff.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 05:50 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 05:50 PM (Dv3i1)
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How did that approach play out in 2008?
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 05:50 PM (vSvIl)
I hope the tax rates themselves come down a bit, too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:16 PM
Correct. I just looked that up because I wasn't sure myself. But the income still gets added to my AGI. With some capital gains and income from a part-time job, the SS income pushes me into a higher bracket. I'm looking forward to seeing the final effect on my taxes.
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 10, 2025 05:50 PM (rbKZ6)
Removal of illegals. That would tend to drive unemployment down. It would also depress prices for things like housing (2 million less people need 500,000 fewer houses), but also might increase inflation, since Americans need to be paid more than illegals to do the same jobs.
Overall - better. But over the short term, who knows?
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 10, 2025 05:50 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 05:51 PM (sDNVV)
More houses to buy at better earnings to cost ratio. Lower monthly payment because of lower interest.
Builder can build more and cheaper because the cost of borrowing money is less.
Same with all small business which is hardest hit by high interest and at same time is biggest job creator.
Lower cost of money benefits everyone.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 05:51 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 05:51 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 05:48 PM (uWKK
Thought you just needed cows and bulls to do that.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 05:51 PM (8avO+)
Lois Bujold won a mess of Hugos in the late 80s/90s. She's a good author if you need more ideas.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025
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Ringworld]/i] has adventure, aliens, humor, sense of wonder, a mystery solved by the lead character -- just about everything you could ask for. Niven himself admitted that it got harder to write Known Space stories later, because of all the near-magical engineering assumptions and restrictions he'd given himself such as the three days-per-light year starship speed. But ah, they were vivid and colorful!
While I'm at the library tonight, I'll look for Lois McMaster Bujold.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:52 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2025 05:52 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:52 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 10, 2025 05:49 PM (yhEB+
Who said that? But the reality is Americans live paycheck to paycheck and have a low rate of savings. There is no incentive to save at all. It’s been a ticking time bomb like the 20’s with so much outstanding credit.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 05:52 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:53 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Ben Had
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Cattle say nom nom better than grazing. mmm nom nom
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 05:53 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 10, 2025 05:49 PM
Yep and wait until the fed starts shedding treasury securities and mortgage notes starting next spring in an attempt to influence the election.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 05:53 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Eromero at December 10, 2025 05:53 PM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:54 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 05:54 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:54 PM (ufetp)
I'm told younger people would like to buy homes. Seems like a good idea.
I thought they all wanted to rent apartments and take Uber rides?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 05:54 PM (pkeXY)
I'd prefer the redhead...
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 05:55 PM (qRoBZ)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 05:55 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 05:54 PM (vSvIl)
The banking system would collapse for one thing.
They all depend on some interest just to keep the lights on and the money flowing.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 05:56 PM (6ydKt)
Paul Volker raised interest rates to kill it.
Reagan released the price of oil to find its market price.
Within 18 months, inflation was beat and the economy was sailing.
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:56 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:56 PM (ufetp)
In Taylor Sheridan's world, they're all mass-murdering, scheming, gay cowboys who like to do gay horse tricks.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:56 PM (H1HTt)
AWFLs who are AWFL
Are there AWFLest people in the world
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Kentucky State Rep. Sarah Stalker (D) says that she "doesn't feel good about being white every day," claims Whites have "privilege," and that children should be taught to feel bad about their skin color.
This woman is an elected official...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 05:56 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: beckster
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No way!! That NRO crew are fags!!!!
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 10, 2025 05:57 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 10, 2025 05:57 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 05:50 PM (vSvIl)
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I hate to break it to you, it wasn't low rates that led to the meltdown, it was unqualified buyers who were terrible credit risks. Pushed by racial quotas.
If you think low interest rates caused that, I don't know what to say.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 10, 2025 05:57 PM (ZOv7s)
You snark but I wouldn’t doubt they use them for feed at hog farms. I remember a doc that showed left over Buffett food and scraps were sold or given to local pig farmers.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 05:57 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:57 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 05:57 PM (qRoBZ)
Posted by: the way I see it
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If you're living paycheck to paycheck CDs are of no concern to you.
Two things: If you're living paycheck to paycheck you're spilling money somewhere. Trinkets
CD's are not an investment plan. Investment plans are available everywhere. If you don't have a recommendation ask AI. It's a start.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 05:57 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 05:58 PM (KDPiq)
Reagan released the price of oil to find its market price.
Within 18 months, inflation was beat and the economy was sailing.
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:56 PM (W7XSX)
So much depends on the price of energy.
It's the basic cost nobody can avoid.
The Oil Shocks of the 70s also caused a lot of the inflation.
That's why 'renewables' aren't a bad idea if they were actually scalable and worked 24/7 without the need for battery storage and backup generation.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 05:59 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:59 PM (ufetp)
Paul Volker raised interest rates to kill it.
Reagan released the price of oil to find its market price.
Within 18 months, inflation was beat and the economy was sailing.
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:56 PM (W7X
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Don't forget Reagan also cut as much as he could from the federal budget, further reducing the money supply. It was a multi-faceted approach.
Pretty much the epitome of a V-shaped recession.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 10, 2025 05:59 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 05:59 PM (D+mpw)
Kentucky State Rep. Sarah Stalker (D) says that she "doesn't feel good about being white every day
She should compromise and be White every other day.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 05:59 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 05:55 PM (qRoBZ)
The one who plays his daughter? She is a smokeshow. You have good taste.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 05:59 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: NCKate at December 10, 2025 06:00 PM (uQzkA)
Kentucky State Rep. Sarah Stalker (D) says that she "doesn't feel good about being white every day
She should compromise and be White every other day.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 05:59 PM (pkeXY)
Sounds like a fun girl.
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 06:00 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:00 PM (sDNVV)
Once again, you are only looking at one element of a large complex system. Any first year economics student knows that increasingly the money supply while doing nothing else will increase inflation. But Trump's team is not just pushing for lower rates.
They are also reducing government spending. They are making lower energy prices possible. They are removing millions of illegals that drive demand. They are going after the meat processing cartel that is adding to increase prices for meat. And on and on.
I feel pretty comfortable that Bessent and team aren't idiots and understand the complexities of our economy far better than I do. This is not W's or Obama's team running the country and its kind of silly to pretend it is just because of interest rates.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 06:00 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 05:54 PM (vSvIl)
The banking system would collapse for one thing.
They all depend on some interest just to keep the lights on and the money flowing.
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When I was still in the game a 2% spread was about what one was looking for. If deposits were being paid around 5% and loans were carrying 7% note rates, that was a more or less balanced system.
Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at December 10, 2025 06:00 PM (TN0g+)
I’m doing quite well thank you and lead a stress free financial life. Condescending pri…
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 06:00 PM (KDPiq)
I thought they all wanted to rent apartments and take Uber rides?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025
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That's second choice, when they find they can't buy that $2 million mansion.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 06:00 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:56 PM (ufetp)
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They are completely untrustworthy. It's who they are.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 10, 2025 06:00 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump
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Classic short squeeze in silver added by momentum. Everyone wants physical silver yet probably more silver contracts have been sold than metal exists to cover them.
Silver has a lot less to do with the dollar. Minor changes versus foreign exchange mainly due to the 1/4 pt cut.
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 10, 2025 06:01 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:52 PM (wzUl9)
Well there was *something* that was faster, since somebody flew towards the galactic center far enough to find out that it had had a chain reaction explosion that was gonna hit in 50-100 thousand years. So the cowardly Puppeteers started running NOW.
see what I mean about writing into corners? Though the Pak flight was a plot point in Ringworld.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:01 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 06:01 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 06:01 PM (W7XSX)
She should compromise and be White every other day.
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She should just retire from public life--she's obviously not in a mentally sound place from which to lead.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 06:02 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 06:02 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:56 PM (ufetp)
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They are completely untrustworthy. It's who they are.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd a
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Difference is that Trump will do something about it, other presidents bent over and took it when Chicoms played us for patsies.
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 10, 2025 06:02 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 06:02 PM (pDt9x)
She should compromise and be White every other day.
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She should just retire from public life--she's obviously not in a mentally sound place from which to lead.
Posted by: Crusader
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They can now do very dark with spray tans.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 06:03 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 10, 2025 05:59 PM (ZOv7s)
Nope. His cuts were balanced by increases in defense spending. I think the federal budget actually went up.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 06:03 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 06:03 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:03 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 06:03 PM (WDjG6)
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Compare notes with "Rachel Dolezal"!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 10, 2025 06:04 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 06:04 PM (pDt9x)
I hate to break it to you, it wasn't low rates that led to the meltdown, it was unqualified buyers who were terrible credit risks. Pushed by racial quotas.
If you think low interest rates caused that, I don't know what to say.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd a
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Completing that thought - - Loans, forced by the government (Obama/Biden), to unqualified buyers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 06:04 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 06:04 PM (W7XSX)
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Absolutely correct. And feeble internal audit programs and feeble external (regulatory) audit programs and CPA firms that were devoid of talent and/or paid-off by the firms they were "independently" auditing.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 06:05 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 06:01 PM (ufetp)
And of course Vegans dispense with the "renewable" foods vegetarians use - milk, eggs, etc just to make things even more difficult, mostly for themselves.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:05 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 06:05 PM (Xac3k)
Posted by: volkswagen at December 10, 2025 06:05 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:05 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 06:03 PM (n9ltV)
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Right, he cut as much as he could, as opposed to creating new departments and social spending.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 10, 2025 06:06 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Classic Tractor Fever at December 10, 2025 06:06 PM (oftw2)
pez dispenser > vegan dispenser
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 06:06 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: pawn
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And all of the, well, Canadian bacon.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 06:06 PM (XeU6L)
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They wouldn’t have made a loan to those same unqualified buyers if the rate was higher.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 06:07 PM (KDPiq)
If you think low interest rates caused that, I don't know what to say.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 10, 2025 05:57 PM (ZOv7s)
What ultimately caused that was the effort to sucker anybody at all into taking loans, just because you want to see more lending activity. Which is the incentive that lower rates provide.
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 06:07 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 06:07 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: the way I see it
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One thing that concerns me are the demogogues that will rile up this large group of people and loot my modest savings for redistribution. I live rather modestly and made sacrifices. I don't want to see paycheck to paycheck people in their California ranch homes they are paying a $2mm mortgage on, their jumbo SUVs, truck and TV drooling greedily over my 401k.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 06:07 PM (Dv3i1)
Completing that thought - - Loans, forced by the government (Obama/Biden), to unqualified buyers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 06:04 PM (Hm8Vv)
Guatemalan toilet scrubbers should own two homes, hater.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at December 10, 2025 06:07 PM (P7vXf)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 06:01 PM
Somebody is buying up precious metals at an alarming rate. I am sitting on a bunch of silver that I paid less than $20 an ounce about 5 years ago and now it is $60 an ounce That is one heck of a return rate if I decide to sell. Problem is I will have to use one of the big online buyers as no one local can take what I have.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 06:07 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 06:07 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: the way I see it
We still pay for people to Not Grow crops on their acres, so if lack of corn was a problem, maybe start there. imo the point of ethanol was to keep corn prices from collapsing.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 10, 2025 06:07 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Maryjane Cuthbertson-Klein from Grotot, CT at December 10, 2025 06:08 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 06:08 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 06:08 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 06:01 PM (ufetp)
to make matters worse, it's difficult to get the amino acids we can't make internally from plant sources. But one piece of meat has them in it.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:08 PM (8avO+)
As long as Fannie and Freddie were buying every mortgage they could get their paws on they would've given a crackhead a loan.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 06:08 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Doomers gonna doom and a lot of that doom comes from excessive media consumption.
But as an econ grad, I would rate your comments as true. There are always lagging effects yet the public always behaves like Veruca Salt. "I want my great economy NOW, Daddy Trump, Now!!!!!"
True in Reagan I, True in GWB I, True in Maggie Thatcher in UK although it took several years there, and even True in Millei's Argentina.
Lagging effects and that the Fed, as always is too fast or too slow with its actions. Simply put, they are usually the last to catch onto whatever current economic conditions are because they are overeducated twats.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 06:09 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 06:01 PM
Somebody is buying up precious metals at an alarming rate. I am sitting on a bunch of silver that I paid less than $20 an ounce about 5 years ago and now it is $60 an ounce That is one heck of a return rate if I decide to sell. Problem is I will have to use one of the big online buyers as no one local can take what I have.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 06:07 PM (0N4FZ)
Slowly. One silver dime, at a time.
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 06:09 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Hatfield Packing Co. at December 10, 2025 06:09 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 06:04 PM (W7XSX)
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It's complicated, but yes, because a lot of defense expenditures result in long-term gains like ships that last for decades. There is also heavy machinery and manufacturing, which has civilian applications. Pure social spending is literally paying people to do nothing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 10, 2025 06:09 PM (ZOv7s)
Then supply and demand is not a reason for high feed prices?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 06:09 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 06:10 PM (ufetp)
My neighbor had some cows get loose and they roamed my property for a month or more. I read if they eat too many soybeans it could kill them. But they usually will moderate with grasses, if they have that option.
idk the details on that ... but the cows scared of the deer till they finally caught them a mile away or so.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 10, 2025 06:10 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 06:01 PM (W7XSX)
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If they are buying someone else is selling.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 06:10 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 06:11 PM (pDt9x)
The TX D primary is lit, yo.
It's between a racist black "lawyer" who hates white people, and a queer (who pretends to like "porn stars") who hates jews.
The supporters of each candidate are hilarious: Crockett supporters say Talarico is too white, and Talarico supporters say Crockett likes Israel too much.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:11 PM (H1HTt)
As long as Fannie and Freddie were buying every mortgage they could get their paws on they would've given a crackhead a loan.
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Yep. And as I said above, internal audits were both lacking and incompetent, external (regulatory) audits were both lacking and incompetent, and the Big 6/Big 8 whatever the accounting firms were collectively called back in that period were incompetent and sometimes incahoots with the outfits they were "independently" auditing.
Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at December 10, 2025 06:11 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Boss Moss
What about the Shit in Shinola?
Posted by: Mazola Corn Goodness at December 10, 2025 06:12 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 06:12 PM (ufetp)
see what I mean about writing into corners? Though the Pak flight was a plot point in Ringworld.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025
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Yeah, that was the Quantum II hyperdrive that would do a light-year in 1.25 minutes. The puppeteers admitted the ship was a failure; it was mostly machinery and had room for only one or two people in it.
"At the Core" was the first LN story I ever read, and said, "Why can't there be more SF like that?" I didn't know he was writing more of it right then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 06:12 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 06:04 PM (Hm8Vv)
Yep.
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 10, 2025 06:12 PM (rbKZ6)
Laugh at Oh, Canada all you want but I'm betting Justin Trudeau and his boyfriend are all snuggled up together in some warm place with Katy Perry pleading with him to go out and get photographed.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 06:13 PM (Y8DZL)
Compare notes with "Rachel Dolezal"!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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No dead-naming!
She's now Nkechi Amare Diallo.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 06:13 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 06:10 PM (ufetp)
And since it also sucks as a food oil, it is aptly named.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 06:13 PM (n9ltV)
CNN: You said Latinos who voted for Trump have a slave mentality...
CROCKETT: That's not what I said at all.
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Yes, Sugartits, that's what you said.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 06:13 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 06:08 PM (viF8m)
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Yep. The interest rates were essentially irrelevant because the people getting the loans had no idea what they were doing. All they saw was ZERO DOWN and were told that "real estate always goes up" so they could just keep pulling "equity" out of their home forever.
And the banks were told MORE LOANS TO THE POORS! Increasing homeownership was a specific priority, and Bush targeted a specific rate, which he wanted to reach.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 10, 2025 06:13 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: JackStraw
I once got into it (mildly) with my priest after mass when he said greedy banks were what got us into economic problems back in '08. I tried to tell him it was govt. policy. But, technically Fannie and Freddie are banks, it's in the name. Too subtle a distinction for him, between govt and banks, which is fair. I learned to take it easy.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 06:13 PM (Dv3i1)
https://tinyurl.com/mv9zxwwa
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 10, 2025 06:14 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: no one
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Lot of liars and AI slop on YT along with hair on fire to get clicks. Basically gold does better as a shield, not as a replacement, against inflation as a commodity. Classic hedge. It is awful to hold when deflation takes place and that is what is occurring in China right now, Russia, on the other hand is selling all it mines and perhaps more due to fiscal problems. Neither are big silver buyers. India has a traditional of silver and gold jewelry being used as a hedge against uncertainty and booming economy means more demands there.
Silver has a weird relationship with gold in that it tracks gold sometimes and sometimes not.
But in this case, I think it is a classic short squeeze like what happened on Gamestop. Hedge funds trading naked silver contracts without the means to cover them. Been rumored that big metal traders have been naughty that way.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 06:14 PM (WDjG6)
I'm saying if they opened more acres, it would increase supply, lower prices. Last year farmers were complaining about Low Prices for corn. idk exactly, around $4.50 I think.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 10, 2025 06:14 PM (vbXSk)
Classic short squeeze in silver added by momentum. Everyone wants physical silver yet probably more silver contracts have been sold than metal exists to cover them.
Silver has a lot less to do with the dollar. Minor changes versus foreign exchange mainly due to the 1/4 pt cut.
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli
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There are plans to mint a Trump silver dollar.
Democrats are resisting.
They would be sold at a premium as our current silvers are.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 06:14 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:15 PM (sDNVV)
You give someone Food stamps, only the grocery stores and supply chain benefit. The multiplier effect of 90% is crap.
A multiplier effect of 500% is much better.
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 06:15 PM (W7XSX)
*hands start shaking*
Now I'm worried about inflation. The economy will overheat. Weimar II! We're all going to dieeeeeeee!!!!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 06:15 PM (tgvbd)
You wanted a million dollar house
You'd settle for a 250k bungalow
You get to pay 2 million dollars in rent on a 2 bedroom apartment.
Posted by: Michael Angelo at December 10, 2025 06:16 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 06:12 PM (wzUl9)
I think my first was "Neutron Star" out of a collection of SF Awards stories.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:16 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 06:16 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 06:16 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at December 10, 2025 06:11 PM
I had a single E4 get two mortgages on two different houses during that period without any paperwork other than her LES. Fact was she could not afford either house but got high pressured into buying both as investment properties with zero down.
She was told that if she kept them for 6-8 months and made the minimum interest only payments she could sell them for way more than she bought them for. She lost that bet and also lost both houses and pretty much destroyed her credit rating for the next 30 years.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 06:16 PM (0N4FZ)
I don't want to see paycheck to paycheck people in their California ranch homes they are paying a $2mm mortgage on, their jumbo SUVs, truck and TV drooling greedily over my 401k.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
This is s the story of the ants and the grasshoppers.
Fuck the grasshoppers.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 10, 2025 06:17 PM (G6LBI)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
No, you did right. You have to rough up a priest every now and again, keeps them from getting soft.
Posted by: Father Groppi, The Fighting Priest at December 10, 2025 06:17 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 05:25 PM (g47mK)
Pffft. By 1955 we had 7 VHF channels, three more if one could pick up the Philly stations with a rotor. By the early 70's push button phones. Still have a wall phone from 1971.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 10, 2025 06:17 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:18 PM (H1HTt)
That and hope it isn't enough to restart the inflation! Yay!
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 06:18 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 06:18 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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While fake credentials have pissed on the idea of expertise, never the less, it exists and a priest is not a specialist in the economy anymore than a parishioner an expert in theology.
Skeptical to experts that proclaim things that do not make common sense; but willing to accept expertise after testing the expert. A true expert usually has some modesty in predictions, caveats, backfilling, etc. A carny expert does not.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 06:18 PM (WDjG6)
Lib goes nuclear on "ICE" at Chipotle, tells them to stop eating "brown people" food and go to Cracker Barrel
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Totally not racist at all.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 06:19 PM (L/fGl)
Do you want a ride to the train station?
Posted by: Rip Wheeler at December 10, 2025 06:19 PM (IifOV)
With Energy being the most significant input, Gold Mining has a very nice little run up coming, imo.
Even if the price continues to slide a bit.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 06:19 PM (TR2dy)
A multiplier effect of 500% is much better.
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 06:15 PM (W7XSX)
Pelosi told me welfare dollars 7X economy dollars.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:19 PM (gbOdA)
I don't want to see paycheck to paycheck people in their California ranch homes they are paying a $2mm mortgage on, their jumbo SUVs, truck and TV drooling greedily over my 401k.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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The Democrats will say that your 401K really belongs to the government. Bet on it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 06:20 PM (tgvbd)
Or is it Werewolves?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 06:18 PM (H1HTt)
Both. Vampires are sensitive to ash wood which is why it is best for the stake.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 06:20 PM (8avO+)
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Correct. As we point out in sales, if you make an assertion you become responsible for providing the burden of proof.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 06:20 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 06:20 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2025 06:21 PM (3uBP9)
With Energy being the most significant input, Gold Mining has a very nice little run up coming, imo.
Even if the price continues to slide a bit.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 06:19 PM (TR2dy)
About 20 years ago wife wanted to buy gold.
I told here buy Yellow
CAT.
She 4x in about 4 years.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 06:21 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 10, 2025 06:21 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 06:21 PM (W7XSX)
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Yes, various Democrats have already floated the idea that your 401Ks and other investments should be annually taxed, even on *unrealized* gains.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 06:22 PM (TN0g+)
Earn 40,000 in four months. Work from home. No experience necessary
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:22 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: no one at
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They've been saying that since 2010.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 06:22 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: no one
......
I've got a Bell jar full of quarters.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 06:22 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Methos at December
It was driven by Clinton's CRA. Basically if the fed came in and your loan portfolio didn't match local demographics, you were accused of discrimination.
Thus, bad loans were made to meet the criteria. More loans led to more demand led to more bad loans and increased prices which were fueled by bad loans.
Homebuilders were pulling back in late 2005 early 2006. It just took ~2 years for it to filter thru the system.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 10, 2025 06:24 PM (FxH7T)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:52 PM (wzUl9)
The hardest one to read is Mirror Dance, it is downright brutal. Start with Warrior's Apprentice, A Civil Campaign or Captain Vorpatril's Alliance to get your toes wet. She is as good a prosist as David Drake, but they are like Drake was writing Restoration novels.
her first two books in the series are a bit rough, much better than most first books, but she was still shaking out what was going on.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 06:24 PM (rbvCR)
That and hope it isn't enough to restart the inflation! Yay!
Posted by: Kindltot
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We don't have good multinational economic models because the complexity is beyond economic theory nowadays. I suspect federal deficits spending drives the inflation more than Fed reserve moves do in the US in the near term. And drop in interest rates means that US drops the deficit by refinancing to take advantage of it.
Yellen left a Treasury mess where the Feds shifted to selling short term treasuries to refinance the debt rather than the more expensive 10 year or longer. Probably 80-100 billion out of nearly a trillion bucks paid in interest for FY 2025 was due to Yellen's bullshit attempts to hide the magnitude of Democrats' wasteful spending.
Long run, the debt in the West will be monetized one way or another. You may see several defaults but Japan's Central Bank has been the leader in way out there debt to GDP ratio and now China is challenging for the title.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 06:25 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: no one
Silver is a byproduct of copper, zinc and lead mining. It is going to be a lot of extra refining to get that last tiny amount out.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 06:26 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)
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Talk about a vicious monopoly.
Credit Reporting Agencies.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 06:28 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 06:25 PM (WDjG6)
I have been watching Argentina go from the brink of another hyperinflation and national default to being able to keep their head above water economically and have a balanced budget. THAT was managing a soft landing.
They need to resolve a lot of the labor issues the Peronists put in over the last 80 years, and increase their manufacturing, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 06:30 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 06:10 PM (ufetp)
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Yeah, turns out it's hard to market RAPESEED oil to housewives.
Posted by: ballistic at December 10, 2025 06:30 PM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Methos at December
It was driven by Clinton's CRA. Basically if the fed came in and your loan portfolio didn't match local demographics, you were accused of discrimination.
Thus, bad loans were made to meet the criteria. More loans led to more demand led to more bad loans and increased prices which were fueled by bad loans.
Homebuilders were pulling back in late 2005 early 2006. It just took ~2 years for it to filter thru the system.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal
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Another aspect to the Credit Bureau. If you don't charge things, if you don't make loans and buy on credit. You have no credit rating. You may own a $500K home and an $80K car but you will have Zero credit.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 06:33 PM (Hm8Vv)
I don't put much truck in quarter percent changes in the prime rate, but I do think reindustrialization and getting rid of the drag the welfare state is forcing on us will help more. and I am willing to hold my nose and agree the change in rate was a signal moment.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 06:33 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 06:35 PM (rbvCR)
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There has been a short market in silver for a long time. Too many banks and hedge funds would go under if they were forced to deliver on short contracts. When gold collapses and takes silver with it, there will be a whole lot of traders going down.
Posted by: clarence at December 10, 2025 07:00 PM (JwHY3)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 10, 2025 07:02 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (tpjlM)
Iran May Abandon Its Capital Tehran Due to Severe Water Shortage
"I didn't do nuffin'," emails God.
This story has been brewing for a while. It's a glacially slow news day, so I'll post it.Tehran may be forced to evacuate due to a severe water crisis, with experts warning that all taps in the city could soon run dry. Officials say that the Iranian capital is facing a Day Zero moment in the near future -- when all water supplies run out.I like that, So Dramatic.
God is sitting back, filing His nails.
Iran has faced severe drought for six years, with Tehran's rainfall in the first two months of the current water year, which begins on 1 October, at near zero, leaving reservoir supplies at dangerously low levels. Officials in Tehran have undertaken a number of measures, including reducing water pressure, discussing rationing and imposing cuts. They have also suggested more radical solutions, such as evacuation or moving the capital if rain does not return. "We are talking about a few days or even weeks of water left for Tehran," Kaveh Madani, director of the UN's University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, told Canada's CBC broadcaster. "Day Zero, as we call it in the water sector, is near. It's a day that the taps would run dry." In early November, Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian warned: "If it doesn't rain in Tehran by late November, we'll have to ration water. And if it still doesn't rain, we'll have to evacuate Tehran." Typically, rain should start falling in Iran in autumn, following Iran's hot summer. But the September to November period just gone is the driest the country has seen in half a century, the National Weather Forecasting Centre has reported. Rainfall has been 89 per cent below the long-term average.
This is interesting -- Tehran's reservoirs are apparently administered by LA Mayor Karen Bass. Who knew. I've heard about a lot of Impending Disasters and most of them didn't pan out. So I'm not anticipating an abandonment of the capital. Jewish Space Weather Control Lasers Making the deserts bloom and making blooms into deserts for 60 years.
Mr Pezeshkian described the situation as "extremely critical", citing reports that Tehran's dam reservoirs have fallen to their lowest level in 60 years, some as low as 10 per cent of capacity. Officials say that in the east of Tehran, the Latyan Dam -- one of five key reservoirs -- is only about 9 per cent full. The Karaj dam, which supplies a quarter of Tehran's drinking water, is 8 per cent full.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)
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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:54 PM (ufetp)
I guess killing Jews, building nukes, and funding terrorism is more important than water.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)
You know, Blade, you're gonna get in trouble socking Sponge. There's no way the real Sponge got four firsts in a row.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (abIsI)
I guess killing Jews, building nukes, and funding terrorism is more important than water.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (n9ltV)
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Pocket change to Hezbollah. The rest into crony pockets.
No way this could lose.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)
Huh. Half a century. It's almost like climate is cyclical.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Old lady who swallowed a fly at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (pEFY5)
HA HA!
Posted by: Nelson Muntz at December 10, 2025 03:56 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (TR2dy)
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Sounds like a Europe problem, at most.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
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Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (wBaIH)
I guess killing Jews, building nukes, and funding terrorism is more important than water.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (n9ltV)
I do wonder how much water their nuke program wasted over the last couple years.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (ufetp)
This is a sign. Not a M. Night Shyamalan sign, but a sign none the less.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: garrett
Give them all Viagra and send them to London.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (abIsI)
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Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (n9ltV)
It's a damn shame, it is.
Anyway!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (rj6Yv)
Water? You're up!
Boils...you're on deck!
Locusts...you're in the hole.
Posted by: The Almighty at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (77rzZ)
-- Rango
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (iFTx/)
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We ride!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sound immigration policy at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (rj6Yv)
He refuses to be rescued by an unclean animal like Lassie.
Posted by: Flock of Persians at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (NwVwg)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (U/Byj)
A lot like California, really.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (asXVI)
Iran. I ran so far away.
Posted by: Flock of Seagulls at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (IifOV)
Reading a modern account of some current regime moving their capital because of a water shortage = shocked
Reading a modern account of some current regime moving their capital because of a water shortage but they are muslims = no longer shocked
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (TR2dy)
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Sounds like a Europe problem, at most.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
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Persian girls are hot. The Blade will take a few.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (ufetp)
I seriously think they knuckleheads thought they could remedy their water crisis by floating ice bergs down from the Arctic. There was some Arab dude in the UAE that proposed that process, but they couldn't work out the logistics.
Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Boss Moss
.......
Yeah, and they don't look like they ever bathe.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (pd4dZ)
Posted by: Sound immigration policy at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (TbWk/)
I've known a few Persian women over the years - all smoke shows.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (NgqoH)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (S/Y4j)
But I don't like falafel.
Posted by: That guy who never gets the main point at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (Riz8t)
Hot raven haired wimmins and dudes wearing way too much cologne
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (rj6Yv)
They woulda found him by now, but they stoned Lassie.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (RHGPo)
Justice Jumanji, take a note.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: Wally at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (BYHsk)
Posted by: Bedouin People at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (RHGPo)
Fatwa? More like Notwa.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (NgqoH)
Posted by: Zillow at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (Y4MsT)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (iFTx/)
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"Only hot chicks" is as valid an immigration policy as anything else I've seen proposed over the last 40 years of my life.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)
Ramming Speed!!!
Posted by: Fat guy running the galley at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Zillow at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (IifOV)
Buy low.......Sell high after the rains come.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)
You're 40?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Zillow
"I'm gonna by me a house there while it's cheap!"
-- Tucker Carlson
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Zombie Sam Kinison at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (wVcYX)
"I'm sorry Don, you're breaking up, can't hear you - something about recall our latest strike package? Think they're already over their targets. Not to worry. Everlasting peace can break out a few hours later, no biggie."
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (0ZmKh)
Posted by: Orson
I would like to see a dhow towing an iceberg up the Persian Gulf. The water temperature averages around 90 degrees f.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (Y4MsT)
I seriously think they knuckleheads thought they could remedy their water crisis by floating ice bergs down from the Arctic. There was some Arab dude in the UAE that proposed that process, but they couldn't work out the logistics.
Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 03:59 PM (dIske)
That dood probably stole the idea from Dean Koontz, who wrote a book about a team stranded on an iceberg because they were working on a project on diverting iceburgs to drought-stricken regions. "Icebound".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icebound_(novel)
Posted by: Thrawn at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (9Ovst)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)
You're 40?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)
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Dolley calls me old.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (2WIwB)
"Only hot chicks" is as valid an immigration policy as anything else I've seen proposed over the last 40 years of my life.
The idea of accepting limitless poor young males and then put them on welfare isn't your cup of tea?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (sKqQm)
"Only hot chicks" is as valid an immigration policy as anything else I've seen proposed over the last 40 years of my life.
The idea of accepting limitless poor young males and then put them on welfare isn't your cup of tea?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (sKqQm)
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Hey, we can't forget the spherical Guatemalans.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)
There was also no real bad guy. Gabriel (played very well by the underrated Esai Morales) disappeared for long stretches of the movie. The AI didn't do much but exist as some threat somewhere out there, but never interacted with the characters or tried to thwart their plans. Like a monster movie where Godzilla is attacking Tokyo, but the movie takes place in NY.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (iFTx/)
Take it up with allah, heathens.
Posted by: Clay at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (KXkjC)
Dolley calls me old.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)
I can show her old......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: spongeworthy at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (sLLbN)
"I didn't do nuffin'," emails God.
-----------------
"I don't care what da white man say ...
Jewish God is a black man."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (CveCS)
Legal Mindset on youtube endorsed 'Breeding' Visas a week or so back.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (g47mK)
Trying to think what could possibly be as valid as that...
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (0ZmKh)
There was also no real bad guy. Gabriel (played very well by the underrated Esai Morales) disappeared for long stretches of the movie. The AI didn't do much but exist as some threat somewhere out there, but never interacted with the characters or tried to thwart their plans. Like a monster movie where Godzilla is attacking Tokyo, but the movie takes place in NY.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (iFTx/)
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Ah, another man with a Paramount+ subscription...
We shall watch it this weekend. The week is for Doc Martin now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (8avO+)
Send Greta Thunberg. She'll solve it.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (ufetp)
Dolley calls me old.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)
I can show her old......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (Zz0t1)
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Mine! She's Mine!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Clay at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (KXkjC)
That's the thing- to them, this IS the will of Allah. Islam is the ultimate strong horse mindset.
And yet Israel abides.
Funny that, Allah must hate them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (zZu0s)
We shall watch it this weekend. The week is for Doc Martin now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)
The shoe guy?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Kratwurst at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (JIS8C)
Mine! She's Mine!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)
Yeah, she doesn't need any more disappointment in her life, I'm sure.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)
I dunno...would they stay "hawt" if brought over hither, or would they pick up the appearance and habits of the danger-hairs here?
The words of Hatemonger about "boobies" comes to mind.
Posted by: Thrawn at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (9Ovst)
Trying to think what could possibly be as valid as that...
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (0ZmKh)
That's what Rome did when the Sabines didn't marry their daughters to the ruffians.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)
This kind of thing always works with the ladies. Grimma Wormtongue.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (RHGPo)
Maybe they should talk to Gavin Newsome. He's an expert on this sort of thing.
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (Oy/m2)
Perhaps we could get American physicists to marry them?
/Assume you have a wife. And to make the math easier suppose she's spherical
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (sKqQm)
There was also no real bad guy. Gabriel (played very well by the underrated Esai Morales) disappeared for long stretches of the movie. The AI didn't do much but exist as some threat somewhere out there, but never interacted with the characters or tried to thwart their plans. Like a monster movie where Godzilla is attacking Tokyo, but the movie takes place in NY.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (iFTx/)
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Ah, another man with a Paramount+ subscription...
We shall watch it this weekend. The week is for Doc Martin now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)
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I have no streaming in my apartment. I watched it on 4K disc. It's a good transfer with a quality atmos soundtrack.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
I see where this thread is going: https://tinyurl.com/y5u3bwj6
Not that a thread full of Barbara Eden and other hot, scantily clad Persian girls is such a bad thing...
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 10, 2025 04:07 PM (JCZqz)
THIS IS DUE TO GERBIL WARBELING!
Remember, they're already claiming that all the illegals from Latin America are really "climate refugees".
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 10, 2025 04:07 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 04:07 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:07 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Sound immigration policy
So, no Ayatollah Colm Meaney, then.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:07 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (IifOV)
Greta von Doom. She can fix it. All it needs is lots and lots of biodegradable green dye
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 04:07 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)
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You're almost young enough to be my kid. You're not old.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (DRSnL)
This contradicts the whole storyline of Waterworld.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:04 PM (g47mK)
Too many goats and sheep showing off their naked legs...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (ynpvh)
That's what Rome did when the Sabines didn't marry their daughters to the ruffians.
There is something odd with that story as the Sabine women then tried to reconcile their new Roman husbands with their Sabine families.
One theory I've had - the Romans started as brigands at a convenient river crossing and when they converted to just charging a "tax" on merchant instead of pillaging them they became rich...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (sKqQm)
Sadiq: Yep.
Mr. Mohammed: At six feet.
Sadiq: Yep.
Mr. Mohammed: And just over there, you had to go down 227 feet to hit the same water.
Sadiq: Yep.
Mr. Mohammed: Now, how do you account for that, Mr. Sadiq?
Sadiq: Well, the way it appears to me, Mr. Mohammed... over here the water is down around six feet. And over there it's down around 227 feet.
Posted by: Mr. Mohammed Builds His Dream House at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (wVcYX)
I have no streaming in my apartment. I watched it on 4K disc. It's a good transfer with a quality atmos soundtrack.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (iFTx/)
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Ah, a man of true taste in the value of good presentation.
I tip my hat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 04:09 PM (v0R5T)
Place is funny, always always russki women shopping there when I'm there. They have a great selection of eastern Med/Balkan specialties, assume that's the reason.
Best pomegranates in town. Great baklava, though still prefer the Kurdish place out in El Cajon.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:09 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)
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You're almost young enough to be my kid. You're not old.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (DRSnL)
Indeed. But unlike what Darth told Luke, I am NOT your father...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:09 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 04:09 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Baldy at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (4/qdm)
Posted by: Sound immigration policy
So, no Ayatollah Colm Meaney, then.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:07 PM (77rzZ)
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But the Ayatollah of Rock-n-Rolla?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (ufetp)
Tehran has been expanding incredibly over the last 30 years, and much of this has been low income poorly built development. Large areas that used to allow water to percolate down to recharge the aquifers have been paved over; green areas that could discharge moisture to help cloud formation have all been built over. In short, the government has turned what was once a slightly dry area into a complete desert.
This is why everything today is "below average"; they've wrecked the local environment that kept those averages up.
I don't disagree that God had a hand; but time and again, the very worst punishments inflicted on people are the consequences of the things they choose to do to themselves.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (uWKK8)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icebound_(novel)
Posted by: Thrawn at December 10, 2025 04:03 PM (9Ovst)
There's an SF book about an independent Texas where in the first book they fight off the Russian Navy with a hydrofoil Battleship Texas converted by disabled veterans. The second book is them dragging icebergs from Antarctica using special ships to solve a huge drought.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (8avO+)
Allah's punishment for slackin' off on Joo-killin'.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2025 04:11 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:09 PM (U/Byj)
Here, of course, we have two mexican restaurants which are renowned for changing the fry oil every month or so.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 04:11 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Leftist PhD candidate at December 10, 2025 04:11 PM (pd4dZ)
Posted by: Baldy at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (4/qdm)
Texas as 30 million.
Has droughts.
Has water.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:11 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
Stich Jones stays. The Swede? I have bad news.
Posted by: Kratwurst at December 10, 2025 04:11 PM (JIS8C)
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 04:09 PM (v0R5T)
Well, hello, big boys...
https://tinyurl.com/mu8j274f
Posted by: Princess of Persia at December 10, 2025 04:12 PM (ynpvh)
Some appearances are not apparitions but based on fact.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (XMwZJ)
It's got electrolytes!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 04:12 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 04:13 PM (+Oyis)
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 04:09 PM (v0R5T)
Well, hello, big boys...
https://tinyurl.com/mu8j274f
Posted by: Princess of Persia at December 10, 2025 04:12 PM (ynpvh)
____
Nobody will ever be able to convince me that ain't a dude
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:13 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:13 PM (77rzZ)
I don't disagree that God had a hand; but time and again, the very worst punishments inflicted on people are the consequences of the things they choose to do to themselves.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (uWKK
Yes growing up our little creek had several bad almost floods. They kept calling them 100 year floods tho there were about 5 of them. They'd built huge lots for department stores upstream, a huge interstate berm, and mounded up one side about 30 foot for apartments, then built a culvert road over it by the school. When a big thunderstorm dropped stuff upstream it hit the improvised dam hard.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:14 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:14 PM (g47mK)
New Tehran will be better anyways. Just like New York, New Hampshire, New Orleans, New Braunfels, New Haven, New Brunswick, & New Smyrna Beach.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 04:14 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 04:14 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:14 PM (g47mK)
Desalination plants...woulda been a much better investment than nukes.
Posted by: Princess of Persia at December 10, 2025 04:15 PM (ynpvh)
Stop investing in nukes and buy some desalinization plants.
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 10, 2025 04:15 PM (TezPK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:15 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2025 04:16 PM (W2Pud)
https://tinyurl.com/mu8j274f
Posted by: Princess of Persia at December 10, 2025 04:12 PM (ynpvh)
This is what I get for missing my 3:00 coffee infusion. I clicked before my brain engaged. Wow...thats fucking nasty.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 04:16 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 10, 2025 04:16 PM (TezPK)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 04:16 PM (sKqQm)
The cornea the better.
That's how eye roll.
Posted by: rickb223
Uh, can we put a lid on the eye puns?
Posted by: Kratwurst at December 10, 2025 04:16 PM (JIS8C)
https://tinyurl.com/mu8j274f
Posted by: Princess of Persia at December 10, 2025 04:12 PM (ynpvh)
This is what I get for missing my 3:00 coffee infusion. I clicked before my brain engaged. Wow...thats fucking nasty.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 04:16 PM (snZF9)
She'll fit in fine with the other Disney princesses...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (Da7Vv)
The cornea the better.
That's how eye roll.
Posted by: rickb223
Uh, can we put a lid on the eye puns?
Posted by: Kratwurst
Those who make eye puns deserve the lash!
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (77rzZ)
The cornea the better.
That's how eye roll.
Posted by: rickb223
Uh, can we put a lid on the eye puns?
Posted by: Kratwurst at December 10, 2025 04:16 PM (JIS8C)
Eye, someone deserves lashes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Mullah Water Counsel at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (ms0pm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (ufetp)
Its an upland, no major rivers in Iran to speak of. Tigris and Euprhates to the east in Iraq, nothing else to Pakistan.
Ancient Persia used to dig channels and canals to move snow runoff around to support cities...but these days the cities are hugely larger.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (ufetp)
_Bloomberg
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:18 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (ufetp)
Some want to put a liner under them.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:18 PM (ynpvh)
Has nothing to do with building a city in the middle of the Desert.
Trump is the Anti-Christ sent to kill the Peace-Loving Iranian Ragheads of Color so that the USA can steal their precious bodily fluids !!!!!
Posted by: Jackson at December 10, 2025 04:18 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:19 PM (ufetp)
Rag headed bastards can drink dust.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2025 04:16 PM (W2Pud)
says a weatherman who forgot about the Glacial Floods and the Scablands.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:19 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:06 PM (iFTx/)
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Ah, a man of true taste in the value of good presentation.
I tip my hat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 04:08 PM (GBKbO)
______
[Fist bump]
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:19 PM (iFTx/)
_Bloomberg
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:18 PM (Hm8Vv)
Well, that's because its cargo wasn't oil...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:19 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
It’s was Rick. Best not to cross him
Posted by: Kratwurst at December 10, 2025 04:19 PM (JIS8C)
Posted by: Stinky Achmed at December 10, 2025 04:19 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:20 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 04:20 PM (2z57a)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:20 PM (77rzZ)
Do they have a river?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (ufetp)
Tehran is one of the few major cities in the world that apparently wasn't built on a navigable river. Them Persians is wicked smahrt.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2025 04:20 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:10 PM (ufetp)
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"Duh. It's the river we're pushing the dirty Jooz into. 'From the river to the sea,' baby!"
-- Palestinians
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 04:21 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Kratwurst at December 10, 2025 04:21 PM (JIS8C)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:21 PM (ufetp)
In the very, very distant east.
Posted by: Geographer at December 10, 2025 04:21 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:20 PM (77rzZ)
Well, like river rafting, watch out for the cataracts.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:21 PM (ynpvh)
Always smelled of cheap cologne....
Posted by: Jackson at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (J9q9v)
Stop investing in nukes and buy some desalinization plants.
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 10, 2025 04:15 PM (TezPK)
How do you get the desalinated water uphill to the altitude of Tehran? Tis about 5000 feet, neglecting any higher spots on the way.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (8avO+)
Second, this means that when the crisis hits, and it will, those 9.7 million people are likely to go berserk, and the Iranian government will fall.
Why do I assume they won't fix anything in time? Because the Mullah's government is both totally incompetent, and even worse stuck in the mindset of "well Allah will provide a miracle for us."
No. He. Won't.
But they're going to go on spending their money building missiles and trying to make nukes and blaming Evil Jews for everything; they're not even going to try to fix it. They don't know how.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Halfhand at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (F061L)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (jFNww)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (8avO+)
A bucket brigade?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (ufetp)
Stop investing in nukes and buy some desalinization plants.
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 10, 2025 04:15 PM (TezPK)
How do you get the desalinated water uphill to the altitude of Tehran? Tis about 5000 feet, neglecting any higher spots on the way.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (8avO+)
Using their oil to fuel vehicles/pumps to transport it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (ynpvh)
But never fear, there is still enough money to fund attacks on Israel!
And seriously - it's not the lack of rain. Iran has had absolutely horrid water management for decades. Even if it rained the rest of December the problem is not getting fixed. They need a revamp on the entire system of water management, top to bottom. And funny enough, Israel is absolutely the best country on earth to advise them on how to do this. Shame they are a bitter enemy.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (C3IAS)
"Iran's water crisis is going from bad to worse as the Taliban's Pashdan Dam on the Hari River threatens the city of Mashhad's main water supply. Despite longstanding agreements, Iran's water share is being cut off. Experts blame both the Taliban's disregard for neighbors' rights and Tehran's failure to act on warnings."
Full article:
https://tinyurl.com/nfppju74
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (2vZ9g)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 04:24 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:24 PM (ufetp)
"Iran's water crisis is going from bad to worse as the Taliban's Pashdan Dam on the Hari River threatens the city of Mashhad's main water supply. Despite longstanding agreements, Iran's water share is being cut off. Experts blame both the Taliban's disregard for neighbors' rights and Tehran's failure to act on warnings."
Full article:
https://tinyurl.com/nfppju74
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (2vZ9g)
"neighbors' rights". LOL
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:24 PM (ynpvh)
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Trump should troll them by offering them that AutoPen Empire "floating" pier ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 04:25 PM (GiIml)
Posted by: Pudinhead
......
It's the solution to everything. That and bitcoin.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 04:25 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:25 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (77rzZ)
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So, Blackrock not only wants to own America it also wants to own Europe.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025]/i]
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"Voluptuous," I hope, in the old sense of "sensual and sensuous," not in the modern sense of "Where's my Ozempic?"
Sofia Vergara vs. Lizzo, in other words.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (D+mpw)
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Iranian powerful elites are too busy oppressing their population to care about such things as the water supply. Karen Bass too busy visiting Africa and not looking after her city's water supply. Same, same.
Posted by: Decaf at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (1RAfh)
Posted by: The Ayatollah at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (77rzZ)
How much of it is left? Heard it was shrinking fast...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (rj6Yv)
Obama was the 12th Imam.
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: goatexchange at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (hyS0X)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant
.......
I bet he could sell them a few icebergs.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: davidt at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (XMwZJ)
I have a great idea. If Tehran is abandoned, it would be a great place to send illegals from the US.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (IYMzU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: The Donald at December 10, 2025 04:28 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:28 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 04:28 PM (IYMzU)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:29 PM (ynpvh)
1) The distribution system is leaky.
2) Rapid population growth and development over critical water management areas.
3) Growing the wrong sort of food with the wrong methods.
4) Total lack of conservation and recycling.
There is no scientific fact that indicates climate change has been the main cause of the water bankruptcy in Iran on a national scale.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 10, 2025 04:29 PM (C3IAS)
"Iran's water crisis is going from bad to worse as the Taliban's Pashdan Dam on the Hari River threatens the city of Mashhad's main water supply. Despite longstanding agreements, Iran's water share is being cut off. Experts blame both the Taliban's disregard for neighbors' rights and Tehran's failure to act on warnings."
Full article:
https://tinyurl.com/nfppju74
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 10, 2025 04:23 PM (2vZ9g)
Ooh how I hope that Iran attacks Afghanistan for the water, and then the Taliban get scared and call the Red Army in from China to back them up. That could have so many delicious permutations.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:29 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 04:29 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:29 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 10, 2025 04:29 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (IYMzU)
Carrots? Cocoa? Macaroni?
They seem like the types.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:29 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:29 PM (g47mK)
The cornea the better.
That's how eye roll.
Posted by: rickb223
Uh, can we put a lid on the eye puns?
Posted by: Kratwurst
Those who make eye puns deserve the lash!
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:17 PM (77rzZ)
They get paid for them in Elbonian Eye Cruds.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 10, 2025 04:30 PM (S/Y4j)
https://tinyurl.com/mu8j274f
Posted by: Princess of Persia
Lol, the second or third comment down (after the explanation that Persian beauty standards encouraged hairy women and effeminate men)
Bruh no matter the religion or history people love twinks
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 10, 2025 04:30 PM (JCZqz)
Evacuate Tehran? Evacuate it to where? It's millions. The whole country is dried out. Evacuate to where?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 10, 2025 04:30 PM (t1fZA)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)
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What if it's not allah? What if it's the real God? They will never get it though.
Posted by: Decaf at December 10, 2025 04:30 PM (1RAfh)
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 04:30 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: The Donald at December 10, 2025 04:28 PM (qUkBO)
rofl! Great work!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:30 PM (uWKK8)
I bet he could sell them a few icebergs.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 04:27 PM (v0R5T)
If we had Greenland, we could provide icebergs to the Persians.
Alaskan icebergs would be better used in Clownifornia, but they're in the process of banning ice...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2025 04:30 PM (y9nCu)
Sorry, fellas. You need a Tie.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 04:30 PM (TR2dy)
A Thai you say?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:31 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 04:31 PM (IYMzU)
Posted by: Eromero at December 10, 2025 04:31 PM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
The Aral Sea has damn near disappeared, but I hadn't heard much about the Caspian.
It does have natural fluctuations in water level, and it has been going down in the last few years, but nothing like the carnage the Soviets inflicted on the Aral.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:31 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (8avO+)
I'd prolly use pumps. Maybe a series of holding areas so that each set of pumps had a limited rise it had to overcome. I'm not that kind of engineer, though.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 04:31 PM (ExV1e)
And everybody hates the Jews!
Posted by: Zombie Tom Lehrer at December 10, 2025 04:31 PM (Riz8t)
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Banks of Tigris!
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:32 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Baldy at December 10, 2025
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"There are 8.7 million stories in the Naked Islam City. You have just seen one of them."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:32 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:33 PM (ufetp)
https://tinyurl.com/btuem73d
It's bad enough them claiming the South China Sea but Hoovering up all our food - You know, Peking is within Cruise missile range from S Korea.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:33 PM (Hm8Vv)
How do they do it?
I'd advise all the virgins in heaven to rest up. Lots of eager customers arriving soon.
Posted by: Random PJ at December 10, 2025 04:33 PM (RRCAT)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:32 PM (wzUl9)
If they all look like Fatima, please, please! No mas, no mas!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:33 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (uWKK
The Caspian is closest, but there's a big mountain range and the sea there may not be in great shape itself. The Aral sea has had issues with drying up. Probably the answer is all of the above, desalinization and canals and dispersal. It should keep them busy
There are also periodic massive quakes in that part of the world to consider.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: pookysgirl needs to ask her nuke expert at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (Wt5PA)
https://tinyurl.com/btuem73d
I'm sure Greenpeace will jump right on that. Right? Right??
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (2vZ9g)
Yes, but the Iranian population has reached a plateau, and will soon start decreasing. They just need to hang on for another 50 years.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (Riz8t)
https://tinyurl.com/btuem73d
It's bad enough them claiming the South China Sea but Hoovering up all our food - You know, Peking is within Cruise missile range from S Korea.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:33 PM (Hm8Vv)
Damn Chinese been watching too many King Ghidora movies!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 04:35 PM (uWKK8)
https://is.gd/OU5qD1
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 04:35 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Oh, that's good to hear. Thanks.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:35 PM (77rzZ)
I can only think of her nude turn in Basic Instinct.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025
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I could never understand why Michael Douglas's character in that movie preferred to stick his, uh, equipment into Sharon Stone's crazy, when he had Jeanne the lovely brunette all heated up for him.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:36 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:36 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 10, 2025 04:36 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
1/4 mile of sanding water is moved by pump into the Los Angeles water district from the central valley
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2025 04:36 PM (jFNww)
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Her nickname over there is "Karen Delta Smelt."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 04:36 PM (GiIml)
And nobody, not even Khomeini in his early days, had the political capital to stop it.
Not only has there been little rainfall recently but they've sucked the aquifers dry so there's nothing to fall back on.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 10, 2025 04:37 PM (BLOW1)
Go long on virgins, I guess.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 04:37 PM (Da1lH)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:37 PM (ufetp)
https://tinyurl.com/btuem73d
It's bad enough them claiming the South China Sea but Hoovering up all our food - You know, Peking is within Cruise missile range from S Korea.
There are maps of all the Chinese vessels off the coast of Peru. Technically, they're in international waters, but it's clear they are going to devastate those waters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oJG_Ct42oo
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 04:37 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (77rzZ)
Well, they're also pet disadvantaged; all pets must be Sh-SH-SH-SHIA pets...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:37 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss
I remember in the 80s, when everyone, it seemed, was leaving the Great Lakes region for the Southwest, only to discover that, gee, there's a lot less water here than in where we came from.
A lot of those folks ended up moving back to where the water was.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:38 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (J9q9v)
As I am a firm believer in following the law and abiding by all judicial rulings, I have ordered the US Air Force to drop a case of Costco water bottles on Tehran. The big gallon bottles, not those little 20 ounce things. -- Trump
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 04:38 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 04:38 PM (8gejw)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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We used to call it telephoning but when we got enough for supper we quit.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:38 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Imam Let's Keep Our Eye On the Ball Here at December 10, 2025 04:38 PM (2vZ9g)
And nobody, not even Khomeini in his early days, had the political capital to stop it.
Not only has there been little rainfall recently but they've sucked the aquifers dry so there's nothing to fall back on.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 10, 2025
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Morning to you, Pixy. Just starting your work day, I see, or at least your first coffee break?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:38 PM (wzUl9)
Palisades, anyone?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:39 PM (A0sqA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oJG_Ct42oo
Obligatory: China is ASSHOE!
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 04:39 PM (Riz8t)
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Her nickname over there is "Karen Delta Smelt."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 04:36 PM (GiIml)
I don't want to know about her delta or how it smelt...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:39 PM (ynpvh)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oJG_Ct42oo
Posted by: Archimedes
Chinese fishing vessels do a significant amount of mischief in the waters near the Galapagos Islands.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:39 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Gila river, salt river, colorado. and my water table is rising... homes use less h2o than agriculture. Tucson area is completely overdrawn though..
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2025 04:39 PM (jFNww)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:36 PM (ufetp)
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Southern Nevada (Las Vegas & Henderson).
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 04:39 PM (GiIml)
https://tinyurl.com/btuem73d
It's bad enough them claiming the South China Sea but Hoovering up all our food - You know, Peking is within Cruise missile range from S Korea.
There are maps of all the Chinese vessels off the coast of Peru. Technically, they're in international waters, but it's clear they are going to devastate those waters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oJG_Ct42oo
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 04:37 PM (Riz8t)
They turn off their transponders when they get to the edge of international waters...so yes, they are poaching.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:39 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 04:40 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 10, 2025 04:40 PM (GD2xa)
Posted by: Imam Let's Keep Our Eye On the Ball Here at December 10, 2025 04:38 PM (2vZ9g)
What about fracking?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:40 PM (ynpvh)
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Her nickname over there is "Karen Delta Smelt."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025
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I don't want to know about her delta or how it smelt...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025
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Delta of Venus?
More like Delta of Kali.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:40 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: pookysgirl needs to ask her nuke expert at December 10, 2025 04:34 PM (Wt5PA)
It used to be done with gas form of U, Uranium Hexafluoride.
But even without industry and crops, millions of people drink a lot of water.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:42 PM (8avO+)
Yup, this. Just looked at a map myself, and looked up the Caspian Sea and yes, the southern end is brackish (salt water) but this can be dealt with.
1. Build Desalinization Plants around Chalus.
2. Build a 140 to 150km pipeline (or a multitude of pipelines) from the plants to Tehran.
As a secondary project:
3. Sell the salt.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 10, 2025 04:43 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:43 PM (ufetp)
The cattle ate all the soybean futures, and the resulting farts ruined the climate-so yes, it obviously was the fault of Reich wing capitalists.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 10, 2025 04:44 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:44 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:43 PM (ufetp)
Crusty Thong...I wonder who they fronted for?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:45 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Morning Wolfus!
Yeah, up a little early this morning. Cleaning the kitchen, for reasons I'll cover in tomorrow's thread.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 10, 2025 04:45 PM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 04:26 PM (D+mpw)
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The Taliban have warehouses filled with 21st century military equipment, ammunition, vehicles, helicopters, spare parts. So, yeah, Taliban's ready to roll.
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 04:45 PM (rj6Yv)
https://tinyurl.com/btuem73d
Oklahomans do this with an old rotary phone.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:45 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 04:37 PM (ufetp)
The difficulty is Tehran is high up, surrounded by deserts and mountains. Even with pumps its no joke and would cost a lot.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:45 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (irs4S)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (8gejw)
I think you're giving them more credit for maintenance and operation than they deserve.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:44 PM (EMg+d)
You pump up to holding tanks. Yes, that'll be lots and lots of holding tanks at various altitudes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 10, 2025
Knew a girl like that in college.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:44 PM (EMg+d)
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Ok so put the water tank up there in the first place.
--Millennials
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (A0sqA)
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Sounds like a "them" problem.
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (irs4S)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (U/Byj)
This is the kind of stuff that causes regimes to fail.
If it doesn't rain soon, you can count on the mullahs getting launched.
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (EMg+d)
Average male needs 1 gallon a day female .7. Kids less. Go with .7. Tehran goes through about 6.8 million gallons, just for drinking, a day.
Tehran is a big city. Be a shame if...
Posted by: Complete the sentence at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (Ia/+0)
They should ask the Jews to borrow the weather machine. Really nicely.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (Da1lH)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (ynpvh)
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This guy gets it!
--Millenials
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (A0sqA)
I think you're giving them more credit for maintenance and operation than they deserve.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (Riz8t)
Plus few trained operators and fuel left I'd imagine.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:49 PM (8avO+)
If it doesn't rain soon, you can count on the mullahs getting launched.
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (EMg+d)
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I've been wrong too many times about that.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:49 PM (A0sqA)
This is the kind of stuff that causes regimes to fail.
If it doesn't rain soon, you can count on the mullahs getting launched.
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (EMg+d)
By their reasoning, they have lost the favor of Allah in some way and deserve this.
*drinks*
That's some high quality H2O right there.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 04:49 PM (zZu0s)
Amazon commits over $35 billion to India through 2030 to scale AI and create 1 million jobs - CNBC
Now imagine what one million jobs could do for struggling Americans.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:49 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (W2Pud)
If the water is low-enough in salt, it can be pumped into a water treatment plant to make it potable. The issue probably has to do with preventing bacteria and virii from multiplying in it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:49 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Pixy Misa
Hello, Pixy. You and I don't interact much, since I'm not a techie and used to view the Tech Thread as an annoying roadblock holding up JJ's Morning Report.
But I'm over that now. G'day, Mate!
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:50 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:50 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (W2Pud)
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Kool-Ade?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:50 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 04:50 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
The Salma Hayak Sensible Border Act of 2019 was crushed by the Karen AWFL crowd.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 04:50 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:46 PM (ynpvh)
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This guy gets it!
--Millenials
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (A0sqA)
Depends on the importance, timeframe, and cost...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:51 PM (ynpvh)
If it doesn't rain soon, you can count on the mullahs getting launched.
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:48 PM (EMg+d)
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I've been wrong too many times about that.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:49 PM (A0sqA)
its easy to move the mullah's ...
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:51 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 10, 2025 04:45 PM (BLOW1)
Please tell me you are NOT getting a "smart" fridge!
Posted by: pookysgirl likes her appliances to be dumb at December 10, 2025 04:51 PM (Wt5PA)
Know which "independent agency" they really don't want Trump firing people from?
See my comment earlier this morning about CIGIE and watch Lara Logan's interview of Dr Timothy Shindelar.
It's why whistle blower evidence given to IG's and yes, congress, don't go anywhere.
Interview on utube and I think they said X.
That is all.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 10, 2025 04:51 PM (jMlHD)
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Tehran could probably use a few glaciers about now.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 04:51 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:44 PM (EMg+d)
A bigger issue is that any solution which resulted in Tehran being livable by anything close to its current population would require a least a decade to accomplish and they don't have ten years. Even if they had a plan, even if they started today.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 04:51 PM (ExV1e)
Yeah, up a little early this morning. Cleaning the kitchen, for reasons I'll cover in tomorrow's thread.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 10, 2025
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I need to do the same. Gonna be chilly here tomorrow; maybe I can get to it after breakfast.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:52 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Pixy Misa
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Love ya Pixy but I don't need more reasons to wake up at 2:30 Am
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 04:52 PM (A0sqA)
Amazon commits over $35 billion to India through 2030 to scale AI and create 1 million jobs - CNBC
Now imagine what one million jobs could do for struggling Americans.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:49 PM (Hm8Vv)
Great, a billion internet pictures of eight toed elephants.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:52 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
IIRC, Israel actually sold military hardware to Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. I guess Saddam was viewed as a greater threat than Khomeini.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:52 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2025 04:47 PM (W2Pud)
I believe you have been misled, even though there is typically final treatment to call it potable. We would make fresh water via desalination both with evaporation/condensation and reverse osmosis.
Instantly drinkable, and you could pump it into aquifres or reservoirs and call it potable.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 04:53 PM (Da1lH)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:50 PM (U/Byj)
Yeah. Worst case? Boil the water into stream using all those oil reserves, condense the steam into water...
There are plenty of other options. Can be done by reverse osmosis (most plants do this).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:53 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 04:53 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:50 PM (U/Byj)
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So do boats. Yachts usually have "water-makers" that desalinate and treat sea water so that it can be used by the crew and passengers.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 04:53 PM (ESVrU)
Good swim workout again tomorrow.
No "relief" in sight til Sunday when the high drops to 70.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:53 PM (U/Byj)
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Posted by: PG at December 10, 2025 04:54 PM (1GUBr)
Amazon commits over $35 billion to India through 2030 to scale AI and create 1 million jobs - CNBC
Now imagine what one million jobs could do for struggling Americans.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 04:49 PM (Hm8Vv)
Great, a billion internet pictures of eight toed elephants.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:52 PM (8avO+)
AI: "Here's your elephant with eight toads"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 04:54 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 10, 2025 04:55 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Ass, gas, or grass. Nobody immigrates for free.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 04:55 PM (Da1lH)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:51 PM (8avO+)
Sure. One trebuchet would do it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 04:55 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025
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In my last years at work I used to get up close to that on mornings when I planned to work out. Got to the office at six am and could hang out here, or read, or other things, before starting the actual "work" day at eight.
I've shifted everything down the line about two hours or a bit more now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:56 PM (wzUl9)
We’ve had climate change ever since
Posted by: Avi at December 10, 2025 04:56 PM (Lbsds)
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 04:57 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Tehran at December 10, 2025 04:57 PM (0ZmKh)
I miss the days when your boss would be out on Fridays and you'd float plans to sneak out early, at which point I'd post a comment about all the work that came up that you needed to work late for, and sock it as "Wolfus' boss."
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:58 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: pookysgirl likes her appliances to be dumb at December 10, 2025 04:51 PM (Wt5PA)
I don’t think Pixy is the smart fridge type since the only thing in it is gluten-free chicken nuggets and the occasional batch of kangaroo meat.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 04:59 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Tehran at December 10, 2025
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Since they think they are twice as good as Hebrews, they can wander in the desert for *eighty* years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 04:59 PM (wzUl9)
Good swim workout again tomorrow.
No "relief" in sight til Sunday when the high drops to 70.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 04:53 PM (U/Byj)
I can't believe how warm it is, it's in the 80s at the base and it's always cold there.
Posted by: Caligirl at December 10, 2025 04:59 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: davidt at December 10, 2025 04:59 PM (Q+gd/)
Have you tried emptying the reservoirs in times of plenty?
Posted by: Gavin Newscum at December 10, 2025 04:59 PM (0ZmKh)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025
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That was cool.
The joke, not the job.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (wzUl9)
I believe you have been misled, even though there is typically final treatment to call it potable. We would make fresh water via desalination both with evaporation/condensation and reverse osmosis.
Instantly drinkable, and you could pump it into aquifres or reservoirs and call it potable.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 04:53 PM (Da1lH)
"I'd die before I'd drink my own Urine!"
"Oh, that's only Wishful Thinking."
Posted by: Famous lines from Blackadder at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:58 PM (77rzZ)
If it makes you feel better, I'm leaving work at noon on Friday. Of course, I'm never going back so having my 'boss' say there was work to do would be pointless but you could say it anyway.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Nemo at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (4RPgu)
The Taliban have warehouses filled with 21st century military equipment, ammunition, vehicles, helicopters, spare parts. So, yeah, Taliban's ready to roll.
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 04:45 PM (rj6Yv)
The days when every Afghan was a master marksman are long gone. After the Soviets flooded the country with Kalashnikovs, the Afghans adopted the standard hip-shooting mag dump marksmanship just like every other mohammedan in the world.
Same thing with the more sophisticated equipment. There's a handful of Afghans who can be truly dangerous with it, but the majority are illiterate donkey-fucking savages who can't shoot for shit. The danger with all of that Biden-gifted equipment is that they'll sell it to someone who can actually use it: meaning, non-mohammedan infidels
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (y9nCu)
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I had Australian beer once. It was pretty good. You could really taste the Kangaroo.
Posted by: Gday at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (AoMt0)
Have you tried emptying the reservoirs in times of plenty?
Posted by: Gavin Newscum at December 10, 2025 04:59 PM (0ZmKh)
Have you tried turning Islam off and back on again?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 05:01 PM (Da1lH)
Jews control the Bamboo industry
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:01 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 05:01 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)
She’s a big part of the reason I’ll sit through three hours of Waterworld.
That and seeing the girl from Napolen Dynamite before she grew up.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 05:01 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:02 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (y9nCu)
I know Russia was sniffing about a few years back as they ramped up. I do not know if they made any deals with them.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 05:02 PM (8avO+)
The joke, not the job.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Glad you liked it.
I help where I can.
*writes out another loyalty check to Sponge*
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 05:02 PM (77rzZ)
I suspect the Ette's would love a "Pablo" exemption as well.
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 10, 2025 05:02 PM (0Aoc4)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:03 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025
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I think I strolled out for the last time about 1:30 pm that day. Last time in that building too; my office moved this past summer (I wanted to avoid organizing that clusterf**k), so they have a whole different building much farther from the avenue where I used to park. I think I timed retirement well.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:03 PM (wzUl9)
If you're automating wrong answers and almost-English anyways, what are the million jobs for?
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 05:03 PM (0ZmKh)
Miller asked Musk:
"When's the last time you did something extremely ordinary like go to Target or CVS?"
Musk responded:
"I can't go to things where there's the general public because I'm there, there's an immediate, can I have a selfie line that forms, and these days, particularly in light of Charlie Kirk's murder, there are serious security issues. It's not that I don't want to. I simply can't."
Miller then asked:
"Has Charlie's murder changed how you do things or were you already locked down pretty well before that?"
Musk responded:
"It certainly reinforced the severity of the situation where life is on hardcore mode. You make one mistake, and you're dead, and it only takes one mistake."
Here's the clip:
youtube.com/watch?t=750&v=bz5Hjk40FD4
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 05:03 PM (Hm8Vv)
some AWFL made a huge stink over getting "farted on" in a grocery store??
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Terrance and Philip strike again
Posted by: Canadians at December 10, 2025 05:03 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:03 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:04 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Gday at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (AoMt0)
I’m pretty sure that’s the reason Foster’s cans are so big.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 05:04 PM (6ydKt)
The Mormons and the Jews made their deserts "blossom as the rose." The Hamas and Iranians are busily destroying the blossoming deserts others left them.
Isn't that pretty much a "the defense rests your honor "moment?
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 10, 2025 05:05 PM (0Aoc4)
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 05:06 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:06 PM (ufetp)
I guess Ace is busy watching Justine Bateman's livestream
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:06 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 05:04 PM (6ydKt)
Aussie beer causes moobs?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 05:06 PM (ExV1e)
Isn't that pretty much a "the defense rests your honor "moment?
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 10, 2025 05:05 PM (0Aoc4)
It also applies to places like Portland.
"By their Fruits you shall know them."
Posted by: Famous lines from Blackadder at December 10, 2025 05:06 PM (uWKK8)
Gott be honest, that seems like the hard way to reduce demand for water.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 10, 2025 05:07 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:08 PM (ufetp)
https://tinyurl.com/ynt6f87u
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 05:08 PM (Hm8Vv)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:03 PM (W7XSX)
Her nickname was Triplehorny in high school.
Scarred her for life.
So she went to Hollywood and got banged by Michael Douglas in her first big role.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 05:08 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Justice Sotomayor at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (VE6XX)
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He's right hanging is way to slow. What shall we do? Eureka, we will fake an endemic and mandate poisionous vaccines!!!
Posted by: The Mullahs at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (H1HTt)
Gott be honest, that seems like the hard way to reduce demand for water.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 10, 2025 05:07 PM (a+4eV)
They're really fond of their lawns.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (Da1lH)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (H1HTt)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at December 10, 2025 05:09 PM (eISTN)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 05:10 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 05:10 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 05:10 PM (VE6XX)
Musk responded:
Posted by: Braenyard
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I hope they pronounced it "targèt"
Posted by: Old lady who swallowed a fly at December 10, 2025 05:11 PM (pEFY5)
Posted by: Nemo at December 10, 2025 05:00 PM (4RPgu)
The Venezuela petroleum industry. Well, Venezuela, period.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 10, 2025 05:12 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025
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She always reminded me of Sandra Bullock. They could have played sisters.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:12 PM (wzUl9)
I know Russia was sniffing about a few years back as they ramped up. I do not know if they made any deals with them.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 05:02 PM (8avO+)
From what I've read, it was mostly a matter of battlefield pick ups from the Soviet occupation, then the Pakistanis dumping tons of them to various groups.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2025 05:12 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 10, 2025 05:14 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Fritz at December 10, 2025 05:48 PM (k3OpT)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 06:14 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: MikeN at December 10, 2025 06:17 PM (JykNP)
Posted by: wferrin at December 10, 2025 07:03 PM (vsZHH)
Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 10, 2025 07:17 PM (TFeiv)
On one of Iran's rivers, the government built a dam, to 'manage' the water and create a reservoir. The land that the new reservoir covered was a salt flat. Which then turned the reservoir into a salt-water lake. The government actively turned a healthy (or at least usable) river into an un-usable salt lake. It's no surprise that the situation has gotten this bad...
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 10, 2025 07:46 PM (Lhaco)
Justice Ketanji D-EI: The President Must Defer to the Unelected "Experts" Who Should Really Run Our Lives for Us
Ketanji D-EI doesn't bother hiding her Marxist disdain for the popular vote, preferring all powers to be held by a, let's say, Revolutionary Vanguard of some kind.
I called this from before the election. The Democrats and media (but I repeat myself) began a propaganda campaign to convince the country that while the GOP won all three official branches of government, there was a Secret Fourth Branch of Government -- the permanent left-wing bureaucracy -- which Akshually had the power to overrule the other three branches of government and run the country. Needing some power center in government, they're willing an independent, permanent, unelected, unaccountable fourth branch of government into existence. We heard the same thing under George W. Bush. Locked out of the government, the communist Democrat Party and the media (but I repeat myself again) insisted that it was unfair of Bush to fire Clinton's US Attorneys because those Attorneys had a constitutional duty to check Bush's power. They also insisted the DOJ should be "independent" of the actual President and his appointed-and-confirmed AG. It's always the same playbook. As soon as Democrats get a political rebuke, they assert that the unelected, nigh-unfirable federal bureaucracy is the Real Legitimate Government of the country. There is no "fourth branch of government," as Gorsuch instructed Ketanji D-EI.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used Tuesday's Trump v. Slaughter arguments to float a genuinely stunning view of executive power -- one where the president of the United States couldn't fire the very people serving inside his own government. The case itself centers on whether President Trump had the authority to remove former FTC commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, a long-standing restriction on presidential oversight of so-called independent agencies. Jackson argued that scientists, economists, doctors, and other agency "experts" should be insulated from presidential authority entirely, claiming that allowing a president to fire them is "not in the best interest" of Americans. Her exchange with U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer made her philosophy unmistakable. Jackson questioned why these agencies answer to the president at all, saying she didn't understand why they aren't effectively controlled by Congress instead. "Congress established them and can eliminate them," she said -- a remarkable suggestion that the legislative branch, not the president, should control vast stretches of the executive branch. She then laid out the scenario she fears: a president firing "all the scientists, and the doctors, and the economists, and the PhDs" and replacing them with loyalists. In her view, that hypothetical alone justifies limiting a president's removal power across agencies that shape everything from transportation regulation to monetary policy. Sauer pushed back, arguing that her position flips the Constitution on its head. Allowing unelected boards to operate beyond presidential control, he warned, "subjugates" the separation of powers. The president isn't a spectator -- he's the elected official charged with running the executive branch, not rubber-stamping decisions made by bureaucrats no voter ever chose.
SCOTUS: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told the Court that presidents should not be able to fire the PhDs & experts who run the government. She even argued presidents should avoid control over transportation & the economy.
— @amuse (@amuse) December 8, 2025
In a remarkable exchange in Trump v Slaughter, Justice… pic.twitter.com/sXQesOSdKG
Ketanji lost it today during oral arguments and went on a “No Kings” style rant about President Trump wanting to rule like a monarch, and how we should instead have many issues handled by “the experts and PhDs” like Dr. Fauci, Dr. “Rachel” Levine, and the gay bondage AIDS dude. pic.twitter.com/Z8qFZgZzsR
— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) December 8, 2025
🚨GORSUCH: "Maybe it’s a recognition that Humphrey's Executor was poorly reasoned and that there is no such thing in our constitutional order as a 4th branch of government..." pic.twitter.com/t2nfuMCESO
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) December 8, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)
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100 year old precedent > 250 year old constitution.
Bruh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)
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So, like...how many are actually PhD's?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (OUMaO)
So, he should be able to fire HER then, as she's an expert on absolutely nothing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (2vZ9g)
To be clear this specifically was the founder's vision. The president, as head of the executive, is ultimately responsible for everything the executive does and therefore can and should replace personal as needed.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:43 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:43 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (OUMaO)
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That the elite should rule us with an iron fist.
Combine that with her Critical Race Legal Theory background, and it becomes:
Black women should rule us with an iron fist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 02:43 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: huerfano at December 10, 2025 02:43 PM (98kQX)
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used Tuesday's Trump v. Slaughter arguments to float a genuinely stunning view of executive power -- one where the president of the United States couldn't fire the very people serving inside his own government. The case itself centers on whether President Trump had the authority to remove former FTC commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, a long-standing restriction on presidential oversight of so-called independent agencies.
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(*cough, cough*) Tenure of Office Act (*cough*)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 02:44 PM (tgvbd)
KBJ is proof that an Ivy League diploma is respected less than a gift card to Walmart.
Posted by: jmel at December 10, 2025 02:44 PM (RWHIh)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 02:44 PM (77rzZ)
Exactly what do you think they were when appointed by Owebama or Biden?
Stupid, partisan retard twatwaffle.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 10, 2025 02:44 PM (Dg7ng)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: huerfano at December 10, 2025 02:43 PM (98kQX)
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"Fauci is a medical doctor!"
"Who hasn't seen a patient in 40 years."
"He's a medical doctor!"
"So is Rand Paul, and he still sees patients every year doing charity work in Central America."
"He's a fake doctor!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
No matter. You will refer to me as Dr. Jill Biden and my husband as the Esteemed Professor at U Penn.
Posted by: Babysitter Slut at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (oftw2)
The founder's model said no - that interactions with federal employees should be rare and the federal government should have little impact on people's lives outside of questions around war and peace.
Go back to that model and no one cares if the president fires someone or not.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)
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Wow, it's really your day.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (DRSnL)
That's the real crux of the matter.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 02:46 PM (Vq1pX)
The founder's model said no - that interactions with federal employees should be rare and the federal government should have little impact on people's lives outside of questions around war and peace.
Go back to that model and no one cares if the president fires someone or not.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (sKqQm)
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We're not going to that any time soon.
But at least we're walking towards the executive branch of government being accountable to the people through elections.
It's a good step, not the only step we need, but a good step.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing
Failed mayor
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 02:46 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (sKqQm)
Yeah, what that guy said.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 02:46 PM (Vq1pX)
Wow, it's really your day.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (DRSnL)
SLOW work day......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Because everybody knows the Constitution is a "Living" document and can be stretched and construed to mean whatever the Leftists want it to mean, right?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:43 PM (ynpvh)
__________
Wrong. Leftists see the Constitution as a meaningless scrap of paper. It has its uses, like a caterpillar's skin covers the multitude of parasites that have completely eaten away its insides.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 02:47 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 02:47 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Dr. Horrible at December 10, 2025 02:47 PM (irs4S)
What they completely miss is that capitalists live in a world of voluntary transactions, where their ideas and products must compete and win, and the value they provide must be at worst equal to the cost they impose.
Government is not voluntary; it is backed by force, lethal force it necessary, and their transactions are guided by politics or worse. The last people you want making decisions that impact your life are government 'experts'.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 02:47 PM (0U5gm)
And the answer is...there is nothing of value there.
Imagine if the only thing Columbus had found were a few desert islands and NOTHING else. The age of discovery, or at least the western part, would have ended right away
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:48 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 10, 2025 02:48 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Bill Clinton, Rapist at December 10, 2025 02:48 PM (bC9HI)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 02:48 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 02:48 PM (Wg6v7)
The Constitution doesn't mean anything until we "interpret" it.
Posted by: Judges at December 10, 2025 02:48 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Nick Riviera, graduate of Hollywood Upstairs Medical College at December 10, 2025 02:48 PM (2vZ9g)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)
I pointed this out yesterday, but those on the left have this incredible belief that the only trustworthy people on the planet are in government, because they don't have a 'profit motive'.
__________
No, they have a power motive, which is much, much worse.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 02:48 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 02:48 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 02:49 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Progressive Playbook, page 12 at December 10, 2025 02:49 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Mayor Pete Bootyjuice at December 10, 2025 02:49 PM (Yp6az)
"Vanguard of the Proletariat" is a Leninist concept -- the theory being that the great mass of ignorant people are too stupid to run things themselves, and would only elect equally stupid reporesentatives, so need a self-appointed "vanguard" (i.e. the communist elite) to run things on their behalf.
This is the principle that guided the Soviet Union for 70 years.
Posted by: zombie at December 10, 2025 02:49 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: Caligirl at December 10, 2025 02:49 PM (gpah0)
Steel starts to become plastic starting 1500 degrees f.
Aviation fuel burns in a combustion chamber at 1796 to 2732 F. The 100th floor of the WTC was an impromptu combustion chamber. It certainly got hot enough long enough, with the weight of a plane added in to deform and fail the supports. From there it is gravity and physics. Gravit is pushing the top ten floors down on floor 99. It fails and they all fall on 98, it fails. And so on. Stop with thermite and controlled demolition.
Posted by: Fire triangle at December 10, 2025 02:50 PM (AoMt0)
She almost makes Sotomayor seem cogent.
Almost.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 02:50 PM (TR2dy)
*
Ha! I knew getting my wife into the Cabinet would pay off. This Smackdown will blow everyone's minds. Now, we just need Hegseth to free Sgt. Slaughter from that Mekong cage he's in before fight night!
Posted by: Vince McMahon at December 10, 2025 02:50 PM (BI5O2)
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Can she spell "5th Column?"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 02:50 PM (0VN84)
The liberal worldview really is an "ends justify the means" place. Sure, making these agencies isn't supported by the Constitution and rules establishing how our government is structured, but we think it will do good, so it should be allowed.
Remember, this bitch is the one that accused the conservative majority of "playing Calvinball" with the law.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 10, 2025 02:50 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (2vZ9g)
Experts said take the clot shot. Rubes were too stubborn to not listen to their overlords.
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 10, 2025 02:50 PM (irs4S)
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Can she spell "5th Column?"
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I doubt she can spell "5th".
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 02:51 PM (TN0g+)
Black women should rule us with an iron fist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:43 PM
Dude...I didn't mean them.
Posted by: Woodrow Wilson at December 10, 2025 02:51 PM (bFu5X)
Conservatives pushed back and (correctly) argued that these agencies were creating an unelected, unaccountable, partisan shadow government that would effective run the entire country. And contrary to Ebony Kangz claim that these people are smart experts, they are in fact DEI retards and hardcore leftwing fudgepacks.
But no matter, the courts blessed this scheme and continued piling on powers to agencies (Chevron). Now, we are here, where there's an issue whether the President can fire someone in his own branch of government. It's like a controversy whether Elon Musk can fire a janitor working for Tesla.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 02:51 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Nick Riviera, graduate of Hollywood Upstairs Medical College at December 10, 2025 02:48 PM (2vZ9g)
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Finally! Someone who knows what he's doing!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 02:51 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Caligirl at
To provide the plebes with a facade of representative government. Obviously.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 02:51 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Kestrel at December 10, 2025 02:51 PM (wyl5F)
When the Democrats take over, and they will because you can't figure out that every f*cking election from here on out is for the sanctity of this country, they WILL stack the Supreme Court. It will be FILLED with more EXACTLY LIKE this dumb twat.
So keep sitting on your hands because you don't think the chosen candidate is to your satisfaction.
FFS.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)
It's what that new precedent will bring.
Because, if the high holy experts, cloaked in the fine robes of impartiality, having utmost fealty to the People alone, blessed to their office by Congress itself, can be fired, what chance does the lowly regular employee have?
Because the reasoning for the upcoming opinion will, by the same kind, demand that all the civil service protection laws also be found unconstitutional.
Or, simply, the federal government will return to the usual order of the first 150+ years:
At will employment.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Caligirl at
To provide the plebes with a facade of representative government. Obviously.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 02:51 PM (MGB5H)
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It's what the Soviet Union did.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Democrat JAG judge at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (jYRYu)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (lF28Z)
That would have derailed her entire argument.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 02:51 PM (iFTx/)
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Wasn't there a bit of a scuffle when Elon started firing people all over the place after he took over Twitter/X?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 02:48 PM (Wg6v7)
Probably only when its fighting.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (ynpvh)
Ketanji
Posted by: steevy at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (YwEeS)
One could imagine Trump firing the current lot and replacing them with right leaning people, and 4 years from now having a mirror court case with a President Newsom arguing he too should be able to fire bureaucrats and Brown agreeing.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (sKqQm)
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Jackson argued that elections for president, and indeed the office itself is nothing but a sham to con the rubes, and that a better class of elites should make decisions for all of us because.... I donts knows nuthin bout runnin no country!!!!
Posted by: It would be funny if it were a Mel Brooks movie at December 10, 2025 02:53 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 02:53 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 02:53 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (ESVrU)
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You mean people complaining to media who then amplified the noise but it never went anywhere because Twitter had become a sole proprietorship?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 02:54 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (tgvbd)
WOO!
Posted by: Ric Flair at December 10, 2025 02:54 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 02:48 PM (Wg6v7)
Probably only when its fighting.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (ynpvh)
____
Her husband is -- gasp -- a pasty white guy. Not joking.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 02:54 PM (iFTx/)
Steel starts to become plastic starting 1500 degrees f.
Aviation fuel burns in a combustion chamber at 1796 to 2732 F. The 100th floor of the WTC was an impromptu combustion chamber. It certainly got hot enough long enough, with the weight of a plane added in to deform and fail the supports. From there it is gravity and physics. Gravit is pushing the top ten floors down on floor 99. It fails and they all fall on 98, it fails. And so on. Stop with thermite and controlled demolition.
Posted by: Fire triangle at December 10, 2025 02:50 PM (AoMt0)
And remember, it doesn't even have to become plastic to fail...just get it hot enough to weaken below the point where it can hold up the weight above it and disaster happens. It's why the second WTC building fell first; hit at a much lower floor, so more weight, less weakening of the steel before it couldn't bear the weight above it anymore.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:54 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: It would be funny if it were a Mel Brooks movie at December 10, 2025 02:54 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Yes, because he was firing the speech police.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 02:55 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Rdubs at December 10, 2025 02:55 PM (9ALg7)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December
Ya she's Paul Ryan's SIL.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 02:55 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 02:55 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 02:55 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 02:54 PM (iFTx/)
Its true. During the winter months many of us white dudes go kinda pasty.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 02:55 PM (zZu0s)
One could imagine Trump firing the current lot and replacing them with right leaning people, and 4 years from now having a mirror court case with a President Newsom arguing he too should be able to fire bureaucrats and Brown agreeing.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (sKqQm)
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Oh, no! The terrible days of the spoils system when the executive actually moved with the whims of the people and a grand total of 10% of the much, much smaller workforce saw turnover every 4 years!
We can't go back to that!
Constancy in progressive tyranny is more important than the people getting what they want.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:55 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
What do you have against warm spit?
Posted by: zombie at December 10, 2025 02:55 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)
Treas. Sec. Bessant's comment on the Fed: What we need to do is examine the entire Federal Reserve institution and whether they have been successful... All of these Ph.D.s over there, I don't know what they do... This is like Universal Basic Income for academic economists
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:56 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:56 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (tgvbd)
Fantastic !
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 02:56 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 02:56 PM (ufetp)
That would have derailed her entire argument.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (0N4FZ)
She isn't an epistemologist.
Posted by: Caligirl at December 10, 2025 02:57 PM (gpah0)
When the Democrats take over, and they will because you can't figure out that every f*cking election from here on out is for the sanctity of this country, they WILL stack the Supreme Court. It will be FILLED with more EXACTLY LIKE this dumb twat.
So keep sitting on your hands because you don't think the chosen candidate is to your satisfaction.
FFS.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)
Yeah, don't look at me. The only election I didn't vote it happened because I was disenfranchised by the county's Registrar of Voters when I got jury duty and said it would be a hardship as I worked in a nearby county. Funny enough, immediately after the election, she put me back on the rolls. Funny that. She was a dem, I was registered rep...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:57 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 02:57 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 02:56 PM (ufetp)
Cattlemans in Fabens, Texas.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 02:57 PM (zZu0s)
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Next you'll be telling me that there was -- and still are -- literally hundreds of GloboHomo Deep State IC and DOD Traitors ignoring, disobeying, and otherwise sabotaging their Commander-in-Chief's orders -- giving aid and comfort to our foreign and domestic enemies.
And not a single prosecution or imprisonment ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 02:57 PM (kbIZX)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:57 PM (sKqQm)
Best of Breed for The Big Dummy at today's Brevard KC show in Orlando.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (tgvbd)
+++++
Congratulations! That is wonderful news.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 10, 2025 02:57 PM (ujRcn)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (2vZ9g)
Well, to be fair, Noah and his sons had guidance from above.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 02:57 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 02:57 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:57 PM (8avO+)
Well.. It's not her.... She doesn't even know what a woman is....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 02:58 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (2vZ9g)
Well, to be fair, Noah and his sons had guidance from above.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 02:57 PM (77rzZ)
True dat.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 10, 2025 02:59 PM (2vZ9g)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 02:59 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 02:51 PM (iFTx/)
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Wasn't there a bit of a scuffle when Elon started firing people all over the place after he took over Twitter/X?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (ESVrU)
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I recall there was a lot of crying, whining, and boo-hooing from the useless dead weight Elon rightfully shitcanned, and the media ate it up, but otherwise not much else. IIRC.
It didn't help the employees' cause that half of them had jobs like "Assistant to the Assistant for Unsupervised Conjugal Visits" that had nothing to do with anything Twatter did. Then there was that entire cottage industry of THOTs bragging on SM that they got paid big bucks at tech companies, but they didn't do anything all day.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 02:59 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 02:57 PM (ufetp)
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He appears to have been expressing his frustration with historical sins against the people of his race.
We must approach his case with understanding as someone raging against a system designed to keep him as a second class citizen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:59 PM (GBKbO)
We can't go back to that!
Constancy in progressive tyranny is more important than the people getting what they want.
Next you'll be wanting me to pay for my own healthcare and food and stuff.
Fascist!
Posted by: Joe Moocher at December 10, 2025 02:59 PM (bC9HI)
It's a developed trait that allows us to hide our ashiness.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 02:59 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 02:59 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 02:59 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 10, 2025 02:59 PM (GPa4z)
Give it your best shot!
Posted by: Democrat-controlled Election Processes at December 10, 2025 02:59 PM (0ZmKh)
Period. Dot. Bingo. End of Discussion.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 10, 2025 02:59 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 10, 2025 03:00 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:00 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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But RFK, is most certainly NOT an expert and no one should listen to him!!!
Posted by: Jumani. Brown at December 10, 2025 03:00 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 10, 2025 03:00 PM (wBaIH)
Intelligence has a ceiling; stupidity has no floor.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:00 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)
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I have lots to do. I'm just not motivated.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 03:00 PM (DRSnL)
I read too quickly, so I thought it said "Best of the breed for the big dummy" as if "big dummy" was an actual category. LOL. Anyway, congrats!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 03:00 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: Thomas Watson, IBM, 1943 at December 10, 2025 03:00 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (2vZ9g)
Dude, the Ark was single-use.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 03:01 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: pahound at December 10, 2025 03:01 PM (cgX8k)
Posted by: The Professor at December 10, 2025 03:01 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 03:01 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:57 PM (ynpvh)
Seems....illegal. But, California, so.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jordan61 at December
It's in official slow down period.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 03:01 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Not You, Lamont at December 10, 2025 03:01 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: 18-1
You just know the Professor was doing both Ginger and Maryanne.
Sometimes at the same time.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:01 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 03:01 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:02 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Daryl Zanuck, 1946 at December 10, 2025 03:02 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:57 PM
The only time I never voted was when some a$$hole stole my identity and voted in my place, I will never figure out why he did that.
They let me fill out a provisional ballot but pretty much told me that my vote would not be counted unless the police found the guy who stole my identity and I came back within 30 days and filed a report. It took me quite a bit or time to sort that one out.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 10, 2025 03:02 PM (0N4FZ)
I think his motivation was to get acclaim for a general corona virus vaccine. That's what his flunky was nominally working on.
Sure he's profit off of it too but the guy was already well paid in his day job.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:02 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 10, 2025 03:02 PM (qZdIZ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
That's an insult to fucking retards.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 03:02 PM (MGB5H)
What a f'n retard.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 03:03 PM (+Oyis)
Posted by: Woodrow Wilson at December 10, 2025 02:51 PM (bFu5X)
Or his wife after the stroke because she didn't like the Vice President.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:03 PM (8avO+)
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I don't mean this as a generational dig but, the Boomers were the last generation to grow up in an era of "good" governance.
Which is, government and its services actually, mostly worked. And we've been coasting downhill since.
We're now on the 4th iteration:
From competent-but-corrupt, to merely-corrupt, to incompetent-and-corrupt to maliciously-corrupt.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 10, 2025 03:03 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:03 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:57 PM (ynpvh)
Seems....illegal. But, California, so.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)
I coulda sued for disenfranchisement, but my name was once more on the rolls, and she could say she had cause. Figured it was a losing proposition.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:03 PM (ynpvh)
Well.. It's not her.... She doesn't even know what a woman is....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 02:58 PM (VE6XX)
Yet, wasn't she confirmed unanimously?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)
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You mean, like, a wing-man?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 03:03 PM (kbIZX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:02 PM (ufetp)
didn't have to float, though!
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 03:03 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Some Expert, Probably at December 10, 2025 03:03 PM (TN0g+)
Does that mean that PhDs aren't experts?
Jumanji Jackson is both a true believer AND a fucking retard.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 03:03 PM (fQpSl)
If you were nominated and confirmed by Auto-Pen, it's the same as writing it into the Constitution.
I say this as somebody who could have gotten into Harvard Law if I'd've had some sort of autism diagnosis.
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 03:04 PM (0ZmKh)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 10, 2025 03:02 PM (qZdIZ)
Phew
Posted by: Justice Sotomayor at December 10, 2025 03:04 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 03:04 PM (TN0g+)
The only reason I have mine is that I don't want to have to repair the holes for the mounts and repaint the rooms they are in.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 03:04 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
3 Rs. Mittens murk Collins I believe were the 3.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 03:04 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: The Experts, 1930s at December 10, 2025 03:04 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Daryl Zanuck, 1946 at December 10, 2025 03:02 PM (wVcYX)
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Posted by: Charles Holland Duell, 1902 at December 10, 2025 03:05 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 10, 2025 03:05 PM (GPa4z)
Well.. It's not her.... She doesn't even know what a woman is....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 02:58 PM (VE6XX)
Yet, wasn't she confirmed unanimously?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)
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This is one of those things I will never understand.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 10, 2025 03:05 PM (ujRcn)
If you were nominated and confirmed by Auto-Pen, it's the same as writing it into the Constitution.
I say this as somebody who could have gotten into Harvard Law if I'd've had some sort of autism diagnosis.
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 03:04 PM (0ZmKh)
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Biden introduced her in person when he nominated her.
Of all the things to say, "Autopen did it and should be overturned", Brown's nomination to SCOTUS is not one of them.
She's just a bad choice. Biden probably just nodded along, but that's enough in our government. The Constitution doesn't include a "presidents are president unless they are really stupid" clause.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Ace got best of breed?
Seriously, congrats!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 03:05 PM (+Oyis)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 03:01 PM (MGB5H)
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I'm going to have quarter-end and year-end stuff to do in a few weeks. It's going to suck.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 03:05 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: It's me donna
Was that ever asked? "Do you know if *you* are a woman?"
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 03:05 PM (0ZmKh)
Does that mean that PhDs aren't experts?
Jumanji Jackson is both a true believer AND a fucking retard.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 03:03 PM
Forget it...she's rolling.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 03:05 PM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:05 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 02:59 PM (iFTx/)
its the free wine on tap and after hours team building conferences that told you what that was all about.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:06 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: The Experts, 1930s at December 10, 2025 03:04 PM (wVcYX)
Austalia needs CANED toads!
Posted by: Australia, 1960s at December 10, 2025 03:06 PM (ynpvh)
For one thing, we've way too many "judges" running around. For another, most of them are clearly biased.
It's past time to thin that herd.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 03:06 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: The Professor at December 10, 2025 03:01 PM (sKqQm)
Mrs. Howell did things. Butt things. Oh Lovey! I have some cocoanut oil you minx!
Posted by: The Skipper, Packing Heat at December 10, 2025 03:06 PM (bC9HI)
Yup. Thanks Christian conservatives. You've gotten what you wanted. Stench on bench begs to be cause of civil war, again.
At least we'll be able to fire all of Trump's lackeys when we win back the presidency.
That's optimistic. The Republicans are baking in the cheat now with voter suppression, gerrymandering, etc. They're pulling out all the stops to retain power. Sounds familiar...
They will then use some 15th century logic to say actually if you're a specific political party you can't fire Independent agency heads. Rules for me and not for thee
If any Dems in 2028 run on returning to the "Norms" I am going to lose my shit. They better be firing everyone and filing charges on everyone period.
SC justices must be removed if you want to fix the rotten American justice system. And then expand the court for good measure.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 10, 2025 03:06 PM (JCZqz)
Of all the things to say, "Autopen did it and should be overturned", Brown's nomination to SCOTUS is not one of them.
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No it wouldn't be because of auto-pen but EEOC. He said publicly he would ONLY consider a black woman. As I said it wouldn't go anywhere but why not try. They do shit like that all the time.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 03:07 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Lord Kelvin, pre Wright Brothers at December 10, 2025 03:07 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Democrat JAG judge at December 10, 2025 03:07 PM (jYRYu)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:07 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 03:07 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I, for one, would be interested in you teaming up with a COB for a thread on what this life is like.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:07 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 02:59 PM (iFTx/)
its the free wine on tap and after hours team building conferences that told you what that was all about.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:06 PM (8avO+)
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Oh for sure. These girls left that part out of their SM posts.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 03:07 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)
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This is one of those things I will never understand.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 10, 2025 03:05 PM
Sure you will...GOPe is not on our side. Simple.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 03:07 PM (bFu5X)
For one thing, we've way too many "judges" running around. For another, most of them are clearly biased.
It's past time to thin that herd.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 03:06 PM (NwnyJ)
Totally this.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 03:07 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Rando Calrissian at December 10, 2025 03:08 PM (OMAGl)
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 03:04 PM (TR2dy)
I have some dongle that lets me watch YT and other web sites over the internet on them.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:08 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 10, 2025 03:08 PM (sX1BW)
Why didn't you lose your "shit" back when BJ Billy, Bareback Barack, and Sniffy Joe were President?
Posted by: Australia, 1960s at December 10, 2025 03:08 PM (ynpvh)
One of the give away is the judiciary almost always approves of things that reduce the rights of citizens at the expense of the government.
Even a passing familiarity with the bill of rights should have judges almost always deciding against any claims of new power by fedgov
Obamacare? Not constitutional
Gun Bans? Not constitutional
and on and on...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:08 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Hewlett-Packard at December 10, 2025 03:08 PM (wVcYX)
CHIEF Justice Roberts said there are no Democrat judges or Republican judges, only JUDGES.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)
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"That's former Satanic Homo Bondage Pedo Monkeypox Czar Dude to you, h8r!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 03:08 PM (kbIZX)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
We need to extend ot the IQ scale past zero into the negative numbers.
If your IQ is 150, you're really smart.
If your IQ is 100, you're average.
If your IQ is 50, you're really really stupid.
If your IQ is 0, you know absolutely nothing - you're like a rock or a plant.
If your IQ is minus-50, you falsely imagine that you have knowledge and wisdom, but everything you "know' is the opposite or true.
If your IQ is minus-100, you might seem on the surface like an average person, but in reality you are an anti-human, with an in-born ability to fundamentally misunderstand everything.
If your IQ is minus-150, you are a leftist.
Posted by: zombie at December 10, 2025 03:09 PM (oraVG)
Banks create money. What do you think fractional reserves is all about?
Posted by: MkY at December 10, 2025 02:56 PM (+Pp+Q)
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Fractional reserves are increased with deposits, not how much banks can loan.
Lower interest rates affect the velocity of money, but they don't affect inflation because they don't actually create currency.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:09 PM (GBKbO)
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And the designers wore polyester.
Posted by: Atheist That Read 1 Verse of the Bible at December 10, 2025 03:09 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Lord Kelvin, pre Wright Brothers at December 10, 2025 03:07 PM (wVcYX)
Dumbass. Must've been blind and deaf.
Posted by: Flying Birds and Bats at December 10, 2025 03:09 PM (ynpvh)
Yeah, I let myself get sidetracked. She shouldn't be there because elections are fake. The auto-pen is a red herring.
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 03:09 PM (0ZmKh)
Posted by: Democrat JAG judge at December 10, 2025 03:07 PM (jYRYu)
It's not that the Iron Age didn't happen, it's that it was a Jewish conspiracy to seize all our bronze.
Posted by: bronze age truther at December 10, 2025 03:09 PM (GNipg)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 03:07 PM (iFTx/)
Actually they did mention what I said. It was what happened after the drinks at the team building that they didn't mention.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:09 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: zombie at December 10, 2025 03:10 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 10, 2025 03:06 PM (JCZqz)
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"Oh, boy! Republicans have no idea what they've done! President Harris can fire all of Trump's appointees now!"
-same poster
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
Yes, what Biden said was completely and utterly illegal. It’s OK to do this, if you’re a Democrat and pandering to voters because of their skin tone.
Sadly, because of leftist gatekeepers, one might be forgiven if they assume black females are entirely comprised of low frequency lesbians with a retarded attitude.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 03:10 PM (Kjgfl)
Posted by: bronze age truther at December 10, 2025 03:09 PM (GNipg)
Big Tin out of Cornwall.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:10 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Democrat JAG judge at December 10, 2025 03:10 PM (jYRYu)
If there was one thing I could bring up to elected Republicans it is that this is what will happen to them if they lose control of the government.
You aren't going to retire to your estate and your generational wealth. You'll have Newsom's AG charging you for crimes that didn't exist in 2027...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:10 PM (sKqQm)
No it wouldn't be because of auto-pen but EEOC. He said publicly he would ONLY consider a black woman. As I said it wouldn't go anywhere but why not try. They do shit like that all the time.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 03:07 PM (MGB5H)
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I'm sorry, but that's even dumber.
EEOC dictates the logic that a president can nominate someone for a position?
EEOC overrides a president's prerogative as given by the constitution?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Democrat JAG judge at December 10, 2025 03:07 PM (jYRYu)
does it aerosolize it so molten particles recondense into droplets that are found in the dust samples throughout Manhattan? Because that is a thing.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 03:11 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:11 PM (ufetp)
But left unchecked this is lethal stupidity.
A justice of the highest court, the Constitutional court, pretends not to understand the Constitution.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 03:11 PM (9ipOP)
All other branches have both direct and indirect accountability to the public.
The document that begins "We the people" doesn't then continue with "except for the really important and complex stuff that only experts can understand."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 10, 2025 03:12 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 03:12 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 10, 2025 03:12 PM (jYRYu)
Posted by: The Experts, 1930s at December 10, 2025 03:04 PM (wVcYX)
Austalia needs CANED toads!
Posted by: Australia, 1960s
Australia needs canned toads???
Posted by: Guy who doesn't quite get it at December 10, 2025 03:12 PM (+Oyis)
EEOC dictates the logic that a president can nominate someone for a position?
EEOC overrides a president's prerogative as given by the constitution?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing
Not who he nominated. HOW. He said in public that he was choosing based on race and sex. Again it would y go anywhere but why not give it a go.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 03:12 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: bronze age truther at December 10, 2025 03:09 PM (GNipg)
Truly you are not a bronze age truther until you are willing to argue about who taught the Great Lakes Indians how to dig and shape copper, and eventually stop making tools from it.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 03:12 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 03:07 PM (iFTx/)
Actually they did mention what I said. It was what happened after the drinks at the team building that they didn't mention.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:09 PM (8avO+)
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Yea, that's what I meant
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 03:13 PM (iFTx/)
CHIEF Justice Roberts said there are no Democrat judges or Republican judges, only JUDGES.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)
Bet that wisdom changes in a flash when a MAGA traffic court judge starts ruling that cities over a million don't count for election purposes.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:13 PM (8avO+)
Must have been a hell of a sight
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:13 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:13 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 03:12 PM (Ia/+0)
probably not, its not written in cave drawings.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 03:13 PM (snZF9)
"Yeah, this one just can't cut the mustard. You made a mistake and should try again."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 03:12 PM (MGB5H)
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Because not even conservative jurists at the district level would buy into it. Because the president's prerogative to nominate whomever he wants for whatever he wants is untouched by statute that has nothing to do with presidential appointments.
It's just an incorrect legal opinion, through and through.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:14 PM (GBKbO)
These are dangerous times.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 10, 2025 03:14 PM (5FKHw)
But left unchecked this is lethal stupidity.
A justice of the highest court, the Constitutional court, pretends not to understand the Constitution.
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I (somewhat) seriously don't understand why every "news" channel other than Fox isn't required to include in its logo that its an affiliate of the Democratic Party. Because not a one of them ever point out that its pretty absurd that Kentanji was ever nominated, much confirmed to the Highest Court in the center of the Free World.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 03:14 PM (TN0g+)
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I know you better half is a banker, but several fractional reserve banking youtube videos make me think that someone is not fully grasping fractional reserve banking and banks creating money with loans.
Posted by: Not THAT means neither of us is an expert at December 10, 2025 03:14 PM (AoMt0)
probably not, its not written in cave drawings.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 03:13 PM (snZF9)
I'd be willing to bet she can't read that either as caveman was smarter.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Rando Calrissian at December 10, 2025 03:08 PM (OMAGl)
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I believe this to be true. She removes the mask and exposes to the conservatives jurists and more importantly the moderates, without any doubt, where the progressives want to take our country.
Posted by: WisRich at December 10, 2025 03:15 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: The Experts, 1930s at December 10, 2025 03:04 PM (wVcYX)
Austalia needs CANED toads!
Posted by: Australia, 1960s
Australia needs canned toads???
Posted by: Guy who doesn't quite get it at December 10, 2025 03:12 PM (+Oyis)
Does Vegemite come from vegetables?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:15 PM (ynpvh)
Never said I agreed with it. Just said a case could be made.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 03:15 PM (MGB5H)
I don't suppose there's a quick and easy way to fire a justice like Ketamine Brown -
if they show no understanding of the Constitution, nor an inclination to rule in accordance to the plain written words of the Constitution even if they did actually understand it.
Is there any reason that we need the viewpoint of a communist retard in the Supreme Court?
I can't think of one. Perhaps y'all can.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 03:15 PM (iJfKG)
"Yeah, this one just can't cut the mustard. You made a mistake and should try again."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)
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I believe SCOTUS justices have pressured other jurists to retire, but that's a backdoor, unofficial thing.
The only official thing is impeachment, and I doubt there are 30 votes to do it in the Senate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO)
Cane toads are coming, cane toads are coming
Main roads are humming with the cane toad blues
Cane toads...
Posted by: Tim Finn at December 10, 2025 03:15 PM (bC9HI)
Fuck Marx and the horse he rode in on. Lazy fat faggot.
Posted by: ballistic at December 10, 2025 03:16 PM (3BwY8)
When the Democrats take over, and they will because you can't figure out that every f*cking election from here on out is for the sanctity of this country, they WILL stack the Supreme Court. It will be FILLED with more EXACTLY LIKE this dumb twat.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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Be nice if we'd get that 9-person limit codified.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 10, 2025 03:16 PM (1N/bM)
"Yeah, this one just can't cut the mustard. You made a mistake and should try again."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)
Vote her off the island and extinguish her torch.
Posted by: SCOTUS Survivor at December 10, 2025 03:16 PM (wVcYX)
I just don't think this is what the Beastie Boys had in mind.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:16 PM (sKqQm)
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Such bullshit. She's clearly dumb. Crockett is dumb. Kamala is dumb. Not a one of them is playing "3-D chess" and any of you who try to pretend they're doing something intentional AND smart are just losing credibility points. Those women are dumb as a box of rocks.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 03:16 PM (TN0g+)
These are dangerous times.
Posted by: Vengeance at December
This ain't nothing.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 03:16 PM (MGB5H)
Yeah, or Karl Marx didn't either
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 03:16 PM (Ia/+0)
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I know you better half is a banker, but several fractional reserve banking youtube videos make me think that someone is not fully grasping fractional reserve banking and banks creating money with loans.
Posted by: Not THAT means neither of us is an expert at December 10, 2025 03:14 PM (AoMt0)
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No, they don't.
Fractional banking is how much banks can loan out as determined by how much they have in deposits.
That's the definition of fractional banking.
Lowering interest rates doesn't affect that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:16 PM (GBKbO)
Must have been a hell of a sight
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:13 PM (sKqQm)
Wait til you see the Trojan Whores...I mean Horse.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:17 PM (ynpvh)
Be nice if we'd get that 9-person limit codified.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 10, 2025 03:16 PM (1N/bM)
I would give my grandchildren a fighting chance.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)
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And the designers wore polyester.
Sorry there's only room for one on this door
Posted by: Rose at December 10, 2025 03:17 PM (HcoTw)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:11 PM (ufetp)
Well i wouldn't go that far. Wrought Iron is good for some things, not as good for others due to being brittle. Steels helped with that. And indeed tin was a huge difficulty and Bronze agers went a long way to find tin sources.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:17 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 03:12 PM (Ia/+0)
probably not, its not written in cave drawings.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 03:13 PM (snZF9)
We need an emoji-written Bill of Rights?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:17 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)
You're probably right. They could at least tell their asshole from a hole in the ground.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 03:17 PM (snZF9)
Never said I agreed with it. Just said a case could be made.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 03:15 PM (MGB5H)
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There is literally no case to be made about it.
It's the same as trying to use contract law and power of attorney on Biden's real signatures. None of these lower things have anything to do with presidential powers.
Elect a corrupt, senile, shit, and that corrupt, senile, shit gets what he wants from presidentin' as long as he signs his name.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)
Looking at how the country was run under Biden, we know that various oligarchs and interest groups had direct access to Biden's cabinet officials who had broad authority to do whatever their clients asked.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:18 PM (sKqQm)
Must have been a hell of a sight
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:13 PM (sKqQm)
This out to be a textbook introduction.
Posted by: bronze age truther at December 10, 2025 03:18 PM (GNipg)
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"Miss me yet?"
/Anthony Kennedy
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 03:18 PM (CveCS)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:18 PM (77rzZ)
These are dangerous times.
Posted by: Vengeance at December
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Eh.
Dissents have no force.
They're the same as rantings in the NYT opinion pages.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)
And yeah, up to half of the supposed 'Republican' members of the 'conservative' majority Supreme Court are closet liberals. But that's not much different than how things are in the Legislative branch. As you've said before, we're just handicapped by the 'conservative' judges believing in the rule of law, while leftist judges believe in "For my enemies (the Right), the law; for my friends (the Left), everything!" We need our judges to embrace the Leftist precedent of subjective legal weaponization, just in the other direction. Until the Left cries uncle and we can get back to the rule of law... But before that happens, there is no rule of law, there's just war. And we weren't the ones who made things that way. We just need to accept it...
Posted by: bearski at December 10, 2025 03:18 PM (Bhsk7)
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I want to believe you. I do in part. But I wonder if it really does that - or if people really care. It's been pretty obvious to me my whole life where the progressives want to take us.
But are we at risk of making this something worthy of an argument? A case like this should be decided in a week with a one page opinion. That makes it clear. Instead, Trump will win 6-3 in a 100 page opinion that doesn't get released until next summer. The process makes it appear that there may be a legitimate debate between the two - when there is no argument for the progressive side.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 10, 2025 03:19 PM (sX1BW)
Oh my!
Posted by: George Takei at December 10, 2025 03:19 PM (2vZ9g)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 03:19 PM (3cXfB)
Cane toads are coming, cane toads are coming
Main roads are humming with the cane toad blues
Cane toads...
Posted by: Tim Finn at December 10, 2025 03:15 PM (bC9HI)
Just need to train the rabbits to eat cane toads. And Koalas to eat rabbits.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:20 PM (8avO+)
...that its pretty absurd that Kentanji was ever nominated, much confirmed to the Highest Court in the center of the Free World.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 03:14 PM
Harriet Miers weeps
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 10, 2025 03:20 PM (tljrc)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:20 PM (77rzZ)
Looking at how the country was run under Biden, we know that various oligarchs and interest groups had direct access to Biden's cabinet officials who had broad authority to do whatever their clients asked.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:18 PM (sKqQm)
This I believe to be true. Biden was never president. Technically, yes. But functionally - no. A good day for Biden was when he only ate 3 crayons and didn't shit himself. I believe most of the damage done during his administration was those in his inner circle doing what they pleased pushing whatever marxist ideology they wanted, autopen be damned.
Posted by: Disney Stockholders at December 10, 2025 03:20 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: ... at
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Sergeant of course.
Like Columbo - what's your first name Lieutenant?
Columbo: Lt.
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at December 10, 2025 03:20 PM (VkY89)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 03:12 PM (MGB5H)
He said he would nominate a black woman. If this is the best and brightest he could find, the black community should be PISSED......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)
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It doesn't, not in a meaningful way. Go open your own bank, or use a notebook or computer and pretend to open your own bank and see how little "money" you have left to loan after you issue your first round.
Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at December 10, 2025 03:21 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 03:19 PM (3cXfB)
What's to keep Elon from applying again after that decision?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:21 PM (8avO+)
...that its pretty absurd that Kentanji was ever nominated, much confirmed to the Highest Court in the center of the Free World.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 03:14 PM
Harriet Miers weeps
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 10, 2025 03:20 PM (tljrc)
Harriet Myers is an intellectual giant in comparison to Ketanji.
Posted by: Disney Stockholders at December 10, 2025 03:21 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 03:21 PM (sGtp+)
...that its pretty absurd that Kentanji was ever nominated, much confirmed to the Highest Court in the center of the Free World. Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 03:14 PM
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Harriet Miers weeps Posted by: AltonJackson
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Hell, Vince Young weeps. I'd like to see her Wonderlic score...
Posted by: bearski at December 10, 2025 03:21 PM (Bhsk7)
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 03:09 PM (0ZmKh)
Here's the problem with that. Congress accepted the slate of EC votes which said that Biden was President. It doesn't matter, at all, how that slate was selected... only that it was accepted by Congress.
You could, I suppose, argue that the Congress which accepted the Biden electors was, themselves, improperly elected, but that would require proving malfeasance on part of, at least, several states.
And what if you did prove that? You could undo the laws they'd passed. You could remove the appointees. But all the money spent would still be spent. All the illegals brought in would still be here. All the people killed by their decisions would still be dead.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 03:22 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: ... at
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Sergeant of course.
Like Columbo - what's your first name Lieutenant?
Columbo: Lt.
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at December 10, 2025 03:20 PM (VkY89)
Sgt. Major Major Major, recently promoted to Major.
https://youtube.com/shorts/JaI8GT1Eis8
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:22 PM (ynpvh)
Well, I have to disagree. I think Kamala is dumb and I think Ketanji Brown is not really up on the law and Constitution despite being a judge, .I think Jasmine Crockett is using the whole fake accent, etc. to get people on board with her campaign so she's less dumb than she seems..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 03:22 PM (8Xy/A)
Must have been a hell of a sight
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:13 PM (sKqQm)
Could have just visited any US Port from 2021 to 2024
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 03:22 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Disney Stockholders at December 10, 2025 03:20 PM (N39Ws)
Too simple. Biden had his inner circle, as did every department several times over. These factions contended and bid to get access to Biden and the autopen, and who won shifted policy accordingly.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:23 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at December 10, 2025 03:23 PM (XVbII)
Projection! This is what the left's done. They just don't want the other side doing it too.
Completely unrelated...If Trump nixed all those pardons, that means Fauci lost his pardon, right?
Posted by: LizLem at December 10, 2025 03:23 PM (gWBY1)
Jackson argued that scientists, economists, doctors, and other agency "experts" should be insulated from presidential authority entirely, claiming that allowing a president to fire them is "not in the best interest" of Americans.
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And also, I gather, she doesn't actually know the Constitution.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 10, 2025 03:23 PM (Ijbq0)
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TBF Biden was an idiot too. Even 30 years ago. The system if fcked up. We end up with the worst people having the most responsibilty power and privilege. They are by and large a pack of dumbasses that think they are geniuses. Midwits look like towering intellects next to your average congress rep.
Posted by: Not THAT means neither of us is an expert at December 10, 2025 03:23 PM (AoMt0)
Are any Dems upset about Mamdani getting to pick a whole new slate of criminals, commies, and Islamists to help him run NYC?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 10, 2025 03:23 PM (1N/bM)
If you pretend long enough, eventually you manifest the lie.
Think of it like those who worship Satan as a "joke".
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 03:24 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 03:24 PM (D+mpw)
https://youtube.com/shorts/JaI8GT1Eis8
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:22 PM (ynpvh)
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I have named the boy Caleb, in accordance with your wishes.
Posted by: NYT at December 10, 2025 03:25 PM (pEFY5)
Posted by: Boss Moss
That's the one where the explosion occurs a couple of hours after you eat it?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 03:25 PM (0U5gm)
You're probably right. They could at least tell their asshole from a hole in the ground.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 03:17 PM (snZF9)
Heh.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Not THAT means neither of us is an expert at December 10, 2025 03:23 PM (AoMt0)
Yeah Biden was never the mover and shaker, just one of the thugs used for the dirty work in the best of times.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:25 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Boss Moss
That's the one where the explosion occurs a couple of hours after you eat it?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 03:25 PM (0U5gm)
Vegan farts.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:26 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 03:26 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 10, 2025 03:26 PM (8CIFn)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 03:26 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 03:24 PM (D+mpw)
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This is dumb partisan, tribal behavior, and nothing else.
"My side is right, therefore people on my side are smart."
It's like knowing your QB, who threw 3 interceptions and got sacked 4 times last week, is better than Brett Favre at his peak.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:26 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 10, 2025 03:26 PM (8CIFn)
Dem = Krazy Kommie Komrade (KKK). It's in the name.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:27 PM (ynpvh)
Logically you cannot pardon someone "in general" you have to list a specific crime.
I think Trump and co could, and should, move forward with charging Fauci. Though I'd start with Hunter. And specifically don't charge Hunter with the crimes he was being prosecuted for when Biden pardoned him - either big statutory rape or malfeasance based on his Ukraine payola - not the gun charges.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:27 PM (sKqQm)
It’s all right there in the Penumbra clause. Or maybe it’s the Emanations clause.
Posted by: Clay at December 10, 2025 03:27 PM (KXkjC)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Now you know why the left loves Somalis so much. Birds of a feather.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:27 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 10, 2025 03:26 PM (8CIFn)
They're dems.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 03:28 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Now you know why the left loves Somalis so much. Birds of a feather.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:27 PM (77rzZ)
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Partisanship makes you stupid.
Be an ideologue.
Then you can hate everyone.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:28 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:21 PM
Because trademarks are based on use. If you can't show actual use of the mark in connection with your product or service, you can't register it. If you stop using it long enough, you won't be able to renew it. You can file an intent to use application, but even that has a use or lose time limit.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 03:28 PM (bFu5X)
This is dumb partisan, tribal behavior, and nothing else.
"My side is right, therefore people on my side are smart."
It's like knowing your QB, who threw 3 interceptions and got sacked 4 times last week, is better than Brett Favre at his peak.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:26 PM (GBKbO)
Did Bret Favre get sacked and intercepted that many times? Not as many? See, my guy EXCEEDS Bret Favre.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:28 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 10, 2025 03:23 PM (1N/bM)
Some must have been since they dug up a Cuomo to try and stop him. Did not work, but since everybody replaced is just as bad as the new thugs I'm just watching. Acts have consequences.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:28 PM (8avO+)
When Cheryl Hines was accosted by the ladies of the view about RFK being unqualified, she pointed out very few of the people in his current job actually have a medical degree. One of the ones the left put in was an economist. At least RFK had litigated on health issues in the past. The View bints shut up about it after that.
If a POTUS puts idiots with no degree in that field Into a job, the next POTUS should be able to fire him. This is not hard.
Posted by: LizLem at December 10, 2025 03:28 PM (gWBY1)
So thinking for yourself, a more traditional metric, is wrong, racist, and sexist.
Its a very dogmatic take that amusingly is like something out of a leftwing book damning a fictional Christian theocracy
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:28 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Clay
Hey, I have lots of emanations in my pants!
-- Joe Biden
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:29 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Oldcat
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What could go wrong?
Posted by: Old lady who swallowed a fly at December 10, 2025 03:29 PM (pEFY5)
If their deposits increase $10, they can now loan $1100.
Where'd that money come from?
Posted by: MkY at December 10, 2025 03:29 PM (+Pp+Q)
Posted by: Crusader, former
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https://tinyurl.com/3np2ye9r
Well this guys says otherwise
???
Posted by: What is meaningful at December 10, 2025 03:29 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (2vZ9g)
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And Ketanji as a law expert can't even tell us what is a woman yet a child in Kindergarten Cop can tell her exactly that.
Posted by: Decaf at December 10, 2025 03:29 PM (1RAfh)
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I think you can be changed by the environment, particularly when you're emotionally embracing it. She's 'becoming' dumb. The act is becoming her. Not unlike Hilaria Baldwin. That WASP idiot can't give up that accent (fleeting as it is to everyone listening) cuz it's part of her now. She has become the character she made up for herself, fake as it is; it would be damn hard for her to turn back to who she (really) was... Ditto with Crockett. That undergrad video of her... She hasn't been her in a LONG time... She is the fake character she made up for herself. And why stop now? She's rolling in it...
Posted by: bearski at December 10, 2025 03:29 PM (Bhsk7)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 03:30 PM (lF28Z)
>>> Does Judge Jumanji like cock?
Posted by: Pudinhead
only if it's white. I seriously don't get it. It's like the meme where the internet white supremacist has the black gf.
She is dyed in the wool black supremacist, yet married a guy in 1996 that is paler than the bottom of my Northern European foot?
Posted by: imp at December 10, 2025 03:30 PM (g6TN6)
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 03:30 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Oldcat
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What could go wrong?
Posted by: Old lady who swallowed a fly at December 10, 2025 03:29 PM (pEFY5)
Nothing, until they bring in the Andaman Islanders to get rid of the Koalas...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:30 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 03:30 PM (D+mpw)
If their deposits increase $10, they can now loan $1100.
Where'd that money come from?
Posted by: MkY at December 10, 2025 03:29 PM (+Pp+Q)
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From the deposit, not from an interest rate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
Damn. Sounds like you paid attention in law school, unlike KBJ.
RMBS for SCOTUS!
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:30 PM (77rzZ)
https://youtube.com/shorts/JaI8GT1Eis8
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:22 PM (ynpvh)
Catch 22
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
It's like knowing your QB, who threw 3 interceptions and got sacked 4 times last week, is better than Brett Favre at his peak.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
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* throws flag *
Correction kind sir - Favre did get sacked 4 times and threw 3 interceptions and still won while in his peak.
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at December 10, 2025 03:30 PM (VkY89)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 03:31 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 03:31 PM (Oy/m2)
I'm too lazy to look it up, but the person who took over his job in Trump's cabinet talked about Mayor Pete making a lot of dumb screw ups and he's had to sort them out and fix them all. It's been a huge headache, cleaning up the mess Bootyjudge left behind.
Also he's gotten the air traffic controller's tech updated with copper and other things in record time. Pete said it would take years and it's been months. This is what happens when you hire competent people !
Posted by: LizLem at December 10, 2025 03:31 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:26 PM (GBKbO)
Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor, man.
Posted by: Colin Kaepernick at December 10, 2025 03:31 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 10, 2025 03:31 PM (nJthq)
Posted by: MkY at December 10, 2025 03:31 PM (+Pp+Q)
Posted by: WisRich at December 10, 2025 03:32 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 03:31 PM (Ia/+0)
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It was my first attempt after a month of trying to get the starter right.
And it was perfect on the first go.
I was proud.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 03:32 PM (v0R5T)
it's Sean Duffy
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 03:32 PM (emBoF)
And I'm including the people mad that Thomas is married to a white woman. See...he's a conservative black guy and she's a conservative white woman...so here it is bad, evil, and racist...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:32 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 03:31 PM (Oy/m2)
And is less bent
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 03:32 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 10, 2025 03:16 PM (1N/bM)
It is. The United States Supreme Court consists of nine justices: one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. This number has been fixed since 1869, when Congress established the current size of the Court through the Judiciary Act of 1869.
Which means, if someone were to get rid of the filibuster, the size of the court could be increased by 218 members of the House, 50 Senators (plus the VP), and a willing President. But they'd still have to pass a law to do it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 03:32 PM (ExV1e)
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Officials have identified some of the more than 300 piles of cremated remains located in the desert outside of Las Vegas.
Investigators with Nexstar’s KLAS first reported the discovery of more than 100 piles of cremated remains in August. The person who found the ashes said he stumbled on the piles on July 28 in a desert area outside of Searchlight, a rural community about an hour south of the Las Vegas valley.
Investigators think the remains could be from a commercial funeral business that closed or changed owners, but officials have not named any suspects.
Sounds like they found the mob burial ground.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 03:32 PM (+Oyis)
Posted by: imp at December 10, 2025 03:30 PM (g6TN6)
I think the Ace forged and approved phrase is "whiter than Darrel Hall's underballs".
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 03:32 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: MkY at December 10, 2025 03:31 PM (+Pp+Q)
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Based on the deposit, not an interest rate.
Lowered interest rates don't create cash.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 03:24 PM (D+mpw)
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This is dumb partisan, tribal behavior, and nothing else.
"My side is right, therefore people on my side are smart."
It's like knowing your QB, who threw 3 interceptions and got sacked 4 times last week, is better than Brett Favre at his peak.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:26 PM (GBKbO)
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There reverse is true too: "Your side is wrong, therefore people on your side are dumb." That's a form of underestimating your enemy. Never underestimate your enemy.
There are some smart people on the other side. They may espouse bad or even stupid policies, but that's not because they're dumb. Some people seem to think that whenever a leftist denies being able to define a woman, that means they literally can't define a woman. Of course they know what a woman is. Duh. They are saying they can't define a woman because leftist dogma requires them too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 03:33 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: steevy at December 10, 2025 03:33 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:26 PM (GBKbO)
Did Bret Favre get sacked and intercepted that many times? Not as many? See, my guy EXCEEDS Bret Favre.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:28 PM (ynpvh)
Oh Favre had lots of games like that. When they like you they call it 'Gunslinging'. You just have to win often enough to avoid being fired in your first couple of years.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:33 PM (8avO+)
That is supposed to be good, but anyone who understands government understands that if you give them a dial they will always turn it up to 11 at the worst possible time, and then demand a level 12, 13,....
Posted by: Old lady who swallowed a fly at December 10, 2025 03:33 PM (pEFY5)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
You made sourdough? I could have helped with that. But then if you have your fancy internet I get you don't need me.... who actually is also the fancy internet.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 03:33 PM (lF28Z)
Sure sure lots of reasons for this, in the modern era the political branches have allowed/hoped for/been thrilled with effectively delegating their power to the judiciary so that controversial decisions carry no accountability. This delegation probably exceeds the improper delegation to the unelected bureaucracy, in impact.
And now we see the full (? heh, hopefully?) flowering of this judicial usurpation and lawlessness, under Trump II. About the only thing left is for a "court" to countermand an order from the CinC through the SecWar to a military unit in the field.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 03:33 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: MkY at December 10, 2025 03:33 PM (+Pp+Q)
"Yeah, this one just can't cut the mustard. You made a mistake and should try again."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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They should vote her off the island.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 03:34 PM (v0R5T)
Also he's gotten the air traffic controller's tech updated with copper and other things in record time. Pete said it would take years and it's been months. This is what happens when you hire competent people !
Posted by: LizLem at December 10, 2025 03:31 PM (gWBY1)
But Buttigieg went on X and told that guy he was incompetent, so it's fine and people will vote Buttgig for president.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)
If their deposits increase $10, they can now loan $1100.
Where'd that money come from?
Posted by: MkY at December 10, 2025 03:29 PM (+Pp+Q)
The ATM?
Posted by: Gen Z at December 10, 2025 03:34 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: steevy at December 10, 2025 03:33 PM (YwEeS)
plus a housewife as President hiding Wilson's stroke.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:34 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
You made sourdough? I could have helped with that. But then if you have your fancy internet I get you don't need me.... who actually is also the fancy internet.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 03:33 PM (lF28Z)
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Started with a Paul Hollywood video. Then another YT video.
Then a recipe.
With lots of, "Why isn't this rising?" in between.
I was convinced the thing was gonna be a pancake when I put it in the oven.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:35 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:35 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 03:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 10, 2025 03:35 PM (vbXSk)
I agree.
Other than the usual law of supply and demand.
Posted by: MkY at December 10, 2025 03:35 PM (+Pp+Q)
I think the Ace forged and approved phrase is "whiter than Darrel Hall's underballs".
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 03:32 PM (snZF9)
I'd imagine that's pretty damn white, then.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 03:19 PM (3cXfB)
What's to keep Elon from applying again after that decision?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:21 PM (8avO+)
Elon should designate some toilet at SpaceX in Texas as 'Twitter' so he can say, truthfully, that the trademark is still in use.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 03:35 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic a
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Why stop at 218? Why not 538? or 300,000,000?
Posted by: Old lady who swallowed a fly at December 10, 2025 03:35 PM (pEFY5)
Posted by: Clay
Hey, I have lots of emanations in my pants!
-- Joe Biden
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:29 PM (77rzZ)
....then I stuck it right in her penumbra. (Sotte vocce) penumbra.
Posted by: Preznit Ruprect the Monkeyboy at December 10, 2025 03:35 PM (Lki3J)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:35 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 03:35 PM (Ia/+0)
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Thank you.
Even Dolley, who was convinced I was going to burn the house down, is happy with it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)
If their deposits increase $10, they can now loan $1100.
Where'd that money come from?
Posted by: MkY at December 10, 2025 03:29 PM (+Pp+Q)
The ATM?
Posted by: Gen Z at December 10, 2025 03:34 PM (wVcYX)
Someone needs to watch the early parts of "Its a Wonderful Life" and I don't mean when Donna Reed loses her robe and hides in the bushes.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:36 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at December 10, 2025 03:23 PM (XVbII)
Full or empty?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Standard Oil Exec at December 10, 2025 03:36 PM (2WIwB)
Law says bank must hold 10%.
Bank loans 90 to some other guy. The first guy still has 100 dollars on deposit. The second guy goes and spends hia 90. So 100 dollars just became 190.
Th 90 dollar loan gets spent and that winds up in some other bank. They loan 81 dollars. Process repeats.
The process isnt just one bank. It the whole economy.
Posted by: What is meaningful at December 10, 2025 03:36 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
He was physically more talented than Favre, sadly he was not better.
Posted by: Clay at December 10, 2025 03:36 PM (KXkjC)
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Absolutely not. They could loan $100 IF there was no fractional reserve requirement. In practice they can lend around $95.
Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at December 10, 2025 03:36 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 03:37 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 10, 2025 03:37 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:37 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Kestrel at December 10, 2025 02:51 PM (wyl5F)
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And she will be there for decades, far longer than any of us will be alive. Perhaps she will be viewed by our children and grandchildren as a warning of what not to do.
Posted by: Decaf at December 10, 2025 03:37 PM (1RAfh)
Investigators with Nexstar’s KLAS first reported the discovery of more than 100 piles of cremated remains in August. The person who found the ashes said he stumbled on the piles on July 28 in a desert area outside of Searchlight, a rural community about an hour south of the Las Vegas valley.
Investigators think the remains could be from a commercial funeral business that closed or changed owners, but officials have not named any suspects.
Sounds like they found the mob burial ground.
Posted by: rickb223
It is next door to Harry Reid's house...
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 03:38 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:36 PM (8avO+)
So...are you saying running that part of the movie on a loop is wrong?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 03:38 PM (2WIwB)
I was using round numbers as basis for the argument.
Gee, Wesley, lighten up
Posted by: MkY at December 10, 2025 03:38 PM (+Pp+Q)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
He was physically more talented than Favre, sadly he was not better.
Posted by: Clay at December 10, 2025 03:36 PM (KXkjC)
Tony Romo would've had a SB or two under his belt were it not for the idiocy of Jason Garrett and his "must be a pocket passer" bullshit mentality. Romo was more accurate when doing his best Favre impression running around than he was from in the pocket.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:38 PM (ufetp)
I was using round numbers as basis for the argument.
Gee, Wesley, lighten up
Posted by: MkY at December 10, 2025 03:38 PM (+Pp+Q)
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Crusader is an actual banker, by the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:38 PM (GBKbO)
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Officials have identified some of the more than 300 piles of cremated remains located in the desert outside of Las Vegas.
Investigators with Nexstar’s KLAS first reported the discovery of more than 100 piles of cremated remains in August. The person who found the ashes said he stumbled on the piles on July 28 in a desert area outside of Searchlight, a rural community about an hour south of the Las Vegas valley.
Investigators think the remains could be from a commercial funeral business that closed or changed owners, but officials have not named any suspects.
Sounds like they found the mob burial ground.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 03:32 PM (+Oyis)
You can't prove nothing.
Posted by: Harry Reid at December 10, 2025 03:38 PM (wVcYX)
Well if you ever have a question it's basically the one thing I know a lot about.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 03:38 PM (lF28Z)
If a bank has $100 on deposit, they can loan $1000 (assuming a fractional reserve of 10%).
If their deposits increase $10, they can now loan $1100.
Where'd that money come from?
Posted by: MkY at December 10, 2025 03:29 PM (+Pp+Q)
The money's not here. Your money's in Joe's house...right next to yours. And in the Kennedy house, and Mrs. Macklin's house, and a hundred others. Why, you're lending them the money to build, and then, they're going to pay it back to you as best they can
Posted by: George Bailey at December 10, 2025 03:38 PM (rbvCR)
Must have been a hell of a sight
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:13 PM (sKqQm)
This out to be a textbook introduction.
Posted by: bronze age truther at December 10, 2025 03:18 PM (GNipg)
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"The Skittish Are Coming ... Literally!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 03:39 PM (CveCS)
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at December 10, 2025 03:23 PM (XVbII)
Full or empty?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Standard Oil Exec at December 10, 2025 03:36 PM (2WIwB)
And if full, full of what?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:39 PM (ynpvh)
Sounds like they found the mob burial ground.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 03:32 PM (+Oyis)
Or one of the less successful hippie desert gathering campout attempts.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:39 PM (8avO+)
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Not to brag, but I plan on living past her last day on the Court.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 10, 2025 03:39 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:26 PM
THIS IS ABOUT ME, ISN'T IT???
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 10, 2025 03:39 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at December 10, 2025 03:23 PM (XVbII)
Full or empty?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Standard Oil Exec at December 10, 2025 03:36 PM (2WIwB)
And if full, full of what?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:39 PM (ynpvh)
That's a lot of Fentanyl.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:40 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 10, 2025
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The amateur did have a little Guidance.
Or did God simply instruct Noah to build it, giving him a few dimensions, and then leave it up to his judgment?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 03:40 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: You'll live in ze pod and like it at December 10, 2025 03:40 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:38 PM (ufetp)
Or from Mark, or of Marque...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:40 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at December 10, 2025 03:23 PM (XVbII)
Full or empty?
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Put Dennis Hopper in charge.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 10, 2025 03:40 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:40 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:26 PM
THIS IS ABOUT ME, ISN'T IT???
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 10, 2025 03:39 PM (0sNs1)
Ben was hard to sack, as he was bigger than most linemen.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:41 PM (8avO+)
Sounds like they found the mob burial ground.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 03:32 PM (+Oyis)
Or one of the less successful hippie desert gathering campout attempts.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:39 PM (8avO+)
Was it near Burning Man?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:41 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: rickb223
Somebody misunderstood the concept of Burning Man.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 03:41 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Decaf at December 10, 2025 03:37 PM (1RAfh)
Until the mad max days arrives and Lord Humungus uses her as his nifty new hood ornament.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 03:41 PM (snZF9)
Presuming you have a relatively honest government that will enforce contracts fairly and prosecute fraud you are almost guaranteed to make money if you don't make stupid loans and/or the economy doesn't collapse.
We talk about the wonders of compound interest for investing, but this is basically what banks live off of.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:41 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Old lady who swallowed a fly at December 10, 2025 03:35 PM (pEFY5)
Because there are, currently, 435 voting members in the House so 218 makes a majority.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 03:41 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 10, 2025 03:41 PM (9GtqV)
Posted by: MkY at December 10, 2025 03:38 PM
To be fair, that's refreshing. Normally, people tell me to shut up.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 10, 2025 03:41 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming
Didn't tell Kevin Costner who to build a baseball field. Hell didn't even tell him it was a baseball field. Just "it".
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 03:42 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 03:42 PM (D+mpw)
Or did God simply instruct Noah to build it, giving him a few dimensions, and then leave it up to his judgment?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 03:40 PM
Right.
What's a "cubit"?
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 10, 2025 03:42 PM (tljrc)
But the not-stupid Kagan and Kennedy and Roberts and on and on (O'Connor on affirmative action, lol) make/have made catastrophically damaging and ridiculously utterly indefensible "rulings", and will continue to do so.
So you have to divide the judiciary's damage to the country between 1) things properly within their ambit, which is a tiny fraction of what's been going on for a century+, and 2) things they have no business even talking about, due to lack of constitutional role, authority, and substantive competence.
Gotta have a taxonomy when looking at contemporary self-inflicted damage in developed countries.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 03:42 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: jalen hurts at December 10, 2025 03:42 PM (rJ48h)
Take the heavy sour crude to Houston.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:37 PM (ufetp)
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What I think was the only refinery in Houston that could handle it is now closed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 03:43 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Or if they'd used the reserve QB as the holder.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:43 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 10, 2025
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The amateur did have a little Guidance.
Or did God simply instruct Noah to build it, giving him a few dimensions, and then leave it up to his judgment?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 03:40 PM (wzUl9)
Creating the local Yurt Depot for building materials probably helped.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 03:43 PM (snZF9)
That is still a funny skit on Noah by Bill Cosby years later.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 03:43 PM (8Xy/A)
Or did God simply instruct Noah to build it, giving him a few dimensions, and then leave it up to his judgment?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 03:40 PM
Right.
What's a "cubit"?
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 10, 2025 03:42 PM (tljrc)
A cuantum bit.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:43 PM (ynpvh)
You certainly can argue the US should be more reticent to get involved in foreign affairs, but unlike the Uke war VZ has a direct impact on America with their drug running...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:43 PM (sKqQm)
Been known to sling a dick pic out too
Posted by: Rose at December 10, 2025 03:43 PM (HcoTw)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 03:40
Who is this really?
Posted by: Noah at December 10, 2025 03:43 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: jalen hurts at December
Nah you just throw an interception and loss a fumble on the same play.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 03:44 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December
Ya she's Paul Ryan's SIL.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 02:55 PM (MGB5H)
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Washington DC is a very incestuous place. Who needs kings when you have all of the elites related to each other.
Posted by: Decaf at December 10, 2025 03:44 PM (1RAfh)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:26 PM
THIS IS ABOUT ME, ISN'T IT???
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 10, 2025 03:39 PM (0sNs1)
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Great response, but Ben must of been on the shitter. I'm surprised it took this long for him to respond
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 03:44 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 10, 2025 03:42 PM (tljrc)
One of those measurements on the body, like Yard or Foot, I forget from what part to another part.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:44 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 10, 2025 03:35 PM (vbXSk)
More to the point, "where there is a need, there is a right"
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 03:44 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025
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Right.
What's a "cubit"?
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 10, 2025
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Yeah, I was going to footnote ol' Bill C., but decided not to!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 03:44 PM (wzUl9)
I think it is $10 on reserve and they can loan out the other $90.
Franklin Raines testified that Freddie Mac was leverage 25:1, and that they would be safe at 50:1. That was right before they collapsed and got bailed out.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 10, 2025 03:44 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:44 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 03:44 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Rose at December 10, 2025 03:44 PM (HcoTw)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 03:40
Who is this really?
Posted by: Noah at December 10, 2025 03:43 PM (TbWk/)
I'm gonna need a credit card deposit for all this wood...
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:45 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: REM at December 10, 2025 03:45 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 03:42 PM (D+mpw)
Not gonna watch it. I would be rooting for the Gorn.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 03:45 PM (snZF9)
Or did God simply instruct Noah to build it, giving him a few dimensions, and then leave it up to his judgment?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Noah did have a little trouble with the shelving, so he engaged a local specialist in that trade named Aceah...
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:45 PM (77rzZ)
Presuming you have a relatively honest government that will enforce contracts fairly and prosecute fraud you are almost guaranteed to make money if you don't make stupid loans and/or the economy doesn't collapse.
We talk about the wonders of compound interest for investing, but this is basically what banks live off of.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:41 PM (sKqQm)
not to mention the shorter working hours and all the business "lunches".
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 03:45 PM (wVcYX)
Little fat guy with a bow and arrow?
Posted by: Rose at December 10, 2025 03:44 PM (HcoTw)
I thought he had 'is own video game in the 80's. Would always swear when caught by the baddies...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:45 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 03:44 PM (D+mpw)
Gotta admire the determination, if nothing else.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:46 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 10, 2025
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One of those measurements on the body, like Yard or Foot, I forget from what part to another part.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025
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Wasn't it the length of a man's arm from elbow to longest fingertip, or something like that? Of course if you use somebody like Ahnold, you'll get a different measurement than if you use Danny Devito.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 03:46 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 10, 2025 03:46 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 03:42 PM (D+mpw)
Not gonna watch it. I would be rooting for the Gorn.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 03:45 PM (snZF9)
Read that as Star Trek 90210 for some reason...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:47 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 03:47 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 03:11 PM (rbvCR)
Is that a thing? It sounds like a thing that could have easily been caused by a 200 ton plane hitting the tower at 500 mph, or the subsequent collapse of the tower itself from over 1300 feet.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 10, 2025 03:47 PM (GD2xa)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 03:35 PM
That's not what "use" means in this context, but I laughed anyway.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 03:47 PM (bFu5X)
I blame Jessica Simpson
Posted by: Rose at December 10, 2025 03:47 PM (HcoTw)
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 10, 2025 02:44 PM (Dg7ng)
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She was a terrible hire for the dems - she moves no one towards her argument. She forces Sotomayor and Kagan to vote with her for ideological reasons, not because of the soundness of her arguments. Not one of the 6 "conservative" justices hears a word she says. When the dems regain the presidency and the Senate they should get her impeached so they can put a much better replacement in her place.
Posted by: Black JEM at December 10, 2025 03:47 PM (GZYu7)
RMBS for SCOTUS!
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:30 PM
No...I just worked in that field for a few years.
And, oh, hell no!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 03:48 PM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 10, 2025 03:46 PM (XMwZJ)
I thought Steven R. Covey was a time management retard. Every fucking corporation in America was doing whatever bullshit he was slinging though.
Posted by: 7 habits of stupid executives at December 10, 2025 03:48 PM (TbWk/)
I blame Jessica Simpson
Posted by: Rose
Wasn't Romo doing Sophia Vergara?
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:48 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Black JEM at December 10, 2025 03:47 PM (GZYu7)
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Every indication is that she has actually moved ACB to the right.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)
And, oh, hell no!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
As an elective in my paralegal certification course, I took IP law. Really interesting stuff.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:49 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:56 PM (rbvCR)
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I especially enjoy the increasing frequency of the Regional Fed banks to release studies completely opposed to Powell's pronouncements. The SF Fed report on tariffs should have Powell impeached and removed.
Posted by: Black JEM at December 10, 2025 03:49 PM (GZYu7)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 10, 2025 03:50 PM (gUs21)
Jumanji Action-Jackson confirmation vote 53/47
Bret Kavanaugh confirmation vote 50/48
Amy Barrett-Coney 52/48
Neil Gorsuch 54/45
Elena Kagan 63/37
Sonia Sotomayor 68/31
Samuel Alito 58/42
John Roberts 78/22
Clarence Thomas 52/48
It's shocking that Kagan & Wise Latina Sotomayor got so many Republican votes. Well, actually it's not. Stupid republicans.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 03:50 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 10, 2025 03:47 PM (GD2xa)
I am not sure there is that much energy, even in that scenario. But that is the other end of "fire can't melt steel" stupidity
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 03:50 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 03:40
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Who is this really?
Posted by: Noah at December 10, 2025
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I'm gonna need a credit card deposit for all this wood...
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025
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Good point. Who were the subcontractors for the Ark, and did they get a berth on the ship in return? Or did they smirk, "This guy Noah's an idiot, believing in this 'God' fellow," sell him the wood and labor -- and have a horrible surprise when the rains started . . .?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 03:50 PM (wzUl9)
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Yep. And the deposit is still 100.and they guy who got the loan has 90. Thats 190. The money multiplier. His 90 gets spent and winds up in another bank. They loan 81 dollars. Etc. That 100 dollars creates 900 dollars. ( THERE IS A FORMULA here using 10% reserve). So more loans, more money. High interest less loans. That said. Multiplying loans by 9 is nothing compared to running the printing presses at the speed of light....
Posted by: What is meaningful at December 10, 2025 03:50 PM (AoMt0)
And, oh, hell no!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
As an elective in my paralegal certification course, I took IP law. Really interesting stuff.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 03:49 PM (77rzZ)
I was once asked what my IP address was...I mentioned the bathroom down the hall...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:50 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 03:50 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 03:51 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 10, 2025 03:51 PM (rJ48h)
I would be OK with all future presidents being brash New York marketing types. It's hilarious.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 03:51 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: What is meaningful at December 10, 2025 03:50 PM (AoMt0)
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You have the relationship completely backwards.
The more money for loans comes from more deposits, not from more people wanting loans.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:51 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025
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Not gonna watch it. I would be rooting for the Gorn.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025
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I confess to a sneaking admiration for the Romulans.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 03:51 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Baldy at December 10, 2025 03:51 PM (4/qdm)
Or did God simply instruct Noah to build it, giving him a few dimensions, and then leave it up to his judgment?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 03:40 PM (wzUl9)
I can see the first time God sends the animals and Noah has a 2 oar skiff there. God has to keep rewinding time and being more specific, until he has to just have the angels make it themselves. "NOTHING ABOUT THIS IN THE BIBLE NOAH"
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:51 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 10, 2025 03:47 PM (GD2xa)
I am not sure there is that much energy, even in that scenario. But that is the other end of "fire can't melt steel" stupidity
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 03:50 PM (rbvCR)
It's amazing how much heat friction can make. If you don't believe me, take a stiff wire and bend it back and forth quickly, then feel the bend point.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:51 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Judges at December 10, 2025 02:48 PM (Yp6az)
And THIS is the crux of most of our problems.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 03:51 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 03:44 PM (D+mpw)
Gotta admire the determination, if nothing else.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:46 PM (8avO+)
Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 03:52 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 03:52 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: It's in the apocrypha at December 10, 2025 03:52 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: E Buzz at December 10, 2025 03:53 PM (AIkOE)
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Yep. And the deposit is still 100.and they guy who got the loan has 90. Thats 190. The money multiplier. His 90 gets spent and winds up in another bank. They loan 81 dollars. Etc. That 100 dollars creates 900 dollars. ( THERE IS A FORMULA here using 10% reserve). So more loans, more money. High interest less loans. That said. Multiplying loans by 9 is nothing compared to running the printing presses at the speed of light....
Posted by: What is meaningful at December 10, 2025 03:50 PM (AoMt0)
Yeah, there's math for that. I believe it's referred to as the Multiplier effect in economics. You spend $100. The shop that gets it spends $90 of that, and so forth down the chain.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:53 PM (ynpvh)
nood
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 10, 2025 03:53 PM (tljrc)
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Kagan is all they have, and Kagan is probably using all her energy on the Chief to keep him as close to the center as she can.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 10, 2025 03:54 PM (sX1BW)
>>That's not what "use" means in this context, but I laughed anyway.
They still use twitter in every link, so they still use it.
Just spin off something else as Twitter and they are good.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 10, 2025 03:54 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Roman Gabriel at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 10, 2025 03:47 PM (GD2xa)
I am not sure there is that much energy, even in that scenario. But that is the other end of "fire can't melt steel" stupidity
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 03:50 PM (rbvCR)
The plane to building momentum transfer is weak because the structure between beams has very low strength. So momentum is gradually transferred as it penetrates and friction stops it and light crap inside is knocked aside. If a firm spot is hit, the plane itself breaks up as well.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (8avO+)
Or did God simply instruct Noah to build it, giving him a few dimensions, and then leave it up to his judgment?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 03:40 PM (wzUl9)
I can see the first time God sends the animals and Noah has a 2 oar skiff there. God has to keep rewinding time and being more specific, until he has to just have the angels make it themselves. "NOTHING ABOUT THIS IN THE BIBLE NOAH"
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:51 PM (8avO+)
Good think God told him to take 7 pair of kosher animals...once he got off the ark he sacrificed a few...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:56 PM (ynpvh)
No thanks.
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 03:55 PM (rj6Yv)
Experts who thought it was a good idea to pack up everything and move to Strasbourg every 6 months to bribe the French.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:56 PM (ynpvh)
Are fish kosher? Maybe he used the lots of fish flopping around for the sacrifice.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 03:57 PM (8avO+)
The more money for loans comes from more deposits, not from more people wanting loans.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 03:51 PM (GBKbO)
The local banks don't borrow from each other and from the Fed Discount Window to cover loans?
IIRC, and I am not an expert, deposits are not the sum of the amount the banks loan on, and the fractional reserve required both is from the deposits and the loans the banks incur to cover loans they make.
This was one of the ways the local bank went under in the late 60's, unable to cover its loans when a bunch of small companies defaulted on their business loans due to a recession.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 03:51 PM (ynpvh)
True, I have to wear a respirator when I do that, the aerosolized metal just boils off.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 04:00 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (ULPxl)
Presuming you have a relatively honest government that will enforce contracts fairly and prosecute fraud you are almost guaranteed to make money if you don't make stupid loans and/or the economy doesn't collapse.
We talk about the wonders of compound interest for investing, but this is basically what banks live off of.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 03:41 PM (sKqQm)
not to mention the shorter working hours and all the business "lunches".
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 03:45 PM (wVcYX)
And hawt secretaries and tellers.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 04:01 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 03:58 PM (rbvCR)
Yeah the fractional reserve is a bet that failures are random and not correlated. Apparently your bank manager did not save his little brother the future war hero.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 04:02 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: sidney at December 10, 2025 04:05 PM (Uy/WF)
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Well not really. Lower rates increase loans. More money in the bank increases the amount of money the bank can hypothetically loan. But they wont be doing as many loans at 12% interest as they do at 3.5% see for example the real world. We might be talking past each other. 🤷♂️
Posted by: What is meaningful at December 10, 2025 04:07 PM (AoMt0)
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And.the loaned money ends up in some other bank as a deposit eventually. So lower interest rates, stimulates loans, which through the money multipler leads eventually to increased deposits. There is a relationship.
Posted by: What is meaningful at December 10, 2025 04:13 PM (AoMt0)
Hey, how 'bout that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins and countless others? They did a bang-up job reorganizing Earth while imposing their expertise on a planet.
Great idea. Let's keep doing that. So very wise, insightful, and proper.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 10, 2025 04:15 PM (gLikB)
2trillion 457 billion.
Seems high.
Posted by: What is meaningful at December 10, 2025 04:20 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: PG at December 10, 2025 04:20 PM (1GUBr)
Posted by: DaveA at December 10, 2025 04:36 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 02:53 PM (zZu0s)
Warm PISS.
Posted by: John Nance Garner at December 10, 2025 04:37 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 10, 2025 05:26 PM (wGqjj)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 10, 2025 06:14 PM (MmP96)
Under OUR Constitution, We loan that Power to a single Chief Executive, chosen in Honest Elections–which are also our Sovereign Property.
Therefore, executive agency heads are subject to that chosen Executive. Otherwise, we have no control over our own Government, and the Political Power of those officers is untethered from the People.
Which is called “Tyranny”.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at December 10, 2025 06:16 PM (Lmg7Z)
Federal Judge Okays the Release of Epstein Grand Jury Transcripts
U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman reversed his earlier decision to keep the transcripts sealed, citing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was enacted last month, creating a narrow exception to rules that normally keep grand jury proceedings confidential, The Associated Press reported. The law requires the government to open its files on Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. Berman previously cautioned that the roughly 70 pages of grand jury materials slated for release are hardly revelatory. The law requires that the Justice Department release Epstein-related records to the public by Dec. 19.Based on the lack of earth-shattering disclosures so far, I think we're going to continue to not see earth-shattering disclosures. We will see the names of people we already knew were connected to Epstein, like Bill and Hillary Clinton and Clinton Energy Secretary and New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, and it will be good to have that official confirmation, but I do not expect we'll get confirmation of QAnon/Pizzagate/Tucker Carlson claims of an Israel-CIA pedophile blackmail operation. Maybe we will. We'll see. But a heuristic I apply without even thinking about it is noting the general "shape" of a theory that turns out to be true. The "shape" of a true story features drip-by-drip disclosures that, while maybe not proving the theory, nevertheless build confidence in the theory until, at some point, the theory is proven. Look at the theories that covid was man-made and specifically leaked from the Wuhan Covid Lab. (Giveaway right there, huh?) Every few weeks we got another bit of information that tended to suggest -- and sometimes strongly suggest -- that covid was man-made in the Wuhan lab. And that Anthony Fauci knew it, and bribed scientists to lie about it. The theory did not sit for years and years with no confirmatory information being discovered. In the case of a theory that does sit for years without actual evidence emerging to support it: I begin doubting that theory. As Fermi said about aliens: If they exist, well, where are they? And if this theory has actual evidence supporting it: Well, where is it? They say an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence but.... come on, when people are digging for the evidence and not finding it, yeah, it is at least evidence that that evidence doesn't exist. If you set out to prove dodos actually survived and spend years looking for dodos but can't find any, it does suggest that yeah, dodos probably did go extinct. If there continues to be no evidence of the Strong Form of the Epstein theory, the claims that the CIA and a foreign state, sometimes unnamed but always believed to be Israel, engaged in a huge blackmail operation against the political leadership of the United States, at some point, we have to accept that this theory, while plausible and even attractive, just isn't true. But that won't be admitted. We'll have Chromatic Aberrations all over again. Well, they're hiding the documents that prove that, that information never came out during the grand jury investigation because Israel and the CIA warned the prosecutor not to "go there," etc. As they say about capital C capital T Conspiracy Theories -- the unfalsifiable kind, the nigh-religious dogma kind -- lack of evidence of a Conspiracy Theory is just further proof of the how deep the Conspiracy goes. I was completely willing to speculate about such a multinational conspiracy theory. I didn't dismiss it out of hand. But at some point: We either need evidence for it or the people pushing it need to admit they don't care about evidence of the lack of evidence, and that in their minds, it's not a Conspiracy Theory. It's a Conspiracy Fact, period, and no contrary evidence can change that. But like I said: We'll see. It could turn out that the transcripts do point to a much bigger operation going on on Pedo Island, beyond a pedophile making his young girls available to his politically-connected, financially-connected pals. Update: It just occurred to me that people think about a foreign blackmail operation because they don't know how Epstein made his money or why he was so determined to cultivate pedo-friendships with people like Bill Clinton or Larry Summers. Well, I just remembered, we know that every Congressman winds up a millionaire in five years from stock trading. Hillary Clinton made a fortune in cattle futures in the 90s, which she always lied about, claiming she made the picks herself just by reading the Wall Street Journal. So: We know that the politically connected are routinely given non-public insider-trading information by industry insiders. Couldn't Epstein's operation just be based on simple greed? He cultivated pedo pals who had access to insider information, which he then used for his own profit, while rewarding them with access to underage girls. I'm not saying that's what was going on. I'm just offering that as a counter-explanation to the major foreign/domestic intelligence community blackmail theory.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)
DoorDash delivery girl who filmed a drunk man passed out with his pants down makes her first court appearance
She pleaded not guilty & asked the judge to ban cameras in the courtroom the judge responded saying
“So now u don’t want cameras to be involved”
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 01:37 PM (+Oyis)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 01:38 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)
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Yeah baby. Twice.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 01:38 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Probably a result of the walls falling off.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 01:38 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Epstein's Mother at December 10, 2025 01:38 PM (oftw2)
The Biden FBI had the files for 4 years and didn't release a f*cking thing. They DO, likely, incriminate a LOT on the left, so they're really gaslighting in the hopes that they'll never be released so they can blame Trump for not releasing them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)
DoorDash delivery girl who filmed a drunk man passed out with his pants down makes her first court appearance
She pleaded not guilty & asked the judge to ban cameras in the courtroom the judge responded saying
“So now u don’t want cameras to be involved”
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 01:37 PM (+Oyis)
That's some funny shit right there.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 01:39 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Mr. Plinkett at December 10, 2025 01:40 PM (wVcYX)
This means its not impossible for it to have been a natural virus. I'd still bet on release from the lab, but it may not have been modified.
OTOH, furin cleavage is used because it's easy to add, so that doesn't rule out human modification.
Might add some tiny amount to non-lab leak potential cause.
Posted by: coba at December 10, 2025 01:41 PM (IuIym)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)
The screws are coming off the bus!!
Posted by: Hugh Jass at December 10, 2025 01:41 PM (JWsMn)
clearly Epstein worked for either US or a globalist IC as a honeypot. so...
meanwhile Calibri vs Times. now THAT is interesting! I missed this story this morning.
good move by Mario. very good. Calibri is a junk typeface.
overall it's easier to read serif, especially light serifs like Times. It's very much the standard, like the Helvetica of Serifs.
you could stick with a sans but you'd want to use something better than CALIBRI which is just god-awful. I guess ... I mean maybe Weissenhoff or Cabin or something nice like that, with some alteration in line width throughout.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 01:41 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 10, 2025 01:42 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: local conspiracist and the only one with the real knowledge at December 10, 2025 01:42 PM (g47mK)
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Yes, it could.
And if so, where did they move to?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 01:42 PM (iKI3U)
Why would grand jury transcripts have such information? They wouldn't, of course.
If you wanted to try to prove/disprove that theory, you'd need to pursue evidence of that theory, which would be in three-letter government agency files, which we all know we are not getting.
None of this is all that hard to grasp. But some people are working awfully hard not to grasp it.
Posted by: don't try to bullshit a bullshitter at December 10, 2025 01:42 PM (GNipg)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 01:42 PM (xcxpd)
Is the missing part of the strong theory is testimony of girls saying say "I had sex with Bill Clinton" or some sort of evidence of Clinton acting in a way that benefits a foreign actor that is otherwise inexplicable?
We have the latter, if you assume the state actor is one of Five Eyes...most notably Britain...instead of Israel. Which does also explain how a random British royal ended up with Epstein...
I suspect though that we won't see any names like Clinton in this released testimony because otherwise we'd see a lot more fighting against it.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 01:43 PM (sKqQm)
“So now u don’t want cameras to be involved”
I love this judge!
almost as much as that Florida Sheriff who went OFF on the Philly yutes who robbed a Dicks while at a football tournament...
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 01:43 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: local conspiracist and the only one with the real knowledge at December 10, 2025 01:43 PM (g47mK)
Do I KNOW for a fact that the Epstein op involved the CIA, MI6 and/or Mossad?
No, I don't know it. But I do know our secret agencies are anathema to a nation that intends to self-govern, so every plausible accusation that gets hurled at them, I'm going to act like I believe, even if I don't.
Because, F the Deep State, and all its international tentacles. All of them.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2025 01:43 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Not my fault. I warned him to stay off the subway.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 01:43 PM (77rzZ)
.....
They left after eating all the dinosaurs.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 01:44 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:44 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 01:44 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 10, 2025 01:44 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Not my fault. I warned him to stay off the subway.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 01:43 PM (77rzZ)
snort
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 01:44 PM (xcxpd)
This also seems...unlikely. He made contacts with all these politicians and celebrities and the one person he shared underage girls with...and in this case barely underage...was Prince Andrew?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 01:44 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 10, 2025 01:44 PM (gm9Sb)
The watch selling is weird to me...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 01:45 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: wth
The dinosaurs gave them horrible gas. Thus all the CO2 in the atmosphere.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 01:45 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:45 PM (0U5gm)
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why?? do you doubt this ?!!
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 01:45 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo
For the sake of humanity, we need to throw sand in his gears!
Posted by: The Huge Manatee! at December 10, 2025 01:45 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 01:45 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 01:44 PM (v0R5T)
I laughed!
I would love to taste dinosaur.
Posted by: Hugh Jass at December 10, 2025 01:46 PM (JWsMn)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 01:45 PM (NpAcC)
This
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 01:46 PM (VE6XX)
Dead Horses. Flogging.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 01:46 PM (IifOV)
Turned out to be a good day
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 01:46 PM (Ia/+0)
.....
They left after eating all the dinosaurs.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 01:44 PM (v0R5T)
After a return visit that had them building pyramids, they stopped landing.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 01:46 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 01:46 PM (g47mK)
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Isn't it time we developed a Unified Epstein Field Theory?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 01:46 PM (TTNvg)
Posted by: Mr. Plinkett
Chris Berman > Rick Berman
Signed,
Sean "Personal" Landeta
Bert "Be Home" Blyleven
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 10, 2025 01:47 PM (kiKFC)
Posted by: 18-1
And how did he become a prince? I didn't vote for him.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:47 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 10, 2025 01:47 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 01:44 PM (g47mK)
*lyrics in Gary Wright's trashcan
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)
And things like releasing all the video from Epstein island that Wray seized would certainly go a long way there.
This is asking for the no-big conspiracy side to disprove something, which I admit is awkward, but the intentional destruction of evidence is its own form of evidence is it not?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 01:47 PM (sKqQm)
The walls are closing on Trump this time; the Orange Man's next address is going to be a PMIA prison. Closing in like a Jack Smith investigation. You can bank on it.
Or something like that. That is why Trump's political enemies keep stirring this empty pot.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 10, 2025 01:47 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 01:47 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 01:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 01:48 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:45 PM (0U5gm)
Disinformation, sir. Wrongthink in the first degree with felony Opining WITHOUT EVIDENCE.
Yes, many seem to have exploding net worths after being elected. But where's your proof? What's your heuristic, man?!?
Posted by: don't try to bullshit a bullshitter at December 10, 2025 01:48 PM (GNipg)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 10, 2025 01:48 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 01:48 PM (Ia/+0)
And in case you didn't hear
Oh my golly have a holly, jolly
Christmas this year!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 10, 2025 01:48 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Taggart at December 10, 2025 01:48 PM (wVcYX)
Might add some tiny amount to non-lab leak potential cause.
Posted by: coba at December 10, 2025 01:41 PM
I dated a girl in High school with furin cleavage. She really filled out sweaters nicely.
Posted by: High School Jock at December 10, 2025 01:49 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 01:46 PM (g47mK)
Huh. Right. And rattlesnake.
Posted by: Hugh Jass at December 10, 2025 01:49 PM (JWsMn)
Posted by: Don Black. Message:Now available in Cool Mint at December 10, 2025 01:49 PM (ZxPkt)
yup, I'm a part of the conspiracy too. Anyone who denies the conspiracy theory is, obviously, a conspirator.
Pizzagate forever.
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2025 01:49 PM (1wjle)
And in case you didn't hear
Oh my golly have a holly, jolly
Christmas this year!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)
Spoil the heck of that new grandson of yours, MadameM.!
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 01:49 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 01:47 PM (sKqQm
Spoliation.
Posted by: don't try to bullshit a bullshitter at December 10, 2025 01:49 PM (GNipg)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 01:49 PM (IQBae)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 01:46 PM (g47mK)
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Why did the dinosaur cross the road?
.
.
.
Because the chicken hadn't evolved yet.
This pun plays on the anachronism of
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 01:50 PM (TTNvg)
yeah that was Tucker Carlson saying that some unnamed Deep State source told him that
Tucker Carlson is not a trustworthy person.
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2025 01:50 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 10, 2025 01:50 PM (zg+Cs)
They determined there wasn't any intelligent lifeforms down here and left.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)
Conspiracy theories are rife in authoritarian governments that control the flow of information because everyone knows they are lying but they don't necessarily know about what.
The US has backed into this same situation because of its slow roll into authoritarianism and censorship.
As Ace eludes to if the US government will lie about COVID we can't trust them on anything can we? And of course how does a nominally representative government survive when the voters know they can't trust what their government tells them?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 01:50 PM (sKqQm)
I just never really understood the people that thought this was going to basically fix everything once uncovered.
Even if some of these conspiracy theories had some small grain of truth to them, I’m not really sure what it would even mean. If Epstein turned out to have some loose connection with Israeli intelligence, then what? We wholeheartedly back Hamas from here on out?
Posted by: Maroon at December 10, 2025 01:51 PM (D7ri/)
yup, I'm a part of the conspiracy too. Anyone who denies the conspiracy theory is, obviously, a conspirator.
Pizzagate forever.
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2025 01:49 PM (1wjle)
******
"Where we go one, we go all",
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 01:51 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Jim at December 10, 2025 01:51 PM (CIngQ)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 01:50 PM (TTNvg)
WELL?!? We're WAITING!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: JB Pritzger at December 10, 2025 01:52 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 10, 2025 01:52 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Sponge
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I have eaten mako shark
it's like pork
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Light fuse, run away at December 10, 2025 01:52 PM (ZxPkt)
I threatened myself with contempt of court. That got my attention!
Posted by: His Majesty R. Berman at December 10, 2025 01:52 PM (0ZmKh)
Pizzagate forever.
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2025 01:49 PM (1wjle)
No, you're not a conspirator.
But like a lot of people who tend toward the GOP establishment or have in the past, you think of yourself as a right-thinking fellow whose views are grounded in the evidence, not like those wingnuts or kooks in your comments.
Posted by: don't try to bullshit a bullshitter at December 10, 2025 01:52 PM (GNipg)
Hell, Pizzagate has more truth in it than lies but because some unemployed actor walked in, shot a computer and let himself get quietly arrested, that whole pedo ring is assumed to be complete fiction.
I know how disinformation works.
Anyway, we'll see. Or we won't. Some of these people involved do not mess around, there may not be much evidence left or witnesses willing to get killed.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 01:52 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 01:52 PM (L/fGl)
There is no other intelligent life in this galaxy at least. Way too many things had to go just right for it to develop here on earth.
Those odd lights in the sky? Stealth aircraft, drones, and various other experiments, all more easily handled if people are primed to scream ALIENS any time they see a light in the sky
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 01:52 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 01:52 PM (h4uy9)
https://is.gd/1HW1MF
Posted by: No Name Today at December 10, 2025 01:53 PM (8mulE)
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Huh. Right. And rattlesnake.
I remember trying rattlesnake one time at a "roundup" somewhere in TX. "Tastes like chicken." Yeah -- tough, greasy chicken.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 01:53 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at December 10, 2025 01:53 PM (XVbII)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 01:53 PM (Ia/+0)
F. Flintstone
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 10, 2025 01:53 PM (gm9Sb)
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DC, dude, DC.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 01:52 PM (L/fGl)
*facepalm* Not this shit again!
Posted by: Gort at December 10, 2025 01:53 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: High School Jock
Did she shave her chest, or just let it grow?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:54 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Guy who thinks "your mom" jokes are evergreen at December 10, 2025 01:54 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 10, 2025 01:54 PM (wBaIH)
yes actual evidence is important to me, guilty as charged. I don't like believing some crap just because Some Guy on the internet said it and I thought it was pretty neat when I first heard it.
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2025 01:54 PM (1wjle)
I just never really understood the people that thought this was going to basically fix everything once uncovered.
____
With all the trips Bill Horndog Clinton took to visit Epstein Island, you'd think at least there'd be just enough more evidence to place Bill in the same room with one of Epstein's teen prostitutes.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 01:55 PM (Dv3i1)
----
wait
given that dinosaurs became what we now call birds, isn't it more likely that Triceratops tasted like pheasant, or quail?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Light fuse, run away at December 10, 2025 01:55 PM (ZxPkt)
Anything relating to his work for any intelligence outfit is going to be classified to hell and back, and we'll likely never see it.
Posted by: ballistic at December 10, 2025 01:55 PM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Oddbob
If it tastes like chicken, just eat chicken. Besides, snake meat goes bad faster than shrimp.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:55 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 01:55 PM (D+mpw)
It came out at just about the same time as the Epstein stuff.
And the common response on the left to the Strong Form Epstein argument was "This stuff is just as fake as pizzagate!!!'
That's a hell of a coincidence is it not? That a fake pedo-conspiracy theory comes out right at the same time as a real one - because remember even the weakest form of the Epstein scandal is he got protection from high levels in the government at least because of his $$$ if not for sharing women/girls...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 01:55 PM (sKqQm)
yes actual evidence is important to me, guilty as charged. I don't like believing some crap just because Some Guy on the internet said it and I thought it was pretty neat when I first heard it.
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2025 01:54 PM (1wjle)
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Galileo was going to tell the world that Pope Urban VII clubbed baby seals.
A guy told me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 01:56 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 01:56 PM (Ia/+0)
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That's probably a reasonable expectation.
Was anyone involved in the grand jury in a position to know? AFAIK, you have testimony of the girls, and from anyone they named, and whatever documents were found on the island and admitted into evidence.
It seems like mainly you're going to find out who (we mostly already know, as you said) he had provided 'services' to, which would be reason to remove them from anything that matters (because 1.Pedo and 2. blackmail risk), except that they're all now old, dead, and otherwise irrelevant.
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 01:56 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Bobo, Ranee and Moneymaker at December 10, 2025 01:56 PM (Lki3J)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 01:55 PM (D+mpw)
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It's not doing anything because the Epstein obsession is an online only affair.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 01:56 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Don Black
They would be a lot easier to shoot than quail, but I would recommend something slightly larger than a twenty gauge.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:56 PM (0U5gm)
Bert "Be Home" Blyleven
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 10, 2025 01:47 PM (kiKFC)
+1
Also, Sean Landeta is a favourite in certain highlight/mishap reels of the mid '80s.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 01:57 PM (NcvvS)
It's too much, I just can't give a shit about that story anymore.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 01:58 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 01:58 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Don Black
Dinosaurs ? What did I miss ?... Epstein had them on his Island ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 01:58 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2025 01:54 PM (1wjle)
"Where's the fun in that?"
- - - - - Perpetual Hair Firestarter
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: An Alien at December 10, 2025 01:59 PM (asXVI)
Hell, Pizzagate has more truth in it than lies but because some unemployed actor walked in, shot a computer and let himself get quietly arrested, that whole pedo ring is assumed to be complete fiction.
I know how disinformation works.
Anyway, we'll see. Or we won't. Some of these people involved do not mess around, there may not be much evidence left or witnesses willing to get killed.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 01:52 PM (xcxpd)
We've all watched a IC-led/facilitated conspiracy to cripple and dispose of president unfold before our very eyes in real time over the last several years: Russiagate.
But they'd never use generate kompromat with honey traps involving young women or underage girls. And to believe so is super foolish, even though it's a pretty well known and enduring tactic.
Gell-Mann Amnesia is not just a river in Egypt.
Posted by: don't try to bullshit a bullshitter at December 10, 2025 01:59 PM (GNipg)
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2025 01:54 PM (1wjle)
If it's on the Internet it's true.... Right ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 01:59 PM (VE6XX)
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Israel is just the beginning. It goes much deeper. France is involved. As is Ireland and Iceland and Finland. All the “land” countries. Oh and the NFL too.
- Candace Owens
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 02:00 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 01:59 PM (VE6XX)
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That's what I read on the Internet.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:00 PM (GBKbO)
It's not a conspiracy theory that the CIA used the BCCI to launder money for their "projects" after Congress started to reel them in. Khashoggi was one of the world's largest international arms dealers and the guy who ran the Safari Club, an informal group of countries that used that place for off the books intel jobs. Started as an anti-Soviet organization with members such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran and France. The US was never a formal member but for all intents acted like one.
This is a much more likely connection spot for a money guy like Epstein and something a lot of governments and powerful people don't want completely exposed anymore than they want sex with underage girls.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 02:00 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 01:59 PM (VE6XX)
That’s what George Washington always said.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 02:01 PM (9iyS+)
@bennyjohnson
Erika Kirk goes absolutely SCORCHED EARTH against evil people monetizing Charlie Kirk's death and attacking her family and the families of those close to Charlie and TPUSA.
https://tinyurl.com/yc77xp5y
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 02:01 PM (NpAcC)
It's too much, I just can't give a shit about that story anymore.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 01:58 PM (uWKK
Wheels within wheels, man.
The chair is against the wall.
Posted by: Zombie Dennis hopper at December 10, 2025 02:01 PM (Lki3J)
Because I'm tired of having to constantly care about crap that's a whole lotta sound and fury signifying jack squat.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 10, 2025 02:01 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 02:01 PM (TTNvg)
Most people think the same as I do on this topic.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 10, 2025 02:01 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 02:01 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: It's me donna
Isn't that in "Shit Jefferson Said, Vol 2"?
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 02:01 PM (MGB5H)
F. Flintstone
Posted by: bill in arkansas
Disinformation! A-1 wasn't invented until 1862 AD, Mr. Flintsone!
Posted by: If That Is Even Your Name at December 10, 2025 02:01 PM (oftw2)
She pleaded not guilty & asked the judge to ban cameras in the courtroom the judge responded saying
“So now u don’t want cameras to be involved”
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 01:37 PM (+Oyis)
Was the passed-out drunk her customer, or another person in the home of the customer? In that case, invasion of privacy. If it was some rando on the street, or outdoors and visible from the street, then that individual had no expectation of privacy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 02:01 PM (npFr7)
It's too much, I just can't give a shit about that story anymore.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 01:58 PM (uWKK
So far too little Deep involvement is surfacing aside from blackmail material that the Feds have been running since before Epstein was born. I favor Ep as a similar meeting networking op privately for those private circles so they could avoid waiting like proles for real flights.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:01 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2025 01:54 PM (1wjle)
If it's on the Internet it's true.... Right ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 01:59 PM (VE6XX)
You probably want some kind of proof that the French Foreign Legion killed Charlie Kirk just to send a message to his bestest friend in the whole wide world, Candace.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 02:01 PM (uWKK8)
1) Whoever did it has an effective spy org that can keep secrets (so not the US)
2) Maxwell's father had ties to Israel
3) Israel ran a vaguely similiar op in the 60s with a "party guy" operator using honeypots and drugs to get kompromat on arab leaders
But the reason this falls apart is none of the clients seem to have been particularly favorable to Israel, unlike that op from the 60s.
So if we look at pols like Bill Clinton what was unusual about his time in office and afterwards and the most notable thing is his exceptionally close ties to Britain. Oh, and Maxwell's father also worked for British intelligence. And...they do have a more competent spy agency then we do as well...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:01 PM (sKqQm)
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None. there was a moon landing, fire can melt steel, COVID was always a lab created bug; the conspiracy theory with COVID was that is was not a China lab product; that was the conspiracy that Biden tried to promote.
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:02 PM (g47mK)
In Kalifornia, Texas, and many other states...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:02 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 02:02 PM (Dv3i1)
But someone should get some notoriety for having killed it.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 10, 2025 02:02 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Bulg
The Jews faked it all.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 02:02 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:03 PM (g47mK)
Because I'm tired of having to constantly care about crap that's a whole lotta sound and fury signifying jack squat.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 10, 2025 02:01 PM (OUMaO)
The fact that everyone is so twitchy about it on both sides means there is some there there. And its not just embarrassment, as they have no shame.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:03 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2025 01:54 PM (1wjle)
If it's on the Internet it's true.... Right ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 01:59 PM (VE6XX)
Well damn! All those EweToob vids of AI robot girls must be real!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:03 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Coal Mine Trannny at December 10, 2025 02:04 PM (RNeiL)
Posted by: Rule 34 at December 10, 2025 02:04 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 02:04 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 10, 2025 02:04 PM (EyfuW)
- Epstein had an island where he sold girls under the age of 17 to rich and powerful
- The only clients, though were Trump (and Republicans)
- When Epstein was arrested, the FBI covered up all of Trump's trips; (and planted Democrats in the logs)
- The DOJ under Obama kept that policy
- The FBI--that was spying on Trump during his entire Presidency--also
- And Biden's DOJ as well
- the Democrats (after sitting on the Epstein matter for decades) only want justice for the girls (not a one who has ever said they were forced against their will to engage in sex acts).
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 10, 2025 02:04 PM (HXT0k)
That example proved to me, that yes, conspiracies can be real. And involve the powerful etc.
But it also showed me how some things line up and some don't. So I took a peek at Pizzagate for fun.
You could see a lot of puzzle pieces lining up, but they just didn't have enough to resolve. So people pattern match really hard to will it into existence. Its natural.
Epstein seems the same - there is metric ton of smoke....but some parts are being willed into existence.
He was a perverted freak who liked to do weird shit to girls...he had a woman help him find new girls...this is all real...but its the next step: did he set up girls for his politico buddies?
Prince Andrew? maybe
or maybe he just has big parties on his islands and tons of young women are more than willing to party with rich men...doiesn't need ANY blackmail.
Posted by: coba at December 10, 2025 02:04 PM (IuIym)
This is sort of what I ask myself every time a read the articles here. On the other hand the animal videos are pretty solid.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 10, 2025 02:04 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:49 PM
There's good eatin' on one of those things.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 02:05 PM (bFu5X)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December
So are the hot singles in your area.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 02:05 PM (MGB5H)
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None. there was a moon landing, fire can melt steel, COVID was always a lab created bug; the conspiracy theory with COVID was that is was not a China lab product; that was the conspiracy that Biden tried to promote.
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:02 PM (g47mK)
Somebody put reflectors on the moon you can fire a laser at and get a strong return signals. Move the lazer a few meters away and the return goes to 0.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:05 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 10, 2025 02:06 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: runner
Next you'll be telling me that there was never a Pope Joan.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 02:06 PM (77rzZ)
1) Whoever did it has an effective spy org that can keep secrets (so not the US)
2) Maxwell's father had ties to Israel
3) Israel ran a vaguely similiar op in the 60s with a "party guy" operator using honeypots and drugs to get kompromat on arab leaders
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Epstein was a Jew, and it's increasingly popular to apply the guilt of any one Jew to all of them.
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 02:06 PM (vSvIl)
And none of them used it against their political enemies? Sure, Jan.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 02:06 PM (9iyS+)
No one needs to set up any kind of ruse to establish that prison guards, especially Federal *cough*BLACK WOMEN*cough* prison guards, regularly sleep on the job.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 02:06 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Associate Justice Scalia at December 10, 2025 02:06 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 02:07 PM (W2iHN)
Posted by: Oldcat at
How do you know you won't blow up the moon?
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 02:07 PM (MGB5H)
The Clinton painting and making jokey binders helped this.
Epstein Files may not actually exist. As a special file.
if its just his emails and shit, that may not prove anything.
I mean if there's a photo of Bill Clinton getting a BJ from two girls, I would also NOT be surprised.
Posted by: coba at December 10, 2025 02:07 PM (IuIym)
Posted by: Ace at 01:36 PM
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That's a good theory, Ace. It should be relatively easy to track where his money came from ... I imagine lots of 5-9-figure deposits.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 02:07 PM (TTNvg)
Really basic and all, but exactly what was the Grand Jury considering? Whether to charge Epstein and Ghislaine with human trafficking? Where would "the CIA and a foreign state, sometimes unnamed but always believed to be Israel, engaged in a huge blackmail operation against the political leadership of the United States" come in?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 10, 2025 02:07 PM (1N/bM)
Erika Kirk goes absolutely SCORCHED EARTH against evil people monetizing Charlie Kirk's death and attacking her family and the families of those close to Charlie and TPUSA.
https://tinyurl.com/yc77xp5y
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 02:01 PM (NpAcC)
She's on FIRE.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:05 PM (8avO+)
also "weird" how some paleontologists just happen to show up where dinosaur bones are buried. tell me another...
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:07 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December
So are the hot singles in your area.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 02:05 PM (MGB5H)
I hear they were especially hot during COVID...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:08 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 02:08 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:02 PM (g47mK)
None, eh?
Well with that exhaustive list, I am utterly convinced. The Offical Narrative has always been proven correct. There has never been a conspiracy theory proven, you heard it here.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 02:08 PM (xcxpd)
There's good eatin' on one of those things.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 02:05 PM (bFu5X)
I've had alligator, but do everything possible to avoid alligator fat. THAT stuff is VILE.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:08 PM (Zz0t1)
2 Girls 1 Cuck
Posted by: Oh noes ! at December 10, 2025 02:08 PM (HcoTw)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:03 PM (g47mK)
And the wet market they tried to use as the location for a natural origin was across the street -- and Chinese workers will do almost anything for a quick buck. Violations of biosecurity were common at that lab and recorded.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:08 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
She asked for no camera in the court room. And the judge was like oh now you don't like cameras.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 02:08 PM (MGB5H)
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Clinton created a dossier of lies about Trump and passed them around to the FBI and the media.
That happened.
That is literally the definition of a conspiracy.
Posted by: coba at December 10, 2025 02:08 PM (IuIym)
Posted by: Bulg
Why is every young black woman in America screaming "PAY "TENSHUN TA ME!"
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 02:09 PM (Y8DZL)
Except civilians get hammered for insider trading. That's not the likely route without government license, in the informal sense. Being the clearinghouse/launderer for governments makes more sense because it comes with implicit approval.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 10, 2025 02:09 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 02:09 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: TWA 800 at December 10, 2025 02:09 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:09 PM (g47mK)
* nods *
Posted by: a coelacanth at December 10, 2025 02:09 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Bulg
Turned out to be Rosie O'Donnell's face.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 10, 2025 02:09 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 10, 2025 02:09 PM (XvL8K)
Erika Kirk goes absolutely SCORCHED EARTH against evil people monetizing Charlie Kirk's death and attacking her family and the families of those close to Charlie and TPUSA.
https://tinyurl.com/yc77xp5y
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 02:01 PM (NpAcC)
She's on FIRE.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)
My son showed me a pic of a Charley Kirk Shotglass...yeah, quite the poor taste. Same person probably had soap made at Schicklgruber's concentration camps.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:10 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 01:44 PM (sKqQm)
Is there any evidence at all that Epstein trafficked very under-aged girls (or boys)?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 02:10 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:07 PM (g47mK)
Its evolution. The paleontologists go out at random, but the ones that go to non fossil bearing areas die out because they don't get grants.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:10 PM (8avO+)
I don’t think Trump had anything to do with any of the nefarious stuff of Epstein, very clear that they hated each other. But Trumps own embarrassment about being basically in the same room with Epstein and pals at one time is why he tried to hide it, and I think that’s what made the whole thing way bigger than it should’ve been
Posted by: Maroon at December 10, 2025 02:10 PM (D7ri/)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 02:05 PM (bFu5X)
A fat-bellied stogie-sucker. And them's good eatin'!
Posted by: B. Breathed at December 10, 2025 02:10 PM (NcvvS)
People forget he was operating in the 1980's
So his specialty was European bonds and markets etc. Which sounds dumb today because you can just buy index funds online.
BUT IN THE 1980'S you might actually need someone to do the paperwork etc. Thus, he could make money.
Posted by: coba at December 10, 2025 02:11 PM (IuIym)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:02 PM (g47mK)
None, eh?
Well with that exhaustive list, I am utterly convinced. The Offical Narrative has always been proven correct. There has never been a conspiracy theory proven, you heard it here.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 02:08 PM (xcxpd)
That's because once it's proven, it's no longer a conspiracy theory...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:11 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
There are ways, permanent ways, to keep people quiet.
Posted by: H.R. Clinton at December 10, 2025 02:11 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Oldcat
How do you know you won't blow up the moon?
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 02:07 PM (MGB5H)
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I'm imagining a future moon base with cats that chase the misdirected lasers ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 02:11 PM (TTNvg)
But she was such a genius that she filmed herself turning the knob and opening the door before she went in. Ooops.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 02:11 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Lee Harvey Oswald at December 10, 2025 02:11 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 02:10 PM (npFr7)
Depends on what you mean by 'very'. A teen with a Senator, say, is that 'very'?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:11 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:12 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:08 PM (8avO+)
the Ruskies were hinting from the beginning (and they would know from bugs) that is had "elements" that were unnatural, that is genetically engineered.
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:12 PM (g47mK)
I've always had an interest in cryptozoology, and it can be done right when done by professional zoologists.
But there a lot of nonprofessional zoologists doing it who are just whack.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 02:12 PM (77rzZ)
How do you know you won't blow up the moon?
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 02:07 PM (MGB5H)
This is why China should NEVER have access to the moon. And probably not Russia, either.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: zombie at December 10, 2025 02:12 PM (oraVG)
Tim Pool went pretty ballistic on Candace Ovens.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 02:13 PM (TR2dy)
No. He had some girls who maybe lied about their age or he liked 17 year olds.
He was weird, he would watch them do stuff to each other.
So he probably mainly had 18-20 year olds at his parties...impressionable women who would WANT to fly to the Caribbean for a party with rich and powerful men.
You don't need blackmail for that to still work.
You just need men to want young women and young women to want $$$. And Epstein wants influence so he has parties.
Posted by: coba at December 10, 2025 02:13 PM (IuIym)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: B. Breathed at December 10, 2025 02:10 PM
*golf clap*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 02:13 PM (bFu5X)
I tend to think Benz is right at least in the big picture of Epstein. It's not so much a matter of blackmail as it is governments including ours were doing some shady shit around the time of the Boland Amendment and intel agencies needed a back channel way of running their ops like Iran Contra and they don't want all of that stuff coming out.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 02:13 PM (viF8m)
Those paying attention noticed the organized manner in which their character and careers were attacked.
Plus. The way they wanted to handle it smelled to high heaven.
Six feet distance? WTH did thst come from?
Everyone has to quarantine? Normally it's just the vulnerable populations lsuch as the elderly.
Then they claimed how super contagious and deadly it was, but said it was safe when bunches of leftists gathered together to "protest".
When it comes to whether or not there is a conspiracy, there is usually solid evidence indicating such.
Right now all we have is accusations and suspicions.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 10, 2025 02:13 PM (uKEdu)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:14 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 02:14 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:12 PM (sKqQm)
Yup. Consider that along with the initial blast from the planes crashing into the buildings stripping off the fire retardant off the steel beams...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:14 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:14 PM (g47mK)
Is there any evidence at all that Epstein trafficked very under-aged girls (or boys)?
Giuffre said she saw Clinton there with "two young girls" - so since she was 17 at the time would I assume mean they were significantly younger then her.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:14 PM (sKqQm)
6-7-figure deposits > 5-9-figure deposits
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 02:15 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 02:07 PM (MGB5H)
This is why China should NEVER have access to the moon. And probably not Russia, either.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:12 PM
*whistles innocently*
Posted by: Gru at December 10, 2025 02:15 PM (bFu5X)
The furin cleavage.
Common thing to add to viruses.
We just found they exist in bats in Brazil.
naturally.
But its also something that can be done by man, so....
Posted by: coba at December 10, 2025 02:15 PM (IuIym)
But seriously, RASH Patel and Pam BLONDIE really screwed the hooch and the GOPe ain't ever helping matters.
The only thing that'll get them going at this point is if one of their own base shoots one of 'em dead who actually has a REAL gripe because he was affected by something that could have not occurred if they'd voted it away and then a red-hot jury does jury nullification.
Nobody in the GOPe fears for their livelihoods.
In minecraft that would leave one thing left. I hope they come to their senses before reality comes to that eventuality.
Posted by: geewhiz at December 10, 2025 02:15 PM (V87Oy)
Tim Pool went pretty ballistic on Candace Ovens.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 02:13 PM (TR2dy)
He blames her for his house getting shot up.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)
@Breaking911 10m
🚨FED CUTS RATES BY A QUARTER-POINT
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 10, 2025 02:15 PM (mlg/3)
He maded his money of Wexner. And parlayed that into credibilty. There is a lot of stuff there.
Posted by: Regular American at December 10, 2025 02:16 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Light fuse, run away at December 10, 2025 02:16 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 02:16 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Sponge
Grandma used to make turtle soup. She said the same thing about turtle fat.
Is all reptile fat inedibly gross?
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 02:16 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: The Giant Sloth at December 10, 2025 02:16 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Light fuse, run away at December 10, 2025 02:16 PM (ZxPkt)
20th Century Fox.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)
It happened in Oswego, NY where 60% are passed out drunk and naked on their couches.
Funny old world.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 10, 2025 02:17 PM (wBaIH)
Speaking as someone who has never gone past first base with anyone younger than myself and has a relative by marriage who was molested starting when she was in kindergarten. If that bastard ever gets out of jail, there are a few men I know who would not hesitate to SSS.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 02:17 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:14 PM (g47mK)
Galileo's main problem was publishing a tract that had a dude named "Idiot" (Simplicio) giving the mainline Papal position on Astronomy when he'd been warned not to make waves.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:17 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:17 PM (g47mK)
There's _probably_ not an intel op behind it BUT, if there was, I see no reason to involve foreign groups - our own IC groups like to have pet politicians as many ways as possible, after all.
Posted by: RandomDave at December 10, 2025 02:17 PM (aJQbY)
Yeah...day late and a dollar short. But he will provide cover for others to finally call out that insane cunt.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 02:18 PM (TR2dy)
This is an interesting possibility we do know in plenty of other contexts there are young but legal and more or less willing women selling sex for money/opportunities to rich men - the whole yacht girl thing.
And the government could claim they can't release this because there is nothing illegal about it. But...they haven't made that claim have they?
Also, we do have claims from Guiffre and others that there were girls younger then them there.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:18 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Light fuse, run away at December 10, 2025 02:16 PM (ZxPkt)
20th Century Fox.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)
You missed a chance to mention "Capricorn One"
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:18 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Bigfoot, Nessie, Chupacabra at December 10, 2025 02:18 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: B. Breathed at December 10, 2025 02:10 PM (NcvvS)
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I have a conspiracy theory that Berkeley Breathed is behind Big Penguin.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 02:18 PM (TTNvg)
Posted by: hurricane567 at December 10, 2025 02:18 PM (1V/nS)
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people have been calling her out; wonder how ghey her "husband" really is
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:19 PM (g47mK)
You missed a chance to mention "Capricorn One"
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:18 PM (8avO+)
I would have to defer to TJM for that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Check out that Glow.
It was my understanding that Glowies all had to speak English.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 02:19 PM (Riz8t)
Is all reptile fat inedibly gross?
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 02:16 PM (nhCoE)
Inedible has a wide variance in its definition.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:20 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Barry Bonds - I hit them 73 HRs while totally clean. at December 10, 2025 02:20 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Light fuse, run away at December 10, 2025 02:16 PM (ZxPkt)
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That's fake too.
Eventually this all descends into solipsism.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 10, 2025 02:20 PM (XvL8K)
I wonder if that will ever happen.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 10, 2025 02:20 PM (XV/Pl)
And as far as anyone can tell, 50+% of all celebrities screw underage girls whenever they get the chance.
Nobody gives a shit, really.
Posted by: zombie at December 10, 2025 02:20 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 02:07 PM (MGB5H)
This is why China should NEVER have access to the moon. And probably not Russia, either.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:12 PM
*whistles innocently*
Posted by: Gru
What's up, Doc?
Posted by: Bugs Bunny
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 02:20 PM (+Oyis)
people have been calling her out; wonder how ghey her "husband" really is
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:19 PM (g47mK)
Hasn't she been pregnant a couple times? You're suggesting she's artificially inseminated? Or just cheating......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)
@Breaking911 10m
🚨FED CUTS RATES BY A QUARTER-POINT
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 10, 2025 02:15 PM (mlg/3)
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Rates don't affect inflation.
Fed printing money, inflating the money supply, affects inflation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:21 PM (GBKbO)
*whistles innocently*
Posted by: Gru
What's up, Doc?
Posted by: Bugs Bunny
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 02:20 PM (+Oyis)
Pikers......
Posted by: Marvin The Martian at December 10, 2025 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)
So, 17 year old girls whoring around are incapable of making responsible decisions for themselves but 4 year olds deciding they are the wrong sex must have their opinions respected.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 02:21 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Bigfoot, Nessie, Chupacabra at December 10, 2025 02:18 PM (wVcYX)
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"Where have you gone Mister Arthur Bell
A nation turns its chemtrail skies to you ... woo hoo hoo."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 02:21 PM (TTNvg)
And as far as anyone can tell, 50+% of all celebrities screw underage girls whenever they get the chance.
Nobody gives a shit, really.
Posted by: zombie at December 10, 2025 02:20 PM (oraVG)
Roman Polanski agrees.
Posted by: Caligirl at December 10, 2025 02:21 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 10, 2025 02:09 PM (XvL8K)
Our daily lives are more or less lived inside conspiracies. Remember Journolist? A bunch of journos coordinating behind the scenes to make sure the right message was reported. Do you think it stopped after that one list got exposed? The news just always ends up sounding the same by happenstance, organically? Until a weird oligarch became angry and bought Twitter, the media, social media, and government were working hand-in-glove to ensure no wrongthink was being utter publicly. And they sure weren't being honest about their coordination or its nature. Again, Gell-Mann Amnesia. We're swimming in conspiracies. I guess fish really do not know they are wet.
Posted by: don't try to bullshit a bullshitter at December 10, 2025 02:22 PM (GNipg)
The Moons position is know to 2cm precision. Sub mm precision is on the horizon.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at December 10, 2025 02:22 PM (XVbII)
Posted by: Barry Bonds - I hit them 73 HRs while totally clean. at December 10, 2025 02:20 PM (uv8gn)
Your head grew 2.5 hat sizes in one offseason.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)
Then we have Marina Abramovic, a dark "witch" that Hollywood is drawn to. I want her stuff investigated as well as well as who supports her.
Hollyweird is a pit of satanic culture.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 02:22 PM (WONhk)
Fed printing money, inflating the money supply, affects inflation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
Lower rates -> more loans -> increased money supply. This is standard theory.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 10, 2025 02:22 PM (mlg/3)
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Then, 100 stories up, when you cut a hole in the side of the building and out the other. The start a big fire inside, what happens as the air blasting through, drawn in by the fire. What role does oxygen play in increasing fire reaction? What does a turbo do???
Posted by: Fire triangle at December 10, 2025 02:22 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)
******
I feel so bad for Erika.
The evil bitch, Candace Owens and her followers with all their conspiracy theories are trying to destroy TPUSA and Erika.
Karma is coming for Candace.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 02:23 PM (NpAcC)
NEVER! Except this one time...
Posted by: B. Breathed at December 10, 2025 02:23 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant
We are a grass-roots, up-from-the-bootstraps, organization. Our Military Junta funding and support is only incidental.
Posted by: Big Penguin at December 10, 2025 02:23 PM (oftw2)
Fed printing money, inflating the money supply, affects inflation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
Lower rates -> more loans -> increased money supply. This is standard theory.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 10, 2025 02:22 PM (mlg/3)
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Except banks don't create currency.
So, no, it doesn't work like that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:23 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:18 PM (8avO+)
I would have to defer to TJM for that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)
I always thought the movie had the wrong ending - they should have gotten the sole survivor astronaut and the reporter just before they got to the funeral and ended with a suit whispering the news to Hal Holbrook and have him give a thin smile.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:23 PM (8avO+)
Then we have Marina Abramovic, a dark "witch" that Hollywood is drawn to. I want her stuff investigated as well as well as who supports her.
Hollyweird is a pit of satanic culture.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 02:22 PM (WONhk)
Sex farms in New Mexico.
Terrorist training farms in Arizona.
Seems we need to get a handle on our southwest states.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:23 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:23 PM (g47mK)
Check out that Glow.
It was my understanding that Glowies all had to speak English.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 02:19 PM (Riz8t)
I'd like to make an H1B joke hear, but chatbot (government or otherwise) is just as likely, these days.
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 02:24 PM (vSvIl)
as a completely unqualified teacher, was hired by Donald Barr ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barr ) at Dalton School, was hired as a banker from there, started his own fund which no one admits to have being part of, made millions by getting rich investors to participate in investments no one seems to know, in a place known for laundering funds and funding odd not really government actions, was involved deeply with the Clintons, and when finally arrested and sentenced for was killed in a prison overseen by Bill Bar, Donald Barr's son.
I know, he was blackmailing people. It is obvious from the dental chair.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:24 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Light fuse, run away at December 10, 2025 02:24 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Silvio Berlusconi at December 10, 2025 02:24 PM (wVcYX)
What's your problem, bruh?
Posted by: Opus The Penguin at December 10, 2025 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at December 10, 2025 02:24 PM (XVbII)
Thank you for your corroboration!
Posted by: B. Breathed at December 10, 2025 02:25 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 10, 2025 02:25 PM (sX1BW)
I mean, his wife is built like a guy.
It's also quite obvious that Barack knows what penis tastes like.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 10, 2025 02:25 PM (uKEdu)
Posted by: Fire triangle at December 10, 2025 02:22 PM (AoMt0)
winds coming in provide replacement oxygen for more fire. Heat increases the ability to trigger the O2 - steel reaction, which at room temperature is just rusting.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:26 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Light fuse, run away at December 10, 2025 02:26 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 02:21 PM (Y8DZL)
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I'm old enough to remember -- a couple decades ago in Califzuela -- that lunatic Katie Porter introducing State legislation to reduce the voting age to 14.
I thought she should have gone for making it 2 since virtually all D voters are basically psychological emotional, spiritual, & mental infants ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 02:26 PM (TTNvg)
are the moon landing 'truthers' in here?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Light fuse, run away at December 10, 2025 02:24 PM (ZxPkt)
My comments are usually, most always, sarc.......So there's that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: B. Breathed at December 10, 2025 02:26 PM (NcvvS)
Terrorist training farms in Arizona.
Seems we need to get a handle on our southwest states.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
The terrorist training farm was in Taos, NM. As a proud Nuevo New Mexican I must stand firm against Arizona and Texas stealing our culture.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 10, 2025 02:26 PM (uv8gn)
are the moon landing 'truthers' in here?
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We are everywhere.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 10, 2025 02:25 PM (sX1BW)
The moon landings were staged on the invisible Mushroom planet secret *Second Moon*
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:27 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 10, 2025 02:27 PM (/6GbT)
The other 50% when they get drugged. Reward or blackmail, who can say?
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 02:27 PM (0ZmKh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 02:27 PM (ufetp)
.....
They left after eating all the dinosaurs.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 01:44 PM (v0R5T)
They weren't eaten.
The giant space brains zapped them.
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 02:27 PM (UnA8+)
I mean, his wife is built like a guy.
It's also quite obvious that Barack knows what penis tastes like.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 10, 2025 02:25 PM (uKEdu)
His wife has a penis.
He enjoys getting fat homo white men to blow him.
I believe he takes it in the fartclam by black men.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Fed printing money, inflating the money supply, affects inflation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
Lower rates -> more loans -> increased money supply. This is standard theory.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 10, 2025 02:22 PM (mlg/3)
That and, what is the mechanism for the Fed to lower rates?
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 02:27 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Toad-0 at December 10, 2025 02:28 PM (wMNuu)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:28 PM (g47mK)
"And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything."
Ask any male celebrity or billionaire -- they'd all admit the same thing, if given truth serum. Groupies everywhere, coming at you like gnats.
Posted by: zombie at December 10, 2025 02:28 PM (oraVG)
Then we have Marina Abramovic, a dark "witch" that Hollywood is drawn to. I want her stuff investigated as well as well as who supports her.
One of the splashy news mags had a profile on one of her parties.
They had a life sized teenaged girl made out of jello or something like that with a sweet red fluid inside as blood and the party goers cut off parts and ate it.
It was creepy as all hell...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:29 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:11 PM (8avO+)
By "very", I mean more than a year or two below the age of consent. Young enough that a "guest" at the island would be thinking, "nope, that one's jailbait".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 02:29 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 02:29 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:23 PM (g47mK)
He's a high class Brit, so sure.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:29 PM (8avO+)
They do exist, and they live among us. They call themselves Hungarians. (the answer given back then)
*raises third hand*
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 10, 2025 02:29 PM (5xuJ/)
The terrorist training farm was in Taos, NM. As a proud Nuevo New Mexican I must stand firm against Arizona and Texas stealing our culture.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 10, 2025 02:26 PM (uv8gn)
Well, they used Arizona to learn how to take off and fly........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:30 PM (Zz0t1)
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Then, 100 stories up, when you cut a hole in the side of the building and out the other. The start a big fire inside, what happens as the air blasting through, drawn in by the fire. What role does oxygen play in increasing fire reaction? What does a turbo do???
Posted by: Fire triangle at December 10, 2025 02:22 PM (AoMt0)
Do you know what can melt steel? Thermite applied to the ceiling of certain floors in the form of paint.
Too bad all the steel was shipped to China for recycling before tests were done. So we will never know if that theory is right or not
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:30 PM (rbvCR)
When Miklos sees this, prepare to receive artillery.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 02:30 PM (NcvvS)
We should get out the Ouija Board and ask Charlie.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 02:31 PM (TR2dy)
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FFS got sit in a courthouse for an afternoon. Aside from domestic violence and individual crimes, everything is conspiracy. All drugs, all prostitution/ trafficking. What is organized crime? What about gangs? Bid rigging and insider trading. It goes on and on. It is simply not an argument to say conspiracies dont exist. They do. AND THEY ARE COMMON. That does not mean Epstein was or was not an OP. I tend to think he was a deniable asset. So you wont find much. He will be declassified 65 years from now. I remain extremely skeptical that he hung himself in prison, but I accept that there is a lack of proof be was killed.
Posted by: Fire triangle at December 10, 2025 02:31 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 02:29 PM (npFr7)
That's ALL of them. We all knew that as a kid. We gave a friend of ours all sorts of crap when he was chatting up a girl until she told him she couldn't date until 13. She was 12.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:31 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 02:27 PM (ufetp)
Yes, but an office fire, or aviation fuel conflagration isn't hot enough to melt steel. And if it is, every sky scraper in the US is a death trap.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:32 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:23 PM (g47mK)
He's a high class Brit, so sure.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:29 PM (8avO+)
Amen, old chap! Amen.
Posted by: Lytton Strachey at December 10, 2025 02:32 PM (0CU3H)
I remember reading Althouse's site on this. Even discussing gold diggers offended her and this seems to be the feminist left's take on it.
There are no gold diggers
So Trump meant he's forcing women to have sex with him
I would say it is an odd take since everyone knows that gold diggers exist, and neither Trump nor any Trump defender said that all women are like this just...some. Which is true.
But this idea causes some problems for feminism so they just pretend it doesn't actually exist.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:32 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Nick Fuentes at December 10, 2025 02:32 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 02:32 PM (NcvvS)
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Stanley Kubric faked the moon landings on a film set. There may have been shadow people there.
I heard it in a song.
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 02:32 PM (vSvIl)
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Sources told me that she just "coincidentally" was ready to go the minute he was assassinated; that just does not happen without foreknowledge.
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:32 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 02:16 PM
Damn...when garrett thinks you're flaming....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 02:32 PM (bFu5X)
LOL
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 02:32 PM (TR2dy)
There are no gold diggers
So Trump meant he's forcing women to have sex with him
I would say it is an odd take since everyone knows that gold diggers exist, and neither Trump nor any Trump defender said that all women are like this just...some. Which is true.
But this idea causes some problems for feminism so they just pretend it doesn't actually exist.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:32 PM (sKqQm)
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"Women are fierce and independent and don't need no men except when money and power is concerned, then men must protect women from their own decisions."
-Althouse
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:33 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Fire triangle at December 10, 2025 02:31 PM (AoMt0)
No question Epstein was an OP. The question is whose? All on his own is fantastically unlikely. CIA from the get go probably equally so. Somewhere in the middle.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:33 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:33 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Kindltot
It doesn't have to melt it, only soften it a bit, and the structural integrity is lost. And yes, every skyscraper in the US is vulnerable, at least those built after masonry and asbestos insulation were discontinued.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 02:34 PM (0U5gm)
In a way this theory IS true. But the elites in question are NOT a separate species, they are fellow human beings without a moral sense. "Lizard people" are just human psychopaths.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:34 PM (sKqQm)
The various stories about the CIA and/or MI6 involvement are probably bogus, whether or not someone associated with Epstein or Maxwell is.
I just don't think the info would ever see the light of day if there was anything 'there.'
YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 02:34 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:34 PM (g47mK)
So, has Tom Hanks departed for Greece yet?
I'd have bet on little boys rather than girls for the diddling.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 02:34 PM (Y8DZL)
Trump brings legal immigration to a screeching halt
Axios. That means it's likely bullshit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Kindltot
It doesn't have to melt it, only soften it a bit, and the structural integrity is lost. And yes, every skyscraper in the US is vulnerable, at least those built after masonry and asbestos insulation were discontinued.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 02:34 PM (0U5gm)
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Of collapsing if you put a jet near the top and light the jetfuel on fire?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:35 PM (GBKbO)
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Stanley Kubric faked the moon landings on a film set. There may have been shadow people there.
I heard it in a song.
Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 02:32 PM (vSvIl)
Kubrick had better cameras.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:35 PM (8avO+)
Yes, but an office fire, or aviation fuel conflagration isn't hot enough to melt steel. And if it is, every sky scraper in the US is a death trap.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:32 PM (rbvCR)
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Steel doesn't have to melt for there to be big problems. Just softening will cause it to stop supporting its load.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 02:35 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Occam's Razor at December 10, 2025 02:35 PM (HJUJ8)
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at December 10, 2025 02:35 PM (XVbII)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:34 PM (g47mK)
Because her staff is loaded with black ops specialists.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)
-Althouse
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
You are truly a sexist swine.
Posted by: Rachel Maddow - Why yes my carpets and drapes match. at December 10, 2025 02:36 PM (uv8gn)
Trump brings legal immigration to a screeching halt
Axios. That means it's likely bullshit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)
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All may issue visas are down to almost nothing. The only things surviving are shall issue visas that the executive doesn't have leeway on (think spousal visas).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:36 PM (GBKbO)
Too bad all the steel was shipped to China for recycling before tests were done. So we will never know if that theory is right or not
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If this is sarcasm it is great. KUDOS!!. If not he some crazy fuel for you. They did find very high amounts of aluminum in the wreckage. Aluminum is one of the constituents of thermite!!!! (It also is what airliners are largely made of, womp womp)
Posted by: Fire triangle at December 10, 2025 02:36 PM (AoMt0)
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Then, 100 stories up, when you cut a hole in the side of the building and out the other. The start a big fire inside, what happens as the air blasting through, drawn in by the fire. What role does oxygen play in increasing fire reaction? What does a turbo do???
Posted by: Fire triangle at December 10, 2025 02:22 PM (AoMt0)
Do you know what can melt steel? Thermite applied to the ceiling of certain floors in the form of paint.
Too bad all the steel was shipped to China for recycling before tests were done. So we will never know if that theory is right or not
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:30 PM (rbvCR)
ah, ah, Bullshit!. Sorry, sneezed from all the dust.
Reagan Library and other places have steel from the WTC.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:36 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 02:36 PM (Vq1pX)
Of collapsing if you put a jet near the top and light the jetfuel on fire?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:35 PM (GBKbO)
Because putting bombs and other explosives at the base of the building will cause it to crumble from the top down.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 02:37 PM (lF28Z)
There are no gold diggers
So Trump meant he's forcing women to have sex with him
I would say it is an odd take since everyone knows that gold diggers exist, and neither Trump nor any Trump defender said that all women are like this just...some. Which is true.
But this idea causes some problems for feminism so they just pretend it doesn't actually exist.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:32 PM (sKqQm)
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"Women are fierce and independent and don't need no men except when money and power is concerned, then men must protect women from their own decisions."
-Althouse
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:33 PM (GBKbO)
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There's a small but growing segment of "feminists" who's entire pitch is that "all men are scum, so women should just use sex to get as much money from men as possible." That's literally the definition of a gold digger.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 02:37 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Kindltot
It doesn't have to melt it, only soften it a bit, and the structural integrity is lost. And yes, every skyscraper in the US is vulnerable, at least those built after masonry and asbestos insulation were discontinued.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 02:34 PM (0U5gm)
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Of collapsing if you put a jet near the top and light the jetfuel on fire?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 02:35 PM (GBKbO)
I question the assertion that avgas fire can't melt steel. Jet engines are notably not made of steel, and the fire is shoved out the back instantly.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:37 PM (8avO+)
Trump brings legal immigration to a screeching halt
Countries closed Uncle Sam out front should have told you...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 02:37 PM (VE6XX)
"Larger" as a near earth asteroid or something substantial?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:37 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 02:32 PM (TR2dy)
Laughing at the conspiracy theory or at the idea that an office fire caused by aviation fuel cooking off is not enough to make a fuel air explosion strong enough to collapse a sky scraper into its own footprint?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:37 PM (rbvCR)
Too bad all the steel was shipped to China for recycling before tests were done. So we will never know if that theory is right or not
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:30 PM (rbvCR)
HAHAHAHA!! I worked in those buildings for years as a transmitter engineer. We had access to parts of those buildings that most others did not. Most of us, who witnessed the attacks were surprised they stood as long as they did. So stop with the retarded bullshit already. Once the floor trusses weakened and twisted, the end was written. Good grief.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 10, 2025 02:37 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 02:36 PM (Vq1pX)
Method actors, amirite?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:38 PM (8avO+)
Has anybody noticed the resemblance between Anthony Bourdain and Jeffrey Epstein?
I mean, beside the rope burns?
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 02:38 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 02:38 PM (U/Byj)
You are truly a sexist swine.
Posted by: Rachel Maddow - Why yes my carpets and drapes match. at December 10, 2025 02:36 PM (uv8gn)
Ah yes.......MSNOW is running ads on TV where Madcow reads the preamble to the Constitution......that thing that she previously said didn't exist........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)
could also be fathers of her children ? just asking questions;
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 02:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 02:38 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 02:38 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
Add "in liquor store bathrooms" and I'm there!
-- That raccoon in Virginia
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 02:38 PM (77rzZ)
And he was beaten by a mob connected thug in prison shortly before, and the cameras were "broken" and his guards were asleep, and the way he killed himself wouldn't be possible for most people and...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:39 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy
OMG, you mean the conspiracy goes all the back to the architects?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 10, 2025 02:39 PM (uv8gn)
Look at how the JFK and RFK file releases completely, and I mean completely, changed the entire understanding of those events.
Right?
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 02:39 PM (U/Byj)
In this case we are going after her husband?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 02:39 PM (zZu0s)
That said the government certainly did not get harmed by 9/11, they benefited from it. Which one must admit is strange.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 02:39 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 02:34 PM (0U5gm)
I would argue, from my knowledge, no changes in building codes were done post 9-11 and no building I am aware of was retrofitted to resolve this fatal flaw. So this is negligence.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:39 PM (rbvCR)
Too bad all the steel was shipped to China for recycling before tests were done. So we will never know if that theory is right or not
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:30 PM (rbvCR)
HAHAHAHA!! I worked in those buildings for years as a transmitter engineer. We had access to parts of those buildings that most others did not. Most of us, who witnessed the attacks were surprised they stood as long as they did. So stop with the retarded bullshit already. Once the floor trusses weakened and twisted, the end was written. Good grief.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 10, 2025 02:37 PM (5xuJ/)
I'd add some math and physics here, but I am prohibited. Lets just say force equals mass times acceleration, and momentum, mass times velocity, is quite high when dealing with 10,000 tons per floor...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:39 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:38 PM (8avO+)
"Get in the spinny thingy, Neil."
"But Stan, i just ate lunch, and..."
"GET IN THE SPINNY THINGY NEIL."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 02:40 PM (Vq1pX)
apple watch > suicide watch
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 02:40 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:41 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Papal Nuncio at December 10, 2025 02:41 PM (oftw2)
I remember watching Shrub give a medal to Tenet thinking that Tenet should have been encouraged to go up to his study with a tumbler of brandy and a revolver instead...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 02:41 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 10, 2025 02:37 PM (5xuJ/)
There's a story about a high rise that after it was built it was discovered that some engineering goofs in the plans and an unplanned build error meant the entire thing would pancake in the next high wind scenario. in NYC.
They found a patch fix and secretly applied it to the building before it blew over.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:41 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 02:41 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 02:37 PM (
I thought it was the definition of "woman".
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (lF28Z)
Look at how the JFK and RFK file releases completely, and I mean completely, changed the entire understanding of those events.
__________
I've always said that if the CIA was involved, there would have been a hundred dead bystanders and JFK would have gotten away without a scratch.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (tgvbd)
You are truly a sexist swine.
Posted by: Rachel Maddow - Why yes my carpets and drapes match. at December 10, 2025 02:36 PM (uv8gn)
Ah yes.......MSNOW is running ads on TV where Madcow reads the preamble to the Constitution......that thing that she previously said didn't exist........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)
How about reading the preamble to the Bill of Rights? Especially the part that says, "...expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution..."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Fire triangle at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 10, 2025 02:37 PM (5xuJ/)
Yep. Again, I would argue, from my knowledge, no changes in building codes were done post 9-11 and no building I am aware of was retrofitted to resolve this fatal flaw. So this is negligence.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:39 PM (rbvCR)
Of course not, none of them are hardened for nukes either.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (8avO+)
Dude. Come on. You slap a little Thermite Paint on those Ceiling Tiles and the entire thing is gonna come crashing down.
Trust the Structural Engineers in the Comments, please Sir. If for nothing else than comity.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 02:43 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 02:43 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Fire triangle at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (AoMt0)
Has any other building fallen like this, for this reason?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:43 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Fire triangle at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (AoMt0)
Plus a thin layer of thermite paint burning would probably not have enough material to raise the bulk of the beam's temperature enough.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:44 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 10, 2025 02:37 PM (5xuJ/)
There's a story about a high rise that after it was built it was discovered that some engineering goofs in the plans and an unplanned build error meant the entire thing would pancake in the next high wind scenario. in NYC.
They found a patch fix and secretly applied it to the building before it blew over.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:41 PM (8avO+)
The engineers didn't consider what would happen if a wind blew on the diagonal instead of a flat face...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:44 PM (ynpvh)
I know, he was blackmailing people. It is obvious from the dental chair.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:24 PM (rbvCR)
thank you, the Barr family connection was something I had not run across before.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 02:44 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Papal Nuncio at December 10, 2025 02:41 PM (oftw2)
Romani go to house?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Fire triangle at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (AoMt0)
It doesn't even have to become plastic; it just has to weaken enough to not be able to handle the weight its holding up.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (8avO+)
and yet we were expecting more planes to fly in and car-bomb buildings at any moment. It would seem a simple thing to change, at least in new built structures.
Oregon, the cheapest bastards in the world, upgraded on the chance that there would be a big earthquake sometime in the next century. It was quite profitable for the state, as well.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 02:43 PM (wVcYX)
The Ozempic never sank...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Fire triangle at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (AoMt0)
Has any other building fallen like this, for this reason?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:43 PM (rbvCR)
WTC Building 7.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 02:46 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:39 PM (rbvCR)
I don't believe the city of Hiroshima changed their building codes after the events of August 6, 1945, either.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 02:46 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 02:46 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:43 PM (rbvCR)
Well 5 buildings in Hong Kong recently burned when the plastic netting around bamboo scaffolding over flammable surfaces caught fire because the netting was not flame retardant. Don't know if the buildings went down completely though, you can look yourself.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:46 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Papal Nuncio at December 10, 2025 02:41 PM (oftw2)
Romani go to house?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (wVcYX)
LOL
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:46 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (ufetp)
Nobody goes there anymore. It got too crowded.
Posted by: Yogi Berra at December 10, 2025 02:46 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 02:46 PM (npFr7)
B29s are strictly banned.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:47 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (ufetp)
Nobody goes there anymore. It got too crowded.
Posted by: Yogi Berra at December 10, 2025 02:46 PM (wVcYX)
William Proxmire and the Democrats.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:47 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 02:48 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (rbvCR)
Probably not enough to cover the massive quakes that happen there every thousand years or so. Last one drowned towns in Japan.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:49 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:42 PM (8avO+)
and yet we were expecting more planes to fly in and car-bomb buildings at any moment. It would seem a simple thing to change, at least in new built structures.
Oregon, the cheapest bastards in the world, upgraded on the chance that there would be a big earthquake sometime in the next century. It was quite profitable for the state, as well.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:45 PM (rbvCR)
There was an estimated 9+ that hit January 26, 1700. It was recorded as an orphan tsunami in Japan, and recounted in oral histories of the natives. Plenty of geological evidence to it's fury. Based on trenching of various areas, big quakes like that happen every 200 to 500 years, so yes, Cascadia is due and if a 1700-level quake hits, the entire west coast of OR and WA will be erased.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:49 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 02:50 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 02:50 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 02:50 PM (ufetp)
Also, for the fun of it, Oregon state has no plans for dealing with the aftermath of such an earthquake.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 02:51 PM (rbvCR)
Ehhhh. Paper came out very quickly showing how it was man-made, basically laying out the recipe; NIH quashed it. Later FOIA in ... 2022? .... showed NIH discussing it as manmade in Feb 2020 and taking steps to discredit and head off such papers.
DARPA whistleblower spilled all the beans on the projects involved in mid 2021, though this actually drew attention to one proposal when in fact the OTHER may have been undertaken.
Arkmedic on substack demonstrated patented Moderna content in the virus engineering process in Dec 2021.
Any of these three things alone was a slam dunk, case closed. This was not dribbling out clues - this was just the MSM, government, and big tech at government direction running MASSIVE censorship campaigns which are hard to overcome.
The same goes for the Epstein/pizzagate shit.
Posted by: heya at December 10, 2025 02:52 PM (28ma9)
Juan de Fuca, PBUH.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 02:53 PM (TR2dy)
Juan de Fuca, PBUH.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 02:53 PM (TR2dy)
or if New Madrid pops off in Missouri. The Midwest doesn't have earthquake codes.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 02:55 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 10, 2025 02:55 PM (ufetp)
Posted by: geoffb at December 10, 2025 02:56 PM (r//c2)
Banks create money. What do you think fractional reserves is all about?
Posted by: MkY at December 10, 2025 02:56 PM (+Pp+Q)
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 03:05 PM (sGtp+)
Sure - absolutely.
But.
read up on Robert Maxwell sometime....and how Epstein was his protégé. Many intelligence sources of former operatives have suggested that he acted as a conduit for several intelligence agencies, such as the British MI6 and the Israeli Mossad, even the Soviet KGB. At his Oxford estate, Headington Hall, he hosted extravagant parties that were rumored to be used as honey traps to gather compromising information on powerful figures.
Accounts differ on when Maxwell first met Jeffrey Epstein. According to Epstein's former business partner Steven Hoffenberg, Robert Maxwell introduced his daughter to Epstein in the late 1980s.Maxwell and Epstein were associated with each other by February 1993.
We more or less know Robert Maxwell did exactly what Epstein was accused of, AND that Maxwell's daughter was associated and part of it.
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Posted by: Danimal28 at December 10, 2025 11:33 PM (iXm17)
In Astounding Coincidence the "Experts" Cannot Explain, US Oil Production Hits Record Highs as Gasoline Prices, Inexpicably, Fall to Lowest Levels Since the Chinese Engineered Bioweapon
Natural gas production also hit record highs in August before slipping a bit.Unaccountably, and probably due to Something The Democrats Did, gas prices are falling across the nation. Well, not "across the nation." They're falling in red states while they remain high in Democrat-controlled states like California, Washington, and Hawaii. Who can even guess why! Even CNN has to acknowledge that gas prices are falling and so is inflation, therefore. Just like Trump promised.
NEW YORK, Nov 28 (Reuters) - U.S. oil production rose to a record high in September, data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Friday showed, despite oversupply worries. Oil production in the U.S. has continued to hit record highs this year despite a weak price environment, further weighing on global prices. Benchmark Brent crude was trading just below $64 on Friday, about 14% below the same time last year. U.S. crude oil output rose 44,000 barrels per day during the month to a record 13.84 million bpd, according to EIA data. In 2025, that all changed. Oil output in New Mexico, the second-largest oil-producing state, hit a record 2.351 million bpd, while output from the federal offshore gulf region rose to 1.983 million bpd in September, the highest since February 2020.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! CNN has been FORCED to admit prices are going down in Donald Trump's economy
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 9, 2025
It's getting so good, they can't ignore it anymore.
"The price of gas, look at this! A 3.5 year LOW at $2.95 a gallon as of today!"
"That is MILES away from the all-time [Biden] high set… pic.twitter.com/2IDnkPwlUF
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (Vpqw1)
Probably nothing.
It's not like mass deportations is the solution to most of our economic problems, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (1BpWS)
Who can even guess why!
Yay. *sigh*
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)
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Yeah baby.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (ynpvh)
If NM has so much oil, why is it such a downtrodden shithole of a state?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)
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"All the shale oil producers are going to go bankrupt! Which is...a good thing?"
-The NYT
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (Dg7ng)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Truck Driving Man at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (bC9HI)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:32 PM (+Oyis)
Chinese + FAUCI engineered...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 10, 2025 12:32 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 12:32 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Truck Driving Man
$2.93 in my AO.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:32 PM (+Oyis)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 12:32 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Truck Driving Man at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (bC9HI)
The easier fuel to make and transport, yet it's .50 to .75 cents higher than unleadeded.
Rape.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Enhanced.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 12:33 PM (dK+Kv)
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Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
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Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 10, 2025 12:34 PM (Dg7ng)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 12:34 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Illinois/Louisiana levels of corruption.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:34 PM (+Oyis)
Calizuela. Soon how the rest of the country will be if the gop doesn’t grow 200 odd pair…
Posted by: The MewTwix at December 10, 2025 12:34 PM (/nsax)
Chinese + FAUCI engineered...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 10, 2025 12:32 PM (x0n13)
I see him on the street, I'm taking one for the team. I trust most of you would start the fund to defend me at trial.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Even Greta had to shift from Klimat Katastrophe to shilling for Jew Killers.
Posted by: Winning! at December 10, 2025 12:35 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: huerfano at December 10, 2025 12:35 PM (98kQX)
The state government jacked up gas taxes several years ago, and shockingly, astoundingly! New Yorkers and Pennsylvanians no longer come to NJ for cheap fuel.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 12:35 PM (n9ltV)
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The difficult part is explaining how all the dead dinosaurs found themselves below geologic plates. Maybe the pancake theorem works?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 12:35 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (rbvCR)
Even Greta had to shift from Klimat Katastrophe to shilling for Jew Killers.
Posted by: Winning! at December 10, 2025 12:35 PM (oftw2)
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And deported at least 3 million people, which affects the demand side.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)
I bought a tenderloin at Costco this morning. It was Choice instead of my usual Prime, and "unpeeled", but fortunately I learned how to properly prepare a tenderloin a few years ago.
The "peeled" Prime tenderloin was $38 a pound.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (Riz8t)
Road use diesel cheapest in a decade for me. As to why it's more $/gal, well, it's entirely due to the city on the powtomack...
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Sponge
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Alterian Pilgrim is a resident IRL I think. She has put out a few tidbits. Another state though where a dysfunctional blue urban center dictates policy for the rest of the state.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (WDjG6)
"For just $5 a day, the price of a cup of coffee, you can help feed one CEO starving for another jet or sidepiece."
I swear the Left will love anything or anyone as long as doing it helps them.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: ish at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (w9Wax)
I've heard that the fact that we still have oil coming out of the ground in quantity means it has nothing to do with dinosaurs but if anyone here's got expertise I'd love to hear the details.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)
The Illegals' pressure on rents is a thing.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (rbvCR)
Damn, I'm old. This is in Central WA. Which very briefly admitted to passing out 700 CDL's in the past seven years to illegals. "In Error". I suspect they left a zero off on that number.
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (1whRW)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (Bo9Yf)
I've heard that the fact that we still have oil coming out of the ground in quantity means it has nothing to do with dinosaurs but if anyone here's got expertise I'd love to hear the details.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (2ocoG)
100's of barrels worth seep through the ocean floor daily.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 12:35 PM (n9ltV)
Well, they must have wanted to lose that revenue, right?
They just can never quite get: tax=destroy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 12:38 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (2ocoG)
AOP could give you some good info on that.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:38 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)
The Illegals' pressure on rents is a thing.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (rbvCR)
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Why isn't Trump doing anything about affordability, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)
That's a bit hyperbolic.
By September 23, 2025, the Trump administration claimed that 2 million illegal immigrants had left the country through a combination of over 400,000 deportations and an estimated 1,600,000 self-deportations. Individuals or immigrants residing in the U.S. 20 total confirmed: 15 in ICE custody.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:38 PM (Riz8t)
The national average would indeed be far less if the Leftist Coast were taken out of the equation. I'd wager around under $2.00/gl.
Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 10, 2025 12:38 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (Wg6v7)
We might get a truck that is both useful and does not cost as much as a fucking house.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 12:38 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Eromero at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (WPL6O)
That's a bit hyperbolic.
By September 23, 2025, the Trump administration claimed that 2 million illegal immigrants had left the country through a combination of over 400,000 deportations and an estimated 1,600,000 self-deportations. Individuals or immigrants residing in the U.S. 20 total confirmed: 15 in ICE custody.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:38 PM (Riz8t)
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So, 2 million as of September, huh?
I wonder what another three months did?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)
That f*cking midget swung first!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (n9ltV)
The "peeled" Prime tenderloin was $38 a pound.
Posted by: Archimedes
$21.97/lb Choice unpeeled at Sam's.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (+Oyis)
Posted by: Mr Wolf at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (SOGBX)
Posted by: Pudinhead
You are beneath contempt!
Posted by: Rachel Corrie Fan Club at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (DRSnL)
Rape.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
It is taxed specifically to keep it on that proportion with gasoline.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (rbvCR)
- Democrats
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (Oy/m2)
What to think....
Posted by: Bernie Brigades at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (4wzy4)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:40 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 12:40 PM (1zOXE)
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The difficult part is explaining how all the dead dinosaurs found themselves below geologic plates. Maybe the pancake theorem works?
Posted by: Pudinhead
AOP mebbe. Carbon cycle is interesting and a prominent critic of fossil fuels monicker was a geologist , Thomas Gold who had an abiotic theory of petroleum production. Twasn't popular.
Gold also had the theory that the moon was buried in dust prior to the Apollo landings which is why the huge pads on the landing gear. They were designed to float above such dust pools upon the LEM landing. Not so right there about his theories.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:40 PM (WDjG6)
Hold the line, people! Keep those prices up. You'll be richly rewarded once we win the 2026 elections.
Posted by: The Dem "Affordability" Narrative for 2026 at December 10, 2025 12:40 PM (Y3swt)
Posted by: yoeman at December 10, 2025 12:40 PM (r2U0A)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 12:40 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)
The Illegals' pressure on rents is a thing.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (rbvCR)
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And with food stamps given to illegals there is food price pressure. Pretty much illegals put upward price pressure on everything using money stolen from working American citizens.
Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 10, 2025 12:40 PM (xvV+O)
As for Cali: those refiners packing up next year will haunt Newsome. To many clips of him bashing oil and the commercial will write itself for a national campaign against him.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 10, 2025 12:41 PM (FxH7T)
Yeah, that's what I paid at Costco.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:40 PM (Riz8t)
So MORE than $20, same as in town?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:41 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Kzintis at December 10, 2025 12:41 PM (9uL7w)
I wanted to buy some earlier this week and it's like $30.
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2025 12:41 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 10, 2025 12:41 PM (ICjqV)
I think we pay 19.99 here for whole Tenderloin.
They will trim and cut it to your preference, too.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (TR2dy)
Marxists have no concept of second-order effects. This is known.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (2ocoG)
Well, there seems to be some evidence of liquid hydrocarbons elsewhere in the solar system, so unless dinosaurs were in space...
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (XuXeR)
Look for the Russian 'abiotic' theory and how they find oil.
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (Y3swt)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (GL+EM)
Posted by: Ian S."
Hydrocarbons are constantly being recycled by the Earth. Over time everything in all our landfills will be subducted and recycled.
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (vFG9F)
It's a lot lower, around $0.50.
I wonder what it is in Polk Country Florida, where Sheriff Grady Judd just arrested some young scholars who ripped off a Dicks Sporting Goods and maybe ruined their lives...like their lives were going to be worth a shit anyway.
Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (och2J)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (IQBae)
Posted by: jmel at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (RWHIh)
Remember, for four years we were told it was "merely" 7% or whatever.
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (1wjle)
A very appropriate single-frame cartoon:
https://tinyurl.com/vsm48krp
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Jordan61
Another thing the Horde said when it started.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (+Oyis)
Posted by: Max Power at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (Hucnr)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (3AwA+)
As for Cali: those refiners packing up next year will haunt Newsome. To many clips of him bashing oil and the commercial will write itself for a national campaign against him.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 10, 2025 12:41 PM (FxH7T)
Even the plan for the "obsolescence" of ICE engines only applied to the hoi polloi, not the rich and connected; limos were going to still be allowed ICE engines, for instance. This is the same modus operandi as commies: we are all equal, but some of us are MORE equal that the rest of you.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (Dg7ng)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Florida Bound at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Kindltot
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Vacancies are rising in some markets blamed in the media on overproduction of rental housing.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Fox Butterfield at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (pEFY5)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (whSpP)
$2.24 to $2.30 here on Monday.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (jjoN6)
yep and our tax increases annually, which is fun
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: John Galt at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (mGkIn)
Why don't we go our separate ways?
You could live, laugh, and love your way through your best life, buggering children, smoking drugs and dying from mutagenic flesheating monkeypox, while we are all boring and bourgeois and shit. You could be free from our living hell of cheap gas and bibles and virgin children.
Just sign the papers.
Posted by: We Should Have a Talk... at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (HgadO)
Posted by: Hank Johnson (D)umb at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (Bo9Yf)
Posted by: Kzintis at December 10, 2025 12:41 PM (9uL7w)
Except in Kali; Gavin, with his oleaginous bearing and devilish smile saying "I Did That!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (GL+EM)
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You must be on the west side. I'm at $3.69 on the east side.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: The Paolo at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (P845J)
Unaccountably, and probably due to Something The Democrats Did, gas prices are falling across the nation.
You'd think the media would make more of an effort to not look ridiculously biased, but you'd be wrong.
I like this guy's stuff. Here, he discusses the recent media blitz condemning Trump for going soft on China in the recent National Security Strategy summary. These are big name pubs like NYT, WSJ, WaPo, and The Atlantic. The only problem is that it's a load of codswallop, as anyone with two synapses to rub together would know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfjhOtD2svQ
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Hank Johnson (D)umb at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (Bo9Yf)
Just like animals when mosquitos bite them...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (ynpvh)
Who can even guess why!
......
Just under $5 per gallon here in Santa Cruz county.
Because we have a governor with no testicles.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Kindltot
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Vacancies are rising in some markets blamed in the media on overproduction of rental housing.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (WDjG6)
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Builders have been overbuilding for years, in part to match the sudden explosion in demand that started about 4 years ago.
Now, demand is slipping.
General trend is suddenly...housing prices seeing easing pressure if not outright reversals in certain markets (especially in Texas).
It's amazing how much of the economy you can explain by the supply and demand curve you learn in Micro-economics 101.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: jmel at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (RWHIh)
I’m ready to nominate Trump as emperor for life right now… of course I’m just one voter….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (xT8gx)
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My state tacks on $150 registration per year for EVs. Justification being you’re not paying the gas tax. But you’re still buying electricity which has all sorts of state taxes per kilowatt hour. So it’s a neat trick how the state gets to double dip like that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (9iyS+)
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Sam's Club @ $2.33 is the lowest nearby. Probably averages around $2.45/gal. Leftist governor and road taxes keep it from going under $2/gal.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (NwnyJ)
Oklahoma
Posted by: Oh noes ! at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (HcoTw)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (nJthq)
Posted by: Brunnhilde
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Absolutely true. Figuring in the costs of private schools into the equation and the relative tax shield for a mortgage, it makes sense to substitute a high performing public school system residence instead of paying private school fees plus a cheaper mortgage in a poorly performing public school district.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Hank Johnson (D)umb
.......
Kinda like Oak Island.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (jjoN6)
Live ones? If meat, Costco seems to have it all the time where I live (never buy it though; too expensive per pound).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (whSpP)
Posted by: Hank Johnson (D)umb at
Right after Guam flips over.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (MGB5H)
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Eh. I’d trade no state income tax for $4 gas.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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I read another state is now going to tax EV charging systems individually.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Mr Wolf at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (SOGBX)
I'm not sure where you are, but where I am in western Prince William, I paid $2.61 last night and saw a couple of high $2.50s on the drive home. They've dropped a little in the last week.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (a/dOO)
Posted by: Dyslexic Moron at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (w9Wax)
Who can even guess why!
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Because God doesn't like commie rat bastards any more than I do?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (L/fGl)
I hope the middle class "liberals" in blue states (my NY included) are green with envy. Of course they'll never ask to lower gas taxes but you can't expect much
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: NYT at December 10, 2025 12:47 PM (pEFY5)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 12:47 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: steevy at December 10, 2025 12:47 PM (YwEeS)
Younger was surprised while chatting with old hs and kolledge mates to find that he bought a nice place (near Houston) for half of what most were looking at elsewhere...
Hmmm.
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:47 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 10, 2025 12:47 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Mr Wolf at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (SOGBX)
You must be on the wrong NOVA side...Fairfax is cheaper and Prince William is WAY cheaper...
$2.79-$2.87 at most Fairfax City stations and stays that way as you branch out - there are "el cheapos" and there are pricier "we don't want to sell gas" places, but the norm all over is under $3 today...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 10, 2025 12:47 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Probably because electricity taxes don't go towards road upkeep.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:47 PM (+Oyis)
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And even more in KILOMETERS!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (whSpP)
I get all knotted up over these length measures...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (ynpvh)
We're entering the new Golden Age of American Auto Design, baby!
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Hank Johnson (D)umb at
Right after Guam flips over.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (MGB5H)
Is THAT how one flips real estate in Guam?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (ynpvh)
This has always been the case in NoVa. School districts drive everything, which is why the School Board does it's best to destroy everyone's property values by moving the boundaries.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Ace at 12:30 PM
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Stuck at $2.799/gallon (Costco) for the past several weeks -- although expectations were that it would fall (across Arizona) another 15 to 30 cents by Christmas.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (whSpP)
I wanted to buy some earlier this week and it's like $30.
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2025 12:41 PM (1wjle)
My niece's husband told me this Spring that the price of a calf was what he could have sold a steer for a couple years prior. And even if you bought the calf there is always the chance of losing it before it gets big enough to butcher.
It takes a while to raise a cow to slaughtering age, and it will be a while before the domestic herds are back up. I hope beef from Argentina and Brazil will be easier to get. Did you know they raise a lot of beef in Venezuela?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (rbvCR)
I'm am confused.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
All bad things are caused by Orange Man bad. All good things that cannot easily be attributed to Democrats are considered like the weather, just there by pure coincidence. So it will be with employment figures, peace, etc.
It is an axiom of reality of for leftists that nothing good in society or the world can ever come from doings of Trump and/or MAGA.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:49 PM (WDjG6)
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$3.29... Oregon. We consider that cheap around here. We obviously don't us the extra money to fix the roads, so it must go to saving the environment (ie enriching democrats)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 10, 2025 12:49 PM (nJthq)
Posted by: Lady in Black
Cow pop problem due to drought, feed & possible screw-worm infestation.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:49 PM (+Oyis)
Finally, the wise choices of Jennifer Granholm and Pete Butagieg are beginning to be felt in the market.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 12:49 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (rbvCR)
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This actually just happened to my boss a couple of weeks ago. He went in on a cow with his dad, and it died.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:49 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (whSpP)
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$2.59 here at Costco last night.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:50 PM (WDjG6)
Thus causing the name "fossil fuels".
Given the finding of major oil deposits are extremely deep levels in the ocean, where it's very difficult to explain how the plant/animal remnants could actually occur, has led to more support for the theory.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 10, 2025 12:50 PM (MNCvZ)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 12:50 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: rickb223 at December
And the Biden admin disastrous policies.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 12:50 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Czech Chick at December 10, 2025 12:50 PM (vK/Ja)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (GL+EM)
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You must be on the west side. I'm at $3.69 on the east side.
Yes. Near a little town which is left of Leon Trotsky. Port Townsend Wa..
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 10, 2025 12:51 PM (GL+EM)
I saw $1.99 a gallon in Corpus Christi late last week (just one place, most were $2.10-$2.15), but Corpus generally has about the cheapest gas in the state due to proximity to refineries and almost zero transport costs.
Posted by: Sloucho at December 10, 2025 12:51 PM (Ym0Nd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)
Corruption. Been described as "Sopranos with a different accent". There are a couple of families that run *everything*. Current governor is an avowed communist, which doesn't help.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 10, 2025 12:51 PM (lFFaq)
Not every neighborhood in a bad school district is a bad ‘hood. School district boundaries can be gerrymandered so that nice areas get lumped together with shit areas to get more tax revenue.
But the price of homes in said ‘hoods can be 30% cheaper than a comparable home a few blocks away .
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:51 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (Bo9Yf)
Posted by: Tennessee Jed at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (Lo5Xg)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (OTdqV)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (rbvCR)
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This actually just happened to my boss a couple of weeks ago. He went in on a cow with his dad, and it died.
Posted by: Jordan61
We just had three calves dropped in the last three weeks since our cold snap. They always seem to throw a calf when it gets cold.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (+Oyis)
Given the price of private school tuition, that is almost never true.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (WDjG6)
And house prices are so high because of a shortage of housing.
Years of customer service allows me to say that with a straight face.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Stuff democrats say at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (sKqQm)
Hey!
A Shit Tax!
Great idea!
And it'll be 'for the children.'
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (P845J)
$3.80 for regular at Costco in San Diego County.
If something doesn't change here, I expect the depraved CA state government to send it a lot higher.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (azNOR)
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What, Seizing the Industry wasn't available?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (whSpP)
You guys really can’t complain too much about high gas prices. Same with Nevada.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (9iyS+)
Funny. Anyone belive road use taxes go to roads?
/bikepaths'r'us
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (XuXeR)
Well let's see, Dems drive up the cost of oil, filling Putin's war chest and he invades his neighbor. Then Trump comes in and unleashes US production driving down costs and Putin quiets down.
Then Biden gets in and we do it all over again. So, kind of due to Democrats inability to learn.
Trump's been driving production here and elsewhere (Saudi, etc.) because they're trying to take Russian oil off the market militarily.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (pIfcn)
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"Won't anybody think of the oil execs?!"
Coming from the NYT, it seems a bit, shall we say, incongruent.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (qBdHI)
Using Olestra to produce "oil"?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 10, 2025 12:54 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 12:54 PM (g47mK)
It's always a shock driving into Maryland, New Jersey, and New York (could you get more Blue?) and seeing substantially cheaper gas prices. And they have smooth roads, too!
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 12:54 PM (Y3swt)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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[climbs on bandwagon]
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 12:54 PM (XeU6L)
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I'm no longer convinced that *anything* goes for anything when it comes to state and federal government. Most of it is just a racket on top of rackets on top of other rackets.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 12:54 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: SMOD
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Elites in Euroland are terrified that fracking starts there (and they do have regions where it is likely to work including the UK). But, I also noticed China's trade surplus hit $1 trillion bucks. US exports though are down 29 percent for the year so far. That means a lot more of Chinese mfg shit is going to Euroland instead--trade deficit estimates are now about $400 billion with China for this year at the very least.
At some point, the balance of trade deficits and suffocation of mfg in Euroland is going to force them to develop their untapped resources in oil and gas.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:55 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 12:55 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Jordan61
*takes notes*
Posted by: Carroll Shelby at December 10, 2025 12:55 PM (w9Wax)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:55 PM (XuXeR)
A Shit Tax!
Great idea!
And it'll be 'for the children.'
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (P845J)
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"That would have a disparate impact on the obese, fat-shaming h8r!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:55 PM (whSpP)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2025 12:55 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at December 10, 2025 12:55 PM (oftw2)
You guys really can’t complain too much about high gas prices. Same with Nevada.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (9iyS+)
Come to NY, you get to pay sales tax on the excise tax. It's like a Double Stuffed shit sandwich.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 10, 2025 12:55 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (rbvCR)"
We buy a heifer or steer every year from my wife's family and have for the last 15 years. Never had one die. They ranch about 20 miles north of Hondo, TX.
We got a black angus steer this year that is the best beef I've ever had. Even the round steak is tender! The sirloins and ribeyes are phenomenal. Love buying beef wholesale, want to get a source for hogs, too. I had one but the guy stopped selling them onesy twosy. If anyone knows a source to purchase whole hogs for butchering I'd appreciate knowing.
Posted by: Sloucho at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (Ym0Nd)
Also it's funny how all the dims can't shut up about affordability now. But they didn't have jackshit to say about it when the vegetable was in office and inflation was at 9%.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (Lo97M)
A Shit Tax!
Great idea!
And it'll be 'for the children.'
Posted by: Diogenes at
Is it on volume, weight, frequency?
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (Riz8t)
Tuition for a good school in my area is $15kish a year. If you save $1k in mortgage with a cheaper house and lower property tax it works out. For one kid anyway.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Stuff democrats say at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (sKqQm)
IT'LL TAKE 20 YEARS BEFORE THE PRODUCTION COMES ON LINE!
GIVE UP!
GET IN LINE!
SUBMIT!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (6U1c2)
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"Biden policies taking effect!"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy
Not really. The oceans have been constantly changing levels. Further, plate tectonics explains some as well.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 10, 2025 12:57 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 12:57 PM (IQBae)
It's possible to fill up in Ohio, drive across Pennsylvania on I-80, and reach Maryland on one tank.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 12:57 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 12:57 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 12:54 PM (g47mK)
That said, Target put their shaved beef steak from Demakes Bros on sale for $8/lb today ($7 for 14 oz), so I bought it. Easiest way to get non ground beef (and non total garbage - sorry Steakums) in my diet with a ton of veg. Amazon's cheap bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, and shredded cheese (for the kids) make for 1/2 and 1/2 sandwiches for 6 with a little under 2 lbs of the meat...with ketchup (one of the few things I always use that for)...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 10, 2025 12:57 PM (tOcjL)
We just had three calves dropped in the last three weeks since our cold snap. They always seem to throw a calf when it gets cold.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (+Oyis)
Are you running a cow/calf operation? How many head?
It's branding time here, calving is in the fall.
Posted by: Caligirl at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (gpah0)
You guys really can’t complain too much about high gas prices. Same with Nevada.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (9iyS+)
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Can I complain about the property taxes? Because those are insane, too.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 12:57 PM (cYBz/)
You can't swing a dead cat in a grocery store without hitting some type of chicken.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Inogame at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (53oGX)
The state government jacked up gas taxes several years ago, and shockingly, astoundingly! New Yorkers and Pennsylvanians no longer come to NJ for cheap fuel.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 12:35 PM (n9ltV)
Its a lot cheaper in these parts of jersey. I saw it in the $2.60s a few weeks ago. Some stations are whores, but there are stations where its cheaper.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (snZF9)
Didn't Exxon just come up with a way to make fracking 20% more efficient?
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (Y8DZL)
Water is wet too!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (jFNww)
Posted by: man
What do you mean? We caused thousands of accidents and millions of man-hours of lost time and inconvenience.
Posted by: The Breezewood "Interchange" at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (oftw2)
At some point, the balance of trade deficits and suffocation of mfg in Euroland is going to force them to develop their untapped resources in oil and gas.
Macron was just begging Xi to buy more French goods to forestall a collapse of the French economy. I'm not sure how many more escargot China can take, though.
https://is.gd/PXvsOS
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (Riz8t)
Depends on the State and depends on the roads.
In Texas, gasoline excise taxes go mostly to the education cartels, just like a large portion of oil severance royalties.
As for the roads, surface roads are usually paid for out of general revenue so don't throw rocks at EV, hybrids and bicyclists that drive on Texas roads.
Limited Access freeways though do come out of gasoline taxes, bridge and road fees, tolls and occasionally loot from the FedGov.
In fact, over half of Texas state expenditures is wasted on that fraud known as Public Education.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (BvPIe)
Cow pop problem due to drought, feed & possible screw-worm infestation.
Posted by: rickb223
Bird flu replaced by cow flu.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Emmie at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: choices at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (FCWhv)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 12:57 PM (cYBz/)
We usually have a prime rib for Christmas but the lowest price I've seen so far is $14. 99 a pound...And it's not prime....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 01:00 PM (whSpP)
Posted by: The Breezewood "Interchange" at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (oftw2)
The Vine St. Expressway has entered the chat.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 10, 2025 01:00 PM (NgqoH)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 10, 2025 01:00 PM (z8ihD)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
And that's AFTER the improvement in costs from consolidation.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 01:00 PM (MGB5H)
I await confirmation because I always thought our two rat-bastard Senators were on the take from our enemies
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 01:00 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 01:00 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 01:00 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (DRSnL)
You’re still better off than with an income tax. I’ve lived in states with and without income tax. Even with higher property tax higher gas tax higher whatever tax it was still a good trade off.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 01:01 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 01:01 PM (rj6Yv)
Hit it!
Posted by: This message brought to you by Waymo and Waze at December 10, 2025 01:01 PM (Y3swt)
Macron was just begging Xi to buy more French goods to forestall a collapse of the French economy. I'm not sure how many more escargot China can take, though.
I hear China has a mime shortage.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: man
What do you mean? We caused thousands of accidents and millions of man-hours of lost time and inconvenience.
Posted by: The Breezewood "Interchange"
I've heard that they are finally going to correct that abortion of a interchange. Amazing how laws and policies seem to be created to fu what is best for the people.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (cYBz/)
The national average private school tuition is $15,000 per year (2025-26).
The private elementary school average tuition cost is $14,021 per year and the private high school average is $17,986 per year.
Source privateschoolreview dot com and this tracks with similar official although more dated figures.
At 15k per year, it would take about 19k in income before taxes per kid per year. Then also savings for university study. You would have to balance that with a number of other factors, commuting costs, public safety, property taxes (often the saving on crappy housing in blue areas is minimal on property taxes or even negative), and age of housing.
Some states give generous tax breaks of one sort or another on private education; others do not.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (DRSnL)
Hey, here in CA we have it all.... High property taxes, high gas prices, high sales tax, high Vehicle registration taxes....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (VE6XX)
I hear China has a mime shortage.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, J
That's a lot of baguettes.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (wzUl9)
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Is there a discount for exact change?
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: marcel marceau at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (NgqoH)
I think, unfortunately, the tariif wars allowed the narrative to build that the reason why things are expensive are because of Trump‘s tariffs
Posted by: Maroon at December 10, 2025 01:03 PM (D7ri/)
Posted by: Regular American at December 10, 2025 01:03 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 01:03 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: nurse ratched
But the beach!
Posted by: choices at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (FCWhv)
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I lost my wedding ring around our 20th anniversary after going for a swim (following an Alaskan cruise) in the Pacific with friends on Vashon Island last year.
[I'm surprised I didn't manage to lose it before then -- and had a couple of close calls, one necessitating the purchase of a metal detector to scour our backyard lawn.]
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 01:03 PM (whSpP)
You guys really can’t complain too much about high gas prices. Same with Nevada.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (9iyS+)
Go back and ask your handlers for better insults
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 01:03 PM (rbvCR)
Rep. Haley Stevens
@RepHaleyStevens
Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
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Also the beautiful and charming Rep. Haley Stevens.
https://is.gd/M6C63Z
I don't know whether I believe in science but I definitely believe in witches.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 01:04 PM (L/fGl)
I lost my wedding ring around our 20th anniversary after going for a swim (following an Alaskan cruise) in the Pacific with friends on Vashon Island last year.
[I'm surprised I didn't manage to lose it before then -- and had a couple of close calls, one necessitating the purchase of a metal detector to scour our backyard lawn.]
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 01:03 PM (whSpP)
Increase your salt intake.
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 01:04 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 01:04 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: It's me donna
And our roads are still shit.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (z8ihD)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Hamm on 5 at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (7Q0e+)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (2ocoG)
Spoiler: there never was a "dinosaur" theory for the formation of oil. Not in the industry. The dinosaurs merely serve as a symbol for the age of the rocks most productive of oil. The presumption is that single celled marine organisms were the major source of the hydrocarbons. I have read suggestions that pollen from land plants, washed into the seas by rivers, might also play a role.
I will note that the "biotic" theory of oil has a track record of success. The abiotic theory, to the extent that is has been tested at all, has yielded dry holes. Hard to get financing to drill a well, if the expectation is that it will be a dry hole.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (npFr7)
https://is.gd/M6C63Z
I don't know whether I believe in science but I definitely believe in witches.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
She looks like Sloth's (Goonies) daughter.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (DRSnL)
You’re still better off than with an income tax. I’ve lived in states with and without income tax. Even with higher property tax higher gas tax higher whatever tax it was still a good trade off.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Highly dependent on locale. Some states have relatively low property but higher sales taxes with no income tax, TN for example. Texas seems to have high sales tax coupled with higher than average property tax rates depending on locale (TX is a big state). Others, like Florida, have no income tax, spiking property values, favorable sales tax, but you spend a lot on insurance for homes.
Some mags track this stuff but always do your own homework and tax planning prior to a move on your individual situation.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (rQwsY)
I think, unfortunately, the tariif wars allowed the narrative to build that the reason why things are expensive are because of Trump‘s tariffs
Posted by: Maroon at December 10, 2025 01:03 PM (D7ri/)
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They haven't.
People are taking elections with 25% turnout and asserting that they reflect elections in a year that will have 80% turnout.
It's just that high propensity voters are now Democrat voters. Those voters that turn out for every bond issue and city council special election, they're Democrat leaners now. In the early 2010s, they were Republicans.
And Democrats kept winning the White House and forcing policy changes through the administrative powers, making winning midterms shockingly meaningless.
No one knows how to turn low propensity voters into high propensity voters. It's just a learned habit. Concentrated and proven effective GOTV efforts can help at the margins, but ultimately, most people in Miami probably had no idea there was even an election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (GBKbO)
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Considering taking up cattle ranching in Ohio. Not for profit. But with my own herd i can at least have access to steak at cost.
Posted by: Regular American at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (AoMt0)
Oddly, there will be no "investigations" of the price drops, as has happened half a dozen times in the past when prices rose. This goes back to my yute.
The astonishing power of the ignorance/envy combo was one of the first things I recall making we wonder about public policy and even economics. And of course it was classic. Oil companies explained: 1) only one small pipeline to SD from refineries in LA, thus, supply/transport cost 2) far fewer gas stations in SD than LA, thus, less competition.
Incredible! Like quantum physics or something!!!
Later, I (and others) on the Senate floor marveled, aghast, at the idiotic Dem fulminations about "windfall profits!!" in the oil industry, and industry that is by nature cyclical, and has some of the most capital-intensive operations of any. And let's not forget Congress having "hearings" about gas prices. Economic illiteracy and envy tragically form the basis for many peoples' "worldview".
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 01:06 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Caligirl
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"The long river winds through green years and dry years
Brand them in the spring ship them in the fall..."
Ian & Sylvia, 'Where The Short Grass Grows'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnvFVbEuURI
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 01:06 PM (XeU6L)
https://is.gd/M6C63Z
I don't know whether I believe in science but I definitely believe in witches.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 01:04 PM (L/fGl)
She's a walking ad for Thorazine.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 10, 2025 01:06 PM (NgqoH)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 10, 2025 01:06 PM (DDJSl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: marcel marceau
What he said!
Posted by: Mitch McConnell's aide at December 10, 2025 01:06 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 01:07 PM (pDt9x)
https://is.gd/M6C63Z
I don't know whether I believe in science but I definitely believe in witches.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Wow. When Elizabeth Moss is better looking than you are...
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 10, 2025 01:07 PM (/HDaX)
when was the last time the NYT gave a shit about what happens to the energy industry? they actively cheer its destruction and when the industry lost tens of thousands of jobs in 2015/2016, i don't recall a sob story. i heard 'learn to code'
Posted by: John Galt at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (mGkIn)
As long as New Yawk has a steady supply of hand-made artisian bagels, made with locally-grown wheat...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2025 01:07 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I think lander investigations of places like Saturn and Jupiter moons are probably going to shed some light on abiotic theories. Outerspace has quite a bit of carbon floating around apparently.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:07 PM (WDjG6)
Rep. Haley Stevens
@RepHaleyStevens
Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
-
Also the beautiful and charming Rep. Haley Stevens.
https://is.gd/M6C63Z
I don't know whether I believe in science but I definitely believe in witches.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 01:04 PM (L/fGl)
Seems like some dems have been drinking the water...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 01:08 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I think lander investigations of places like Saturn and Jupiter moons are probably going to shed some light on abiotic theories. Outerspace has quite a bit of carbon floating around apparently.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:07 PM (WDjG6)
Titan.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 01:08 PM (ynpvh)
Those fields contain major Exxon holdings including wells that produce for $27/barrel give or take. They are among the cheapest producing wells Exxon has and the most profitable.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 10, 2025 01:08 PM (pIfcn)
100% certainty that that's what they'll say as soon as prices tick back up.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 01:08 PM (3nLb4)
Some mags track this stuff but always do your own homework and tax planning prior to a move on your individual situation.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (WDjG6)
TX at the local level has politicians that very cheerfully raise property taxes for everything a do anything. It is worth remembering that the only thing TX does is write the rules for localities to impose property taxes. And due to people voting for bond issues upon hearing the promise that they won’t raise property taxes (they do, they have to be paid off with interest), the rates rise to pay for the interest.
TX can have lower property taxes but they cheerfully elect local governments that see the taxpayers as nothing more than ATMs.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 01:08 PM (rQwsY)
When moving from Texas to Missouri, I was annoyed I now had to pay state income tax, personal property tax (seriously wtf?) and sales tax on some things that were exempted in Texas like groceries.
I wound up coming out ahead. Texas has sky high property taxes even in many rural areas. 6th highest in the country. Plus a pretty darn high sales tax.
Texas has to pay for all those massive freeways and all the illegals in the school somehow.
Posted by: brak at December 10, 2025 01:08 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Crissy Teegan at December 10, 2025 01:09 PM (bucPA)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 01:09 PM (pDt9x)
https://is.gd/M6C63Z
I don't know whether I believe in science but I definitely believe in witches.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 01:04 PM (L/fGl)
Seems like some dems have been drinking the water...
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Haley looks like she's been drinking the ice cream...
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 01:09 PM (TN0g+)
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That’s kind of my point. In the end it all balances out. Which is why I’m saying paying $4.50 an extra gas in Seattle but having no income tax and somewhat higher property taxes vs a place with 2.50 gas, is a wash.
Of course it depends on income and how much you drive but for the typical person it’s a wash.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 01:09 PM (9iyS+)
Those fields contain major Exxon holdings including wells that produce for $27/barrel give or take. They are among the cheapest producing wells Exxon has and the most profitable.
I did not know that.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 01:09 PM (Riz8t)
100% certainty that that's what they'll say as soon as prices tick back up.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 01:08 PM (3nLb4
Yep. Because the country is full of economic illiterates. Anyone who says “price gouging” confesses to being an economic illiterate.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 01:09 PM (rQwsY)
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Hmm. Its as if some all knowing, all powerful, benevolent being created a systematic way to sustain humanity. PREPOSTEROUS!!!!!! ITS FERMENTED DINOSAURS I TELL YOU!!!!
Posted by: Regular American at December 10, 2025 01:10 PM (AoMt0)
First time I went through Breezewood almost 30 years ago now, I was like "WTF?"
Over time, I became kind of fond of it. We'd always stop there to have lunch when we were going back to see my family in Michigan. Our son seemed to enjoy it. Good memories.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 01:10 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 01:10 PM (U/Byj)
I wonder who's been paying her off?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (lF28Z)
I don't know why but that name always quacks me up.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (3nLb4)
Probably nothing.
It's not like mass deportations is the solution to most of our economic problems, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Mass deportations will cause reductions in:
1 unemployment spending
2 housing prices
3 grocery prices
4 fuel prices
5 auto insurance
6 traffic accidents
7 hospital wait times
8 welfare spending
9 public school overcrowding
10 public school violence
11 murders
12 property crime
13 migrant camps and groups of peasants hanging out in front of Home Depot
Other than that, it will not have too big an effect.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (5yV+P)
It's branding time here, calving is in the fall.
Posted by: Caligirl
I'm not. We lease our land to a neighbor who runs cows on five or six different properties. He has one bull and about twenty cows. These cows will drop all winter long. He scoops up the calves after weaning and puts them on a different property until they ho to market.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (+Oyis)
Also the beautiful and charming Rep. Haley Stevens.
https://is.gd/M6C63Z
I don't know whether I believe in science but I definitely believe in witches.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 01:04 PM (L/fGl)
She's got big tits, so there's that.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (Riz8t)
There are lots of options these days depending on what state you live in. If you aren't fixated on scholastic sports and fine arts, then there are hybrid homeschool-classroom organizations that are relatively cheap.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 10, 2025 01:12 PM (GD2xa)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (5yV+P)
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Yeah, but mass importations increase GDP.
So, import!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)
I don't know why but that name always quacks me up.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (3nLb4)
Sauce for the Michigoose.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 01:13 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (GBKbO)
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Dems have a vested interest in maintaining control of state and local government agencies and are willing to fund campaigns for candidates that support their interests (teachers unions, government workers labor unions, environmentalists, etc.). Non-Dems tend to vote with their wallets or their feet. The US presidency is the only office that has a nation-wide constituency, and that means both wallets and feet are on the line- hence, bigger turnout.
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 01:13 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (rbvCR)
Also the pricing is now more in line with energy content of the fuel. Diesel packs more BTU's per gallon than gasoline. It used to be cheaper because refineries had to produce a lot of Diesel to get enough gasoline to sell. Because Diesel was cheaper, auto makers started bring Diesel-powered light trucks to market. Prior to the the 1980's, Diesel-powered pickups and passenger cars were a rare thing indeed. Now, they are everywhere.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 01:13 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: words to live by at December 10, 2025 01:13 PM (CUcQs)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 01:13 PM (1zOXE)
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It was 59 cents prior to the voters stupidly asserting "We'd all like to pay more."
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 01:13 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Regular American
If hydrocarbons come from dinosaurs, someone needs to explain the oceans of liquid natural gas on the moon Titan.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:14 PM (eOfr8)
I hear China has a mime shortage.
And kidneys and other vital organs.
Totally Unrelated Thought: Isn't France awash in illegal aliens?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 01:14 PM (NzX/y)
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 01:13 PM (TN0g+)
Some of us didn't
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 01:14 PM (VE6XX)
You are, how do you say, telling me!
Posted by: The Paolo at December 10, 2025 01:14 PM (2ocoG)
https://is.gd/M6C63Z
I'm definitely switching to her for advice on my health.
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 01:14 PM (0ZmKh)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 10, 2025 01:14 PM (gm9Sb)
If hydrocarbons come from dinosaurs, someone needs to explain the oceans of liquid natural gas on the moon Titan.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:14 PM
But they can REALLY predict the future climate patterns, yo.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:15 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2025 01:15 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 10, 2025 01:15 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 01:15 PM (pDt9x)
I'm not. We lease our land to a neighbor who runs cows on five or six different properties. He has one bull and about twenty cows. These cows will drop all winter long. He scoops up the calves after weaning and puts them on a different property until they ho to market.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (+Oyis)
Deja vu, you've told me this before. That's cool you get to see everything and have none of the responsibilities.
Cows don't know it's Sunday.
Posted by: Caligirl at December 10, 2025 01:15 PM (gpah0)
Space Dinosaurs. Dibs on this as a two-word movie pitch.
Posted by: Delurker at December 10, 2025 01:16 PM (xNHSX)
The Science is settled, scrunt. Michigoose out front should have told you.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (9iyS+)
EVs are heavier and thus tear up the roads at a faster rate. Hence higher registration fees. To does this for that reason.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Caligirl at December 10, 2025 01:15 PM (gpah0)
That's what cracked me up about when GWB changed 'daylight savings' and the farmers were all pissed off about it.
Uh, cows and plants can't tell time.......WTF do they care?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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You probably dont live in Chicago. Or is ELK code for Hobo?
Posted by: Regular American at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: Bulg
Some people are entertained by watching an ant hill. Doesn't mean it's a good use of your very limited time on earth.
Posted by: The Breezewood H8er! at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Delurker at December
Planet of Dinosaurs and 65 come to mind.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (gKWVE)
Intergalactic spacefaring dinosaurs. They colonized Titan on their way to Earth.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (3nLb4)
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and Colorado
still paying well north of $3
our sodomite governor's bacchanalian lifestyle doesn't come cheap
chicken feathers and gold body paint is at a premium right now
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Remember The Maine! at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (PRDGu)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 01:04 PM (pDt9x)
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Funny.
Wifey has extremely low blood pressure -- always has -- and intentionally increases her salt intake to try and raise it.
[BTW, when I purchased our platinum wedding rings in 2004 they were about $500 each. When I bought my new replacement ring last year it was over $3,000.]
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 01:18 PM (R9fRY)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2025 01:15 PM (WHfpM)
And begged Iran and Venezuela to pump more oil.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 01:18 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Regular American at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (AoMt0)
Long elk.
Posted by: pelts for sale at December 10, 2025 01:18 PM (CUcQs)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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GOP has to make direct contact with individuals. The science is there (see Alan Gerber's and Donald Green's field work experiments in 2000's on goosing turnout) but robocalls, junk mail fliers, etc. don't cut it.
It also means embracing early vote banking by the GOP. Trump made a switch from 2020 and suddenly promoted it heavily in 2024. Voting only on election day gives too much chance for Dem mischief like in Maricopa County AZ in 2022 or Bucks County in PA this year (retention elections for PA Sup. Ct).
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:18 PM (WDjG6)
I'm hearing Arizona, New Mexico & Nevada are going to be going through gas shortages as they get their gas from California.
Horse and buggy days are right around the corner.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 01:18 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (lF28Z)
My favorite argument.
"It will take years and billions of dollars to deport all the illegals."
"Oh, so we should just leave them the f*ck alone to sap all our resources all while the border STILL isn't shut? Are you retarded?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 01:19 PM (pDt9x)
Which is actually pretty good considering the Dems have us scheduled to go to $8.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 10, 2025 01:19 PM (asXVI)
Cows don't know it's Sunday.
Posted by: Caligirl
I'm sure at some point it's going to change and then I'll have to get a starter herd and line up feed. But we'll have to do it to keep the ag valuation.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 01:19 PM (+Oyis)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 10, 2025 01:19 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Oddbob
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Do not land on this planet. All others are yours.
Seems Arthur Clarke, though a pedo, anticipated your theory.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:20 PM (WDjG6)
https://is.gd/M6C63Z
I'm definitely switching to her for advice on my health.
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 01:14 PM (0ZmKh)
She’s campaigning for common sense fork control?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 01:20 PM (rQwsY)
I hear China has a mime shortage.
And kidneys and other vital organs.
Totally Unrelated Thought: Isn't France awash in illegal aliens?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 01:14 PM (NzX/y)
Does China really need shitty, pretentious cuisine and backstabbing foreign policy?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 01:20 PM (Da1lH)
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I always thought the Las Vegas casino card game for high rollers, Baccarat, should have been called Bacchanalia.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 01:20 PM (R9fRY)
Intergalactic spacefaring dinosaurs. They colonized Titan on their way to Earth.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (3nLb4)
This.
Get scienced, bruv.
Posted by: i love science at December 10, 2025 01:20 PM (CUcQs)
It's not like mass deportations is the solution to most of our economic problems, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)
We can't deport our way out of the immigration crisis! Or incarcerate our way out of violent crime!
Posted by: Some retarded Democrat leader at December 10, 2025 01:20 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Probably because electricity taxes don't go towards road upkeep.
==
56 cents a gallon. 12 gallon a week. 52 weeks a year. 349.44 for gas taxes. 150 a year you still got off cheap.
Posted by: Regular American at December 10, 2025 01:20 PM (AoMt0)
Meanwhile, the delusional New Mexico Communists are still pushing their mandate that 43% of all new cars sold in New Mexico will be EVs in 2026 and 82% in 2031. They are so cute when they are hallucinating.
https://archive.ph/pnFGu
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 10, 2025 01:20 PM (uv8gn)
Hope his political career is in ashes after California fires. He'd make a disastrous president.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 10, 2025 01:20 PM (fDGxj)
Posted by: Lena Dunham at December 10, 2025 01:20 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: tubal
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Nope, you can actually see plant fossils in some coal. But ask AOP to be sure.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:20 PM (WDjG6)
Some mags track this stuff but always do your own homework and tax planning prior to a move on your individual situation.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (WDjG6)
I constantly tell this to a friend of mine who lives in Connecticut. My property taxes are 10K. His property taxes are around 5K for a house a 1/3 the size of mine, so he thinks he's doing good. Ah, but the luxury taxes he pays in connecticut cost him at least $1500 per car per year if its a newer car, and around $500 per year if its an old POS. He has 4 cars. I tell him you're not saving much, and you get to live in a shoe box for that privilege.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 01:20 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Some retarded Democrat
Ok, let's just kill em then.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 01:21 PM (MGB5H)
No, it isn't. Because the commies on the West Coast tax and regulate everything. I pay sales tax and some state tax in KS. It's still cheaper cost of living than WA state.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 10, 2025 01:21 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (3nLb4)
This.
Get scienced, bruv.
Posted by: i love science at December 10, 2025 01:20 PM (CUcQs)
Pterodactyls could fly, yo.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:21 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Yeah but there is a reason for that.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 01:21 PM (rQwsY)
Seems Arthur Clarke, though a pedo, anticipated your theory.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:20 PM (WDjG6)
Every planet we reach is dead.
Posted by: Gorillaz at December 10, 2025 01:22 PM (dK+Kv)
When the US finally takes over Venezuela's Citgo the prices should get better.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 01:22 PM (IifOV)
Hope his political career is in ashes after California fires. He'd make a disastrous president.
Posted by: Commissar
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Polling, of course pro Dem leaning, indicates he got a big increase from his gerrymander crap-fighting Orangeman bad. Californians are suffering a massive decline in their living under Democrats yet are more interested in fighting Orange Man Bad.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:22 PM (WDjG6)
JJ, if you're still here, I just sent you a link for a possible Morning Report story.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 01:22 PM (77rzZ)
Food companies suck ass.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 10, 2025 01:22 PM (60OBK)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 01:22 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 10, 2025 01:22 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 01:23 PM (v0R5T)
Big Rain strikes again.
Posted by: Oh noes ! at December 10, 2025 01:23 PM (HcoTw)
Posted by: Regular American
Long elk.
Posted by: pelts for sale
Sniper hide across the Elk's Club parking lot.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 01:23 PM (+Oyis)
Did someone say sundae???
Posted by: Lena Dunham at December 10, 2025 01:20 PM (lF28Z)
No, but they DID say cow.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:23 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (9iyS+)
Not to mention that your kid will get a better education, and is less likely to get shivved.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 01:23 PM (npFr7)
It also means embracing early vote banking by the GOP. Trump made a switch from 2020 and suddenly promoted it heavily in 2024. Voting only on election day gives too much chance for Dem mischief like in Maricopa County AZ in 2022 or Bucks County in PA this year (retention elections for PA Sup. Ct).
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:18 PM (WDjG6)
Even putting aside the raid aspect, it I toruces extra risk. What if you get sick on ED? Or it’s bad weather? Or something comes up at work and you can’t leave early? All sorts of things like that happen and keep a certain % of people who want to vote away.
Just vote early. Get it done and this risk is eliminated.
Ideally yes, everyone should vote on the same day. But that horse left the barn long ago. We either embrace the new reality or give the advantage to the left.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 01:23 PM (9iyS+)
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Yeah, that was a strange "I love paying $4.50 for gas, because I'm sure we're not like that on OTHER commodities" argument.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 01:23 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: ...
You know the people who are into CrossElk, because they never shut up about it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 01:23 PM (77rzZ)
Yeah but there is a reason for that.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 01:21 PM (rQwsY)
They distracted me from her face. Cut me some slack.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)
"It will take years and billions of dollars to deport all the illegals."
Turns out all you needed was a different President. Many of his loyalists are running for governor this cycle, so there's the possibility of cutting off state funding and state cover, too.
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 01:24 PM (0ZmKh)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 01:20 PM (Da1lH)
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MOAR Sunni Muslims ("Uyghurs" in French?) FTW!
/I denounce myself ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 01:24 PM (R9fRY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 01:24 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 01:24 PM (lF28Z)
I did not know that.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 01:09 PM (Riz8t)
Don't kid yourself, it was Barzini all along. The Chinese were pushing it, I'd bet, acquiring some much needed resources for the sinosphere. And, Trump the Wise and Benevolent does exactly what a strategic thinking leader does and denies his enemies the resources to threaten us.
It's getting to where I actually trust Trump without reading the fine print.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 10, 2025 01:24 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Some retarded Democrat leader
Read that 1400 people are responsible for 88% of Chicago crime. If you lock them up, it would be a huge boon to the city, and maybe keep ladies from being torched on the El. We can't have that, though.
Posted by: Lock Them Up! at December 10, 2025 01:25 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Most people are not economists nor accountants. I learned both from my college degree and early employment. My economics degree was from the business school and I had a lot of other business classes like marketing, accounting, management, labor law.
That is before I chucked that life away at 30 and went in another direction from grad school into another field for academia.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:25 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Dude, pterodactiles become aviation fuel.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 01:25 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at December 10, 2025 01:26 PM (3AwA+)
In fact, over half of Texas state expenditures is wasted on that fraud known as Public Education.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (BvPIe)
We need more money.
Posted by: Texas Association of School Boards at December 10, 2025 01:26 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Lock Them Up! at December 10, 2025 01:25 PM (oftw2)
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Probably not because Chicago's city hall is owned, in tandem, by the teachers' unions and the gangs of the city.
Not at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 01:26 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 10, 2025 01:26 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 01:27 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Frank Barone
......
Watch out for the bicycles.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 01:27 PM (v0R5T)
I don't know why but that's gonna have me going the rest of the day.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 01:27 PM (lF28Z)
In fact, over half of Texas state expenditures is wasted on that fraud known as Public Education.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (BvPIe)
After I lie to voters about how conservative I am I’ll help the schools get even more money. The schools can’t have enough. And if the taxpayers complain? Fuck em.
Posted by: State Rep Ken King at December 10, 2025 01:28 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 01:28 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: ...
I help where I can.
*Writes royalty check to Sponge*
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 01:20 PM (snZF9)
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It's been 30 years since I lived in CT and I totally forgot about that tax.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 01:28 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Frank Barone
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Watch out for the bicycles.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 01:27 PM (v0R5T)
Welcome to the party, pal.
Posted by: The Amish at December 10, 2025 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Watch out for the bicycles.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 01:27 PM
Here in Portland it's bike city. Might as well be Beijing. The rainy weather & winter does diminish it quite a bit though.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 01:28 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 10, 2025 01:28 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 01:28 PM (xcxpd)
*Writes royalty check to Sponge*
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)
*fistbump*
Thanks for playing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 10, 2025 01:28 PM (8CIFn)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 10, 2025 01:29 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 01:28 PM (xcxpd)
Woot!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 01:29 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 01:29 PM (9iyS+)
I remember at one point (maybe 2022?) it was almost $5.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 10, 2025 01:29 PM (w6EFb)
Hank Johnson: America Under the Trump Regime Is ‘The Great Satan’
https://t.ly/4kQ-a
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 01:24 PM (pkeXY)
We agree.
Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 10, 2025 01:29 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 10, 2025 01:30 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)
https://is.gd/4ay1mV
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 10, 2025 01:28 PM (8CIFn)
Experts say we should always listen to experts
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 01:30 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Bilwis
Venezuelan oil is cheap to produce, but more expensive to refine, since it is so sour. In fact, outside of the US gulf, I think only Curacao has the ability to refine it properly. West Texas breakeven is now around $30, so it competes.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:30 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (3AwA+)
Are you suggesting that location matters in real estate? I wonder if anyone has ever considered this before?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 01:30 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Oh noes ! at December 10, 2025 01:30 PM (HcoTw)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)
No bicycles in the 18th century, so I'd guess not.
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 01:30 PM (rj6Yv)
"That is MILES away from the all-time [Biden] high set in 2022 of $5 per gallon."
And that $5/gal cost in June of 2022 was about a $2/gal rise from just the previous year when it was around $3/gal in June of 2021.
A 67% increase in just one year.
It also jumped from $4/gal in February 2022 to $5/gal in June 2022. 25% increase in 4 months.
Lowest it has been over past 10 years was June 2017 when it was around $2.30/gal.
During the entire Trump 45 Administration, gasoline never rose above $3.00/gal average nationally.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 10, 2025 01:30 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 01:30 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (9iyS+)
Not to mention that your kid will get a better education, and is less likely to get shivved.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 01:23 PM (npFr7)
Might still get transed though.
Posted by: Eternal vigilance the price of keeping your kids genitals intact at December 10, 2025 01:30 PM (TbWk/)
When I went to school student:teacher = 30:1, now in texas it is 15:1
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 01:31 PM (kHd4y)
Government loves hidden taxes, but almost all of the dollars they spend come from taxes so just use this way to find out how much they are taxing.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 01:31 PM (sKqQm)
So it came from
Dino-sours ?
Posted by: Oh noes ! at December 10, 2025 01:32 PM (HcoTw)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 10, 2025 01:32 PM (irs4S)
You're never gonna make "fetch" happen.
Posted by: axe grinding for tards at December 10, 2025 01:32 PM (+wm2t)
I remember at one point (maybe 2022?) it was almost $5.
Posted by: Miley,
Red diesel is cheap, but green diesel is expensive. The compounds that are required to be added to green make it more expensive.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:32 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 10, 2025 01:32 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 10, 2025 01:32 PM (vdK61)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 01:09 PM (pDt9x)
Quite possibly. But it sure looks like the accessible oil and gas on Planet Earth are mainly of biotic origin.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 01:33 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 01:33 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Lock Them Up!
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Sad thing is that Univ of Chicago, as a relic of Edward C. Banfield's Public Admin work, used to do a lot of in depth research of Chi town. In the 90's, they blew up where pols contention where criminals there got their guns--straw buyers like gangster girlfriends and stolen were the premier choices. Almost none of them bought them in gunstores under their own name.
Same with the 1500 causing about 90 percent of crime. You won't also see later studies indicating that in urban areas, both murderers and their victims both shared criminal records and knew of each other. Depending on the city, this accounted for anywhere above 50-80 percent of solved murders in urban areas--often the common denominator was drug sales, gang membership.
Murderers by and large don't snap like Cain and Abel story. Most build up to the act by a steady increase in violent offenses, charged and uncharged over time before they kill someone.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:33 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 10, 2025 01:33 PM (8CIFn)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:32 PM (0U5gm)
At least in Texas, red diesel is banned from highway use.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 01:33 PM (9iyS+)
Venezuelan oil is cheap to produce, but more expensive to refine, since it is so sour.
Just add sugar.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 01:34 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 10, 2025 01:33 PM (8CIFn)
Tom Nichols, Ol' Pepperoni Nipples himself?
Posted by: That fat expert guy? at December 10, 2025 01:34 PM (TbWk/)
Dino-sours ?
Posted by: Oh noes !
Sweet and sour dinosaur!. Sweet produce sweet crude and sour dinosaurs yield sour crude.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:34 PM (WDjG6)
And those 1400, and their ilk elsewhere, are some of the top clients Dem politicians have
Because remember, the Dems aren't soft on crime - they are the political wing of the cartels - Mexican and domestic.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 01:35 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: TV Weather Guy at December 10, 2025 01:35 PM (3nLb4)
Tractors make farming easier, so they own tractors. Cars are another story.
Also Amish often asshole.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 01:35 PM (xcxpd)
Because when a dinosaur died, the survivors made sure to dig down two miles into the earth to bury their fallen comrade.
Then they discovered the Gulf of America and buried their dead at least a mile under the sea floor that too was a mile or two below the surface.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 01:35 PM (kHd4y)
A Shit Tax!
Great idea!
And it'll be 'for the children.'
Posted by: Diogenes at
Is it on volume, weight, frequency?
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (MGB5H)
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Probably all three.
The assholes in Olympia will tax you if you collect rainwater.
I hate those fu*kers.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 01:35 PM (iKI3U)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 01:35 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Cray Cray
ex-perts -- (n., pl.) Nancy Pelosi's breasts
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 01:35 PM (77rzZ)
I know it's horrible oil, thick, etc, but if we owned it, I'm sure some refineries would switch over.
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 10, 2025 01:35 PM (0Aoc4)
Posted by: You Hosers! at December 10, 2025 01:35 PM (w9Wax)
Dino-sours ?
If that's not already a name for a brand of gummy candy, someone is missing an opportunity.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 01:36 PM (3nLb4)
Especially the younger ones.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 01:36 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 01:33 PM (9iyS+)
They love fucking the colored help but don't want to live next door to them.
Posted by: Seems to be a historical theme with Democrats at December 10, 2025 01:36 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 01:36 PM (rj6Yv)
In July, US Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche filed a motion asking a federal court to release grand jury transcripts associated with the Epstein cases.
ORLANDO — A federal judge in Florida on Friday ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from the federal sex trafficking cases of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 01:36 PM (RHGPo)
There is almost no correlation between spending and any measurable education success metrics.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 01:36 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Sponge
It is banned for highway use everywhere. The point is that it is the additives that keep green diesel prices high.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:36 PM (0U5gm)
Venezuelan oil is cheap to produce, but more expensive to refine, since it is so sour. In fact, outside of the US gulf, I think only Curacao has the ability to refine it properly. West Texas breakeven is now around $30, so it competes.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:30 PM (0U5gm)
The Guyana fields produce medium grade. I think that's different than the Venezuelan stuff, but we are now passing my due diligence as a former Exxon shareholder. So don't quote me on that part. I was derailed by Exxon getting Board members who wanted to end fossil fuels. That spooked me.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 10, 2025 01:37 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:34 PM
With #4 you get egg rolls.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 01:37 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,
I hear they treat their horses terribly.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 01:37 PM (77rzZ)
She pleaded not guilty & asked the judge to ban cameras in the courtroom the judge responded saying
“So now u don’t want cameras to be involved”
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 01:37 PM (+Oyis)
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The difficult part is explaining how all the dead dinosaurs found themselves below geologic plates. Maybe the pancake theorem works?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 12:35 PM (Wg6v7)
Ocean geologic plates are pretty young and the continents float on them and they are driven under and down beneath the continents all the time in subduction areas like our west coast. In fact recent findings is that pretty much all such plates are still in the mantle beneath the continents, bent like ribbons not having melted completely. In the Atlantic continental drift was confirmed by dating the sea floor and showing the ages uniformly get new near the mid atlantic ridge and and age as they approach the NA and EU/Africa coasts.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 01:37 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 10, 2025 01:37 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 01:38 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Bulg
https://is.gd/4ay1mV
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
......
Now all they need is some bright spandex outfits.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 01:38 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 12:32 PM (lF28Z)
The predominant explanation for crude oil deposits among geologists and biologists: Crude oil results from bazillions of dead ocean micro-organisms. Accumulating on the sea floor over eons. Their mass alone begins to compress their remains, and often sea floor areas with concentrations of them are silted over and/or compressed under an over-thrusting continental plate. Whatever the mechanism for compressing the dead organisms, in some areas the pressure is enough to cause the organic remains to compress enough to form an organic substance called kerogen. Further compression over a long enough period converts kerogen to crude oil.
Geologically it holds up. Vast areas of the western United States were covered by seas in stages between the breakup of the Pangea supercontinent and relatively recently time, in the geologic timescale. The same with the Arabian/Iranian areas, etc. Salt domes are often over oil deposits; the salt is from many many years of seas drying-up as climate and geology shifted over eons.
Posted by: Gref at December 10, 2025 01:38 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 01:36 PM (sKqQm)
DC schools spend the most per student,
By far. Like #2 is thousands of dollars less. And they always rank near the bottom in any ranking.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 01:38 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 10, 2025 01:33 PM (8CIFn)
Tom Nichols, Ol' Pepperoni Nipples himself?
Posted by: That fat expert guy?
Some are now blaming Tom for the Dems foray into their unlawful orders fiasco. Seems Tom wrote a column in the Atlantic about it about two weeks before the storm blew in.
"The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here
To capture a democratic nation, authoritarians must control three sources of power: the intelligence agencies, the justice system, and the military. President Donald Trump and his circle of would-be autocrats have made rapid progress toward seizing these institutions and detaching them from the Constitution and rule of law. The intelligence community has effectively been muzzled, and the nation’s top lawyers and cops are being purged and replaced with loyalist hacks.
Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and Trump’s threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the commander in chief"
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:38 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:30 PM (0U5gm)
The Guyana fields produce medium grade. I think that's different than the Venezuelan stuff, but we are now passing my due diligence as a former Exxon shareholder. So don't quote me on that part. I was derailed by Exxon getting Board members who wanted to end fossil fuels. That spooked me.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 10, 2025 01:37 PM (pIfcn)
I think I heard Venezuelan is good to mix with Russian for an optimal mix.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 01:38 PM (8avO+)
Wood burning ones. They're a bitch to surf pron on during the winter.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 01:38 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Ripley at December 10, 2025 01:39 PM (PTDkx)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 10, 2025 01:39 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 01:19 PM (pDt9x)
Coal is compressed and cooked-up plant matter. Look at coal under a microscope, and the wood grain is obvious. Coal is found in land-based sediments. Oil is found in marine sediments. And marine sediments and terrestrial sediments can stack, because of pate tectonics.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 01:41 PM (npFr7)
Actually I was commenting on the oft said here "fact" that young people can't afford houses because they want to start off with the huge houses their older parents now have. I kind of bought into that until Thanksgiving, when I heard what grandnieces and nephews were saying. They were not looking at house sizes.
Posted by: Brunnhilde at December 10, 2025 01:41 PM (3AwA+)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 01:36 PM (sKqQm)
DC schools spend the most per student,
By far. Like #2 is thousands of dollars less. And they always rank near the bottom in any ranking.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 01:38 PM (9iyS+)
Followed closely by other disasters like Chicago, LA and so on.
Break up the massive districts and send the money directly to local schools. Break up big city governments as well.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 01:41 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 01:42 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at December 10, 2025 01:41 PM (3AwA+)
Saw a thing that Elon is making developments for tiny homes where you don't have to buy land, and the houselet is less than 10 grand.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 01:43 PM (8avO+)
$2.79-$2.87 at most Fairfax City stations and stays that way as you branch out - there are "el cheapos" and there are pricier "we don't want to sell gas" places, but the norm all over is under $3 today...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 10, 2025 12:47 PM (tOcjL)
I'm near Crystal City part of NOVA. All the stations around here about the same until you hit outlying areas.
Posted by: Mr Wolf at December 10, 2025 01:44 PM (SOGBX)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Remember The Maine! at December 10, 2025 01:44 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Gref at December 10, 2025 01:38 PM (5rh/l)
For most of the dinosaur epoch there was a continental sea from the Gulf of America to the top of Canada from where the Rockies are now to around the Mississippi.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 01:46 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: rickb223
I was in court when a judge sentenced a defendant to five years prison. "But your honor," he said, "I can't do five years." "Well," the judge said, "do the best you can."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 01:49 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)
No bicycles in the 18th century, so I'd guess not.
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 01:30 PM (rj6Yv)
I thought Amish tech levels included 19th C Tech.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 10, 2025 01:52 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:36 PM (0U5gm)
Highway Diesel is the same as off-highway Diesel. The off-highway (farm) Diesel is taxed at a lower rate, and is marked with dye. The dye is there so State inspectors can catch and fine people illegally using "untaxed" (insofar as road taxes are concerned, at least) fuel for driving on the roads. Same thing is done with gasoline, too. Here in Alberta, off-highway gasoline is dyed purple.
The entire rationale behind dyeing fuel is TAX.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 01:53 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 01:30 PM (9iyS+)“
I don’t know when this cliché “experts say” became popular but whenever anybody uses it, they’re admitting that they have no expertise on the subject
Posted by: Avi at December 10, 2025 01:54 PM (eyGQ/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 01:33 PM (9iyS+)”
This is one of those truths that everybody knows everyone’s afraid to say like the emperor‘s not wearing clothes. Even most liberals know that.
Posted by: Avi at December 10, 2025 02:02 PM (eyGQ/)
Huh? Earlier this week I paid $1.82 in the Denver area.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at December 10, 2025 02:03 PM (BXUnK)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 10, 2025 02:13 PM (V362x)
Posted by: Barry Bonds - I hit them 73 HRs while totally clean. at December 10, 2025 02:17 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (Dg7ng)
We're in 4th!!! Not even on the podium.
Posted by: Not around the pipelines at December 10, 2025 03:21 PM (HIRLq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)
I know, right?? I think Jesse said something about SCIENCE yo.
Posted by: Walter White at December 10, 2025 03:37 PM (HIRLq)
Posted by: Christian Toto at December 10, 2025 03:41 PM (JOIcR)
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Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 10, 2025 05:29 PM (wGqjj)
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Posted by: MikeN at December 10, 2025 06:17 PM (JykNP)
Wednesday Morning Rant
Eventually, someone (presumably from the company) came down and got things cleared up, but it exposed an obvious gap in how driverless cars handle fairly routine problems. In this case, the cars (or a car - the company's statement is unclear) got snarled up in a dead-end street and had a collision while one or more of them was trying to do a multi-point turn to get out of it. Per the company:
In a statement, Waymo officials said that while making a multi-point turn on a dead-end street, two Waymos made "minor contact at low speed." "We are looking into this further, and when we encounter situations like this, we are able to learn from them and make improvements," a Waymo representative said.Low points for clarity, but there we have it. A very simple problem left the machinery unable to respond effectively, so they just stopped. And blocked traffic.
A third Waymo, traveling downhill, is unable to get through. Then a man comes out of his garage, dubbing the white cars stuck in the middle of the street as a "Waymo standoff." "I'm just trying to get out of here," the man said ...Yes, it's kinda funny. But it's also a great example of just how far all of this stuff has to go. Both vehicles were driverless and operated by the same company. This should be a "best-case scenario" for a collision. It's akin to you and your wife driving home and hitting each other in the driveway. Everybody knows everybody and can just move on. It's perhaps the simplest possible scenario - if humans are involved. Humans can come up with solutions like, "move the cars." Machines can't. They need to be programmed to make decisions. This was clearly a decision-making condition that hadn't been adequately predicted or handled. There were several weird variables here. Both cars were driverless. There was a dead-end street. At least one of the cars was doing a complex maneuver. There was cross-traffic. Tricky indeed, unless you're a person. If you're a person, you can cut through it and go with, "there's only minor damage. Give me your info and let's move on with our lives." To a person, one minor wreck is much like another. Machines, not so much. It's amazing that this stuff works at all, but incidents like this show just how complex the real world is, and how hard it is to deal with when you have to program ersatz intelligence into a machine with no real knowledge of the world. These are really hard problems to solve, and sometimes tiny little unpredictable problems expose that. They also expose just how far away we are from the dream of autonomous vehicles. We're a long way off from "feel free to take a nap in the back seat while the car takes you home."
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Posted by: AltonJackson at December 10, 2025 11:00 AM (tljrc)
Clearly you have never gone to Costco at Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:02 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 11:03 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2025 11:03 AM (jFNww)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 11:04 AM (xG4kz)
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Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2025 11:04 AM (jFNww)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:05 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 10, 2025 11:05 AM (ULPxl)
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Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 11:06 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 10, 2025 11:06 AM (A62KL)
If this occurred in NYC the waymos would be stripped to the chassis in minutes
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 11:06 AM (D+mpw)
Weigh up, ho!
A whim Waymo!
A whim Waymo!
A whim Waymo!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 11:04 AM (xG4kz)
In the jungle, the concrete jungle, the liars sleep tonight...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:06 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:05 AM (xcxpd)
Even if it means Quato starts growing out of your chest?
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM (tgvbd)
'Tis the season of many vocalizations by me of, "If you can't drive it, leave it at home!" whenever I venture into parking lots between now and just after New Year's Day.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:05 AM (xcxpd)
Even if it means Quato starts growing out of your chest?
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM (UnA8+)
Quato knows how to party, man.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:08 AM (xcxpd)
Also the depression and someone else's IP thing.
But this too.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 10, 2025 11:08 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 10, 2025 11:08 AM (cuae1)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 11:09 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2025 11:09 AM (WPL6O)
MONKEY!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 10, 2025 11:08 AM (cuae1)
Mannix babe >>> Monkey
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 11:09 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (y+G1Q)
Who gave approval for these machines to be on the road anyway? Were we allowed to vote on it?
It's bad enough we have drunk illegals tooling around in SUVs, now we have "autonomous" driverless vehicles.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (1zOXE)
"Asshole!"
"I had right of way!"
"What the F were you thinking?"
*gunfire*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM
Thank you for using Johnny Cab!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 10, 2025 11:08 AM (cuae1)
Mannix babe >>> Monkey
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 11:09 AM (tgvbd)
Fair point
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (xcxpd)
Right now I think that debate is happening with our carriers and the launch systems .
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Sounds Safe To Me at December 10, 2025 11:11 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 11:11 AM (9q3gn)
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM (UnA8+)
Quato knows how to party, man.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:08 AM (xcxpd)
Hey don't knock Quato, man.
Posted by: Fetterman's Goiter at December 10, 2025 11:12 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: DaveA at December 10, 2025 11:12 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (bFu5X)
That really has to be Musk’s favorite movie.
Self driving vehicles
Mars colonies
Brain implants
Boring machines
AI
Three titted women
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:12 AM (KDPiq)
nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48526-4
The upshot is, autonomous is better than human in most conditions... except dawn or dusk. Which of course is rush hour.
Turning can also be bad.
But if you're driving through town for an errand at noonish, Johnny Cab is better at all those ped xing and stopsign opportunities.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 10, 2025 11:12 AM (qSHqn)
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Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:05 AM (xcxpd)
Even if it means Quato starts growing out of your chest?
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM (UnA8+)
Quato knows how to party, man.
but can he drive a stick shift?
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:13 AM (sGtp+)
Palestinian Activist Says Hamas Hid Tons of Baby Formula to Damage Israel With Starvation Claims
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:13 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 11:13 AM (y+G1Q)
Posted by: Sounds Safe To Me at December 10, 2025 11:11 AM (oftw2)
That's so they can hit Waymo kids.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 11:14 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 10, 2025 11:14 AM (B43cA)
Who gave approval for these machines to be on the road anyway? Were we allowed to vote on it?
Bill Gates guffaws as he funds dumping lord-knows what into the atmosphere and "so brilliant one wonders why it wasn't done sooner" animalicules into natural creatures on the earth's surface and in its waters.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 11:14 AM (xG4kz)
Driverless big rigs are in a word: terrifying
And what the hell happens when there's a glitch and GPS satellites go down -- or there's an electrical or mechanical malfunction in the vehicle?
Additionally, can you imagine the rebirth of essentially train and stagecoach robbers -- placing barriers in front of unmanned vehicles, which will force them to stop, and then looting their contents?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:14 AM (eAryO)
And it's always "we never imagined in our wildest dreams that situation would occur."
At the cost of numerous lives. Bravo.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)
Maybe we should stay a long way off.
I work in manufacturing. Taking your attention away from a machine that can kill you and others is considered a bad idea.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:14 AM (jbnUc)
This is one example of why I think AI hype is mostly hype. The real world is incredibly complex and humans tend to navigate these things easily yet to program a solution is… not easy at all (to be understated about it)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:15 AM (YobFY)
And the video was real since it was on the Internet.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:15 AM (dyewR)
Posted by: The Meepzor Precision Discount Driving School at December 10, 2025 11:16 AM (z7/Fg)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:16 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:05 AM (xcxpd)
Even if it means Quato starts growing out of your chest?
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM (UnA8+)
Quato knows how to party, man.
but can he drive a stick shift?
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:13 AM (sGtp+)
With Johnny Cab, it never really came up...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:16 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:16 AM (77rzZ)
What's the tie-breaker in a high speed merge?
The guard rail.
Posted by: DaveA at December 10, 2025 11:16 AM (FhXTo)
i'm surprised that the driverless revolution didn't start with trains
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:16 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Common Tater
Except...electric vehicles like to shut down COMPLETELY over seemingly minor incidents. Yet another reason to ban the damn things.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (OUMaO)
And the video was real since it was on the Internet.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:15 AM (dyewR)
👍🏽
Posted by: Abraham Lincoln at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (z7/Fg)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (MqnoG)
The technology will continue to rapidly improve. Human drivers will not.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (Riz8t)
And the video was real since it was on the Internet.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:15 AM (dyewR)
This is the worst idea ever. Humanity canNOT handle flying cars. More often than not, you'll wind up with some incorrigible douchebag in your living room.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:14 AM (eAryO)
This makes me think of that scene in Better Call Saul when grizzled old Mike Ehrmentraut anticipates another ambush of one of their drug trucks so he hides in the freezer car and ends up taking out the “bad guys” and getting shot in the ear in the process…. Maybe Waymo can transport drugs for the cartels….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: anachronda
Yeah, but you can't control the plebs with driverless trains...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (OUMaO)
What? This is exactly how we would have handled the situation in the slums of Calcutta.
We have re-created human intelligence!
Posted by: H1-b's at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (9q3gn)
It doesn’t help that the push for driverlessness is running parallel to the elimination of all customer service. I dread being in a fender bender with a driverless car, and having to call Waymo’s 800 number phone-tree in India.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at December 10, 2025 11:18 AM (4J/ng)
Posted by: Common Tater
Houston passed an ordinance requiring vehicles must be moved.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:18 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: a green dildo at December 10, 2025 11:18 AM (qSHqn)
Posted by: Leo Weiser Automobile Club Of America at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)
Seems they should swap company names.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Raised a lot of teenage boys have you?
Posted by: gKWVE at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (qSHqn)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (8gejw)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)
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I was literally just about to post this. Had to look up Wham-O's exact spelling first.
Great morons think alike!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (sQBXy)
This morning some Euro's were discussing whether or not there was any way to remove sitting EU Commissioners from office. When they realized it was not, I started to post "Gavrilo Princip has an idea!"
but I figured some Eurofag would complain and I didn't want to go to the trouble of having to start a new account, so I self censored.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (uWKK8)
And what the hell happens when there's a glitch and GPS satellites go down -- or there's an electrical or mechanical malfunction in the vehicle?
It's my guess that we will eventually have roads exclusively for autonomous trucks. Imagine how much better traffic will be when it's just cars on the road.
Additionally, can you imagine the rebirth of essentially train and stagecoach robbers -- placing barriers in front of unmanned vehicles, which will force them to stop, and then looting their contents?
One word: Robocop.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)
‘ Palestinian Activist Says Hamas Hid Tons of Baby Formula to Damage Israel With Starvation Claims’
I wish someone would think of the Gazan children for a change.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
Case came up recently, forget which state, but essentially the judge threw out a ticket for a Waymo car because the law did not encompass driverless cars--there was no human to ticket.
Self driving cars/trucks will have to result in changes to tort and traffic laws in general if adopted widely.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)
You’ll end up with old evil Biff sneaking into your flying delorean to alter the future into some bleak dystopia….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:20 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)
Seems they should swap company names.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)
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Why? What bad thing did Wham-O ever do to you?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 10, 2025 11:20 AM (sQBXy)
Posted by: Leo Weiser Automobile Club Of America at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (oftw2)
In Finland, they require yutes to basically take a rally driving course before they're issued a license so they're trained on handling a car in most situations, including slides, drifts and icy conditions.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Less Is More at December 10, 2025 11:21 AM (oftw2)
but I figured some Eurofag would complain and I didn't want to go to the trouble of having to start a new account, so I self censored.
Kind of makes you appreciate AOSHQ even more, n'est ce pas.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:21 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:20 AM (YobFY)
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They never explained how evil old Biff returned to the same future that he left after delivering the goods to young Biff.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:21 AM (dyewR)
Why? What bad thing did Wham-O ever do to you?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 10, 2025 11:20 AM (sQBXy)
I took a frisbee off the forehead once and it took years of therapy for me to recover.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)
Shedeur Sanders Mom Is Still Calling Out Cleveland Browns Coaches
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:22 AM (L/fGl)
They unintentionally hone in on each other as the largest sources of metal in the asteroid field, collide, and then tear each other part.
The designer of the mining robots is watching all of this unfold. He simply nods his head and says, "Now I know what to fix for next time."
His employer, who bankrolled the robots in expectation of a huge return on investment was FURIOUS.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 11:22 AM (RnixX)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 11:22 AM (Wg6v7)
You’ll end up with old evil Biff sneaking into your flying delorean to alter the future into some bleak dystopia….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:20 AM (YobFY)
Get your damn hands off her........Biff.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)
Self driving cars/trucks will have to result in changes to tort and traffic laws in general if adopted widely.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (WDjG6)
The human programmer who is covered for liability by his employer for torts arising out of his job. Ticket Waymo.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)
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THIS! We're dipping a toe in the water with the wealthy getting their electric powered single passenger flying cars.
Bad idea.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (UeLv+)
Posted by: Sponge
In the Soviet Union (and maybe still in Russia?), you had to be able to make your own repairs on a car to get a license. Because they didn't exactly have a lot of spare parts that you could just order from the factory.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (77rzZ)
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This is what happens when you offshore QA to India.
Ask me how I know ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (MqnoG)
Imagine, for example, ordering something for pick up, and having no need for you to go with your car to get it...
But in our ever more low trust society what fool would do that?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (sKqQm)
One word: Robocop.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)
Even better - Robo Ronin
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:21 AM
At least it wasn't a lawn dart.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (bFu5X)
In a world where cars are rented and automatically deliver themselves to the customer and then to the storage location when the customer is done, most of the driving will be without passengers.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 11:22 AM (Wg6v7)
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At least you'd still be on planet Earth and not orbiting Pluto.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (RnixX)
Already happening, just with boring old trains. Widespread problems of breaking into rail cars and looting them in some areas. Same with parked trailers or hijacking when drivers go in for coffee, food, etc. of high value targets.
Goodfellas even has brief scenes where Jimmy's crew hijack truck cargos, often with the driver's assistance by making a stop convenient to the crew so it could occur. Mob control of Teamsters, trucking, and even air freight operations at key places enabled a lot of theft based on inside men placed or corrupted in place working those jobs.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: anachronda
Yeah, but you can't control the plebs with driverless trains...
but it will improve the reliability and regularity of our soma deliveries.
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (sGtp+)
Ask me how I know ...
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No. Ask me how I know!
Posted by: The 737MAX at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (dyewR)
But in our ever more low trust society what fool would do that?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (sKqQm)
GO AWAY!!!!!
'BAITIN!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at December 10, 2025 11:25 AM (ahamg)
Like being driven to your own robbery or murder instead of elsewhere. Jumping in one for an emergency trip to the hospital but getting stuck instead.
There are people stupid enough to become totally dependent on this sort of thing. Just like they're dependent on DoorDash or whatever.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 11:25 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Allen Jenkins In A Cab at December 10, 2025 11:25 AM (oftw2)
Now I'm in a worse place.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 11:25 AM (jjoN6)
At least it wasn't a lawn dart.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (bFu5X)
That was in my right calf.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Harrison Ford crashing into your living room at December 10, 2025 11:26 AM (sKqQm)
The tech is only a few years old. It’s always improving and it won’t be that long until the backseat scenario is real.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:26 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 11:26 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: ShainS
Been saying that since they proposed the idea. A mannequin and voila! Stopped vehicle for easy pickings.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 11:26 AM (+Oyis)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:26 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (bFu5X)
That was in my right calf.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:25 AM
Explains why you're not an adventurer, I guess. Or is that knees...?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:27 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Allen Jenkins In A Cab at December 10, 2025 11:25 AM (oftw2)
Now all they say is ALLAH WHAKBAR!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (DQRr+)
Posted by: 18-1
Waymo is better than having joe illegal sample your food before delivery.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (jFNww)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (77rzZ)
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I wonder if this also applied to Aeroflot pilots?
/only half-joking
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (MqnoG)
Posted by: the way I see it
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That is one way to do it. Red Light Traffic cameras do it that way, target the car and not the driver.
The problem being of course that drivers running red lights are exactly the ones causing accidents at other intersections--punishing the car is a much less efficient way (except for revenues) than the driver.
Modern society is all about allocating costs, preferably to third parties, while privatizing benefits.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (WDjG6)
The opens up not only the end of taxi/uber driver as a job but opens up an opportunity for people that own a car they don't use a lot - because then you can have your own "AirBnB" for taxi type service where you can monetize your car without any need to spend time on it yourself
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (sKqQm)
The tech is only a few years old. It’s always improving and it won’t be that long until the backseat scenario is real.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:26 AM (9iyS+)
My favorite is the video where the car glitches in a parking lot and goes into a full steering lock and goes in a circle. The dude calls the number and tells them to stop the car or he'll throw up everywhere. The car doesn't respond to remote commands.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)
read a short story once. humans come upon a high-technology, but abandoned world. has teleportation booths all over the place, but they occasionally make mistakes with assorted body parts. engineer figures out what's causing the mistakes, but also discovers that the reason the planet is abandoned is that the entire population had entered the teleportation system at the same time following a coronation and became stuck inside the system. fixing the bug causes the planet's population to reappear.
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (sGtp+)
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The states will eventually adopt a sort of "captain of the ship" doctrine that makes the human responsible for the dick moves of its silicon-brained "crew."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:29 AM (dyewR)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 10, 2025 11:29 AM (NqmUn)
That would never happen. We've enacted a regulation forbidding it. -- Bureaucrats on the take from driverless vehicle companies
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 11:29 AM (ExV1e)
Explains why you're not an adventurer, I guess. Or is that knees...?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:27 AM (bFu5X)
That was all the frostbite that one time climbing Kilimanjaro with Beau Biden during the War of 1812.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:29 AM (Zz0t1)
I think Bill and Ted covered that base
Posted by: Halfhand at December 10, 2025 11:30 AM (F061L)
Posted by: Allen Jenkins In A Cab
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We have automated that. Cameras everywhere nowadays, cell phone geofencing, and automated license plate readers are society's narcs.
Nuisance and cost of business to criminals, massive loss of privacy for the rest of us.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:30 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
There is at least one YouTube star who would try to make that a reality.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 11:30 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 11:30 AM (DQRr+)
hmm.... *scribbles note* robot shoe-shine boy modeled on johnny from police squad.
i wonder if elon will fund me?
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:31 AM (sGtp+)
18 and life, you got it........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)
I think Bill and Ted covered that base
Posted by: Halfhand at December 10, 2025 11:30 AM (F061L)
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Junior went through a Back to the Future cycle over the last week or so. Watched all three just cause he could.
Fandango at Home collection for the win.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:31 AM (GBKbO)
Like being driven to your own robbery or murder instead of elsewhere. Jumping in one for an emergency trip to the hospital but getting stuck instead.
Having the internal cameras determine that you are a member of a disfavored group and so you are driven to a 're-education' camp.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 11:31 AM (ExV1e)
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young
IGY - Donald Fagen
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (pkeXY)
There was a multi-tenant office and 4 or 5 restaurants in the same center.
The Waymos would all circle the circle at least twice, sometimes 3 times to get their bearings.
A lady at the bar said the record she counted was 12 times.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 11:14 AM (xG4kz)
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We're gonna blot out The Sun to save The Earth!
What could go wrong?
/And finally kill off the virus known as "humanity" ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (MqnoG)
But a transporter; nope that thing’ll rip your soul into shreds….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (/iXAp)
Having the internal cameras determine that you are a member of a disfavored group and so you are driven to a 're-education' camp.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 11:31 AM (ExV1e)
I've seen Fake Taxi.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: whig
Yeah, tell me about it. Maybe someone should take a picture of YOU passed out in a bathroom, sometime, Bob from NSA.
-- Raccoon who broke into a Virginia ABC store
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: InZona at December 10, 2025 11:33 AM (C6rN0)
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young
IGY - Donald Fagen
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (pkeXY)
I'm just old enough to have dated a woman who named her vibrator Steely Daniel.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:33 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Nemo at December 10, 2025 11:33 AM (4RPgu)
Posted by: Bill Gates, Tech Weirdo With Man Boobs at December 10, 2025 11:33 AM (bC9HI)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 11:
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Or there happens to be an insect traveling along with you: "The Fly"
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 10, 2025 11:34 AM (B43cA)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:34 AM (L/fGl)
Every engineer worth his salt knows that Mother Nature will always fuck with you.
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 11:34 AM (EMg+d)
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Turns out the Earf is lucky that humankind arrived just when it did. God only knows what would have happened if Bill Gates wasn't around with his hare-brained ideas.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:34 AM (dyewR)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (/iXAp)
Star Trek the Movie someone gets blobbed
What got transported didnt live long or something to that effect was the line.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 11:34 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 11:34 AM (DQRr+)
Posted by: JM
Saw that on TCM not too long ago (the original, that is). Really like the pretty ginger wife.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:35 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:35 AM (/iXAp)
But in our ever more low trust society what fool would do that?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (sKqQm)
GO AWAY!!!!!
'BAITIN!!!!!
not certain whether typo or ordering automated delivery from an outdoor supply store.
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:35 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 11:35 AM (lF28Z)
Waymos with sex dolls. The wife thinks you're going to the grocery store, but you're not.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:35 AM (Riz8t)
The tech is only a few years old. It’s always improving and it won’t be that long until the backseat scenario is real.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Waymo is careful not to involve cars outside of low speed areas. Physics is an unforgiving bitch and like the railroads made a lot of corporate and trial lawyers rich including one Abraham Lincoln in the 1800's, so will the juxtaposition of human driven cars and automated ones at high speeds. Throw in self driving trucks into the mix and the massive capital structures needed to pull it off, then you have a trial lawyer's dream and likewise permanent employment for corporate legal offices.
Then you have the issue of hacking including state sponsored ones.
Edge cases will end up setting the general rule.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:36 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:33 AM (xcxpd)
She was stealing the name......
His seminal work, Naked Lunch, which he published in 1959, is a connected series of loosely-related vignettes. It was later turned into a movie. In it, the reader follows the narration of drug addict William Lee, who travels from the U.S. to Mexico to Tangier. It’s a fever dream of a book that includes drug use and hallucinations.
Another thing in the novel is a reference to dildos.
One of those dildos was named—you guessed it—Steely Dan.
Fans of the Beat writers, Fagen and Becker named their band after a “revolutionary” steam-powered dildo noted in Naked Lunch.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:36 AM (Zz0t1)
that'll be britain in a few years.
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:36 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:33 AM (xcxpd)
F***ing Naked Lunch... *grumbles*
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 11:36 AM (UnA8+)
Waymos with sex dolls. The wife thinks you're going to the grocery store, but you're not.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:35 AM (Riz8t)
25 bux
same as downtown
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 11:36 AM (gbOdA)
The crew felt the same way (almost). Otherwise they would have used the transporter to solve a whole lot of problems instead of waiting to be captured or sneaking across a gigantic building.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 10, 2025 11:36 AM (EXyHK)
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:35 AM (sGtp+)
It guarantees the correct pronunciation.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:37 AM (Zz0t1)
‘ I'm just old enough to have dated a woman who named her vibrator Steely Daniel.’
Did she get rid of it when she started dating you because she didn’t need it anymore?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:37 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:37 AM (DOn9w)
Study Finds One in Four British Teens Using AI Chatbots for Mental Health Support
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
Great morons think alike!
Posted by: Biden's Dog
Unfortunately, t-bird beat us both to it at #35.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:38 AM (77rzZ)
But a transporter; nope that thing’ll rip your soul into shreds….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (/iXAp)
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There were a lot of times on that show where people were beamed around against their will. Especially from lower-tech societies that didn't have that tech yet.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 11:38 AM (RnixX)
Waymos with sex dolls. The wife thinks you're going to the grocery store, but you're not.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Some of the most recent ones in Japan/China are becoming astonishingly accurate and lifelike if still staying just inside the not quite human side of the uncanny valley.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:38 AM (WDjG6)
Out: Uber
In: The Bang Bus
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:38 AM (sKqQm)
But it passed all of our tests! By way of example, a Waymo will never lose a game of Tic-Tac-Toe.
Posted by: H1-b's at December 10, 2025 11:38 AM (9q3gn)
We're long past the time when humans took driving seriously and paid attention to the repair of their vehicles and to the road when they're on it. Now, cars are mostly an appliance used out of necessity, and driving isn't fun because of all the retards on the roads.
Do I still long for the days of muscle cars and manual transmissions? Yes. Am I Bitterly Clinging to those days? Nah. Driving has long been not-fun, so let a machine do it for me instead, like mowing the lawn.
Posted by: ballistic at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Nemo at December 10, 2025 11:33 AM (4RPgu)
Same idea for drunks and drugs addicts.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (9iyS+)
As part of their final exam scores my class last night (A Business 300 level course) had to give a briefing on something from the IT venue. (I've been teaching them how to give a briefing...something college kids need to know.) One team chose Machine Learning.
They came up with this exact same comment.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (P845J)
The Amazon, UPS and FedEx drivers all get directions and can navigate to the most remote location to deliver whatever... but could a robot taxi or delivery vehicle do it?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (NwnyJ)
‘ I'm just old enough to have dated a woman who named her vibrator Steely Daniel.’
Did she get rid of it when she started dating you because she didn’t need it anymore?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:37 AM (jbnUc)
This place cracks me up….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: Halfhand at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (F061L)
Study Finds One in Four British Teens Using AI Chatbots for Mental Health Support
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
The fact that we're no longer able to handle anything mentally and need to get support from an automated computer algorithm saddens me to great lenghts.
Society is f*cked.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (sKqQm)
What got transported didnt live long or something to that effect was the line.
galaxy quest: "and then it exploded"
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (sGtp+)
Waymos with sex dolls. The wife thinks you're going to the grocery store, but you're not.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:35 AM (Riz8t)
25 bux
same as downtown
Posted by: rhennigantx
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I think somewhere in Germany, there is already a sex doll brothel making bank. Berlin perhaps.
Then again, Germany had, dunno if they finally outlawed it, a bestiality brothel somewhere in N. Germany.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)
We did that on our own on a winding sandy road around a lake. We called it Thunder Road.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (g8Ew8)
Fandango at Home collection for the win.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:31 AM (GBKbO)
Oy, another streaming service.
Do they have Otto Preminger movies?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (xcxpd)
I think Hulk explained that in Endgame.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (WPL6O)
put me in, coach!
Posted by: chatgpt at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:41 AM (9iyS+)
Oy, another streaming service.
Do they have Otto Preminger movies?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (xcxpd)
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Digital footlocker, mostly for rentals/ownership. They do have some free, ad-supported stuff, but I never see the Preminger movies listed on it as for free.
I just use it as a digital backup for my physical collection.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 11:41 AM (cYBz/)
The Amazon, UPS and FedEx drivers all get directions and can navigate to the most remote location to deliver whatever... but could a robot taxi or delivery vehicle do it?
Posted by: Martini Farmer
With access to GPS and dense internal mapping, probably. But probably not profitable yet like Amazon's drone delivery service by air. Densely populated areas will be first.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:41 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 11:41 AM (P845J)
456 Bags of Human Remains Found Steps From World Cup Venue in Mexico
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:34 AM
So, Wednesday in Mexico City?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:41 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: whig
Probably only goats there, now, since the muzzies moved in.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:42 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:26 AM (L/fGl)
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Johanny B Gute!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:42 AM (2c/nq)
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:42 AM (sGtp+)
With access to GPS and dense internal mapping, probably. But probably not profitable yet like Amazon's drone delivery service by air. Densely populated areas will be first.
It's a Chinese plot, I tellz ya! We'll all get used to drones overhead, and then they'll invade and send in the drones to take us out. We'll never see it coming!
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:43 AM (Riz8t)
Sounds like a potential franchise. Go on a trip, stop by the local robot brothel. It finds your account and sets up a partner with your preferences pre-loaded.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 11:43 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
She was stealing the name......
His seminal work, Naked Lunch, which he published in 1959, . . . .
"seminal" work. Heh.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 11:43 AM (cYBz/)
I think Hulk explained that in Endgame.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (WPL6O)
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II is weird, and the Bobs should have written an opening where the Delorean vanishes into the sky, we hold on the sky, and then it comes right back.
Marty, Jennifer, and Doc get out. "Wow, what a crazy adventure. Thanks for coming along, Jennifer. Marty and I have to go and do another adventure in another time now."
I mean, the ending of the first was a joke with no intention of follow up. Treating it seriously like they had to actually fill in that gap of the story was a mistake because it robs II of any kind of narrative cohesion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:43 AM (GBKbO)
We did that on our own on a winding sandy road around a lake. We called it Thunder Road.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM
I did that on the rural roads of North Texas in a 66 Mustang 3-spd.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:41 AM (9iyS+)
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Maybe that's the real reason for the accident--the Waymos were all texting each other.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 11:43 AM (RnixX)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 10, 2025 11:44 AM (8CIFn)
‘ Then again, Germany had, dunno if they finally outlawed it, a bestiality brothel somewhere in N. Germany.’
How much is that doggie in the window!
Woof!Woof!
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:44 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: ballistic at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (3BwY
I've always loved driving. Still do - city or country -on any type of road. It's freedom.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 11:44 AM (g8Ew8)
Drove the wifes new car the other day and used the cruise control. Apparently it has a feature that keeps your car between the lines of the lane and the steering wheel corrects your steering and stiffens up against my turning it. I hated it. Had to read online how to disengage this function, as new cars don't come with owners manuals anymore just websites that you have to go to. I hate modern technology. In a few years we won't be able to drive the cars ourselves, we'll be Uber passengers in our own cars.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 11:45 AM (IifOV)
In: The Bang Bus
the big bus > the bang bus
non-stop from new york to denver!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bus
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:45 AM (sGtp+)
It certainly could use sensors in different wavelengths - something that humans can't do. In addition, it won't say "nahhh, it'll be fine, I have an AWD SUV", while accelerating into a blizzard.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:45 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 11:45 AM (Tbj3s)
In theory you can use all sorts of sensors that don't need human light levels.
Though I remember there was one self driving crash years ago because a silver colored truck reflected enough sunlight to blind all of the self driving car's sensors.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:45 AM (sKqQm)
456 Bags of Human Remains Found Steps From World Cup Venue in Mexico
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:34 AM
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"If only there was a large desert around in which to bury them for good."
/La Cosa Nostra, Vegas-style
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:46 AM (2c/nq)
Marty, Jennifer, and Doc get out. "Wow, what a crazy adventure. Thanks for coming along, Jennifer. Marty and I have to go and do another adventure in another time now."
I mean, the ending of the first was a joke with no intention of follow up. Treating it seriously like they had to actually fill in that gap of the story was a mistake because it robs II of any kind of narrative cohesion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:43 AM (GBKbO)
The Libyans should have stolen the Delorean and used it to Allahu Akbar throughout time, leaving it up to Marty and Doc to stop them.
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 11:46 AM (UnA8+)
True story.
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 10, 2025 11:46 AM (van9r)
Though I remember there was one self driving crash years ago because a silver colored truck reflected enough sunlight to blind all of the self driving car's sensors.
Variable gain is your friend.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:46 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:46 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
She was stealing the name......
His seminal work, Naked Lunch, which he published in 1959, . . . .
"seminal" work. Heh.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 11:43 AM (cYBz/)
I did not know that. I just never could listen to Aja the same way again.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:47 AM (xcxpd)
So do you think I have a problem because I want to go see Kill Bill only to check how it compares to my home cinema experience? I trust your judgment.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 11:47 AM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 10, 2025 11:44 AM (8CIFn)
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Where we're going, we don't need *eyes* to see...
Posted by: Dr. William Weir at December 10, 2025 11:47 AM (RnixX)
True story.
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 10, 2025 11:46 AM (van9r)
Is it bad to giggle at that?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Archimedes
Or - have the ability to communicate with other vehicles about location, speed, etc. Could avoid those monster pileups during blizzards.
But - the downsides would be (probably are) immense.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 11:47 AM (cYBz/)
‘ I hate modern technology.’
I don’t hate modern technology. I hate the people that insist on it being in places it doesn’t belong.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Long ago, I was involved in summarizing changing legal responses to cellular phones and traffic accidents. Even a long involved conversations via cell, hands free, increased the risk of driver inattention and thus wrecks. Texting by far was the worst of driver distractions equivalent to a very drunk driver if manually manipulating the phone. Still problematic even if voice free.
Short, unemotional hands free texts or conversations demonstrated much less risk.
Often though you get compounded risks, marijuana usage has soared resulting in more wrecks whether driving or via residual effects, eating and drinking in cars, cell phone usage, problematic and ill placed auto controls, passengers, etc. all distract drivers to some degree.
Figure every driver around you is out to kill you on the roads as a principle . Use that fear to figure out how to mentally avoid their fiendish plots--hitting you from behind, sideswiping, stopping abruptly in front of you, idiot pedestrians, tboning at intersections.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (WDjG6)
214 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:31 AM (GBKbO)
So do you think I have a problem because I want to go see Kill Bill only to check how it compares to my home cinema experience? I trust your judgment.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 11:47 AM (lF28Z)
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I want to go see The Whole Bloody Affair, bruh.
Why would there be something wrong with you?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)
The Amazon, UPS and FedEx drivers all get directions and can navigate to the most remote location to deliver whatever... but could a robot taxi or delivery vehicle do it?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (NwnyJ)
Exactly. In our area, add trees and hills which block GPS signals, and Google Maps which thinks that our private road intersects with the public road about 100 feet west of where it actually does, and the possibility for hilarity/disaster increases exponentially.
Posted by: HTL at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (M88Pg)
Is it really expensive to do the mapping autonomously? That vehicle (or drone), again with no human onboard, could do it slowly the first time, and after that, Waymos can drive at normal speeds.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (Riz8t)
Had a rental care with this feature last February. It did not like merging onto highways, because the disappearing line to the left confused it, and it especially didn’t like giving semis a slightly wider berth when passing them.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (EXyHK)
I did not know that. I just never could listen to Aja the same way again.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:47 AM (xcxpd)
I'm proud to have added a wrinkle to your brain.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)
But - the downsides would be (probably are) immense.
Can't wait until a right leaning politician's driving record is released to the public and ohhh wow...he was having an affair obviously he has to resign!
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:49 AM (sKqQm)
* well, back when they made the packaging properly - now I don't even bother to try and use the designed-in easy-open feature (tear strips) because either the material or the manufacturing in many cases means it doesn't work, just get a scissors to start.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 11:49 AM (U/Byj)
I remember riding with my Grandfather and his cruise control was a stick he had cut to the perfect length he wedged against the accelerator pedal and lower part of the bench seat. Kept his old Chevy Caprice at 75 on the long trips so his leg wouldn't cramp up.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 11:49 AM (IifOV)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 11:50 AM (Tbj3s)
Posted by: InZona
>How many times has a Tesla crashed into a cop car because the 'mobile cell tower on 4 wheels' threw off the telemetry of the fucking "autonomous" EV?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 11:50 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Archimedes
Or - have the ability to communicate with other vehicles about location, speed, etc. Could avoid those monster pileups during blizzards.
But - the downsides would be (probably are) immense.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Edge cases. Driverless cars will be a legal paradigm change and coexistence with human drivers is going to be a massive challenge. Human juries have knowledge of human driver frailty--will they give that benefit of the doubt for AI driven cars or punish the corporations producing them harshly in court.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:50 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 11:50 AM (Tbj3s)
And 3 tits.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)
I reckon cruise missile navigation tech will be handy here.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:51 AM (Riz8t)
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This too is the story of Kamala Harris' 2024 presidential campaign.
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 11:51 AM (/iMjX)
Why would there be something wrong with you?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)
Because I'm not going for the movie itself. I'm good on Kill Bill although it's one of my favorites. I just want to compare it to my setup.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 11:51 AM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (Riz8t)
Yes it is expensive and time consuming.
From Waymo:
To create a map for a new location, our team starts by manually driving our sensor equipped vehicles down each street, so our custom lidar can paint a 3D picture of the new environment. This data is then processed to form a map that provides meaningful context for the Waymo Driver, such as speed limits and where lane lines and traffic signals are located. Then finally, before a map gets shared with the rest of the self-driving fleet, we test and verify it so it’s ready to be deployed.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:51 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 10, 2025 11:52 AM (8CIFn)
Or, here could be a fun one.
The NSA/CIA/FBI/whoever sets up one of those fake cell towers they use regularly.
Some self driving car uses their data which is bad and crashes.
And...the NSA/CIA/FBI/whoever tells them to screw off....
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:52 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 11:49 AM (IifOV)
Dad had a 67 Mustang for a bit that had a choke knob you could pull that worked the throttle as a cruise control as well.
Fun to think back at how sofa king dangerous that was.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:52 AM (Zz0t1)
Sounds like a potential franchise. Go on a trip, stop by the local robot brothel. It finds your account and sets up a partner with your preferences pre-loaded.
Posted by: NR Pax
Have it your way at McWhores!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:52 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 11:51 AM (lF28Z)
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The screen will be bigger, maybe brighter. The sound will be better, definitely louder.
And, who knows, maybe you'll have a good crowd to watch it along with.
I recommend it!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)
Edge cases. Driverless cars will be a legal paradigm change and coexistence with human drivers is going to be a massive challenge. Human juries have knowledge of human driver frailty--will they give that benefit of the doubt for AI driven cars or punish the corporations producing them harshly in court.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:50 AM (WDjG6)
"We lose 20 to 25% of the hostages. Tops."
"I can live with that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Skier at December 10, 2025 11:53 AM (0Ctrb)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
And yet a poor substitute for when I am away.
Posted by: The Paolo at December 10, 2025 11:54 AM (P845J)
Of course. But that’s to keep you safe. You know? Like the internet.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:54 AM (jbnUc)
👍🏻
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 11:54 AM (lF28Z)
Some lefties hire a waymo type service to intentionally cause a traffic jam outside of some conservative's house so they can't leave.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:54 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (Riz8t)
Yes it is expensive and time consuming.
From Waymo:
To create a map for a new location, our team starts by manually driving our sensor equipped vehicles down each street, so our custom lidar can paint a 3D picture of the new environment.
This is the point I was addressing. Sooner or later, the whole process will be automated, and when that happens, the cost should plummet. Roads and streets change a lot more slowly than computation speeds.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:54 AM (Riz8t)
We need more real-world accidents so we can program them into the system!
Posted by: Waymo Bangalore at December 10, 2025 11:54 AM (Y3swt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 11:55 AM (npFr7)
Will this work in the long run? Still TBD.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:55 AM (9iyS+)
It's become much more stressful driving thanks to decline in driving standards, huge high-center-of-gravity vehicles, drugs, crowding, etc. I don't want another problem added.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 11:55 AM (U/Byj)
"I can live with that.
Posted by: Sponge
"Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops! Uh, depending on the breaks."
-- GEN Buck Turgidson
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 11:56 AM (cYBz/)
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*Ben Stiller Proo Tip: Do not put frank and beans intoo a Zip-Lok™ container.
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 11:56 AM (/iMjX)
I wish someone would think of the Gazan children for a change.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (jbnUc)
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"BiBi saved the children ...
But not the Gazan children."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:57 AM (THRXx)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:57 AM (KDPiq)
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"Tupperware is good to have, especially with the upcoming monsoon months."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:58 AM (Riz8t)
Sounds like a potential franchise. Go on a trip, stop by the local robot brothel. It finds your account and sets up a partner with your preferences pre-loaded.
Posted by: NR Pax
Have it your way at McWhores!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Given Gen Z documented mating problems with a lot of male incels, I think you will see this go worldwide and probably kill Only Fans as well.
Current extreme models are costing about $125 k or so from Japan which is probably in the lead with such tech and China not far behind them.
Again, I think you are going to get some kind of attempts by the system for new laws as some women are already not happy with males having such alternatives available.
Will have some additional problems with governments concerned about falling fertility but even the old Commie/NotSee dictatorships failed at forcing people to have kids.
I can see why Musk is getting desperate to get humans off the planet for long run survival of the human race.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:58 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 11:58 AM (Y3swt)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:57 AM (KDPiq)
Works with Whole Foods or your local organic super market.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:58 AM (9iyS+)
Ana Walshe's DNA found on hacksaw, hatchet, bloody rug, forensic scientist testifies in husband's trial
Brian, now 50, is accused of killing his wife after learning she was having an affair. Prosecutors say he believed he would have a better chance of avoiding federal prison time for his art fraud conviction if he became the sole caretaker of the pair's three children.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:58 AM (L/fGl)
I wish someone would think of the Gazan children for a change.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (jbnUc)
It's just incredibly hard for me to show sorrow for anything but infants in the muslham terrorist world.
https://is.gd/mBrKEU
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 11:59 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 11:59 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 11:59 AM (/iMjX)
Is this an African-American owned company?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:01 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 11:41 AM (P845J)
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Wifey insists on only owning old more mechanical vehicles as they keep threatening to mandate kill-switches (not to mention tracking your every action) in the newer computerized ones.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:01 PM (THRXx)
It's been said...but using their money to turn Gaza into the next Dubai, or at least Tel Aviv, instead of building bombs, would do FAR more for Gazan children.
But they have to love their kids more than they love revenge. And so far they don't.
Posted by: LizLem at December 10, 2025 12:01 PM (fiboQ)
That's ok- I got him with the door...
Posted by: Waymo Door Control Module at December 10, 2025 12:02 PM (Y3swt)
That's ok- I got him with the door...
Posted by: Waymo Door Control Module at December 10, 2025 12:02 PM (Y3swt)
With more states approving road kill for human consumption, this becomes a higher and higher truth probability.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 11:59 AM (/iMjX)
That's the sound the vehicles make when they collide. Wayyymo!!!
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 12:02 PM (lF28Z)
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If you have a smart phone all your actions anre already tracked. Google and the NSA already know everything you do and everywhere you go.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:02 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Archimedes
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Bot wars are probably the future of warfare and that in part is also a danger. I think the future of big Navy fleet ships is probably about done just like the time of battleships came and went.
Probably close to being done in military aviation as well. It is simply a cheaper thing to make bunches of kamikaze bots with not much done to make them survivable. Parts of Ukraine are already littered with miles of fiber optic cable used by Russkis for their latest aerial drones. Almost totally impervious to jamming and has miles of fiberoptic cable spooling out for control. So cutting fiber optic cables is the obvious next counterstep and so it goes.
War stimulates a lot of technology development in a very short and forgiving (making mistakes the rectifying them) environment.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:03 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 11:59 AM (/iMjX)
Is this an African-American owned company?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:01 PM (KDPiq)
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I'm old enough to remember Magic Johnson having a brief "color commentor" gig on National TV after he retired early.
It seemed to disappear after he was mocked for frequently saying "Mo' better" ... a great meme before memes were cool.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:04 PM (THRXx)
delightfully retro
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 12:05 PM (ZciVq)
I'm old enough to remember Magic Johnson having a brief "color commentor" gig on National TV after he retired early.
It seemed to disappear after he was mocked for frequently saying "Mo' better" ... a great meme before memes were cool.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:04 PM (THRXx)
Wasn't "The Magic Show" or some such on the air where they had him in an Arsenio Hall type role?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Tank Abrams at December 10, 2025 12:06 PM (r6f6k)
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Directed Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) FTW!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:06 PM (THRXx)
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we say 'bigly' now
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 12:07 PM (ZciVq)
Maher is a toolbag and I can only handle him in small doses. But I liked that he hit her on the Israel/ Gaza differences and didn't let up. Asked her of all the countries in the Middle East she could live in if forced to move there, wearing her cute tight dresses and makeup, which one would she live in?
She couldn't say Israel, even though that's the only country she won't be stoned and raped in for
Dressing like a dhimmi western whore. And he wouldn't let her just slide away from the question, even though she clearly kept deflecting.
Posted by: LizLem at December 10, 2025 12:07 PM (xS7Ad)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)
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That's Supperware, silly.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:07 PM (DRSnL)
‘ But they have to love their kids more than they love revenge. And so far they don't.’
You would think that they’re demonstrate contempt for their own children would permanently discredit them with the people that scold on their behalf but you would be wrong.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 12:07 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:26 AM (9iyS+)
But no hoverboards...
Posted by: LizLem at December 10, 2025 12:07 PM (xS7Ad)
At the same time...do we want machines able to "reprogram" themselves to handle situations like that? At a minimum, the humans doing the programming, if they didn't should have had, some way for the cars to communicate back home saying a problem had occurred that was beyond it's programmed parameters to handle. Sorta the SNAFU/FUBAR protocol...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:08 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)
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That's Supperware, silly.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:07 PM (DRSnL)
Tuckerware is what trannies use whilst transitioning...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:08 PM (ynpvh)
Ana Walshe's DNA found on hacksaw, hatchet, bloody rug, forensic scientist testifies in husband's trial
Brian, now 50, is accused of killing his wife after learning she was having an affair. Prosecutors say he believed he would have a better chance of avoiding federal prison time for his art fraud conviction if he became the sole caretaker of the pair's three children.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:58 AM (L/fGl)
Well, at least he's avoiding divorce drama?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 12:09 PM (xcxpd)
At the same time...do we want machines able to "reprogram" themselves to handle situations like that? At a minimum, the humans doing the programming, if they didn't should have had, some way for the cars to communicate back home saying a problem had occurred that was beyond it's programmed parameters to handle. Sorta the SNAFU/FUBAR protocol...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:08 PM (ynpvh)
A Roomba can get out of those situations. I think there has to have been an issue other than programming.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:10 PM (KDPiq)
That's Supperware, silly.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:07 PM (DRSnL)
You got me.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)
Pretty much, except for transportation. For the price of a 6th gen fighter and pilot costs, one could build a huge fleet (flock?) of remote control drones.
Quantity does have its own quality...
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:10 PM (XuXeR)
Probably close to being done in military aviation as well. It is simply a cheaper thing to make bunches of kamikaze bots with not much done to make them survivable.
Agree with both observations. We're probably in what will be our last generation of fighter aviators - possibly excepting the Loyal Wingman scenario.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:11 PM (Riz8t)
To create a map for a new location, our team starts by manually driving our sensor equipped vehicles down each street, so our custom lidar can paint a 3D picture of the new environment.
This is the point I was addressing. Sooner or later, the whole process will be automated, and when that happens, the cost should plummet. Roads and streets change a lot more slowly than computation speeds.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Now add in potholes, fallen trees, emergency services, wrecks, and weather into the mix. There will always be failures just like with humans. But I doubt juries will be as forgiving with Big Waymo Corp than with Ms. Betty Boop who can cry on cue on the stand.
We accept human fallibility. I don't think we accept machines failing nearly as much. Remember the whole surge in acceleration bit which was probably mostly caused by drivers somehow hitting the accelerator when they meant to hit the brakes. Lots of lawsuits and big payouts from teh suits. Often cheaper to settle than risk a trial as well.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:12 PM (WDjG6)
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A Roomba can get out of those situations. I think there has to have been an issue other than programming.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:10 PM (KDPiq)
Is there a way for the cars to communicate back to the company's centers? There are always cases that fall under the "unknown unknowns", but erring on the side of contacting humans in the communications chain can alleviate some of that.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:12 PM (ynpvh)
Killing the two children is the height of evil.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:12 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Operator Error at December 10, 2025 12:13 PM (FYrUD)
Posted by: the way I see it
>Doesn't a Roomba crash its way out of that situation?
Bing! Bang! Pow!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 12:13 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:13 PM (XuXeR)
When I went searching for a truck to replace the '95 S-10, the problem was finding one with a manual transmission. One person asked me why I wanted a manual transmission, my reply was that I am a 'driver', not an 'operator'.
When someone is visiting town, and we set out for some local spot in their car, their use of GPS drives me nutty, as I point out better routes to the destination. I find myself, out loud, contradicting the 'instructions'. 'No, don't turn left in 600 feet'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 12:13 PM (XeU6L)
I suspect they're programmed to just stay there if an accident occurs since fleeing the scene of an accident is a felony in most (all?) states. (Unless you're an illegal and it's a blue state, of course).
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:13 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Sponge
Tennessee says - way ahead of you there. All you have to do is notify TWRA or any law enforcement officer within 48 hours of taking possession of the deer. They don't last too long around here unless the carcass is absolutely destroyed by the accident.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 12:13 PM (cYBz/)
Sort of like the grocery store people who stand in the self check-out area to deal with the inevitable problems.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:13 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 12:14 PM (/iMjX)
Probably close to being done in military aviation as well. It is simply a cheaper thing to make bunches of kamikaze bots with not much done to make them survivable.
Agree with both observations. We're probably in what will be our last generation of fighter aviators - possibly excepting the Loyal Wingman scenario.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:11 PM (Riz8t)
Could the successful bombing of the Iranian nuke site have been done without a pilot?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:14 PM (KDPiq)
Almost certainly, IMHO.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:15 PM (Riz8t)
Audi won every lawsuit. But lost in the court of public opinion...
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:15 PM (XuXeR)
Quantity does have its own quality...
Posted by: man
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Training is easier too for warbots, develop it for one, it is now done for the whole fleet. Faster too to retrain. Obviously not true for humans.
In some sense, the battles will shift to rival hackers, and software/hardware developers prior to any conflict and getting inside each other's OODA loops during actual combat.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:15 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 12:14 PM (/iMjX)
A bull seal?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:15 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (EXyHK)
Which is inefficient as Hell. Cars burning all that fuel (or battery juice), and moving ZERO people. Happens all the time with cabs and public transit, too. At least private cars are carrying one person or more, all the time they are using fuel.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 12:15 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 12:07 PM (ZciVq)
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Funny. I watched a Pat McAfee podcast segment recently (about the possibility of Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray playing MLB -- after learning that he's the only individual to have been drafted in the Top 10 in both the NFL and MLB) and have since heard on sports talk radio:
Using the word "ass" to refer to something as awful or derogatory. Ugh.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:16 PM (THRXx)
...
We accept human fallibility. I don't think we accept machines failing nearly as much. Remember the whole surge in acceleration bit which was probably mostly caused by drivers somehow hitting the accelerator when they meant to hit the brakes. Lots of lawsuits and big payouts from teh suits. Often cheaper to settle than risk a trial as well.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:12 PM (WDjG6)
A chainsaw that gets and error and can't be turned off and chops off someone's hand is a bad thing. Ultimately, these vehicles are programmed by humans (directly or indirectly via "learning") and the ultimate fault lies with humans. Machines tend to be more robust than humans and are harder to stop, so we expect higher and more stable guardrails.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:16 PM (ynpvh)
Um, never mind.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:16 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: the way I see it
>Doesn't a Roomba crash its way out of that situation?
Bing! Bang! Pow!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 12:13 PM (1zOXE)
Did Bruce Wayne program them?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:17 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:12 PM (WDjG6)
If I were Toyota, I would have gone after the media (at the very least) to get recompense from that sorry episode. It cost them billions to settle, unnecessarily.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 12:18 PM (0CU3H)
The hazard there is that the by-far-largest maker of drones, DJI, is owned by the Chinese Communist Party.
I saw some reps from a US startup on Fox the other day. They're looking to manufacture drones domestically. CNN would say it's for Pete Hegseth to blow up shipwrecked mariners (he's gonna settle Ginger vs. Mary Ann once and for all).
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:18 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Waymo Sex Pest at December 10, 2025 12:18 PM (bC9HI)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 10, 2025 12:18 PM (DY7Xb)
Not here in New Orleans. Someone, perhaps multiple persons, will claim injury and off to court they will go. Tort law is a major industry down here.
Posted by: Javems at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (8I4hW)
Wasn't that Audi? Did Toyota also have such a problem?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 10, 2025 12:18 PM (DY7Xb)
Idiocracy?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (ynpvh)
And this was with an off-shelf basic design, a "design risk" move that ..... failed. NAVSEA could eff up even an existing successful design from Europe.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: the way I see it
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If not, I am sure DARPA is probably planning on just that. Mainly bots don't have command of the large premier bomb delivery platforms (and fighters fwiw) yet in the Air Force probably due substantially to the organization being run by pilots.
Same as the Navy resistance to bot or nearly bot ships with few if any humans aboard--it is run by ship wranglers.
The issue though like before WWII with aviation or tanks, a military has to consider the new technology fully in order to employ it or risk losing a war because the peer enemy is now ahead of you.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (WDjG6)
Johanny B Gute!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant
Blue Suede Schubert
https://youtu.be/mnjlbbWWxO4
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (pkeXY)
Did she get rid of it when she started dating you because she didn’t need it anymore?
Posted by: Dr. Claw
Embrace the power of AND
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (w9Wax)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (EyfuW)
https://tinyurl.com/567834ad
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 12:20 PM (Nx5jP)
The hazard there is that the by-far-largest maker of drones, DJI, is owned by the Chinese Communist Party.
That doesn't solve the problem that if large drone fleets are more capable, it doesn't matter if we can still build manned planes.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:20 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Proably. But the issue as I see it is that machine (really, in this case, software) is not capable of reasoning...it just isn't. If 'progress' is made on that point, then the machine will become sentient, and there will be no way of constraining its actions.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 12:20 PM (XeU6L)
Ana Walshe's DNA found on hacksaw, hatchet, bloody rug, forensic scientist testifies in husband's trial
Brian, now 50, is accused of killing his wife after learning she was having an affair. Prosecutors say he believed he would have a better chance of avoiding federal prison time for his art fraud conviction if he became the sole caretaker of the pair's three children.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:58 AM (L/fGl)
And, ironically enough, he was correct.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 12:20 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: British Roboshrink at December 10, 2025 12:20 PM (BI5O2)
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Sports, especially football, are always coming up with new jargon
football has 'explosives' now
and the booth guys are talking in acronyms
YAC
DPI
TFL
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 12:20 PM (ZciVq)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:20 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 12:21 PM (RHGPo)
Not here in New Orleans. Someone, perhaps multiple persons, will claim injury and off to court they will go. Tort law is a major industry down here.
Posted by: Javems at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (8I4hW)
There are whole scams out there of people driving in front of other cars and hitting the brakes just to get rear-ended. Unless you have a dash cam to record the entire thing (or witnesses--but who'll have witnesses from other vehicles?), the presumption is that YOU rear-ended the other guy due to YOUR lack of attention driving...of course the perps will demand large settlements for "injuries" using "doctors" involved in the scam...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:21 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant
Blue Suede Schubert
https://youtu.be/mnjlbbWWxO4
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (pkeXY)
Blue Rondo à la Turk
https://youtu.be/vKNZqM0d-xo
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:22 PM (Zz0t1)
**********
You know who else liked a nice tight seal?
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 12:14 PM (/iMjX)
this is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Pete B. at December 10, 2025 12:22 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 12:22 PM (rZCVI)
No, not that Batman.
Dr. Shellac Batman
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (EyfuW)
I knew a man with the last name of Jetson...I never got to ask if he had a son named George...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 12:14 PM (/iMjX)
this is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Pete B. "
I thought it was Penguin Pete.
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 12:23 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 10, 2025 12:18 PM (DY7Xb)
Idiocracy?
Posted by: jim
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1984, sprinkled with technology that Orwell could not imagine.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 12:23 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 12:22 PM (rZCVI)
Dems want car-less drivers in Kalifornia...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Waymo Sex Pest
>This is the future. Imagine getting into the passenger seat only to find a dozen loads clinging to the console. Will the "autonomous" EV notice that somebody is blowing his wad? Who cleans it?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 12:24 PM (1zOXE)
and the booth guys are talking in acronyms
YAC
DPI
TFL
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 12:20 PM (ZciVq)
Little do they know how many of the 'swifties' they're turning away from the sport with this......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Waymo Sex Pest
>This is the future. Imagine getting into the passenger seat only to find a dozen loads clinging to the console. Will the "autonomous" EV notice that somebody is blowing his wad? Who cleans it?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 12:24 PM (1zOXE)
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:24 PM (ynpvh)
Packs of illegals carrying sedan chair with prominent Democrats.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:24 PM (2ocoG)
I knew a man with the last name of Jetson...I never got to ask if he had a son named George...
Posted by: jim
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I knew a fellow in Raleigh named Joseph Blow.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 12:25 PM (XeU6L)
Um, never mind.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Ever read Killdozer by Ted Sturgeon and later made into a bad tv movie? Short story is better, includes ancient aliens.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:25 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Sorry .Do Dems want anything positive in the state of California or anywhere else?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 12:25 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 12:14 PM (/iMjX)
That fag who was getting pranged by that smelly Euro on the desk of some congress critter?
Posted by: Yes Harder Please at December 10, 2025 12:26 PM (bC9HI)
My fake brake gets a work out with some of the ladies I’ve rode with.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:26 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 12:26 PM (/+P99)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Is that like the sport of curling?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:26 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
The easy, short and correct answer is 'no'. Whatever is good, moral or decent they want nothing to do with.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 12:27 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 12:27 PM (snZF9)
Sorry .Do Dems want anything positive in the state of California or anywhere else?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 12:25 PM (rZCVI)
Not really.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:27 PM (ynpvh)
I knew a man with the last name of Jetson...I never got to ask if he had a son named George...
Posted by: jim
His boy Elroy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 12:27 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:27 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 12:27 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 12:28 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Sponge
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ACE AI model is programmed for late starts. Unpredictably predictable on posting times was the goal. Plus the random busty lesbian post.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:28 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 12:27 PM (lF28Z)
Like a safe in a Loony Tunes cartoon...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:29 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:15 PM (WDjG6)
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"Speedrunning" in video games has just taken on a whole new context...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 12:29 PM (RnixX)
Posted by: jim
His boy Elroy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 12:27 PM (pkeXY)
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In the future all-black-and-gay-lisping Broadway play, the dog will be named "Afro."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:29 PM (THRXx)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 10, 2025 12:29 PM (w9Wax)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:29 PM (+Oyis)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)
No, not that one. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 12:28 PM (cYBz/)
She is very pretty but with that strong jaw line , I always thought she could pass for a tranny. A very pretty tranny but still.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Sponge
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ACE AI model is programmed for late starts. Unpredictably predictable on posting times was the goal. Plus the random busty lesbian post.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:28 PM (WDjG6)
It identifies as a furry Endorian moon dweller.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (ynpvh)
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They have a hard time parallel parking but they are really good at backing up. Two thumbs up!
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (Wg6v7)
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It's times like these where I always hope he's got a new girlfriend instead of insomnia.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (THRXx)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Consider Orson Card's Ender's Game as a guide to future training for warriors in cyberspace. And yes, gaming has all sorts of implications about future wars and preparing for them.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (WDjG6)
The easy, short and correct answer is 'no'. Whatever is good, moral or decent they want nothing to do with.
Posted by: Tonypete
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It's worse than that, they 'want' those things (see Morning Report comments re “toxic empathy,”
and the only way to address (in their psyches) the issues is by seizing control of society, by any means.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 12:33 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: jim
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Well, apparently from script leaks of teh original, the Emperor wanted to destroy Endor in Revenge of the Jedi to enrage Luke so as to facilitate his Dark side of the Force progression.
Ace would be hardest hit along with ACE AI.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:33 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 12:54 PM (RHGPo)
They never explained how evil old Biff returned to the same future that he left after delivering the goods to young Biff.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:21 AM (dyewR)
The guys on The Big Theory attempted to blackboard that entire "problem" and ended up even more confused. LOL! That was a funny episode.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 10, 2025 01:15 PM (5xuJ/)
Put a yellow cone in front and behind it!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2025 11:03 AM (jFNww)
I have...how you say...your yellow cone for in front and behind. It is solid. I will trap her in front of and behind.
Posted by: The Paolo at December 10, 2025 03:25 PM (HIRLq)
COPY HERE →→ https://give2better58.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 10, 2025 04:41 PM (vyN+2)
They really aren't. The issue is that the quality of software engineering has been getting steadily worse for decades. There's a lot of chatter about this among software engineering types (the colloquial term is "ensh*ttification") but the problem is that the people speaking up the most about the problem are the ones responsible for it.
Posted by: Daniel Ream at December 10, 2025 09:03 PM (LgYtf)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Dora Carrington
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 09:31 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
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Maybe he should switch to a Kindle...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 09:31 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (ESVrU)
Everybody's favorite proctologist.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 09:31 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)
Title: Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey.
Date: 1916 Medium/Technique: oil on panel
Dimensions: 20 in. x 24 in. (508 mm x 609 mm)
Location: National Portrait Gallery, London
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025
***
So I've discovered!
Posted by: Lytton Strachey at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (wzUl9)
I see no NOODity here
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (xG4kz)
Which is always the case, unless you want to wind up in the barrel, until the next thread.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Art Aficionado at December 10, 2025 09:33 AM (oftw2)
Better than a sominex, I'm sure.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 09:33 AM (uWKK8)
__
Everyone's a critic.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)
lol @ Nosferatu's hand
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (ASZ8O)
Which I guess means he injected his own opinion of the biographical subject into every page.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (iJfKG)
The Bloomsbury Group were brilliant, but ridiculously sexually dysfunctional.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (0CU3H)
What a freakin' gay name.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)
Not so fast, my friend.
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge
Facilitates the spontaneous human combustion.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Piss-Poor Art at December 10, 2025 09:35 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:35 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (g47mK)
Title: Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey.
Date: 1916 Medium/Technique: oil on panel
Dimensions: 20 in. x 24 in. (508 mm x 609 mm)
Location: National Portrait Gallery, London
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)
Strachey died first. Carrington committed suicide after his death.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (pP43i)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Crap Art at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (bC9HI)
bro's fingers can clean pipes
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)
Carrington and Strachey’s relationship was unconventional, confounding, and utterly sincere. She loved him with an intensity that defied reason, while he—openly gay and devoted to his own emotional freedoms—loved her in return, though not in the way she might have wished. They were inseparable, bound not by passion but by an understanding so rare that it overrode convention.
This portrait, painted with the kind of tenderness only deep familiarity allows, speaks of that love. Strachey isn’t framed as the acerbic critic or the celebrated writer; he is simply himself, as Carrington saw him—an irreplaceable presence in her life, captured with quiet reverence.
On the day she agreed to marry Ralph Partridge she wrote to Strachey, who was in Italy, what has been described as one of the most moving love letters in the English language.
She wrote:
“I cried last night Lytton, whilst he slept by my side sleeping happily — I cried to think of a savage cynical fate which had made it impossible for my love ever to be used by you.”
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)
As for the painting, yes, the hands seem abnormally long and creepy because of it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)
Lytton Strachey was the Most Popular Member of the Bloomsbury Group due to his ability to jerk off five men all at the same time.
Oscar Wilde called this "holding a Bloomsbury Parliament".
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:38 AM (iJfKG)
The Bloomsbury Group were brilliant, but ridiculously sexually dysfunctional.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (0CU3H)
just skimmed his bio. How unusual that a man with a domineering mother who controlled his entire life would turn out that way.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 09:38 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)
*******
What happened to Kris?
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (IvPcr)
What happened to Kris?
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)
It's been asked several times why she's not been around but no answer that I've seen has been provided.
One can only pray that she's fine and just taking a long hiatus.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)
I keep meaning to read his Eminent Victorians, but have yet to get around to it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)
The Lebron James effect.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: redridinghood
I don't think we know. She just hasn't shown up here for awhile.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)
Or, the artist needed more skill and a finer brush.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 10, 2025 09:40 AM (zYpTz)
Posted by: davidt at December 10, 2025 09:40 AM (Q+gd/)
And that beard was long enough to conceal jellybeans in it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:40 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:41 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 09:41 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: davidt at December 10, 2025 09:40 AM (Q+gd/)
Several days older and deeper in debt.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:42 AM (bocmW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:42 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bulg
I miss her occasional in depth analysis of a particular painting.
Posted by: Tuna at December 10, 2025 09:43 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: redridinghood
That's a ton of words to say "she was his fag hag."
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 09:43 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2025 09:44 AM (WPL6O)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:45 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:45 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (4I7QN)
Carrington and Strachey’s relationship was unconventional, confounding, and utterly sincere. She loved him with an intensity that defied reason, while he—openly gay and devoted to his own emotional freedoms—loved her in return, though not in the way she might have wished. They were inseparable, bound not by passion but by an understanding so rare that it overrode convention.
The advantage of being upper-class is that the same behavior we'd scorn in trailer trash becomes liberating and ennobling and we're supposed to admire them for it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (tgvbd)
Was the artist making fun of the hands problem for drawing?
Meh.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (lL6v/)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (4I7QN)
Phone home.
Posted by: ET at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:45 AM (VCgbV)
What'd they get for it?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: The Grand Poofter at December 10, 2025 09:47 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (wzUl9)
Who here has ever been to a Handel's Messiah concert?
Worth it? Or overrated?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (ASZ8O)
I did once. William Smith conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. Might be all right done in a church, otherwise you can get 95% of the experience listening to a recording.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (W6oRy)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 09:41 AM (Vq1pX)
I wonder if they ever offer to engage in butt stuff in the hopes of appealing, somewhat, to their preferences only to be turned down because the dude hates the wimmins.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: The Grand Poofter at December 10, 2025 09:47 AM (oftw2)
Kathy Griffin will be cursing our TV screens in a couple weeks.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: The Grand Poofter at December 10, 2025
***
Current? No. There was Lee Radziwill (nee Bouvier), Jackie Kennedy's sister, who was a friend and hanger-on of Truman Capote.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:49 AM (wzUl9)
Worth it? Or overrated?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
I went to one in Ann Arbor, December 1984. It's worth doing once. But it's not for the faint-hearted.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)
"After Causing Several Deaths Due to Punctured Colons the BMA Revoked Lytton Strachey's Proctologist License, and He Was Forced To Study Poetry Fora Living"
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:49 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (W6oRy)
Perhaps they'd reached their sodomy quota.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:50 AM (ExV1e)
Strachey was not too old for WW1 conscription, but somehow seems to have escaped induction. Probably the government drafted men from the lower classes.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (W6oRy)
Put down as a conscientious objector so that some dumb Cockney could get blown to pieces instead.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:50 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 10, 2025 09:50 AM (4I7QN)
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The Do-It-Yourself Messiah's are an absolute blast. Sister finds one every year. Pricey sometimes, but a lot of fun. She's kinda snooty and picky, but doing it really brings her back to the fun person I remember.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2025 09:51 AM (lL6v/)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:50 AM (ExV1e
All England is based on a sort of fagdom
Posted by: Things Archie Bunker said at December 10, 2025 09:51 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: tankdemon
Strachey had a bright future as a proctologist.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (w9Wax)
Worth it? Or overrated?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
It's fine but I think you get more bang for your listening buck with a-
Fully Armed and Operational Live Performance of Beethoven's Ninth.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Since I turned 29, it kills my back. I am not sure why. Might be the head/body orientation, I dunno.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (bss/y)
I like Carrington's paintings.
All the Bloomsburians were odd ducks.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (kpS4V)
The Do-It-Yourself Messiah's are an absolute blast.
Posted by: mustbequantum
Que?
What is this (in 20 words or less)?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:53 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (iJfKG)
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Ah, Ludwig van...
The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:53 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: mustbequantum
Does she do the whole thing, or just the Hallelujah Chorus?
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)
But nicely done
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 09:54 AM (DQRr+)
Worth it? Or overrated?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM
Attended one at the Cadet Chapel at West Point. With that organ, it's an impressive experience. Elsewhere? Probably still worth it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:54 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (bss/y)
I only read my phone in bed with my head propped up. That doesn't really mess with my back as much as sleeping on my stomach or too soft a mattress. Those make my day miserable.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (lL6v/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Says the guy who loves the dreaded "Prometheus."
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (kpS4V)
As do I!
This one is an interesting portrait...it is accurate, and it also conveys a bit of personality, which is of course the point!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (n9ltV)
An early attempt, "proto" if you will, at creating a bird hand
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (xG4kz)
@nypost
·
23h
Today on NY POSTcast: Bullets wrapped in “wet” underwear were found in Luigi Mangione’s backpack following his arrest, a Pennsylvania cop testified Monday —
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have fun with that- imma go do the crossword
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (IvPcr)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Says the guy who loves the dreaded "Prometheus."
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)
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That! Using Ludwig van like that! He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (GBKbO)
Do not click
I cued it up...
All these broads singing [Handel's] "For Unto Us A Child Is Born" barely add up to a 10
https://is.gd/v6G8iu
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
Didn't know you were in the Army.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (iJfKG)
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Ah, Ludwig van...
The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:53 AM (GBKbO)
I always found that it made me want to gather me droogs together and go hunting for a bit of the old ultra violence.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: night lifted at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (/YboP)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (iJfKG)
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There's nothing wrong with a bit of the old in-out, in-out. But first, I viddied a horrorshow house filled with goodies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:53 AM (GBKbO)
Interesting film.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (w9Wax)
He's the only proctologist in the world who could check your uvula.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (4I7QN)
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All of it. Audience is the chorus.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (lL6v/)
Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks,, under threat of a "winter storm". As usual, media is orgasmic at the thought--which may be the eventual outcome, merely a thought. Our area tends to shrug off a lot of crap weather by it's physical configuration. How ever, after a short eyeballing, the currently falling snow is very fine and straight down which tends toward longevity.
We shall see. Meanwhile, may all effort from you result in maximum benefit at all times, with congruent major heartburn for the leftwit fungi.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (vFbHf)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (ExV1e)
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I read the book!
The book has an extra chapter at the end. It's a stupid chapter and the movie is better without it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: The Grand Poofter at December 10, 2025 09:47 AM (oftw2)
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I read yesterday that it was Anna Wintour who introduced Cory Booker to his new bride.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (+Oyis)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Oh, I see. TJM was quoting a movie line. Imagine that!
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)
https://is.gd/qWGNY7
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (L/fGl)
Pilot couldn't keep that shit in the air just a bit longer? I mean, I see the flaps were down, but geez.....pull up and slow down a bit more.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)
Technically, it was said by Alex DeLarge.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (ExV1e)
Hakeem Jeffries Exposed: Anna Paulina Luna Says He’s Blocking Insider Trading Ban
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Oh, I see. TJM was quoting a movie line. Imagine that!
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)
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It was the book that came to mind, actually.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (GBKbO)
Anyone who doesn't like the 9th Symphony deserves a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)
Jonathan Price plays a former head of MI5 and the grandfather of one of the main characters in the Apple series, "Slow Horses". He's an excellent actor.
Posted by: Tuna at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (GBKbO)
That's what she said.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (iJfKG)
If I am going tonsee a fully armed orchestra, it will probably be to hear the 1812 Overture.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (4I7QN)
Anyone who doesn't like the 9th Symphony deserves a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)
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And those who use it as emotional background for brainwashing the youth into no longer loving the ultra-violence? What of them?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (GBKbO)
Do you know anything about Kris, CBD? She hasn't been here in a while.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (bss/y)
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We have a bed with an adjustable base. It has a "read" setting. It's also a split top, so husband can sleep flat while I can sit up and read.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (r+pQK)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Dare I hope?
Amazon Shares First Look Images for Guy Ritchie’s “Young Sherlock” Series
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)
I do find it funny that TJM usually isn't the one that brings up Prometheus and really does what he can to keep threads Prometheus free.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Dare I hope?
Amazon Shares First Look Images for Guy Ritchie’s “Young Sherlock” Series
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (L/fGl)
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I imagine if one like The Gentlemen series, one will like his Sherlock Holmes series as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (GBKbO)
That's what she said.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)
I'm married. That is, in fact, NOT what she said.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)
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I hadn't considered that...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:02 AM (77rzZ)
I hadn't considered that...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)
Because you're an asshole.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (ExV1e)
The OTHER she......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)
Worth it? Or overrated?
I live close enough to Boston that I could go and listen to the Handel & Haydn Society's annual performance, but I never have. I've also wanted to attend a "Messiah Sing" concert (when I want to, I have a decent first tenor), but that, too, I have never done.
https://tinyurl.com/2uymbvhs
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:03 AM (ufSfZ)
*kicks dirt*
-- Epimetheus
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:02 AM (77rzZ)
Should've had more busty lesbians.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 10:03 AM (ExV1e)
The condition ranges from quite mild to very extreme. I once knew a child that I first met the day he was born, whose hands (proportionately speaking) looked very similar to the man in the painting. He had severe cardiac involvement from the get-go and survived multiple heart surgeries. He developed into a very inspirational young man.
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 10:03 AM (/iMjX)
With the engine kaput, when you're out of speed and out of altitude, you're pretty much out of options.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (Y1sOo)
BREAKING @J_Insider via @HaleyCohen19: "Columbia antisemitism task force report finds all its Middle East faculty is anti-Zionist"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (L/fGl)
But nicely done
Posted by: Skip
Too bad he was born a (gay) man. He'd have been an amazingly well-hung lesbian.
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: muldoon
All that, and no code?
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (r+pQK)
We have a mattress like that, however, didn't splurge for the base and it rests flat in the California King waterbed frame. The wife uses a substantial amount of pillows to achieve her comfort zone.
I'm told when we move, my beloved waterbed frame will NOT be coming with us.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (W7XSX)
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There are a few in my age bracket.
Mannix is my age, and I think YD is just a bit older. I think BruceWayne is roughly my age as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)
My brother has that.
They offered a surgery for it where they saw part of his sternum off, but he declined.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge
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Store credit, not sure how much but $5 was mention a few times. Taxidermy isn't cheap but it looked like an older piece.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (VCgbV)
But still like Dora's works. It's like Grant Wood licked a toad.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (kpS4V)
"If I were a Democrat political operative I would just fund and operate anonymous right-wing accounts that post cope so that Republicans would think everything is fine as Democrats flip seat after seat:
https://tinyurl.com/3e7kzp96"
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Case at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (G1OIb)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)
I actually prefer the Third.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (ufSfZ)
With the engine kaput, when you're out of speed and out of altitude, you're pretty much out of options.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (Y1sOo)
Valid, however it didn't appear he made any evasive actions whatsoever to avoid the car.
I think it was a hit. Just a really creative one.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)
155 Anyone who doesn't like the 9th Symphony deserves a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)
I actually prefer the Third.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (ufSfZ)
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The 7th is my favorite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 10:09 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 10:09 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
My fingers didn't fit in the trigger guards.
Posted by: zombie Lytton Strachey at December 10, 2025 10:09 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Jordan61
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Next bed we're getting!
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (VCgbV)
I am firmly in the Not A Fan Of Public Flash Mob Performances.
There's a very powerful "LOOK AT MEEEE!" vibe to the whole thing.
As our band leader in junior high paraphrased it, "Loud and lousy cannot hold a candle to accomplished and practiced."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Fun Time at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (oftw2)
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Give him something to fall back on if this politician thing doesn't work out.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (RV1wf)
Posted by: Jordan61
But does it have a setting for watching Los Doyers ?
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (van9r)
I could have saved them the $250k spent on a task force and told them for free.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)
I actually prefer the Third.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (ufSfZ)
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The 7th is my favorite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)
The Ninth is my fave, but-
a very close second is Beethovan's Sixth.
Lovely stuff.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (RHGPo)
What ? Something I agree with ? ....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (VE6XX)
Store credit, not sure how much but $5 was mention a few times. Taxidermy isn't cheap but it looked like an older piece.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (VCgbV)
Wonder if they're reselling what they get. That'd be one interesting auction, I'm betting.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)
The 7th is my favorite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Yeah, the 7th is very nice.
Posted by: Bulg
Difference splitter here: I enjoy the 8th most of all his symphonies, with the 3rd running a close second.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:12 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Fun Time
Since my parents-in-law lived in Virginia Beach, we'd often go to the Thanksgiving/Christmas buffets at Regents when they were still alive. Very nice. Great decorations and amazing amounts of food. Wonderful experience.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)
Read Isaac Asimov. That should bore you to almost death.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (Zz0t1)
I can't play any instrument, either.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Weasel at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (2HALl)
Home / Explore our Collection / Portrait - NPG 6662; Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey
This portrait -
"In the First World War, when this portrait was made, he was a conscientious objector. He wrote for various journals and magazines while his Eminent Victorians (191
, with essays on Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale and General Gordon, made his name and set standards for literary biography for the twentieth century."
"What long fingers!" my 1st thought. I'd pass hanging today's art selection but 'tis another interesting lesson. Thanks.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)
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I can't read.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (RHGPo)
Da fuq outta here with your communist bullshit!!!
- US Defense Industry
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)
I do find it funny that TJM usually isn't the one that brings up Prometheus and really does what he can to keep threads Prometheus free.
Posted by: Sponge
Considers mentioning Prometheus.
Does his part to keep the thread Prometheus free.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (+Oyis)
TASS: Republican Congressman Massie Introduces Bill for US to Exit NATO
Posted by: SMOD
Go big or go home -- tack on expel the United Nations from New York City with the one, two punch of U.S. out of U.N.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (xG4kz)
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great. next step is to excuse them. because "Zionism = Racism", one man's terrorist (and suicided bomber) another man's freedom fighter. You are transparent, Columbia. Your report is bullshit and an excuse to keep systemic antisemitism, and (foreign sponsored) antisemites on the payroll.
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (g47mK)
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he'll have plenty of help
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (IvPcr)
Posted by: ShainS
"Be patient. I'm not done with the painting yet. You can put on a slip when I'm done. I'll turn up the heat until then. Now get back on that ottoman."
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (VCgbV)
We got the air / inflatable "sleep number" style mattress. It really did wonders for my back in the beginning. I guess I'm just too used to it now and it's not as effective as it once was, but it's still pretty comfortable.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)
I can't play any instrument, either.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (ufSfZ)
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Junior learned how to read music at about 7/8, and he learns by ear as well, and he memorizes his pieces.
He had his piano recital on Friday. He played two pieces: Fur Elise and the Ghostbusters theme song.
He stared at his fingers the whole time. You're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to keep your eyes on the music to keep track. But, nope. Completely memorized.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 10, 2025 10:16 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (RHGPo)
This will go nowhere and I am immensely saddened by that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 10:16 AM (ExV1e)
My favorite Messiah performance was a full baroque performance, with baroque instruments and only 16 singers, 4 per part.
16 high quality singers (some were true professionals) can blow away a 100 part choir of decent amateurs.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 10:16 AM (uWKK8)
I call bullshit on that. I'm betting he's considering 'changing oil' or the air filter as "fixing a truck."
I'd like to see the prissy fag change a tire with a 4-way lug wrench.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
Ah cain't breave!
Posted by: Saint George Floyd at December 10, 2025 10:17 AM (oftw2)
Deep down, in places he'd never admit exist, what entertains THM about the Promethium abomination is that the two chickies failed the survival skills' test of taking a flying fook at a rolling doughnut.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:17 AM (xG4kz)
I can't play any instrument, either.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Nothing wrong with doing music by ear.
Neither Irving Berlin nor Lionel Bart could read music, either. I don't think McCartney could either until relatively recently.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)
In other news, water is wet and, get this, bears DO sh#t in the woods!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 10, 2025 10:17 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 10:17 AM (Nx5jP)
TJM
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:18 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:18 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: One of many lone wolves at December 10, 2025 10:18 AM (OVaMN)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)
You asked for it:
https://tinyurl.com/3st77r77
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:19 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)
Van Cliburn has entered the chat.
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 10:19 AM (Oy/m2)
Oh, wow : two hunnert!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:19 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 10:19 AM (y+G1Q)
You find the digital version impressive?!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (KDPiq)
He stared at his fingers the whole time. You're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to keep your eyes on the music to keep track. But, nope. Completely memorized.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)
We learned that our daughter memorized her favorite books we read to her as a youngin. Switching it up did wonders for her reading ability.
She also played music, flute/piccolo, not a piano, but learned to read music at a reasonably high level.
It's a shame her HS music director ruined everything for her and she hasn't played a note since graduation. She was damn good.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (kpS4V)
Same here. After a year or so, we added a 3-inch thick foam pad to hours, cut at the top to accommodate the split mattress feature. Never had a bad night's sleep due to lack of comfort after that.
(The foam top makes it a tight fit for the fitted sheet, but it's doable if you work at it).
Posted by: one hour sober at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 10:19 AM (y+G1Q)
It comes from outer space. Long delivery time.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Sponge
How did the music director do that?
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: SMOD
Go big or go home -- tack on expel the United Nations from New York City with the one, two punch of U.S. out of U.N.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (xG4kz)
If we add a requirement to bomb Brussels, we could get all the defense industry owned members of Congress to go along.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: ZARDOZ HAS DECREED at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (uWKK8)
Not the thumbs!
Posted by: Tom Robbins at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (NuV6c)
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The same way a bad baseball coach can ruin a good player.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 10:22 AM (3QiDE)
Supreme Court Vacates Ruling That Upheld New York School Vaccine Mandate
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:23 AM (KDPiq)
How did the music director do that?
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)
He was really good at tearing people down, not so good at building them up and she was on his shit list. Now, she didn't help herself much in that regard, but he wasn't one to complement or encourage as much as he would insult and demean.
She hates him with a passion to this day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (kpS4V)
Pablo Casals, the Bach cello suites.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:24 AM (ufSfZ)
I saw Render the Cyrillic open for Instantiate the Counterfactual at the Great Phlebotomists' Coagulation at Branson, MO in ought two or ought three.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:24 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: the way I see it
A saxophone is an ill wind that nobody blows good!
Posted by: Benny Hill, 1978 at December 10, 2025 10:25 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 10:25 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:25 AM (VCgbV)
She hates him with a passion to this day.
Posted by: Sponge
That's too bad, Sponge. I hope she takes it up again someday. It's a shame to squander musical talent.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)
He had his piano recital on Friday. He played two pieces: Fur Elise and the Ghostbusters theme song.
He stared at his fingers the whole time. You're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to keep your eyes on the music to keep track. But, nope. Completely memorized.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)
Genetics for the win!
Both you and Dolly are Computer/Math types, right?
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 10:26 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:26 AM (ufSfZ)
Supreme Court Vacates Ruling That Upheld New York School Vaccine Mandate
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)
Still important because there will be another “pandemic” in the future. This is a good precedent.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:26 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Dvorak's Cello Concerto. Greatest cello piece ever.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)
Like, a lot. A whole bunch.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 10:27 AM (y+G1Q)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Aaaaah, Bach.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge
How did the music director do that?
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)
It was that one time at band camp.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 10:27 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 10:26 AM (iJfKG)
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She is for sure. I may be, I just never cared enough to pursue it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (GBKbO)
🤣🤣🤣
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (9iyS+)
Here's the story:
https://tinyurl.com/rc66acbr
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:25 AM (VCgbV)
What, no live animals? They missed out on a breeding pair of cassowaries!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Are you innumerate as well as illiterate?
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Are you innumerate as well as illiterate?
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)
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I don't know how to respond to this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)
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They also needed a study to tell them locking up criminals - get this - reduces crime.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:29 AM (9iyS+)
Little known music fact -- Modest Mussorgsky had a younger sister named Immodest Mussorgsky.
Her life of dissolution and debauchery was a deep and enduring source of shame for her family.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:29 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Dvorak's Cello Concerto. Greatest cello piece ever.
Posted by: Bulg
There's always room for cello.
Posted by: Yo-Yo Crosby at December 10, 2025 10:30 AM (w9Wax)
Gonna use my legs
Gonna use my style
Gonna use my sidestep
Gonna use my fingers
Gonna use my, my, my imagination
Posted by: Lytton Strachey with Brass In Pocket at December 10, 2025 10:30 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)
Yet another overrated 'composer'. -- Antonio Salieri
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 10:30 AM (ExV1e)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I'd better get busy reading the comments.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 10:30 AM (2WIwB)
Had a lot of teachers like that. May they all burn in hell. Yeah, this was in band practice. I went to a tough school.
Posted by: Delurker at December 10, 2025 10:31 AM (xNHSX)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 10, 2025 10:32 AM (2J/Lj)
The Ninth, like the Fifth, gets overplayed and loses its impact thereby. Listen to them only occasionally and you'll appreciate them more.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:32 AM (tgvbd)
Not the thumbs!
Posted by: Tom Robbins at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (NuV6c)
And certainly not the nose-picking finger.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 10:33 AM (g8Ew8)
He made his fame by mocking and pissing on British values and tradition. He was at the vanguard of the civilization destroying left.
In addition to being a degenerate.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 10:33 AM (jbnUc)
That's too bad, Sponge. I hope she takes it up again someday. It's a shame to squander musical talent.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)
We sold her flute to an incoming freshman, so that will live on, but she took her piccolo with her to college. She hasn't played it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)
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My preferred method of freaking people out is typing while having a conversation.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (9ipOP)
Raul Malo, lead singer and songwriter for the Mavericks, has just died. 60 years old, and had colon cancer.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (ufSfZ)
I don't know how to respond to this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)
It would help if you could read it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (rQwsY)
He threatened a friend and me because we weren't doing the marching routine correctly. LOL.
Later on, he found out that I was friends with a hot girl that he wanted to date, so he turned nice to me.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl) /i]
The official leftwing take on the various clot shot mandates is:
1) They never existed, no one ever tried to make dissenters take the clot shot
And
2) Its good the mandates existed because that's what the science said (uh at the time) and you people are just science hating racists
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:35 AM (sKqQm)
I noticed elementary school kids or orchestras tend to play sharp, relative to standard pitch. I wondered if this is something inherent to children’s instruments themselves that lend itself to this? Or do child virtuosos “hear” better?
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 10:35 AM (y+G1Q)
It was listening to a recording of the Beethoven Ninth that started my 50+ years of listening to and learning from classical music. Specifically, this recording:
https://tinyurl.com/3vta4sby
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:35 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Delurker at December 10, 2025 10:31 AM (xNHSX)
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I thought my school was tough but band practice was the one place you were sure to be safe.
I was not in the band.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 10:35 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Alyson Hannigan at December 10, 2025 10:36 AM (sKqQm)
I'm so much worst.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 10, 2025 10:37 AM (EyfuW)
I asked an innocuous question once, I thought, and got jumped on for being insensitive, naturally, by leftists. Maybe I wasn’t specific enough.
*rolls eyes*
One of those perfect pitch elitists.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:37 AM (tgvbd)
Worth it? Or overrated?
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We performed it in high school choir! To this day I still admire that work.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:37 AM (TN0g+)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (iJfKG)
After a round at the Korova Milkbar. With some Moloko with the knives in it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 10:37 AM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Delurker at December 10, 2025 10:31 AM (xNHSX)
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I thought my school was tough but band practice was the one place you were sure to be safe.
I was not in the band.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 10:35 AM (9ipOP)
Chess Club was were the real thugs hung out. Unbelievable brutality given for an ill-considered move.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (wVcYX)
The official leftwing take on the various clot shot mandates is:
1) They never existed, no one ever tried to make dissenters take the clot shot
And
2) Its good the mandates existed because that's what the science said (uh at the time) and you people are just science hating racists
Posted rby: 18-1
You neglected to include
3) One can only shudder in horror at how sick one might have gotten had one NOT received a clot shot.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (xG4kz)
Raul Malo, lead singer and songwriter for the Mavericks, has just died. 60 years old, and had colon cancer.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (ufSfZ)
NOOO!!!!! Dammit. He had such a great voice. One of my favorites for Christmas songs.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 10:37 AM (rQwsY)
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It gives you a real horrorshow boohoo for bitva in the nochy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Alyson Hannigan at December 10, 2025 10:36 AM (sKqQm)
Not a cigar?
Posted by: William Jefferson Greatthings Clinton at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (rQwsY)
In several cases I've seen stories about people dying from COVID after being clot shotted and the response is STILL, "Think about how much worse it would have been if he didn't get the vaccine"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:39 AM (sKqQm)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIf3IfHCoiE
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2025 10:40 AM (lL6v/)
Posted by: Alyson Hannigan at December 10, 2025 10:36 AM (sKqQm)
Not a cigar?
Posted by: William Jefferson Greatthings Clinton at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (rQwsY)
I suspect the script writer for American Pie might have had that in mind considering the time frame...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:40 AM (sKqQm)
I noticed elementary school kids or orchestras tend to play sharp, relative to standard pitch. I wondered if this is something inherent to children’s instruments themselves that lend itself to this? Or do child virtuosos “hear” better?
Posted by: Common Tater
Might it have something to do with younger folks being capable of hearing sound over a wider range of frequencies, particularly at the higher pitches?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:41 AM (xG4kz)
Still think it’s cool to be able to sit at an empty piano at a bar or restaurant and crank out a piece of music.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:42 AM (KDPiq)
I suspect the script writer for American Pie might have had that in mind considering the time frame...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:40 AM (sKqQm)
He should've wrote Jason Biggs off a cliff.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)
In several cases I've seen stories about people dying from COVID after being clot shotted and the response is STILL, "Think about how much worse it would have been if he didn't get the vaccine"
Posted by: 18-1
"dead-dead" has entered the chat
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)
??
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 10:44 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (9ipOP)
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I believe most of Natsec is derived from Russian, and yeah, the context of its use, especially in the novel, leans towards common usage being "good".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)
The most-reliable human reverse-barometer, Jim Cramer, is also LONG "AI."
/The Real Danger is the Employment Bust ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 10:44 AM (kEIvm)
which was the source more than any other of my complete rejection and disgust for him and anyone allied with him.
And I note that he embarked on this immediately after his nice week long vacation in Qatar; guess he picked up new orders along with his paycheck. Tucker lies when he says he is "America First" - he is now clearly "Qatar First".
Posted by: ZARDOZ HAS DECREED at December 10, 2025 10:45 AM (uWKK8)
I still can't read music.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 10, 2025 10:45 AM (2J/Lj)
I have a lot of trouble believing that. I live in a blue area and we *maybe* hit 60%. But...Wyoming or SC or the like? I have a hard time believing they were hitting 60%+
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:45 AM (sKqQm)
It still boggles my mind knowing some people spent 2+ years in their apartments in NYC or San Francisco and when they dared venture out they were triple masked.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:46 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
A girl I knew in college pronounced "ochen' khorosho" as "ocean carshow." She hadn't studied Russian; she got that from a mutual friend of ours who had.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)
3) One can only shudder in horror at how sick one might have gotten had one NOT received a clot shot.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
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Yeah. Right. I always chuckle about that one...
I actually had the coof, about a month ago. Was tired for a few days and sense of smell was absent. No big deal. "Pureblood" me, had it very easy.
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:46 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:45 AM (sKqQm)
Plenty of idiots in every state, red or blue.
Lynne Cheney represented Wyoming after all.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)
The most-reliable human reverse-barometer, Jim Cramer, is also LONG "AI." /i]
I ran across a reverse Cramer ETF.
Too be honest its results weren't great. Though given the credence he is given in the FNM it is amusing that the results weren't horrible.
And...if you want a named ETF the Nancy Pelosi one is still one of the best...but we'll see how much longer she still gets insider info...and is above ground...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (sKqQm)
1) They never existed, no one ever tried to make dissenters take the clot shot
And
2) Its good the mandates existed because that's what the science said (uh at the time) and you people are just science hating racists
Posted by: 18-1
The new take on closing the schools.
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Randi Weingarten is blaming Trump for schools not reopening during COVID.
Yes… the same woman who fought to keep schools closed.
Unreal.
They’re trying to rewrite history
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Damn Trump keeping Randi from opening the schools!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)
In several cases I've seen stories about people dying from COVID after being clot shotted and the response is STILL, "Think about how much worse it would have been if he didn't get the vaccine"
Posted by: 18-1
"dead-dead" has entered the chat
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (xG4kz)
I tried to have that discussion with an older relative once. I tried to ask "Can you imagine a polio vaccine, for example, where the doctor would say "okay so you still got polio, but it wasn't quite as bad a case of polio as you could have gotten!"
but I don't think they could understand the logic. Or any logic, for that matter. Like far too many, they just wanted to believe what they were told.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 10:48 AM (uWKK8)
Jason Biggs is the Ross Gellar of American Pie...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (sKqQm)
you're not wrong
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:48 AM (xcxpd)
Raul Malo, lead singer and songwriter for the Mavericks, has just died. 60 years old, and had colon cancer.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (ufSfZ)
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This is not helping my escalating survivor's guilt.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 10:48 AM (kEIvm)
Tucker cemented his place on my "don't bother" list when he cackled in smart girl girlish glee because Ted Cruz could not tell him what was the population of Iran prior to their nuke works getting bombed.
A regular L. L. Bean fly fisherman that poser is.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:48 AM (xG4kz)
Us: Hey, Taffy Hands, you readin' another book?
Taffy Hands: Yes.
Us: Well, okay then.
He liked books. That Ol' Taffy Hands.
Posted by: Tomorrow's Comments Today at December 10, 2025 10:49 AM (H/w5W)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)
Other members of my family were pressuring me to get it. Then my grandfather had a heart attack and my father got a blood clot in his leg.
Then I got a call, "Never mind."
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 10:49 AM (UnA8+)
I am not necessarily anti-vac. I did get the shingles vaccine.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:49 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:49 AM (9iyS+)
Locking down in a mansion is one thing. Hell, "Locking down" when you live in a rural area and can still just go where you want is similiar.
But people locked in micro apartments in the big blue shitties? Masked basically all the time?
Ugh.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:49 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Common Tater
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Tuning is an art and it depends on the ear of the person and I suspect slightly sharp is a 'happier' tone to most people's ears than slightly flat (sadder). Few people have perfect pitch (I used to have it prior to tinnitus started in as a result of psoriatic arthritis), and that also makes a difference in getting it pitch perfect.
Old chromatic scales of ancient music often sound 'melancholic' for a reason to our modern ears.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 10:50 AM (WDjG6)
(Not you, this time, TJM)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:50 AM (xcxpd)
The shingles vax has pretty good numbers in reducing shingles out breaks. And a measurable reduction in severity for those that get it.
The clot shot went from "you can't get COVID if you get the two shots" to "it will lesson the symptoms, honest, err, maybe, if you get a booster every 3 months and don't die from heart damage"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:51 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:51 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:51 AM (9iyS+)
Both of us had covid both of us recovered. I refused to wear the masks.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 10, 2025 10:52 AM (2J/Lj)
(Not you, this time, TJM)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:50 AM (xcxpd)
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Bolshy sammy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:52 AM (GBKbO)
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Howard Stern. Lol. That cuck didn’t leave his house for 3 years I think. Something like that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:53 AM (9iyS+)
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Trump hates fishermen! Particularly Columbian fishermen.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:54 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 10, 2025 10:54 AM (w9Wax)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 10, 2025 10:54 AM (w9Wax)
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You can't study, like, music, man. Music is about emotion, man. It's about vibes and good times, man.
Ain't no studying that, man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:56 AM (GBKbO)
It’s criminal judo.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:57 AM (KDPiq)
Howard Stern. Lol. That cuck didn’t leave his house for 3 years I think. Something like that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Just as it takes time for a caterpillar to metamorphose into a beautiful butterfly, so it is for a past his prime radio shock jock to metamorphose into a bedraggled and gibbering old lesbian.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:57 AM (xG4kz)
Thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 10:58 AM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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This is from memory when I last studied it and discussed the matter with an infectious disease doctor (autoimmune combined with covid is the devil btw)
The Covid Vaxx is a prophylactic--aka genetic medicine. The vaxx was designed to use the body's immune system to teach it that the spike was harmless and thus avoid the massive inflammatory response killing people when the body is exposed to a novel virus without any learned or genetic immunity.
IIRC, it targeted the IGG-4 subtype related to allergies to tell the immune system that the spike was a harmless irritant. Same as allergy shots. What is a problem is that the spike itself caused body damage by adhering to various receptors whether it was real Covid or the vaxx facsimile.
True vaccines are sterilizing targeting the other types of IGG (depending on bacterial versus viral) in that they teach the immune system to recognize and attack suspect bacteria or viruses.
Feel free to correct me if you know better as this is from memory of discussions circa 2021-22.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 10:59 AM (WDjG6)
Ain't no studying that, man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:56 AM (GBKbO)
Wow. Like that's heavy, man.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (g8Ew8)
nood
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (tljrc)
you're not wrong
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:48 AM (xcxpd)
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Never saw any of those films, primarily because I thought it was sacrilege using the name of my second favorite song (after Hotel California) ... and love the great (and conservative Trump supporter) Don McLean.
Damn, I remember singing that song like during 4th grade chorus in the early '70s. I studied the meaning of all the great lyrics in college, and wrote a parody when carpethagger Hillary ran for Senate in 2000:
lyrics.com/sublyric/192755/
Don+McLean/American+Lie
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (eAryO)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (xG4kz)
Thus the mRNA being the hope for cancer treatment. It shouldn’t have been used to treat or prevent a viral infection.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks
Probably 20 years ago, I read a book on temperament, micro tunings used to create different scales in hopes of finding the perfect scale for western music. The author had to write an appendix explaining why he didn't include African and Eastern scales. I then realized I wasn't in Kansas anymore.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:02 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 10, 2025 11:04 AM (OUMaO)
Thus the mRNA being the hope for cancer treatment. It shouldn’t have been used to treat or prevent a viral infection.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (KDPiq)
It wast. FJB promised to cure cancer and mRNA was the intended tool. The clot shot was just the massive non-consensual human trial of mRNA.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 11:08 AM (dK+Kv)
From wiki,
"Given the opposing properties of the IgG subclasses (fixing and failing to fix complement; binding and failing to bind FcR), and the fact that the immune response to most antigens includes a mix of all four subclasses, it has been difficult to understand how IgG subclasses can work together to provide protective immunity. In 2013, the Temporal Model of human IgE and IgG function was proposed. This model suggests that IgG3 (and IgE) appear early in a response. The IgG3, though of relatively low affinity, allows IgG-mediated defences to join IgM-mediated defences in clearing foreign antigens. Subsequently, higher affinity IgG1 and IgG2 are produced. The relative balance of these subclasses, in any immune complexes that form, helps determine the strength of the inflammatory processes that follow. Finally, if antigen persists, high affinity IgG4 is produced, which dampens down inflammation by helping to curtail FcR-mediated processes."
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:13 AM (WDjG6)
I'm so much worst.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 10, 2025 10:37 AM (EyfuW)
Say, this gives me a song idea.
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The Morning Report — 12/10/25
Pritzker’s signing of the bill comes after Illinois lawmakers passed the bill during the government shutdown, according to the New York Times. Under the bill, places like hospitals and daycare centers are restricted from sharing certain information with ICE agents. While the legislation has been praised by Democrat lawmakers in the state, Republicans in the state, such as Illinois state Sen. John Curran (R), have taken “issue with the law’s ban on civil immigration enforcement at state courthouses or within 1,000 feet of those courthouses,” according to the outlet. “We’re pushing this more and more, with these prohibitions, into uncontrolled settings,” Curran said. “And with uncontrolled settings, there are heightened risks.” During a press conference on Tuesday for the signing of the bill, Pritzker claimed that “the Chicago region has been subjected to a relentless campaign of cruelty and intimidation and abuse at the hands of ICE” under the Trump administration.Well the fat sleazy bastard needs to be ejected and imprisoned. But he is correct when he declared “the Chicago region has been subjected to a relentless campaign of cruelty and intimidation and abuse..." But not by ICE nor our President.
Chicago could lose federal funding after a 26-year-old woman was set on fire on the city’s train system in what the Trump administration described as a “preventable attack.” Federal Transit Administration Administrator Marc Molinaro sent letters on Monday to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Democrat Governor JB Pritzker, directing them to immediately enhance safety on public transportation. Molinaro said that officials had failed to take the necessary steps to keep the public safe.It's a waste of time, energy and paper, gentlemen. Just cut off the funds until they cry uncle. Seriously, Jonson and Pritzker should be sharing a cell in a federal lockup for criminal malfeasance, endangering the public welfare and the fomenting of insurrection in openly calling for law enforcement to be resisted and issuing edicts to interfere with the lawful enforcement of our federal laws. An interesting angle on all of this can be found in this essay about the smear campaign against our fantastic Secretary of war Pete Hegseth. First and foremost now because he represents the tip of the spear in President Trump's war on drugs on the high seas via the obliteration and sinking of drug-smuggling boats with cargoes of enough poison to kill every man woman and child in the US, citizen and illegal alien alike perhaps 10 times over.
The modern expression of what psychiatrist Dr. Judith Orloff calls “toxic empathy,” is found in political terms, in order to express policy positions and actions that are suicidal in their effect. For example, “toxic empathy” includes protests and interference against officers tracking down criminal illegal aliens, and fabrications of charges and distortions of the law by the Dems, including military brass, attacking Trump and Hegseth. In other words, a partisan political weapon––one as narcissistic as virtue-signaling. . . This fantasy pretends that war can be something other than what Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defined it: “War means fighting, and fighting means killing.” And what Abraham Lincoln called the “terrible arithmetic.”The other reason to attack Hegseth at least in my view is that his is seen as a future MAGA leader who, in my estimation if he continues to burnish his credentials might have a real shot in the near-ish term for a Veep slot and then potentially a real shot to be POTUS and then continue the path charted by President Trump and please God whoever his successors may be, Vance, Huckabee Sanders, as both CBD and I would like to see as we have mused on recent podcasts, though YMMV or whomever. This of course notwithstanding the usual Democrat/Leftist criminality and election meshugas as well as the alarming trend towards socialism of the younger generations. And speaking of podcasts, a new episode should be posting sometime around midday today so be on the lookout for that in the sidebar and the outlets listed below. We'll just have to wait and see, as President Trump might say. Much rides on an improving economy that will be a crucial boost for the upcoming midterms and then two years from now to cap off the second half of Trump 2.0 Have a good day. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- How the Hegseth smear exposes a civilization that cries for killers and handcuffs its defenders.
Tears for Injun Joe
- Victor Davis Hanson: It is hard now even for Democrats to defend illegal immigration, given that the Biden junta allowed in more than 10 million entrants. Among them were an estimated 500,000 criminals. No one believes that was wise or should ever be repeated.
Citizens are fed up with Dem-invited migrants that have disdain for US law and culture
- CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
- Johnson first became a household name when he suggested that the Pacific island of Guam might "tip over." (Jibbering braindead fekete sleaze; meh, he is what he is and who/what he represents - jjs)
Georgia Democrat Refers To United States As ‘World’s Number One Bully,’ ‘The Great Satan’ - Ricardo Antonio Roman-Flores and Emilio Roman-Flores, both American citizens, were arrested in Absecon, New Jersey, after the pair allegedly threatened to kill McLaughlin and said they would “shoot ICE on sight” in social media posts.
New Jersey Twin Brothers Charged with Threatening to Kill DHS Spokeswoman
- Robert Spencer: And her threats are to be taken seriously.
BRO-FO Omar Has Ominous Words for Those Who Are ‘Collaborating with the Authoritarian Regime’ J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, - “It sure looks like it might have when you compare our pipe bomb report to Cole’s affidavit.”
House J6 Subcommittee: ‘Did Biden’s FBI Identify Brian Cole Jr. in April 2021?’ "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS - While the legislation has been praised by Democrat lawmakers in the state, Republicans in the state, such as Illinois state Sen. John Curran (R), have taken “issue with the law’s ban on civil immigration enforcement at state courthouses or within 1,000 feet of those courthouses,” according to the outlet.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker Signs Bill Preventing ICE from Arresting Illegal Aliens near Courthouses (How is this legal? It isn't. Trump should immediately station ICE agents at every Illinois courthouse - jjs -
- Biden’s border surge left hundreds of thousands of migrant children unaccounted for—and a $23 billion network of contractors and nonprofits with no answers.
Out of Sight: Following the Money Trail of Missing Child Border Crossers
- In March 2008, after some 36,000 mostly Africans had entered the U.S. as P-3 refugees — the majority of whom resettled in Minnesota — the program was halted by then-President George W. Bush after the State Department unveiled mass fraud.
Former ICE Official: Somali Migration to U.S. Marked ‘Greatest Refugee Fraud Crisis in Modern Times’ DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - ‘[T]here is no such thing in our constitutional order as a fourth branch of government that’s quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative,’ said Justice Gorsuch.
Justice Gorsuch Exposes Attorney’s Illogical Defense Of Unchecked Bureaucracy - The Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative majority, including three Trump appointees, remains a significant factor in shaping U.S. policies.
Trump Addresses Thomas, Alito Retirement Speculation. - Zohran Mamdani’s pledge to end homeless-encampment sweeps may thrill the activist Left, but it flouts New Yorkers’ preferences and threatens a showdown with President Trump.
Tent City, Here We Come
- Sen. Chuck Grassley says CFTC risk analyst Malcolm Alexander-Neal must return 'every dollar he stole' from taxpayers.
Federal Union Leader Collected Six-Figure US Government Salary From Mexico City, Where He Hardly Worked, Records Show - California’s endless tangle of petty rules shows a state so obsessed with control that even simple daily tasks have become exercises in regulated misery.
The Million Petty Annoyances of California’s Regulatory State THE ECONOMY, STUPID - “After just ten months in office, I’m pleased to report that America is winning again. Pennsylvania is prospering again, and I will not rest until this Commonwealth is wealthier and stronger than ever before,” the president told supporters.
Trump Touts Creating Nearly 60K Jobs, $100 Billion in Investment for Pennsylvania Since Inauguration
- “To introduce permanent renting is to take away political freedom. . . We can never be free from necessity when our place in the world is insecure.”
A Nation of Subscribers CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - A woman was lit on fire in a random attack on a Chicago train.
Trump Admin Issues Ultimatum To Chicago After Latest ‘Preventable’ Train Attack (nullification of city charter and declare a federal territory? - jjs)
- A fake airline heiress has landed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list after allegedly scamming multiple banks out of nearly $30 million by falsely posing as a family member of a multibillion-dollar aerospace empire. (Idea: shmear myself in rancid goulash wearing a swastika armband and traipse into JPM Chase as J.J. SOROS, talking like Zsa Zsa Gabor... Vinning my dahlink? - jjs)
Fake aerospace empire heiress, 74, lands on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for defrauding millions from banks - “Our rejection of this theory will restore true equality under the law."
BIG: DOJ Kills the ‘Nuclear Weapon’ of ‘Systemic Racism’
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - Texas already slapped the label on the two groups last month.
Florida Designates Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR as Foreign Terrorist Organizations
- A barbaric practice that maims and degrades women throughout the Islamic world.
Nightmares of Female Genital Mutilation
- The two animals (the violent corsairs, not the donkeys) broke into the church, pulled down their pants, and dropped a couple of crab cakes on the floor. Then they destroyed the restroom they should have used, but hey, Islam gonna Islam.
Dominate the Christmas Donkeys: The 'Religion of Peace' Trashed a Live Nativity Scene — Then It Got Worse OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY - Speaking in recent days to Canadian, American, and Israeli media outlets, the 33-year-old Slovakian-Canadian model and Jewish activist described how a late-night ride home turned into a stark reminder of how quickly open hatred can surface — and how slowly a global corporation can respond when it does.
Jewish Ex-Miss Slovakia: Toronto Uber Driver Told Me ‘I Don’t Drive Jews’ — Antisemitism ‘Must Have Consequences’ FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - CNN recently launched a Qatar-funded operation in Doha and sponsored the regime-backed Doha Forum
Former CNN Producer Now Works As Qatar Foundation Foreign Agent Working To ‘Elevate and Promote’ Regime ‘Within US Media,’ Records Show
- Potential changes at CNN and a significant shift in the media landscape.
Billionaire Eyes CNN Overhaul in Bid to Win Trump’s Favor Amid Mega Merger Battle.
- Democrats did what they did with the border on purpose, and their only real regret, if they’re honest, is that it was unpopular.
This New York Times Story Gets Everything Hilariously Wrong About Democrats And Immigration* * * * * - Consumers face varying grocery costs, with potential annual cost swings of about $1,200 for a typical family of four.
AI-Powered Algorithmic Pricing Contributes to Higher Grocery Costs, Research Finds.
- Three former Biden junta officials discuss the future of artificial intelligence regulation during a Brookings event:"The future of the internet in the age of AI."
Biden Junta Lackeys Plot Regime Change to Censor the Internet RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, - 'If you're serious about better energizing the world, you also should be all in on natural gas and nuclear,' Energy Sec. Chris Wright tells Free Beacon
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Energy Department To Finance Up to 10 Nuclear Reactors in Bid To Kickstart Nuclear Energy 'Renaissance'
- Like the other thirty-odd copycat climate lawsuits filed by states and localities from Honolulu to my hometown of Charleston, Boulder’s suit weaponizes tort law to try to transform state courts into vehicles for deploying sweeping climate mandates. If Boulder gets its way, the casualties won’t be confined to the energy companies it endeavors to bankrupt; American consumers and the U.S. economy writ large will be caught in the crossfire.
SCOTUS Can Stop Blue Cities From Forcing Energy Diktats On The Rest Of The Country
- Any time someone tells you renewable energy saves money, reach for your wallet.
The Hidden Subsidy for Renewable Energy
- Right now it's hazardous to our health.
Stop Recycling Plastic EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - Fansly, described as a subscription-based platform where creators share exclusive content with fans, is a competitor to OnlyFans and allows creators to post content that is described as being “from mild to spicy.” The 24-hour video, uploaded on Friday to Twitch by internet personality Paymoney Wubby, was labeled “24 HOUR TAG PRESENTED BY Fansly,” showing four men playing a tag-style game while participating in game show activities, eating segments and other small tasks.
California High School Hosted Adult Livestream With Drag Queens, Foot-Licking And A Mock Crucifixion
- Christopher F. Rufo: The University of Iowa’s new Center for Intellectual Freedom promises an end to left-wing ideological domination.
Conservatives in Iowa Will Finally Have a Voice on Campus
- Blue state leaders and teacher union bosses are outraged by the minor changes being made to the U.S. Department of Education.
The Hyperventilating Over the DOE Restructuring Is Ongoing - I think you guys can guess which schools received that F grade.
Jewish Org Gives 14 Colleges an F on Antisemitism Report Card ABORTION - "FDA needs to stop dithering & reinstate the mifepristone safety guardrails," said Senator Josh Hawley. "Nothing less is acceptable."
White House Stands By FDA’s Makary After Accusations He Slow-Walked Vital Review Of Abortion Drugs THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH - With states unable to verify citizenship under the current system, the Trump administration is trying to help states ensure clean voter rolls.
While Congress Sits On Election Integrity Bill, Trump Admin Takes Action On Noncitizen Voting DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY - The egomania of this twisted cvnt is off the charts.
Kamala Harris: ‘There Will Be a Marble Bust of Me In Congress… I Am a Historic Figure’ (Ahistoric for sure. An historic no way - jjs) POLITICS - “A new survey from the Public Policy Institute of California finds that both the governor, a likely presidential candidate, and the heavily Democrat Legislature surged to majority support in the final months of this year,” reports the far-left Politico. “The approval jump comes after Newsom and fellow Democrats championed a gerrymandered new House map explicitly to counter Trump in next year’s midterm elections.”
Gerrymander Scheme Boosts Gavin Newsom’s Favorability Rating in California
- But what makes this resurfaced exchange even funnier is the timing. Months after recording that conversation, Gavin Newsom’s own “manhood” became a punchline following a widely circulated clip from the New York Times DealBook Summit. He is sitting awkwardly on stage, legs crossed in an odd, testicle-crushing pose. And then you have Tim Walz crying to the media about how Donald Trump called him “retarded.”
This Viral Clip of Walz and Newsom Talking About 'Masculinity' is Comedy Gold - Crockett’s announcement came just hours after former Democratic Texas Rep. Colin Allred suspended his campaign to unseat Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn on Monday, saying he wanted to avoid a divisive primary that could weaken the eventual Democrat nominee. (RELATED: Failed Democrat Candidate Calls It Quits Hours Before Jasmine Crockett Makes Senate Announcement)
Jasmine Crock(O'sh)ett’s Vain Senate Run Already Tearing Democrats Apart
- Frederick Haynes, who calls Crockett ‘the baddest sister out there,’ announced campaign for Texas’ 30th district
Jasmine Crockett’s Farrakhan-Praising Pastor Launches Bid To Replace Crockett in Congress - A decision could reshape campaign finance laws and is expected by mid-2026.
Supreme Court Considers Striking Down Campaign Finance Limits in Republican-Led Case.
- But the Democrat’s victory wasn’t much of a nail-biter. Higgins had led Gonzalez 36% to 19% during the first round of voting amid a crowded field in November, and was the favorite to win this time. Still, her triumph in a city with a considerable Cuban population — a group that’s often swung right in the past — will be perceived as another ding in the GOP’s armor going into the 2026 midterms. Far left-wing reptilian-Muslim Zohran Mamdani’s ascension to New York City’s mayorship has also been perceived as a voter answer to Trump, as has a Tennessee US congressional special election that went Republican by far closer margins than had been expected.
Democrat wins Miami mayoral race for first time in nearly 30 years, marking major GOP loss ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS - The IDF: Radwan Force’s training camp was being used “for planning and carrying out terror plots against IDF forces and Israeli civilians.”
Israel Hits Hezbollah-Radwan Force’s Terrorist Training Camp, Other Targets in South Lebanon THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT" - I think it’s an important time to hold an election,” Trump said. “They’re using war not to hold an election, but, I would think the Ukrainian people would–should have that choice.” “And maybe Zelensky would win. I don’t know who would win, but they haven’t had an election in a long time. You know, they talk about a democracy, but it gets to a point where it’s not a democracy anymore,” he added.
Trump Believes ‘It’s Time’ for Ukraine to Hold Presidential Election FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - Machado, who has been in hiding in Venezuela since August 2024, is expected to attend if she can safely and successfully leave the country. It will mark her first public appearance since January.
This Week’s Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony Reveals More Than Meets the Eye
- The European Commission defended its leaders, claiming Europeans are “proud” of them.
Trump Slams ‘Decaying’ Europe’s ‘Weak’ Leaders Over Censorship and Mass Migration.
- There are ways to box in China. The question is whether the United States will actually do it. (should've nuked them back in '51 when we had the chance - jjs)
What Do We Do About China?
- Not merely an invitee, but given pride of place.
Tucker Carlson at the Doha Forum DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS - The case is in the hands of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Court Allows Military Transgender Ban to Continue Pending Appeal
- What are the ethical concerns behind autonomous systems making their own decisions to take human life? Conversely, what are the benefits of being able to send unmanned systems into warzones in order to save the lives of American troops?
Hegseth: AI Autonomous Warfighting Systems Are The Future, And They’ll Be Made In America (Meh, this too will ultimately be ooutsourced to the Chi-Coms like every other damned thing - jjs) HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - On Friday, Trump directed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and acting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Jim O’Neill to conduct a review of vaccine schedules of peer nations like Japan and Denmark, which have fewer childhood vaccines on their schedules than the United States. If other developed countries’ childhood vaccine schedules are found to be superior, Kennedy and O’Neil are directed to align the United States’ schedule with them.
Exclusive–Dr. Oz: ‘We’re Going to Kick the Tires’ on Childhood Vaccine Schedule
- Stop throwing good money after bad policy.
Time To End Biden’s Medicare Part D-estruction
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:18 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 10, 2025 07:20 AM (HZtKc)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:20 AM (jjoN6)
Or maybe venomous empathy would work, too.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:20 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 07:20 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:21 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 07:22 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 07:22 AM (ExV1e)
Getting really tired of these demon worshippers.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:23 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:23 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:24 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:25 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 07:26 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 10, 2025 07:26 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:26 AM (Vq1pX)
Trump Addresses Thomas, Alito Retirement Speculation.
He should be working with Congress on buyout packages. Worked for FDR.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:26 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:26 AM (2GVsD)
Rub their faces in it. It works for dogs.
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 07:28 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:28 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:26 AM (2GVsD)
The only place for Spock on TV is Star Trek!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 10, 2025 07:28 AM (x0n13)
Kids shows could never be trusted since psychologists got involved
Kids shows should be the the olden days: idiots, explosions and anvils dropped on heads.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:28 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 10, 2025 07:29 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: A polymorphicly perverse penguin at December 10, 2025 07:29 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 07:29 AM (vHKB5)
Provider records show that the COLE CELLPHONE connected with Provider cell phone towers consistent with the COLE CELLPHONE being in the area of the RNC and DNC on January 5, 2021.
The FBI faced issues with "corrupted data" from major cell carriers during the investigation into the January 6, 2021, pipe bombs, which may have hindered their ability to identify the suspect. However, the cell carriers later confirmed that they did not provide corrupted data to the FBI.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)
Kids shows could never be trusted since psychologists got involved
Kids shows should be the the olden days: idiots, explosions and anvils dropped on heads.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:28 AM (tgvbd)
I had a mad crush on Shari Lewis.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 10, 2025 07:30 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:31 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 07:31 AM (sDNVV)
We joke about some Democrats, like Hank Johnson and Jasmine Crockett, but others are not funny at all. Omar Nur is one of those, and AOC is another. These crazy women will follow through on their threats.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 07:29 AM (vHKB5)
"We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles."
- Hilaire Belloc
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:32 AM (tgvbd)
What the headline says...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) signed a bill that prevents U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from arresting illegal aliens outside of or near courthouses in the state.
What the article says...
Pritzker’s signing of the bill comes after Illinois lawmakers passed the bill during the government shutdown, according to the New York Times. Under the bill, places like hospitals and daycare centers are restricted from sharing certain information with ICE agents.
These are not the same. Do not allow your emotions to be manipulated, even by people "on our side".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)
And to think that 50% of Somalia is inbred brofos.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 07:33 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 07:31 AM (sDNVV)
Well that's why I did not specify any particular election he might be a veep candidate. But his credentials are getting more burnished day by day IMHO.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 10, 2025 07:33 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 10, 2025 07:33 AM (Cjt/F)
- Hilaire Belloc
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:32 AM (tgvbd)
We are the Barbarian.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:33 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Hans O'Lo at December 10, 2025 07:35 AM (Gq9/0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 07:35 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 10, 2025 07:36 AM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)
Manipulated emotions is 90% of this war.
Don't sit there in your trench with a pointy stick and a dream because you think guns are icky. And don't come into my trench and try to take my gun, either.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:37 AM (Vq1pX)
Dog Bites Man story now. Let's see a woman set a random dude with face tats and spider hair on fire.
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 07:37 AM (vFG9F)
"How dare you!"
"Have you no shame!"
"What of the children!"
ad nauseum. *barf*
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:38 AM (2GVsD)
NO ONE WILLOWS MY BON MOTS!
Trying to change the direction of a super tanker is a slow process,
"Tell us about it"
-- the crew that got its vessel -- the MV "Whoopsie" -- lodged sideways in the esophagus of the Suez Canal
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 07:38 AM (xG4kz)
The time for Ukraine to hold a presidential election was a few hundred thousand Ukrainians ago.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)
I'll take that bet.
Pritzker is in the same category as Kelly. Nothing is going to happen to him.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 07:39 AM (ufSfZ)
The victory is an upset for GOP lawmakers across the country, who rallied behind Gonzalez as the election became seen as a test of voter reaction to President Trump’s first year of his second White House term.
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Well, that's depressing.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 07:40 AM (/z8e7)
I assume Cyberdyne Systems is working on it feverishly since they missed their anticipated initial roll-out date.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 07:40 AM (ExV1e)
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Aint nuttin' a ball peen hammer can't fix!
Posted by: Larry, Curly, and Moe at December 10, 2025 07:40 AM (2Ez/1)
99% of (D) voters would let Lawrence out within 30 days.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 07:41 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:41 AM (jjoN6)
We have had the most amazing US government, that advances a great people. The Constitution is the mission statement for an advanced nation. Had the most amazing nation. Is it a flawed oligarchy now?
A country ruled by Leftist Courts and Leftists in general is mission killed. With the GOPe being useless, I ponder. What to do? What to do?
I have talked directly to the senior federal Senator in Kansas. He blew me off.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 10, 2025 07:42 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Minefields everywhere at December 10, 2025 07:43 AM (2Ez/1)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at December 10, 2025 07:43 AM (53oGX)
Posted by: Louis Winthorpe III at December 10, 2025 07:45 AM (bC9HI)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:41 AM (jjoN6)
Let all these fake ass "church" groups who brought them here foot their room and board. And if there's even a hint the kids are being mistreated, prosecute them to the max extent possible.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:45 AM (Vq1pX)
This is a f*cking war. Act like it.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2025 07:45 AM (WHfpM)
Let's think out of the box, here.
Both Pritzker and Kim Jong-un need to be supplied lots of Kerry Gold butter and premium donuts.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 10, 2025 07:45 AM (u82oZ)
We can accept that others will be controlled while remaining free ourselves.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 07:47 AM (ExV1e)
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Welcome to California, where "the seriousness of the matter" trumps common sense.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 07:47 AM (uSFzu)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 07:47 AM (W7XSX)
If I had the time, I'd take one in but odds are good that the child would need a LOT of therapy. And the child would be raised to be American instead of hyphenated.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:48 AM (jjoN6)
Toxic empathy = emotional manipulation
"How dare you!"
"Have you no shame!"
"What of the children!"
The people who resort to this don't actually care about children, or minorities, or the poor. They're just convenient props to be shielded behind so they can sinister with their sinister goals.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:48 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Just the punchline at December 10, 2025 07:48 AM (2Ez/1)
Out of 175,692 registered voters, 37,496 cast ballots on Tuesday, a turnout of 21.3%, according to official records.
37/175=21%. Only 1 out of 5 people bothered to show up.
It means nothing.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 07:49 AM (gbOdA)
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Another disturbing sign. But what will be, will be. If the mid-terms are a shellacking for the R's, it will be because they want it to be. I'm wholly, totally convinced they want to lose. Most especially on the federal level.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 10, 2025 07:49 AM (qBdHI)
Memo to self: read before hitting "Post"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:50 AM (tgvbd)
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Those "church" groups are/were part of various NGO's getting billions of our dollars.
They likely still are. Maybe not as much, but they're still funded by us.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 07:51 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Pizza Box Hoarder at December 10, 2025 07:51 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Minefields everywhere at December 10, 2025 07:43 AM (2Ez/1)
We were always at war with Windows 11.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 07:52 AM (gbOdA)
Which is not, at all, irritating.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 07:53 AM (ExV1e)
"Don't slice into someone's chest" is a very noble maxim to live by. Unless you're a thoracic surgeon.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:53 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 07:53 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Karen McAwfl at December 10, 2025 07:53 AM (2Ez/1)
May you in cold climes experience a heat wave of temps in the 40s. Even if only for an hour in the afternoon.
The rest can bask in warmth under a cloud-dappled sky.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 10, 2025 07:54 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 07:51 AM (NwnyJ)
So they can afford it, then?
Awesome!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:54 AM (Vq1pX)
And 50% of this country will continue voting for their own demise.
Sad.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 07:55 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 07:56 AM (gbOdA)
And 50% of this country will continue voting for their own demise.
Sad.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 07:55 AM (Zz0t1)
A Demoncrat Voter's primary motivation is to punish whoever (s)he doesn't like.
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 07:56 AM (UnA8+)
Why won't you protect ME? The American Citizen!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 07:57 AM (Zz0t1)
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I love all your posts, OA. They always hit the mark with me. I really don't know the answer here. The "media" is waning in influence, to be sure. But we whistle past the graveyard in thinking they still don't have enormous sway. The constant drum beat of lies, lies, lies affects the viewers, whether they recognize the brainwashing or not. I simply don't know if there's a way to destroy them. Any X-level dissemination of their lies, or any other means to address their lies already happens. Only a fraction of people see it, notice it or care about it. Nothing but a cataclysmic event will get enough people to pay attention to what's been peddled and who's responsible for their absolutely manifest dereliction of duty. They're scum; pure scum. And they're going to stay that way.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 10, 2025 07:57 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 07:57 AM (vFG9F)
This will get everyone’s attention very, very quickly. When the more passive disinterested “liberal” sees his property tax go from $2500 to $13,000, he’ll start asking questions about all those illegal aliens living in luxury condos on his dime.
Removal of the federal confetti-buck cannon pipeline mainlining these corrupt cities and goons like Pritzker and Whitmer and the other clowns. They can afford to be generous with notional one’s and zeroes connured out of thin air. Things will be different once they have to directly confiscate it from their constituents. They’ll very quickly end up getting torched out of their mansions, or decorating lamp posts. It’s always been this way, they just crafted a very elaborate scam that has only recently been revealed to the wider public.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 07:58 AM (PIUjZ)
Why won't you protect ME? The American Citizen!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 07:57 AM (Zz0t1)
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The problem is that one person is going to get a beatdown not only from the mob, but from his own government.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 07:58 AM (ESVrU)
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Another disturbing sign. But what will be, will be. If the mid-terms are a shellacking for the R's, it will be because they want it to be. I'm wholly, totally convinced they want to lose. Most especially on the federal level.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 10, 2025 07:49 AM (qBdHI)
I’ve become a bit pessimistic about next year. We conservatives don’t naturally want to exist in perpetual campaign mode; we have real lives to lead. After Trump’s huge win last year, I started to feel complacent. We may just be headed to an inevitable drubbing next year… because 1. We have lived and aren’t constantly obsessed with politics, 2. The GOPe wants to lose (as you point out)
I have some hope that Trump will get into blitz campaign mode next summer and we’ll pull it out due to his massive energy
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 07:59 AM (/iXAp)
Why won't you protect ME? The American Citizen!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 07:57 AM (Zz0t1)
And then you get arrested for being a public nuisance.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 07:59 AM (ExV1e)
Bob never eats a second credit card at home.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 07:59 AM (gbOdA)
I think this is backwards. Trump is a reaction to the continued leftward drift of the corrupt uniparty. The left was well down the socialist slide thanks to 8 years of Obama "fundamentally changing America".
We need more Trump's not fewer.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 08:00 AM (viF8m)
Isaiah 30:18
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 08:00 AM (xn33A)
Why won't you protect ME? The American Citizen!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 07:57 AM (Zz0t1)
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The problem is that one person is going to get a beatdown not only from the mob, but from his own government.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel"
Our side never has rent-a-mobs to do that kind of propaganda. It's another reason the GOP are LOSERS.
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 08:01 AM (vFG9F)
I said this a while back: Liberals basically view the world as a Great Machine and everyone in it with the exception of Our Moral Betters™ are interchangeable cogs. When one cog breaks, you just grab another because it will fit perfectly.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 08:02 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 07:57 AM (vFG9F)
Burning plastics in coal or gas energy plants would be their best use. With the current scrubbers they would change the air quality at 0.5% and return around 50% of their original petroleum use.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:02 AM (gbOdA)
A good start would be to eliminate the office of press secretary entirely and kick the bastards out. Inform them that if they so much as cast a shadow on the White House lawn, they will be airlifted to Gitmo and waterboarded until their brains leak out of their ears. Inform your cabinet and party that anyone who so much as smiles at a MFM traitor without POTUS authorization will be - if a fed employee- fired, and if GOP stooge, will no longer have any access to the Oval Office.
The constitution provides for a free press. It does not require that any administration give access, aid or comfort to a publicly-declared enemy of the country.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 08:02 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: jwest at December 10, 2025 08:03 AM (lnMN4)
Let's think out of the box, here.
Both Pritzker and Kim Jong-un need to be supplied lots of Kerry Gold butter and premium donuts.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 10, 2025 07:45 AM (u82oZ)
You forget my candy gram drive for Sotomayor when she was confirmed?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 10, 2025 08:03 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 08:03 AM (xn33A)
My commitment is to man the local R office and invite discussion. The lazy fucks around here don't bother.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 08:03 AM (sDNVV)
America has been very vocal about what our demands are. The GOP has been very vocal that it doesn't give a damn.
They no longer get to demand votes, especially mid term and off year votes, on the pure brute force of the letter next to their name or one cable news hit two days before election day.
Don't blame the voter. Don't blame the candidate. Blame the party.
Convince America you are finally done with being the Other Crooked Party, fight the retard left as hard as you fight us, and you won't have any problems getting our votes.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:03 AM (Vq1pX)
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For a certain demographic of voters, yea.
But the media's spin is something totally different.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 08:04 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 08:02 AM (jjoN6)
No. Not because it will fit perfectly.
Because they will beat it into shape.
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 08:04 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Madge at December 10, 2025 08:04 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2025 08:05 AM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:07 AM (Vq1pX)
Plastic people
You gotta go-UH
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at December 10, 2025 08:07 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 08:04 AM (UnA8+)
They don't care if it works as a machine, it's just an art installation. Smash away.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:07 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:08 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 08:08 AM (/iXAp)
All I got was aa 1963 film on cast iron.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:09 AM (gbOdA)
A few months before retirement, we were told about the 'passwordless' experience our security was going to bestow on us. They required us to download an authenticator app to our work cellphones. When we used the app to access our regular network, we were re-directed to a page where we had to enter a PIN - minimum 14 characters, required at least 1 numeral, 1 upper case letter, 1 lower case letter, & 1 special character. 'Passwordless'.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:09 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 10, 2025 08:09 AM (ze+Ke)
Posted by: The U.S. Navy at December 10, 2025 08:09 AM (2Ez/1)
I'll miss never seeing Yosemite or Joshua Tree National Parks, simply because they are in California. How do you visit a state where your every move is subject to regulation?
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 08:09 AM (ZxPkt)
Another screed that is 100% about how the author feels entitled to a cheap mini-mansion with low interest and be paid off in a few years.
Zero gratitude for his parents who were, no doubt, not thrilled with his bedroom being the living room sofa. No thought whatsoever about taking in one bird back after another into the nest from which they once flown.
We imported the third world. Everything is more expensive for all of us not just whiny ungrateful generation that demands everything handed to them. Mom & Dad suffer with rotten, failed kids because of the housing issue.
Strange though, that the slaves are mad at other slaves, not the slavemasters for putting them into this position and as we speak are rioting out in the streets to protect the corrupt system that is wrecking their lives.
The fatigue is real.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:10 AM (pUU4E)
Bet they all got mucho $$$$ from Qatar and CCP.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:10 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Grocery store clerks, back in the day at December 10, 2025 08:11 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 08:11 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 08:11 AM (ZxPkt)
Beware anything Cassidy sponsors. Read the text of the bill. It has to be Democrat-Lite.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 10, 2025 08:12 AM (XJzAV)
Because they will beat it into shape.
Posted by: XTC
It's why they obsess over DEI and related nonsense. You don't need a cog to meet certain specs! Just put in the dark colored one and everything will continue to work.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 08:12 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: The U.S. Navy
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U.S. Navy allows Meta engineers to view its schematics.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:12 AM (UdrFj)
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 08:11 AM (ZxPkt)
Supremacy Claus never gets invited to Christmas dinner at his brother Santa's house. They don't talk much.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:13 AM (Vq1pX)
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I don't know what one of those words means and I don't want to.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 10, 2025 08:13 AM (ze+Ke)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:09 AM (NcvvS)
Oh, I have to use the app also.
Connect to the network - enter password, use app.
Connect to the server - enter password... wait 30 seconds... enter password on new pop-up window.
It's only a matter of time until we have to guess a number between 1 - 100.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:13 AM (ExV1e)
Council for the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency
Lara Logan interview of Dr Timothy Shindelar
On utube (w/tons of ads) and I guess on X.
Why no IG investigations ever go anywhere,,, unless "they" want them to.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 10, 2025 08:14 AM (jMlHD)
Ohare airport is the core of Chicago's economy.
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:14 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Supremacy Claus at December 10, 2025 08:14 AM (2Ez/1)
Unless you are an illegal alien and you can just go out and steal a window from a job-site, and modify the structure to accommodate the misfit addition with whatever tar paper, fencing material or crumb wood is at hand.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:14 AM (rgGn5)
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We saw this back in 2010 and started making plans to flee. By 2013 we'd relocated to KY.
It wasn't 'only' the state getting all up in our biz. It was the woke neighbors too. After half a dozen run-ins with them we were outa' there.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 08:15 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Supremacy Claus at December 10, 2025 08:14 AM (2Ez/1)
Smothered . . . in the cradle!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 10, 2025 08:16 AM (x0n13)
Cassidy voted to impeach Trump. Enough said
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:16 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 10, 2025 08:13 AM (ze+Ke)
I took one for the team...
WHOMEGALUL
Twitch chat phrase when a relatively obscure person is mentioned on the stream.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:16 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: The U.S. Navy
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U.S. Navy allows Meta engineers to view its schematics.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:12 AM (UdrFj)
I wrote a letter to W about 25 years ago to make a common SMR that could be built on Army and Navy bases and leased back to cities and states. And we have thousands of people trained to run them.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:16 AM (gbOdA)
Listen! It's getting louder every day
Listen! It's like a bolt out of the blue
Listen! It could be calling out for you
Plastic people, walk on by
Plastic people, don't you cry
It's not too late, No
It's not too late...
Listen! It's like a Mozart symphony
Listen! It's something just for you and me
Listen to what the plastic people say
Listen! It's getting truer every day
Aaah
Posted by: Spinal Tap Revival at December 10, 2025 08:17 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:18 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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There's an election coming up and 20 solid seats are retiring.
Trump will be stumping for Trumper candidates.
Our money and X promotion will help.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:18 AM (UdrFj)
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Exactly. Mr. Trump is the symptom not the cause.
“Reactionary” is Marxist theory pejorative term (you know, if you constantly throw shit on people, eventually they … will react).
NBC famously showed Chicago’s finest beating up hippies at the 1968 DNC festivities. Right at 5PM. Why, it’s a Police Riot! Tsk tsk. The cameras in those days only showed what they wanted you to see.
“Reactionary”. You misspelled “Righteous Indignation” MFers.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 08:18 AM (PIUjZ)
The goal is MAGA, not to give the entire Congress a reason to oppose Trump further.
We already lost most of the GOP to the Dark Side because Trump is doing the Unpardonable Sin of holding politicians accountable for their corruption, malfeasance and destruction.
Want to make sure that no appointments for judge or attorney get made again? Threaten the companies that need O'Hare that heavily
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:18 AM (rgGn5)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 08:19 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:09 AM (NcvvS)
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You sound less than enthusiastic about my new idea to improve productivity around here.
-Nazdar's boss
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:20 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 08:21 AM (vFG9F)
Right beside the bust of John Nance Garner.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:21 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:22 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:22 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:23 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Michael Angelo at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (vFG9F)
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
This is no different then in the early 40s if the governor of Alaska ordered his state resources to protect the "Japanese Undocumented Immigrants" that had just entered his state...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (sKqQm)
The two Democratic governors sat down for an episode of This Is Gavin Newsom back in March, and during their 50-minute conversation, they briefly shared their thoughts on masculinity. Yes, masculinity.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Willie Brown at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)
Heh. Wasn't completely sure who my boss even was, the last few months. Different people handled different aspects of my work and none of them were involved in that fiasco. Just thought making a big deal of something that wound up effectively downgrading access management was ill-considered
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (NcvvS)
Michael Goodwin's take on Hochul in today's NY Post is great. A less than useless lump. Stefanik is on Bartiromo's show dumping all over Hochul about reversals in positions on taxes, congestion pricing and now giving in to Mandani. If I didn't live in NYS I'd say 'more popcorn "
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (D+mpw)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:25 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:09 AM (NcvvS)
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You sound less than enthusiastic about my new idea to improve productivity around here.
-Nazdar's boss
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:20 AM (A0sqA)
Based on the first five words in Nazdar's statement, I doubt their boss communicates with them often.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:25 AM (ExV1e)
No. “We” absolutely did no such thing. Not even a little bit. Get it in your head, this is enemy action.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 08:25 AM (PIUjZ)
Posted by: Michael Angelo at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (vFG9F)
Just knock off everything that does not look like Cammy.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:25 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 08:25 AM (ix8EF)
TO use your analogy, if a random Republican office holder hits one of those buzzer beater shots, he'll almost certainly face lawsuits, prosecution, and assassination attempts.
And perhaps most importantly in our current moment, they'll see their own graft go away...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 08:26 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 08:26 AM (ijWOO)
He pointed out that the shooting of Kirk was the most successful assassination in history.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (WHfpM)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Eromero at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (jgmnb)
https://tinyurl.com/bnzz9t8d
Read the whole thing, folks. Head on a swivel. Keep up your situational awareness especially in public places and church. There is a lot of chatter about this coming from credible sources.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (XJzAV)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: YellowBird at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (MEbkQ)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:18 AM (rgGn5)
They are the problem. Force their hands. Make them very visibly the reason we can't have nice things. Don't want to play ball? Want to ignore the electorate? Want to sandbag our efforts because you won't risk your precious slop trough? Go away, then. Lose. A traitor in office demanding fealty to Our Friends Across The Aisle so they can keep making the rent payments on their office and make a buck on the side on top is worse than an avowed enemy. All their dollars are impotent if they become sufficiently hated by the base that they themselves already hate.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 08:25 AM (ix8EF)
Check out OANN.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2025 08:28 AM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (77rzZ)
100% of men tested had microplastics in their semen.
Welcome to my cumfetti!
Posted by: Skeletor at December 10, 2025 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)
Of course not. That doesn't feed the DOOM narrative.
Trump was in vintage form last night to a wildly enthusiastic reception. He's getting the band back together and hitting the road and next year a whole lot of stuff will start to hit the economy and people's pockets in a positive way.
And it seems to get forgotten some Republican states are redistricting which will add more Republican seats. It's way too early too be dooming about elections 12 months away.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 08:28 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (WHfpM)
No one remembers history. -- Gavrilo Princip
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"
Go ask the YouTubes for Right Side Broadcasting. They usually cover everything he does.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (2Ez/1)
Tranny, noony, toony and that crap is slang for homosexuals and medical mutilations. Technical words exist for these deviant personalities and acts. Trivializing them is counter productive to the English language and our perception of reality.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (UdrFj)
1: Make it harder for bad actors to access your system. But generally these methods also make it harder for your employees/customers to access your system as well and we are entering the period where most of these security increases are well below any positive return on investment.
2: Get serious about prosecuting internet crime. Someone steals $1000 but forces companies to spend $100M protecting from what they did? Hang them on national TV. But...the powers that be don't want to go down this route...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (sKqQm)
Yeah. It took two parts - the FedGov willing to shovel our cash, and declining groups with ever decreasing budgets.
A match made in... Minneapolis.
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (XuXeR)
We did not give them command our own divisions and then claim they were irreplaceable.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:30 AM (Vq1pX)
Dick: That's because you were always a nasty little shit.
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 08:19 AM (W7XSX)
Very true. Tom was an extreme leftist, same as Johnny Carson. They both kept it relatively quiet, but they weren't known as conservative type. One reason I think that Carson thought Tom's impression of him was funny and Rich Little's was not after a while was because of their shared ideology.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 10, 2025 08:30 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: fd
I burn all my paper, cardboard, cellophane-type waste. I need to burn a couple hundred pounds of pine straw and cones that drop on my driveway, garage yearly from my neighbor's trees, anyway. You get a good fire going in the fire pit, the waste goes up in flames in seconds. One of the benefits of living rural.
Posted by: Sweet Rural Shade at December 10, 2025 08:30 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (rJ48h)
The Republican candidate just wasn't what I was looking for, so I stayed home.
Posted by: Average Republican Voter at December 10, 2025 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Michael Angelo at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (vFG9F)
Just knock off everything that does not look like Cammy.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:25 AM (gbOdA)
Those bewbs are as hard as marble columns!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 08:30 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 08:31 AM (W7XSX)
Amen.
Posted by: Monks from long ago at December 10, 2025 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)
-Nazdar's boss
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:20 AM (A0sqA)
Based on the first five words in Nazdar's statement, I doubt their boss communicates with them often.
My last boss was a decent guy and good at his job. He didn't have to communicate with me a lot because he had only a loose understanding of what I did (he was a resource manager, not a technical one) and I had been doing that specific job for more than 20 years.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:31 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:32 AM (YCxFk)
To paraphrase Heinlein, violence works. Especially if only one side is willing to engage in it.
Bondi and co had an opportunity to use that assassination to roll up every antifa associate of the shooter. Instead it appears they aren't even going to bother with Squirrel Boy.
And yes the left will trade a few years in jail for a street activist/thug for a conservative leader any day.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 08:32 AM (sKqQm)
Very painful to watch Ana fail to grasp that demonstration.
"I'm a proud Armenian who works on a show named for the perpetrators of the Armenian genocide."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (OPUTs)
"Cactus Jack" Garner, famous for saying that the Veep slot was worth as much as a bucket of warm piss.
I think it was Veep Alben Barkley who uttered the immortal phrase, "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (77rzZ)
Some years ago I started transitioning all of my food storage containers to glass. There's still a plastic lid but it interacts with the food less and isn't present if I reheat in the microwave.
I suspect that disposable water bottles are big issue but that's a harder nut to crack for an emergency supply.
Generally, I don't worry about it. I've done what I can and I shan't live in fear over what I cannot control.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (+odZa)
Pizza boxes make great shotgun targets. Keep the spread on the box.
Posted by: Shotgun Willie at December 10, 2025 08:34 AM (bC9HI)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 08:34 AM (D+mpw)
Lots of Brinksmanship down at City Hall these days. Totally possible that the histrionics will spin out of control.
Posted by: YellowBird at December 10, 2025 08:35 AM (MEbkQ)
Posted by: Dollywood employees at December 10, 2025 08:35 AM (2Ez/1)
"I Think She's a Fed and I Think She Killed Charlie"
https://tinyurl.com/4he497s9
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 08:35 AM (NpAcC)
>>@mplpodcast305
>>On Republicans losing the City of Miami tonight — and why this is a much bigger loss for DeSantis and the GOP establishment than for Trump and MAGA. (And yes, I live here.)
https://tinyurl.com/cwv5sebb
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 08:36 AM (viF8m)
Fake data. Ridiculous interpretations. Garbage metrology. I can't say that all that stuff is going on.... but I'm assuming it as loud as i can.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:36 AM (Vq1pX)
After rescue and settling her debts, she flaked again.
I did not feel bad about doing what needed to be done. Hammer was dropped.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 10, 2025 08:37 AM (cS1cw)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:37 AM (A0sqA)
I said, after the initial wave of worldwide memorials to Kirk, that I was afraid it was all a nine-days wonder and that his movement would be swamped and silenced by the implicit threat of "Shut up and stop making us kill you!"
It seems I was right.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 08:38 AM (ufSfZ)
https://tinyurl.com/cwv5sebb
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 08:36 AM (viF8m)
In other words: Republicans really don't care about the hostile takeover by Democrats and the NWO that will destroy America because it just hasn't effected THEM PERSONALLY.
We're f*cked......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)
The other half is pedophilia, goat fucking, and fart noises.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:39 AM (gbOdA)
We're so totally f*cked.
This is why we'll never have nice things again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at December 10, 2025 08:40 AM (Hpgos)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 08:41 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: jmel at December 10, 2025 08:41 AM (RWHIh)
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (YCxFk)
that is the point
21% turnout
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:41 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: She Dumb at December 10, 2025 08:41 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (OPUTs)
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Kinda sounds like Poso.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:42 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at December 10, 2025 08:40 AM (Hpgos)
Could be a sliver of an idea in there.
Get used to effing up with that garbage now while we're still at relative peace, rather than later in a panic when some jerkoff MIC types can sell it as a mid-panic panacaea.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:42 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 08:42 AM (D+mpw)
A disturbing thought I had:
• Lots of influential people and "ethicists" claiming that AI will be NAFTA 2.0 and put a lot of people out of work
• They also say that AI's disruption is a humanity crisis that can only be solved through regulation
• or those who profit from AI fully underwrite UBI with the trillions that they make.
• WEF has been destroying public grid capacity for decades now.
• WEF is pushing AI and UBI and all of the pathologies
Now the public is demanding that data centers stay off the public grid and feed themselves. With nukes.
Think about it, we are demanding that those who will take our jobs and laugh at our UBI demands be in well defended islands and prevent any attempt to shut them down by being completely self contained.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:42 AM (WCaCG)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 08:43 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: N
I needed to make a no-effort dinner when I was working in the evening, so I roasted yukon gold potatoes drenched in kerrygold, and then topped them with prosciutto and chives.
I think I'll call this kitchen creation "The Pritzker Special." Even a little is dangerously fattening, it's very easy to access a lot of it quickly, and it's extremely delicious. It's a real "Mr. 5x5" kind of meal.
Posted by: lurker at December 10, 2025 08:43 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:31 AM (NcvvS)
While I've only been doing my current role for about a dozen years, this describes my current manager to a tee. She still insists on weekly meetings, though, so she can impress upon me how very much she CARES about me no matter how many times I mention that I'd prefer otherwise.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 08:43 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: Slow on the Uptake at December 10, 2025 08:44 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: But you already knew that at December 10, 2025 08:44 AM (2Ez/1)
10/7 The Musical is feature film.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:44 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:16 AM "
Found out something a few days ago and I'm surprised so few know about it - well, there are no real reporters anymore, just stenographers for The Message.
But anyway, there are currently 3 SMR's under construction in Texas, 5 more in the permitting process and which should begin construction next year. Permitting should not be a problem, both the State and Fed agencies support the effort.
The idea is that once a standard design is settled on (that's what is being worked out now) then many more can be built without much trouble.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 08:44 AM (+Dm7G)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 08:42 AM (D+mpw)
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I am usually very critical of Maher but he did not let her get off the hook simply repeating liberal dogmas, slogans, cliches, and falsehoods. And that was all she offered.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:44 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (OPUTs)
Based on the shit I see online, most young men don't have to deny women anything. The gals are too busy taking their turn with Chad.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: 18-1
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USPS and railroads used to offer severe PENALTIES for abusing their service.
We don't do penalties very well any more.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (UdrFj)
I would rather have JD take over in 2029 than earlier.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (/TiS1)
Posted by: But you already knew that at December 10, 2025 08:44 AM (2Ez/1)
You asked for it........
https://youtu.be/zQ41hqlV0Kk
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 08:43 AM (YobFY)
My family bitches at me about my Romulan Ale consumption.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: El Rushbo at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (tmGxn)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (ExV1e)
Who names their washing machine Chad. That's silly.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:46 AM (Vq1pX)
Municipalities which want to ensure that the correct person gets elected. Ditto city council and school board elections.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)
While I've only been doing my current role for about a dozen years, this describes my current manager to a tee. She still insists on weekly meetings, though, so she can impress upon me how very much she CARES about me no matter how many times I mention that I'd prefer otherwise.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)
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You morons have done a very thorough job sh*tting all over my original lameass joke.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:46 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:44 AM (A0sqA)
To be fair, that's all 90% of the talking heads on the left have. There are no free thinkers on that side, for the most part.
Maher pointing it out shows that he gets it and he's trying to get them to open their mind to different views of communism and why it's good.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Frog Bezos is building 5 in WA.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:48 AM (UdrFj)
-- Adolf Hitler
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:48 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 08:43 AM (pDt9x)
******
Well, they haven't had a Democrat mayor for 30 years.
There is a lot of fracturing in the Republican Party right now with the likes of Tucker Carlson, MTG, Candace Owens leading the charge in convincing people not to vote for Republicans.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 08:48 AM (NpAcC)
He was taken by ambience to the nearest horse piddle.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 08:49 AM (+Oyis)
Posted by: 18-1
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USPS and railroads used to offer severe PENALTIES for abusing their service.
We don't do penalties very well any more.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (UdrFj)
Visa charge 3% to retailers. So that mean 3% is fake, fraud, and bad to cover the 97% good.
Medicare is 10% fraud.
Medicaid is around 12%.
So in your lifetime of work about 1 year to 4 years just goes to pay for criminals, scamps, scallywags, and ne'er do wells.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:49 AM (gbOdA)
A common theme that crops up in Scripture is that cities are a bad thing.
its like reading text and encountering the word "birds" or "dogs", something bad is about to follow.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:49 AM (pawvM)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
Yeah, what's up with that?
-- Chick on the Liberty Mutual ad who named her car "Brad"
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:49 AM (77rzZ)
I just don't see the doom some do right now. If you listen to Scott Bessent, possibly Trump's best cabinet choice, he is very confident we are going to see a boom in the economy next year thanks to the BBB and other steps taken by Trump's team this year. Those old enough to remember when Reagan took over also remember it took some time for the economy to recover and then it took off like a rocket.
Redistricting is happening. USAID is largely done. Election roles are being cleaned. Illegals are going home and there will be a surge of new ICE people next year thanks to all the hiring. And we've got Trump campaigning all across the country for MAGA candidates.
Midterms are always a challenge for the party in the WH but all things considered we are in pretty good shape at the moment.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 08:50 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:50 AM (UdrFj)
-- Chick on the Liberty Mutual ad who named her car "Brad"
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:49 AM (77rzZ)
She totaled him.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:42 AM (WCaCG)
The public, generally, lacks the capacity for critical thought. They are misinformed, at best, and overly emotional. They are sheep, easily controlled, and just as easily lead to the abattoir.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Criminals, scamps, scallywags, and ne'er do wells at December 10, 2025 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)
It takes a lot computing resources and skilled labor to keep the lights on at Visa. 3% is cheap.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:51 AM (pawvM)
Gavin Newsom’s California gave a driver’s license to an illegal alien and MS-13 LEADER wanted for a QUADRUPLE HOMICIDE in Honduras.
Gerson Emir Cuadra Soto, 33, was an MS-13 leader and part of a professional assassination squad for the gang. He came into the U.S. illegally under the Biden administration. After being charged in Honduras in 2022 with firearms offenses tied to a quadruple homicide, Cuadra Soto and two co-defendants allegedly bribed their way out of jail.
He crossed from Mexico into Texas and later obtained a California driver’s license using his real identity.
He has now been arrested in Grand Island and is facing federal charges.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 08:51 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2025 08:51 AM (WHfpM)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 08:50 AM (viF8m)
illegals birthing new forever permanent public charges are down about 12 to 15%.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:52 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 08:52 AM (D+mpw)
Thanks. Scott Bessent is my favorite cabinet pick. I also like Pete Hegseth but only because he looks good without a shirt. JK
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 08:54 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 08:54 AM (IvPcr)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 08:52 AM (D+mpw)
Chunk Yogurt is a bloated obnoxious idiot.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)
Well, they haven't had a Democrat mayor for 30 years.
There is a lot of fracturing in the Republican Party right now with the likes of Tucker Carlson, MTG, Candace Owens leading the charge in convincing people not to vote for Republicans.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 08:48 AM (NpAcC)
I am not implying that it is a good thing that a Democrat scum has taken office, merely that “ cities” are the focal points of all that is wrong in the country. Socialism concentrates there, because cities are run by councils, soviets, and the resources are managed by them. It’s a terrible problem, and I honestly don’t know what can be done about it.
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 08:54 AM (pDt9x)
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And elimination of regulation. It's 40 gone to every 1 new one.
They are trashing regulations all over the place. The effect won't be immediate but when business and industry adjusts it will be like the tide coming in.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (UdrFj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Naughty Fen is the best Fen.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (77rzZ)
The voting demographic was largely Latinos hungry for some leftist love.
YMMV
"Imported." Florida has their own illegal problems and they're not necessarily from Mexico. But they do reside in Miami.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (NwnyJ)
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Now describe Mrs. Clinton. I had great fun with that, on my leftist friends. They were mortified. “Why … but . She was a Senator! Secretary of State!”
No no no I said. Those are job titles. What did she do. What are her accomplishments? Can you describe some of the great legislation she passed? I think she was instrumental in getting a post office renamed. Is that what you mean by “the most qualified person to ever run for president”?
Sorry, I’m just not that easily impressed. The “First Vagina-American” is not the persuasive argument we are led to believe it is.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (Y4gci)
Posted by: Just like YouTube channels at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (D+mpw)
Approximately 17% of Miami-Dade County's residents live in the City of Miami.
Posted by: mr tmz at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (UdrFj)
And yet we've gotten curb stomped in the last few elections.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Just like YouTube channels at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)
TJM hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)
There are a stunning number of management-level people who believe, 'I meet, therefore I am.'
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM (NcvvS)
Got our letter today telling us that The Big Dummy has gotten into Westminster.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM (tgvbd)
He is Church of England now?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:54 AM
Ditto his douchecanoe nephew, Hassan. OK, maybe not bloated, but obnoxious and idiotic? Yeah.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 08:57 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Does that mean that he has to wear a monocle?
Seriously, congratulations!
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:57 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 08:57 AM (bFu5X)
Is that the dude that electrocutes his dog on screen?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)
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They need to make space on Mount Rushmore.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 08:58 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM (tgvbd)
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Tell Lamont we said "Good Boy!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:58 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM
How much for the tripod and pintel accessories?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 08:58 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:58 AM
That's the one.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 08:59 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Mr. Monopoly at December 10, 2025 08:59 AM (2Ez/1)
The font wars begun they have.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:59 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM (tgvbd)
Whoa! Are you comfortable with joining the Anglican Communion?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 10, 2025 08:59 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 08:59 AM (D+mpw)
That's the one.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 08:59 AM (bFu5X)
Agreed.
I was hoping the Chinese would've caned him while he was being a douche in China.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:00 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM
Nice! Will he have an ascot, striped trousers, and little spats?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:00 AM (bFu5X)
Now describe Mrs. Clinton. I had great fun with that, on my leftist friends. They were mortified. “Why … but . She was a Senator! Secretary of State!”
No no no I said. Those are job titles. What did she do. What are her accomplishments? Can you describe some of the great legislation she passed?
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM
I can think of some things she didn't do
Posted by: Zombie Ambassador Chris Stevens at December 10, 2025 09:00 AM (tljrc)
It's the old-fashioned, sadder but wiser gal for me.
Posted by: Count Music Man de Monet at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Does that mean that he has to wear a monocle?
Seriously, congratulations!
Posted by: Bulg
Spats.
And carry a cane.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (+Oyis)
Well, they haven't had a Democrat mayor for 30 years.
There is a lot of fracturing in the Republican Party right now with the likes of Tucker Carlson, MTG, Candace Owens leading the charge in convincing people not to vote for Republicans.
Posted by: redridinghood
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Communicate to the middlings interested in conservatism that Carlson, Owens, MTG, Fuentes and their fellow travelers are antagonists to conservatism. How?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (UdrFj)
Posted by: Helvetica at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (2Ez/1)
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They need to make space on Mount Rushmore.
A Glory Hole?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (BvPIe)
Put in in there with a sign: The biggest f'in dummy ever to hold high office.
That's historic, ain't it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:00 AM
Give him time. Lots of streamers are getting themselves arrested in Asia lately.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 09:02 AM (pDt9x)
Really? For weeks all we heard was the AOC of the midwest was going to take a MAGA scalp in Tennessee. It was going to be a nail biter!
It wasn't a nail biter. She lost by 9 in an R+10 district. I'm not surprised at all about races in VA or NJ of NYC. All of them were long shots other than NYC which was impossible. And special elections are always unique animals and don't reflect midterms. We hear this during every special election season and then quickly forget it.
What exactly are Democrats going to run on next year if the economy continues to improve? Fighting for illegals? Defunding police? I'd rather be in our position right now than theirs.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:02 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:02 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: Zombie Ambassador Chris Stevens
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Dead men tell no tales.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:03 AM (UdrFj)
Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at December 10, 2025 09:03 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 09:03 AM (Oy/m2)
"It's not that I don't want to. I simply can’t."
"It's only reinforced the severity of the situation where life is on hardcore mode. You make one mistake and you're dead, and it only takes one."
"One mistake."
This is the world that Progressives have dreamed of since the W election in 2000.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 09:03 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 09:03 AM (D+mpw)
Good morons wouldn't have it any other way *Stan Laurel nod*.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 09:04 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:02 AM (viF8m)
I have all the faith in the world that we will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, like we usually do because our team sucks balls, has no killer instinct and just can't have nice things.
But I appreciate your optimism.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Helvetica at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (2Ez/1)
Avenge me!
Posted by: Century Schoolbook at December 10, 2025 09:04 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Until The Big Dummy wins Westminster.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:04 AM (77rzZ)
The font wars begun they have.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:59 AM
What the hell does that even mean? How is one font more accessible than another? Unless we're talking about how easy a machine reader can handle it, for blind people. Otherwise, this is pretentious twaddle.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:04 AM (bFu5X)
Anyone remember PEPSI A.M.?
1989, the idiots at Pepsi launched a new Pepsi to compete with, get this, coffee. The new cola had +25% caffeine than regular Pepsi.
Reviews said it tasted "like flat Pepsi."
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:05 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Congrats on the early entry.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 10, 2025 09:05 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:02 AM (viF8m)
It's about turnout. If they have it and we don't it won't matter.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2025 09:05 AM (WHfpM)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:05 AM (RHGPo)
Reviews said it tasted "like flat Pepsi."
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:05 AM (ASZ8O)
That would be one big own dick step.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)
Wait…. Did she actually say this??!!
If so that is unbelievably out of touch ignorant and stupid. What??!!!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: redridinghood
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I dunno about the "not voting Republican" part. More like "the Republicans don't listen to us and we're mad at them so you should be too."
The common thread with them is mental illness. IMO.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (NwnyJ)
Anyone remember KODAK "Disc" cameras?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (GPa4z)
The number of entries to Westminster is limited to 2500. The top 5 dogs of every breed get an automatic invitation. Everyone else has to put in an entry and hope they get chosen under that quota.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 09:03 AM (D+mpw)
Oh, I'm sure a lot of failed-life women really idolized and supported her, and still do. They've achieved nothing and are bitter about it because they were supposed to be princesses who would get everything handed to her and found out differently. You can usually identify them by their rolls of fat, or boney bodies with either shaved heads or hair of non-natural colors. Oh, and they're ugly, too.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (uQesX)
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agree- she's historic, alright
but not in the way she thinks she is
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 09:07 AM (IvPcr)
Pretty much always is. That's why I love the idea of Trump hitting the campaign trail and turning this into a national election.
When Trump is on the ballot turnout surges. Don't run from it, use it.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:07 AM (viF8m)
Who was born...
"Eleanor Geisman" in 1917?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
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Such a nice Angleish girl.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:07 AM (UdrFj)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (RHGPo)
Because the 'consensus' was wrong. REALLY wrong.
Not one prediction they've made since the 70's has come to fruition. Not. One.
They all should be shunned and living under a bridge.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)
You would think with nearly all politicians and their weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth over the VZ drug boats (which they are 100% convinced are transporting either cocaine or fish) that there would be a regulatory acceptable market for a revival of cocaine laced cola.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 09:07 AM (BvPIe)
Bust of Sydney Sweeney >>> Bust of Kamala Harris
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:08 AM (tgvbd)
It's a nudge wink way of saying that Trump Hates The Disabled, I'm guessing.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 09:08 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 10, 2025 08:59 AM (uQesX)
I can go down the road any time I want and walk into Harry's and hold my head up high and say in a loud, steady voice: “Harry, I want you to sell me a condom. In fact, today, I think I'll have a french tickler, for I am a Protestant”.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 09:08 AM (gbOdA)
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It's the political equivalent of a participation trophy.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 09:08 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 09:09 AM (D+mpw)
We use Times New Roman at work as our official font.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:09 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Comic Sans at December 10, 2025 09:09 AM (2Ez/1)
But not for anything she's actually done.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:09 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 09:09 AM (XuXeR)
@EricLDaugh
JUST IN: CNBC is NUKING the Democrats right now for lying about Donald Trump's economy
"The affordability issue is from the 22% increase in prices under Biden - FULL STOP!"
FACT 💯💯
https://tinyurl.com/bdewdbhy
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 09:09 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM (NcvvS)
I'm wondering if I should inform my wife, who's been retired for a bit over three years, that starting next week we'll be having a weekly sitting 'stand up' to discuss our ongoing relaxation projects.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)
Perhaps not a marble bust in Congress, but to be fair...
Golf Courses across the country have started installing the-
New Kamala Harris Ball-Washer!
which includes a very classy plastic bust of the former VP and is said to take wonderful care of your balls!
I think as Americans we can all be proud of this tribute to Kamala Harris and the importance of clean balls.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:10 AM (iJfKG)
Pretty much always is. That's why I love the idea of Trump hitting the campaign trail and turning this into a national election.
When Trump is on the ballot turnout surges. Don't run from it, use it.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:07 AM (viF8m)
Absolutely true. What gains we have made are Trump-Driven. He can pull the 50 plus % that is essential. The strong horse. I just pray that Vance can carry on.
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 09:10 AM (pDt9x)
"Eleanor Geisman" in 1917?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
Eleanor G I think you're swell... you're my pride and joy et certera....
Posted by: The Turtles at December 10, 2025 09:10 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 09:10 AM (Oy/m2)
Remember in 1981 LIFE SAVERS candy made Soda pop?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:10 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 09:10 AM (D+mpw)
Hmmm. Sounds like a plan...
/immigration
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 09:11 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 09:11 AM (IvPcr)
JUST IN: CNBC is NUKING the Democrats right now for lying about Donald Trump's economy
BREAKING: CNBC is expected to announce mass layoffs in a cost cutting move. More info to come as the day progresses.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:11 AM (Dv3i1)
Eleanor Rigby
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:11 AM (xG4kz)
Doesn't matter, when TikTok tells you that the world is unfair, and you will lead a life of slavery and debt unless you vote for Communism, then it really doesn't matter if unemployment is under 2% and real wages has increased and crime has dropped.
People vote vibes, not reality.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 09:12 AM (NzX/y)
Posted by: Eleanor at December 10, 2025 09:12 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:12 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 09:02 AM (pDt9x)
They're not looking for security. They have a list of shit that they want and number one on that list is "someone else to pay for it".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (ExV1e)
I just read your post. So be happy. At least one person cares.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (NzX/y)
Dammit, it's not that much smaller than the other slices. Just eat it and get it out of the way of the other slices.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:12 AM (VCgbV)
I thought it was in the UK.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)
And in other news, CNBC was found dead...
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: SMOD
Wiping? Like with a cloth?
- Hillzabub
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Jaimo at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (BCuCF)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM
*raises hand*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (bFu5X)
Dammit, it's not that much smaller than the other slices. Just eat it and get it out of the way of the other slices.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)
It's a crust thing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: The Turtles at December 10, 2025 09:10 AM (uQesX)
According to the band, they wrote "Eleanor" as a joke, because the label had been pushing them for another hit like "Happy Together."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM
Nice! Will he have an ascot, striped trousers, and little spats?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:00 AM (bFu5X)
No. He'll be wearing doggie Crocs and riding a Mini-Vespa.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (0CU3H)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (pP43i)
LOL. A big reason I retired about 16 months before originally planned was that I was stuck on a project where the sociopathic customer PM demanded daily 1-hour meetings of the whole team. So, ~17 people sitting on a Zoom call for an hour every day. I certainly was not the only one who found other things to do during the sessions.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)
You monster. What kind of communist eats the heel first? It's there to protect the other slices as you go through the loaf. Eat it at the end if you want to.
We're trying to have a civilization here.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (ufSfZ)
The first time et cetera was used in a song lyric, too.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM (uQesX)
*raises hand*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (bFu5X)
I do as well.
Whomever thought combining the kid's viewer thing with a camera was, well.......interesting.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 09:16 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM
So you're saying he's a gaynine?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:16 AM (bFu5X)
Well?
Who was born "Eleanor Geisman" in 1917?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM (ASZ8O)
Eleanor Roosevelt???
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 09:16 AM (pDt9x)
Westminster
Area of the City of Westminster in the London Region in England • westminster.gov.uk
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (UdrFj)
*******
They're all frauds and grifters. They are trying to destroy everything that Charlie Kirk works so hard for and they're even trying to destroy his widow, it makes me so sick. It's like they take great joy in being able to manipulate people into thinking the most bizarre idiotic thoughts.
I believe they've done great damage and they're only helping the Democrats. They find a lot of pleasure in that which is sick.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 09:16 AM (NpAcC)
Dammit, it's not that much smaller than the other slices. Just eat it and get it out of the way of the other slices.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)
Heels keep the next slice from drying out. They're the last two slices left in the wrapper bag. As Dad, it was my duty to make my sandwich or toast using them. I hope my kids, in the fullness of time, come to appreciate my sacrifice.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 09:17 AM (wVcYX)
Kamala Harris: ‘There Will Be a Marble Bust of Me In Congress… I Am a Historic Figure’
As a second level "find" in the race to pick a running mate dumber than yourself, you broke through to Kola Peninsula bore hole depths when you continued the chain by selecting Tampon Timmy. Well done, Venn Diagram Master!
We'll install your bust in the Drinkers' Corner, Old Lady Emhoff.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:17 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM
Thank you. You have restored my faith in Moron commentary.
Also, how could you tell the difference?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:17 AM (bFu5X)
Then how did we end up with Trump as POTUS and both houses of Congress? And that was before some of the election cleanups started.
Trump didn't vibe himself into winning every swing state and the popular vote. He worked for it and offered policies that people wanted. Imagine that.
Long way to go but accepting we are doomed right now when there is no indication that is true is not my favorite strategy.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (viF8m)
The 150th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is set for January 31, February 2, and February 3, 2026, returning to NYC with events at the Javits Center (breed judging) and Madison Square
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM
Nice! Will he have an ascot, striped trousers, and little spats?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:00 AM (bFu5X)
No. He'll be wearing doggie Crocs and riding a Mini-Vespa.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (0CU3H)
******
That's fantastic Hadrian.
Evidently, The Big Dummy is no dummy.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (NpAcC)
We all know where this goes.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (pP43i)
Who was born "Eleanor Geisman" in 1917?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM
Sorry...had to look that one up.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (bFu5X)
you scoop out the insides and put olive oil parm and some roasted broccoli rabe in there
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (emBoF)
Dammit, it's not that much smaller than the other slices. Just eat it and get it out of the way of the other slices.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)
Eh, I don't mind the heel.
I think the reluctance to eating the loaf of bread heel is the result of-
all the weak sisters and lame bros of the human race, who as children demand that the bread crust be cut off their sandwiches to get rid o0f the "tough part".
Don't be a weenie! Eat the crust, lame-os!
#FirstWorldProblems
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (Dv3i1)
Estimated 40 UK citizens have died so far but this is first disclosed troop death.
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:19 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:19 AM (emBoF)
Steve Herman
@W7VOA
The Nazis, in 1941, banned the Fraktur font because it was “too Jewish.”
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One step from Auschwitz.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 09:19 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bronx Is Up, Battery Down at December 10, 2025 09:20 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:20 AM (ASZ8O)
But the biggest dog show in England is Crufts.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:20 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (Dv3i1)
It is a higher bar than most here can obtain, present company included.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM (Dv3i1)
That is like saying you saw a Garth Brooks and Chris Gaines concert.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 09:21 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 09:21 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:21 AM (Dv3i1)
·
3m
>>🚨 BREAKING: Vice President JD VANCE will travel to Allentown, PENNSYLVANIA next week to talk about affordability and the economy
>>BOTH President Trump and Vance will be deployed for the 2026 midterms nationwide.
>>Amazing news! 🇺🇸
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)
·
2h
CDC is reporting the death of an organ recipient who received a kidney from a donor with rabies.
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this is a really bad case of 'someone skipped a step'
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (IvPcr)
That is like saying you saw a Garth Brooks and Chris Gaines concert.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 09:21 AM (gbOdA)
One would be puttin up a white flag in surrender.
https://youtu.be/iqLLRH9tMSQ
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)
Seeing as how U2 is recognized by the U.N. as the single World Heritage Site set aside for Pretentious Twaddle, they are striving mightily to upgrade the enterprise into a Galactic Black Hole of Pretentious Twaddle.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:08 AM (tgvbd)
Sadly, Sweeney has, reportedly, bent the knee.
https://youtu.be/YVXfjRaOgXg -- Asmongold clip talking about it... short.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (ExV1e)
It's like taking a bite from the middle of a hot dog. Or cutting an apple pie into squares. If all you're trying to do is signal to the world that you need medication and probably some kind of restraint system, fine, but.....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (emBoF)
Break it up, throw it in soup. You are so extra, Orchid.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (wVcYX)
her last movie bombed
so she wants to keep going now, she hasta
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (emBoF)
·
3m
>>🚨 BREAKING: Vice President JD VANCE will travel to Allentown, PENNSYLVANIA next week to talk about affordability and the economy
>>BOTH President Trump and Vance will be deployed for the 2026 midterms nationwide.
>>Amazing news! 🇺🇸
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)
Doing the job the RNC refuses to do.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)
You just know office folks over the yewrs have had a LOT of fun changing the fonts on the network computers and/or printers.
probably resulted in some sort of disciplinary action, or worse, a Lecture
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (y+G1Q)
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* but never in the same place
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (lF28Z)
https://youtu.be/32qHDs3n-Sg
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 09:11 AM (IvPcr)
"Best in Show" is an exaggeration. But not much of an exaggeration.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (tgvbd)
lol that is also nice!
I don't even eat bread anymore. it's crazy.
when I taste any, it just tastes like dust
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (ASZ8O)
My commitment is to man the local R office and invite discussion. The lazy fucks around here don't bother.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 08:03 AM (sDNVV)
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
Trump is a once in a century political talent. We've never seen anything like him before, and we may not again for quite a while. It is beyond shameful that there's even talk of Republican congressmen retiring ahead of the 2026 midterms - especially after what we experienced after Paul Ryan shivved him in 2018.
It is up to US to reform the party. Join your local GOP. Yes, they're largely crap, but if decent people join there is a chance to reform from the inside. I made the decision to join my town RTC four years ago, and now I chair it. It's tough to turn the ship around, but it absolutely can be done. We need to do this. We can't wait for a savior. We're it.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (0CU3H)
The decision, announced through an internal cable, cited a need to uphold decorum and professionalism by employing a font viewed as more traditional. Calibri, adopted in early 2023 under Secretary Antony Blinken, was intended to enhance accessibility for individuals with disabilities, according to the retired directive.
This shift emerges amid broader Republican efforts, spearheaded by figures like Trump, to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across federal agencies and sectors. Critics argue these policies oppose merit-based ideals and disproportionately disadvantage certain groups.
.. I gave up using "Swiss" for "Helvetica" for the same reason
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (RHGPo)
lol is it?
well it wasn't when I was handling
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:24 AM (emBoF)
Cheap Steak = Midterms Victory
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:24 AM (ASZ8O)
She was bread in old Kentucky, but she's just a crumb down here.
Posted by: Strong Bodies-12 Ways! at December 10, 2025 09:24 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:24 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (ASZ8O)
My Catholic elementary school served that for lunch once a week for a few months.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)
To be fair, most of my posts aren't up to the quality of Deep Thought's by Jack Handey.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
Aren't you supposed to be working to give Mooslims the old heave-ho in Europe?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:25 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (emBoF)
Even the real homemade stuff? I make a lot of bread. I don't eat most of it but I make a lot.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 09:25 AM (lF28Z)
Dammit, it's not that much smaller than the other slices. Just eat it and get it out of the way of the other slices.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)
We feed the heels to the backyard bird. We don't consume them like a poor. /shudder
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:25 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 09:26 AM (XuXeR)
lol is it?
well it wasn't when I was handling
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:24 AM (emBoF)
==================
Baron Haden-Guest made a great movie when he made this one.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:26 AM (pP43i)
yes. even good stuff.
even crackers
I don't have any carbs and haven't for a few years now. well, other than beer lol! a small beer once a week.
no sugar no simple carbs
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:26 AM (emBoF)
He literally did vibe a victory. Why else do you think he is making a national campaign once again?
Trump set the vibe of MAGA. Good grief, you think playing "YMCA" and "God Bless The USA" is policy briefings or CPI reports?
All this crapping on Tucker, et al is all about vibes. He is "discouraging" voters. Discouraging is not a term applied to objective policy goals. It is a subjective opinion made against any policy by those who don't like it.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 09:26 AM (+4Cf6)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM}
It doesn't make it any easier when even Pope Leo says there is nothing to fear from them.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:26 AM (Dv3i1)
——-
Yabut “attention to detail” is one of those “white supremacist” sorts of things.
Just die quietly, don’t ask so many questions. It’s just one of those things that happen.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 09:26 AM (y+G1Q)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:27 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)
which is saying something
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:27 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 09:27 AM (D+mpw)
.. I gave up using "Swiss" for "Helvetica" for the same reason
Posted by: SMOD
Oh, one of those Emmental snobs, are ya?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:27 AM (xG4kz)
@atalovesyou
Imagine flying 20 hours to renew your visa.
Then getting an email: "appointment cancelled."
No refund on flights. No alternative locations. No answers.
Just wait 6 months.
That's H-1B life right now.
Herefortheshitshow
@hereforthething
Imagine being an American told to get into tech, spending thousands on a degree for a tech job, in which that job is outsourced via H1B visa recipients.
There are no refunds
No way to feed your family
No way to pay your rent
No sympathy
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:27 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:28 AM (emBoF)
——-
Juan McCain famously claimed Obie would be OK as prezdent, too. Great Moments in total fucktardness.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (y+G1Q)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (iJfKG)
@atalovesyou
Imagine flying 20 hours to renew your visa.
Then getting an email: "appointment cancelled."
No refund on flights. No alternative locations. No answers.
Just wait 6 months.
That's H-1B life right now.
Go home. Ask your home government why they're not doing more to create industry and jobs in your own country. Enjoy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:26 AM (emBoF)
I always feel best when I give those up. Lose weight too, not that I need to. I keep telling myself to stop buying them but I do love them. And I never give them up completely, just mostly.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (lF28Z)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (ufSfZ)
In a hijab, no one can tell that you're sporting a twig and berries.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (xG4kz)
Anyone else receive a CALLIGRAPHY Kit for Christmas when they were a kid and never use it?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: birds at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (Q+gd/)
@atalovesyou
Imagine flying 20 hours to renew your visa.
Then getting an email: "appointment cancelled."
No refund on flights. No alternative locations. No answers.
Just wait 6 months.
That's H-1B life right now.
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:27 AM (RHGPo)
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I was told nothing about H1-Bs had changed, that Trump had expanded it, made it easier, and Trump was going to lose the midterms because he wasn't shooting Indian techies in the streets.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (RHGPo)
——-
The only thing to fear from islham is your life. They will end it when given the chance.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Bar >>> Sans (a) Bar
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (xG4kz)
Anyone remember that? The Calligraphy craze in the late, late 70's and early 80's?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (ASZ8O)
NOOD Art
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (77rzZ)
Jasmine Crockett: "It is literally time to take our country back. It is time for us to own our flag. It is time for us to prove what patriotism is."
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Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (L/fGl)
in my case it's to reduce my post-mRNA inflammatory disease. it works so well I don't stop. if I slip up, it hurts, physically. so, that's motivational.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (emBoF)
Anyone else receive a CALLIGRAPHY Kit for Christmas when they were a kid and never use it?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (ASZ8O)
*raises hand*
*slinks away to change my computer font to a serif one*
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:31 AM (0CU3H)
Posted by: JB Pritzger at December 10, 2025 09:31 AM (Dv3i1)
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This statement presumes she knows what those principles are and is said without evidence. Show your work, buster; I don't believe she has a clue.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (pP43i)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (VCgbV)
Imagine running state-wide in Texas literally 2 minutes after you called ALL white people "racists" who were committing crimes on blacks.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (ASZ8O)
That's not vibing. That's developing a platform of policies that appeal to a wide swath of voters and working to earn their votes.
Trump is not campaigning now on vibes. He's campaigning on the results of the policies he championed and how they are helping the American people. It's good old fashion politics done the right way.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (viF8m)
More crispy crackly crust, tender innards, and was admirably suited to holding even more dairy butter.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (y+G1Q)
Don't show me spreadsheets and chromatography graphs about your beer. Don't tell me who your head brewer's secretary's son in law is. Don't sit there desperately trying to convince me that your beer is actually objectively good with Facts and Logic. Just show me two half naked chicks mud wrestling over it.
But then... make sure the beer is at least good enough that if I do buy it, because I think everyone else is and i don't want to think about it too hard, I keep buying it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 09:33 AM (Vq1pX)
==
who does not even live in the US and needs to fly 20hrs to "renew the visa" ?
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:35 AM (g47mK)
who does not even live in the US and needs to fly 20hrs to "renew the visa" ?
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:35 AM (g47mK)
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H1-Bs have to go back home and renew at the consulate in their home country now.
New policy as of a couple of months ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:35 AM (GBKbO)
OMG I forgot all about that. I'm sorry you're still suffering over that. Bastards. It does make my Crohns better so I should really motivate myself....
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 09:38 AM (lF28Z)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 09:38 AM (W7XSX)
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Sounds very national. National Socialism. Could work.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 09:38 AM (lF28Z)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (RHGPo)
From above, "Chicago could lose federal funding after a 26-year-old woman was set on fire on the city’s train system in what the Trump administration described as a “preventable attack.”
Sure, it definitely should, but it won't. The progressive game is break the backs & minds of the "working class" however broad that may be.
They push beyond reasonable limits, the administration pushes them back, the Courts intervien. In the meantime, they sue, they 'report' to the 'public' that the administration is 'bad,' funding won't be available to sustain current lifestyles, prices are unsustainable, and so on.
There's almost no negotiations but there are intentional reductions of services (slowdowns), strikes, threats of strikes (weekly), and public pummeling via the msm.
Those coordinated efforts with cronies helps paint a big picture to frighten &, at times, inconvenience the low infos., of which there are now by far more than imaginable out here, educational levels & achievements be damned. (C19, the great teacher of the civilized, the creator of puppets and puppeteers.)
All politics is local.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 10, 2025 09:41 AM (NFX2v)
“Instead of using the power of the presidency to bring our country together, President Trump chose to attack an American immigrant community, the overwhelming majority of whom are law-abiding and have made many positive contributions to the United States,” they said in a joint statement, labeling Trump's rhetoric as “xenophobic and unacceptable.”
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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That is how, in part, you can tell who still watches or reads outrage merchants. There is also the large influx of Debbie Downer comment on conservative websites on places like Instapundit, NY Post comments, etc.
Difficult to determine the signal from the chaff but if all comment systems forced reveals of country where a person lived and/or signed up for the comments, it would cause a shift in the force. Used to be, often grammar and spelling indicated that a commenter was foreign (eg grey from gray, labour for labor) or unusual sentence structures. AI has removed that indicator via polish.
Second, automated bots are getting really good even at responses instead of a dump and run.
We swim in a polluted sea of information ops by everyone under the sun--Democrats, globohomo, foreigners out to do us ill, etc.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: JackStraw
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He is working to overcome the Billions $$$ of advertising lies sent over the media.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (UdrFj)
Now days after the most recent light rail stabbing, the city is continuing efforts to improve public perception and encourage people to use public transit.
“It is outrageous that rather than fixing the problem of violent crime that is literally killing people, the Charlotte City Council wants to spend $3.4 million on public relations consultants,” said South Carolina congressman and gubernatorial candidate Ralph Norman following the decision. “What a slap in the face to law enforcement and the taxpayers of Charlotte. I have already called on the mayor to resign, and it might be time for the city council to follow suit.”
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 10:02 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 10:02 AM (RHGPo)
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Sounds like the NY Yankees are moving to SC.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (UdrFj)
We agree.
Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 10, 2025 10:41 AM (rQwsY)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (RHGPo)
She’s not wrong for once. The police exist to investigate crime, not to prevent it. Yeah, there are things you can do to prevent it (like ICE kicking out illegal aliens) but by and large, cops do not intervene in crimes in progress except through blind, dumb luck.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 10:44 AM (rQwsY)
Will Trump find anyone as good as these two? And even if he did, will the Senate allow such people to pass through its halls without doing its best to stop them? GOPe are a bunch of traitorous assholes (yes, I saw Traitorous Assholes front for Butthole Surfers at the Tidy Bowl back in '02)...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:54 AM (ynpvh)
Historic for her Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy for all her years working it as a politician...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:00 PM (ynpvh)
COPY HERE →→ https://give2better58.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 10, 2025 04:41 PM (vyN+2)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 10, 2025 05:46 PM (wGqjj)
Daily Tech News 10 December 2025
Top Story
- Australia is joining a wave of fascist dictatorships around the globe in regulating how kids spend their time online. (The Verge) (archive site)
I may have changed a word or two there.On December 10th, most major social media platforms will boot children in the country under 16 from their services. Under the law, social platforms will also need to implement a "reasonable" age verification method there - while critics argue kids will get around it anyway.
The critics are, of course, correct. The age restrictions are about as robust as The Verge's paywall.
And VPN providers are having a field day.
Maybe they put the idiots in Canberra up to it.
Tech News
- RAM is ruining everything. (The Verge) (archive site)
Useful tidbit: SK Hynix - one of the big three memory makers - is investing $500 billion dollars in new factories, with the first set to go into operation in 2027.
Half a trillion dollars. That's a lot of money. Whether it will be enough is an open question, but I'm not sure we can criticise them for not expanding faster.
- Microsoft's Patch Tuesday is here for December and fuck me that's a lot of security holes. (Bleeping Computer)
Ugh.
- AMD has announced its new Epyc 2005 processor range for embedded servers. (Serve the Home)
They're Ryzen 9000 desktop chips, just packaged differently and with lower power budgets.
- Boom Supersonic - which demonstrated a supersonic jet back in January - has found funding and customers, but not for its supersonic jet. (Tech Crunch)
It's selling a derivative of its jet turbine engine for power generation for datacenters.
- The war on disinformation is a losing battle. (The Verge)
Which is good, because The Verge is squarely on the side of disinformation. They only get through two paragraphs here before they start actively lying.
Disclaimer: Go or go not, there is no good.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 04:01 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:02 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 10, 2025 04:04 AM (ajk4p)
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:08 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Signed, Fluffy Nuggets, Jr.'s Mother at December 10, 2025 04:13 AM (ajk4p)
That's a very long CVE list at the bottom of that article.
CoPilot should be finding and fixing these vulnerabilities for Microsoft, actually give it something useful to do.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 04:15 AM (6ydKt)
401 04:01 hr
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 04:01 AM (1zOXE)
Nice numerical patterning.
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:15 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 04:15 AM (ufSfZ)
Looks like a solid 3 hours of work left over from last night, so must get going.
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my ding-a-ling
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Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 10, 2025 04:21 AM (sAmhv)
"Why Nobody Lives On This HUGE Stretch Of Australian Coast"
https://youtu.be/f6gVTfmNKGc
(Geography by Geoff)
It's all about the Great Australian Bight and the Nullarbor Plain, and why nobody lives on this thousand km section of Oz's southern coast.
It's quite interesting if you're into geography or want to learn more about Australia.
I'd seen this part of the continent on a few episodes of Outback Truckers years ago when a few unfortunate drivers had to haul loads from Perth to Adelaide. Always wondered what the deal was with this oddity, and now I know.
It's one desolate place, that's for sure.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 04:22 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 10, 2025 04:24 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 04:28 AM (1zOXE)
Haha!
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:36 AM (RuTUS)
Haha!
Posted by: m
>What are you saying? Stage diving into the mosh pit ain't cool any more?
youtube.com/watch?v=2zxoGFjFJlk&list =RD2zxoGFjFJlk&start_radio=1
(one space, because I'm lazy)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 04:41 AM (1zOXE)
Haha!
Posted by: m
>What are you saying? Stage diving into the mosh pit ain't cool any more?
youtube.com/watch?v=2zxoGFjFJlk&list =RD2zxoGFjFJlk&start_radio=1
(one space, because I'm lazy)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 04:41 AM (1zOXE)
"They're the same video."
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:47 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:02 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 10, 2025 05:07 AM (i02lT)
Same story, BBC:
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwy54q80gy9t
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:07 AM (RuTUS)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 10, 2025 05:13 AM (tljrc)
Where there is no parking
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 05:14 AM (Ia/+0)
[Julie Inman Grant, Australia's eSafety Commissioner,] said there may be "blatant non-compliance" from tech companies, "but we've got plans for that". ... But she added: "I'm trying to contain my excitement".
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:16 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 10, 2025 05:21 AM (ph+d0)
Posted by: fluffy at December 10, 2025 05:28 AM (AN2gy)
Lady, before you get too excited, I suggest you do some research on 4chan. They will make your life fun and exciting without anyone in the government telling them to do it.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 05:33 AM (jjoN6)
Maybe this weekend I can safely stop bringing in the bird feeders in the evening.
Posted by: fluffy at December 10, 2025 05:34 AM (AN2gy)
I've kinda wanted to visit the land down under, but the form of government the Aussies wound up with makes me believe that I'd end up in jail versus being deported if I said the wrong thing whilst visiting.
I recognize that my belief of what might happen may very well be disconnected from would happen. And, hey, I subscribe to the DrainAddict YouTube channel (he's an Australian plumber and I've learned more about Australian sewer systems than any sane non-Australian human would want to know); individual Aussies seem great.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 10, 2025 05:34 AM (3k5hk)
At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke
https://archive.is/wBpNl
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:34 AM (RuTUS)
Strange dream last night, that I was seduced by a older, but attractive enough, redhead with a rather sharp foxy face -- at *a pipe shop* of all places. She had no objection to the fact other men were there, and in fact wanted to, uh, get busy right there in public. I was not especially attracted to her -- but it was as if I were hypnotized, like a rabbit mesmerized by a snake.
Now that I think about it, I realize I did not take any melatonin last night. So I can still have vivid and somewhat disturbing dreams even without it!
Whassup with all o' you?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:35 AM (wzUl9)
Or when they search your device at the airport and see this site in the history, they'll boot you out.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 05:37 AM (jjoN6)
It has showed up in my feed. Based on your recommendation I shall give it a gander.
Posted by: fluffy at December 10, 2025 05:38 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:41 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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I had my procedure yesterday morning. Came home groggy and tired. Started to feel uncomfortable after a few hours so started taking the tramadol that was prescribed. It's been so long that I forget opiates make me sleepless and slightly itchy. So, I feel like I've been up all night. I'm sure I've dozed off here and there but I don't feel like it. And I feel the urge to urinate all the time because of the stent.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 05:41 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:42 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:43 AM (W7XSX)
Many diplomats are unhappy with changes Mr. Rubio has made to the department’s structure and leadership, and have reported badly damaged morale within their ranks.
*blink*
But the Biden administration’s move to Calibri prompted some grumbling from some traditionalists who preferred Times New Roman. Mr. Blinken also changed the standard font size, from 14-point to 15-point, requiring extra keystrokes that some diplomats found annoying.
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:45 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:47 AM (W7XSX)
1) changes Mr. Rubio has made to the department’s structure and leadership
2) the Biden administration’s move to Calibri ... Mr. Blinken also changed the standard font size
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:48 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025
***
Hullo, lin-duh,
I too had tramadol prescribed after my deal this last July. At first I thought it wasn't doing much for my pain, and asked for something stronger. My surgeon obliged . . . but it had acetaminophen, Tylenol, in it, which sends me to the bathroom every two hours. So I went back to the tramadol and found it worked well enough. At least it let me sleep. Before long I could do without it and took some ibuprofen as needed. Your discomfort will pass.
If it doesn't, though, tell the doctor right away!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:49 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:47 AM (W7XSX)
Using a keyboard, you *could* "select all" and have a keystroke shortcut set up to insert a particular font size.
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:50 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:52 AM (W7XSX)
Well, the videos that I've seen about the Australian customs folks, they'd throw my ass out for having a strain of the jock itch fungi that doesn't exist in Australia.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 10, 2025 05:53 AM (3k5hk)
I still have hydrocodone/acetaminophen left over from my knee surgery. I'm not big into the opioids because of the side effects but will take the bare minimum needed.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 05:54 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 05:56 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 05:58 AM (sDNVV)
https://tinyurl.com/bdhe9tf2
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 05:58 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 06:00 AM (RuTUS)
Will keep you on prayer, Linda.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:00 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:01 AM (sDNVV)
Sorry, Lin-duh. I misspelled your handle .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:03 AM (PFs9e)
https://tinyurl.com/2p9jd6aj
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:08 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Fenderbender at December 10, 2025 06:08 AM (1FEc1)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2025 06:09 AM (FHh4j)
Glad you've given Babylon 5 a shot. As you've been advised, the first season's a little rough but it does have its good moments. Also, the music for the first season is a little repetitive because Christopher Franke (the composer) hadn't been given time to expand, that changes with season 2 onward, and there's some amazing music.
After you've watched each episode, I encourage you to read its entry at:
http://midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
And yes, that's http NOT https. This is an OLD site.
A majority of the episodes are part of the 5 year story arc, though there are a few stand-alone episodes that don't contribute to the arc. Those will stand out. A couple of them are stinkers. No series is perfect.
Bruce Boxleitner (plays Captain Sheridan) takes over the role of station commander in Season 2. The change was jarring originally, but he cements himself as a central player in the story (and does it very well).
(continues)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 10, 2025 06:09 AM (O7YUW)
Part of the magic of those 1950s recordings is, of course, Chuck Berry's compositions. The other part of the magic is the core musicians that played on those 1950s recordings; all of them went on to to be recognized as legends over their careers. If you have the time, it's worth looking up the biographies of these guys.
The core members consisted of:
Chuck Berry - composer, vocals, guitar
Johnnie Johnson / Lafayette Leake - piano
Willie Dixon - upright bass
Fred Below - drums
The precise looseness of the band against Chuck Berry's driving preciseness on guitar creates a sublime tension that gets translated into raw musical energy. It all adds up to some of the greatest recordings of all time.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 06:09 AM (uv8gn)
Commander Sinclair (played by Michael O'Hare) passed away in 2012. Brilliant man. For the religious ceremonies episode in season one, just know that he did that "down the line" introductions walk in one take. JMS said that there was much more filmed, but they didn't have time to show it.
O'Hare, while troubled psychologically, was a brilliant man with a fantastic memory.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 10, 2025 06:10 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:10 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 06:12 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 06:12 AM (uv8gn)
Yes, he got home around 12:30am. We talked a bit then I can to bed to toss and turn for several hours.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 06:13 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 06:14 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 06:15 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Is That Weird? at December 10, 2025 06:15 AM (BEC0D)
Fun fact (after viewing the harvesting article in the ONT for the family in North Dakota whose father had died) -- when you search for and find a named North Dakota location with a map application, its appearance on the map likely will be a named dot surrounded on all sides by nothing but green empty space. The very definition of sparsely populated, it is.
I only bother to look because my maternal grandmother and her family bounced around that geographical Pong game board a great deal prior to her getting married.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:18 AM (xG4kz)
If it's any consolation , I really don't think you're the Antichrist..😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:18 AM (IeCgc)
The war on disinformation is a losing battle. (The Verge)
Which is good, because The Verge is squarely on the side of disinformation. They only get through two paragraphs here before they start actively lying.
Always on the verge of lying, as it were, eh?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:20 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"
Whew, what a relief. I don't need the responsibility.
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 06:20 AM (vFG9F)
https://tinyurl.com/2s3hwcx5
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:21 AM (IeCgc)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 06:22 AM (9ipOP)
Tried resetting the breaker but it wasn't having it. For now I've got an extension lead running from my bedroom to the fridge, which is humming away happily so at least that's not the problem.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 10, 2025 06:22 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 06:23 AM (vFG9F)
Don't be so closed minded.
Posted by: fluffy at December 10, 2025 06:26 AM (AN2gy)
I watched this YT video last night before bed.
"Why Nobody Lives On This HUGE Stretch Of Australian Coast"
https://youtu.be/f6gVTfmNKGc
(Geography by Geoff)
This Geoff characters has made a goodly number of such videos: "Why Nobody Lives in This Large Portion of [ fill in this blank ]".
Ones that I recently had viewed were the U.S.' Atlantic Coastal Plain from southern Va to the GA / FL border - and - a broad band that runs from SW to NE through the center of France.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:27 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Fenderbender
>When I order a dirty martini, this is what I'm striving for, but dry.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 06:27 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 06:23 AM (vFG9F)
That's odd, we actually use them instead of ID cards.
Posted by: Tren de Aragua Home Office at December 10, 2025 06:28 AM (CjRYq)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 06:32 AM (9ipOP)
This is in contrast to the store (another chain) in the next town where some cashier is wearing a grinch hat but is still smiling along with an
tall older black guy who says "How are you today?" And when I say "Blessed " he responds "Well you' have another day on earth. Good for you" He was quite patience with my problems .
I wished I lived closer so that I could go there more frequently.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:32 AM (Nx5jP)
Good morning, Hordians.
Day 3 of no water at Schloss Hadrian. Had the well guy out yesterday, who said that the problem with the wiring from the breaker panel to the well head. An electrician will be out this morning.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 06:32 AM (tgvbd)
Any problems with the x86 to ARM translation layer for applications? - Posted by: SpeakingOf
For me, zero. One old utilities I use requires .net framework 2.0; both installed perfectly in our work and fine. There are a few other x86 applications I use and all of them installed and work just fine.
Probably the biggest test was the x86 version of Office 365 I use because it includes the now known as "Classic" Outlook instead of The dumbed down new Outlook which replaces it. The suite installed perfectly and I can't tell the difference between how it performs on my x86 boxes or the Qualcomm box.
My understanding of Prism, the x86 translation layer, is that it is greatly improved from where it was a couple years ago and that a significant number of games, an initial major problem area, are now running ok. At what performance level is another question that I can't answer.
Another challenge in answering this question is most of the applications I use are now natively compiled for the ARM platform. My dependence on Prism is remarkably limited. Real progress is being made here.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 06:33 AM (uv8gn)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 06:20 AM (vFG9F)
Lazy antichrist is so 2025.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 06:33 AM (dK+Kv)
So, are these mainly Win 11 issues, or are they folding in any Win 10 stuff?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 10, 2025 06:35 AM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:35 AM (sDNVV)
Just a reminder, neck tats are a sign of antisocial behavior.
With "makes poor life choices" not even trying to lurk in that person's background.
"'WTF? Wot put you off my application for this job, eh?"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:35 AM (BCvbq)
Posted by: Just Wondering at December 10, 2025 06:35 AM (2Ez/1)
But. There’s something always a little weird about digital creations, there’s no there there, a certain anonymous wall of digital sound even when they clearly really try to recreate the “air” and excitement around a genuine band recording, It tastes good at first for a second or two, but it’s calorie free.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 06:35 AM (BEC0D)
I think Johnny B Goode is the quintessential 50's rock'n roll song.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 06:22 AM (9ipOP)
Ch. Soyara's Johnny B. Goode. Gentleman John, like The Big Dummy a stupid but sweet and well-mannered boy.
https://soyaraborzoi.com/Johnny.htm
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 06:37 AM (tgvbd)
Hope that the electrician can get it repaired quickly.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:37 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 10, 2025 06:38 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at December 10, 2025 06:38 AM (EcHpA)
Ran into a tp-link Deco-X60, three pack for $139.00, with no sales tax at the Navy Exchange.
I know it's not the latest golly gee-whizz fastest product, but neither is out 3,000 SF house.
Using the home ethernet for backhaul, will this meet general needs?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 10, 2025 06:40 AM (a1415)
Im going to try to sleep again
Posted by: lin-duh is offended
It is said that the first cut is the deepest.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:41 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 10, 2025 06:35 AM (/HDaX)
Unless you obtained the extended service plan, any vulnerabilities in your copy of Win10 still exist and shall do so until the end of time.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 06:42 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:43 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 10, 2025 06:22 AM (BLOW1)
uh-oh
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 06:44 AM (RuTUS)
So you're saying I shouldn't have done that? Because at the last place I worked. . .
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 06:44 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:44 AM (sDNVV)
Unless you obtained the extended service plan, any vulnerabilities in your copy of Win10 still exist and shall do so until the end of time.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
A brother in arms of the Voyager spacecraft heading ever outward from our Solar System.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:45 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 06:45 AM (RuTUS)
###
He took. It out.
Posted by: Elaine Benes at December 10, 2025 06:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Was m on task, or no?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:46 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 06:42 AM (ExV1e)
I did sign up. But I'm not seeing any indication of a Tuesday update in this case.
Thus, the question.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 10, 2025 06:46 AM (/HDaX)
He drove to gigs with his guitar and little else. Cash up front (which did apparently eventually invite some unwanted scrutiny by federal revenue authorities) before the show. If he didn’t like the way the show was going, he would just leave. Keith Richards idolized him naturally, but ole Chuck clocked him a time or two for being difficult, once for getting a little too familiar, picking up his guitar.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 06:47 AM (BEC0D)
m was!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:47 AM (xG4kz)
A big European institution is finally being put the question: "to whom will you flaccid, degenerate post-Christian cucks bow more deeply? Your precious rumpranging turd burglars, or your precious goat raping turd-worlders? Because it can't be both."
https://tinyurl.com/3z3jbjcj
Posted by: It begins at December 10, 2025 06:48 AM (KWbVO)
Not that you have to lose weight , but the story of this woman amazes me. This 86 year old woman lost tons of weight by walking around her small apartment:
https://tinyurl.com/bdzx6syt
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:49 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 06:49 AM (3rxgK)
That is a pretty fair description of these weird AI tracks. AI has the ability to imitate what has already occurred and utterly lacks the ability at this time to create what has not been done yet. It lacks the spark of originality. Further AI has no ability to create musical performance poetry; that again is the realm of what it means to be human and is something AI will never be able to touch.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 06:50 AM (uv8gn)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 10, 2025 06:50 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:44 AM
It has to fail because President Trump put so much effort into it. The left and their fellow travelers worldwide want it to fail.
Posted by: Eromero at December 10, 2025 06:51 AM (jgmnb)
And now he has a 'Christmas' short on Disney+ that may finally retire The Star Wars Christmas Special as the worst Christmas show ever.
A little girl's doodle on her letter to Santa comes to life and it kinda reminds me of the invisible monster with the paint splatter from Johnny Quest except it has no mouth but still makes muffled screams.
Yeesh. Kill it with fire now!
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 06:51 AM (2GVsD)
Drove past my old elementary school yesterday and saw kids out playing in the falling snow at recess. AND they had a fenced in area for snowball fights.
Nice to see that Mitten moppets are still made of sterner stuff.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 06:51 AM (kpS4V)
You got to love those early lip sync music videos. There is usually moments in every one of them where everything goes off the rails.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 06:51 AM (uv8gn)
Yessh. Put the fork down.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 06:52 AM (BEC0D)
; )
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 06:52 AM (RuTUS)
Dangerous to admit, but I was guilty of doing that more than once.
In the olden time we used to say fixing a car was "a great way to pick up chicks," and we were pretty literal-minded about that.
Today's outsiders-looking-in would no doubt expect her to file a consumer protection lawsuit if anything on it quit working.
AOP has some stories you can only tell at the International Meet.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 10, 2025 06:53 AM (zdLoL)
Serif fonts, like Times New Roman, are much easier on the eyes to read as the serifs (the little dangly-bits off the edges of letters) help to guide the eye to the next letter in the word.
Sans-serifs are fine for headlines and other short lines of text as well as decorative copy in designs.
At least that's what I was taught in Typography classes.
So, Rubio made the right decision switching from Calibri, just from a standard design and readability standpoint.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 06:53 AM (6ydKt)
I think she did that as well. She became a vegan.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:55 AM (Nx5jP)
As an adult, Slaughter covered her mirrors with bedspreads because she couldn't stand looking at her reflection.
"I was so embarrassed," she says. "I didn’t want to see myself."
Man, do I know how she feels.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 06:55 AM (ufSfZ)
The wind... it be howling this morning. Temperatures are supposed to crash this week with potentially accumulating snow tomorrow - Friday.
Been a harsh start to winter here. And it's not even the 21st yet.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 06:56 AM (NwnyJ)
I'm guessing you're not a fan of Comic Sans.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 06:56 AM (uv8gn)
A big European institution is finally being put the question: "to whom will you flaccid, degenerate post-Christian cucks bow more deeply? Your precious rumpranging turd burglars, or your precious goat raping turd-worlders? Because it can't be both."
The team members of Egypt and Iran could always make a point to wear large and very legible "Come Fly With Us!" buttons.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:56 AM (xG4kz)
A big European institution is finally being put the question: "to whom will you flaccid, degenerate post-Christian cucks bow more deeply? Your precious rumpranging turd burglars, or your precious goat raping turd-worlders? Because it can't be both."
https://tinyurl.com/3z3jbjcj
Posted by: It begins at December 10, 2025 06:48 AM (KWbVO)
archived link
https://archive.is/61D30
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 06:58 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:01 AM (jjoN6)
>>>Fifa did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ya think?
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 07:01 AM (RuTUS)
O'Hare, while troubled psychologically, was a brilliant man with a fantastic memory.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 10, 2025 06:10 AM (O7YUW)
I've gotten through seven episodes so far.
I like it. While it's similar to DS9, it has a lot of differences (one being B5 is huge compared to DS9).
Earth Force as opposed to Starfleet is also quite cool.
My fav episode so far is the Rogue Psychic one.
And my favorite scene so far is the one you mentioned, where Sinclair is introducing the Alien delegation to an amabassdar representing Earth's different religious, racial, and ethnic groups. I really thought that was well-done even though it was a small part of the episode.
I'll be watching more later, and thanks for the Lurker's Guide, I'll check it out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 07:01 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 07:01 AM (A0sqA)
You're talking about car warranties right?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 07:02 AM (uv8gn)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
The Lurker's Guide is an absolutely wonderful resource.
My favorite first season episode remains TKO even though it was pretty polarizing with some folks.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:02 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:03 AM (2GVsD)
Gazans are artists of great international repute whose vastly preferred medium is rubble.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 07:04 AM (xG4kz)
Question answered.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 10, 2025 07:05 AM (/HDaX)
My wife's anniversary statue from Greece, which I did not expect until after Christmas, got here last night. They must have chartered a special plane just for me. Shipping was expensive, but they all are right now, and it takes a lot to impress me. Wow.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 10, 2025 07:05 AM (zdLoL)
Don't do this to yourself . When you start to feel bad about your appearance. think of least one feature that you find attractive such as "I have nice eyes" or something else . My son was going through a bad batch of depression several months ago and I encouraged him to look at how he talked to himself. I realize that this is not the entire answer and maybe you need meds adjusted but positive self talk helps .
The other thing that helps (and it's easier for women to do this than men because you don't want women to think you're trying to pick them up
Is to give a genuine compliment to at least one person everyday even if it's "I like the color of your coat." It makes others feel better and the giver of compliments as well because you made a positive difference in someone's day. I have been conscious about trying this because I am affected by Seasonal Affective Disorder and this has helped me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 07:05 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 06:33 AM (uv8gn)
Cool deal.
Microsoft will need it to work.
ARM is the future and Windows needs to work.
If they can ever get more developers to port to ARM we might get past 250W - 400W TDPs for CPUs someday.
Just the savings on battery life alone is worth it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 07:05 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 07:06 AM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:07 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:02 AM (jjoN6)
Seven episodes away from that one.
I'll have to remember to watch it more closely since you're so impressed by it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 07:07 AM (6ydKt)
A big European institution is finally being put the question: "to whom will you flaccid, degenerate post-Christian cucks bow more deeply? Your precious rumpranging turd burglars, or your precious goat raping turd-worlders? Because it can't be both."
The modern European mindset (coming to the US, if not already here) seems to be, "Everyone will be so impressed by our big brains and degrees from elite institutions that they'll just fall into line with us." Then they're astonished when the stronger and more ruthless mow them down. Am I wrong?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:08 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:08 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 06:56 AM (uv8gn)
It's an old fun font with very few legitimate uses beyond... comic book speech bubbles.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 07:08 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 07:09 AM (Nx5jP)
I caught President Trump's speech in Pennsylvania last night. It's nice to see that he's running for congress while being president. It's going to be a good year now that he's on the campaign trail again. I'm looking forward to the time when he debates Jasmine Crockett.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 07:06 AM (uv8gn)
I'm happy that PDJT is out talking to people. But, given either the incompetence or malevolence of the USSS, I worry for him as well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:10 AM (tgvbd)
Keeping kids away from phones is a good idea.
How to properly do it is another thing.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:12 AM (UdrFj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:12 AM (2GVsD)
Serif fonts, like Times New Roman, are much easier on the eyes to read as the serifs (the little dangly-bits off the edges of letters) help to guide the eye to the next letter in the word.
When I was doing our website, I spent quite a bit of time picking what I thought was the right font. I finally chose Garamond.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:12 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2025 07:13 AM (WPL6O)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 07:13 AM (rZCVI)
My Dad was great at chatting up checkout clerks with small talk. I try to emulate him in that respect despite my natural introversion.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 07:14 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:12 AM (tgvbd)
It's a classy font.
Quite nice for a lot of designs and easy to read.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 07:14 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 07:14 AM (vFG9F)
The WEF eschews "sans" fonts. Surely you recall "You will own nothing, and you will be happy, serifs."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 07:16 AM (xG4kz)
https://tinyurl.com/bdzbffxv
"Guys! Come quick! I found the sonofabitch who invented Comic Sans!"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 07:16 AM (kpS4V)
I've had it with this "prove you are human" crap. That is cause for me to leave immediately. It's like the "Press 1 for English" prompts. FU.
Posted by: fd
It sounds as thoughyou are an angry elf.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 07:17 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:18 AM (2GVsD)
Now it's downloading Win 11.
No wonder a lot of folks hope Microsoft dies in a fire.
I guess I get to push my box over to Linux sooner than I'd planned.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 10, 2025 07:19 AM (/HDaX)
Microsoft gets nothing but criticism over the state of ARM on Windows. I think this is misguided.
Trying to change the direction of a super tanker is a slow process, getting Windows running properly on ARM Is a software version of that. I've always viewed the tepid SQ chip in the Surface Pro. X as nothing more than a start point; Microsoft knew fully that was a shit show and a stopgap moment. Getting ARM working as a full-on first nation platform, so to speak, was always a decade-long process given the complexity of Microsoft's support matrix. We are now at about year five in that process and we have viable machines. The next generation of Qualcomm CPUs are going to be extremely performant and will slot in at the upper tier Apple M4s and the lower tier M5s. Given my experience with my new Surface Pro, I'm all in on ARM chips; this is something I would never have said 5 years ago.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 07:19 AM (uv8gn)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 07:09 AM (Nx5jP)
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Excellent advice.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 07:19 AM (A0sqA)
My Dad was great at chatting up checkout clerks with small talk. I try to emulate him in that respect despite my natural introversion.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 07:14 AM (xG4kz)
When I buy my coffee and kolaches after Mass, I always say first off in my rolling voice to the girl behind the counter, "How are you today?" They always brighten up. Not surprising, given the number of shitheads they have to deal with every day.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:19 AM (tgvbd)
I'm happy that PDJT is out talking to people. But, given either the incompetence or malevolence of the USSS, I worry for him as well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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We get X fun bits. It will be fun enjoying his speechafying again.
May God keep his hand of protection upon him.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:20 AM (UdrFj)
JJS
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:21 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 07:21 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:22 AM (UdrFj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 07:22 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Pony Tail at December 10, 2025 07:24 AM (HcbZb)
Posted by: Braenyard
Amen!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 07:22 AM
Amen and Amen.
Posted by: Eromero at December 10, 2025 07:27 AM (jgmnb)
You'd think it has IOS plants among them.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:30 AM (UdrFj)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 10, 2025 07:30 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 10, 2025 07:30 AM (2Ez/1)
Is there a "lolcats for Dummies" book? There ought to be, because we're drowning in dummies these days.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 07:31 AM (xG4kz)
What we really need is a coffee pot that refuses to operate in the morning, until you “prove you are human”. “Click all the boxes that show a bicycle”.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 07:32 AM (PIUjZ)
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Texas, now Florida, chipping away at the Islamists.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:32 AM (UdrFj)
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Posted by: Helvetica at December 10, 2025 07:33 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Helvetica
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You're not on Libre's list, sweetheart.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:35 AM (UdrFj)
Trying to change the direction of a super tanker is a slow process,
"Tell us about it"
-- the crew that got its vessel -- the MV "Whoopsie" -- lodged sideways in the esophagus of the Suez Canal
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 07:35 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Helvetica at December 10, 2025 08:03 AM (2Ez/1)
1.21 Gigawatts!
Posted by: Doc Brown at December 10, 2025 11:49 AM (ynpvh)
The filings claim the companies’ components were found in Iranian-made drones tied to Intel and AMD, as well as Russian Iskander and KH-101 missiles.
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 10, 2025 04:22 PM (YINx+)
COPY HERE →→ https://give2better58.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 10, 2025 04:42 PM (vyN+2)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 10, 2025 05:49 PM (wGqjj)
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - December 9, 2025 [Doof]
Feel Good Stories 75 Farmers Show Up To Finish Fallen Friend’s Final Harvest
In rural North Dakota, where neighbors are more like family, an incredible act of kindness unfolded after a beloved farmer’s sudden passing. Near the small town of Antler, dozens of farmers came together to make sure their friend’s final harvest was completed. Randy Fyllesvold, a well-known farmer in the area, tragically lost his life in a crash near Maxbass back in September. Wanting to ease the burden on his family, friends and neighbors quickly stepped in. Led by Wyatt Thompson and Andy Gates, the group organized a large-scale harvest to gather Randy’s remaining crops — including soybeans, canola, and more than 1,000 acres of corn. Earlier this month, roughly 75 volunteers, 12 combines, and help from more than 10 communities worked together to harvest about 1,400 acres of corn in just a matter of days. The effort required careful coordination and teamwork, including working with local grain elevators to handle the massive amount of crops coming in all at once. It was truly a “divide and conquer” operation — and it worked beautifully. Randy’s widow, Kharra Fyllesvold, shared a deeply emotional message thanking everyone who showed up. She described the scene as “nothing short of breathtaking,” saying the sight of so many people harvesting her husband’s final crop was both heartbreaking and beautiful. Through their grief, she and her two sons felt overwhelmingly blessed by the love and support surrounding them. "Thank you to each and every person that had a part of today. Special thanks to Andy Gates, Kevin Tyler, and Wyatt Thompson for organizing something I will never forget," she shared on Facebook.Lotsa good folks in the upper midwest, don't ya know! Video clip at the link. ----- This 9-Year-Old Is Making The Holidays Brighter For Hundreds Of Sick Children ----- Lowe’s Staff Refuse To Give Up On Missing Cat, Find Her 85 Miles Away ----- Some feel good vids
You sit on the floor for movie night, and just when you think your role is done, your toddler shuffles over and cuddles up next to you… so wholesome 🥹 pic.twitter.com/FolLesQ3UA
— Wholesome Side of 𝕏 (@itsme_urstruly) December 7, 2025
Father of the year 🏆 pic.twitter.com/QP6AgW0F6w
— 🎼🌺Music Love♥️ (@ThoNg676733) December 4, 2025
A Florida man faces multiple charges after he told police he had a “dirty bomb” in his truck following a crash, according to a news release. *** According to the release, officers made contact with the driver, identified as 43-year-old Benjamin Donald Johnson, who refused multiple commands to exit the vehicle. Officers physically removed Johnson from the truck, where multiple firearms were seen in plain view. *** “Through investigation with the assistance of representatives from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, ATF, and an FBI bomb technician, it was advised that the device inside of the yellow container was a Moisture Density Gauge, which is commonly used for soil testing and contained less radioactivity than a medical x-ray,” the release said in part. *** In addition, a search of Johnson’s truck a led to police finding a “multitude of firearms and ammunition,” firearm magazine speed loaders, thermal scopes, knives, a battering ram, night-vision goggles, cannabis, and gummies that tested positive for THC.
Everybody farts, and we are okay with that, even when they smell a little off. But a 1998 study concluded that, on average, women’s gas smelt worse than men's for a pretty simple reason. Dr Michael Levit, a gastroenterologist, conducted the study way back then and managed to get a reputation as the ‘king of farts’ for his work. So how did the study work? Well, the doctor recruited 16 healthy adults with no history of gastrointestinal issues and had each of them strap on a ‘flatus collection system’, which is basically a rectal tube connected to a bag. While it is estimated that people fart up to 23 times a day, the doctor didn’t fancy waiting around for those moments. Instead, participants chowed down on pinto beans and took a laxative, with researchers collecting their farts. These farts were then analyzed as researchers ran a gas chromatographic–mass spectroscopic test to figure out what was essentially inside those bags."Flatus collection system"?? A vanvera?!? After pinto beans and a laxative?? How much would you have to be paid to be a sniffer / judge in this experiment? ----- OK - one more related item, then hopefully I won't have any more of this type of content. At least for this year. Impressive. Most impressive!
A new world record! pic.twitter.com/fDtIHVrRjk
— Joe G (@EastEndJoe) December 1, 2025
What's the common thread / common meaning / common leitmotif?
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: the lower depths at December 09, 2025 10:00 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 09, 2025 10:02 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:02 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: 29Victor at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:06 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:08 PM (QGRvm)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:08 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:02 PM (c35xG)
It's part of my rookie contract which I'm still in.
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:08 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Leave Out Fart Content at December 09, 2025 10:09 PM (oftw2)
lol. amateurs.
Posted by: 29Victor at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (0MjtC)
Rookie numbers ...
Posted by: zombie William J. LePetomane at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: huerfano at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (B47sF)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (rdVOm)
Very nice of you, JQ - thanks! But in the spirit of the season, go ahead and give the people what they want. All lights matter!
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: 496 at December 09, 2025 10:11 PM (EWlvz)
I already carry a bag, so I'd have been perfect for this study...well, until next week (hopefully) at any rate.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:11 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (Riz8t)
Roderick Macleod, 70, was a member of the band Roomful of Blues in the 1980s and received a Grammy nomination for his work with them.
The alleged driver was identified by police as as Shannon Godbout. She is 41, CBS Boston reported, and was driving recklessly.
Godbout was allegedly "in possession of numerous illegal narcotics and packaging materials commonly associated with drug distribution," police said. She was arrested at the scene and taken to an area hospital. She has been charged with driving as to endanger, resulting in death, and possession of narcotics with intent to distribute. She may face additional charges, police said, and remained in custody at the hospital of Monday.
Police did not detail Godbout's previous arrests, but said eight were from the Hopkinton Police Department. Eighty-two court warrants have been issued for her, police said, and she has received 40 traffic citations. She may face more charges as the investigation into the crash continues, police said.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (KDPiq)
Not bad. My car has him beat but closer than average.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: 496 at December 09, 2025 10:11 PM (EWlvz)
Hey there, my numeric friend! Hope you are doing well.
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Doof
Black lights matter! But only if JQ has put up those cool posters.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (Riz8t)
Would be a great name for a Star Trek themed drink...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (ynpvh)
Also, use the Calibri font for all content, or you’re ableist.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 09, 2025 10:14 PM (S/Y4j)
Sabres vs Oilers
1-0 in the 2nd
As long as we're not getting run out the rink, I'm here tonight ...
Posted by: browndog clearing the zone at December 09, 2025 10:14 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2025 10:15 PM (gKWVE)
"Flatus collection system"?? A vanvera?!? After pinto beans and a laxative?? How much would you have to be paid to be a sniffer / judge in this experiment?
That's absolutely awful. I can only say that young Sgt Bif would preload beans for 48 hours prior to a multi day NWTI. Knowing I would get partnered with the commander and the COM4ATAF Colonel for the unit certification to release the warheads. I would literraly fart my brains out for 18 solid hours in a tiny little scif maybe 3 feet by 9 feet, me, the commander, the radio operator, and the NWTI Colonel. We'd be in MOPP1 for most of the message processing so none of us smelled my malfesance. The Col on the other hand was dry heaving for most of the inspection.
The last time I did it, he "killed" the commander and brought in our warrant officer. Chief Forman, masked up and came on in. Smacked me on the back of my head, and finished it all up.
Continued
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 09, 2025 10:15 PM (48yvf)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 10:16 PM (sAmhv)
Also, use the Calibri font for all content, or you’re ableist.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (EXyHK)
So a titular braille font...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:16 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:17 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 09, 2025 10:14 PM (S/Y4j)
Black and green olives have their place...black on pizza, green in tamales.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:17 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (TfUTr)
OUT!
2-bounce rule
Zero-zero-two
Want more?
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:17 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2025 10:15 PM (gKWVE)"
Bono?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 09, 2025 10:18 PM (/HDaX)
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Does "Twilight Zone" qualify as a deep cut? Because that was my favorite track on side 2 of 2112.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:19 PM (Cjcf6)
Sabres vs Oilers
1-0 in the 2nd
As long as we're not getting run out the rink, I'm here tonight ...
Posted by: browndog clearing the zone at December 09, 2025 10:14 PM (3sXRv)
Hey there, brother! I'll be going to the Panthers vs Avs game on Thursday night. Wearing my Ovi sweater, of course!
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:19 PM (p6ZQj)
Man, I'm so old I remember when the left was telling us about the dangers of an officer calling the president a pot smoke draft dodger, which, for the record, was true, because we have a civilian chain of command and we can't have officers having their own ideas about the quality of their presidents.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 10:20 PM (sKqQm)
Next year, the Col "killed" me first. So I got to do the closed book warhead demate from the missile. In Chief's domain. I paid for that. Dearly. But he's the one that put me in for war head custodian warrant so it all worked out.
The Col told me years later that it became a punishment assignment to inspect our unit because of me. My response, if I gotta be in Mopp1 and uncomfortable, so do you. No one says the soviets will gas us right out of the bag, you guys were sadistic cunts so I fought nbc warfare with nbc warfare. I of course was a civiy by then so it was safe.
He larfed, and said the nwti duties were onorus, but sometimes the unit's personality made it worth it.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (48yvf)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Orson at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:19 PM (Cjcf6)
Yes it does. I'll have to look and see if I used that one last year. I think I used "Tears", so TZ might make an appearance this year.
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (p6ZQj)
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My favorite pizza is thin crust, sausage, canadian bacon, and black olives. The meats provide the seriousness, the sweet from the black olives balance it masterfully.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (41CYW)
Well, good thing those northeastern states have abolished the carceral state right?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (QGRvm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 10:16 PM (sAmhv)
*fist bump*
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (KDPiq)
And into Liam Neeson's cock socket.
She had a good run.
And Hepatis.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (VY2EQ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA4lPSfzMV8
Posted by: huerfano at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (98kQX)
A very under appreciated talent..
http://tiny.cc/218w001
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (nbLIj)
That Romantics tune played endlessly at every fraternity party.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (A0sqA)
I guess they're not too happy about our F-18 'exercises' off the Venezuelan coast recently either.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Doof
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Wooot! Awesome!
Hear that, Piper? We can haz white lights!
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:24 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (41CYW)
Any guesses on the theme of the 3 songs??
Don't you dare touch those colored lights!!
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:24 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Take Off! at December 09, 2025 10:24 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:24 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:25 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (Riz8t)
Got to see one of those up close, and also flying, at an airshow at the Air Force base in Cold Lake, Alberta, 1980-something. That thing is huge. When it flies over, the sky goes dark.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:25 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Some Rat
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I saw an old guy in town the other day wearing a t-shirt with
There's no crying in pickleball.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 09, 2025 10:25 PM (Lo97M)
I'm calling bullshit. I don't fart 23 times a day. What the hell are you people eating?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 10:26 PM (viF8m)
Oh, no! No need for that.. too much trouble to take them down.. that's why I left them ALL up to begin with.
Just plug/unplug whichever, to suit needs. Simple!
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:26 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Take Off! at December 09, 2025 10:24 PM (oftw2)
Ten bucks is ten bucks
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:26 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (VY2EQ)
You should take a look at the 50 something year old Jewell bikini photos on Fox News site. ( same place I saw photo of Anderson.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:26 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:27 PM (ynpvh)
Go Paul Boomer!!
https://youtu.be/uPplyQWf-u4?si=I2dpIdAG1B_xuH3W
Posted by: Baron Munchausen at December 09, 2025 10:27 PM (C1NyB)
Posted by: Orson at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (dIske)
I have it on good authority that a 40 second fart is a challenge to battle to the death among some of the more warlike star-faring species.
Posted by: Guy wearing a Star Fleet t-shirt at December 09, 2025 10:27 PM (4vy8h)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:27 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: 18-1
Green olives in tacos? Have you ever seen a taco? I will be gone for a couple minutes while I go brush my teeth and rinse my mouth out with gasoline simply from the thought of finding green olives on a taco. Have you no decency?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:28 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:27 PM (VY2EQ)
You are what you eat; you smell of what you eat. Had an asian person say that Americans tend to smell like babies from all the milk they drink. LOL.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (ynpvh)
Women have inherited the thrones of great powers - Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Victoria - and presided over massed ranks of courtiers drawn from the "pale, male and stale".
But America and its client states are the first in history in which every significant venue aside from ladies' sport is now dominated by women. The west is closer than any society should be to the end of men -
At the same time, the principal source of immigration to the west is from a patriarchal culture even more severe (if you can believe it) than 1950s sitcom dads.
https://tinyurl.com/musm779e
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (c35xG)
*calls-in for tomorrow night, just in case*
If I've got to drive out to BIL tomorrow, won't be back until Thursday night. Friday if things don't go right...
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)
A bit redundant, wouldn't you say...
Posted by: man
................................
Bismarck is a city, technically. One of those out of the way places I'd like to wander around in someday. The western part anyway. Theodore Roosevelt NP is there.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: 18-1
Green olives in tacos? Have you ever seen a taco? I will be gone for a couple minutes while I go brush my teeth and rinse my mouth out with gasoline simply from the thought of finding green olives on a taco. Have you no decency?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:28 PM (uv8gn)
all sorts of food can go in tacos and burritos. I mean it CAN, but doesn't mean it should. I remember my wife giving me the strangest look as I stripped the meat off KFC and put it in tortillas with some salsa...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:30 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:30 PM (QGRvm)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (XuXeR)
I'm calling bullshit. I don't fart 23 times a day. What the hell are you people eating?
Posted by: JackStraw
"it is estimated" -- by whom?
"up to" -- "never" or "once" is "up to 23 times". Precision??
Posted by: your probability-and-stats prof at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (KDPiq)
Question: would an A-10 Warthog really mess up one of those drug boats, and if so, why not use them? Too far away from an airfield? I don't expect they can operate from a carrier...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:30 PM (QGRvm)
Maybe he could anally inhalate, Like Le Petomane.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:32 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:32 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (9iyS+)
Folks also fart whilst asleep...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:32 PM (ynpvh)
Order… Arms!! Salute!
At that exact moment I let go of a tremendous fart, really spectacular. I mean, it was probably uncalled for, but it was an amazing confluence of synchronicity and I felt compelled to share it with everyone. Everyone else just died laughing while holding their salutes at attention. I played it straight, naturally, with a look of mild disgust on my face, it weren’t me that would sully such an important aspect of drill and ceremony, no sir. The platoon sergeant just waved his arm and walked away, realizing the futility of trying to restore any sort of order to a bunch of miscreants.
Posted by: Ya Had To Be There at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (5MnqL)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (VY2EQ)
I thought Bismarck was a herring...
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (XuXeR)
I thought Bismark was German...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
What you described is not a taco. It may keep you alive in an emergency but calling it a taco - My god man, you are flirting with demons there!
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (uv8gn)
*calls-in for tomorrow night, just in case*
If I've got to drive out to BIL tomorrow, won't be back until Thursday night. Friday if things don't go right...
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)
Just leave your recipes, we got you!
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:19 PM (p6ZQj)
Enjoy ...
Not at all sad that Florida is down on it's luck this year.
(3-0 Sabres mid-way 2nd)
Posted by: browndog clearing the zone at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (3sXRv)
----
They treated her like a freak because she was beautiful. Women, generally speaking, won't stand up for other women that are prettier than they are. And weak men are more than willing to pile on with denigrating beautiful women.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (VY2EQ)
...
and in your chili too, probably.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Cast Iron Stomach at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (sAmhv)
Minot is a city. Not huge, but respectable in size. Comparable to Spokane, maybe?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:35 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:35 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:35 PM (QGRvm)
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I used to work with an entire crew of guys, what could seemingly *fart at will*
Boss man walked into a Green Cloud and Colorful Metaphors one time, made an awful face.. turned to me (the only female on the team) and shouted "How can you stand it?!"
JQ replied: "Cram my earplugs in a little deeper, and not breathe through my nose."
Boss man stormed off. But I know he was desperately holding back a hearty laugh!
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:35 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (XuXeR)
I thought it was a donut
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (rdVOm)
White knighting for a sex tape queen ?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (VY2EQ)
If there's soil and water it can be done. There's a desert to the east of San Diego, and entire valley, known for it's agriculture, and it's in the desert...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (VY2EQ)
Cheescake, or pie?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (npFr7)
A bit redundant, wouldn't you say...
Posted by: man
................................
Bismarck is a city, technically.
Posted by: Puddleglum
NoDak's only 6-figure city is Fargo. 126K humans in the 2020 census. Bismarck is 2nd at 74K.
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (nhCoE)
When my boys were little, one of the things I would do at bedtime is I would put son 1 in a blanket and haul him in like Santa Claus and dump him in bed, then do the same for son 2. We called it Bag o' Boy. We also did something we called "The Stanley Cup" because at the time they both weighed about 34 pounds. They would take a running start and leap at me and I would hoist them above my head. this kept up until they were both way more than 34 pounds.
They are now men. I love them fiercely. But I miss those little guys.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: JFK at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (VY2EQ)
If there's soil and water it can be done. There's a desert to the east of San Diego, and entire valley, known for it's agriculture, and it's in the desert...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (ynpvh)
Oh, wait, you wrote dessert...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Cast Iron Stomach at December 09, 2025
You may need to reset your gut biome!
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:35 PM (QGRvm)
And Stripperella...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 09, 2025 10:39 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:39 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (VY2EQ)
Yes, and too many asses too, me being one of them. LOL
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:39 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:39 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo
This is the cutest thing.
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:39 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at December 09, 2025 10:40 PM (8cPKb)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 10:40 PM (xRKBa)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:40 PM (ynpvh)
For a beer
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:41 PM (JkO4W)
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:41 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at December 09, 2025 10:40 PM (8cPKb)
"How many fingers am I holding up?"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:41 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 09, 2025 10:41 PM (vefQN)
Posted by: President Emeritus at December 09, 2025 10:41 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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Exactly! Just because you can put something in a tortilla, it doesn't make it a taco... sheesh 🙄!
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 09, 2025 10:41 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (XuXeR)
When my boys were little, one of the things I would do at bedtime is I would put son 1 in a blanket and haul him in like Santa Claus and dump him in bed, then do the same for son 2. We called it Bag o' Boy. We also did something we called "The Stanley Cup" because at the time they both weighed about 34 pounds. They would take a running start and leap at me and I would hoist them above my head. this kept up until they were both way more than 34 pounds.
They are now men. I love them fiercely. But I miss those little guys.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (0aYVJ)
Great stuff! I did similar things with my boys. My favorite was letting them jump up and down on a bed and body slamming them onto the mattress.
Now they're both in their 20s and strong enough to body slam me standing still.
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Mao at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09
And all she did was stop wearing makeup. If she throws some cc cream on, a little blush, and mascara she looks very, very different. Add a full face of makeup up and she is very much looking like an older version of the earlier on screen Pamela.
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:43 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
What you described is not a taco. It may keep you alive in an emergency but calling it a taco - My god man, you are flirting with demons there!
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (uv8gn)
Fried breaded crispy meat, a folded tortilla, salsa. Behold, a taco!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (ynpvh)
Tons of farming in the Yuma area.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (npFr7)
There’s a pretty girl behind every tree in Minot.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Mao at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (4786I)
One of the most impressive Mao quotes I've read: "When you eat a lot, you sh!t alot". Very deep.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh)
One of the most impressive Mao quotes I've read: "When you eat a lot, you sh!t alot". Very deep.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh)
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Ask him something about metallurgy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (ynpvh)
Tons of farming in the Yuma area.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (9iyS+)
And along I-8 east of Yuma too. Irrigation is a wonderful invention.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh)
Go to Xinjiang Province and fix tractors.
Posted by: Mao at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (4786I)
One of the most impressive Mao quotes I've read: "When you eat a lot, you sh!t alot". Very deep.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh)
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Ask him something about metallurgy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (JkO4W)
He doesn't return my calls anymore.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh)
She also got an old lady hairdo . Why so defensive about a Hollywood sex tape,, liberal B celebrity all the sudden?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Doof a
Yes please!
Posted by: Some Rat
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I asked Doof about a shot called the "erne" forgot how he explained it - something about flamboyant. Maybe.
Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2025 10:47 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (JkO4W)
You can also go to Xinjiang Province and fix tractors too.
Posted by: Mao at December 09, 2025 10:47 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:48 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (4786I)
Note to self: wear camo, next trip through Minot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:48 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (VY2EQ)
Cheescake, or pie?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (npFr7)
Out-of-work Cobblers
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 09, 2025 10:48 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Doof a
Yes please!
Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:43 PM (TfUTr)
I feel like you're trolling me but I'll play along...
Stay out of the kitchen
I got it -- switch!
Cross-court dink
Whose serve is it?
ATP (around the post)
Erne
Stacking
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:48 PM (p6ZQj)
They lied. Their explanation is that women's fart have more stink in them. They don't say why.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 09, 2025 10:48 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (uv8gn)
Made a catchy tune, too
/Johnny Horton
----
He made a niche by recording songs about historical events. To this day I love this one--the battle of New Orleans:
"In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip'
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans
We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
There wasn't as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico."
He locked in to that niche.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)
BUT not a complete protein. I believe beans and corn do together.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh)
Arizona has pretty sane water management policies, unlike California.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Pervy Grin at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (M1f92)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (VY2EQ)
Good for you, sir!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Sumerians at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (Riz8t)
In the Operation Black Buck, UK Vulcan Bombers flew non-stop, refueling in flight, from Ascension Island to bomb the Port Stanley airfield and radar complex, then held by Argentine forces.
Though the one hit on the airstrip made it not suitable for jet operations, the damage done by the air raid was considered "minimal"
The damage may have forced the Argentine Air Force to fly their Mirages out from the mainland, which restricted their time over the Falklands.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Was fascinated as a kid looking out the window in the back seat at how they could grow crops - the drive down 395 from Spokane to the Tri-Cities.
Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (4786I)
Fly by Night...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh)
Arizona has pretty sane water management policies, unlike California.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (npFr7)
Well, Kali is good at pissing away water for a tiny fish, and great at destroying dams to return things back to a more "natural" condition (except when it comes to dams that supply water to the Dem areas--can't touch those even though they caused terrible environmental damage).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (ynpvh)
Every abuela in Las Cruces, NM just stroked out.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (4786I)
It's there. Did you find it?
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (p6ZQj)
Was this during the oil boom? They were paying McDonald's employees over $25 an hour at one time. That was around 2012-13.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Was fascinated as a kid looking out the window in the back seat at how they could grow crops - the drive down 395 from Spokane to the Tri-Cities.
Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (41CYW)
Flying in a plane, a kid saw the round fields in the midwest and his dad goes, "You see those round ones? Aliens did that!"...LOL
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (ynpvh)
Stay out of the kitchen
I got it -- switch!
Cross-court dink
Whose serve is it?
ATP (around the post)
Erne
Stacking
Posted by: Doof
Nope, not trolling. However, without letting the cat out of the bag....you will not see a penny of the commission! (smiley face icon here)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Just Axin' at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)
It's a magical fruit!
Also good with beef.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: Pervy Grin at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (M1f92)
Correct. No need for the duh.
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:54 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (npFr7)
Yes, an A-10 would mess up a boat, but they are not designed to land on a carrier. They also need a nearby friendly airbase to operate out of, something that is in short supply in that area.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 09, 2025 10:54 PM (4vy8h)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:55 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Complete proteins cannot be obtained from vegetables.
To obtain complete proteins dairy products must be included.
NY Strip is acceptable.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:55 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:55 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (TfUTr)
Alrighty then. I guess this will make sense to me some day.
*heads to the Club to make EVERY table wobbly*
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Just Axin'
Pedestrian. The witch that hit him had a bunch of drugs in her car and a has police that includes something like 80 arrests.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 09, 2025 10:54 PM (4vy8h)
Gitmo?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (npFr7)
Good for you, sir!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (0aYVJ)
He looks like Rachel Maddow
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (KDPiq)
Every abuela in Las Cruces, NM just stroked out.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (uv8gn)
I've made tacos with the nopales I've made (1/3 cactus, 1/3 tomatoes, 1/3 onions, various spices). I add other stuff to it. I make tacos out of the Chicharrones en Salsa Verde I would make. When I'm really lazy, I've taken meat loaf and shoved it into a taco with extra sauce to make a burrito. Easier to eat that way than with a knife and fork.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Yeah, the doctrine of prior appropriation. AZ water issue gets adventurous with the CAP / Colorado River allotment.
Posted by: scampydog - used to deal with some of that at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (41CYW)
144 Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (p4NUW)
She also got an old lady hairdo . Why so defensive about a Hollywood sex tape,, liberal B celebrity all the sudden?
Posted by: the way I see it at December
Her tape was stolen, plus she is an actress and not a paragon of virtue. But she did raise 2 boys and got them out of LA so they could be normal growing up. They are well spoken and successful, they speak highly of her as a mom. She is genetically gifted, old lady haircut or not.
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:57 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:57 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (uv8gn)
Grateful Dead had a woman singer named Godbout. I wonder if the perp is a relative? Not exactly a common surname.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (C4H5M)
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip'
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans . . ."
He locked in to that niche.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
***
Indeed he did. I grew up playing on that property, the national monument. In 1965, the 150th anniversary, they added a long breastwork with replica cannon and a visitor center (which had originally been housed in the old plantation house about a hundred yards away). Sometime in the last twenty years they turned the battlefield, the cemetery, and the land between (which had been a neighborhood called Fazendeville), into a big park with a drive-through road featuring huge plaques with details about the battle.
I miss my old playground, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (KDPiq)
I smugly rest my case.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Complete proteins cannot be obtained from vegetables.
To obtain complete proteins dairy products must be included.
NY Strip is acceptable.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:55 PM (c35xG)
Complete proteins do not mean complete nutrition. Vegans often struggle to get enough vitamin B12, vitamin D, calcium, iron, and omega-3 fatty acids in their diet.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (VY2EQ)
They saw what China does to countries that owe them money.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Doof
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Rat, I'll distract him. He keeps shims in his travel trailer - put the sneak on.
Posted by: scampydog - used to deal with some of that at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (41CYW)
Every abuela in Las Cruces, NM just stroked out.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (uv8gn)
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You know that you are arguing with tio Jim?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:00 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:57 PM (c35xG)
The Warthog has the GAU-8 (?) rotary cannon. Massive rate of fire; intended to destroy tanks. It ought to turn those drug boats into wood chips.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:00 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (uv8gn)
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This is very funny
Ai! Los gringos locos!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 11:01 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 11:01 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 09, 2025 11:01 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:02 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Thought it was about complete proteins.
Only thing I know about nutrition is that nitrites, nitrates, and sulfides give me a headache.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:03 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:02 PM (9iyS+)
Where it's ILLEGAL for Coloradans to capture rainwater in a rain barrel or cistern...that water is already allocated!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:03 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (npFr7)
===
She was Donna Jean Godcheaux
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 11:03 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (C4H5M)
Well, since everyone who took Leqembi I, II, and III are dead, sound like a reasonable precaution to take, doesn't it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:03 PM (npFr7)
To obtain complete proteins dairy products must be included.
NY Strip is acceptable.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends
If you are eating a varied diet, you don’t need to get hung up on complete or not. Foods will even out any missing amino acids we can’t make on our own. Unless you are vegan, then you need to protein compliment.
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
My famous Chicken Livers fried in butter with cheddar and cottage cheese burritos.
My famous Rice, Beans, Corned Beef and Chutney burritos
My famous Rice, Beans, Kimchi, and Asian BBQ pork burritos
My favorite Beans, Rice and Gochujang burritos.
Fusion, man. THAT is how my heartburn feels.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Pervy Grin
Correct. No need for the duh.
Posted by: Doof
Singing drummer chicks > Singing drummer dudes
https://youtu.be/3_Vys58zvTk
https://youtu.be/74LVRkcQwBQ?t=68
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 11:03 PM (A0sqA)
You are right. Faulty Peon memory!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 11:05 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 11:05 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Wouldn't play well on home videos.
...er, except for select audiences.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:05 PM (c35xG)
...er, except for select audiences.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:05 PM (c35xG)
Like here.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 11:06 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (KDPiq)
My, my. Prudishness on a Tuesday?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:06 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
My famous Chicken Livers fried in butter with cheddar and cottage cheese burritos.
My famous Rice, Beans, Corned Beef and Chutney burritos
My famous Rice, Beans, Kimchi, and Asian BBQ pork burritos
My favorite Beans, Rice and Gochujang burritos.
Fusion, man. THAT is how my heartburn feels.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (rbvCR)
YES. I've put Vietnamese chicken in a tortilla. Korean bulgogi. Peking duck leftovers (although it kinda comes with a rice tortilla to begin with). Beef, pork, chicken, fish...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:06 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:06 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Keyboardist Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 11:07 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 11:07 PM (VY2EQ)
I thought Bismarck was a herring...
I thought Bismark was German...
Huh. I just watched a vid about the discovery of a mysterious sealed chamber on the wreck of the Bismarck. (19m)
https://youtu.be/yko53DEzkMw
I have nothing to contribute about flatulence tonight. Didn't even read the parts of the post about that. Dining.
Posted by: mindful webworker - vladimeer pootin? at December 09, 2025 11:07 PM (yqA/D)
The fact that we are even making comparisons shows how off the rails we are. If you go back and look at his record, Obama bombed and droned the crap out the Middle East and northern Africa and nobody cared. Certainly nobody on the left. He even blew up a wedding and our betters yawned.
But when Trump takes out terrorists who have killed more Americans that have died in all our wars combined we have to get out the rule book to make sure we are killing them the right way.
Bomb them, machine gun them, fart them to death, I do not care. Just end them.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 11:07 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:08 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:08 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Texas and New Mexico just wrapped up a years long, maybe even decades long, legal fight over if New Mexico was or was not screwing Texas out of its Rio Grande allocation coming out of the Elephant Butte reservoir near Truth or Consequences, NM. I am of the opinion that Texas paid off the judge that made the final decision.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 11:08 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 11:09 PM (KDPiq)
My favorite dish. The plum sauce is what makes it for me.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 11:09 PM (KDPiq)
I made duck fried rice once using Chinese duck with the sauce it came with. Was really good...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:10 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)
I lived on lentils and rice for about a year. We had other things with it, but mostly lentils and rice. It was a complete protein, but I never eat lentils any more.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:10 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:11 PM (ynpvh)
Fry bread is orders of magnitude better.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 11:11 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (npFr7)
It would totally shred the boats. The problem is the pilot having to deal with that carpenter 158 steel 4 hour atomic erection he would have getting in the way on the flight home.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 11:11 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (VY2EQ)
When they are fresh they burn my toes, and when they cool off they make my socks all sticky. I will stick to eating them with ice cream, thank you.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:11 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (C4H5M)
Well, since everyone who took Leqembi I, II, and III are dead, sound like a reasonable precaution to take, doesn't it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Is Trump taking Leqembi?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:12 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 11:13 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Pete B. at December 09, 2025 11:13 PM (R86kT)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:12 PM (c35xG)
Leqembi sounds like Cheetah's understudy in an old Tarzan movie.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:14 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:15 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions
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OUTRAGEOUS!!! You know that no one from Texas would ever do a thing like that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:15 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
It would totally shred the boats. The problem is the pilot having to deal with that carpenter 158 steel 4 hour atomic erection he would have getting in the way on the flight home.
Posted by: Berserker
65 rounds per second, where each round is the size of your forearm and throws a depleted-uranium tank-armor-piercing projectile, is a bit much for a flimsy speedboat.
Or we could break out the B52s and 2000-pound bombs, too. There's no kill like overkill.....
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 11:16 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 11:17 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 11:18 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
It would totally shred the boats. The problem is the pilot having to deal with that carpenter 158 steel 4 hour atomic erection he would have getting in the way on the flight home.
Posted by: Berserker
65 rounds per second, where each round is the size of your forearm and throws a depleted-uranium tank-armor-piercing projectile, is a bit much for a flimsy speedboat.
Or we could break out the B52s and 2000-pound bombs, too. There's no kill like overkill.....
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 11:16 PM (nhCoE)
Do not forget that A-10s can be air refueled. Problem is, due to basing issues it would be tricky to get them exactly where they are needed at exactly the right time.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 11:18 PM (4786I)
Wouldn't play well on home videos.
...er, except for select audiences.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:05 PM (c35xG)
Did you notice that in the Gulf the USN is taking out the boats by missile, and in the Pacific the Coast Guard and USN are shooting the engines and boarding?
The Pacific boats are from Colombia and Ecuador, not Venezuela.
That means something, but I am waiting to find out just what it means.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:18 PM (rbvCR)
Unfortunately, it was a Wet FART while talking to the Prime Minister of Rwanda.
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 09, 2025 11:18 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Or a weird drum, or maybe a stringed instrument, played by some world-music band.
https://youtu.be/nD1f1Ian0kA
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 11:19 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Crusader
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You've never had mom's peach cobbler.
Do you like milk with your pie? mmmm
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:19 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 11:17 PM (VY2EQ)
I expect a fast-moving speedboat would be a hard target to hit with any torpedo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:19 PM (npFr7)
Unfortunately, it was a Wet FART while talking to the Prime Minister of Rwanda.
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 09, 2025 11:18 PM (J9q9v)
totally ruined the drapes behind him...
Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 11:20 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:20 PM (2WIwB)
Bomb them, machine gun them, fart them to death, I do not care. Just end them.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 11:07 PM (viF8m)
You didn't mention that Obama liked to "double-tap" his hits, so he could kill the first responders too.
Very Chinese way of fighting.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:20 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: scampydog
*********
? Tri-Cities....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 09, 2025 11:21 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:15 PM (Cjcf6)
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Mrs. F.'s blueberry crumble with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream on top, melting all over.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 11:21 PM (A0sqA)
Did you notice that in the Gulf the USN is taking out the boats by missile, and in the Pacific the Coast Guard and USN are shooting the engines and boarding?
The Pacific boats are from Colombia and Ecuador, not Venezuela.
That means something, but I am waiting to find out just what it means.
Posted by: Kindltot
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One could posit several theories. Very interesting.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:21 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:02 PM (9iyS+)
How about international treaties? There’s one I know of between the U.S. and Mexico in regards to Rio Grande water.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 11:22 PM (4786I)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:08 PM (ynpvh).
Well, no. At some point, if you push it too far, they become gyros.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:22 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein Of Brattleboro, VT at December 09, 2025 11:23 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 09, 2025 11:21 PM (IQ6Gq)
Richland, Pasco, Kennewick WA.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 11:23 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I *think* the strikes were carried out by the Navy, no A10's.
Posted by: Barky's two-pound curls at December 09, 2025 11:24 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 11:24 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:22 PM (rbvCR)
Or doner kebab.
Mmm. me hungry now.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 11:25 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland
https://is.gd/WEsFzv
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 11:25 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 11:25 PM (wzUl9)
Thanks Pug...now to go look them up on google maps...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 09, 2025 11:25 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 11:22 PM (4786I)
Canada/USA regarding Columbia and Kootenay rivers, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:28 PM (npFr7)
youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:29 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Crusader
Me neither.
Hate 'em in fact.
Posted by: guy who also does not like cobs at December 09, 2025 11:30 PM (wL+h0)
Posted by: Boss Moss
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'Running straight, warm, and mostly normal'
Posted by: Weapons Officer at December 09, 2025 11:31 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 11:32 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (4786I)
Would be the tree in the park? The one with an iron fence around it. That one, cause there aren't any others?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:32 PM (2WIwB)
Squonk: a mythical creature in Pennsylvania
What I Like About You: featured in The Office, which is set in Scranton, Pennsylvania
The Weight: set in Nazareth, Pennsylvania
Posted by: WAG at December 09, 2025 11:33 PM (LAJY1)
Mrs. F.'s blueberry crumble with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream on top, melting all over.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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What cruelty with sugary words he visits upon us.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:33 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:34 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 11:24 PM (VY2EQ)
My lab partner in college biology was from Kennewick.
Redhead...smart...and funny.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:36 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:42 PM (rbvCR)
European leaders: ‘I think they’re weak.’” They’re weak on the international stage, but they are thugs at home. Trump observes: “They talk, but they don’t produce.”
Minnesota: “I don’t want to see Somalia. I don’t want to see a woman that, you know, marries her brother to get in and then becomes a congressman and does nothing but complain. All she does is complain, complain, complain, and yet her country’s a mess. You know, it’s, uh, one of the worst in the world. Uh, let her go back, fix up her own country.”
https://tinyurl.com/akmu7hy7
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:42 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 09, 2025 11:42 PM (4I7QN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iuhHAQBPM8
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 11:43 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 11:43 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 11:44 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: tankdemon
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Haha, hold yer cup out... what would you like added to it?
*ready at the bar*
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 11:45 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 11:43 PM (snZF9)
Brandon Herrera is not exactly Ian McCollum, is he?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:46 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:47 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 11:47 PM (JkO4W)
It would.. Probably, without aerial refueling...couldn't land on a carrier. I would guess they use missiles cause they don't even want to take a chance somebody gets lucky with a shoulder fired AA missile and gives the media a chance to say "Trump is killing our troops!!!"
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 09, 2025 11:51 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:52 PM (1zOXE)
This Board of Supervisors meeting comes close.
https://tinyurl.com/worstofSF
Posted by: Worst of San Francisco at December 09, 2025 11:53 PM (jrb8m)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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LOL! When Dad was ill, I stopped by every day to make sure he ate & took his meds, did his housework & stuff... Rarely got a break and the laundry was always a mess.
ONE TIME, my older bro filled in for me. Dad thought he'd be cute & do "the ol' one-cheek sneak" LMAO, he sharted *big time* and bro had to clean it up!!!!
Hahahaha, served bro right.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 11:53 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 11:56 PM (XeU6L)
I have a question from the 'No Shock: Tech Company Offers $60/Hour' thread.
Has anyone determined the citizenship status and/or work authorization status of the owners/executives of LanceSoft?
I suspect that they they are, at best, Green Card holders.
I recall a lawsuit against Intellitron, a placement service, IIRC, in Plano TX, in the 2007-2011 era. It seems that Intellitron was, indeed, placing US Citizens in tech jobs in the US.
But for everyone placed, it was alleged that 19 H1-Bs (Indian) were placed. The suit was settled out of court.
To some degree, this is old news, actually very old news, as we saw this with the Chinese H1-Bs in the 1980's. Once a section had 2 or 3 Chinese H1-Bs, the rest of the rest of the section followed, and eventually the company. I experienced a failed attempt in 2000. I and a Chinese H1-Bs were hired. He then hired 5 Chinese H1-Bs (in Santa Clara CA). He was let go 1 year later, due to sub-performance, and some of the employees followed him.
Posted by: Arbalest at December 09, 2025 11:59 PM (FlRtG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:03 AM (c35xG)
Doesn't matter that California was a Free State and outlawed chattel slavery when they entered the Union in 1850 to these brainiacs.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:03 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Philip at December 10, 2025 12:05 AM (EZ8Gq)
Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 12:05 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:05 AM (xRKBa)
and the current temperature on Mars!
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:05 AM (xRKBa)
EPIC City, recently rebranded as The Meadow, is a proposed Islamic housing development in North Texas that has drawn controversy throughout the year.
According to the lawsuit, CCP—formed by EPIC as a vehicle to purchase and develop more than 400 acres in Hunt and Collin counties—engaged in fraudulent practices while soliciting investments for the EPIC City project. Promotional materials allegedly described the development as the “epicenter of Islam in North America” and implied it would be reserved for Muslims, despite assurances to the contrary.
- - > Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC),
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:06 AM (c35xG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:03 AM (c35xG)
It didn't look like they were sure it wouldn't explode. If it did, a rare 1 of a kind is lost forever, not to mention what he paid for it, which if I heard it right was around 90K. Ouch.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 12:07 AM (snZF9)
Squonk: a mythical creature in Pennsylvania
What I Like About You: featured in The Office, which is set in Scranton, Pennsylvania
The Weight: set in Nazareth, Pennsylvania
Posted by: WAG at December 09, 2025 11:33 PM (LAJY1)
A for effort
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 12:07 AM (p6ZQj)
Of course I probably have no clue,Morons. I am neither in despair or in a one sided love.
I am,however, enraged at the USPS for having a package disappear this week that held birthday and Christmas gifts for my elderly mother (some of you think, hey, Christy is elderly!That would be correct. My mother is uber elderly but still with it and uses her computer). So there's that despair which equates to mostly irritation.
There's something in the redneck water in that both of my grandmothers lived into their 90's and she is as well. I sort of don't think I will and that's fine because I live and laugh hard and unrestrained.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:08 AM (WONhk)
We don't deserve him...
President answers dumb questions from Fake News whilst flying on Air Force-1.
1. Notice Karoline cute little sweet face in the background, keeping an eye out for The Boss.
2. President tells a Fake News idiot to not break things on Air Force One.
https://is.gd/UumW2K
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:11 AM (xRKBa)
My grannies both made it to 79. Mom made it to 64. I may or may not have much time left.
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:12 AM (rdVOm)
The big deal for the Vulcan, and also its swan song, was the Falklands War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck
Posted by: Vulcan Enthusiast at December 10, 2025 12:14 AM (jrb8m)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 12:14 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:15 AM (c35xG)
Ol' Publius is the middle of a moderate RA flare, and ain't feeling so hot. Swelling in the wrist, and typing. This is due to not taking the last dose of the TNF blocker they've got me on due to shingles bout. :sigh: I'll be okay, just a bitch for now.
If you want to know the pressure anywhere, got to ventusky.com. For temperature on Mars, nothing rings a bell, but I'm sure there's some rover and orbiter data available somewhere. :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 12:15 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:12 AM (rdVOm)
You're too ornery to go anywhere any time soon. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 12:15 AM (snZF9)
Oooh, some mild turbulence on Air Force-1
In clip above, President answers Fake News' questions AND stays quite steady during bumpy ride.
biden would've been rolling over the floor...if he was awake.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:16 AM (xRKBa)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:17 AM (rdVOm)
Most recent weather in Gale Crater from Curiosity:
https://is.gd/tzFKpj
Latest is Sol 4737 (Dec. 3). High of 27F, low of -99F.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 12:20 AM (w6EFb)
I would like to thank you, sir, for your music on the ONT. Without music (ok, and nature and art and food and mountains and snow and wine and my husband and babies and sons and grands, etc) life would be very bland.
I don't want a bland life and have never been bored. Seriously. Life has always been good to me and always will. Find blessings, Morons and 'ettes...even in bad times. Look up! Always look up!
This is a song dedicated to my eldest son who is a professional saxophone musician. Who tried music for awhile and teaching. Then became an engineer to support his wife and life. But he will always be the Sax Man to me, our boy. We remain thankful he never had to busk in the subway in NYC.We learned a lot about jazz and big bands from him and his trumpet playing brother over very loud years.
https://tinyurl.com/356xbccc
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:20 AM (WONhk)
Rest your paws, Publius.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:22 AM (xRKBa)
In clip above, President answers Fake News' questions AND stays quite steady during bumpy ride.
biden would've been rolling over the floor...if he was awake.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:16 AM (xRKBa)
Biden would have been throwing his shit on the wall like a zoo ape.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 12:22 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: 80s kid Miklos at December 10, 2025 12:23 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 12:24 AM (w6EFb)
_Newsmax
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:25 AM (c35xG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:15 AM (c35xG)
Talkin' to me? If so, thanks for asking! I have no idea but I ripped that off and FedEx'd it to, no doubt, an AI place. I have no idea when I will know the results. As a RN I did take my pulse now and then when I was wearing it and noted occasional skipped beats or pauses, but never for more than 1 Mississippi (second). No symptoms and certainly no more fainting to indicate this is abnormal or the reason I passed out like a loon.
Regardless, and I reckon it will be 2026 before I see a cardiologist, I feel fine. No matter what comes at us we'll deal with it. Sure, sometimes I think,"Oh, no!" then I tell myself to knock it off as I am blessed and all will be well.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:26 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 10, 2025 12:26 AM (sAmhv)
And finally for context, it's early spring for Mar's southern hemisphere (early fall for the North).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 12:26 AM (w6EFb)
299 Theme of the three songs: Pennsylvania
Squonk: a mythical creature in Pennsylvania
What I Like About You: featured in The Office, which is set in Scranton, Pennsylvania
The Weight: set in Nazareth, Pennsylvania
Posted by: WAG at December 09, 2025 11:33 PM (LAJY1)
A for effort
Posted by: Can't figure it out at December 10, 2025 12:31 AM (jrb8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:34 AM (c35xG)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:16 AM (xRKBa)
Turbulence has not fazed us since we had a newborn on a flight leaving MS for the West. Flew near a tornado on the ground in LA. The plane did a Dutch roll deal, leveled out, and dropped straight down thousands of feet.
This was during the Civil War times where everyone was fed. We were in bulkhead behind first class and there was no food or anything left on trays. Everything was on the floor. Bins opened and stuff flew out. It happened in seconds and there was collective ooooh vocals like on a carnival ride but no screaming lunatics. I reached for our baby on my husband's shoulder to (I guess) help hold him. All the 8wk old did was burp, so he was fine and we laughed.
A flight attendent ran by for a first aid kit and had giant hives on her neck, which I noted and told my husband. We all applauded on landing and got on another flight.
Once, flying to Orlando when I used to fly every month, I was in the loo doing my bidness when turbulence hit. I surprised the flight attendents coming out and going to my seat, unfazed.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:34 AM (WONhk)
Only one sibling is in touch (of 3) same deal, mostly...
I am *alone in the world* but for lil bro and The Horde. Oh, and the BIL-- when he needs help.
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:34 AM (rdVOm)
When you reach 29 years old never trust a fart.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:47 PM (1zOXE)
In desperate times, one employs the 'Doug Pinch' while standing. Cross your legs and lean back
Posted by: a dude in MI at December 10, 2025 12:39 AM (+I6Y/)
The waning gibbous moon drifts through cosmic currents
It's silver light waning like entropy's quiet decay
Gravity's unseen dance pulling tides and thoughts toward
the void's infinite whisper.
Posted by: Miklos got learnt by Publius and J. Gordon Coogler at December 10, 2025 12:40 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 10, 2025 12:43 AM (Vvh2V)
Hey, would you please run the bar tomorrow night? I may need to go out of town & offline. Fambly in trouble...
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:43 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 12:43 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:47 AM (rdVOm)
I'm glad you are doing well. Second opinions exist for a reason.
Being a nurse you know yourself and your body so don't take yourself from the HQ. OK?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:51 AM (c35xG)
I see a cardiologist yearly. My next appointment is next week. I was having a procedure done today and the outpatient surgery center said I didn't need a cardiologist clearance. Then the doctor's scheduler called me around 2:30 yesterday to cancel because the anesthesiologist wanted one. Then my doctor called be directly to ask some questions and decided that I didn't need one so he called the anesthesiologist to clear it with him. What a mess. After all that back and forth, they did proceed and I got my procedure done. Now I'm on drugs waiting for my son to get home so I can go. To sleep.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 12:51 AM (VCgbV)
Thank goodness he got refunded!
In every supply chain, at least one wacko lurks.
Posted by: gp at December 10, 2025 12:51 AM (GHIyr)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 12:52 AM (VCgbV)
Also, I noted Linda McMahon in a close up photo today and had to look up her age. I realize this is petty as she is doing good things...but, man. I have some supermodel tips for her that don't involve botox or injections. Lay off the eyeliner, honey!Granted, I don't need it, but wow. Also the pancake make up.
A decade ago I worked with a lady maybe a decade younger than me. She wore eyeliner under her lower lid, but not the top. I really wanted to tell her not to do this but refrained. I have to refrain myself a lot.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:54 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:56 AM (c35xG)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 12:51 AM (VCgbV)
Sleep well, sweet lady. And may all this be worked out for the best.
I am the worst patient of all time. My father believed in not going to the doctor unless he had to. I did not agree with him at the time but now I do and I am sure he's laughing from heaven.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:57 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: JQ
Time and and half
*checks*
Double the hourly
And tell the miscreants to keep their mitts out the tip jar
Posted by: Unionized Miklos Teamster at December 10, 2025 12:58 AM (N7hqt)
I have become that whack-a-mole machine. Every time I trying to fix a health issue, another one or two pops up. Then I have to fix that one and something else pops up. I have about 3 issues on my back burner I need to get looked at... getting old is not for the weak!
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 01:01 AM (VCgbV)
I bartended for over 10 years in case that Mikalos is trying to rip you off....
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 01:03 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 10, 2025 12:26 AM (sAmhv)
On my father side my grandfather went to 95, grandmother went to 93. Mom's side my grandmother went to 85, granfather went to 76. Mom's side was a train wreck health wise, all over the map, but a couple of them reached very early 90's. Father's side seems to live forever, he's 87, his brother is 92, his sister is 90. All sharp as a tack. None of my grandparents smoked, my father's father drank 2 glasses of wine every day, died at 95, had all his teeth, and didn't take any meds, not even aspirin.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 01:04 AM (snZF9)
I have become that whack-a-mole machine. Every time I trying to fix a health issue, another one or two pops up. Then I have to fix that one and something else pops up. I have about 3 issues on my back burner I need to get looked at... getting old is not for the weak!
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 01:01 AM (VCgbV)
I hope 2026 will be much better for you. I've felt this way at times this year as well. Then I remember what others go through and slap myself and go on.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:09 AM (WONhk)
JQ, what's going on with you, can I help in any way?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 01:09 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended
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Had an in office consultation with the electrophyologist about my pacemaker installation and it was agreed upon a general anesthesiology.
We're in the OR and an assistant is tying my hand to the rail. Why are you tying my hand. He explains that I might move - exposing that we're not having a general but a local.
NO. we're having a general - shorten the story - after a 30 minute argument between me and the surgeon it was agreed that he (it's against the rule for him to put me under) he will sedate me to the closest to unconscious as possible.
1. I have an unusual capacity for sedatives (hilarity in the OR otherwise called harassing the surgeon)
2. He is no longer my Doc.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 01:11 AM (c35xG)
I did not order that
Maybe Darleen is trying to lose some weight so she can get in the door without the side-wise hustle.
Or who knows what the hell else
Posted by: Milkos has Questions at December 10, 2025 01:12 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 01:13 AM (EMg+d)
I did not order that
Maybe Darleen is trying to lose some weight so she can get in the door without the side-wise hustle.
Or who knows what the hell else
Posted by: Milkos has Questions
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That damned accidental philanthropy.
Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (41CYW)
That would freak me out!
Of course I was awake when they placed a cardiac stent after my heart attack 10 years ago. I didn't feel a thing except relief when they cleared the blockage. I didn't even know what they were doing to be honest. Every thing happened so fast once they finally figured out I was having a heart attack.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (VCgbV)
Being a nurse you know yourself and your body so don't take yourself from the HQ. OK?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:51 AM (c35xG
Thanks. The next time I feel hot I will lie down wherever I am and elevate my legs over my heart and tense my muscles (this puts blood back into your brain). In wearing a dress it causes excitement for others, too.
An ED doc told me to do this the first time after I was tested for everything 4yrs ago. This time, being in church, I thought, nah vs walking out with the "Hey, here comes syncope! warning." Pride doth goeth before a faint (in this case, I did not hit the floor). So if I am deep in conversation with President Trump or Mel Gibson and I feel it coming on I will excuse myself and lie down. Ha!
So, twice I have not had enough water and rushed like a loon and !hello! If it IS my heart I will consider it a blessing, or try to, that it could have gotten worse without the excitement.
If it isn't it is still a good thing to lose 30lbs since covid and get my act together. A win win is how I am looking at the ordeal.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
I plan to live as long as I can, so that my Golden Years will be spent fucking with people who seriously need some Old School lessons.
Posted by: Miklos has land mines under his lawn at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: lin-duh
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Hahaha, thanks. Step in if you like!
Not sure whether I need to make the drive yet, but planning on it just in case.
Miklos: *This ain't no union shop!* Talk to 3D's about pay! Not my call, there.
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 10, 2025 01:22 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (VCgbV)
You think that was relief, try a quad bypass. I felt like I was in a twilight zone episode where they stuck my brain into a 20 year old body. For the first few weeks I kept saying this body isn't mine. I would sit in a chair and feel absolutely nothing, I was just a consciousness, like disembodied . It was unreal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 01:24 AM (snZF9)
My brothers also lit farts and I remain unsure how they explained scortch marks in their whitey tidies to our mother. It was not my problem when they told me.
I do have a class act on the subject: I am very good with hand farts since junior high. Different pitches and can set it to the beat of music. Our grandson thinks it is magic. I am such a weird grandmother compared to my own refined Southern ladies. Whatever!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:25 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: scampydog
Sir
I have paid for more soup kitchen meals than I have eaten.
I go sometimes, to see if they are getting my money's worth.
Less grifty
https://www.olivergospel.org/
Still trying to help the org that mikehammer recommended
Posted by: Miklos has land mines under his lawn at December 10, 2025 01:25 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 01:26 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 01:27 AM (0nHVk)
*pours drinks for both of us*
BIL was driving from somewhere West Coast (likely WA state) and headed for Tucson.
A wheel flew off of his 5th wheel, somewhere in S. Idaho. He's at a rest area, trying to get a replacement. (can't find the one that came off). Called an outfit, but refuses to let them tow his trailer to their shop. (I don't know if they were trying to take advantage?)
He's deaf. 70-71 y/o, widowed, no kids, on SS/has been on disability all his life. Not the sharpest in the drawer. Hubby and I are the only family he has left.
Waiting to hear from him again, and may end up driving there to help him get back on the road. I don't want him to stay here... his trailer would get impounded if he leaves it too long, and I'm not sure he understands that.
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:28 AM (rdVOm)
I plan to live as long as I can, so that my Golden Years will be spent fucking with people who seriously need some Old School lessons.
Posted by: Miklos has land mines under his lawn at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (N7hqt
I'm 71yrs going on 23yrs and still rocking. I alarmed my husband and sons last year telling them I consider the 70's to be my eccentric decade. My husband asked what does that mean and was relieved to hear I intend to wear more hats vs further horror to them. They never know what I will do in public, altho I try to behave.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:29 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:28 AM (rdVOm)
Oh, wow. Hope it all works out.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:31 AM (WONhk)
I have paid for more soup kitchen meals than I have eaten.
I go sometimes, to see if they are getting my money's worth.
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Meant no offense. Tip of the cap to you for doing such things. Much respect.
Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 01:33 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: JQ
I am on the Dental Plan
No complaints
But these dentures are not good for bottled beer opening.
Which oughta be there
Posted by: Miklos stands with All Noble Peoples and Against the Nations of Whiners and Complainers at December 10, 2025 01:33 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:35 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: scampydog
No offense meant, no offense taken
This whole
I am Offended!
Is bullshit.
I give no one the power to offend me or myself
Sit and be offended, Buttercup
Posted by: Mainly Kindly Miklos at December 10, 2025 01:40 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: JQ
It was 14,900 Comment Points
I think they raised it to 90,009
And canceled the VIP Lounge access too
Posted by: Miklos has the scars to prove it at December 10, 2025 01:43 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:29 AM (WONhk)
My eccentric decades started when I was 20. I'm not sure what I'll be like in my 70s. Probably a super villain, lol.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 01:44 AM (snZF9)
BIL has limited funds, no doubt. I need to see for myself, what I'll be paying for, ya know? This isn't due to mistrust of BIL, but mistrust of *certain business entities* over long distance. BIL is roughly 200 miles away. If he'd just tell me WHICH TF rest area....
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:46 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Miklos knows that Mistakes must be Made at December 10, 2025 01:46 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
I wanna party with that dude!
Posted by: Miklos with a kick-ass nitro mobility scooter at December 10, 2025 01:49 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 01:51 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: DaveA at December 10, 2025 01:51 AM (FhXTo)
Miklos, I missed Mike Hammer's recommendation for a charity donation, yours that you linked to looks very worthwhile indeed.
Hey scampy, I hope that you are ready for the party on Saturday.
Bers, you will have to drop in here after your party has ended.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 01:52 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Miklos thinks nitro is a good idea anyway at December 10, 2025 01:53 AM (N7hqt)
Dental isn't important-- I gots good teeth.
Regular medical would be great, though. Zerocare is ridiculously expensive and I don't qualify for (likely non-existent now anyway) subsidy due to all the IRA withdrawals for hubby's nursing home...
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:55 AM (rdVOm)
Bers, you will have to drop in here after your party has ended.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Hi DDS, put some 'drafty' stuff together this evening. We'll get it whipped into shape for a fun Saturday Club Christmas Party!
Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 01:56 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: scampydog
Scampydog is now registered as Canus Scampiensis, a distinct species in the family Moronensis
Posted by: Miklos sui generis at December 10, 2025 01:59 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 01:52 AM (0nHVk)
Your not coming??
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 01:59 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 10, 2025 02:00 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 02:02 AM (0nHVk)
I think this is what Mike Hammer was involved with, not 100% sure, because there are similarly named orgs
https://tinyurl.com/bdff47we
Posted by: Miklos does what he can at December 10, 2025 02:07 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: Miklos was taught actual head banging technique by US Marines at December 10, 2025 02:09 AM (N7hqt)
I just got an email that the missing pkg to my mother made it into the correct state!…
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
Yay.
There were three paintings done, of me and my two older brothers as kids. Never thought they were very good likenesses. Mom had them hanging in the hallway for fifty years. After her death, oldest brother's widow got his picture. We got the one of me, which gathers dust in the catacombs with a 1000 other things to sort through.
Middle brother's younger daughter wanted his portrait, so we shipped it off to her up in Oregon. It disappeared en route, and UPS disavowed any knowledge of its existence. This was years ago; it never turned up. That was about the time there was news of train cars being looted, pictures of abandoned goods along the tracks. I wondered if maybe that was its destiny.
I often wonder, when ships go down with containers, when planes crash, trucks burn up, along with ordinary lost items like tvs or cars, what about all the precious and irreplaceable and important things entrusted to shippers that just don't make it! /random ramble
https://youtu.be/OQ4kZOg1poE
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - methane miser at December 10, 2025 02:11 AM (yqA/D)
Bers, every year I swear that I will get contact info from you and Mrs. B., just to stay in touch.
Maybe next October!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 02:12 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Miklos was taught actual head banging technique by US Marines at December 10, 2025 02:09 AM (N7hqt)
If I'm awake. I'm going to have a house full of a metal musicians. We don't have parties after the parties, we do one long party until people pass out. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 02:16 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 02:17 AM (41CYW)
https://tinyurl.com/4usw78c6
Posted by: Miklos notes that Lawrence Welk and Ilhad Omar are both fron North Dakota, officially at December 10, 2025 02:18 AM (N7hqt)
Maybe next October!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 02:12 AM (0nHVk)
I thought Mrs B had yours, or else I would have gotten it at the MoMe. Doof and some of the ettes have mine if you needed it fast.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 02:20 AM (snZF9)
My youngest had an unusual request when he went to college. About two weeks in he asked me to ship him the oil painting of my great uncle Ken. Ken was an interesting character but that is a whole other story, anyway, there was an official portrait of Ken in his judicial robes that I inherited from my parents (he was my Dad's uncle). That painting really creeped my kids out when they were little, they said that the eyes followed them everywhere. So I ship him the painting and it hung proudly in his residence for the 4 1/2 years that he went to school. I came to find out that it was a pre-game college ritual for the boys to raise a glass to Ken before a major football game. Upon graduation he informed me that Ken had gone out with the trash but he was claimed shortly thereafter.
I drinkorated the tree tonight, lots of memories.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 02:23 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 02:25 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
I wanna party with that dude!
Posted by: Miklos with a kick-ass nitro mobility scooter at December 10, 2025 01:49 AM (N7hqt)
Then show the hell up at the TXMoMe.
And as for eccentric, I do whatever the hell I want to. People do that in Alaska, so I'm not sure if it's eccentric or just Alaska normal. I dress as I please, say what I please, and eat what I please. If you have issues with that, get over them.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 10, 2025 02:43 AM (6Bc88)
Thanks, Debby. It's been stolen more than you know...
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 02:25 AM (rdVOm)
I should have drinkorated the tree, but it takes 3 days to do as it is. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 02:45 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Miklos with a kick-ass nitro mobility scooter at December 10, 2025 01:49 AM (N7hqt)
Then show the hell up at the TXMoMe.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 10, 2025 02:43 AM (6Bc8
yeah, and thats an order. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 02:46 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 02:51 AM (rdVOm)
tcn, a trip to a MoMe will cure whatever ails you for sure. I am so glad that I got a chance to meet you there.
Sweet dreams Horde, I am off to the scrap pile.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 03:00 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Cowboyneal - the Other Jewish Carpenter at December 10, 2025 03:08 AM (MRSZC)
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OUT: Atlas Shrugged.
IN: Atlas Plowed.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 03:12 AM (l/bhe)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 03:13 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Miklos with a kick-ass nitro mobility scooter at December 10, 2025 01:49 AM (N7hqt)
Then show the hell up at the TXMoMe.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 10, 2025 02:43 AM (6Bc8
yeah, and thats an order. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 02:46 AM (snZF9)
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You haven't partied until you've partied at a TX MoMe with Berserker!
Ask me how I know?
Good times, good times ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 03:16 AM (l/bhe)
Posted by: Joseph Robinette Biden at December 10, 2025 03:28 AM (mFz+I)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 03:58 AM (Ia/+0)
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Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 04:01 AM (1zOXE)
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This Better Not Be AI Cafe
Kristin_Mae photography
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:40 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:40 PM (Ia/+0)
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Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:40 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 09, 2025 07:40 PM (LjSYW)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 07:40 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 07:41 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:42 PM (tgvbd)
I think the presence of Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent in the foreground is a give away.
Hah! Made you look!
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:43 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 07:44 PM (T+5zb)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 07:45 PM (vFG9F)
It's probably an actual Samoyed puppy in at least a couple scenes, and the rest is fake.
Posted by: Gundo at December 09, 2025 07:45 PM (3VsfT)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:46 PM (Ia/+0)
I hope Hadrian fetched em
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)
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Cool kids don't need a nood.
*lights cigarette*
*puts on shades*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:46 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 07:45 PM (vFG9F)
We'll fix it in the next beta.
Posted by: The Hampsters at December 09, 2025 07:46 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 07:47 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:47 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:48 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 07:48 PM (DoBxX)
So if someone shows up here calling us no-nooding bastages, they'll have to answer to BH.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 07:48 PM (zYpTz)
The Big Dummy walked at today's Space City KC of Palm Bay show, breaking a string of 23 consecutive Best of Breed wins. Apparently it was an ugly day. Spent not a few minutes trying to calm Her Majesty down when she called in.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:49 PM (tgvbd)
We did mange to teach him to only bite to draw blood, so that is an improvement
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 07:50 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:50 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 07:51 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 07:52 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 07:52 PM (pkeXY)
It's kind of Dickensian, in a South American sort of way.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 07:53 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 07:53 PM (xblT4)
Lol. A video thumbnail on ewetub. 'Noem confesses to Judge Boasberg that she is personally responsible for sending immigrants to torture prisons in El Salvador and he is considering throwing her in Jail for it! Hit 'like' if you want her in jail!'
Fucking lol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (zZu0s)
Needs more surf.
Or maybe it's a paddleboarding beaver. Or a kayaking beaver. Or a canoeing beaver.
In which cases, it lost its paddle. Which is funny, since it's a beaver, and making trees into sticks is its entire life. Does it even know how to beave?
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (nhCoE)
One of my kittens went through the velociraptor stage. He calmed down when the other one showed up.
_________
Our last litter out of Delilah can be mouthy. I attribute it to them having lost their mother when they were very young and thus losing someone to teach them manners..
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 07:55 PM (tcsrY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:56 PM (zZu0s)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TUJoG2CsMI8
Bad news? The Human race goes extinct.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:56 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 07:59 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:59 PM (zZu0s)
So if someone shows up here calling us no-nooding bastages, they'll have to answer to BH.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 07:48 PM
* rubs hands in anticipation *
Posted by: BH's Kitchen Table at December 09, 2025 07:59 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:01 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 08:02 PM (nhCoE)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 08:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Still better than the Chinese tradition of ghost brides. Son dies unmarried, family goes and buys a girl to kill her and bury with their son.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (2GVsD)
Wtf?! I'd ask if thats real but suttee was a thing. The abduction adds a certain horror.
All cultures are equal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:04 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (3uBP9)
Are you the Kraken? Is your wife Sir Laurence Olivier?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:05 PM (zZu0s)
All cultures are equal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
_________
Except America's. Which is worse than any other.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:05 PM (tgvbd)
Hadrian, i haven't been here all day and missed it if you posted earlier.
How did the Big Dummy do today? Did the Mrs. make it the rest of the way to Orlando safely?
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 09, 2025 08:07 PM (48yvf)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (2GVsD)
Wtf?! I'd ask if thats real but suttee was a thing. The abduction adds a certain horror.
All cultures are equal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:04 PM (zZu0s)
I thought the marriages were all made posthumously...no murder to make the marriage involved. Just match-making between parents of the dead.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:07 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (tgvbd)
This one I got from my sister, and I think she got it too young. She claimed he bit her all the time, but I played with him with a stuffed sock with a rattle in it, and he would chew on that to get his aggression out. He would attack the big tom who pretty much just accepted the abuse. Having an age-matched sparring partner helped a lot when the second kitten showed up, though he is getting to be aloof. I think that is mix of his adultish personality and getting to be a teen.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 08:08 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM
As do I.
Posted by: null pointer at December 09, 2025 08:08 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:08 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:09 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:11 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Skip
3 Good evening everyone
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4 Good evening everyone
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5 Good evening everyone
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6 Good evening everyone
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7 Good evening everyone
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8 Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip
If you show up on Sunday's Wall of Shame I'm putting an asterisk next to it!
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 08:11 PM (p6ZQj)
Bif, see # 27
Posted by: Ben Had
Thank you! {{Hug}}
He'll do better, sorry he didn't make it 24. Boss lady gonna be okay?
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 09, 2025 08:11 PM (48yvf)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
I guess if your culture does arranged marriages anyway, then the timing doesn't matter?
Though you gotta get it exactly right if you want the marriage consummated.
Posted by: rigor mortis at December 09, 2025 08:12 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:13 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:15 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Mike Porter at December 09, 2025 08:16 PM (I55Xh)
How did the Big Dummy do today? Did the Mrs. make it the rest of the way to Orlando safely?
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 09, 2025 08:07 PM (48yvf)
__________
Thank you for asking. She made it safely. The Big Dummy walked today. HM is fit to be tied about some incidents with respect to that. I had to settle her down when she called in.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:16 PM (tgvbd)
The clues are the inconsistency with the woman's voice, the pup's ears changing shape, the pup looks considerably older with the baby on the floor scene, and something uncanny about the crystal clear windows with nicely lighted snowflakes.
I could be wrong but it all seems to be a bit too perfect.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 08:16 PM (6ydKt)
If China hadn't been busily killing its women for the last several centuries... They managed to solve to problem of men having harems (thus depriving other men of potential wives) by castrating the other men.
I guess this is the modern way of castrating the extra men.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 09, 2025 08:17 PM (a+4eV)
- The door handle is all wrong. It is wrong style for the inside, and it appears truncated.
- The fire is all wrong. It is up high in the flu.
- The staircase seems to have a second railing flying above the first.
- That house must have 4 different rugs. One for every scene.
But other than that, I mean, look at it.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 08:17 PM (mPytV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:09 PM (2GVsD)
Yeah, there are always people who are willing to go to that extreme. Just like organ donors; some people are willing to kill others to sell their organs.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:20 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Mike Porter at December 09, 2025 08:16 PM (I55Xh)
ISWYDT
I move that we adopt this into the vernacular.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (zYpTz)
Just like organ donors; some people are willing to kill others to sell their organs.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:20 PM (ynpvh)
_____________
Like under government healthcare.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (tgvbd)
If China hadn't been busily killing its women for the last several centuries... They managed to solve to problem of men having harems (thus depriving other men of potential wives) by castrating the other men.
I guess this is the modern way of castrating the extra men.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 09, 2025 08:17 PM (a+4eV)
They import women from other countries. The one child policy had many consequences the PRC either didn't foresee or didn't care about. Maybe it was both, the power of AND and all...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 08:17 PM (mPytV)
I said that last in the coal miners sketch from Monty python. Lol.
'Go'on, what wrong with me?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: bbrown at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (bptYL)
Still better than the Chinese tradition of ghost brides. Son dies unmarried, family goes and buys a girl to kill her and bury with their son.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (2GVsD)
I think one could cure that practice by insisting that the parents be buried along with the son, as well.
Probably lead to a lot of nice private simple ceremonies.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:22 PM (MG/ac)
Just like organ donors; some people are willing to kill others to sell their organs.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:20 PM (ynpvh)
_____________
Like under government healthcare.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (tgvbd)
The PRC has been knows to harvest organs from dissidents...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:22 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (tgvbd)
Canada boasting of euthanizing what 16k or 60k? Of its own citizens.
People are fucked up. The devil is real.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:23 PM (7stnK)
Still better than the Chinese tradition of ghost brides. Son dies unmarried, family goes and buys a girl to kill her and bury with their son.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (2GVsD)
I think one could cure that practice by insisting that the parents be buried along with the son, as well.
Probably lead to a lot of nice private simple ceremonies.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:22 PM (MG/ac)
There are solutions indeed.
Posted by: Zombie Charles James Napier at December 09, 2025 08:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 09, 2025 08:24 PM (tWxgu)
Canada boasting of euthanizing what 16k or 60k? Of its own citizens.
____________
I think it's 16K. But the total population of Canada is something like 50K anyway.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:24 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:23 PM (7stnK)
AI!! all of them.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:24 PM (g47mK)
The other thing that I noticed is it has similar "scenes" from other random reels I've seen on IG. The one of the baby doing the finger gun thing is something I've seen on several reels. Also the white dog doing the "aroooo" howl is common on other reels.
AI is asshoe.
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 08:25 PM (p6ZQj)
But, reality
What does it mean?
Kamala Harris to the New York Times:
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was."
-
Julius Caesar
Alexander the Great
Kamala Harris
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 08:26 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Skip
3 Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip
4 Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip
5 Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip
6 Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip
7 Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip
8 Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip
If you show up on Sunday's Wall of Shame I'm putting an asterisk next to it!
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 08:11 PM (p6ZQj)
***
It's AI Skip.
If this were really Skip, they would be every other entry: 2, 4, 6, etc.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:26 PM (7stnK)
In a statement shared on X, the Imo State Police Command said their investigation was launched after reports of a worrying spate of kidnappings near a hotel and mortuary in Ngor Okpala.
According to police, intelligence-led investigations went on to identify a man called High Chief Stanley Oparaugo, also known as "Morocco," as the suspected leader of the criminal network and who is now on the run and wanted, per reports."
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:26 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:23 PM (7stnK)
It's gotten progressively better and harder to detect. They have lots of vids on EweToob with female robots are are pretty realistic, but all are AI. Robots don't look that good and are somewhat clumsy...
Contrast and compare:
https://youtu.be/0-MYK_i6gl8
vs
https://youtube.com/shorts/qPPwfoDVGuM
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:27 PM (ynpvh)
Nigeria is doing organ harvesting. "Hundreds of mutilated bodies found in suspected Nigerian organ-harvesting ring....An extensive organ-harvesting ring has been uncovered in Nigeria after weeks of covert surveillance, local officials have said.
__________
Charming world we live in.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:27 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Mike Porter at December 09, 2025 08:16 PM (I55Xh)
ISWYDT
I move that we adopt this into the vernacular.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (zYpTz)
Yeah, that's good!
This stuff is fAIke and gAI.
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:23 PM (7stnK)
Case in point: I just saw a thumbnail on ewetub of what looked like the same dog carrying a baby deer home in its mouth.
Fake as fuck. *confirmed*
Book 'em Danno.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (zZu0s)
Man, Trump is back in rally mode. And he's on fire. These things energize him like nothing else. He gets on the top of his game at these things. He needs to do this every so often for the rest of his term.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:29 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:31 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (sDNVV)
But there is also no way to care for the elderly the traditional way with one couple having to care for 8 grandparents and 4 parents. This was the driver of the real estate investment scam that is blowing up these days.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:31 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (w6EFb)
Miami had to aggravate him. Miami is stuck on stupid.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:32 PM (KDPiq)
The last several cafes have had some great pics, including this one which is really good at showing an impossible camera shot without HDR and Photoshop available.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 08:33 PM (6ydKt)
If this were really Skip, they would be every other entry: 2, 4, 6, etc.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:26 PM (7stnK)
As long as one of those permits us to have lunch
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 08:33 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:35 PM (g47mK)
The Hill
@thehill
"The Marine Corps just had its 250th birthday — now let’s abolish it"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (g47mK)
Oklahoma or Florida?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:29 PM (zZu0s)
Like a lot of things in internet history, porn will lead the way in advancing cheap, fast, 100% realistic generative AI video.
Them and somebody like a James Cameron who isn't afraid to push technological boundaries in film.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 08:37 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (ynpvh)
what happened in Oklahoma ?
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:37 PM (g47mK)
Democrats flip Miami mayor’s office, winning control for first time in nearly 30 years"
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:35 PM (g47mK)
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Miami, OH?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:37 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (ynpvh)
You mean Ohio?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:37 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:39 PM (g47mK)
You've got to turn people up to vote to win.
Democrats have all the motivation right now.
I bet turnout was 60% single female.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:35 PM (g47mK)
_________
Miami, OH?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:37 PM (tgvbd)
Party ID was not on the ballot in that race. Calling it a flip is a bit shaky.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:38 PM (g47mK)
Miami most important? On what basis?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:38 PM (g47mK)
NYC has been Democrat for a long time, dude. Go have a beer.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: dam fine at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (TbWk/)
Miami most important? On what basis?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (KDPiq)
__________
Hot Latina babes?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (tgvbd)
---
Recently turned on 'current news' to come up with the browser.
It's Fox and NYP and a couple of others. They must be Ai they are so stupid. First one up today was a killing at a high school. No, who, what, why, where or when. The only name mentioned was the sheriff. Many different articles are like that.
Trying to read them, you can feel your brains being sucked out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 08:42 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: dam fine at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (TbWk/)
I'm afraid to do a web search for surfing beavers...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (ynpvh)
It's Fox and NYP and a couple of others. They must be Ai they are so stupid. First one up today was a killing at a high school. No, who, what, why, where or when. The only name mentioned was the sheriff. Many different articles are like that.
Trying to read them, you can feel your brains being sucked out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 08:42 PM (c35xG)
News has been sourced by tweets for about 15 years now.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (8avO+)
That Trump’s big endorsement for Gonzales didn’t help is the biggest concern.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (KDPiq)
Democrat Mark Kelly - U.S. Senator for a state President Trump won in 2024 - calls 1.7 MILLION Arizonians crazy for supporting President Trump:
KELLY: "He has supporters. A lot of those supporters...are crazy."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: runner
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This was news in 1954.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (2NHgQ)
I am convinced, most people are detached, entitled fools.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (g47mK)
_________
Cutting a little close there, boyo.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (zZu0s)
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (8avO+)
I don't like beer.
Democrat Socialist, and Jihadi sponsored - NY
Qatar bought - Miami
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (JL0Wh)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:45 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (zZu0s)
Hu.
https://tinyurl.com/mrxntmxf
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:45 PM (ynpvh)
It's Fox and NYP and a couple of others. They must be Ai they are so stupid. First one up today was a killing at a high school. No, who, what, why, where or when. The only name mentioned was the sheriff. Many different articles are like that.
Trying to read them, you can feel your brains being sucked out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
I know. I know, it's hard to believe but journalism has gotten worse.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 08:45 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:46 PM (g47mK)
https://tinyurl.com/mrxntmxf
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:45 PM (ynpvh)
Nice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:46 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (3uBP9)
I guess judge never heard about the prohibition of legislating from the bench...was he a fed judge or a state judge?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:46 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 08:47 PM (c35xG)
How many have a University named Miami?😀
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:47 PM (KDPiq)
I'm rooting for injuries
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:48 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:49 PM (viF8m)
How many have a University named Miami?😀
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:47 PM (KDPiq)
Oxford, Ohio has one, or rather it's called Miami University...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:49 PM (ynpvh)
News has been sourced by tweets for about 15 years now.
Posted by: Oldcat
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It's worse than tweets. Usually, the stupidest tweets have a discernible purpose. These articles are vacuous. They suck your brain out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 08:51 PM (c35xG)
:puts up feet:
:pours a coffee:
:camps out here until midnight eastern time when the ONT might show up:
Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2025 08:52 PM (gKWVE)
Detroit IS the city of the future if you're filthy rich.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 08:54 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:55 PM (g47mK)
That would be a huge platform for the GOP because it's what's got people scared to death.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 09, 2025 08:56 PM (JL0Wh)
So fake. The press hates him so much.
Can you imagine our success as a country if the press was merely neutral?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 09:01 PM (loRx9)
The old Michelle: Book title, INVASION
October 28, 2002
In 1996, before the election, there was a huge push to naturalize new American citizens. And many procedural safeguards were trampled over in the rush to do that. In fact, at least 6,300 criminal aliens, convicted of felonies, were granted this precious birthright of American citizenship in that rush to essentially beef up the Democrat voter rolls.
Clinton-Gore administration official, Bob Bratt, … [was, in Russia] meeting women in hotels (one of whom he engaged in a sexual relationship, and then later tried to get visas to bring them over to this country).
He was divulging sensitive information, putting himself at risk for blackmail in Moscow. … [while trying to obtain, for the women,]… entry into this country and residence in this country, and ultimately, citizenship in this country [which ] continued
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 09:02 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:02 PM (GITLP)
[which ] is an absolute privilege, and it ought not to be treated as some sort of natural right or entitlement.
But over the years, our immigration system has abandoned that principle. ...
That`s how al Qaeda operatives over the past decade, nearly 50 of them... have been able to, entrench themselves in the American mainstream, [October 28, 2002]
https://tinyurl.com/3h6zfmfp
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 09:02 PM (c35xG)
Candace Owens has accused TPUSA of financial fraud, and that caused some people to demand refunds, I was just reading. Treasury has sent Erika a letter saying no fraud or investigation, which hopefully will help.
Candance Owens is one crazy bitch. TPUSA needs to take off the gloves and sue the hell out of her.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 09:02 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 09:03 PM (D+mpw)
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You and what army twinkletoes? LOL
Posted by: Chesty Puller at December 09, 2025 09:04 PM (2Ra0c)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 09:05 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 09:05 PM (c35xG)
How many have a University named Miami?😀
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:47 PM (KDPiq)
Miami of Ohio.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 09:07 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 09:02 PM (w6EFb)
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Not 20 minutes ago I watched Tim Pool on the most unhinged rant I've ever seen from him on how evil and crazy she is.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 09:07 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove a
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Thought Trump shut the door on all import.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 09:08 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 09:08 PM (g47mK)
'Governor Mills of Maine gave a no bid contract to an NGO to import 75k more. The left can't suffer enough'
Put all their leaders to the sword.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 09:08 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 09:09 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 09, 2025 09:09 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 09:08 PM (fd80v)
Exile Mills to Mogadishu
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 09:10 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 09:10 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 09, 2025 09:10 PM (rzkMR)
:puts up feet:
:pours a coffee:
:camps out here until midnight eastern time when the ONT might show up:
Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2025 08:52 PM (gKWVE)
Yeah - it better be on time tonight!
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 09:13 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:46 PM (ynpvh)
U.S. District Judge Patti Saris of the District of Massachusetts
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 09:13 PM (3uBP9)
Trying to read them, you can feel your brains being sucked out.
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I read my old hometown rag, just because. One or the board of supervisors is a huge flamer, made a big production of “marrying” his butt buddy a few years back. Then his “husband” killed himself, and the supe was arrested for drugging and sodomizing a youth. He refuses to step down.
The stories that they have to report on, at least once in a while (like arraignment, pleading “not guilty” public record stuff, they don’t even have his picture, the still picture they put up is actually another supervisor who was being interviewed about the debacle. I’d be pissed off, because a casual reader would conclude I’m the subject of the story here.
The really bad stuff never even gets reported. At all. Like it never happened. The top headlines are sports, sports, and more sports, and then “Library hours to be adjusted for Thanksgiving” and other nonsense like that. Weather - “February to be cold, Experts Predict” and gems like that.
Posted by: Chesty Puller at December 09, 2025 09:14 PM (2Ra0c)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:14 PM (viF8m)
Howdy, horde..
BIL hasn't gotten to AZ and "needs help" (eyeroll)
There may be a road trip tomorrow, ugh.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:14 PM (rdVOm)
There may be a road trip tomorrow, ugh.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:14 PM (rdVOm)
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Doesn't sound like an invitation to a picnic
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 09:16 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 09:17 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 09, 2025 09:19 PM (hhkIi)
I'm moving. The house is completely empty except for one thing: a Verizon FiOS router.
Tomorrow it won't be mine anymore. So after I hit "post" in a minute I'll disconnect the router and return it to Verizon later this week. I'll be living with a friend and using his WiFi, so farewell good old (XQo4F). I will miss you.
Time to move on.
Time for the next chapter.
~Quarter Twenty
(XQo4F) out.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 09, 2025 09:26 PM (XQo4F)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Correct. It's a sh!tshow, that's what it is. Dude isn't the brightest bulb, and lives a lifestyle he cannot afford.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:27 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:28 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Blue Boy at December 09, 2025 09:29 PM (oftw2)
Those two put the 'men' in 'menstruation'.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 09:34 PM (0CU3H)
Has unhooked his truck and wants to come here [[[NO, not an option!]]] but I have offered to help (read: pay $$$ to get it fixed) so he can get back to AZ.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:35 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Credit Where Due at December 09, 2025 09:35 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 09:08 PM (g47mK)
Good comparison, it's more than fair to say she's the Jasmine C. Of the right. Both are nasty bitches running ops to see how many millions they can sucker out of fools before the game falls apart. Both of already pushed their game farther along than anyone thought they could.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:36 PM (VG28W)
Long story short: California Democrats have regulated themselves into a gasoline import-dependent state, importing gasoline from India & Korea.
newscum & brown closed so many refineries and "specialized" the gasoline so much with dumb requirements, "legal" gas for CA must be imported from India & Korea.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:36 PM (xRKBa)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:37 PM (xRKBa)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:40 PM (VG28W)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:41 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: davidt at December 09, 2025 09:43 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:45 PM (VG28W)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:46 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:47 PM (rdVOm)
Yeah, can't let BIL stay with you -- he'll never leave.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:48 PM (xRKBa)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 09:49 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:47 PM (rdVOm)
Down by the river?
Posted by: davidt at December 09, 2025 09:49 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
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BINGO!!!
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:49 PM (rdVOm)
Golden Globe Awards added "best podcast" category to their stupid, unwatched show.
Guess who didn't get nominated?
Guess who got nominated?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:53 PM (xRKBa)
Posted by: Credit Where Due at December 09, 2025 09:35 PM (oftw2)
My peccadilloes are average sized, thank you very much!
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 09:54 PM (p6ZQj)
Hint: all the podcasts that are popular, e.g. Joe Rogan, did not get nominated.
Hint: NPR's podcast got nominated.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:54 PM (xRKBa)
oh, and that dumb "call her daddy" podcast was nominated
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:56 PM (xRKBa)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:58 PM (xRKBa)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 10:00 PM (1zOXE)
David Spade, who, incidentally, also has a podcast, calls out mall Christmas tree lighting for not mentioning the word "Christmas."
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 10:01 PM (xRKBa)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (zZu0s)
close, no dice
Posted by: notHuMan at December 10, 2025 12:37 AM (Zlxio)
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y
Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:04 AM (NxtE8)
COPY HERE →→ https://give2better58.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 10, 2025 04:42 PM (vyN+2)
Gavin Newsom and Tim Walz Discuss the Fine Points of Being High-T Super-Masculine Mish-Slayers
That video below the fold, from a great post about the radiating masculine energy of the Democrat Party by Beege Wellborn.
As you know, Gavin Newsom sits in an extremely "cover your mish" way that makes people doubt the physical existence of his testicles. Andrew Stiles has expert reaction to Newsom's "Crotch Clutch" manner of sitting.Newsom baffled experts who assessed that his posture appeared to defy the conventional scientific understanding of the human form. Gender scholars were just as perplexed. Several noted that Newsom, despite being born a male, was exhibiting a form of self-compressed emasculation or "crotch clench," while conveying an unmistakably female-coded body language. Political historians argued that Newsom's unusual posture was characteristic of failed candidates and sniveling cowards. It was, these experts contended, the seated equivalent of former President Obama's obsequious bow. That is why American voters could never trust Newsom to stand up to "wide-stance" authoritarian rivals such as Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping.Did you hear the news? Super-masculine and Fiercely Heterosexual lisping theater kid Cory Booker got "married" to a "woman" he just happened to meet and fall madly, heterosexually in love with a couple of weeks after he decided to run for president again. Must just be Fiercely Heterosexual Cupid timing things perfectly! Andrew Stiles again breaks it down:He is certainly no match for Donald Trump, and no amount of snarky tweets is going to change that.
Cory Booker Obtains Female Wife in Boost to 2028 White House BidRead the whole thing. Stiles is obviously impressed by the sheer force of Cory Booker's fiercely heterosexual desire for this rando woman supplied to him by a gay icon. Again thanks to Tree Hugging Sister, gay magazine The Advocate reports on Democrat Senator Reuben Gallego accidentally telling the truth about Democrats' gender fluidity.
Notorious bachelor ties the knot in 'private' ceremony shared exclusively with the New York Times
Cory Booker married a female woman over the weekend, closing the book on idle speculation about a man often described as "the Leonardo DiCaprio of American politics." The Democratic senator from New Jersey wed his recently acquired fiancée, Alexis Lewis, at an intimate ceremony in Washington, D.C., over the weekend. The move satisfies a major public relations need for Booker and arrives with exquisite timing as he prepares to launch his 2028 presidential campaign. The happy couple shared exclusive details about their relationship and "private" wedding ceremony with the New York Times. Booker, 56, and Lewis, 38, reportedly met in May 2024, several weeks after the senator pre-launched his White House bid with a record-breaking (and utterly pointless) filibuster that went viral on Bluesky. Most Democrats celebrated Booker's stunt even though they denounced the filibuster as a "Jim Crow relic" that should be abolished. Booker, who has described himself as "Spartacus," met his future bride through a "mutual friend known for matchmaking." Knowledgeable sources tell the Washington Free Beacon that the mutual friend is Anna Wintour, the fashion maven and Democratic megadonor who orchestrated the brief "romance" between Bradley Cooper, the Hollywood beefcake, and Huma Abedin, the longtime personal servant of Hillary Clinton. Wintour also hosted an engagement party for Abedin and Democratic billionaire Alex Soros in 2024. After their first meeting, the couple enjoyed a second date that Booker, a normal adult male, described as "magical."
First-year U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona is facing intensified scrutiny after leaked text messages showed the Democrat deriding the appearance of women and men in his own party. The comments mirror far-right rhetoric about gender and deepen concerns about his recent repositioning on LGBTQ+ issues. In the messages, first circulated by a conservative outlet and reported by People last week Gallego, who started his first term in the U.S. Senate in January after previously serving in the House, complained that Democrats are "not allowing men to be men" or "women to be hot," and wrote, "Dem women look like Dem men and Dem men look like women." He also lamented that Democrats had become "the not fun party" and no longer embodied "sex, drugs, and rock and roll."No lies detected. Below, two Men's Men talk about manly things like fixin' trucks and coachin' football and, of course, what men always talk about -- our gender identities.
Tim Walz: "I think I scare them a little bit [on masculinity]... My identity is not hunting, my identity is not football coaching, my identity is not a beard and a truck."pic.twitter.com/EmquLbhHQ1
— Joe Rogan Podcast News (@joeroganhq) December 9, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (XMwZJ)
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Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 09, 2025 06:29 PM (XMwZJ)
Shimmy, shimmy bop (ahh)
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (v0R5T)
So, gravitas? Remember that blast from the past? Pepperidge Farms does.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (hR7Y3)
Posted by: The Grand Poof at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (oftw2)
Usually it's the "I may seem crazy, or a colossal dumbass, or retard, or pussy, but I SCARE the right."
It is a universal truth - we are never scared of people who say this. Not even a tiny bit. "Bemused" is the word they are looking for.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 06:31 PM (Tbj3s)
Walz often looks like he's about to burst into tears.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 09, 2025 06:31 PM (azNOR)
So, gravitas? Remember that blast from the past? Pepperidge Farms does.
Posted by: Stu Podaso
Rush had a gravitas song sung to the tune of Feliz Navidad.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 06:31 PM (pkeXY)
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Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 09, 2025 06:33 PM (qZdIZ)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (Tbj3s)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Done by White Comedian Paul Shanklin, right?
Posted by: EIB Network at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (2GVsD)
You know what people say, "December romances yield Super Tuesday divorces."
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: tubal
.....
That was before his bottom surgery.
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 06:35 PM (v0R5T)
Booker, on the other hand, is in favor of the near-slavery of illegal immigrants and H-1Bs, and the actual slavery of socialism.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 09, 2025 06:35 PM (bPgnP)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
I remember it well, Paul Shanklin if memory serves.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 09, 2025 06:36 PM (hR7Y3)
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Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (Tbj3s)
"The Trump administration’s ban on transgender service members has just been UPHELD by a US Appeals Court"
https://tinyurl.com/2t59wz4j
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (2L+MU)
Booker, on the other hand, is in favor of the near-slavery of illegal immigrants and H-1Bs, and the actual slavery of socialism.
Posted by: Rob Crawford
/s - try it sometimes. It is a lot fun.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (2GVsD)
I thought faggots were British...
https://youtu.be/gt8IAJZTc-w
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:38 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 06:38 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Bete at December 09, 2025 06:38 PM (LX4y3)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (2GVsD)
I thought faggots were British...
https://youtu.be/gt8IAJZTc-w
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (ynpvh)
And also this:
https://youtu.be/pVHbWHGVYaU
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (ynpvh)
https://youtu.be/gt8IAJZTc-w
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (ynpvh)
Now I want a cigarette. Its weird, been happening a lot lately. Have not had a cigarette in 14 years.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: tubal
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That was before his bottom surgery.
Posted by: wth
You mean Gavin, right?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: No Name Today at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (8mulE)
This is what I do....
hmm. maybe gavin'll start an onlyfans when he loses the white house.
Posted by: anachronda at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (NtoJk)
Didn't work.
I already lost count of how many "scandals" have failed
The TACO outrage (oops Iran)
The Tearing down the White House Outrage.
The killing poor fishermen outrage.
The mean words and calling some pig piggy outrage.
The Epstein Outrage.
I know there's a lot more.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: tankascribe
I was taught to drink heavily first.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (uv8gn)
Now I want a cigarette. Its weird, been happening a lot lately. Have not had a cigarette in 14 years.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (zZu0s)
Are you under a lot of stress? That tends to increase cravings for cigarettes. I was not even a smoker, and with our last seven months with one of our kids, I would pay 104 bucks for a carton of Camels and smoke every damn one right now.
Posted by: moki at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (Tbj3s)
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Mega dittoes. It's not been the same since Neil Peart died.
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (f1kZG)
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Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (mG8BQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (2GVsD)
"Come on, shake your body baby, do the conga
I know you can't control yourself any longer"
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (XuXeR)
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Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (NtoJk)
Try all of that, and being Italian.
Might as well try to stop the tide.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (zZu0s)
Gavin simply is a super weirdo and useless user of oxygen as he destroys California.
Walz I have never heard speak due to the emesis projection like The Exorcist. He has a pedo mouth that causes me to swiftly look away to protect my retinas. He's busy destroying MN.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (WONhk)
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Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (s0JqF)
Even when he wasn't in blackface...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
This is rather common. 17 years on from quitting and that craving for a cigarette still shows up like a bolt of lightening every few years.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (s0JqF)
I know, why do all of those gaylords sit that way? I still haven't met one person that like Newsom. He's repellent.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (hs4ik)
He also pegs the Gaydar at around 98.9.
Posted by: Ventilate All Chomos at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (R/m4+)
"reflecting the Far RIGHT..." followed by the most middle of the road normal comment that 80% of the populace will agree with right now, not to mention the 95% that would agree with it a mere 10 years ago.
Really makes things easy.
Posted by: Croaker at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (AUB4U)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (mG8BQ)
And tits are there twice because they customarily come in pairs...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (cS1cw)
What did you do with Sarah? If you hurt her in any way, you suffer. capice?
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (pcnhy)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at December 09, 2025 06:46 PM (wBaIH)
What did you do with Sarah? If you hurt her in any way, you suffer. capice?
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (pcnhy)
$20, same as in town.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:47 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (2GVsD)
Funniest live college radio moment was listening to my friend recite the highschool football scores. Fairfield High's team was called the Stags. Well, my friend was speaking a bit too quickly and ended up referring to them as the Stairfield Fags. Consummate non-professional that he was, he excused himself and corrected his error by calling the team...
...the Fags of Stairfield...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 09, 2025 06:47 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:47 PM (2GVsD)
Might as well try to stop the tide.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (zZu0s)
LOL! I feel for ya! Actually, it was one of the harder things to learn. That, and not using "filler" words. To this day, the excessive use of "and" and "uh" makes me flinch.
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old
Walks like a sissy and talks like Kermit the Frog.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Mitt Romney at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (hs4ik)
I think he is too. But also I think some people are kind of sensitive to psychopaths. I think I am. Deep down repelled. So I underestimate his appeal.
On the left, many just see him as the left's answer to Trump. With the reasoning being, "well I super hate Trump, so to combat that we just need to pick someone that is super hated by our opponents". Therein lies all his popularity.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (npFr7)
Wep! Same cunt at #4 here. Sheesh.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: tubal
His current wife was an active side piece for Harvey Weinstein. Figure that.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGr
That reeks of a real Ransom of Red Chief situation.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (WONhk)
There is a "Ransom of Red Chief" reference here.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: huerfano at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
Lucky. All we got was burned bread.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Mitt Romney at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (PiwSw)
Dear Mittens, you are obviously mistaking us for people who give a damn for your lily-livered opinion.
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:51 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Mitt Romney at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (PiwSw)
—————
Fag
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 06:51 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (cxFcK)
Since weinstein jerked off in potted plants, does that mean they didnt do it?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:51 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:51 PM (vFG9F)
Anna do you ever generate your pics locally of is it all in the "cloud". Just curious because if you have decent video card you can experiment yourself.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:51 PM (E0p3T)
Wasn't that the ending to Nine to Five? Or was it Ruthless People?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:52 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 06:52 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at
She looks oddly like his previous beard, Rosario Dawson.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 06:53 PM (MGB5H)
There you go. If the GOP wonders why it has hard times in the mid-term elections, ask those wankers why they tolerated Mitt Romney. Mittens made it his personal mission to destroy Trump for the last 10 years, and the GOP did exactly *nothing* to deter Romney.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:53 PM (TN0g+)
You don't realize how much you use your hands until you have to keep them at your sides while trying to make a point solely with your eloquent use of language.
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (NtoJk)
Leonardo da Vinci invented the Ornithopter after observing his fellow Italians giving speeches in public.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 06:53 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at December 09, 2025 06:53 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Aunt Ralph at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (qMeWG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at December 09, 2025 06:53 PM (R/m4+)
I'm not in the closet.
Posted by: Tom Cruise at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Pierre Delecto at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (PiwSw)
For the Somalis to continue to hang on to him? You betcha.
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (77rzZ)
"Sweet 'Lil Lies"
Official Music Video
She plays a Telecaster like a girl. This is a compliment
https://youtu.be/1uFHX2UotIU
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Aunt Ralph at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (qMeWG)
I am intrigued, Auntie. Is that like the saying, "Big hat, no cattle"?
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old
Walks like a sissy and talks like Kermit the Frog.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (MGB5H)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP_aom1IgqI&t=333s
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (UJMvS)
Posted by: Tom Cruise
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Strangely enough, Nicole Kidman still says the occasional nice thing about him and to my knowledge has never gone on a tirade or truth-telling mission.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (hR7Y3)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (2GVsD)
=====
Speaking as a black lesbian I am comfortable with my masculinity.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (2GVsD)
Like Jabba sitting on that weird little thing who cackled all the time in that one Star War flick.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (0aYVJ)
Its Mittels Rombley, the boneless port rectum.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (2GVsD)
inverted or non-inverted?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (ynpvh)
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Kermit the Frog doing the "Taken" speech (from Liam Nelson) is pretty dang funny.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (TN0g+)
In-between two genders (now more?), relaxed & unconcerned, professory.
Barack and Michelle Obama, Chicago
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Description
Date May 26, 1996
"Portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama seated on a couch in their home in Hyde Park, Chicago. Barack Obama, wearing a dark shirt and khaki pants, is sitting casually, his legs crossed with his right arm draped across the couch back, and his left arm around Michelle Obama."
And it only became more pronounced as time goes on.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (hR7Y3)
——————
The one with a dick.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:58 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (TN0g+)
Show me the money!
Posted by: Nicole Kidman, Not Stupid at December 09, 2025 06:58 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 06:59 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Accomack at December 09, 2025 06:59 PM (T8bqm)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:59 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Tom Cruise
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Strangely enough, Nicole Kidman still says the occasional nice thing about him and to my knowledge has never gone on a tirade or truth-telling mission.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (TN0g+)
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That was more a South Park reference. I don't think Tom is gay. kind of weird, but damn he's done some really fun movies over the years.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 07:00 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 07:00 PM (MGB5H)
You don't realize how much you use your hands until you have to keep them at your sides while trying to make a point solely with your eloquent use of language.
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (NtoJk)
__________
Read out loud something in Italian. Your hands will uncontrollably move on their own. You cannot prevent this.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:01 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Not Keith Urban.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 07:00 PM (MGB5H)
She seems to like short men. Brad Williams, you're next.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 07:01 PM (0aYVJ)
Make of that what you will.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at December 09, 2025 07:02 PM (UJMvS)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
......
"She sounds like perfect First Lady material." - DOCTOR Jill
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (v0R5T)
I said it wasn't easy, Hadrian! LOL
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Totally OT, but the NZ guy that made What We Do In The Shadows and Jo Jo Rabbit is making a new Dredd movie.
With Karl Urban!
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (2L+MU)
Gavin is trying to show off his manly thighs with his patented testicle crush seating position.
_________
TWEEEEET!
*throws flag*
Assumes testicles are present.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 07:04 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:04 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (tgvbd)
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He's a gelding? Explains a lot....
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at December 09, 2025 07:04 PM (UJMvS)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (3uBP9)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sjHTTTtx-nM
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Making Lindsey Graham look butch at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: wth
DOCTOR Jill was Brandon's babysitter before he started a relationship with her while he was married. The more you know...
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (cxFcK)
Geez, you're right! It's trying to keep your eyes open when you sneeze.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:06 PM (2L+MU)
FYI, read anything aloud in Russian and people will think you're cursing.
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:04 PM (NtoJk)
_________
How to say "Hello" in foreign languages
French: Bon jour
Italian: Buon giorno
German: Guten tag
Russian: Yob tvoyu mat
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:07 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Drinker has a fun episode on his career self-immolation.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 07:07 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:08 PM (NtoJk)
The guy who gave us the live action Cats.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:09 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at December 09, 2025 07:09 PM (UJMvS)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:09 PM (NtoJk)
The guy who gave us the live action Cats.
Posted by: Anna Puma at
Tom Hooper. Good episode on him too. Hahah.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 06:59 PM
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Posted by: zombie Sigmoid Freud at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (0sNs1)
Adjusting for inflation the US GDP in 1964 was actually higher than it is today. Remember, the population was smaller then, 192.8 million compared to 343 million today. Fewer people were producing 20% more than than today in constant dollars. That means the productivity per person today is only 67% of what it was then.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (Da7Vv)
The Mavericks
All You Do is Bring Me Down
https://youtu.be/2nPLXVL8hKI
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (uv8gn)
===
Or the simpler твою мать
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM (2L+MU)
Some bright side.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:12 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 07:12 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (2GVsD)
Especially not Dredd.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:12 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:13 PM (NtoJk)
* grunts *
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 07:13 PM (0sNs1)
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Well Newsom's wife went down on Harvey Weinstein so she's used to the small stuff
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 07:13 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 07:13 PM (MGB5H)
I'm sorry to hear that news. Back in the day, I used to listen to the Mavericks quite a lot. God rest Raul Malo's soul.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (zZu0s)
Boxers, briefs, or thongs?
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (zZu0s)
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ELO
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (UJMvS)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM
I can think of some people I wish he would.
Posted by: Moroccan Donkey at December 09, 2025 07:15 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:15 PM (9ipOP)
The guy who gave us the live action Cats.
_________
The musical was the biggest load of unrefined crap ever to defile my eardrums.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:16 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:17 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:17 PM (2GVsD)
Newsomes hand genstures looks like Elaine from Seinfeld trying to dance.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 07:17 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
(Bows down in awed respect.) Lucky! I had to study and Soviet "literature" is the most snooze-inducing stuff on earth!
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:18 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:18 PM (A0sqA)
Maybe Mahomes himself is secretly based. It's long been whispered that Josh Allen is a rightie. Aaron Rodgers is certainly not a lefty. Wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of secret conservatives of all races in the NFL.
Posted by: Delurker at December 09, 2025 07:18 PM (xNHSX)
All You Do is Bring Me Down
https://youtu.be/2nPLXVL8hKI
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (uv8gn)
Excellent choice! Band has a big sound. Reminds me a little of the Texas Tornadoes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 07:18 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM
I can think of some people I wish he would.
Posted by: Moroccan Donkey at December 09, 2025 07:15 PM (0sNs1)
Me too.
Posted by: Chickens Against Chik-Fil-A at December 09, 2025 07:18 PM (ynpvh)
Like I said, Taylor Swift was in the movie musical.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:19 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Gav "The Monster Bod" Newsome at December 09, 2025 07:19 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:20 PM (Ia/+0)
What can you Girly-Guys Bench Press ????
Posted by: Gav "The Monster Bod" Newsome at December 09, 2025 07:19 PM (J9q9v)
I can do two 50 lb bags of potatoes. Tomorrow I'll start adding a potato to each bag...
Posted by: Tim Ball-lezz Walz at December 09, 2025 07:20 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:21 PM (A0sqA)
I'm sorry to hear that news. Back in the day, I used to listen to the Mavericks quite a lot. God rest Raul Malo's soul.
Posted by: Paco
Over last 7 or 8 years if they were playing anywhere close to me, meaning 500 miles, I was in the car to see them. One of the greatest two nights was seeing them at Gruene Hall in New Braunfauls, TX over a New Year's weekend, they were on fire. Tucson during covid was off the charts. My all time favorite show as at the Sandia Casino Amphitheatre in Albuquerque, NM - that show was a peak night - 4K people dancing the night way all night long through a thunder storm at times. Another time he showed up at the Las Cruces 4th of July show and did a solo set; it was there I came to understand why that band was beyond great. The last show I was to see was at the Santa Fe Opera house this September, at the last minute it was canceled; then I found out why and I have say part of my heart broke when I heard why.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:21 PM (uv8gn)
What can you Girly-Guys Bench Press ????
Posted by: Gav "The Monster Bod" Newsome
......
Did your testes drop?
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 07:21 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 07:23 PM (XuXeR)
All You Do is Bring Me Down
https://youtu.be/2nPLXVL8hKI
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (uv8gn)
Excellent choice! Band has a big sound. Reminds me a little of the Texas Tornadoes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
This was one of their standard show closers or the encore. They dragged out it and played it the max - after 8 bars, without fail the audience went wild. That bounce beat was wicked and it all came right out of Raul's soul.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:23 PM (uv8gn)
Prometheus?
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 07:23 PM (XuXeR)
Прометей
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 07:24 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 07:24 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:25 PM (2GVsD)
And Russian opera is the only opera I enjoy.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:25 PM (2L+MU)
I don't think I've ever seen a more on the money description of anything than that.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:26 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:26 PM (A0sqA)
And Russian opera is the only opera I enjoy.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:25 PM (2L+MU)
As long as it's not like Klingon opera...
https://youtu.be/rYY17RarRVc
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 07:27 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:27 PM (2GVsD)
Then you have some great memories to cherish. I regret that I never had the opportunity to see them live.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:28 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Worf, son of Mogh at December 09, 2025 07:29 PM (0sNs1)
https://youtu.be/rYY17RarRVc - jim (in Kalifornia)
No, No! Think the coronation scene from Boris Godunov, as an example.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:30 PM (2L+MU)
You can't really discuss that without including me.
Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard alumnus at December 09, 2025 07:31 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:32 PM (uv8gn)
Troubling Clouds…
Read the whole thing. Be vigilant my friends.
https://tinyurl.com/v2dp3428
Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2025 07:33 PM (gb3qv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 07:34 PM (22tYi)
Former UN weapons inspector Matt Bryden and now freelance in Nairobi believes the Minnesota fraud by Somali immigrants helped fund Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:36 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 09, 2025 07:38 PM (jYRYu)
Former UN weapons inspector Matt Bryden and now freelance in Nairobi believes the Minnesota fraud by Somali immigrants helped fund Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
Posted by: Anna Puma
I would wager it also help fund Tim Walz's feather boa and stiletto heels collection.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:38 PM (uv8gn)
Think the coronation scene from Boris Godunov, as an example.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:30 PM (2L+MU)
________
Original version or Rimsky-Korsakov edition?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:38 PM (tgvbd)
Assume this is a virtual life-affirming hug.
NotSoThoreau told me this morning she has woodpeckers. FWIW.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 09, 2025 07:39 PM (u82oZ)
Troubling Clouds…
Read the whole thing. Be vigilant my friends.
https://tinyurl.com/v2dp3428
Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2025 07:33 PM (gb3qv)
I'm intrigued but I don't click random links at work.
Posted by: Max Power at December 09, 2025 07:39 PM (SwyyQ)
‘ Newsome sits like a girl...a really stupid, ugly girl.’
It must be a lot harder than I think to not sit like a fag.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 07:42 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Gav "The Monster Bod" Newsome
As I remember my best ever day was 3 sets of 7 reps with 225. However that was 20 years ago. The last time I tried it was a struggle to get one rep with 135. That used to be my easy warm up weight. Sigh. Old age tears us all down.
Today I watched my boarder, with potential heart problems, loaded into an ambulance on a stretcher . He needed help walking to the stretcher. He used to be able to power clean 265, and do Kip Ups. 4th degree black belt in BJJ - former Texas heavyweight Judo champion.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:43 PM (Da7Vv)
Did you see the Royal Navy found a new way to be inept and vermin.
The Type 23 frigate HMS Lancelot has pulled into Bahrain to be decommissioned. And the ship will not be scrapped in the UK but probably in Turkey.
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Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:46 PM (2L+MU)
they think its cool
Posted by: cherries in season at December 09, 2025 07:50 PM (0XI+v)
Y'know, upon first reading I though it said "Obama, wearing a dark skirt"
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 09, 2025 07:50 PM (a+4eV)
Fucking lol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:53 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Mitt Romney at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (PiwSw)
You hear that? He says your name calling is rookie-level!
Break out the Shakespearean Insult Book!
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 08:05 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (WONhk)
I'm sure there are a few Somolia men in need of a girlfriend. If the price is right.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 08:09 PM (E66lT)
Raul Malo was a rare talent. News of his cancer saddened me and this, well...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 09, 2025 08:30 PM (nbLIj)
But now that I’ve turned 29 and matured, I no longer say that.
Now, I identify as a Columbia-class boomer, because they’re badass.
Posted by: MarkW at December 09, 2025 08:55 PM (qxVUf)
Womanhood? (spoiler alert). pacifist wife guns down evil man to save her husband.
Pretty much what life is like for most married couples, amped up a little.
Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 09, 2025 09:19 PM (TFeiv)
However, I recall a photo of.. I forget who, one of the fat, bearded, glasses-wearing NeverTrumpers, who all look the same.. with his hands similar to Trump's, but with a wider gap, and resting on his rotund belly. That is a feminine power pose commonly used by women, as if to say, "Behold: My Womb." So, depending on someone's apparent sex and precise positioning, the affect and effect can range anywhere from vital to grotesque.
Posted by: SciVo at December 09, 2025 09:39 PM (Sy6m/)
What can you Girly-Guys Bench Press ????
Posted by: Gav "The Monster Bod" Newsome at December 09, 2025 07:19 PM (J9q9v)
I can do two 50 lb bags of potatoes. Tomorrow I'll start adding a potato to each bag...
Posted by: Tim Ball-lezz Walz
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Pfft.
Posted by: Barky's two-pound curls at December 09, 2025 09:42 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (hs4ik)
I think he is too. But also I think some people are kind of sensitive to psychopaths. I think I am. Deep down repelled. So I underestimate his appeal.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (3uBP9)
I hope the nested quote is apparent. Anyway, just like there is an entire class of memes in the form of Venn diagrams, there is another in the form of rock/paper/scissors, and my favorite is normie/autiste/sociopath.
That is speaking of channer-style "weaponizable" autism, not the severe disability. Or, you could think of it as the geek/nerd/techie personality. But just as normies are their exhausting confusing kryptonite, they see right through the artifice of psychos like Newsom. I think that's because those high-functioning sociopaths are exploiting automatic click/whirr heuristics that form the basis of normies' social ease, and that spergs tragically lack, so their natural prey's prey is their natural predator.
Or maybe it's just a funny meme.
Posted by: SciVo at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (Sy6m/)
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Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 10, 2025 04:42 PM (vyN+2)
Trump Chief of Staff Suzie Wiles Promises That Trump Will Campaign In 2026 Like It's His Name on the Ballot
Which it effectively is. Trump's impeachment begins one minute after a new Democrat House is installed.
President Trump is gearing up to storm the 2026 midterm map, with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles saying Monday that the president is preparing to hit the trail with the same force and stamina he brought to his 2024 comeback run. Appearing on "The Mom View," a YouTube show from Moms for America, Wiles said Trump is already laying the groundwork to help Republicans hold the House and expand their Senate edge -- and that he plans to do it the only way he knows how: by showing up everywhere. "I haven't quite broken it to him yet, but he's going to campaign like it's 2024 again," Wiles said with a laugh, describing a president who remains the GOP's most powerful turnout magnet. "All these people that he helps -- he doesn't help everybody -- but for those he does, he's a difference maker, and he's certainly a turnout machine." Wiles, who managed Trump's victorious 2024 bid, said the White House is deliberately rejecting the old playbook that urged presidents to stay out of midterms and let local candidates dominate the spotlight. Instead, she said, Trump will insert himself directly into the fight -- a sharp pivot meant to energize the voters who showed up for him last November. "Typically in the midterms, it's not about who's sitting at the White House. You localize the election, and you keep the federal officials out of it," she said. "We're actually going to turn that on its head, and put him on the ballot, because so many of those low-propensity voters are Trump voters." She pointed to recent Democrat wins -- capped by the shock election of socialist Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor -- as a warning of what happens when Trump isn't out front driving Republican enthusiasm. "We saw what happens when he's not on the ballot and not active," she said.Hopefully he'll deploy a "Morning Again in America" campaign of good news.
The national average for a gallon of unleaded gasoline slipped below the $3 mark this week, continuing a months-long trend that's easing pressure on drivers heading into the Christmas season. New data from GasBuddy shows the average price falling to just under $3, fueled by what analysts describe as broad declines across most regions of the country. The update notes the national average is down 17.6 cents from a month ago and 7.3 cents from this time last year, based on more than 12 million price reports pulled from over 150,000 stations nationwide. Diesel prices also dipped, dropping another 5.1 cents to $3.671. Patrick De Haan, GasBuddy's head of petroleum analysis, said Monday that the country is "now at multi-year lows heading into Christmas" and predicted prices will hold steady through the early weeks of the new year. AAA's latest survey reached the same conclusion, pegging the national average at roughly $2.952 on Monday -- down from $3.001 a week ago and $3.073 a month ago. Drivers across the South and Midwest are seeing some of the steepest savings. Oklahoma's statewide average sits around $2.36, Texas is hovering near $2.50, and Missouri is clocking in at roughly $2.61. Florida, Alabama, both Carolinas, Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, and Montana have all fallen below the $3 line as well. But coastal blue states continue to stand out on the other end of the spectrum. California's statewide average remains an eye-popping $4.46 -- about $1.57 higher than the national price -- with New York, Washington, Hawaii, and Nevada all posting averages above $3.
🚨NEW: Susie Wiles says Trump will "CAMPAIGN LIKE IT'S 2024 AGAIN" for Midterms🚨
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) December 8, 2025
"He'll work very hard to keep the majority ... Nobody can outwork him. So there's every reason to be confident — but we have to actually get it done."@DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/C4GevJYCxH
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM (looXz)
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM
Agreed!
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM (looXz)
She is better by far than any of the traitors he had in the job during the first four years. Good reason that *none* of them are associated with this administration.
The biggest traitors were the three generals he hired.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (looXz)
I know, that's crazy talk.
Posted by: Veeshir at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (n3a/S)
Pretty sure he doesn't care.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 05:30 PM (0N4FZ)
Trump is going to party like it's 2028.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:31 PM (krQz2)
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I can't imagine it will be that slow.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:31 PM (azrRX)
Pretty sure he doesn't care.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 05:30 PM (0N4FZ)
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It's an empty threat. They won't get 67 votes in the Senate, but Trump will unleash prosecutorial hell on the Dems since he will have nothing to lose.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:32 PM (ZOv7s)
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Trump is quite good at that. He like to boast, and has quite a bit to boast about.
Unless the AI bubble pops between now and then. If that happens, there *will* be a rout and we'll be lucky to avoid a full-on conversion to outright fascism.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:32 PM (azrRX)
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I can't imagine it will be that slow.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:31 PM (azrRX)
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"Sentence first!" cried Nancy.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (krQz2)
Pretty sure he doesn't care.
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Yeah, unless Dims in the House want to vote to cut off spending (and ICE is funded through 2028 iirc), there isn't much they can actually do. Impeachment theater is just for yet more fundraising, like 99% of what Congress Critters do.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (UdiE9)
He's giving one tonight in PA.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (viF8m)
That's going to be the main issue in 2026 IMO. And, food distributors as well as manufacturers and retailers are still trying to get back what was lost over the last 5 years.
But, I'm heartened to know that the White House recognizes this very volatile and relevant issue.
Posted by: Orson at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (dIske)
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And every other Republican will fold and vote with Dems, you know - the will of the people.
The least that needs to be done is to at least hold the seats Republicans hold now, anything else will simply empower the RINOs.
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:34 PM (1RAfh)
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How long before lefty forums are starting of a chorus of impeaching Trump for using taxpayer money (AF1 and associated operations) for political purposes?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:34 PM (azrRX)
Laura Trump was really effective in 2024 when she ran the DNC, she needs to be there again.
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (1RAfh)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:34 PM (azrRX)
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Or before Boasberg declares that the president campaigning during the midterms is illegal?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (azrRX)
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you "Socialism"!
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (TN0g+)
We don't need to. Watch...
Posted by: GOPe at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (IYMzU)
Yep. I think it is actually worse than that. I see all the allegations, such as committing war crimes, as predicates for Democrat compliant kangaroo court felony investigations, trials, and convictions once he is out of office.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (uv8gn)
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How long before lefty forums are starting of a chorus of impeaching Trump for using taxpayer money (AF1 and associated operations) for political purposes?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!
Trump should be in the White House running the country, not playing partisan politics.
-legacy media in 3 2 1...
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:32 PM (ZOv7s)
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That's when the Dems launch into an attack against Republicans that won't "do their duty" and have "failed their country" and hope that, with the media carrying their water, it works.
The House vote was meant to be a check on the Senate. The Senate has no obligation to try to convict based on a House vote.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (TN0g+)
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Nah. If it were socialism, there'd be no fuel.
This is good old-fashioned regulatory burden, rent-seeking, corruption and theft.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:36 PM (azrRX)
Then keep democrats from power. Costs are trending down, largely due to reduced transportation costs...
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:36 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:36 PM (krQz2)
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ok, but we need good candidates too!
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 05:37 PM (g47mK)
All we have to do is hold the line on prices. Stay strong, gentlemen! Well, I guess it's mostly women now...
Posted by: Big Food (Gas, Whatever, etc.) at December 09, 2025 05:37 PM (IYMzU)
What? Historic and not Herstoric?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:38 PM (uv8gn)
I haven't paid these prices for gas and road use diesel in a decade. It's fantastic.
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:38 PM (XuXeR)
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Get him to do what he likes to do and he really likes to campaign. What's not to like?
Will he choose another another 70s song to populize?
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:38 PM (1RAfh)
Then keep democrats from power. Costs are trending down, largely due to reduced transportation costs...
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:36 PM (XuXeR)
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I'm weakly hoping that people can remember the period where most of the increase happened, while the administration was orchestrated telling you "inflation is not happening".
I don't have a whole lot of trust in my fellow American right now.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:39 PM (krQz2)
The economy doesn't turn on a dime. It takes a while for new policies to take hold. But as you noted the trend is heading in the right direction.
Where we are today is not where we will be next November.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:39 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (u73oe)
What? Historic and not Herstoric?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:38 PM (uv8gn)
Everybody is a historic figure. What you are looking for is the right adjectives to be applied to you.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (GPa4z)
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Up to a point. Trump must drive it hard that whatever people have or have regained will disappear in a puff of smoke if Dems get back in.
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (1RAfh)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (vFG9F)
I guarantee you, if Trump thinks you're stupid, that's just peanuts to how stupid the Democrats take you to be.
Ya gotta think of what vote gives you a net gain in what you object to.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Decaf
I nominate "Dancing Queen."
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (uv8gn)
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ok, but we need good candidates too!
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For what? You don't think we're actually going to *do* anything while we're in office, do you?
Posted by: The GOPe at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (TN0g+)
You mean "take to #1"?
"In 2024, 46 years after its release, "Y.M.C.A." spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart"
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (1RAfh)
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He's also good at that. He's boastful *and* vicious!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (azrRX)
What we need are verifiable elections, not this "preponderance of mood" stuff that the MFM is starting to concoct.
"I haven't quite broken it to him yet, but he's going to campaign like it's 2024 again," Wiles said with a laugh,
As far as I can throw her...
Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (klxjG)
That doesn't mean I'm any less committed to making as republic work as much as it can, though.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:42 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:42 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Decaf
I nominate "Dancing Queen."
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I nominate "Ballroom Blitz".
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (zZu0s)
I know, that's crazy talk.
VOTE GOP - WE ARE LESS LIKELY TO IMPEACH TRUMP THAN THE DEMOCRATS !
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (rgGn5)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:42 PM (pkeXY)
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Oh, they would. And fast. Like a falling brick.
This bubble scares me. We're seeing a lot of very familiar stuff, if you were paying attention in the 1998-2002 period. That didn't end well and this is much bigger.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:44 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:44 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:44 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:42 PM (pkeXY)
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Back to 20 bucks in town?
Posted by: That Guy at December 09, 2025 05:45 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2025 05:46 PM (klxjG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 05:46 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2025 05:46 PM (klxjG)
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There's a hole with no bottom.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:46 PM (azrRX)
While, at the same time, the down-ticket Republicans have opposed their President more than any party in history.
This is amazing--by winning he destroys the anti-Republican Republicans.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (krQz2)
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Well, they tried that game twice. I don't think third time is the charm.
I also think this is way too early. Next year the Dems will be working full-time to hate on American, desecrate the flag and basically take a dump on all things patriotic.
They will riot and tear down flags. Not a great way to sway swing voters.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (ZOv7s)
Remember a cell phone is not a phone and wire tap laws don't apply to it. Anyone with a proper receiver can legally eavesdrop on any cell phone conversation because they are actually radios, not phones. So can a law enforcement agency likely talk to a cell phone and ask it where it is without any sort of court involvement? Almost certainly, yes.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:44 PM (PiwSw)
Ed has been trying to get a taste of the furry cock for about a decade now.
Don't tell Garrett.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (TN0g+)
Brian: Ready Steve? Uh huh.
Andy? Yeah.
Mick? OK,
Alright, fellas, let's Gooooooooo.
I may have listened to that song a time or two....
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (PiwSw)
They will riot and tear down flags. Not a great way to sway swing voters.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (ZOv7s)
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Perhaps. The smart people in the Party know that this is a bad approach. Next year will reveal how much central control there still is. The Party is not monolithic and there is much potential for fracture over core strategy.
TIme will tell.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: Kamala at December 09, 2025 05:49 PM (klxjG)
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I'm sorry who the hell was "shocked" that New Tard City elected an islamunist plant? Certainly not me, I said he would be mayor the day I heard he was running. Might be the least shocking thing that happened all year.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 05:50 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:50 PM (viF8m)
TIme will tell.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (azrRX)
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Sure. NYC will be model of good governance, a model for the whole nation. And Dems will put aside Trump hatred to celebrate the Founding Fathers. And flaming monkeys will fly out of Ace's ass. All equally likely.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:50 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Decaf
I nominate "Dancing Queen."
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I nominate "Ballroom Blitz".
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (TN0g+)
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I love Ballroom Blitz but they are British and I think half of them are dead. It needs to be an American band or artists who are alive and able to take advantage of it.
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (1RAfh)
PT: The cause of death for Mitt Romney’s sister-in-law was revealed on Tuesday: Carrie Elizabeth died by suicide, the LA County Medical Examiner said.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (abIsI)
Democrats will be bleating about "affordability" from now until the midterms.
What does the government to about affordability?
Make sure the customer has more spending money and/or make sure the goods are cheaper.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (pkeXY)
The arsonists complaining about the fire.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (9Hs2w)
TIme will tell.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Pre-arranged stock market crash? Mebbe just a small one, big enough to use for propaganda purposes, but not the big one coming in 2028.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (PiwSw)
Oh, so you think YOU'RE the passionate one?
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 05:52 PM (VSgUG)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:50 PM (ZOv7s)
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There is pretty big space between "don't go fully insane anti-America and anti-Normality with riots and terrorism" and "put aside Trump hatred to celebrate the Founding Fathers."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:52 PM (azrRX)
Brian: Ready Steve? Uh huh.
Andy? Yeah.
Mick? OK,
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (PiwSw)
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No, You Don't
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:53 PM (krQz2)
I also think this is way too early. Next year the Dems will be working full-time to hate on American, desecrate the flag and basically take a dump on all things patriotic.
They will riot and tear down flags. Not a great way to sway swing voters.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (ZOv7s)
I think the current Dems are too incoherent to have a constant message. You have neocons, leftists, antisemites and the woke brigade all pulling in different directions. Look at the Crockett thing - if she's such a star why waste her on losing in the Primary or General in Texas?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:53 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (GPa4z)
Make sure the customer has more spending money and/or make sure the goods are cheaper.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (pkeXY)
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It can lower interest rates, which is why Powell won't do it. If he doesn't lower them, Trump should fire him, relying on SCOTUS, which is going to find the executive has that power and will put a stay on him working until their other opinion comes out.
I think Trump has been planning on this for a while.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (mlg/3)
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Don't bet on it. Nobody has enough power for that, and it's unlikely that anyone who *did* would be stupid enough to use it. The capital markets are really, really big and screwing with them is exceedingly dangerous - especially when everything is on a precipice anyway. Stocks in particular are primed for a major downturn. There's no way to engineer a "small" downturn when there's this much overhang.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
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I loved it when Mitsubishi used it for their TV commercials. Mitsu always seemed to have pretty savvy marketing.
Unfortunately, on the channels I watch now over-the-air, everything is about Medicare Advantage plans, Hurry-Canes, phones with closed captioning, and incontinence products. Do car companies still have ads? Any good ones?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (pkeXY)
What does the government to about affordability?
Make sure the customer has more spending money and/or make sure the goods are cheaper.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (pkeXY)
Well Trump could roll back tariffs on Argentine Beef or something in an instant
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:55 PM (8avO+)
What? Historic and not Herstoric?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:38 PM (uv8gn)
Everybody is a historic figure. What you are looking for is the right adjectives to be applied to you.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (8avO+)
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Maybe marble dildo of Willie Brown's schlonge because she's his fault.
Posted by: torabora at December 09, 2025 05:55 PM (1pB37)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at December 09, 2025 05:55 PM (wBaIH)
Make sure the customer has more spending money and/or make sure the goods are cheaper.
So they import tens of millions more Takers which dramatically increases demand on housing, food, transportation, medical, education, municipal services, utilities.
Then confiscates through taxation and inflation the spending money of the Producers who now pay much higher prices with less money on the things being gifted to the Parasites.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:55 PM (9Hs2w)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
I liked when Tia Carrere sang it.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 05:55 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (krQz2)
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Never. Not possible. Far more likely to be 1990s Yugoslavia.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:56 PM (ZOv7s)
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I mean ...
If that's on X it's a simple click to tell.
But, recall there were even here, prior to the last election, that were swearing, they just could not vote for Trump because he refused to support a nationwide ban on abortion.
Or, to clarify:
100% of the "people" claiming now--especially after 4 years of Biden--that they no longer support Trump, are Fuentes Bots sucking Donkey Dick.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 05:56 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (wzUl9)
No, at best they are drone flights at the most boring angle of some big boxxy thing.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:56 PM (8avO+)
Its an obscenity that slabs of untrimmed brisket are running $5/lb
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (9Hs2w)
Make sure the customer has more spending money and/or make sure the goods are cheaper.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (pkeXY)
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It can lower interest rates, which is why Powell won't do it.
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Lowering interest rates doesn't make anything more affordable, it just makes it mildly less painful to go into debt in order to have the things you can't afford.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (TN0g+)
Brian: Ready Steve? Uh huh.
Andy? Yeah.
Mick? OK,
Alright, fellas, let's Gooooooooo.
I may have listened to that song a time or two....
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (PiwSw)
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Its such an epic song, and the start you quoted is as creative as anything in pop/rock history. Even the drum line that was playing under that banter was just perfect.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM (looXz)
The major criticism I have heard of her is that she is trying to run the national campaign like it was a Florida campaign.
I was listening to a critique of pres Milei's campaign in Argentina this year, how the early loss in Buenos Aires province had Milei dump his staid campaign staff and get a younger cadre and blew the Kirchnerites out of the water. I am hoping Trump can get his crew to think on their feet.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (rbvCR)
Put yourself in their shoes a moment.
You're trying to dilate your suppurating wound so your surgically maimed "genitals" don't "heal" and close your beautiful artificial boypussy forever. And inflation has made your mangina very expensive to maintain. It's almost unaffordable to maintain the thin charade that you've become a woman. That clerk at GameStop won't even call you ma'am.
You know this is Drumpf's fault, right?
Posted by: Right? at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (neVb2)
Do House Reps in races that they won by single digits in 2024 really want that ?
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (KLQUC)
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (vSvIl)
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Artificially lowering interest rates worsens affordability. It may briefly increase "payability," but it's fleeting.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (azrRX)
Pretty sure he doesn't care.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 05:30 PM (0N4FZ)
So why is he campaigning?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: DanMan at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (vSvIl)
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What, like a car or house?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Decaf
I nominate "Dancing Queen."
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I nominate "Ballroom Blitz".
Posted by: Crusader
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I love Ballroom Blitz but they are British and I think half of them are dead. It needs to be an American band or artists who are alive and able to take advantage of it.
Posted by: Decaf
"We Are Family" Sister Sledge
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (uv8gn)
Chevrolet had a nice four minute pro-family Christmas advertisement on their Suburbans..
I think that ad buys are in the form of paying influencers and video reviewers to gush about how great the XYZ model is.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (9Hs2w)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:53 PM (8avO+)
Need to keep black women fully on the plantation, especially with muzzies, trannies and probably some white men being so high on the stack for now.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (TR2dy)
Ayn Rand was right.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (zqeQL)
Its an obscenity that slabs of untrimmed brisket are running $5/lb
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (9Hs2w)
But tariffs are harmless and wonderful!!!
Posted by: Anti-freedom AoS posters at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (rQwsY)
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Another GREAT song from the same album. That one didn't get the airplay it should have, but Pat Benatar liked enough to record a cover of it.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:01 PM (9Hs2w)
You know this is Drumpf's fault, right?
Posted by: Right? at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (neVb2)
You are behind the times. It's gonna be the Jews' fault. Most of the factions can agree on that.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 06:01 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (rQwsY)
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Gosh, because maybe a GOP majority might actually pass bills he wants. Lots of reasons to do it. Impeachment fears are way down the list.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (GPa4z)
What do Republicans offer?
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (E0p3T)
>>@RapidResponse47
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1m
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>>@SecScottBessent in Pennsylvania: "This is a formula for prosperity: lowering prices, raising incomes... The benefits of [President Trump's] agenda are now rippling through the economy — and those ripples will become waves as his agenda gathers force in 2026."
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (vSvIl)[/io]
Lowering the interest rates increases inflation. If you want to see .25 cent candy bars ever again, then low interest rates are not your friend.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (wzUl9)
No, at best they are drone flights at the most boring angle of some big boxxy thing.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:56 PM (8avO+)
Sometimes I worry that the ads on the HQ, the ones about cleaning all your rain gutters, and alternatives to "the little blue pill" both have the same solution. But what really keeps me up at night is that this is a secret message being delivered to me, and humanity's last greatest hope, might actually be my very own penis. It's a terrible burden.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (3uBP9)
Everything the Democrats do is Bull Shit - thus their party stinks, and the smell is bad enough that even low info voters are starting to smell it.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (9Hs2w)
Chevrolet had a nice four minute pro-family Christmas advertisement on their Suburbans..
I think that ad buys are in the form of paying (fake word) and video reviewers to gush about how great the XYZ model is.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (9Hs2w)
Once again I see Subaru is not a car manufacturer but is instead the United Way.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:03 PM (wzUl9)
I mean, my local taco shop had posted multiple news articles all in the vein of "why the price of eggs will never come down."
Dems were in front of every microphone they could find.
They were winning the airways!
They were going to something something, and Trump resigns!
How'd that work out?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 06:03 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (vSvIl)
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What, like a car or house?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (ZOv7s)
Yes. Among other things, since we foolishly allow 'credit' for pretty much everything.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:03 PM (vSvIl)
The demons in Hell have selected her for some reason.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:04 PM (9Hs2w)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (9Hs2w)
It is your patriotic duty to pay higher prices for everyday things. Now pay up, or do you want to be a traitor to your country?
Posted by: Principled Anti-freedom AoS posters at December 09, 2025 06:04 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:03 PM (vSvIl)
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So...no buying a house until you save up for it? Cash only transactions or loans with high interest rates? Is this your path for prosperity and assuring GOP victory?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:05 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:03 PM (wzUl9)
It's not?
Posted by: Chinese Karaoke Singers singing Barroom Britz at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (3uBP9)
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Chevrolet had a nice four minute pro-family Christmas advertisement on their Suburbans..
I think that ad buys are in the form of paying influencers and video reviewers to gush about how great the XYZ model is.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025
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Come to think of it, I have seen ones for Buick -- their latest all-SUV lineup. If it hadn't been for the triple-shield badge on the front of the vehicle in the ad, I wouldn't have recognized the brand until they said it. Their SUVs look just like GMCs or Cadillac SUVs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (E0p3T)
Supposedly closed borders with mass deportations, no wars, more responsible spending, a sensible energy policy...
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (rbvCR)
Depends on the situation.
To truly see 25 cent candy bars again…pay down the debt. Which reduces the amount of dollars in circulation, which makes the dollar more precious, and so on.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (rQwsY)
I don't know where some of you live but prices on virtually everything including groceries around here are down.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (viF8m)
Supposedly closed borders with mass deportations, no wars, more responsible spending, a sensible energy policy...
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (GPa4z)
No wars, huh?
The Enemy Gets A Vote.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (3uBP9)
I don't want to add to your cares, but I sometimes have the same worry:
Is Banana Dream's banana are last best hope?
Posted by: guy who banana dream should take out a restraining order against at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (neVb2)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (3uBP9)
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED FROM BRUTALITY TO KILL THE BURTALS WHO MULTIPLY, AND ARE LEGION. TO THIS END ZARDOZ YOUR GOD GAVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE GUN. THE GUN IS GOOD. THE PENIS IS EVIL
Posted by: ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (Ia/+0)
But manufacturers borrow money in order to make contracts and purchase materials, labor, equipment and real-estate.
Also high interest rates attract bond and treasury investors away from stocks with mild returns.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:08 PM (9Hs2w)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:08 PM (zZu0s)
The Enemy Gets A Vote.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (rQwsY)
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Given that even when we were attacked, we decided to go kick off a bunch of other unrelated wars, I'd say we've met the enemy and he is us in that respect.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (Da7Vv)
Yet they stay afloat because they get to run against Republicans who only we seem to think are better, and that's on odd days only when we're not complaining about what bullshitting lying traitorous cocksuckers they are.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (3uBP9)
This also is what keeps the Paolo up at night, but in a different way...
Posted by: The Paolo at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (XQo4F)
Posted by: DanMan at December 09, 2025
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I've seen $2.19 in Da Swamp in one or two places. Most seem to hover around $2.49, with some Chevrons and Sunocos at $2.79.
The suburban convenience store where I get my $2.99 ethanol-free gas has $2.19 for E10 regular. I may do a 50/50 split fillup tomorrow or this weekend.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (wzUl9)
The Enemy Gets A Vote.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (rQwsY)
The key to peace is not having any enemies. Let's kill them.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:10 PM (wzUl9)
I don't know where some of you live but prices on virtually everything including groceries around here are down.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (viF8m)
Depends on what you buy.
The beef is still high but other things are…not bad. I buy lots of store brands anyway as a hedge against all this. No need to buy Minute Brand Instant Rice when I can get a store brand from HEB or Wally World cheaper.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:10 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:08 PM (zZu0s)
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Anyone remember that Very Conservative Army Guy who thought Trump was losing the military and needed to back off but who vanished when Joe glorified trannies and used unlawful vaccine requirements to kick 40,000 GIs out? Yeah, the military *loved* that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:10 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (rbvCR)
Arthur, what did we ever do to you?
Posted by: Ron and Emily Burtal at December 09, 2025 06:10 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 06:11 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:11 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:05 PM (ZOv7s)
If we're serious about making homes affordable, banning mortgages is the only way to really do it. You have to end the excess money that is artificially available for purchases and let supply and demand run their course.
I get that people are accustomed to the way things are currently done, financing everything, but that isn't mathematically sustainable.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (E0p3T)
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Cheating. They stay afloat by cheating. Rampant, massive cheating. Why are so many blue states fighting federal lawsuits demanding the voter rolls? Because they have to hide the cheating.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (GPa4z)
Not that either.
I’m not a naive hippie dippy, who thinks we can just have “no wars”, BUT the can be avoided by:
1) Peace Through Strength
2) Deterrence. Si desiderat pacem, praeparat bellum.
3) DIME
We don’t need to kill all our enemies. Just make sure they live in fear that if they fuck up, they might end up dead.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (rQwsY)
@michellemalkin 43s
COMING SOON. The return of Michelle Malkin and a new podcast series. #wrongfulconvictions #freedanielholtzclaw #freeraymullins #CORRUPTAHOMA
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (mlg/3)
It blew my mind during the campaign last year when I found out Suzie Wiles was Pat Summerall's daughter.
Just hearing old recordings of his voice, and I'm instantly back in the '80s, Thanksgiving or other holiday, and there's a game on, and All is Well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (vSvIl)
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Thanks for playing. God bless you.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (ZOv7s)
I get that people are accustomed to the way things are currently done, financing everything, but that isn't mathematically sustainable.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (vSvIl)
I guess people rent for eternity then.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (rQwsY)
The most successful person to enter politics and the most successful politician needing my advice.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 06:14 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (w6EFb)
Hearing old recordings of Pat Summerall’s voice would be coma inducing. His monotone could make the biggest moments in football sound dull.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:05 PM (ZOv7s)
If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac come out of conservatorship, then the rules Congress imposed on the process will become much easier, and the demands for paperwork compliance will not be under Dodd-Frank, which will simplify things for small business owners. If loans can be sourced locally instead of at JPMorganChase level then there will be much easier loan agreements since the loans are being handled at local banks for local conditions, not at the big bank level. If the illegals get asked to go home their illegally started FHA loans can be sold to Americans.
If all you do is make rates cheaper, but leave all the barriers to compliance in place, the money goes to the Private Equity and real estate companies who have better credit, lower rates, simpler compliance procedures due to volume, and want houses to rent out to families who can't qualify for loans because of the barriers
"cantillon effect" sucks
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (rbvCR)
It isn't that things are so expensive, its that the dollar isn't worth squat. A dollar and 40 cents worth of 1964 dimes and quarters has an ounce of silver in it, and an ounce of silver sells for more than $61 in today's money. That means the dollar has been inflated by more than a factor of about 42 times since 1964.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (XQo4F)
20 dollarsh, schame as in town
Posted by: Sean Connery at December 09, 2025 06:16 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: I gotta ask
A fish in the wrasse family. First cousin to a tautog, or blackfish.
Posted by: Slow-Growers, But Taste Good. at December 09, 2025 06:16 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 06:17 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:17 PM (KhyP1)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (ZOv7s)
Do you not understand that the availability of mortgages forces house prices higher?
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:17 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 09, 2025 06:17 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (Da7Vv)
And?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:18 PM (rQwsY)
To truly see 25 cent candy bars again…pay down the debt. Which reduces the amount of dollars in circulation, which makes the dollar more precious, and so on.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (rQwsY)
Inflation is based on money availability, in our system money is created through debt. So we are arguing the same side of the debate. Stopping money creation stops the bleeding, paying down the debt reduces the "money supply"
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:18 PM (rbvCR)
And that's why it was so good. You had Madden there next to him to get all excited. Those two were the Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon of NFL play coverage.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 06:18 PM (w6EFb)
COMING SOON. The return of Michelle Malkin and a new podcast series. #wrongfulconvictions #freedanielholtzclaw #freeraymullins #CORRUPTAHOMA
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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Early this century I followed her closely. She was intense. Got rich. FOX burned her. She got fed up and retreated somewhat.
Quite understandable.
Michelle Malkin, glad you're making a comeback.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 06:19 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:19 PM (uv8gn)
How do you ban borrowing money from relatives?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:19 PM (9s47C)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 06:19 PM (c35xG)
So far they are mostly just sitting on their fat asses.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 09, 2025 06:20 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (vSvIl)
I guess people rent for eternity then.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (rQwsY)
You are a renter if you have a mortgage, except you're stuck doing the paperwork and maintenance.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:20 PM (vSvIl)
I get that people are accustomed to the way things are currently done, financing everything, but that isn't mathematically sustainable.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (vSvIl)
If you want to jump right back to a 1933 economy, that's a great way to do it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 06:20 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Emmie at December 09, 2025 06:20 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:21 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:21 PM (zZu0s)
The only time I ever watched FNC was when she used to fill in for Dummy O'Reilly on Friday nights in like 2002. Back then I actually believed FNC seemed somewhat conservative because they employed her. Once they got rid of her they showed what they were.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:21 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (Da7Vv)
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Equilibrium?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (c35xG)
Yes, they are drafting an abortion ban as usual. Look for it about a month out from the election. That and retirements.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (cS1cw)
As always. There is always some product or group of products that have individual issues like beef right now but its not indicative of the entire economy.
The vast majority of things at the market are down.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (viF8m)
Inflation is based on money availability, in our system money is created through debt. So we are arguing the same side of the debate. Stopping money creation stops the bleeding, paying down the debt reduces the "money supply"
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:18 PM (rbvCR)
Working quadruple overtime to make something simple EXTREMELY complicated, I see.
You kill inflation by spending money on 1) a good or 2) a service. Government is neither. So spend as little on government as you can get away with.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (rQwsY)
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All loans to individuals, yes.
Loans to businesses, actual capitalism, is fine, but to individuals, they just create economic inefficiency and financial instability (Every single one has a risk of becoming unpayable, and that adds up the more of them you allow).
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:23 PM (vSvIl)
Also high interest rates attract bond and treasury investors away from stocks with mild returns.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:08 PM (9Hs2w)
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Not labor, unless the enterprise is in a doom loop. If you're borrowing to make payroll, your business is probably failing.
Artificially low interest rates are bad for labor, not good for it. Everything produced has two fundamental inputs: capital and labor. Stuff and work. Artificially suppressing the price of capital (that is, synthetically low interest rates) creates an incentive to change your input mix as much toward capital preference as possible for the business.
Artificially lowering interest rates has similar effects as would artificially raising the minimum wage: it makes labor comparatively more expensive. Artificially raising interest rates has the opposite effect, and disincentivizes capital investment. Nobody knows where the equilibrium point is, but nobody also cares. Government finance must be shored up, so down the rates must go and damn the consequences.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 06:23 PM (azrRX)
Are renters building equity?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (9s47C)
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Retire and spend more time with the family of lobbyists.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (Dv3i1)
I don’t remember if it is on YouTube or television but there is one that is basically America, Fuck Yeah that would make me pay more attention to it if I were in the market for a new vehicle. Jeep, maybe? Ram?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (0aYVJ)
Or you are ramping up for Excessmass Season shopping.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (9s47C)
There is this other thing... they call them "start ups".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:25 PM (9s47C)
Made the list.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 09, 2025 06:26 PM (cS1cw)
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (XQo4F)
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU. EVEN ZARDOZ HAS TROUBLE WITH TYPOS WHEN THE WEATHER CHANGES. GO FORTH MY CHOSE ONES AND COPY-EDIT
Posted by: ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (rbvCR)
Loans to businesses, actual capitalism, is fine, but to individuals, they just create economic inefficiency and financial instability (Every single one has a risk of becoming unpayable, and that adds up the more of them you allow).
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:23 PM (vSvIl)
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Hard disagree. Capital goods are capital goods. Houses, cars, etc. are capital goods.
The real problem, in my opinion, is treating *all* debt as self-canceling. It isn't. Only collateralized debt is self-clearing. If the debtor doesn't pay, sell the collateral and get made whole. Consumption debt is *not* self-clearing, and capital debt ceases to be if asset value falls.
That is fixable with reserve requirements and marking to market at the close of business every day. If the debt isn't self-clearing (is consumer debt), or if the collateral can no longer clear it, the bank has to reserve it at 100% of the difference. That is, no leverage permitted for consumer debt and reserve requirements go up as asset prices decline.
There will still be a market for consumer debt in that environment, but it will be fairly rare and quite expensive. Like a payday loan.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (XQo4F)
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU. EVEN ZARDOZ HAS TROUBLE WITH TYPOS WHEN THE WEATHER CHANGES. GO FORTH MY CHOSE ONES AND COPY-EDIT
Posted by: ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU
typo good edit evil
*spews a deluge of punctuation from mouth*
Posted by: anachronda at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (sGtp+)
Apparently you haven't gotten invoices from attorneys, payroll management, land lords, product licensing or cloud services.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (9s47C)
Posted by: DanMan at December 09, 2025
I just paid 3.64 at the Arco station. Thanks Governor Kotex!
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (rbvCR)
that's it, that's their entire Navy now. Italy's Navy is bigger.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 06:29 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 06:29 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 06:29 PM (6ydKt)
Quite understandable.
Michelle Malkin, glad you're making a comeback.
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Hope you like her comeback--I read that she's entered into the "just asking questions" phase.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Accomack at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (8jVAy)
Or sell the IP and patents.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (c3sdc)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (9s47C)
There is this other thing... they call them "start ups".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:25 PM (9s47C)
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Moreso the latter than the former, but the former can happen. Both require a big capital investment. Both a form of expansion, and both also happen at the margins. The needs of startups to make payroll do not drive policymaking decisions at any level.
I am not anti-capital by any means. Our capital markets made the various industrial revolutions possible. I am opposed to bureaucrats dictating the *price* of capital for the benefit of major financial houses and government finances.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (azrRX)
Ask the people in the Weimar republic or in Zimbabwe what the effects of runaway inflation are, because we are right on the ragged edge of that happening. There are likely going to be serious bank failures next year, because the commercial building loan crises comes due then.
Everybody raised such a stink over bail outs of banks in the 2008 housing loan crises, that they changed the law to bail ins. A bail in is where the bank, when it gets into trouble financially, gets to steal the depositors money to get out of trouble. Don't worry, they'll give you a pocket full of mumbles that puts the depositors at the end of the bankruptcy line as unsecured creditors. That puts you behind the guy who mows the bank's lawn in terms of ever getting your money back.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:31 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Yurtul the burtul at December 09, 2025 06:31 PM (XQo4F)
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100% is un-necessary. Proper accounting already requires banks to establish an offset account roughly resembling "Allowance for Loan Losses". The regulators are supposed to evaluate the sufficiency of that number and request all documentation that went into the determination of that offset account.
Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at December 09, 2025 06:33 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Accomack at December 09, 2025 06:33 PM (8jVAy)
There are a lot of institutional buyers like insurance and pension plans. Banks don't like to play landlord unless the bank has their HQ or operations in the same building.
For defined benefit plans, YOU the taxpayer make up for the under performing real estate portfolio. For the insurance companies, they just jack up premiums and tighten the screws on claims.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (c3sdc)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 06:11 PM (uQzkA)
I did the math on this one from 1965 (first Boomer gets to 20) to today
for Oregon
21,700 cost of house 1965 (average)
Mortgage 5.5-6.0%
Minimum wage 1.25 (Oregon) 1.15 (federal)
you would have to work ~8.5 years to pay for the house if you had no other expenses like cars, gas, or food
484.000 cost of house 2025 (average)
Minimum wage $15.05 federal 7.25 Oregon (not Portland)
You would have to work about 15.5 years to pay for the house if you had no other expenses like cars, gas, or food.
The average age of a new home buyer is around 45. Average age of a home buyer in general is 50.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (3uBP9)
Are renters building equity?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (9s47C)
I don't know that "building equity" is particularly meaningful in a system where between that and the stock market, you're just trying to catch a share of the excess money that banks cause by lending and the federal government causes by deficit spending, rather than doing anything of value.
Renters of the non mortgage sort might be saving money under the mattress or somewhere relatively safe, or, maybe, making thoughtful investments in something useful if they're seeking a return.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (vSvIl)
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We need an easy to hit eye-roll emoji. FDIC insured deposits haven't changed, other than the limit of insured funds going up over the years.
Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at December 09, 2025 06:35 PM (TN0g+)
Individuals start businesses, sometimes with capital from loans. In my case, I didn't have a business loan, but I did have a mortgage and auto loans that allowed me to invest my own meager capital into a business.
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (vFG9F)
So naturally, the EU is telling the US to F-Off we are a bunch of losers and they don't need us.
I would like to test that theory by dropping out of NATO.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (c3sdc)
Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 06:38 PM (raK6f)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (c35xG)
There were a lot more rentals in 1933 than there are today, that wasn't because young couples liked it
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (rbvCR)
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Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (azrRX)
That would work in theory, if you were starting from scratch. You still have to accept that mistakes will get made and banks will go under (and some deposits lost as a result) from time to time, which folks have generally been unwilling to do.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (rQwsY)
Inflation is caused by increasing the money supply, either by printing more money than there are assets to back it, or by loaning it out on the promise that it will be repaid.
Your bank does not have the value of the amount they loaned you tucked away in the bank in gold specie, they hold treasuries and loan out on the value on that. They get the treasuries from the Fed, who were forced to take them from the Treasury per the agreement.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (rbvCR)
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Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 10, 2025 04:42 PM (vyN+2)
"Intentional Negligence"? FBI Had J6 Bomber's Cell Phone Putting Him at the Scene of the Crime... Five Years Ago
If the FBI had cell phone records of 10,000 people's cell phones sending signals from near the RNC and DNC on the night the bombs were planted, I could understand not finding the suspect. With a suspect list of 10,000 people, I guess I could understand the claim, "We just didn't have the manpower to run down every phone."
Guess how many cell phones they actually had records of in the vicinity of the RNC and DNC at the time when the bombs were being planted? Fewer than 200. No, i do not believe the FBI "just didn't have the resources" to look into 186 suspects -- not when they showed they could mobilize every agent to track down every grandma within ten blocks of the Capitol on January 6th. So was this a case of "intentional negligence"? Miranda Divine:Surely there's more to it than that. Director Kash Patel hinted Friday at a reason the FBI under Biden administration Director Christopher Wray may not have wanted to solve the case: "intentional negligence." 'Corrupted' cell data This, after all, was the FBI that managed to round up and charge 1,500 supporters of President Trump who set foot anywhere vaguely near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, tracking them down through cellphone pings and video footage. Yet with all its technical ability, Wray's FBI somehow missed the phone used by the suspect in the vicinity of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters on the evening of Jan. 5 when the pipe bombs were planted. Surveillance footage shows the suspect, wearing a gray hoodie and COVID-style white mask, seemingly talking on the phone while walking around that night less than half a mile from the Capitol. According to an FBI document presented to the DC District Court during his arraignment Friday, Cole's cellphone "engaged in approximately seven data session transactions with [his cellphone provider's] towers between 7:39 p.m. and 8:24 p.m. ... in the area of the RNC and DNC on January 5, 2021," locating him in the right place at the right time. That information was obtained by the FBI within weeks of the discovery of the pipe bombs the next day. Investigators found 186 cellphone numbers "of interest" and 130 "devices of interest," according to the congressional report released this January by the chairmen of the House Oversight and Judiciary subcommittees, Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.).They only bothered looking into 36 of the 186 phone numbers? Let me guess - the 36 they looked into were Trump supporting Republicans, right?
By early February 2021, according to the subcommittees, FBI agents had been assigned to interview people associated with 36 of the 186 phone numbers; 98 still "required additional investigative steps." A further 51 phone numbers were identified as "not needing further action" because, curiously enough, the phones "belong[ed] to law enforcement officers or persons on the exclusion list." The FBI never told Congress what came of those leads.
Then there is the curious tale of the "corrupted" cellphone data that turned out not to be corrupted at all. The story came from Steve D'Antuono, head of the FBI's Washington field office until his retirement in December 2022, who was in charge of the crucial first year of the pipe bomb case as well as the Capitol riot investigation, which has been described as the biggest in FBI history. He was assigned to Washington one month before the 2020 election from his previous role in Detroit, when he ran the disastrous Gretchen Whitmer "fednapping" case that resulted in multiple mistrials and acquittals, amid claims of FBI entrapment of patsies. D'Antuono, who has since found a job at KPMG, also led the controversial FBI raid on Trump's home, Mar-a-Lago, in August 2022. He claims he opposed the raid but was overruled by then-Deputy FBI Director Paul Abbate. In any case, in June 2023, D'Antuono testified before Congress, claiming that the FBI had received "corrupted data" in the pipe bomb case from one of the three major cellphone carriers and that may have been the reason it couldn't find the culprit.It gets worse. The FBI didn't release any pictures of the suspect that could identify him -- and one investigator claims that the FBI deliberately blurred out the one part of his face that was clearly visible in the surveillance footage, his eyes. Why would they do that, if not to conceal his identity? I don't know if I'm ready to believe that. It's a claim made by someone looking at the video and determining that he sees "pixelation" added to the video to obscure Brian Cole, Jr.'s eyes. I remember other claims about "chromatic aberrations" not turning out to be true. But I would like this investigated further.
"We did a complete geofence. [But] there's some data that was corrupted by one of the providers, not purposely by them," he said. "It just [was an] unusual circumstance that we have corrupt data from one of the providers ... I can't remember right now which one. But for that day, which is awful because we don't have that information to search. So could it have been that provider? Yeah, with our luck, you know, with this investigation it probably was, right." Yet all three of the cellphone carriers contacted by Loudermilk's subcommittee confirmed that they "did not provide corrupted data to the FBI and that the FBI never notified them of any issues with accessing the cellular data."
... But by the end of February 2021, according to Loudermilk and Massie's report, the bureau actively began diverting resources away from the pipe bomb investigation. At the same time, Wray and Abbate were ramping up resources to track down and aggressively prosecute trespassing J6 grandmothers.Miranda Divine concludes that the political operators of the FBI didn't want to taint their Trump Did the J6 Insurrection narrative with any information that might undermine it, and started winding down the investigation when it looked like the main suspect was not a MAGA grandma.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (TR2dy)
Well, a sponge doesn't have the thrusting power of a blade ,and anyway I think it's funnier when you're actually # 200 or something and still claim first .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (7RYym)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 04:29 PM (8CIFn)
Did they even bother to look.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:29 PM (mPytV)
NOTHING WILL HAPPEN to them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (bNf8H)
>Why would they do that, if not to conceal his identity?
>>I don't know if I'm ready to believe that.
There's a Mike Benz video that will cure you of that, Ace.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (Zz0t1)
That's my line!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zjgNU)
Fecklessness. Betrayal. Insurrection.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (nXmou)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zZu0s)
Says Wray and Pelosi and others who promoted the J6 myth.
Jussie Smollette is proud (I always say his name like Chappelle).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (WONhk)
Strongly worded letters will be written and sleaves will be rolled up.
That's about it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (Zz0t1)
Then they should know who or what was on the other end of the line, right? That might be useful information.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (npFr7)
If we are to believe some of the stuff we are hearing about this guy, he was easily manipulated. So then the question becomes, who put him up to it?
Maybe that's the question they didn't want asked/answered.
Posted by: No Name Today at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (Zz0t1)
That's my line!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zjgNU)
I need a “ line”, a signature comment. Everyone should coin one.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (pDt9x)
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How is that different from a "coverup" or a "conspiracy" or "corruption?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon"
Gee, we never thought of that.
Posted by: the FBI at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (vFG9F)
That's my line!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zjgNU)
So, you're saying I was in before the nothing will happen guy?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:32 PM (Zz0t1)
yeah, the fact they faked the "corrupted cell data" is more evidence they had prior knowledge of the bomber, and sought an excuse ("data no good") to cover it up.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:32 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at December 09, 2025 04:32 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (YwEeS)
yeah, the fact they faked the "corrupted cell data" is more evidence they had prior knowledge of the bomber, and sought an excuse ("data no good") to cover it up.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:32 PM (vbXSk)
Eh, apparently the perp is rather autistic, according to Granma, and black, but mostly black.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:34 PM (pDt9x)
They'd have torn down Alcatraz to the foundations and rebuilt it atop Mauna Loa.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: gov'theretohelp at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (VOPsA)
1. That they would protect a guilty person because he is not MAGA, and it just too difficult to spin him as a recent convert who was working under MAGA influence
or
2. They were pulling the strings and were concerned that their plotting would eventually get exposed, and so it was easier to protect the guy from being ID'd in order to protect the conspiracy.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (mPytV)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK)
This was their Reichstag moment.
And they got away with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (Zz0t1)
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Fine, as far as it goes. But it implies that somebody knew. Obviously not a "MAGA Grandma," but not at *all* obviously not someone affiliated. A dude is a dude until context is added.
So if they suppressed this - and it looks like they did, any questions about doctoring the footage notwithstanding - then they had a reason. The only reason for suppressing it is either because they're not sure who it is (which would call for publicity - a "have you seen this man" kind of thing) or because they *are* pretty sure who it is. The latter is more likely, so the only real question is *how* they knew.
Either he was one of their boys, or they found out who he was. So they either had a patsy they set up, or they actually did their jobs and investigated but then buried it. I don't see another reasonable conclusion, but am open to hearing other arguments.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (azrRX)
Of course the FBI will try and protect their agents.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (D+mpw)
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Patsy.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (nXmou)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (viF8m)
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It did work, at least in part of society. That was the part predisposed to believe the worst of Republicans anyway.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (r5gBF)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK)
We are on their radar it seems. Still, better than BB, or Insty. Those places are Overrun. Add in the gazillion dollars a week schemes - what a mess!!
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Mannix solves the case of the J6 bomber who is of course not to be confused with a cop.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (WDjG6)
As part of a treasonous conspiracy.
Let's stop with these limited hangouts. Like the NYT admitting that "maybe open borders was a mistake."
No, it was not a mistake, and this is not negligence. It was a planned takeover of our current system and the people. A coup. A treasonous dirty coup by filthy commies.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (mPytV)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (viF8m)
And the 'Bomb' portion of the Plot was conveniently in place, as a last resort, to stop Congress from actually acting to review the election results.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (IifOV)
Did someone throw in the Joos?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: wodun at December 09, 2025 04:39 PM (eG1Ca)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (r5gBF)
That part of society also includes Republican politicians in DC.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (npFr7)
If the bomber had been caught criticizing Israel, both parties would have called for the full force of the USMIC to descend on D.C. for door to door searches.
Posted by: Good Grief at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (FAUIX)
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (2L+MU)
So what ties this guy to the bombing is a pair of rare shoes and a cell phone? Can't both of these be used by someone else? As conspiracy theories go......
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Deep State Gonna Deep State at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (FGMmt)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (r5gBF)
The fact that the DOJ under various presidents during that time period wouldn’t take action on their investigations wasn’t their fault, and even “conservative” Democrats like Henry “Scoop” Jackson and Stu Symington would make sure Senate investigations turned on the whistleblowers instead of the perps (just like today).
But clearly at some fairly defined point in time the F.B.I. lost their mojo and started doing dirty. By the time Janet “Butch” Reno was large and in charge, certainly, but long before then, too. Sometime after the Church committee hearings? Arguably they played a role in ousting Nixon? So it’s been 50 years easy. Very sad.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (wJccJ)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (mPytV)
He was one of their wind-up toys.
Posted by: Operator Error at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (PlXYd)
I can't wait to hear the motive. What would drive an autistic guy whose family said he was extremely introverted to make bombs and plant them at the RNC and DNC on the very day an insurrection happened?
Probably have to dig for it because the media sure as hell isn't interested in this story.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (IifOV)
And sales of the bomb components on his credit cards, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Good to see you here. Glad you made it. Everything OK?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (c35xG)
Me too.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (mPytV)
Oh, but he's a kook that no one should ever listen to ever........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (3uBP9)
just get astigmatism. Every day is like Christmas at night.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (8avO+)
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Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (wJccJ)
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Hol' up....
Imma gonna let you finish, but first I want to say that they were always an incompetent grifting bunch of assholes.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (mPytV)
They have his receipts for components purchased going back a little over a year, I believe.
Not that he can't be a carve-out. But, they have more than you implied.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (TR2dy)
Surely there's more to it than that. Director Kash Patel hinted Friday at a reason the FBI under Biden administration Director Christopher Wray may not have wanted to solve the case: "intentional negligence."
This is the same Miranda Divine who played the NY Post patsy, publishing an article where 'insiders' at the FBI tried to frag Patel and Bongino as people leading a 'rudderless' FBI and were only in it for 'resume padding'. That article came out just a few days before the FBI actually caught Cole for the J5 pipe bomb plantings.
I'm a fan of Divine, but that was not her best moment. This is probably her play at penance for that dumb move.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (0CU3H)
Who were his handlers? _ That's the real story.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (c35xG)
Oddly it turned out to be that one guy they saw on video plant a bomb, mill around a bit, then make a call.... at that exact time in that spot.
Posted by: Operator Error at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (PlXYd)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (7JIc2)
Posted by: huerfano at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Because he's black at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (9ZILp)
Posted by: Frank Barone
_________
He's ugly, but he ain't stupid.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (XvL8K)
The fact that the DOJ under various presidents during that time period wouldn’t take action on their investigations wasn’t their fault, and even “conservative” Democrats like Henry “Scoop” Jackson and Stu Symington would make sure Senate investigations turned on the whistleblowers instead of the perps (just like today).
But clearly at some fairly defined point in time the F.B.I. lost their mojo and started doing dirty. By the time Janet “Butch” Reno was large and in charge, certainly, but long before then, too. Sometime after the Church committee hearings? Arguably they played a role in ousting Nixon? So it’s been 50 years easy. Very sad.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (wJccJ)
Most organizations lose their focus within a generation of founding. The Armed Forces work around that to an extent by getting shot at.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (8avO+)
just get astigmatism. Every day is like Christmas at night.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (8avO+)
Get Fuchs Dystrophy. Every light is like a torture test for a large portion of the day. But, you do get rainbows all the time. I'm just waiting for the pot of gold to fall from out of nowhere and crush my skull.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (Zz0t1)
I'd like to know who protected Ray Epps.
Who set up the 'gallows' and who ordered him to be left alone while he did it.
Who opened the magnetic locked doors to the Capitol.
Who was the handcuffed protestor who was then on camera later getting uncuffed and high fived by (someone, Capitol Police?)
Sigh.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: And you damn well know it. at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (XQo4F)
Me too.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (mPytV)
Oh, but he's a kook that no one should ever listen to ever........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (Zz0t1)
I'm not a Glenn Beck fan. At all. I still remember his temporary NeverTrump insanity period.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:45 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 04:45 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 04:46 PM (0N4FZ)
Who were his handlers? _ That's the real story.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (c35xG)
For me, the question is why did J6 even take place if there were bombs planted on Capitol grounds on J5?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:46 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: bob
Hey! Democrats take responsibility for their actions and move on!
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 04:46 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:47 PM (2GVsD)
I can't wait to hear the motive. What would drive an autistic guy whose family said he was extremely introverted to make bombs and plant them at the RNC and DNC on the very day an insurrection happened?
Probably have to dig for it because the media sure as hell isn't interested in this story.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (viF8m)
His motive was to put a bomb in DC. It gets pretty simple when you do that.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:47 PM (8avO+)
I'm not a Glenn Beck fan. At all. I still remember his temporary NeverTrump insanity period.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:45 PM (0CU3H)
He did yeoman's work on the whole Ukraine / Burisma shit back in the day, which everyone ignored. He was spot on and now look where that shithole is.
Hell, 1/2 of the 'conservative' media sphere was NeverTrump........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:45 PM (0CU3H)
Hey, remember a million years ago when Glenn Beck, ... super detective, basically batman, if batman was cool and had a chalkboard, ... solved the pipe bomb mystery for us?
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (3uBP9)
His handler was VERY specific about the Day and Locations he was to plant those inert bombs.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK)
We are on their radar it seems. Still, better than BB, or Insty. Those places are Overrun. Add in the gazillion dollars a week schemes - what a mess!!
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (pDt9x)
related story in the NY Post today - the great majority of the posts backing Fuentes and his pals like Tucker on X and other online outlets are sourced from bot farms in India and Nigeria.
so much for that "organic support".
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (uWKK8)
Trebuchet?
Posted by: Anna Puma"
Kiln.
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (vFG9F)
Fewer than 200.
No, i do not believe the FBI "just didn't have the resources" to look into 186 suspects -- not when they showed they could mobilize every agent to track down every grandma within ten blocks of the Capitol on January 6th.
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I am sure they could have, but I have a different question.
What if he had left his phone at home? This framing of the problem - accurate as it may be - makes it sound as if cell phone data is they key to whole thing. I don't know if it is, but if it is then it sounds like leaving your phone at home is a "do whatever you want" pass. I can't imagine that's true, but maybe it's also like this:
https://youtu.be/zgsQNNYurWo
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (azrRX)
He got a tip when he was handing out Teddy Bears at the Border.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (vFG9F)
I was gonna say his FBI handler, but that's probably the same person.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
She tried to retain election data that should have been retained per federal law, but that powerful people on Colorado don't want exposed. Political prisoner Tina Peters. A big lie is that Nazi is 'right-wing'. Nope.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 04:50 PM (Dv3i1)
Fire everyone even remotely connected to the bomber's investigation.
Any FBI investigator who believes his job is to protect Democrat political chicanery instead of catching criminals needs to be fired and any pension revoked.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 04:50 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Zombie Fawn Liebowitz at December 09, 2025 04:50 PM (Zz0t1)
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It “worked”, but …. Donald Trump is President. Oops
My view is they are stupid. They are selfish, which is worse.
Even the appearance or perception, rightly or wrongly, that elections are not legitimate is absolute poison for the system and anyone who cares about their country and its inhabitants would do anything to avoid this. One would want to dispel such ideas. With sunlight and transparency.
“Oh, you want to look under the hood of our election system? By all means!”
Did they do that? Fuck no. Not even a little bit. They just said “Fuck You” and decided to arrest anyone that complained. Not a prescription for confidence going forward.
Ask them, what WOULD be the acceptable response by America if it were proven a presidential election were stolen by Democrats?
What would they expect people to do? What is the remedy for that? “Vote Harder” is not a remedy.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:50 PM (wJccJ)
Then they should know who or what was on the other end of the line, right? That might be useful information."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I'm thinking he was not talking, those "transactions" are just the phone seeking a tower? And somehow it also transmits a location, or maybe they are just going by which tower it connected to.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:51 PM (vbXSk)
so much for that "organic support".
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (uWKK
Yeah, I love how the Left is trying to make an antisemitic equivalence between Ds and Rs, now that Fuentes et al are on the scene. The institutional antisemitism on the Left - domestically and internationally - puts anything we purportedly have on our side of the ledger in the dust.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (0CU3H)
https://youtu.be/zgsQNNYurWo
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (azrRX)
Well, everyone knows that burner phones are untraceable, so just use those.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (3uBP9)
If by "solved" you mean forced the FBI to come up with a patsy, to keep the heat off of them, then yes. Yes he did.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Federal Investigations Bureau (FIB) at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (pDt9x)
Bet he is still getting a retirement check.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (npFr7)
Roll the security footage.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (2L+MU)
Who were his handlers? _ That's the real story.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (c35xG)
For me, the question is why did J6 even take place if there were bombs planted on Capitol grounds on J5?
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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It's a Dirty Dime Novel, the bombs are part of the J6 Insurrection story that they (Pelosi & Co) intended to pull off against Trump.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (t/2Uw)
so much for that "organic support".
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (uWKK
Yeah, those bot farms also watched Tucker every evening on Fox News, too.
Posted by: Jewish Gaslighting Farm at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (K+su+)
Posted by: Old Man Adams at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (2Nfh9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (npFr7)
Obstruction is only a thing on TV Fed Cop shows, silly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (Zz0t1)
I think you mean, 'in defense of The System'.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (TR2dy)
Kinda cool. Very anime.
I really want a good term for the cutesy little girl anime stuff that is not the sexual connotation.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Old Man Adams at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (oftw2)
Blue Cheer.
Well played, sir. Well played.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:51 PM (vbXSk)
Towers "ping" cellphones all the time. I think these were either phone calls and texts, or him using an app, like maybe Gurgle Maps.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (npFr7)
I'm a fan of Divine, but that was not her best moment. This is probably her play at penance for that dumb move.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (0CU3H)
Or... maybe they released the info on their patsy, after they realized they were getting heat from whoever sources her articles.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (c35xG)
Exactly. A security service worth its salt would have announced that bombs were discovered in the vicinity and the whole grounds declared off-limits to the public. Either J6 should never have happened, or it was all an Op.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (0CU3H)
I think you mean, 'in defense of The System'.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (TR2dy)
I could mean that.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (pDt9x)
Yes and yes. Because most of DC was all in on the plot to begin with because they all hated Trump.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)
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I have not made this claim, however, I remember from the Rittenhouse fiasco that security cameras these days usually have stunning quality. And that getting this kind of graininess often takes interference.
The graininess in these pics seems to me to be under that capability of current security cameras. I don't put it past them to grainify another video, as I seem to recall it wasn't only with Rittenhouse that they went out of their way to reduce the resolution on a security camera.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 04:57 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (pDt9x)
Or...
J6 was an attack BY the system!
Because yes, the system must be protected at all costs, and that Trump guy was making noise about contesting the election.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 04:57 PM (dGCAG)
https://youtu.be/zgsQNNYurWo
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (azrRX)
To peeps today not having your phone on you and live is worse than being struck by lightning.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (8avO+)
I really want a good term for the cutesy little girl anime stuff that is not the sexual connotation.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s)
kawaii?
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (3uBP9)
The terrorists?
Yes, they were threatening our Democracy and deserved to be shot by the brave heroes in Washington D.C.
Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (K+su+)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (OXcnO)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:51 PM (vbXSk)
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They actively communicate all the time. I am not sure what a "data transaction" is, but they also probably happen more or less constantly. Get an email and you receive a push notification? Get a notification
Whether location is involved would depend on the applications involved, but it also isn't needed. The tower *must* know who is connected to it. The nearby towers probably also do, if the phone connects to multiple towers (which it will during handoff, if not earlier). Triangulation works and no device location is needed because the tower locations are known.
Even a connection to a single tower gets you a likely radius. Pick the closest tower to the target, and see who was connected. Even without greater precision than that, it's a highly-effective filter for narrowing down the list. The tower knows what is connected at any given time, and can infer how far away the device is (signal strength).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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You must eliminate intent to do that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (c35xG)
His handler was VERY specific about the Day and Locations he was to plant those inert bombs.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (TR2dy)
If you watch the video, it sure looks like he is being directed by someone. The wandering. The looking around. He even gets up on tippy toes at one point looking for someone, then wanders off for another lap around the area...
Then... plants the 'bombs.
Add in the Hoody and mask... which could easily cover earphones... or buds..
If'n he knew where he wanted to plant the bombs, then why the wandering around? Makes no sense... just gets him into more camera footage.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (mP0Kj)
German hairy snails are disappearing from London’s River Thames
*whistles innocently*
-Frenchman with suspiciously full pockets
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (Dv3i1)
The terrorists?
Yes, they were threatening our Democracy and deserved to be shot by the brave heroes in Washington D.C.
Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (K+su+)
Yeah, that guy. It would have been better if Cruz had kept is trap shut. Like at least 20 other Republican Senators did.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (c35xG)
Exactly. A security service worth its salt would have announced that bombs were discovered in the vicinity and the whole grounds declared off-limits to the public. Either J6 should never have happened, or it was all an Op.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (0CU3H)
Shouldn't they have had a more credible patsy set up than this dude?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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you mean chibi?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:00 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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You must eliminate intent to do that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (c35xG
If you ever feel the need to be appalled, remove safe search for anime, hentai, and manga. What they allow is really disturbing.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:00 PM (pDt9x)
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You can say that, but I know better, from my reading of history. They did excellent work at what they were tasked to do.
As so often the case, it was congress who caused the problems to persist. It was Harry Truman who absconded with all the State Department personnel background check and loyalty files. He wouldn’t let congressman look at them. The FBI had files on all sorts of scurvy fuckheads.
It’s like the cops in Seattle or Portland. If your bosses are leftist dickheads, you ain’t gonna bust your ass to do arrest bad guys. It isn’t worth the risk. And eventually you’ll get pushed out, and they’ll hire left wing goons anyhow, to hassle and arrest the law abiding.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (wJccJ)
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Pain, Democrats, Pain.
Trump Silvers would sell like hotcakes.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (c35xG)
German hairy snails are disappearing from London’s River Thames
*whistles innocently*
-Frenchman with suspiciously full pockets - Chuck Martel
LOL!
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (2L+MU)
That was how they supposedly proved Michael Cohen was in Vienna working with Russia on behalf of Trump.
Michael Cohen was never in Vienna.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (8avO+)
Yes, he should've been a Russo-Iranian Qatari national with a Chinese passport.
Posted by: MIC Fiction Committee at December 09, 2025 05:02 PM (K+su+)
German hairy snails are disappearing from London’s River Thames
*whistles innocently*
-Frenchman with suspiciously full pockets - Chuck Martel
LOL!
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (2L+MU)
No business being there anyway. Stay on the other side of the Channel!! Go bother France!!
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:02 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 09, 2025 05:03 PM (ULPxl)
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Day by day, I doubt that it ever was more and more.
Was it when Hoover was tapping the phone of every prominent person in DC?
The FIB is hype.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:03 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 09, 2025 05:03 PM (ULPxl)
The same place where it says that the Administrative State is the Fourth Branch of Government.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uv8gn)
I need a “ line”, a signature comment. Everyone should coin one.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (pDt9x)
tubal - I need a line!
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (8avO+)
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Day by day, I doubt that it ever was more and more.
Was it when Hoover was tapping the phone of every prominent person in DC?
The FIB is hype.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:03 PM (krQz2)
Once a domestic terror group, always a domestic terror group. Burn it down, figuratively.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (dK+Kv)
I'd like to see a coin featuring Donald Trump in the pose of St. Michael, his foot on the neck of Chuck Schumer, brandishing a spear over his head.
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (viF8m)
I suppose it would be possible to spoof a cellphone's IMEI number, which is a unique identifier of the device itself. Dummy up another phone to play-act as Cohen's phone, ship it in a Faraday bag to Vienna, and take it out for a walk.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (nXmou)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (3uBP9)
Really? Cross-dressing JE Hoover with his blackmail files begs to differ.
Rotten to the core from day one.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (E66lT)
I wonder how much taxpayer money was spent paying the networks for good PR.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (xcxpd)
Roll the security footage.
Posted by: Anna Puma
And they used a credit card.....
And they went home and turned it on...
And they called their friends after....
Criminals usually are not that smart. Even Kohlberger got caught, and he turned his phone off (or Faraday bagged it, not sure.) But he was in area casing the house in the weeks before, and his phone was noticeably off during the murders.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (mPytV)
Modern phones are constantly tracking their own location... and it's been shown that I phones are sending the info off periodically... even if you are in Airplane mode... it waits to connect then sends off the data.
And as Phone companies seem quite willing to give that info to the Feds, even without any warrant?
My phone right now knows down to a few feet, exactly where it is, and shows the location of my truck 30 feet away, even though it is not even connected to my truck.
They are not tracking via cell tower... but they don't want to tell you HOW they are actually getting that data.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (mP0Kj)
Say, one of those excluded law enforcement phones wouldn't be a female Capitol City police officer with a soccer injury would it?
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (Da7Vv)
Michael Cohen was never in Vienna.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (viF8m)
++++
The method isn't actually bad, but it depends on two things:
1. Understanding that "the device is there" does *not* necessarily mean "the person who owns the device is there." It requires other corroboration.
2. Knowing that the device that's there is the device you're looking for.
Neither was the case with the "Cohen in Vienna" thing. It was either the wrong device (a device belonging to a different Michael Cohen, for example), or an outright fabrication.
"The device pinged the tower" is not itself meaningless, but it depends both on knowing what the device is *and* knowing that the person who owns the device was with it at the time. It ain't magic.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (nXmou)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uv8gn)
Good to see you here! Some people were wondering about your apparent absence.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (npFr7)
That counts for a lot in my book. The fact that it appears to be run by leftists in recent decades follows a certain pattern we’ve seen.
I liked it better when the F.B.I. was hated by leftists. Not run by leftists, as their personal clean up crew for crooked politicians and the rest of it. Going after parents at PTA meetings who object to their children being groomed by kiddie fuckers in public schools.
See where I’m going with that? There was a pretty dramatic change in focus and direction. When did that happen? Under Reagan? Bush? Clinton?
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (wJccJ)
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The No Kings clause, duh.
Posted by: Kentajni Jackson Brown at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (Dv3i1)
And yet we have a Supreme Court Justice that seem to believe that's exactly what the Constitution says. In invisible ink I guess.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:08 PM (viF8m)
Shouldn't they have had a more credible patsy set up than this dude?
Posted by: Oldcat
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Credible in what way? He did what he was told to do. His father is a felon, his sister and him too. He was as good or better than other set ups we've discovered on the FBI.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:08 PM (c35xG)
I wonder how much taxpayer money was spent paying the networks for good PR.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (Dv3i1)
50? Hmmph.
Posted by: see eye ay at December 09, 2025 05:08 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 05:08 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Now you know who the Feds are on this website.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:09 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:09 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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I voted for him in the 16 primary. I now realize it would have been Bush Lite.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 05:09 PM (XvL8K)
Rotten to the core from day one.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (E66lT)
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Hoover was never a TV. That's just the typical counter-op.
I wouldn't care for him more if he was or wasn't. I've been led to believe that all that Hoover TV stuff is character assassination.
Do you know how common it was to insinuate that Joe McCarthy was queer for his brother?
This is mid-20th century Democrat destruction politics.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Common Tater
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Roosevelt
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: DaveA at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: huerfano
When I was vetting auditors, they were the first name crossed off of the list.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (b16/K)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (nXmou)
I’d buy that for a dollar
Posted by: The guy who says, Id buy that for a dollar in robocop movies and the HQ at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: ShainS
Have to say, that's a pretty solid option. I am down for Trump working the drive-thru window at McDonald's.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (azrRX)
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Just what a cop would say!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (mP0Kj)
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They probably are, because it's a hell of a first-pass filter. The device needs to be connected to function.
So you can look through gigantic databases from numerous service providers for a geographic range (hard) or narrow it down fast by just looking at what was connected to likely towers during the interesting period. If desired, you can then pull records for those devices. It's probably much easier and faster to start with a subset of the data first. I dunno. I've never done it. But I'd hate to have to start with "all global location data for that day." That's a lot of data and virtually all of it is just noise anyway.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (azrRX)
But the fact that the FBI hid his identity for 5 years because revealing it would help Trump somehow...
These 2 facts don't seem to fit together.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:12 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:12 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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I voted for him in the 16 primary. I now realize it would have been Bush Lite.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 05:09 PM (XvL8K)
Same here, Biff. Same here.
Looking back, what I thought was a badge of honor by having the Bushes mad at Cruz by bucking the political machine as a Tea Partier was actually them being mad at Cruz because he wouldn't wait for his turn.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Common Tater
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I used to have a list in my head, but so so many cases where they claim "success" were failure. On top of that,
- The hair and fiber lab
- The bit mark evidence.
I used to be a big fan of the FBI files TV show, but I noticed that most cases (a) the local PD actually solved it, or (b) They finally got around to looking at the most obvious suspect, or (c) the guy confessed or was ratted on. Very few were a result of their investigations.
Mostly what the did was promote themselves. That, they were good at. But look at so many big cases, Atlanta bombing, anthrax, unabomber,.... so many of them were nothing short of a display of incompetence. Maybe some time long ago they were good, but not the past 50 years.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (mPytV)
Do you know how common it was to insinuate that Joe McCarthy was queer for his brother?
This is mid-20th century Democrat destruction politics.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (krQz2)
There was some great dirt in the Jefferson vs Adams campaign in 1796.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (8avO+)
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Almost no one who thinks they're clever is as clever as they think they are.
There is still a lot of smoke around the actual bombs and whether they could have detonated at all.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (krQz2)
The vids I've seen has him circling all around the locations. Maybe he had Google maps open?
Posted by: barbarausa at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (abIsI)
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4h
>>President Trump says that over the next couple of months, there will be evidence coming out proving that the 2020 election was stolen 👀
>>“It was a rigged election. Now everyone knows it. It’s going to come out over the next couple of months, too, loud and clear because WE HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION.”
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (abIsI)
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Sure, but they aren't playing the same game...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:15 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (azrRX)
When you think about it, it's pretty amazing that cellphones work at all. Somewhere, there must be a record kept of all the ping transactions of all phones, so that if I call 555-555-1212, the system knows to route my call to the last tower pinged by that phone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (npFr7)
Take a 30 year old black guy with autism and grill him for four hours and any competent police interrogator would be able to get him to confess to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, even though that happened 60 years before he was born. So I don't know how good his confession actually is. Remember all of the actual evidence against him comes from the professional liars in Wray's FBI.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (8avO+)
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Right. TJ is commonly known as the the guy who slept with a female slave. But it very likely was not TJ but his brother. And IIRC correctly it was a long relationship, not just getting some from the slave girls.
Also it's not the case that Adams was a hermaphrodite.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (nXmou)
Most would. Call it a challenge coin. Challenge yourself not to look at it every hour.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (snZF9)
Consider the fact that the J6 Committee (Lynching party) destroyed a significant amount of their documentation (illegally). There was, obviously, a selfish reason for that. They likely were communicating directly with the FBI, and some of those communications could easily have been instructing the FBI to back off of the J5 bomber once it was established that he, not only, didn't fit the narrative or their purpose, but diametrically was opposite of what they were trying to do.
NOW, consider the wealth of undestroyed documentation that was sitting down the FBI burn room. You have to assume that some of that information included communication documentation. And, while the J6 Committee brazenly destroyed evidence, the FBI might not have been so thorough.
I think the fall out from this is going to outweigh the incident by 10 fold....eventually.
Posted by: Capt. Conspiracy at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (dIske)
At least one person is dead after an "active aggressor" opened fire on a US university campus"
a couple others injured.
https://tinyurl.com/2eyr5k72
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: ShainS
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I'd buy it even without the bikini.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (XeU6L)
Preach it brother.
Posted by: Qtardo at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (abIsI)
Two Beavers?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (8avO+)
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Right. TJ is commonly known as the the guy who slept with a female slave. But it very likely was not TJ but his brother. And IIRC correctly it was a long relationship, not just getting some from the slave girls.
Also it's not the case that Adams was a hermaphrodite.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (krQz2)
But James Madison was really really tiny, yes??
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x)
I wouldn't care for him more if he was or wasn't. I've been led to believe that all that Hoover TV stuff is character assassination.
Do you know how common it was to insinuate that Joe McCarthy was queer for his brother?
This is mid-20th century Democrat destruction politics.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (krQz2)
I don't care one way or another about the cross-dressing, other than to point out that the persistent stories about him doing so *in his office* strongly implicate his character. And susceptibility to blackmail.
Speaking of blackmail, I note you didn't address his unwarranted (see what I did there) collection of personal information for his giant enemies file.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (E66lT)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x)
everyone was tiny in that era, aside from Washington and Lincoln.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (8avO+)
If they saw who the defendant would be and said "nope, don't want it" and then just left the case open, I'm not sure that's illegal.
You'd need them lying on record in some official way to probably make any charges.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Zombie Harry Reid at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (5FPX4)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x)
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The Real James Madison was diminutive, yes.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (krQz2)
I think the fall out from this is going to outweigh the incident by 10 fold....eventually.
Posted by: Capt. Conspiracy at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (dIske)
I do believe that there was at least one good Ham 'N Egger who turned Patel and Bongino onto those burn bags.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 05:20 PM (0CU3H)
Well, a sponge doesn't have the thrusting power of a blade ,and anyway I think it's funnier when you're actually # 200 or something and still claim first .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (7RYym)
Sour grapes?
Yay Sponge gets a solid first!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 09, 2025 05:20 PM (QGaXH)
I wonder how much taxpayer money was spent paying the networks for good PR.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Not just networks. They did a lot of work with Hollywood. The grift was that they would act as "consultants" (and I presume agents got paid from that also) and the studio would make stories about their cases portraying them as superheros.
There were a lot of them. A couple off the top of my head are the Jimmy Stewart film Call Northside 777" and another about counterfeiting (well, secret service, but similar) called Mr. 880
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 05:21 PM (mPytV)
This is good information to know. There are unofficial ways to get on the Exclusion List. Everyone has their price.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:21 PM (c3sdc)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 09, 2025 05:21 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x)
That's what Dolley said.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x)
That's what Dolley said.
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That's quite the Zinger!
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (TN0g+)
"Applebloom's eyes snapped open as she sat up in her bed, panting heavily and sweat dripping from her red mane […] The skeletons, the zombified ponies rising up from the ground, their decaying bodies, rotting flesh sliding off from their bones. She buried her face in her hooves, crying silently at the horrible images that inhabited her mind"
https://is.gd/R2Tdw0
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Zek at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (5FPX4)
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Then there's that part about him taking her to France.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (E66lT)
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I don't think that was in dispute. I mentioned him phone-tapping everybody of note in DC.
I'm not here to defend him, just wanted to mention that some of the most common scuttlebutt are likely slanders. I got that from a professor who was no fan of JEH either.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (krQz2)
https://is.gd/R2Tdw0
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (L/fGl)
A horse, even a cartoon one, sitting up in bed is an interesting problem.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (8avO+)
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You're messing with their narrative.
After all, Butterjug has stated that Jefferson on Mt. Rushmore is 'problematic'. They use that word as an unverifiable assertion.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (XeU6L)
Just because we're the nation's premier law enforcement agency doesn't mean we're going to go against The Narrative. "White Coal", here, he would not have helped.
Posted by: FBI at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (IYMzU)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant
Sensible comments like this is why we need uptwinkles on this site.
Posted by: LGF Veteran at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (oftw2)
They are not tracking via cell tower... but they don't want to tell you HOW they are actually getting that data.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (mP0Kj)
I'll bet you it's in the TOS fine print for your phone that govt JBTs can pull your location via GPS without a warrant because GPS is govt built infrastructure.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 05:25 PM (y9nCu)
Top. Men.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:25 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (krQz2)
Given his enemies, being a TV would have lost him his job at a minimum after which it would be too late for the blackmail files. You have to deploy that first and be cleaner than the guy you are blackmailing.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Jewish Gaslighting Farm at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (K+su+)
He was on MOSSAD payroll then. So it was Kosher.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (g47mK)
http://tiny.cc/pr7w001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (IYMzU)
I'll bet you it's in the TOS fine print for your phone that govt JBTs can pull your location via GPS without a warrant because GPS is govt built infrastructure.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 05:25 PM (y9nCu)
Sadly I bet you're correct here.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (jPh2t)
Posted by: Zek
Which is funny, as we now know that Mark Felt faked all of that as revenge for not getting the director job at the FBI, and a CIA plant pretended to be a reporter.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (b16/K)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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It's hierarchical, like the old AT&T system. They don't need a master list, they just have to Id who is keeping track of that particular phone number.
Then they look that up, and find the latest ping and route it to that tower.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM (mPytV)
There is a fair amount of "this is all fake Trump is blaming an innocent man!" but the more common response is that this black leftwing anarchist guy is rightwing because he believes there was fraud in the 2020 election.
And this is funny because everyone knows there was fraud, and on a significant scale, so by this logic pretty much everyone is a MAGA/rightwinger
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (sKqQm)
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That's quite the Zinger!
Posted by: Crusader
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A Ho-Ho about his Twinkie Ding-Dong.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Zek at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (5FPX4)
Now I think Watergate was a total op against Nixon by TPTB.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (jPh2t)
I do believe that there was at least one good Ham 'N Egger who turned Patel and Bongino onto those burn bags.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Yes. It's improbable that everyone of them is corrupt.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (8avO+)
'Buried her 'face' in her hooves.'
Can horses do that? Muzzle, not face?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (XeU6L)
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Now, Hoover did have a Smithers-like assistant....
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Macedonian Content Farmer Alliance at December 09, 2025 05:30 PM (oftw2)
Now I think Watergate was a total op against Nixon by TPTB.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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If he was a Dem they would have turned a blind eye toward him protecting his crew.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:30 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (zZu0s)
Horse legs are pretty optimized for "just run damn fast in the forward direction" so I'd be a bit surprised if one could rotate the hoof to face up. Farriers I've seen have to curl the hoof to behind the 'knee' to be up, not twist it.
Cats can twist the front paw to face the face to clean the paws.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Jolo at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (QZdNa)
I'm not here to defend him, just wanted to mention that some of the most common scuttlebutt are likely slanders. I got that from a professor who was no fan of JEH either.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (krQz2)
OK, I came into that with a way-too-shut mind. Thanks for the response.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (E66lT)
- Pulled agents off of child sex trafficking cases to work J6 cases
- Pulled agents off of the J6 pipe bomber case to work other J6 cases
- which agents later found time to investigate whether napkins Trump kept from a random state dinner were really secretly the nuclear launch codes
While
- no agents were assigned to investigate Ray Epps
- no agents were assigned to investigate who built--and dismantled--the gallows
- no agents were assigned to investigate who released the bomb-proof magnetic locks and "breached" the Capital doors
- no agents were assigned to investigate the Antifa-affiliated persons--despite multiple black-clad, face-masked Antifa--in the crowd and the Capital
I'm beginning to think the FBI is rather political in who and what it investigates ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 05:34 PM (HXT0k)
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That was because Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers were queers. That’s how the urbane, sophisticated Hiss got to “know” such a clod in the first place, after all.
Read Whitewashed By History about Sen. McCarthy. They use the exact same playbook then as now.
My point is the F.B.I. wasn’t classifying Americans as subversives and “White Supremacists” in those days. They rightly considered Communism as a threat to our system of government.
All that changed at some point, and dramatically so. To try and equate the 1940s F.B.I. with the 1990s F.B.I. is retarded. Maybe they were SOBs then, too, but they were our SOBs.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 05:34 PM (Lqx3s)
Posted by: TheShadowsPawn at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (lqLYa)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 05:37 PM (D+mpw)
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It would be helpful if you read what I wrote. That is exactly what I’m saying. They went bad, long after Roosevelt, Hoover hated FDR and with good reason, probably. At some point there was an institutional focus change. They were going after student radicals and anarchists in the 1960s, maybe not as effectively as they should have, but they were playing for the right team, so to speak.
By the 1990s, there was a distinct shift. I would suggest during the Clinton years, but I don’t know for sure.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (Lqx3s)
Then there's that part about him taking her to France.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (c35xG)
Then there's the Democrat Party Tammany Hall brother and Democrat Congressman Daniel Sickles who murdered his wife's lover (US Attorney for DC Barton Key, Francis Scott Key's son) in front of hundreds of witnesses in Lafayette Square, a stone's throw from the White House. A few years earlier, he was essentially a pimp for Fanny White, one of New Yawk's most successful courtesans. Among their many indiscretions, he took her to England in lieu of his wife when he was on James Buchanan's staff while he was Ambassador. Sickles introduced White around London society (and to Queen Victoria herself) as Miss Bennett, implying that she was the daughter of Sickles' great enemy, James Bennett editor of the NY Herald. Sickles thought this was hilarious, at least until someone ratted him out, causing a scandal.
Unlike most Democrat assholes, Sickles had a sense of humor.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 05:44 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (Da7Vv)
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Ah, yeah, that's right. That's what it was.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:50 PM (krQz2)
They have the cell phone records, which means they have the names. they can go on-line and start to eliminate many of these people just by searching social media, etc. For example, the bomber was not obese, the bomber was right-handed, the height of the bomber can be pretty accurately estimated. etc. That should have narrowed the list to a couple of dozen people. They had FOUR YEARS to get this done. 2-3 agents were more than sufficient to solve the case. Most of the work being done on-line.
Reminds me of that Kevin Costner movie, no way out. They have a picture of the killer, who may be Kevin Costner. A computer is slowly enhancing the photo. Costner then gives the order to "re-process" it, delaying his revelation as the potential killer.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 05:53 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (cS1cw)
This lack of resources stuff is just bullshit. If the job is crunching a lot of data they have all the resources they need.
It took under a year for the current FBI to solve the cold case - and they did so starting with 5-year-old data that they already had in the files.
The case didn't get solved because the FBI and Biden didn't want it to be solved. That is the only possible conclusion.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 06:01 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (C3IAS)
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Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (+3dnj)
Ho Ho HO! It's Christmas time! Did you earn it $20, same as in town?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (ynpvh)
FBI likely using corrupted/defective flash thumb drive picked up off a street corner .. there are utilities to check those, report their TRUE size as well as write speeds (important for video recording use). I found one or two in the past sized at 8GB but was more like only (tested at) 2GB ... all I've purchased from reputable retail vendors the last few years were good.
Posted by: _Jim at December 09, 2025 07:42 PM (ln8yW)
There is, its called an HLR - Home Location Register, a database of (specific, money-paying) customers AND where their last Registration Attempt (System/ cell site/ sector) was made SO if you get a call they do NOT have to 'page' the entire cell phone system in the whole wide world, just where you/your phone said "I am here" ...
Posted by: _Jim at December 09, 2025 07:50 PM (ln8yW)
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Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 10, 2025 04:43 PM (vyN+2)
ABC Bows to Woke Mob and Grants Jimmy Kimmel Another Year to Lose the Network Money and Prestige
When ABC took Kimmel off the air for five minutes, woke leftists announced a boycott of the company. He was back within days.
So of course ABC can't just let him go now. The woke mob has spoken. They've renewed his unfunny fat show (yes, his whole show is fat, it needs Atkins in its life) for "at least" a year.Oh, the agreement was reached during the woke freak-out? Not surprising at all.
ABC has extended Jimmy Kimmel's show for at least one year after the late-night comedian was suspended in September for his controversial comments about Charlie Kirk's assassin, The Post has learned. "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" will continue to air on the Disney-owned network until at least May 2027 under the new deal, a source told The Post. Kimmel, 58 -- whose current contract expires in May 2026 -- told his staff on Monday that the show was renewed, according to Bloomberg, which earlier reported the news. The agreement was reached months ago, but Kimmel and Disney held off making the announcement out of respect for late-night host Stephen Colbert, according to the report.
CBS in May announced Colbert's show would end in May 2026, and Kimmel did not want to leave at the same time as Colbert, the report said. ...As I said at the time: Carr does in fact have the right to threaten that. There is a category of show called a "bona fide news program" which is allowed to be partisan without any "equal time" requirements. Any show that is not a "bona fide news program" cannot openly propagandize for a party without invoking the still-existing "equal time" rules. Obviously Jimmy Kimmel (and The View) are emphatically not "bona fide news programs" so they either have to be balanced and avoid outright lying or else the GOP is entitled to run their own "equal time" propaganda shows on ABC's airwaves. Speaking of unearned privilege:
His suspension came just a few hours after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr warned the network and Disney that "we can do this the easy or the hard way."
Kamala Harris to the New York Times:
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 9, 2025
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was." 🤣 pic.twitter.com/EQWLjgnlQO
“It is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day…”
— GOP (@GOP) July 21, 2024
-Kamala Harrispic.twitter.com/XqcRa17Fow
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLESSBERGER at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 03:26 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Wg6v7)
Bullshit. They didn't announce it at the time because they were waiting for the controversy to blow over. Now that people are back to thinking "Jimmy who?" and we're heading into the holidays when normal people have things to do, ABC drops this turd in the punchbowl.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (TR2dy)
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was."
Poster child for post fetal alcohol syndrome.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Bullshit. They didn't announce it at the time because they were waiting for the controversy to blow over. Now that people are back to thinking "Jimmy who?" and we're heading into the holidays when normal people have things to do, ABC drops this turd in the punchbowl.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)
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Kimmel's ratings are now lower than before the controversy.
Disney and Kimmel deserve each other.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)
Oh well. We don't get to win all the time. Frankly before Trump, I wasn't used to winning at all....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Our Betters™ ladies and gents at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (2GVsD)
Besides being "First Woman VP", her only interesting feature is her terrible grammar and lack of speaking ability.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (vbXSk)
Obviously Jimmy Kimmel (and The View) are emphatically not "bona fide news programs" so they either have to be balanced and avoid outright lying or else the GOP is entitled to run their own "equal time" propaganda shows on ABC's airwaves.
This will never happen.
They will run a show where they invite Alec Baldwin to do his Trump impression and call that equal.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)
She certainly is dumb as a post.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (D+mpw)
RIP.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Octochicken at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (oCS0o)
Bullshit. They didn't announce it at the time because they were waiting for the controversy to blow over. Now that people are back to thinking "Jimmy who?" and we're heading into the holidays when normal people have things to do, ABC drops this turd in the punchbowl.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)
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Kimmel's ratings are now lower than before the controversy.
Disney and Kimmel deserve each other.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)
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Yea, ABC can pay whoever they want whatever they want. If they want to lose money on this fat jerkjuice faggot, then so be it. I do wish Carr would go after these cocksuckers more seriously, though.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (2GVsD)
He's ALREADY irrelevant. He gets worse ratings than reruns of American Pickers on The History Channel.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (rQwsY)
Wouldn't that be whitewashing?
Posted by: ERASING PEOPLE OF COLOR OMG at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (mEYGy)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (8CIFn)
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If anyone knows about busting marbles it's her.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (2GVsD)
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Only good for the purchase of coconuts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)
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That's hot.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (2GVsD)
Swear to God I thought that said "penises" and had to do a double-take.
Posted by: Would be on brand though at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)
*shrugs*
Some people have more money than common sense.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (NwnyJ)
That's hot.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (DRSnL)
I had no idea your standards were so LOOOOOWWW.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (D+mpw)
The vice presidency isn’t worth a bucket of warm piss.
Posted by: John Nance Garner at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (rQwsY)
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That sculptor better set her up for historical success.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (7Ctz/)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (U6Usv)
My favorite part of the "save the drug traffickers!" crusade was the 5 minutes when the DNC blalst fax had everyone saying Hegseth was deliberately killing "shipwreck victims". Someone on X was riffing on "Gilligan's Island, if they were narco-traffickers" and it got pretty funny.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (2ocoG)
As the saying goes, must be nice... must be nice...
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (U6Usv)
$20 same as in town
Posted by: Had to be done at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: John Nance Garner at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (rQwsY)
And you got a middle school named after you in NE San Antonio.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (rQwsY)
Jean Francois Cary, "reporting for dooty!!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (2GVsD)
You're all just embarrassed that Kamala is so deep that you don't understand her.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (Vq1pX)
As the saying goes, must be nice... must be nice...
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (XV/Pl)
Seriously, I will happily be irrelevant if I get 100 million dollars as well.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (HXT0k)
Good Lord. Kamala Harris makes Jack Handey look like Goethe.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (0CU3H)
RIP.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (xcxpd)
In memorium.
https://youtu.be/J4CRcrhZJI8
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)
She certainly is dumb as a post.
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Oh come on guys, she has a LAW DEGREE and attended a prestigious COLLEGE! That PROVES she's a mighty intellect! That's what you all were saying just a few hours ago, remember?
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (U6Usv)
"$20, ..."
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (pDt9x)
You don't say.
Posted by: Disney Stockholders at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)
She certainly is dumb as a post.
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Oh come on guys, she has a LAW DEGREE and attended a prestigious COLLEGE! That PROVES she's a mighty intellect! That's what you all were saying just a few hours ago, remember?
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (TN0g+)
Credentialed, she is.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (pDt9x)
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was."
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Remember George Washington's Vice President? Yeah, me neither.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (2GVsD)
Indifference. Apathy.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (TR2dy)
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Even the iron lung is cheaper!
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (GPa4z)
You're not supposed to actively choose "Bust" on purpose.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (2GVsD)
That just serves to make me respect lawyers and colleges less.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (azNOR)
John Adams
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (rQwsY)
You know how in The Poltergeist people found out their subdivision was built on a cemetery.
Well, I just got a letter today from the Army. Turns out, our house was built on an old artillery training munition dump site. They just wanted us to know that when we see unexploded ordinance to not, and honestly this would be my first instinct, to hit it with a giant mallet to see what happens. No, I'm being advised to:
Recognize Retreat Report
Thanks for spoiling my fun ARMY
Posted by: banana BOOOM! Dream at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (3uBP9)
RIP.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (xcxpd)
In memorium.
https://youtu.be/J4CRcrhZJI8
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
What they took from us...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (azNOR)
John Adams
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (rQwsY)
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I remember he signed the Sedition Act.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (g47mK)
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Their parks and cruise line are both very profitable.
They are a vacation company that does entertainment on the side.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (eEIbO)
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IF YOU GO through a lot of hammers each month, I don't think it necessarily means you're a hard worker. It may just mean that you have a lot to learn about proper hammer maintenance.
--Jack Handey
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)
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I'm sure that show was much better than Kimmel ever did on his "show"
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (vbXSk)
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Hold it, I thought it was time for us to be unburdened by what has been.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Dave at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (sbsMc)
--Jack Handey
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (eEIbO)
30 years ago, if I was able to ask you, "who was on the Tonight Show or Late Show last night?"
There would have been a good chance you'd know at least one person.
Not that you'd have watched, but at least from the promos run during the evening shows.
Now?
I bet no one here knows even one guest that's been on in the last week.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (HXT0k)
Fire them all, let God separate them.
Which reminds me of a movie, From Beyond.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (EyfuW)
Their parks and cruise line are both very profitable.
They are a vacation company that does entertainment on the side.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)
Didn’t they try the Star Wars Hotel? Or was that some other company?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (azNOR)
John Adams
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM
Seriously people, how did we go from John Adams to Vice President word salad? Sad.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (vZUXb)
I bet no one here knows even one guest that's been on in the last week.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (HXT0k)
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On Colbert, it's reportedly mostly Democrat Congressmen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)
"Gee Brain, what is that?" - Pinky
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Nowadays, institutional owners mean diffused responsibility and even there, it is not really the owners voting the stocks but fund managers of index accounts like Vanguard, State Street, and Black Rock.
We have made our finance industry into a black hole corporate bureaucracy where accountability, maximizing corporate value, and fiduciary responsibilities are things for the managerial class to laugh about.
Dimon riffing about debanking people the other day comes to mind. He was annoyed a mere peasant CNBC host asked him questions about his bank's actions.
This is our corporate class--something like the feudal nobles wielding CEO seats of Corporations like a title attached to a piece of land in feudal days.
But without noblisse oblige and the oversight influence of the Catholic Church on their actions.
Our corporate class is easily as vile as our politicians.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (XeU6L)
Busts. Busts.... Busts. A bust is something that preserves the top of someone. The top of someone. And the top is where things happen. The top. The top.... The top. The top is where the brain is. Where thinking happens. Where important decisions are made. Every day. Just like the vice presidency.
And when you are vice president, things are different every day. And things happen every day. Because every day is important. Because life is important. Because life is important.
Without life, what do you really have? You have death. Cackle cackle. And destruction. Cackle cackle. And terrible things. Cackle cackle. Terrible things. Cackle cackle. Terrible things. But not with marble. Not with life. Not with things that are important. Those are the things that are important because they matter. And it matters because you matter. I'm Kamala Harris. Thank you.
Posted by: Kamala Harris at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (eEIbO)
Do they die on the trail?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (pDt9x)
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Yeah, the Starliner was a giant boondoggle and money loser that's an embarrassment on the company.
Lost them $2 billion or so.
But the 3 new cruise ships that set sail over the last couple of years are always full.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ABC at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (IYMzU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (pDt9x)
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I liked Hercules. James Woods was funny.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (zZu0s)
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was."
Hey...pigeons gotta crap somewhere.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (2WIwB)
One site had artillery practice range and that's a superfund. My house on the mountain was the target and the other superfund site.
On my list of things that weren't disclosed before closing. (kind of cool tho)
HA HA HA HA HA!
Posted by: banana BOOOM! Dream at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: CaliGirl
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Public education. It is probable that functional literacy rates have actually declined from the Revolutionary era in the US.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (zZu0s)
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I believe the correct spelling is KWEEN.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:42 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 03:42 PM (8CIFn)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:42 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: tubal
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'Song of the South'
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I saw it in the theatre as a kid--it was awesome. I'd love to own a copy of that one.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (2GVsD)
He's ALREADY irrelevant. He gets worse ratings than reruns of American Pickers on The History Channel.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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That reminds me, Oak Island is on tonight.
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: angry, aroused chimp at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (9foje)
I suspect they are about as fun as a vegan Thanksgiving.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)
Brutal Juice wasn't bad.
https://youtu.be/uEIbTCVSkXo
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
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Credentialed, she is.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025
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Credentials on a level with a Huckleberry Hound Fan Club badge, that is. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (wzUl9)
They've renewed his unfunny fat show (yes, his whole show is fat, it needs Atkins in its life) for "at least" a year.
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When I was a kid, the couple of fat kids around were always the funniest.
I figured it was a coping mechanism and a way to be liked even if teased about their weight ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (PaahW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)
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Unpossible. I don't like it and thus nobody else can like it. I hate Disney so everyone must too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: tubal
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'Song of the South'
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I saw it in the theatre as a kid--it was awesome. I'd love to own a copy of that one.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (TN0g+)
Ever see the original Fantasia?? Incredibly good.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Well, we seem to be working on a redux of Babylon, so...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)
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Unpossible. I don't like it and thus nobody else can like it. I hate Disney so everyone must too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (iFTx/)
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There is no arguing with this logic. It's ironclad!
Also, I can't believe Taylor Swift is still a thing. I've never bought her album.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (MZ+PY)
Not that you'd have watched, but at least from the promos run during the evening shows.
Now?
I bet no one here knows even one guest that's been on in the last week.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
If I guessed an asshole, I'd probably be correct.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 09, 2025 03:45 PM (C9G7m)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (TN0g+)
Credentialed, she is.
Posted by: tubal"
As far as I can determine he has never actually tried a case, by which I mean talking t a judge and jury. I have read a few people that claim she handles many case hat is not true but I am sure if she had underlings do all all the work and speaking. There is no evidence I can find of her actually trying to convince the judge /jury of something. There is a reason for that.
Posted by: Ripley at December 09, 2025 03:45 PM (PTDkx)
There is no arguing with this logic. It's ironclad!
Also, I can't believe Taylor Swift is still a thing. I've never bought her album.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)
Taylor Swift??? She’s so last month.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (pDt9x)
Poster child for post fetal alcohol syndrome.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Won't need much marble. Her bust puts one in mind of a failed dairy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (vyvuF)
That reminds me, Oak Island is on tonight.
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T)
There CAN'T be any island left.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (pDt9x)
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Taylor Swift?
More like Taylor Slow, amiright?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)
They are a vacation company that does entertainment on the side.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Lot of ruin in corporations until suddenly. Indications from visits indicate Disney World is getting stale compared with competition Universal and declines in foreign visits due to new restrictions on travel visas and money is also hitting Vegas. Vegas is now turning hard to adult whale gamblers and Disney, by all accounts, is too with its pricing.
Reliance on a narrow set of consumers is a sure recipe for unexpected reversals like stock and asset plunges for the upper class. I think pro sports and soon college football are also pricing themselves out of the entertainment market.
All of them are chasing a very narrow class of individuals upper middle and upper classes as the truly rich seldom visit places like Disneyland or common cruise ships.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (WDjG6)
Besides being "First Woman VP", her only interesting feature is her terrible grammar and lack of speaking ability.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (vbXSk)
And the chrome from that Cadillac bumper on her upper lip.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (g8Ew8)
Taylor Swift??? She’s so last month.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (pDt9x)
I saw a car with a window sticker that said "Currently listening to Taylor Swift."
I was disappointed in them, significantly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (looXz)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (vyvuF)
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The only real power the Senate has anymore on an individual level is over appointments.
Blue slips give them says on the executive that would otherwise not exist at all, just getting party line votes on everything.
The blue slip process is never going away. It's almost all the Senators have left.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)
The Moonspinners.
Early Haley Mills was the hawt!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM
I've never even heard of that one. I thought I'd seen all of the Disney movies.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (vZUXb)
More like Taylor Slow, amiright?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)
Or Generic Swift
Posted by: Kamala Harris at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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That is our whole ruling class whether in an NGO, colleges, corporations, or law practice/courts.
Some of that class are resisting Trump on everything, some are picking their battles, and some are just trying to wait him out of office.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (WDjG6)
I was disappointed in them, significantly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)
A) That was her fiance's car.
B) He meant it ironically.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (Vq1pX)
The Moonspinners.
Early Haley Mills was the hawt!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025
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Sister Juliet made her look less than stunning, though
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (pDt9x)
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Taylor Swift?
More like Taylor Slow, amiright?
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I'd prefer listening to Andy Taylor's first solo album rather than anything by Taylor Swift. Andy's song "I might lie..." was pretty awesome, and the video had some play on MTV.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (TN0g+)
The Moonspinners.
Early Haley Mills was the hawt!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM
I've never even heard of that one. I thought I'd seen all of the Disney movies.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (vZUXb)
So, “ Enchanted”. Good, Bad, or Meh ?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (pDt9x)
I'm sorry. What is an "adult whale gambler"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (looXz)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (looXz)
Because of the corollary. That being white is easy and dumb.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (v0R5T)
I'm sorry. What is an "adult whale gambler"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (looXz)
Elderly Orcas, in Sea World.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:50 PM (pDt9x)
So, “ Enchanted”. Good, Bad, or Meh ?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (pDt9x)
I liked that movie, it was very cute.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 03:50 PM (vZUXb)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:50 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 03:50 PM (3uBP9)
I'm sorry. What is an "adult whale gambler"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (looXz)
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Very rich big-time gambler, the kind that can lose millions at a casino and just say "shit."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (iFTx/)
Well, sure, and Katy Perry is a historic astronaut. ...just not in the way you guys think.
Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (IYMzU)
So, “ Enchanted”. Good, Bad, or Meh ?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (pDt9x)
I liked that movie, it was very cute.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 03:50 PM (vZUXb)
Wife loves it. Pretty wel done, IMO.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (pDt9x)
A) That was her fiance's car.
B) He meant it ironically.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (Vq1pX)
She was by herself and was likely qualified for the Booster Seat requirement in the state of Texas. She could barely see over the wheel.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (looXz)
Whales are big investors or gamblers
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (U6Usv)
How about a hollow ceramic bust, with a head you just lift off? You can fill it with cookies or jelly beans.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (2L+MU)
As for Warner Brothers, it deserves saving if only to preserve Looney Tunes for future generations.
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (1RAfh)
That reminds me, Oak Island is on tonight.
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T)
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I fell asleep on last weeks OI so Imma guessing I can get that one watched before I fall asleep on this weeks breaking news. I would like to do naughty things to Emma Culligen.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:52 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 03:52 PM (PNQAX)
Posted by: Alec Leamas at December 09, 2025 03:52 PM (ssz2a)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (2L+MU)
Why reinvent the wheel
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (8CIFn)
Posted by: Dave at December 09, 2025
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Huh? What?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Alec Leamas at December 09, 2025 03:52 PM (ssz2a)
Kimmel sold his soul for fame and fortune. He will come to regret his decision.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Greta Thunberg at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (15Ksv)
I figured whales were not really gambling. although I admit not cognizant of their off hours recreational pursuits😉 I wasn't sure if it meant a big person gambling or they spent lots of money?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (looXz)
Kimmel staying on is a win-win.
1) His show continues but nobody watches
2) ABC loses colossal sums of money continuing a show nobody watches
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Alec Leamas at December 09, 2025 03:52 PM (ssz2a)
One might infer from this that Jimmy Kimmel is Ron Burgundyish.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 03:54 PM (tgvbd)
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I wish someone had saved "High Chaparral". I loved that western series as a kid, but to my knowledge its never been available on DVD.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:54 PM (TN0g+)
The blue slip process is never going away. It's almost all the Senators have left.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Not sure on that one. Senators have plenty of power under our system but they just hate to be held accountable. That is what is at stake. Blue slip originated in the seg era for Dem senators to block desegregationist inclined GOP judges and DAs in the South. So you got patronage parties in the South that never did anything to get votes but relied solely on doling out patronage when GOP was in the presidency. Even in the 80's, was unevenly applied like only requiring one slip, not two or allowing senior House member to dole out patronage when no GOP senator was from that state.
The truth is that the Senate, by and large, oppose Trump and it is the core of the uniparty on Capitol Hill. Morris Fiorina called Congress the Keystone of the Washington Establishment and in truth it is the fount of much of our government paralysis and dysfunction. Our elites want it that way because reform required now is so drastic as to affect their privilege.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:54 PM (WDjG6)
Willie filled her head with something else.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 03:54 PM (kHd4y)
Posted by: Greta Thunberg at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (15Ksv)
You are just straight up fetal alcohol syndrome. Kumswala is definitely POST fetal.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (TN0g+)
I liked Bill Cosby's, She Couldn't Say No, So I Did It.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 03:55 PM (g8Ew8)
I figured whales were not really gambling. although I admit not cognizant of their off hours recreational pursuits😉 I wasn't sure if it meant a big person gambling or they spent lots of money?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (looXz)
No, it is a known fact that Orcas play for high stakes tuna.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:55 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Sponge
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And possibly sold his soul to get kids. Reportedly a friend of Epstein.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:55 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:55 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:56 PM (g47mK)
And possibly sold his soul to get kids. Reportedly a friend of Epstein.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:55 PM (WDjG6)
He did threaten to sue anyone who spread that around, so there's that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:56 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
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Until recently Heroes & Icons was running it on weekday mornings. Awesome theme song -- it reminds me of "Telstar" by the Tornados.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 03:56 PM (wzUl9)
@shepmjs
Turning: New Trump Approval polling
Harvard Harris +5
Daily Mail +2
Rasmussen +1
Economist YouGov +1
RCP Aggregate +1.4 Disapproval drops 3
For those who think polling is bullshit:
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
👏👏👏
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
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Honestly, rewatching it will disappoint your memories of it. Trust me on this.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: sven at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (MUJd1)
Posted by: Regular American at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (/wYAD)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (eEIbO)
👏👏👏
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (g47mK)
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It was revealed recently that the third Mummy movie was only made because the Olympics were in China and Universal wanted to take advantage of the access.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (GBKbO)
--Jack Handey
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (TN0g+)
He's writing for a kid's active workbook:
explodeyworld.com
It's pretty good for ages 8-12. Reading age and up to teen really. Lots of other established writers and cartoonists.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
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Honestly, rewatching it will disappoint your memories of it. Trust me on this.
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I appreciate the insight. I always liked the characters of Buck and Manulito--they were the ones that seemed to bring the life to the episodes.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (TN0g+)
___________________________
Oh, man. What an opportunity. The Marble Bust should be her being held up by a bunch of men like the Atlas statue....(positioned for success). The reference would go right over her head, and she'd assume it was complimentary.
Posted by: Orson at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (dIske)
They are a vacation company that does entertainment on the side.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM
Yep and their cruise ships are heavily booked 12-18 months out. They make a fortune from those seven cruise ships alone.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (GBKbO)
yes, in the same Variety interview !
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (g47mK)
People will not watch Kimmel but they will watch Gutfeld make fun of him.
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (1RAfh)
Posted by: Pudinhead
......
She will analyze your rocks.
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 04:00 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:00 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (GBKbO)
yes, in the same Variety interview !
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (g47mK)
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I bought the nice 4K set of the trilogy. Saw the third one for the first time in forever.
Still not sure if it's as bad as The Mummy Returns. I mean...they both suck.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Getting bombed is better than bombing!
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 04:00 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
In terms of gambling, Whales are wealthy clients that spend a lot of money at your facility and lose consistently at gambling often very large sums.
In terms of finance, brokers at least used to refer to wealthy clients with lots to spend as whales and the term has also come down to any situation where an agent is trying to land a client who is wealthy and can pay big amounts in commissions, etc. Like now in politics with whale donors. Campaign consultants and pols like them both because less hassle to raise funds and fewer people to beg money from for pols and candidates. Ideal for campaign consultants are wealthy self funded candidates as they know the checks will clear.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (g47mK)
I heard Joe Kenda is retired in Suffolk now.
Posted by: logprof at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (jo6FO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (D+mpw)
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Nixon was quite historical and he was a vice president to Ike.
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (1RAfh)
Well her Vice presidency was a bust....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:00 PM (g47mK)
Yes, please. She was truly great in 1&2. Whole cast was good.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (pDt9x)
Congratulations to the new addition to your family! Is it a mutt or purebred?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (lQ+/f)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (g47mK)
I would say that Trump might already have one in his private bathroom, but Melania wouldn't put up with that shit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (g47mK)
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Great?
I mean...I can understand getting on its goofy wavelength, but it's...great?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)
Not in the Capitol. Maybe just outside the Lover's Package store in Oakland.
Posted by: UNPROGRESSIVE at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (IUmF8)
Posted by: jb at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (sITE8)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (68TeV)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
The first "Who? I don't recognize that name" Vice President is Daniel Tompkins (6th VP) (VP under James Monroe (5th P)
The first five are John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, George Clinton, and Elbridge Gerry
Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (D0HYP)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (pDt9x)
right?! John Hannah too. I hope he is also in Mummy 4.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (eEIbO)
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Angel Studios will fill the void and becoming the dominant studio of the 21st century.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)
Congratulations to the new addition to your family! Is it a mutt or purebred?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (lQ+/f)
Purebred little standard poodle twerp. He is too smart. Plays on his cute factor.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Like Newsweak when it was a print mag, Trump gets an up arrow for the week and that is about all you can say about it.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (D0HYP)
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That bastard gerrymandered Texas!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Like Newsweak when it was a print mag, Trump gets an up arrow for the week and that is about all you can say about it.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (WDjG6)
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Pretty much.
If the 2028 election were held today...Trump's approval wouldn't matter because he's not going to be on the ticket.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)
I mean...I can understand getting on its goofy wavelength, but it's...great?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)
I was entertained ! I was not offended! I loved all the funny bits! Are you upset about the CGI Scorpion King ? It was silly , but fun!
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (g47mK)
If you ever get the chance to draft along with one to the ya gotta know somebody restaurant, take it.
There is such a thing as 200$ veal chops and they're worth it.
Posted by: DaveA at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (pDt9x)
right?! John Hannah too. I hope he is also in Mummy 4.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (g47mK)
When movies were good. There was a “sweet spot” back then. Lots of good movies made.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (pDt9x)
omg how cute!
congrats Tubal!!!!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 04:05 PM (emBoF)
but actually if they brought back something like robot wars they could kill it in that time slot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:05 PM (uWKK8)
Thanks, but now I can't get out of my mind the image of a large cartoon whale lumbering into some crooked politicians office and giving him big money.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:05 PM (lQ+/f)
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (2L+MU)
Why reinvent the wheel ...
Ok, how about this: two hollow ceramic busts filled with dirt, and geraniums growing out of the holes in her head. Put 'em right there on the front porch of the White House.
Or, a Kamala Harris yard gnome in the garden.
No, wait, wait, even better: a metal bust that hooks up to a garden hose, and her head spins around sprinkling the lawn.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:05 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025
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The "Gerry" of "gerrymandering"? (I haven't looked it up, so I dunno)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (g47mK)
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It's kind of...stupid. The CGI doesn't offend me (technical limitations I try not to hold against movies). Sommers lucked out mightily with the first movie, and he just went bigger and dumber for the sequel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (g47mK)
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Great?
I mean...I can understand getting on its goofy wavelength, but it's...great?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)
You think about movies, A LOT, don’t you?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (pDt9x)
Sounds adorable!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (lQ+/f)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (pDt9x)
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What gave you that idea?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (c35xG)
but actually if they brought back something like robot wars they could kill it in that time slot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:05 PM
The late night talkers are dead and have been for a while. They don't have any ideas or imagination that would allow them to put new content in those timeslots.
I mean, there's a boatload of bloggers out there that pull more views on YT than the late night tools combined.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at December 09, 2025 04:08 PM (P7Iz+)
Posted by: Kingsman at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (ehY6c)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (Da7Vv)
One year a d he goes away. His salary a d the production cost loss is vig to keep the woke mob from coming after ABC.
Its their money. Let them flush it down the toilet, Kimmel's rating continue to tank and he goes even more bonkers with his old lady.
At the end of the day: win/win/win
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (FxH7T)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (c35xG)
Threads are a Journey, not a Destination.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: tubal
Clearly Beauty and the Beast.
The moral was quite poignant:
"Looks are not important so long as you lock her up long enough."
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (g47mK)
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Making Rachel Weisz a reincarnation of Nerftiti and going all melodramatic because she dies but she doesn't die and then a super serious face off with Anck-su-namun...
I just roll my eyes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (2GVsD)
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I hadn't considered it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: tubal
Clearly Beauty and the Beast.
The moral was quite poignant:
"Looks are not important so long as you lock her up long enough."
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (zjgNU)
Heh. That made me laugh.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (g47mK)
Six (Tricia Helfer) was hotter when she was dressed down and imitating Starbuck with sweats and a pony tail.
Xena was white hot in her first appearance on the show.
Jane Seymour from the 70s was hotter than all of them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (eEIbO)
I guess as long as no blood is drawn, and she always has someplace to retreat to where he can't get at her, there's no serious problem. It's just disturbing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (wzUl9)
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress.’
It will the only one with an interactive mouth.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 04:12 PM (jbnUc)
Saying a list of obviously true things is not what "hot take" means.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 04:12 PM (Vq1pX)
but actually if they brought back something like robot wars they could kill it in that time slot.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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All that, I mean ALL that brain power and they can't think of one thing to fill the time slot. Come to think of it, it's systemic; TV sucks, Movies suck, with few exception Net Flix and Prime sucks.
Yep, the whole industry sucks. Total lack of independent thought or creative intelligence.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:12 PM (c35xG)
That was a fine girl fight. So there... then Kelly Hu in the follow up...
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 04:13 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (eEIbO)
I have watched it. I’ve seen things, man.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:13 PM (pDt9x)
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Maybe I'm delusional, but I don't think the late night variety show *HAS* to be dead. It was just *programmed* to be dead. If a new show had a host that wasn't a partisan idiot, and he told a few jokes that had zero political connection, that part would be fine. And then he could have an actor or actress on and they could tell stories about what it was like working on their latest film or tv show. And then a current or historical musical act could come on and perform live. And in between some of that they could do a skit or a bit or two, but the one rule would have to be "We're entertainers, not politicians."
Or would that still suck?
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 04:13 PM (TN0g+)
I just roll my eyes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)
but the prince kissing some dead girl and bringing her to life is a-ok ??? it's a klassik ??? fine!
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:13 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 04:12 PM (Vq1pX)
I don't say you cowards saying them!
*strips off glove, flings in threads' face*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:13 PM (zZu0s)
The media isn't influenced by the "woke mob". The media is the progenitor, propagator, legitimizer, and enforcer of the "woke mob".
The king does not bow to his subjects, the god does not pray to its creation. Neither does the Hollywood Jew take his orders from the sheep he propagandizes.
Posted by: Good Grief at December 09, 2025 04:14 PM (Nl83e)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:14 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:14 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:15 PM (zZu0s)
Are we talking about TV or the ONT?
Posted by: Sad! at December 09, 2025 04:16 PM (wgcRL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Fatcat was the older term.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:16 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:16 PM (eEIbO)
The term "gerrymander" was coined when he was Governor of Massachusetts, not VP
Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025 04:16 PM (D0HYP)
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Dear Dave:
What's the deal with the donuts?
---viewer mail bit
Letterman was a comedic genius back before he became a bitter partisan crack-head.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Barbara Stanwyck too?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
We can access it via Philo (the streaming service).
I never saw it as a kid, but, in my old age, I'm discovering (in some case rediscovering) old TV series.
The show is formulaic, and the acting uneven, but I enjoy Cameron Mitchell as Buck, and Frank Silvera's performance as Don Sebastian is highly entertaining.
Sad fact: Frank Silvera died before the series ended as a result of being electrocuted while working on a kitchen garbage disposal.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:14 PM (eEIbO)
Black Irish though. Cause they was kangs.
Posted by: thedarkness at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (Mtf/+)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (8CIFn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (eEIbO)
"High Chaparral"
It's on INSP at 1:00pm
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (pkeXY)
280 199 I wish someone had saved "High Chaparral". I loved that western series as a kid, but to my knowledge its never been available on DVD.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
We can access it via Philo (the streaming service).
I never saw it as a kid, but, in my old age, I'm discovering (in some case rediscovering) old TV series.
The show is formulaic, and the acting uneven, but I enjoy Cameron Mitchell as Buck, and Frank Silvera's performance as Don Sebastian is highly entertaining.
Sad fact: Frank Silvera died before the series ended as a result of being electrocuted while working on a kitchen garbage disposal.
Posted by: Paco
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Thanks guys!
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (9iyS+)
The media isn't influenced by the "woke mob". The media is the progenitor, propagator, legitimizer, and enforcer of the "woke mob".
The king does not bow to his subjects, the god does not pray to its creation. Neither does the Hollywood Jew take his orders from the sheep he propagandizes.
Posted by: Good Grief at December 09, 2025 04:14 PM (Nl83e)
I was about to take you seriously until "Everything I don't like is a Jewish conspiracy" popped up.
I'll just suggest to you that "the media" isn't a monolith and can be both the progenitor and enforcer of wokeness AND a thrall of wokeness because it's made up of many different individuals.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:19 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:19 PM (eEIbO)
People who dont like Kirk kill people they dont like.
Simple
Posted by: Operator Error at December 09, 2025 04:19 PM (PlXYd)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 04:19 PM (mlg/3)
Also, I can't believe Taylor Swift is still a thing. I've never bought her album.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)
If the cruise ships were ironclad, and went off sinking pirates, that would be cool.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:20 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Zombie Jack Parr at December 09, 2025 04:20 PM (FGMmt)
Yep, the whole industry sucks. Total lack of independent thought or creative intelligence.
Posted by: Braenyard
Gresham's Law of money as applied to art. Bad drives out good.
I think though the coming era in the near future is ai agent computers able to actually generate movies including actors, dialogue and eyepopping special effects from a series of command prompts.
3d Printing is also going to change things a lot.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:20 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:20 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Who was not funny at all.
Craig Ferguson was. His flirting with hot starlets should be required watching for geeky 13 year old boys who are unsure how to connect with girls.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (2GVsD)
@libsoftiktok 4m
BREAKING: Georgia State Rep. Sharon Henderson (D) has been INDICTED on unemployment fraud after allegedly illegally collecting over $17,000 in benefits during the COVID pandemic.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: banana Dream
Have you heard of a Venn Diagram?
Posted by: Kamala at December 09, 2025 04:22 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:22 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:22 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (mlg/3)
You’re not gonna believe this. Sharon is a black wymyn.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 04:23 PM (9iyS+)
Johnny Somlai ain't much better
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:22 PM (2GVsD)
Johnny Bravo >>> Johnny Somali
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:24 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
Is it conclusively ruled out that wasn't her plan?
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (pDt9x)
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1967 to 1971.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (nXmou)
1967-1971. Most of the show was filmed in Old Tucson and surrounding area.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (2L+MU)
I mean, there's a boatload of bloggers out there that pull more views on YT than the late night tools combined.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (Zz0t1)
There's no writing talent. They've trained a generation to be wokescolds and trained seals that laugh at wokescolds. It's a black hole of angry, talentless, entitled children. There will be nothing compelling coming to that time slot.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:22 PM (2GVsD)
Johnny Bravo >>> Johnny Somali
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Johnny Human Torch >>> Johnny Bravo >>> Johnny Somali
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (pDt9x)
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1967 to 1971.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (nXmou)
Ah. Thanks Shain. Might take a look some day.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (eEIbO)
But you go girl! Historic! Stunning! Brave! And those fucking pantsuits! My god, what courage.
Where do we find such women??
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (wJccJ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:16 PM (eEIbO)
Only because no one has paid her yet. She's taken so much cash from big Pharma that her campaign ads now end with a list of side effects.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (Zz0t1)
Definitely Candace Owens does.
Probably Tucker Carlson, as well.
Posted by: Good Grief at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (Nl83e)
Absolutely hilarious and his music guests were awesome.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (Y8DZL)
Step 1: Be a powerful and influential boy with a television talk show.
Step 2: ?????
Step 3: PROFIT
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025
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Just going on memory, I'd say late Sixties to start, and it ran for several years.
*Checks*
Yeah, 1967 to '71.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (zZu0s)
Go to a head chopper muzzy country and thrown in jail is the least of her concerns.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (3uBP9)
However, I am quite sure he is busy doing whatever he does in his current Scotland castle.
Kimmel has never been funny, in the very few shots I have seen him. Plus he's ugly.
I pride myself in never watching his show much less his gargle of words that are silly.
I have a very refined taste in humor. Which is why I read Moron and Ace.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (OUMaO)
I don't think this was intentional shock jock shit, but rather her personal kink/damage shit. She evidently (somehow this has come up on streams i have watched, Kirsche I think) has a thing of doing very close to age of consent dudes. Like trolling high school kids shit. She got banned from, Australia i think for trying a barely legal gangbang there.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (wJccJ)
But you go girl! Historic! Stunning! Brave! And those fucking pantsuits! My god, what courage.
Where do we find such women??
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025
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Unfortunately, nowadays, everywhere.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (wzUl9)
@Breaking911
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BREAKING: 2 injured in shooting by "active aggressor" at Kentucky State University; suspect in custody - Police
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 04:29 PM (mlg/3)
We have Roku. Tried one or two network comedies (the new Night Court, and Tim Allen's latest series) and found them...pretty bad, actually. Just a matter of personal taste, of course.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:29 PM (2L+MU)
Not to mention the sassy, all knowing loud mouth negress and the lady cops who are all hot and 110 pounds of sexiness.
Posted by: Gimme A Break at December 09, 2025 04:29 PM (FGMmt)
Fox news story of a Killing at N Forsyth High school gives no names and does not describe the incident. However the information is public knowledge.
AI: at North Forsyth High School, the deceased has been identified as 19-year-old Jaylen Pharaoh. The suspect involved in the shooting is 21-year-old Kanye Delvin Tisdale, who has been charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.
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You may infer any other technicals.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (c35xG)
I've only seen short video clips on YouTube, but he was obviously head and shoulders above the likes of Kimmel; actually, there's just no comparison at all.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (2L+MU)
Following the certs given by AI that info was not the school shooting but an incident at a VapeShop in Kingstree, South Carolina.
So much for AI accuracy.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:34 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: sven at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (MUJd1)
"Kamala, modern day feminism hero!"
Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (2Nfh9)
No argument there. I hope she kept a print of that fantastic photo of her in Somewhere in Time.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 04:51 PM (Da7Vv)
@LeadingReport 6m
BREAKING: Illegal immigrants would face a $5,000 “apprehension fee” under a new Trump administration policy.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (mlg/3)
The only laughs I ever got from Kimmel were when Sara Silverman broke up with him on air by bringing her new boyfriend along with her appearance on the show.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (Da7Vv)
There are reasons that Gutfeld, streaming on Fox News, beats the ratings of all the network late night shows.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:02 PM (Da7Vv)
I’ll be contacting them of y displeasure and bozos even though I’m sure I already do boycott these corps.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 09, 2025 05:21 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 05:53 PM (ciYHQ)
Wrong. Spit is the nice version. John Nance Garner said the VP position was not worth a bucket of warm PISS.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (rQwsY)
Exactly.
Kamala will have a bust right next to Alben W. Barkley.
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Molly McNearney is an American television writer and producer. She is the co-head writer and the executive producer of the late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live![1] and the wife of host Jimmy Kimmel.[2][3]
In November 2022, before the 2022 United States midterm elections, McNearney spoke during the show's monologue "urging people to vote for candidates that support abortion rights."[14][15] (Roe v. Wade)
In 2025, McNearney won a Gracie Award for her work on Jimmy Kimmel Live![16]
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BTW, The Gracie Awards recognize exemplary programming created by women, for women and about women in all facets of media and entertainment. They also acknowledge the individuals who have made inspirational contributions to the industry.
>Page 2 of 11 pages of winners for 2025, or almost every woman in the industry.
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It's all about Molly, her pleasing other women and being with the semi-In crowd. Jimmy! seems sorta like her little b*tch on leash.
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Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 10, 2025 04:43 PM (vyN+2)
Paramount/Skydance Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros.
For those just joining the story in progress:
David Ellison -- son of the Oracle founder and multibillionaire Larry Ellison, and himself worth millions -- owned Skydance, and then used that company to purchase one of the smaller major studios, Paramount. Then he made a bid to buy Warner Bros. studios from Warner Discovery. That offer was rejected. Then Warner Bros. advertised that it was for sale and would entertain other offers. Netflix made a bid to buy it, and this bid was accepted. By management, I mean. David Ellison still wants Warner Bros. So he's making a hostile takeoever bid. That just means that unlike the Netflix bid which was arranged with the current management of Warner Discovery and has their blessing, this bid is made against current mangement's wishes and so is "hostile" to their intentions. But it's the shareholders who get to decide. Ellison is offering shareholders a competing bid. Ellison's bid is $30 per share, in cash. Neflix's bid is for less cash per sale -- $27 -- but shareholders would also get shares in whatever spin-off corporation they create out of the the parts of Warner Discovery they don't want. Which is I think the "Discovery" part, all the cable channels like The Murder Channel (aka Investigative Discovery or ID). Which is more valuable? I have no idea. Both suitors will make the pitch to shareholders and await the shareholder vote.Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after it lost out to Netflix in a monthslong bidding war for the legacy assets, the company said Monday. Paramount will go straight to WBD shareholders with an all-cash, $30 per share offer. That's the same bid WBD rejected last week and equates to an enterprise value of $108.4 billion. The offer is backstopped with equity financing from the Ellison family and the private equity firm RedBird Capital as well as $54 billion in debt commitments from Bank of America, Citi and Apollo Global Management, Paramount said in a news release. A portion of the equity financing comes from outside Middle Eastern financing partners including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Abu Dhabi's L'imad Holding Company PJSC, and the Qatar Investment Authority. Another portion derives from Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners. Kushner is U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law. Those partners have agreed to "forgo any governance rights," including board seats, as part of their non-voting equity investment, according to a Paramount filing. The modifications allow the deal to be outside of the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., or CFIUS. Shares of Paramount gained 9% Monday. Warner Bros. Discovery's shares rose about 4% while Netflix was down 3%. "We're really here to finish what we started," Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" on Monday. "We put the company in play."There are antitrust questions about any mergers between tech giants, of course. I think the Netflix bid will face more scrutiny, because while Netflix makes movies, it makes movies for streaming, not for exhibition in physical theaters. Yes, sometimes it exhibits a movie in theaters but only in a small number of theaters and only for a weekend or two before it puts it on Netflix exclusively. (They chiefly show movies in theaters just to meet the minimum requirements for theatrical exhibition to qualify them for the Oscars and such.) So what antitrust lawyers in the government will be looking at is not just the diminution in competition that will occur if one media company swallows up another one, but the real possibility that if Netflix buys Warner Bros. it will use Warner Bros. movie production to make movies for its streaming service, not for theaters. And antitrust lawyers do not like it when a reduction of competition in one industry causes disruptions in another industry. And yes, movie production is a separate industry form movie exhibition. In fact, it was antitrust action by the government that forced this separation -- movie studios used to own their own movie theaters and play their movies in their own theaters. But the government considered this illegal vertical integration and forced the movie companies to sell their theaters to independent owners. I don't think Netflix will be necessarily blocked from buying Warner Bros. A common result in these cases is that the government approves the merger but extracts a promise from the merged company that it will not take certain steps. Like Netflix would agree that it would continue showing Warner Bros. movies in physical theaters. (Though that's hard to police -- Netflix could just move a lot of Warner Bros. production to the Netflix production side of things and just produce few official "Warner Bros."-branded movies.) I think the NFL's monopoly on professional football was allowed only because the NFL agreed to never schedule games on Saturday when college teams were playing, to avoid using the professional football monopoly to damage the college football market. This is a very perilous time for theatrical exhibitors. Hollywood is producing crap movies and consequently exhibitors don't have much product to show that the public is willing to pay for. Any reduction in the number of movies going to physical theaters could, possibly, kill the industry, or cull half of all movie theaters. I don't know what the government will decide. David Ellison is reportedly trying to induce Trump to block the Netflix buyout by promising that if he gets hold of Warner Bros. -- and its failing "news" channel CNN -- he'll remake CNN into a fair and balanced network.
Is that true? No idea. I do know that if you really were making this offer you would want to do it privately, not publicly, with the Wall Street Journal notified. Because the president isn't supposed to approve or nix mergers based on his personal or political self-interest. By making this supposed offer so public, it basically stops Trump from even considering taking the alleged "deal." It could be that Netflix, not Ellison, is pushing this story out there to pressure Trump to approve their own bid. Leftwing movie review Grace Randolf claimed that Warner Discovery shareholders are faced with two repellent options -- accept Netlix's deal and "kill the theater business," or accept Ellison's deal and (horrors!) put two movie studios under the control of a "conservative" man friendly to Trump. The fact that she sees each of these possibilities as equally calamitous is what makes me think it's plausible that members of the left will just lie to stop Ellison from acquiring Warner Bros., and push Fake News stories about Ellison offering to fire Kaitlin Collins if Trump blocks Netflix's bid and approves his own. The left was horrified that Paramount was bought by (horror!) a conservative. It is offended and horrified that the much-bigger Warner Bros. might be purchased by the same conservative man. Any thoughts? Do you buy this very-public offer of bribery to Trump from David Ellison? I don't know about you, but if I were bribing the president, I would probably do it quietly. Through a trusted intermediary. Such as... well, as the article noted, Jared Kushner is part of the group putting up billions to back Ellison's bid. So instead of just quietly telling Kushner to carry that message to his father-in-law, everyone blabs about it to the Wall Street Journal? Seems unlikely to me. Sounds more like political partisans or Netflix executives trying to poison Parmount's pill so that Warner Discovery can't swallow it.
Paramount CEO David Ellison assured Trump officials that if the government OKs his company's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) he would overhaul the president's media arch nemesis -- CNN. Netflix announced last Friday it reached a deal to acquire Warner and HBO properties for $72 billion - but Paramount immediately launched a hostile counterbid, taking its case directly to shareholders. The Netflix-WBD merger is facing a stiff challenge from Paramount, whose majority shareholder is the billionaire Donald Trump ally, Oracle founder Larry Ellison. On Monday, Paramount made its move, offering $77.9 billion in all-cash and urging Warner shareholders to reject the Netflix deal. On a recent visit to Washington, DC, Ellison's son David told Trump's team he would impose sweeping changes at CNN if he purchased its parent company WBD, sources told the Wall Street Journal. David's father Larry discussed firing hosts like Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar - figures Trump dislikes - with White House officials during takeover bid talks last month, the Guardian reported.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)
I don't know about you, but if I were bribing the president, I would probably do it quietly.
If Trump was bribed he wouldn't be able to keep quiet about it. I like the guy but he couldn't keep anything hush hush.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (vFG9F)
Intellectual property that should have LONG gone into the public domain.
Government corruption, bought by Disney, is what makes these bloated dinosaurs retain any amount of value.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (eEIbO)
Things will change when The Blade starts as an immigration judge!
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Trump admin just fired a bunch of judges the other day. Problem is that the local office's job ad for filling those judgeships probably has No US Citizens need apply just like above.
Posted by: whig a
Here's the link to apply
https://tinyurl.com/4rwpvhpk
Posted by: BruceWayne
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (MGB5H)
yeah we pretty much just let big donors, I mean big corporations, do whatever the F@#$ they want these days
Posted by: Department of Justice - Antitrust Division at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Sharkman at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (BRvvM)
These companies are all zombie companies, they just don't know it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:29 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
Or the Pet Shop Boys
Posted by: fabulous at December 09, 2025 02:29 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 02:29 PM (looXz)
Is that even possible? It would have to be like the old Headline News channel that only read headline news and nothing else.
MSNOW would probably absorb all the CNN "talent" that would leave butt hurt and demanding "freedom of speech".
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 02:29 PM (IifOV)
A portion of the equity financing comes from outside Middle Eastern financing partners including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Abu Dhabi's L'imad Holding Company PJSC, and the Qatar Investment Authority. Another portion derives from Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners. Kushner is U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law.
Honestly this concerns me more than the antitrust issues. Private equity is bad enough, foreign private equity is even worse.
Posted by: Oligarchy! Oligarchy everywhere! at December 09, 2025 02:29 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:30 PM (TN0g+)
Make copyright return to its maximum of 56 years.
Not the century it has become.
Make Hollywood subject to competition and open up their intellectual property to ACTUAL creative people.
Imagine, for example, a Star Wars movie by someone who loves it AND is creative.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:30 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:30 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:31 PM (uWKK8)
right but the offer says that the foreigners will not have any presence on the board. They'll be stock owners only (supposedly).
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:31 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 02:31 PM (D+mpw)
If everything before 1980 were public domain, the value of streaming would drop precipitously. (And drop more every year as the last of the good movies become public domain...)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:32 PM (zjgNU)
Which is more valuable? I have no idea.
Take the $27 + shares.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:32 PM (bvUs5)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
Or the Pet Shop Boys
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Time for a St. Elmo's Fire remake. No, not the middling movie. Instead, the never should have been a thing *song* St. Elmo's Fire. What an abomination. You can feel St. Elmo's Fire burning in you? I'd suggest you see a doctor immediately.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:32 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 02:33 PM (snZF9)
Some forms of capitalism are more capitalist than others.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:33 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:33 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:34 PM (eEIbO)
The question is when is Warner Bros going to let their wonderful cartoon library be available again. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc. When's the last time you've seen the crown jewels on air?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 09, 2025 02:34 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:33 PM (pIfcn)
Myspace Tom.
He gets it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (dGCAG)
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Is that even possible? Yes, unfortunately I think it is. And more racist as well (racist against, uh, let's just say Europeans)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
sigh...not again.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (snZF9)
wink wink
Posted by: Chairman Xi at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (jGJov)
He gets it.
Posted by: BurtTC
Tom gave us everything. And we turned our backs on him.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:36 PM (bvUs5)
Things will change when The Blade starts as an immigration judge!
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Trump admin just fired a bunch of judges the other day. Problem is that the local office's job ad for filling those judgeships probably has No US Citizens need apply just like above.
Posted by: whig a
Here's the link to apply
https://tinyurl.com/4rwpvhpk
Posted by: BruceWayne
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (MGB5H)
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I know little about immigration law, but that only means I'd be good at the job. I'm looking to retire early in a few years, so a few years tossing out illegals could be good. LOL.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:36 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (Dv3i1)
You'll get a gay tranny Scarlett O'Hara in the GWTW remake, and you'll like it!
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:36 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (s0JqF)
See, I think the debt will be pawned off on this spinoff company. So I don't know if the shares in this company are actually going to be very valuable.
I've never understood this aspect of corporate finance. It seems wrong that you can split off the debt from the productive parts of a company.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (1wjle)
Bugs Bunny? And...?
Posted by: zombie at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Revolution calling..... revolution calling youuuuuuuu!
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (f1kZG)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:36 PM (bvUs5)
More than once I was blocked by some chick I managed to piss off (who, me?), and whenever I went back to check, Tom was still there. On the friend list.
Eff Tom.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (eEIbO)
Not possible. We saw this play out in another (?) where staff went into full revolt. MSM venues can't be reformed and I wish the Right would stop falling for that. You've got to nuke the site from orbit and start over from scratchm
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
If I could have seen the future, I would have gotten a law degree after undergrad. This would be my plan now too. Maybe I'll look to see what an older guy can do to help in administration for border patrol or ICE.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (s0JqF)
Did you check the book shelf?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (dGCAG)
They're a pretty successful movie company overall. They made the most profit last year, and had the most big hits.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Gordon Gekko at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (FGMmt)
Ellison wins, it'll be......well......I've no idea.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)
Bugs Bunny? And...?
Posted by: zombie at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (oraVG)
HBO and the WB old movie catalog, I think.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (gYnrv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (eEIbO)
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The Paramount Accords.
Which, actually, are no longer in effect. The first Trump admin got rid of them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (GBKbO)
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I don't think you can "split off debt" in that scenario. Debt is a legal contract between two parties, and the one owed the debt has safeguards that prevent the debt from being "tossed over" to some other entity with no ability to pay.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (abIsI)
but by "own them" I mean "own the movie rights, for now."
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (3tZV2)
I've never understood this aspect of corporate finance. It seems wrong that you can split off the debt from the productive parts of a company.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM
"There's a ... something ... born every minute."
"A ... something ... and his money are soon parted."
-- Venture Capital firms everywhere
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 02:41 PM (0sNs1)
i want to say that that's right but I don't think it is...
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:41 PM (1wjle)
See, I think the debt will be pawned off on this spinoff company. So I don't know if the shares in this company are actually going to be very valuable.
I've never understood this aspect of corporate finance. It seems wrong that you can split off the debt from the productive parts of a company.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (1wjle)
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Depends what kind of debt, whether the lenders agree, and you need to find shareholders in the new company to get the debt who agree to take it on.
I did a detailed review of this transaction some time back, and I recall that the company getting the debt is also getting some valuable IP and income-producing assets -- supposedly enough to service the debt.
Historically, these kinds of deals rarely work.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:41 PM (iFTx/)
They're a pretty successful movie company overall. They made the most profit last year, and had the most big hits.
Posted by: ace
HBO and the WB old movie catalog, I think.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls
And DC Comics is...Superman? Batman? And...?
Posted by: zombie at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (gYnrv)
Regardless, this isn't a choice between streaming services and movie theaters.
It's a choice between WHICH bazillionaire oligarch is going to control which streaming service you get.
Movie theaters are dinosaurs. The meteor hit a five years ago, they're already dead, they just don't know it yet.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (gYnrv)
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I think it's overstated.
If anything was going to kill movie theaters, it was covid, and movie theaters came back to, like, 80% strength after a couple of years.
Theatrical going has been declining since the 1930s, the height of the practice, with concentrated hits in the 50s (TV) and 70s/80s (home exhibition).
There will always be room for theatrical distribution, but it's just going to be increasingly focused on spectacle.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Revolution calling..... revolution calling youuuuuuuu!
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For a price I'd do about anything
Except pull the trigger
For that I need a pretty good cause...
Posted by: Geoff Tate at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM
A year??? Heck, it just takes us minutes.
Posted by: High school guys in the back seat at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (0sNs1)
This is a no-brainer. Ellison's 9% higher vs. guaranteed future Netflix failure.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (Y8DZL)
batman superman wonder woman flash green lantern, etc.
Superman becomes public domain in something like five or six years, batman the year after, etc.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (1wjle)
Heh. "Queensrÿche is a killing word".
Don't know why but I love that quote.
From someone here.
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (ciYHQ)
but by "own them" I mean "own the movie rights, for now."
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (1wjle)
Two franchises I can afford no f*cks to spare for. My small jar is still full, so I feel it would not be worth giving any for this.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (3uBP9)
batman superman wonder woman flash green lantern, etc.
Superman becomes public domain in something like five or six years, batman the year after, etc.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (1wjle)
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I'm just glad the superhero bubble has deflated.
I mostly can't wait for Avengers Doomsday to not nearly make back the money it needs. That will entertain me.
Instead, Super Mario Galaxy will make all the money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ace
Control is done through 'localization.' The shareholder gets favored execs to be planted throughout the company by insisting that they need to have representation. This is happening in the game industry where Chinese shareholders are salting companies with CCP apparat.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (mlg/3)
Heh. "Queensrÿche is a killing word".
Don't know why but I love that quote.
From someone here.
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (ciYHQ)
*cowers into corner*
*assumes fetal position*
*shudders*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)
See, I think the debt will be pawned off on this spinoff company. So I don't know if the shares in this company are actually going to be very valuable.
I've never understood this aspect of corporate finance. It seems wrong that you can split off the debt from the productive parts of a company.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (1wjle)
I think your assessment about the spinoff is correct, they just have to attach enough assets to make some dumb buyer pull the trigger. Discovery and whatever IP you need to sweeten the pot.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: zombie at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (oraVG)
Wonderwoman, Flash, Green Lantern. And that's basically it. DC is top heavy on IP. Marvel has a deeper bench.
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (3tZV2)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Revolution calling..... revolution calling youuuuuuuu!
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For a price I'd do about anything
Except pull the trigger
For that I need a pretty good cause...
Posted by: Geoff Tate at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+)
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The entire record is prophetic and still relevant today. Except ... they spend an awful lot of time bitching about shady preachers. As if that was gonna be a big problem in the future ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Or, we could burn it all down at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (IVZwn)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)
i'm a huge LOTR fan now
at some point they'll do a remake. Which isn't as cash-grabby as it sounds, because presumably the remake will be more book-accurate, with maybe each of the three LOTR films split into two.
well I guess that's totally cash-grabby but whatever, it's going to happen so we'll all just have to deal with it
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: zombie The Bob Dole at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (0sNs1)
Superman becomes public domain in something like five or six years, batman the year after, etc.
Posted by: ace
So, basically, what this dispute comes down to is: Will future Batman and Superman universe movies be woke? Or Based?
Posted by: zombie at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (3tZV2)
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Well, Iron Man was nobody, a C-rated comic until it suddenly wasn't with his first movie.
Marvel's A-game was Spider-Man, X-Men, and the Fantastic Four, all of which Marvel had sold the movie rights to years before they tried to start their own movie studio. And all they had was their shit tier properties.
Until they weren't shit-tier properties all of a sudden.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Gordon Gekko at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (FGMmt)
Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition #10- Greed is eternal
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (snZF9)
I imagine they'll be doing that for LOTR within ten years.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (Ia/+0)
Which basically is the biggest problem in Hollywood. They keep making agenda driven garbage, and not movies for the average person to enjoy.
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (3tZV2)
at some point they'll do a remake. Which isn't as cash-grabby as it sounds, because presumably the remake will be more book-accurate, with maybe each of the three LOTR films split into two.
well I guess that's totally cash-grabby but whatever, it's going to happen so we'll all just have to deal with it
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (1wjle)
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WB doing a 15 hour limited series, or something.
Eh.
I have the books. I love them. I have the movies. I love them. I'm tapped out on remining the same properties for ANOTHER take on the material.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (gYnrv)
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They also didn't get the memo about the $20 either, or they lived in a high cost area.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:47 PM (TN0g+)
well I guess that's totally cash-grabby but whatever, it's going to happen so we'll all just have to deal with it
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (1wjle)
Valid.
I will anticipate not seeing it just like I did the last go around.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)
I imagine they'll be doing that for LOTR within ten years.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (1wjle)
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And it will end up being boring as fuck, especially in the later seasons, because Hermione fighting for House Elf rights was always just extra fodder Rowling put into the books because she knew it would never get adapted.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO)
*assumes fetal position*
*shudders*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)
Of all the jacked up bans ...
Ace is an excitable fellow.
He hits us because he loves us.
Posted by: Or, we could burn it all down at December 09, 2025 02:47 PM (IVZwn)
Obviously this would be part of the auditing and governance process to fully execute the merger, and would have to get government approval and oversight.
The funny thing is that AOL Debt will probably just be tossed around like this forever until the heat death of the universe.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (XV/Pl)
well I guess that's totally cash-grabby but whatever, it's going to happen so we'll all just have to deal with it
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (1wjle)
And Tom Bombadil still won't be in it.
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (3tZV2)
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Why is no one axing who is behind Netflix bid ? Obama funders and supporters maybe....
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (gYnrv)
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Netflix's CEO has a long history of saying that the theatrical model is outmoded and against his vision for Netflix.
But, suddenly, he's saying that theaters are super important, guys.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (WPL6O)
But, suddenly, he's saying that theaters are super important, guys.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (GBKbO)
Critical Drinker begs to differ.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (WPL6O)
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Disney bought Fox's movie assets.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (3uBP9)
Pre-Ordered immediately, of course.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:50 PM (TR2dy)
When does the Prince Harry-Meghan Markle rom-com air on the Netflix Christmas rotation this year?
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:50 PM (Y8DZL)
It was a spin-off from somebody - GE maybe or T?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 09, 2025 02:50 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (pkeXY)
When does the Prince Harry-Meghan Markle rom-com air on the Netflix Christmas rotation this year?
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:50 PM (Y8DZL)
Doug and Wendy Whiner were more tolerable........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (0sNs1)
I imagine they'll be doing that for LOTR within ten years.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (1wjle)
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Amazon Prime KILLED Lord of the Rings for the foreseeable future.
I can't imagine anyone producing a successful version that tops Peter Jackson's films, either on the small or large screen.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (pkeXY)
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It's too bad they never made a Bugs Bunny cartoon after 1946. Well, except for his cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but that can hardly count.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: rickb223
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That is why Netflix's offer is deceptive, it is 23.25 in cash, 4.50 in Netflix stock, and bluesky value of CNN et al. compared with 30 bucks straight up from paramount. Figuring out the value of teh cable properties requires a lot of homework and it depends on how much of the debt is loaded on those properties at spinoff which is tbd later. Pig in a poke offer compared with Paramount.
Netflix stock owners are not happy and stock is down because of possible stock dilution. Every WB shareholder gets 4.50 in Netflix stock from the deal, see above.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (WDjG6)
It was a spin-off from somebody - GE maybe or T?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 09, 2025 02:50 PM (QGaXH)
(T)
I held it for a decade for the dividend and capitulated when Xander fell apart.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (gYnrv)
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Netflix's CEO has a long history of saying that the theatrical model is outmoded and against his vision for Netflix.
But, suddenly, he's saying that theaters are super important, guys.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (GBKbO)
When Reed Hastings (CEO) was catching a lot of flak for shutting down the DVD division of the business because that is what the company was founded on, he had one ready answer for that: Look at the name of this company: Netflix. We were always going to go to the web.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (pkeXY)
Didn't they retire Bugs after "The King of All Voices" died?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)
How come Dick Donner figured out the perfect tone for these movies in 1976-1977 and everyone just kind of ignores that and tries to establish their own tone?
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (1wjle)
>>they're remaking Harry Potter as an eight-season tv series, supposedly including all the book material that was chopped out of the films. I imagine they'll be doing that for LOTR within ten years.
Most series can only maintain their focus and discipline for 3-4 seasons at most.
Then the creatives tend to get bored and want to do other things but they can't do those other things because they are under contract so their personal bullsh*t starts to get infused.
Except Smallville, Smallville was great it's entire run.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Skip
Exactly. I've been spending more & more time on YouTube watching things.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (bvUs5)
Marvel's A-game was Spider-Man, X-Men, and the Fantastic Four, all of which Marvel had sold the movie rights to years before they tried to start their own movie studio. And all they had was their shit tier properties.
Until they weren't shit-tier properties all of a sudden.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)
Sure Iron man was "C-list" at Marvel which is kind of my point. I think people have underestimated something from the 90s. Capcom. You had all these lower tier Marvel characters but they were plastered everywhere on kids growing up in the 90s when there were still arcades. Capcom had a Marvel arcade game and then Marvel vs. Capcom, and then even on home consoles eventually. I do think a lot of people underestimate that influence leading to people having that underlying understanding of a lot of Marvel characters and seeing them as cool that was ready for exploitation when they came to theaters finally.
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (3tZV2)
Posted by: Dan and Dave, showrunners of Game of Thrones at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (1wjle)
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I could see where, if they took all the money Bezos blew on the Rings of Power and instead made three seasons of 10-12 episodes each that was about as reasonably close to the books as you can get in a visual adaptation, that would probably be the best to hope for.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (Dv3i1)
Did you ever watch the Meme Copium 'Rangs of Power' reaction series on YouTube?
Hysterical.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (0CU3H)
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I was a subscriber to the mail in service until the end (you can see my final two Netflix envelopes in my newest video! like and subscribe), but the service was down to something like less than a million subscribers, hadn't seriously reupped its inventory in years, and was really just fraying to nothing.
Pulling the plug was a mercy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (1wjle)
If they're smart they'll leave Tom Bombadil out of the new one, too.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (k9OZB)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Close The Fed at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (lZILf)
How come Dick Donner figured out the perfect tone for these movies in 1976-1977 and everyone just kind of ignores that and tries to establish their own tone?
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (1wjle)
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The Richard Donner Superman is not a good movie.
*that guy standing at a meeting meme*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (mlg/3)
Failing a hostile takeover I'd like to see a consorted effort to drive them into bankruptcy.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (NwnyJ)
And based on what Netflix puts out and tolerates, I'm not hopeful.
Best we can hope for there is benign neglect, Netflix just tossing money at creative directors and leaving them alone. But that is a best case fairy tale.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (XV/Pl)
Guardians of the Galaxy, okay, I guess. Ant-Man... um, sort of.
but no one is really able to turn marvel c-listers into A-listers any more.
I think Marvel collapsed precisely because it got greedy about trying to turn its backbenchers into stars.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (1wjle)
Then the creatives tend to get bored and want to do other things but they can't do those other things because they are under contract so their personal bullsh*t starts to get infused.
Except Smallville, Smallville was great it's entire run.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (XV/Pl)
My wife is a huge Smallville fan.
I'd argue that Firefly was also great for its entire run. (/twists the knife)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Or, we could burn it all down at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (IVZwn)
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (3tZV2)
I never could figure that one out why he was omitted. It's been awhile since I read the book, so I'm probably all mixed up, but wasn't he the dude that kinda saved the hobbits the first time they ran across the Ring Wraiths? I kind of thought that was somewhat of an important event that wasn't in the movie.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I liken PJ's films to a Lamborghini with all the bolts loosened on the wheels. The further along it went the wheels started wobbling, then falling off in the end.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (Dv3i1)
I must be getting old because all of this is a big fat don't care.
The only thing I watch on the idiot screen is free youtube with the majority of it being educational and history (espeically WW2).
In general I'm pretty sure that I'd prefer all the companies mentioned in the post to go bankrupt. Something tells me that would make my life and society to improve.
Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (2Nfh9)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (xcxpd)
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Well, they do do that.
Who cares if $120 million will turn a profit when handing it to Guillermo del Toro? Just give him the money, make his Frankenstein, and hope its good enough to buy an Oscar with (that Netflix hasn't won a Best Picture Oscar yet entertains me, but Apple did with freaking CODA).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (GBKbO)
How come Dick Donner figured out the perfect tone for these movies in 1976-1977 and everyone just kind of ignores that and tries to establish their own tone?
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (1wjle)
Because Hollywood is full of narcissists. I mean just look at how often they're encouraged to not read comic source material or play the video game that the movie is based on.
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (3tZV2)
Also, and, I know, I'm setting myself up for disappointment, yep, but I'm really hoping Space Balls 2 doesn't suck. Really holding out hope it might be slightly enjoyable. Not a clap-back affirmation of The Message. Could it be funny instead? I'm asking for so little really. I'll be disappointed.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (3uBP9)
>>The Richard Donner Superman is not a good movie.
Ok Zoomer.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (XV/Pl)
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The middle third is tonal whiplash. The final third makes no sense.
The first third is great.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (GBKbO)
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Read: Fox News
Or in other words, leftarded.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (eEIbO)
...Bugs Bunny?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (zjgNU)
How come Dick Donner figured out the perfect tone for these movies in 1976-1977 and everyone just kind of ignores that and tries to establish their own tone?
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (1wjle)
That's fair. The opening of Superman tells you what kind of movie this is going to be. If you can't tolerate (or love) a super powered terrier, you're not going to vibe with The Justice Gang or Mister Terriffic.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (3uBP9)
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You will. Sorry.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (DRSnL)
because of Lex Luthor?
>>>The final third makes no sense.
Huh? I mean, I don't buy the travel in time thing but it "makes sense."
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (MCtb9)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (xcxpd)
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If I had my channel up and running at the time, I would have done another way too drunk thing about it.
And it would have made just as much sense as the one I did for Train Dreams.
My mother came to visit and she insulted me pretty deeply for that video.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (xcxpd)
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Well, they do do that.
Who cares if $120 million will turn a profit when handing it to Guillermo del Toro? Just give him the money, make his Frankenstein, and hope its good enough to buy an Oscar with (that Netflix hasn't won a Best Picture Oscar yet entertains me, but Apple did with freaking CODA).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (GBKbO)
That is where my optimism comes from. My pessimism comes from 'Cuties'.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (snZF9)
Barrow Wight, not ring wraiths.
Older evil creatures. Tom is there to note that the whole of middle earth is MUCH older than the rings and the ring is not all powerful.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (zjgNU)
Mel Blanc's son took over some of the character voice work.
Did a good Bugs Bunny but nobody can do Porky Pig anymore.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (Y8DZL)
I'd like to see Ellison win just to see if news and entertainment improves, but I don't see how you do that without crazy, massive purges at every level. Would that happen? Anyone see a difference yet with Bari Weiss's CBS News?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (flA4V)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (U6Usv)
I was down to see Krypto. With all of the Superman Robots and the kaiju and Lex Luthor chewing the scenery, it was just too cartoony for me.
that's why I mentioned Donner. His watchword was "verisimilitude." Gunn didn't bother trying that. He went full 1950s cartoony.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (xcxpd)
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If I had my channel up and running at the time, I would have done another way too drunk thing about it.
And it would have made just as much sense as the one I did for Train Dreams.
My mother came to visit and she insulted me pretty deeply for that video.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO)
Ouch. Well, she's your mom. She can get away with that. I'm still temped by Train Dreams, Eggars is a real filmmaker.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (xcxpd)
You will. Sorry.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (DRSnL)
But Brooks PROMISED it would be good!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)
because of Lex Luthor?
>>>The final third makes no sense.
Huh? I mean, I don't buy the travel in time thing but it "makes sense."
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (1wjle)
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Because of Luthor's henchmen. It shifts from John Ford-esque Americana to silly comedy, and I kind of hate it.
The final third's entire emotional connection is based on a New York City reporter going to the American southwest to investigate a story no one thinks is a story, plus, you know, Superman turning back time *hand wave* Lois is fine now.
I'm sorry, but Superman is just...not good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (GBKbO)
And people keep pointing out...then why are people moving OUT of those states to the ones rated lower?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (Tbj3s)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (gYnrv)
My mother came to visit and she insulted me pretty deeply for that video.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO)
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Whatever, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (DRSnL)
and giant monsters too
but... all at once? All in ten minutes?
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (1wjle)
However, I know Netflix:
-made Cuties (this should have them publicly executed, let alone buying companies)
-have also made, completely coincidently a lot of woke and race swapped shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (MCtb9)
100 years ago there were consequences to being rude in public.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (zjgNU)
the Dark Phoenix saga. That's when I lost faith.
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (eEIbO)
You'll need to make sure there's no special characters and it's not over the character limit, for one.....two. I've had to replace commas and apostrophes in the past.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)
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It will be redone using AI. No actors.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (xcxpd)
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It was good. I remember it pretty clearly.
I still don't know what I was trying to say, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (mEYGy)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)
i heard that but I think it's an unconfirmed rumor
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)
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Gotta keep Pedro Pascal happy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)
oh right I have to post about that. what crap.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)
Good. They'll keep losing millions for it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)
I was down to see Krypto. With all of the Superman Robots and the kaiju and Lex Luthor chewing the scenery, it was just too cartoony for me.
that's why I mentioned Donner. His watchword was "verisimilitude." Gunn didn't bother trying that. He went full 1950s cartoony.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (1wjle)
And I was ok with that. More so than when Donner had Superman rewind time by...flying around the Earth to reverse it's rotation...that was more jarring because up until then, things were 'super hero grounded'.
I actually like Nick Hoult's version of Lex quite a bit. He treats people better than previous Lex incarnations (mostly....he can be a dick).
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)
Well, donna, they are dumbasses, and a diversity nonprofit.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (Tbj3s)
i heard that but I think it's an unconfirmed rumor
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (1wjle)
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I would hope there's no upscaling.
Just negative scanning at 8K, output to 4K should do it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)
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Gotta keep Pedro Pascal happy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)
Isn't that what the Sri Lankan houseboys are for?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (xcxpd)
>>The middle third is tonal whiplash. The final third makes no sense. The first third is great.
The film is 100 pct coherent within it's own narrative structure and within the confines of a 1950's comic book come to life.
It's also the best superhero film, or second best, I'm torn between that and TDK.
I also saw KB: TWBA this weekend.
Kill Bill is my favorite Tarantino film, but there is something off-putting about directors chicken f**king their creations.
Sometimes two halves are better than a whole.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:03 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:03 PM (eEIbO)
Gotta keep Pedro Pascal happy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)
Isn't that what the Sri Lankan houseboys are for?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (xcxpd)
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So...you're saying that Pedro Pascal is Arthur C. Clarke?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:03 PM (GBKbO)
Next Warner Bros.
Posted by: Counter reformation at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (/wYAD)
We need to get rid of the law than banned distributers and movie production houses form owning movie theaters. And most content producers need to ditch their on-line businesses. Get back to a system where Netflix PAYS YOU to show your content. Where customers PAY YOU to watch content. Studios can never compete with Netflix and Amazon. It just isn't possible. Make content, own content, rent content. Hopefully rent the same content over and over to a variety of on-line platforms and consumers.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (C3IAS)
Older evil creatures. Tom is there to note that the whole of middle earth is MUCH older than the rings and the ring is not all powerful.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (zjgNU)
Ah ok. I think I'm starting to remember. Didn't they end up with some cool swords after that? Barrow blades maybe? I seem to remembering that. I just remember when I saw the movie I was shocked that the whole thing wasn't shown.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (C3IAS)
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1. There was no law. It was a DOJ Decree. It was the Paramount Accords.
2. The DOJ struck them out under Trump's first term.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (C3IAS)
Make Blockbuster Great Again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:05 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:05 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (xcxpd)
Netflix keeps going WAY out of its way to make everything gay and tranny. Take their recent release "Wayward" which could have been an interesting mix of Shiny Happy People meets Disturbing Behavior. BUT the lead just HAD to be a post-op women with her tits chopped off trying to be a man, married to a pregnant lesbian woman, and playing this off like it's a totally routine everyday thing. What the actual fuck?
Posted by: Don't show me that shit like it's normal at December 09, 2025 03:05 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (gYnrv)
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)
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One of my coworkers the other day told me she can see the resemblance and I wanted to sock her.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: ace
Doubt it. Lucas 'burned' as many prints as he could, and I have a deep suspicion one of the points of the Diz-knee contract was that it could never be released in any format.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: banana Dream
Gotta pay for money losing Kimmel's show and salary for another year. Disney is going the be last at dumping devalued cable/broadcast because Iger is incapable of cutting off limbs of the conglomerate he made. So it is simply treading water. Disney should dump Iger and get someone in to up shareholder value (dumping toxic assets and putting a muzzle on Kathleen and her assorted alphabet crew.
But those same alphabet crew are embedded into Disney at a low level to the extent a newcomer trying to change corporate culture and divest dying assets is a longshot.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (snZF9)
Yep. Ancient swords made by the people of Numenor. (Frodo lost his in the battle on Weathertop.) It's part of why Merry's sword was able to harm the Witch King of Angmar.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (Tbj3s)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (Tbj3s)
And the movies suck
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (Tbj3s)
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I went to the theaters a couple of weeks ago.
Had a good time.
Except the movie. Wicked for Good. It was bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)
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One of my coworkers the other day told me she can see the resemblance and I wanted to sock her.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (DRSnL)
You look like Jimmy Kimmel?
Posted by: Seems...unlikely at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)
That's when you need a hotkey for the "Gaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy!" meme.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (2ocoG)
You look like Jimmy Kimmel?
Posted by: Seems...unlikely at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (TbWk/)
Not by ANY stretch.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)
LOL
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Uma's Feet Are Nightmarish at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (C24tU)
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Sticky floors, too.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (Wg6v7)
So, if one print exists, others probably do.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (2GVsD)
More good than bad for me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (Tbj3s)
Theaters get zero money from ticket sales, therefore, the only way for them to stay afloat is to overcharge for everything else.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (SzhuW)
I remember reading the testimony of someone that had been a British boy living next to Clarke's estate in Sri Lanka.
His father had banned Clarke from their property but one day while the father was out the boy was left with another relative. An uncle maybe?
Clarke came over and charmed the uncle then got him drunk and proceeded to convince the boy to let Clarke paint him. Naked of course.
And then, fortunately, the father returned home early and put a stop to the whole thing
So Clarke's pedophilia was known about the British overseas community certainly...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)
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They get roughly 40% of ticket sales over the life of a movie.
Early weeks are more advantageous for the studios.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (eEIbO)
They get roughly 40% of ticket sales over the life of a movie.
Early weeks are more advantageous for the studios.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
Damn internet lied to me AGAIN!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (EMg+d)
Jah, Pax Americaus (if it ever existed) is long gone. We're going back to the old ways, which is frequent border conflicts.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Seems...unlikely at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (TbWk/)
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I don't think so. I don't resemble anyone on that side of the family. I take after my dad's side.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (EyfuW)
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Sticky floors, too.
Posted by: Pudinhead
That's the adult theaters.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (bvUs5)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (H4k+z)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (gDlxJ)
They get roughly 40% of ticket sales over the life of a movie.
Early weeks are more advantageous for the studios.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
Damn internet lied to me AGAIN!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (Zz0t1)
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Contracts are written per movie, so it depends, but the most advantageous I've heard is Star Wars Episode I getting 90% of first week sales.
I imagine Marvel was getting something like that through 2020 or so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)
yes. that's the sequence I'm most bothered to see cut. They had to cut it because Tom Bombadil saves them, and they didn't want Tom Bombadil.
It causes some plot problems because Merry uses the blade he got from that tomb to stab the Witch King. In the movie, they have Galadriel present Merry and Pippin with (presumably blessed) blades that wind up being used.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (1wjle)
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Sticky floors, too.
Posted by: Pudinhead
That's the adult theaters.
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Its both. Soft drinks and cream.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (eEIbO)
I'm justified in never going to the theater, the bastards.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Don't show me that shit like it's normal at December 09, 2025 03:05 PM (TbWk/)
You have reminded me why I cancelled Netflix.
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Posted by: Seems...unlikely at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (TbWk/)
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I don't think so. I don't resemble anyone on that side of the family. I take after my dad's side.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (DRSnL)
Pipe down, Jimmy!
Posted by: I Don't Understand What's Happening at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (xnXsP)
The Left crafts alternate realities by assertion. Think of it as maintenance. They know blue states suck, hence the extra effort they spend fluffing them up. All those fake stats are for them not you. It's like a spell. To convince themselves m
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (ciYHQ)
Maybe Trump can be enlisted to help de-shitify Star Wars.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (Tbj3s)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (gYnrv)
We don't go to theaters for movies and do have Netflix and (briefly) others for streaming. The one exemtion may be Mel Gibson's new movies, but we'll probably wait for those as well. We did see the Passion of Christ in the theater.
That said, it seems since the second or 100th writer's strike in Hollyweird there has been a void in good movies. It is very rare to see one for us. Is it this generation of writers? Drug addled brains? Always with the need for racism and ghey insertions? Stars spewing politics and gheyness? No imaginaition due to all of these questions?
Interesting twist that they are involving Trump in the negotiations. Reeks of desperation.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (gDlxJ)
I am not altogether on anybody's side, as nobody is altogether on my side.
Posted by: Not treebeard, just quoting him at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Halfhand at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (F061L)
Posted by: Not treebeard, just quoting him at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (TbWk/)
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You sound just like CS Lewis.
Weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Cray Cray
Put me down for "Sam is now both black *and* gay and has an on-camera fling with the Russian bartender who kisses Rick after he lets that refugee win at roulette" for $100
Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (D0HYP)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (2GVsD)
they show a lot of older movies like the LOTR movies. I'm going to have to get back there!
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)
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Is that so? Then things have changed, as it used to generally be a 50-50 split between the theater company and the studio/distribution company. Disney did it differently, where on their big releases the theatre got the first 15%, then had to give up 85% of the take thereafter.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (SzhuW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Not treebeard, just quoting him at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (TbWk/)
You're always first when no one is on your side.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Not treebeard, just quoting him at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (TbWk/)
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You sound just like CS Lewis.
Weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (GBKbO)
It's the Longbottom Leaf
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (xcxpd)
More good than bad for me.
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I thoroughly enjoyed it. Lots of eye-candy chicks in that one that never really entered the plot, which was...ok I guess, it just left me wondering why they were there.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (3uBP9)
Ok. Sounds about right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (zZu0s)
they show a lot of older movies like the LOTR movies. I'm going to have to get back there!
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (1wjle)
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My mom (Catholic writer) went and saw it in Atlanta on the way here late last week.
She liked how the younger priest had a moment where he had to refocus on faith (I haven't seen it), though she hated the first 30 minutes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (EMg+d)
well the 5 banana trees they're fighting over are really, really GOOD banana trees!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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If you want to read a horrific true story of scifi community and its casual ignoring of pedos among them in the 50s to 70s, read Moira Greyland's account.
She is the daughter of author Marion Zimmer Bradley and has published a book titled The Last Closet: The Dark Side of Avalon.
Too many of the Golden Age of sci fi/fantasy types thought society was too uptight about morals, sexuality was natural (aided by what we know now as faked Margaret Meade studies and the criminal class subjects used in the Kinsey Report), etc.
So they did not protect the kids from predators among them and sexual harassment and worse were frequent at early cons. E.g. from the Forry Ackerman collection of letters, etc, this note: "In recent years, public allegations made online have described Ackerman's behavior toward women as predatory and at least one online account describes Ackerman engaging in an act of sexual assault. . . . several pieces of correspondence do allude to Ackerman sending sexually explicit communications to women.[that were unsolicited and non consensual].
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (xcxpd)
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"Great name for the secret hero of the whole saga..."
-JK Rowling
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (2GVsD)
I kinda hate that I get that reference.
WB was already Patient Zero for the furry community.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (gYnrv)
Get out of this bullshit system where an actor makes $20 million a movie. No living actor today is worth that.
Make writers write, and directors direct, and actors act.
Back in the day, Dalton Trumbo. F Scott Fitzgerald. Raymond Chandler. John Irving. William Faulkner. Dashiell Hammet. All wrote for Hollywood. Some pretty amazing authors have worked on polishing Hollywood scripts over the years.
The other thing is - produce movies for less money.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (C3IAS)
Yeah, the fact that drones can project power has every cheap ass military commander wanting to see what he can do to settle old scores.
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (D0HYP)
I am shocked, SHOCKED, to find ghey buttsex going on at this bathhouse!
Posted by: Louis, this is the beginning of a case of monkeypox at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (TbWk/)
it's the most anti-Christian and anti-Trump/GOP movie I've ever seen.
and the plot is one part Monk and one part Remington Steele. It's on the level of a TV mystery plot, I mean.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (1wjle)
I just don't care. I doubt I'll ever set foot in a movie theater again.
Yawns.
Nap time.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (GBKbO)
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Chariot races and bear baiting in the lobby!
There's still a place for movies that are communal experiences, like big epics, musicals, and video game flicks (the Minecraft Movie and Five Nights franchise packed 'em in).
The current thing of giving older and niche movies a short run is a good development.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (C3IAS)
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Can't just go outside and film a scene anymore.
Gotta get the exact right color space, composition, and background elements.
Instead of filming outside for $10,000, we'll film in a constructed studio space for $1 million.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)
Ok. Sounds about right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (zZu0s)
hey it's worth it to have the shareholders lose millions just so their friends won't say Mean Things.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (gDlxJ)
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Sydney Sweeney?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (SzhuW)
Ok. Sounds about right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (zZu0s)
Those 6 people protesting outside the studios when he was suspended were VERY convincing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)
i thought i could hack a Silver Age type movie but it turns out I can't.
at some point I guess I'll finish watching it. then again, I never finished No Time To Die. I'm getting crabbier as I move past age 29.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (1wjle)
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Woke AI generated shlock has negative appeal. I have negative interest in prime projects relating to LotR.
Posted by: Regular American at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (/wYAD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (eEIbO)
it's the most anti-Christian and anti-Trump/GOP movie I've ever seen.
and the plot is one part Monk and one part Remington Steele. It's on the level of a TV mystery plot, I mean.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (1wjle)
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I just bring it up because she had a moderately positive outlook on the film that seemed divorced from the early part which, according to her, seemed to be the concentration of antagonism towards things like religion.
I'll probably watch it on Friday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)
More good than bad for me.
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I thoroughly enjoyed it. Lots of eye-candy chicks in that one that never really entered the plot, which was...ok I guess, it just left me wondering why they were there.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (TN0g+)
Yeah, and it wasn't woke or feminist and I actually didn't hate Lois Lane for once.
James Gunn does like attractive females, unlike most of his peers.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (1wjle)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)
WB was already Patient Zero for the furry community.
try going to an anime con and seeing someone cosplaying Minerva and thinking, 'there's probably a guy in there.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (2GVsD)
CGI and AI, motherfuckers! Learn to code.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (gYnrv)
James Gunn does like attractive females, unlike most of his peers.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (xcxpd)
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Rachel Brosnahan is...weird lookin'.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Non Compos Mentis at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (4PEtT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (eEIbO)
Her face is meeting the wall before the rest of her, but that body is woah.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:20 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (2GVsD)
*bulge detector goes off*
Posted by: uWu yuuuuuuuck at December 09, 2025 03:20 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (eEIbO)
Judges would've accepted 'tits' as well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO)
She's had work done, sadly. Or HGH. But she's more good than bad also.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (eEIbO)
Judges would've accepted 'tits' as well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)
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She enjoys collecting birds? Does she also some boobies?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)
I liked it as a lad.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (zZu0s)
try going to an anime con and seeing someone cosplaying Minerva and thinking, 'there's probably a guy in there.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (2GVsD)
I rather pride myself in not knowing what any of this means.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (Zz0t1)
My wife and I laughed because the protagonist was so horribly miscast. A trans person, who looks like they are 15, playing a cop that is too mentally unstable and violent. It was like watching Howdy Doody: Serial Killer.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (C3IAS)
She enjoys collecting birds? Does she also some boobies?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)
Tits. Boobs. Whatever.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)
Get out of this bullshit system where an actor makes $20 million a movie. No living actor today is worth that.
Make writers write, and directors direct, and actors act.
Back in the day, Dalton Trumbo. F Scott Fitzgerald. Raymond Chandler. John Irving. William Faulkner. Dashiell Hammet. All wrote for Hollywood. Some pretty amazing authors have worked on polishing Hollywood scripts over the years.
The other thing is - produce movies for less money.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (C3IAS)
Blame CAA and the rise of the superagent. The studio system worked for years and years until it just didn't. CAA was able to convince the help that they had more power than they realized, and used it.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (0CU3H)
There were a bunch of #metoo accusations against classic SF authors that didn't get full media attention because they died before the ball got rolling.
Asimov for example, was supposedly handsy and tried to get female fans alone with him and so on.
And its almost comical because this kind of metoo stuff were things that people knew about before 3rd generation feminism - "be careful about being alone with a man you don't know" but then 3rd generation feminism was shocked...shocked...! That powerful men might try to use their power to get sexual attention from women.
They were so shocked of course they all universally defended Bill Clinton but here I'm digressing.
Obviously this isn't in the same ballpark a the Bradley/Clarke stuff...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (sKqQm)
She enjoys collecting birds? Does she also some boobies?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)
Tits. Boobs. Whatever.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)
Just as we planned.
Posted by: Big Penguin at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (TbWk/)
Oh you poor innocent childe. Ya gotta make sanity rolls like the rest of us.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (2GVsD)
Oh, Anna. I checked my concordance. It is the 'Special Book Club Edition' from 1976. First edition.
I'd never sell it until I was past selling plasma.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (zZu0s)
More good than bad for me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (xcxpd)
How many times did you watch it? Seems like a lot of people that liked it in theater soured on it when watching it a second time at home.
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (3tZV2)
>>Rachel Brosnahan is...weird lookin'.
She was obviously chosen for her Margot Kidder aesthetic.
She's also not bad looking, she's also not a babe like Miss Tesmachar, but she's not supposed to be.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (gYnrv)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (0CU3H)
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Marvel did it with all of its talent except Downey Jr.
Chris Hemsworth was making $100,000 per movie (9 movies total) under his original contract.
And then he'd go off and make $10 million for starring in Rush (which never justified his paycheck and proved that he wasn't actually a movie star).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)
Said as Obama walks past, I'm sure.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (2ocoG)
We are on the American side.
They are on the wrong side of the law.
They are on the wrong side of the bed.
They operated on the wrong side of the patient.
They are on the wrong side of hell.
Hope nobody goes to hell.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO)
She's had work done, sadly. Or HGH. But she's more good than bad also.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (xcxpd)
fun fact: Rachel Brosnahan's aunt was...Kate Spade.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
She looked just fine in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (bvUs5)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: 18-1
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The News of the World spiked an exclusive story exposing the science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke as a paedophile, according to a new book about life inside the newspaper whose closure was announced a year ago today.
In Hack, an account of his nerve-shredding days as a reporter on the News of the World and then the Sunday Mirror, Graham Johnson claims that although the NOTW prided itself on outing pederasts, editors made an exception for Mr Clarke because he was a friend of Rupert Murdoch.. . .
Tipped off about the story, the Sunday Mirror sent Mr Johnson to Colombo, where he extracted an confession from the author that he paid boys for sex. "I have never had the slightest the slightest interest in children – boys or girls. They should be treated in the same way. But once they have reached the age of puberty, then it is OK," Mr Clarke was quoted as saying in the Sunday Mirror. "If the kids enjoy it and don't mind it doesn't do any harm … there is a hysteria about the whole thing in the West."
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (3tZV2)
Twice, so far. Both in theaters.
I'm letting it 'rest' in my memory before digging it out to see it again.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (WPL6O)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (gYnrv)
It’s better for the industry if Netflix doesn’t get WB. But considering the idiotic strikes right on the heels of Covid, I’m not surprised that the people in Hollywood would choose a suicidal move over a deal that would keep the cinemas open (albeit at a smaller level) and residuals flowing just because of a Trump connection.
Posted by: AnnInEu at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (8/Yb4)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:26 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO)
She's had work done, sadly. Or HGH. But she's more good than bad also.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (xcxpd)
fun fact: Rachel Brosnahan's aunt was...Kate Spade.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (0CU3H)
I did not know that. I do see the resemblance. Well...so she's not acting because she needs the money...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:26 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (2GVsD)
Yeah, still works fine. Spun it just to check.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:26 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (2GVsD)
The Fox theater in Detroit, Majestic in Grand Rapids, Opera House in Calumet.
If the movie was bad you could just spend the time admiring the architecture.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Samuel Delany wrote about his experiences (favorably btw), Heinlein had the obvious open marriage as described openly in his official bio from his letters to Ginny and had a creepy predilection in some stories of grooming (Door into Summer), his protagonist having a relationship with his grandniece in another book Time for teh Stars, Lazarus Long and his grandmother in Time Enough For Love, and so on. There's more to it. Asimov's son was busted for child pron and Asimov himself was notorious for grabbing female ass at cons without asking, Randall Garrett was known for his vulgar come ons to con attending females, etc. etc.
This was the casual attitude of the era and creative scene that morality was for squares and Bible thumpers, kids were fine having sex even with adults, and anything went for adults.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (zZu0s)
I mostly can't wait for Avengers Doomsday to not nearly make back the money it needs. That will entertain me.
Instead, Super Mario Galaxy will make all the money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)
And do a remake of Prometheus. That would be fun. Wouldn't it? Well, WOULDN'T IT?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (g8Ew8)
The Donner Superman only had three redeeming qualities, five if you include Valerie Perrine's tits.
1. Reeve's performance as Superdood
2. Hackman feasting on the scenery
3. The Reeve/Kidder Sky Dance
Of the three (or five), the Sky Dance is the only absolutely essential element of the flick
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 03:45 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)
Good. They'll keep losing millions for it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)
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That's one way to declare your hatred of middle America. It's their money and the sooner they go broke the better.
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (1RAfh)
I just don't care either way. It's all going to be garbage.
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Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:05 AM (NxtE8)
David's father Larry discussed firing hosts like Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar - figures Trump dislikes - with White House officials during takeover bid talks last month, the Guardian reported."
Absolute bullshit, there is no reason to research it at all. As you said, there are pathways to trump that don't include public disclosure of direct collusion to define a pathway (the real definition of collusion, not what the left thinks it is) But most obviously it's to say that Trump is affraid of Kaitlin Collins, who makes a couple mil, or the other two who are nobodies, who combined make a couple mil, so he called his son in law and his friends son and said, "Hey! I hate these petty bitches talking about me all the time to 20 thousand people with lies, can you come up with 75 billion dollars to get them fired? Because you know, I really don't like those nasty people. Can we do that?"
And then BOOM, they cough up about 75 billion because he hates CNN!?!?
Absolute bullshit, and anyone
Posted by: wickedpinto at December 10, 2025 07:01 AM (2a0yj)
What _I_ think, is that Paramount was pissed off because WB CLEARLY made a political statement in denying that they were up for sale when Paramount/whatever, made an initial offer to negotiate terms, only to have WB go running to Netflix.
ALSO, I believe that there are people in the corner offices who really believe in what made paramount great, this is the company that Robert Evans rebuilt, this company has god knows how much acclaim in their catalogue and truly want to make the art of film great again. (that wasn't deliberate, it was literally my Stream of Conc phrase) and to promote movie going.
WB has one of the greatest libraries still available, since MGM is pretty much lost, so I think Paramount IS dedicated to promoting the filmmaking business as a lost revenue source (yes, it is, a LOT, because of the fucked up system as it is) and trying to bring it back, through making movies. BIG movies, Fun Movies, TRASH, R Rated Movies, make Movies, Put them out and let people watch them.
Netflix wants to do a Disney and Vault everything and create events that renew subscriptions ever 3 months.
I don't just think Paramount has the better offer, I think
Posted by: wickedpinto at December 10, 2025 07:07 AM (2a0yj)
Posted by: wickedpinto at December 10, 2025 07:07 AM (2a0yj)
COPY HERE →→ https://give2better58.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 10, 2025 04:43 PM (vyN+2)
No Shock: Tech Company Offers $60/Hour Coding Job with Proviso: "No US Citizens" May Apply
Immigrants are doing the jobs that Americans just won't do are illegally blacklisted from.
Read the whole thing. Trump needs to put together a squad of employment-discrimination Untouchables and begin suing these companies into bankruptcy.
The job post for LanceSoft, an IT staffing firm committed to "diversity, equality, and inclusivity," began innocently enough. The $60-per-hour role would be based in Santa Clara, Calif., focus on "technical support," and entail a 3--10 p.m. shift. Posted on Nvoids, an IT jobs aggregator, the ad described LanceSoft as an equal opportunity employer and said that the firm, one of the largest staffing agencies in the country, strives "to be as diverse as the clients and employees we partner with." "We embrace people of any race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender identity, and sexual orientation," the Nov. 25 post read. This particular job, however, would not be open to a very large group of people: citizens of the United States. In a section titled "Visa requirement," LanceSoft recruiter Riyaz Ansari wrote that "candidates must hold an active H1B visa"--and stated explicitly that American citizens need not apply. "No USC/GC for this role," Ansari wrote, using the acronyms for U.S. citizens and green card holders. He added that "LanceSoft is a certified Minority Business Enterprise"--a status the firm has used to secure public contracts--and touted the company's "diversified team environment." Federal law bars employers from discriminating based on citizenship status. But in the industries most reliant on the H-1B program, which provides visas to more than 700,000 immigrants, advertisements like LanceSoft's litter online recruiting boards. The Washington Free Beacon identified over two dozen job postings since 2024 that appear to bar applications from U.S. citizens. The posts were made on a variety of platforms, including Glassdoor and LinkedIn, and typically indicate a preference for H-1B visas, though some allow for other visa types as well. Several of the firms are minority-owned businesses, meaning they receive preferential access to government contracts even as they exclude U.S. workers. The posts illustrate what Trump administration officials say is a common form of hiring discrimination that has long been underpoliced. They come as conservatives are debating the merits of the H-1B visa program, which some argue has been abused by employers to hire foreign workers--especially Indian outsourcers--at the expense of American ones. "A shocking number of covered entities, especially recruiters, continue to express explicit preferences for visa guest workers," said Andrea Lucas, the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). "In the shadows of under-enforcement, this type of discrimination has festered."
It is.
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) December 9, 2025
Below: The owner of a small construction company in Louisiana says that his phone is ringing off the hook now that illegal alien construction workers aren't showing up for work due to fears of being deported. With the illegals being deported, actual US citizens are getting hired again.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 01:25 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 01:26 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 01:26 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 01:26 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:27 PM (eEIbO)
-coal miner
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 01:27 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)
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"No American is willing to work manual labor. Everyone wants to be part of the laptop class."
-member of the laptop class, filled with empathy for the downtrodden who aren't American
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (GBKbO)
Yes I know Microsoft. And I stand by that statement.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (U6Usv)
- Netflix transexual coal miner
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (f0sNM)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (2P232)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:29 PM (eEIbO)
Again, HOW IN THE HELL IS THIS LEGAL?
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:29 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:30 PM (eEIbO)
They put one of yours in prison, you put one of their in the bathhouse. THAT'S the San Francisco way!
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 09, 2025 01:30 PM (ycI94)
Make me. Gotta go back to work.
Besides, to get a job in this country, you have to know people, make strategic friends, and “network”. Which only shows how deeply corrupt this country has become. And Americans love it that way.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:30 PM (rQwsY)
I guess we should applaud the rich for being so smart and productive as most here suggest.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
The Paolo never has, how you say, occasion to use that word "soft" when advertising his services.
-- The Paolo
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (ybICy)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (Tbj3s)
For the billionth time, enforcement against employers is by far the most powerful leveraged tool DHS has. And there are cooperative (coerced) models of enforcement that would minimize economic impact. These have been on desks since 2017.
Time is short, and time is wasting.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (SpIHn)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: tubal
You can’t STOP them! It's unconstitutional! Against international law!
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (ycI94)
It's another Trumpmas miracle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (mKuBN)
Most of them don’t outright say no US citizens. But when they say “open to H1B sponsorship” it’s essentially the same thing.
Trump however, when asked about this by Laura Ingraham said there is no talent in America and we need foreign workers. Don’t look to Trump for any fixes on this. He’ll deport a few illegals in Chicago or Charlotte, for show. But he’s not getting rid of cheap H1Bs. Elon and his new BFF tech bros won’t allow that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:29 PM
See AtC, above. It isn't.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Bulg
It's not. It says so right up there in the Content.
But like all the laws to protect the Protected Classes, they're written to cover both cases (No Irish! vs. Irish Only!) but only enforced in one direction.
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (nhCoE)
It's another Trumpmas miracle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (mKuBN)
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Repeat, but I'm gonna do it anyway:
Foreign births down in 41 states:
https://x.com/RyanGirdusky/status/
1998428790570246211
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (Tbj3s)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (2qmMz)
Most of them don’t outright say no US citizens. But when they say “open to H1B sponsorship” it’s essentially the same thing.
Trump however, when asked about this by Laura Ingraham said there is no talent in America and we need foreign workers. Don’t look to Trump for any fixes on this. He’ll deport a few illegals in Chicago or Charlotte, for show. But he’s not getting rid of cheap H1Bs. Elon and his new BFF tech bros won’t allow that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (9iyS+)
Well, Americans don't communicate well with the other workers... (okay, they don't speak their language so CAN'T communicate...)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (Tbj3s)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (2qmMz)
Has Amber Heard of these jobs?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (ynpvh)
Foreign births down in 41 states:
https://x.com/RyanGirdusky/status/
1998428790570246211
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)
I blame Anime
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (xcxpd)
"under-enforcement" is still a real gaslighty term; let's try "non-enforcement"
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (eEIbO)
I thought they wanted virgins...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (uQzkA)
Foreign births down in 41 states:
https://x.com/RyanGirdusky/status/
1998428790570246211
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)
I blame Anime
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (xcxpd)
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I blame Trump for deporting all the people who would have been giving birth but had no legal basis for being in America.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (GBKbO)
lol
$60 per hour will get you a bottom bunk in a house with 25 illegals living in it.
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM
Read the Content?
That's sus. Are you new here?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (Tbj3s)
"under-enforcement" is still a real gaslighty term; let's try "non-enforcement"
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (Cjt/F)
Yeah. Reminds me of the time we were using a company in China for testing. I called and asked if the device had passed testing; response I got was "It hasn't failed". Well, wouldn't you know that if a device isn't tested, it hasn't failed yet?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (bNf8H)
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Imagine you artificially increased the demand for everything in a country by importing the equivalent of the nation of Haiti and spreading them across the entire nation in a 4 year period?
How would that affect...every aspect of daily life?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (GBKbO)
Who is Texan
And MAGA
And extremely talented
But we racist yall
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 09, 2025 01:38 PM (HYKHz)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:38 PM (ynpvh)
The only viable option is to stop issuing / renewing these visas.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 09, 2025 01:39 PM (XqFM2)
Who is Texan
And MAGA
And extremely talented
But we racist yall
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 09, 2025 01:38 PM (HYKHz)
Feather, or Dot?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:39 PM (Tbj3s)
Along with a liberal application of tire irons and baseball bats.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (snZF9)
well now they're taking over large tech firms, the kinds with room to hide in and not do too much.
unfortunately those "too big to fail" firms are the ones the US government won't "let" fail so, smart move by them. a few get into management and then the only Whites hired are gonna be young girls, here and there.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: resist_we_much at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (cpys8)
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (HYKHz)
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So the same clown judges that sit by their phone 24/7 to answer (if it's a lefty group calling), move heaven and earth, clearing their entire docket, in order to rule against Trump ...
Will drag their feet, chase down every rabbit hole, and inevitably dismiss for lack of standing in 2038.
The Judiciary is no longer American. Or for Americans.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (HXT0k)
LOLUK:
Queer Stormer literally ends democracy in UK and essentially declares himself dictator. So what does Madame Nigel Farage do?
He holds an "emergency" press conference!
Wow. That"ll be effective.
(The "conservatives" didn't do anything)
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (Uztr4)
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (v0R5T)
Who is Texan
And MAGA
And extremely talented
But we racist yall
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 09, 2025 01:38 PM (HYKHz)
Feather, or Dot?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:39 PM (Tbj3s)
Yes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:41 PM (ynpvh)
********
Technically dot but she doesn’t have any, I’m guessing she’s Catholic
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (HYKHz)
Ah. The Portuguese Effect.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:41 PM (pDt9x)
I guess we should applaud the rich for being so smart and productive as most here suggest.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (Vh9CX)
Don't know about most. There might be a handful still clinging to that myth and/or who mistake corporatism, cronyism, regulatory capture and rent-seeking for a free market. I try to look at it on a case specific basis and distinguish between those who actually built a successful enterprise with a vision, competence and hard work, rather that those who just get to parachute in because they are have the right connections, fuck the place up, then golden parachute out.
Posted by: Shit products + poor wages + no American workers == C-Suite bonuses at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (2ap+5)
How’s that going? lol
It was all nonsense, a bone thrown to the base to shut them up. But $100k for a visa is nothing when employers save 2-3 times that vs hiring an American over the duration of the 6 year visa it’s a 3 year visa but renewable so total 6 years).
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: steevy
QUACK
Posted by: Ducks for Trump at December 09, 2025 01:43 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm)
A mostly-peaceful shooting...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:43 PM (ynpvh)
it doesn't apply yet, and it's pretty limited to boot. sop for us I think.
73 Tim Pool has a post up on twitter that someone shot at his house.
Tim has had a bunch of threats and now this. he's thinking of hanging it up podcast-wise
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:43 PM (emBoF)
The thing that amazes me is how many of them are literally not Americans.
We should have a natural born requirement for judges as well as the president...there is no need to fill these roles with people from overseas.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (sKqQm)
It’s not happening.
It rarely happens so not to worry.
It’s happening and this is why it’s a good thing.
This needs to happen or you’re a bigot.
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (mEYGy)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (uQzkA)
"apágalo y luego vuelve a encenderlo."
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (v0R5T)
¿Puedo incinderlo?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Relieve the People at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (oftw2)
What's really bold of queer stormer is he cancelled elections *before* they implemented the next fake "pandemic" hoax.
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (HJpvS)
That is the goal of this stuff.
Threaten, and then even kill, right leaning speakers to shut them up.
If you have a few of your line level street thugs end up getting a few years in prison it costs you nothing really. They'll even be able to vote when a future Dem president lets them out
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:45 PM (sKqQm)
Fuck that. It’s all the same. Jobs stolen from Americans. End it all.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:45 PM (9iyS+)
Instead of bloviatibg here here perhaps you should write to President Trump directly He probably isn't reading this site:
https://tinyurl.com/3xaej65a
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 01:46 PM (rZCVI)
Not guilty by reason of sanity, your honor.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 01:46 PM (mKuBN)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:46 PM (eEIbO)
“In California and New York, immigrants have accounted for 100% of all rental growth and over one-half of all growth in owner-occupied housing in recent years, the report found – while nationally, the foreign-born population accounted for more than 60% of the growth in rental demand.
But illegal immigration totally has nothing to do with housing costs, rental costs, availability or inflation.
At some point we also need to staple the owners of businesses who hire illegal immigrants to a telephone pole. Even in places like NY where they give these people a permit to work while they’re evading deportation.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2025 01:46 PM (Y3swt)
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:47 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:47 PM (emBoF)
I think he probably should have stated; “No Juan knows how bad it has gotten”.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2025 01:47 PM (Y3swt)
When they overturn Humphrey's, that means Trump will fire the all of the labor boards and such.
All of those lefties allowing all of this will be gone.
Now thing of an Americans-first EEOC and NLRB ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 01:47 PM (HXT0k)
At some point we also need to staple the owners of businesses who hire illegal immigrants to a telephone pole. Even in places like NY where they give these people a permit to work while they’re evading deportation.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2025 01:46 PM (Y3swt)
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What if I told you that most of the inflation we've seen over the last few years was actually related to immigration directly more than anything else?
What if I told you that mass deportations have deflationary effects?
What if I wrote that in an bill called the American Deflationary Act and passed it through Congress?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)
The iron laws of supply and demand.
And its interesting, when I mention this to left leaning younger people that complain about this stuff you see their brain trying to understand.
Immigration is a right!
And well obviously those immigrants have to live somewhere
So that means they are competing for housing against me raising costs
Therefore I voted for the problem I am complaining about.
Unfortunately their brains usually misfire after point 2 (though not yet have started yelling "DOES NOT COMPUTE")
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (sKqQm)
I guarantee if the investigators are motivated enough, they will uncover criminal acts as well that should be prosecuted to the fullest extent and beyond.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)
The estimated number of comp sci and related workers we need per year is a little over 300k.
So if we are not producing enough tech workers, it's in the order of a couple of thousand at the most.
No the reason H1B's are preferred is that they can be paid less, will do more work for less and can be threatened or pressured to churn out the code.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (XV/Pl)
Harmeet Dhillon is already on it.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (Nr4sE)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)
We've had enough immigration in the last two decades to last us the next century.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 01:50 PM (TR2dy)
Queer Stormer literally ends democracy in UK and essentially declares himself dictator. So what does Madame Nigel Farage do?
He holds an "emergency" press conference!
Wow. That"ll be effective.
(The "conservatives" didn't do anything)
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (Uztr4)
I need to trademark this phrase...
Precisely WHAT would you have them do?
Labour controls the government. Labour doesn't have to call an election for, what, 4 more years? What should Farage do?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 01:50 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:50 PM (v0R5T)
Sorry, you f*cked up. You should pay the price for it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)
H1B as well. Pause it and think it over.
Young people are graduating in STEM and not finding jobs while we import entire villages.
It's ENOUGH.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:51 PM (emBoF)
Precisely WHAT would you have them do?
Labour controls the government. Labour doesn't have to call an election for, what, 4 more years? What should Farage do?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 01:50 PM (ExV1e)
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That's what people are freaking out about?
The majority refusing to call early elections?
I mean...come on, people. Engagement isn't worth that much, is it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:51 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM
She got legs, she know how to use them. And a couple other assets too.
Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 01:51 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:52 PM (eEIbO)
H1B as well. Pause it and think it over.
Young people are graduating in STEM and not finding jobs while we import entire villages.
It's ENOUGH.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:51 PM (emBoF)
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Rule writing in alignment with the Administrative Procedures Act requires time, but it is being done. OPT is being targeted by an upcoming rule that will decrease it heavily or possibly end it completely.
https://is.gd/mcUX8N
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:52 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2025 01:52 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm)
Maybe being shot at by a leftard will be the thing that finally turns him conservative. Just kidding.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:52 PM (U6Usv)
Not guilty by reason of sanity, your honor.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Aim for #4.
Posted by: zombie Ambrose Bierce at December 09, 2025 01:52 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)
A conservative leaning person posted a thread nothing the left wanted to throw pure bloods in prison and take their kids away and noted she would never forget.
There were three types of lefty responses:
1) Posting the effectiveness of NON-COVID vaccines
2) Denying that any lefty anywhere wanted to imprison pure bloods or take their kids away
3) Endorsing the notion that taking pure bloods kids away and putting them in prison...because...it was an emergency dontachaknow
And the funny thing is the posts from #2 and #3 types were right next to each other though...not the same people at least I guess.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: 18-1
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Why, he made them do it...they had no choice.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:54 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm)
He's blaming Candace Owens and her rhetoric for the shooting and is contemplating ending his podcast because it's costing him more in security now than he makes doing it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:54 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:54 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (eEIbO)
Going on 35 years now.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (Nr4sE)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (rZCVI)
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This is a sad story. It sounds like the guy lived.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (U6Usv)
This was the original intent of an H1B visa. Need a specific mathematician or linguist who is the only person that knows something? Bring them over on this visa.
The intent was never bringing in millions of people will common skills like software development...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (sKqQm)
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That PLUS the graft that comes with the H1B holders being essentially indentured servants and the allure of H1B holders hiring OTHER H1B holders from the same family/caste/area.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (TN0g+)
Would love to follow this company and see how long a $4800 a CB pay period non coding derka derka lasts.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (bvUs5)
Prometheus is actually Oscar worthy
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:54 PM (U6Usv)
I would say.......
https://youtu.be/l60MnDJklnM
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (XeU6L)
Those boots!!!!
*sigh*
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (KQmzo)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (eEIbO)
Excellent...
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:54 PM (Zz0t1)
Wow. Tim Pool is a little cowardly bitch? Makes sense. Fits the grifter read on him i always had.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (Nr4sE)
The fact that they can't code never enters into it.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (bvUs5)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (XeU6L)
Maybe this will sound crazy, but I think Tim Poo's paid security isnt doing a good job.
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 01:57 PM (HJpvS)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:57 PM (eEIbO)
Then the hispanics started showing up and would intimidate all the local regulars and pretty much chased us all off. Their whole families would show up and jump berry rows and pick ahead of you so you wouldn't get any berries. It didn't help that the new field manager was a hispanic as well. They monopolized the berry fields. They would often cheat by putting dirt into the bottom of their flats so the weight could be more. The scale guy was hispanic so wink-wink it didn't get caught.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 01:57 PM (IifOV)
His claim to fame was being part of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, no?
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 01:58 PM (TR2dy)
The fact that they can't code never enters into it.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (bvUs5)
Oh, and most of them really suck at it. The term "spaghetti code" came from the impossible task of troubleshooting the nonsensical shit they release.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (bvUs5)
Chat GPT got me through college, Chat GPT will code for me. I'll get it reviewed by Sandeep. -- Prajeet
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 01:59 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cut those corners, the hell with patient health and safety at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (Nr4sE)
His wife and kid were present, so that might factor into his decision-making.
Posted by: pookysgirl, getting outsmarted by a one-year-old at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 01:57 PM (HJpvS)
- Trump got shot.
- Kirk got shot.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Cut those corners, the hell with patient health and safety at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (TbWk/)
And they largely suck as well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Hal9k at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
The UK has this stupid kabuki thing called a 'shadow cabinet' where the minority coalition has party members pretending to be opposition ministers and councilors. What Farage et al need is a Shadow Civil Service that can be parachuted into the ministries when the conservatives win an election. The UK is ruled by a formal, codified Deep State. It has to be erased if the UK is to pull out of their terminal dive into hell.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:01 PM (mlg/3)
If the left is allowed to shoot right leaning celebrities/media figures/pols with the only consequence being the occasional gunman/thug dies or goes to prison this will continue.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:01 PM (sKqQm)
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This is a sad story. It sounds like the guy lived.
Posted by: ...
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Old news, but cheering, "A Father's Justice"
https://shorturl.at/dVrph
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 02:01 PM (XeU6L)
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LOL
Posted by: blue state juries at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (eEIbO)
I am sure you will find that, ultimately, Political Donations are the 'Upside'.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (TR2dy)
They hate us. They really, really, really hate us. Its to the point now that if all they're going to do is keep staffing Federation Starships with female captains and cuck first officers that I'm ready to cheer for the Romulans. Blow the Enterprise from the sky!
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: John Cocksucker McCain at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (TbWk/)
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This is a sad story. It sounds like the guy lived.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (U6Usv)
Sad in what way? That he didn't get to 20?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (N39Ws)
You should All thank Ace for not posting a recent image of lena dunham.
You wouldn't believe she could get worse...much worse.
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (HJpvS)
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You'd think you'd be able to find local U.S. citizens that could do the work at a fraction of that salary.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (ESVrU)
I guess the pigeons need a new place to crap.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (KQmzo)
Posted by: coba at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (IuIym)
You should All thank Ace for not posting a recent image of lena dunham.
You wouldn't believe she could get worse...much worse.
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (HJpvS)
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Is she refusing Ozempic because it's racism, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (uQzkA)
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They are cheaper, in the short run. H1B is also basically indentured servitude so the company pretty much never has to worry about Sandeep negotiating a better salary or jumping to another company for more pay.
The entire program should be shitcanned in short order, but it won't be, because there are billions of Tech dollars behind it and plenty of filthy Congressshitheads to grift it all up.
Posted by: ballistic at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (5aZAZ)
You wouldn't believe she could get worse...much worse.
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (HJpvS)
This is how you call Admiral Akbar without actually calling Admiral Akbar.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cut those corners, the hell with patient health and safety
>Bring back leeches and blood-letting! Can't be any worse than COVID vaccines and boosters.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (1zOXE)
You wouldn't believe she could get worse...much worse.
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (HJpvS)
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Is she refusing Ozempic because it's racism, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (GBKbO)
She won't stop eating chocolate cake with gravy until the trasngenocide is stopped once and for all.
Posted by: It's possible anyway at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 01:57 PM
The story of field hands going back at least to the 1950s.
Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (LHPAg)
Is she refusing Ozempic because it's racism, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (GBKbO)
Or, it could be the massive muscle and bone density loss leading to osteoporosis.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 02:05 PM (XuXeR)
This looks like an odd case.
The father and the victim met at a post office. Supposedly the victim made "comments" about the daughter.
Then a few days later the victim shows up at the father's house - supposedly to go for a walk with him - and the father responded by stabbing the victim.
Unsaid are what the comments were, how old the daughter is, or whether the victim was invited over.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:05 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 02:05 PM (W7XSX)
The entire program should be shitcanned in short order, but it won't be, because there are billions of Tech dollars behind it and plenty of filthy Congressshitheads to grift it all up.
Posted by: ballistic
In the end, it's always about control, isn't it?
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 02:05 PM (OUMaO)
https://is.gd/mcUX8N
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Details on policy are something not as conducive as bitch fests. Underneath all the blather, TPS is being revoked right and left, Duffy is making sure that CDL licences end when the visa does plus shutting down CDL mills, the new rules require 100k fee for H1Bs and other provisions making it more difficult to hire them, the rulemaking above narrows the student worker visa loophole for STEM, etc.
That being said, when UC San Diego has a big percentage of students that cannot do middle school math yet graduate high school, we got a massive supply problem from destructive K12 education in much of this country.
Essentially, Trump is trying to redo the transmission of the US economy while going down the road with substantial changes--tariffs, immigration clampdown, changing provisions. Watch what the man actually does, not what the dumbass media types get as pablum. He uses words, not policies like Clinton, to triangulate to tack back and forth. Shiny toy for media and rage merchants.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (WDjG6)
Short term gains. Nothing more.
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 02:05 PM (XuXeR)
Any short term gains are wiped away bigly once the failures are realized and the time required to fix their mistakes is put on the books.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ballistic at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (emBoF)
I have several other talents that allowed me to earn a living, on top of those trades.
At NO point have I ever ascended to making anywhere near $60 per hour.
Not as an Electrician, Plumber, Carpenter or Mason.
Not as a Hunting or Fishing Guide.
Not as a Mechanic or a Laborer or even as a Consultant.
I am blown away by the Hourly Rates people are pulling these days.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (TN0g+)
***
I was on Joint Base Lewis McChord yesterday (I will neither confirm or deny i was at the Class VI store) and saw an airman wearing a Space Force MMXIX patch. Pretty cool looking and yeah, right out of the Romulan Style book. All black and silver.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (KQmzo)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (iFTx/)
I assume Ace's security is top notch; you never hear about him having to shoot his way out of the gym to get to his car.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (emBoF)
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For some reason, people in political media don't trumpet upcoming rule changes all that often.
Instead, they like to chase shiny squirrels that don't mean much.
Trump ending OPT, deporting millions of people, and ending CDLs for foreign drivers will do more for the American people than any legislation Congress could come up with.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (eEIbO)
I am blown away by the Hourly Rates people are pulling these days./i]
Partly this is determined by where you live - cost of living is much higher in say SF then in WV.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (U6Usv)
>Bring back leeches and blood-letting! Can't be any worse than COVID vaccines and boosters.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (1zOXE)
Reftore balance to mine humours wythe a moft generoufs applickation of leechesf.
Posted by: Feeling too sanguine. Also bilious. at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (TbWk/)
I am blown away by the Hourly Rates people are pulling these days.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (TR2dy)
Lady across the street took her Honda Accord in to a brake shop and they quoted her over $700 + parts.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (iFTx/)
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Did you actually apply?
Like, for real reals?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)
I can guarantee you what sort of minority they are, too - South Asian. And the H1Bs they want will all be from their sort of minority. I've seen it.
Posted by: GWB at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (hlpxB)
The IRA. Who have been in bed with the Militant Muslims for decades...
Yeah. Not buying it.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (TR2dy)
The IRA. Who have been in bed with the Militant Muslims for decades...
Yeah. Not buying it.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (TR2dy)
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And are national socialists to boot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:09 PM (GBKbO)
same here
my time was being billed to customers at that price 40+ years ago ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 02:09 PM (Cjt/F)
Why can't he work out a deal with the neighborhood drug dealer and war lord to protect his place? They don't concern themselves with filing reports but favor direct action.
Might also cut down on his receiving numerous SWAT raids since the local government is not likely to deal with gang crime.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 02:10 PM (nCgQz)
Posted by: garrett
Yet, oddly, it's still $20, same as in town.
Posted by: Entremanure at December 09, 2025 02:10 PM (oftw2)
The Sprinkler Installation guys out here are charging $75-80/ Hour.
They don't have a skillset that demands even 1/4 of that.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:10 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Considering the IRA trained and is training with assorted jihadis, that sounds like utter bullshit. Their fucking allies with Hamas, FFS.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:10 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (EMg+d)
Yeah. Not buying it.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (TR2dy)
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And are national socialists to boot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:09 PM (GBKbO)
On the other hand, they haven't had a really good fight for quite a few years now. and they ARE Irish.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: garrett
>I blew away my millions in the 90s on wine, women and song. And horses.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (uWKK
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I'd sooner believe that they'd start bombing white owned farms in Buckinghamshire than they'd say anything remotely bad about Starmer's efforts at expanding governmental control over the populace.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)
Say a U.S. coder cost $150k. I hire someone from out of the country for $80k. That person lives...poorly, saves his money, and sends it home to a poor country, where the money is sufficient to build a 5-bedroom home for his family.
The cost differential is the same. Both parties have the same goals. But he U.S coder wants to build his house here, while the H1B wants to build it his home country, which is cheaper, so he'll take a much lower pay.
To me the easy solution is to tax remittances. 15%.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 02:12 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:12 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: LanceSoft staffing at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: 18-1
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Drugs also are involved from the original report. I am always careful on any initial crime news story like the missing football coach turned into a probable suicide due to impending child pron and pursuit of underage kids.
You can tell the bad stories for narratives as they disappear quickly while those that support leftist narratives are blasted coast to coast for weeks--like Trayvon.
Thug accosts armed person violently and gets shot then dies. This would seem a local story but because of the outrage machine and Obama admin, it became a national story for months incuding the trial. I also bet Community Relations at the DoJ thought they had Whitey shooting a dindu nuffin yute that could have been Obama's son narrative going on. Anti gun, anti Whitey, perhaps even anti Jew as Zimmerman is often a common Jewish name. So they and their ngo flying monkeys, and Ben Crump, made it into a circus.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (ciYHQ)
IRA, IRS, what's the difference?
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (EMg+d)
Take a spin around LinkedIn job postings sometime. There is no shortage of insanely stupid shit. It's Terry Gilliam meets Franz Kafka.
Posted by: Everything is fake gay and corpotard at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: SciVo at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (Sy6m/)
They don't have a skillset that demands even 1/4 of that. "
ah, but they've got Licenses, and the all-important Certification ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 02:14 PM (Cjt/F)
I made that in San Diego in 2004.
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 02:14 PM (W7XSX)
The Corporate Sector needs to do on the job training.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM
yeah they don't do that anymore.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM
no, they post job openings what require 20+ years of experience, then freak out when you show up at the interview with grey hair..."we just don't think you'd fit with our 'culture'"
why? because I'm 30 years older that the group manager?
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2025 02:14 PM (tljrc)
>>Lady across the street took her Honda Accord in to a brake shop and they quoted her over $700 + parts.
Depends on what they are doing, if it's a full front, back, parking brake job, then that's a good price, it's to replace pads and cut the rotors, then not so good.
She obviously can't do it herself as most people can't do their own brake jobs, if she could do it herself, it would probably run her around 500 bucks for parts, materials and tools to do the job.
YMMV.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:15 PM (XV/Pl)
"Polk County deputies responded to Dick’s Sporting Goods after a store manager reported a retail theft in progress. Deputies arrived within minutes and detained eight teens, identified as members of a Philadelphia youth football team in town for a national tournament. All eight were charged with retail theft over $750 and conspiracy to commit retail theft. Because of the arrests, the teens were unable to participate in their scheduled championship game, and their team lost the game."
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:15 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)
would it make a difference if they drank a lot?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:15 PM (uWKK8)
Why didn't Trump just ignore the lower courts and shoot the district judges instead?
It's not like the new policy stayed in effect through the whole litigation and he won on merits in the end, anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)
@LeadingReport
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25s
BREAKING: Federal court upholds transgender military ban.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)
would it make a difference if they drank a lot?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:15 PM (uWKK
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Yes.
They might actually take out a Muslim brother in the cause to impose the universal union upon England.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (GBKbO)
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what an uplifting story !
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (emBoF)
The IRA. Who have been in bed with the Militant Muslims for decades...
Yeah. Not buying it.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (TR2dy)
Any possibility of them being red-pilled? Or maybe (more likely) they're seeing a possibility to distinguish themselves from political rivals?
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (2L+MU)
And then they will sing the Horst Wessel song.
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (W7XSX)
why? because I'm 30 years older that the group manager?
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2025 02:14 PM (tljrc)
Yes. And because it violates federal law to discriminate based on age, so they trot out the "we don't think you're a good cultural fit" or "we think we're going in different direction" to cover for the real reason they want to have nothing to do with you.
Posted by: Entry-level position, 15 years exp required at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (TbWk/)
You all understand that when quoted an hourly rate by a car or appliance dealership it's about 5 times what they're actually paying the guy who does the work.
Or girl. Or trans gender. Or monkey.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (Y8DZL)
The IRA. Who have been in bed with the Militant Muslims for decades...
Yeah. Not buying it.
Posted by: garrett
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I think this is a new group with an old name for PR purposes just as the Provisional IRA was not the same organization and leadership as the old IRA during the Easter Rebellion and aftermath.
Different generations involved in each of those.
Basically from reports I gathered, these are apparently youngsters whose gramps, etc. might have been involved in the prior Time of Troubles in N. Ireland on either side. I think even Catholics and Prots can find unity in detesting Islamic infiltration as they make the differences between the Christian sects minor compared with the canyon between Christian and Islam.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (WDjG6)
Anti-DEI and sports ban provisions for the military still exist in the bill, but the removal of a health care provision is a major victory for transgender people in congressional legislation." that was 12/5
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 02:18 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (2L+MU)
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The IRA is a socialist organization and has been for more than a century.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:18 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:18 PM (eEIbO)
Aren't they IT security, not physical security?
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Diogenes
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FWIW, Chief Master Sergeant:
https://tinyurl.com/3mecrndz
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (XeU6L)
Between the pictures of "little trayvon", pretending Zimmerman was an old Jew and then finally a "white" "Hispanic,,and the lies on NBC "he looks suspicious he looks black"... that is how they managed to turn an otherwise completely race unbothered nation into their Race War Utopia.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: SciVo at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (Sy6m/)
The other half of this equation is we need to remove ourselves from foreign intrigue and wars.
That too has to stop. I know some people are addicted to these wars, and will lash out at anyone who suggests the U.S. of A. has no reason to be in Asia, in Southwest Asia, in Europe, or any other third world shitholes.
"American First" should mean American first. Not when we get done with all the rest of the world's problems.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Ya but they can help your biker gun run firearms.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (MGB5H)
My next inspection was coming up and they told me as well I needed to replace it and I found a place that had more reasonable rates.
So...the first place wasn't lying about the need to replace it but they really jacked up the price. I assume they have plenty of people that agree to it and don't shop around.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (sKqQm)
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McDonald’s Netherlands has managed to do the impossible: release a Christmas advertisement so bleak that even the Grinch might send them a sympathy card. Instead of delivering the feel-good warmth Americans once expected from holiday ads—yes, even from giant corporations—McDonald’s dropped a cold, AI-generated oddity described by viewers as nothing short of “terrible” and “joyless.”
This bizarre commercial, stitched together by a cocktail of algorithms and sleepless creatives, proudly reimagines the classic It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year as—brace yourself—“the most terrible time of the year.” Because apparently, somewhere in the boardroom, someone decided that what families really crave during the holidays is a cynical rewrite of a beloved Christmas song.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (bvUs5)
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BREAKING: Federal court upholds transgender military ban.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (mlg/3)
Thinking that God put you in the wrong body should be immediate failure of any psychological evaluation and not even be allowed to own a gun.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Ya but they can help your biker gun run firearms.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (MGB5H)
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"Yeah...for MONEY!"
-socialist revolutionaries
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Cut those corners, the hell with patient health and safety at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (TbWk/)
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Well there is a doctor shortage because the ACA chased a bunch of docs out, and there are only so many training seats available, just as the boomers start to really need doctors. So it is manufactured in that there is only so much clinical space available and its maxed out.
Posted by: Black JEM at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (GZYu7)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Laying the predicate is an important step in executing. Every new CEO knows they, with rare exception, that he can't just go hogwild on day one. It's easier to identify the easy problems, build a consensus, and build momentum that give the organization the trust to allow wild changes.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (mlg/3)
Why didn't Trump just ignore the lower courts and shoot the district judges instead?
It's not like the new policy stayed in effect through the whole litigation and he won on merits in the end, anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Trump is moving faster than any other president aside from FDR who had overwhelming margins in Congress to aid him.
Reagan administration looks like a piker compared to Trump especially the pace of a second term.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (WDjG6)
You all understand that when quoted an hourly rate by a car or appliance dealership it's about 5 times what they're actually paying the guy who does the work.
Or girl. Or trans gender. Or monkey.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (Y8DZL)
Never get work done at a dealership, they will charge you 2-3 times what an independent shop will charge. Find a reputable mechanic who owns his own operation, or you'll repeatedly get fucked over.
Posted by: Dealership is the WORST option at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (TbWk/)
>>Maybe this will sound crazy, but I think Tim Poo's paid security isnt doing a good job.
Uhmm, but for a 10 degree tilt of the head, we are in a far different timeline.
Body Security ain't what it used to be.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (bvUs5)
Wow........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Black JEM at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (GZYu7)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (mlg/3)
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All true.
And there's a lot (A LOT) less bullshit from circuit and appellate courts now than there were 8 months ago.
SCOTUS has smacked down enough to quiet most of the lower courts. All that's really left is district court judges who are playing for promotions in a future Democrat administration.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (GBKbO)
I was on Joint Base Lewis McChord yesterday (I will neither confirm or deny i was at the Class VI store) and saw an airman wearing a Space Force MMXIX patch. Pretty cool looking and yeah, right out of the Romulan Style book. All black and silver.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (KQmzo)
Hugo Boss?
Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (iFTx/)
Dude, what you need to do is wear a powdered wig, and whenever you deport some alien - which I assume will be most of the time - you place a square of black silk on your head before pronouncing, "You are hereby sentenced to suffer deportation to Liberia, and may God have mercy on your soul".
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (2L+MU)
This bizarre commercial, stitched together by a cocktail of algorithms and sleepless creatives, proudly reimagines the classic It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year as—brace yourself—“the most terrible time of the year.” Because apparently, somewhere in the boardroom, someone decided that what families really crave during the holidays is a cynical rewrite of a beloved Christmas song.
Posted by: rickb223
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Know any famous Dutch comedians? No wonder that a Dutch ad firm botched the humor.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:22 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:23 PM (Dv3i1)
>>Never get work done at a dealership, they will charge you 2-3 times what an independent shop will charge. Find a reputable mechanic who owns his own operation, or you'll repeatedly get fucked over.
I do all of my own work on my cars, my wife will not let me work on her cars and her cars go to the Honda dealer for work, by and large, Honda does not gauge for service.
Is it more expensive for what I can do it for?
Yes, but it's not exorbitant.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:23 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Trump admin just fired a bunch of judges the other day. Problem is that the local office's job ad for filling those judgeships probably has No US Citizens need apply just like above.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:23 PM (WDjG6)
Would be nice to see the GOP return the favor but they won't....
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:24 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (uWKK
*shifty eyes*
There's no way we'd love Flogging Molly's "Irish Drinking Song."
Posted by: pookysgirl of the Cathcart clan at December 09, 2025 02:24 PM (Wt5PA)
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Yes, and they still think its 1990-something where they can make these stupid "oh, what the heck--let the taxpayers pay for transgender surgery" backroom deals and that there is ZERO chance that us rubes will ever find out about it. They need to be blasted every single time they do these sellouts until the lesson is learned.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (TN0g+)
Is it more expensive for what I can do it for?
Yes, but it's not exorbitant.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Auto companies are moving to the John Deere model where the software and even tools are proprietary and expensive. Being sued for it as well under right to repair laws.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (eEIbO)
Is it because the people that go straight to the dealer are less likely to price shop vs people that find a local repairshop instead?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (sKqQm)
Like ICA, Irish Citizen Army?
Someone posted their manifesto video the other day here.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (uQzkA)
Things will change when The Blade starts as an immigration judge!
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Trump admin just fired a bunch of judges the other day. Problem is that the local office's job ad for filling those judgeships probably has No US Citizens need apply just like above.
Posted by: whig a
Here's the link to apply
https://tinyurl.com/4rwpvhpk
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Black JEM at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (GZYu7)
The ACA has made it worse by accelerating a lot of physicians' retirements, but the physician shortage trend was predicted and noted by a number of reputable studies starting around the late 90s. This isn't a surprise by any stretch, and yet nothing was done to seriously address the issue.
Posted by: Another fuckup in a long list of fuckups at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (TbWk/)
Like ICA, Irish Citizen Army?
Someone posted their manifesto video the other day here.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (HXT0k)
I'm old enough to remember when U2 weren't such preening assholes, and actually made punkish music, singing the praises of the IRA.
If we can get back to that, I don't care what else they do.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (dGCAG)
I expect 8-10 million over 4 years. With no replacement in-migration.
That makes, somewhere around 2-3 million rental units available in major cities over 4 years. About 500,000 per year. In 2025, an estimated 506,353 rental units are expected to be built nationwide in the U.S.
Hence, assuming we keep building, this will double the number of available rental units in major cities. DOUBLE.
Hence rnust rates must fall.
Step 2 is to get rid of short-term rentals - Ban air B&B and VRBO.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (EMg+d)
Lucky guess - they were hijacked by Marxists, as usual?
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (ciYHQ)
I am blown away by the Hourly Rates people are pulling these days.
In fact we did everything backwards.
More paperwork? Doctors love paperwork!
Make it impossible to run a local office by yourself or with a couple of your colleagues? Yes! Doctors love to work for globo-megacorps
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Black JEM
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Many states have certificate of need for key medical facility approval that keep competition down. Then, doctors often face debilitating corporate culture where they answer to corporate bosses (even if ngo) on measures like generating revenue by seeing the maximum number of patients, referrrals in system, drugs prescribed, etc.
And the tedious unpaid electronic medical records required by Obamacare that are driving docs batshit crazy in paperwork.
Whole health care system needs massive revision but the risk is the left and corporations wanting to shuck costs turn it into NHS USA. There you will die from neglect, malpractice, and delays in basic care. Plus have to pay out of pocket to see the moonlighting NHS docs at night privately because long delays to see them as NHS docs in daytime.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:34 PM (WDjG6)
That lifts a huge fraction of the liability costs from doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals. It allows more lower trained people to supervise simple medical procedures. And nobody getting a free ride can turn around and sue anyone for poor care.
My daughter is a nurse and takes care of a lot of homeless people. She has been assaulted 1-2 times a year. Each time the perp - nothing happens. And if she fights back, they tell her she'll be fired, loose her license, and the hospital will be sued. How many docs are signing up for that bullshit?
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (C3IAS)
Lucky guess - they were hijacked by Marxists, as usual?
Posted by: Fen
IRA was different depending on which era--the original IRA, not commie, the provisional IRA revived during the N. Ireland Time of Troubles and definitely commie as is their Sinn Fein above ground party, and perhaps this new organization calling itself an old name made up of fed up Irishmen fighting a different enemy--Globohomo. So far, just some videos released, nothing more and speculation is going to be rife on who they are.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (WDjG6)
Terrorism works.
Posted by: pawn
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Unless your enemy is Oliver Cromwell or William Tecumseh Sherman. Not so much then.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (WDjG6)
Midterms are gonna be lit.
Posted by: GigantorX at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (qEAvu)
That too has to stop. I know some people are addicted to these wars, and will lash out at anyone who suggests the U.S. of A. has no reason to be in Asia, in Southwest Asia, in Europe, or any other third world shitholes.
"American First" should mean American first. Not when we get done with all the rest of the world's problems.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (dGCAG)
Agreed. But I just read the other day how the Dept. of War was looking at drawing down forces in Europe and S. Korea, maybe even letting some other NATO country have the Supreme Commander gig in Europe, and the new Defense bill nipped that all in the bud. Legislatively codified mandatory World Empire force structure.
It isn't enough to pick the right President. It's necessary, but we also need to get more involved in Congressional races. It is actually perfectly legal to support principled challengers looking to replace hacks in other parts of the country; in fact, that's a big part of how lefty activists use ActBlue in practice, albeit using their power for evil. We could do it too (but for good).
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Nobody hires white male US citizen developers anymore.
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