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And When He Had Opened The Fourth ONT

Fido Friday:Adultery

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) May 29, 2026

You win an all expenses paid 2 week vacation, but you have to stay in just one zone. Which do you choose?

I think E, although D would be close.

For all the Euroweenies

NGL, this looks awesome

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) May 29, 2026

I think Alex made this meme

Feel good story of the day

Nice

Dying man wanted to see tits one last time. Some heroes wear scrubs. pic.twitter.com/fjehRxJ3Kd
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) May 30, 2026

This guy is a serious creep. And they think Texans are going to elect him?

This is an actual tweet he made that he thinks him somehow look good

Why, just the other day I was saying "You know who I want as my senator? A grown-ass man who texts 13 year old girls at midnight."

Some days be like

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Fix her? I wanna race her

Heh

VP of the USA

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British Invasion

Scary thought

Feline Friday

When you work from home but you have a cat pic.twitter.com/8J6jC9PUD3
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) May 30, 2026

Boomers vs Gen Z

Find someone who loves you as much as this guy loves his bird

Not to step on CBD's toes, but this is seriously good

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) May 30, 2026

I made it and my wife said "I think this is my new religion."

Meme from the ending of the TV series "The Boys"

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by the 70s:

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1 Uh-oh!

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 29, 2026 09:58 PM (VCgbV)

2 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 29, 2026 09:59 PM (SRRAx)

3 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 10:00 PM (Y2B0/)

4 Chew the wire
Eat the sheep

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 10:01 PM (fF9x2)

5 ONT!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 29, 2026 10:01 PM (4tsnh)

6 Ooh. Early!

I need some help here…The fruitcake Senate Candidate from TX

Is it Tal-a-REE-co, or Tah-LAHR-I-co?

Posted by: Gunslinger at May 29, 2026 10:02 PM (HZfH/)

7 You mean all I have to do is pretend I'm dying?!

Damn!!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 10:02 PM (Y2B0/)

8 hi

Posted by: Iris at May 29, 2026 10:02 PM (286+n)

9 Zone A because I've never been anywhere in it.

Same goes for E, but it's too damn hot.

Posted by: logprof at May 29, 2026 10:03 PM (jo6FO)

10 F not E

Posted by: logprof at May 29, 2026 10:03 PM (jo6FO)

11 E, final answer. Rome, southern France. The Alps. Constantinople.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 10:03 PM (zZu0s)

12 Oh, and hey y’all.
Thanks Dave,

Posted by: Gunslinger at May 29, 2026 10:03 PM (HZfH/)

13 I could murder a pan of those potatoes any day of the week.

Posted by: huerfano at May 29, 2026 10:04 PM (VJX5o)

14 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:05 PM (77rzZ)

15 >>You win an all expenses paid 2 week vacation, but you have to stay in just one zone. Which do you choose?

___
I stay at home. I have no interest in Europe. They can pay for me to stay in the lake house I like that is 3 hrs away and no passport needed.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 10:05 PM (Xdfhw)

16 C, because Poland
D, because Hungary and Romania

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ivan, did you see the sunrise? at May 29, 2026 10:06 PM (0aYVJ)

17 And When He Had Opened The Fourth ONT

And lo, I saw a rider on a pale horse. And the rider was death.

Musical accompaniment:

https://youtu.be/pJ_UYHqWfJk

.....in case you wonder what Vangelis did before all that "Chariots of Fire" stuff.

Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2026 10:06 PM (VHUov)

18 E, final answer. Rome, southern France. The Alps. Constantinople.

Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 10:03 PM (zZu0s)
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D, because a ton of my ancestors came from there. The other came from the UK and I'll probably get stabbed and sent to jail for fighting back.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 10:06 PM (ZOv7s)

19 I think Jessica Marino must be AI. There's no way she's that good looking and still does stuff like that. She tells men to do stuff like that...and they do. She laughs as they're run over by semis.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 10:07 PM (Riz8t)

20 I'd choose F, for Sicily

Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 29, 2026 10:07 PM (QVmho)

21 You win an all expenses paid 2 week vacation, but you have to stay in just one zone. Which do you choose?

Is cash instead an option?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 10:07 PM (/lPRQ)

22 I need some help here…The fruitcake Senate Candidate from TX

Is it Tal-a-REE-co, or Tah-LAHR-I-co?

Lib-er-ACHI

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 10:07 PM (Riz8t)

23 You win an all expenses paid 2 week vacation, but you have to stay in just one zone. Which do you choose?

C lets me see all my ancestors' home countries.

Gotta stop that little tiff in the Ukraine first, though.

Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2026 10:07 PM (VHUov)

24 Swell ONT!

I'm with you on zone E

Posted by: 496 at May 29, 2026 10:08 PM (sM50u)

25 Fix her? I wanna race her

I volunteer to be the jockey.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 10:08 PM (/lPRQ)

26 RE: the "you'll live option."

In 4th grade, I was running on a lose pile of woodchips on the playground and broke my ankle.

I was sent to the office for treatment, and asked if I could walk on it. I could, but it hurt. Well, it's obviously not broken.

So I went back to class and at the end of the day walked home on it.

It was, in fact, broken.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 10:09 PM (ZOv7s)

27 >>I think E, although D would be close.

Going back and forth but I think I would swap the order.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 10:09 PM (viF8m)

28 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 29, 2026 10:10 PM (bfy6w)

29 22 I need some help here…The fruitcake Senate Candidate from TX

Is it Tal-a-REE-co, or Tah-LAHR-I-co?

----
It is pronounced hell-no-way is this freakazoid getting elected. That is another sad wet dream from the out of state leftoids.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 10:10 PM (Xdfhw)

30 FUCK DEATH!

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:11 PM (77rzZ)

31 VP of the USA

That's what TVTropes calls "acrofatic."

Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2026 10:11 PM (VHUov)

32 You win an all expenses paid 2 week vacation, but you have to stay in just one zone. Which do you choose?

Define "all expenses paid" first, and then we'll talk.

'Cuz this girl can spend some serious money on vacation - just ask Mr. TiFW.... 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 29, 2026 10:11 PM (SRRAx)

33 Tal-a-REE-co, su-WAH-vay!

Posted by: davidt at May 29, 2026 10:12 PM (Q+gd/)

34 Forgot to mention: when I got home, my foot was so swollen that the laces had to be cut off my shoe. Splint and crutches for two weeks, then walking cast.

Fourth grade was on the third floor. No elevator. So I crawled up the stairs for a fortnight using the "teacher" stairwell, but I also got to take a "buddy" to help me get down at lunch and recess. This made me very popular because I got to leave class early.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 10:12 PM (ZOv7s)

35 "Find someone who loves you as much as this guy loves his bird"
_____________________________

PHRASING!!!!

Oh, and definitely category E on that map. South of France, Monaco, Most of Italy, and some of the Greek Isles.

Isn't odd that your choices are likely determined by which locations still have a handle on immigration in the tourist areas....and even Category E is very compromised.

Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 10:12 PM (dIske)

36 "NGL, this looks awesome"

"We lit 500 mortars at once"

Yup. Awsome.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 10:14 PM (O7YUW)

37 I hate everything:

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:14 PM (77rzZ)

38 Define "all expenses paid" first, and then we'll talk.

'Cuz this girl can spend some serious money on vacation - just ask Mr. TiFW.... 😂😂😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 29, 2026 10:11 PM (SRRAx)
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Good catch. My great-great grandmother had a considerable inheritance and lost it on the tables of Monte Carlo. If I have an open-ended commitment, I will run up trillions.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 10:14 PM (ZOv7s)

39 Why, just the other day I was saying "You know who I want as my senator? A grown-ass man who texts 13 year old girls at midnight."

If something like that isn't the "Readers Added Context" already, then his campaign has a mole working at Xwitter.

Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov)

40 "NGL, this looks awesome"

"We lit 500 mortars at once"

Yup. Awsome.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

More awesomer, just like the man says.

Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2026 10:16 PM (VHUov)

41 Why, just the other day I was saying "You know who I want as my senator? A grown-ass man who texts 13 year old girls at midnight."

grown ass-man, more likely.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ivan, did you see the sunrise? at May 29, 2026 10:16 PM (0aYVJ)

42 29 22 I need some help here…The fruitcake Senate Candidate from TX

Is it Tal-a-REE-co, or Tah-LAHR-I-co?

----
It is pronounced hell-no-way is this freakazoid getting elected. That is another sad wet dream from the out of state leftoids.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 10:10 PM (Xdfhw)

I thought it might be ped-o-fi-ul. Alternates include pond scum and yikes.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 10:16 PM (qx7Zg)

43 Jeebus. Mom would say things like, "come over here and let me look at it"

She told me when I was much older it was a way to do triage, if I could make it over to her, the chances were I wasn't needing to go to the doctor's.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 10:17 PM (rbvCR)

44 If something like that isn't the "Readers Added Context" already, then his campaign has a mole working at Xwitter.
Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov)
---
His browser history is going to be spectacular.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 10:17 PM (ZOv7s)

45 D.
Munich...bier.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 10:17 PM (2WIwB)

46 Not to step on CBD's toes, but this is seriously good
===

Three kinds of fat and potatoes.
How could you go wrong?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 10:17 PM (/lPRQ)

47 What's going on, Bulg?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 29, 2026 10:17 PM (SRRAx)

48 I used to put a blanket on my lap or wear long shawl so my big tom, Angus, could sleep in my lap while I worked.
None of my current cats put up with me working on the computer, but they do like the cat beds I put on the desk flanking my computer

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 10:18 PM (rbvCR)

49 40 No matter what the msn says…

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:18 PM (77rzZ)

50 45 D.
Munich...bier.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 10:17 PM
***
This is the correct answer.

Posted by: TRex - Bavarian dino at May 29, 2026 10:18 PM (swDku)

51 The "choose a Zone" thing:

forced choice between places you've already seen (but not long enuf) & really liked, OR places you've never visited. at all.

I'm an undecided voter.

Posted by: mnw at May 29, 2026 10:19 PM (RCjYY)

52 Oh, and definitely category E on that map. South of France, Monaco, Most of Italy, and some of the Greek Isles.

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. No contest, really. Add in most of the Adriatic, too.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 29, 2026 10:19 PM (kYmoU)

53 Here's my first attempt at synonym rolls.

"These taste just like the last rolls you made."

Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2026 10:19 PM (VHUov)

54 I see Robert the Cat got top billing tonight.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 10:19 PM (qx7Zg)

55 47 Teresa, my sister is dying.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ)

56 Jeebus. Mom would say things like, "come over here and let me look at it"

Followed by, "Sit still!"
Then, "Quit crying. That didn't hurt." As she puts the bottle of mirthiolate away.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 10:21 PM (2WIwB)

57 D

I don't think the boob man died. It was a trick.

I see nothing wrong with trying to sail down Florida I-95 in a shopping cart at 0300 as it's not that busy then.

The potatoes are called Fondant Potatoes, altho I've seen recipes that differ from this one. Also for soaking in water 15min to remove starch and searing.

Son is waiting for a flight to Sydney and it's delayed. Giving him about 20min to make the flight from LA. We'll see. I am not looking forward to the Aussie germs he brings home for all of us. I did email him that koalas have chlamydia and gave him stats...which I know is totally normal for mothers to do...or if conversation lags at business meetings.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 29, 2026 10:21 PM (WONhk)

58 Fuck death.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:21 PM (77rzZ)

59 Zone C for me ... Golfer's heaven

****

Florida Woman is worth a try

Posted by: browndog says woof at May 29, 2026 10:21 PM (3sXRv)

60 Mercurichrome. And a spray-on plastic bandage.
Methiolate was brutal.
No wonder I’m “slow”.
Wish Mom knew about the “just rub a little dirt in it” cure…

Posted by: Gunslinger at May 29, 2026 10:21 PM (HZfH/)

61 Though I would miss out on Royal Dornach in the Highlands (Zone B)

Still, I get all of Ireland's great courses

Posted by: browndog says woof at May 29, 2026 10:22 PM (3sXRv)

62 Message for Berserker. Please check in for the hobby thread tomorrow. Thank you.

Posted by: TRex - bulletin board dino at May 29, 2026 10:22 PM (swDku)

63 55 47 Teresa, my sister is dying.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ)

Bulg, I am so sorry to hear that.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 10:22 PM (qx7Zg)

64 Zone A would have the mostest scenery and the leastest peoples.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 10:23 PM (f0sNM)

65 The "choose a Zone" thing:

forced choice between places you've already seen (but not long enuf) & really liked, OR places you've never visited. at all.

I'm an undecided voter.

Posted by: mnw at May 29, 2026 10:19 PM (RCjYYlefties.

Or places you haven't seen ever. And aren't interested to see. Europe seems like a risk to visit, and I lack the interest.

Asia and South America seem more interesting.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 10:23 PM (Xdfhw)

66 Teresa, my sister is dying.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ)

Prayers up for Team Bulg.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 10:23 PM (2WIwB)

67 37 I hate everything:
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:14 PM (77rzZ)
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God bless you.

Know that there are man Horde member praying for you and your sister.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 10:23 PM (ZOv7s)

68 So sorry, Bulg. I hope that you are able to be with her.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 29, 2026 10:24 PM (SRRAx)

69 Or places you haven't seen ever. And aren't interested to see. Europe seems like a risk to visit, and I lack the interest.

Asia and South America seem more interesting.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 10:23 PM (Xdfhw)
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The best way to travel is on Uncle Sam's account. IYKYK

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 10:24 PM (ZOv7s)

70 RE: the "you'll live option."

My Dad, a former FMF Corpsman attached to 1MARDIV during Korea and Mom, a L&D nurse had no sympathies for any of the numerous injuries I and my 7 sibs experienced - UNTIL
Brother John ran over his own foot with the lawnmower.

Mom carried him into the house with one arm and swept dinner off of the kitchen table where she laid him to apply first aid with the other. A real mess. Dad drove him off to the ER.

Only then did Mom sit down, lite up a cig and started to shake.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 10:25 PM (Y2B0/)

71 Florida Woman, dang.

Out of my league, even though she is fucking scary crazy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ivan, did you see the sunrise? at May 29, 2026 10:25 PM (0aYVJ)

72 63 55 47 Teresa, my sister is dying.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ)

I am sorry, Bulg. Is this the Sister you just reconnected withbl recenty?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 10:25 PM (Xdfhw)

73 Thank you, Hour and Diogenes.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:25 PM (77rzZ)

74
Mary,

I was wondering the same thing.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 10:25 PM (3ek7K)

75 Out of my league, even though she is fucking scary crazy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ivan, did you see the sunrise? at May 29, 2026 10:25 PM (0aYVJ)
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*Taps sign*

NEVER STICK YOUR DICK IN CRAZY

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 10:26 PM (ZOv7s)

76 >>D.
Munich...bier.

I'm partial to German beer but I've had some fantastic beers in Switzerland too. I could easily spend a couple weeks all expenses paid eating and drinking my way around the Alps and the rest of D.

My peeps.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 10:26 PM (viF8m)

77 Daytona Beach crack addict vs A kangaroo

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 29, 2026 10:27 PM (d9FiM)

78 NEVER STICK YOUR DICK IN CRAZY
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I take "What is sage advice that is never, ever taken for $1000? Alex"

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 10:27 PM (Y2B0/)

79 my sister is dying.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ)

Aw, man. So sorry. Sending prayers.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ivan, did you see the sunrise? at May 29, 2026 10:28 PM (0aYVJ)

80 Thanks for the ONT, WD.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2026 10:29 PM (HQBRg)

81
Sometimes a little crazy is fun, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 10:29 PM (3ek7K)

82 {{{Bulg}}}

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 29, 2026 10:29 PM (LmPA0)

83 A. I’d like to visit the Faroe Islands, at least a few of the 18 that are inhabited. Gorgeous scenery and only 50,000 inhabitants. A bit windy and rainy, I can deal with those issues. Getting there might be a bit tough.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 29, 2026 10:30 PM (2NHgQ)

84 Zone F has a couple acceptable spots near Sicily and Greece, but most of it rates as bumfukistan.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 10:30 PM (QDJ2U)

85 Only then did Mom sit down, lite up a cig and started to shake.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 10:25 PM (Y2B0/)
---
One of the grandkids was clowning around, fell backward and cut his head on a bookshelf. There was a lot of blood.

Panic ensued, and then Grandpa took charge, put pressure on the wound, called for more paper towel and and an icepack. Bleeding stopped, kid calmed down. A pressure dressing was improvised. He fell asleep. Everyone looked at me expectantly.

"Now what?"

"No idea. I was just trained to bandage them. The medics were supposed to the next part."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 10:30 PM (ZOv7s)

86 my sister is dying.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ)

Terrible. I'm sorry.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 29, 2026 10:30 PM (d9FiM)

87 AHL

"His browsing history is going to be spectacular."

Is it better or worse than swastika-man Platner in Maine?

I ask because Platner is 7-10 points AHEAD of Collins in the polls I've seen.

Posted by: mnw at May 29, 2026 10:31 PM (RCjYY)

88 If there isn’t blood spurting out, a bone sticking out and you haven’t lost consciousness for longer than 20 seconds, you’re fine. Don’t be a pussy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 10:31 PM (9CzvH)

89 You win an all expenses paid 2 week vacation, but you have to stay in just one zone. Which do you choose?

Me and my golf clubs choose B. 2 weeks in Scotland. That's some good golf. BTW, I have done 2 weeks+ in Scotland, twice. Just didn't golf. Young and drunk is the only excuse I have. Also, didn't want to drag my clubs, via train, all over the place.

Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 29, 2026 10:31 PM (bfy6w)

90 You win an all expenses paid 2 week vacation, but you have to stay in just one zone. Which do you choose?

Why are the latitude lines curved but the zone lines aren't?

I think this is flat-earther propaganda.

Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2026 10:31 PM (VHUov)

91 And A on the map.

Brown/black folks don’t like snow.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 10:32 PM (9CzvH)

92 Teresa, my sister is dying.
Posted by: Bulg

Prayers up for Team Bulg.
Posted by: Diogenes

Same!

Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2026 10:33 PM (VHUov)

93 Zone B for the metal bands. Zone E for the weather and food.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 29, 2026 10:33 PM (snZF9)

94 I take "What is sage advice that is never, ever taken for $1000? Alex"
Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 10:27 PM (Y2B0/)
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LOL. I figured my wife was safely on the positive side of the line. I was wrong.

But it'll be 25 years of marriage next month. A wild ride, but it's been great. Sometimes it's worth taking a risk.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 10:33 PM (ZOv7s)

95 I never used to be a racist asshole.

I am now.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 10:33 PM (9CzvH)

96 >>Asia and South America seem more interesting.

I think South America is a very overlooked area for a vacation. I like Chile a lot.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 10:33 PM (viF8m)

97 "No idea. I was just trained to bandage them. The medics were supposed to the next part."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 10:30 PM (ZOv7s)

Then you take them to the hospital or critical care to get stapled up.
Pro-tip, bring a clean shirt and pants for the kid, but leave him in the blood soaked clothing to get faster service.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 10:33 PM (rbvCR)

98 I'm partial to German beer but I've had some fantastic beers in Switzerland too. I could easily spend a couple weeks all expenses paid eating and drinking my way around the Alps and the rest of D.

My peeps.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 10:26 PM (viF8m)

Hubby wants me to have an interest in seeing Germany and Austria. I'm trying to have enthusiasm. I can put on a cheery face I suppose. The Germans I've ever met were irritating and rude, and that was in the US. I don't like beer much other than Shiner. I do not see that being a trip I would like much.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 10:34 PM (Xdfhw)

99 Don’t go to sleep after you have a concussion, you won’t believe what happens next.

Posted by: Eromero at May 29, 2026 10:34 PM (LHPAg)

100
nurse,

That is what I told my kids to get them to stop calling me at work.

Don't call me because ya'll are fighting.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 10:34 PM (3ek7K)

101 I ask because Platner is 7-10 points AHEAD of Collins in the polls I've seen.

Posted by: mnw at May 29, 2026 10:31 PM (RCjYY)
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OMG, and polls never lie, amirite?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 10:34 PM (ZOv7s)

102 The best way to travel is on Uncle Sam's account. IYKYK
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 10:24 PM (ZOv7s)

Yup. Germany for three years, back when it was still Germany.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ivan, did you see the sunrise? at May 29, 2026 10:35 PM (0aYVJ)

103 Excellent Fri ONT!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 10:35 PM (wVcYX)

104 I take "What is sage advice that is never, ever taken for $1000? Alex"
Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 10:27 PM (Y2B0/)

Don't sleep with co-workers.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 10:36 PM (rbvCR)

105 I had no complaints about Bavarian beers. They were all good. But, oddly, the best beer I had during Oktoberfest in Munich was a Czech pale lager Budvar. You might say it's the original Budweiser. It's one of the few brewers who will cold condition the batch for at least 90 days before bottling. Makes it reallllll smooth.

Anheiser Busch wouldn't let them export to the US due to "trademark" issues. Which is laughable since Budweiser Budvar has been brewed for centuries. You can buy it in the US now under the name "Czechvar", but it's hard to find.

Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 10:36 PM (dIske)

106 I've not been to Zones A or E. I'd like to try A before E. Of the zones I've visited, I liked C the most.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 29, 2026 10:36 PM (0CU3H)

107 Message for Berserker. Please check in for the hobby thread tomorrow. Thank you.

Posted by: TRex - bulletin board dino at May 29, 2026 10:22 PM (swDku)

You got it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 29, 2026 10:36 PM (snZF9)

108 Thank you, Teresa, AH Lloyd, and Mary.
And, yes, Mary, this was the sister that I recently reconnected with after a long estrangement. The last time that I talked to her was on her birthday, in March, when I sang “Happy Birthday” to her. She enjoyed it.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:36 PM (77rzZ)

109 E has an amazing variety of options. Just got back from Nova Roma. Add in Italia, Adriatic, Aegean, Iberia. One could find a lot of expenses to be paid in these parts.

Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at May 29, 2026 10:36 PM (ohyUf)

110 Isn't most of the US climate around E and F and much of it G-whatever? I've only been to C in winter. Gets a bit nippy.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 10:37 PM (3uBP9)

111 Jeez, Bulg. May she go peacefully and be of blessed memory.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at May 29, 2026 10:37 PM (N5734)

112 "I'm afraid, Dave. I'm afraid, Weird Dave."

Thought why not quote a movie everyone has seen.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2026 10:37 PM (CHHv1)

113 I never used to be a racist asshole.

I am now.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 10:33 PM (9CzvH)

You're not racist. You hate everybody. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 29, 2026 10:37 PM (snZF9)

114 55 47 Teresa, my sister is dying.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ)

Terrible news. Praying for both of you now.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 29, 2026 10:37 PM (0CU3H)

115 Then you take them to the hospital or critical care to get stapled up.
Pro-tip, bring a clean shirt and pants for the kid, but leave him in the blood soaked clothing to get faster service.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 10:33 PM (rbvCR)
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In this particular case, we didn't take him in. By strange coincidence, one of my daughters is an EMT, and she swung by and together we deemed that things were in a good place. He didn't like it, but we made him wear a bandage overnight.

Because toddlers regenerate like werewolves, in two days, we struggled to find the cut.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 10:37 PM (ZOv7s)

116 These new Sanwa Denshi Joysticks and buttons are the cats meow.

This Gimlet ain’t bad either.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 10:38 PM (XV/Pl)

117 Weird Dave’s ONTs hit different. But not in a James Talarico different kind of weird way.

Posted by: H at May 29, 2026 10:38 PM (6Km86)

118 Why are the latitude lines curved but the zone lines aren't?

I think this is flat-earther propaganda.
Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2026 10:31 PM (VHUov)

The only thing flat earthers have to fear is sphere itself.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 10:38 PM (2WIwB)

119 In all honesty, I have absolutely no desire to return to Europe. I would rather visit Mongolia. Really.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ivan, did you see the sunrise? at May 29, 2026 10:39 PM (0aYVJ)

120 I’ve not been to Iceland, but I’ve been to Finland, Sweden and Norway.

Lovely weather and scenery and wildlife. Not too many lightbulb heads.

Reindeer sausage is nice.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 10:39 PM (A5RD0)

121 Bulg, hugs to you. I'm sorry.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 10:39 PM (Xdfhw)

122 Evening all,

We have a launch in the morning.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-41
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: May 30, 2026
Launch Time: 8:25 a.m. PDT (1525 UTC, 17:25 CEST)

https://youtu.be/PNTtpjYDYt8

Posted by: Joyenz at May 29, 2026 10:39 PM (2F0/Y)

123 88 If there isn’t blood spurting out, a bone sticking out and you haven’t lost consciousness for longer than 20 seconds, you’re fine. Don’t be a pussy.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Just home from the hospital I passed out and hit the tile floor hard. Concerned about brain bleed, mostly, I called my doc. He asked, did you break your nose? 'No.' OK, don't worry about it.

those weren't his words, don't remember what he said but that's what it boiled down to

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 10:39 PM (fF9x2)

124 Bulg, I am glad that you were able to reconnect with her before it was too late. I am sorry that your time together now is going to be cut short.

I hope that both of you are able to make the most of what time she has left 💔💔💔

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 29, 2026 10:40 PM (SRRAx)

125 Thank you to all my Hordemates for the good wishes. Thank you all:

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:40 PM (77rzZ)

126 The only polls that count are the ones on election day!

Four months is an eternity in politics!

Did I miss any rose-tinted cliches?

Paxton is not safe, and Collins is worse than "not safe."

And as for that open Senate seat in NC...

Posted by: mnw at May 29, 2026 10:40 PM (RCjYY)

127 Jessica Marino shopping cart gal

"I can fix her"
......

Why would you want to fix that?

Posted by: wth at May 29, 2026 10:41 PM (oq9dX)

128 96 >>Asia and South America seem more interesting.

I think South America is a very overlooked area for a vacation. I like Chile a lot.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 10:33 PM (viF8m)

Completely agree with this. My mom's from South America, and there is a LOT to see down there. You can ski in Chile in the summertime.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 29, 2026 10:41 PM (0CU3H)

129 >>Hubby wants me to have an interest in seeing Germany and Austria. I'm trying to have enthusiasm. I can put on a cheery face I suppose. The Germans I've ever met were irritating and rude, and that was in the US. I don't like beer much other than Shiner. I do not see that being a trip I would like much.

In my experience it makes a big difference where exactly you go and what you want to do. I have no use for Berlin but I've had great times in other areas in Germany, mostly smaller and south, and had a great time. And Switzerland in areas is every bit as beautiful as the photos ace posts and so is Austria.

And you have to like beer. God loves you. And go to South America instead.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 10:42 PM (viF8m)

130 I think the "hot chick committing strange but alluring crime in florida" is probably a meme template you can pull up and add your own text.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 10:42 PM (3uBP9)

131 A vacation choice based on longitudes would be more interesting.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 29, 2026 10:42 PM (W5mpo)

132 I never used to be a racist asshole.

I am now.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 10:33 PM (9CzvH)

Heh. I try not to be a racist, but all these fuckers around me makes this extremely difficult.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ivan, did you see the sunrise? at May 29, 2026 10:42 PM (0aYVJ)

133 {{{Bulg}}}

Prayers going out, for you and her. Comfort for you both, medical staff willing to do their best for her.

Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at May 29, 2026 10:42 PM (sEJiq)

134 Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 10:36 PM (dIske)

Czech pilsners. Years ago Pilsner Urquel licensed a Canadian brewer to make its beer and it's dang tasty.

Posted by: 13times at May 29, 2026 10:43 PM (pIIW9)

135 Bulg,

I'm sorry to read about your sister. Sending prayers and hugs to you and family.

Posted by: Joyenz at May 29, 2026 10:43 PM (2F0/Y)

136 I saw Pale White Horse of Death open for System of a Down at The Whiskey in '82.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 10:44 PM (u/oMr)

137 Isn't most of the US climate around E and F and much of it G-whatever? I've only been to C in winter. Gets a bit nippy.
Posted by: banana Dream

Venice: about 45 degrees north
Fargo: about 47 degrees north
Paris: about 49 degrees north

Latitude ain't everything.

Posted by: mikeski has a bad latitude at May 29, 2026 10:44 PM (VHUov)

138 In high school some friends would have races in the parking lot where we would put our cars in neutral, open the doors and then tac into the wind, backwards. This is a thing you can do in Kansas. Probably not elsewhere.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 10:44 PM (3uBP9)

139 That vid of the guy working from home is spot on. Prettygirl not only insists on desk time with me but when I'm on the phone she insists on participating. It does endear me to court clerks and such so that's a good thing.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 29, 2026 10:45 PM (W5mpo)

140 A hearty, meaty ONT, with a delicious variety of amusements and diversions. Simmered to perfection.

That "dying" old guy with the accommodating nurse miraculously recovered the next day. The kid attempting, with predictable results, to stomp the beer cans did not.

The feline work assistant - how did you get that picture of our dear old Ony cat?

Posted by: mindful webworker - and hospital ghosts at May 29, 2026 10:45 PM (kU8xu)

141 Very sorry to hear that, Bulg. Wish I knew something to say.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2026 10:46 PM (CHHv1)

142 OK, with the potatoes...
Where is the actual recipe to be found?

Also, isn't there a French word for those sorts of potatoes?

Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 10:46 PM (kU0PQ)

143 The largest water park in Europe is in Spain so whatever zone that’s in.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 10:46 PM (XV/Pl)

144 Florida Woman with twigs in hair arrested after throwing nuts at police officers and yelling "I am the Squirrel Queen!"

-- picture of tweet from Florida TV station.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 10:47 PM (qx7Zg)

145 E or F for weather and food.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 29, 2026 10:47 PM (d9FiM)

146 As to which zone....
Which one do I think I could conquer the easiest?

Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 10:47 PM (kU0PQ)

147 never used to be a racist asshole.

I am now.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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I dislike everyone in a my own special way.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2026 10:47 PM (HQBRg)

148 I love you, Bers.

Hug wife. I love her more.
And I miss WDS. Damn. She was a hoot.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 10:48 PM (PComA)

149 My biggest question about FL Woman is how did she rig the sail? A shower curtain is square-ish so I'm assuming lanteen or gaff?

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 10:48 PM (vTZFs)

150 When I lived in Germany, I got some Budweiser, the original Czech brew. I wish I had saved a bottle. it was a pilsner, but pretty good.

I also had a bottle of Stolichnaya with the Cyrillic script. Paid like a buck two-fitty for it in East Berlin. Again, wish I had kept the bottle.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ivan, did you see the sunrise? at May 29, 2026 10:48 PM (0aYVJ)

151 In my experience it makes a big difference where exactly you go and what you want to do. I have no use for Berlin but I've had great times in other areas in Germany, mostly smaller and south, and had a great time. And Switzerland in areas is every bit as beautiful as the photos ace posts and so is Austria.

And you have to like beer. God loves you. And go to South America instead.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 10:42 PM (viF8m)

Hubby lived in Bavaria for a while. He lived right there at Neuschwanstein. I need to nut up and go. I could put up with beer and sausages and Germans and put on a shit eating grin. . He would be so happy.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 10:49 PM (Xdfhw)

152 Thank you all, for your prayers and thoughts. I cannot tell you how much they mean. I am crying as I type this.

Thank you all. And that includes all those expressed below.

Thank you all for being here.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:49 PM (77rzZ)

153 Praying for you and your sister, Bulg.

Posted by: RandomDave at May 29, 2026 10:50 PM (aJQbY)

154 Strange to say, but Zone F is where it's at. Morocco is a great place to visit. Stay in a Riad in Marrakech if you can; it's North African hospitality culture at its finest.

Otherwise, the high rollers can book a room at La Mamounia, a first-rate hotel experience just a hop, skip and a rented camel ride from the city square at Jemaa al-Fnaa.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 10:51 PM (u/oMr)

155 Fondant Potatoes, or pommes de terre fondantes

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 10:51 PM (rbvCR)

156 >>Completely agree with this. My mom's from South America, and there is a LOT to see down there. You can ski in Chile in the summertime.

I went to a bachelor party in the Lakes Region of southern Chile. Old customer who turned into a lifelong friend. Absolutely spectacular area and very friendly and safe.

We went for a hike in a national park one morning and then ended up having lunch at a ski lodge that was on a mountain that was an active volcano. As in it was venting smoke constantly. Overlooked a huge crystal clear lake. And it was cheap compared to going to Europe.

Loved every time I've visited South America.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 10:51 PM (viF8m)

157 My biggest question about FL Woman is how did she rig the sail? A shower curtain is square-ish so I'm assuming lanteen or gaff?
Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 10:48 PM (vTZFs)
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If she's running before the wind, a square rig would do quite well. She'd have to be careful when she comes about to make a turn, tho.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 10:52 PM (ZOv7s)

158 My biggest question about FL Woman is how did she rig the sail? A shower curtain is square-ish so I'm assuming lanteen or gaff?
Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 10:48 PM (vTZFs)

Honestly, she could have done a Polynesian Crab-Claw rig, it can use a more square sail.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 10:53 PM (rbvCR)

159 135 Thank you, Joyenz. I miss your Dad. Best wishes to you and yours.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:54 PM (77rzZ)

160 I would much prefer travel
To SA than Europe.

Is it safe for a single white woman?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 10:54 PM (4piHn)

161 153 Thank you.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:55 PM (77rzZ)

162 I speak Spanish, but not Portuguese.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 10:56 PM (4piHn)

163 The Florida Woman in the shopping cart on the Interstate doesn't need to be fixed. She's just fine, as-is.

Posted by: a.moron at May 29, 2026 10:56 PM (X5Jzz)

164 Honestly, she could have done a Polynesian Crab-Claw rig, it can use a more square sail.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 10:53 PM (rbvCR)
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*golf clap*

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 10:57 PM (ZOv7s)

165 Region E. I could spend 2 weeks in Italy alone, and if that fails, plenty of interesting stuff to see on the other side of the Adriatic coast, I'll bet.

Honestly though? Fuck most of the places in that map. I'd rather spend my time in parts of Asia these days.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 10:57 PM (AUL7F)

166 I love you, Bers.

Hug wife. I love her more.
And I miss WDS. Damn. She was a hoot.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 10:48 PM (PComA)

We love you too. Yeah, I think about WDS somewhat often. She was a riot.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 29, 2026 10:58 PM (snZF9)

167 Honestly though? Fuck most of the places in that map. I'd rather spend my time in parts of Asia these days.

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Vietnam is worth a look.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 10:58 PM (u/oMr)

168 Leaving for zone E and F on June 24 with daughter, son-in-law and grandkids. Portugal... Peniche and south to the Med.

Posted by: wth at May 29, 2026 10:59 PM (oq9dX)

169 Sorry, Cicero,

Marakesh was a nightmare. I was with two girlfriends and we were dressed appropriately. We were hissed at in public in the daytime, followed and harassed. And this was 20 years ago.

I doubt the sand people have progressed much.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 10:59 PM (A5RD0)

170 155 Fondant Potatoes, or pommes de terre fondantes
Posted by: Kindltot
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So, potatoes, a can of cream of celery soup, some cilantro, garlic and onion and you're good to go?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 11:00 PM (fF9x2)

171 If anyone needs a dose of cuteness, this video might help.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ElsSjQwzVKg

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 11:00 PM (qx7Zg)

172 Prays for you sister Bulg. At least you reconnected with her. Thats worth a lot.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 29, 2026 11:00 PM (snZF9)

173 Marakesh was a nightmare. I was with two girlfriends and we were dressed appropriately. We were hissed at in public in the daytime, followed and harassed. And this was 20 years ago.

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You're lucky you weren't in Fez.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 11:01 PM (u/oMr)

174 Polling is broken completely. I can point to no better example than the fact that not one single poll picked up on the fact that Paxton was cruising towards a 2-1 victory over Cornyn.

How could an honest, worthwhile polling outfit have missed such a huge trend? But they all did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 11:02 PM (QDJ2U)

175 172 Yes, I’m very glad about that.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 11:03 PM (77rzZ)

176 Oh, and definitely category E on that map. South of France, Monaco, Most of Italy, and some of the Greek Isles.
Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 10:12 PM (dIske)

I used to spend time looking at Greek islands I could buy (some day). Now that "some day" has expired, unfortunately. Still, it's fun to dream.

(Those dreams included a large Phalanx system on the top of the fortress, an army of 'ettes to defend the place, and a nuke to power the place.)

Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 11:03 PM (kU0PQ)

177 >>I would much prefer travel
To SA than Europe.

>>Is it safe for a single white woman?

Like everywhere, depends on when and where. The more public and touristy areas I've been during the day are fine, some get sketchier after dark.

You'd feel right at home in southern Chile. It feels like the Pacific Northwest.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 11:04 PM (viF8m)

178 "S.F. pedestrian hit by recycling truck suffers life-threatening injuries"

You know there's an old punchline just dying to try it again.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 29, 2026 11:05 PM (W5mpo)

179 Vietnam is worth a look.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 10:58 PM (u/oMr)

Saigon has gone through a bit of a conversion.

https://tinyurl.com/bdzckmyu

Posted by: javems at May 29, 2026 11:05 PM (zFsEm)

180 Hard to match my time in Vietnam, mostly because of the march of time (it was much mellower then, and far fewer dai tourists, and very few who got off the beaten path such as it was), and circumstances. Linked up with a local the whole time (gf), whose daddy had been VC but then a fairly high-ranking guvamint official, so lived in a 'hood, did local things, and once stayed in a military vacation hotel (Nha Trang) thanks to daddy's status.

Her father had been on the trail during the war, was grateful to have survived, was sent to East Germany for college (accounting), ended up finance minister of a key province, but was sidelined for outing corruption. When he visited his daughter in the US he spent a lot of time at the Jefferson Memorial, making her translate every word on the walls. He was wildly pro-American.

Vietnam in the 90s was an incredibly cheap, impossibly friendly paradise for those who don't mind a few - none important - rough edges.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 29, 2026 11:05 PM (U/Byj)

181 Vietnam is worth a look.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 10:58 PM (u/oMr)
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I'm partial to the Thai ladyboys!

Posted by: Devoted Seminarian Talerico at May 29, 2026 11:06 PM (ZOv7s)

182 @174 Polling depends entirely on the rationality of the respondents. We no longer live in an age where the unrational can be disregarded. Instead, they are courted. And they add to the count. And we get the results we have seen in recent years.

The Insane vote. And they vote for their friends.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2026 11:07 PM (CHHv1)

183 Original Predator movie on TV.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2026 11:08 PM (HQBRg)

184 I speak Spanish but I hear they don't like that in Portugal.
Maybe some will speak English, I don't like offending the locals.

Posted by: wth at May 29, 2026 11:08 PM (oq9dX)

185 You'd feel right at home in southern Chile. It feels like the Pacific Northwest.
Posted by: JackStraw

If you stand on your head

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 29, 2026 11:08 PM (W5mpo)

186 Also, isn't there a French word for those sorts of potatoes?
Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 10:46 PM (kU0PQ)

Les petites Pom de Terres.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 11:08 PM (QDJ2U)

187 My unicorn got eaten by my ocelot.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:08 PM (/+uur)

188 Tallarico has a GF

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:10 PM (/+uur)

189 Fondant Potatoes, or pommes de terre fondantes
Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 10:51 PM (rbvCR)

"Fondant" was the word I was looking for. Thank you.

Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 11:10 PM (kU0PQ)

190 I'm debating a package tour to somewhere, wherever. Whatever continent. I'm good at planning domestic trips. But I'm tired of being the planner. I just want to go without the drama.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 11:10 PM (Xdfhw)

191 My unicorn got eaten by my ocelot.
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:08 PM (/+uur)
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My hovercraft is full of eels.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 11:10 PM (ZOv7s)

192 >>If you stand on your head

It's weird how the further south you drive down there the more north it feels.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 11:12 PM (viF8m)

193 What's in Zone J?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 11:12 PM (Cqx++)

194 190 I'm debating a package tour to somewhere, wherever. Whatever continent. I'm good at planning domestic trips. But I'm tired of being the planner. I just want to go without the drama.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Go on a cruise. Max passengers 500.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 11:12 PM (BApYz)

195 Tallarico has a GF
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:10 PM (/+uur)
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So does Senator Spartacus. Does she live in Canada?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 11:12 PM (ZOv7s)

196 190 I'm debating a package tour to somewhere, wherever. Whatever continent. I'm good at planning domestic trips. But I'm tired of being the planner. I just want to go without the drama.

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That's pretty open-ended. Care to elaborate?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 11:12 PM (u/oMr)

197 I don't care about Europe or the zones. Can I take the money instead?

Posted by: Case at May 29, 2026 11:12 PM (8XBuM)

198 Tallarico has a GF

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:10 PM (/+uur)

Who works at a gay bar in Austin. Cheer Up Charlie's or something something. Sure, Jan.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 11:13 PM (Xdfhw)

199 Also, isn't there a French word for those sorts of potatoes?
Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 10:46 PM (kU0PQ)

Les petites Pom de Terres.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 11:08 PM (QDJ2U)

LOL. I should have said for "potatoes cooked like that". Along with fondant, I might have been thinking of "croquettes". Which is NOT what that recipe was.

Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 11:13 PM (kU0PQ)

200 Warrens cheek bones were so high she was pretendian princessist

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:13 PM (/+uur)

201 Have many many places to go in all the zones, plus Asia, but especially South America and Central America. Who couldn't find great things to do in all those European zones? Jeebus.

Spent half a year in Brazil and only scratched the surface, in a way. But Chile and Argentina are top of the list.

Was lucky to hit certain off-beat places during what may be their best times, like Vietnam. Eritrea another one, amazing trip. The changes, even "improvements", would make them less appealing now. Doubt Angola has improved much, but still, seen enough. Azerbaijan would be much better, but meh. Next door Georgia though I want to see, will be unrecognizable to me.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 29, 2026 11:13 PM (U/Byj)

202 I've heard great things about Vietnam.

But I think it may be a poor fit for me. My father was there, and I think I owe some of my fun-filled upbringing to his experience. So I'm not sure I could enjoy being there except as part of a massive invasion force. Sort of a "Surprise, nothing is forgiven" tour. Yes, I know this is irrational.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 11:14 PM (AUL7F)

203 Let's go Canes!!!

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 29, 2026 11:14 PM (5yDGQ)

204 My hovercraft is full of eels.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 11:10 PM (ZOv7s)

Add moor hover

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:14 PM (/+uur)

205 195 Tallarico has a GF
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:10 PM (/+uur)
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So does Senator Spartacus. Does she live in Canada?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 11:12 PM (ZOv7s)

They are dating
The GFs that is

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:15 PM (/+uur)

206 29, 2026 11:12 PM (viF8m)

193 What's in Zone J?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 11:12 PM (Cqx++)

You mean Zone Jigaboo?

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 11:15 PM (QDJ2U)

207 Yes, I know this is irrational.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 11:14 PM (AUL7F)

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Vietnam has a very young population that loves Americans. Especially in the South.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 11:15 PM (u/oMr)

208 202 I've heard great things about Vietnam.

2.25 bucks
Same as downtown

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:16 PM (/+uur)

209 I loathe the heat. Anything over 72, if not directly on the water , is horrid.

I would love to ski in chile.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 11:16 PM (A5RD0)

210 They are dating
The GFs that is
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:15 PM (/+uur)
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"I am very attracted to women. Like Rosaria Dawson. Whom I am dating. In a serious way."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 11:17 PM (ZOv7s)

211 210 They are dating
The GFs that is
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:15 PM (/+uur)
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"I am very attracted to women. Like Rosaria Dawson. Whom I am dating. In a serious way."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 11:17 PM (ZOv7s)

She does not have to suck the D
Works out very well

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:18 PM (/+uur)

212

See Rock City

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 11:18 PM (Cqx++)

213 I swear, modern Democrat male politicians have more beards than the Army of Northern Virginia.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 11:19 PM (ZOv7s)

214 She does not have to suck the D
Works out very well
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:18 PM (/+uur)
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LOL, she's never even seen the D.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 11:19 PM (ZOv7s)

215 That's pretty open-ended. Care to elaborate?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 11:12 PM (u/oMr)

Sure. I've always planned our vacations. We've seen a lot of the US.. Seen much of Australia. Hubby would love to visit Europe again. My interest in Europe is limited. I would go to please Hubby. It would be a chore to plan, because of my lack of interest. But I would do it. But it would be a chore.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 11:19 PM (Xdfhw)

216 I would love to ski in chile.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 11:16 PM (A5RD0)

is that a euphemism

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:21 PM (/+uur)

217 I speak Spanish but I hear they don't like that in Portugal.
Maybe some will speak English, I don't like offending the locals.
Posted by: wth at May 29, 2026 11:08 PM (oq9dX)

They are probably ok with both Spanish and English , however if you speak Spanish to them you will never understand them when they respond. Never.
And the Portuguese speakers will never ever be able to understand why you can't seem to understand them.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 11:21 PM (rbvCR)

218 plenty of interesting stuff to see on the other side of the Adriatic coast, I'll bet.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 10:57 PM (AUL7F)

I'd love to go tour the old Yugoslav countries now that I don't have to be ready to blow them all up with a radio call.

Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 11:22 PM (kU0PQ)

219 It would be a chore to plan, because of my lack of interest. But I would do it. But it would be a chore.

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Think outside the box. Go to Egypt or Jordan.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 11:22 PM (u/oMr)

220 212

See Rock City
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 11:18 PM (Cqx++)

When Tallaricos meets Corey

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:22 PM (/+uur)

221 I would love to ski in chile.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 11:16 PM (A5RD0)

is that a euphemism

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:21 PM (/+uur)
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This comment, he is about me?

Posted by: The Paolo at May 29, 2026 11:23 PM (ZOv7s)

222 216 I would love to ski in chile.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 11:16 PM (A5RD0)

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I rolled around in baked beans.

Posted by: Ann Margaret at May 29, 2026 11:23 PM (u/oMr)

223 They are both dating George Glass

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:23 PM (/+uur)

224 Florida Woman with twigs in hair arrested after throwing nuts at police officers and yelling "I am the Squirrel Queen!"
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 10:47 PM (qx7Zg)

She's lucky she didn't get shot. Police can be really touchy with nuts.

Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 11:24 PM (kU0PQ)

225 Think outside the box. Go to Egypt or Jordan.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 11:22 PM (u/oMr)
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I've stayed away from the box for my entire life.

Posted by: Barry O. at May 29, 2026 11:24 PM (ZOv7s)

226 Swim in spaghetti

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 11:25 PM (Cqx++)

227 That's a lot of work for spuds. Bake'em, pressure cook'em, mash'em. That's about all the effort I'll put into a potato.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 29, 2026 11:26 PM (D1E+2)

228 218 plenty of interesting stuff to see on the other side of the Adriatic coast, I'll bet.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 10:57 PM (AUL7F)

I'd love to go tour the old Yugoslav countries now that I don't have to be ready to blow them all up with a radio call.
Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 11:22 PM (kU0PQ)

I feel the same way about Russia, more or less, and would love to see it. But it seems less appealing now that we've been fighting a proxy war against for several years. Maybe I'm just being paranoid. But paranoia has worked well for me so far.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 11:26 PM (AUL7F)

229 223 They are both dating George Glass
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:23 PM (/+uur)

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George Glass? Oh Jan.

Posted by: Marsha Marsha Marsha at May 29, 2026 11:27 PM (u/oMr)

230 I am calling in sick

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:27 PM (/+uur)

231 Think outside the box. Go to Egypt or Jordan.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 11:22 PM (u/oMr)
S

We are thinking of Japan. That seems like an interesting place to visit.

Are women allowed to visit Egypt or Jordan without wearing a hijab or a scarf? I'm not going to do that.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 11:27 PM (Xdfhw)

232 >>Think outside the box. Go to Egypt or Jordan.

Are we still preparing for our tour of the VI/BVI?

Cause I'm your huckleberry travel planner for that one.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 11:27 PM (viF8m)

233 She's lucky she didn't get shot. Police can be really touchy with nuts.
Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 11:24 PM (kU0PQ)
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(Obligatory)

Especially deez nutz.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 11:27 PM (ZOv7s)

234 Good evening morons e grazie wd

If you think Kid Franpsycho accepted "you'll be fine" as a full diagnosis you would be mistaken. Not until dad threatened to take me to Queens Hospital Center ER. That was very healing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 11:27 PM (RIvkX)

235 229

hahaaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 11:27 PM (/+uur)

236 Kindltot dunno if it's the same with Spain/Portugal, but in Brazil it was a one-way linguistic membrane with their Spanish-speaking neighbors. Brazilians easily understood most Spanish, but other way, fuggetaboutit. Spanish-language novelas (prime time soaps) ran without subtitles in Brazil. In Argentina, Brazilian novelas (best in the world at the time) always had subtitles.

Saw it personally too. Some very nice Chileans at a BBQ in Parana, prosperous southern Brazilian state, had to settle for German with me (they were fluent), my Portuguese by then was pretty good but Swahili to them.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 29, 2026 11:28 PM (U/Byj)

237 Well, the white male Democrat politicians have beards. The black Democratic male politicians have hookers and side pieces.

Posted by: Wally at May 29, 2026 11:28 PM (uQ0bR)

238 Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:36 PM (77rzZ)

May both of you have true peace and may all involved have strength for this time. Prayers up.

Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 11:28 PM (kU0PQ)

239 Think outside the box. Go to Egypt or Jordan.

I think if I won the lottery tomorrow I could spend whatever's left of my life traveling and seeing and doing cool and fun stuff without ever leaving the US.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 11:29 PM (vTZFs)

240 I hate traveling.
I like being in new places, but I hare getting there.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 29, 2026 11:30 PM (fE6HJ)

241 I feel the same way about Russia, more or less, and would love to see it. But it seems less appealing now that we've been fighting a proxy war against for several years. Maybe I'm just being paranoid. But paranoia has worked well for me so far.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 11:26 PM (AUL7F)
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There's nothing there. Like Oakland, except colder.

Maybe the Hermitage is worthwhile if you like 10th century wooden icons.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 11:31 PM (RIvkX)

242 Are women allowed to visit Egypt or Jordan without wearing a hijab or a scarf? I'm not going to do that.

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Westerners don't need to be covered, although to be safe you should not wander off away from your male escort.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 11:32 PM (u/oMr)

243 Saw it personally too. Some very nice Chileans at a BBQ in Parana, prosperous southern Brazilian state, had to settle for German with me (they were fluent), my Portuguese by then was pretty good but Swahili to them.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 29, 2026 11:28 PM (U/Byj)

I speak Spanish and I have seen it from the other side, the Brazilians all understand me fine, I just talk funny. They, however, make amusing noises that only sound like language. Even when they speak Spanish. When I watch Brazilian videos with Portuguese sub titles all I can think is "They are pronouncing it wrong"
Portuguese has too many phonemes next to Spanish, and the ear gets confused in the sheer volume of half-tones and nasals.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 11:33 PM (rbvCR)

244 Jordan was fantastic (this was 20 years ago). Small, easy to operate in, lots to see. Go down to Aqaba (nice fish restaurants, and if you're lucky you can watch intercepts of Houthi drones over nearby Eilat!). From there spend a day touring Petra (amazing). Next day have a descendant of the Howeitat who rode with Lawrence to take Aqaba from the Turks guide you around Wadi Rum (spectacular, for a taste see clips from "Lawrence of Arabia" on UToob). Do a boat dive in the Red Sea.

Bear in mind that Jordan is mostly Palestinians and sort of batshit stupid on all that stuff, but the tribes and royal family are pretty efficient at security. Amman is nice, go a bit north for some Roman ruins and wine country.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 29, 2026 11:33 PM (U/Byj)

245 Hubby wants me to have an interest in seeing Germany and Austria. I'm trying to have enthusiasm. I can put on a cheery face I suppose. The Germans I've ever met were irritating and rude, and that was in the US. I don't like beer much other than Shiner. I do not see that being a trip I would like much.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 10:34 PM (Xdfhw)

Mary, I've heard changes have happened in the German character in the last 10 years, but....
Bavarians were always a little different than Yankee Germans in terms of friendliness. They still don't say "pardon me"* when squeezing past you in the store aisle, but if you attempt some German (like "I don't speak German, can you help me in English?") they were generally welcoming.

As to beer, spend your time in Franconia, the home of the funny-shaped wine bottles. They have winefests all spring and summer (and into fall). You can also drink radler (a beer-lemonade mix) in the summer. It's actually really good. And, of course, all the fun castles with funky histories are in Bavaria.

Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 11:33 PM (kU0PQ)

246 Evening, folken! I thought I'd drop in before heading off to sleep. Just finished watching 2024's The Apprentice, with an uncannily-good Sebastian Stan (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) as Trump from age 28 or so into his 40s. The movie is a hit piece, of course, with various unflattering anecdotes from Ivana's book about life as the first Mrs. Trump. But Stan's performance is amazing, as is Jeremy Strong's as Roy Cohn.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 11:33 PM (wzUl9)

247 I think if I won the lottery tomorrow I could spend whatever's left of my life traveling and seeing and doing cool and fun stuff without ever leaving the US.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 11:29 PM (vTZFs)

I agree. But am trying to please my hubby who wants to do.a big international trip. I'm taking deep breaths .

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 11:34 PM (Xdfhw)

248 Bear in mind that Jordan is mostly Palestinians and sort of batshit stupid on all that stuff, but the tribes and royal family are pretty efficient at security.

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My experience was that there are Palestinians, and then there are the balance of the population that despises the Palestinians.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 11:35 PM (u/oMr)

249 And I would choose Zone B. Scotland, Sweden, Finland, the tip of Denmark? Yeah, they've been swarmed by invaders, but so has the UK.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 11:35 PM (wzUl9)

250 But paranoia has worked well for me so far.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 11:26 PM (AUL7F)

Always remember and never forget: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean no one is out to get you.

Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 11:35 PM (kU0PQ)

251 I've heard great things about Vietnam.

But I think it may be a poor fit for me. My father was there, and I think I owe some of my fun-filled upbringing to his experience. So I'm not sure I could enjoy being there except as part of a massive invasion force. Sort of a "Surprise, nothing is forgiven" tour. Yes, I know this is irrational.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 11:14 PM (AUL7F)
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My dad came back with a deep affection for Vietnam and the people. Lib little sis did visit where he was stationed in Saigon and Long Binh a couple years ago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 11:37 PM (RIvkX)

252 Thanks WeirdDave.
Night, y'all.

Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 11:37 PM (kU0PQ)

253 Oh Russia is near the top of my list, Franpsycho. And since I am somehow indifferent as to whose flag flies over Nova Mikhailovka or Kramatorsk, I wish they would finish up with their stupid war with Ukeistan so I can go (could go now but nah, too much b.s. for amerikantsi).

Have seen a bit, lived there a bit, but much to see. Lots of WWII sites - Kursk, Stalingrad (Volgograd), military museums in Moscow. Take the Trans-Siberian to Baikal. See what Leningrad is like as St Petersburg.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 29, 2026 11:37 PM (U/Byj)

254 . . . Portuguese has too many phonemes next to Spanish, and the ear gets confused in the sheer volume of half-tones and nasals.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026

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Written Portuguese *looks* much like Spanish on the page. Once you understand that "ao-with-the-tilde" thing, it's oddly easier than you'd think.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 11:38 PM (wzUl9)

255 @191 Drop your panties, Sir William, I cannot wait until lunchtime.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2026 11:39 PM (CHHv1)

256 JFC

Mariners once again trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 11:40 PM (PTUsc)

257 We are thinking of Japan. That seems like an interesting place to visit.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
.......

My nephew from Germany went there for a few months. He said it was insane.

Posted by: wth at May 29, 2026 11:40 PM (oq9dX)

258 Mrs. F. visited Aqaba as a yute. Cairo too. Of course this was many years ago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 11:41 PM (RIvkX)

259 @240 l hate traveling.

I hate it too. Done lots of it in my younger days, maybe too much. But it was fun back then, now it seems like a big hassle. I remember when flying was fun. Now you can't get me near an airport. It's like riding in a bus full of rude people.
Even the airport people are rude.

Posted by: Case at May 29, 2026 11:43 PM (8XBuM)

260 Tomorrow, car wash and a trip to Walmart to pick up some more Feline Pine cat litter. I'm exhausted already just thinking about it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 11:44 PM (wzUl9)

261 At least the Brits convict their murderers quickly. A Sikh stabbed an innocent man to death in Dcember 2025; convicted yesterday of murder, will be sentenced June 1. He'll get life. https://tinyurl.com/3c6r8vxw

Done, under six months.

OTOH, Charlie Kirk's killer will face a (delayed) preliminary hearing in July -- ten months after the murder. And still no trial date.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 29, 2026 11:44 PM (JbymY)

262 Please. Killmenow

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 11:45 PM (hv2WN)

263 Aqaba has beaches segregated by sex. You're better off in Eilat on the Israel side.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 11:45 PM (u/oMr)

264 Oh Russia is near the top of my list, Franpsycho
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I'm going to Colorado next month.
/wanly

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 11:45 PM (RIvkX)

265 My Portuguese is from Brazil and Brazilians so "continental" is not instantly easy to understand. And that includes in Africa, where the educated types of course speak continental. People in Portugal and Africa usually are amused by Brazilian pronunciation from a foreigner, but they get it, Brazil is not just huge, but the engine of lusophone pop culture in the world, far more foreigners learning that flavor than continental.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 29, 2026 11:45 PM (U/Byj)

266 Oh FFS

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 11:46 PM (hv2WN)

267 260 Tomorrow, car wash and a trip to Walmart to pick up some more Feline Pine cat litter. I'm exhausted already just thinking about it.

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Having the grandbabies down to the boat. It's not buying cat litter, but it should be fun.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 11:47 PM (u/oMr)

268 Oh FFS
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 11:46 PM (hv2WN)
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Sounds like a baseball fan.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 11:47 PM (RIvkX)

269 Franpsycho, I think Boulder might remind you in some ways of Moscow of your youth. At least the people's mindset (actually that's slandering Muscovites of the 80s, who were mostly "over it" WRT the Sovyetskiy Soyuz by then).

Posted by: rhomboid at May 29, 2026 11:48 PM (U/Byj)

270 Not sure what is going on, Nurse, but here's a virtual hug if that helps.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2026 11:49 PM (CHHv1)

271 Tomorrow I am going to the dept store in the next town over to get a security tag removed.
Missed it when we went shopping last weekend.
Will probably end up buying more stuff.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 29, 2026 11:49 PM (fE6HJ)

272 Written Portuguese *looks* much like Spanish on the page. Once you understand that "ao-with-the-tilde" thing, it's oddly easier than you'd think.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 11:38 PM (wzUl9)

Reading, yes. Not speaking. Seriously, no Portuguese speaker comprehends that a Spanish speaker needs special training to understand the language. Sarah Hoyt had a hilarious rant about trying to order a burrito at a drive-through and I don't think she understood the problem.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 11:50 PM (rbvCR)

273 Always remember and never forget: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean no one is out to get you.
Posted by: GWB

But if everyone is out to get you, being paranoid won't help.

Posted by: mikeski checks under the bed at May 29, 2026 11:50 PM (VHUov)

274 Evening, Weird Dave, and ONT Horde. Putting the convertible in going-home gear tomorrow morning.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2026 11:51 PM (8zz6B)

275 So how come the forces manifested by AOC are suddenly anti AI? Thought that was modern techie stuff and the modern techie types were all "left" except for Musk? And the biggest uses for AI are control, surveillance, eliminating workers and lying about history. What gives? Is it a briar patch move?

Posted by: Azjaeger at May 29, 2026 11:51 PM (3/XaG)

276 Cicero looks like it might be sunny tomorrow, though cool on the water (as usual). My niece uses the family boat quite a bit. 38-ft green Beneteau.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 29, 2026 11:52 PM (U/Byj)

277 275 So how come the forces manifested by AOC are suddenly anti AI? Thought that was modern techie stuff and the modern techie types were all "left" except for Musk? And the biggest uses for AI are control, surveillance, eliminating workers and lying about history. What gives? Is it a briar patch move?
Posted by: Azjaeger at May 29, 2026 11:51 PM (3/XaG)

Chinese money for one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 11:53 PM (bss/y)

278 ONT WTF
@OntWtf
Dying man wanted to see tits one last time. Some heroes wear scrubs.
5:23 PM · May 29, 2026
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On film? Yeah, no. Call your wife or g.f. sir the nurses are not here for that.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 11:54 PM (RIvkX)

279 E all the way. 1 week in Madrid and 1 week in Rome.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 29, 2026 11:55 PM (R86kT)

280 D. Austria, Hungary, Romania.... some of Europe I have not seen yet.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 29, 2026 11:56 PM (mP0Kj)

281 276 Cicero looks like it might be sunny tomorrow, though cool on the water (as usual). My niece uses the family boat quite a bit. 38-ft green Beneteau

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The forecast does look perfect.

Beneteaus are great ships (it's supposedly the largest private watercraft producer on Earth now). I have access to a couple of 41s through my sailing club, but I'm really liking my Hunter 27-3.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 11:56 PM (6/7Fs)

282 Teresa, my sister is dying.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ)

Condolences, Bulg.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2026 11:57 PM (8zz6B)

283 Mariners take the lead.

But. My goodness, our relief pitching SUCKS

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 11:57 PM (A5RD0)

284 Franpsycho, I think Boulder might remind you in some ways of Moscow of your youth. At least the people's mindset (actually that's slandering Muscovites of the 80s, who were mostly "over it" WRT the Sovyetskiy Soyuz by then).
Posted by: rhomboid at May 29, 2026 11:48 PM (U/Byj)
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Как приятно

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 11:57 PM (RIvkX)

285 Teresa, my sister is dying.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ)

Condolences, Bulg.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2026 11:57 PM (8zz6B)
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Very sorry to hear this news and I hope you will see her soon.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 30, 2026 12:00 AM (RIvkX)

286
280 D. Austria, Hungary, Romania.... some of Europe I have not seen yet.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 29, 2026 11:56 PM (mP0Kj)

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D: Switzerland, Northern Italy, Victor Orban's peaceful Hungary.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 30, 2026 12:01 AM (JbymY)

287 May God give your sister relief and peace, Bulg.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 30, 2026 12:01 AM (6/7Fs)

288 There you go flaunting your Cyrillic privilege again.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 30, 2026 12:02 AM (U/Byj)

289 Reading, yes. Not speaking. Seriously, no Portuguese speaker comprehends that a Spanish speaker needs special training to understand the language. Sarah Hoyt had a hilarious rant about trying to order a burrito at a drive-through and I don't think she understood the problem.
Posted by: Kindltot
.......

Taco Bell solved that problem long ago with the picture menu and ebonic spelling.
Burr-ee-toe
Tah-co
En-chi-ree-toe

Posted by: wth at May 30, 2026 12:02 AM (oq9dX)

290 D: Switzerland, Northern Italy, Victor Orban's peaceful Hungary.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 30, 2026 12:01 AM (JbymY)

I had the great opportunity to snow ski in Switzerland and Northern Italy...

And yeah... early 80's... back when skiing was WAYYYYYY different between the US and Europe.

We were shredding... and people there were like... wait... we can have FUN doing this? We don't do this just to look Mahvelous?

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 30, 2026 12:03 AM (mP0Kj)

291 Almost Saturday here in CDST zone. I'm disembarking now. To dream of travels to exotic places - or not.

https://youtu.be/Ai0TDkEjJtI

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - lemme tell ya about the dream I had with Mao, Milton Berle, and George Burns. It at May 30, 2026 12:04 AM (kU8xu)

292 It doesn't always work. Some hamsters disavow it.

We are spending 4 days in Boulder at Chataqua. Probably nothing worse than we deal with daily here in SF.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 30, 2026 12:05 AM (RIvkX)

293 Why would you want to fix that?
Posted by: wth at May 29, 2026 10:41 PM (oq9dX)

Was she nekkid when she was riding the shopping cart?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2026 12:05 AM (8zz6B)

294 Zone C. We have two little Irish grand kids.

Posted by: Cosda at May 30, 2026 12:06 AM (K1QO5)

295 275 So how come the forces manifested by AOC are suddenly anti AI? Thought that was modern techie stuff and the modern techie types were all "left" except for Musk? And the biggest uses for AI are control, surveillance, eliminating workers and lying about history. What gives? Is it a briar patch move?
Posted by: Azjaeger at May 29, 2026 11:51 PM (3/XaG)

They finally realized that THEY will be watched as well... not just those Fascist righties.

It was like my Older brother, who has smoked Pot for 55 years (since a teenager) asked me once WHY I was worried about being spied on online, or via my phone...

I pointed out if they had that capability before Pot was legal, he would have been in Jail.

He was like.... Oh...

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 30, 2026 12:06 AM (mP0Kj)

296 I'm still not used to the amazingness of the Brave Search AI summary. I'll catch myself still wondering something a few days later after I first wondered it, and then remember that I don't have to wonder things anymore. I don't have to get up the energy for the mental work of exercising my search-fu.

To be fair to me, I got discouraged and out of the habit of even looking, because despite my skill, the engines themselves had been nerfed into uselessness in recent years. But it doesn't matter. Every question that pops into your head, the answers are there for the taking now.

You're not trying to scrape a living from a small plot that mostly grows rocks, as your fieldstone wall grows towering into the sky; you're hunting and gathering in a fecund rainforest where fruit and small prey practically jump into your basket and beg to be eaten. And I'm not sure I'll ever fully adjust to the change.

Posted by: SciVo at May 30, 2026 12:09 AM (Sy6m/)

297 Robert the Cat (TM) update. A lot of non-brat activity. Aggressive butt in face, which I know is a form of affection but I do not want. LEARN THAT.

Mostly normal day. And I am not dead (so far).

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 30, 2026 12:10 AM (CHHv1)

298
We were shredding... and people there were like... wait... we can have FUN doing this? We don't do this just to look Mahvelous?
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 30, 2026 12:03 AM (mP0Kj)

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Sad to say, I went in the summer in the 80s. (Not Hungary). Your way sounds great!!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 30, 2026 12:11 AM (O5nIL)

299
Lol Beckoning

Posted by: four seasons at May 30, 2026 12:12 AM (3ek7K)

300 A man went to the ER with a seriously inflamed throat and a high fever, and was admitted for suspected strep throat, pneumonia and dehydration. The series of tests and throat swabs were taken, and the man was put into a gown, and placed in a bed for rehydration with a couple of bags of saline. Because of possible upper respiratory infection concerns he was asked to wear a mask.
He sat in the bed for a good while, listening to the machine go beep, and a nurse came in too check on him.

He asked the nurse through the mask, "are my testicles black, yet?"

The nurse, just on shift was taken back, but hiked up his gown and checked, moving his testicles a bit to see clearly.
She straightened up and said, "no, they aren't" and turned away to wash her hands.

The patient pulled down his mask and said, "I am sorry, let me ask that more clearly. I meant to ask, 'Are my test results back, yet?'"

Posted by: Kindltot at May 30, 2026 12:13 AM (rbvCR)

301 wokka wokka!

Posted by: Kindltot at May 30, 2026 12:14 AM (rbvCR)

302 Patrick O'Brian had a character say a man not born of a Portuguese mother can ever understand Portuguese.
Isn't that what Brazil speaks?

Posted by: MkY at May 30, 2026 12:15 AM (q6tQZ)

303 It was like my Older brother, who has smoked Pot for 55 years (since a teenager) asked me once WHY I was worried about being spied on online, or via my phone...

I pointed out if they had that capability before Pot was legal, he would have been in Jail.

He was like.... Oh...
Posted by: Romeo13

So what illegality are you hiding?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 30, 2026 12:15 AM (W5mpo)

304 They finally realized that THEY will be watched as well... not just those Fascist righties.

I don't really believe that the likes of AOC "realize" anything. They are told what topics to push by the forces behind the "left". It just strikes me as odd as techie surveillance and propaganda is basically the lifeblood of the " left", who consist of a minority that deeply yearn to be like the overclass of Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. AI is their friend.

Posted by: Azjaeger at May 30, 2026 12:16 AM (3/XaG)

305 Bonus testicle feel.

Posted by: wth at May 30, 2026 12:16 AM (oq9dX)

306 Patrick O'Brian had a character say a man not born of a Portuguese mother can ever understand Portuguese.
Isn't that what Brazil speaks?
Posted by: MkY at May 30, 2026 12:15 AM (q6tQZ)

Yes, well. The other joke was that Maturin spoke Catalan, and honestly. Catalan is bad enough.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 30, 2026 12:18 AM (rbvCR)

307 So what illegality are you hiding?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 30, 2026 12:15 AM (W5mpo)

Three felonies a day

Posted by: Kindltot at May 30, 2026 12:19 AM (rbvCR)

308 The klutz falling on the cans was good, but a recent ONT had a Klutz with a pickup truck!

https://tinyurl.com/ycxjdacm

More better!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 30, 2026 12:19 AM (enwbs)

309 Julio!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 30, 2026 12:20 AM (bOZwV)

310 The klutz falling on the cans was good, but a recent ONT had a Klutz with a pickup truck!

https://tinyurl.com/ycxjdacm

More better!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 30, 2026 12:19 AM (enwbs)

What a stupid asshole.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 30, 2026 12:28 AM (snZF9)

311 Taco Bell solved that problem long ago with the picture menu and ebonic spelling.
Burr-ee-toe
Tah-co
En-chi-ree-toe
Posted by: wth at May 30, 2026 12:02 AM (oq9dX)

El coke-o

Posted by: Diogenes at May 30, 2026 12:29 AM (2WIwB)

312 From the Kosovo-Serbia peace deals to Jack Smith’s conspiracies against Hashim Thaçi and Donald Trump, Journal Magazine presents the first issue of in digital form.

President Donald Trump and Ambassador @RichardGrenell Contribution to Peace in the Balkans

https://tinyurl.com/3st2ba4t

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 30, 2026 12:30 AM (if9yV)

313 What a stupid asshole.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 30, 2026 12:28 AM (snZF9)

He should have close-coupled that toolbox to the truck. It would have moved easily.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2026 12:32 AM (8zz6B)

314 A @StateDept official has confirmed to The Pavlovic Today that Bulgarian businessman Alexander Manolev has been removed from a Biden administration sanctions list.

Trump officials are reviewing other cases they believe may have been influenced by George Soros.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 30, 2026 12:36 AM (if9yV)

315 Boom!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 30, 2026 12:38 AM (A5RD0)

316 Legs brushed against again, meaning time for petting than then bed. Good night, to the best people on the planet.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 30, 2026 12:38 AM (CHHv1)

317 Killmenow

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 30, 2026 12:47 AM (A5RD0)

318
Yeah, no. Call your wife or g.f. sir the nurses are not here for that.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

==============

Agreed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 30, 2026 12:56 AM (n7rxJ)

319
That California mayor, Eileen Wang, who was found to be a Chinese spy was also selling high school diplomas to Chinese people -- like, in China -- so they could fake their way into American colleges.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 30, 2026 01:00 AM (n7rxJ)

320 That California mayor, Eileen Wang, who was found to be a Chinese spy was also selling high school diplomas to Chinese people -- like, in China -- so they could fake their way into American colleges.

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Wow. I can't even imagine what a California high school diploma is worth on the international market.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 30, 2026 01:02 AM (6/7Fs)

321 Wow. I can't even imagine what a California high school diploma is worth on the international market.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 30, 2026 01:02 AM (6/7Fs)

Don't they come on rolls?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2026 01:06 AM (8zz6B)

322 Bulg if you are still around, I am so very sorry about your sister. I am really happy that you guys reconciled and I am sure that your sister takes great comfort in that too.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 30, 2026 01:13 AM (0nHVk)

323 I don't believe the tits story.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 30, 2026 01:31 AM (YlWIZ)

324 Japan is on the move.

Regarding the misunderstanding that "this amendment makes it possible to export lethal weapons"

Previously, domestically produced finished defense equipment could only be transferred to five types: "rescue," "transportation," "alert," "monitoring," and "minesweeping." However, with this review, all types have been made transferable to security partner countries
_Sanae Takaichi

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 30, 2026 01:41 AM (if9yV)

325 It is kind of a quiet Friday night, cool and breezy here. Sweet Dreams Horde.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 30, 2026 01:51 AM (0nHVk)

326
Wow. I can't even imagine what a California high school diploma is worth on the international market.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

===============

Haha, plenty to those who haven't actually visited a California high school or talked to a recent grad.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 30, 2026 01:57 AM (n7rxJ)

327 My biggest question about FL Woman is how did she rig the sail? A shower curtain is square-ish so I'm assuming lanteen or gaff?
Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 10:48 PM (vTZFs)
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If she's running before the wind, a square rig would do quite well. She'd have to be careful when she comes about to make a turn, tho.

I love this place.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 30, 2026 02:00 AM (ufFY8)

328 I need some help here…The fruitcake Senate Candidate from TX
Is it Tal-a-REE-co, or Tah-LAHR-I-co?
Posted by: Gunslinger at May 29, 2026 10:02

I just heard that's not his original name. Anyone know why he chose this name?
To sound more hispanic? His stepfather's name?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at May 30, 2026 02:04 AM (55Qr6)

329 Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:20

So sorry to hear about your sister. Tonight I talked to my Dad's cousin Bev, she is dying of cancer. I wanted to reassure her I had cleaned up the flowers left for Memorial Day.

We'd bought 2 large potted arrangements, planned to bring them home after a bit. Lo and behold...one was stolen. Who is the lowlife that would steal a pot of flowers off a gravesite?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at May 30, 2026 02:23 AM (55Qr6)

330 Wow. I can't even imagine what a California high school diploma is worth on the international market.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 30, 2026 01:02 AM (6/7Fs)

Same as the value in this country - about fifteen cents.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 30, 2026 02:36 AM (T6aVk)

Summertime Cafe

Strange -- some might say alien -- clouds over
Rosewell, NM (!), 2017
via Unwetterfreaks

I think those are mammatus clouds. Because they look like boobies. Hundreds and hundreds of big fluffy boobies.

From last week: It's Friday!

Cat curling, the sport of the future.

Puppy is helping.

Belgian Malinoises being sick athletes.

The greatest danger when you're filming a school of sharks is...

Cat pulls his cat-bed on to the human bed.

"Rubbing the hedgehog's ears," if you know what I mean.

"Washing the platypus," if you catch my drift.

The goat wants to play but doesn't realize that the guardian dog is actually at work.

Dog wants to play but doesn't realize the cows are inanimate.

Dachshund agility demo.

It's the weekend!

Best kind of welcome..🐕🐾😍 pic.twitter.com/pCO41zXvY6
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) May 28, 2026

This is what happiness looks like..🐕🐾😊 pic.twitter.com/JuQriGbU5s
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) May 27, 2026

No matter the species, kids will be kids..🐘😅 pic.twitter.com/qSTw8fBjB2
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) May 26, 2026

Size doesn�t matter!
All cats on Earth run on identical internal software. 😂 pic.twitter.com/zepw2Wbxnx
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) May 29, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:20 PM

Comments

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 29, 2026 07:21 PM (PJdmB)

2 2nd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 29, 2026 07:22 PM (PJdmB)

3 Nooding

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 29, 2026 07:22 PM (PJdmB)

4 Back

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 29, 2026 07:23 PM (PJdmB)

5 The mothership is inside those clouds isn't it?

Posted by: steevy at May 29, 2026 07:24 PM (YwEeS)

6 I think those are mammatus clouds. Because they look like boobies. Hundreds and hundreds of big fluffy boobies.

Now the picture has me thinking of the later parts of Akira.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 07:24 PM (zZu0s)

7 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 07:24 PM (Ia/+0)

8
Another Best of Breed for The Big Dummy at today's Lawton DFA show in Oklahoma City.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2026 07:25 PM (HdYcL)

9 That Leopard in Figen's video is Tank. Check out Safari Sammie's YT channel.

Posted by: steevy at May 29, 2026 07:25 PM (YwEeS)

10 The jumping dog is pretty much exactly like Reef. (As far as the jumping.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 07:25 PM (zZu0s)

11 LOL Paul

Posted by: steevy at May 29, 2026 07:26 PM (YwEeS)

12 I wonder if E Jean Carroll paid taxes on the $7 million from fat boy. Because it is income to E Jean Carroll from fat boy.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 29, 2026 07:26 PM (l26NL)

13 You say Rosewell, I say Roswell -- lit's call the whole place "off."

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 07:28 PM (Av6i5)

14 We made it! A 100% week!

It won't be like this forever, but let us enjoy and celebrate a victory over BP!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 07:28 PM (0sNs1)

15 I was watching some vids about cat psychology. Female cats like to sit atop some high shelf and monitor the territory. Male cats like to explore outside the territory and also are friendlier.
I don't know how true this is because, as you can imagine, the comments were flooded with people saying that Mr Whiskers likes to sit on a high shelf and basically hated everybody, and Miss Tabbie was big on rubbing up on total strangers.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 07:28 PM (gKWVE)

16 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 07:29 PM (Y2B0/)

17 Trump unseen for 48 hours after Walter Reed visit

Posted by: Paul at May 29, 2026 07:25 PM (5+3vm)
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Wish-casting springs eternally from the heart of the political drone.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 07:30 PM (ikSmX)

18 Red clouds at night. Alien fright.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 07:30 PM (Cqx++)

19 Mr Whiskers likes to sit on a high shelf and basically hated everybody, and Miss Tabbie was big on rubbing up on total strangers.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 07:28 PM

Miss Tabbie is THOT.

Posted by: Mr. Whiskers at May 29, 2026 07:31 PM (0sNs1)

20
Atlas V launch no-go for now due to weather constraints.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 07:32 PM (w6EFb)

21 The truth is out there... at aliens.gov.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 07:32 PM (qx7Zg)

22 Karen Bass is spectrum |---------+-| Like full-tilt spectrum. Truly.

That smile pasted on woke faces? Its wolfish. Like gobble your grandma wolfish. I see these people and have an immediate, visceral, reaction; WOLF!

There's a reason fairy tales remain embedded in our collective memory, and Karen Bass exemplifies the smiling, devious wolf.

Posted by: 13times at May 29, 2026 07:32 PM (RNHFB)

23 Anybody drop by aliens.gov?

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 07:32 PM (ikSmX)

24 Anybody drop by aliens.gov?
Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 07:32 PM (ikSmX)

I flew in with my flying saucer.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 07:34 PM (qx7Zg)

25 I don't know how true this is because, as you can imagine, the comments were flooded with people saying that Mr Whiskers likes to sit on a high shelf and basically hated everybody, and Miss Tabbie was big on rubbing up on total strangers.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 07:28 PM (gKWVE)
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I suppose with a large enough sample size you'll see some trends among the cats.

But cats are very individualistic. I had 5 cats (now 4, sadly). Three of them are "climbers" and liked high places. Two of them are "huddlers" and like low places. All of them are female. Two of them enjoy belly rubs. Two of them do not. One is somewhere in between if you catch her in the right mood.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 07:35 PM (gnNyN)

26 Anybody drop by aliens.gov?
Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 07:32 PM

Just went.

Everything they say is true.

Some are anal-probers.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 07:35 PM (0sNs1)

27 Trump unseen for 48 hours after Walter Reed visit

Posted by: Paul at May 29, 2026 07:25 PM (5+3vm)

Only needs another 144 hours to break Biden's record.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 07:35 PM (XMuV+)

28 Anybody drop by aliens.gov?
Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 07:32 PM

Weird that the thread just hung for minutes right after that question, ain't it?

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 07:36 PM (KnoEq)

29 Is something at Aliens worth seeing?
Or all AI crap?

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 07:36 PM (Ia/+0)

30 Right on schedule, Dems on X are pumping out all of their push-polls saying that Talarico is ahead. Yeah right. The most outrageous one claims that 30% of Cornyn voters will vote for Talarico.
Which is idiotic.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 07:37 PM (QDJ2U)

31 I know my brother and sister cat have totally different personalities but it's just a sample size of 2.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 07:37 PM (XMuV+)

32
I wonder which type of large wild animal is most likely to suddenly attack you while you're petting it or ignoring it:

ursine
canine/lupine
feline

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 07:37 PM (n7rxJ)

33 I had to reread the link because that looked like an ewok agility demo.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 29, 2026 07:38 PM (D1E+2)

34
Willowed:

I haven't watched all of the Pratt ads, so forgive me if this ends up being familiar.

Since Bass hates these Lego ads so badly, Pratt should do another one for Bass, as an olive branch.

A music video with the "Everything Is Awesome" Lego song, and Lego Bass cavorting joyously through LA past Lego junkies shooting up Lego heroin, squatting on the sidewalk dropping a huge stinky Lego deuce, with a background of Lego houses burning with the plastic Legos melting into the gutter, and tattooed Lego MS13 thugs beating little old Lego ladies and stealing their Lego I-Phones.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2026 07:38 PM (y9nCu)

35 Evening, Horde. I just signed the forms for hospice for my mom. She's two and half hours away from me. My sister, who lives twenty minutes from her nursing home, has utterly abandoned her. Mom's quality of life has been declining since she had a stroke several years ago, and she hasn't been able to speak or swallow solid food recently. I wish teleportation were real.

Posted by: Beltway Elite at May 29, 2026 07:38 PM (91R3d)

36 I'm not going up to a momma bear to ask which of her cubs wants a belly rub.

Posted by: gKWVE will leave this to Talarico at May 29, 2026 07:39 PM (gKWVE)

37 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2026 07:38 PM (y9n

They did one but changed the words.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 07:39 PM (XMuV+)

38 These sad movies seem to go on forever

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 07:40 PM (Ia/+0)

39 Anybody drop by aliens.gov?
Posted by: Axeman

Paul is here, if that's what you mean

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 29, 2026 07:40 PM (d52Qr)

40 I think those are mammatus clouds but a smaller version. Mammatus - A

Posted by: banana Dream - I know about the cup sizes at May 29, 2026 07:41 PM (3uBP9)

41 My dog is being very comforting tonight. He make every day better.

Posted by: Beltway Elite at May 29, 2026 07:42 PM (91R3d)

42 Aliens.gov is a database where you can see the illegal invaders arrested in your area, what they were doing and a count. A great troll on the part of the white house.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 07:42 PM (3uBP9)

43 ursine
canine/lupine
feline
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 07:37 PM (n7rxJ)

Ask Timothy Treadwell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 07:43 PM (DR/Xu)

44 Our correspondents at Penguin Facts have just been informed that President Trump is on a secret trip to Antarctica to let Big Penguin know, in no uncertain terms, that their mephitic mission will be opposed with the full force of the Navy's elite team of Leopard Seals. This President is not one to bow to the ambitions of a second rate seafowl that walks funny.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at May 29, 2026 07:43 PM (vFG9F)

45 I could have just read what ace posted.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 07:44 PM (3uBP9)

46 Beltway Elite,

Prayers for you. And peace and comfort for mom. I pray she is unafraid and knows you love her.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 07:44 PM (RtbvM)

47
They did one but changed the words.
Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 07:39 PM (XMuV+)

Figures. I thought I'd been all clever and shit. I mean, I'd seen the one where Lego Pratt is the hero, but I didn't know if they'd done another sarcastic one focused on Bass.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2026 07:44 PM (y9nCu)

48 I could have just read what ace posted.

New here?

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 07:46 PM (cIN/p)

49
I could have just read what ace posted.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 07:44 PM (3uBP9)

Doesn't the blog rulebook forbid reading the blog?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2026 07:46 PM (y9nCu)

50 A great troll on the part of the white house.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 07:42 PM (3uBP9)
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From the Trollmaster in chief.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 07:47 PM (ikSmX)

51 Figures. I thought I'd been all clever and shit. I mean, I'd seen the one where Lego Pratt is the hero, but I didn't know if they'd done another sarcastic one focused on Bass.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2026 07:44 PM (y9nCu

I like your idea better where they use the same song ( if they legally could)

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 07:47 PM (XMuV+)

52 I couldn't tell you any other kind of cloud name, "gloufobombulous". Or whatever. No idea. But I always remember mammatus. It also sounds like an autobot. A girl one, of course, with a great rack, that all the other autobots want to go on missions with, especially the very bouncy missions. MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE!

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 07:47 PM (3uBP9)

53 Beltway Elite,
Prayers for you. Such a difficult choice, even when you know you have no other choice.

Posted by: Wenda at May 29, 2026 07:47 PM (5xS0b)

54 30% of the 36% = ~10% of registered and motivated Republicans will vote for Talarico? That's some bullshit. most will sit it out and maybe some will vote for the pothead whoever-he-is. Actually most will likely fall in line.
Paxton will more than make up for Cornyn Class losses with Hispanic male independents, homes.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 07:48 PM (gKWVE)

55 Aliens.gov is a database where you can see the illegal invaders arrested in your area, what they were doing and a count. A great troll on the part of the white house.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 07:42 PM (3uBP9)
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Huh. So in my little semirural community, there have been 8 arrests in the past year. Crimes include Immigration and Traffic Offenses (of course). From Central and South America (of course.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 07:49 PM (gnNyN)

56 I think those are mammatus clouds but a smaller version.
Posted by: banana Dream

I sang a song about the Mammatus of Love!

Posted by: Steve Miller at May 29, 2026 07:49 PM (Y2B0/)

57 I could have just read what ace posted.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 07:44 PM

You're not new here.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 07:50 PM (0sNs1)

58 ULA launch, Spaceflight Now.
youtu.be/tAipfiXqcEc
contains Amazon satellites, which Bezos cannot get up by himself

Posted by: gKWVE hopes this doesn't go boom too at May 29, 2026 07:51 PM (gKWVE)

59 Cat curling, the sport of the future.
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The cat even has its own broom!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 07:52 PM (gnNyN)

60 Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 07:48 PM (gKWVE)

I didn't vote for either in the primary but will vote for Paxton in the general .

I thought if Cornyn won the GOP turn out would have been less. I think most Cornyn voters will vote for Paxton.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 07:52 PM (XMuV+)

61 Belgian Malinoises being sick athletes.

Really enjoy these. The Malinois leaping the fence, twice, while the German Shepherd just stares is hilarious.

Our delightful Malinoisy Daisy is like a rocket when she runs, after a squirrel or a ball. But not too big on any other tricks. I've tried to train her to chase a frisbee like the one in this clip, but she just stares at me.

Posted by: mindful webworker - very big on barking loudly at May 29, 2026 07:53 PM (kU8xu)

62 Mammatus, pappatus and little babytus.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 07:54 PM (Cqx++)

63 ULA launch, Spaceflight Now.
youtu.be/tAipfiXqcEc
contains Amazon satellites, which Bezos cannot get up by himself
Posted by: gKWVE hopes this doesn't go boom too at May 29, 2026 07:51 PM (gKWVE)

Most guys would keep that private, including use of Viagra or Cialis (or others).

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 07:56 PM (qx7Zg)

64 ULA looks like they succeeded. although their engines look 1980s-tier compared to the Raptor.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 07:58 PM (gKWVE)

65 Those mammatus clouds remind me of the three beautiful breasts of my girlfriend...

wait, it is three isn't it? Yes, I think so. In Total Recall it was three.

Posted by: James Talarico at May 29, 2026 07:58 PM (1wjle)

66 The Mammatus and the Pappatus sang California Dreammatus.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 07:59 PM (ikSmX)

67 When the platypus was first discovered, it was called a "water mole". Scientists thought they were being punked with the first specimens. It was some time before the experts found out that the Ornithorhynchus laid eggs, but the natives knew it all along.

Posted by: Platypus Facts at May 29, 2026 08:00 PM (vFG9F)

68 Platypus females have no nipples.

Posted by: Platypus Facts at May 29, 2026 08:01 PM (vFG9F)

69
The Atlas V first stage core is powered by a Rooskie engine, the RD-180 (two nozzle engine).

The Atlas V is supposed to be retired, as ULA moves to the newer Vulcan-Centaur. However, there may be a problem, as the Vulcan uses the same Blue Origin first stage engines as the New Glenn that blowed up last night.

If the problem was with those engines, that may ground the Vulcan for a while. The Vulcan is currently grounded anyway due to some solid booster problem.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 08:02 PM (w6EFb)

70 Starting a week of vacation. Not a moment too soon.

Posted by: davidt at May 29, 2026 08:03 PM (Q+gd/)

71 >>>71 Starting a week of vacation. Not a moment too soon.

strong work this week, take the rest of the week off

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 08:04 PM (1wjle)

72 thanks publius. frankly i hadn't paid a lot of attention to ULA, I just got this recommended to me in Youtube since I was watching the New Glenn do its lateral launch last night.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 08:05 PM (gKWVE)

73 Are you guys breasts men? Or legs men? Or buttocks men?

I can't even decide, I'm so heterosexual I just love them all.

Posted by: James Talarico at May 29, 2026 08:06 PM (1wjle)

74 Hit "1" if you love women's uteruses the way I do!

I love Neighbors with Uteruses so much I start planning abortion care from the moment I first meet one!!!

Posted by: James Talarico, Heterosexual Lover of Neighbors with Uteruses at May 29, 2026 08:08 PM (1wjle)

75 mindful worker, When I tried throwing a frisbee for our Bouvier Barney, he would look up at me and say very clearly, If you want it over there, I will leave it over there.

Posted by: Wenda at May 29, 2026 08:08 PM (5xS0b)

76
One thing crazy about the Atlas V is that off-balance strap-on booster arrangement. 3 on one side and two on the other. Gimballing and canting required to keep it straight.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 08:09 PM (w6EFb)

77 'Alien' clouds … ? Pfft. But no, mes amis … they are naught but simple little 'mammatus' cloudforms … and boy, do they dump a shitload of rain when they let go. That's if there's no tornadic activity along for the ride … then it's even more fun(-ish).

Posted by: Dr_No at May 29, 2026 08:09 PM (ayRl+)

78 The clouds were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 08:09 PM (O7YUW)

79 Our Malinois, Breccia, could climb straight up 8 foot fences. When we modified the fences so she couldn't get out she started tunneling under it. This forced me to bury cinder blocks and attach them to the bottom of the fences.

One of her favorite things to do was leaping onto the kitchen counter and look out the window when I would pull into the driveway. When I got into the house she would be pretending to be sleeping on her bed.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 29, 2026 08:16 PM (IYeV+)

80 Friday. Gateway to next week. Onrush toward the unknown horror. Rapidly.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2026 08:16 PM (CHHv1)

81 Sorry, being a bummer again. Apologies.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2026 08:17 PM (CHHv1)

82 I wish teleportation were real.

Posted by: Beltway Elite

Tough. So sorry.

Posted by: MkY at May 29, 2026 08:18 PM (q6tQZ)

83 "Your breasts are like pillows. Let me fluff your pillows!"

Posted by: obscure movie reference at May 29, 2026 08:18 PM (Q+gd/)

84 Jesse Watters .... Iran coming up.

I'm no longer a fan of edging.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 29, 2026 08:18 PM (Sco7b)

85 Sounds like something Groucho would say.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 29, 2026 08:19 PM (PJdmB)

86 Sorry, being a bummer again. Apologies.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2026 08:17 PM (CHHv1)

You could try posting like you are having a good time, instead, and see if that changes your outlook

"Fake it til you make it" is a terrible strategy for brain surgeons and crop dusters, but it works OK for small talk in social settings.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 08:22 PM (rbvCR)

87 I just cleaned out the golden raspberry bed. Cut out the dead wood. I look like I did 10 rounds with a wet cat. Is it cocktail hour yet?

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 08:25 PM (DwqWV)

88 >>>All cats on Earth run on identical internal software.

It's sweet how he started to tenderize her hand at the end.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 29, 2026 08:25 PM (syz1S)

89 82 Sorry, being a bummer again. Apologies.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

You’re not!

A doc I worked with,
When I said “happy first day of summer!” Said, “ yay, now the days start getting shorter!”

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 08:25 PM (X0iLW)

90 "Fake it til you make it" is a terrible strategy for brain surgeons and crop dusters

Or, it seems, for rockets

Posted by: Jeff Bezos at May 29, 2026 08:25 PM (gKWVE)

91 A doc I worked with,
When I said “happy first day of summer!” Said, “ yay, now the days start getting shorter!”
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 08:25 PM (X0iLW)

Not yet, they aren't. Pretty much light all night just now and gets lighter until the 21st.

It's up to 63 degrees this afternoon and both the dogs and myself are panting.

Too much garden work to do, in this beastly heat. Lol.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 08:27 PM (DwqWV)

92 tcn, time for a G&T

Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 08:31 PM (5P5DO)

93 Too much garden work to do, in this beastly heat. Lol.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Yeah, we're almost getting to our March highs... 84 ish lately.
March, we hit 90's a few times.
My garden sucks. Things are growing, but slowly...

Posted by: MkY at May 29, 2026 08:31 PM (q6tQZ)

94 @86 good advice. thanks.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2026 08:33 PM (CHHv1)

95 92 tcn, time for a G&T
Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 08:31 PM (5P5DO)

You always have the best ideas, darlin'.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 08:34 PM (DwqWV)

96 94 @86 good advice. thanks.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2026 08:33 PM (CHHv1)

Smile widely. It confuses the hell out of progressives. And it feels pretty good, too.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 08:36 PM (DwqWV)

97 >>My garden sucks. Things are growing, but slowly...

Just the opposite here. We've had a lot of snow and rain this year and stuff seems to grow here fast in a normal year, this year I'm out cutting back the forest that is constantly trying to overgrow my yard.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 08:37 PM (viF8m)

98 Roswell, alien fire in the sky.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 08:40 PM (/lPRQ)

99 With me being laid up from my Achilles injury, I decided to swap out my generic joystick and buttons on my bartop arcade for Japanese Sanwa Denshi sticks and buttons.

Night and freaking day in quality and enjoyment.

Enjoying a nice whiskey and playing Galaga.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 08:41 PM (XV/Pl)

100

Pennsylvania Town Officials Vote Down Plan to Turn Haunted Hospital into AI Data Center

https://t.ly/CLVh5

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 08:41 PM (Cqx++)

101 Sorry, being a bummer again. Apologies.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2026 08:17 PM (CHHv1)

Is Robert the cat still making biscuits on you? That could be painful or pleasant, depending on your outlook. He seems to like you.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 08:41 PM (Xdfhw)

102 I really should get to bed and not get off week schedule

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 08:42 PM (Ia/+0)

103 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 08:44 PM (77rzZ)

104 JackStraw.

Got the same problem. The forest is winning.

Posted by: Case at May 29, 2026 08:44 PM (8XBuM)

105 I just cleaned out the golden raspberry bed. Cut out the dead wood. I look like I did 10 rounds with a wet cat.

These euphemisms keep getting more and more obscure.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 08:46 PM (Riz8t)

106 >>Got the same problem. The forest is winning.

I swear some days I can almost see the stuff growing. It's like living in a demented Brothers Grimm story.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 08:48 PM (viF8m)

107 I have, once again, inadvertently booked a room in a hotel that is also hosting some bullshit traveling high school girl's softball team. The kids are just being kids.

The parents, however, are loud, obnoxious, drunken louts.

FML

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 08:48 PM (Y2B0/)

108
Summer solstice will be June 21, 08:25Z, or 4:25AM EDT. The days will start getting shorter then, well for the Northern hemisphere.

If you use the so-called "solar seasons", where the equinoxes and solstices are the midpoints of the seasons, and the cross-quarter points are the start of each, summer began May 5, 11:49Z.

If you use the meteorological definition, summer begins Jun 1.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 08:48 PM (w6EFb)

109

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced he was increasing the refugee cap for white South Africans because of “an unforeseen emergency refugee situation”, signing an executive order to “increase the ceiling to 17,500.” Trump blamed the South African government for “recent increases in the incitement of racially motivated violence”.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 08:49 PM (Cqx++)

110 Not a good idea to mix AI with a former Insane Asylum.

Posted by: Eromero at May 29, 2026 08:49 PM (LHPAg)

111 The Canadians are cooked.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 08:51 PM (viF8m)

112
2-0, Carolina. The Canadian threat is about to be extirpated.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2026 08:51 PM (HdYcL)

113 110 Not a good idea to mix AI with a former Insane Asylum.
Posted by: Eromero at May 29, 2026 08:49 PM (LHPAg)

Could get interesting!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 29, 2026 08:52 PM (h7ZuX)

114 The parents, however, are loud, obnoxious, drunken louts.

FML
Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 08:48 PM (Y2B0/)

Start blasting disco. Break out the leisure suit and dance, baby.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 08:53 PM (zZu0s)

115
Now 3-0 and we haven't even finished the first period.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2026 08:54 PM (HdYcL)

116 About two dozen LE eagerly dump all the mags into dirtbag cop killer:
youtube.com/watch?v=BH4k_jllNks

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 08:54 PM (Wq24h)

117
Carolina is outshooting Montreal 15-4. Can't score if you don't put the puck on the net.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2026 08:59 PM (HdYcL)

118 Sorry, being a bummer again. Apologies.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2026 08:17 PM (CHHv1)

Perhaps you need to make a short film featuring Robert the Cat, and turn him into a star. Make an inexpensive horror film, and you too might be the next Cecil B. DeMille - or RtC will be.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 09:03 PM (qx7Zg)

119 Pennsylvania Town Officials Vote Down Plan to Turn Haunted Hospital into AI Data Center

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I'd like to know who is/are the big money behind all the anti-data center advertising and activity that has gee, just miraculously and overnight sprung up all over the country.

Maybe they are all as bad as they say. Perhaps they are not - I don't know. But I do know a grassroots operation when I see one and this ain't it.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 09:03 PM (Y2B0/)

120
I'd like to know who is/are the big money behind all the anti-data center advertising and activity that has gee, just miraculously and overnight sprung up all over the country.

Some say China

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 09:05 PM (Cqx++)

121 Trump unseen for 48 hours after Walter Reed visit

Posted by: Paul at May 29, 2026 07:25 PM (5+3vm)
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He died again just like last Labor Day.

Posted by: Heroq at May 29, 2026 09:05 PM (0TtYd)

122 Rumor is China is funding the data center outrage

Posted by: Accomack at May 29, 2026 09:06 PM (m6Eem)

123 Once Trump leaves, the wolves will fight over our carcass.

Posted by: Accomack at May 29, 2026 09:07 PM (m6Eem)

124 Rumor is China is funding the data center outrage
Posted by: Accomack at May 29, 2026 09:06 PM (m6Eem)

Of course they are.

Posted by: Heroq at May 29, 2026 09:08 PM (0TtYd)

125 118 Sorry, being a bummer again. Apologies.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2026 08:17 PM (CHHv1)

Perhaps you need to make a short film featuring Robert the Cat, and turn him into a star. Make an inexpensive horror film, and you too might be the next Cecil B. DeMille - or RtC will be.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 09:03 PM (qx7Zg)
RobertTheCat has potential, I mean look at Spencer Pratt.

Posted by: Eromero at May 29, 2026 09:08 PM (LHPAg)

126 They are taking farmland to build data centers. There is plenty of unused industrial land that they should be using. That is driving alot of this, plus arrogant local politicians ignoring the voters' concerns.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 29, 2026 09:10 PM (7T8ei)

127 So a few people in my are with No Data signs are Chinese operatives?

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 09:10 PM (Ia/+0)

128
Beckoning,

I love your Robert stories.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 09:11 PM (3ek7K)

129 I've tried to train her to chase a frisbee like the one in this clip, but she just stares at me.
Posted by: mindful webworker - very big on barking loudly at May 29, 2026 07:53 PM (kU8xu)
~~~~~

Well at least she's smarter than my Golden who just lets it hit him in the head.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 29, 2026 09:11 PM (3ImbR)

130 Bertram wonder which former hospital?

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 09:12 PM (Ia/+0)

131 I'd like to know who is/are the big money behind all the anti-data center advertising and activity that has gee, just miraculously and overnight sprung up all over the country.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 09:03 PM (Y2B0/)
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Clearly you're a youngster or you would remember the widespread reaction against "urban sprawl" in the 1990s.

Back then the Dems were the ones driving it, but now they love that sweet, sweet, Big Tech money, and hate local government autonomy, so anyone opposed to turning productive farmland into a future Superfund site must be paid by the CCP.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:13 PM (ZOv7s)

132 They are taking farmland to build data centers. There is plenty of unused industrial land that they should be using. That is driving alot of this, plus arrogant local politicians ignoring the voters' concerns.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 29, 2026 09:10 PM (7T8ei)
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Michigan is awash with vacant urban land. Lansing has a massive hole where the Verlinden Plant used to be. There is nothing there, but it is surrounded by infrastructure.

But no, data centers must be built in the countryside for reasons.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:14 PM (ZOv7s)

133 127 So a few people in my are with No Data signs are Chinese operatives?
Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 09:10 PM (Ia/+0)

No but they’re been duped by CCP propaganda

Posted by: Heroq at May 29, 2026 09:15 PM (0TtYd)

134 Same people who whine about dAtA cEntERs are the same ones who freak out if their internet service goes down for 10 minutes.

Posted by: Heroq at May 29, 2026 09:16 PM (0TtYd)

135 Certainly enough vacant industrial buildings in se Pa, better used than empty

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 09:16 PM (Ia/+0)

136 Maybe they are all as bad as they say. Perhaps they are not - I don't know. But I do know a grassroots operation when I see one and this ain't it.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 09:03 PM (Y2B0/)

To me it feels like a gigantic bubble. One truly insane.

So these data centers run on video cards. Nvidia is supposedly stopping consumer production in order to just make cards for AI. Memory is similar. They are putting all the eggs in one basket and I think I can see why.

Two, all these components are wear items. They probably figure they are creating a gold mine where the data centers will need to constantly replace cards and memory every year.

But if the bubble burst for some reason?

I think i see why Elon is looking at getting into the chip market. They are leaving a vast, gaping hole in the market in order to serve the AI companies. Someone else can pick that up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 09:16 PM (DR/Xu)

137 What's the estimated operating lifetime of a big datacenter? The silicon keeps getting better and faster; I assume that means an existing plant rapidly becomes obsolete, and less cost effective than other, newer plants.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:17 PM (Wq24h)

138
Do the data centers generate noise which is heard outside the building?

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 09:17 PM (3ek7K)

139
I'd like to know who is/are the big money behind all the anti-data center advertising and activity that has gee, just miraculously and overnight sprung up all over the country.

Maybe they are all as bad as they say. Perhaps they are not - I don't know. But I do know a grassroots operation when I see one and this ain't it.
Posted by: Tonypete

=================

"Data Centers Aren't the Enemy"

https://jewishworldreview.com/
0526/lowry052926.php

excerpt: "The growing animus to data centers is as irrational as the campaign to stop nuclear power, which had considerable success, to our detriment to this day."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 09:18 PM (n7rxJ)

140 But no, data centers must be built in the countryside for reasons.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:14 PM (ZOv7s)

There are hundreds of them in NoVa in the DC suburbs. Guess what is happening there? Thanks to CCP propaganda, Karens are whining about them. Put them in cities? No good. Put them in the country also no good. But everyone still wants to be able to download a movie in 13 nanoseconds.

Posted by: Heroq at May 29, 2026 09:19 PM (0TtYd)

141
I thought if Cornyn won the GOP turn out would have been less. I think most Cornyn voters will vote for Paxton.
Posted by: polynikes
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There aren't enough fag hags and faggots in Texas to elect Talarico.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 09:19 PM (fF9x2)

142 Way past my bedtime
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 09:19 PM (Ia/+0)

143 "Certainly enough vacant industrial buildings in se Pa, better used than empty"

No enterprise wants to repurpose those old buildings. They almost always choose to build new, for efficiency and custom suitability advantages. Wherever an enterprise does choose to site in an old Rust Built factory (I live amidst many,) you can bet there's some perverse government incentive driving the decision, with plenty of graft to grease it.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:19 PM (Wq24h)

144 "I have, once again, inadvertently booked a room in a hotel that is also hosting some bullshit traveling high school girl's softball team."

Sounds like the opening narration to an 80s teen comedy movie.

Posted by: davidt at May 29, 2026 09:20 PM (Q+gd/)

145 I assume that means an existing plant rapidly becomes obsolete, and less cost effective than other, newer plants.
Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:17

Maybe a year and a half to 2 before a bleeding edge card becomes obsolete (and that has nothing to do with wear and tear.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 09:20 PM (DR/Xu)

146
Sleep well Skip

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 09:20 PM (3ek7K)

147 Same people who whine about dAtA cEntERs are the same ones who freak out if their internet service goes down for 10 minutes.
Posted by: Heroq at May 29, 2026 09:16 PM (0TtYd)
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No. I want to know why we need to create massive infrastructure in the boonies when it already exists in the Rust Belt.

Obviously, the answer is "pure profit," and I'm not as sympathetic to that as I once was, perhaps because all the techies will be H1B foreigners.

And when the data center is no longer profitable, a dirt-poor rural community will be saddled with the polluted ruins.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:20 PM (ZOv7s)

148 Same people who whine about dAtA cEntERs are the same ones who freak out if their internet service goes down for 10 minutes.

Posted by: Heroq at May 29, 2026 09:16 PM (0TtYd)

And they probably don't bitch about solar farms or windmills. I recall telling a lefty friend about how wind farms killed birds. She couldn't believe it.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 09:21 PM (Xdfhw)

149 Anything good happening?

Posted by: Piper at May 29, 2026 09:21 PM (MD5N2)

150 139
I'd like to know who is/are the big money behind all the anti-data center advertising and activity that has gee, just miraculously and overnight sprung up all over the country.

Maybe they are all as bad as they say. Perhaps they are not - I don't know. But I do know a grassroots operation when I see one and this ain't it.
Posted by: Tonypete

=================

We're just into the fourth industrial revolution.
For a Data Center reference see the movie, Boom Town with Spencer Tracey and Clark Gable.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 09:22 PM (fF9x2)

151 @106. JackStraw.
I know what you mean. My problem is it's raining almost every day. I can't get ahead of it. Oh well, mother nature. Nothing I can do about it.

Posted by: Case at May 29, 2026 09:22 PM (8XBuM)

152 I think data centers could be a boon to power generation. And when the bubble bursts, we'll, you will still have those nukes.

Its a backhanded shoring up of infrastructure, which could be another reason china would be agin it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 09:22 PM (DR/Xu)

153 A data center is basically a warehouse. Until CCP propaganda got going nobody gave them a second thought.

Posted by: Heroq at May 29, 2026 09:23 PM (0TtYd)

154 149 Anything good happening?
Posted by: Piper at May 29, 2026 09:21 PM (MD5N2)

I applied for a bunch of jobs and I got a response from one of them. Rocket Lab. They didn't want me.
So I guess the good news is their rockets will be better.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 09:23 PM (gKWVE)

155 David Strom at Hot Air has made a couple interesting posts today, speculating that the Big Bada Boom lest night may have totally wrecked NASA’s Return to the Moon plans, or at least have pushed them back by several years. He makes a good case.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 09:23 PM (QDJ2U)

156 Rust Belt, not Rust Built, which is the name of a failed hand tool manufacturer of the 1920s.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:23 PM (Wq24h)

157 excerpt: "The growing animus to data centers is as irrational as the campaign to stop nuclear power, which had considerable success, to our detriment to this day."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 09:18 PM (n7rxJ)
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Yes, it's totally irrational for a rural community to mortgage its future on vaporware that, when it inevitably finds greener pastures, will leave them with toxic soil and infrastructure that they cannot support.

Let's pretend we haven't seen this movie before. Flint is thriving, Detroit is humming along, and surely, the new hotness would never leave your tiny community high and dry, amirite?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:23 PM (ZOv7s)

158 DDG "who is funding anti-ai" turns up various news stories.

The usual suspects:
China and other furriners
Environmental activists and other luddites
Evil billionaires

Posted by: mindful webworker - and hospital ghosts at May 29, 2026 09:23 PM (kU8xu)

159 A.H. Lloyd, have you read "Ways That Are Dark" and if so what is your assessment?

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 09:24 PM (vFG9F)

160 Not sure that data center people are green earthers, they are more into Small Modular Reactors. Which will be another boom for us.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 09:24 PM (fF9x2)

161 154 149 Anything good happening?
Posted by: Piper at May 29, 2026 09:21 PM (MD5N2)

I applied for a bunch of jobs and I got a response from one of them. Rocket Lab. They didn't want me.
So I guess the good news is their rockets will be better.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 09:23 PM (gKWVE

Keep applying! The right role is out there.

Posted by: Piper at May 29, 2026 09:24 PM (MD5N2)

162 A Venn diagram of people opposed to data centers and people who have a Ukraine flag on the social media bio is almost a perfect circle.

Posted by: Heroq at May 29, 2026 09:24 PM (0TtYd)

163 A.H. Lloyd, have you read "Ways That Are Dark" and if so what is your assessment?
Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 09:24 PM (vFG9F)
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Sorry, no. Never heard of it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:25 PM (ZOv7s)

164 >>Do the data centers generate noise which is heard outside the building?

No.

I was in the data center business a while ago. Back then urban areas were more popular because of connectivity issues and enough vacant space.

But the purpose and scale of data centers now has largely changed and power, cheaper land and development costs are key. That's why the demand has shifted to more rural areas.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 09:25 PM (viF8m)

165 A Venn diagram of people opposed to data centers and people who have a Ukraine flag on the social media bio is almost a perfect circle.
Posted by: Heroq at May 29, 2026 09:24 PM (0TtYd)
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Wrong.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:25 PM (ZOv7s)

166 I'm agnostic on 'AI' and data centers. I'm just watching and speculating.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 09:25 PM (DR/Xu)

167 I know a little bit of insider stuff on data farms from a part of TX that has some important stuff going on. A lot of this stuff is hair on fire agit prop.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 09:26 PM (Xdfhw)

168 Anything good happening?
Posted by: Piper

My first granddaughter is graduating from high school tomorrow. I hope it doesn't turn into a spectacle (it has the potential if you know what I mean).

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 09:26 PM (Y2B0/)

169
144 "I have, once again, inadvertently booked a room in a hotel that is also hosting some bullshit traveling high school girl's softball team."

Sounds like the opening narration to an 80s teen comedy movie.
Posted by: davidt at May 29, 2026 09:20 PM (Q+gd/)

Or the opening to Debbie Does Dubuque.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 09:26 PM (QDJ2U)

170 >>>Let's pretend we haven't seen this movie before. Flint is thriving, Detroit is humming along, and surely, the new hotness would never leave your tiny community high and dry, amirite?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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None of those problems have anything to do with data centers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 09:26 PM (fF9x2)

171 But the purpose and scale of data centers now has largely changed and power, cheaper land and development costs are key. That's why the demand has shifted to more rural areas.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 09:25 PM (viF8m)
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Can't we just respect the need of Big Data for profit?

Profit is the highest good! Every penny saved through raping virgin farmland and hiring H1B employees is a penny earned in heaven.

Posted by: David French or someone at May 29, 2026 09:27 PM (ZOv7s)

172 Axios reported this week that an unnamed Anthropic enterprise client managed to run up roughly $500 million in Claude charges in a single month after failing to put usage limits on employee licenses.

The company was not named, but we suspect Blue Origin might not be the only thing that blew up for Jeff Bezos this month.

Posted by: SMOD at May 29, 2026 09:27 PM (O7XEN)

173
Thank you JackStraw.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 09:27 PM (3ek7K)

174 "Sorry, no. Never heard of it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd"

I thought maybe you had come across it researching "Walls Of Men".

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 09:28 PM (vFG9F)

175 Lots of people on the Right don't want data centers. It's not because of water or land or noise or energy-use or much of that. (Pro data center accounts have knocked down a lot of these straw men already.)
It's more because the people running the data centers went hard #woke in the early 2020s. The Right doesn't trust them not to make AI an antiAmerican surveillance state. (Pro data center accounts have absolutely nothing to say about this beyond "trust us now bro".)

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 09:29 PM (gKWVE)

176 Anything good happening?
Posted by: Piper

My first granddaughter is graduating from high school tomorrow. I hope it doesn't turn into a spectacle (it has the potential if you know what I mean).

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 09:26 PM (Y2B0/)

Congrats Tonypete and Granddaughter of Tonypete!
My BFF's son graduated today. He has big goals. God bless him.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 09:30 PM (Xdfhw)

177 Yea, I have no idea what to think in regard to data centers. I'm currently visiting the Rust Belt. Got family here. There are plenty of spaces, where mills used to be that are big enough for data centers. They are near rivers and major highways. Still, I simply don't trust those who are for them and against them because they all have an agenda that benefits them and not the Rust Belt. Trust has eroded in the culture and that doesn't bode well. Complicated.

Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 29, 2026 09:30 PM (bfy6w)

178 None of those problems have anything to do with data centers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 09:26 PM (fF9x2)
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What happens when the data center outlives its usefulness? All industries experience upheaval. It is inherent in the free market.

So in 20 years, will AI still be the new hotness? Or might technology not continue to evolve?

And WHEN it does, what happens to that massive concrete pad in the middle of farm country? Who will pay for the cleanup and removal?

Because some of us have seen the whole "This industry is durable, and the Company will provide jobs for your family forever more" film.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:30 PM (ZOv7s)

179 My retired parents recently found out a data center is planned next to where they live.

They are moving ASAP, already got loan pre-approval and looked at some houses...
whether justified or not, data centers are not considered good neighbors nor add to property values.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 09:30 PM (/lPRQ)

180 No such thing as "virgin farmland", it's already been fucked by farmers, often big agribusiness farmers.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 09:32 PM (gKWVE)

181 Asphalt seals in the freshness.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 09:32 PM (DR/Xu)

182 >>Can't we just respect the need of Big Data for profit?

Here's a fun fact. Despite the complaints of data centers being a rural only issue, the largest concentration of data centers in the US, the world for that matter, is Northern Virginia. Largely in Loudoun and Fairfax counties, some of the most expensive suburban land in the country. Has been for years and nobody really complained.

And it's not slowing down.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 09:32 PM (viF8m)

183 "I'm agnostic on 'AI' and data centers. I'm just watching and speculating."

I find it a great tool for my personal use. I wouldn't invest in it. The sector seems mighty bubbly to me.

I gather that some DCs consume ground water. I could see that as a possible valid concern for some locals. I'd like to see farmland conserved, but I respect landowners right to sell to whoever, whenever they want.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:33 PM (Wq24h)

184
I think those are mammatus clouds. Because they look like boobies. Hundreds and hundreds of big fluffy boobies.

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Tornado warning.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 29, 2026 09:33 PM (VWtfl)

185 Yeah the tech bros are assholes who will go hard left again when a Dem is in office. It’s what they do. It’s what all businesses do.

Posted by: Heroq at May 29, 2026 09:33 PM (0TtYd)

186 Can we all just agree that data centers are the beginning of Matrix and Terminator scenarios?

Posted by: Eromero at May 29, 2026 09:33 PM (LHPAg)

187 That's the other thing with data centers. If I knew they were going to hire Americans, I'd be a bit warmer to the idea. Alas, as we all know, they'd hire the cheapest H1B serfs they could get.

Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 29, 2026 09:33 PM (bfy6w)

188 I did pass a few galactically huge building projects in southern Ohio along I71 yesterday:
Honda Battery Plant costing about $3.5 billion+. Over 2 million sq ft.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Data Center. Part of a $5 billion commitment to the county. About 590 acres. This is one of the largest data center developments in Ohio.

And, to support them, Supporting Infrastructure Projects (Very Large Scale) 800 MW Natural Gas Power Plant to supply electricity to the battery plant and data centers.
Fayette Substation Expansion & New Transmission Lines (AES Ohio) — Major electrical upgrades to handle the massive new power demand (1.5 GW scale).

Honestly, equipment and construction as far as the eye can see.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 09:33 PM (Y2B0/)

189
UPDATE: Billionaires are retarded.

Latinometrics
@LatamData
ARGENTINA | Tech billionaire Peter Thiel relocates to Argentina, citing concerns about the U.S. future and shared ideology with leadership.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 09:34 PM (n7rxJ)

190 Where I am, it's a data center, or a subdivision or a shit ass Mexican trailer park. People don't want to keep large swaths of farmland. That is sad. But farming is a hard lifestyle. It isn't a career really. It is a lifestyle and a calling.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 09:34 PM (Xdfhw)

191 Thursday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about the media.

Marlow said, “The fraudulent Jake Tapper book that didn’t expose anything, it’s so right. … Halperin is seen as trusted by all sides. So, hopefully that gets out.”

Posted by: SMOD at May 29, 2026 09:35 PM (O7XEN)

192 116 About two dozen LE eagerly dump all the mags into dirtbag cop killer:

youtube.com/watch?v=BH4k_jllNks

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 08:54 PM (Wq24h)

That was long, but oddly satisfying...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 29, 2026 09:35 PM (SRRAx)

193 180 No such thing as "virgin farmland", it's already been fucked by farmers, often big agribusiness farmers.
Posted by: gKWVE
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Relative to solar panels or wind farms, data centers take up little space. They don't fuck up everything else either.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 09:36 PM (fF9x2)

194 Alas, as we all know, they'd hire the cheapest H1B serfs they could get.
Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 29, 2026 09:33 PM (bfy6w)

That too.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 09:36 PM (gKWVE)

195 That's the other thing with data centers. If I knew they were going to hire Americans, I'd be a bit warmer to the idea. Alas, as we all know, they'd hire the cheapest H1B serfs they could get.
Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 29, 2026 09:33 PM (bfy6w

One of the leftists knocks against them is that they create very few jobs. It’s basically just a warehouse of servers. Employees are there are for maintenance. There’s not much work to do inside a data center other than that.

Posted by: Heroq at May 29, 2026 09:37 PM (0TtYd)

196 If I see clouds like that top picture IRL, I make sure my phone is charged and there's a basement nearby.

Posted by: pookysgirl has lived in the Midwest awhile at May 29, 2026 09:38 PM (Wt5PA)

197
What happens when the data center outlives its usefulness?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

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It gets repurposed. Like malls, mills, movie theaters, drive-ins, etc. What do you propose to do, never develop anything because ultimately everything becomes obsolete?

This exchange started with some abandoned Pennsylvania hospitals being repurposed as data centers -- but nooOOoo0000ooO00OOooo. Just let a bunch of old buildings harbor 10,000 rats and collapse on some homeless person's head.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 09:39 PM (n7rxJ)

198 I dunno - there is plenty of land out near where Mr. TiFW grew up that won't grow anything but mesquite trees and rocks. Data centers could sprout there, if it wasn't for their need for water...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 29, 2026 09:39 PM (SRRAx)

199 >>The Right doesn't trust them not to make AI an antiAmerican surveillance state. (Pro data center accounts have absolutely nothing to say about this beyond "trust us now bro".)

The part of the data center business I was in was more interested in network than data storage. And a big part of it was peering and network interconnections so we can all be on different networks and speak seamlessly.

There are or at least were at the time prime spots for facilities in that business and they were focused on where the physical network architecture was densely packed, urban areas largely. Also around undersea cable landing areas.

And right near every one of those areas the NSA had facilities. We've been living in a surveillance state for a very long time.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 09:40 PM (viF8m)

200
Alas, as we all know, they'd hire the cheapest H1B serfs they could get.
Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 29, 2026 09:33 PM (bfy6w)

That too.
Posted by: gKWVE

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A data center is a battery farm. It probably needs janitors and monitors.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 09:40 PM (n7rxJ)

201 I thought maybe you had come across it researching "Walls Of Men".
Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 09:28 PM (vFG9F)
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No. It looks interesting and I've noted it. I find China fascinating, and so far, Walls of Men is looking pretty good. China's military equipment isn't looking to hot at the moment.

A big boost to me when I was doing research was a professor of Asian studies deciding to sell off his personal library. Noticing my interest, the owner of a local used book store told me to keep clearing the shelves and he would restock them. That's how I got Pu Yi's memoirs and a bunch of other neat books.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:41 PM (ZOv7s)

202 One of the leftists knocks against them is that they create very few jobs. It’s basically just a warehouse of servers. Employees are there are for maintenance. There’s not much work to do inside a data center other than that.

Those empty spaces where mills used to be in the Rust Belt, employed thousands. Not a good trade off.

Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 29, 2026 09:41 PM (bfy6w)

203 >> may have totally wrecked NASA’s Return to the Moon plans,

Yep, this is a big monkey wrench in that. They were depending on Blue Origin to for the Mark 1 lunar lander missions, and the lunar rovers (think Mars autonomous rovers that can also serve as buggies for the astronauts) and other hardware to scout and scope out the South Pole landing sites.

New Glenn is a heavy lift vehicle, capacity just shy of 100K lbs to LEO. The first of those launches were supposed to happen this year, along with an Artemis III LEO mission to test docking and interop with Blue Origin and Starship landing systems.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 09:42 PM (w6EFb)

204 As for data centers not creating jerbs, that's only indirectly. If they need power (they need power) they can create jobs generating power. Nuclear power plants can hire for more of those jerbs.
Leftists are dumb.
Rightists... can be dumb, but I like to think better of Rightists, which is why I'm here. They also have arguments against data centers, which I haven't seen as being dumb arguments.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 09:43 PM (gKWVE)

205 Relative to solar panels or wind farms, data centers take up little space. They don't fuck up everything else either.
Posted by: Braenyard

A 1600 acre solar panel farm somehow was snuck in our county and approved without too many folks knowing about it. The developer/owner promises a tax windfall for the county, and, get this - an increase in agricultural usage compared to the previous owner/rancher. They claim the farm will support 3x the sheep herd size that the previous owner had. Apparently, the sheep keep the weeds down beneath the panels.

All of this remains to be seen of course. It is still under construction.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 09:44 PM (Y2B0/)

206 It gets repurposed. Like malls, mills, movie theaters, drive-ins, etc. What do you propose to do, never develop anything because ultimately everything becomes obsolete?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 09:39 PM (n7rxJ)
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Who is going to repurpose a data center slab in the middle of nowhere? What farmer is going to pay the money to rip out all that pipe, wiring and concrete and try to grow crops on it?

Again, go to Google maps and look at the City of Lansing. Huge swathes of vacant land right next to ample water and electrical generation. I'm sure the city will hand out tax deferments like trick or treat candy.

So why isn't that what they are trying to leverage?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:44 PM (ZOv7s)

207 My first granddaughter is graduating from high school tomorrow. I hope it doesn't turn into a spectacle (it has the potential if you know what I mean).

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 09:26 PM (Y2B0/)

That is awesome, though I pray for no drama. I am going to my niece’s college graduation party tomorrow. She has already gotten a job offer in her field (medical laboratory science), so that is good!

Posted by: Piper at May 29, 2026 09:44 PM (c1LkM)

208
Data centers could sprout there, if it wasn't for their need for water...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

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Data centers can run on virtually no water. There are other types of cooling systems. Putting them in the middle of nowhere is an intriguing idea, because some minimal support for the human attendants would have to exist -- including society.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 09:45 PM (n7rxJ)

209
What farmer is going to pay the money to rip out all that pipe, wiring and concrete and try to grow crops on it?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

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I'm not surprised that some idiot is proposing to put them on prime farm land, but that doesn't have to happen. TiFW just mentioned some plots that aren't suitable for commerce, agriculture, etc. that would be perfect for data centers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 09:47 PM (n7rxJ)

210 Won't the sheep nibble on the cables?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 09:47 PM (zZu0s)

211
The problem Bezos has is that he blew up his only pad for New Glenn, LC-36. Elon blew up a Falcon 9 way back in 2016 at LC-40 at the Cape and wrecked it pretty good, but they had other pads they could use.

Now, historically there were two pads at LC-36, the A and B pads. When Bezo took it over, they changed everything for their own purposes, and just have the one pad, call it "A". Now, they were starting construction on a second "B" pad, but that's not too far along.

The best bet may be to just accelerate Pad B construction rather than try to repair A for now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 09:47 PM (w6EFb)

212 Apparently, the sheep keep the weeds down beneath the panels.

All of this remains to be seen of course. It is still under construction.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 09:44 PM (Y2B0/)

They're going to chew on wires and get fried constantly. Sheep are predominantly two things: stupid and stubborn.

Posted by: pookysgirl has been around sheep at May 29, 2026 09:48 PM (Wt5PA)

213 Michigan once handed out massive tax incentives to try to convince Hollywood to make films in one of the most overcast cities in the US. The Dems drove that, but now they're all hot and bothered about planting data centers not in their vote-rich strongholds, but in the middle of Red Michigan.

Huh. You'd think they'd want to maximize the declining urban tax base. Draw more people into their strongholds.

So why are they so determined to give Republican areas all these new jobs and prosperity?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:48 PM (ZOv7s)

214 205 Relative to solar panels or wind farms, data centers take up little space. They don't fuck up everything else either.
Posted by: Braenyard

A 1600 acre solar panel farm somehow was snuck in our county and approved without too many folks knowing about it. The developer/owner promises a tax windfall for the county, and, get this - an increase in agricultural usage compared to the previous owner/rancher. They claim the farm will support 3x the sheep herd size that the previous owner had. Apparently, the sheep keep the weeds down beneath the panels.

All of this remains to be seen of course. It is still under construction.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 09:44 PM (Y2B0/)
Sheepherder-'Hey, cookie, what's for chow?'
Cookie- 'Mutton. Same as always. Come here and help me get it down from there.'

Posted by: Eromero at May 29, 2026 09:49 PM (LHPAg)

215 "Won't the sheep nibble on the cables?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone"

Only once.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 09:49 PM (vFG9F)

216 Morticia: classical nuclear and I believe other power systems do use water for turbines, so increased energy would require water for that in addition to cooling the data centers.
On the other hand, some nuclear designs propose (compressed) liquid carbon dioxide for their work...

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 09:49 PM (gKWVE)

217 But they'll all have fine wool coats and blankets and throws and socks and ...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 09:50 PM (zZu0s)

218
So why isn't that what they are trying to leverage?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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The argument, not to build a thing because in twenty years it will be obsolete is superfluous.

Biding that argument we would never build anything.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 09:50 PM (fF9x2)

219 Those empty spaces where mills used to be in the Rust Belt, employed thousands. Not a good trade off.
Posted by: Puddleglum

WAG -
Those defunct mills are in areas zoned for industrial. Nobody is going to do Ag or residential, or much commercial in industrial zones. They just sit there waiting for a new gas station of something...
Those farm fields way out there are zoned Ag, which kind of limits 'development' to Ag or low density housing. Relatively cheap land. Data farmers can approach the small town rural zoning officials and guy them some McDonalds and get the zoning changed to industrial and buy up 50 or hundred acres before anybody notices.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 09:50 PM (/lPRQ)

220 Speaking of cooling - the IBM360 mainframes were retired during the period when I was working. You couldn't give them away. Truly, no one wanted them, even for scrap. I now wish I had scarfed one up just to have the water pumps and related equipment used to cool the damn thing.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 09:51 PM (Y2B0/)

221 So why are they so determined to give Republican areas all these new jobs and prosperity?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:48 PM (ZOv7s)

Investors TRIED to put a data center in, I believe, Cleveland, but the locals voted it out.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 09:51 PM (gKWVE)

222 I'm not surprised that some idiot is proposing to put them on prime farm land, but that doesn't have to happen. TiFW just mentioned some plots that aren't suitable for commerce, agriculture, etc. that would be perfect for data centers.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 09:47 PM (n7rxJ)
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Just to dispel any confusion: at this late date, marginal farmland in rural areas surrounding an urban core has already been developed. It's where those cool boutique shops and "farm to table" places are located.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:52 PM (ZOv7s)

223 So why isn't that what they are trying to leverage?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Hazardous waste dumps and brown fields become the responsibility of the owner, even if they didn't make the mess in the first place.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 09:53 PM (/lPRQ)

224 The argument, not to build a thing because in twenty years it will be obsolete is superfluous.

Biding that argument we would never build anything.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 09:50 PM (fF9x2)
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And your argument is optimism over experience.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:54 PM (ZOv7s)

225 >>So why are they so determined to give Republican areas all these new jobs and prosperity?

Money. It's not completely nefarious. The top issues for data centers now is cheap real estate and available cheap power. That's what is driving demand south and west where both are cheaper and more readily available.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 09:55 PM (viF8m)

226 Investors TRIED to put a data center in, I believe, Cleveland, but the locals voted it out.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 09:51 PM (gKWVE)
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Wow, too bad that's the only open land in Ohio. A true shame.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:55 PM (ZOv7s)

227 Those farm fields way out there are zoned Ag, which kind of limits 'development' to Ag or low density housing. Relatively cheap land. Data farmers can approach the small town rural zoning officials and guy them some McDonalds and get the zoning changed to industrial and buy up 50 or hundred acres before anybody notices.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 09:50 PM (/lPRQ)

I hate to see farm land not being farmed. Farming is a hard job that most people don't want to do. It is not a job. It is a lifestyle. You farm til you die. If you're lucky, a younger family member wants to take over this hard work.

All in all, I'd prefer seeing the land as a data center rather than a shit ass Mexican trailer park. Or another soulless subdivision that means more people.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 09:56 PM (Xdfhw)

228 AH Lloyd, I find your responses to be needlessly snarky.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 09:56 PM (gKWVE)

229 Hazardous waste dumps and brown fields become the responsibility of the owner, even if they didn't make the mess in the first place.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 09:53 PM (/lPRQ)
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And of course a massive influx of tax revenue and jobs would never motivate legislators to bend over backwards to change those laws.

Weird that the same people who want us to eat bugs are now wanting to build on farmland.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:57 PM (ZOv7s)

230 AH Lloyd, I find your responses to be needlessly snarky.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 09:56 PM (gKWVE)
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I am Gen X. It is the language of my people.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:57 PM (ZOv7s)

231 Just so people are clear, over the entire span of my life I have seen now hot investments want to push outside the urban core, abandoning brownfields and seeking fresh, unpolluted land.

Which they then pollute. This, I have been told, is the price of progress. Maybe progress is overrated.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 29, 2026 09:59 PM (ZOv7s)

232
Huh. You'd think they'd want to maximize the declining urban tax base. Draw more people into their strongholds.
So why are they so determined to give Republican areas all these new jobs and prosperity?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

It's a trap.
*totes not socking the Admiral*
Here's a link to prove my bonfides.

Safe for work and small animals...
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Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 29, 2026 10:01 PM (QVmho)

233 ONT is nood. Take your snarkyvasses up there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 10:01 PM (zZu0s)

Spencer Pratt, Donald Trump, and the Democrat (and GOP Establishment) Taboo Against Simple, Direct Honesty

They have built an Empire of Lies and demand we all pledge our fealty.

Mike Solana:

[W]hat's driving the popularity of a professional 21st Century clown like Pratt, with no experience in government, over a thoughtful, if imperfect, standard issue Democrat like Bass, in her nice professional pantsuit? In Los Angeles?
Well, I think it's basically something like this: there really still just is tremendous political alpha in getting on stage and telling the truth. But in local politics it also matters what you're telling the truth about, and a soccer mom of two will never care about Donald Trump while a meth addict's shitting in her driveway.
...]
If you had to distill all of this criticism into something coherent, I think it might just be that Pratt reminds libs of Donald Trump, who they hate, and he talks about crime, which is bad for lib politicians? People also have a lot to say about the AI-generated campaign advertisements fans have produced on Pratt's behalf, which many pundits incessantly credit to the candidate himself. But it's not clear why they hate these things other than their general appearance of effectiveness, and, again, Pratt has nothing to do with them. Still, I do agree the guy's a little bit like Trump, just not in terms of disposition or, from what I can tell thus far, any of Trump's most popular positions.
Pratt is another funny, charismatic white guy from the world of entertainment who obsessively discusses an extremely popular issue we are not, as good upstanding people in a one-party state controlled by the DNC, supposed to discuss. In the case of Trump in 2016, that issue was immigration. To a certain extent, Trump's winning issue continues to be immigration. But for Pratt, the winning issue is the obvious fact that many of LA's homeless 'victims,' who Americans are expected to imagine as exclusively a class of sweetspoken, down-on-their-luck single mothers, are in fact violent drug-addicted criminals.
Running as a Democrat in a city controlled entirely by Democrats, from the bureaucrats who run the place to the reporters who cover the bureaucrats, is mostly a sweet gig. But when things start to crumble as badly as they have in Los Angeles, and you've completely defeated the neutered Republican Party you're supposed to keep around for purposes of witch burning, the act of noticing problems becomes taboo.
An honesty taboo, if you will.
It truly feels like we're all expected to lie. We're expected to understand the good people are in charge, and they are doing their best, and any pointing out of their (many, many (MANY)) enormous failures can only help the bad people. Then, we are expected to believe the bad people will lead us to some truly heinous moral horror merely in the name of baseline functioning government. I understand this seems ridiculous, but I genuinely do think it constitutes the underlying psychology of a one-party town, in which not even Democrats are supposed to tell the truth.
...
Nothing has thus far painted a starker difference between the taboo-shattering Pratt and the incumbents who torched LA than the sitting councilwoman, herself responsible for a myriad of the city's problems, who is somehow framing herself an outsider in the race for mayor.

Bass is currently talking about how nice the city was when she was growing up, forgetting that she's been the mayor for almost four years, and Democrats have controlled the mayoralty since 2001.

So she's promising to return to the city to its glory days... before one-party Democrat rule.

And she's saying she'll address all of the problems she left unaddressed for almost four years.

...
When you shatter the honesty taboo and talk about problems created by the One Party, most people simply will not give a shit that you're a reality television star who clocks as just a little bit retarded. This is because the average person is starved for the truth, and if you tell it to them they will find you intriguing, fascinating, mesmerizing. Then, a good amount of people will decide that you're a hero. In 2026, heroes are memed, and in this age of attention he who is memed makes money.

...
Obviously, there's something a little bit retarded about choosing a former reality television star with no experience to run the second largest city in the country. Like, no shit, if a sane person with a lot of experience running a city who agreed crime should be illegal and reservoirs should be filled with water were an option, he'd be the obvious choice. But he's not an option, and we're living in a world post-Obama. Is the prospect of a reality television star in office somehow really more ridiculous than a "community organizer" like Karen Bass? Or a former rap star turned, for like five minutes, state assemblyman like Mamdani?

I agree wholeheartedly with this. In 2016, I desperately wanted a candidate who adopted Trump's positions but who was a more professional, less impulsive, more disciplined version of Trump. That option was not available (though I kidded myself into thinking that Ted Cruz would fit this unmet need).

At some point, the political establishment of the Uniparty will have to accept that simply insisting we have to vote for the buttoned-up stuff shirt who will sell us down the river because look, his stuffed shirt is so nicely buttoned up!, is not a winning message.

Ask John Cornyn.

BEHOLD THE TASTEFULLY-CREASED TROUSER
AND BE JOYOUS, PEASANTS!

...
Is this not the defining aspect of our culture today? Politicians will stand up and say the most retarded things ever said in their position, but they will dress well, they will say these things with an aesthetic of thoughtfulness, they will not violate the honesty taboo, and we will be expected to support them over the 'bad guy' who thinks the local hobo jerking off under a bridge should pack his shit up and go.
...

Alas, we are not living in the thinking man's world this summer. This is Pratt Summer. And I'm feeling just a little bit retarded myself.

Spencer Pratt won over Greg Gutfeld�s audience when Gutfeld asked him about celebrities secretly endorsing him for mayor of Los Angeles.

Pratt said he actually doesn�t want Hollywood celebrity endorsements � he much prefers it when they attack him instead.

GUTFELD: �You have� pic.twitter.com/gfjWV9zDM2
— Overton (@overton_news) May 29, 2026

Greg Gutfeld: �The politicians all from the same mold in a way. Why can�t we just go back to normal people?�

Spencer Pratt: �I keep getting asked, �What politicians do you look up to?� I�m like, �I hate these people.� What are you talking about? These people let my house, my� pic.twitter.com/dZBe5uinu2
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) May 29, 2026

RedWave Press
@RedWavePress
Greg Gutfeld: "I walk around New York... I see a half n*ked crazy motherf*cker on the street shooting up or taking a crap. Like you're saying that."
Spencer Pratt: "My campaign now, how I identify, besides being the common sense American, it's the look around candidate. You look around and see with your own eyes what I am saying. And it's true."
"That's why I'm going to win, because my opponents just lie and they've had 10 years combined that they have created everything that they are looking around, and seeing."
"No more of this, we're going to stop this. We're going to get all of the tax money that these two have been stealing to put these n*ked drug addict zombies that are going number two and number one in front of your houses, your businesses, maybe trying to machete you or st*b you. We're going to get them mandatory medical treatment. Not an empty bed. They need help to get off f*ntanyl and super m*th."

Greg Gutfeld: �I walk around New York� I see a half n*ked crazy motherf*cker on the street shooting up or taking a crap. Like you�re saying that.�

Spencer Pratt: �My campaign now, how I identify, besides being the common sense American, it�s the look around candidate. You look� pic.twitter.com/5waZTfPaeA
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) May 29, 2026

Overton
@overton_news
Greg Gutfeld asked Spencer Pratt if there is anyone who was affected by the fires in Los Angeles who are still voting for Karen Bass.
Pratt said he is in a constant battle against those who blame "climate change" for the fires and refuse to see the failures of Bass.
PRATT: "There's definitely lunatics."
"Their houses didn't burn down but they could have been saved by the U.S. Forest Service, who came in to save the day."
"But these people have convinced themselves the palisades burned down because of climate change and these imaginary hurricane winds that did not exist..."
"So for them, they go, oh, it's the winds. And it was the climate change. That's what it was."
"It wasn't that Mayor Bass was drinking in Ghana and defunded the firefighters by $17 million, that the fire chief said we needed to keep everyone safe."
"Or that her Janisse Quiñones, the LADWP CEO that got $750,000 -- drained both of the reservoirs that were for wildfire protection."
"So, I don't know why that message isn't getting to them. I keep trying to say that out loud a lot."

So yes, Democrats continue to claim that the fires were caused not by a leftwing arsonist who shares their admiration of the murderer Luigi Mangione, but by "global warming."

And they continue pretending that no one could have stopped the fires, even if the reservoirs had been filled, because "hurricane force winds" would have prevented helicopters from flying.

As Spencer Pratt said, correctly, during the debate, the winds never went above 35 mph on the first night of the fires. Helicopters could have easily flown, so yes, the disastrous decision to empty the reservoirs, which had been created precisely to fight fires, could have stopped the fire early.

Another great ad by a supporter:

These Spencer Pratt videos by @dsonoiki are better than 99.9% of political consultant ads. He does it again. pic.twitter.com/hemFACa8xZ
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) May 29, 2026

Bonus: About the other Democrat plant in the race, communist incompetent and DEI clown Nithya Raman.

She's been on the LA City Council for five years, after carpetbagging her way in. She has been a partner with Karen Bass in creating the disaster.

And maybe is still a partner with Bass: Spencer Pratt says that insiders tell him that Bass recruited her ally Nithya Raman to "run against her," hoping that Raman would take second place and keep Spencer Pratt out of the run-off.

I believe him.

Protesters staged a simulated homeless encampment around Nithya's home so that she could experience the chaos and menace of strangers living outdoors on your street the same way Los Angelenos have to.

She is now whining to the media -- who amplifies this whine for her -- that this "crosses a line."

She says this threatens her family.

Except... people with families have been complaining about homeless criminals shooting up heroin and shitting in the street right outside their children's schools. Nithya blocked a regulation that would outlaw homeless encampments being any closer than 500 feet to a school -- which would still be menancingly close -- saying that it she didn't thing 500 feet would matter as far as safety.

But put up a fake homeless encampment of non-drug-addicted bums outside of her house, and boy oh boy, would she like that 500 feet of distance.

Pratt is pounding this foreign communist interloper and election ringer:

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
May 28
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Spencer Pratt just DROPPED THE MIC after they played the clip of Nithya Raman saying, 'he doesn't have the experience' to be mayor
"That woman has had almost 5 YEARS. She's been the chair of the homeless housing department for the last 3 years. The drug addicts that are attacking moms that are NAKED in front of kids, that is on HER and Mayor Bass."
"This is a woman who fought in her own district for moms that didn't want drug addicts selling drugs, being naked in front of kids in front of the school."
"She's fighting them on camera saying there's no difference between one foot and 500 feet to have naked drug addict encampments in front of kids!"
"So when these people talk, you're literally listening to a lunatic...she's not even going to be a conversation. We should just focus on Bass."

Spencer Pratt schools NBC reporter who wants to know if he�s running for LA Mayor just to promote his �brand."

Reporter: �Man, your brand is hotter than ever!"

Pratt initially talks about getting in the race after losing everything in the fires.

But then he gets to the� pic.twitter.com/SrDMy7zyR0
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 29, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:10 PM

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1 Yeet!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 06:13 PM (ytBBc)

2 I may need to road trip to CA to vote.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 06:13 PM (ytBBc)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 29, 2026 06:16 PM (PJdmB)

4 "They lie and we have to be merciful, for those who lie. Those nabobs. I hate them. I really hate them."

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 06:19 PM (xcxpd)

5 >>>2 I may need to road trip to CA to vote.

LA doesn't require voter ID so people are talking about doing this.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 06:19 PM (1wjle)

6
I pray that Pratt will win the election.

I don't think he will because there many assholes living on government money.

Turn off the "free" money in our country and we will see major improvements.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 06:19 PM (3ek7K)

7 She says this threatens her family.

Illegals sent to Martha's Vinyard redux. She's making Pratt's case for him and doesn't even realize it. Because she's retarded.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 06:20 PM (gtcuf)

8 It's true, Pratt has no experience running a city. Just look what all the experienced people have done with the place.

Posted by: huerfano at May 29, 2026 06:20 PM (VJX5o)

9 I like this man, he fights!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 06:20 PM (GD0B3)

10 *Should I fly to LA and vote for him ??

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 06:20 PM (GD0B3)

11 He's a creased trouser snake.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 29, 2026 06:21 PM (bIH8o)

12 The Lord hates a liar. So do I. If you have to lie to make your point, then you don't have one.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 06:22 PM (DwqWV)

13 11 He's a creased trouser snake.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 29, 2026 06:21 PM (bIH8o)

That sounds... painful?

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 06:23 PM (DwqWV)

14 Reid Hoffman, who you may remember from past hits like E. Jean Carroll, and Epstein is behind the campaign to scare all the performers out of the 250 celebration. Lots of money being moved around, and threatened. The leftoids are going around declaring victory showing lists of the people that have cancelled. It's still about a month away, things may still change. The left are such garbage humans. All they can ever do is destroy.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 06:23 PM (3uBP9)

15 Why do honest people always get caught?!!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 06:23 PM (GD0B3)

16 I wish I lived in LA so I could vote for Pratt.

Well, no, actually I *don't* wish I lived in any part of CA. But I wish I could vote for him anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 06:23 PM (wzUl9)

17 As I was saying.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 06:23 PM (viF8m)

18 "Obviously, there's something a little bit retarded about choosing a former reality television star with no experience to run the second largest city in the country. "

Now do Mamdami

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 29, 2026 06:23 PM (ItWcy)

19 13 11 He's a creased trouser snake.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 29, 2026 06:21 PM (bIH8o)

That sounds... painful?
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 06:23 PM (DwqWV)

I blame those skinny jeans

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 06:24 PM (xcxpd)

20 "They have built an Empire of Lies and demand we all pledge our fealty."

THIS.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 06:24 PM (zZu0s)

21 14 Reid Hoffman, who you may remember from past hits like E. Jean Carroll, and Epstein is behind the campaign to scare all the performers out of the 250 celebration. Lots of money being moved around, and threatened. The leftoids are going around declaring victory showing lists of the people that have cancelled. It's still about a month away, things may still change. The left are such garbage humans. All they can ever do is destroy.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 06:23 PM (3uBP9)

I saw this.. They are trying their darnedest to ruin the 250th Anniversary because they hate Trump... I've never seen anything like this

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 06:25 PM (FtULh)

22 16 Well, no, actually I *don't* wish I lived in any part of CA. But I wish I could vote for him anyway.

Given CA's extremely loose voting rules, I'm not positive we can't.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 06:25 PM (gtcuf)

23 >>>"Obviously, there's something a little bit retarded about choosing a former reality television star with no experience to run the second largest city in the country. "

Now do Mamdami

I think he did mention Mamdani as a retard, but pointed out that while this "evil nepo baby" was talking about improving the city, the asshole Andrew Cuomo was talking about... Trump.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 06:26 PM (1wjle)

24 I saw this.. They are trying their darnedest to ruin the 250th Anniversary because they hate Trump... I've never seen anything like this
Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 06:25 PM (FtULh)

Let's be serious. They just hate. Doesn't matter what. The will to power means they hate everything they didn't build, and they are incapable of building, so they hate everything.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 06:26 PM (DwqWV)

25 Willowed:
Best Magnum episode was when he was lost at sea. Utterly remarkable in every way. Kinda solidified it as a serious if really funny show.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 06:14 PM (DwqWV)

I would actually disagree and say 'Did you see the sunrise?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 06:26 PM (zZu0s)

26 LA doesn't require voter ID so people are talking about doing this.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 06:19 PM (1wjle)

Just make sure you don't announce it anywhere on the internet, because I suspect the moment Pratt wins, Dems will be looking for evidence of this newly-discovered crime.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 29, 2026 06:27 PM (h7ZuX)

27 Democrats have nerfed the residency requirements for voting so if you move in one day before an election and have an "intention" to be resident, you can legally vote -- even if you immediately show you never had that intention by moving out.

they do this with college kids, who are obviously not residents of swing-state college towns, but Democrats say they just have to "express an intention" to be permanent residents and voila, legal voter.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 06:27 PM (1wjle)

28 Maybe the real mayoralty is the friends we make along the way.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 06:28 PM (NxZ4/)

29
a soccer mom of two will never care about Donald Trump while a meth addict's shitting in her driveway.

===============

Sickeningly, I wasn't (still aren't) sure how to read this if I see it in isolation. "A soccer mom of two STILL won't vote for Trump, even if a meth addict's shitting in her driveway" is entirely plausible.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 06:28 PM (n7rxJ)

30 So she's promising to return to the city to its glory days... before one-party Democrat rule.

Just look at Karen Bass and hear her speak. She is the paradigm of the profoundest incompetence. She's the Kathleen Kennedy of big city politics.

She has no business being anywhere near the levers of power. But there she is.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 06:28 PM (+5YP2)

31 13 11 He's a creased trouser snake.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 29, 2026 06:21 PM (bIH8o)

That sounds... painful?
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 06:23 PM (DwqWV)

I blame those skinny jeans
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 06:24 PM (xcxpd)

Hold a hot iron on it to smooth out the crease.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 06:29 PM (wVcYX)

32 Pratt has some great ads. He's filled with righteous anger. I hope he wins. I hope he beats those Dem women like a rented mule so they cry victim and blame whitey for the rest of their natural lives. They'll do that anyhow.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 06:29 PM (Xdfhw)

33 I blame those skinny jeans
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 06:24 PM (xcxpd)

A certain type of boxer short. Guys know what I mean.

Ladies, ever notice how towels in the dryer can get twisted around each other?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 06:30 PM (zZu0s)

34 wish I lived in LA so I could vote for Pratt.

Well, no, actually I *don't* wish I lived in any part of CA. But I wish I could vote for him anyway.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I'll send you one of my extra ballots. Hang tight

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 29, 2026 06:30 PM (ItWcy)

35 I'll bet if Spencer Pratt wins we won't have three fat lesbians running the LAFD into the dirt anymore too. Another win.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 06:31 PM (+5YP2)

36 Ladies, ever notice how towels in the dryer can get twisted around each other?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 06:30 PM (zZu0s)

Use dryer balls. Those help.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 06:31 PM (Xdfhw)

37 I don't want to be a one-note today but it's like Trump cleaning up DC and restoring the monuments.

And they hate him so much for it.

Because it shows it doesn't have to be this way. That decline is a policy choice.
The policy of choice of the Democrats.

When the only choice is squalor, then they can't be held accountable.
Where only candidates with the proper Woke Stack score are allowed and any criticism is a form of "ist"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 06:31 PM (73/SM)

38 Pratt was great on Gutfeld last night.

His campaign slogan is basically "Look around."

Your kids don't have to literally be avoiding human piles of feces. This was a bad choice that can be fixed. He was unpolished and human, Fantastic.

Nightly News - all of them. Laos cave, rocket explosion, busy judges granting liberal wishes.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 29, 2026 06:31 PM (Sco7b)

39 Use dryer balls. Those help.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 06:31 PM (Xdfhw)

Lol. Might look at that. Sheets are rhe worst.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 06:32 PM (zZu0s)

40 I never watched Pratt's reality shows, so I don't have an opinion of him on that. Had to actually look him up on Wiki just to find out who he is and where he came from.

So he's a slightly flaky, wise-ass, surfer-dude, turned magic crystal dealer who lived in Pacific Palisades with his hottie wife, and their kids. Seems like a typical Southern Californian to me.

And then his house was burned down by an arsonist and corruption & incompetence - no wonder he's coming across as angry about it.

Pratt seems sincere and motivated to me, and that's more than can be said of his opponents.

He can't do worse than Bass and her predecessors.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 06:32 PM (6ydKt)

41 Just look at Karen Bass and hear her speak. She is the paradigm of the profoundest incompetence. She's the Kathleen Kennedy of big city politics.

She has no business being anywhere near the levers of power. But there she is.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 06:28 PM (+5YP2)

Whattaya mean? She's a trained Marxist, yo.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 29, 2026 06:33 PM (h7ZuX)

42 I'm praying that the colored communist cvnt Bassura doesn't get over 50% and Platt beats the other colored communist cvnt for a runoff election.

He has a lot more truth to tell.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 29, 2026 06:33 PM (xvV+O)

43 Use dryer balls. Those help.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 06:31 PM (Xdfhw)

Lol. Might look at that. Sheets are rhe worst.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 06:32 PM (zZu0s)

The dryer balls are cheap and work really well.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 06:34 PM (Xdfhw)

44 Look around! Look around! Look up, look up, and - ah shit, I just squelched another hobo turd.

Posted by: House of Pain at May 29, 2026 06:34 PM (gKWVE)

45 >>Whattaya mean? She's a trained Marxist, yo.

Just because countless Marxists ran countless Trains on her in Cuba...

Posted by: garrett at May 29, 2026 06:34 PM (P0D9r)

46 16 I wish I lived in LA so I could vote for Pratt.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 06:23 PM (wzUl9)

The Democrats would find that so cute and adorable.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 29, 2026 06:34 PM (Sco7b)

47 Old Soviet joke
The future we know, the past is what changes

No Leftist ever admits to defeat

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 06:34 PM (Ia/+0)

48 Bass is thoughtful? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Heroq at May 29, 2026 06:35 PM (Tk4Lb)

49 Saw a clip of the severely retarded Sonny Hostin using Arnold Schwarzenegger as an example of a celebrity candidate who was Better Than Pratt because he had experience.

Um, no, retard, he didn't. He had zero experience. None. Zilch. Nada.

She started out semi-OK using Reagan as an example, correctly noting he had been president of the Screen Actor's Guild, but seemed to forget the obvious fact that all non-retards know, that Reagan had been two-time Governor of California. Someone else on the panel had to remind the severely retarded harridan. Then she went completely off the rails trying to use Ahnuld as an example of a celebrity candidate with experience.

And, Ms. Hostin, in the future please keep the name of Ronaldus Maximus out of your filthy whore mouth.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 06:35 PM (gtcuf)

50 Mm, L.A. proved too much for the mayor
So she's leavin' the life, mm
he's come to know, ooh,

She said she's goin' back to find,
Ooh, ooh, ooh, what's left of her world
The world she left behind
Not so long ago

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 06:35 PM (wVcYX)

51
I get the not caring about celebrity endorsements, but seriously. Did Leo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx endorse him? That's rad, especially Foxx. He's been a loony lefty in the past.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 06:35 PM (n7rxJ)

52 They are trying their darnedest to ruin the 250th Anniversary because they hate Trump... I've never seen anything like this
---
They hate anything and everything that would make you proud to be an American.
They want you embarrassed to be an American.

They are going to show such an ugly face contorted in spite and rage this summer.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 06:35 PM (73/SM)

53 "judges" have been bust today.. Stopped Trumps DOJ payments to victims of Biden's wrath and told Trump he had to take his name off the Kennedy/Trump center and keep it open.. Trump said okay to that one and handed it over to congress to deal with

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 06:36 PM (FtULh)

54 >>The dryer balls are cheap and work really well.

True Fact: No Man wants Dryer Balls.

Posted by: garrett at May 29, 2026 06:36 PM (P0D9r)

55 Bass is a weapon created by the intelligence services, here and abroad, to infiltrate, control, and destroy. Both her and Newsom are the exact kind of muppets you would totally expect to see propped up in a fake potemkin state. Blank lifeless eyes, creepy smiles. They are central casting for this.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 06:36 PM (3uBP9)

56 >>>Use dryer balls. Those help.

I have drier balls, they're practically raisins

Posted by: Joe Biden, former senator and, um, uh, you know, the thing at May 29, 2026 06:36 PM (1wjle)

57 I don't live in L.A. but I am going to vote for Karen Bass.

Karen Bass is the mayor L.A. deserves.

Posted by: Paid For By You, The Taxpayer at May 29, 2026 06:36 PM (54bnG)

58 Good luck to him, that's quite the uphill battle in Lefty Land.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 06:37 PM (n5tGW)

59 @21. .....because they hate Trump....
They hate our country too. They want a Socialist government they can control. Lots of big money behind this. If the media done their job they would tell us who these people are. However, we can guess who some of them are.

Posted by: Case at May 29, 2026 06:37 PM (8XBuM)

60 Companers bass was trained by cuban intelligence who were trained by kgb

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 06:37 PM (bXbFr)

61 I hope Pratt has security

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 06:38 PM (FtULh)

62 Bass is currently talking about how nice the city was when she was growing up, forgetting that she's been the mayor for almost four years, and Democrats have controlled the mayoralty since 2001.

Leftists will often tell me life was so much better when they were kids.

Then I point out on almost every political issue the US has gone hard left since then.

And...that's when they call me racist.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 06:38 PM (sKqQm)

63 >>> "judges" have been bust today.. Stopped Trumps DOJ payments to victims of Biden's wrath and told Trump he had to take his name off the Kennedy/Trump center and keep it open.. Trump said okay to that one and handed it over to congress to deal with
Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 06:36 PM (FtULh)

HTF is anyone supposed to think they have the ability to make any of these decisions? And yes, trump always says, ok nevermind then. And the left knows this.

Blackrobed Politburo

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 06:38 PM (3uBP9)

64 Since riordan left

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 06:39 PM (bXbFr)

65 True Fact: No Man wants Dryer Balls.

Posted by: garrett at May 29, 2026 06:36 PM (P0D9r)

I have drier balls, they're practically raisins

Posted by: Joe Biden, former senator and, um, uh, you know, the thing at May 29, 2026 06:36 PM (1wjle)

Um. I was giving laundry advice. I ain't getting into testicular stuff.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 06:39 PM (Xdfhw)

66
Spencer Pratt: "My campaign now, how I identify, besides being the common sense American, it's the look around candidate. You look around and see with your own eyes what I am saying. And it's true."

===============

So true, but the problem is, this is now normal. Probably half of LA doesn't know it can be better, if not downright GOOD. How many people are around in LA who can say "It wasn't like this 25-30 years ago"?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 06:39 PM (n7rxJ)

67 Pratt's other big point yesterday.

He didn't want to do national media but he realised he needed the national exposure to beat the Dems ballot harvesting.

Morticia, it sounded like Leo endorsed him. Don't knkw about Foxx. Pratt doesn't care. Celebrity hate is a badge of honor.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 29, 2026 06:40 PM (Sco7b)

68 I saw this.. They are trying their darnedest to ruin the 250th Anniversary because they hate Trump... I've never seen anything like this
Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 06:25 PM (FtULh)

Pffft. Oh if Kamala had won they wouldn't be trying to ruin the 250th 'celebration', because they would be confident that the 250 'celebration' would really be an attack on the founders and a big old "celebrate undocumented immigrants and the mentally ill" affair rather than any kind of celebration of our country. But they don't hate Trump the man; they loved him when he was just a low to mid level celebrity. They hate America and the MAGA sentiment. ie. you and me.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 29, 2026 06:40 PM (AOl+5)

69 hash check

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 29, 2026 06:41 PM (R+iUD)

70
Bass is currently talking about how nice the city was when she was growing up, forgetting that she's been the mayor for almost four years, and Democrats have controlled the mayoralty since 2001.

=============

It's crazy, but there's at least one Bass ad where she's RANTING about how she came in and it was AWFUL in LA, the homelessness, the trash, the crime, the gangs, what she inherited was a DISASTER!!

It was Democrats all the way back to 2001, dear.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 06:41 PM (n7rxJ)

71 "the look around candidate. You look around and see with your own eyes what I am saying."

There are so many things in this country that we are not supposed to notice. Free us from this Empire of Lies.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 06:42 PM (Wq24h)

72 Arnold did so well as a Republican governor of California that they haven't had another Republican since.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 06:42 PM (6ydKt)

73 "If we tell the truth, they won't vote for us!"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2026 06:42 PM (CHHv1)

74 Mrs. Jukin's sister lives in LA and when there is a family get together for any event, I hear "I'm a progressive so I..." or "As a progressive I..." at least 20 times. What comes after is pure lunacy. I beg out og 3/4s of those get togethers.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 29, 2026 06:43 PM (xvV+O)

75 Just make sure you don't announce it anywhere on the internet, because I suspect the moment Pratt wins, Dems will be looking for evidence of this newly-discovered crime.

And what are they gonna do about it? Demand picture IDs to vote?

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 06:43 PM (vTZFs)

76 July 4th will be the perfect day for them to let their hate flag fly. I'll be drinking, shooting fireworks and thanking my lucky stars for the founding of this country.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 06:44 PM (n5tGW)

77 So true, but the problem is, this is now normal. Probably half of LA doesn't know it can be better, if not downright GOOD.

I would say the problem runs much deeper. 2/3 of the public simply can't do cause and effect. Its ideology all the way down.

This doesn't get better until everything falls apart enough to permit widespread civil unrest - thus allowing a Pinochet or Franco to rise. And helicopter tours to commence.

Posted by: Howdy at May 29, 2026 06:44 PM (/3whg)

78 Well no he gave after his first term went aling with skydragon and the jungle primary

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 06:44 PM (bXbFr)

79 >>> They are going to show such an ugly face contorted in spite and rage this summer.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 06:35 PM (73/SM)

Everyone knows where everyone stands today. There are no surprises left. No masks. There's nothing left for one side to show the other. It's been that way for a long long time.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 06:44 PM (3uBP9)

80 Pratt has hit an absolute home run with his ad campaign. The "Days of our Lives" mockery in the last clip is brilliant

Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 06:45 PM (5P5DO)

81 Maybe like the 6th day they replaced him with a clone

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 06:45 PM (bXbFr)

82 And what are they gonna do about it? Demand picture IDs to vote?
Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 06:43 PM (vTZFs)

I'm in CA and we get our ballots in the mail.. You can either mail it in or take it to a voting station... I guess you could get a provisional ballot, but that would connect you to the vote which wouldn't be good...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 06:46 PM (FtULh)

83 Circling back that 'did you see the sunrise episode' was a stunner because they had never killed even a long time player like jeff mckay a bellisario veteran back to black sheep

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 06:47 PM (bXbFr)

84 Mm, L.A. proved too much for the mayor
So she's leavin' the life, mm
he's come to know, ooh,

She said she's goin' back to find,
Ooh, ooh, ooh, what's left of her world
The world she left behind
Not so long ago

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 06:35 PM (wVcYX)

------------

She's leavin' ...
On that high-speed train to nowhere

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 06:47 PM (Na5xP)

85 Arnold did so well as a Republican governor of California that they haven't had another Republican since.

Arnold found out what its like to face an implacable Dem majority in the Legislature and a state GOP organization that made the Keystone Kops seem like the Untouchables.

Besides, he was busy shtupping the maid a lot of the time.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 06:47 PM (+5YP2)

86 Arnold found out what its like to face an implacable Dem majority in the Legislature and a state GOP organization that made the Keystone Kops seem like the Untouchables.

Besides, he was busy shtupping the maid a lot of the time.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 06:47 PM (+5YP2)

Plus he was married to a Kennedy

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 06:48 PM (FtULh)

87 74 Mrs. Jukin's sister lives in LA and when there is a family get together for any event, I hear "I'm a progressive so I..." or "As a progressive I..." at least 20 times. What comes after is pure lunacy. I beg out og 3/4s of those get togethers.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 29, 2026 06:43 PM (xvV+O)

It's the same way a very religious person would present themselves.

"I'm Catholic, so I..."
"I'm Jewish, so I..."
"I'm a Hindu, so I..."
"I'm a Buddhist, so I"
"I'm a Muslim, so I..."
"I'm a Scientologist, so I... (am looking for Body Thetans)"

It's their cult and we have to treat them like the fanatical zealots they've become.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 06:48 PM (6ydKt)

88 Watching another sad move about Communists bastards
Eternal Winter, Hungarian women rounded up and sent to a Gulag in 1944

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 06:49 PM (Ia/+0)

89 I hope Pratt wins. I also hope there are more normal people in LA who vote for him vs the Commie bred and toasted Large Mouth Bass (no offense to fish).

She looks evil. As if she eats tiny humans evil. Or spent time in Haiti as well as Cuba.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 29, 2026 06:49 PM (WONhk)

90 I'm in CA and we get our ballots in the mail.. You can either mail it in or take it to a voting station... I guess you could get a provisional ballot, but that would connect you to the vote which wouldn't be good...

-----------

Thank goodness ballot harvesting is legal in Califzuela.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 06:49 PM (Na5xP)

91 Truth and Beauty.

Learn It.
Live It.
Love It.

Posted by: Plato and the Pythagoreans at May 29, 2026 06:49 PM (wVcYX)

92 Arnold said "Fuck your freedoms" during the plandemic.

Fuck him sideways with a pineapple.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 06:49 PM (gtcuf)

93 Just make sure you don't announce it anywhere on the internet, because I suspect the moment Pratt wins, Dems will be looking for evidence of this newly-discovered crime.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 29, 2026 06:27 PM (h7ZuX)

Voter Fraud is a MYTH!!

---The Democrats

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 06:49 PM (GD0B3)

94 As for the 250 celebration, you have to understand that one of the left's main, very core efforts is to depress, emotionally depress their adversaries. They want you to be depressed, drop out, die, kill your self. This is a constant endeavor of theirs.

Anything that might bring a little joy has to be fought. The DC improvements, the rebuilding, the painting and refinishing. They want it all stopped because the opposite, the decay and waste, is depressing and that's their goal.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 06:50 PM (3uBP9)

95 James Talarico's mysterious girlfriend revealed - she's vegan and hangs out at gay bars.

Not making this up.

https://t.co/O5LPDKuQDD

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 06:51 PM (f0sNM)

96 Evil is what their father shaitan likes.

Posted by: Eromero at May 29, 2026 06:51 PM (LHPAg)

97 Then Here
There Here

There is a great disconnect in deciding that people from 3rd world shithole will decide NOT to live in 3rd world shitholes.
It is their world, NOT our world, and with 40 million or so 3rd worlders they can find a community that matches their worldview.
Opening a store or shop in the US 3rd world community is a chance at leaving the 3rd world.
Opening a Learing Center is 3rd world ideas impregnated into a high trust society. A BASTARD.
There are ZERO people opening shops.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 06:51 PM (/+uur)

98 Use dryer balls. Those help.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Seems obvious.
But when it is 88 degrees and 75% humidity it is harder than it sounds.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 06:52 PM (/lPRQ)

99 I was really disappointed in Arnie the way he turned on Trump in 2016, and they even had him host The Apprentice, which subsequently bombed.

I'm not sure if he really accomplished anything during his term as governor.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 06:52 PM (6ydKt)

100 Brianna Menard, 30, is a “committed vegan,” yoga buff, cat mom, and likes “dancing the night away” at local gay bar Cheer Up Charlies in Austin, according her bio at a local food coop, where she serves on the board.

That is not his GF
That is his friend that is a girl

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 06:53 PM (/+uur)

101 You know there is going to be more "mail in ballots" counted for Bass than the entire population of Los Angeles.

Posted by: wth at May 29, 2026 06:53 PM (UjdFS)

102
Turn off the "free" money in our country and we will see major improvements.

After the riots are quelled.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 06:54 PM (Cqx++)

103
They were planning to turn America 250 into an absolute Wokefest. If Kumswallow had won -- well I don't want to think about.

It would've been in-your-face tranny and DEI shit turned up to 11.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 06:54 PM (w6EFb)

104 ***there really still just is tremendous political alpha ***
--

This hurts my head.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 06:54 PM (NlVMd)

105 I read on X (I think) an article which explained that the Senate GOP don't think they are RINOs. They think MAGA is nuts and that if the base gets its way, they might choose a candidate who can't win.
The 2010 triple-debacle of O'Donnell, Angle, and Buck weighs heavily on Thune. (Buck was arguably a decent candidate at the time, but he was running in CO when that Governor race was split between Tancredo and Maes. But never mind this.)
This is why Thune threw so much money (away) on Cornyn.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 06:55 PM (gKWVE)

106 Arnold said "Fuck your freedoms" during the plandemic.

Fuck him sideways with a pineapple.
Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 06:49 PM (gtcuf

There's still a LOT of entire bloodlines I want to see eliminated.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 29, 2026 06:55 PM (Sco7b)

107 83-Year-Old Rep. Frederica Wilson Announces She Will NOT Seek Reelection After Health Crisis Forced Prolonged Absence from Congress...

I guess they 'found' her.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 06:55 PM (/lPRQ)

108 Got it: Hobos defecating and doing drugs in the streets and burning down the city is not Scott Pratt's brand, since that has already been taken.

Posted by: Minuteman at May 29, 2026 06:55 PM (47/pr)

109 Been thinking this week, all the looting is what has driven the country into debt

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 06:56 PM (Ia/+0)

110 There is a great disconnect in deciding that people from 3rd world shithole will decide NOT to live in 3rd world shitholes.

When I said that 2/3 couldn't do cause and effect ? That wasn't just liberals. We still have to hear this myth - from the right - that with enough muggings the left will eventually see the light. Thats not how people work. Not how we see them work.

Yet the myth lives on.

Posted by: Howdy at May 29, 2026 06:56 PM (/3whg)

111 Arnold said "Fuck your freedoms" during the plandemic.

Fuck him sideways with a pineapple.
Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 06:49 PM (gtcuf

There's still a LOT of entire bloodlines I want to see eliminated.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 29, 2026 06:55 PM (Sco7b)

Well, he's a European after all.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 06:56 PM (8avO+)

112 >>> James Talarico's mysterious girlfriend revealed - she's vegan and hangs out at gay bars.

Not making this up.

https://t.co/O5LPDKuQDD

Is zer name Mary Moon?

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 06:56 PM (3uBP9)

113 Talarico's gf is his beard. He knows it. We know it. The vegan gf knows it. There are some strange vibes with her posing as his beloved.

One outfit she has on looks like something a tranny would wear as the top does not fit and it's weird.

He's a faggot.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 29, 2026 06:57 PM (WONhk)

114 Not making this up.

https://t.co/O5LPDKuQDD

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 06:51 PM (f0sNM)

Looks like she has some Hindi or Arabic writing as a tattoo.

Is she part Indian? Arab?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 06:57 PM (6ydKt)

115 Use dryer balls. Those help.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Seems obvious.
But when it is 88 degrees and 75% humidity it is harder than it sounds.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 06:52 PM (/lPRQ)

Million dollar idea: Men's underwear with strategically located pouches for replaceable desiccant packs. Keeps you dry and comfortable all day. Bonus: bigger bulges.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 06:57 PM (wVcYX)

116 When I said that 2/3 couldn't do cause and effect ? That wasn't just liberals. We still have to hear this myth - from the right - that with enough muggings the left will eventually see the light. Thats not how people work. Not how we see them work.

Yet the myth lives on.
Posted by: Howdy at May 29, 2026 06:56 PM (/3whg)

Some do, each time stuff happens they shed a bit more of their hold. If it weren't for the schools indoctrinating the new generations they would have crumbled already.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 06:58 PM (8avO+)

117 They always have an excuse dont they and 16 years later no gop candidate did better than o donnell

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 06:58 PM (bXbFr)

118 VTK, thanks, I put it in the sidebar with commentary

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 06:59 PM (1wjle)

119 *** support them over the 'bad guy' who thinks the local hobo jerking off under a bridge should pack his shit up and go.
---

.. a public park in Belgium i...

A woman runs toward a migrant and splashes water on him in anger after noticing that he’s pleasuring himself while watching her and her friend ...

https://tinyurl.com/yckf5h5a

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 06:59 PM (NlVMd)

120 Launch in a few minutes.

ULA - Atlas V 551 - Amazon Leo (LA-07)
SLC-41 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: May 29, 2026 (EDT)
Launch Time: 7:33 p.m. EDT ( 2333UTC (May 30, 01:33 CEST)

https://youtu.be/_-erZQuZNx4

Posted by: Joyenz at May 29, 2026 07:00 PM (2F0/Y)

121 This James Talarico romance with a Neighbor With a Uterus is a love story for the ages

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 07:00 PM (1wjle)

122 I read on X (I think) an article which explained that the Senate GOP don't think they are RINOs. They think MAGA is nuts and that if the base gets its way, they might choose a candidate who can't win.
The 2010 triple-debacle of O'Donnell, Angle, and Buck weighs heavily on Thune. (Buck was arguably a decent candidate at the time, but he was running in CO when that Governor race was split between Tancredo and Maes. But never mind this.)
This is why Thune threw so much money (away) on Cornyn.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 06:55 PM (gKWVE)

That's nonsense of course. They can't possibly think electoral failure is more likely with MAGA, not after all the evidence showing the opposite. They just like the old way they used to do it when they could get away with it.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 07:00 PM (8avO+)

123 >>> James Talarico's mysterious girlfriend revealed - she's vegan and hangs out at gay bars.

Not making this up.

https://t.co/O5LPDKuQDD

--------------

I think she was The Grand Marshall for this year's annual Dykes on Bikes parade.

Posted by: ShainS at May 29, 2026 07:01 PM (HRncj)

124 aunch in a few minutes.

ULA - Atlas V 551 - Amazon Leo (LA-07)
SLC-41 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: May 29, 2026 (EDT)
Launch Time: 7:33 p.m. EDT ( 2333UTC (May 30, 01:33 CEST)

https://youtu.be/_-erZQuZNx4
Posted by: Joyenz

Big Blue Blast had no effect on the neighbors.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 07:02 PM (/lPRQ)

125 We know this by now mcconnell and rove spiked those races

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 07:02 PM (bXbFr)

126 I was really disappointed in Arnie the way he turned on Trump in 2016, and they even had him host The Apprentice, which subsequently bombed.

I'm not sure if he really accomplished anything during his term as governor.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 06:52 PM (6ydKt)

Stopped the bleeding for 4 years till be bandage soaked through and fell off.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 07:02 PM (8avO+)

127 well,yeah, O'Donnell might have been a witch or whatever, but Frank Castle was telegraphing hard that he was not going to do jack shit for the base. He might even have switched to being an "independent who caucuses with the Republicans" like Murkie. Just so he could prop up the GOPe in leadership.
And then Castle lost and let O'Donnell twist, like Cornyn is trying to do to Paxton.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 07:02 PM (gKWVE)

128 I read on X (I think) an article which explained that the Senate GOP don't think they are RINOs.

They are not. You starry-eyed reformers are the RINOs. Its their party - and they'll destroy it before they let you take it.

Posted by: Howdy at May 29, 2026 07:03 PM (/3whg)

129 Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 07:02 PM (/lPRQ)

That was one heck of an explosion.

Posted by: Joyenz at May 29, 2026 07:03 PM (2F0/Y)

130 Posted by: Joyenz at May 29, 2026 07:00 PM (2F0/Y)

Awesome, thanks for the link! I freakin' love this stuff.

Currently reading Andy Weir's Artemis trilogy, just to add to the synergy.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 07:03 PM (gtcuf)

131 I saw this.. They are trying their darnedest to ruin the 250th Anniversary because they hate Trump... I've never seen anything like this
Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 06:25 PM (FtULh)
=====

Sure, they hate DJT. They hate the people who VOTED for DJT even more. In too many parts of this country, simply wearing a MAGA hat is worth your life, even the lives of your family members. Nancy Pelosi's "precious Democracy" (spit!). You exercise your privilege to vote for a person a Communist doesn't agree with and you'll find out how PRECIOUS that privilege is.

Posted by: mrp at May 29, 2026 07:05 PM (rj6Yv)

132 Not making this up.

https://t.co/O5LPDKuQDD

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 06:51 PM (f0sNM)

Cheer Up Charlie's? Did that replace the old Austin
gay bar Oil Can Harry's? I wish I didn't know of this stuff at all.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 07:05 PM (Xdfhw)

133 Keep surging, Spencer!
-------------------
From the CA Post:
Spencer Pratt is now Karen Bass’ biggest headache.

A bombshell California Post poll conducted with McLaughlin & Associates shows the reality TV star-turned-mayoral candidate has surged to a statistical tie with the incumbent mayor.

And voters blame homelessness, affordability and the direction of Los Angeles as the reason for turning on Bass.

Pratt now leads the field with 30.1% support, compared with 29.5% for Bass, setting up a razor-thin race heading into next week’s primary.

Socialist councilwoman Nithya Raman sits in third place at 23.4%.

Posted by: beckster at May 29, 2026 07:06 PM (kX27y)

134
It's their cult and we have to treat them like the fanatical zealots they've become.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 06:48 PM (6ydKt)

They have to keep changing the name until we learn that the introduction means they are evil...

I'm a Leftist....
I'm a Liberal....
I'm a Progressive...

each one only has so much shelf life until it quits working.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 07:06 PM (8avO+)

135 They think MAGA is nuts and that if the base gets its way, they might choose a candidate who can't win.
---
Except they have a worse track record for that or appealing to the middle than MAGA shows practically every election.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 07:07 PM (ikSmX)

136 This James Talarico romance with a Neighbor With a Uterus is a love story for the ages

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 07:00 PM (1wjle)

---------------

Are you ready for the Hollywood reboot with Richard Gere and Julia Roberts: 'Pretty Vulva?"

I can hear the "AI" Roy Orbison now ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 29, 2026 07:07 PM (HRncj)

137 I read on X (I think) an article which explained that the Senate GOP don't think they are RINOs.

They are not. You starry-eyed reformers are the RINOs. Its their party - and they'll destroy it before they let you take it.
Posted by: Howdy at May 29, 2026 07:03 PM (/3whg)

We already took it. We just haven't cleaned all the crap out of the garage and spare bedroom yet and moved in our furniture.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 07:07 PM (8avO+)

138 "They are trying their darnedest to ruin the 250th Anniversary because they hate Trump"

They hate America and its history just as much.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 07:08 PM (Wq24h)

139 T-minus 1 minute till liftoff.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 07:09 PM (gtcuf)

140 Except they have a worse track record for that or appealing to the middle than MAGA shows practically every election.

They do not give a damn. They'd rather control a losing party than serve in a winning one. Its not an opposition party.

Posted by: Howdy at May 29, 2026 07:09 PM (/3whg)

141 Talarico's gf is his beard. He knows it. We know it. The vegan gf knows it. There are some strange vibes with her posing as his beloved.

One outfit she has on looks like something a tranny would wear as the top does not fit and it's weird.

He's a faggot.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 29, 2026 06:57 PM (WONhk)

Remember that manly guy from New Jersey I think it was who dug up a starlet for his beard when he ran a while ago?

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 07:09 PM (8avO+)

142 It's not just President Trump they H8, it's the Constitutionand the Cou,

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 07:10 PM (Ia/+0)

143 Like ace, I thought Cruz was the answer in '16 but as soon as he met slight resistance he quietly folded his tent and shrunk back to his comfy hole. Was like he disappeared, never even a candidate. Way to go Ted - show em what you're made of. Defines 99.99% of the party "leaders".

Posted by: Roadie at May 29, 2026 07:10 PM (hyQrc)

144 "They are trying their darnedest to ruin the 250th Anniversary because they hate Trump"

They hate America and its history just as much.
Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 07:08 PM (Wq24h)

They hate Daddy and his rules. You know, the things that work.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 07:10 PM (wVcYX)

145 Oops, 23 minutes till liftoff. Looks like a slight delay.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 07:12 PM (gtcuf)

146 Reid Hoffman, who you may remember from past hits like E. Jean Carroll, and Epstein is behind the campaign to scare all the performers out of the 250 celebration. Lots of money being moved around, and threatened. The leftoids are going around declaring victory showing lists of the people that have cancelled. It's still about a month away, things may still change. The left are such garbage humans. All they can ever do is destroy.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 06:23 PM (3uBP9)

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I am absolutely heartbroken that Milli Vanilli has bowed out.

/Seriously, thanks -- I was unaware of that.

[I often wish that Trump would act like a mob boss and eliminate his enemies and the enemies of this country ... but then he'd be The Clintons.]

Posted by: ShainS at May 29, 2026 07:12 PM (HRncj)

147 Way to go Ted - show em what you're made of.

Apparently Ted's biggest worry the past year has been writing a bill to make sure a college ballplayer doesn't make too much money and can only transfer once.

Posted by: Howdy at May 29, 2026 07:13 PM (/3whg)

148 Oh noes milly vannilli

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 07:15 PM (bXbFr)

149
I have an important announcement.

*pauses dramatically*

I have nothing useful to say.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2026 07:15 PM (HdYcL)

150 Arnold did so well as a Republican governor of California that they haven't had another Republican since.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 06:42 PM (6ydKt)

The CA GOPe is more loathsome and inert than the national party by far. That isn't really Arnold's fault.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 07:16 PM (8avO+)

151 Remember that manly guy from New Jersey I think it was who dug up a starlet for his beard when he ran a while ago?
Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 07:09 PM (8avO+)

Spartacus Cory Booker?

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 07:16 PM (wVcYX)

152 I suggest the 250 celebration not happen and that TPUSA host their own thing somewhere outside DC.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 07:17 PM (gKWVE)

153 Remember that manly guy from New Jersey I think it was who dug up a starlet for his beard when he ran a while ago?
Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 07:09 PM (8avO+)

Spartacus Cory Booker?
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 07:16 PM (wVcYX)

thats him.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 07:17 PM (8avO+)

154 Reid Hoffman, who you may remember from past hits like E. Jean Carroll, and Epstein is behind the campaign to scare all the performers out of the 250 celebration. Lots of money being moved around, and threatened. The leftoids are going around declaring victory showing lists of the people that have cancelled. It's still about a month away, things may still change. The left are such garbage humans. All they can ever do is destroy.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 06:23 PM (3uBP9)
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In any same world this would out them as just miserable fucks.

Can't wait for when they stand before The Throne and the Lord tells them how closely they resemble fascists.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 07:17 PM (ikSmX)

155 Remember that manly guy from New Jersey I think it was who dug up a starlet for his beard when he ran a while ago?
Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 07:09 PM (8avO+)

Cory Booker.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 07:17 PM (zZu0s)

156 I don't know who Mike Solano is but first impression is he's a dick.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 07:18 PM (XMuV+)

157 All of these Democrats use the same rhetoric. Our sacred democracy is fragile and under attack, yet you've been office for fifty years and nothing has happened. Cut the bullshit.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 29, 2026 07:19 PM (D1E+2)

158 I agree wholeheartedly with this. In 2016, I desperately wanted a candidate who adopted Trump's positions but who was a more professional, less impulsive, more disciplined version of Trump. That option was not available (though I kidded myself into thinking that Ted Cruz would fit this unmet need).

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When Trump's poll numbers started rising in 2016 on the back of his opposition to unchecked immigration I thought one of the other candidates will take up the cause and beat him to it. When none of them would touch it I realized they couldn't care less what the voters wanted so voters went with Trump.

Posted by: Decaf at May 29, 2026 07:20 PM (Z8tay)

159 I have to laugh when these people say shit like " this clown doesn't know how to be mayor, Senator, President ", whatever. All you need is common sense. The "educated" political class is worse than useless. The founding fathers WANTED people who were not lifelong politicians.

Posted by: steevy at May 29, 2026 07:20 PM (YwEeS)

160 I like the rural small town July 4 events the best. Vets, first responders, tractors, lodge members on Cushman scooters. Genuinely patriotic crowds.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 07:21 PM (Wq24h)

161 I suggest the 250 celebration not happen and that TPUSA host their own thing somewhere outside DC.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 07:17 PM (gKWVE)

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Despite never having lived anywhere outside of the Western US, it grieves me to know end that Boston and the rest of Massachusetts -- the birthplace of The American Revolution -- is a commie shithole (even fifty years ago during the Bicentennial, and far worse now)!.

* spit *

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 07:21 PM (Na5xP)

162 The patient in the Clay Travis video looks and sounds a lot like the British Amelia. Good try.

Posted by: Decaf at May 29, 2026 07:21 PM (Z8tay)

163 At some point, the political establishment of the Uniparty will have to accept that simply insisting we have to vote for the buttoned-up stuff shirt who will sell us down the river because look, his stuffed shirt is so nicely buttoned up!, is not a winning message.

* stomps tiny feet *

But that's not who we are!

Posted by: Uniparty at May 29, 2026 07:21 PM (0sNs1)

164 WTF is up with the Ted Cruz criticism now?

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 07:22 PM (XMuV+)

165 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 29, 2026 07:22 PM (PJdmB)

166 *to NO end ... damn fingers

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 07:23 PM (Na5xP)

167 "Like ace, I thought Cruz was the answer in '16 but as soon as he met slight resistance he quietly folded his tent and shrunk back to his comfy hole. "

NOBODY fights like Trump. He's a f'n superhero.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 07:23 PM (vFG9F)

168 Dunno, man, I didn't say anything bad about Cruz. I thought he's been fine since 2016. 2016 remains a sorepoint with some, I guess.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 07:23 PM (gKWVE)

169 In 1973 Bass joined "The Venceremos Brigade" and went to Cuba where she got training in "terrorist tactics" and "guerrilla warfare" from Soviet KGB and Cuban secret police, to overthrow the United States.

And yet the media still refers tiher as "a thoughtful, if imperfect, standard issue Democrat like Bass"???

Dude -- SHE'S STILL ENACTING HER KBG TRAINING.

She is trying to overthrown the United States. Her terrorism i through politics, not overt.

Instead of Molotov cocktails, she is used fnetaly addict and Antifa thugs and illegal alien ngang member as her weapons.

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 07:24 PM (Av6i5)

170 I have to laugh when these people say shit like " this clown doesn't know how to be mayor, Senator, President ", whatever. All you need is common sense. The "educated" political class is worse than useless. The founding fathers WANTED people who were not lifelong politicians.

Posted by: steevy at May 29, 2026 07:20 PM (YwEeS)
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When they can state gross incompetence in the face and cite them as people who have that knowledge.

How the Hell could anybody look at the clusterfuck that is Bass' term as mayor and the imbecile Fire Chief?

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 07:25 PM (ikSmX)

171 Bass is spectrum |---------+-| Like full-tilt spectrum. Truly.

That smile pasted on woke faces? Its wolfish. Like gobble your grandma wolfish. I see these people and have an immediate, visceral reaction; WOLF!

There's a reason fairy tales remain embedded in our collective memory, and Karen Bass exemplifies the smiling, devious wolf.

Posted by: 13times at May 29, 2026 07:25 PM (RNHFB)

172 Reid Hoffman, who you may remember from past hits like E. Jean Carroll, and Epstein is behind the campaign to scare all the performers out of the 250 celebration. Lots of money being moved around, and threatened. The leftoids are going around declaring victory showing lists of the people that have cancelled. It's still about a month away, things may still change. The left are such garbage humans. All they can ever do is destroy.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 06:23 PM (3uBP9)

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They are simply wiping themselves out of history. In 50 years time when the tricentennial comes around people will look back on these celebrations and conclude the celebrities who took part were the real leaders and the ones who didn't must not have been good enough to invite.

Posted by: Decaf at May 29, 2026 07:28 PM (Z8tay)

173
I haven't watched all of the Pratt ads, so forgive me if this ends up being familiar.

Since Bass hates these Lego ads so badly, Pratt should do another one for Bass, as an olive branch.

A music video with the "Everything Is Awesome" Lego song, and Lego Bass cavorting joyously through LA past Lego junkies shooting up Lego heroin, squatting on the sidewalk dropping a huge stinky Lego deuce, with a background of Lego houses burning with the plastic Legos melting into the gutter, and tattooed Lego MS13 thugs beating little old Lego ladies and stealing their Lego I-Phones.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2026 07:29 PM (y9nCu)

174 The Senate and House have their ways to run things and they don't like an outsider (Trump) coming in and rocking their boat. Well tough shit assholes. Do your jobs you were sent there to do or do us all a favor and quit. Bunch of lazy sots.

Posted by: Case at May 29, 2026 07:33 PM (8XBuM)

175 "The drug addicts that are attacking moms that are NAKED in front of kids"

I think this could use a comma.

Posted by: Fritz Geiger at May 29, 2026 07:34 PM (38jsa)

176 If Pratt finishes in the top 2 next week but doesn't get 50% + 1, the final 2 meet in November.
Why not consider a special "Pratt Visit" to LA this November in he doesn't win in June? You can do Conditional Voter Registration (CVR) the day of the election, and can refuse them if they ask for ID. Use any address, like your hotel. Since the voter rolls are garbage already, you can help stand up against the non-Commie and illegal votes.
Make it a vacation weekend, and vote early, then fly or drive home and watch Pratt win from your living room!
Nurse's comment in the #1 spot is only hinting this. I'm flat out calling BS on the entire crooked voter rolls in all the West coast states.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 29, 2026 07:43 PM (Uvvcx)

177 I read on X (I think) an article which explained that the Senate GOP don't think they are RINOs.

They are not. You starry-eyed reformers are the RINOs. Its their party - and they'll destroy it before they let you take it.
Posted by: Howdy at May 29, 2026 07:03 PM (/3whg)

Fine, let them, if they can. We can call the new party we form out of their ashes anything we want, including Republican.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 29, 2026 08:08 PM (ZVgZ4)

The Week That Was Woke

From October 2025: Talarico is subliminally screaming his actual sexual preference to us.

Transextremist and heretic James Talarico keeps referring to women as "neighbors with uteruses" who of course need "abortion care" almost as much as gender-affirming care, but now he's trying to correct himself to just say "women" once in a while.

Headline of the Week: Democrats' Greatest Fear: The GOP Will Turn James Talarico Into a Creepy, Unmanly Weirdo.

Oh that's just silly. How could we do something like that? What are we, Jewish Mind-Wizards who can hypnotize people into believing something completely crazy?

A mentally ill antifa terrorist who praised the murder of Charlie Kirk done got arrested for having sex crimes.

"I never saw this coming" said someone who thought you were talking about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire, but then, when you told him you said an antifa thug was a sex criminal, said "Oh yes, that makes much more sense."

A queer-identified Antifa activist who celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk has been arrested in upstate New York on suspicion of felony child sex crimes.
Justin Robert Stroup, 37, of Plattsburgh, N.Y., was arrested on April 30 by the New York State Police following a joint investigation involving Plattsburgh City Police and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). He allegedly shared child sex abuse material.
Stroup is a leftist activist and guitarist for the left-wing death metal band Dead Solace. The band announced on Instagram after the news of his arrest that they were immediately disbanding.
"This decision follows recent actions by a member that do not align with our values, our expectations of one another, or the respect we believe should exist within our community," the band said in a statement.
In 2022, Dead Solace performed a charity concert in Burlington, Vt., co-organized by Planned Parenthood.
After Charlie Kirk was assassinated last September, Stroup wrote on Facebook: "Rest in P*SS you dirty f*cking fascist." Earlier that year, he wrote, "I think it's time to get militant with my anti bigotry once again."

You're not going to believe this but it turns out he's a squat, fat, blobby kobold with a neckbeard.

A violent Portland "protester" was released without bail and then quickly smashed a cop in the face with a "softball-sized rock."

Timothy Lawrence Reed, 35, is accused of breaking into a north Portland home occupied by a mother and her children, threatening to kill the family, and then assaulting a pursuing officer as he tried to evade arrest.
The attack happened around 11:35 p.m. on May 14 when officers responded to a reported burglary in progress in the 3900 block of North Overlook Terrace. A woman called 911 to report that a stranger had entered her home while she and her children were inside.
The woman told 911 that the intruder threatened to kill everyone in the home. Armed with a stick, the woman chased the suspect from the home.
The suspect was located in Overlook Park. Police said he ignored repeated commands and continued running through the neighborhood, prompting a prolonged foot pursuit.
"I'm not afraid of you, pig!" Reed shouted in the police body camera video. "I'll f*cking kill you!"
As the chase moved north of North Prescott Street, Reed allegedly suddenly turned toward an officer and struck him on the head with a large rock.
Since 2022, suspect booking photos are no longer allowed to be released without a conviction in Oregon due to a law passed by Democrats in response to this journalist's reporting on the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots.
An investigation into Reed's criminal history shows that just three days before the assault, he was arrested in Portland for felony unlawful use of a weapon, escape, resisting arrest, menacing, and second-degree disorderly conduct. On May 13, the day before the rock attack, he was released without bail by Judge Chanpone Sinlapassai.

You're not going to believe this, but he looks like a gangly Genderfuck Witch with hideous teeth who wears belly-shirts despite being nominally male and also having a chubby middle.

People don't join antifa because their dating life is too hectic, you know.

A swishy steroid case in California spent Memorial Day kicking over flags because Democrats love The America That Can Be But Never Will Exist.

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

Parents are SUING Rochester Memorial elementary school after a male student who identifies as transgender entered the girl's bathroom with their 3rd grade daughter and peeked under the stall
The principal allegedly responded by saying the girl should use a different bathroom if she isn't comfortable.

NJ committeewoman and Democrat -- obviously -- was just arrested for driving DUI with a child in the car. She got hit with a child endangerment charge, too. Now she's caught driving with a suspended license. The rules and laws just don't apply to woke Democrats, especially woke Democrat women. They're fighting the oppressor by becoming the oppressor class.

The whole family is criminal trash that would be too unseemly to appear on COPS.

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

Illegal from El Salvador who had charges for drugs, rape, sexual assault, and property damage was let out of prison by sanctuary politicians in Virginia before RAPING a woman, per DHS
Democrats want foreign criminals on our streets raping and murdering Americans

Elementary school principal bars parents from their children's elementary school graduation, to punish them for ICE's arrest of an illegal alien. This woke Karen naturally cites Muh Safety and Muh Concerns as a valid reason to punish American citizens for the lawful detention of an illegal alien.

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
19h
BREAKING: @TempeElementary Principal Bronwyn Sternberg sent a letter to families informing them that parents and guests will NOT be allowed to attend students' graduation after a reported illegal alien parent and her child were arrested by ICE near the school.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu�s �office of lgbtq advancement� is holding a �trans period pride� event to discuss menstrual equity & the experiences of transgender menstruators

The office received nearly $1 million in taxpayer funding this year

This is real

What a time to be alive pic.twitter.com/nFpAuwWtw9
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 27, 2026

California Gov candidate Tom Steyer (D) just posted a video promoting and supporting men in girls� sports.

AB Hernandez is a male athlete who invaded female sports and stole multiple medals from girls.

Tom Steyer hates women and girls. PASS IT ON! pic.twitter.com/PItUfK3cWS
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 29, 2026

Venemously embittered ugly, unfuckable women are the Manson Girls agitating for chaos, misery, and murder. They are the shock troops of the Democrat Party, because the Democrat Party is the Husband of Last Resort for unfuckable women.

Tiktoker prays for Pam Bondi to suffer permanently from cancer.

How are we supposed to share a country with these people? pic.twitter.com/MVxXqbim52
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 28, 2026

She's now been fired and can now move to the only job she's ever been qualified for, a welfare-collecting dependent on the state.

Speaking of...

Sorry about that but I have just the thing to cheer you up.

Hopefully this message from drunk Kamala makes you feel better. pic.twitter.com/CovzNWIt2X https://t.co/sVERn4aGp8
— MAZE (@mazemoore) May 29, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:02 PM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 29, 2026 05:03 PM (PJdmB)

2 2nd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 29, 2026 05:03 PM (PJdmB)

3 Nooding

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 29, 2026 05:04 PM (PJdmB)

4 Kobold? He has a candle on his head?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 05:04 PM (zZu0s)

5 Darnit! I came in late on the Hollywood thread. Love it when Ace posts about movies or TV anytime, but I especially liked it on Friday afternoons.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:05 PM (wzUl9)

6 Transextremist and heretic James Talarico keeps referring to women as "neighbors with uteruses" who of course need "abortion care" almost as much as gender-affirming care

Abortion care. Great for woke women, not so great for their innocent babies.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 05:06 PM (+5YP2)

7 Wow, the Dems REALLY HATE WOMEN, don't they?

They treat the women like shitty whores and the womenfolk just love that and can't get themselves enough Democrats...

There's probably a bad lesson in there somewhere...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 29, 2026 05:07 PM (Sco7b)

8 Democrats want foreign criminals on our streets raping and murdering Americans
_____

And what are you going to do about it, huh? Shut up and pay your taxes.
-Democrats

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 05:07 PM (Dv3i1)

9 Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s “office of lgbtq advancement” is holding a “trans period pride” event to discuss menstrual equity & the experiences of transgender menstruators

Please tell me there will be merch.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 05:08 PM (+5YP2)

10
Abortion care.

Maybe if you kept your legs together you would not need need abortion.

We the honest taxpayers pay for birth control.

Whores.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 05:09 PM (3ek7K)

11 Kumala sounds drunk, but perhaps it's brain damage from many years of head banging...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 29, 2026 05:09 PM (l3cgK)

12 Feature? Bug? You be the judge.
Binge Paul Harrell and feel better for doing it.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 29, 2026 05:09 PM (YlWIZ)

13 }TempeElementary Principal Bronwyn Sternberg sent a letter to families informing them that parents and guests will NOT be allowed to attend students' graduation after a reported illegal alien parent and her child were arrested by ICE near the school."

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It's an elementary school. What kind of "graduation" could they have? When I finished sixth grade, I trooped off to junior high without fanfare. (Of course, LBJ was president then, not the hair-pulling insanity we have now.)

If I were such a parent, I'd be glad and would keep my kid home from the "graduation" in protest. And would be looking for a new, sane school for him/her for next year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:09 PM (wzUl9)

14 Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s “office of lgbtq advancement” is holding a “trans period pride” event to discuss menstrual equity & the experiences of transgender menstruators

Only women bleed.

Posted by: Alice Cooper at May 29, 2026 05:10 PM (TbWk/)

15 Maybe a little less woke than usual?

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 05:10 PM (Ia/+0)

16 Only women bleed.
Posted by: Alice Cooper at May 29, 2026 05:10 PM (TbWk/)

Preach!

Posted by: Ike Turner at May 29, 2026 05:11 PM (Sco7b)

17 Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s “office of lgbtq advancement” is holding a “trans period pride” event to discuss menstrual equity & the experiences of transgender menstruators

aka Bloody Sunday.

And pizza will be served.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 05:11 PM (+5YP2)

18 Leftists/Liberals are just nasty evil people. Purposeful destruction under the guise of compassion.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 05:11 PM (n5tGW)

19 16 Only women bleed.
Posted by: Alice Cooper at May 29, 2026 05:10 PM (TbWk/)

Hell yeah!!

Posted by: Chris Brown at May 29, 2026 05:12 PM (Sco7b)

20 I don't think I saw Transgender Menstruators open for anybody, nor do I want to.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 05:12 PM (vFG9F)

21 16 Only women bleed.
Posted by: Alice Cooper at May 29, 2026 05:10 PM (TbWk/)

Not in my experience...

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 29, 2026 05:12 PM (Sco7b)

22 20 I don't think I saw Transgender Menstruators open for anybody, nor do I want to.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 05:12 PM (vFG9F)

They do keep talking about gender fluid...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 29, 2026 05:13 PM (l3cgK)

23 Bronwyn Sternberg needs a visit from Uncle Buck.

Posted by: Melanoma Head at May 29, 2026 05:13 PM (54bnG)

24 It's pretty well known now that these little events they use taxpayer money for are all fund diversion scams. 250K for the event and the other 750K into their grubby pockets.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 05:14 PM (n5tGW)

25 Hey the Kamster again.........

I have been thinking about something that been bothering me for years. The subject of "Passing gas in Public Places".

First of all, Women or Transgender Men do not Peel Off Good Ones, Rip One, Step on a Duck or FART in public.

The correct term is "Passing Human Greenhouse Gas" !!!!

That's my thought of the day !!!!!

Posted by: Kami Harris at May 29, 2026 05:14 PM (thvln)

26 I'm surprised Oregon doesn't have a carve out to the no booking photo law to allow the release if it's a suspected conservative.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 05:14 PM (XMuV+)

27 Tiktoker prays for Pam Bondi to suffer permanently from cancer.

A prayer like that is just begging for retribution from God.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 05:14 PM (+5YP2)

28 Kamala: "Reflect on all the good you have done."

I will. Voting for Trump three times was a big part of it, lady.

Oh, and K? Do try not to appear on camera. At all if possible, but certainly not while drunk.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:14 PM (wzUl9)

29 Bronwyn Sternberg?

Okay, who's writing this stuff? That's not a real name for a woke school super, is it? Because it's just too "on the nose".

Bronwyn fucking Sternberg.

Posted by: spongeworthy at May 29, 2026 05:14 PM (sLLbN)

30 I remember when Limbaugh said he wanted Obama to fail and it was the worst thing ever.

Now half the democrats are calling for Trump's murder and its...ok I guess?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 05:15 PM (sKqQm)

31 They do keep talking about gender fluid...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 29, 2026

***
Gender fluid made the old GM transmissions shift very smoothly.

Then they banned it and released it into the general environment.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:15 PM (wzUl9)

32
Transgender Menstruators?

Does this mean they're going to have a visit from their Aunt ~~Flo~~ Heinz?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 05:15 PM (iJfKG)

33 32
Transgender Menstruators?

Does this mean they're going to have a visit from their Aunt Flo Heinz?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 05:15 PM (iJfKG)

Only the ersatz male ones...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 29, 2026 05:17 PM (l3cgK)

34 Transextremist and heretic James Talarico keeps referring to women as "neighbors with uteruses" who of course need "abortion care" almost as much as gender-affirming care ...

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Really, James. So close to Trans Period Pride and Menstrual Equity Month??? REALLY???

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 05:17 PM (Na5xP)

35 If we're REALLY lucky, maybe we can get a used tampon RBG art piece out of this event.

Not like that crappy, unused tampon art lacking the dreams of billions of men or something.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 29, 2026 05:17 PM (Sco7b)

36 Mayor Michelle Wu with all the problems that exist in Boston we would like to ask you a very important question that can shape the future of Boston...

Do you prefer a Pad or a Tampon???

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at May 29, 2026 05:17 PM (h5xyp)

37 After an afternoon of phone calls, emails, and changing the cats' litter box (not all at the same time), I'm relaxing a bit. Going to call the nearby Italian cafe to order a pickup of some calzones!

There's *nothing* good on TV tonight. Trek and TNG have weak episodes this evening, and of course I've seen them all nnn,nnn times. Maybe we'll drive out for some ice cream a little later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:18 PM (wzUl9)

38 34 Transextremist and heretic James Talarico keeps referring to women as "neighbors with uteruses" who of course need "abortion care" almost as much as gender-affirming care ...

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Really, James. So close to Trans Period Pride and Menstrual Equity Month??? REALLY???

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 05:17 PM (Na5xP)

I'm down with TPP, yeah you know me!

Posted by: Jim "Jones" Talarico at May 29, 2026 05:18 PM (l3cgK)

39 "experiences of transgender menstruators"

Who makes this stuff up? Are peoples brains scrambled?
Or is it the drugs?

Posted by: Case at May 29, 2026 05:18 PM (8XBuM)

40 Y'all missed out on my awesome poats in the dead thread.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 05:18 PM (0aYVJ)

41 She's now been fired and can now move to the only job she's ever been qualified for, a welfare-collecting dependent on the state.

Are there no brothels? Are there no medical experimentation labs? Think of this persyn's value to society.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 05:18 PM (ExV1e)

42
Tempe Elementary Principal Bronwyn Sternberg got out of the trouble of holding a graduation ceremony anyway. If she can keep milking this ICE threat, she can get out of Christmas pageants, cheerleaders, glee, the school play, parents' assembly meetings, all kinds of annoying principal-like tasks and school events.

But -- of course there will be Pride Day.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 05:19 PM (n7rxJ)

43 Parents are SUING Rochester Memorial elementary school after a male student who identifies as transgender entered the girl's bathroom with their 3rd grade daughter and peeked under the stall

The principal allegedly responded by saying the girl should use a different bathroom if she isn't comfortable.

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"THIS is why Gaia made trees and ditches, h8rs!"

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 05:19 PM (Na5xP)

44 he's now been fired and can now move to the only job she's ever been qualified for, a welfare-collecting dependent on the state.
*
Are there no brothels? Are there no medical experimentation labs? Think of this persyn's value to society.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026

***
If only we had the organ banks, so she could wake up a piece at a time . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:20 PM (wzUl9)

45 41 She's now been fired and can now move to the only job she's ever been qualified for, a welfare-collecting dependent on the state.

Are there no brothels? Are there no medical experimentation labs? Think of this persyn's value to society.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 05:18 PM (ExV1e)

Unless government run, brothels would need for her to have actual customers...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 29, 2026 05:20 PM (l3cgK)

46 I don't get the jewelry on the face thing. The girl behind the desk at the Fed Ex office yesterday must have had 20 pieces of metal all over her face and ears. I did refrain from asking her if she fell face first into a tackle box.

Anyway it was somewhat revolting and she would have looked quite nice without it. The poor thing has been brainwashed into uglyfying herself.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 05:20 PM (vFG9F)

47 Even the doll is complaining about where Talarico touched it

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 05:20 PM (73/SM)

48 46 I don't get the jewelry on the face thing. The girl behind the desk at the Fed Ex office yesterday must have had 20 pieces of metal all over her face and ears. I did refrain from asking her if she fell face first into a tackle box.

Anyway it was somewhat revolting and she would have looked quite nice without it. The poor thing has been brainwashed into uglyfying herself.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 05:20 PM (vFG9F)

It's like danger hair...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 29, 2026 05:21 PM (l3cgK)

49 Tempe Elementary Principal Bronwyn Sternberg got out of the trouble of holding a graduation ceremony anyway. If she can keep milking this ICE threat, she can get out of Christmas pageants, cheerleaders, glee, the school play, parents' assembly meetings, all kinds of annoying principal-like tasks and school events. . . .

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026

***
Why didn't I think of that!
( -- Mr. Rooney)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:21 PM (wzUl9)

50 Type II gender fluid was never as good as the original stuff they made with whale oil.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 05:21 PM (vFG9F)

51 ‘he's a squat, fat, blobby kobold with a neckbeard’

For shame, Ace. This is totes unfair to kobolds. They are intelligent, crafty, cool monsters that look like baby dragons. That guy looks like a baby load of fecal matter. And while kobolds won’t trouble even mid-level characters, a pack of them have my party the fight of their lives at 1st level. Show some respect!

Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 29, 2026 05:21 PM (rBLri)

52 Apparently Talarico is walking back some of his comments.

This poster -Kai- had some thoughts related to R.C. Who was a great preacher and writer ( and who had gone to be wit the Lord. I haven't read this book, "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing", but I have listened to some of his sermons.

Here are the main points from R.C. Sproul’s A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Theological Liberalism: Liberal theology is a specific 19th-century movement rooted in naturalism, which says everything can be explained without the supernatural. It rejects miracles, the virgin birth, the resurrection, the atonement, and the authority of Scripture, treating them as myths or pre-scientific legends.
It redefines Christianity as basically an ethical system — the universal fatherhood of God and brotherhood of man, plus social reform — instead of personal redemption through Christ. The focus shifts from the gospel to the social gospel and good works.
Sproul argues it’s not a milder version of Christianity; it’s unbelief masquerading as faith. It denies the heart of the biblical Christ and His gospel, making it the antithesis of historic orthodoxy. Liberals often stay in churches and pulpits while rejecting core doctr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 05:22 PM (PFs9e)

53 47 Even the doll is complaining about where Talarico touched it

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 05:20 PM (73/SM)

I woulda expected the poor doll was inserted...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 29, 2026 05:22 PM (l3cgK)

54 She's now been fired and can now move to the only job she's ever been qualified for, a welfare-collecting dependent on the state.

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AKA Comptroller of Somali Affairs.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 05:22 PM (Na5xP)

55 Out: "What is a woman? A life-support system for a pussy."

In: "What is a woman? A life-support system for a uterus."

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 05:22 PM (Av6i5)

56 Serious question and I'm a woman: what is period underwear?

Posted by: beckster at May 29, 2026 05:23 PM (kX27y)

57 Unfortunately obama succeeded too wwll

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 05:23 PM (bXbFr)

58 James Talarico keeps referring to women as "neighbors with uteruses

B-b-b-b-but this excludes Trans Women!

(Hisss! Points finger at Talarico.)

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 05:23 PM (Av6i5)

59 ype II gender fluid was never as good as the original stuff they made with whale oil.
Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026

***
Yeah, but then Mercedes used the gender fluid in their power steering pumps. Ew.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:23 PM (wzUl9)

60 46 I don't get the jewelry on the face thing. The girl behind the desk at the Fed Ex office yesterday must have had 20 pieces of metal all over her face and ears. I did refrain from asking her if she fell face first into a tackle box.

Anyway it was somewhat revolting and she would have looked quite nice without it. The poor thing has been brainwashed into uglyfying herself.
Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 05:20 PM (vFG9F)

So she defeated your “gaze” then? Boys are Stupid Throw Rocks at Them is taught from the very start.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 05:24 PM (Gqar8)

61 56 Serious question and I'm a woman: what is period underwear?

Posted by: beckster at May 29, 2026 05:23 PM (kX27y)

Corsets?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 29, 2026 05:24 PM (l3cgK)

62 46 I don't get the jewelry on the face thing. The girl behind the desk at the Fed Ex office yesterday must have had 20 pieces of metal all over her face and ears. I did refrain from asking her if she fell face first into a tackle box.

Anyway it was somewhat revolting and she would have looked quite nice without it. The poor thing has been brainwashed into uglyfying herself.
Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 05:20 PM (vFG9F)

It's self-vandalism.

Posted by: Looks terrible. Very sad. at May 29, 2026 05:24 PM (TbWk/)

63 "So she defeated your “gaze” then? Boys are Stupid Throw Rocks at Them is taught from the very start.
Posted by: tubal "

Almost defeated my gag response.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 05:24 PM (vFG9F)

64 56 Serious question and I'm a woman: what is period underwear?
Posted by: beckster at May 29, 2026 05:23 PM (kX27y)

I would say the frilly undies.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 05:24 PM (Gqar8)

65
Are you sure you are a womam?

Times are changing. You can be whatever you want.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 05:24 PM (3ek7K)

66 65
Are you sure you are a womam?

Times are changing. You can be whatever you want.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 05:24 PM (3ek7K)

"Unless it's a black conservative"--Dems

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 29, 2026 05:25 PM (l3cgK)

67 More of an ugnaught

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 05:25 PM (bXbFr)

68 Gay sex jokes aside, that is an accurate statement.

The Rich vs the normies is a much worse situation, they need to fear us more.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 05:26 PM (xcxpd)

69 RC Sproul, one of the greats of our time.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 05:26 PM (Gqar8)

70 "Serious question and I'm a woman: what is period underwear?
Posted by: beckster "

It's used to punctuate your wardrobe.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 05:27 PM (vFG9F)

71 Talarico is a Bottom if ever I've seen one.

Posted by: Zombie Liberace at May 29, 2026 05:27 PM (70cb5)

72 Even the doll is complaining about where Talarico touched it

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

I'm smooth down there you pervert.

Posted by: Ken at May 29, 2026 05:27 PM (UjdFS)

73 Serious question and I'm a woman: what is period underwear?
Posted by: beckster at May 29, 2026 05:23 PM (kX27y)

I would say the frilly undies.
Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 05:24 PM (Gqar

——-

Thick absorbent panties designed to catch menstrual leaks

Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 29, 2026 05:27 PM (rBLri)

74 Are you sure you are a womam?

Times are changing. You can be whatever you want.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 05:24 PM (3ek7K)

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You can't always get off with what you want
You can't always get off with what you want
But if you try sometime
You just might find
You get the genitals you need

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 05:27 PM (Na5xP)

75 "Top vs. Bottom"

He's not wrong, you know.

Posted by: Miss Lindsay at May 29, 2026 05:27 PM (0sNs1)

76 Period underwear? That's exactly what I need to complete my ren fair costume. What? Not that kind of period? Never mind.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 05:28 PM (vTZFs)

77 I thinkTom Styer wants to date that Hernandez boy.

Posted by: Eromero at May 29, 2026 05:28 PM (LHPAg)

78 And Portland woman needs something more dramatic than a stick. OR still has some good gun laws. Use them to cut down on repeat offenders.

I'm glad the stick worked and all but still.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 05:28 PM (xcxpd)

79 "Serious question and I'm a woman: what is period underwear?
Posted by: beckster "
*
It's used to punctuate your wardrobe.
Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026

***
I'd hate to see colon underwear.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:28 PM (wzUl9)

80 Talarico is a Bottom if ever I've seen one.
Posted by: Zombie Liberace

Wait, Liberace was gay?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 29, 2026 05:28 PM (l26NL)

81 Pure bigotry, what about comma underwear, question mark underwear and exclamation point underwear?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 05:30 PM (n5tGW)

82 That top vs bottom thing can’t be real, can it? The flaming creeper faggot can’t be that blind, can he? Was there nobody on his entire staff that said ‘hey guys, this might not be the right message?’

Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 29, 2026 05:30 PM (rBLri)

83 4 Kobold? He has a candle on his head?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 05:04 PM (zZu0s)

He's afraid someone will take candle

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 05:30 PM (xcxpd)

84
Thick absorbent panties designed to catch menstrual leaks
Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 29, 2026 05:27 PM (rBLri)
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Yes, googled it. One of the companies is period.co and their tagline is "Flowing Is Knowing".

Posted by: beckster at May 29, 2026 05:30 PM (kX27y)

85 Serious question and I'm a woman: what is period underwear?
Posted by: beckster at May 29, 2026 05:23 PM

It's kind of like a training bra; you wear it on your journey to Oxford Comma underwear.

Posted by: Assistant Associate AoSHQ Copy Editor, Punctuation Brigade, Oxford Comma Company at May 29, 2026 05:31 PM (0sNs1)

86 50 Better yet deep fried in beef tallow. Yum.

Posted by: Richard Head at May 29, 2026 05:31 PM (70cb5)

87 The things you can't learn on this blog

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)

88
Holy smack, I just went to "Caitlyn's" TikTok page and her profile says she's:

✨️Loud, messy, and magical mom w/ a touch of rage, peri-menopaus and neurospicy chaos✨️
F*ck Trump. F*ck ICE.

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What do you want to bet she's not only a magical mom, but a single mom -- to some incredibly unfortunate child?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 05:31 PM (n7rxJ)

89 We need to focus more on who has the authority to grant approval on these scams. They need to go down.

Obviously we also need to punish the scammers.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 29, 2026 05:31 PM (D1E+2)

90 That top vs bottom thing can’t be real, can it? The flaming creeper faggot can’t be that blind, can he? Was there nobody on his entire staff that said ‘hey guys, this might not be the right message?’
Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 29, 2026

***
Considering how many other stupid sayings by Dems have gotten out of containment, I believe Dems are truly afraid to step out of line and go against the narrative, even slightly, in the presence of their co-religionists.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:32 PM (wzUl9)

91
An amazing video of Bezos' Bodacious Blast at LC-36 last night from about 5 miles away:

t.ly/3Dlkv

A silvery sparkle shower was visible.

And scroll down here to see some aerial pictures of the damage done to LC-36 pad complex:

t.ly/fYcrB

There appears to be nothing left of the rocket itself. It blew itself to smithereens shore nuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 05:32 PM (w6EFb)

92 56 Serious question and I'm a woman: what is period underwear?
Posted by: beckster at May 29, 2026 05:23 PM (kX27y)

My wife has underwear that's already stained from previous accidents. She tends to wear them during her periods. Maybe that's it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 05:32 PM (xcxpd)

93 "Sorry about that but I have just the thing to cheer you up.

Hopefully this message from drunk Kamala makes you feel better."

Couldn't bare to turn the volume up past 0

Posted by: javems at May 29, 2026 05:32 PM (zFsEm)

94 "Neurospicy"? These weirdos must be using AI to construct a lot of their words and messages. Or they are just spitting out word salad (and not the tasty, nutritious kind).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:33 PM (wzUl9)

95 Still think it's funny that their voters said let's go with the crazy homo instead of the ratchet black woman.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 05:33 PM (n5tGW)

96 What the fark (thats the question of the decade,)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 05:33 PM (bXbFr)

97
That blast was a metaphor for what the Lunatic Left Wokesters have done to the country.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 05:34 PM (w6EFb)

98 Nobody gives a hot about female-to-male transsexuals-- mostly they're jut teens girls either afraid if becoming hypersexualized by out culture or who are just following a fad. They're sad and deluded, but they don't really threaten anyone.

It's the male-to-femal transsexuals who are the problem.

And here's the truth no one wants to speak aloud:

Yes, some of threm are heterosexual perverts using a fake "trans' identity to spy on and get their rocks off by harassing biiological females.

Sme are just mentally ill fad-following sychopaths.

But a signifciant prtion are homosexual men who have a fetish for straight men.

The're gay -- but they don't want to have sex with other gery men, they want to have sex with straight men. That is their kink.

problem is, anyone who voluntarily has sex with these guys is by definition also homosexual.

So the only way they can get a straight guy inti bed is through deception, lying and trickery. Such that the (naive) straight guy falsely thinks he's going t have sex with a female.

Sex through deception is, legally, rape.

Thus, most trannies are rapists.

The averagee person groks this.

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 05:34 PM (Av6i5)

99 I don't get the jewelry on the face thing. The girl behind the desk at the Fed Ex office yesterday must have had 20 pieces of metal all over her face and ears. I did refrain from asking her if she fell face first into a tackle box.

Anyway it was somewhat revolting and she would have looked quite nice without it. The poor thing has been brainwashed into uglyfying herself.
Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 05:20 PM (vFG9F)

It's self-vandalism.
Posted by: Looks terrible. Very sad. at May 29, 2026 05:24 PM (TbWk/)

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The body is the temple of the soul.

Overtly despoiling it is a subconscious public advertisement of self-hatred and potential self-annihilation.

Angry and striking out at God for -- to quote the great Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday about the Johnny Ringo character in "Tombstone:"

"Bein' born ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 05:34 PM (Na5xP)

100 Praying for the horrible death of one's enemies has a long and storied tradition in "curse tablets". IIRC they were carved into lead and chucked into wells. Which can't have been great for the local water table.
Actually we get a lot of our knowledge of ancient vernacular language from curse tablets. Because the people inscribing them tended to be angry losers, so slipped into dialect. Check out Pella in Macedon and, yes, a woman did that one.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 05:34 PM (gKWVE)

101 She's now been fired and can now move to the only job she's ever been qualified for, a welfare-collecting dependent on the state.

I'm not entirely sure that she is really a she?

It's hard to tell these days.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 05:35 PM (6ydKt)

102 There's *nothing* good on TV tonight. Trek and TNG have weak episodes this evening, and of course I've seen them all nnn,nnn times. Maybe we'll drive out for some ice cream a little later.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:18 PM (wzUl9)

Perfect time to break the news! Hopefully, there's nothing breakable nearby....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026 05:36 PM (1Ff7Z)

103 My wife has underwear that's already stained from previous accidents. She tends to wear them during her periods.

The things you learn around here.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 05:37 PM (+5YP2)

104 Ordered my calzones! $32 for a veggie and a muffaletta. (Geez. But their food is good, I want to help keep them in business after the car crashed into their front wall, and the girl on the phone was perky and cheerful.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:37 PM (wzUl9)

105 The things you can't learn on this blog
Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)

The things you can't unlearn on this blog....

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 05:37 PM (GD0B3)

106 Or they are just spitting out word salad
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:33 PM

Indeed. You are a testament to the strength and the resilience and the tenacity of our community.

Posted by: Kamala "Kokonut" Harris at May 29, 2026 05:37 PM (0sNs1)

107 9 Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s “office of lgbtq advancement” is holding a “trans period pride” event to discuss menstrual equity & the experiences of transgender menstruators

Please tell me there will be merch.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 05:08 PM (+5YP2)

Well, there's "Free period underwear provided to all attendees!" at least.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at May 29, 2026 05:38 PM (qivay)

108 We want to unlear

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 05:38 PM (bXbFr)

109 Wu is CCP agent. Prove me wrong!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 05:38 PM (GD0B3)

110 I saw a story where a prison warden and 'Onlyfans Mom' had sex with a prisoner (robbery, iirc) recorded it and got arrested.

Shocking.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 05:38 PM (zZu0s)

111 Perfect time to break the news! Hopefully, there's nothing breakable nearby....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026

***
Yeah, I'm dreading it. She might surprise me with a better reaction, but who knows.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:38 PM (wzUl9)

112 Praying for the horrible death of one's enemies has a long and storied tradition in "curse tablets".

Granted that it's not some of his better poetry but somewhere in Psalms, David asks God to "make my enemies' wives widows."

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 05:39 PM (vTZFs)

113 Pluto might have s better selection

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 05:40 PM (bXbFr)

114 Ace, I just turned on Spider-Noire.

I got the B&W and Color versions working fine.
You can switch back and forth while watching an episode, too.
You just have to pause the video and then scroll down to Alternate Versions and pick one.

If you can't get it to work, it might be you have to update the Amazon app on your TV, or you're TV might not support that feature for some reason (there was a disclaimer about the alternate versions only working on "supported devices").

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 05:40 PM (6ydKt)

115 That top vs bottom thing can’t be real, can it? The flaming creeper faggot can’t be that blind, can he? Was there nobody on his entire staff that said ‘hey guys, this might not be the right message?’

Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 29, 2026

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I think he actually was referring to the "oppressor"/"oppressed" narrative -- but let him continue to eat coke.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 05:40 PM (Na5xP)

116 The world is going crazy (still)....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 29, 2026 05:40 PM (SRRAx)

117 102 There's *nothing* good on TV tonight. Trek and TNG have weak episodes this evening, and of course I've seen them all nnn,nnn times.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Question for the horde:

Which TV series have you watched in their entirely, all episodes, and how many times each?

I'll get the ball rolling:

Star Trek (original 1966-9 series) 3 times
Gilligan's Island: 2 times
Twilight Zone (original 1959-1962 version): 4 times
Lost in Space (don't laugh at me): 1 time

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 05:40 PM (Av6i5)

118 Okay, this is good. Beto O'Roarke is now...GAYto O'Roarke.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 29, 2026 05:41 PM (l26NL)

119 speaking of nazi cvnts..."The wife of New York Times columnist Nick Kristof—who along with Kristof worked as a Times correspondent in China and who was recently appointed vice chair of the executive committee of Harvard’s Board of Overseers—is a member of a Chinese government-linked group known for “doing Beijing’s bidding in the US,” ..."

JAIL!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 05:42 PM (GD0B3)

120
zombie,

None of them.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 05:42 PM (3ek7K)

121 runner thats why a supply of mind bleach needs to be kept

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 05:42 PM (Ia/+0)

122 Star Trek (original 1966-9 series) 3 times
Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 05:40 PM

You know that's not even within sniffing distance of qualifying for the AoSHQ Nerd All-Star Team, right?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 05:42 PM (0sNs1)

123 runner thats why a supply of mind bleach needs to be kept
Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 05:42 PM (Ia/+0)

Tequila??

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 05:42 PM (GD0B3)

124 Here, let me throw another log on the woke bonfire:

Child sex change advocate appointed head of Canadian Paediatric Society

https://archive.is/bFwfP

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 05:43 PM (O7YUW)

125 Oh, and when I switched to the B&W version of Spider-Noire the TV went into 'Filmmaker Mode' automatically.

Could be that the TV needs to have Filmmaker Mode to work correctly with that version.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 05:43 PM (6ydKt)

126 I should amend my original question:

Which CLASSIC (i.e. 1980s or earlier)TV series have you watched in their entirety?

(This is to exclude modern shows which people binge-watch, like Game of Thrones or whatever, and short 4-episode mini-series.)

re classic series I've wartched

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 05:44 PM (Av6i5)

127 It's like Neil Diamond sang . . .

Girl (dum dum dum)
You'll be a neighbor with uterus soon

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 29, 2026 05:44 PM (JVU30)

128 NY is pretty nice to felony child sex offenders. $5K bond. I've had to pay that for way less serious shit in liberal Colorado.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 29, 2026 05:44 PM (sQnY9)

129 Brave AI is turning up Psalm 109:9 and Jeremiah 18:21-23 for that curse. The Psalm is indeed ascribed to David. Could well be royal (it's associated with 110 obviously) and if not actually David's, then at least approved by later Judah dynasts.
Iron Age theology, man. Contact sport.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 05:44 PM (gKWVE)

130 WTF ???? Top vs Bottom ???

Rich (Companies and Entrepreneurs) vs Poor (Grifters and Losers) ????

Posted by: Jackson K. at May 29, 2026 05:45 PM (Dsp/g)

131 Other classic series I've watched all of:

My Mother the Car (seriously)
The Fugitive
The Time Machine

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 05:45 PM (Av6i5)

132 Which TV series have you watched in their entirely, all episodes, and how many times each?

I'll get the ball rolling:

Star Trek (original 1966-9 series) 3 times
Gilligan's Island: 2 times
Twilight Zone (original 1959-1962 version): 4 times
Lost in Space (don't laugh at me): 1 time
Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 05:40 PM (Av6i5)

I've never sat down to do that. I've seen plenty of episodes numerous times, but not binging type. I was going to watch all of Have Gun, Will Travel on CBS.com, but it disappeared, or you have to pay.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026 05:45 PM (1Ff7Z)

133 They treat the women like shitty whores and the womenfolk just love that and can't get themselves enough Democrats...

Think about it for a second.

If the men who behave like that are the only men Leftist women know, and those are the Good People (TM) in society, and they know for a fact that Republican men are Bad People (TM), how much worse would those Republican men treat them?

And I don't know what lesson you think can be learned from Leftists about how to treat women in general, but if it's "treat them like shitty whores" I never want to meet you in person.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 29, 2026 05:45 PM (C0Nlv)

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Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 05:34 PM (Av6i5)

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You've probably seen this whole strain of tranny social media content that's trannies ranting that members of the opposite sex won't date them. What's funny is, they threaten the real men/women they want with... a label. "I'm sorry, but if you refuse to date me, you're TRANSPHOBIC. You simply are, there's no way around it!"

I've only seen one person respond with "Fine, I'm transphobic."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 05:46 PM (n7rxJ)

135 Hey, about that Transgender Make-believe Period Event in Boston, partially financed by Boston taxpayers. I recommend full support. Here's a # that you can call to offer cudos:

(((To report government waste and fraud in Boston, call the Massachusetts Office of the Inspector General (OIG) fraud hotline at (800) 322-1323. You can report suspected issues, including theft or misuse of state and city funds, anonymously)))

Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 05:46 PM (dIske)

136 Trump has announced fabulous deal to end Iran war
Best deal in history
Iran will open Hormoz under their control
Trump will end his blockade

Trump (bless his heart) will give the Iranians their frozen 24 billion

12 billion up front

Posted by: Paul at May 29, 2026 05:46 PM (5+3vm)

137 I've probably seen the complete Gunsmoke series, but may have missed a few stray episodes, seem some episodes multiple times. But I'm a luddite, I don't stream and keep track of episodes. Dad was into the series and a couple of the old western channels had it on. Its wild how much story they could put into a 30 minute episode (first year or two) and then the 60 minute episodes.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 29, 2026 05:47 PM (AOl+5)

138 Wait. I forgot I watched all the Batman episodes during the scam.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026 05:47 PM (1Ff7Z)

139
We both worked, three kids in school.

We came home, made dinner, kids did their homework and we got things ready for the next day.

That is how things worked in the old days.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 05:47 PM (3ek7K)

140 I've never sat down to do that. I've seen plenty of episodes numerous times, but not binging type. I was going to watch all of Have Gun, Will Travel on CBS.com, but it disappeared, or you have to pay.
Posted by: OrangeEn

I didn't binge-watch any of these. In many cases, it took months and months -- like just one or two episodes per week.

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 05:48 PM (Av6i5)

141 72 Even the doll is complaining about where Talarico touched it
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

I'm smooth down there you pervert.
Posted by: Ken at May 29, 2026 05:27 PM (UjdFS)

😂😂😂 You guys just kill me some days!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 29, 2026 05:48 PM (SRRAx)

142
Which TV series have you watched in their entirely, all episodes, and how many times each?

I'll get the ball rolling:

Star Trek (original 1966-9 series) 3 times
Gilligan's Island: 2 times
Twilight Zone (original 1959-1962 version): 4 times
Lost in Space (don't laugh at me): 1 time
Posted by: zombie

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Pretty sure I've seen every episode of Frasier, but now when I binge I stop at the end of Season Five. It went to hell after [spoiler] happened.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 05:49 PM (n7rxJ)

143
😂😂😂 You guys just kill me some days!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

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I'm stealing it!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 05:49 PM (n7rxJ)

144 137 I've probably seen the complete Gunsmoke series, but may have missed a few stray episodes, seem some episodes multiple times. But I'm a luddite, I don't stream and keep track of episodes. Dad was into the series and a couple of the old western channels had it on. Its wild how much story they could put into a 30 minute episode (first year or two) and then the 60 minute episodes.
Posted by: PaleRider at May 29, 2026 05:47 PM (AOl+5)

138 Wait. I forgot I watched all the Batman episodes during the scam.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

OK, we got Gunsmoke and Batman. Any more completists?

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 05:50 PM (Av6i5)

145 And there you have it - i looked it up - a typical bond for a simple unlawful possession of a firearm in NY is between $1k-6k. So molesting kids is about the same as packing a gunvwithout a license as far as NY perverts in robes are concerned.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 29, 2026 05:50 PM (sQnY9)

146 Per the NY Post, Talarico's girlfriend has been revealed. Guess what? She's a vegan too.

Posted by: Tuna at May 29, 2026 05:50 PM (lJ0H4)

147 Transphobic. Snakephobic. LongFallsFromHeightsphobic. Cancerphobic.

This whole transphobic things doesn't have the power over me they think. Might as well call me racist while they are at it. Do I make decisions in some instances based on race ? Be your ass I do.

Posted by: Howdy at May 29, 2026 05:50 PM (/3whg)

148 The remake of the Lost In Space series is pretty good. It’s got some woke casting and the genius kid is annoying, but the black girl is hot with a great rack and they give the male characters heroic shit to do. I liked it.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 29, 2026 05:51 PM (rBLri)

149 Which TV series have you watched in their entirely, all episodes, and how many times each?

ST:NG - I have no idea how many times I've watched episodes again.
ST

S9 - Watched it all once.
ST: Voyager - One time.
ST: Enterprise - One time, and then watched some episodes again.
Battlestar Galactica (2000s version) - I only watched it once, as I was wore out by the time I finished it.
Breaking Bad - I've watched the entire series at least three times over the years.
Better Call Saul - Watched it all once.
Game of Thrones - Watched it all at least twice.
Downton Abbey - Watched it all once, plus the movies.
Black Sails - Watched it all once.
Deadwood - Watched it all at least three times and the movie.
Rome - I've re-watched this one four or five times.
Carnavale - Watched the series two times.

That's all I can remember at the moment.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 05:51 PM (6ydKt)

150 I've seen every episode of Andy Griffin at least 100 times. Mayberry RFD sucks.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 05:51 PM (vFG9F)

151 Talarico is a faggot.

He may or may not be homosexual. He may even possibly be gay. There is a non-zero chance he's a trans-goblin.

But it can be stated with cosmic certainty that he is a faggot.

Posted by: Minuteman at May 29, 2026 05:51 PM (47/pr)

152 I didn't binge-watch any of these. In many cases, it took months and months -- like just one or two episodes per week.
Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 05:48 PM (Av6i5)

That's what I did with Batman. It was on some OTA channel. Couldn't watch them all at once. Same with HGWT. I didn't binge, just one or two eps a day.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026 05:52 PM (1Ff7Z)

153 I know. It drives Mrs fd nuts when I do that.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 05:52 PM (vFG9F)

154 This is real

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Well, not real real but it did happen.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 29, 2026 05:52 PM (JVU30)

155
Star Trek (original 1966-9 series) 3 times
Gilligan's Island: 2 times
Twilight Zone (original 1959-1962 version): 4 times
Lost in Space (don't laugh at me): 1 time
Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026

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All of those, more times than I like to admit or can count. Also:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel
Man From U.N.C.L.E.
It Takes a Thief
ST: TNG
All Creatures Great and Small (the new one)

There'll be more. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:52 PM (wzUl9)

156 ST:NG - I have no idea how many times I've watched episodes again.
STS9 - Watched it all once.
ST: Voyager - One time.
ST: Enterprise - One time, and then watched some episodes again.
Battlestar Galactica (2000s version) - I only watched it once, as I was wore out by the time I finished it.
Breaking Bad - I've watched the entire series at least three times over the years.
Better Call Saul - Watched it all once.
Game of Thrones - Watched it all at least twice.
Downton Abbey - Watched it all once, plus the movies.
Black Sails - Watched it all once.
Deadwood - Watched it all at least three times and the movie.
Rome - I've re-watched this one four or five times.
Carnavale - Watched the series two times.

That's all I can remember at the moment.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Impressive, but most violate my change-the-rules subsequent 1980s-or-earlier "classic" series only rule.

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 05:53 PM (Av6i5)

157 I've never sat down to do that. I've seen plenty of episodes numerous times, but not binging type. I was going to watch all of Have Gun, Will Travel on CBS.com, but it disappeared, or you have to pay.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026

***
Good choice. H & I used to run it weekday mornings. MeTV still shows it on Sat. afternoon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:53 PM (wzUl9)

158 End word in quote #52 is "doctrine".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 05:53 PM (Nx5jP)

159 150 I've seen every episode of Andy Griffin at least 100 times.
Posted by: fd

That may be a world record.

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 05:54 PM (Av6i5)

160 Magnum PI.
Star Trek (of course)
Battlestar Galactica (OG)
Robotech

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 05:54 PM (zZu0s)

161 ✨️Loud, messy, and magical mom w/ a touch of rage, peri-menopaus and neurospicy chaos✨️

I read it as neurospicy taco. Well, it is dinnertime.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 05:54 PM (Dv3i1)

162
Very sick

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 05:55 PM (3ek7K)

163 Bear City
Bear City 2

— James Talafreako

Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 29, 2026 05:55 PM (rBLri)

164 @134/Blonde Morticia: { I've only seen one person respond with "Fine, I'm transphobic." }

Yup, and that is how you take their power away.

Similar scenario: They accuse you of being a racist. "Yeah, and?" Blows the fuses in their mind.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 05:56 PM (O7YUW)

165 " I've seen every episode of Andy Griffin at least 100 times.
Posted by: fd

That may be a world record.
Posted by: zombie"

It's been on every weekday afternoon on a local station for the past 50 years or so.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 05:56 PM (vFG9F)

166 146 Per the NY Post, Talarico's girlfriend has been revealed. Guess what? She's a vegan too.
Posted by: Tuna at May 29, 2026 05:50 PM (lJ0H4)

So, no blow jobs?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 29, 2026 05:56 PM (SRRAx)

167 Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 05:51 PM (6ydKt)
________________________

Bugs Bunny cartoons?

Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 05:57 PM (dIske)

168 Democrats want foreign criminals on our streets raping and murdering Americans
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"We're not paying them to sit on a cell!" -- Dems

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 05:57 PM (NxZ4/)

169 Paxton is running a great campaign. No wonder the Vichy Pubs hate him so much. The Talarico campaign had a long time to prepare for this, yet they are getting clobbered.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at May 29, 2026 05:57 PM (xverI)

170 Wings
News Radio
Just Shoot Me
Rules of Engagement
Scrubs

Seen all episodes at least a half dozen times.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 05:58 PM (XMuV+)

171 Watching the Talarico campaign is baffling to me, he's just the next in a long series of the Democrats trying to appeal to normal people and being utterly unable to. Its like watching an alien try to blend in with humanity.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 29, 2026 05:58 PM (UZCuZ)

172 An elementary school graduation? Seriously?

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2026 05:58 PM (T6aVk)

173 More series I've watched all of (these were all British):

The Prisoner
Thunderbirds
The Champions

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 05:58 PM (Av6i5)

174 166 146 Per the NY Post, Talarico's girlfriend has been revealed. Guess what? She's a vegan too.
Posted by: Tuna at May 29, 2026 05:50 PM (lJ0H4)

So, no blow jobs?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 29

*snort*

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 05:59 PM (NOlOe)

175 I gotta believe at some point the left is going to realize their relentless push deeper into the freak zone is killing their electoral chances worse than anything we could do to them but they don't appear to be catching on yet.

How did they see what happened to Beto and conclude the reason they lost was he wasn't weird enough for Texas and pick Talarico?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 05:59 PM (viF8m)

176 "You got to pump those rape and murder numbers up! Those are rookie numbers!" -- The Party of Rape, Murder, and Democracy.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 05:59 PM (NxZ4/)

177 We both worked, three kids in school.

We came home, made dinner, kids did their homework and we got things ready for the next day.

That is how things worked in the old days.

Posted by: four seasons

It works that way at my house now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 29, 2026 05:59 PM (bIH8o)

178 . Its like watching an alien try to blend in with humanity.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 29, 2026 05:58 PM (UZCuZ)

I think Platner might be more relatable than this guy- and he jerks off in portalets.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 05:59 PM (zZu0s)

179 Yeah those in 160, havent seen robotech in ages

Cozi has run magnum a host of times

There were a lot of filler episodes as with even the six million dollar man

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 06:00 PM (bXbFr)

180 I don't believe I've binge watched anything, but mostly sure I've seen every episode of Hogan's Heroes and Farscape.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 29, 2026 06:00 PM (D1E+2)

181
Mr Aspirin Factory,

SALUTE!!!

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 06:01 PM (3ek7K)

182
Bronwyn Sternberg is a woman.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 29, 2026 06:01 PM (azNOR)

183 He may or may not be homosexual. He may even possibly be gay. There is a non-zero chance he's a trans-goblin.
But it can be stated with cosmic certainty that he is a faggot.
Posted by: Minuteman at May 29, 2026 05:51 PM (47/pr)

But he's married. Which means he cannot be a homosexual.

Posted by: Elton John at May 29, 2026 06:02 PM (54bnG)

184 166 146 Per the NY Post, Talarico's girlfriend has been revealed. Guess what? She's a vegan too.
Posted by: Tuna at May 29, 2026 05:50 PM (lJ0H4)

So, no blow jobs?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 29, 2026 05:56 PM (SRRAx)
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Lotsa them. Only it’s Talafreako blowing rando hobos he finds in the gutters of Austin. His ‘girlfriend’ doesn’t like dick at all. She’s much more into scissors.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 29, 2026 06:02 PM (rBLri)

185 Magnum PI was interesting to rewatch as an adult. I never knew as a kid that Magnum was a SEAL (or what that was) and how much of a badass he was. You rewatch it and you catch subtleties that as a kid you miss.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s)

186 It's Joey Boombots from my Bech Chair on the Beach with an important message for everyone about me running in 2028....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRchogcIK8o

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 29, 2026 06:02 PM (h5xyp)

187 How did they see what happened to Beto and conclude the reason they lost was he wasn't weird enough for Texas and pick Talarico?

Like most corporate boardrooms - I doubt you get a seat at the Texas Dem High Table by saying things like "this is a dumb idea".

Posted by: Howdy at May 29, 2026 06:02 PM (/3whg)

188 This is real

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Well, not real real but it did happen.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 29, 2026 05:52 PM

+1

Posted by: Jean Carroll at May 29, 2026 06:02 PM (0sNs1)

189 The whole family is criminal trash that would be too unseemly to appear on COPS.

When I am really ill I will watch some TV since I don't feel like doing anything but lifting a remote. I watched a LOT of reality/crime TV like Forensic Files, Cops, The First 24 etc.

With Cops and First 24 there is a line in time where you can see that the producers got leaned on HARD because 90% of the cases involved persons of non crackertude. Suddenly they turned into retro shows, follow ups on specific (white) cases, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 29, 2026 06:02 PM (UZCuZ)

190 175 I gotta believe at some point the left is going to realize their relentless push deeper into the freak zone is killing their electoral chances worse than anything we could do to them but they don't appear to be catching on yet.

How did they see what happened to Beto and conclude the reason they lost was he wasn't weird enough for Texas and pick Talarico?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 05:59 PM (viF8m)
_____________________________

You're generously giving them critical thought and the concept of repercussions. They've spent the last number of decades trying to remove and villainize those concepts.

The only way forward for them is tyranny...and forcing compliance. That's when the fireworks start.

Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 06:03 PM (dIske)

191 178 . Its like watching an alien try to blend in with humanity.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 29, 2026 05:58 PM (UZCuZ)

I'm hoping to have AI Lori Lighthouse in a bikini images up in a little while. The world needs that now more than ever.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 29, 2026 06:03 PM (Sco7b)

192 I didn't ever call Talarico a homosexual and from some comments he'd made a decade ago when he was a teacher, it looks like he's not. libsoftiktok says he was texting his female students to talk to him on his cell phone. He didn't do this for his male students.

Posted by: teach teachers not to... do that at May 29, 2026 06:04 PM (gKWVE)

193 Truth in advertising: Low-T Talarico knows all about being a "bottom."

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 29, 2026 06:04 PM (ksbjf)

194 Best part about The Champions is that Alexandra Bastedo is in every episode, even if she's often relegated to the sidelines. That's OK -- she doesn't need to speak.

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 06:04 PM (Av6i5)

195 I think Platner might be more relatable than this guy- and he jerks off in portalets.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 05:59 PM

* scribbles a note *

On Zoom?

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at May 29, 2026 06:04 PM (0sNs1)

196 Seal and naval intelligence don bellasario had a respectfuk attitude to rank and file soldier and sailors but not wirh the staff
(Like colonel green or the directors of the firm in airwolf)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 06:05 PM (bXbFr)

197 oh, the kids were in junior high too.

Posted by: pedobear! at May 29, 2026 06:05 PM (gKWVE)

198 I think Platner might be more relatable than this guy- and he jerks off in portalets.

Yeah, he seems genuinely masculine, if a disaster of a human being. He's the kind of guy that convinces leftist women that all men are evil. But at least he's not a pipe cleaner-armed soy feeb

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 29, 2026 06:05 PM (UZCuZ)

199 I'm old enough to remember when having one's period was one's own business and the preference is that nobody else had a clue.

Now they have to explain to gender-benders that bodily functions still exist no matter who you think you might be.

WTF?

Mom would be aghast.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 06:05 PM (DwqWV)

200 Magnum PI was interesting to rewatch as an adult. I never knew as a kid that Magnum was a SEAL (or what that was) and how much of a badass he was. You rewatch it and you catch subtleties that as a kid you miss.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s)

Magnum was on background in my teen years. I kinda sorta watched. Only as an adult did I realize what a fox he was. He had long legs in those short man shorts. And he was a charming good guy.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 06:06 PM (Xdfhw)

201 I'm hoping to have AI Lori Lighthouse in a bikini images up in a little while. The world needs that now more than ever.

You want no man to ever get an erection again?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 29, 2026 06:06 PM (UZCuZ)

202 Oh,w hat am I thinking -- seen every episode of The Beverly Hillbillies at least twice.

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 06:06 PM (Av6i5)

203 Bill Maher has been telling the Dems that they're on the wrong side of so many issues and just pushing people away. He's been saying that for awhile.

So of course he's a bought off uber-MAGA that now needs to be cancelled.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 29, 2026 06:06 PM (Sco7b)

204 185 Magnum PI was interesting to rewatch as an adult. I never knew as a kid that Magnum was a SEAL (or what that was) and how much of a badass he was. You rewatch it and you catch subtleties that as a kid you miss.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s)
——

Also almost unique at the time for showing Vietnam vets as cool, successful, adjusted people. Every other portrayal of Vietnam vets was of broken, psychotic outcasts.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 29, 2026 06:06 PM (rBLri)

205 192 I didn't ever call Talarico a homosexual and from some comments he'd made a decade ago when he was a teacher, it looks like he's not. libsoftiktok says he was texting his female students to talk to him on his cell phone. He didn't do this for his male students.
Posted by: teach teachers not to... do that at May 29, 2026 06:04 PM (gKWVE)

He refers to women as "neighbors with uteruses." He is a faggot whether he acknowledges it or not.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 06:07 PM (DwqWV)

206 >>The only way forward for them is tyranny...and forcing compliance. That's when the fireworks start.

Helps to win if you want to impose tyranny. Right now a Pratt has a better chance of winning the mayors race in LA than They/He does in the Texas Senate race and Steve Hilton is winning the Governor's race.

Their appeal is becoming very selective.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 06:07 PM (viF8m)

207 I’ve probably watched Adam 12, Barney Miller, STTOS and The X-Files a combined 100k times.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 06:08 PM (XV/Pl)

208 I'm hoping to have AI Lori Lighthouse in a bikini images up in a little while. The world needs that now more than ever.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 29, 2026 06:03 PM

* blinks eyes in code for "Hurry!"

Posted by: I am Groot at May 29, 2026 06:08 PM (0sNs1)

209 200 Magnum PI was interesting to rewatch as an adult. I never knew as a kid that Magnum was a SEAL (or what that was) and how much of a badass he was. You rewatch it and you catch subtleties that as a kid you miss.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s)

Magnum was on background in my teen years. I kinda sorta watched. Only as an adult did I realize what a fox he was. He had long legs in those short man shorts. And he was a charming good guy.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 06:06 PM (Xdfhw)

I bought all the seasons on DVD. Loved it then, love it now. If only to watch Higgins explode at Magnum now and again.

DH and I use the line "don't look at the dogs, work the lock" for all kinds of tasks. Lol.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 06:09 PM (DwqWV)

210 mpressive, but most violate my change-the-rules subsequent 1980s-or-earlier "classic" series only rule.

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 05:53 PM (Av6i5)

Ahhh... missed that part completely.
Trying to read, type, and eat, and doing it badly.

I've watched all the episodes of Maverick and Cheyenne multiple times.
Then Leave it to Beaver and the Brady Bunch.
Beverley Hillbillies, Gilligan's Island, The Andy Griffith Show, The Flintstones, and the Jetsons.
Basically anything that came on TBS in the afternoons in the 80s I was watching it at some point.

Probably saw all of The Cosby Show and some other 80s sitcoms.

I've watched most episodes of ST:TOS, but not all of it, I don't think.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 06:09 PM (6ydKt)

211 DH still refers to our two dogs: "Zeus, Apollo, patrol!" and they run out the dog door.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 06:09 PM (DwqWV)

212 Also almost unique at the time for showing Vietnam vets as cool, successful, adjusted people. Every other portrayal of Vietnam vets was of broken, psychotic outcasts.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 29, 2026 06:06 PM (rBLri)

And you also realize Higgins wasn't just a prissy, stuck up asshole but a career British soldier. The episode where his old comrades come to visit because their unit is getting killed off one by one is really good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 06:10 PM (zZu0s)

213 Goggles they do nothin

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 06:10 PM (bXbFr)

214 Ro Khanna
@RoKhanna
There’s a reason establishment figures are afraid of Graham Platner- his campaign is demonstrating the power of building an FDR coalition with moral clarity on foreign policy in battleground states.

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Yeah, FDR was all about empowering Nazis.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 29, 2026 06:10 PM (JVU30)

215 211 DH still refers to our two dogs: "Zeus, Apollo, patrol!" and they run out the dog door.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 06:09 PM (DwqWV)

Nice. *golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 06:11 PM (zZu0s)

216 Bottoms up!

Posted by: Dulcinea del Talarico at May 29, 2026 06:11 PM (qUkBO)

217 164 @134/Blonde Morticia: { I've only seen one person respond with "Fine, I'm transphobic." }

Yup, and that is how you take their power away.

Similar scenario: They accuse you of being a racist. "Yeah, and?" Blows the fuses in their mind.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 05:56 PM (O7YUW)

Not acknowledging objective reality is a sign of Insanity.

Thus, not acknowledging your Sex, is a form of insanity, and was designated as such until very recently.

I am afraid of crazy people, you just never know what they will do...

So yeah, Transphobic.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 29, 2026 06:11 PM (mP0Kj)

218 I bought all the seasons on DVD. Loved it then, love it now. If only to watch Higgins explode at Magnum now and again.

DH and I use the line "don't look at the dogs, work the lock" for all kinds of tasks. Lol.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 06:09 PM (DwqWV)

I found hubby one of the authentic Hawaiian shirts like Magnum wore. The red one with the Jungle bird design. He gets brownie points for wearing it, lol.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 29, 2026 06:12 PM (Xdfhw)

219 Cant recall if it was Colbert or Kimmel that pumped Talarico. Racist white late night host(s) convinced themselves that "racist, sexist Texas" would never elect a black woman. Jasmine probably would have lost, not because of being a woman or black, but Texas state-wide probably would have rejected her commiecrat ideas.

But that would probably have been a closer race. Talarico is just sooo weird that if he doesn't lose by over 10 points I'm going to worry about Texas. He should lose by over 20 points, but liberals can be very stupid.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 29, 2026 06:13 PM (AOl+5)

220 I've seen STOS so many times I can usually identify the episode in the first 30 seconds. Sometimes sooner.

There were 250 Andy G shows. I may have exaggerated a bit. I bet I've seen them all at least 10 times though.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 06:14 PM (vFG9F)

221 I'm hoping to have AI Lori Lighthouse in a bikini images up in a little while.

I'm going to pretend that you meant Lori Laughlin and autocorrect punked you. That way I won't have to preemptively gouge my eyes out.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 06:14 PM (vTZFs)

222 Best Magnum episode was when he was lost at sea. Utterly remarkable in every way. Kinda solidified it as a serious if really funny show.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 06:14 PM (DwqWV)

223 Not by the name though. I just know the STOS episodes by "the one with...".

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 06:15 PM (vFG9F)

224 Series watched?

All the Sharpes Rifles movies.
Babylon 5
Space: Above and Beyond
Eureka
Chuck
Star Trek TOS
Adventures of Brisco County Junior

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 29, 2026 06:15 PM (mP0Kj)

225 The Prisoner
Thunderbirds
The Champions
Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026

***
I know I saw the entire run of The Prisoner when it was new, but never since.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 06:15 PM (wzUl9)

226 During the 80s I also probably watched all of The A-Team, Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazzard, Remington Steele, MacGyver, and X-Files.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 06:16 PM (6ydKt)

227 185 Magnum PI was interesting to rewatch as an adult. I never knew as a kid that Magnum was a SEAL (or what that was) and how much of a badass he was. You rewatch it and you catch subtleties that as a kid you miss.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s)
——

Also almost unique at the time for showing Vietnam vets as cool, successful, adjusted people. Every other portrayal of Vietnam vets was of broken, psychotic outcasts.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 29, 2026 06:06 PM (rBLri)

I was a teenager when this show was on TV. I loved it. I also loved Simon and Simon, which was next up on Thursday night.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ivan, did you see the sunrise? at May 29, 2026 06:16 PM (0aYVJ)

228 nood

pratt

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 06:17 PM (3uBP9)

229 I never could get into The Prisoner.
It's such a strange show.
I think you have to watch it in order to understand it, and I'm not even sure if that would help.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 06:17 PM (6ydKt)

230 Per the NY Post, Talarico's girlfriend has been revealed. Guess what? She's a vegan too.
Posted by: Tuna at May 29, 2026 05:50 PM (lJ0H4)

So, no blow jobs?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn.

She also loves dancing the night away at some local gay bar. LOL

Posted by: Tuna at May 29, 2026 06:17 PM (lJ0H4)

231
Our Betters microdosing LSD have a lot to answer for.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 06:17 PM (iJfKG)

232 Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico’s mysterious beau is a vegan political lobbyist who previously worked as his chief of staff, The Post has learned.

Brianna Menard, 30, describes herself as a “committed vegan,” yoga buff and cat mom who likes “dancing the night away” at local gay bar Cheer Up Charlies in Austin, according her bio at a local food coop, where she serves on the board.

nypost https://tinyurl.com/5yzxune3

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 06:19 PM (ZxPkt)

233 Also almost unique at the time for showing Vietnam vets as cool, successful, adjusted people. Every other portrayal of Vietnam vets was of broken, psychotic outcasts.

It was one of the shows and movies that benefitted greatly from those fearless, nuts helicopter pilots that came out of Nam. The stunts are unbelievable

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 29, 2026 06:20 PM (UZCuZ)

234 Spider solitaire is evil

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 06:22 PM (Ia/+0)

235 Best Magnum episode was when he was lost at sea. Utterly remarkable in every way. Kinda solidified it as a serious if really funny show.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 06:14 PM (DwqWV)

I would actually disagree and say 'Did you see the sunrise?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 06:23 PM (zZu0s)

236 >Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico’s mysterious beau
-----

hmm
I always thought the 'beau' was the male half of a m/f couple

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 06:24 PM (ZxPkt)

237 Bewitched
Petticoat Junction
Big Valley
Star Trek
Dallas
Here Come the Brides
Rat Patrol
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Johnny Quest

Posted by: museisluse at May 29, 2026 06:24 PM (YtyqX)

238 I would actually disagree and say 'Did you see the sunrise?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 06:23 PM (zZu0s)

agree.

great show, though.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ivan, did you see the sunrise? at May 29, 2026 06:27 PM (0aYVJ)

239 I wanted to see those 2 dobermans rip someone apart on an episode.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 29, 2026 06:29 PM (bIH8o)

240 I can see it now. One of AOC's 2028 presidential campaign slogans will be -

Workers and Transgender Menstruators of the World, Unite!

Posted by: Gref at May 29, 2026 06:30 PM (5rh/l)

241 Type II gender fluid was never as good as the original stuff they made with whale oil.
Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 05:21 PM (vFG9F)

Sperm whale oil.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 29, 2026 06:40 PM (kd1a0)

242 Talarico’s mystery gf gives me weird tranny vibes.

I don't know why. Perhaps because he seems homo.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 29, 2026 06:54 PM (WONhk)

243 Also almost unique at the time for showing Vietnam vets as cool, successful, adjusted people. Every other portrayal of Vietnam vets was of broken, psychotic outcasts.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 29, 2026 06:06 PM (rBLri)

And you also realize Higgins wasn't just a prissy, stuck up asshole but a career British soldier. The episode where his old comrades come to visit because their unit is getting killed off one by one is really good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 06:10 PM (zZu0s)

I always liked in many of the shows that when things started going down Rick/TC/Magnum/Higgins dropped their goofy schticks and locked in and got serious.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 06:54 PM (8avO+)

244 This week in woke…this morning ICE agent Christian Castro was taken into custody in Texas, of all the places in this woketard republic, for extradition to Minnesota where he will face a lawless Soros prosecutor. The feds, the Texas Rangers (curse them each and together) and some cops from Minnesota took the agent under arrest.

Why is this allowed? Why is Texas playing along with this nonsense? Why is Trump’s executive branch playing along?

This is going to play out like Ramos and Compean, when George W Bush’s pet prosecutor railroaded those two up the river until Trump pardoned them. Is trump going to make this ICE agent suffer the indignity of a Minnesota show trial as they star-chamber this dude into Minnesota jail? It won’t do the agent any good to go to trial, get convicted in a rigged court, end up in stare prison jail where Trump is powerless.

Maddening. Trump and Texas are screwing this guy.

Posted by: Chunk at May 29, 2026 07:00 PM (9U6Wl)

Hollywood: Shit or Garbage?

Greeks are unhappy being written out of their own foundational national myth in the upcoming The ODEIssy.

To the cast and creative team of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey,
We write to you as Greeks, not as fragments of antiquity, not as echoes from museum displays, and not as characters sealed in marble, but as a living people whose story has never stopped being written.
First, we wish you well.
Cinema has always carried the power to reimagine ancient texts, to cross borders of language and time, and to reintroduce old stories to new generations. Homer's Odyssey belongs, in many ways, to the shared cultural imagination of humanity. We understand the ambition behind bringing it to the screen on a global scale, and we recognise the artistic tradition of reinterpretation that has surrounded these epics for centuries.
But we also ask you to consider something that is often overlooked in modern retellings of Greek stories.
We did not vanish.
Greek people did not disappear after the age of myth. Greek culture was not frozen in classical marble. Greek language was not extinguished in antiquity.
We are still here.
...
At every stage, something essential remained unbroken: language, memory, and cultural continuity.
Greek is still spoken today, the oldest continuously surviving language in Europe. Not reconstructed. Not revived. But lived.
That continuity matters when stories like The Odyssey are retold.
Odysseus is not only a universal symbol of endurance, struggle, and homecoming. He is also part of a cultural inheritance that has been carried through every one of those historical layers -- retold by Byzantine scholars, preserved in manuscripts copied through the medieval world, studied during the Renaissance, and still taught, spoken, and reinterpreted in Greece today.
This is why conversations about representation matter deeply to us.
We are not asking for exclusion or limitation. We are not arguing against diversity, nor against reinterpretation. Greek culture itself has always been shaped by exchange, migration, and encounter across centuries.
What we are asking is something simpler and more human.
That when Greek stories are retold on a global stage, Greek people are not rendered invisible within them.
...
So as you step into Homer's world - into seas, wanderings, gods, and returning kings - we ask that you carry this awareness with you:
That Greece is not only a setting in antiquity.
It is a living country.
Greek people are not historical figures.
We are contemporaries.
...
We did not vanish.
We are still here.

It's interesting, if a little sad, that the only answer to a Muh Representation argument is another Muh Representation argument.

The Mandala Effect and Gorp made $101 million over the four-day (actually five) day weekend, matching the original low projections, but beating the revised, even-lower projections of $80 million. Which I now wonder wasn't an effort at expectations-lowering so that Disney could claim they matched expectations.

Something kind of amazing has been happening since the weekend, beginning Tuesday. The independent, super-low-budget, YouTuber-made horror film Obsession -- which is about a Low-T Beta Cuck who wishes for a hot girl to love him more than she has ever loved before, and then discovers that the love of an obsessed, magically-deranged psychotic stalker isn't so wonderful --has been slowly catching up to the Star Wars film's daily takings, and has now overtaken it.

Obsession' Has Dethroned 'The Mandalorian And Grogu' At The Box Office
By Paul Tassi
There is effectively no precedent to describe what's happening with Obsession right now, the low-budget horror film that has achieved milestones like increasing 39% in revenue in its second weekend after word-of-mouth spread.
But that was even more impressive given that it was going up against the first new Star Wars movie in seven years, The Mandalorian and Grogu, which did win the weekend handily. But now? Obsession is...beating it.
Daily box office tracking is now showing that Obsession is now beating The Mandalorian and Grogu handily as of this Wednesday, earning $5.6 million domestically to Mando's $4.1 million on that day. And again, this is the second week of Obsession's release (this Wednesday is practically a non-existent drop from last Wednesday) and this is Mando's first week.
It also appears that Obsession could be heading into a third weekend where its revenue increases from last week's $24 million. That would now be going up against both The Mandalorian and Grogu and fellow YouTuber-directed, low-budget horror film Backrooms, which is now projected to make a mammoth $40-60 million, resulting in back-to-back hits for the genre. But Obsession is still in a league of its own in terms of its earning trajectory.

Backrooms itself is based on YouTube short films, and directed by the original YouTuber.

There's every chance that Obsession will battle Backrooms for the #1 spot, dropping Mufflerrepair and Gauges to #3 in its second weekend. Beaten by two low-budget YouTube movies.

Film Threat's Chris Gore says it's "riveting." He says it's "going to be huge." Allen Ng agrees it's "anxiety-inducing" but also says that the mysteries posed by the film aren't resolved. They both agree that this is intended as the first film in a franchise, so they're not going to properly finish it now.

Eh, I'm not sure I object to that. The thing about WTF Bizarro Mysteries is that they're not supposed to be resolved. The solution to the mystery would be antithetical to the point of posing a question which is supposed to be imponderable, without an answer.

I have thoughts about this. I'm a big fan of thrillers. Thrillers are just mysteries with simpler plots and lots of running around and yelling.

I'm also a fan of Twilight Zone WTF premises. This kind of thriller just has something impossibly strange happen in the opening, and promises you, don't worry, by the end, we'll have explained this impossibly strange situation in a logical and satisfying manner.

But here's the thing: That promise is a lie 95% of the time. The more bizarre and fantastical your opening gambit is, the less likely it will be that you can conjure any sort of explanation of any degree of plausibility or satisfaction. And this whole subgenre depends on starting off with the most outlandish and impossible premise you can think of.

That's why 90% of these stories end with some variation of "It was all a dream... or was it?" or "Oh my God, we've been dead the whole time! We're in hell!" The most original and startling the opening, the more you can be sure that the cameras are all in comas imaging it all in some kind of group hallucination.

Because seriously, what the hell kind of "logical" explanation can you actually come up with to explain this nonsense?

Normal thrillers-- those without the sci-fi/fantasy/bizarro weirdness premise -- also struggle to explain why anything in the movie actually happened. North by Northwest famously makes no real sense, and is just one set piece after another.

So my point is that anyone who likes this kind of thing and has been around the block a few times goes into it knowing there will almost certainly not be a satisfying and logical third-act explanation, and that the enjoyment will just derive from the freaky-deaky premise and the exploration of that through the second act. These movies (and books and stories) are all journey, no destination.

Every once in a long while, a thriller or Twilight Zone thriller will actually conjure up an ending that does make sense and does answer all of your questions. And that will become an instant classic.

But that is definitely not the way most of these go.

So if Backrooms never explains what's going on -- 1, it's not supposed to, the question is more interesting than any possible answer and 2, any answer they give will be stupid so why don't they just save us the disappointment and say We May Never Know the Motive.

The NY Post says Hollywood is afraid... of interlopers from YouTube beating them up and stealing their lunch money.

Hollywood trembles in fear of the havoc the internet has wrought and will continue to wreak on its core business. Execs wake up in a cold sweat from a nightmare that blockbusters have been replaced by 30-second TikTok videos. And, yikes, they almost have. But perhaps the key to a prosperous future is collaboration.
Enter "Backrooms": A disquieting and smart new horror film from A24 that, for now, can only be seen in theaters, yet is the brainchild of 4chan and YouTube users. Its director Kane Parsons is just 20 years old and his movie is already an uncommonly hot title with the younger set. Eighty-eight percent of its packed preview night audiences around the country were under 35.
You can see why. While the main character of "Backrooms," Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), is a sleep-deprived, middle-aged man whose dreams of being an architect have been crushed as irreparably as his marriage, a youthful energy pervades Parsons' strange and engrossing journey into the unfurnished abyss.
The seed of "Backrooms" was planted in 2019 when a user posted an image on the website 4Chan of an architecturally unsettling room -- tinted yellow with fluorescent lights, patterned wallpaper, ceiling tiles and gray carpet. People wrote horror stories online about the picture, which led to the detailed lore of the Backrooms, a labyrinth of eerie spaces accessible by hidden portals around the world.

Parsons turned the trend into a popular YouTube series with millions of views when he was 16. And he rooted his creation in documentary-style "found footage," like "The Blair Witch Project."
The director used that same on-edge aesthetic for his debut feature, which is set in no-smartphones 1990. Clark, who runs Cap'n Clark's Ottoman Empire, a failing furniture store, stumbles into the Backrooms when he walks through a wall in his building's basement.
The confused man tells his therapist, Mary (Renate Reinsve of "Sentimental Value"), who has her own demons, about what the messed-up oddity he's found. And Clark sounds completely insane.
"It's like the store just continues, I guess?," he says.

I love when arrogant but untalented people find out they're completely untalented and that their previous "success" had just been due to connections in the industry.

It's got a 78% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which is good, but not as good as Obsession or some other recent horror offerings.

Now, reviews are coming for Backrooms, and while decent enough, they are not sky-high like a few other horror entries this year, including the runaway hit from just two weeks ago, Obsession, which is on its way to make 100x its budget amidst 95% and 94% critic and audience Rotten Tomatoes scores. Backrooms, in contrast, has a 78% Rotten Tomatoes score right now with three dozen reviews in. How does that stack up against the other horror offerings of the year? Here's the list of major releases:
Obsession -- 95% critic score
Send Help -- 93% critic score
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple -- 92% critic score
Hokum -- 88% critic score
We Bury the Dead -- 88% critic score
Backrooms -- 78% critic score
Primate -- 78% critic score

Und so weiter.

Eh. I'll see it on streaming.

Either way, The Marzipan and Gorget will drop to #3 in just its second weekend.

Last week, I mentioned that I would put up a thread for older/less-known movie recommendations. Please consider this that thread!

No corporate slop. Movies from an earlier, less stupid era, or smaller/unnoticed movies that people might have missed.

Oh: Question for y'all. I tried to watch Spider-Noir but I don't see any way to choose the "Authentic Black and White" version. I get a title screen that tells me I can select this, "Below," but there's nothing "below" for me to click on.

The "True-Hue color" version looks decent and I'd probably watch a lot of it in color anyway but I'm cheesed that I don't have the option to watch in B&W as promised.

Can you help a blogger out? What am I missing?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:45 PM

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1 Hollywood is so Fucked up. John Huston could eat a can of Kodak and puke a better movie than the shit these days

Posted by: night lifted at May 29, 2026 03:46 PM (kJmLc)

2 I'll fetch em

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:46 PM (Ia/+0)

3 Mandingo and Gravy

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:47 PM (3uBP9)

4 Embrace the word And

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:47 PM (Ia/+0)

5 Last week, I mentioned that I would put up a thread for older/less-known movie recommendations. Please consider this that thread!

=======

John Ford made a couple of movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1tin1xHgQA

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:47 PM (7RBt4)

6 Just for nothing

Karl Childers >>>>> Forest Gump

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 03:47 PM (XMuV+)

7 Greek is still spoken today, the oldest continuously surviving language in Europe. Not reconstructed. Not revived. But lived.

Hoo boy, the Italians are not going to like this.

Posted by: the Welsh might also want a word at May 29, 2026 03:49 PM (gKWVE)

8 The Oddity

Posted by: wth at May 29, 2026 03:49 PM (UjdFS)

9 7 Greek is still spoken today, the oldest continuously surviving language in Europe. Not reconstructed. Not revived. But lived.

Hoo boy, the Italians are not going to like this.

Posted by: the Welsh might also want a word at May 29, 2026 03:49 PM (gKWVE)

=======

"I don'ta capisco Latino!"
-Dante

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:50 PM (7RBt4)

10 Marzipan and Homestarrunner > The Marzipan and Gorget

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 03:51 PM (sKqQm)

11 I'm kinda done with movies like I'm done with SNL.

Too much craptasm.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 03:52 PM (RIvkX)

12 https://tinyurl.com/3ephj5v3
Here you go on John Ford Series

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:52 PM (Ia/+0)

13 what do we think of Disclosure Day ?

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 03:52 PM (ZxPkt)

14 Making horror movies is like painting abstract art.

It's the easiest to do .

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 03:52 PM (XMuV+)

15 Greek is still spoken today, the oldest continuously surviving language in Europe. Not reconstructed. Not revived. But lived.

Hoo boy, the Italians are not going to like this./i]

Be a real shame if someone dropped by and burned your cities you know Greece? Just sayin...

Posted by: Lucius Mummius at May 29, 2026 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

16 Hollywood: Shit or and Garbage? !!

Behold! The power of and!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 03:52 PM (0sNs1)

17 The Oddity

Great little movie...keeps you guessing

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 03:53 PM (sKqQm)

18 To ask is to have answered.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:53 PM (BGLxh)

19 Posted by: the Welsh might also want a word at May 29, 2026 03:49 PM

Go long on vowels!

Posted by: Jim Cramer at May 29, 2026 03:54 PM (0sNs1)

20 10 Marzipan and Homestarrunner > The Marzipan and Gorget

lonestar and yogurt > marzipan and homestarrunner > the marzipan and gorget

Posted by: spaceballs: the moron at May 29, 2026 03:54 PM (v3pYe)

21 It's Hollywoke.

I warned everybody last year when they were crowing DEI IS DEAD, that no, it wasn't, all of this stuff, movies and video games, have a long, LONG pipeline of 4-6 YEARS.

All the stuff coming out now was approved in the ~2021-2022 era, when Democrats thought they'd won and lost their freaking minds spiking the football from their perceived win.

There's more woke nonsense coming.

They haven't learned, they think they can just dial it back a LITTLE and con the rubes.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at May 29, 2026 03:55 PM (lCHt6)

22 Hollywood doesn't care about making good movies often now. Hence Matt Damon on Odysseus.

Imagine taking the case of The Return and just having it focused on more of The Odyssey. It would like be a great movie and make a ton of money

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)

23 Worst movie I've seen this year: -- or perhaps any year -- was "The Wacky World of Dr. Morgus" from 1962. Starring "Dr. Morgus," the late-night horror-film TV host from New Orleans in the 1960s.

God, it was horrible beyond belief. The Morgus character is supremely ugly, the "jokes" are non-existent, nothing about it is even remotely funny, scenes go on forever for no reason, the acting is Z-grade,most of the dialogue was improv, and the plot is ludicrous and flimsy.

Not all "indies" are good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wacky_World_of_Dr._Morgus

nly two tings about it were: The girl Dr, Morgushas hypnitized was kinda cute, and the actor playing the reporter was halfway decent -- but he seemed like he was in a different movie.

Ended up being a spy spoof, similar to "The Mouse That Roared," about an imaginary tiny European cuntry trying to use dr. Morgus' invention to invade America,

Avoid at all costs.

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 03:55 PM (Av6i5)

24 I'm not a huge movie buff and have no real issue with odd experimental movies, its your investment you might lose.

This contempt for the general audience has to go, though from the studios to the actors to the commentariat.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:55 PM (8avO+)

25 I watched Sisu yesterday. It wasn't bad. Revenge flicks are definitely in vogue now. Like they were during the 70s in response to the craziness coming out of the 60s. Friggin hippies...

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:55 PM (3uBP9)

26 Nope( I'm
Not into seeing horror films right now, but the movie/ stage critic at the "NY Post" says "Backrooms" is appealing to younger people and was very cheap to produce.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 03:56 PM (looXz)

27 on topic of languages which probably haven't moved much from where they started, here's Albanian since maybe 2500 BC or before -
tinyurl.com/ja8phsty
I haven't even got into the Basques yet because I don't wanna get bombed.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 03:56 PM (gKWVE)

28 Every once in a long while, a thriller or Twilight Zone thriller will actually conjure up an ending that does make sense and does answer all of your questions. And that will become an instant classic.

*******

"Three Body Problem" actually did that. Admittedly, it was using alien technology (Sophons) that was so far advanced, that until it is explained, the effects it could create seemed absolutely impossible, driving physicsts to psychosis and suicide.

I am refering to the Chinese version of this, both the novels and the TV series, NOT the Netflix version.

Posted by: EFG at May 29, 2026 03:57 PM (ut7Zw)

29 Thrillers are just mysteries with simpler plots and lots of running around and yelling.
---
But most thrillers have forgotten the running around and yelling community in their casting!

Far too few running-around-and-yellers are actually cast in these roles!

Posted by: The Running Around and Yelling Community at May 29, 2026 03:57 PM (Fi81e)

30 Here's a review of "Backrooms":

https://tinyurl.com/5an2pcnv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 03:57 PM (looXz)

31 15 Greek is still spoken today, the oldest continuously surviving language in Europe. Not reconstructed. Not revived. But lived.

Hoo boy, the Italians are not going to like this./i]

Be a real shame if someone dropped by and burned your cities you know Greece? Just sayin...
Posted by: Lucius Mummius at May 29, 2026 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

16 Hollywood: Shit or and Garbage? !!

Behold! The power of and!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 03:52 PM

* snaps mandibles *

Curse you, Duncanthrax! May the penguins launch a mephitic TOT barrage on you!

Posted by: The Barrel at May 29, 2026 03:57 PM (WqA0P)

32 on topic of languages which probably haven't moved much from where they started, here's Albanian since maybe 2500 BC or before -
tinyurl.com/ja8phsty

Didn't Epirus speak Greek? Was Albanian a mountain language and eventually came down to the cities?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 03:57 PM (sKqQm)

33 That Irun place will nots every sign any deel with Trump because they knows he be lyed to our Black Presdent and that's bothers them two !!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at May 29, 2026 03:58 PM (9VJYb)

34 Legend of Hell House was a horror from the 70s. Roddy McDowel. Clive ... Reville(?) Creepy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 03:58 PM (zZu0s)

35 Sharbage?

Posted by: 29Victor at May 29, 2026 03:58 PM (0MjtC)

36 I like the backrooms.

Oh wait, sorry, misread that

Posted by: Sandra Fluke putting down a bottle of lube at May 29, 2026 03:58 PM (sKqQm)

37 I am going to see "Pressure" this weekend . It is about the decisions by Eisenhower and others around the D Day invasion.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 03:59 PM (looXz)

38 Far too few running-around-and-yellers are actually cast in these roles!
Posted by: The Running Around and Yelling Community at May 29, 2026 03:57 PM (Fi81e)

We all lurch around looking like zombies now.

Posted by: Former freakout actor at May 29, 2026 03:59 PM (Rxz7v)

39 Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:55 PM (3uBP

Sisu was too way over the top for me to enjoy it. Admittedly I only made it a little more than halfway through.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:00 PM (XMuV+)

40 I haven't even got into the Basques yet because I don't wanna get bombed.
Posted by: gKWVE

Most everyone here on Friday nights is.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 29, 2026 04:00 PM (W5mpo)

41 I am going to see "Pressure" this weekend . It is about the decisions by Eisenhower and others around the D Day invasion.

That movie has a real downer of an ending

Posted by: Graham Platner at May 29, 2026 04:00 PM (sKqQm)

42 My son and his girlfriend watched Obsession last night. Said it was awesome.

Posted by: Jmel at May 29, 2026 04:00 PM (3TlS+)

43 Did anybody else like Bubba Ho-Tep or just me?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 04:00 PM (n5tGW)

44 You never hear albanian except in inside job and taken

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 04:01 PM (bXbFr)

45 Peruvian!

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 29, 2026 04:01 PM (W5mpo)

46 Hollyweird is filled with low talent hacks and don't even get me started on the actors.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at May 29, 2026 04:01 PM (Q/FnY)

47 >an architecturally unsettling room -- tinted yellow with fluorescent lights, patterned wallpaper, ceiling tiles and gray carpet

Literally just a cheap rented office that the occupants had just moved out of. Nobody on 4Chan has ever had a real job.

Backrooms II will be about a demon-possessed backhoe or something.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at May 29, 2026 04:01 PM (LgYtf)

48 >>>Last week, I mentioned that I would put up a thread for older/less-known movie recommendations. Please consider this that thread!

Excellent!

erm... Where did you hide those recommendations?

Posted by: No Name Today at May 29, 2026 04:01 PM (8mulE)

49 43 Did anybody else like Bubba Ho-Tep or just me?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 04:00 PM (n5tGW)

I think 90% of the horde loves it.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:01 PM (XMuV+)

50 Don't watch Obsession.

Watch Possession:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLXW-oVbTxE

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 04:02 PM (7RBt4)

51 Most everyone here on Friday nights is.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 29, 2026 04:00 PM (W5mpo)

I have to work in an hour. Should, but can't, get bombed.

Posted by: Reforger at May 29, 2026 04:02 PM (Rxz7v)

52 None of it's Greek to me.

/Christopher Nolan

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 04:02 PM (qgHp7)

53 Worst movie I've seen this year: -- or perhaps any year -- was "The Wacky World of Dr. Morgus" from 1962. Starring "Dr. Morgus," the late-night horror-film TV host from New Orleans in the 1960s.

....

Ended up being a spy spoof, similar to "The Mouse That Roared," about an imaginary tiny European cuntry trying to use dr. Morgus' invention to invade America,

Avoid at all costs.

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 03:55 PM (Av6i5)

I'm something of a bad movie buff, they can have charm. I have one around that is about the dangers of drug addiction and the funny part is how clean cut the dregs of society look in the film compared to, well, lots of current day people.

I'll put in a word for the Canadian movie "The Uncanny"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuWy2vcecXY

Its a 'horror' movie about the international conspiracy of Cats to rule the world and has both a star studded cast hamming it up and terrible acting and cat stunt work.

Cat haters and lovers should enjoy it, or the kitties will git ya.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 04:02 PM (8avO+)

54 >>>34 Legend of Hell House was a horror from the 70s. Roddy McDowel. Clive ... Reville(?) Creepy.

I've had that in my watch list for like five years!

A couple of movies:

"Cobweb." This is on Pluto, for free, but man are they going to wack you with frequent ad breaks. A well-made movie with Lizzie Caplan in a dramatic role and Anthony "Homelander" Starr as a couple of protective parents who might be... weird. A little kid keeps hearing banging on his wall and his parents keep telling him he's imagining it.

Pretty good! Well made, well shot, well acted. Has a kind of fairy-tale logic to it.

One thing, it's kind of like Weapons in that I really enjoyed the mystery part of it (the first two thirds) and kind of didn't want to see the horror payoff. Like, the mystery part with just the *tease* of something monstrous or strange was better than the payoff of the monstrous or strange. but, as with weapons, the payoff was good enough. Just liked the stuff before the payoff better.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 04:02 PM (1wjle)

55 what do we think of Disclosure Day ?
Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 03:52 PM (ZxPkt)

The final trailer with Spielberg outgassing explanations and motives pretty much spoils the overall story...if not the exact plot.

So SPOILER more or less.

Benevolent godlike space critters show up and humanity loses its mind be cause of course.

But, then everyone chills out.

FIN.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 04:02 PM (iJfKG)

56 Quechua is a niche

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 04:02 PM (bXbFr)

57 The thing about WTF Bizarro Mysteries is that they're not supposed to be resolved. The solution to the mystery would be antithetical to the point of posing a question which is supposed to be imponderable, without an answer.

-----------

* "The X-Files" have entered the post *

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 04:02 PM (BGLxh)

58 Hard Times with Charles Bronson is a must watch.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:03 PM (XMuV+)

59 I'll bet Hebrew is right up there with Greek as the oldest spoken language.

And I wonder about those subcontinent languages...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 04:03 PM (iERP6)

60 Funny Farm with Chevy Chase is fun

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 04:03 PM (yLn/F)

61 I am watching the Bloodryane trilogy.

They are based on a video game. I've never played it.
I'm pretty sure it used the source as more a jumping off point and didn't bother with the game lore.

The first has Michael Madson and Ben Kingsley.
Cost $20 million; grossed like $3.7.
It's stupid bad. Shot in Romania and using Vlad's castle.
But the dialog is just terrible.

The second jumps to the old West. Has Billy the Kid as the vampire boss who, unexplained, prefers the blood of ... kids.
It's a direct-to-DVD release (like the 3rd).
With better dialog, it could have been good because the plot point of Billy the vampire is new.

I've not seen 3 yet, where she fights Nazis.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 04:03 PM (73/SM)

62 Obligatory go watch Frailty right now

I highly recommend two Melissa George movies - Triangle and A Lonely Place To Die.

The first is a horror movie that packs even more of a punch when you realize the story it is telling.

A Lonely Place To Die is a thriller that takes a simple premise of help a kidnapped girl down a mountain and makes the most of the premise.

Also, I absolutely Byzantium and not just because Gemma Arterton is hot like the center of the Sun. It's a vampire movie and has an interesting take on vampirism.

Posted by: alexthechick at May 29, 2026 04:03 PM (sJZBK)

63
You never hear albanian except in inside job and taken
Posted by: Miguel cervantes

Inside Man.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 29, 2026 04:03 PM (ixS3i)

64 'The Mandala Effect' - I saw that. Madeleine McGraw - Gwen from 'The Black Phone' was the guys daughter.

I'm looking forward to 'Obsession' and 'Backrooms' which I've been seeing advertised on Instagram when I escape for a few minutes to not be pissed off.

A lot of the actresses have also been posting videos of 'Scary Movie' so I guess they put out another one of those.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 29, 2026 04:04 PM (Sco7b)

65 Latest horror movie I saw ( unless you want to put "Alien" in that category which was sort of horror in space ) was "The Haunting" from 1963. I didn't watch it until much later than 1963, however. It was very good.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 04:04 PM (looXz)

66 I am going to see "Pressure" this weekend . It is about the decisions by Eisenhower and others around the D Day invasion.

That movie has a real downer of an ending
Posted by: Graham Platner at May 29, 2026 04:00 PM (sKqQm)

Killer soundtrack song, though.

Posted by: ZZ Top at May 29, 2026 04:04 PM (wVcYX)

67 So as far as movies, the one I watched last week was The Island of Lost Souls. A competent squeeze of the important ideas from "Dr Moreau" into 70ish minutes. Maybe even the editor HG Wells needed at the time, unless you really want to read Wells pontificate about atheism and human-nature (Wells thought he was Swift; Wells was not Swift).
The Criterion edition seems to be the best edition, from 2011; although still a little degraded from its original 1932 glory.
As is fairly well known, the later attempts to do Moreau have all been ludicrous failures.
Apparently Beavis and Butthead were designing the script and couldn't take the name "Prendick" seriously so he's "Parker" here.
Best performance is universally agreed to be Charles Laughton's as the Doctor. [Marlon Brando probably would have played the part well too, but his daughter took the quick way out when Brando was in the middle of shooting that remake so the poor man pretty-much went insane as a result.]

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 04:04 PM (gKWVE)

68 Obligatory go watch Frailty right now

Bonus points, get your best atheist buddy to watch it with you.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 04:05 PM (sKqQm)

69 We saw "The Sheep Detectives" in the theater this last weekend. It was really good.

Posted by: 29Victor at May 29, 2026 04:05 PM (0MjtC)

70 I hear Ryan Goslings new movie, Project Hail Mary is really good.

If you like space semi horror/drama movies.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:05 PM (XMuV+)

71 55 The final trailer with Spielberg outgassing explanations and motives pretty much spoils the overall story...if not the exact plot.

So SPOILER more or less.

Benevolent godlike space critters show up and humanity loses its mind be cause of course.

But, then everyone chills out.

FIN.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 04:02 PM (iJfKG)

=======

When they pull out trailers like that, Spielberg talking directly to camera, it's confirmation that the studios don't think it's going to perform well.

Sudden changes in marketing strategy are evidence of panic.

Not necessarily at the quality of the film, but at the film's potential performance at the box office.

Disclosure Day looks like the kind of movie people say they want from Hollywood, and people are not going to go see it. So Hollywood will have another incentive to not make movies like it anymore. Instead, we will get Super Mario 3.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 04:05 PM (7RBt4)

72 >>>60 Funny Farm with Chevy Chase is fun

yes. Super-underrated. Was at the time, too.

The actress in it, Madelynn Smith or something like that, is in this two-actor thriller movie with Malcolm McDowell I want to see but I can't find on streaming. Well it's on MGM and Philo but I don't have those.

It's called The Caller. Supposedly good.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 04:05 PM (1wjle)

73 "All the evidence points to a single conclusion: Physics has never existed, and will never exist."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w47F8g8EgM

(Whole bunch of Chinese commercials/stuff before the episode starts...

Posted by: EFG at May 29, 2026 04:05 PM (ut7Zw)

74 on topic of languages which probably haven't moved much from where they started, here's Albanian since maybe 2500 BC or before -
tinyurl.com/ja8phsty
I haven't even got into the Basques yet because I don't wanna get bombed.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 03:56 PM (gKWVE)

most mountain remnant languages got driven up into them hills by later movement of peoples. Etruscan was another who moved out of the area, probably, and into North Italy. Back after the fall of Rome the Slavs stated migrating from their origins into that whole area from wherever they originated.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 04:06 PM (8avO+)

75 The link in comment #73 goes to the Chinese version of the first episode of "Three Body Problem."

Posted by: EFG at May 29, 2026 04:06 PM (ut7Zw)

76 What happened with the Odyssey is one of those peculiar things that happen when leftists gather in groups, and somebody says something really stupid that they all know isn't true, but because its one of the Leftist Golden Idols, nobody dares question it.

There was some kind of casting conversation around Helen of DeTroit that went something like, 'OK, who can play The Most Beautiful Woman In The World', and some true believer said, 'Everybody agreed that Lupita Nyongo was Most Beautiful Woman Ever except for those racist MAGA chuds, so we should cast her'. And nobody else in the room dared disagree. They all knew it wasn't true, none of them at any point actually believed she was MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, but they couldn't object.

A lot of leftist corporate insanity happens this way, where they KNOW it's going to go badly, but none of them are going to individually be on the hook for the failure that results, butif they speak up before it happens, they WOULD be fired and blacklisted forever due to being a Racist MAGA Chud.

That's how this happens.

Media does it too, declaring anybody that disagrees she is literally Most Beautiful Woman Ever is just a stupid racist MAGA incel chud.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at May 29, 2026 04:06 PM (lCHt6)

77 Okay all you smarties, who names their kid Chiwetel?

And don't say Mr. & Mrs. Ejiofor...

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 04:06 PM (qgHp7)

78 The fact that people think "The Mandala Effect" was actually once "The Mandela Effect" is the best example of the Mandala Effect.

Posted by: Eric in Atlanta at May 29, 2026 04:06 PM (aQZli)

79 Posted by: alexthechick at May 29, 2026 04:03 PM

Didja y'all hear sumpin' jus' now comin' from down around your knees?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 04:07 PM (0sNs1)

80 Okay. I've got nothing.

I can't even give Ace the rest of the week off.

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 04:07 PM (qgHp7)

81 Latest horror movie I saw ( unless you want to put "Alien" in that category which was sort of horror in space ) was "The Haunting" from 1963. I didn't watch it until much later than 1963, however. It was very good.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 04:04 PM (looXz)
---
It was.

Robert Wise directed an unparalleled eery movie.

Posted by: The Running Around and Yelling Community at May 29, 2026 04:07 PM (Fi81e)

82 I don't consider Frailty to be horror . More supernatural drama.

I guess that's self serving because I dislike horror movies but love Frailty.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:08 PM (XMuV+)

83 Georgia!

Atlanta judge caught having LOUD S*X in her chambers during work hours for 2 YEARS, LIED to investigators about it, and got NOTHING but a "private reprimand.

...her own law clerks told investigators they could hear MOANING, KISSING, and MUSIC through the walls.

One partner is an ATL police chief. She's married to another judge.

No consequences, she's keeping her job.

x.com/mattvanswol/status/
2060360406405652909

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 04:08 PM (3uBP9)

84 Epirus had a Greek-speaking aristocracy like Macedon. The people belowdecks were speaking whatever, because they only met the homos during tax time.
The Albanian people in antiquity clustered in what today is the Kosovo/Albanian border.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 04:08 PM (gKWVE)

85 It means something in west africa

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 04:08 PM (bXbFr)

86 >>>81 Latest horror movie I saw ( unless you want to put "Alien" in that category which was sort of horror in space ) was "The Haunting" from 1963. I didn't watch it until much later than 1963, however. It was very good.

i watched that for the first time around Halloween. Very good. They always say it's a "psychological horror" which I assumed meant "it's all in their heads."

It's not.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 04:08 PM (1wjle)

87 The Paolo is well acquainted with this "Three body problem."

Posted by: The Paolo at May 29, 2026 04:08 PM (Fi81e)

88 I would recommend “Shotcaller” to anyone who hasn’t seen it. It’s got some well known actors, but it was a smaller movie when it came out

Posted by: UGAdawg at May 29, 2026 04:09 PM (4MsaP)

89 Also, I absolutely Byzantium and not just because Gemma Arterton is hot like the center of the Sun. It's a vampire movie and has an interesting take on vampirism.
Posted by: alexthechick at May 29, 2026 04:03 PM (sJZBK)

******

Can you say more about the interesting take?

Posted by: EFG at May 29, 2026 04:09 PM (ut7Zw)

90 The link in comment #73 goes to the Chinese version of the first episode of "Three Body Problem."
Posted by: EFG at May 29, 2026 04:06 PM (ut7Zw)

I got bored silly with the Chinese 3BP and gave up.

I liked the Netflix better despite all the DEI crapola because it moved along nicely.

Does Sino-3BP get any better?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 04:09 PM (iJfKG)

91 86 i watched that for the first time around Halloween. Very good. They always say it's a "psychological horror" which I assumed meant "it's all in their heads."

It's not.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 04:08 PM (1wjle)

======

Yeah, but it doesn't have slick CGI like the remake from the 90s!

/jk

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 04:09 PM (7RBt4)

92 I saw the FNAF movies. Because my kid is into that. The first one was better. The second one was a bit predictable and was really driving towards the obvious conclusion.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 04:09 PM (3uBP9)

93 Watched that "Bang" on amazon.

It has the guy who played Robocop as the bad guy boss.

I mean, a hitman who has a literal change of heart and that causes a moral change of heart?
LOL, dumb.

At some point, some guy kills some girl in the shower 'cause I guess the unmade bed proved she'd been cheating on him?
And I'm like, "who is this guy? where did he come from? who is she? Why is he mad she's cheating, did he suspect her? cheating with who?"
I may not have been paying close enough attention.

But, the conclusion scene, the big showdown, was actually pretty good. Really solid.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 04:09 PM (73/SM)

94 Apropos of nothing, I thought Eye of the Needle a pretty good thriller flick.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 04:09 PM (wVcYX)

95 The Others is also a supernatural movie I really enjoyed .

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:10 PM (XMuV+)

96 Okay all you smarties, who names their kid Chiwetel?

And don't say Mr. & Mrs. Ejiofor...
Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 04:06 PM

The name Chiwetel is of Igbo (Nigeria) origin, meaning "God is with us". It is a powerful and auspicious name that reflects a sense of divine presence and protection. In Igbo culture, names hold significant meaning, and Chiwetel conveys a deep reverence for the spiritual realm.

Chiwetel symbolizes the presence of God and the power of faith. It represents a belief in the divine and the belief that we are never alone in our journey. The name also symbolizes hope and renewal, suggesting a person who is optimistic and always looking for the positive in life.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 29, 2026 04:10 PM (0sNs1)

97 I haven't even got into the Basques yet because I don't wanna get bombed.
Posted by: gKWVE

***********

Don't care to basque in the warm afterglow, eh?

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 04:10 PM (qgHp7)

98 Last week, I mentioned that I would put up a thread for older/less-known movie recommendations. Please consider this that thread!
____________________________

Instead of plopping your anklebiter in front of a screen showing a retarded purple dinosaur or four asian kids swinging around kitchen knives....consider this a great recommendation for a kids movie that is actually educational and entertaining as hell:

"The Great Race" -1965- (Tony Curtis, Peter Falk, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, Keenan Wynn, Larry Storch, Ross Martin, Vivian Vance etc.)

It really is family friendly, and most of you likely have seen it. Kids love it. And parents don't consider OD'ing on Ambien after the 250th showing of Barney.

Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 04:11 PM (dIske)

99 Best Jackie Chan movie. You will be surprised how good it is.

The Foreigner.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:11 PM (XMuV+)

100 It would the twist

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 04:11 PM (bXbFr)

101 Also, I absolutely Byzantium and not just because Gemma Arterton is hot like the center of the Sun. It's a vampire movie and has an interesting take on vampirism.

Posted by: alexthechick at May 29, 2026 04:03 PM (sJZBK)

And Saoirse Ronan is in it too, and she can act!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 04:11 PM (iERP6)

102 I finished "Hellraiser 5" and "Final Destination 4". They were entertaining but not really scary. They're kind of like zombie movies, not really scary if you pretty much know everyone will die.

Movies I want to see again because they did disturb me - 'Eden Lake', 'The Human Centipede 1' and the french version called 'Inside' - those were pretty nicely f'ed up movies.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 29, 2026 04:11 PM (Sco7b)

103 79 Posted by: alexthechick at May 29, 2026 04:03 PM

Didja y'all hear sumpin' jus' now comin' from down around your knees?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 04:07 PM (0sNs1)

To be fair, I usually hear something down around my knees every time I stand up, so...

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 04:11 PM (DwqWV)

104 About byzantium

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 04:11 PM (bXbFr)

105 Posted by: 29Victor at May 29, 2026 04:05 PM (0MjtC)

I was planning g to go see that. Sounds fun

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 04:12 PM (Nx5jP)

106 As for Spider Noir, I just clicked on it for the first time yesterday to add to my watchlist on Prime (through Roku) and found out about the color/B&W options. I wondered at first how to choose. It wasn't until I clicked to play the first episode that it popped up with the option to watch in black and white or color. It was a simple left/right tile choice for me.

Posted by: Brian448 at May 29, 2026 04:12 PM (H46jI)

107 87 The Paolo is well acquainted with this "Three body problem."
_____

Any sex that involves more than one dick is gay. Just sayin'

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 04:12 PM (Dv3i1)

108 The walls closing in on the therapist in the "Backrooms" trailer is enough to keep it off of my see list.

Posted by: javems at May 29, 2026 04:12 PM (zFsEm)

109
Backrooms II will be about a demon-possessed backhoe or something.
Posted by: Daniel Ream at May 29, 2026 04:01 PM (LgYtf)

So, a remake of Killdozer...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2026 04:12 PM (y9nCu)

110 I saw Backrooms last night. I liked it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 04:12 PM (Y6K7e)

111 By Paul Tassi

Is this the GHEYIST movie review ever?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 04:12 PM (+5YP2)

112 Latest horror movie I saw ( unless you want to put "Alien" in that category which was sort of horror in space ) was "The Haunting" from 1963. I didn't watch it until much later than 1963, however. It was very good.

i watched that for the first time around Halloween. Very good. They always say it's a "psychological horror" which I assumed meant "it's all in their heads."

It's not.
Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 04:08 PM (1wjle)

The Haunting (1963) is one of my faves.

Turn out the lights and watch it. A great non-gory movie that just wants to creep you out.

The little vignette at the beginning indirectly sets the mood very nicely.

BONUS!!! It's now available in 4K.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 04:12 PM (iJfKG)

113 "That when Greek stories are retold on a global stage, Greek people are not rendered invisible within them."

Too late, suckers! It's indeed sad that the ancient Greeks had an amazing civilization and culture, and created some of the greatest art and literature and science of all human existence, and without them we probably wouldn't be where we are today.

But they were too white, so fuck them. They must be memory-holed and forgotten -- if not ridiculed and shit on -- to appease failed, feral cultures that happen to have more melanin in their skin.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

114 Both.

Posted by: Glenn at May 29, 2026 04:14 PM (nvKZ7)

115 Watched The Pianist, that is horrifying

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 04:14 PM (Ia/+0)

116 CBD: Hebrew - the language of the Apiru? - is a clear substrate of the Akkadian noted in the Amarna Tablets. Sadly we don't have clear literature written in Bronze Age Canaanite.
Ugaritic is a different language, if a very similar one, and shared the same mythology.
These weren't spoken in Europe yet however. Canaanite will get exported to western Sicily but much later.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 04:14 PM (gKWVE)

117 *smacks Duncanthrax*

The Minus Man with Owen Wilson is one of those movies that I wouldn't necessarily say is good, but it gets under your skin. Hr is a serial killer with no real pattern or even reason to why he kills and watching him wander into people's lives and cause havoc without ever being overly dangerous, or even really trying to be evil, is very creepy.

Posted by: alexthechick at May 29, 2026 04:14 PM (sJZBK)

118 OT, Seattle libs are aghast as Mark Zuckerberg brings $300M super yacht into the area, moors it in Bellevue on Seattle s east side. (As he lays off 14 thousand employees.)

Maybe Mayor Katie and her merry band of Somali pirates can hijack it.

Posted by: Rex B at May 29, 2026 04:15 PM (wZmRG)

119 >> The Paolo is well acquainted with this "Three body problem."

You should aspire to up your game to the general N-body problem.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 04:15 PM (w6EFb)

120 Those Greeks seem unaware of the Greek homos who stole all their culture from Africa.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 04:15 PM (Fi81e)

121 Watching the great Heather MacDonald on Winston Marshall on YouTube now

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 04:15 PM (Ia/+0)

122 Death Hunt with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin

Emperor of the North with Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:15 PM (XMuV+)

123 I got bored silly with the Chinese 3BP and gave up.

I liked the Netflix better despite all the DEI crapola because it moved along nicely.

Does Sino-3BP get any better?
Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 04:09 PM (iJfKG)

*****
Not sure what you mean by Chinese 3BP vs Sino-3BP.

Anyway, sorry you didn't like the version I posted. Different strokes for different folks.

I read the 3 Body Problem novel trilogy twice...and watched the Chinese 3BP series three times. Once by myself, once with my wife, and once with my niece.

As you can see, I'm not exactly unbiased here.

The Netflix version very probably was good. Some of the Youtube clips looked great. But, they were doing a bunch of DEI race swapping in it, so I just decided to give it a pass.

But if you liked, that's cool. Try the novels.

Posted by: EFG at May 29, 2026 04:16 PM (ut7Zw)

124 Does anyone think there'll ever be a House of Leaves movie? Probably not. They could play it off as one of the meta levels of the book. I mean, the book discussed a movie about one of itself, and I think a documentary movie about the making of the movie about it. I don't know how good it could be. MZD is an acquired taste.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 04:16 PM (3uBP9)

125 *smacks Duncanthrax*
Posted by: alexthechick at May 29, 2026 04:14 PM

Despite the abuse, it's nice to have you back, AtC!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 04:16 PM (0sNs1)

126 Literally just a cheap rented office that the occupants had just moved out of.

Spaces that someone has just moved out of are creepy. And the awful white balance of circa-2003 digital cameras is the cherry on top for making the original photo even creepier.

Also it'll be nice to see Cheezwhiz Eekamouse in something where he's not threatening Nathan Fillion.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 04:17 PM (2ocoG)

127 The Mangojuice and Gromet

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 04:17 PM (6ydKt)

128 Posted by: Wesley Crusher

************

Thanks for explaining that.

Did you know that Neveah is 'heaven' spelled backwards...

...incorrectly?

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 04:17 PM (qgHp7)

129 Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

Western civilization is in the process of being destroyed by Western governments and nearly all the major power centers in the West. This includes saying that there is no white culture which helps disguise what they are doing.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 04:18 PM (Dv3i1)

130 TJM got me started on YouTube when I got home, now on 3rd lkng video

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 04:18 PM (Ia/+0)

131 what do we think of Disclosure Day ?
Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 03:52 PM (ZxPkt)

Is that the one where the Browns learn that they still suck despite Robin Hood getting all the picks in the draft or something?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 04:18 PM (ExV1e)

132 "older/less-known movie recommendations"

"Madam Satan" (1930) Spunky hoofer Lillian Roth serves up loads of luscious leg. She'll jazz the dullness right out of you. Suddenly, the movie turns into 'Eyes Wide Shut' aboard a f'n zeppelin. Then things get weird.
youtube.com/watch?v=LldVvHWTctw

"Indecent" (1932) A rough take on 'Vanity Fair.' Myrna Loy in very sheer wardrobe. Her accumulating sins gradually run her through one of those 'Faces Of Meth' deterioration sequences. Geez, she's way tall in this one. Or the rest of the cast is short.
youtube.com/watch?v=6oC3LnRj_Yc

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 04:18 PM (Wq24h)

133 Watched The Pianist, that is horrifying
Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 04:14 PM (Ia/+0)

Great movie imo. And yes it is horrifying .

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:18 PM (XMuV+)

134 But if there was a movie Poe could write the soundtrack and it would all be worth it for a new album. I'd like more Poe in my life.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 04:18 PM (3uBP9)

135 what do we think of Disclosure Day ?

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 03:52 PM (ZxPkt)

---
It ends Christianity is my understanding.

I'm not going to have any party to ending Christianity.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 04:20 PM (Fi81e)

136 "The Devil" from 2010 was really good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_(2010_film)

Posted by: EFG at May 29, 2026 04:20 PM (ut7Zw)

137 Get Low (2009) is a great film with the late, great Robert Duval, Bill Murray, and Gerald McRaney. Duval's character is a 1930s rural hermit who comes into town to visit the local funeral parlor to plan his own funeral - to be held while he is alive.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at May 29, 2026 04:20 PM (bNf8H)

138 Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 04:18 PM (Wq24h)

Between those two movies, the catgirl in "Lost Souls", and Tarzan and Jane practically doin' it in the water I can't believe any voters at the time wanted a Hayes Code.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 04:20 PM (gKWVE)

139 133 Watched The Pianist, that is horrifying
Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 04:14 PM (Ia/+0)

****

That is the WWII holocaust movie, right?

Man, that was a rough one...

Posted by: EFG at May 29, 2026 04:21 PM (ut7Zw)

140
Speaking of shit and garbage, here's Tom Steyer:

Jackson Thompson
@JackThompsonFOX
·
3h
California Gov. candidate Tom Steyer just posted this video with trans athlete AB Hernandez, who will compete for a girls' state track & field title this weekend.

"I'm so proud of you for what you're doing," Steyer told him/her.

Posted by: beckster at May 29, 2026 04:22 PM (kX27y)

141 Did anybody else like Bubba Ho-Tep or just me?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 04:00 PM (n5tGW)

I liked it. Fun, goofy movie.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 04:22 PM (0aYVJ)

142
Not so much horror and terrifying real life --

"Lost on a Mountain in Maine"

https://youtu.be/NDve7wOCEAE

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 29, 2026 04:22 PM (ixS3i)

143 Finally able to find Sling Blade streaming on an app called Red Coral.

Watched it last night. Should go on the top 100 all time movies list .

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:22 PM (XMuV+)

144 Steyer should pack it in. He has NO chance. Maybe he and Porter can enjoy a consolation potato-salad together.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 04:23 PM (gKWVE)

145
Not horror but something I enjoyed a lot recently was the series "Scrubs" streaming on Hulu.

The series really holds up with a few good laughs per episode.

Seasons 1-8 are excellent with the good and satisfying ending.

Season 9 is a pile o'poo because two of the main actors left and just pop in for guest shots. It destroyed the shows Chemistry.

Season 10 is new and continues the same characters back together after 15 years or so. Great chemistry still. some good laughs. It pretty much ret-cons all of the stuff in Season 9 so that's mostly good.

Give it a rewatch. It's fun. Or give it a test drive if you've never seen it.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 04:23 PM (iJfKG)

146 Watched The Pianist, that is horrifying
Posted by: Skip

**********

The Paolo will probably point out that it is too long.

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 04:23 PM (qgHp7)

147 Fandago

Maybe its just a memory of a time for me.

Posted by: Heirloominati, always wanted to skydive at May 29, 2026 04:23 PM (erhDr)

148
Re: the Greeks.

Ehh, sorry, guys, but you are not the same people as the ones who built the Acropolis and gave us the titans of philosophy and figured in epics like The Odyssey.

You're pretty much the example of westerners' fear about the decline of our civilization yet again. We fear that we're repeating the ancient classical civilizations that became crappy Middle Eastern and European commie shit-holes.

No one knows what a "Greek" is now. It's not a minority, it's not a recognizable identity. Greek actors, Greek singers, Greek designers, how would I recognize one except by their last name?

I do think it's kind of fun that Greeks are spitting on woke Hollywood, but I can't much defend casting Genuine Greeks except on the basis that you probably look the part more than Ellen Page and Lupita N'Yongo.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 04:23 PM (n7rxJ)

149 When people are enjoying memes about The Odyssey more than the trailers , there's a problem

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 04:24 PM (SW0z7)

150 >>> Did anybody else like Bubba Ho-Tep or just me?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 04:00 PM (n5tGW)

I liked it. Fun, goofy movie.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 04:22 PM (0aYVJ)

Anything with Bruce Campbell in it is good in my book.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 04:24 PM (3uBP9)

151 My favorite instrumental song by the Canadian flamenco guitarist Jesse Cook is entitled "Byzantium Underground:"

youtube.com/watch?v=dTArM5WZKcg

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 04:24 PM (BGLxh)

152 1 Hollywood is so Fucked up. John Huston could eat a can of Kodak and puke a better movie than the shit these days
Posted by: night lifted at May 29, 2026 03:46 PM (kJmLc

Nominated: the most meritorious first comment of the third millenium.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 29, 2026 04:24 PM (YlWIZ)

153 It's actually depressing that CA might get that retard Becerra to lead them (into the abyss)

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 04:24 PM (gKWVE)

154 Worthy of an Oscar, Spencer Pratt's latest as posted by Rick Grenell:

https://tinyurl.com/5b8evj86

Posted by: beckster at May 29, 2026 04:25 PM (kX27y)

155 Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 04:23 PM (iJfK

Love Scrubs but if you have Hulu you can also watch Mr In Between. My favorite crime series.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:25 PM (XMuV+)

156
... as terrifying real life --

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 29, 2026 04:25 PM (ixS3i)

157 There was an Exircist parody with Leslie Nielson and Linda Blair. Repossessed. It was horrible, but the breasts were good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 04:25 PM (zZu0s)

158 Ace, you like weird unexplainable stuff, you should watch the series FROM, Pluribus, and Severance. From is made by the Lost creators and I love it and expect nothing to be resolved, ever. The other two are just as excellent.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 29, 2026 04:25 PM (IhL8c)

159 Exorcist.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 04:26 PM (zZu0s)

160 I hear Ryan Goslings new movie, Project Hail Mary is really good.

If you like space semi horror/drama movies.
Posted by: polynikes

Strongly endorse!

I laughed, I cried.
It was better than Cats.

Posted by: Heirloominati, amaze amaze amaze! at May 29, 2026 04:26 PM (erhDr)

161 Not horror but something I enjoyed a lot recently was the series "Scrubs" streaming on Hulu.

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That's a good series. John C. McGinley as Dr. Cox--and Krista Miller as his ex-wife--are standouts. The main characters are great, and so is Neil Flynn as the "The Janitor".

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 04:26 PM (Fi81e)

162 Watched The Pianist, that is horrifying
Posted by: Skip

**********

The Paolo will probably point out that it is too long.
Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 04:23 PM (qgHp7)

-----------

And deep!

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 04:26 PM (BGLxh)

163 I always like this movie Tin Men with DeVito and Dreyfuss. I don't think it did as well as Diner (same director) but I liked it better.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 04:26 PM (n5tGW)

164 Anything with Bruce Campbell in it is good in my book.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 04:24 PM (3uBP9)

Bruce is so cool. He wrote a memoir, "If Chins Could Talk." Dude is awesome.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 04:26 PM (0aYVJ)

165 I laughed, I cried.
It was better than Cats.

Posted by: Heirloominati, amaze amaze amaze! at May 29, 2026 04:26 PM (erhDr)
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Hold up, there!

Posted by: ALF at May 29, 2026 04:27 PM (Fi81e)

166
Seeing alexthechick again made me think of The Descent (hi, alex!), which I remember she really enjoyed, as I did. Incredibly creepy flik. Too bad that Neil Marshall blew his talent wad early and became a hack.

Of course there's always Evil Dead II, THE GREATEST FILM EVER MADE BY MAN. Raimi had the same problem as Marshall, blowing his talent wad early, although it took him longer.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2026 04:27 PM (y9nCu)

167 love when arrogant but untalented people find out they're completely untalented and that their previous "success" had just been due to connections in the industry.

Worked for plenty of those in movie advertising.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 29, 2026 04:27 PM (Kt19C)

168 "Between those two movies, the catgirl in "Lost Souls", and Tarzan and Jane practically doin' it in the water I can't believe any voters at the time wanted a Hayes Code."

I find it 100X more arousing to watch Lillian Roth dance fully dressed, than to see Sydney Sweeney's butthole fully exposed on "Euphoria." The pre-code movies were titillating without being downright gross and degrading.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 04:27 PM (Wq24h)

169
A supernatural movie that freaked the shyte out of me was The Innocents. It's based on Henry James's Turn of the Screw. I never knew why that novella was supposed to be so scary until I saw the movie.

WOW, that is psychological horror. It ends with a big question mark as to just how bad things were and who was the most twisted -- barring actual ghostly intervention in human affairs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 04:28 PM (n7rxJ)

170 Anything with Bruce Campbell in it is good in my book.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 04:24 PM (3uBP9)

Bruce is so cool. He wrote a memoir, "If Chins Could Talk." Dude is awesome.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 04:26 PM (0aYVJ)

He was great in Burn Notice .

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:28 PM (XMuV+)

171 Can you say more about the interesting take?

Posted by: EFG at May 29, 2026 04:09 PM (ut7Zw

Without spoiling too much, you become a vampire through a ritual, not being turned. The way feeding is accomplished is interesting as well, a long fingernail is used to puncture the throat, then feeding.

It also has a world and rules that exist but are not fully explained, which I like. The people involved know the rules and act accordingly and the viewer can then put it together.

Posted by: alexthechick at May 29, 2026 04:28 PM (V14+8)

172 Good on Obsession.

The power of good writing and good acting and the director not messing up.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 04:29 PM (xcxpd)

173 And for people that saw it, was the remake of "The Haunting" was it any better than the 1963 version? ! I don't want to see remakes of older films which I enjoyed. I don't really see the point.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 04:29 PM (ix8EF)

174 Anything with Bruce Campbell in it is good in my book.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 04:24 PM (3uBP9)

What impressed me most about the 'Dead' movies were the effects, especially the skeletons and this being done decades ago.

Same with 'Hellraiser'. The makeup and effects were fantastic for so long ago.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 29, 2026 04:29 PM (Sco7b)

175 I'll watch "Odyssey" when I can see it for free. I shan't diss the casting until I have actually watched it.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 04:29 PM (Wq24h)

176 I'm enjoying "Widow's Bay" which is a horror series on Apple.

Slow burn start but builds nicely to the 4th episode which is a knockout.

I was hoping they'd keep up the craziness but they took a step back so we'll see.

Anyway, give it a look.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 04:29 PM (iJfKG)

177 And yes, Triangle is a really good horror movie one of the few to handle it's plot twist well.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 04:29 PM (xcxpd)

178 Bull
it's on Amazon, its a Father that was missing comes back looking for his son, it's revenge movie. I really like it.

https://tinyurl.com/3u6fbkb8

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 29, 2026 04:30 PM (7db69)

179 162 Watched The Pianist, that is horrifying
Posted by: Skip

**********

The Paolo will probably point out that it is too long.
Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 04:23 PM (qgHp7)

-----------

And deep!
Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 04:26 PM (BGLxh)
____________________________

I'm sorry, but the best thin about "The Pianist" was that the Director couldn't receive his Academy Award or the coppers would have locked him up (Polanski). And, all the incessant whining amongst his peers that a pedophile couldn't show up in California and be honored.

Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 04:30 PM (dIske)

180 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 04:28 PM

I did see that one as well- the original one it was very good . I don't know if they did a remake of that as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 04:30 PM (ix8EF)

181 And for people that saw it, was the remake of "The Haunting" was it any better than the 1963 version? ! I don't want to see remakes of older films which I enjoyed. I don't really see the point.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 04:29 PM (ix8EF)
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I saw it.

I liked Liam Neeson at the time.

They should not have called it a remake. Every subtlety of Wise's is shredded with jump scares and CGI effects.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 04:31 PM (Fi81e)

182 And yes, Triangle is a really good horror movie one of the few to handle it's plot twist well.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 04:29 PM (xcxpd)

And where it is easy to have no pity.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 04:31 PM (zZu0s)

183 Widow's Bay is excellent.

I loved the sheriff at the end of the most recent epispde who when a character tries to explain more he is all nope, I'm good, also I quit.

Posted by: alexthechick at May 29, 2026 04:32 PM (V14+8)

184 160 I hear Ryan Goslings new movie, Project Hail Mary is really good.

It's damn good, The chemistry between GRACE (human) and Rocky (alien) is really good and you can take your family to this movie.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 29, 2026 04:32 PM (7db69)

185 There is a Korean monster movie coming out called Hope

youtu.be/Vt7860xZFXk

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 04:32 PM (rbvCR)

186 And for people that saw it, was the remake of "The Haunting" was it any better than the 1963 version? ! I don't want to see remakes of older films which I enjoyed. I don't really see the point.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 04:29 PM (ix8EF)

The remake is awful. Avoid at all costs.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 04:32 PM (iJfKG)

187 185 There is a Korean monster movie coming out called Hope

youtu.be/Vt7860xZFXk

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 04:32 PM (rbvCR)

=======

This screened at Cannes.

Like, in competition at the festival.

It's apparently just a gory thrill ride.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 04:33 PM (7RBt4)

188 154 Worthy of an Oscar, Spencer Pratt's latest as posted by Rick Grenell:

https://tinyurl.com/5b8evj86
Posted by: beckster

Agreed.

Of all the Spencer Pratt ads, this new one is actually my favorite. Very simple, not too many characters, hilarious, and devastating.

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026 04:33 PM (Av6i5)

189 Jeremy Jahns, as middle of the road as they come, called Backrooms a good time. Nothing special. That's what The Mandalorian and Grogu is. it's fine. Not an abomination like The Last Jedi or laughably bad like The Rise of Skywalker.

Remember that "anti-woke" YouTubers like Gore and Critical Drinker glazed (as the kids say) the Super Mario Bros sequel, which is pretty f*cking terrible and made significantly less than its predecessor, because it wasn't made by Disney and Grace Randolph hated it.

Posted by: Jim at May 29, 2026 04:33 PM (D7MKZ)

190 I've binged watched all of the Jesse Stone movies last week. Sad when I ran out of movies. Nine of them I think.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:33 PM (XMuV+)

191 Bruce is so cool. He wrote a memoir, "If Chins Could Talk." Dude is awesome.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 04:26 PM (0aYVJ)

Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 29, 2026 04:34 PM (Ucgf4)

192 I liked Scrubs back when, but recently tried watching it again, and it missed. Not sure what happened. It might be the rat-a-tat-tat jokes every 20 seconds thing. I have become more a fan of the slow build-up, like the Beetlejuice bit in Community: three seasons, you guys!

*adjusts onion on belt*
*scans for kids on lawn*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 04:34 PM (0aYVJ)

193 190 I've binged watched all of the Jesse Stone movies last week. Sad when I ran out of movies. Nine of them I think.
Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:33 PM (XMuV+)

Tom Selleck is really good in those. But it falls into the trap of most long-running series. It kinda all blends together except for the first one.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 04:34 PM (xcxpd)

194 The remake is awful. Avoid at all costs.

--

I completely agree.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 29, 2026 04:34 PM (qBdHI)

195 And for people that saw it, was the remake of "The Haunting" was it any better than the 1963 version? ! I don't want to see remakes of older films which I enjoyed. I don't really see the point.

The remake was a garish over-the-top comic book take on the atmospheric and terrifying original.

Don't waste your time.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 04:35 PM (+5YP2)

196 There is a Korean monster movie coming out called Hope

youtu.be/Vt7860xZFXk

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 04:32 PM (rbvCR)

=======

This screened at Cannes.

Like, in competition at the festival.

It's apparently just a gory thrill ride.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 04:33 PM (7RBt4)

Koreans know how to make good movies

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 04:35 PM (xcxpd)

197
The walls closing in on the therapist in the "Backrooms" trailer is enough to keep it off of my see list.
Posted by: javems

==============

What, it can't be any worse than cave diving and realizing you're 100 feet deeper than your plan with only 10 minutes of oxygen left and you need to swim through hundreds of feet in a cavern full of silt with dozens of false exit tubes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 04:36 PM (n7rxJ)

198 An Trump-inspired immigration win you may have forgotten about from a few months ago:

Former Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) Superintendent Ian Roberts was sentenced Friday to two years in prison after pleading guilty to federal immigration and weapons charges.

Imagine things in your own country are SO bad, you willingly choose prison here instead of going home. I bet if he did go home, the bad guys would find him

It wasn’t his choice. The Feds could have offered him the chance to plead and deport, but this was too much publicity for them. So of course us taxpayers get to flip the bill for his incarceration. Total waste of money.

Exactly. I'd be 100% ok if he just got deported and saved us the 40k/year it costs to house an inmate at a federal pen. This is just about the perp walk.

So guilty by black because Trumps family and Epsteins friends illegal immigrant violations seem to go unpunished.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 29, 2026 04:37 PM (JCZqz)

199 196 Koreans know how to make good movies

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 04:35 PM (xcxpd)

========

Na Hong-jin's previous film, The Wailing, sounds really interesting and is apparently really good. And it was on Prime.

I put it on my watchlist. I went back like three days later and it was gone from the platform.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 04:37 PM (7RBt4)

200 Shaggy Dog DA
I thought as a kid their is no way the DA, Cops and Mayor all corrupt, let the city go to hell with crime, Dean Jones runs for DA because his whole house is robbed and the Cops, DA won't do anything, sure as hell it's happening NOW. I rewatched it with my son and it Holds up, except that the FBI were the good guys

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 29, 2026 04:37 PM (fPsYl)

201 182 And yes, Triangle is a really good horror movie one of the few to handle it's plot twist well.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 04:29 PM (xcxpd)

And where it is easy to have no pity.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 04:31 PM (zZu0s)

Yeah, you go into it feeling sorry for the woman and by the end you're like...nope

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 04:37 PM (xcxpd)

202 Help me Obi-wan Kenobi, you're my only hope -

https://tinyurl.com/3nch3rjy

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 04:37 PM (Dv3i1)

203 Anything with Bruce Campbell in it is good in my book.

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His cameo in 1989's The Intruder! That one's a particularly "so bad it's good" category of 80s slashers.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 29, 2026 04:37 PM (qBdHI)

204 Anyone see The Entity with Barbara Hershey?

If I was a ghost I might have to 'haunt' Barbara Hershey too.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:37 PM (XMuV+)

205
A favorite of mine.... that I never watch. Carnival of Souls by Herk Harvey from 1962. Filmed on a shoestring budget, horrible acting performances, but the setting at the Saltair Pavilion is one of the greatest creepy locations ever.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2026 04:38 PM (y9nCu)

206 199 196 Koreans know how to make good movies

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 04:35 PM (xcxpd)

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Na Hong-jin's previous film, The Wailing, sounds really interesting and is apparently really good. And it was on Prime.

I put it on my watchlist. I went back like three days later and it was gone from the platform.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 04:37 PM (7RBt4)

Eeek. Hopefully I bought it and didn't just wishlist it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 04:38 PM (xcxpd)

207 Anything with Bruce Campbell in it is good in my book.

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Happy to find another Escape from LA fan.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 04:38 PM (7RBt4)

208 206 I put it on my watchlist. I went back like three days later and it was gone from the platform.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 04:37 PM (7RBt4)

Eeek. Hopefully I bought it and didn't just wishlist it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 04:38 PM (xcxpd)

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Well, platform is the wrong word.

From the streaming service. The movie itself is still listed, just for sale.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 04:38 PM (7RBt4)

209 175 I'll watch "Odyssey" when I can see it for free. I shan't diss the casting until I have actually watched it.

where's the fun in that?

Posted by: anachronda at May 29, 2026 04:39 PM (v3pYe)

210 I guess these aren't really small films, but they feel that way to me because I saw them in the Grandview Theater, which was Columbus's arthouse venue at the time. First is Searching for Bobby Fischer about a child chess prodigy. The child actor has very disturbing eyes, but in a good way. The second is Shallow Grave, which is one of those movies where they almost smack you in the face with clues, but you miss them all anyway.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 04:39 PM (m5VHW)

211 Koreans know how to make good movies

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If you can overlook the obvious CGI, the Train to Busan is a very good, zombie-like horror flick from Korea.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 29, 2026 04:39 PM (qBdHI)

212 Anyone see The Entity with Barbara Hershey?
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I think so....

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 04:39 PM (Fi81e)

213 210 The second is Shallow Grave, which is one of those movies where they almost smack you in the face with clues, but you miss them all anyway.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 04:39 PM (m5VHW)

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Danny Boyle's first film.

Every film after that, Boyle's father would say, "It's good, but it's not as good as Shallow Grave."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 04:40 PM (7RBt4)

214 What, it can't be any worse than cave diving and realizing you're 100 feet deeper than your plan with only 10 minutes of oxygen left and you need to swim through hundreds of feet in a cavern full of silt with dozens of false exit tubes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 04:36 PM (n7rxJ)

Just don't pin my arms in one of the tubes, in the dark.

Posted by: javems at May 29, 2026 04:40 PM (zFsEm)

215 Anthropod movie about the assassination of SS commander Reinhard Heydrich is more a tragic story

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 04:40 PM (Ia/+0)

216 211 If you can overlook the obvious CGI, the Train to Busan is a very good, zombie-like horror flick from Korea.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 29, 2026 04:39 PM (qBdHI)

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I didn't like it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 04:40 PM (7RBt4)

217 “ The Man From Nowhere “ is the best Korean movie I’ve ever seen. I heard it’s due for an American remake, which they will likely fuck up

Posted by: UGAdawg at May 29, 2026 04:40 PM (4MsaP)

218 A favorite of mine.... that I never watch. Carnival of Souls by Herk Harvey from 1962. Filmed on a shoestring budget, horrible acting performances, but the setting at the Saltair Pavilion is one of the greatest creepy locations ever.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2026 04:38 PM (y9nCu)

Saw that one, via Rifftrax, of course. It no longer exists. Son and his wife live in SLC. I recognize a lot of the location shots.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 04:41 PM (0aYVJ)

219 135 what do we think of Disclosure Day ?

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 03:52 PM (ZxPkt)
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It ends Christianity is my understanding.

I'm not going to have any party to ending Christianity.
Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 04:20 PM (Fi81e)

A few theologians believe aliens are a demonic op to usher in the whole endgame of history. To 'prove' Christianity wrong by a big dog and pony show.

Speilberg being involved is very on brand for him.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 04:41 PM (xcxpd)

220 215 Anthropod movie about the assassination of SS commander Reinhard Heydrich is more a tragic story
Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 04:40 PM (Ia/+0)

The bugs got him?

Posted by: Emily Litella at May 29, 2026 04:41 PM (gKWVE)

221 Anthropod movie about the assassination of SS commander Reinhard Heydrich is more a tragic story

He died, didn't he?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 04:41 PM (+5YP2)

222
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 04:30 PM (ix8EF)

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I just checked, and there were some other remakes or movies inspired by The Turn of the Screw, but:

"Most critics still regard The Innocents as the definitive adaptation because it captures the novella's central ambiguity. Many later versions lean more heavily toward one explanation or the other, whereas The Innocents leaves the question hauntingly unresolved."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 04:42 PM (n7rxJ)

223
I like the "The Appointment" with Edward Woodward.

Such an eerie atmosphere.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 04:42 PM (Fi81e)

224 185 There is a Korean monster movie coming out called Hope

youtu.be/Vt7860xZFXk
Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 04:32 PM (rbvCR)

Koreans do know how to make good movies

It's ok but MONSTRUM set during the Joesnen era (Swords no guns) A monster is in the Forest and is killing people so a retired General must find out it if it's real or a rumour that was put out by the Kings' enemies saying the King is cursed.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 29, 2026 04:42 PM (fPsYl)

225 I didn't like it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 04:40 PM (7RBt4)

Don't like fast zombies

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:42 PM (XMuV+)

226 Yeah they got him, but Nazis being Nazis wiped out thousands from it

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 04:43 PM (Ia/+0)

227 Get Low (2009) is a great film with the late, great Robert Duval, Bill Murray, and Gerald McRaney. Duval's character is a 1930s rural hermit who comes into town to visit the local funeral parlor to plan his own funeral - to be held while he is alive.
Posted by: Frasier Crane

Loved that film. Saw it in the theater when it came out.

Posted by: Tuna at May 29, 2026 04:43 PM (lJ0H4)

228
The Blair Witch Project was going on during my college days. Everybody had to watch it. It did have a growing uneasiness about it as I remember.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 29, 2026 04:43 PM (IifOV)

229
Someone mentioned "Inside" up stairs, which is one of the best horror thrillers I've seen.

If you can handle some gore check it out.

Be sure to watch the French original, and not the terrible American remake.

It concerns a pregnant women alone on Christmas Eve when a psychotic woman shows up wanting to take her baby.

It is really good.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 04:43 PM (iJfKG)

230
Just don't pin my arms in one of the tubes, in the dark.
Posted by: javems

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heh, you want horror, watch YouTube videos about cave diving disasters, or caving disasters.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 04:43 PM (n7rxJ)

231 Backrooms fans may like 'The Messiah of Evil'. Atmospheric horror with no clear happy ending due to production problems.

Very interesting, I've seen it a few times.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 04:43 PM (xcxpd)

232 i thought obsession sucked(premise was good..a knock off of the old genie in a bottle thing)...poorly executed...

and "send help" is a feminist wet dream....both (as always) female-centric)...as is pretty much most movie fare these days...

Posted by: uncouth jay marks at May 29, 2026 04:44 PM (uc/1V)

233 In The Grey and The Breadwinner have wildly different critic v audience scores on RT. Critics hate 'em, audiences love 'em.
Breadwinner is for dads; In The Grey is for male action fans.
Hmm.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 04:44 PM (gKWVE)

234 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 04:42 PM (n7rxJ

Thanks for that

And Deborah Kerr was such a good actress.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 04:44 PM (ix8EF)

235 Outlander. Has vikings AND aliens. Not sure it counts as a hidden gem though.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 04:44 PM (n5tGW)

236 I had a feeling Send Help was going to be a squirtfest so had no desire to see it.
Obsession I dunno. That one might actually be antimale against a sort of male I detest too.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 04:45 PM (gKWVE)

237 One thing that the AppleTV series Severance had going for it was a "Backrooms" vibe.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 04:45 PM (Fi81e)

238 The ending of Night of the Living Dead is my favorite. Might be a Pittsburgh thing.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 04:45 PM (m5VHW)

239 Anyone see The Entity with Barbara Hershey?

Watched it ages ago and found it...disturbing.

It certainly kept my interest...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 04:46 PM (sKqQm)

240 238 The ending of Night of the Living Dead is my favorite. Might be a Pittsburgh thing.
Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 04:45 PM (m5VHW)

I like that rednecks with guns are handling the zombies just fine.

But Romero is such an misanthropic Liberal ass, he had to make the sequels worse and worse in tone.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 04:47 PM (xcxpd)

241 Bill Murray has a couple of just story telling type movies that are pretty good .

St Vincent
Broken Flowers

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:47 PM (XMuV+)

242 217 “ The Man From Nowhere “ is the best Korean movie I’ve ever seen. I heard it’s due for an American remake, which they will likely fuck up
Posted by: UGAdawg at May 29, 2026 04:40 PM (4MsaP)

India remade that movie it's called ROCKY HANDSOME lol

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 29, 2026 04:47 PM (fPsYl)

243
Watchers in the Woods which was a Disney Movie from the 70's was a horrifying scary movie for a kid. It has an old Bette Davis in it.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 29, 2026 04:47 PM (IifOV)

244 All Of Us Are Dead is a fantastic Korean TV series. It is a zombie story set in a high school where the zombies are possibly the lesser threat than the humans.

Posted by: alexthechick at May 29, 2026 04:48 PM (CSPbn)

245 Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 04:46 PM (sKqQm)

Disturbing is the perfect description.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:48 PM (XMuV+)

246 "Just shoot 'em in the head. They aren't moving too fast. They're dead, they're in pretty bad shape"

Or something like that.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 04:48 PM (m5VHW)

247
I didn't like it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 04:40 PM (7RBt4)

Don't like fast zombies
Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:42 PM (XMuV+)

Yeah, fast zombies kind of misses the point, the slow inevitability of death approaching.

But I really enjoyed Busan regardless.

Best fast zombie film is the first, The Return of the Living Dead. Send. More. Paramedics.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2026 04:48 PM (y9nCu)

248 India remade that movie it's called ROCKY HANDSOME lol

Oh Lord. I saw the knife fight from that on YouTube and it was dogshit

Posted by: UGAdawg at May 29, 2026 04:48 PM (4MsaP)

249 Wind River
Taylor Sheridan movie starring Jeremy Renner
Excellent movie about a very unpleasant topic.

Posted by: FLKraka at May 29, 2026 04:49 PM (TXtcH)

250 Outlander. Has vikings AND aliens. Not sure it counts as a hidden gem though.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 04:44 PM (n5tGW)

I liked it a lot. It had the ending I wanted.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:49 PM (XMuV+)

251 I find that any time I look at my streaming service options I can find a good thriller, fantasy, horror, or SF movie (often foreign, but still)

But comedy? Very hard to find now

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)

252 Oh: Question for y'all. I tried to watch Spider-Noir but I don't see any way to choose the "Authentic Black and White" version. I get a title screen that tells me I can select this, "Below," but there's nothing "below" for me to click on.

Doof at it again? Last night's ONT wouldn't completely load for me a couple of times. It'd cut off at David Lee Roth. Then, poof, the whole thing loaded. Must be some kind of weird science going on.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026 04:49 PM (1Ff7Z)

253 a nifty little throwback blood and guts horror movie?...try "abigail".....excellent cast....great atmosphere.....fun watch....

Posted by: uncouth jay marks at May 29, 2026 04:49 PM (uc/1V)

254 It's apparently just a gory thrill ride.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 04:33 PM (7RBt4)

It is a Korean monster movie. It brings the same ethos that the Korean gang / war / assassin movies bring.
You can tell the heroes because they do not swerve in their dedication and honor on their path to being turned into stringy bits between destiny's toes.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 04:49 PM (rbvCR)

255
If you don't mind "found footage" a Japanese movie titled "Noroi: The Curse" is a real knockout.

It's a slowburn but stick with it by the end you'll be blown away.

The story concerns a paranormal journalist that goes missing after putting a documentary together.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 04:50 PM (iJfKG)

256 "where's the fun in that?"

Two tips on how to have fun watching movies:
- Don't pay to watch them. That puts a floor under your level of disappointment.
- Enjoy them simply for what's on the screen, and fret less about how much you hate director A, actor B, and production company C. Since you didn't put money in their pocket, (see tip 1,) then who cares how much you hate them.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 04:50 PM (Wq24h)

257 Wasn't supposed to be a good Korean show where it is set in medieval korea/china with zombie. Like the Kingdom, or something?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 04:50 PM (zZu0s)

258 Ma Dong-seok the Korean actor is from Ohio LOL he went to Columbus State, I really like his movies, he was Train to Busan and The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil which is really good when a serial Killer tries to kill a mob boss fails, and the mob boss hunts for the Killer because he wants to kill him or let the cops have him

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 29, 2026 04:51 PM (fPsYl)

259 The super-indie filmmakers are drinking Hollywood's milkshake because they write interesting stories that draw people in, something Hollywood has forgotten all about. This is how a youtuber puts together a horror movie a complete shoestring and blows an expensive Disney anti-Star Wars VFX AI piece of slop out of the water, especially on ROI. It's not because the audience is misogynist, or homophobic, or bigoted, or whatever like Disney claims when one of the projects flop, it's because Disney keeps making shit and people are starving for non-shit entertainment.

Posted by: It's a simple formula at May 29, 2026 04:52 PM (TbWk/)

260 "Police Reveal NHL Great Claude Lemieux Hanged Himself"

Breitbart

Not a hockey fan but this is sad.

Posted by: javems at May 29, 2026 04:52 PM (zFsEm)

261 I'm beginning to think I like crappy movies. One of my favorites is from 1988:

"The Seventh Sign" (Demi Moore, Michael Biehn, Jürgen Prochnow)

It's not fantastic, but the premise was original. The story was it's strength. They lost some points on execution. It's about the Second Coming. And, throughout the movie they put a modern twist on the Seven Seals from the book of Revelation. It all circles around a death sentence placed on a kid with Downs Syndrome.

Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 04:53 PM (dIske)

262 a nifty little throwback blood and guts horror movie?...try "abigail".....excellent cast....great atmosphere.....fun watch....
Posted by: uncouth jay marks at May 29, 2026 04:49 PM (uc/1V)

I liked that one! It maybe should have ended a bit sooner (felt a little long), but I did enjoy it. The little girl who plays Abigail does a nice job.

Abigail: I'm sorry.
Woman: For what?
Abigail: For what's getting ready to happen to you.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 29, 2026 04:53 PM (k9OZB)

263
Wasn't supposed to be a good Korean show where it is set in medieval korea/china with zombie. Like the Kingdom, or something?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 04:50 PM (zZu0s)

Kingdom is awesome. A really interesting and creative twist to the zombie genre.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2026 04:53 PM (y9nCu)

264 Doof at it again? Last night's ONT wouldn't completely load for me a couple of times. It'd cut off at David Lee Roth. Then, poof, the whole thing loaded. Must be some kind of weird science going on.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026 04:49 PM (1Ff7Z)

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Earlier today on a "classic rock" station I head the old 1985 "Just A Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody" David Lee Roth song.

Holds up pretty good (I remember the music video had babes in swimsuits) ... and he so much was trying to sound like Satchmo.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 04:53 PM (Na5xP)

265 But comedy? Very hard to find now
Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)

She's Out of My League
Going the Distance
Spy

Highly recommend Spy. I was shocked how much I enjoyed it.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:54 PM (XMuV+)

266 Kingdom is a pretty good zombie series that had some freaky scary zombies. The asians really like zombie movies.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 04:54 PM (n5tGW)

267 I watched a movie produced 20 years ago the other night, "The Matador," with Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear. Highly entertaining in a way simply impossible to pull off today. It occurred to me that Hollywood started dying around 2010. It's like pod people took over after that.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 29, 2026 04:54 PM (b4LBp)

268 I've been rewatching the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies on YouTube. I turn off lights and watch them in the dark which gives them that much more mysterious.

Finished The Hound of the Baskerville and The Claw.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 29, 2026 04:54 PM (IYeV+)

269 257 Wasn't supposed to be a good Korean show where it is set in medieval korea/china with zombie. Like the Kingdom, or something?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 04:50 PM (zZu0s)

Rampant, yes same premise as Kingdom

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 29, 2026 04:55 PM (fPsYl)

270 Holds up pretty good (I remember the music video had babes in swimsuits) ... and he so much was trying to sound like Satchmo.
Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 04:53 PM (Na5xP)

Perfect cleanser for BBQ Guy last night.

(shudder)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026 04:55 PM (1Ff7Z)

271 Huge films, but have a wonderful creative quality are Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Hero is just beautiful to watch even if you pay no attention to the story.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 04:56 PM (m5VHW)

272 K-horror is good stuff. It takes a little adjustment since their storytelling follows a slightly different path than what we're used to, but usually a good bet if you're just looking for something to watch.

Posted by: K-drama isn't bad either at May 29, 2026 04:56 PM (TbWk/)

273 Backrooms?

So if I understand these things, they usually end up in a room with couch, two dudes and a camera...

Posted by: FOMSG at May 29, 2026 04:56 PM (VmHAb)

274 I've been having dreams like Backrooms ever since I started on chemotherapy. Or since I first got cancer, maybe - who knows? Anyway, it's weird.

And I am always VERY glad when I wake up from those "dreams", because they are real nightmares....

Anyway, Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 29, 2026 04:56 PM (SRRAx)

275 Earlier today on a "classic rock" station I head the old 1985 "Just A Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody" David Lee Roth song.

Holds up pretty good (I remember the music video had babes in swimsuits) ... and he so much was trying to sound like Satchmo.
Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 04:53 PM (Na5xP)

That song was originally recorded by Louis Prima.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2026 04:57 PM (8zz6B)

276
And Deborah Kerr was such a good actress.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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Yessssss!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 04:58 PM (n7rxJ)

277 Is kingdom on netflix?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 04:58 PM (zZu0s)

278 I haven't heard if Roth ever paid Lious Prima for, "Just A Giggolo." It would be niceif he did.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 29, 2026 04:58 PM (YlWIZ)

279 "Police Reveal NHL Great Claude Lemieux Hanged Himself"

Breitbart

Not a hockey fan but this is sad.

Posted by: javems at May 29, 2026 04:52 PM (zFsEm)

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Very sad. Had heard the news of his death (R.I.P.) earlier but not the cause.

Being on the wrong side of 60 (and soon 65), it's always stunning to hear about deaths of younger individuals -- ESPECIALLY my fellow classmates from high school (and thus I suffer from a heavy dose of "survivors' guilt").

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 04:58 PM (Na5xP)

280 Earlier today on a "classic rock" station I head the old 1985 "Just A Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody" David Lee Roth song.

Holds up pretty good (I remember the music video had babes in swimsuits) ... and he so much was trying to sound like Satchmo.
Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 04:53 PM (Na5xP)
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Dave's tastes in Big Band, swing, and blues was a big part of the early VH character.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 04:58 PM (NxZ4/)

281 Huge films, but have a wonderful creative quality are Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Hero is just beautiful to watch even if you pay no attention to the story.
Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 04:56 PM (m5VHW)

Sorry but imo the greatest Kung Fu movie of all time is Kung Fu Hustle

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 04:58 PM (XMuV+)

282 I've been having dreams like Backrooms ever since I started on chemotherapy. Or since I first got cancer, maybe - who knows? Anyway, it's weird.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 29, 2026 04:56 PM (SRRAx)

I've had those. Going through a house looking for something or someone, and on the other side of a door is a completely different house.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026 04:58 PM (1Ff7Z)

283
Good Limey horror flick from the 80s, The Woman in Black (avoid the Harry Potter Hollywood remake like it's the monkeypox). Wonderfully creepy story/setting with a couple of fantastically scary scenes.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2026 04:58 PM (y9nCu)

284 Wind River
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Excellent movie about a very unpleasant topic.

Posted by: FLKraka at May 29, 2026 04:49 PM (TXtcH)

Seconded. The acting was first rate. That Olsen chick actually did an excellent job. And the character actors were all great.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 04:58 PM (iERP6)

285 "Police Reveal NHL Great Claude Lemieux Hanged Himself"

Breitbart

Not a hockey fan but this is sad.
Posted by: javems at May 29, 2026 04:52 PM (zFsEm)

This hit me hard. A) he was close to my age, a little older, B) He was an yuge part of why I became such a fan of hockey (Avalanche fan). These bastards mean business. Toughest muthafuckas in the sporting world.

Slapshot is a documentary. FYI

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 04:58 PM (0aYVJ)

286 Wanted to see the D Day Movie Pressure, until a friend told me half the cast is openly Gay

Posted by: Jerry J at May 29, 2026 04:59 PM (YCxFk)

287 Oh, Deborah Carr reminds me of a very fun movie. James Garner and her in The Wheeler Dealers.

She's beautiful, he's charming. Comedy.

From a bygone era. Its on Amazon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 04:59 PM (zZu0s)

288 It's too bad Hollywood doesn't do snuff films anymore.

Maybe they should give it another go around.

Get Rosie and that other fella to star in one. Or Two.

Posted by: Hollis P. Wood at May 29, 2026 04:59 PM (54bnG)

289 I discovered the British Carry On comedy movies the other day. I had never heard of them.

The Carry On Up the Khyber was very funny with lots of scantily clad young women, which seems to be a trademark of the series.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 29, 2026 04:59 PM (IYeV+)

290 Of all the Spencer Pratt ads, this new one is actually my favorite. Very simple, not too many characters, hilarious, and devastating.
Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2026

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Subtle and entertaining, with an edge. The mother looks kind of like the actress, Julie Benz, who played vampire Darla on Buffy and Angel.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:00 PM (wzUl9)

291 Black 47 is a great movie.

It's John Wick in 1847. And he's Irish.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 05:00 PM (XMuV+)

292 I have found that Korea makes some really good Christian movies
The Priests (exorcism)
The Guest (Exorcism)
Detective K funny detective but Christian
Blood Rain
Fiery Priest

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 29, 2026 05:00 PM (NHQe3)

293
Husband and i are not movie watchers. Mostly you are giving your hard earned money to people who hate you and who want to destroy our country.

We prefer having awesome sex. Much more satisfing than watching shit on tv.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 05:01 PM (3ek7K)

294 Anyway, Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 29, 2026 04:56 PM (SRRAx)

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Always makes my day to see you here, Teresa -- and so glad I got to meet and hug you at last years TX MoMe.

[We're supposed to be out of the country -- in Israel if it's not closed down -- this year, but hope to see you again at the 2027 MoMe.]

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 05:01 PM (Na5xP)

295 Hamnet was very good. As was Once upon a time in Hollywood, Manchester by the Sea. Movies without DEI and Social Justice are for me

Posted by: Jerry J at May 29, 2026 05:01 PM (YCxFk)

296 I've had those. Going through a house looking for something or someone, and on the other side of a door is a completely different house.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026

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The dreams I remember on waking usually focus on me trying to find a decent restroom, one with a stall or room door you can close or which isn't in an open space with other people watching.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:02 PM (wzUl9)

297 Gloria Grahame just ate up every scene in In A Lonely Place, probably my favorite movie.

Her performance was supported by Humphrey Bogart.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 05:02 PM (m5VHW)

298 nood

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 05:02 PM (Wq24h)

299
I really enjoyed "The Monkey" which came out last year.

It concerns two brothers who inherit a cursed toy monkey which causes the death of those around you, usually in some grotesque fashion.

It's a horror comedy. you'll probably enjoy it if you enjoy splatstick.

I saw it twice in the theater which is something I almost never do.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 05:02 PM (iJfKG)

300 We prefer having awesome sex. Much more satisfing than watching shit on tv.
Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 05:01 PM (3ek7K)

A movie can last 90 minutes, and it is less embarrassing to fall asleep to.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 05:03 PM (rbvCR)

301 I'm gonna try the spider man thing on Amazon. Plan on watching n black and white if I can

We will see if H.I. s a good Spider-Man

Posted by: Bixby Snyder at May 29, 2026 05:03 PM (HcoTw)

302 I've had those. Going through a house looking for something or someone, and on the other side of a door is a completely different house.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026 04:58 PM (1Ff7Z)

I have those damn dreams all the time. I usually go from someone's backyard to the house to another backyard to a house...all while knowing that at some point I'm going to get caught...

Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 29, 2026 05:03 PM (k9OZB)

303 The Movies! over-the-air channel is running a lot of the things TCM used to, with commercials but apparently uncut. Lots of B & W films, and on Thursdays their "film noir" series.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:03 PM (wzUl9)

304 272 K-horror is good stuff. It takes a little adjustment since their storytelling follows a slightly different path than what we're used to, but usually a good bet if you're just looking for something to watch.
Posted by: K-drama isn't bad either at May 29, 2026 04:56 PM (TbWk/)

Their Crime dramas are really good, same with their Thrillers, because it's not always the White Christian Male. like in Hollywood

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 29, 2026 05:04 PM (NHQe3)

305 I discovered the British Carry On comedy movies the other day. I had never heard of them.

The Carry On Up the Khyber was very funny with lots of scantily clad young women, which seems to be a trademark of the series.
Posted by: Beartooth at May 29, 2026 04:59 PM (IYeV+)

The "Carry On Gang" made a lot of movies. Benny Hill got a lot of his shtick from them. Lot's of double-entendre jokes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2026 05:04 PM (8zz6B)

306 We prefer having awesome sex. Much more satisfing than watching shit on tv.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 05:01 PM (3ek7K)

Do you ever get together to compare notes?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 05:04 PM (+5YP2)

307
Husband and i are not movie watchers. Mostly you are giving your hard earned money to people who hate you and who want to destroy our country.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 05:01 PM (3ek7K)

The last two films I paid to watch were Top Gun Maverick (Mom was dying to see it, so I took her), and Sisu.

As for the rest, BitTorrent FTW. Because fuck Hollywood.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2026 05:05 PM (y9nCu)

308 Just wait until Shards comes to Netflix. Based on the very disturbing book by Brett Easton Ellis.

Posted by: beckster at May 29, 2026 05:06 PM (kX27y)

309 Manchester by the Sea. Movies without DEI and Social Justice are for me
Posted by: Jerry J at May 29, 2026 05:01 PM (YCxFk)

I just remembered I bought this one on DVD, but have not yet watched it. I buy a lot of movies in the Walmart bin, on a hunch.

Which is how I found "Mud," one of my favorite McConnaughey movies. Has the kid who later was in "Landman."

Hidden treasures.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 05:06 PM (0aYVJ)

310 Wind River
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Excellent movie about a very unpleasant topic.

Posted by: FLKraka at May 29, 2026 04:49 PM (TXtcH)

Seconded. The acting was first rate. That Olsen chick actually did an excellent job. And the character actors were all great.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 04:58 PM (iERP6)

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Thanks. Only recently became a big fan of Taylor Sheridan (damn, that dude is proflic!) who wrote and directed this movie I'd not previously heard of.

Big fan of his various TV series, although I find "Tulsa" requires tremendous suspension of disbelief and Marshals" is not a very worthy "Yellowstone" spinoff (a poor-man's "Strike Back").

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 05:06 PM (Na5xP)

311 Best Jackie Chan movie. You will be surprised how good it is.

The Foreigner

Polynikes.
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Best Jackie Chan movie is Armor of God 2: Operation Condor.

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 29, 2026 05:07 PM (XB1Qt)

312
I have those damn dreams all the time. I usually go from someone's backyard to the house to another backyard to a house...all while knowing that at some point I'm going to get caught...
Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 29, 2026 05:03 PM (k9OZB)

My most consistent nightmare is returning to basic training at 61, trying to find a clean and wrinkle-free uniform in my wall locker while hearing the drill sergeant's heel taps on his mirror-shined jump boots.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2026 05:09 PM (y9nCu)

313 Hollywood is mostly garbage. Just like these sportsball leagues, - the focus is self-perpetuation. Sell tickets. I don't give any of these people a fucking dime yet they're still millionaires and billionaires.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 29, 2026 05:15 PM (D1E+2)

314 I have recurring dream themes a lot. One, back in the service, but I am still in BDUs, and/or with a full beard.

Another, which distresses me more, is trying to contact my wife via phone as I navigate some kind of crazy huge mall, or airport, and all the things go wrong, and if I don't get a hold of her, things will go badly.

I no longer have the dreams where I go to class and have to take the final, despite having never been in class.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 05:16 PM (0aYVJ)

315 I started watching The Expanse. So far a really great, high quality production. Into season 3 now which is kinda a shift in gears to the nonstop kickass action of the first 2 seasons.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 29, 2026 05:24 PM (Vh9CX)

316 310 Wind River
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Excellent movie about a very unpleasant topic.

Posted by: FLKraka at May 29, 2026 04:49 PM (TXtcH)

Seconded. The acting was first rate. That Olsen chick actually did an excellent job. And the character actors were all great.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 04:58 PM (iERP6)

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Thanks. Only recently became a big fan of Taylor Sheridan (damn, that dude is proflic!) who wrote and directed this movie I'd not previously heard of.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 05:06 PM (Na5xP)

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Such a good movie, I looked up why it hadn't gotten much "press"... seems it was caught up in the Harvey Weinstein fallout.
I'm a prolific reader of AoS daily, rarely a poster... so kinda honored the CBD seconded my post!

Posted by: FLKraka at May 29, 2026 05:24 PM (TXtcH)

317 293
Husband and i are not movie watchers. Mostly you are giving your hard earned money to people who hate you and who want to destroy our country.

We prefer having awesome sex. Much more satisfing than watching shit on tv.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 05:01 PM (3ek7K)

cool story

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 05:25 PM (xcxpd)

318 I highly recommend "OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies" and the follow up movie. Hilarious anti-DEI spy movies.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 29, 2026 05:27 PM (Vh9CX)

319 Season 10 is new and continues the same characters back together after 15 years or so. Great chemistry still. some good laughs. It pretty much ret-cons all of the stuff in Season 9 so that's mostly good.

Give it a rewatch. It's fun. Or give it a test drive if you've never seen it.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 04:23 PM (iJfKG)

I enjoyed Season 10/2026 Season 1. I'm currently going back to rewatch the original series after seeing it back when it was new. I'd forgotten Brendan Fraser was a guest star in the first season - I thought he came later.

Posted by: Octochicken at May 29, 2026 05:43 PM (oCS0o)

320 315 I started watching The Expanse. So far a really great, high quality production. Into season 3 now which is kinda a shift in gears to the nonstop kickass action of the first 2 seasons.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 29, 2026 05:24 PM (Vh9CX)

The TV show does some necessary changes to the early books - the first season would have been really slow if they did a straight adaptation of the first book, but overall the series was pretty faithful to the material.

Posted by: Octochicken at May 29, 2026 05:45 PM (oCS0o)

321 For Spider Noir, choose an episode, click on it and you will see a Tru Color panel on the left and Black and White on the right. Just use your controller's left and right arrows to move from one to the other and click on it to open. I had the same problem last night. It's so simple it's not obvious.

Posted by: FelixL at May 29, 2026 05:49 PM (wiK+s)

322 Shit or garbage? Embrace the power of 'and.'

Posted by: vivi at May 29, 2026 06:05 PM (OFw3k)

323 "These movies (and books and stories) are all journey, no destination."

The recent sleeper hit The Housemaid DEFINITELY qualifies as a thriller worth watching even if a) the plot unravels at least a little if you think it through and b) we don't get to see nearly enough of Sydney Sweeney in all her nude glory.

Posted by: Bubba at May 29, 2026 06:21 PM (uzf2B)

324 316 310 Wind River

Had no idea this was a Taylor Sheridan movie; i generally like Jeremy Renner and was slightly surprised to see another marvel Star in it with Olson so I gave it a watch and it was excellent. One of the best rando movies i've picked off Amazon prime. The shootout with the crooked security team was absolutely brutal. yeah, I finally have Paramount plus and i keep telling myself to watch yellowstone; may actually do it now.

We prefer having awesome sex. Much more satisfing than watching shit on tv.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 05:01 PM (3ek7K)

I'd definitely prefer having awesome sex but my wife only remembers i exist when she has sh*t work to be done so I only get to watch movies. Ah well.

Posted by: Nelly at May 29, 2026 06:26 PM (6+ehB)

325 I heartily recommend Nic Cage's Willy's Wonderland, an utterly unhinged take on Five Nights at Freddy's. I tell people--watch one trailer at most, don't look for the plot or reviews, go into it as cold as possible. It's glorious.

Released in 2021 in the middle of the pandemic to only 440 or so theaters nationwide, so almost nobody I've met has ever heard of it.

Posted by: Rick C at May 29, 2026 07:17 PM (1zWbY)

326 I loved "The Mouse that Roared". Of another time and place and I want to go back there.
Basque ready to tell the Greeks a thing or two, if anyone learns to translate them the Greeks are going to be big mad.
Haven't figured out the Black and White on Spider Noir. Half expect Bezos to rickroll us at this point.

Posted by: Manitoba and Gobi at May 29, 2026 07:52 PM (rQRDJ)

327 Hollywood hates you. We know that.

If Hollywood loved you, they would proudly give you a movie like “Duluth”.

A slightly alternate 1978 America, where Hank the Cat and his secret band of staunch anti-Communists protect their beloved Duluth, Nebraska from the Red Scourge.

Lots of glorious stock footage from the bygone America that has been taken away from us.

Family-friendly, because nothing is more friendly to the family than protecting them from Communists.

Click on the ‘Duluth’ poster at: www.laslofilms.com/american-international (takes you to the movie on ad-free Vimeo).

If Ace doesn’t love this movie then Talarico will have already won.

I am Laslo.

Posted by: I am Laslo at May 29, 2026 08:46 PM (uWVaY)

328 The "tell me a somewhat obscure or easily overlooked movie" answer for me is always "Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead".

Posted by: Dodd at May 29, 2026 10:35 PM (Bw4GH)

329 AntMan was getting beat by Cocaine Bearl

Posted by: MikeN at May 29, 2026 11:20 PM (841yG)

330 Without spoiling too much, you become a vampire through a ritual, not being turned. The way feeding is accomplished is interesting as well, a long fingernail is used to puncture the throat, then feeding.

It also has a world and rules that exist but are not fully explained, which I like. The people involved know the rules and act accordingly and the viewer can then put it together.

Posted by: alexthechick at May 29, 2026 04:28 PM (V14+

***

Many thanks.

Posted by: EFG at May 30, 2026 01:54 AM (iX+Zb)

The Soldier Who Was Mocked by Unemployed Nazi Gerald Platner Speaks

Let me ask veterans here: If you collect full 100% disability from the military, are you able to also work? Because Platner claims to be an "oyster farmer" but also receives full 100% "disability." It seems to me he's that either:

1, he can work, but is bilking the system, because he's another Bernie Sanders laybout who refuses to work and exists perpetually on welfare;

or,

2, he actually can't work, but pretends to be an "oyster farmer" because that sounds like he might actually do some rough-handed work and wants to hide the fact that he's a layabout like his hero Bernie Sanders.

Any ideas? How can he be both so incapable of labor that he's on 100% full disability while also being an "oyster farmer"?

Which is it-- is he a Workin' Man or a Welfare Case? It can't be both, can it?

Update:

Ace, I'm a disabled Vet,yes you can draw 100% and still work.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

I know lots of 100% disabled vets who work. Lots of them work for federal, state, and local governments.
Posted by: lin-duh

I guess "disability" here doesn't have the meaning one might assume it does.

Okay, I guess I should have figured he wouldn't commit benefits fraud right out in the open.

But I've also read he declares no income from his "job" as an "oyster farmer." I think it's his wife's business, and he does not declare income from it on his income tax forms.

Update: From commenters, I think I can guess how this works: You get a percentage "disability" from various wounds you take while in service. This number is not dependent on whether you are or are not actually disabled. It's just a tally of woundings, and you're paid a stipend for life based on that, and it's called "disability" but isn't what your average man on the street would call "disability."

Is that right?

Next item: You may remember that the Nazi Communist Gerald Platner mocked a US soldier who had been shot by a terrorist. Platner laughed about the shooting of an American soldier, critiqued the soldier's abilities, declared that he was incompetent, and said further that he "didn't deserve to live."

That soldier now reveals himself in the WSJ:

Steve Guest
@SteveGuest
1h
Army combat veteran and a Purple Heart recipient Teddy Daniels in the Wall Street Journal: I'm the Soldier Graham Platner Mocked
"Flannel shirt and all, Graham Platner is Tim Walz on steroids. An entitled brat who campaigns with socialist Bernie Sanders. A real man by the lights of the Democratic Party, he presents himself as "relatable" to working-class Americans, but in reality he's a typical elitist who believes blue-collar, hardworking, salt-of-the-earth rural Americans are stupid and racist. I couldn't care less about the comments he made about me, but they are a reflection of his character. I never thought I'd see the day when Democrats would even consider backing a candidate like this."
https://wsj.com/opinion/im-the

Democratic men are having an identity crisis. Maine's Graham Platner, the party's presumptive nominee for U.S. Senate, is a prime example. Mr. Platner presents himself as a savior for working-class Americans while his background screams the opposite and his offensive comments about fellow veterans--including me--speak poorly of his character.
The tough-talking Marine veteran struts around in a Carhartt jacket and jeans, but recent reporting relates that he comes from a prestigious family where he had access to an elite private-school education and a lifestyle of privilege. He also plays up his job as an "oyster farmer," but the only client mentioned in his federal financial disclosure was the restaurant his mother owns.
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Flannel shirt and all, Graham Platner is Tim Walz on steroids. An entitled brat who campaigns with socialist Bernie Sanders. A real man by the lights of the Democratic Party, he presents himself as "relatable" to working-class Americans, but in reality he's a typical elitist who believes blue-collar, hardworking, salt-of-the-earth rural Americans are stupid and racist. I couldn't care less about the comments he made about me, but they are a reflection of his character. I never thought I'd see the day when Democrats would even consider backing a candidate like this.

28 Don't forget, Platner also mocked Chris Kyle.
Posted by: Bulg

Oh I did forget that. He claimed Kyle was murdering civilians to pad his kill-count.

Update: Some say the scam isn't the disability -- it's the claim of being an "oyster farmer."

Oyster farming is not really "work," it is - as far as I can tell - either a hobby for eccentrics or a grift. I knew an oyster farmer and it seem you have to get a plot from the state - something like an allotment in UK, where you sign up and wait on a list and then pay a small fee, but then you contract out the actual, you know, farming - the digging and shit.
Posted by: bob

The Nazi Public Masturbator Who Is Sexually Aroused by the Smell of Male Feces has been attacking Susan Collins for sending him off to war. She voted for the Iraq War, he says, which resulted in this non-working Nazi being shipped off to fight in a war he never signed up for.

Of course, the Nazi Korprophiliac is lying. Collins did vote to authorize military action in Iraq, but Platner signed up for the military two years into the Iraq War, which means his claims of having been sent there against his will by Susan Collins are just more Nazi shit-aroused propaganda.

In new news, Collins points out that not only did he sign up knowing he'd be going straight to war, but additionally, he then signed up to be a mercenary in Blackwater after he was discharged by the US Military.

Now I'm using the word "mercenary" as the left uses it. I have never thought there was anything wrong with military men signing up to make a large salary doing what they had just been doing for Uncle Sam for a small salary. To me it's like giving up your amateur status in golf to accept a prize (which only declared pros can receive).

But that's the way the left sees it-- if you're a private military contractor, you're a "mercenary." And "screw them, I feel nothing," as Platner's no-doubt supporter DailyKos said of four murdered contractors.

This once again proves this Nazi feces-fanatic is lying about Collins "sending him to war." He was a private citizen with no further military obligations when he signed a private contract with a private military contracting firm. Did Susan Collins force this Nazi scum to take a signing bonus and nice salary?

Sen. Susan Collins: "Platner's Decision" To Go To War, "He Was Not Drafted"

"The anger I feel is for the people who sent me," Platner said. "We destroyed Iraq."

"He not only enlisted twice �after the war was started� but he also went to work for... Blackwater," Collins said. https://t.co/HWAQqvN8rJ pic.twitter.com/Yaz6dGgywf
— RealClearPolitics (@RCPolitics) May 28, 2026

Legal Phil
@Legal_Fil
9h
People really do not appreciate how insane it is that Platner went to work for Blackwater--which had to change its name because it was so reviled due to scandal--and now is trying to pass himself off as some poor kid who was sent off to war.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:23 PM

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1 Ha

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 29, 2026 02:24 PM (Za1vu)

2 This is the guy the Dems have chosen to be their standard bearer.

Keep that in mind.

They really, REALLY mean it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:24 PM (Kdi1r)

3 Ace, I'm a disabled Vet,yes you can draw 100% and still work.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 29, 2026 02:24 PM (iMotb)

4 Can you be 100% disabled and find Porta Potties to whack off in?

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 02:25 PM (Gqar8)

5 Oyster farming isn't even really a thing. He made up the term.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 29, 2026 02:25 PM (YZ0Fo)

6 I know lots of 100% disabled vets who work. Lots of them work for federal, state, and local governments.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (Za1vu)

7 Where' Lt. Dan in all of this?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (XV/Pl)

8 FURST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (jCuxY)

9 Or.....first.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (jCuxY)

10 Great article ace...

For a party that seems to get about 48% of the vote, the Dems seem to be having a ton of trouble connecting with real men, women, blacks, hispanics.....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (Sco7b)

11 >>>3 Ace, I'm a disabled Vet,yes you can draw 100% and still work.

Oh okay, thanks.

Posted by: Douglas Quaid at Rekall at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (1wjle)

12 I hate typing on screens.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (jCuxY)

13 I don't even know what "layabout" even means. HA HAAA!

Posted by: Tucker layabout Carlson at May 29, 2026 02:27 PM (3uBP9)

14 Wow.

Why are Dermocrats all such vile scumbags?

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:27 PM (77rzZ)

15 I suspect that the oyster farm is a political put-on. Not to discount the possibility that it is also a scam since I read that his only "customer" is his mother's restaurant.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 02:27 PM (vTZFs)

16 Deserves a carryover.

The View remains, if you can believe it, dumber than mud that's been fucked by retards.

Oh shit that's funny. Don't care who ya are.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:27 PM (jCuxY)

17 I bested sponge for first😜

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 29, 2026 02:27 PM (Za1vu)

18 Willowed:
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Obama doesn't like Joey. Obama doesn't like the Clintons. Obama doesn't like Trump. Obama doesn't like anyone. He tolerates people giving him tongue baths because they are useful idiots. Obama only like himself
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 02:21 PM (SW0z7)
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That actually fits in brilliantly with former Hollywood Dem, Burt Prelustky's observation:

Liberals really don't like each other. Their social cohesion is based on commonality of politics. Which is why when you break with their politics, there is no etiquette they are required to observe.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:28 PM (Fi81e)

19 I figured "oyster farmer" was a metaphor for something else. Probably gay.
Pearls..pearl necklace...farming...gay.

Posted by: 29Victor at May 29, 2026 02:28 PM (0MjtC)

20 Platner sounds like a Blue Falcon, a Buddy F**ker.

I wonder what his fellow servicemembers thought at the time he was over in Iraq.

Also, remember John F'ing Kerry and the Swiftboat Veterans. The latter didn't have many good things to say about Kerry, and the media went after them instead of their darling presidential contender who was "Reporting For Duty!"

Posted by: Another Anon at May 29, 2026 02:28 PM (4h45B)

21 Hocks loogies for profit?

Posted by: connected and litigious at May 29, 2026 02:29 PM (cS1cw)

22 One question I have, and I hope it's not taken as trolly or annoying.
I assume Putzkommandant Platner wasn't 100% disabled when he switched over to XE-formerly-Blackwater. I don't know what they hire over there but I assume it's people who know how to fuck shit up and can still do that. Which is a lot of assumptions but let's roll with it.
If you aren't disabled going into XE but you get hurt doing work for XE (alongside Uncle Sam): does that count toward your disability rating with the VA?

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 02:29 PM (gKWVE)

23 suspect that the oyster farm is a political put-on. Not to discount the possibility that it is also a scam since I read that his only "customer" is his mother's restaurant.
Posted by: Oddbob

His "business" loses money. He's a silver spoon socialist through and through. He's father was very involved in big time Maine politics.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 29, 2026 02:29 PM (YZ0Fo)

24 Platner is not a very clever liar, is he?

I have never been in the military, but based on my research that included watching the terminal list, it seems to be the case that at least some soldiers do receive higher pay for combat or special ops. According to what I heard without trying to raise my corpoulent body from the recliner is that the special ops guys all drove land cruisers and wore rolexes. And good for them!

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 02:29 PM (m5VHW)

25 >>>The View remains, if you can believe it, dumber than mud that's been fucked by retards.
Oh shit that's funny. Don't care who ya are.

I stole that from Ethan Van Sciver, a former DC comics artist now an independent due to cancellation, who got it from Warren Ellis, who was also cancelled for liking big-titty goth girls (who doesn't) who claimed that he would woo them and have sex with them but then not make them his wife. These adult women claimed they were being "Groomed."

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:29 PM (1wjle)

26 I don't know how honest his claims are but I'm assuming he's getting 100% veteran's disability which isn't like Social Security disability as I understand it.

I believe veteran's disability has a max rate and various issues you have related to service can add up to your max rate.

Posted by: Austin in TC at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (l00bX)

27 Democrats will say absolutely anything they need to say in order to win. Any inconsistencies in what they say will be covered up by the official press and anyway do not exist until Republicans pounce on them. Logic is a tool of the white patriarchy.

Posted by: PG at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (1aX52)

28 Don't forget, Platner also mocked Chris Kyle.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (77rzZ)

29 Like a lot of classifications that come with benefits, disability attracts a lot of fraud.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (Y6K7e)

30 >>> suspect that the oyster farm is a political put-on. Not to discount the possibility that it is also a scam since I read that his only "customer" is his mother's restaurant.

Huh!

Workin' Man!

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (1wjle)

31 Grant Planter IS: TMI.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (Fi81e)

32 The Nazi Public Masturbator Who Is Sexually Aroused by the Smell of Male Feces

That's some cruelty gold, Ace.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (Kt19C)

33 I know lots of 100% disabled vets who work. Lots of them work for federal, state, and local governments.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (Za1vu)

Are they doing desk jobs or physical labor? I suspect that's what Ace really is trying to ask. Oyster farming seems likely to require physical labor, but I'm from Colorado so it's not like I'd know for sure.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (lFFaq)

34 I'm 100% a quadriplegic of the mind.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:31 PM (7RBt4)

35 Platner is in IC (oh shadow IC I guess) asset plainly

are they getting off on putting up asshats like this, just laughing away? or is their bench just that short?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:31 PM (j+aD2)

36 And yeah, throwing Teddy Daniels under that bus was purest Norwegian Blue energy. I'm past done listening to Platner sqawk

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 02:31 PM (gKWVE)

37 their darling presidential contender who was "Reporting For Duty!"
Posted by: Another Anon

"John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam"

I miss Rush

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (77rzZ)

38 Democrats and leftists in general are juat miserable assholes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (jCuxY)

39 oh crap i coulda been first. damn bladder

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (CWTWj)

40 >>> I figured "oyster farmer" was a metaphor for something else. Probably gay.
Pearls..pearl necklace...farming...gay.

this makes sense to me.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (1wjle)

41 Don't forget, Platner also mocked Chris Kyle.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (77rzZ)

No.

Platner called Kyle a murderer and stated directly that Kyle deliberately targeted and killed civilians.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (Kdi1r)

42 Chris Kyle wasn't man enough to get it up for the smell of male excrement.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (Fi81e)

43 oyster farmer is another part of the joke

these people have a very odd sense of humor

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (j+aD2)

44 Oyster farming seems likely to require physical labor, but I'm from Colorado so it's not like I'd know for sure.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

Harvesting Rocky Mountain oysters is demanding and dangerous physical labor.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (77rzZ)

45 These adult women claimed they were being "Groomed."

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:29 PM (1wjle)

I would like to be groomed by Sydney Sweeney.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (iERP6)

46 43 oyster farmer is another part of the joke

these people have a very odd sense of humor

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (j+aD2)

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I remember reading that Platner's mother is the only customer of the oyster farm.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (7RBt4)

47 >>>28 Don't forget, Platner also mocked Chris Kyle.
iOh I did forget that. He claimed Kyle was murdering civilians to pad his kill-count.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (1wjle)

48 I figured "oyster farmer" was a metaphor for something else. Probably gay.
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Oysters are definitely vaginal, though.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (Fi81e)

49 I bested sponge for first😜
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 29, 2026 02:27 PM (Za1vu)

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I yield the spot, for now. Posting from my phone at 34,000 ft kinda sucks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (jCuxY)

50 Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 02:29 PM (gKWVE)

This seems like a good question. Are we paying for injuries he received while not in the military?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (lFFaq)

51 I was giving Platner a slight pass over Chris Kyle because there does exist a subculture of vets who grumble that Kyle got a movie and they didn't. Since both sides are vets and I'm not, I'm unqualified to judge that position.
Platner's take on Daniels on the other hand was clear b.f.'ing. Nobody has to be a vet to see that.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (gKWVE)

52 Platner called Kyle a murderer and stated directly that Kyle deliberately targeted and killed civilians.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (Kdi1r)

Based on zero evidence.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (iERP6)

53 I'm 0%. I didn't know they did that until they did it to me.
I have a service connected disability that get's me no money.
That's okay. I don't need their "care" nor thier money.

Posted by: Reforger at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (Rxz7v)

54 ... it also shows a pattern of behavior.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (gKWVE)

55 52 Platner called Kyle a murderer and stated directly that Kyle deliberately targeted and killed civilians.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (Kdi1r)

Based on zero evidence.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (iERP6)

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Just like the efficacy of socialism!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (7RBt4)

56 35 > are they getting off on putting up asshats like this, just laughing away? or is their bench just that short?

Their bench must be short enough if they're recruiting tattoo carrying nazis.

Posted by: Gaff at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (EqzMw)

57 No.

Platner called Kyle a murderer and stated directly that Kyle deliberately targeted and killed civilians.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider

OK, thanks. I knew he was somehow saying that Kyle deserved what he got, and took it as mockery.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:35 PM (77rzZ)

58 The Nazi Public Masturbator Who Is Sexually Aroused by the Smell of Male Feces ...

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"You're gonna need to be A LOT MOAR specific."

/Cucker Qatarlson

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 02:35 PM (BGLxh)

59 Oyster farming.

Shoving your meat in a man's fartclam.

Fartoyster.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:35 PM (jCuxY)

60 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (jCuxY)

I hope this is not a continuation of the awful flight you were talking about yesterday with the plane change and delays.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 02:35 PM (Nx5jP)

61 What's the common bond here?

Oh, yeah. Nazis like socialism, too.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (Fi81e)

62 Graham Platner Is Forcing Centrist Dems to Reckon With “Vote Blue No Matter Who." Rep. Jake Auchincloss urging Democrats to vote against the presumptive Maine Senate nominee exposes the limits of party unity.

Susan Collins will 100% fuck Democrats over every time. She will never be a tie-breaker, or “reach across the aisle” unless she’s the designated Republican. Even if he's a Democrat spoiler, like Fetterman or Sinema, you might get a vote with Democrats occasionally.

Bring RCV to all elections. Newsom just vetoed a bill to allow jurisdictions in California to adopt Ranked Choice Voting.

What a shit headline designed to cause dissension. Obviously he’s the person to vote for. His opponent has garbage policies that hurt people. Never mind that she’s also older, thus less likely to be affected by her bad policies and she’s clearly out of touch with her constituents

Ah yes, more articles trying stoke the divide in Democratic voters. Can tell we're getting close to election season. Far left, center leaning, either Democrat should get your vote against MAGA. Anything less is enabling fascism.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (JCZqz)

63 I was giving Platner a slight pass over Chris Kyle because there does exist a subculture of vets who grumble that Kyle got a movie and they didn't.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (gKWVE)

The vets grumbling that they didn't get a movie aren't calling Kyle a deliberate killer of civilians like Platner is, though.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (Kdi1r)

64 If you aren't disabled going into XE but you get hurt doing work for XE (alongside Uncle Sam): does that count toward your disability rating with the VA?
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 02:29 PM (gKWVE)

No.

Dude is a serial liar.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (DwqWV)

65 Someone on the morning doomscroll made an observation. Democrats spent the last few years calling everyone on the right a Nazi. Now, they are running literal Nazis. Platner, the guy in New Jersey who joined Al Qaeda, the woman in Texas who wants to out Jews in camps. It's like they were desensitizing the public while preparing to run actual fascists.

Lately, they have started to call everyone on the right a pedophile. And they are running a guy in California who decriminalized gay pedophilia and blocked a bill making child sex trafficking a felony.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (gb7Bj)

66 35 Platner is in IC (oh shadow IC I guess) asset plainly

are they getting off on putting up asshats like this, just laughing away? or is their bench just that short?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:31 PM (j+aD2)

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The establishment really, REALLY didn't want him. That's why Schumer recruited Janet Mills to run against him.

It's just that the Democrat base desire authentic middle-class appeal so much that they run towards anyone who can put on a flannel shirt and with a beard who says the same things that the progressive base already wants.

They want their Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (7RBt4)

67 My cousin Congress critter Pat Ryan tweeted out an attack on Collins. He's a West Pointer who did two tours in Iraq. He's a politician in a hurry and has taken to cursing to prove his points

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (SW0z7)

68 I yield the spot, for now. Posting from my phone at 34,000 ft kinda sucks.
Posted by: Sponge

You aren't in NJ yet? Did the flight go by way of Skagway, Alaska.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:37 PM (77rzZ)

69 62 Susan Collins will 100% fuck Democrats over every time. She will never be a tie-breaker, or “reach across the aisle” unless she’s the designated Republican. Even if he's a Democrat spoiler, like Fetterman or Sinema, you might get a vote with Democrats occasionally.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (JCZqz)

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Oh, look, I agree with Reddit.

Collins comes through whenever leadership actually needs her. She voted for Kavanaugh, for instance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:37 PM (7RBt4)

70 >>>It's just that the Democrat base desire authentic middle-class appeal so much that they run towards anyone who can put on a flannel shirt and with a beard who says the same things that the progressive base already wants.

yeah but someone pushed this guy to the press. He got write ups in major media before he'd ever announced.

I think he's a Soros Special.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (1wjle)

71 remember, platner got the nomination from maine's female gov. dems up there are cookoo

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (CWTWj)

72 This guy so dirty, and not just from jagging off at truck rest stops!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (GD0B3)

73 Wow.

Why are Dermocrats all such vile scumbags?
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:27 PM (77rzZ)
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I'm pretty sure it is a requirement to join the party.

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (XB1Qt)

74 Not cousin, but I did work with Ryan's family

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (SW0z7)

75 The establishment really, REALLY didn't want him. That's why Schumer recruited Janet Mills to run against him.

come on if that's true Janet would have stayed in

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (j+aD2)

76 I hope this is not a continuation of the awful flight you were talking about yesterday with the plane change and delays.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 02:35 PM (Nx5jP

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No ma'am. That was Wednesday. I'm on my way home now. No delays thus far.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (jCuxY)

77 1. Oyster farming is not really "work," it is - as far as I can tell - either a hobby for eccentrics or a grift. I knew an oyster farmer and it seem you have to get a plot from the state - something like an allotment in UK, where you sign up and wait on a list and then pay a small fee, but then you contract out the actual, you know, farming - the digging and shit.

2. It is worse than you think - you can be 100% disabled, and still work. Because Why the fuck not, we just print up the shit so lets hand it out to anyone for any excuse we can think up. All due regards to vets, but disability is a scam and you all know it. It demeans those who were really injured to hand it out to people who have all the normal diseases and problems that every human gets from living and aging.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (nEyOj)

78 Let me ask veterans here: If you collect full 100% disability from the military, are you able to also work?

Able? Or willing?
I know several vets who are 100% disabled and they do not work. Two have brain cancer and one can barely walk. Another has a sit down, keyboard job.
That said, I know many vets who are disabled (myself included) who have ratings from 10% up to 90% who are able to hold down a job and are happy to do so. What they receive from the VA is separate from anything an employer would pay them, or what they might earn if running their own business. VA entitlements are something earned as a part of the service commitment. If injured in the line of duty, the government recognizes that and will support the veteran.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (2WIwB)

79 Far left, center leaning, either Democrat should get your vote against MAGA. Anything less is enabling fascism.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (JCZqz)

Quick question: What fascism are they complaining about? What actual actions have been taken that took away anyone's "rights?" Has Trump seized the means of production? Does he routinely take away private property? Has he rounded up and shot any dissidents?

Can any of these asshats bring actual facts to any of their arguments, or are they just monkeys flinging poo?

Okay, that was more than one question.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 02:39 PM (DwqWV)

80 You may not be able to hump that pack or swing that 100 pound shell like you need to in the army and still work a desk or light duty shop.

In the American Civil War when manpower needs were severe the north re-signed up wounded vets and some missing limbs to rear area duties, guarding posts who could not stand front line service, but did good work guarding blockhouses and guard duty in rear areas. One unit of 'volunteer vets' drove off some Confed raiders who attacked their post.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 02:39 PM (8avO+)

81 Don't forget, Platner also mocked Chris Kyle.

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Maybe Kyle's fellow sniper buddies can return the favor.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 02:39 PM (BGLxh)

82 Good. Prayers for your safety and all on the plane , birthday brother.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 02:39 PM (Nx5jP)

83
Everything is about money.

The aholes running for office don't give a shit about our country.

It's all about how much taxpayer money they can steal.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 02:39 PM (3ek7K)

84 come on if that's true Janet would have stayed in

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (j+aD2)

I don't agree. The major money on the left wouldn't prop her up. Schumer KNOWS Platner's a loser which is why he didn't want him. But the major money on the left hates him, too, for reopening the government.

The donors are radical leftists now. All of them. There's nothing Mills could have done about that.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:39 PM (Kdi1r)

85 yeah but someone pushed this guy to the press. He got write ups in major media before he'd ever announced.

I think he's a Soros Special.

right I think there are two sets politically on the Left as there is on the Right

the Revolution (backed by Soros who wants to sweep up when the USA collapses) and the Old Guard Libs (like Schumer, just want their grift to keep going).

this guy is a set up for sure.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:40 PM (j+aD2)

86 Based on research consisting of reading the old man and the boy by Robert Ruark, I didn't think it took much farming to grow oysters.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 02:40 PM (m5VHW)

87 You aren't in NJ yet? Did the flight go by way of Skagway, Alaska.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:37 PM (77rzZ)

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I made it to the hotel Wednesday night, 5 hours late.

Heading home now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:40 PM (jCuxY)

88 Can any of these asshats bring actual facts to any of their arguments, or are they just monkeys flinging poo?

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"ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME IS A FASCIST, FASCIST! Q.E.D.!"

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 02:40 PM (BGLxh)

89 Lately, they have started to call everyone on the right a pedophile. And they are running a guy in California who decriminalized gay pedophilia and blocked a bill making child sex trafficking a felony.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (gb7Bj)

Whenever they start calling their enemies a real word, as opposed to islamophobic and other made-up slurs, you can pretty well bet it's because they are training people to ignore the word so they can freely behave in the way they really have wanted to behave all along.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (lFFaq)

90 I yield the spot, for now. Posting from my phone at 34,000 ft kinda sucks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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Excuses, excuses 🎻🎻

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (VCgbV)

91 In the American Civil War when manpower needs were severe the north re-signed up wounded vets and some missing limbs to rear area duties, guarding posts who could not stand front line service, but did good work guarding blockhouses and guard duty in rear areas. One unit of 'volunteer vets' drove off some Confed raiders who attacked their post.
Posted by: Oldcat

Phil Kearney died leading troops at my local battle of Chantilly -- with one arm.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (77rzZ)

92 37 their darling presidential contender who was "Reporting For Duty!"
Posted by: Another Anon

"John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam"

I miss Rush
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (77rzZ)
___________________________

My dad was a mailman!!!! I SAID, MY DAD WAS A MAILMAN!!!!

Posted by: John Kasich at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (dIske)

93 Oyster farming is indeed a real thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (viF8m)

94 The donors are radical leftists now. All of them. There's nothing Mills could have done about that.

how tho?

not American radicals surely. they don't have any money, or not much.

foreigns I guess? a little cabal led by Soros Inc?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (j+aD2)

95 This is Maine. Much like Alaska, it has devolved into a 3rd world socialist sh—hole where stupidity and corruption are resume enhancements. Major industries are welfare fraud and meth cooking.

John Galt don’t live there.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at May 29, 2026 02:42 PM (OJ3CE)

96 I aksked the internets about employment:

"Employment Options for 100% Disabled Veterans
Schedular 100% Disability Rating
Veterans with a 100% schedular disability rating can work full-time without any impact on their VA benefits. This rating indicates that the veteran's service-connected disabilities are severe enough to warrant full compensation, but it does not restrict their ability to earn income.

Total Disability Individual Unemployability (TDIU)
In contrast, veterans rated under Total Disability Individual Unemployability (TDIU) face different rules. TDIU is designed for veterans who cannot maintain substantially gainful employment due to their service-connected disabilities, even if their combined rating is less than 100%. Engaging in full-time work while receiving TDIU benefits could jeopardize their compensation."

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 02:42 PM (GD0B3)

97 All due regards to vets, but disability is a scam and you all know it. It demeans those who were really injured to hand it out to people who have all the normal diseases and problems that every human gets from living and aging.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (nEyOj)

I know enough disabled vets to say that your comment here is really quite obnoxious. You may or may not see a disability, but when it exists, the person who was injured surely knows it changes his or her life. You are treating compensation for disability like it was winning a lottery. I can assure you, the folks who qualify for disability do so because they volunteered to protect you and yours.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 02:42 PM (DwqWV)

98 I told you Jill Biden was made a public sacrifice. I walked past the living room TV with Fox on and Jon Favreau of all people, is on making his disgust of the Biden deception known on some podcast clip.

This is a total (bad) attempt at a clean-up job. But it may yet work with Dem brand voters.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:42 PM (Fi81e)

99 75 The establishment really, REALLY didn't want him. That's why Schumer recruited Janet Mills to run against him.

come on if that's true Janet would have stayed in

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (j+aD2)

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If it's true, then Schumer would have sent her money to run.

Which he did.

https://shorturl.at/X8lOI
"Union leaders in recent days have urged Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to end their support for Gov. Janet Mills in Maine’s Senate primary, pointing to what they see as her weaker record with labor."

https://shorturl.at/AWSsp
"A new memo from the DSCC claims that “Democrats have created multiple paths to flip the majority in 2026.” Democrats believe they’ve recruited their best possible candidate in multiple states: ...former Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, Gov. Janet Mills in Maine"

https://tinyurl.com/4w9su8y3
"Mills received $2.7 million after launching her campaign two weeks into the reporting period in October." That 2.7 was all from Schumer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:43 PM (7RBt4)

100 I chose not to file for anything because I was good and ready to get out as fast as I could. After seeing the country being robbed by democrats through lightbulb heads...it makes me want to not be a chump and get my slice of sweet sweet taxpayer dollars.

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 29, 2026 02:43 PM (nCTkv)

101
tcn,

You are correct.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 02:43 PM (3ek7K)

102 In Texas being 100% military disabled means you pay no property taxes on your primary residence. And the Hazelwood act which pays college tuition in state up to a certain amount for you or your dependents. That's huge, or can be. I don't begrudge them that though.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 29, 2026 02:43 PM (VCgbV)

103 Oyster farming is indeed a real thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (viF8m)
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Is it like a sex farm?

Posted by: Nigel at May 29, 2026 02:43 PM (Fi81e)

104 Excuses, excuses 🎻🎻
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (VCgbV)

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Touche

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:44 PM (jCuxY)

105 Like Biden , Platner was always a scumbag psychopath. It wasn't sudden onset.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 02:44 PM (XMuV+)

106 The donors are radical leftists now. All of them. There's nothing Mills could have done about that.

how tho?

not American radicals surely. they don't have any money, or not much.

foreigns I guess? a little cabal led by Soros Inc?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (j+aD2)

I don't know if I agree with that either - the radical left has all the billionaires not named Musk. The richest 10 Congressional districts are represented 100% by leftists. They're the monied party now.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:44 PM (Kdi1r)

107 I know lots of 100% disabled vets who work. Lots of them work for federal, state, and local governments.
Posted by: lin-duh

Yeah. I am a vet working for the VA and have co-workers who are also vets who get disability. One co-worker and friend has chronic back pain from all of the jumps he made as an Army medic in combat. He's had multiple surgeries, therapies, etc. but he will have this for the rest of his life and only 52. He can work but there are days he can't get out of bed. There are other co-workers who get disability at a certain percentage who are milking the system. They got a doctor to sign off on a small complaint writ larger but weightlift, hike, mountain bike, etc. and are perfectly fine but get that check every month.

Posted by: Cheri at May 29, 2026 02:44 PM (oiNtH)

108 Posted by: Paul at May 29, 2026 02:44 PM (59BGO)

Plater is a peverted degenerate just like you.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 02:45 PM (XMuV+)

109 Kinda sorta vaguely related but not really...

I just got my 4K disc of Penkinpah's "Cross of Iron".

Probably watch it tonight.

Found it at a good price so went for it.

I remember it being a pretty good movie.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 02:46 PM (iJfKG)

110 >>>Ace was prime age to enlist.

um, bless you for thinking that.

Say Paul, tell us about your adventures in the military.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:46 PM (1wjle)

111 Can any of these asshats bring actual facts to any of their arguments, or are they just monkeys flinging poo?

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If any of them could argue, they wouldn't need the Demedia machine. The Demedia machine works to gain power without competency.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:46 PM (Fi81e)

112 Based on research consisting of reading the old man and the boy by Robert Ruark, I didn't think it took much farming to grow oysters.
Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 02:40 PM (m5VHW)

Put out a frame for the eggs/babies to attach to, wait a while to let them grow, then pull it out of the water and detach a mess of oysters, then put it back in. Some light hauling and frame making, not strenuous if you only are moving a small amount each day.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 02:46 PM (8avO+)

113 108 Posted by: Paul at May 29, 2026 02:44 PM (59BGO)

Plater is a peverted degenerate just like you.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 02:45 PM (XMuV+)

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Platner is a national socialist who hates Jews, which makes him not a socialist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:46 PM (7RBt4)

114 When I was still unemployed, my neighbor talked me into going down to the local VA office to see what I could get. I have diabetes, which is considered a disability. But it's not service-related, so the VA guys told me that they couldn't help me. Which is fine, I have no problem with that. But it was worth the try.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:46 PM (77rzZ)

115 Plenty of vets game the disability system...then they end up on Caleb Hammer's show.

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (nCTkv)

116 Posted by: Paul at May 29, 2026 02:44 PM (59BGO

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You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (jCuxY)

117 gee Paul turns out to be a Nazi-Super-Fan because his Cult told him that Nazis are cool now

what a non-surprise.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (1wjle)

118 95 This is Maine. Much like Alaska, it has devolved into a 3rd world socialist sh—hole where stupidity and corruption are resume enhancements. Major industries are welfare fraud and meth cooking.

John Galt don’t live there.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at May 29, 2026 02:42 PM (OJ3CE)

John Galt might not live here, but I do. Is this just the day for everyone to crap on everyone else? Alaska is not socialist, nor a shithole. Anchorage has the same stupid problems most urban areas have, but Anchorage is not Alaska, and the rest of us who are sane and self supporting would prefer you types stay in Anchorage where you belong.

And for the record, our economic drivers are oil, forestry, fishing, mining and tourism.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (DwqWV)

119 Lying and killing for money is a democrat resume enhancer if yo are a democrap NAZi shit house masturbator.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (xvV+O)

120 Posted by: Paul at May 29, 2026 02:44 PM

WTF are you talking about? Please tell me about your military experience and try to type in the English language scumbag.

I would love to see Platner speak before his local VFW group

Posted by: Cheri at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (oiNtH)

121 I could probably learn some unpleasant things by looking into the big money supporting the Rs. Those things would likely make it obvious why we are not allowed to have nice things, such as the SAVE Act.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (m5VHW)

122 Paul, do you agree we should Punch Nazis, if we encounter them in real life? Like on a campaign trail in Maine?

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (1wjle)

123 Look at me! Look at me!

I am the American people now!

Posted by: Somali Refugees at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (Fi81e)

124 122 Paul, do you agree we should Punch Nazis, if we encounter them in real life? Like on a campaign trail in Maine?

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (1wjle)

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"He said he was sorry for getting the Nazi tattoo. That's so much better than Trump not admitting he's a Nazi for doing Nazi things like protecting Jews in Israel or deporting immigrants to countries with socialized healthcare where they can be free of racism in America."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:48 PM (7RBt4)

125 "oyster farmer" ...

Is that like a Cleveland Steamer?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 02:48 PM (iFTx/)

126 Hi guys,
I can assure you that Oyster Farming is a real thing, and very lucrative...if you have a good dry cleaner who doesn't over-charge.
Yours Truly,
Hawk Tuah Girl

Posted by: Hawk Tuah Girl at May 29, 2026 02:48 PM (dIske)

127 Oyster farming is indeed a real thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (viF8m)

It's why you can find safe year-round oysters now.

Also, a lot of different breeds(?) available that weren't before.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 02:48 PM (iJfKG)

128 Paul is an oyster farmer as defined by me up thread.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (jCuxY)

129 This has been gnawing at me recently and I apologize if someone has mentioned it before.

Apparently white QB Jaxon Dart of the NY Giants introduced Trump at some rally and video of the intro made it to social media, causing Abdul Carter -- the giants third-round pick in the 2025 draft and an overrated clown who is easily pushed off the line and controlled by O linemen -- to respond "Hey what the fuck we doing? I thought this shit was AI."

So Dart now has to explain himself to that clown and to the idiot media. The idiot media jumped in by "writing" scolding editorials about how incidents like Dart's "obvious political statement" should be strictly banned from the league.

The NFL, and all their black nationalist bullshit, who demand their own national anthem and the right to lecture their white customers on how they can be better, along with the jock-sniffing NYC media idiots who demand "Pride Nights" at Ranger games, they are just shocked... shocked... at this blatant political agitprop from Dart.

Fuck the NFL. (I grew up and NFL fanatic with Oakland Raiders posters on my bedroom wall. I never thought in a million years I'd say that.)

Posted by: front toward enemy at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (TIizU)

130
Would you want our taxpayer money going to people who honorably served our Country or to the filthy scum who are pussies who are cowards?

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (3ek7K)

131 tcn,

You are correct.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 02:43 PM (3ek7K)

Spot on!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (2WIwB)

132 "ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME IS A FASCIST, FASCIST! Q.E.D.!"
Posted by: ShainS

Except the guy running as a Democrat for congress who has a literal Nazi tattoo. That was just a silly mistake in his youth, and he's cool now.

Posted by: Deranged Leftist Apologist at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (JCZqz)

133 Paul is a Boyster Farmer.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (1wjle)

134 Who is gayer? Oyster Nazi or Talafreako?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (iFTx/)

135 >>Put out a frame for the eggs/babies to attach to, wait a while to let them grow, then pull it out of the water and detach a mess of oysters, then put it back in. Some light hauling and frame making, not strenuous if you only are moving a small amount each day.

Pretty much like any crop.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 02:50 PM (viF8m)

136 Paul is an oyster farmer as defined by me up thread.

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hahahah!!

xhe never worked a day in his life!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 02:50 PM (GD0B3)

137 >>>Apparently white QB Jaxon Dart of the NY Giants introduced Trump at some rally and video of the intro made it to social media, causing Abdul Carter -- the giants third-round pick in the 2025 draft and an overrated clown who is easily pushed off the line and controlled by O linemen -- to respond "Hey what the fuck we doing? I thought this shit was AI."

so much angry feminine energy from the "men" of the left

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:50 PM (1wjle)

138 I still think Talarico is Nick Fuentes wearing a wig.

Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 02:50 PM (dIske)

139 Paul has supplied much protein for the Blue Oyster Bar, so, there's that.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 02:51 PM (gKWVE)

140 "He said he was sorry for getting the Nazi tattoo. That's so much better than Trump not admitting he's a Nazi for doing Nazi things like protecting Jews in Israel or deporting immigrants to countries with socialized healthcare where they can be free of racism in America."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:48 PM (7RBt4)

Then why hasn't he covered up his Nazi tattoo?

Just asking...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:51 PM (Kdi1r)

141 5 Oyster farming isn't even really a thing. He made up the term.
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 29, 2026 02:25 PM (YZ0Fo)

I'd be afraid to look up oyster farming in the urban dictionary.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 29, 2026 02:51 PM (7apRy)

142 140 Then why hasn't he covered up his Nazi tattoo?

Just asking...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:51 PM (Kdi1r)

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Listen, man, if you can't realize that saying sorry about the Nazi tattoo once and then talking about how much he hates Jews doesn't absolve him of being a Nazi, then I don't know what to tell you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:51 PM (7RBt4)

143 "I never thought I'd see the day when Democrats would even consider backing a candidate like this."

Somebody hasn'tbeen paying attention to the types of people the Democrats have been nominating since the 1830's.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2026 02:51 PM (PMi3m)

144 Except the guy running as a Democrat for congress who has a literal Nazi tattoo. That was just a silly mistake in his youth, and he's cool now.

Posted by: Deranged Leftist Apologist at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (JCZqz)
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THE PARTIES SWITCHED!!!....

(Because that's what parties do...)

Posted by: Somali Refugees at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (Fi81e)

145 I think Abdul Carter was a bit higher than a third round pick.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (m5VHW)

146 Based on research consisting of reading the old man and the boy by Robert Ruark, I didn't think it took much farming to grow oysters.
Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 02:40 PM (m5VHW)

Put out a frame for the eggs/babies to attach to, wait a while to let them grow, then pull it out of the water and detach a mess of oysters, then put it back in. Some light hauling and frame making, not strenuous if you only are moving a small amount each day.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 02:46 PM (8avO+)

I don't know.

Watching the oyster farmers at work in Hiroshima Bay, I got the idea that it wasn't an easy life.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (iJfKG)

147 Paul let's his mom pound him in the fartoyster.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (jCuxY)

148
Who is gayer? Oyster Nazi or Talafreako?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (iFTx/)

"Oyster farming" will be the new euphemism for cruising for teen boys.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (HdYcL)

149 Someone who forms a 'corporation' that is hired to perform combat duties for a state is the textbook definition of a mercenary. It isn't necessarily pejorative, although historically they often have a bad reputation because if the money runs out for their bosses, they have the whip hand and have done what they like.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (8avO+)

150 Listen, man, if you can't realize that saying sorry about the Nazi tattoo once and then talking about how much he hates Jews doesn't absolve him of being a Nazi, then I don't know what to tell you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:51 PM (7RBt4)

This seems reasonable, and I have completely changed my previous position.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (Kdi1r)

151 Oyster farming is a real job. Here in the Pacific Northwest, there are lots of oyster farms. Local restaurants charge top dollar for them, Willapa Bay, Penn Cove, Lummi Island, etc. Farmers have to fight off those cute otters from stealing their harvests.

Still, Platner is a retarded douche canoe.

Posted by: fly gal at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (+8HoB)

152 I don't know how many NFL players were vocal supporters of Kamala but there were a lot.

The Left have absolutely no self awareness.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 02:53 PM (XMuV+)

153 Watching the oyster farmers at work in Hiroshima Bay, I got the idea that it wasn't an easy life.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (iJfKG)

They are likely moving a lot more product.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 02:53 PM (8avO+)

154 Oyster farming sounds like muffler grease or mopping up prop wash.

Hey recruit.. Yeah you! I need you to take that oyster hook, the one that looks exactly like an anchor, yeah that one, and throw it overboard, we goin oyster farming.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 02:53 PM (3uBP9)

155 I think Abdul Carter was a bit higher than a third round pick.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (m5VHW)

Third OVERALL.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (Kdi1r)

156 Watching the oyster farmers at work in Hiroshima Bay, I got the idea that it wasn't an easy life.
Posted by: naturalfake

Well, huge, nuclear-mutated oysters are another matter...

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (77rzZ)

157 >>>Except the guy running as a Democrat for congress who has a literal Nazi tattoo. That was just a silly mistake in his youth, and he's cool now.

Posted by: Deranged Leftist Apologist

the New Hotness is to claim he got an "accidental" tattoo. Muslim propagandist Zaid Jilani pushed this claim of "accidentally" getting a Nazi SS Tottenkopf tattoo.

Muslims have historically made "accidental" pacts with Hitler, so I get his confusion.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (1wjle)

158 "He said he was sorry for getting the Nazi tattoo. That's so much better than Trump not admitting he's a Nazi for doing Nazi things like protecting Jews in Israel or deporting immigrants to countries with socialized healthcare where they can be free of racism in America."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:48 PM (7RBt4)
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Trump's a Nazi for ... being a puppet for Israel!

Posted by: People Who Don't Get Consistency at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (Fi81e)

159 I'm a clam rancher.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (3uBP9)

160 As an aside, Oysters are pretty much the only seafood I will not eat.

That, and eel.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (0aYVJ)

161 >>> Farmers have to fight off those cute otters from stealing their harvests.

monsters!

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (1wjle)

162 Yes, I would be allowed to work, but my problems don't allow me to, so the threw SSDI at me too.

No3w I barely leave the house, because, well, people.

Posted by: SGT Mortis von Gobbleshanks at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (D4Jc5)

163 158 "He said he was sorry for getting the Nazi tattoo. That's so much better than Trump not admitting he's a Nazi for doing Nazi things like protecting Jews in Israel or deporting immigrants to countries with socialized healthcare where they can be free of racism in America."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:48 PM (7RBt4)
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Trump's a Nazi for ... being a puppet for Israel!

Posted by: People Who Don't Get Consistency at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (Fi81e)

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"Well, Zionists are the new Nazis because Zionists do genocide of Palestinians worse than what Jews got in the Holocaust (which didn't happen). So, yeah, backing Israel does make you Nazi."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (7RBt4)

164 >>>I'm a clam rancher.

I used to be. Sigh.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (1wjle)

165 Oyster farming isn't even really a thing. He made up the term.
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 29, 2026 02:25 PM (YZ0Fo)

Do you know how few oysters even survive branding time?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (+5YP2)

166 I liked to hunt for the elusive bearded clam back in the day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (jCuxY)

167 115 Plenty of vets game the disability system...then they end up on Caleb Hammer's show.
Posted by: Cray Cray at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (nCTkv)

And plenty who deserve it get rejected...

Almost like any other government service - delivered badly and with little rhyme or reason.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (tOcjL)

168 >>It's why you can find safe year-round oysters now.

>>Also, a lot of different breeds(?) available that weren't before.

Guy who lives in my neighborhood is an oyster farmer and a lobsterman. There are something like 75 oyster farms in RI and it's really interesting how different they taste, even ones that are grown relatively close to each other.

Water flow, salinity, sediment, etc. make a huge difference in the taste.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (viF8m)

169 164 >>>I'm a clam rancher.

I used to be. Sigh.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (1wjle)

======

Confirmed:

ace is married.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (7RBt4)

170 "I never thought I'd see the day when Democrats would even consider backing a candidate like this."

Somebody hasn'tbeen paying attention to the types of people the Democrats have been nominating since the 1830's.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2026 02:51 PM (PMi3m)

(thinking about the "filibuster" expeditions organized to take over Central American countries to introduce slavery there in that period).....yeah, about right.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (8avO+)

171 You are treating compensation for disability like it was winning a lottery. I can assure you, the folks who qualify for disability do so because they volunteered to protect you and yours.
Posted by: tcn in AK

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But some due treat it like winning the lottery -- i have met then and they said so. In fact, I think I have heard those exact words. This is a shame as, as I said, it demeans those who really were injured.

If someone is injured, then they should get proper compensation, but why do you think this one group of people are immune to grifting? Why do you think this one government program is properly cautious in handing out Other People's Money?

Maybe I am too pissed about this because I know too many people milking the government to think that all vets on disability are honest and not taking advantage.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (nEyOj)

172 >>>160 As an aside, Oysters are pretty much the only seafood I will not eat.

they're not bad once you get used to them. Like, you know.

Also they supposedly have some rare-ish nutrients in them.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (1wjle)

173 160 As an aside, Oysters are pretty much the only seafood I will not eat.

me either. and no mussels and no eel and NO OCTOPUS

freaking octopus. how can you eat them? they are so smart

Greek people - am disappoint

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (j+aD2)

174 I'm a clam rancher.

I used to be. Sigh.
Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (1wjle)

*spins up Clam Caravan, Spinal Tap*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (0aYVJ)

175 s an aside, Oysters are pretty much the only seafood I will not eat.

That, and eel.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (0aYVJ)

heh..you eat puffer fish ? lionfish ??

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (GD0B3)

176 Platner also went after Chris Kyle, Navy Seal sniper, who conveniently is deceased, saying that he inflated his kill numbers. Kyle's widow called him what he is - a coward, liar and attention whore.

Posted by: Cheri at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (oiNtH)

177 Do they harvest pearls from the oysters along with the meat, or is that a totally different thing?

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (77rzZ)

178 Apparently white QB Jaxon Dart of the NY Giants introduced Trump at some rally and video of the intro made it to social media, causing Abdul Carter -- the giants third-round pick in the 2025 draft and an overrated clown who is easily pushed off the line and controlled by O linemen -- to respond "Hey what the fuck we doing? I thought this shit was AI."

Posted by: front toward enemy at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (TIizU)
_________

So many of these football players claim to be hard-nosed tough macho guys with big swinging dicks and devil-may-care attitudes ... but they almost invariably squeal and cry like little faggot bitches at the first hint of micro-aggressions.

And I'll bet if the truth were revealed, a lot of them are like all the "gansta rappers" at Puffy Daddy's parties: closet homos who like the taste of ass as much as Gay Oyster Nazi.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

179 Confirmed:

ace is married.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (7RBt4)

You bitch!

- garrett

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (Kdi1r)

180 Trump's a Nazi for ... being a puppet for Israel!
Posted by: People Who Don't Get Consistency at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (Fi81e)

The crazy woman running in TX was pushing that "zionists" were the anti-semetic ones because they were pushing teh "real" semites out of their lands.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (lFFaq)

181 Watching the oyster farmers at work in Hiroshima Bay, I got the idea that it wasn't an easy life.

You should watch the leather dyers in Fez, Morocco, knee deep in the outdoor dye pits. If you can stand the smell.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (+5YP2)

182

Head em' up

Move 'em out!

Posted by: Oyster wrangler at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (Cqx++)

183 Third OVERALL.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (Kdi1r)
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If you saw the wash-out rate for high-first rounders, nobody needs to be that impressed about what somebody who has never shown himself on an NFL field says about a more established player.

Posted by: People Who Don't Get Consistency at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (Fi81e)

184 I hear there are "services" for vets that will do all the legwork for vets to get them a disability rating.
I hear because another vet told me so.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (/lPRQ)

185 Platner's main line of work isn't oyster farming.

Its giving $20 handies in port a potties around Portland.

4 Stars on yelp in fact.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 02:58 PM (sKqQm)

186 I love it when ace reads the comments.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:58 PM (jCuxY)

187 Platner also went after Chris Kyle, Navy Seal sniper, who conveniently is deceased, saying that he inflated his kill numbers. Kyle's widow called him what he is - a coward, liar and attention whore.

Posted by: Cheri at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (oiNtH)

Saying he inflated his kill numbers by deliberately targeting and killing civilians.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:58 PM (Kdi1r)

188 The crazy woman running in TX was pushing that "zionists" were the anti-semetic ones because they were pushing teh "real" semites out of their lands.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (lFFaq)
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Words? How do they work?

Posted by: People Who Don't Get Consistency at May 29, 2026 02:58 PM (Fi81e)

189 But some due treat it like winning the lottery -- i have met then and they said so. In fact, I think I have heard those exact words. This is a shame as, as I said, it demeans those who really were injured.

If someone is injured, then they should get proper compensation, but why do you think this one group of people are immune to grifting? Why do you think this one government program is properly cautious in handing out Other People's Money?

Maybe I am too pissed about this because I know too many people milking the government to think that all vets on disability are honest and not taking advantage.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (nEyOj)

Oh, trust me - I know many as well. No pot of money is immune to the selfish...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (tOcjL)

190 172 >>>160 As an aside, Oysters are pretty much the only seafood I will not eat.

they're not bad once you get used to them. Like, you know.

Also they supposedly have some rare-ish nutrients in them.
Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (1wjle)

Too bad they’re nasty and disgusting.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (Gqar8)

191 As an aside, Oysters are pretty much the only seafood I will not eat.

They're an acquired taste, but once you acquire it a good raw oyster is heavenly.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (+5YP2)

192 Oyster farming is a real thing (though that doesn't exclude this particular one from being a scam).

There's no digging involved. That would be clams. Clams are mobile as adults, oysters are not. Once an oyster settles, it's there for life.

Like many marine critters, oysters produce about a zillion spawn at a time, only one of which normally needs to survive to adulthood to replace the population. That means if you can put oysters in a protected environment, you can easily crank out them out by the thousand.

People have been raising oysters for thousands of years, and oyster pirates have been stealing them for just about as long.

Good-writer-despite-being-a-communist Jack London was an oyster pirate in his younger days.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (IG3/x)

193 158 "He said he was sorry for getting the Nazi tattoo. That's so much better than Trump not admitting he's a Nazi for doing Nazi things like protecting Jews in Israel or deporting immigrants to countries with socialized healthcare where they can be free of racism in America."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:48 PM (7RBt4)
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Yeah, i remember the time I tripped on a loose cobblestone and ended up across town at a seedy tatoo parlor with my shirt off getting operated on for hours to get a Nazi tattoo, paid for it, and then neglected to get it 'edited' or removed for the last 25 years.

Happens to us all.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (8avO+)

194 2. It is worse than you think - you can be 100% disabled, and still work. Because Why the fuck not, we just print up the shit so lets hand it out to anyone for any excuse we can think up. All due regards to vets, but disability is a scam and you all know it. It demeans those who were really injured to hand it out to people who have all the normal diseases and problems that every human gets from living and aging.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM

I blew out both of my knees doing 22 years in the service. The VA gives me the princely sum of $1,241.90 every month for that. I could have been making that every week if I could still drive a truck which I can't due to my knees. It's not a scam for me.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (0N4FZ)

195 190 Too bad they’re nasty and disgusting.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (Gqar

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The proper way to eat them is to douse them in horseradish so all you can do is taste the horseradish.

Oysters are delivery vehicles for actual tasty things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (7RBt4)

196 >>> As an aside, Oysters are pretty much the only seafood I will not eat.

That, and eel.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (0aYVJ)

How about scallops? Very similar but more meat. Another delivery mechanism for butter into one's pie hole. I like butter sauteed scallops. But then again, I'm a clam rancher so it makes sense.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (3uBP9)

197 As an aside, Oysters are pretty much the only seafood I will not eat.
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Anchovies?

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:00 PM (Fi81e)

198 Those aren't oysters.

Posted by: Gerald Platner at May 29, 2026 03:00 PM (n/5F5)

199 OT- Rufo's got another piece in City Journal about how us CA taxpayers are paying for a slush fund for Indians, owl watching and ceremonial fire lighting lessons!

https://tinyurl.com/bddtk95j

Posted by: beckster at May 29, 2026 03:00 PM (kX27y)

200 Watching the oyster farmers at work in Hiroshima Bay, I got the idea that it wasn't an easy life.
Posted by: naturalfake

Well, huge, nuclear-mutated oysters are another matter...
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (77rzZ)

Ackshewallee, the oysters served on Miyajima Island just offshore of Hiroshima are pretty damn huge

you know, for an oyster..

In theory that's due to the nutrient rich waters there, not radiation.

But who knows?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (iJfKG)

201 I want to know who the nazi supplies with his oysters. SO WE CAN BOYGOT THEM!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (GD0B3)

202 I have a friend who grows oysters in a cage attached to his bulkhead. Does this make him an oyster farmer?

Posted by: LMD at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (hUI3V)

203 lionfish can be good, and it's good to eat them/harvest them bc they are obnoxious and invasive

puffer fish no. I did that once. never again!

I sadly like turtle a lot. poor guys.

but octopi are on the list with little lambs and calves...

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (j+aD2)

204 "they're not bad once you get used to them. Like, you know."

Clams?
Those things are disgusting too.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (W5mpo)

205 Oysters are delivery vehicles for actual tasty things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (7RBt4)
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Disagree.

Although "Oyster Stew" is mostly cream, butter, and potatoes.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (Fi81e)

206 Trust The Blade: Find a girl who likes oysters. You are in for a very fun night. IYKWIMAITYD.

I like oysters and all kinds of seafood. The Blade eats cannibals.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (iFTx/)

207 "they're not bad once you get used to them. Like, you know."

Clams?
Those things are disgusting too.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (W5mpo)
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Chow-dah.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (Fi81e)

208 The only thing I don't like about oysters is the sand. Even the smallest amount isn't great. They need real good washing or something. I scrub all my clams down with a good stiff loofa down on the clam ranch.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (3uBP9)

209 If you have a problem with vets collecting disability by scamming, try going after the asshole doctors falsifying the records.

Vets EARN their goddamn pay in most cases.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (jCuxY)

210 The oyster operation is a front.

It was established after his campaign website was set up.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (RIvkX)

211
Better services for veterans than pieces of shit illegals stealing our tax money.

Has anyone ever done a study on the money the illegals are stealing versus the money spent for veterans?

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (3ek7K)

212 How about scallops? Very similar but more meat. Another delivery mechanism for butter into one's pie hole. I like butter sauteed scallops. But then again, I'm a clam rancher so it makes sense.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (3uBP9)

I like scallops, especially the big sea scallops. But sometimes them are fake (dollops of fish meat), so you have to be careful.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (0aYVJ)

213 OT- Rufo's got another piece in City Journal about how us CA taxpayers are paying for a slush fund for Indians, owl watching and ceremonial fire lighting lessons!

https://tinyurl.com/bddtk95j

We can only do that kind of shit here because all of the freeways are in absolutely first-rate condition and there's nothing else to spend the money on.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (+5YP2)

214 Do not believe the Maine Nazi unless he publishes his 214 and VA disability letter.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (enLlh)

215 The oyster operation is a front.

It was established after his campaign website was set up.

==

WHOA!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (GD0B3)

216 How long before a certain horrible woman I shannot name starts Asking Questions about Kyle's widow too?

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (gKWVE)

217 All disability is gonna need a rethink with both the recent cancer diagnoses of the young and the recent cancer advances where treatment no longer requires one to be caretaken...this is just one example...

Like the fed gov admin systems Elon was overheauling, it's another system that needs a serious overhaul and rethink...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (tOcjL)

218 >>me either. and no mussels and no eel and NO OCTOPUS

>>freaking octopus. how can you eat them? they are so smart

One of the guys in my old dive shop in PR was a local. We'd go spear fishing and grab all kinds of stuff after work and his mother would make delicious seafood stew and stuff.

I couldn't kill the octopi. Way too cute and smart. Right near the top of my favorite creature chart.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (viF8m)

219 *A front for his nazi activities!!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (GD0B3)

220
If you knew Sushi, like I know Sushi....

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (Fi81e)

221 Paul is a meadow muffin farmer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (jCuxY)

222 Also, his disability is due to PTSD.

Better than "back pain" I guess.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (RIvkX)

223 > 177 Do they harvest pearls from the oysters along with the meat, or is that a totally different thing?
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (77rzZ)

While many types of shellfish will occasionally produce pearls, the species known as the pearl oyster is not generally eaten, and the various species consumed for food don't often produce pearls.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (IG3/x)

224 You should watch the leather dyers in Fez, Morocco, knee deep in the outdoor dye pits. If you can stand the smell.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (+5YP2)

Back in Rome one year Emperor Vespasian put a fee on the leather curers who used to haul off the urine from the city baths and latrines for free. His son Titus complained it was unseemly to do this, and Vespasian pulled out a silver coin from the fee and said 'this does not stink'.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (8avO+)

225 The weekend is here

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (Ia/+0)

226 Posted by: People Who Don't Get Consistency at May 29, 2026 02:58 PM (Fi81e)

People like her always point to the Ashkenazi Jews from eastern Europe and ignore all the other diaspora lines like the Sephardim, Yemeni, and Mizrahi who all look more middle-eastern because they didn't travel as far away.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (lFFaq)

227 Just worthless trivia, but eel was Steve Jobs's favorite.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (m5VHW)

228 People have been raising oysters for thousands of years, and oyster pirates have been stealing them for just about as long.

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Minnesota Somali Pirates have adapted to stealing freshwater mussels instead of saltwater oysters.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (BGLxh)

229 overheauling = overhauling plus healing...there, I've created a new word with my typo that works...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (tOcjL)

230
Crab!!

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (Fi81e)

231 Saw a show about octopus. Smart little things. Only live a year or two though. Weird to have evolved smarts for such a tiny period of time.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (Gqar8)

232 Has anyone ever done a study on the money the illegals are stealing versus the money spent for veterans?

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (3ek7K)

Illegals cost exponentially more, just because of the raw numbers. There are orders of magnitude more illegals here than veterans, even if 100% of the vets are falsely collecting 100% disability.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (Kdi1r)

233 >>> Ackshewallee, the oysters served on Miyajima Island just offshore of Hiroshima are pretty damn huge

you know, for an oyster..

In theory that's due to the nutrient rich waters there, not radiation.

But who knows?
Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (iJfKG)

History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man.

Posted by: banana Dream - oh wow this comment is meta at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (3uBP9)

234 I do like squid (calamari) and clams tho so not sure how that squares. clams are not gooey (not as much anyway)

and hopefully squid are mean and stupid?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (j+aD2)

235 Eel is one of my favorites in sushi restaurants because it's cooked.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (m5VHW)

236 VA Disability is a complicated issue. And to clarify, it is a 100% disability rating, not 100% disabled.

VA Disability rating math is also convoluted, as individual medical conditions recieve specific assessments and they may not be directly compounding. So two separate medical conditions that both receive a 50% rating, don't add up to 100%. (I consider the blog's "math free-zone" to be a silent tribute to the VA's special math process.)

Mental conditions like PTSD carry high VA Disability ratings and yet the veteran may have few physical limitations.

But no system is void of fraud and abuse.

Posted by: GuardianB at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (dLJqZ)

237 Crab!!
Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (Fi81e)

Jelly fish!!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (GD0B3)

238 OT- Rufo's got another piece in City Journal about how us CA taxpayers are paying for a slush fund for Indians, owl watching and ceremonial fire lighting lessons!

https://tinyurl.com/bddtk95j

We can only do that kind of shit here because all of the freeways are in absolutely first-rate condition and there's nothing else to spend the money on.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (+5YP2)

I imagine most of the 'Indians' in the program are as authentic as Elizabeth Warren is.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (8avO+)

239 Maybe I am too pissed about this because I know too many people milking the government to think that all vets on disability are honest and not taking advantage.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (nEyOj)

Got a friend with TBI. You'd never know it to look at him. But getting blown up overseas does all sorts of nasty things to a person.

Another with an ankle fractured so badly he can turn his foot. You would likewise not realize it if you met him, but it is a real disability.

Not all injuries are physical, either.

Maybe there are scammers, but there are plenty of checks and balances on the system, and at least those who need help get it.

I'm willing to withhold judgment of another person's injury status if that person volunteered to walk into combat on my behalf.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (DwqWV)

240 Ackshewallee, the oysters served on Miyajima Island just offshore of Hiroshima are pretty damn huge

you know, for an oyster..

In theory that's due to the nutrient rich waters there, not radiation.

But who knows?
Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (iJfKG)

In theory, I could become "Oyster Man!"

Wow, a dream come true...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (Sco7b)

241 Saw a show about octopus. Smart little things. Only live a year or two though. Weird to have evolved smarts for such a tiny period of time.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (Gqar

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They are like an alien intelligence.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (Fi81e)

242 "Oyster farming" will be the new euphemism for cruising for teen boys.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

If you think a teen boy is better hung than a proper oyster, you're woefully mistaken... https://tinyurl.com/4xk4vpk6

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (JCZqz)

243 Feel free to eat as much squid as you like. They are dumb as a post.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 03:06 PM (viF8m)

244 I did not know of the Blackwater connection.

Figures they would take a guy claiming PTSD. Must be a prerequisite or something.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 03:06 PM (RIvkX)

245 If you think a teen boy is better hung than a proper oyster, you're woefully mistaken...

I'm thinking I'll leave that calculation to our colleages at the Bulwark, the Dispatch, and the Lincoln Project.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 03:06 PM (gKWVE)

246 You should watch the leather dyers in Fez, Morocco, knee deep in the outdoor dye pits. If you can stand the smell.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (+5YP2)

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U.S. Grant refused to follow in his father's profession as a leather tanner and merchant owing to the awful stench.

So we have his father to thank for all of Ulysses' future accomplishments ...

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:07 PM (BGLxh)

247 Octopi live only a very short time -- maybe a year or two -- and the last quarter to even half of their lives are miserable. The female starves herself to death caring for the eggs. So eating them before the misery sets in is almost doing them a favor.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 03:07 PM (iFTx/)

248 Has anyone ever done a study on the money the illegals are stealing versus the money spent for veterans?

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (3ek7K)

Illegals cost exponentially more, just because of the raw numbers. There are orders of magnitude more illegals here than veterans, even if 100% of the vets are falsely collecting 100% disability.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (Kdi1r)

And pretty much 100 percent of vets have been of value to the country for the service in some way, even if just being ready for a need that never comes up.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:07 PM (8avO+)

249 jack we had an octopus by our overwater bungalow once

he'd hang out by the ladder

(or she I mean I don't want to misgender!)

so sweet tho. I felt like it was waving when I'd go down in the morning!

still miss that little guy

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 03:07 PM (j+aD2)

250 Oysters are gross. Just this squishy thing covered in fluid right in front of your face while your girlfriend waits for you to eat it.

Thankfully I never had to worry about that with Michelle!

Posted by: Barack Obama at May 29, 2026 03:07 PM (sKqQm)

251 The weekend is here
Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (Ia/+0)

Everybody's been working for it.

Posted by: Mike Reno at May 29, 2026 03:08 PM (fmbc9)

252 Saw a show about octopus. Smart little things. Only live a year or two though. Weird to have evolved smarts for such a tiny period of time.
Posted by: tubal

I kid I knew who was an aspiring marine biologist told me that mother octopodes (the formal Greek plural) die before they can pass any knowledge they may have to their offspring. So I guess every octopus has to reinvent the wheel for itself.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 03:08 PM (77rzZ)

253
Crab!!

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (Fi81e)

________

Having crab >>>> Getting crabs

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2026 03:09 PM (HdYcL)

254 VA Disability is a complicated issue. And to clarify, it is a 100% disability rating, not 100% disabled.

I'll be retiring soon. My favorite fact is you can get a disability rating of 0%, but it's still a rating, so you get access to benefits.

Veterans with a 0% rating are eligible for several key benefits, including:

VA Health Care: Free treatment and prescription medications for the specific service-connected condition (income limits may apply for other care).
Travel Pay: Reimbursement for mileage and travel costs to VA medical appointments.
Federal Hiring Preference: A 10-point preference when applying for federal government jobs.
Commissary/Exchange Privileges: Access to military bases, commissaries, and MWR facilities (online and in-person).
Life Insurance: Eligibility for Service-Disabled Veterans Life Insurance (S-DVI).
Home Loan: Potential waiver of the VA funding fee (specifics vary by case).

As well as al sorts of state and county benefits like free hunting licenses, tax breaks, etc.

Posted by: Military Moron at May 29, 2026 03:09 PM (JCZqz)

255 I saw an argument that octopi are even smarter then we realize because very few of them survive more then a couple of years so they don't get a time to learn things.

Imagine how we would judge human intelligence if humans didn't generally make it past 2...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 03:09 PM (sKqQm)

256 Well I learned what I know 'bout octopodes by reading remarkably bright creatures.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (m5VHW)

257 This obsession Collins guy needs to be locked up in a mental hospital
Oh, forgot, there isn't any

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (Ia/+0)

258 Feel free to eat as much squid as you like. They are dumb as a post.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 03:06 PM (viF8m)

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The most disgusting thing ever was watching an Asian movie ("Oldboy" IIRC) where they're at a sushi bar or the like and eating living & writhing squid, octopus, or the like.

Damn -- and don't get us started on the Chinese Wet Markets ...

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (BGLxh)

259 And pretty much 100 percent of vets have been of value to the country for the service in some way, even if just being ready for a need that never comes up.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:07 PM (8avO+)

You can say VA Disability is a good thing while also saying it needa a rethink b/c of the permanency given to conditions medicine has made no longer permanent and the ability to game so many of the mental and physical issues (while folks with cancers, who can't game, usually get denied b/c their diability didn't come "fast enough")...

Even the 0-100% system needs a total rethink...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (tOcjL)

260 Eel is one of my favorites in sushi restaurants because it's cooked.
Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (m5VHW)

Grilled eel is wonderful. Has gotten really expensive though, because the favored type breed in the ocean and the elvers grow in really deep water. That makes it difficult to replicate their life cycle and environment to be able to farm them.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 03:11 PM (lFFaq)

261 >>jack we had an octopus by our overwater bungalow once

They were all over the big reef we used to dive on. Most were pretty shy but every now and then one would let you pick it up. There was clearly some level of intelligence there.

Not atom splitting intelligence, maybe just about Paul. But too cute to eat.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 03:11 PM (viF8m)

262 I knew someone (now sadly deceased) who developed hearing problems after many years hanging around Air Force flight lines, going back to the days well before modern hearing protection.

The VA never did approve the claim.

So, while I have no doubt there are VA disability scammers out there, scamming that system isn't trivial.

I'd guess you'd need a crooked doctor at a minimum.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2026 03:11 PM (IG3/x)

263 Imagine how we would judge human intelligence if humans didn't generally make it past 2...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 03:09 PM (sKqQm)

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Thats a win in the Talarico book of Mother, Mary and abortion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 03:11 PM (jCuxY)

264 Crab people.
Crab people.
Look like crab.
Talk like people.
Crab people.
Crab people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:11 PM (7RBt4)

265
Eating raw oysters is like trying to Hock up mucus from your airways.

YMMV

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 03:12 PM (3ek7K)

266 Has anyone ever done a study on the money the illegals are stealing versus the money spent for veterans?

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (3ek7K)
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No comparison, I would bet. Illegals are part of the Circle of Graft.

Chances are that corruption cuts into the money that actually goes to veterans, while corruption is the source of most money going toward illegals.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:12 PM (Fi81e)

267 This obsession Collins guy needs to be locked up in a mental hospital
Oh, forgot, there isn't any

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (Ia/+0)

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Excepting Congress. And Califzuela. And Seattle. And ...

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:12 PM (BGLxh)

268 Feel free to eat as much squid as you like. They are dumb as a post.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 03:06 PM (viF8m)

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The most disgusting thing ever was watching an Asian movie ("Oldboy" IIRC) where they're at a sushi bar or the like and eating living & writhing squid, octopus, or the like.

Damn -- and don't get us started on the Chinese Wet Markets ...
Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (BGLxh)
_______

Live baby octopus. The Blade ate that. Once. Never again.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 03:12 PM (iFTx/)

269 268 The most disgusting thing ever was watching an Asian movie ("Oldboy" IIRC) where they're at a sushi bar or the like and eating living & writhing squid, octopus, or the like.

Damn -- and don't get us started on the Chinese Wet Markets ...
Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (BGLxh)
_______

Live baby octopus. The Blade ate that. Once. Never again.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 03:12 PM (iFTx/)

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"It's usually sliced. They say I'm a good sushi chef despite being a woman because my hands are unusually cold."
-Mi Do

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:13 PM (7RBt4)

270 There was a photograph recently, maybe last year, of a big whale, like a sperm whale, breaching with an absolute unit of a gaint squid in its mouth just chomping away like it was chewing gum.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:13 PM (3uBP9)

271 Ace, the "oyster farm" has one customer, a restaurant owned by his mother in Blue Hill, Maine. Blue Hill is one of the toniest of wealthy Maine summer towns.

Platner is a fraud in every conceivable way.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 29, 2026 03:13 PM (r7+k8)

272 I saw an argument that octopi are even smarter then we realize because very few of them survive more then a couple of years so they don't get a time to learn things.

Imagine how we would judge human intelligence if humans didn't generally make it past 2...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 03:09 PM (sKqQm)

Humans are bad examples because we are born only part ready because we have to get the baby out before the head gets too big.

Look at something like a puppy or kitten. A few weeks of blind feeding on the mom and they are getting ready to be a little cat or dog.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:13 PM (8avO+)

273 OT: John Cornyn is being a passive aggressive little b!tch on Twitter.

An old, but apt fable:
A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across [... and blah blah blah] it's my character.

Don't go away mad, John . . .

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 03:13 PM (gKWVE)

274 I can assure you farming is rigorous work. Particularly organic tree farming.

Posted by: Weasel at May 29, 2026 03:14 PM (vt7xw)

275 There was a photograph recently, maybe last year, of a big whale, like a sperm whale, breaching with an absolute unit of a gaint squid in its mouth just chomping away like it was chewing gum.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:13 PM (3uBP9)

Sperm whales often have scars from hunting big squids from the suckers and perhaps beak.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:14 PM (8avO+)

276 Oysters Rockefeller are good, except for the oyster part.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 03:14 PM (m5VHW)

277 I can assure you farming is rigorous work. Particularly organic tree farming.
Posted by: Weasel at May 29, 2026 03:14 PM (vt7xw)

Try inorganic tree farming. It's even harder.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:15 PM (8avO+)

278 You can say what you want to say about the rest of seafood. Won't stop me from eating it.

But dungeness crab, or king crab, smothered in butter and me with a shell-cracker....

Delectible.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:15 PM (Fi81e)

279 275
Sperm whales often have scars from hunting big squids from the suckers and perhaps beak.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:14 PM (8avO+)

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To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:15 PM (7RBt4)

280 276 Oysters Rockefeller are good, except for the oyster part.
Posted by: Oglebay

Let me tell you about Rocky Mountain oysters!!!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at May 29, 2026 03:15 PM (JCZqz)

281 As well as al sorts of state and county benefits like free hunting licenses, tax breaks, etc.
Posted by: Military Moron at May 29, 2026 03:09 PM (JCZqz)

So many military folks leave the services in AK. I think we have the most vets per capita of any state. Lots of bennies for military and past service up here, plus no income tax, and lots of hunting and fishing, etc.

And a pretty good VA.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 03:16 PM (DwqWV)

282 Ace, the "oyster farm" has one customer, a restaurant owned by his mother in Blue Hill, Maine. Blue Hill is one of the toniest of wealthy Maine summer towns.

Platner is a fraud in every conceivable way.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 29, 2026 03:13 PM (r7+k

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When you start to make Somalis look honest by comparison, there's a problem.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 03:16 PM (gnNyN)

283 Thats a win in the Talarico book of Mother, Mary and abortion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 03:11 PM (jCuxY)

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"Maybe if Mary was black, we would have never had Jesus?"

/White Democrat Death Cultists and fans of Margaret Sanger

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:16 PM (BGLxh)

284 "Made from organic cotton."

Find me some inorganic cotton........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 03:16 PM (jCuxY)

285 We should register octopuses to vote.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 29, 2026 03:16 PM (1D2Ie)

286 John Ford the Directors Series
https://tinyurl.com/3ephj5v3

Like and hype please

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:17 PM (Ia/+0)

287 >>The most disgusting thing ever was watching an Asian movie ("Oldboy" IIRC) where they're at a sushi bar or the like and eating living & writhing squid, octopus, or the like.

We get a lot of them around here. A lot. Probably RI's biggest seafood business and shipped all over the country. When they are running we get a lot of ethnic types flocking down here to catch them. Portuguese, Vietnamese, etc.

It's so big for the marine economy a few years Calamari was made the official state appetizer of RI. And you people say RI doesn't exist. Does your state have an official appetizer?

I didn't think so.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 03:17 PM (viF8m)

288 Damn -- and don't get us started on the Chinese Wet Markets ...

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (BGLxh)
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I want to fry like an eagle
To the sea.
Fry like an eagle
Revolution.

Posted by: Steve Mirrel at May 29, 2026 03:17 PM (Fi81e)

289 > So we have his father to thank for all of Ulysses' future accomplishments ...
Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:07 PM (BGLxh)

His original plan was to graduate from West Point, do his time, and then become a math teacher, as I recall.

I recommend his autobiography highly to those who haven't read it. Besides the excellent first-hand accounts of the Civil War, there's a great deal of dry humor in it, which is even more impressive when one considers that Grant was dying, painfully, of cancer while he was writing the book.

One of my favorite parts was him describing how, as a young Army quartermaster, he found himself in charge of a bunch of (allegedly) trained mules and a bunch of (allegedly) expert teamsters. Hilarity ensued.

The completely unbroken mules were sold to Uncle Sam by unscrupulous dealers, while the "expert teamsters" mostly only claimed to be so because teamsters got to ride on wagons rather than humping 50 pounds of gear on foot.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2026 03:18 PM (IG3/x)

290 Saw a show about octopus. Smart little things. Only live a year or two though. Weird to have evolved smarts for such a tiny period of time.
Posted by: tubal

I kid I knew who was an aspiring marine biologist told me that mother octopodes (the formal Greek plural) die before they can pass any knowledge they may have to their offspring. So I guess every octopus has to reinvent the wheel for itself.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 03:08 PM (77rzZ)

I like octopi...they're yummy!

I also think their intelligence is grossly overstated. I was willing to be convinced but I watched a show on how intelligent octopuses were and despite all the heavy praise they were throwing the genius mollusk...nothing I saw couldn't be explained by instinct.

And their life-cycle as described above and short life doesn't indicate an extended childhood with parental teaching in the mix which is usually required for intelligent critters.

Octopuses are the Somalians of the Sea and you've fallen for the scam.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 03:18 PM (iJfKG)

291 Jeebus, just briefly tuned into Hugh Hewitt's radio show and he's STILL crying and wetting his panties over Paxton kicking the FAFO out of Cornyn.

My guess is he'd hate vote against Paxton and for Talafreako if he lived in Texas ...

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:19 PM (BGLxh)

292 I also think their intelligence is grossly overstated. I was willing to be convinced but I watched a show on how intelligent octopuses were and despite all the heavy praise they were throwing the genius mollusk...nothing I saw couldn't be explained by instinct.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 03:18 PM (iJfKG)
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Big Octopus.

Posted by: Steve Mirrel at May 29, 2026 03:20 PM (Fi81e)

293 >>Sperm whales often have scars from hunting big squids from the suckers and perhaps beak.

If you've never seen them checkout videos on youtube and elsewhere of Humboldt Squid.

You don't want to be in the water around them when they are feeding.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 03:21 PM (viF8m)

294 You can say VA Disability is a good thing while also saying it needa a rethink b/c of the permanency given to conditions medicine has made no longer permanent and the ability to game so many of the mental and physical issues (while folks with cancers, who can't game, usually get denied b/c their diability didn't come "fast enough")...

Even the 0-100% system needs a total rethink...
Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (tOcjL)

I am fully for a vigorous check on qualification and honesty in any government payout. Some conditions show up later so rechecking the status should be a thing.

I got my great great grandfathers military records years back and it showed he started getting a pension in his later years due to a wound in the foot at Kennesaw Mountain from his Civil War service in the artillery, which his wife also got after his death in the 1910s until her death some years later.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:21 PM (8avO+)

295 I’ve heard that the DOD sets aside a significant amount of money for every person that enlists just for disability benefits. Most don’t even ask about it, myself included.

I’ve got a friend that’s 100 percent disabled from being burned by an IED in Iraq. The guy still can run sub 7 minute miles; he might not be human

Posted by: UGAdawg at May 29, 2026 03:21 PM (4MsaP)

296 My kindle tablet is pushing me Prime video on me, to watch Caro Doda, Topless At The Condor.
Why would I want to watch a near 100 year old topless woman?
And I thought the Condor was torn down long ago.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 29, 2026 03:21 PM (sl73Y)

297 Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley
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As Democrats demand the removal of the masks of ICE agents, a protester was shown yesterday yelling at an agent, "I've got your face. I'll kill your whole f**king family. You whole f**king family is dead. Your child, your wife, and all are dead. I have your face mother f**ker. You re dead."
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Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:21 PM (Fi81e)

298 I kid I knew who was an aspiring marine biologist ...

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George Costanza?

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:22 PM (BGLxh)

299 https://youtu.be/pIYWzuIgchY

My favorite thing about octopi.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 03:22 PM (DwqWV)

300 I blew out both of my knees doing 22 years in the service. The VA gives me the princely sum of $1,241.90 every month for that. I could have been making that every week if I could still drive a truck which I can't due to my knees. It's not a scam for me.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

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I guess I shouldn't have said anything. I understand that many people were legitimately injured. I said that from the start.

But I also know that, like most gov. programs, it is taken advantage of by those who are dishonest. The problem is that as soon as you point out fraud people get defensive. I am sorry I said what I said since I appreciate that any criticism is going to hurt people who were legitimately injured.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 29, 2026 03:22 PM (gDedl)

301 291 Jeebus, just briefly tuned into Hugh Hewitt's radio show and he's STILL crying and wetting his panties over Paxton kicking the FAFO out of Cornyn.

My guess is he'd hate vote against Paxton and for Talafreako if he lived in Texas ...

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:19 PM (BGLxh)

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Compare and contrast how establishment Democrats are treating Platner, dude with a Nazi tattoo, and how establishment Republicans are treating Paxton.

Establishment Democrats have accepted that Platner is the nominee, at least in public (they have until June 9), and are just pushing against Collins.

Establishment Republicans are in two camps. One, like Thune, are treating Paxton like a normal Republican, saying that he's going to support him. But you still have this group like Hewitt who refuse to treat Paxton like a normal Republican. Instead of focusing attacks on the Democrat, he'd rather talk about the weaknesses of the Republican.

It's just an interesting look at how, institutionally, the two parties are actually quite different still. No matter the internal strife, Democrats will put on a face of unity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:22 PM (7RBt4)

302 I think the proper term is "oysterman."

Posted by: Word nerd at May 29, 2026 03:22 PM (2Ez/1)

303 I've a son who tried for two years to get a disability rating (tried to stop a jet engine coming off its stand). Got no where til he contacted a VA group who helped him tremendously.
BTW, he quit because while he was arguing, his command started okaying sex change operations.

Posted by: MkY at May 29, 2026 03:23 PM (q6tQZ)

304 Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley
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As Democrats demand the removal of the masks of ICE agents, a protester was shown yesterday yelling at an agent, "I've got your face. I'll kill your whole f**king family. You whole f**king family is dead. Your child, your wife, and all are dead. I have your face mother f**ker. You re dead."
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Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:21 PM (Fi81e)

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That sounds a little like Domestic Terrorism-y.

"Kash Patel, please pick up the white-adjacent privilege courtesy phone ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:23 PM (BGLxh)

305 My kindle tablet is pushing me Prime video on me, to watch Caro Doda, Topless At The Condor.
Why would I want to watch a near 100 year old topless woman?
And I thought the Condor was torn down long ago.
Posted by: From about That Time at May 29, 2026 03:21 PM (sl73Y)
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Still there.

The Condor, I mean. Carol Doda is no longer there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 03:24 PM (RIvkX)

306 Oysterman - rejected by Marvel Superhero Name.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 03:24 PM (Gqar8)

307 As Democrats demand the removal of the masks of ICE agents, a protester was shown yesterday yelling at an agent, "I've got your face. I'll kill your whole f**king family. You whole f**king family is dead. Your child, your wife, and all are dead. I have your face mother f**ker. You re dead."
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Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:21 PM (Fi81e)
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Someone will have to explain to me why that "person" was not shot in the face.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 03:25 PM (RIvkX)

308 Pooky gets 110% VA disability (I don't know how the math works on that, but it does) and he does very occasional volunteering. And really, the only reason he's able to volunteer at all is due to JT The Wonder Dog.

Posted by: pookysgirl, weighing in at May 29, 2026 03:25 PM (Wt5PA)

309 It's just an interesting look at how, institutionally, the two parties are actually quite different still. No matter the internal strife, Democrats will put on a face of unity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:22 PM (7RBt4)

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Yep.

Excellent observation and analysis, per usual, TJM.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:25 PM (BGLxh)

310

Bob

So there are vets scamming the system. They served.

Fucking pieces of shit illegals haven't served and they don't deserve to get any of our hardened earned money.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 03:26 PM (3ek7K)

311 Every thing connected to the federal government is full of corruption and grift.

Posted by: It's A Swindle, A Swindle at May 29, 2026 03:26 PM (54bnG)

312 Oysterman would be dc

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 03:27 PM (bXbFr)

313 Best thing I like about octopuses is they are not walking around land as in my yard

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:27 PM (Ia/+0)

314 It's just an interesting look at how, institutionally, the two parties are actually quite different still. No matter the internal strife, Democrats will put on a face of unity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:22 PM (7RBt4)

It might look different from the inside. The 'establishment' candidate withdrew before the primary, and was an ex governor. Not sure how unified she feels if she spoke freely.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:28 PM (8avO+)

315 Is it like a sex farm?
Posted by: Nigel at May 29, 2026 02:43 PM (Fi81e)

No,

Herr Oberoysterfuhrer's sex farm was apparently the chemical potty room.

Posted by: Nelly at May 29, 2026 03:28 PM (6+ehB)

316
AMERICA FIRST!

Fuck anyone who doesn't agree.

I'm so sick of this shit.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 03:28 PM (3ek7K)

317 309 Yep.

Excellent observation and analysis, per usual, TJM.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:25 PM (BGLxh)

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Republicans implied their own president might be a Russian asset for more than 2 years.

Democrats just accepted the culturally foreign Obama because he won votes, even as he was trying to prop up Iran despite the party's long-held and fairly deep loyalty to Israel over Iranian proxies in the Middle East.

I mean...there are downsides.

But, seriously, the primary's over. Time to treat Paxton like a boring Republican.

I mean, it's not like Hewitt is some kind of ideologue. He's a partisan for the party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:28 PM (7RBt4)

318 Isn't everyone in Maine an oyster farmer? Go for a walk on the beach, see some 86 shells, walk farther, hey look oysters! Dinner!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 03:28 PM (n5tGW)

319 Who is who whoitt and why should pay any attention to that joker?

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 29, 2026 03:29 PM (HIzgC)

320 314
It might look different from the inside. The 'establishment' candidate withdrew before the primary, and was an ex governor. Not sure how unified she feels if she spoke freely.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:28 PM (8avO+)

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Oh, the fissures exist, and there are some minor Democrats saying things about a brewing civil war because of Platner.

But, the national party either supports Platner or says nothing. The mouth pieces support Platner, or they say nothing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:29 PM (7RBt4)

321 Who is who whoitt and why should pay any attention to that joker?
Posted by: Will Robinson at May 29, 2026 03:29 PM (HIzgC)

I felt that way even when he was a somebody.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:30 PM (8avO+)

322 For the less-than-29-year-olds who don't know who Carol Doda was:

https://tinyurl.com/ynkbhx9y

(NSFW, obviously)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2026 03:30 PM (IG3/x)

323 I mean, of course a Nazi would love Scheisse.

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 03:30 PM (iXqHn)

324 There's actually a lot to like about octopi and squid. Generally.

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at May 29, 2026 03:31 PM (3uBP9)

325 > 306 Oysterman - rejected by Marvel Superhero Name.
Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 03:24 PM (Gqar

Barnacle Man.

Origin: scraped himself on a radioactive barnacle in the outflow of a malfunctioning nuclear power plant.
Super power: clinging to the hull of vessels below the waterline, thus slightly reducing speed and fuel economy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2026 03:33 PM (IG3/x)

326 I worked Workers Comp claims for 35 years. Even the most honest people took advantage of the system because it was there to take advantage of.

That said I never saw the people who got legitimately injured but kept working and never made a claim.

The thing honest people mostly did was after they got a legitimate injury they took off more time than they normally would have , if any, from the exact same injury if it would have occurred outside of work.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 03:33 PM (XMuV+)

327 Barnacle Man >> Particle Man

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:34 PM (3uBP9)

328
Bezos is Number One. He now has taken the crown for largest rocket explosion in US history. He pulled off about 1 kT TNT equivalent.

Thankfully, it's the Rooskies who still hold the all-time title for biggest rocket boom-boom, with the N-1, their ill-fated attempt at a moon rocket. That was 7 kT TNT equivalent, and besides the biggest rocket explosion, it also holds the title as the largest non-nuclear explosion in history.

Elon's Starship 36 hit 0.5 kT, and before all this, an Atlas-Centaur exploded in 1965, which until these latest was the biggest American rocket explosion at maybe 0.25 kT.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 03:34 PM (w6EFb)

329 Hugh hewitt waa a boring sominrx on a better bill with steyn and lileks once upon a time

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 03:35 PM (bXbFr)

330 Considering his stability, I wonder if he is one of the reasons Blackwater has a bad rep?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 03:36 PM (zZu0s)

331 On a radio station sold to haitian evangelicals

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 03:36 PM (bXbFr)

332 Apparently rocketry has not been perfected.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 03:37 PM (n5tGW)

333 Looks more and more like Trump is gonna sign that "deal" with Iran... Damned if he does damned if he doesn't...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 03:37 PM (yLn/F)

334 That was 7 kT TNT equivalent, and besides the biggest rocket explosion, it also holds the title as the largest non-nuclear explosion in history.

I wonder what Halifax was?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 03:37 PM (zZu0s)

335 Platner is simply a thinner LTC Vindaloo Bearclaw.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 03:37 PM (ZpG08)

336
For the less-than-29-year-olds who don't know who Carol Doda was:

She and Ken "The Snake" Stabler, QB of the Oakland Raiders, got caught in some sort of naked and / or lewd romp in San Francisco around 1980.

"Snake" bleated piteously to the local press, "This will hurt my work with local youths. Folks in the area rolled their eyes and said, "Sure it will, Snake."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 29, 2026 03:37 PM (ixS3i)

337 Elon's Starship 36 hit 0.5 kT, and before all this, an Atlas-Centaur exploded in 1965, which until these latest was the biggest American rocket explosion at maybe 0.25 kT.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 03:34 PM (w6EFb)

Other notable booms:

On the morning of 6 December 1917, the French cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc was hit by the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Mont-Blanc, laden with high explosives, caught fire and detonated, devastating the Richmond district of Halifax. At least 1,782 people, largely in Halifax and Dartmouth, were killed by the blast, debris, fires, or collapsed buildings, and an estimated 9,000 others were injured. The blast was the largest human-made explosion at the time.[1] It released the equivalent energy of roughly 2.9 kilotons of TNT (12 TJ).[2]

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:38 PM (8avO+)

338 To quote Elon Musk - How unfortunate. Rockets are hard.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 03:38 PM (Gqar8)

339 Its a misnomer, Yes the "Disability" Can be visible, i.e. Wheel chair, missing limbs, scarred. But they can be invisible, overall health, pain, ptsd, illnesses. It's mostly COMPENSATION for injuries, visible or INVISIBLE to the average person. Compensation owed from the military damaging your body over your time in service. Period. And if anyone is up in arms about it all, you probably never served and you will continue to sit on your high chair and judge those who answered the nations call.

Posted by: saar at May 29, 2026 03:38 PM (lexfv)

340 As Democrats demand the removal of the masks of ICE agents, a protester was shown yesterday yelling at an agent, "I've got your face. I'll kill your whole f**king family. You whole f**king family is dead. Your child, your wife, and all are dead. I have your face mother f**ker. You re dead."
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Why? what has this (or any) particular ICE agent done that warrants mass murder to him and his family? Is it just a threat to try to mess with the guy's head? Again, why?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 03:38 PM (Dv3i1)

341 Blackwater has been libeled since the fallujah bridge (recreated in the dark knight rises) to the nisan gates incident

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 03:38 PM (bXbFr)

342 The tough-talking Marine veteran struts around in a Carhartt jacket and jeans

I'm told that Carhartt is now a fashionable brand that got bought by the GAP or some fashion clothing company like that.

It's only a matter of time before it's crapifacted into uselessness as work gear.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 29, 2026 03:39 PM (vJrRc)

343 Barnacle Man will have a tough job standing apart in our Senate.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 03:39 PM (gKWVE)

344 Collins is no prize but seriously Maine ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 03:40 PM (yLn/F)

345 Posted by: saar at May 29, 2026 03:38 PM (lexfv

All benefit systems are taken advantage of because they serve humans.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 03:40 PM (XMuV+)

346 Beirut was equivalent to 1.4 KT the internet says.

Wasn't there a test of conventional explosives where they wanted to test the damage of a nuclear blast but not have the radiation so they used and absolutely massive amount of conventional explosives. I bet that was pretty high on the equivalent scale?

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:41 PM (3uBP9)

347 Barnacle Man will have a tough job standing apart in our Senate.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 03:39 PM (gKWVE)

He can cling on a rafter.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:41 PM (8avO+)

348 Halifax was 2.9 KT but killed almost 1,800.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 03:41 PM (ZpG08)

349 "Made from organic cotton."

Find me some inorganic cotton........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 03:16 PM

*whistles innocently*

- steel wool

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 29, 2026 03:41 PM (Wnv9h)

350 285 We should register octopuses to vote.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Can they, you know,.... "Consent"?

Posted by: Kurt at May 29, 2026 03:42 PM (gKWVE)

351 According to the net, Halifax was 2.9 kt equivalent.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 03:42 PM (zZu0s)

352 I'm told that Carhartt is now a fashionable brand that got bought by the GAP or some fashion clothing company like that.

It's only a matter of time before it's crapifacted into uselessness as work gear.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 29, 2026 03:39 PM (vJrRc)

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Yesterday, I got a chuckle out of hearing Dana Loesch refer to Talafreako as looking like an Old Navy Mannequin.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:42 PM (BGLxh)

353 Does your state have an official appetizer?

I didn't think so.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 03:17 PM (viF8m)

If we did, it'd either involve corn or be deep-fried. Our unofficial dessert is Snicker Salad (not an actual salad).

Posted by: pookysgirl uses Granny Smith apples for hers at May 29, 2026 03:42 PM (Wt5PA)

354 >> I wonder what Halifax was?

Listed as 2.9 kT equivalent.

We hit about 5 kT or so intentionally in some military tests way back in the day to simulate nuclear blast waves.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 03:42 PM (w6EFb)

355 The idiotic thing about the VA disability rating game is that you can be unable to work but they’ll fight like hell to avoid giving a 100% rating while folks with 100% work full time.

Posted by: epador at May 29, 2026 03:42 PM (5JNK/)

356 >>> Why? what has this (or any) particular ICE agent done that warrants mass murder to him and his family? Is it just a threat to try to mess with the guy's head? Again, why?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 03:38 PM (Dv3i1)

All leftists want to murder anyone, destroy anything in their way. That's it. That's the answer.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:43 PM (3uBP9)

357 Beirut was equivalent to 1.4 KT the internet says.

Wasn't there a test of conventional explosives where they wanted to test the damage of a nuclear blast but not have the radiation so they used and absolutely massive amount of conventional explosives. I bet that was pretty high on the equivalent scale?
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:41 PM (3uBP9)

I don't recall the test myself, but the 2.9 kiloton was an entire cargo ship full of munitions. Hiroshima was estimated at 15, so that would require 5 cargo ships full.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:44 PM (8avO+)

358 How does Blue Origin compare to the Soviet Moon rocket explosion?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 03:44 PM (ZpG08)

359
I got tired of Hewitt years ago.

He always seemed like a Crypto-Democrat constantly pushing the GOP Weak-Sisters like Mutt Rombly or cucks like Corny.

Do. Not. Need.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 03:44 PM (iJfKG)

360 Wasn't there a test of conventional explosives where they wanted to test the damage of a nuclear blast but not have the radiation so they used and absolutely massive amount of conventional explosives. I bet that was pretty high on the equivalent scale?
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:41 PM (3uBP9)

Iirc, the calibration test for the instruments was .1kt. Its at the beginning of the Atomic Bomb Movie (narrated by the Shat.) I think it on ewetub. Ill check real quick.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 03:44 PM (zZu0s)

361 Now a judge has ruled that Trump can't close the Trump/Kennedy Center and his name has to be removed

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 03:45 PM (yLn/F)

362 I know Planter is not a real veteran 'cause Jake Tapper isn't running to his defense ....

Jake Tapper supports the veterans.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 03:45 PM (73/SM)

363 >>> How does Blue Origin compare to the Soviet Moon rocket explosion?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 03:44 PM (ZpG0

Publius got it above.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:45 PM (3uBP9)

364 Other notable booms:

On the morning of 6 December 1917, the French cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc was hit by the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Mont-Blanc, laden with high explosives, caught fire and detonated, devastating the Richmond district of Halifax. At least 1,782 people, largely in Halifax and Dartmouth, were killed by the blast, debris, fires, or collapsed buildings, and an estimated 9,000 others were injured. The blast was the largest human-made explosion at the time.[1] It released the equivalent energy of roughly 2.9 kilotons of TNT (12 TJ).[2]
Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:38 PM (8avO+)

The Port Chicago disaster was a massive munitions explosion on July 17, 1944, at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Concord, California (near Suisun Bay). The blast, caused by the detonation of approximately 2,000 tons of TNT equivalent in munitions being loaded onto the Liberty ship SS E.A. Bryan, killed 320 sailors and civilians instantly, making it the largest loss of life on U.S. soil during World War II.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:45 PM (BGLxh)

365 Disability percentages are additive. You can get say 10% for tinnitus and 20% for neuropathy for example. They have an odd way of adding them but you need a lot of conditions to add up to 100%.

There are lawyers that work with people to get pensions.

Posted by: javems at May 29, 2026 03:45 PM (zFsEm)

366 nood

hollyrooood!

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:45 PM (3uBP9)

367 Kurt is nevarr going to live that down

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 03:46 PM (bXbFr)

368 343 Barnacle Man will have a tough job standing apart in our Senate.

barnacle man
barnacle man
doing the things
a barnacle can

Posted by: anachronda at May 29, 2026 03:46 PM (v3pYe)

369 >> How does Blue Origin compare to the Soviet Moon rocket explosion?

N-1 explosion was 7 kT, and remains the biggest non-nuclear, man-made explosion in history.

Bezos Boom-Boom was 1 kT.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 03:46 PM (w6EFb)

370 THE BOSS HAS A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:47 PM (Ia/+0)

371 Its not on ewetub that I can find.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 03:47 PM (zZu0s)

372 I prefer clam farming.

Posted by: wth at May 29, 2026 03:48 PM (UjdFS)

373 The Port Chicago disaster was a massive munitions explosion on July 17, 1944, at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Concord, California (near Suisun Bay). The blast, caused by the detonation of approximately 2,000 tons of TNT equivalent in munitions being loaded onto the Liberty ship SS E.A. Bryan, killed 320 sailors and civilians instantly, making it the largest loss of life on U.S. soil during World War II.
Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:45 PM (BGLxh)

I recall a ship in an Italian harbor being hit by I think a german guided bomb that was full of poison gas munitions kept near the front in case the Axis went back on the overall reluctance to use poison in combat.

Had to be kept quiet about for a long time.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:49 PM (8avO+)

374 I guess I shouldn't have said anything. I understand that many people were legitimately injured. I said that from the start.

But I also know that, like most gov. programs, it is taken advantage of by those who are dishonest. The problem is that as soon as you point out fraud people get defensive. I am sorry I said what I said since I appreciate that any criticism is going to hurt people who were legitimately injured.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 29, 2026 03:22 PM

I didn't take it personal I just wanted to point out that there are tons of veterans that are legitimately drawing disability money from the VA due to injuries from their service.

And yes there are grifters and scammers just like every other government program that hands out money. It's just like any other benefit program, there are going to be people who scam the system. I will say the VA does the best job they can to make sure all claims are legitimate. And if they find someone who is scamming they will stop payments and get that money back. I knew one guy who was scamming and they found out and stopped his pay and had the irs go after him for the money that he had been paid.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 29, 2026 03:50 PM (0N4FZ)

375 I got tired of Hewitt years ago.

He always seemed like a Crypto-Democrat constantly pushing the GOP Weak-Sisters like Mutt Rombly or cucks like Corny.

Do. Not. Need.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 03:44 PM (iJfKG)

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I remember listening to his radio show 20 years ago and him singing the praises of the "severely conservative" Cheap Justice Benedict Roberts.

* sticks finger down throat *

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:50 PM (BGLxh)

376 Claims he was "sent" to war but enlisted DURING the war.

S
Dems gotta lie

Constantly

About everything

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at May 29, 2026 03:51 PM (61TgR)

377 Collins going to walk all over him.

I disagree with her a bunch for a republican, but she can triangulate better than most, and she is a pretty skilled politician. Now that the targets are set, he's going to get shown up on the regular.

Posted by: Black JEM at May 29, 2026 04:01 PM (GZYu7)

378 100% disability means you receive the maximum disability benefits from military. It doesn't mean you're a quadriplegic.

Posted by: MP2k2 at May 29, 2026 04:20 PM (B9Qbl)

379 Hey pal, I was 100% disabled and I worked! I have the surgical scars on my brain to prove I was disabled! Not a joke! My word as a Robinette!

Posted by: Joe B. from Scranton, Delaware at May 29, 2026 04:26 PM (5rh/l)

380 As a Desert Storm vet and vet of the 80s era Cold War...

Option 1

Dude is a failure in life and only has one avenue: grift. Because he see's an 18 yr old nail banger making $100K and he is too lazy; we owe it to him. Psycho.

Posted by: Danimal28 at May 29, 2026 04:32 PM (mNOhh)

381 Posting quite late but this might help with some 100% VA disability questions:

A 100% VA disability rating provides a tax-free base monthly compensation of $3,938.58. This basic amount increases if you have dependents (such as a spouse or children). Veteran with a spouse (no children): $4,158.88

Each child under 18: $76 to $109 depending on the combination of dependents.

>As a veteran with a 100% disability rating, you qualify for full healthcare coverage, specialized life insurance programs, and additional local tax relief:

Highest priority for medical care at all VA hospitals and clinics. You pay no copays or fees for inpatient care, outpatient care, or prescription medications.

You qualify for full, comprehensive VA dental coverage.

Your spouse and dependent children get health insurance through the VA Civilian Health and Medical Program (CHAMPVA). This pays for most of their medical costs and supplies.

Continued -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 05:50 PM (NFX2v)

382 You get guaranteed acceptance into the VALife Whole Life Insurance Program if you are age 80 or younger. You can buy up to $40,000 in coverage with no medical exam.

If you get a VA grant to adapt your home for a physical disability, VMLI can pay off your mortgage up to $200,000 if you pass away.

>Additional blessings from Maine -
Maine provides a $6,000 reduction in your home's assessed value for local property taxes. (Veterans with specially adapted housing can receive up to ($50,000).)

If you are 100% permanently and totally disabled, the state waives the motor vehicle excise tax for up to three vehicles you own.

Maine offers a 100% tuition and mandatory fee waiver for spouses and dependents of 100% permanently disabled veterans at all state universities, community colleges, and the Maine Maritime Academy.

You may be eligible for up to $2,000 in emergency financial assistance through the state for urgent needs like medical bills or home repairs.

Free Hunting and Fishing Licenses

If you require physical modifications to your home due to service-connected mobility issues, you can receive a grant of over $100,000 to remodel (kitchen, baths, or entryways).

Continued -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 05:50 PM (NFX2v)

383 >You qualify for several highly supportive home healthcare programs, caregiver stipends, and burial benefits at the 100% rating level:
Home Healthcare and Long-Term Support. Because you are enrolled in VA healthcare, several VA Long Term Care Services are included in your standard benefits package if a doctor determines you have a medical need for them.

Skilled Home Health Care: If you need professional medical help, the VA can send physical therapists or nurses to your house.

Veteran-Directed Care: This unique program gives you a monthly budget. You can use the money to hire your own personal care workers—including your own family members.

Respite Care: If a family member takes care of you, the VA will pay for a professional to step in. This gives your regular caregiver a helpful break.

Family Caregiver Monthly Stipend: Through the VA Family Caregiver Assistance Program, a designated family caregiver may receive a tax-free monthly financial stipend, health insurance, and mental health counseling.

Burial -
Free National and State Cemetery Burial
Burial Allowances (Private Cemetery)
Transportation Reimbursement for remains under some circumstances.

Back later.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 05:50 PM (NFX2v)

384 Veterans disability is a problem that will have to be addressed at some point, the fraud is rampant (but no where near the levels of somali home healthcares). My introduction to the topic is a guy making 6 figures and rated 100% disabled, he could squat about twice my max. The costs are ever increasing, the military doesn't particularly care about being good stewards of the publics money, "use it or lose" spending and zero concern for passing an audit ( every one failed so far). Freedom isn't free but frankly 2 oceans handles most of it. The genuine existential threat to freedom is the debt this country refuses to address.

Posted by: EzE at May 29, 2026 06:23 PM (pxzPN)

No One Believes Jill Biden's "Gaslighting" Campaign -- Especially Not the Leftwing Media Operatives and Democrats Who Conspired to Cover This Up, and Now Have Pretend They Were "Fooled" by a Conspiracy They Were Always Part of

The Bee:

Trump has Questions about "Doctor" Jill Biden's new op:

Fox News
@FoxNews
2h
JUST IN: President Trump launches a scathing attack on Jill Biden after she admitted that she thought her husband was having a "stroke" during their infamous 2024 presidential debate.
"She said that she thought he was having a 'stroke,' and various other really bad things, and yet never rushed onto the stage to help her troubled husband, as any good wife would do."
"As many have asked, did my strong performance in that debate cause him to, plain and simple, 'choke,' leading to his ignominious defeat, or were there other reasons? Nobody else knows the answer to that, BUT I DO!!!"

Leftwing CNN reporter: Jill Biden's story is "revisionist history," Democrat sources tell me she's lying and "gaslighting" the American voters now just as she did back then.

Dasha Burns
@DashaBurns
May 28
A former senior Biden campaign advisor tells me Jill Biden's comments are "revisionist history."
"She and a handful of other close advisors around President Biden kept gaslighting us, telling those of us on the campaign we were the ones who were wrong, and that he just had a 'bad night.' I think she saw the reputational harm this caused her and is therefore taking a new position."
@playbookdc

Politico's Alex Thompson, who had some low level of credibility on this for at least permitting the question of Biden's mental fitness, before throwing it away to co-write his book "exposing" this with Dementia Denier Jake the Fake Tapper:

Alex Thompson
@AlexThomp
One former Biden official reacts to this with just: "she's lying."

Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
What Alex is admitting here is that a former Biden official knew Biden was senile, but did not say it at the time, and is now calling Jill Biden "bullshit" for saying it now.
Alex, do you see how much this reflects badly on you for protecting this person so you could sell books?

First Democrats (including Democrat Comms Media) covered up Biden's senility. Then they covered up the cover up by demanding the story go away and no one search for accountability except from the Five Designated Fall-Guys, Biden, "Doctor" Jill, and his three most senior co-conspirators.

Democrats are angry that "Doctor" Jill is ruining their cover-up of the cover-up:

The media is pretending it's shocked and outraged about being "tricked" into repeating the Bidens' lies to the public every week for four years -- but will a single media interviewer ask "Doctor" Jill hard questions about why she didn't immediately drive Joe to the hospital if she had "never, ever" seen this behavior "before or since" and was "frightened" that he was "having a stroke" on stage?

In fact she immediately whisked the Shambling Withered Husk off to a post-debate rally and paraded his Grim Mockery of Human Life before a crowd of horrified spectators, telling him "Joe, you did great! You answered every question, you knew all the facts!"

If the media really want to prove they're not in on the con, they'll confront her.

It's not even necessary that they get her to agree to an interview. They can just send a question to her and her PR people asking them why she left Biden on stage to die of a stroke, and report her refusal to answer the question.

But.

They.

Will.

Not.

Because "journalists" have the same interest that the Democrat Party does -- they want to smother this fire, not add oxygen to it, to grant political cover and advantage to (you'll never guess!) the Democrat Party they all vote for and belong to and scheme behind-the-scenes with.

They were on it. Period. They supported the now-acknowledged lie for as long as was physically possible and then acted shocked and offended when the lie was exposed.

They will just continue passive-aggressively shunning the Bidens, hoping they will take the hint and stop embarrasing them by exposing their own complicity in the Cheapfake Op on the American public.

Rep. Adam Smith admits Democrats covered up Biden's mental decline:

�It was very clear, you know probably a couple of years out, that Joe Biden was not going to be a credible candidate president because of his age and declining health. In my mind that�s not even debatable�� pic.twitter.com/SXysuuQYT0
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 28, 2026

Even DEI Debbie now gets it, after lying about Cheapfakes and "misleading videos" for years:

Abby Phillip�s incredible journey on Joe Biden and the cognitive decline story:

June 17, 2024: Republicans are using misleading videos to weaponize questions about Biden� age.

June 28, 2024 (post-debate): Isn�t it possible that Biden�s age is affecting his ability to do the� pic.twitter.com/RXv7mBV1eQ
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 29, 2026

Even fired fatbody former CNN Thumb Christh Cthilitha gets it:

Jill Biden is one of the most horrible women ever to be First Lady.

Mystery solved.

It was never really a secret. https://t.co/1JEYnSAC89
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) May 29, 2026

Sonny Hostin, on the other hand, is still on Team "Doctor" Jill, though she does have some minor doubts.

Nicholas Fondacaro
@NickFondacaro
Sunny Hostin praise Jill Biden how she "stands by her man" but only now admits that they at The View had personally seen how Joe Biden "faltered" and "lost his train of thought and she [Jill] will jump right in" to save him.
"But, i have to say, I'm a little disappointed in the fact that she was living with Joe Biden, she must have seen some of his decline. She must have seen it," Hostin declared.

This is about the take of the entire view-- they're all still on Team "Doctor" Jill but are disappointed she missed the signs of Biden's decline.

Nicholas Fondacaro
@NickFondacaro
1h
The View defends Jill Biden's flip-flopping about her husband's condition post-debate in a CBS interview. Without address Jill saying she thought Joe had a stroke but didn't take him to a hospital, Ana Navarro says she was being a good wife and believes what she said in the interview:
JOY BEHAR: So, why do you think she's saying this now? She didn't say it then. What do you make of this whole thing?
ANA NAVARRO: People lie after debates. Right? It's called spinning. Every time -- I have seen debates where there's clearly one candidate who has bombed and next thing you know you get the press, 'so-and-so won the debate handily.'
She's not going to going to say, 'Joe, you bombed!' You know, he was still running.
BEHAR: What would you have said if you were her?
NAVARRO: 'Joe, you did great!' I mean, if it's your husband running for president.
BEHAR: She did what she thought she was doing.
NAVARRO: I think she was doing what a political spouse and what somebody supporting her husband - at that point they didn't know he was going to continue running or not, he was still running.
I - you know, I believe her because I think -- I believe her in this interview. I think Jill Biden is a truthful person and I also think -- I suspect she's watched it a lot of times since, which is different than watching it in real time when you watch -- like we just watched it right now and both said, this is painful to watch.
BEHAR: It was painful to watch.

The View remains, if you can believe it, dumber than mud that's been fucked by retards.

Jill Biden was SO concerned her husband had a stroke during the debate she started a �4 more years� chant right after. What a power hungry sociopath. pic.twitter.com/kwpmnjVO3v
— Jimmy Failla (@jimmyfailla) May 27, 2026

The corrupt communist media that covered for Biden's dementia for five years now demands we examine Trump's non-dementia:

Absolute masterpiece. pic.twitter.com/EBEJCrnobs
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 29, 2026

That's the fired over-the-top Democrat shill Margaret Sullivan, who was shitcanned by the Washington Post because she was so embarrassingly Yay Feminism! Yay Democrats! Yay Transgenders! that she destroyed the credibility of everyone in a two-mile radius.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:15 PM

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1 Leftwing CNN reporter: Jill Biden's story is "revisionist history," Democrat sources tell me she's lying and "gaslighting" the American voters now just as she did back then.

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"But all the other Democrats are always telling the truth about obviously untruthful things."
-leftwing CNN reporter

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:18 PM (7RBt4)

2 Dr. Jill, LOL, now just Jill.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 01:18 PM (73/SM)

3 I think there's a high probability that after Joe croaks, Jill will pickle him, have him carved up and sell of the pieces as collectibles.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 29, 2026 01:18 PM (Sco7b)

4 Jill should have gone up there and escorted him from the stage, during the debate. Imagine PDJT's reaction heh.

Posted by: Joemarine at May 29, 2026 01:19 PM (y171U)

5 That's E. Jean Carroll woman! No? huh...look alike they do

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 01:19 PM (GD0B3)

6 They were on it. Period. They supported the now-acknowledged lie for as long as was physically possible and then acted shocked and offended when the lie was exposed.

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"But they're not in on any other lie. It was just that one time."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:19 PM (7RBt4)

7 I can't help thinking that Jill is somehow the sacrificial lamb, here.

This allows the DNC and the media to distance itself from the "deception" of the Biden white house.

Just in time for the new fraudulent elections.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:20 PM (Fi81e)

8 I liked The Strokes. Decent guitarist. Haven't released any new music in a while.

Posted by: fly gal at May 29, 2026 01:20 PM (+8HoB)

9 Dr. Jill, LOL, now just Jill.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 01:18 PM (73/SM)
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That's how you always know that the long knives have turned.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:21 PM (Fi81e)

10 This is how good we've got it, how slow the news is: we're talking about King Pantsshitter and his wife Frau Doktor Professor Jill.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 01:21 PM (Y6K7e)

11 "This is the sharpest Biden ever."

Morning Joe, like a week before the debate.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 01:21 PM (Kdi1r)

12 Oh boy, more "Doktor" Jill.

Just what we've always wanted.

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 01:22 PM (FpHTM)

13 Tapioca!

Posted by: Shambling Withered Husk at May 29, 2026 01:22 PM (wVcYX)

14 Her leftwing "interviewer" believed her, and nodded her head in sympathy and agreement.

Posted by: M. Gaga at May 29, 2026 01:22 PM (KiBMU)

15 Lamestream media at the time said the Biden Trump debate was a draw. LOL

Posted by: Joemarine at May 29, 2026 01:22 PM (y171U)

16 Remember when the View ladies said DOCTOR JILL should be the Surgeon General? Good times.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 01:23 PM (2ocoG)

17 7 I can't help thinking that Jill is somehow the sacrificial lamb, here.

This allows the DNC and the media to distance itself from the "deception" of the Biden white house.

Just in time for the new fraudulent elections.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:20 PM (Fi81e)

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There are moments when obvious lies tear the blindfolds off of people.

Those who saw through the media's shilling for Democrats at that moment...most of them don't go back.

Any attempt to regain ground is really just a salve for the people who refuse to accept what they already know, the ones who have to justify continued believe in the media because they know something's wrong but can't or won't admit it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:23 PM (7RBt4)

18 Different strokes for different folks, ehh Dr Jiill?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 01:23 PM (2WIwB)

19 Takes out voice recorder. Hits rewind for a split second. Hits play.

"I don't really care, Margaret"

Hits rewind again so it's setup for the next time.

Posted by: banana Dream - different Margaret, but it's still very useful at May 29, 2026 01:23 PM (3uBP9)

20 ...I think she saw the reputational harm this caused her and is therefore taking a new position."

As some other super smart person once said "What difference at this point does it make?" Why should DOCTOR Jill give a crap about her reputation? She has nothing to sell any more.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 01:23 PM (vTZFs)

21 Her leftwing "interviewer" believed her, and nodded her head in sympathy and agreement.
Posted by: M. Gaga at May 29, 2026 01:22 PM (KiBMU)
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That's probably part of the con the DNC is pulling on Jill Biden.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:23 PM (Fi81e)

22 I replaced the DEI Debbie vid with one showing her "evolution" on the question of Cheapfakes and "Misleading videos."

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 01:23 PM (1wjle)

23 22 I replaced the DEI Debbie vid with one showing her "evolution" on the question of Cheapfakes and "Misleading videos."

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 01:23 PM (1wjle)

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Only misinformation experts are allowed to do such things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:24 PM (7RBt4)

24 I sometimes like to stroke out IYKWM.

Posted by: Graham Porto-Platner at May 29, 2026 01:24 PM (gKWVE)

25 This is how good we've got it, how slow the news is: we're talking about King Pantsshitter and his wife Frau Doktor Professor Jill.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 01:21 PM (Y6K7e)

We didn't get a harrumph out of this guy!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 29, 2026 01:24 PM (dK+Kv)

26 The Bidens are a family full of people that serve as nothing but an example that makes actual trailer trash go: "SEE!"

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 01:24 PM (oqH4h)

27 Joe and Jill went up the hill,
To fetch a pail of water;
Joe fell down, and broke his crown,
And Jill said: "Oh fucking whatever"

Posted by: wth at May 29, 2026 01:24 PM (UjdFS)

28 26 The Bidens are a family full of people that serve as nothing but an example that makes actual trailer trash go: "SEE!"

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 01:24 PM (oqH4h)

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According to anonymous sources, Jill and Hunter had sex on Beau's corpse at his funeral.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:25 PM (7RBt4)

29 #BelieveFormerFirstLadies

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 29, 2026 01:25 PM (KsNkq)

30 She really is a nasty piece of work.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 01:25 PM (2WIwB)

31 Jill, in the car, after the debate. "Joe, let's face the facts. I gave you a nasal swab with some of that shit Hunter had and it didn't bump you. Maybe you stroked out up there. Look, we're going to the Waffle House, so none of that N word stuff. Have a patty melt, grin and wave like a good boy. Oh, Joe, let me give you a shot of Febreeze. I think it happened again."

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 29, 2026 01:25 PM (gm9Sb)

32 This DOKTOR Jill person. Sheesh!

Posted by: Joe Isuzu at May 29, 2026 01:25 PM (wVcYX)

33 >>>8 I liked The Strokes. Decent guitarist. Haven't released any new music in a while.

I liked the one song a lot, but didn't really love anything else.

There's this two-girl band from Argentina called Pacifica who LOVES the Strokes and who does covers of half of their songs.

Here's a band that was recommended by, I think, Justin Hawkins of The Darkness. The Cardiacs. They went nowhere but this song is good.

https://youtu.be/9rWhDsk4K18?
si=svZCeAMSQXtc4tyW

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 01:25 PM (1wjle)

34 Think of it: a national election was stolen and a mentally-impaired puppet was installed as President

a faceless cabal exercised power behind the scenes, and ruthlessly pursued its political enemies, while flooding the country with 'new voters'

...and they got away with it.

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 01:26 PM (ZxPkt)

35 24 I sometimes like to stroke out IYKWM.
Posted by: Graham Porto-Platner at May 29, 2026 01:24 PM (gKWVE)
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Go on...

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at May 29, 2026 01:26 PM (oqH4h)

36 As some other super smart person once said "What difference at this point does it make?" Why should DOCTOR Jill give a crap about her reputation? She has nothing to sell any more.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 01:23 PM (vTZFs)

Hmmm. What about on Only Fans?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 29, 2026 01:27 PM (g8Ew8)

37 Now Have to Show How Offended They Are That They Were "Fooled" by a Conspiracy They Were Always P

I'm just going to assume Ace meant the next letters to be "E-N-I-S".

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 01:27 PM (2ocoG)

38 34 Think of it: a national election was stolen and a mentally-impaired puppet was installed as President

a faceless cabal exercised power behind the scenes, and ruthlessly pursued its political enemies, while flooding the country with 'new voters'

...and they got away with it.

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 01:26 PM (ZxPkt)

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The point of such schemes is to retain power beyond a single, predetermined term of power.

It's not to graft and throw a country into chaos for 4 years and then hand everything back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:27 PM (7RBt4)

39 So, if you're reading the tea leaves, this is all Team Kamala:

See, if Joe would have left the race earlier* she would have won, so it's only fair to give her another chance.
She deserves a full campaign season.
Where she is properly positioned for success.

*that would be all of ... three weeks earlier. Because nobody but nobody was calling for Joe to drop out before the debate.
My pre-debate favorite was "Lil' Talarico," Harry Sisson giggling and snorting how Joe was going to crush Trump in the debate.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 01:27 PM (73/SM)

40 Damn Minx.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 01:27 PM (2ocoG)

41
I could'a been first loser! And morally obligated ot "nood, y'all'.

For those of you non-veterans....this is how a proper e4 mafioso shams...

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 29, 2026 01:27 PM (1xk0I)

42 I figure that the DNC worked her kind of like John Dean did Nixon: "Gee, sir the break-in will look bad for us, we need to cover this up."

Dean was definitely key to the fix to get Nixon. Probably a number of Nixon's advisors who "turned" on him were probably part of the fix.

Only it was, "You know what would help out the release of your memoirs? That the people believe you that you could not have seen this coming for Joe...."

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:27 PM (Fi81e)

43 Joe Biden's corvette has an eight stroke engine and it goes "vroom, vroom." You should hear it, Jack!

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 01:27 PM (1wjle)

44 Ian S., to the white courtesy barrel....

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 29, 2026 01:27 PM (wtvvX)

45 I love Trump's comment. It is so Trump.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 01:27 PM (xcxpd)

46 I thirst.
-- The Barrel

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 01:27 PM (77rzZ)

47 Strokin' to the East
Strokin' to the West
Strokin' out on stage
Is what he do best

Joe be strokin'!

Posted by: New Zombie Clarence Carter at May 29, 2026 01:27 PM (wVcYX)

48 Think of it: a national election was stolen and a mentally-impaired puppet was installed as President

a faceless cabal exercised power behind the scenes, and ruthlessly pursued its political enemies, while flooding the country with 'new voters'

...and they got away with it.
Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 01:26 PM (ZxPkt)

***

Excellent summary.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 01:28 PM (2WIwB)

49 "Fishnets" would never lie, would she?

Posted by: mr tmz at May 29, 2026 01:28 PM (rJ48h)

50 39 So, if you're reading the tea leaves, this is all Team Kamala:

See, if Joe would have left the race earlier* she would have won, so it's only fair to give her another chance.
She deserves a full campaign season.
Where she is properly positioned for success.

*that would be all of ... three weeks earlier. Because nobody but nobody was calling for Joe to drop out before the debate.
My pre-debate favorite was "Lil' Talarico," Harry Sisson giggling and snorting how Joe was going to crush Trump in the debate.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 01:27 PM (73/SM)

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Well, this has been the common pro-Kamala refraid since November of 2024.

It was the point of her book, 107 Days, and it's the most common refrain from supporters when they get asked why Kamala should run again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:28 PM (7RBt4)

51 43 Joe Biden's corvette has an eight stroke engine and it goes "vroom, vroom." You should hear it, Jack!
Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 01:27 PM (1wjle)

*Billy Squier has entered the chat*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 01:28 PM (xcxpd)

52 They aren't even interested in a plea deal. That's either a suicide pact or

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 29, 2026 01:28 PM (YlWIZ)

53 "I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME, IAN S.!!!!"

Posted by: The Barrel at May 29, 2026 01:28 PM (wtvvX)

54 As some other super smart person once said "What difference at this point does it make?" Why should DOCTOR Jill give a crap about her reputation? She has nothing to sell any more.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 01:23 PM (vTZFs)

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Her memoirs are in the works--I think June.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:29 PM (Fi81e)

55 Well if Jill is experiencing the FNM turning on her I guess that is a tiny bit of karma.

The odd thing is the FNM could have picked a not horrible candidate in 2019-2020 and pushed them heavily as they did for Barky in 2007-2008. But they chose not to. Perhaps the word came down that the DS didn't have enough leverage over the other candidates, or Joe and Jill knew too much and would expose things if the commiecrats tried to cut them out.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 29, 2026 01:29 PM (AOl+5)

56 45 I love Trump's comment. It is so Trump.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 01:27 PM (xcxpd)

====

If you love it so much, why don't you marry it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:29 PM (7RBt4)

57 *Billy Squier has entered the chat*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 01:28 PM (xcxpd)
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Has he danced around like a poof, yet?

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:29 PM (Fi81e)

58
In this particular case, I believe Dr Jill Biden.

Right before the debate began, President Joe Biden was heard singing in his best Billy Squier imitation:

"Stroke me, Stroke me
Stroke! Stroke!"

And apparently it worked.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 01:30 PM (iJfKG)

59 Q: Did you hear the joke about the gas lighter?
A: No, what is it?
Q: You already heard it.
A: No, what is the joke about the gas lighter?
Q: What do you mean, there is no joke.
A: You just said there was!
Q: You are crazy

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 01:30 PM (rbvCR)

60 Patriot Act, do your stuff. Either all that SIGINT is there like we were told or

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 29, 2026 01:30 PM (YlWIZ)

61 Two problems for people like the Bidens is 1) that they were able to trade their knowledge of and involvement in criminal acts for power based on a future value of more criminal acts. Because there is a balance there. Your involvement is a liability that can be easily solved by your non-existence. But if you provide additional value beyond your liability in the form of future underhanded deals then it extends your clock. 2) they are very stupid and dropped the ball on their future worth and in the balance are now mostly a liability that needs solved.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 01:30 PM (3uBP9)

62 "Fishnets" would never lie, would she?

Hips don't lie. I'm not sure if there's been a ruling on fishnets.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 01:30 PM (2ocoG)

63 Billy Squier does not deserve to be linked to Joe Biden like this. It's a shonda.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 01:30 PM (1wjle)

64 >>>62 "Fishnets" would never lie, would she?

FENCEnets, Jack! The even trashier cousin of fishnets!

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 01:31 PM (1wjle)

65
Takes out voice recorder. Hits rewind for a split second. Hits play.
"I don't really care, Margaret"
Hits rewind again so it's setup for the next time.
Posted by: banana Dream

Questions your sobriety from the previous time you used the clipboard to do this...

Shouldn't the recorder be primed for use?

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 29, 2026 01:31 PM (1xk0I)

66 (no shade intended to either fencenets or fishnets. Trashy can be pretty awesome in the right context)

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 01:31 PM (1wjle)

67 Well if Jill is experiencing the FNM turning on her I guess that is a tiny bit of karma.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 29, 2026 01:29 PM (AOl+5)
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Not really, because the media is so much more complicit in all of the Democrat party's success in fooling Americans.

Joe's shot. There isn't a whole lot more than Jill can do to you. Meanwhile the media is taking a breather for their next assault. And spinning the line that though they were soldiers marching to the "Sharp as ever" campaign, they were taken totally unawares by Joe's decline, Honest Injun.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:32 PM (Fi81e)

68 So, if you're reading the tea leaves, this is all Team Kamala:

See, if Joe would have left the race earlier* she would have won, so it's only fair to give her another chance.

That makes sense (of a sort, I guess) for her but what's in it for Jill? It's not like they were ever friends or anything.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 01:32 PM (vTZFs)

69 during our spectacular, and highly rated, 2024 Presidential Debate

Combined with "spectacular", that parenthetical cracks me up.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at May 29, 2026 01:32 PM (qivay)

70 She really is a nasty piece of work.
Posted by: Diogenes
......

Matriarch of the Biden Crime and Incest Family

Posted by: wth at May 29, 2026 01:33 PM (UjdFS)

71 Alexander Butterfield, John Dean, Liddy, kind oof like a hormonal cascade.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 29, 2026 01:33 PM (YlWIZ)

72 >>>62 "Fishnets" would never lie, would she?

FENCEnets, Jack! The even trashier cousin of fishnets!
Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 01:31 PM (1wjle)

This gone be serious.

Posted by: Morris Day at May 29, 2026 01:33 PM (wVcYX)

73 It's not lying if it serves the goal of retaining and growing power. Don't you rubes know anything?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 01:33 PM (Dv3i1)

74 Here's a band that was recommended by, I think, Justin Hawkins of The Darkness. The Cardiacs. They went nowhere but this song is good.

https://youtu.be/9rWhDsk4K18?
si=svZCeAMSQXtc4tyW
Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 01:25 PM (1wjle)
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Thanks for the recommendation, Ace. That's a trippy tune. I like it.

Posted by: fly gal at May 29, 2026 01:34 PM (+8HoB)

75 >>>Thanks for the recommendation, Ace. That's a trippy tune. I like it.

np. there's a video version but the sound quality is lame.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 01:34 PM (1wjle)

76 "We beat Medicare!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 29, 2026 01:34 PM (TZz9Q)

77
This is about the take of the entire view-- they're all still on Team "Doctor" Jill but are disappointed she missed the signs of Biden's decline._/i]

'Xcuse me for whippin' this out, but does not this call into question WhoPeed's assertion that "Doctor" Jill was "a great doctor and would make a fantastic Sturgeon General"?

It smells to me like it does. Just sayin'

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 29, 2026 01:34 PM (IWEBk)

78 I see the media going after the Biden's as a big "See!!! We treat every side equally!"

You cannot hate them enough.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 01:34 PM (2WIwB)

79 Kamala found the stupid threshhold between state and federal. Now they have to cap it.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 29, 2026 01:35 PM (YlWIZ)

80 54 As some other super smart person once said "What difference at this point does it make?" Why should DOCTOR Jill give a crap about her reputation? She has nothing to sell any more.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 01:23 PM (vTZFs)

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Her memoirs are in the works--I think June.
Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:29 PM (Fi81e)

And OnlyFans can also tide her over. I hope she doesn't ruin green dildos for us.

As a caregiver for years, this kind of pisses me off as I think about it more. No, if you give a damn, you notice every small change, you're hyper-alert as if you have a newborn.

It eventually blends together but still. What a sub-human bitch. On the plus side, Joe got what he deserved.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 29, 2026 01:35 PM (Sco7b)

81 The leftists are screaming " Trump has dementia" much louder than before. They think volume will drown out Dr Jill

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 01:35 PM (SW0z7)

82 Hey, I was pretty sharp!

Posted by: Presidential Autopen at May 29, 2026 01:35 PM (Dv3i1)

83 Any attempt to regain ground is really just a salve for the people who refuse to accept what they already know, the ones who have to justify continued believe in the media because they know something's wrong but can't or won't admit it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:23 PM (7RBt4)
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Unfortunately, the catch-up doesn't happen fast enough, though.

As Keynes said, in the long run, we're all dead.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:35 PM (Fi81e)

84 >>> Shouldn't the recorder be primed for use?
Posted by: BifBewalski at May 29, 2026 01:31 PM (1xk0I)

What is this? A time travel movie plot? Ok ok... I'll put in a flashback where I show how I was going to prime the recorder that time but I was attacked by a flock of pterodactyls which distracted me and I didn't have enough time. I'll actually make that a major plot point now. Yeah! Now it's a buddy movie with pterodactyls! So there!

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 01:35 PM (3uBP9)

85 "But all the other Democrats are always telling the truth about obviously untruthful things."
-leftwing CNN reporter
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For the Prog/Left/Dems 'Truth' is highly malleable, merely a convenient and useful construct. Recall Biden intoning 'We believe in truth, not facts'. The guy should have been roasted by the media for that, but...no.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2026 01:35 PM (XeU6L)

86 BEHAR: She did what she thought she was doing.

that's right up there with "we are the change we're waiting for"

Posted by: anachronda at May 29, 2026 01:36 PM (v3pYe)

87 83 As Keynes said, in the long run, we're all dead.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:35 PM (Fi81e)

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Speak for yourself.

I plan to live forever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:36 PM (7RBt4)

88
A former senior Biden campaign advisor tells me Jill Biden's comments are "revisionist history."

==============

I've seen a few anonymous sources close to the administration, close to the campaign, etc saying these things. Not exactly public servants.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 01:36 PM (n7rxJ)

89 Next she'll be telling us he was pruning the hedge, not stuck in it.

Posted by: wth at May 29, 2026 01:36 PM (UjdFS)

90 lol bad news kammie

ya got some Biden on ya

that stuff does NOT come off

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 01:37 PM (j+aD2)

91 I plan to live forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Hey, Everyone! TJM is Glenn Reynolds!

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 01:37 PM (77rzZ)

92 66 (no shade intended to either fencenets or fishnets. Trashy can be pretty awesome in the right context)
Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 01:31 PM (1wjle)

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A woman that can pull off trashy AND classy...

Posted by: Josephistan at May 29, 2026 01:37 PM (y9ksN)

93 91 I plan to live forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Hey, Everyone! TJM is Glenn Reynolds!

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 01:37 PM (77rzZ)

=======

Commander William Riker, actually.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:37 PM (7RBt4)

94 What's the point of all this? To try to generate some fugazi buzz for this filthy whore's book?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 01:37 PM (iFTx/)

95 DOCTOR Jill is too stupid to stick with the 'He was jet-lagged and had a cold' excuse? She is more stupid than I believed possible for any mammal.

Did the publisher's PR department suggest the 'I thought he was having a stroke!" crap? If so they are almost as stupid as Jill.

I cannot imagine the chaos behind closed doors at the White House and Joe's homes in New Jersey. Constant worrying about what Joe could and could not do in various necessary and optional public settings. Intense planning for each and every one of Joe's public appearances. Doctors participating in every worrying and planning session.

It's almost beyond belief that DOCTOR Jill and the other Handlers let Joe push for a June debate and let him actually do it. They must have mentally plotted Joe's rate of mental decline, then determined they had to get a debate done ASAP. Then they would refuse to do any more. They gambled and lost.

Posted by: Gref at May 29, 2026 01:37 PM (5rh/l)

96 also all the lefties lie

so it's basically impossible to try to follow any of this

they're all just stupid liars who lie even when they don't have to

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 01:37 PM (j+aD2)

97 The Dims haven't done this much gaslighting since their first night of community college

regardless.......the party of abortion and assassination to poised to take eviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil (said in my best Harvey Korman accent) to a new level

Posted by: I weep for humanity at May 29, 2026 01:37 PM (jrgJz)

98 94 What's the point of all this? To try to generate some fugazi buzz for this filthy whore's book?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 01:37 PM (iFTx/)

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It's not like the DNC is going to buy a million copies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:38 PM (7RBt4)

99 94 What's the point of all this? To try to generate some fugazi buzz for this filthy whore's book?

that fam really really loved the spotlight

did we cover Hunt's interview with whatshername, tuckers friend?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 01:38 PM (j+aD2)

100 It was the point of her book, 107 Days, and it's the most common refrain from supporters when they get asked why Kamala should run again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:28 PM (7RBt4)
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If she'd had more than 107 days, she would have lost by a bigger margin.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 29, 2026 01:38 PM (TZz9Q)

101 The spin on this is going to eventually be, "Well, Trump is old too! We need to make sure we don't make this mistake again!"

Posted by: pookysgirl will bet on this at May 29, 2026 01:38 PM (Wt5PA)

102 100 If she'd had more than 107 days, she would have lost by a bigger margin.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 29, 2026 01:38 PM (TZz9Q)

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I'm sorry, but if you can't take her Black Girl Magic, then you've done a racism and you need to be better, senator.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:39 PM (7RBt4)

103
The View remains, if you can believe it, dumber than mud that's been fucked by retards.

"Mud Babies of The View -- Gotta Collect 'Em All!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 29, 2026 01:39 PM (IWEBk)

104 Poor Jill. Michelle Obama, the black Jackie O, is a hard act to follow.

Posted by: davidt at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (Q+gd/)

105 101 The spin on this is going to eventually be, "Well, Trump is old too! We need to make sure we don't make this mistake again!"

Posted by: pookysgirl will bet on this at May 29, 2026 01:38 PM (Wt5PA)

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1. They're already doing it.

2. Vance is in his 40s and Kamala is in her 60s.

Not that the media will treat the whole ageism thing consistently at all, ever, instead of just as a convenient cudgel from time to time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (7RBt4)

106 >>>101 The spin on this is going to eventually be, "Well, Trump is old too! We need to make sure we don't make this mistake again!"

Eventually? It's going on right now, Jack!

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (1wjle)

107 Just looking at Jill Biden makes my skin crawl

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (26GAh)

108 >>> I plan to live forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Hey, Everyone! TJM is Glenn Reynolds!
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 01:37 PM (77rzZ)

You'll need to put a fitbit on your boner now.

Posted by: Bryan Johnson at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (3uBP9)

109 This is damage repair. And they convinced Jill Biden to throw herself in front of the bus, unknowing that they would all denounce the revisionism, so that they can shift the picture to the DNC-media as the bystanders, who should not be punished by the Biden Whitehouse's deception.

The way that Abby Phillip was bold enough to call it, repeatedly "deception", indicates to me that "deception"--and scape-goating--is in the talking points.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (Fi81e)

110 I love Jill tho

she's perfect to use as an example of how truly stupid people can be really cunning at the same time

see also: Barry Soetero

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (j+aD2)

111 The spin on this is going to eventually be, "Well, Trump is old too! We need to make sure we don't make this mistake again!"

I must reluctantly admit that maybe Trump should not run again in 2028.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (vTZFs)

112 I plan to live forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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I'm going to live until I die!

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (Fi81e)

113 Edith Wilson her guiding light

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (Kt19C)

114 The media is 100% pro-democrat and anti-Trump propaganda 24/7. Worse than whores, they do it for free. I celebrate when reporters get laid off or fired now. They are my sworn enemies.

Posted by: Biergood at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (PwgSL)

115 Do I need to remind y'all, before you start dissing former FLOTUS Brandon, that she is a DOCTOR, and y'all are most likely not?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (0sNs1)

116 Salute the Marine!

Posted by: Shambling Withered Husk at May 29, 2026 01:41 PM (wVcYX)

117 111 The spin on this is going to eventually be, "Well, Trump is old too! We need to make sure we don't make this mistake again!"

I must reluctantly admit that maybe Trump should not run again in 2028.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (vTZFs)

=======

He promised to repeal the Sonny Bono Act, and he hasn't done it! It was a centerpiece of his entire campaign! He said it all the time!

I'm never voting for Trump again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:41 PM (7RBt4)

118 >>>A woman that can pull off trashy AND classy...

Demure... *and* slutty...

Posted by: Douglas Quaid at Rekall at May 29, 2026 01:41 PM (1wjle)

119 112 I plan to live forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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I'm going to live until I die!

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (Fi81e)

======

I'm going to have a near-death experience even if it kills me!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:41 PM (7RBt4)

120 “I have no idea what the hell he just said, in fact I don’t think he does”.

Posted by: Trumps Best Quotes at May 29, 2026 01:41 PM (i14TE)

121 I plan to live forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Best read Dean Swift's chapter on the Struldbrugs before you commit to that.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 29, 2026 01:41 PM (TZz9Q)

122 There's a pattern here.

Sorry ladies. Y'all are just way too emotional to be anywhere near levers of power or responsible for distributing information.

This country was was in full scale femme decline thanks to Twitter and other social media predominantly used by women.

An emotional rollercoaster where they only see the now. No. Past. No future. Just RIGHT NOW.

It's fundamentally flawed

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at May 29, 2026 01:42 PM (VhW9l)

123 Who wants to live forever?

Posted by: Crow from Kansas at May 29, 2026 01:42 PM (HcoTw)

124 123 Who wants to live forever?

Posted by: Crow from Kansas at May 29, 2026 01:42 PM (HcoTw)

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Apes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:42 PM (7RBt4)

125 I must reluctantly admit that maybe Trump should not run again in 2028.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (vTZFs)

Not me. Repeal the 22nd amendment!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 29, 2026 01:42 PM (26GAh)

126 >>> I plan to live forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Hey, Everyone! TJM is Glenn Reynolds!
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 01:37 PM (77rzZ)

You'll need to put a fitbit on your boner now.
Posted by: Bryan Johnson at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (3uBP9)

Minimum number of strokes per day? 1,000? 5,000? 10,000?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 01:43 PM (wVcYX)

127 I plan to live forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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The key is to arrest your current state. Just...stop aging.
Bwahahaha. Sorry. It's a joke among my age demographic.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2026 01:44 PM (XeU6L)

128 We all DO live forever.

The question is where.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 01:44 PM (77rzZ)

129 DOCTOR Jill is too stupid to stick with the 'He was jet-lagged and had a cold' excuse? She is more stupid than I believed possible for any mammal.

Did the publisher's PR department suggest the 'I thought he was having a stroke!" crap? If so they are almost as stupid as Jill.

Posted by: Gref at May 29, 2026 01:37 PM (5rh/l)
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I think they convinced her that looking like she could not have foreseen the debate meltdown would make her more credible for the book.

That's really what I heard in her new story.

But perhaps it was a DNC embed in the publisher/consultant staff.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:44 PM (Fi81e)

130 OT: I'm supposed to help park cars at our county fair this afternoon. Only one other person is signed up to help (we need 6 total) and right now it's pouring cats and dogs.

It's going to be a GLORIOUS failure, only superseded by FJB's spectacular failure at his last debate performance.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 01:44 PM (gnNyN)

131 Townhall shares a scoop from the Times (NY Times? dunno) - Trump is using revenue from national park visitor fees to fund his vanity projects in DC (reflecting pool, Columbus fountain), which, of course, are managed by the National Park service. Doesn't he know that money should be used to pay for Somalian fraud instead? IMPEACH!

https://tinyurl.com/2wkmckjz

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 01:44 PM (Dv3i1)

132 Diane Feinstein was incompetent and dying. Her staff was voting for her.

I could repeat this many times.

I think we’ll be ok.

Posted by: Trumps Best Quotes at May 29, 2026 01:44 PM (i14TE)

133 If she'd had more than 107 days, she would have lost by a bigger margin.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 29, 2026 01:38 PM (TZz9Q)

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I'm sorry, but if you can't take her Black Girl Magic, then you've done a racism and you need to be better, senator.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:39 PM (7RBt4)

Oh, no, you dint! Black Girl Magic my ass!

Kamala is BRAT!!!!

Why won't you people let Kamala have Brat Summer 2!!!

Why?!?!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 01:44 PM (iJfKG)

134 >Yeah, an' I like my women just a little on the trashy side,
When they wear their clothes too tight and their hair is dyed.
Too much lipstick an' er too much rouge,
Gets me excited, leaves me feeling confused.
An' I like my women just a little on the trashy side.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 29, 2026 01:45 PM (rJ48h)

135 Dr Jill could have done something worse than this. She could have gone on OnlyFans

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 01:45 PM (SW0z7)

136 Do I need to remind y'all, before you start dissing former FLOTUS Brandon, that she is a DOCTOR, and y'all are most likely not?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (0sNs1)

My sister has a doctorate of education (E.D.)… I have a PhD…. For years I’ve teased her that hers is not real. She knows it and doesn’t even get annoyed

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 29, 2026 01:45 PM (26GAh)

137
"She did what she thought she was doing."
-- Joy Behar

"Time for us to do what we have been doing."
-- Kamala Harris

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 01:45 PM (0sNs1)

138 Edith Wilson her guiding light
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

I'd like to think that Mrs. Wilson at least had some love and compassion for her husband.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 01:45 PM (77rzZ)

139 Simple reason why Jill didn’tnotice Joe's "decline" through an analogy:

Everybody sees when a career 350 hitter's performance starts to wane.

Who is going to be able to tell when a career .067 hitter starts losing it?

Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2026 01:45 PM (PMi3m)

140
Fishnets sure, but does she wear panties?

Get Hunter on the line, stat!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 29, 2026 01:46 PM (IWEBk)

141 in that 'four more years' video biden looks like he has no idea what's going on

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 29, 2026 01:46 PM (CWTWj)

142 Just use the war emperor fron 40 k

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 01:46 PM (bXbFr)

143 OT: I'm supposed to help park cars at our county fair this afternoon. Only one other person is signed up to help (we need 6 total) and right now it's pouring cats and dogs.

It's going to be a GLORIOUS failure, only superseded by FJB's spectacular failure at his last debate performance.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 01:44 PM (gnNyN)

Don’t ask George Costanza to help. These pretzels are making me thirsty!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 29, 2026 01:46 PM (26GAh)

144 Who wants to live forever?
Posted by: Crow from Kansas

https://tinyurl.com/ye4f6s32

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 29, 2026 01:47 PM (ftFVW)

145
fired over-the-top Democrat shill Margaret Sullivan, who was shitcanned by the Washington Post

================

Speaking of, Cecilia Vega has been shitcanned from 60 Minutes. She's one of the most annoying twinkies on the air.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 01:47 PM (n7rxJ)

146 OT: I'm supposed to help park cars at our county fair this afternoon. Only one other person is signed up to help (we need 6 total) and right now it's pouring cats and dogs.

It's going to be a GLORIOUS failure, only superseded by FJB's spectacular failure at his last debate performance.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 01:44 PM (gnNyN)

Get some homeless "urban outdoorsmen" to help?

Posted by: Kramer and Newman Enterprises at May 29, 2026 01:47 PM (wVcYX)

147 I love the HQ. Where else can I sock a creepy old AF looking tech mogul and his hobby of putting electronics on genitalia. Anywhere else that would require some convoluted series of quoting and wotnot. The HQ is kind of the Perl of the blogverse where it keeps the easy stuff easy, makes the hard things possible, and you might accidently explode the universe.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 01:47 PM (3uBP9)

148 Look at joe on that stage while she's talking, just vacant, and of course he was still prez for another 6 months, not that he was actually ever making decisions or was even elected mind you.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 01:47 PM (n5tGW)

149 Dear Bidens...how can we miss you if you won't go away?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 29, 2026 01:47 PM (kgE5c)

150 135 Dr Jill could have done something worse than this. She could have gone on OnlyFans

If buy that for a dollar

Posted by: Bixby Snyder at May 29, 2026 01:48 PM (HcoTw)

151 biden: if it's yellow bring it on, if it's brown let it go down

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 29, 2026 01:48 PM (CWTWj)

152 Get some homeless "urban outdoorsmen" to help?
Posted by: Kramer and Newman Enterprises at May 29, 2026 01:47 PM (wVcYX)

Only if they’re parking rickshaws…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 29, 2026 01:48 PM (26GAh)

153 148 Look at joe on that stage while she's talking, just vacant, and of course he was still prez for another 6 months, not that he was actually ever making decisions or was even elected mind you.

still shocking (kinda) that they yoinked the guy from running and replaced him BUT left him in office?!!

I mean but of course he was never leading anything but wow. Very brazen and open about it, huh Barry and pals?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 01:48 PM (j+aD2)

154 Whoopi started suspecting Biden’s cognitive decline in early 2021, when he didn’t name Dr. Jill as Surgeon General.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at May 29, 2026 01:48 PM (3R4l6)

155 According to anonymous sources, Jill and Hunter had sex on Beau's corpse at his funeral.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:25 PM (7RBt4)

A joke, but given Hunter's behavior with his sister-in-law and niece, I can see him being completely willing to do that. He seems like he was always compared to Beau while being stuck doing all the family's dirty work. Being able to literally "Screw Beau over" would likely appeal to him.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 01:48 PM (lFFaq)

156 re 147: solarbinite!

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 29, 2026 01:48 PM (CWTWj)

157 Dr Jill admitted that she was Edith Wilson to Joe Biden's Woodrow Wilson

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 01:49 PM (SW0z7)

158 151 biden: if it's yellow bring it on, if it's brown let it go down
____

Dad, how many times do I have to say this - No yellow!
-Hunter

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 01:49 PM (Dv3i1)

159 You'll need to put a fitbit on your boner now.
Posted by: Bryan Johnson at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (3uBP9)

Minimum number of strokes per day? 1,000? 5,000? 10,000?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 01:43 PM

Dude. It's a little late to be asking this now. International Masturbation Month is almost over!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 01:49 PM (0sNs1)

160 “ What is crooked cannot be straightened;
what is lacking cannot be counted.”

Ecclesiastes 1:15

Posted by: Marcus T at May 29, 2026 01:49 PM (UMWMT)

161 Jill Biden is going to run for office. I'm guessing Senator. Bank on it. She considers her recent statements and her new book a "house cleaning/ plausible deniability" exercise.

Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 01:49 PM (dIske)

162
"Doctor" Jill calls to mind this aphorism: "I like my women like I like my coffee -- scummy and depleted."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 29, 2026 01:50 PM (IWEBk)

163 Can you imagine the psychological break Democrats have when they underperform in November?

Seriously, there are 213 safe Republican seats now (it could go up to 215 with AL and LA). Democrats might get a majority of like 225 seats...tops...assuming they win every swing district (which doesn't happen, it didn't happen in 2018 with a D+9 environment).

And the Senate is more likely to be the same (53-45-2) next year than anything else.

Worst president in history, worst economy in history, worst and most unpopular war in history, and that's all they get?

Sure, they'll scream about gerrymandering, but the deflating nature of it all.

Now, imagine Republicans actually keep a bare majority in the House on top of that...

It will tickle me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:50 PM (7RBt4)

164 Dude. It's a little late to be asking this now. International Masturbation Month is almost over!
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Better get busy!

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 29, 2026 01:50 PM (ftFVW)

165 I see the media going after the Biden's as a big "See!!! We treat every side equally!"

You cannot hate them enough.

I interpret it as "Jill stuck her head up again and Kalorama ordered the kill shot". Because Obama *hates* the Bidens.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 01:51 PM (2ocoG)

166 8 I liked The Strokes. Decent guitarist. Haven't released any new music in a while.
Posted by: fly gal at May 29, 2026 01:20 PM (+8HoB)

Their album Reality Awaits releases next month. Singles from the album, Going Shopping and Falling Out of Love were released April 7 and May 13th.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2026 01:51 PM (PMi3m)

167
Brazen it out, Jill.

"I continued the post-debate campaign event because my husband's commitment to the American people was always more important to him than his health, and I was confident Iron Joe could play through it, just like his last stroke.

That's why everyone calls him Iron Joe. Word as a Biden."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 29, 2026 01:51 PM (sQnY9)

168 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 01:44 PM (gnNyN)

I hated how early Missouri's county fairs were. I was trying to get the kids to start in 4-H, but just couldn't get my head around the fairs being before June.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 01:51 PM (lFFaq)

169 Democrats will not get a House majority in November and what happens will defy statistics and the record.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 29, 2026 01:52 PM (UMWMT)

170 @159 it's always International Masturbation Monrh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 01:52 PM (SW0z7)

171 The HQ is kind of the Perl of the blogverse where it keeps the easy stuff easy, makes the hard things possible, and you might accidently explode the universe.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 01:47 PM

There's more than one way to do it!

Posted by: Perl Monks at May 29, 2026 01:52 PM (0sNs1)

172 Now, imagine Republicans actually keep a bare majority in the House on top of that...

It will tickle me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:50 PM (7RBt4)
________

The Blade has already gone on record that we will keep the House. Senate is ours easily. Hell, we may pick up a few seats in both chambers. I would love that for no other reason than just to see Dumocrap heads do a Scanners.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 01:52 PM (iFTx/)

173 Dear Bidens...how can we miss you if you won't go away?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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Neither will the Clintons or the Obamas.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2026 01:52 PM (XeU6L)

174
161 Jill Biden is going to run for office. I'm guessing Senator. Bank on it. She considers her recent statements and her new book a "house cleaning/ plausible deniability" exercise.
Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 01:49 PM

Who will finance her run? She can’t even raise $10 for a Joe Biden presidential bookmobile. She’s done, her whole family is done.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 01:53 PM (QDJ2U)

175 The HQ is kind of the Perl of the blogverse where it keeps the easy stuff easy, makes the hard things possible, and you might accidently explode the universe.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 01:47 PM (3uBP9)
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Nope, just the same figurehead for another 6 months.

The DC politburo was all that ever ruled in the Biden administration.

I remember it was sometime in 2020 when I said that Joe nor Kamala would ever *be* president.

But, I think early on that they decided that Kamala would take the title seriously and try to wrest power from the DC politburo, citing that she actually was in the office of the Chief Executive.

Which is why, IME, they never asked Joe to step down, and had to keep propping him up as secretly competent.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:53 PM (Fi81e)

176 Dude. It's a little late to be asking this now. International Masturbation Month is almost over!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 01:49 PM (0sNs1)

Start early each day, pace yourself, and remember to lube and hydrate often.

Posted by: Zombie Ernest Borgnine at May 29, 2026 01:53 PM (wVcYX)

177 Rewatch the debate. I’m still not convinced Trump did any better than Joe Biden. Trump just gets a pass for everything.

"Rewatch the debate." I'd rather stick hot needles in my eyes.

I told my brother at the time they could have sat Biden up on stage in a lawn chair with sunglasses and I would have voted for him. My brother found that shocking, but at this point I feel pretty validated.

Trump guy is just jealous of people with better lives and families than himself. The Bidens are happily married, while the thrice divorced kid diddling rapist's illegal immigrant escort wife that recoils when he touches her lives apart.

I'm jealous of Jill Biden. I wish I could be more like her. She is 74 years old and still truly gorgeous inside and out. Trump is jealous because she is a real role model.

I don't understand. Democrats saw Biden was slipping and MADE HIM STEP DOWN.,Why is Trump still harping on it? Given the state of his dementia-ridden brain, why the fuck wouldn't they just stop the comparisons? It only makes them look bad!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 29, 2026 01:53 PM (JCZqz)

178
That makes sense (of a sort, I guess) for her but what's in it for Jill? It's not like they were ever friends or anything.
Posted by: Oddbob

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Her book comes out in a few days.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 01:53 PM (n7rxJ)

179 Anywhere else that would require some convoluted series of quoting and wotnot.

No matter what you're talking about someone here knows it cold. Because conservatives are the people who keep the lights on in every field.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 01:54 PM (2ocoG)

180 170 @159 it's always International Masturbation Monrh
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 01:52 PM (SW0z7)

November?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 01:54 PM (DR/Xu)

181 @159 it's always International Masturbation Monrh
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 01:52 PM (SW0z7)
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And we never listened to Masturbatin' Pete while we had him with us.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:54 PM (Fi81e)

182 124 123 Who wants to live forever?

Posted by: Crow from Kansas at May 29, 2026 01:42 PM (HcoTw)

======

Apes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:42 PM (7RBt4)

THAT'S A STARSHIP TROOPERS REFERENCE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 01:54 PM (xcxpd)

183 "Rewatch the debate." I'd rather stick hot needles in my eyes.

heh

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 01:54 PM (j+aD2)

184 @159 it's always International Masturbation Monrh
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 01:52 PM

Perhaps, in practice, with the exception of November "No Fap" Month, but try finding a card to celebrate it in a Hallmark store after May.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 01:54 PM (0sNs1)

185 172 The Blade has already gone on record that we will keep the House. Senate is ours easily. Hell, we may pick up a few seats in both chambers. I would love that for no other reason than just to see Dumocrap heads do a Scanners.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 01:52 PM (iFTx/)

======

Democrats are going to dump so much cash into Maine and Texas that GA and NC and MI are going to get underfunded comparatively.

Even in 2018, the GOP gained 3 Senate seats in a D+9 environment.

Senate maps and races are...peculiar.

Should be fun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:55 PM (7RBt4)

186 Now, imagine Republicans actually keep a bare majority in the House on top of that...

It will tickle me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

But if Thune is still in charge, will the tickling be wholesome? Show me on the doll where the GOPe tickled you.

That was kinda defeatist. I'll try to adjust my attitude.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 29, 2026 01:55 PM (ftFVW)

187 And we never listened to Masturbatin' Pete while we had him with us.

To be fair, it turns out he would've just told us to keep Jew hands off our cranks.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 01:55 PM (2ocoG)

188 The case for the Democrats taking the Senate rested on the assumption that Talarico was a Wonderful True Christian that every Texan would love to vote for.

Cornyn and Thune pushed that idea as much as anyone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 01:55 PM (QDJ2U)

189 Didja see this?

We know what he said as Jill led him off the stage: “I really f**ked up, didn’t I?” said Joe at the time. Jill was blunt in her response: “Yes, you did.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026 01:56 PM (ndZc7)

190 177 Trump guy is just jealous of people with better lives and families than himself. The Bidens are happily married, while the thrice divorced kid diddling rapist's illegal immigrant escort wife that recoils when he touches her lives apart.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 29, 2026 01:53 PM (JCZqz)

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Weird how this person fails to mention how Biden's first wife committed suicide because Joe was boinking Jill.

Or how Hunter and Jill literally loathe each other.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:56 PM (7RBt4)

191 Why won't you people let Kamala have Brat Summer 2!!!
Why?!?!
Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 01:44 PM (iJfKG)

because the only thing that will make an impression on her anymore are schnitzengruben

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 01:56 PM (rbvCR)

192 Just think for a second what it takes to call Jill beautiful and Melania ugly.

You don’t have to know another thing to realize the levels of delusion that permeate the Democrats.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 29, 2026 01:56 PM (UMWMT)

193 182 Apes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:42 PM (7RBt4)

THAT'S A STARSHIP TROOPERS REFERENCE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 01:54 PM (xcxpd)

========

A reference? What is it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:57 PM (7RBt4)

194 But if Thune is still in charge, will the tickling be wholesome? Show me on the doll where the GOPe tickled you.

That was kinda defeatist. I'll try to adjust my attitude.
Posted by: She Hobbit at May 29, 2026 01:55 PM (ftFVW)

Thune is now realizing that next session, Cornyn, Cassidy, Tillis, and McConnell are already gone. That changes a lot of things.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 01:57 PM (QDJ2U)

195 it's always International Masturbation Month

I'm Out!

Posted by: Kramer at May 29, 2026 01:58 PM (n5tGW)

196 “ What is crooked cannot be straightened;
what is lacking cannot be counted.”

Ecclesiastes 1:15
Posted by: Marcus T at May 29, 2026 01:49 PM (UMWMT)
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That is not dead
Which can eternal lie

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:58 PM (Fi81e)

197 >>> Perhaps, in practice, with the exception of November "No Fap" Month, but try finding a card to celebrate it in a Hallmark store after May.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 01:54 PM (0sNs1)

I believe that NoJack is held a bit later in June using the Eastern Orthodox calendar so you may still be in luck.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 01:58 PM (3uBP9)

198 186 But if Thune is still in charge, will the tickling be wholesome? Show me on the doll where the GOPe tickled you.

That was kinda defeatist. I'll try to adjust my attitude.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 29, 2026 01:55 PM (ftFVW)

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Honestly, the jury is still out on Thune.

With Tillis, Mitch, Murkowski, and Cassidy in the caucus, he was never going to pass anything of substance.

Plus, he got the OBBB through.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:58 PM (7RBt4)

199 >>>dumber than mud that's been fucked by retards.

I had to follow the link to see what was there, even though I knew I wasn't going to get retards doing their thing to mud.

Posted by: No Name Today at May 29, 2026 01:58 PM (8mulE)

200 126 She should have told Joe early to announce he was not going to run again. Harris was not a strong candidate. But was nominated by default.

Posted by: Paul at May 29, 2026 01:43 PM (59BGO)

The three-to-four top White House staff puppeteers were drunk with power. So was Jill. All wanted Four More Years of being de facto Presidents. Along with enjoying all the perks of being First Lady and top White House staff. The biggest remaining questions I have are:

A. How did Jill and the Handlers successfully con the Democrat National Committee Top Dogs into putting their money on Joe in '24?

B. Did the DNC Top Dogs know Joe's actual mental abilities?

C. Were the DNC Top Dogs not conned by the Handlers, wanting to continue full speed ahead with de facto Presidents while conning the nation? Maybe it was an early, mutual decision by the Handlers and DNC to con the nation through another election campaign?

Posted by: Gref at May 29, 2026 01:59 PM (5rh/l)

201 THAT'S A STARSHIP TROOPERS REFERENCE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 01:54 PM (xcxpd)
---
Starship trooper, go sailing on by
Catch my soul, catch the very light
Hide the moment from my eager eye

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:59 PM (Fi81e)

202 The Republicans will keep their Senate seats in Texas and Maine
They should win in Georgia. Michigan should be a win as the Dem candidates are horrible, but vote fraud is a bitch. NC will depend about Republicans turning out and independents going Republican

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 01:59 PM (SW0z7)

203 194 Thune is now realizing that next session, Cornyn, Cassidy, Tillis, and McConnell are already gone. That changes a lot of things.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 01:57 PM (QDJ2U)

========

The 120th Congress could end up being far more productive than the 119th if the GOP keeps the House.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:59 PM (7RBt4)

204 It was an ironic query

The mobile infantry had their lives counted in minutes

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 01:59 PM (bXbFr)

205 185

Democrats are going to dump so much cash into Maine and Texas that GA and NC and MI are going to get underfunded comparatively.

Even in 2018, the GOP gained 3 Senate seats in a D+9 environment.

Senate maps and races are...peculiar.

Should be fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:55 PM (7RBt4)

The SENATE is Peculiar. That body needs to be modified, greatly.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 01:59 PM (Gqar8)

206 Republicans will win back the seat in Georgia. 20% of the Republicans in the senate will be replaced with new members. Collins has a new found penchant to do the right thing. Murkowski is on notice it’s time to leave.

I think even Thune will get the message.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 29, 2026 02:00 PM (UMWMT)

207 She should have told Joe early to announce he was not going to run again. Harris was not a strong candidate. But was nominated by default.

Posted by: Paul at May 29, 2026 01:43 PM (59BGO)
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You just can't see how dug in your party was to their prior deceptions.

LOL.

Shoulda + Woulda + Coulda = 0.0.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:00 PM (Fi81e)

208 162
"Doctor" Jill calls to mind this aphorism: "I like my women like I like my coffee -- scummy and depleted."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 29, 2026 01:50 PM (IWEBk)

At least it'sbetter than the aphorism Michelle Obama brings to mind- "I like my women like I like my coffee- without a penis."

Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2026 02:00 PM (PMi3m)

209 Her book comes out in a few days.

And no one will buy it who would not have regardless of whatever lame-o crap she spews about Joe, Hunter, or anything else.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 02:00 PM (vTZFs)

210 Jill and the Handlers opened for someone

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 02:01 PM (Gqar8)

211 Biden had two aneurysms. In 1988. The mortality rate approaches 50%.

The recovery rate is also not great. He never should have held office after that.

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 29, 2026 02:01 PM (0Iuar)

212 Thune is a cuck and always will be.

Even if there were a slim chance he'd shed his cucksuit and emerge as a MAGA champion (there isn't), who fucking cares?

He's disgraced himself and must be made an example.

Down with Thune.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 29, 2026 02:01 PM (sQnY9)

213 202 The Republicans will keep their Senate seats in Texas and Maine
They should win in Georgia. Michigan should be a win as the Dem candidates are horrible, but vote fraud is a bitch. NC will depend about Republicans turning out and independents going Republican

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 01:59 PM (SW0z7)

=====

Registered indies in NC lean heavily Republican.

I genuinely think that Cooper is actually the underdog against Whatley.

Last time Cooper won statewide as governor, there were 400,000 more Democrats than Republicans on the voter rolls. He won by 250,000 votes.

Now, there are 10,000 more Republicans than Democrats in the state, plus governors races have the tendency of being less purely partisan than federal races (Larry Hogan out front should have told everyone).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:01 PM (7RBt4)

214 Paul's here to tell us how much better it would be if the Democrat party had chosen what they specifically did not choose.

Paul, that kind of sums up their governance.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:01 PM (Fi81e)

215 Speaking of first ladies . . .

Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
This is what Trump's done to the people's house:
A third of it is rubble.
Another third is a cage match.
What a metaphor.

-
Well, certainly Bill never did anything to besmirch the White House.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026 02:02 PM (ndZc7)

216 He wasn't fit for office in 2016. They all knew then. It's just that they knew his staff would run the office. The entire regime was a fraud.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 29, 2026 02:02 PM (diia5)

217 Paul YOUR Party could not HAVE POSSIBLY chosen HONESTY.

You're asking for honesty from a lie-first party.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:03 PM (Fi81e)

218 The SENATE is Peculiar. That body needs to be modified, greatly.
Posted by: tubal

They're all too old, but we'd love to greatly modify your childrens' bodies!!!

Posted by: Transtifa at May 29, 2026 02:03 PM (JCZqz)

219
Poor Jill. Michelle Obama, the black Jackie O, is a hard act to follow.
Posted by: davidt

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I was yakking about Jill vs former FLOTUSes.

- Hillary -- got rich, almost powerful, reputation as hella smart
- Michelle -- got rich, revered, media projects everywhere
- Melania -- worst that can be said is that she's married to Trump
- Laura -- content to be a nonentity, has kids in media

She fucked her chance royally.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 02:03 PM (n7rxJ)

220 216 He wasn't fit for office in 2016. They all knew then. It's just that they knew his staff would run the office. The entire regime was a fraud.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 29, 2026 02:02 PM (diia5)

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Obama didn't like Joe (still doesn't), and Obama put his backing to Hillary instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:03 PM (7RBt4)

221 Jill and the Handlers opened for someone
Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 02:01 PM (Gqar

Yes, Sticky Fingers. They toured together on the Land of Pleasure tour.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 02:03 PM (rbvCR)

222 There’s always been a tantalizing theory that Biden was pissed at being dumped, and that he forced Kamala’s quick nomination to prove that she was an even worse choice than him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 02:03 PM (QDJ2U)

223 Everyone needs to start calling her Lady MacBiden. Pushing her husband onto the throne, regardless of his health or ability. And trying to keep him there, despite his worsening health. All for the power of the position.

At least Lady MacBeth had some subconscious realization of her evil (the "Out, damn spot!").

I also wonder whether Biden's final F-U of nominating Kamala Harris as the candidate for 2024 was his own idea, or Jill's. I recall Jill not being very fond of Kamala, but the nomination could be Jill Biden's way of setting up Kamala up for a nasty fall. After all, Jill was First Lady, knew what Joe Biden was up to, and what Joe Biden *WASN'T* up to. She probably knew Kamala would faceplant, despite Democrats trying to drag her over the finish line.

Posted by: Another Anon at May 29, 2026 02:04 PM (4h45B)

224 222 There’s always been a tantalizing theory that Biden was pissed at being dumped, and that he forced Kamala’s quick nomination to prove that she was an even worse choice than him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 02:03 PM (QDJ2U)

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I remember the leak that Obama was planning on a convention vote between four candidates, and all it would take is no one trying to secure delegates before the convention.

I believe this because Obama is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is, deeply misunderstands people in general and powerful, ambitious people in particular, and is kind of awful at politics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:04 PM (7RBt4)

225 A "pleasantly confused" woman makes a nurses day. Obviously a much nicer person than confused Joe Biden. From "Sunny Skyz" site:

https://tinyurl.com/3aatcxcb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 02:05 PM (rZCVI)

226

Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), a 16-year veteran of Congress, announced Friday that she will not seek reelection, becoming the 30th House Democrat from the 119th Congress who won’t be joining the 120th.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 02:05 PM (Cqx++)

227 Michigan should be a win as the Dem candidates are horrible, but vote fraud is a bitch.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 01:59 PM (SW0z7)
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I think I need to remind y'all that Jocelyn Benson (our Secretary of State) is the only person who can challenge an election. She's a Democrat of the Three Witches of Michigan.

Posted by: Axeman, Michigander at May 29, 2026 02:05 PM (Fi81e)

228 This is what Trump's done to the people's house:
A third of it is rubble.
Another third is a cage match.
What a metaphor.
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Well, certainly Bill never did anything to besmirch the White House.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I just watched some AWFL on YouTube crying about this same thing, but she identified the last "third" being symbolically ruined as the Rose Garden paved over to look like a "Panera patio."

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 29, 2026 02:05 PM (JCZqz)

229 The Biden's are out of money. That's why Jill is out with a book.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 29, 2026 02:06 PM (IifOV)

230 We get a reasonable Fetterman vote on occasion, so the next congress should be interesting times.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 02:06 PM (n5tGW)

231 >THAT'S A STARSHIP TROOPERS REFERENCE!
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That's a Conan The Barbarian reference
https://tinyurl.com/4wpx6hsp

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 02:06 PM (ZxPkt)

232 226

Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), a 16-year veteran of Congress, announced Friday that she will not seek reelection, becoming the 30th House Democrat from the 119th Congress who won’t be joining the 120th.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 02:05 PM (Cqx++)

Tiny cowboy hat lady? I thought she was M.I.A.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 02:06 PM (Y6K7e)

233 Poor Jill. Michelle Obama, the black Jackie O, is a hard act to follow.
Posted by: davidt

Men do make the best women.

Posted by: Transtifa at May 29, 2026 02:07 PM (JCZqz)

234 Just use the war emperor fron 40 k

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 01:46 PM (bXbFr)

Eh, I'll use everyone's favorite commissar:

"Men of Tanith! Do you want to live forever?!"

"FETH NO!!!"

Posted by: pookysgirl, Gaunt's Ghosts fan at May 29, 2026 02:07 PM (Wt5PA)

235 I’ve found myself over the past few months not really caring all that much about the midterms. Yeah I’ll vote and I hope republicans keep both chambers…. But I’m not gonna lose sleep over it either way. Now…. The prez contest in 28 matters enormously because if a Dem manages to win (legitimately or by cheating) they are gonna go on a MAGA revenge tour that I shiver to even think about…. I don’t wanna live in that universe

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 29, 2026 02:07 PM (ugElV)

236 There’s always been a tantalizing theory that Biden was pissed at being dumped, and that he forced Kamala’s quick nomination to prove that she was an even worse choice than him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 02:03 PM (QDJ2U)

Nah, Kamala's team put out the resignation letter and then then took up the nomination and all the cash when Biden was down on not recovering fast enough, and Jill and Hunter's only response would have been to bring Joe into public where he would have drooled and pissed himself.
There was supposedly a cabal in the executive to find a replacement and they were busy fighting when Kamala acted.
She is not dumb, and she has mean backers, she just is not competent and is a sloppy alcoholic, so she couldn't keep it together once she got the Nom

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 02:07 PM (rbvCR)

237 Obama didn't like Joe (still doesn't), and Obama put his backing to Hillary instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:03 PM (7RBt4)

Which is ironic, given that Obama refused to allow Hillary to be his VP. Which was probably wise since everyone knew she hated him for "stealing" the nomination from her and people she hates have a habit of committing suicide.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 02:07 PM (lFFaq)

238 230 We get a reasonable Fetterman vote on occasion, so the next congress should be interesting times.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 02:06 PM (n5tGW)

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On occasion means one out of every 50 times.

He always pulls through when Democrat leadership needs him.

He's always been against the SAVE act because leadership needed him to be.

He's a far left loon who thinks men can become women but just doesn't like calling Republican Nazis and supports Israel existing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:07 PM (7RBt4)

239 There’s always been a tantalizing theory that Biden was pissed at being dumped, and that he forced Kamala’s quick nomination to prove that she was an even worse choice than him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 02:03 PM (QDJ2U)
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Which makes Biden another Democrat choice.

But Biden was never the DNC's choice. It was a choice that Dem voters made, as Joe was a "moderate". They could not resist drafting Joe into office.

They can't run a campaign, but vote for them to run a country!

Posted by: Axeman, Michigander at May 29, 2026 02:08 PM (Fi81e)

240 Just think for a second what it takes to call Jill beautiful and Melania ugly.

You don’t have to know another thing to realize the levels of delusion that permeate the Democrats.

It's not delusion, it's the "The telescope was invented by a black lesbian. Are you prepared to lose your job and say otherwise?" meme.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 02:08 PM (2ocoG)

241 “Democrats are furious the Bidens won’t go away”

“Why are they talking about this?”

Gee, think think think, whatever could it be??
They’re BROKE?

Jill had to reveal something controversial to get people to interview her and sell some books?

The Bidens literally have one motive ever: more money.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 02:08 PM (4KUe5)

242 Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), a 16-year veteran of Congress, announced Friday that she will not seek reelection...

Did we actually see her say this or was it just a press release? In other words, do we have proof that she's still alive?

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 02:08 PM (vTZFs)

243 239 Which makes Biden another Democrat choice.

But Biden was never the DNC's choice. It was a choice that Dem voters made, as Joe was a "moderate". They could not resist drafting Joe into office.

They can't run a campaign, but vote for them to run a country!

Posted by: Axeman, Michigander at May 29, 2026 02:08 PM (Fi81e)

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Not so much that he was a moderate but that he was Obama's VP.

He was the blackest candidate, and Deval Patrick ran at one point in 2020.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:08 PM (7RBt4)

244 He's always been against the SAVE act because leadership needed him to be.

I've definitely seen him on Fox saying he's for it and it's a no-brainer given public polling on it.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 02:09 PM (2ocoG)

245 Just think for a second what it takes to call Jill beautiful and Melania ugly.

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Willful blindness.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026 02:09 PM (ndZc7)

246 Nah, Kamala's team put out the resignation letter and then then took up the nomination and all the cash when Biden was down on not recovering fast enough, and Jill and Hunter's only response would have been to bring Joe into public where he would have drooled and pissed himself.
There was supposedly a cabal in the executive to find a replacement and they were busy fighting when Kamala acted.
She is not dumb, and she has mean backers, she just is not competent and is a sloppy alcoholic, so she couldn't keep it together once she got the Nom

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 02:07 PM (rbvCR)
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Yeah, there's some serious scuttlebutt that the Biden people actually want you to know that Joe had no part in drafting his campaign resignation.

Posted by: Axeman, Michigander at May 29, 2026 02:09 PM (Fi81e)

247 The Bidens literally have one motive ever: more money.

They're pretty in to sex too.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 02:10 PM (2ocoG)

248 244 He's always been against the SAVE act because leadership needed him to be.

I've definitely seen him on Fox saying he's for it and it's a no-brainer given public polling on it.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 02:09 PM (2ocoG)

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And yet he won't cosponsor it because talk is cheap.

He says he'll vote for something he knows won't reach the floor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:10 PM (7RBt4)

249 I don't understand how the Biden's could be out of so much money so fast.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 02:10 PM (rZCVI)

250 Did we actually see her say this or was it just a press release? In other words, do we have proof that she's still alive?
Posted by: Oddbob

Was just thinking the same thing. Her minions realized too many questions are floating around.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 29, 2026 02:10 PM (ftFVW)

251 242 Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), a 16-year veteran of Congress, announced Friday that she will not seek reelection...

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Running away to join the rodeo?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026 02:11 PM (ndZc7)

252 Here's what I still don't get: Why did Jill and Hunter insist he go forward with the debate, knowing it could well end him and their grift?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 29, 2026 02:11 PM (XvL8K)

253 Oh H$LL, they called average Michelle Obama gorge for eight long years.

Look at those toned arms(swoon)!
Look at her stylish new haircut (wig)!!
Look at her cutting edge fashion choices!!!

They will sell anything if it’s the right politics.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 02:11 PM (4KUe5)

254 Obama didn't like Joe (still doesn't)...

I think if we're being honest about it, nobody actually liked Joe, including Jill.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 02:11 PM (vTZFs)

255 238

He's a far left loon who thinks men can become women but just doesn't like calling Republican Nazis and supports Israel existing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:07 PM (7RBt4)

I believe that some people can change in a fundamental way ( part of that Christian thing I have going on ), but aside from the 2 matters you mention Fetterman is a hardcore Leftist.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 02:11 PM (Gqar8)

256 252 Here's what I still don't get: Why did Jill and Hunter insist he go forward with the debate, knowing it could well end him and their grift?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 29, 2026 02:11 PM (XvL8K)

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I remember it being reported that it was Joe himself insisting on it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:12 PM (7RBt4)

257 >>> Here's what I still don't get: Why did Jill and Hunter insist he go forward with the debate, knowing it could well end him and their grift?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 29, 2026 02:11 PM (XvL8K)

I think they honestly wanted an out, but are stupid and flubbed it.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 02:12 PM (3uBP9)

258 I don't understand how the Biden's could be out of so much money so fast.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Hookers and blow ain't cheap.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 29, 2026 02:12 PM (ftFVW)

259 Here's what I still don't get: Why did Jill and Hunter insist he go forward with the debate, knowing it could well end him and their grift?

Because not going forward would definitely end it. If your chances are slim and none, you're going to take slim.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 02:12 PM (vTZFs)

260 How can the Bidens be broke, with all the graft and skim they supposedly took in over the years?

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 02:12 PM (ZxPkt)

261 Townhall shares a scoop from the Times (NY Times? dunno) - Trump is using revenue from national park visitor fees to fund his vanity projects in DC (reflecting pool, Columbus fountain), which, of course, are managed by the National Park service. Doesn't he know that money should be used to pay for Somalian fraud instead? IMPEACH!
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It's just bizarre how pissed the left is over Trump making DC beautiful again.
Like, holy shit--the before and after pics:
The media was working full-time to hide how degraded, dull and trashed DC was becoming.

Like the Columbus Circle fountain.
Hadn't had water for 7 years.
Filled with dust, dirt, weeds; spray painted from the riots.
Homeless tents around on the dead grass.
Gross.

Now? Clean, gleaming, grass growing, water flowing.

Or how pissed they are that the 4 bronze lions near the Lincoln Memorial, that Trump is spending $5 million to make them gold-plated.
To restore them from their current faded, corroded dull state.

Oh how it all is pissing them off.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 02:14 PM (73/SM)

262 260 How can the Bidens be broke, with all the graft and skim they supposedly took in over the years?

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 02:12 PM (ZxPkt)

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Hunter was the bag man.

And Hunter has very expensive habits.

Beau was supposed to be the bagman because he wasn't a fucking retarded cokehead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:14 PM (7RBt4)

263
B. Did the DNC Top Dogs know Joe's actual mental abilities?

Posted by: Gref

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Crazy the way we'll never know, absent some deathbed revelations. It's even crazy that this is a question. The only possible answers are Yes, and yet they let him run, or No, they were that blind and insane.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 02:14 PM (n7rxJ)

264 Now, imagine Republicans actually keep a bare majority in the House on top of that...

It will tickle me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:50 PM (7RBt4)
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Republicans could have a SOLID majority in Congress for the indefinite future if they bothered to do their jobs.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 02:14 PM (gnNyN)

265 Here's what I still don't get: Why did Jill and Hunter insist he go forward with the debate, knowing it could well end him and their grift?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 29, 2026 02:11 PM (XvL8K)

Because, as we learned from this thread's Reddit Transmissions, all he had to do was not completely shit the bed and the Party would have carried him across the finish line.

"Don't shit the bed," however, proved to be a bridge too far.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:15 PM (Kdi1r)

266 Jill is around Joe all the time, so watching the slow decline isn't as noticeable as the Press who is only around Joe once in awhile were the decline would be more obvious. Plus it is their job to report on those changes, not to ignore them.

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 29, 2026 02:15 PM (XB1Qt)

267 I'll take one out of 50 versus Murkowski zero for 50 when it's important.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 02:15 PM (n5tGW)

268 I remember it being reported that it was Joe himself insisting on it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
__________
So why didnt they stop him? All he had to do was say "I will not stand on a stage with that man." They press wouldnt have blinked an eye.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 29, 2026 02:15 PM (XvL8K)

269 >>> Obama didn't like Joe (still doesn't)...

I think if we're being honest about it, nobody actually liked Joe, including Jill.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 02:11 PM (vTZFs)

And I don't think Obama is a fan of anyone that isn't providing a particular service and even then you are always just a paddleboard slip from being "you have no function, you are obsolete"

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 02:15 PM (3uBP9)

270 Here's what I still don't get: Why did Jill and Hunter insist he go forward with the debate, knowing it could well end him and their grift?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 29, 2026 02:11 PM (XvL8K)

Forked stick. If they terminate the debate for some reason, everyone will know why- and then the drift will be over as well. So they rolled the dice on him doing ok enough.

I 'seem' to remember something about NPCs floating the idea that Biden should just refuse to debate Trump (because trump.) I do not think it polled well which is why they did not do it.

If they had had an emergency they could acknowledge, they probably would have used that, but they didnt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 02:15 PM (zZu0s)

271 264 Republicans could have a SOLID majority in Congress for the indefinite future if they bothered to do their jobs.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 02:14 PM (gnNyN)

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Not with the maps passed since 2020.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:15 PM (7RBt4)

272 I don't understand how the Biden's could be out of so much money so fast.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

The Big Guy should've demanded 15%.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026 02:15 PM (ndZc7)

273 148 Look at joe on that stage while she's talking, just vacant, and of course he was still prez for another 6 months, not that he was actually ever making decisions or was even elected mind you.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 01:47 PM (n5tGW)

By mid-2024, and for several years before, Joe only appeared lucid and stronk when he was in a drugged-up, tightly scripted, performance mode. Every word he should say was on a teleprompter. For formal (scripted) events he was instructed to walk along a short, carefully cleared path. The flaw in the plan was Joe was so far gone he could no longer remember much of the script. He'd wander off the instructed path or area. He'd forget the path to get off-stage. He'd go off teleprompter and lapse into crazy story-telling, lame joke, cliche, and yelling modes. When he free-lanced, as he had to in the debate, and many times in his few press conferences, he forked-up big or small, every single time.

Posted by: Gref at May 29, 2026 02:16 PM (5rh/l)

274 How can the Bidens be broke, with all the graft and skim they supposedly took in over the years?
Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 02:12 PM

No clue.

Say, could you do me a solid, and cover a child-support payment for me?

Posted by: Hunter B. at May 29, 2026 02:16 PM (0sNs1)

275 Fen, the book on Hunter Biden details his spending habits: he spends until it’s gone. He just buys drugs, women, luxury accommodation, whatever. While he was making a ton of money on that Ukraine gas company board, etc., he was not paying taxes, had two mortgages on his home, and nothing in savings. He just spends.

Think about Joe’s solution to every police: write a check.

They have no concept of money other than it’s a tool to get through the next issue/crisis.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 02:16 PM (4KUe5)

276 Oh how it all is pissing them off.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 02:14 PM (73/SM)

It shows that American cities being shitholes is a policy choice.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 02:16 PM (Y6K7e)

277 >>> Jill is around Joe all the time, so watching the slow decline isn't as noticeable as the Press who is only around Joe once in awhile were the decline would be more obvious. Plus it is their job to report on those changes, not to ignore them.
Posted by: Darth Randall at May 29, 2026 02:15 PM (XB1Qt)

but but but.... She's a doctor!

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 02:16 PM (3uBP9)

278 Oddbob said it more concisely quicker.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 02:16 PM (zZu0s)

279 I don't know about Joe, but I know I was operating at the top of my game for the entire Biden presidency.

Posted by: Otto Penn at May 29, 2026 02:17 PM (+5YP2)

280 It really is pissing the left off, how Trump is restoring beauty to DC.

They worked for decades, through intention and neglect, to make DC a dull, faded, communist-looking trash city.

You were supposed to see the depression, dirt and decay, their chosen decline and ... accept it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 02:17 PM (73/SM)

281 Or how pissed they are that the 4 bronze lions near the Lincoln Memorial, that Trump is spending $5 million to make them gold-plated.
To restore them from their current faded, corroded dull state.

Oh how it all is pissing them off.

You're not supposed to spend money on infrastructure, that's for suckers. Be more like Gavin.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 02:18 PM (2ocoG)

282
Here's what I still don't get: Why did Jill and Hunter insist he go forward with the debate, knowing it could well end him and their grift?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

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Everything had worked up to that point. Just one more dose and we can get this over the finish line...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 02:18 PM (n7rxJ)

283
I was wondering why Dr. Jill doesn't just shut up, and then I remembered that the family is always short of money because they squander more than they steal.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 29, 2026 02:18 PM (VWtfl)

284 How can the Bidens be broke, with all the graft and skim they supposedly took in over the years?

Money was supposed to continue to flow, but USAID was shut down and Ukraine has bigger problems at the moment.

Posted by: Biden's Accoutant at May 29, 2026 02:18 PM (JCZqz)

285 Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 02:16 PM (4KUe5)

Thanks. I was forgetting about Hunter's habits.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 02:18 PM (ix8EF)

286 The DNC would have been a moribund party had they not drafted the "popular" Biden in 2020. Biden was leading the polls--by a lot--before he even announced.

He was the Fred Thompson of 2020.

The Dem brand voters who are not yet convinced that there party is for wide-left whackos, thought that Biden was a "centrist" bulwark against the selection of Left-wing whackos they were given--besides say Howard Shultz.

So, they were stuck drafting Biden into the race. And Biden made a sharp turn left. Repudiating a number of "centrist" positions he had long made in order to look to be the leader of the herd of Dem candidates, who all raised their hands at funding healthcare for illegals.

Then after shutting everybody down except Biden in the 2024 elections--even getting the DNC to state that if RFKJr. starts campaigning in a state before Joe Biden, suddenly the DNC as a whole has no interest in a primary in that state, that RFKJ would have to pay THE WHOLE COST of a primary!!

You can't just keep fucking the American people and then say, "You know, fucking the American people didn't turn out so well, last time."

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:18 PM (Fi81e)

287 Someone needs to do an AI of Biden as King Theoden on his throne under the spell of Saruman. That would be entertaining.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 02:19 PM (Gqar8)

288 Trump insisted the debate be later in the evening so the sundowner drugs wouldn't work so well.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 29, 2026 02:19 PM (IifOV)

289 It shows that American cities being shitholes is a policy choice.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 02:16 PM (Y6K7e)
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Really, a competency gap.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:19 PM (Fi81e)

290
Look at joe on that stage while she's talking, just vacant, and of course he was still prez for another 6 months,

Posted by: Guy Mohawk

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A fact the MSM still hasn't acknowledged. Not fit to run, but somehow fit to preside? No 25th Amendment?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 02:20 PM (n7rxJ)

291 Trump should offer Bukele citizenship and put him in charge of DC.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 29, 2026 02:20 PM (rJ48h)

292 Obama doesn't like Joey. Obama doesn't like the Clintons. Obama doesn't like Trump. Obama doesn't like anyone. He tolerates people giving him tongue baths because they are useful idiots. Obama only like himself

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 02:21 PM (SW0z7)

293 Someone needs to do an AI of Biden as King Theoden on his throne under the spell of Saruman. That would be entertaining.

And then as he recovers, he turns into Trump.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 02:21 PM (vTZFs)

294 It shows that American cities being shitholes is a policy choice.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 02:16 PM (Y6K7e)
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Really, a competency gap.
Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:19 PM

It's not competency, it's that Dems are choosing to pocket the money intended to go to maintenance instead of actually doing maintenance. They're sub-Saharan Africans with smaller dicks.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 02:21 PM (2ocoG)

295 Everything had worked up to that point. Just one more dose and we can get this over the finish line...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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They went one dose over the line.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 29, 2026 02:21 PM (XvL8K)

296 Then after shutting everybody down except Biden in the 2024 elections--even getting the DNC to state that if RFKJr. starts campaigning in a state before Joe Biden, suddenly the DNC as a whole has no interest in a primary in that state, that RFKJ would have to pay THE WHOLE COST of a primary!!

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:18 PM (Fi81e)

I either missed that at the time or had managed to forget it.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 02:22 PM (lFFaq)

297 And the "Babylon Bee's" take on Joe & Jill:

https://tinyurl.com/yckdy95d

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 02:22 PM (ix8EF)

298 One of the things that irks me is whenever there is a lefty govt payoff it sails right along, but this govt weaponization fund for people actually violated gets delayed or stopped even with the help of the GOP. But they never have this moment of conscious when leftists are getting theirs.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 02:22 PM (n5tGW)

299 nood

nazi

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 02:22 PM (3uBP9)

300 292 Obama doesn't like Joey. Obama doesn't like the Clintons. Obama doesn't like Trump. Obama doesn't like anyone. He tolerates people giving him tongue baths because they are useful idiots. Obama only like himself
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 02:21 PM (SW0z7)

So Chameleons are malignant narcissists. Who knew?

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 02:23 PM (Gqar8)

301 Yes, it's a policy choice.

Because Democrats do not want you to be proud of ANYTHING America.

They wanted--demanded--our crown city to be a dirty, trashy, homeless camp of drugs, crime and decay.

They want Americans to be embarrassed of their country.

And what better way than to make our Capital look like a shitty, nasty third-world slum?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 02:23 PM (73/SM)

302 They went one dose over the line.

Sweet Jesus.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 02:23 PM (vTZFs)

303 A former senior Biden campaign advisor tells me Jill Biden's comments are "revisionist history."

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“The future is known; it’s the past that keeps changing, comrades!”

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 02:23 PM (BGLxh)

304 Here's what I still don't get: Why did Jill and Hunter insist he go forward with the debate, knowing it could well end him and their grift?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 29, 2026 02:11 PM (XvL8K)
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I don't think they thought it would, though.

We always suspected that they worked Joe up for his more public statements, and he was probably pumped full of anti-sundown drugs that night.

Do you really think foresight is a forte of Democrat politicians and handlers?

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:23 PM (Fi81e)

305 There’s Hunter’s spending, but also that the entire family business was selling access/favors from Joe. Think: Joe Incorporated.

Joe’s brother and wife, his sister, Hunter, Jill - they all depended on Joe. The company closed in 2025, what skills do they have after a career working for the family?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 02:23 PM (4KUe5)

306 Nood Nazi.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:23 PM (Kdi1r)

307 Obama only like himself
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 02:21 PM (SW0z7)

Agreed. He comes across as a classic narcissist. My theory is that narcissism is caused by a mixture of pride and childhood trauma, and he certainly has plenty of both.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 02:24 PM (lFFaq)

308 That boy's gonna get saved one way or another!

Not satire: Watch this crazy preacher order a teen boy to EAT a page ripped out of the Bible

https://tinyurl.com/49a25b75

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026 02:24 PM (ndZc7)

309 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:24 PM (jCuxY)

310 The View remains, if you can believe it, dumber than mud that's been fucked by retards.

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Bwwwwwaaaahahahahahaha!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:25 PM (jCuxY)

311 Who will finance her run? She can’t even raise $10 for a Joe Biden presidential bookmobile. She’s done, her whole family is done.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 01:53 PM (QDJ2U)
________________________

You don't really need a lot of money to run for office in Delaware. Hell, they elected a mentally ill "transgender" to congress and she only needed to raise about $3.5 Million total for that honor.

Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 02:25 PM (dIske)

312 Obama only like himself
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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I'm surprised that he hasn't built a monument to himself. Oh,wait...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (XeU6L)

313 So a bunch of "artists and bands" have dropped out of America's State Fair to be held on the Mall, all because they have been chided by some lefty magazine. I read Martina McBride's statement. It is vague bullshit. She had no problems performing in Obama's White House, but seems to think this will be political.
Fool.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (2WIwB)

314 Because "journalists" have the same interest that the Democrat Party does -- they want to smother this fire ...

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"... with a pillow, until it stops moving."

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (BGLxh)

315 The corrupt communist media that covered for Biden's dementia for five years now demands we examine Trump's non-dementia:

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I'm old enough to remember Ace somewhat buying into the Trump Dementia Narrative about six years ago -- for which I called him out at the time.

All is forgiven, and the #Winning is tired not ...

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 02:31 PM (BGLxh)

316
cowboy hat lady? I thought she was M.I.A.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

She was, and now we know why.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 29, 2026 02:31 PM (IWEBk)

317 > Here's what I still don't get: Why did Jill and Hunter insist he go forward with the debate
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because they were sure the DNC-friendly press would provide cover

what they didn't count on was just how seriously fucked up Joe really was

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (ZxPkt)

318 Who wants to live forever?
Posted by: Crow from Kansas at May 29, 2026 01:42 PM (HcoTw)
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Apes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:42 PM (7RBt4)
+++++
THAT'S A STARSHIP TROOPERS REFERENCE!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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As much of a Heinlein fan as I am, that phrase predates the book by centuries. It was probably uttered by some Phoenician NCO, who.heard it from a Sumerian.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (PC+XL)

Seattle's Communist Woke Wallflower Mayor Says She Refuses to Investigate Medicaid Fraud In Her City Because That Would Hurt Our Precioius Nomadic Pirates

The Post-Millennial:

Seattle socialist mayor will NOT investigate fraud at Somali-run daycare centers, calls it attack on immigrants
"This whole issue is not really about fraud," said Wilson. "It's about dividing and conquering. It's about making an immigrant community a target."
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said the city has no intention of investigating fraud claims in taxpayer-funded social programs, claiming the concerns are an effort to target immigrant communities rather than address legitimate financial irregularities.
In an interview with KOMO News, Wilson was asked if she had authorized the Seattle Police Department or the city's Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs to investigate fraud charges involving daycare providers, particularly those in Somali and other immigrant communities. The mayor responded: "No."
"This whole issue is not really about fraud," said Wilson. "It's about dividing and conquering. It's about making an immigrant community a target. There's no reason to assume based on the identity of a daycare operator that their small business is doing anything wrong."
She added that "it's problematic to have random people showing up to daycares" and emphasized that "the fear in the Somali community is real" and "the fear in immigrant communities are real," saying her administration is "taking that very seriously."

Huh, how about that. She's saying it's the Somalis who would be found responsible for defrauding the Americans living next to them and stealing from them.

And then she applies the usual Democrat Rule that Minorities Are Immune from the Law and Allowed to Steal and Kill without Consequence.

#BecauseRacism.

Plus, an exclusive from Alpha News: Somalis are fake employees at fake businesses claiming fake injuries to, get this, pillage and loot from actual American taxpayers.

EXCLUSIVE: Former Minnesota employee reveals suspected fraud scheme of 'fake injuries' at Somali businesses
With the benefit of hindsight, Janeen Balsimo thought, "wow, so the fraud went as far as the employee was a fake employee, probably with fake injuries, because there is no people at these places."
ByDr. JC Chaix and Liz Collin
It's perhaps yet another kind of Somali fraud that we haven't heard much about, and one that may involve fake businesses, fake injuries, and fake workers' comp claims.
Janeen Balsimo retired in the fall after working as a Minnesota state employee for nearly 30 years. She joined Liz Collin on her podcast.
Balsimo spent her last years at the Department of Human Services (DHS) in the Tort Recovery Unit as a tort specialist.
She said that she wanted to blow the whistle on workers' comp cases after what she noticed the last couple of years at her job--as hindsight and the exposure of fraud throughout Minnesota provided even more perspective.
Balsimo explained how she "recovered taxpayer dollars where another party should have been paying for the bills. For instance, like auto accidents or work comp. So we would get cases from attorneys representing the client."
"And then when the case would settle, we would get paid, the attorney would get paid his fees. DHS would get paid our portion. And then the client would be awarded whatever type of injury that they had back, usually got more awards than neck or arm. So they would get anywhere from $20,000 to $150,000 for their award for their injuries," Balsimo explained.
However, she noticed a strange trend emerging in her normally routine work. "About a year ago, I can remember my caseloads of Somalian cases were going way up. They were going up so much I even confided in another coworker. She had noticed it as well," Balsimo said.
She said "that's when I noticed my Somali cases, they all worked at a daycare center, an adult care center, a hospice or an autism center. And I found that really strange and they ended in the LLC because I had to keep typing it over and over and it was just really strange to me."
"Then I retired a few weeks before the Nick Shirley exposure ... and one day I was watching a video and I noticed the names of the businesses he was investigating. And they looked really familiar. Like I almost remember the name of the businesses just by typing them all the time and just dealing with them. And I could not believe it ... it all came together, Balsimo said.
"I went, oh my gosh, this was like a wow moment. These cases were probably fraudulent," she added.

Kommissar Katie Wilson said the city will not be looking into any �day cares fraud��.

�.meanwhile she�s going back for a $1.3 BILLION tax levy to fund more day cares�. pic.twitter.com/0KM9QXNjWP
— PNW Conservative (@PNWConservative) May 27, 2026

It's Friday! We made it!

PS, another Double Crow Day. And they're coming back now.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:11 PM

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1 She is like the definition of figurehead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:11 PM (bss/y)

2 They have pirate DNA. Can't stop them from stealing.

Posted by: huerfano at May 29, 2026 12:12 PM (VJX5o)

3 Boss, that one linked story inset is a link.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:12 PM (bss/y)

4 Or rather the inset story is ALL link.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:13 PM (bss/y)

5 I f**king hate that word "community."

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 12:13 PM (77rzZ)

6 ... and humanity was saved from the red font menace at the last moment by a rag-tag company of redundant closing tags. This is their story.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 12:14 PM (3uBP9)

7 Fraud isn't a bad thing, as long as the money goes to the right people.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at May 29, 2026 12:14 PM (MNCvZ)

8 No one is above the law, except...

Posted by: toddg at May 29, 2026 12:15 PM (ceFtv)

9 Kommissar Katie Wilson said the city will not be looking into any “day cares fraud”….

….meanwhile she’s going back for a $1.3 BILLION tax levy to fund more day cares….

It seems she can't start a sentence without "so..." or end one without "right?". What an ignoranamus.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:15 PM (Riz8t)

10 You got a real peach there, Seattle.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 12:15 PM (guGkK)

11
What she's saying is destruction of civilization is her goal. Not even hiding it.

Posted by: Auspex at May 29, 2026 12:15 PM (Y8DZL)

12 I look at Katie Wilson and I think of Gary Larson. Weird.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 12:15 PM (Gqar8)

13 PS, another Double Crow Day. And they're coming back now.

How many do you need for a pie?

Posted by: Kratwurst at May 29, 2026 12:15 PM (Kwjzk)

14 Do Katie Wilson's mom and dad still bring her lunch?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 12:16 PM (guGkK)

15 There shouldn't be a single Somalian in this country.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 12:16 PM (Y6K7e)

16 I look at Katie Wilson and I think of Gary Larson. Weird.

Huh, I look at her and I think of Zippy the Pinhead.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:16 PM (Riz8t)

17
It will certainly be a day for celebration when these lefty criminal politicians get strung up to street lamps while their immigrant heathen army gets massacred in the streets.

Not that I'm going to start that little celebration myself, but I also won't lift a finger to stop it when it happens.

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 29, 2026 12:16 PM (1xk0I)

18 Babylon Bee has a very good headline on fraud:

https://tinyurl.com/bddmhhsy

I wonder which state has the lowest level of fraud?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 12:17 PM (7RYym)

19 I read things like this, and it dawns on me (for like the 100th time), that everything we were told about illegals is wrong. Whatever number they told us, you can add a "zero" to the end of it.

Literally entire city and even state economies are based on illegals and the fetid remoras of graft and theft and political payola and patronage that infests them. Without illegals, probably 1/4 of the blue cities in the country would collapse. Literally. The cities would be ghost towns and the money flow would stop. That's why Democraps fight so hard to protect and enable illegals. It's there entire lifeblood.

I keep raising my estimate of how many illegals there are in the country. I'm not at about 75 million.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

20 I will join Ace in celebrating double crow day.

With some Old Crow

Make mine a double

Posted by: Celebratory Miklos at May 29, 2026 12:17 PM (z+O9Y)

21 There shouldn't be a single Somalian in this country.

I have asked this before: What is there of value that Somalians bring to this country?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 12:17 PM (guGkK)

22 Crow 2: The Corvidining

Posted by: bonhomme at May 29, 2026 12:17 PM (mkw2N)

23 19 I read things like this, and it dawns on me (for like the 100th time), that everything we were told about illegals is wrong. Whatever number they told us, you can add a "zero" to the end of it.

Literally entire city and even state economies are based on illegals and the fetid remoras of graft and theft and political payola and patronage that infests them. Without illegals, probably 1/4 of the blue cities in the country would collapse. Literally. The cities would be ghost towns and the money flow would stop. That's why Democraps fight so hard to protect and enable illegals. It's there entire lifeblood.

I keep raising my estimate of how many illegals there are in the country. I'm not at about 75 million.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

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Bovino, former head of ICE, says it's 100 million.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 12:18 PM (7RBt4)

24 I despise the fact that we keep importing garbage people and expect diversity to magically make our nation perfect.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 12:18 PM (+4yJ5)

25 24 I despise the fact that we keep importing garbage people and expect diversity to magically make our nation perfect.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 12:18 PM (+4yJ5)

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Well, we have stopped.

At least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 12:18 PM (7RBt4)

26 Smack her in the forehead with a 2 by 12.

Posted by: Roy at May 29, 2026 12:18 PM (qwype)

27 Wilson’s bio is like a recipe book for Wokeness. From her birth every ingredient for Stalinist was included.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 12:18 PM (Gqar8)

28 I always thought Heckle and Jeckle were crows, but according to Wiki, they're yellow-billed magpies.

So still corvids, but not crows.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 12:19 PM (77rzZ)

29 The point of Democratic governance is to loot the taxpayers.

Why would they investigate their clients?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 12:19 PM (sKqQm)

30
PS, another Double Crow Day. And they're coming back now.
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How many do you need for a pie?
Posted by: Kratwurst

Four and twenty, baked in a pie....

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 29, 2026 12:19 PM (1xk0I)

31 Does the mayor actually have to order the police or investigators to investigate lawbreaking?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 29, 2026 12:19 PM (Vh9CX)

32 Willowed from #196 in previous thread.

How many bad/terrible Republican Senators are in each Senate since the 112th Congress:

112th: ~26 Senators
113th: ~25 Senators
114th: ~30 Senators
115th: ~30 Senators (Trump's first term)
116th: ~25 Senators
117th: ~24 Senators
118th: ~20 Senators
119th: ~19 Senators
120th (if the map has zero changes): ~15 Senators

It's better than that, because the squishes were a majority of the GOP caucus in Trump 1, and now they're a minority. Minorities who want to stick around have a habit of going along with the majority.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

33 OT: Top of Insty

https://instapundit.com/800035/

We do not do enough mocking and hatred of Jane Fonda.

She's an evil bitch and she wasn't even hot in Barbarella.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:19 PM (bss/y)

34 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 12:16 PM (guGkK)

I find it so strange that both she and Mandami can get elected to become Mayors of their cities without any significant work experience.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 12:20 PM (7RYym)

35 I f**king hate that word "community."
Posted by: Bulg

You have to pronounce it "Commooonity"

Posted by: Miklos tipped the bartender extra because it is a triple Old Crow at May 29, 2026 12:20 PM (z+O9Y)

36 Bovino, former head of ICE, says it's 100 million.

And keep in mind after Trump and co deported 2m of them there is almost no effect on the number of people employed in the US

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 12:20 PM (sKqQm)

37 Well she's both stupid and a communist hack fraud. So none of this surprises me.

She welcomes chasing companies out of Seattle.

Burn Seattle, burn.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 12:20 PM (xcxpd)

38 I will bet that 30%+ of every blue city budget is funded directly by these fraudulent reimbursements.

For every $1 that goes into the hand of a Somali, $2 are going into the local government coffers.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 12:20 PM (73/SM)

39 Katie Wilson when asked about the possibility of millionaires fleeing due to WA policies.

"Bye!"
*waves*
*giggles*

http://tiny.cc/01a4101

Seattle elected a Reddit mod.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 29, 2026 12:21 PM (mkw2N)

40 Minorities who want to stick around have a habit of going along with the majority.
Posted by: Archimedes

Oh no, infidel

Posted by: Mullah Miklos, freelance Mahdi at May 29, 2026 12:21 PM (z+O9Y)

41 So if we have 100 million illegals floating around, just how many people ARE there in this place?

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 12:21 PM (Gqar8)

42 Ace Two Crow son of Joe Medicine Crow.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 12:21 PM (Cqx++)

43 39 Katie Wilson when asked about the possibility of millionaires fleeing due to WA policies.

"Bye!"
*waves*
*giggles*

http://tiny.cc/01a4101

Seattle elected a Reddit mod.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 29, 2026 12:21 PM (mkw2N)

#Truth

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 12:21 PM (xcxpd)

44 James Talarico
@jamestalarico
Ken Paxton is throwing everything he has at us.
He’s called me a radical leftist. He’s called me a fake Christian. He’s even called me a vegan!
I’m an 8th generation Texan — I've been eating BBQ since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment.

-
He IS the Baconeater!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026 12:22 PM (ndZc7)

45 Henry Fonda was a leftie bastard, too.

Peter was the only member of that family who was tolerable.

Oh, and Bridget in her prime.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 12:22 PM (77rzZ)

46 So, roughly a quarter of our population is illegal.

Fuck.

It 'seems' like it has changed here (from employees coming in the door, mainly) but that could just be a psychological reinforcement.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:22 PM (bss/y)

47 Her Honor is certainly unfortunate-looking.

aw hell
she ugly
she fell out the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 12:22 PM (ZxPkt)

48 Remember when Patty Murray said Osama Bin Laden was popular because he paid for day care?

Maybe she meant this kind of wink wink daycare

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 12:22 PM (sKqQm)

49 33 OT: Top of Insty

https://instapundit.com/800035/

We do not do enough mocking and hatred of Jane Fonda.

She's an evil bitch and she wasn't even hot in Barbarella.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:19 PM (bss/y)

hey now...she's evil but let's not doubt our eyes

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 12:22 PM (xcxpd)

50 Seattle socialist mayor will NOT investigate fraud at Somali-run daycare centers, calls it attack on immigrants

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"The First Amendment Guarantees The Right To Loot And Kill Whitey, But Mostly Kill Whitey! REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

/Justice Affirmative Action Jackson

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 12:22 PM (BGLxh)

51 Ken Paxton is throwing everything he has at us.
He’s called me a radical leftist. He’s called me a fake Christian. He’s even called me a vegan!
I’m an 8th generation Texan — I've been eating BBQ since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment.

He says this after he literally said the campaign was meatless. Is he not part of the campaign?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:23 PM (Riz8t)

52 I don't recall ever meeting a Somali in real life.

I suspect they are simply a figment of imagination made manifest by a malevolent cosmic entity....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 12:23 PM (gnNyN)

53 For every $1 that goes into the hand of a Somali, $2 are going into the local government coffers.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

The "frictional" cost of employing the army of blue haired administrators and political graft

Posted by: Miklos does Econ 101 at May 29, 2026 12:23 PM (z+O9Y)

54 Didn't Cali and Washington recently make it illegal to investigate and report fraud?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 12:23 PM (XV/Pl)

55
For every $1 that goes into the hand of a Somali, $2 are going into the local government coffers.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Whatever happened to "sooner or later you run out of other people's money"?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 12:23 PM (Cqx++)

56 "This whole issue is not really about fraud," said Wilson. "It's about dividing and conquering. It's about making an immigrant community a target."

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"THE OPPRESSED" HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF "THE OPPRESSORS!"

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 12:23 PM (BGLxh)

57 I keep raising my estimate of how many illegals there are in the country. I'm not at about 75 million.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

We know with certainty - from Descano's testimony to Congress - that Fairfax is 20% 'deportable.'

Extrapolate that out and work from there.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 12:23 PM (Kdi1r)

58
Within 48 hours of the fraud being exposed in Minnesota, a local Seattle reporter found five Somali run day cares with...you guessed it...no kids.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 12:23 PM (2WIwB)

59 hey now...she's evil but let's not doubt our eyes
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 12:22 PM (xcxpd)

Like rubbing a hotdog on the side of a train tunnel, even then dude.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:23 PM (bss/y)

60 Oh, and Bridget in her prime.

It's astonishing what she looks like today.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:24 PM (Riz8t)

61 You can go to the Washington state website and lookup daycare providers and see the languages the providers speak. Of those listing a language, about 20% says Somali, which is more than any other language other than English, even though Somalis make up less than 1% of the areas population, way less than Hispanic and multiple Asian communities, Chinese, Korean, south east Asians etc.

For someone who administers the daycare provider for the state, to see that and to not have it be a massive red flag is either incompetence or its corrupt. There is no option C

Posted by: AndrewsDad at May 29, 2026 12:24 PM (WX3pP)

62 He IS the Baconeater!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

Let me think about this

Posted by: Kevin Bacon at May 29, 2026 12:24 PM (z+O9Y)

63 I see reddit is onboard with Seattle's tax the rich crap...

Wait until a bunch of MSFT/AMZ wives realize this means THEM

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 12:24 PM (sKqQm)

64 *Golly!*

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 12:25 PM (wVcYX)

65
Didn't Cali and Washington recently make it illegal to investigate and report fraud?
Posted by: Thomas Bender

The "anti Nick Shirley" law.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 12:25 PM (Cqx++)

66 .
Somali Pirate Learing Center fraud is an interstate activity which should be covered by RICO, (Return Insidiots to Country of Origin.)

Posted by: Marooned at May 29, 2026 12:25 PM (kt8QE)

67 52 I don't recall ever meeting a Somali in real life.

I suspect they are simply a figment of imagination made manifest by a malevolent cosmic entity....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 12:23 PM (gnNyN)

We have a few of them at work. Not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed- at least ours.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:25 PM (bss/y)

68 It's a wonder she remembers to breathe.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 29, 2026 12:25 PM (TZz9Q)

69 > Bovino, former head of ICE, says it's 100 million.

Has anyone else noticed, besides the obvious reduced ratio of white people to everyone else, and the en-fattening, that people just don't seem as attractive as they were a few decades ago?

I see cuties at my gym, but anytime I'm out in public, it's just a sea of unremarkable to downright ugly.

One notable exception is when I went to NASA's launch site in FL. Lots of good looking people there.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 29, 2026 12:25 PM (mkw2N)

70 >>> Refuses to Investigate Medicaid Fraud

Draft the charges for accessory before, during, and after the fact for fraud.
Send them the draft and advise that they will be revised as needed after the investigation and arrests begun as it is obvious she is a part of it. Saying out loud that you are cooperating in a conspiracy to defraud the government does not absolve you of engaging in it...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 12:25 PM (/lPRQ)

71 "I f**king hate that word "community."
Posted by: Bulg "

Obama stared that to make all the Dems precious victim groups seeking money and benefits and power sound so nice neighborly, people you'd trust like to know. Just like all the people in Mayberry.

Posted by: Ripley at May 29, 2026 12:25 PM (GUOwU)

72 Whatever happened to "sooner or later you run out of other people's money"?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 12:23 PM (Cqx++)
----
I guess that doesn't apply when the government printing presses are on overdrive....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 12:25 PM (gnNyN)

73 Whatever happened to "sooner or later you run out of other people's money"?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

37 trillion in Federal debt

Posted by: Miklos does Econ 102 at May 29, 2026 12:26 PM (z+O9Y)

74 Somali Pirate Learing Center fraud is an interstate activity which should be covered by RICO, (Return Insidiots to Country of Origin.)
Posted by: Marooned at May 29, 2026 12:25 PM (kt8QE)

Especially with money being funneled out of country through the airport.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:26 PM (bss/y)

75 EXCLUSIVE: Former Minnesota employee reveals suspected fraud scheme of 'fake injuries' at Somali businesses

-----------

Everybody knows that Every Somali suffers from some form of Autism and must therefore become A Ward of The State.

OUT: The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations.
IN: The Soft Bigotry of Low IQs.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 12:26 PM (BGLxh)

76 I keep raising my estimate of how many illegals there are in the country. I'm not at about 75 million.
======
Bovino, former head of ICE, says it's 100 million.
--
Bovino is right:

If the U.S. had maintained a pure replacement fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman from 1970 onward, with no net immigration, the population today would be approximately:
≈ 218 – 222 million

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 12:26 PM (73/SM)

77 I read things like this, and it dawns on me (for like the 100th time), that everything we were told about illegals is wrong. Whatever number they told us, you can add a "zero" to the end of it.

Literally entire city and even state economies are based on illegals and the fetid remoras of graft and theft and political payola and patronage that infests them. Without illegals, probably 1/4 of the blue cities in the country would collapse. Literally. The cities would be ghost towns and the money flow would stop. That's why Democraps fight so hard to protect and enable illegals. It's there entire lifeblood.

I keep raising my estimate of how many illegals there are in the country. I'm not at about 75 million.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

======

Bovino, former head of ICE, says it's 100 million.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 12:18 PM (7RBt4)
______

I can believe that. Especially if you include technically "legal" immigrants that lied on their visa applications, like that worm Ilhan Omar, in the total number.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

78 "This whole issue is not really about fraud," said Wilson. "It's about dividing and conquering. It's about making an immigrant community a target. There's no reason to assume based on the identity of a daycare operator that their small business is doing anything wrong."
>>>
Narrator: It's really about fraud. Only about fraud. All the doo-dah day!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 12:26 PM (wVcYX)

79 Peter Fonda is in a movie I am very fond of Race With the DevilWarren Oates the other lead, Loretta Switt as one of the wives.

Posted by: steevy at May 29, 2026 12:26 PM (YwEeS)

80 Immigrant community Katie ? Doing the fraud Americans won't do...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 12:27 PM (yLn/F)

81 What does insty use for comments? It is completely infiltrated by shitlibs. And hierarchical sorted comments are shit because it favors shitlibs blowing things up. Why would anyone tolerate that?

oh,... disqus OFC

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 12:28 PM (3uBP9)

82 Didn't Cali and Washington recently make it illegal to investigate and report fraud?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 12:23 PM (XV/Pl)

***

In Olympia, they tried. The result was a proposed bill that would have shielded the personal information of child care providers to prevent harassment. The goal was to aggressively police anyone trying to find out if the typical immigrant run day care was corrupt.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 12:28 PM (2WIwB)

83 80 Immigrant community Katie ? Doing the fraud Americans won't do...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 12:27 PM (yLn/F)

Remember, she is also getting her beak wet in all this fraud. That is the key for all of these fucktards. It is why California went so apeshit about investigating the fraud. I would expect that while the federal budget is half graft, Cali's is probably 75-80%.

It's fraud all the way down.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:28 PM (bss/y)

84 Afternoon Ace.
When you elect a theater kid Marxist with no practical experience beyond living off her academic parents, you can't expect intelligent governance. And Seattle therefore will not get intelligent governance anytime soon

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 12:29 PM (SW0z7)

85 I don't recall ever meeting a Somali in real life.

I suspect they are simply a figment of imagination made manifest by a malevolent cosmic entity....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 12:23 PM (gnNyN)
____

I've met a few, including one I've mentioned before: a real hottie who was on billboards in Times Square. Most Somalis are mutant CHUDs who look like a leper vomited on himself. But not this girl.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:29 PM (iFTx/)

86 100 million extra people.
With no ties to America or interest in becoming Americans.
80%+ on some form of public benefits.
Perfectly comfortable living in crime and squalor.

Now you can see:
- Why we have $38 trillion in debt
- Nothing is better
- and there's no money for anything you voted for

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 12:29 PM (73/SM)

87 Smack her in the forehead with a 2 by 12.
Posted by: Roy at May 29, 2026 12:18 PM (qwype)

That would constitute cruel and unusual punishment - to the 2x12.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 12:29 PM (qx7Zg)

88 PS, another Double Crow Day. And they're coming back now.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:11 PM
---
Is it the crow couple from yesterday? I wonder which came first.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 29, 2026 12:30 PM (cWLG3)

89 Obama stared that to make all the Dems precious victim groups seeking money and benefits and power sound so nice neighborly, people you'd trust like to know. Just like all the people in Mayberry.

But Floyd didn't run a government-subsidized barber shop with no barber chairs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 12:30 PM (+5YP2)

90 81 What does insty use for comments? It is completely infiltrated by shitlibs. And hierarchical sorted comments are shit because it favors shitlibs blowing things up. Why would anyone tolerate that?

oh,... disqus OFC
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 12:28 PM (3uBP9)

I don't see it as too bad as far as mix. There are a lot of fringe comments both ways that would get a banning from Senor CBD with his Ban Maracas. (Just had a mental image of a Jewish guy with a sombrero and a glued on pencil mustache.)

But the comment system is not pleasing to my eye.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:31 PM (bss/y)

91 44 James Talarico
@jamestalarico
-
He IS the Baconeater!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026

Again, Talerico is such a man's man, he uses a knife and fork to eat bananas.

Seattle will just get me too worked up.

Gutfeld had Spencer Pratt on yesterday. Ordinary guy, unpolished which is a big plus. He calls himself the "Look around" candidate asking people if they are disgusted by what they see. Doesn't give a damn about celebrity endorsements.

Wanted to avoid national things but realise the national attention will help get out the vote for him to counter Dem ballot harvesting.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 29, 2026 12:31 PM (Sco7b)

92 Is it the crow couple from yesterday? I wonder which came first.

Probably the egg. Or the crow. One of those.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:31 PM (Riz8t)

93 Ace, just make sure the Crows don't drag any Arapahos or Blackfeet along. Cause then they'll demand whisky and star rain-dancing on your porch and shit.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 12:31 PM (77rzZ)

94 52 I don't recall ever meeting a Somali in real life.

I suspect they are simply a figment of imagination made manifest by a malevolent cosmic entity....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 12:23 PM (gnNyN)

Never met one, either, but saw a bodycam video yesterday of a Somali-looking dude managing to yeet his SUV off of an overpass in Washington (state).

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 12:31 PM (iXqHn)

95 It'll be interesting to see a sweeping effect of clearing up fraud and immigration from red states through purple states into blue states over the next few years.

And the country as a whole just getting redder.

3 million people left last year. How many had driver's licenses, legal driver's licenses. How many were also registered to vote because of Motor Voter? How many just...voted? With or without realizing that they shouldn't?

How has that buoyed the Democrat Party itself?

I'm not saying it's everything, but I am asserting that it's part of it. Will another year and another 3 million leaving mean that...30,000 illegally registered but legally voting individuals leave? 60,000? 300,000? A million?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 12:31 PM (7RBt4)

96 This type fraud is so much easier than their pirates on the opens seas. No climbing on a ship with razor wire and probably weapons to stop them, just a little paperwork and $millions arrive in the mail.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 29, 2026 12:31 PM (vbXSk)

97 I've met a few, including one I've mentioned before: a real hottie who was on billboards in Times Square. Most Somalis are mutant CHUDs who look like a leper vomited on himself. But not this girl.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:29 PM (iFTx/)

Outliers. It's like that unearthly beautiful gal who was on the cover of National Geographic (gorgeous eyes.) She was from something like Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan or something.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:32 PM (bss/y)

98 One notable exception is when I went to NASA's launch site in FL. Lots of good looking people there.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 29, 2026 12:25 PM (mkw2N)

Miami is the city of breasts.
Shockingly large numbers of hot girls there, compared to elsewhere in the country. And they are showing the girls off constantly. And I mean like....normal hot girls not pros. Like real estate agents are showing cleavage proudly.

This is what they took from us.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 12:33 PM (xcxpd)

99
Remember, she is also getting her beak wet in all this fraud.

And what a beak it is!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 12:33 PM (Cqx++)

100 Kommissar Katie Wilson said the city will not be looking into any “day cares fraud”….

….meanwhile she’s going back for a $1.3 BILLION tax levy to fund more day cares….

What she's saying is she's getting some of that money, so she's cranking up the amount now.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 12:33 PM (2ocoG)

101 Seattle communities are going to need more barricades.

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 29, 2026 12:33 PM (XB1Qt)

102 But Floyd didn't run a government-subsidized barber shop with no barber chairs.
Posted by: Cicero

But he DOES have a government-subsidized gift shop in Minneapolis.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

103 97 I've met a few, including one I've mentioned before: a real hottie who was on billboards in Times Square. Most Somalis are mutant CHUDs who look like a leper vomited on himself. But not this girl.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:29 PM (iFTx/)

Outliers. It's like that unearthly beautiful gal who was on the cover of National Geographic (gorgeous eyes.) She was from something like Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan or something.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:32 PM (bss/y)

Afghanistan, during the Russian invasion years.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 29, 2026 12:33 PM (cWLG3)

104 Ace, just make sure the Crows don't drag any Arapahos or Blackfeet along. Cause then they'll demand whisky and star rain-dancing on your porch and shit.

If you wanna see my rain dance, you have to put dollar bills in my wampum bag.

Posted by: Gray Beaver at May 29, 2026 12:33 PM (Riz8t)

105 Apparently I've got you beat, Ace: My husband saw a DEER in our yard this morning. We live in the middle of a town of over 6,000 people! I suspect our neighbors two blocks away are to blame, since they're the "grow your own food" type and they grow corn. JT The Wonder Dog is ecstatic, since he's never had this type of friend before.

Posted by: pookysgirl wishes she could have seen JT's reaction at May 29, 2026 12:33 PM (Wt5PA)

106 Democrat Party should simply rebrand as the Looter Party.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 12:33 PM (ZpG08)

107 ot: "Funk Comptroller

I met him at Pitt.

We need the Funk
gotta have some Funk

I barely graduated.

Posted by: DaveA at May 29, 2026 12:33 PM (FhXTo)

108 Most Somalis are mutant CHUDs who look like a leper vomited on himself. But not this girl.

You found the one that isn't inbred. Congratulations!

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 12:34 PM (2ocoG)

109 X isn't real life, and the whole ratio game is stupid, but I do find this interesting:

https://x.com/HouseDemocrats/status/
2060058873268953397

"@HouseDemocrats
Last year, Republicans gave ICE $140 billion.

Now, Republicans want to give ICE $70 billion more.

Your taxpayer dollars are funding an out-of-control mass deportation machine."

About 1,000 likes and more than 4,000 comments mostly that seem to rag on the post and want more deportations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 12:34 PM (7RBt4)

110 > Most Somalis are mutant CHUDs who look like a leper vomited on himself. But not this girl.

The Mars Attacks shaped-head is not attractive.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 29, 2026 12:34 PM (mkw2N)

111 I don't recall ever meeting a Somali in real life.

I suspect they are simply a figment of imagination made manifest by a malevolent cosmic entity....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 12:23 PM (gnNyN)

***

My last assignment in the Army was in Somalia.
I can testify that it is indeed a complete and total shithole.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 12:34 PM (2WIwB)

112 I saw a headline about a "Democrat" candidate for Wisconsin governor who wants to imagine a state without prisons.

I wonder if she realizes the consequences. You won't get prison, so why not just kill someone who pisses you off. The only justice is vigilante. Stupid fricking idiots.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 12:34 PM (qx7Zg)

113 One notable exception is when I went to NASA's launch site in FL. Lots of good looking people there.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 29, 2026 12:25 PM (mkw2N)
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I was at the country club pool yesterday afternoon and I noticed the opposite. There were a LOT of good-looking moms out there lol.

Fortunately for me my wife is one of them and she's not a lunatic, usually.

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 12:34 PM (oqH4h)

114 Miami is the city of breasts.
Shockingly large numbers of hot girls there, compared to elsewhere in the country. And they are showing the girls off constantly. And I mean like....normal hot girls not pros. Like real estate agents are showing cleavage proudly.

This is what they took from us.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 12:33 PM (xcxpd)

*lights a candle*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:35 PM (bss/y)

115 she probably got to wet her beak

Posted by: Otto Penn at May 29, 2026 12:35 PM (sJHOI)

116 Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 12:31 PM (iXqHn)

What does "yeet" mean?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 12:35 PM (lQ+/f)

117 Who knew a century ago that half our country will become the United Socialist States of America, where they suck the money from the Capitalist side and reallocate it to themselves and their pets in their Socialist paradise. Lenin would have been proud of this achievement!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 12:35 PM (GD0B3)

118 US total population: 342 million.
- 100 million illegals, draining the treasury at every level.
- Another 23 million directly employed by federal, state and local governments (not including military).

123 million out of 342 million produce nothing.

36% are takers.

Now you know why you are struggling; why everything is breaking.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 12:36 PM (73/SM)

119
Katie Wilson kinda sorta rolled her eyes and sort of, like, admitted that maybe okay, she didn't mean what she said about Starbucks literally moving, and maybe that wasn't quite right for her to say or mean.

Same admission coming up on fraud investigations? Or is race a bridge too far?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 12:36 PM (n7rxJ)

120 "This whole issue is not really about fraud, it's about dividing and conquering." Seattle Mayor Olive Oily

Correct. But not as she explicitly stated, that it is about targeting immigrants. Rather, fraud is this communist's tool at hand to corrupt good governance so it can be molded into a weapon to incite economic and social chaos and undermine the established citizenry.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at May 29, 2026 12:36 PM (glnUu)

121 "@HouseDemocrats
Last year, Republicans gave ICE $140 billion.

Now, Republicans want to give ICE $70 billion more.

Your taxpayer dollars are funding an out-of-control mass deportation machine."

About 1,000 likes and more than 4,000 comments mostly that seem to rag on the post and want more deportations.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 12:34 PM (7RBt4)
----
In other words, taxpayers prefer that their money go towards the federal government to remove illegal immigrants, rather than have the immigrants steal that money directly from taxpayers.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 12:36 PM (gnNyN)

122 When Commie Katie starts growing bangs you'll know where she's tucked away all the fraud $. Teapot... or is it Nepot Dome 2.O

Posted by: Rex B at May 29, 2026 12:36 PM (rgnea)

123 The Mars Attacks shaped-head is not attractive.

To be fair, they are naturally well-suited to a career in anal probing.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 12:37 PM (+5YP2)

124 So she's admitting it's being done and by whom.

OK.

No fed money.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 29, 2026 12:37 PM (FxH7T)

125 Afghanistan, during the Russian invasion years.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 29, 2026 12:33 PM (cWLG3)

Thanks. Don't tell me what happened to her.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:37 PM (bss/y)

126 I see the old fossil Bruce Springsteen is gonna give a "I hate Trump and America" concert right before the midterms... Nothing says Happy 250th Birthday America like a bunch of washed up old geriatric hasbeens trying to look relevant...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 12:38 PM (yLn/F)

127 > Miami is the city of breasts.
Shockingly large numbers of hot girls there, compared to elsewhere in the country.

I was at a restaurant 45 minutes from Merritt Island eating dinner. There was a stunning 20 something woman behind the bar in a crop top. She had to lean forward and reach up to grab a glass and her very sexy lacy purple bra came into full view. She quickly realized what happened and covered up, but it's forever imprinted on my hippocampus.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 29, 2026 12:38 PM (mkw2N)

128 U.S. Attorney Nebraska @USAO_NE
🚨US Attorney Lesley A. Woods: Illegal alien from India sentenced to 10 years for sex trafficking minors in Omaha. HSTF rescued two child victims.
May 28, 2026 · 7:29 PM UTC

Posted by: I am gKWVE's highly-enriched culture at May 29, 2026 12:39 PM (gKWVE)

129 "Bovino, former head of ICE, says it's 100 million."

I can believe that if you include anchor babies, who really shouldn't be citizens anyways. In a mere 50 years the country went from close to 90% white/European descent to not much more that 50%. Majority of babies are now non-white. This was not an accident and would never happen organically. But talk about the Great Replacement and you are a conspiracy nut.

Posted by: Ripley at May 29, 2026 12:39 PM (GUOwU)

130 Same admission coming up on fraud investigations? Or is race a bridge too far?

For lefties, the less close to you something or someone is, the *more* you care about it. They care least about their immediate family, friends, and neighbors and most about things in/from exotic locales. There's actual science about this, not the stuff Fauci does.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 12:39 PM (2ocoG)

131 Most Somalis are mutant CHUDs who look like a leper vomited on himself. But not this girl.

You found the one that isn't inbred. Congratulations!
Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 12:34 PM (2ocoG)

***

It was amusing back when Bush/Clinton committed us to troops in Somalia. They were looking around for anyone who could speak the language. I think the US Government had maybe 10 people who could translate. The funny thing was the main warlord at the time, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, had a son who was sent to America and the kid joined the Marines. Poor guy was keeping his head down trying to avoid being "discovered" and used as an interpreter. Just about everyone he'd interrogate would have been from other tribes and they would try to kill his ass.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 12:39 PM (2WIwB)

132 > What does "yeet" mean?

Kid slang for "to throw."

Posted by: bonhomme at May 29, 2026 12:39 PM (mkw2N)

133 Pratt is making people pay attention to what LA, and CA in general, has become.
But the Democrats who run the state and get their campaign cash from the CTA (300k members with $1k/yr in dues) and the SEIU have got the state elections rigged.
Ten's of millions in mail-in ballots go out to anyone (living or dead) who as lived at a given address over the last 8-10 years.
Hundreds of unsupervised ballot drop boxes are spread across the state and the Democrats have an army of ballot harvesters collecting those mailed out ballots from apartment buildings, senior centers, filling them out and dropping them into the mail or drop boxes.
Even if Steve Hilton can overcome these banana republic style tactics and win in November, the Democrats control both the Assembly and Senate in Sacto with super majorities. Enough to over-ride any Hilton vetoes and block any of his initiatives.
And the Democrat Sec'y of State gets to write the description of any state wide referendum on the ballot so as to obscure it's intent.
CA is going to remain under Democrat control, and so will get much worse before even beginning to change.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at May 29, 2026 12:40 PM (MNCvZ)

134 Is it the crow couple from yesterday? I wonder which came first.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 29, 2026 12:30 PM (cWLG3)

Corvid couples are concurrent comers. We learned this yesterday. Pay attention!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 12:40 PM (Kdi1r)

135 Wanted to avoid national things but realise the national attention will help get out the vote for him to counter Dem ballot harvesting.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't

For a reality performer, he seemed a bit apprehensive at first.
"Look around candidate " is a great lead in.

Yiu can't unsee what you just saw. And there is no comeback for Bass on it.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 29, 2026 12:40 PM (FxH7T)

136 Carried over:

125 I shall remain a voice crying in the wilderness.
Get rid of "Grants". I don't care if it's to the YMCA for midnight basketball, or the Historical.Society for the community museum, or Starbucks to bring a headquarters.. no.
As long as the concept of the government giving a away tax dollars to private companies for anything but direct services to the government is normal, you're playing Whack-a-Mole about anything that chaps your hide.
Posted by: buddhaha at May 29, 2026 11:48 AM (PC+XL)

I would go a step further: no giving tax dollars to *any* org for anything but services. For-profit, non-profit, NGO, I don't care.

There will still be fraud in the services, but to be serious about reducing fraud, we have to be serious about eliminating incentives for fraud. And that means getting serious about eliminating fraud opportunities, which means eliminating grants as a category of disbursement.

Anything less is just killing the cockroaches you see, and pretending the source away. It's not something people want to hear, but the logic is grimly inescapable.

Posted by: SciVo at May 29, 2026 12:40 PM (Sy6m/)

137 It's not about fraud it's about dividing and conquering.
That's authentic Marxist gibberish

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 12:40 PM (SW0z7)

138 126 I see the old fossil Bruce Springsteen is gonna give a "I hate Trump and America" concert right before the midterms... Nothing says Happy 250th Birthday America like a bunch of washed up old geriatric hasbeens trying to look relevant...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 12:38 PM (yLn/F)
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Bruce Springsteen sucks and he should take his dumb, derivative, boring faux-Americana dreck and fuck off to somewhere where there are no microphones.

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 12:41 PM (oqH4h)

139 Oh, that's not a step further, it's the same. Sorry, not fully awake.

Posted by: SciVo at May 29, 2026 12:41 PM (Sy6m/)

140 What does "yeet" mean?

To throw forcefully and somewhat carelessly. Like a trebuchet.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 12:41 PM (2ocoG)

141 126 I see the old fossil Bruce Springsteen is gonna give a "I hate Trump and America" concert right before the midterms... Nothing says Happy 250th Birthday America like a bunch of washed up old geriatric hasbeens trying to look relevant...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 12:38 PM (yLn/F)

Of course, it was Tom "Rage on Behalf of the Machine" Morello's idea...

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 12:41 PM (iXqHn)

142 Think MNCvZ glows

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 12:41 PM (ZpG08)

143 It was amusing back when Bush/Clinton committed us to troops in Somalia. They were looking around for anyone who could speak the language. I think the US Government had maybe 10 people who could translate. The funny thing was the main warlord at the time, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, had a son who was sent to America and the kid joined the Marines. Poor guy was keeping his head down trying to avoid being "discovered" and used as an interpreter. Just about everyone he'd interrogate would have been from other tribes and they would try to kill his ass.
Posted by: Diogenes

I was at DLI at the time, and, yes, they were starting up emergency Somali classes.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 12:42 PM (77rzZ)

144 Really need a Captain Phillips ending to this story.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 29, 2026 12:42 PM (fvZ66)

145 Like real estate agents are showing cleavage proudly.

This is what they took from us.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,

Dear Penthouse, you won't believe this

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 29, 2026 12:42 PM (FxH7T)

146 I've met a few, including one I've mentioned before: a real hottie who was on billboards in Times Square. Most Somalis are mutant CHUDs who look like a leper vomited on himself. But not this girl.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:29 PM (iFTx/)

Outliers. It's like that unearthly beautiful gal who was on the cover of National Geographic (gorgeous eyes.) She was from something like Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan or something.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:32 PM (bss/y)

Afghanistan, during the Russian invasion years.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 29, 2026 12:33 PM (cWLG3)
__________

IIRC, they did a follow-up on the girl decades later. Let's just say she did not age well. As an adult, she looked like a dude.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:42 PM (iFTx/)

147 Ace, you know that you're establishing your reputation in the Greater Crow community. Make sure it's a good one.

Crows talk.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 29, 2026 12:42 PM (w6EFb)

148 It's like that unearthly beautiful gal who was on the cover of National Geographic (gorgeous eyes.) She was from something like Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan or something.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:32 PM (bss/y)

Afghanistan.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 12:42 PM (Kdi1r)

149 Out: Moronettes
In: Commenters with a Uterus

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 12:42 PM (+5YP2)

150
I've met a few, including one I've mentioned before: a real hottie who was on billboards in Times Square. Most Somalis are mutant CHUDs who look like a leper vomited on himself. But not this girl.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

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Iman is Somali. Also Waris Dirie, whom you maybe never heard of, but she was a very hot Somali supermodel.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 12:42 PM (n7rxJ)

151 138 126 I see the old fossil Bruce Springsteen is gonna give a "I hate Trump and America" concert right before the midterms... Nothing says Happy 250th Birthday America like a bunch of washed up old geriatric hasbeens trying to look relevant...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 12:38 PM (yLn/F)
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Bruce Springsteen sucks and he should take his dumb, derivative, boring faux-Americana dreck and fuck off to somewhere where there are no microphones.
Posted by: ballistic
................
It's a pose. Nothing to it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at May 29, 2026 12:43 PM (bfy6w)

152 15 There shouldn't be a single Somalian in this country.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Everyone involved in the decision to bring Somalia to the US needs to be stripped of citizenship and deported to Somalia. This is the moderate position.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 12:43 PM (Dv3i1)

153 150 Iman is Somali. Also Waris Dirie, whom you maybe never heard of, but she was a very hot Somali supermodel.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 12:42 PM (n7rxJ)

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Oh, that chick from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

Everything is Star Trek.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 12:43 PM (7RBt4)

154 The Springsteen, Morello, Foo Fighters protest show will probably draw an average age of 60.
No chance of yutes rampaging there unfortunately.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 12:44 PM (SW0z7)

155
that unearthly beautiful gal who was on the cover of National Geographic (gorgeous eyes.) She was from something like Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan or something.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:32 PM (bss/y)

Afghanistan, during the Russian invasion years.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

==============

She was Kurdish.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 12:44 PM (n7rxJ)

156 "I see the old fossil Bruce Springsteen is gonna give a "I hate Trump and America" concert right before the midterms... "

I'm gonna guess he has never invite a tranny groupie to party after the concert despite spewing the party line on gender.

Posted by: Ripley at May 29, 2026 12:44 PM (GUOwU)

157 They did the meme!!! They actually did the meme.

James Talarico Said God Is Nonbinary. What Does the Bible Say?

Republicans have pounced on an old statement as they seek to make gender politics the focus of the Senate campaign.

https://tinyurl.com/7hmkmemh

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:44 PM (Riz8t)

158 Wait. Persis Kambatta was Somalian?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 12:44 PM (+5YP2)

159 Oh, that chick from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

Everything is Star Trek.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 12:43 PM (7RBt4)

Wasn't she married to Davie Bowie?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:45 PM (bss/y)

160 Of the many reasons the importation of the invaders occurred, the process of funneling tax fraud money to their pockets and political machines has caused their traditional fundraiser processes to deteriorate. They NEED to keep the dirty money flowing or else the DNC can't get reelected.

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 29, 2026 12:45 PM (yInIL)

161 Wasn't she married to Davie Bowie?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Iman was married to Bowie.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 12:45 PM (77rzZ)

162 If Springsteen falls down during the concert, will he have his Medic Alert bracelet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 12:46 PM (ZpG08)

163 President Trump will not send The Navy and Marines to save Katie Wilson from the pirates.

Posted by: Eromero at May 29, 2026 12:46 PM (LHPAg)

164 For lefties, the less close to you something or someone is, the *more* you care about it. They care least about their immediate family, friends, and neighbors and most about things in/from exotic locales. There's actual science about this, not the stuff Fauci does.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 12:39 PM (2ocoG)

"Ideological differences in the expanse of the moral circle," authored by Adam Waytz, Ravi Iyer, Liane Young, Jonathan Haidt and Jesse Graham, which was published on September 26th, 2019.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 12:46 PM (Kdi1r)

165 They did the meme!!! They actually did the meme.

James Talarico Said God Is Nonbinary. What Does the Bible Say?

Republicans have pounced on an old statement as they seek to make gender politics the focus of the Senate campaign.

https://tinyurl.com/7hmkmemh
Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:44 PM (Riz8t)
______

No straight man was ever as obsessed with trannies, and nonbinaries, and homos as this guy is. He's gayer than the Village People. I'm actually wondering whether he himself isn't a tranny.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

166 Is that a burl growing on Katie Wilson's forehead? Seattle’s Zohran Mamdani.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at May 29, 2026 12:47 PM (6SeoE)

167 Everyone involved in the decision to bring Somalia to the US needs to be stripped of citizenship and deported to Somalia. This is the moderate position.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 12:43 PM (Dv3i1)

My plans would leave max 150 million left in the country. And like Twitter/X, it would run so much better after getting rid of the trash.

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 29, 2026 12:47 PM (yInIL)

168 Persis Kham atta was St:TMP

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 12:47 PM (ZpG08)

169 She had to lean forward and reach up to grab a glass and her very sexy lacy purple bra came into full view. She quickly realized what happened and covered up, but it's forever imprinted on my hippocampus.
Posted by: bonhomme

You poor dear! I hope you can recover.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 12:48 PM (Dv3i1)

170 I think the NG cover girl got in trouble with her family for not being properly covered up and having her picture taken by an infidel.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 12:48 PM (77rzZ)

171 No straight man was ever as obsessed with trannies, and nonbinaries, and homos as this guy is. He's gayer than the Village People. I'm actually wondering whether he himself isn't a tranny.

Is James Talarico married?

No, James Talarico is not married. However, the Texas lawmaker and U.S. Senate candidate is in a long-term relationship and has a girlfriend whom he has been dating for four years. He keeps her identity private to protect her from the public scrutiny of his political campaigns.

I guess she's from Canada. You wouldn't know her.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:48 PM (Riz8t)

172
There shouldn't be a single Somalian in this country.

I have asked this before: What is there of value that Somalians bring to this country?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 12:17 PM (guGkK)

The traditional way to confound a commie cocksucker on this issue is to ask the question, with the condition that said benefits should be value not including food. Not that I'm craving a nice bowl of boiled sorghum...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2026 12:48 PM (y9nCu)

173
For lefties, the less close to you something or someone is, the *more* you care about it. They care least about their immediate family, friends, and neighbors and most about things in/from exotic locales. There's actual science about this, not the stuff Fauci does.
Posted by: Ian S.

================

Indeed. That's why Katie Wilson flipped on evil billionaires and Starbucks; budgeting landed on her actual desk.

Just wondering if a little fraud reduction might look good to her if someone shows her some more numbers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 12:48 PM (n7rxJ)

174 Ace, you know that you're establishing your reputation in the Greater Crow community. Make sure it's a good one.

Crows talk.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Not a mynah consideration

Posted by: Ornithological Miklos at May 29, 2026 12:49 PM (z+O9Y)

175 I was at DLI at the time, and, yes, they were starting up emergency Somali classes.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 12:42 PM (77rzZ)

I feel sorry for anyone who got roped into that. I'm sure there's a language less worth learning. But I'm hard pressed to name it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 12:49 PM (Y6K7e)

176 Wait. Persis Kambatta was Somalian?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 12:44 PM (+5YP2)

Indian. Computers, not casinos.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 12:49 PM (Kdi1r)

177 149 Out: Moronettes
In: Commenters with a Uterus

kept in a jar by the door?

Posted by: eleanor rigby at May 29, 2026 12:49 PM (v3pYe)

178 154 The Springsteen, Morello, Foo Fighters protest show will probably draw an average age of 60.
No chance of yutes rampaging there unfortunately.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 12:44 PM (SW0z7)

I mentioned it before but at the last No Kings thing, AS SPRINGSTEEN WAS PLAYING ONSTAGE, MS Now muted him, put him in a small box and had Debbie WS talking on the other side of the screen.

Springsteen...lol...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 29, 2026 12:49 PM (Sco7b)

179 No straight man was ever as obsessed with trannies, and nonbinaries, and homos as this guy is. He's gayer than the Village People. I'm actually wondering whether he himself isn't a tranny.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:47 PM (iFTx/)
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Buh buh buh he has a girlfriend!

(that nobody has ever seen and if "she" exists she definitely has a dick)

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 12:49 PM (oqH4h)

180 Talerico dates Julia

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 12:50 PM (ZpG08)

181 My favorite part of the "take it up with the Apostle Paul" is that it only works on people who don't read the Bible and don't believe it's actually holy scripture.

And those same people can't understand why everyone else sees Talarico as a deceptive blasphemer, a false teacher.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 12:51 PM (73/SM)

182 No straight man was ever as obsessed with trannies, and nonbinaries, and homos as this guy is. He's gayer than the Village People. I'm actually wondering whether he himself isn't a tranny.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:47 PM (iFTx/)
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Buh buh buh he has a girlfriend!

(that nobody has ever seen and if "she" exists she definitely has a dick)
Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 12:49 PM (oqH4h)
_______

"She goes to a different school. You don't know her."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:51 PM (iFTx/)

183 Talerico dates Julia

Impossible. She's in a long term relationship with Uncle Sam.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:51 PM (Riz8t)

184 I keep raising my estimate of how many illegals there are in the country. I'm not at about 75 million.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

I don't see why. It's not like they need real[/]i illegal aliens to pull off these scams.

They can just make them up, the same way that third world census takers make up the populations of the countries they allegedly survey.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 29, 2026 12:51 PM (vJrRc)

185 Disappointing about the Foo Fighters. IMO they are one of the only decent modern rock bands. Sucks that Dave Grohl turned out to be a smelly old commie.

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 12:51 PM (oqH4h)

186
*whistles innocently*

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 29, 2026 12:51 PM (vJrRc)

187 I see the old fossil Bruce Springsteen is gonna give a "I hate Trump and America" concert right before the midterms... Nothing says Happy 250th Birthday America like a bunch of washed up old geriatric hasbeens trying to look relevant...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 12:38 PM (yLn/F)

Of course, it was Tom "Rage on Behalf of the Machine" Morello's idea...
Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 12:41 PM (iXqHn)

Have they registered this event with the FEC as a donation to the Democrat Party?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 12:52 PM (qx7Zg)

188 I don't for a minute believe that Talarico has a sexual interest in any adult.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 12:52 PM (Y6K7e)

189 180 Talerico dates Julia
Posted by: Anna Puma

Julia has no face. Therefore, no nose piercings, which is a plus.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 12:52 PM (Dv3i1)

190 185 Disappointing about the Foo Fighters. IMO they are one of the only decent modern rock bands. Sucks that Dave Grohl turned out to be a smelly old commie.

oh Grohl was always a tool

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 12:52 PM (j+aD2)

191
"I went, oh my gosh, this was like a wow moment. These cases were probably fraudulent," she added.

==============

I haven't read this article in depth, but I strongly suspect I want to hit this woman. Was she specifically tasked with careful stewardship of taxpayer dollars, and calling out discrepancies, an unusual number of "outliers," suspicious trends, that sort of thing? And instead just kept approving things?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 12:53 PM (n7rxJ)

192 Disappointing about the Foo Fighters. IMO they are one of the only decent modern rock bands. Sucks that Dave Grohl turned out to be a smelly old commie.
Posted by: ballistic

We don't need 10 kinds of deodorant!

Or ANY

Posted by: Bolshie Bernie at May 29, 2026 12:53 PM (z+O9Y)

193 140 What does "yeet" mean?

To throw forcefully and somewhat carelessly. Like a trebuchet.

ah. trebuchet = yeetinatrix. got it.

Posted by: anachronda at May 29, 2026 12:53 PM (v3pYe)

194 She's in a long term relationship with Uncle Sam.
Posted by: Archimedes

Well, Sam is one of her longest-term johns...

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 12:53 PM (77rzZ)

195 Talerico dates Julia

Impossible. She's in a long term relationship with Uncle Sam.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:51 PM (Riz8t)

Talerico dates ELIZA!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 12:53 PM (qx7Zg)

196 Rumor is that Talarico has composite girlfriends.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 12:54 PM (+5YP2)

197 An ICE agent was arrested I see for shooting an illegal in the leg in MN.... I guess the illegal had a green card and the agent "allegedly" lied about the incident.. Bad thing is he will have a trial in MN. The agent that is not the so called "citizen"

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 12:54 PM (yLn/F)

198
Wait. Persis Kambatta was Somalian?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

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Different Star Trek. Part VI was Iman.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 12:54 PM (n7rxJ)

199 Rumor is that Talarico has composite girlfriends.

You mean he's following in the footsteps of Buffalo Bill?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:54 PM (Riz8t)

200 Disappointing about the Foo Fighters. IMO they are one of the only decent modern rock bands. Sucks that Dave Grohl turned out to be a smelly old commie.
Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 12:51 PM (oqH4h)
____

They're all smelly old commies, with only very few exceptions. I think Grohl's "good guy" persona was always BS propaganda. He's cheated on and been a real prick to his wife, several times.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:55 PM (iFTx/)

201 Talerico doesn't have a "girlfriend".
The guy is gayer than the cum-crusted mustache on a Castro District street hustler in San Francisco.
The only "meat' he eats is human. IYKWIMAIKYD

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at May 29, 2026 12:55 PM (MNCvZ)

202 Springsteen comes on in my car a lot. Every time I put the keys in the ignition and crank for about a second. (Ksh Ksh Ksh Ksh shshshsh) One more damned thing I'm going to need to get fixed. A honda crv, either the solenoid that pushes the starter in is going bad, or the teeth are already getting stripped. A little A and B I imagine.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 12:55 PM (3uBP9)

203 You mean he's following in the footsteps of Buffalo Bill?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:54 PM (Riz8t)

He doesn't have the upper body strength to abduct women.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 12:56 PM (Y6K7e)

204 Talerico dates Julia

Impossible. She's in a long term relationship with Uncle Sam.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:51 PM (Riz8t)

Talerico dates ELIZA!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 12:53 PM (qx7Zg)
_________

I fucked her

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:56 PM (iFTx/)

205 Seems to me that, as the primary government agent for the city, if you fail to investigate crimes (that are within your purview), you should be arrested and locked up for aiding and abetting said crimes.

Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 12:56 PM (OJx5l)

206 What does insty use for comments? It is completely infiltrated by shitlibs. And hierarchical sorted comments are shit because it favors shitlibs blowing things up. Why would anyone tolerate that?

oh,... disqus OFC
Posted by: banana Dream

Most people flag the shitlib comments and block them.

Which mostly just forces them to create a new account, but at least you don't have to see them until then.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 29, 2026 12:56 PM (vJrRc)

207 Part VI was Iman.

Iman was one of the first times I noticed when certain folks would try really, really hard to make me believe something that just isn't so. As a virtue signal.

She wasn't pretty in any way.

Posted by: Hello at May 29, 2026 12:56 PM (/3whg)

208 Seems to me that, as the primary government agent for the city, if you fail to investigate crimes (that are within your purview), you should be arrested and locked up for aiding and abetting said crimes.
Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 12:56 PM (OJx5l)
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That makes too much sense.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 29, 2026 12:57 PM (TZz9Q)

209 Rumor is that Talarico has composite girlfriends.
--
Just like me!
/s/ Barack "I dream the dream of many dicks inside me" Obama

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 12:57 PM (73/SM)

210 He doesn't have the upper body strength to abduct women.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 12:56 PM (Y6K7e)

He's already told us. Publicly.

"I love trans kids."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 12:57 PM (Kdi1r)

211
Of course, it was Tom "Rage on Behalf of the Machine" Morello's idea...
Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 12:41 PM (iXqHn)

Hey, despite the fact that he's a worthless commie cocksucker, he's a damned good guitarist and a hell of an actor. Like his debut in Iron Man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI9cI5I0ANk

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2026 12:57 PM (y9nCu)

212 > My favorite part of the "take it up with the Apostle Paul" is that it only works on people who don't read the Bible and don't believe it's actually holy scripture.

I believe the scripture the tranny crowd uses is Galatians 3:28.

"There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

Paul is calling for unity! It's such a stupid mis-interpretation.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 29, 2026 12:58 PM (mkw2N)

213 "And then she applies the usual Democrat Rule that Minorities Are Immune from the Law and Allowed to Steal and Kill without Consequence."

Hey I don't know about you guys, but this shit about giving "minorities" a pass and attacking whites because we are the "majority" is getting old when we are 8% of the global population, and make up less than half the US population under .. 36?... or so.

We are hurtling straight towards some nasty mix of Rwanda, South Africa, and 1936 Spain. Fuck these commies. Prepare accordingly.

Posted by: heya at May 29, 2026 12:58 PM (M4Oji)

214 Disappointing about the Foo Fighters. IMO they are one of the only decent modern rock bands. Sucks that Dave Grohl turned out to be a smelly old commie.
Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 12:51 PM (oqH4h)
____

Seconded. I really like the Foo Fighters, and it's disappointing to see them anywhere near this politicized turd of an event.

Posted by: Polka will never die at May 29, 2026 12:58 PM (9Rl/+)

215 97 I've met a few, including one I've mentioned before: a real hottie who was on billboards in Times Square. Most Somalis are mutant CHUDs who look like a leper vomited on himself. But not this girl.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:29 PM (iFTx/)

Outliers. It's like that unearthly beautiful gal who was on the cover of National Geographic (gorgeous eyes.) She was from something like Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan or something.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:32 PM (bss/y)

Iman is from Somalia.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 29, 2026 12:58 PM (0CU3H)

216 She wasn't pretty in any way.
Posted by: Hello

Iman? She's not my type, but she's not ugly. Head and shoulders above the average Somali in looks.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

217 @165

>>He's gayer than the Village People. I'm actually wondering whether he himself isn't a tranny.

The AOS style guide's guideline for gayness quantification is, he's gayer than nine guys blowing ten guys.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 12:59 PM (XV/Pl)

218 She wasn't pretty in any way.
Posted by: Hello at May 29, 2026 12:56 PM (/3whg)

Supermodel. Pretty eyes. But. Yeah. Flat chest. Boyish hips.

'Ass like a 12 year old Boy!'
-Bill Paxton in True Lies

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:59 PM (bss/y)

219 140 What does "yeet" mean?

To throw forcefully and somewhat carelessly. Like a trebuchet.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 12:41 PM (2ocoG)

To defenestrate means to yeet out a window.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 29, 2026 01:00 PM (cWLG3)

220 The Democrat Party has decided to go full Sergeant Schulz (Hogan's Heroes) about wholesale social service payment fraud by their fake victim-hood clans.

Will that work as a mid-term campaign strategy? I don't think so. We'll hear lie after lie from them about humongous fraud in Red States! Lying promises of endless House hearings about social services fraud! Lies about aggressively finding and punishing fraudsters wherever investigations lead! Swearsies!

Posted by: Gref at May 29, 2026 01:00 PM (5rh/l)

221 >>> Most people flag the shitlib comments and block them.

Which mostly just forces them to create a new account, but at least you don't have to see them until then.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 29, 2026 12:56 PM (vJrRc)

Wouldn't you have to sign up with disqus to do that? So they create a system designed to annoy and antagonize the user until they cough up their personal info. I would be surprised if disqus didn't pay the shitlibs for their service.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 01:00 PM (3uBP9)

222 They have pirate DNA. Can't stop them from stealing.
Posted by: huerfano
.......

Apparently they came to the perfect place.

Posted by: wth at May 29, 2026 01:00 PM (UjdFS)

223 Mayor Katie is ruffling the progressive feathers here in Seattle.

No one likes her. There’s a lot of eye rolling. The city council is turning on her. Former Gov Christine Gregoire is turning on her.

I hope she gets recalled.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 01:00 PM (SYlCh)

224 'Ass like a 12 year old Boy!'
-Bill Paxton in True Lies

*fistbump*

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at May 29, 2026 01:00 PM (Dv3i1)

225 220 The Democrat Party has decided to go full Sergeant Schulz (Hogan's Heroes) about wholesale social service payment fraud by their fake victim-hood clans.

Will that work as a mid-term campaign strategy? I don't think so. We'll hear lie after lie from them about humongous fraud in Red States! Lying promises of endless House hearings about social services fraud! Lies about aggressively finding and punishing fraudsters wherever investigations lead! Swearsies!

Posted by: Gref at May 29, 2026 01:00 PM (5rh/l)

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I wonder who the party thinks its electorate is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:01 PM (7RBt4)

226 >>He's gayer than the Village People. I'm actually wondering whether he himself isn't a tranny.

The AOS style guide's guideline for gayness quantification is, he's gayer than nine guys blowing ten guys.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 12:59 PM (XV/Pl)

1) Five pounds of gay in a two pound bag.

2) London Boy's gay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 01:01 PM (bss/y)

227 yeet = spatial translation

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 01:01 PM (3uBP9)

228 Hidey ho and ding-dang-doo, there sure are lots of these Somalis gettin injured at work, doncha know?

Posted by: Clueless Minnesota retiree who probably knew what was happening the whole time at May 29, 2026 01:02 PM (9Rl/+)

229 @185

>>Disappointing about the Foo Fighters. IMO they are one of the only decent modern rock bands. Sucks that Dave Grohl turned out to be a smelly old commie.

The Foo Fighters were formed in '95, so not really modern.

Dave Grohl's mother was a teacher and he talks about being estranged from his Republican father, who actually worked on the hill as a speechwriter.

He's always been a lefty.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 01:02 PM (XV/Pl)

230 It seems she can't start a sentence without "so..." or end one without "right?". What an ignoranamus.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:15 PM (Riz8t)

That drives me nuts.

Posted by: Reforger at May 29, 2026 01:02 PM (Rxz7v)

231
She wasn't pretty in any way.
Posted by: Hello

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I don't know what she looked like in Star Trek. This is pretty if you ask me:

https://tinyurl.com/y22zys9s

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 01:03 PM (n7rxJ)

232 Hey, despite the fact that he's a worthless commie cocksucker, he's a damned good guitarist and a hell of an actor. Like his debut in Iron Man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI9cI5I0ANk

I have to assume the guitar comment is as sarcastic as the actor comment. He's mediocre at best. Without drop D tuning and excessive use of a single pedal effect he'd be lost. He's a grubbier more commie version of The Edge from U2.

Posted by: He should be cleaning puke in dive bars at May 29, 2026 01:03 PM (TbWk/)

233 Smack her in the forehead with a 2 by 12.
Posted by: Roy
.......

Better make it a 2 by 14.

Posted by: wth at May 29, 2026 01:03 PM (UjdFS)

234 Talarico is Shift the ape from "The Last Battle."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 29, 2026 01:04 PM (TZz9Q)

235 Well? We're waiting.

Posted by: Zombie Mencken at May 29, 2026 01:04 PM (dK+Kv)

236
Back to the topic, anyway...

>>Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said the city has no intention of investigating fraud claims in taxpayer-funded social programs

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When federal investigators uncover billions in fraud, she'll rush in to take credit. "We successfully partnered with federal agencies to recover funds intended for the needy..."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 01:04 PM (n7rxJ)

237 It seems she can't start a sentence without "so..." or end one without "right?". What an ignoranamus.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:15 PM (Riz8t)

I worked with a guy who started with "so" every time he started talking.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 01:04 PM (77rzZ)

238 13 PS, another Double Crow Day. And they're coming back now.

How many do you need for a pie?
Posted by: Kratwurst at May 29, 2026 12:15 PM (Kwjzk)

You're thinking of '4 and twenty blackbirds.' I think you can sub in Grackles. They suck.

Posted by: Nelly at May 29, 2026 01:05 PM (6+ehB)

239 Modern Democrat Voters (via The Far Side)?

https://tinyurl.com/3drr2k2x+

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 01:05 PM (qx7Zg)

240 The AOS style guide's guideline for gayness quantification is, he's gayer than nine guys blowing ten guys.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 12:59 PM (XV/Pl)

1) Five pounds of gay in a two pound bag.

2) London Boy's gay.

Also acceptable: Anything with a reference to Liberace.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 01:05 PM (+5YP2)

241 Don't get me started on Morello, he's more overrated than Pablo Picasso.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 01:05 PM (XV/Pl)

242 Attractive-looking women are rare as hen's teeth in my admittedly limited public outings. Face, hair, and body size & shape struggle to rise to mid-level.

Not that my Buddha frame and FUBO appearance do anything but tank the mean from the ladies POV.

A pleasant smile is so beautifying yet is exceedingly rare.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 01:05 PM (wVcYX)

243 He's a grubbier more commie version of The Edge from U2.
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Edge was innovative, especially on delay effects. Probably a commie though, the Irish by nature are left wing nutjobs (I don't know why).

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 01:06 PM (Dv3i1)

244 E.g., Gayer than Liberace's opening pitch.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 01:06 PM (+5YP2)

245 The Foo Fighters were formed in '95, so not really modern.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 01:02 PM (XV/Pl)
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Stop making me feel old, jackwagon!

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 01:06 PM (oqH4h)

246 She added that "it's problematic to have random people showing up to daycares" and emphasized that "the fear in the Somali community is real" and "the fear in immigrant communities are real," saying her administration is "taking that very seriously."

___________________________

I don't think that comment reflects the position that I think she does.

She sees this as a negative. I see it as progress.

Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 01:06 PM (dIske)

247 Gayer than Liberace's hairdresser

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 01:07 PM (oqH4h)

248 247 Gayer than Liberace's hairdresser
Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 01:07 PM (oqH4h)

Gayer than his decorator

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 01:07 PM (FtULh)

249 Kiss your Medicare funding goodbye , you stupid bitch.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 01:07 PM (5P5DO)

250 You're thinking of '4 and twenty blackbirds.' I think you can sub in Grackles. They suck.
Posted by: Nelly at May 29, 2026 01:05 PM (6+ehB)

You can also fry up pieces of their fat to make nice crispy Gracklins

Posted by: Grackle grackle at May 29, 2026 01:07 PM (TbWk/)

251 Even zombie Liberace thinks Talarico should dial it back a bit.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 01:08 PM (77rzZ)

252 I worked with a guy who started with "so" every time he started talking.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 01:04 PM (77rzZ)

It implies you are some sort of mind reader. Like I should know and be on the same page of some shit you have already worked out in your head.

Posted by: Reforger at May 29, 2026 01:08 PM (Rxz7v)

253 I worked with a guy who started with "so" every time he started talking.
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Alors...

Posted by: L'Homme qui dit toujours � alors � pour commencer une phrase at May 29, 2026 01:09 PM (Dv3i1)

254 Black Keys are a better crunchy rock band in my opinion. Not very modern, more like the 00s but newer than foo. I don't know a lot of popular music and either stick with old bands I like or new ones probably few know.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 01:09 PM (3uBP9)

255 Talarico is Shift the ape from "The Last Battle."
Posted by: Captain Obvious

But without the charm and sewing skills.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 29, 2026 01:09 PM (vJrRc)

256 You know what? All those fake Somali daycares and autism centers sure had a lot of workman’s comp claims.

Is their any govt program that they didn’t defraud?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 29, 2026 01:09 PM (jnffq)

257 I wonder how much ambulance-chasing lawyers have earned from teaching Somalis and other scammer clans how to massively defraud the social services payment offices? It has to be a high-growth legal industry. I also wonder how many of those lawyers are full-on Democrat Socialists?

Posted by: Gref at May 29, 2026 01:09 PM (5rh/l)

258 Then every penny is not withheld but cancelled. Nothing for the fiscal year to Seattle. Claw back any funds already sent or in the payment process. Seattle can apply for medicaid funds for the next fiscal year if they comply this year. Nothing for this year.

The only way to stop the thievery is to not give them any thing to steal.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 29, 2026 01:10 PM (xvV+O)

259 I have a cow worker who starts every sentence with “well,”

She also doesn’t conjugate her verbs properly. Makes me nuts.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 01:10 PM (xZri3)

260 256 You know what? All those fake Somali daycares and autism centers sure had a lot of workman’s comp claims.

Is their any govt program that they didn’t defraud?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 29, 2026 01:09 PM (jnffq)

Only the ones they didn't participate in.

Posted by: Fraud, arson, piracy, and fraud at May 29, 2026 01:10 PM (TbWk/)

261 237 I worked with a guy who started with "so" every time he started talking.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 01:04 PM (77rzZ)

So... *record scratch* I bet you're wondering how I got myself into this situation...

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 01:11 PM (FpHTM)

262 The Foo Fighters were formed in '95, so not really modern.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 01:02 PM (XV/Pl)
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Stop making me feel old, jackwagon!
Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 01:06 PM (oqH4h)

***

*quietly slides Dave Clark 5 records under the desk*

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 01:11 PM (2WIwB)

263 She also doesn’t conjugate her verbs properly. Makes me nuts.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Bad grammar drives me up a freakin' wall.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 01:11 PM (77rzZ)

264
The fraud is being protected for the same reason that Los Angeles was allowed to burn and the tbe homeowners have not been allowed to rebuild. Destruction and looting are the entire intentions

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 29, 2026 01:11 PM (KDsZt)

265 Iman in her prime wasn't at least pretty? Tell me you're gay without telling me you are gay ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

266 Next we’ll find out the Somali’s are stealing from the Civil War orphans fund or some shit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 29, 2026 01:12 PM (jnffq)

267 I worked with a guy who started with "so" every time he started talking.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 01:04 PM (77rzZ)

It implies you are some sort of mind reader. Like I should know and be on the same page of some shit you have already worked out in your head.
Posted by: Reforger at May 29, 2026 01:08 PM (Rxz7v)

Ditto for the overuse of "obviously". Grinds my gears, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 01:12 PM (wVcYX)

268 259 I have a cow worker who starts every sentence with “well,”

She also doesn’t conjugate her verbs properly. Makes me nuts.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 01:10 PM (xZri3)

Tell her that you didn't realize she was capable of deep thoughts.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 29, 2026 01:12 PM (N39Ws)

269 Wouldn't you have to sign up with disqus to do that? So they create a system designed to annoy and antagonize the user until they cough up their personal info. I would be surprised if disqus didn't pay the shitlibs for their service.
Posted by: banana Dream

You don't have to sign up with Disqus (though iirc that's just an email, a username and a password), you can sign in with information you've already given to Google or Facebook instead

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 29, 2026 01:13 PM (vJrRc)

270 259 I have a cow worker who starts every sentence with “well,”

She also doesn’t conjugate her verbs properly. Makes me nuts.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 01:10 PM (xZri3)

Hey, don't forget me!

Posted by: You know, at May 29, 2026 01:13 PM (5rh/l)

271 266 Next we’ll find out the Somali’s are stealing from the Civil War orphans fund or some shit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 29, 2026 01:12 PM (jnffq)

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No, what we'll find out is that the Civil War orphans' fund administrators are willingly giving away all the funds to Somalis because it's been taken over by AWFLs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 01:13 PM (7RBt4)

272 So, uh, well, it's like this, see...

Posted by: Off to a great start at May 29, 2026 01:13 PM (TbWk/)

273 265 Iman in her prime wasn't at least pretty? Tell me you're gay without telling me you are gay ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 01:12 PM (iFTx/)
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She was "striking" in the sense that her looks stand out like a lot of other models. I wouldn't have kicked her out of bed for eating crackers but I also wouldn't describe her as "pretty" in any conventional sense.

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 01:14 PM (oqH4h)

274 How many Somalis can fit in a VLCC tanker for a trip home?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 29, 2026 01:14 PM (xvV+O)

275 Mudcrutch was nice but Petty dying kind ended that.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 01:14 PM (3uBP9)

276 264
The fraud is being protected for the same reason that Los Angeles was allowed to burn and the tbe homeowners have not been allowed to rebuild. Destruction and looting are the entire intentions
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

The purpose of a system is what it does. Things would be so much better if we had proper names for these systems. Maybe the Fraudulent Payments to Illegal Aliens Program or something.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 01:14 PM (Dv3i1)

277 So, uh, well, it's like this, see...

Posted by: Off to a great start at May 29, 2026 01:13 PM (TbWk/)

What had happened was...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 01:15 PM (Kdi1r)

278 Iman looked like the kind of chick that would marry David Bowie, so that tracks.

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 01:15 PM (oqH4h)

279 I don't know what she looked like in Star Trek. This is pretty if you ask me:

And here we go. I never try to tell women what men are good looking. Because I'm not a queer. It would be like me trying to give advice on buying an import sedan. I wouldn't know. Its not a truck.

As a consumer of female beauty - however - I tire of other women telling me what I should or should not like.

Posted by: Hello at May 29, 2026 01:15 PM (/3whg)

280
Per SBUX moving to TN:

$30m means precisely jack shit to a company the size of SBUX.

But it means something to a handful of State politicians..

Watch for SBUX/SBUXexecutives' political donations to the TN GOP in the coming couple of years... I bet the total comes out to within +/- 10% of $30m.

Because I have a crystal ball.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 29, 2026 01:15 PM (sQnY9)

281 Seattle's Communist Woke Wallflower Mayor Says She Refuses to Investigate Medicaid Fraud In Her City Because That Would Hurt Our Precioius Nomadic Pirates
—Disinformation Expert Ace
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Answer is simple: no more funds.

You're an executive. And executive function is policing. If you receive federal government dollars, you [should be] required to police the disbursements of them.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:16 PM (Fi81e)

282 Warren Beatty and David Bowie dated model Imam. There is a lid for every pot.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 01:16 PM (wVcYX)

283 nood

Jill

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 01:16 PM (3uBP9)

284 Because I have a crystal ball.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 29, 2026 01:15 PM (sQnY9)
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He said, and held it up to the light....

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 01:16 PM (Fi81e)

285 I worked with a guy who started with "so" every time he started talking.
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It implies you are some sort of mind reader. Like I should know and be on the same page of some shit you have already worked out in your head.

No, I think it's more a short of shorthand for "I've been thinking about..." or to introduce a new topic. I find it a useful device sometimes.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 01:16 PM (vTZFs)

286 I'm actually wondering whether he himself isn't a tranny.

He totally is. I think that's why Stephen Miller has started calling him the first transgender Senate candidate. It's probably a known thing in DC or something.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 01:16 PM (2ocoG)

287 Warren Beatty dated everything....

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 01:17 PM (GD0B3)

288 165 No straight man was ever as obsessed with trannies, and nonbinaries, and homos as this guy is. He's gayer than the Village People. I'm actually wondering whether he himself isn't a tranny.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

Would love to see Ted Cruz debate that guy.

Posted by: Joemarine at May 29, 2026 01:17 PM (y171U)

289 Miami is the city of breasts.
Shockingly large numbers of hot girls there, compared to elsewhere in the country. And they are showing the girls off constantly. And I mean like....normal hot girls not pros. Like real estate agents are showing cleavage proudly.

This is what they took from us.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 29, 2026 12:33 PM (xcxpd)

No one goes outside anymore because it is dangerous and UV is bad. Except in Florida

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 01:17 PM (rbvCR)

290 As a consumer of female beauty - however - I tire of other women telling me what I should or should not like.
Posted by: Hello

Women -- or at least my wife -- are usually pretty good identifiers female beauty. I guess it's an instinct borne of millions of years of scoping out the competition.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 01:17 PM (77rzZ)

291
omg YES. That kewpie doll Cecilia Vega is ousted from 60 Minutes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 01:18 PM (n7rxJ)

292 Apparently I've got you beat, Ace: My husband saw a DEER in our yard this morning. We live in the middle of a town of over 6,000 people! I suspect our neighbors two blocks away are to blame, since they're the "grow your own food" type and they grow corn. JT The Wonder Dog is ecstatic, since he's never had this type of friend before.
Posted by: pookysgirl wishes she could have seen JT's reaction at May 29, 2026 12:33 PM (Wt5PA)

I had a doe in my yard several years ago, but in my case I suspect it was the blackberry thicket behind my neighbor's house that turned into tangle on my yard.
She ate my tomato plants, mostly. This time of year she just wants a safe place to have her fawn, and will move on. I cleared the thicket out and I haven't had deer since then, at least that I have noticed.

Deer are what happens when we no longer are allowed to let our dogs run free.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 01:21 PM (rbvCR)

293 With some Old Crow

Make mine a double
Posted by: Celebratory Miklos
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I wonder if there is a recipe for Magpie pie?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2026 01:25 PM (XeU6L)

294 Same admission coming up on fraud investigations? Or is race a bridge too far?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2026 12:36 PM (n7rxJ)

Eventually the Seattle Power Elite are going to crucify her to block any investigation into government corruption and fraud, is my guess. Until then she is going to stay the course, and be a good little ideologue on the morality of socialism.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 01:26 PM (rbvCR)

295 259 I have a cow worker who starts every sentence with “well,”

She also doesn’t conjugate her verbs properly. Makes me nuts.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 01:10 PM (xZri3)

I'm impressed your 'cow' worker can speak at all. Most of my experience with cows is a lot of mooing (ok, lowing) and prodding me for food.

Posted by: Nelly at May 29, 2026 01:28 PM (6+ehB)

296 259 I have a cow worker who starts every sentence with “well,”

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You got a problem with that??

Posted by: The Gipper at May 29, 2026 01:28 PM (yInIL)

297 Outliers. It's like that unearthly beautiful gal who was on the cover of National Geographic (gorgeous eyes.) She was from something like Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan or something.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:32 PM (bss/y)
Afghanistan, The photographer went back after 10-15 years and she looked to be 75 years old. It's the islam ageing them to death.

Posted by: Eromero at May 29, 2026 01:28 PM (LHPAg)

298 I find it so strange that both she and Mandami can get elected to become Mayors of their cities without any significant work experience.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Enough of "the electorate" identifies.
Look at the percentage of the populace on the government teat.
Don't forget government "workers" and NGO drones as well as the usual welfare layabouts.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 29, 2026 01:30 PM (PC+XL)

299 Bad grammar drives me up a freakin' wall.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 01:11 PM (77rzZ)

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My dad had a shirt that said, "I'm silently correcting your grammar."

The real joke was that he was never silent about it.

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 29, 2026 01:30 PM (yInIL)

300 omg YES. That kewpie doll Cecilia Vega is ousted from 60 Minutes.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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“But I very much fear what comes next ..."

The Death Squads should be at her door any minute.

Punchline: Raise the drawbridge.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 29, 2026 01:40 PM (PC+XL)

301 Why won't you people let Kamala have Brat Summer 2!!!

Why?!?!
Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 01:44 PM (iJfKG)

because the only thing that will make an impression on her anymore are schnitzengruben

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 01:55 PM (rbvCR)

302 You don't have to sign up with Disqus (though iirc that's just an email, a username and a password), you can sign in with information you've already given to Google or Facebook instead
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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I had a Disqus account years ago under this nic. When I changed my email address t protonmail, they first shadow banned me, and when I complained, cancelled my account. IIRC, 6000+ comments, 1300 likes, no complaints. The original ban was evidently because they were getting too many spam complaints about protonmail, but my complaint caused someone to actually look at my posts. They were definitely on the political right side of any argument. Disqus is in San Francisco, the city proper.
Now, I just use the gmail.account that I never look at, and only use when I brush into some portion of the Google empire which requires it.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 29, 2026 01:57 PM (PC+XL)

303 Eventually all the digging will get down to exactly which organizations/persons taught these "immigrants" how to navigate the system and defraud it. More than the fraudsters, those are who I want charged-convicted, and jailed.

Posted by: geoffb at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (OtD+j)

Tennessee’s GOP State Government is Subsidizing the Relocation of Cultural Adversary Starbucks; How Did TN Leaders Promise $30M that Hadn’t Yet Been Approved in a Public Forum?

I dislike corporate welfare in general. I passionately dislike corporate welfare for corporations fleeing anti-business blue states, because the economic freedom in the states they flee to is their financial incentive. But a red state offering corporate welfare to a woke corporation fleeing the nest it soiled absolutely enrages me.

Starbucks is relocating a significant portion of its operations from the communist carnival of Seattle to the state of Tennessee, which is paying Starbucks to bring its radical political agenda and employees to the conservative state. Thanks to Governor Bill Lee and the Tennessee State Funding Board, $30 million dollars is being redistributed from Tennessee taxpayers to the left-wing coffee purveyor. Unlike some corporate welfare, this isn’t even comprised of tax incentives. It is an 8-figure cash payment from the state to a corporation whose executives have shown nothing but spitting contempt for the values of the state it is relocating to.

“TN State Funding Board approves $30 million incentive for Starbucks” [The Tennessean – 5/21/2026]

Tennessee’s State Funding Board approved the $30 million payout during a meeting on May 20. State incentives would cover an average of $15,000 per job created.

I know plenty of Tennessee small business owners who could hire more actual Tennesseans if the first $15,000 of salary was subsidized by the state. How obscene is it that a small manufacturing plant in Murfreesboro, staffed by patriotic Christians, doesn’t get a dime in assistance when it expands and hires more employees, but a corporation like Starbucks that is openly contemptuous of Tennessee’s conservative values is getting paid to colonize the state with its woke agenda?

During the announcement, Gov. Bill Lee touted the state’s “fiscally conservative approach to business.”

If taking money from taxpayers and giving it to an activist left-wing corporation is a “fiscally conservative approach to business,” what might be considered fiscally irresponsible?

How woke is Starbucks? As documented in Unherd, “Like so many companies, the coffee giant was swept up in the political maelstrom of 2020 and 2021. It pledged $100 million for businesses focused on “advancing racial equity”. It allowed employees to wear activist clothing and accessories to work, provided that the clothing supported the Black Lives Matter movement. In many Starbucks stores, June Pride Month celebrations went from discreet lapel pins to wall-covering shrines.”

So Tennessee is reimbursing Starbucks $30 million of the $100 million the company shelled out to “advance racial equity.” Some Tennessee politicians are not happy about this, including U.S. Rep. John Rose, a Republican candidate to replace (term-limited) Bill Lee as governor. He called the Starbucks incentive "corporate welfare" that is "beyond the pale." Marsha Blackburn is the overwhelming favorite to win this year’s Republican gubernatorial primary, but she has not yet commented on the Starbucks payout. I recommend that she gets on the right side of this issue quickly. If not, John Rose may gain some traction.

A ray of hope is that many Starbucks employees don’t want to leave the comfort of the asylum they call home.

“Lefty Starbucks office workers refuse to move from Seattle to new hub in deep-red Tennessee” [NY Post – 4/22/2026]

Starbucks office workers are reportedly balking at orders to relocate to the company’s new $100 million Nashville hub, with some left-leaning workers repulsed by the prospect of living and working in the capital of deep-red Tennessee.
The java giant has been struggling to persuade employees to move from Seattle — even after warning some they could lose their jobs if they refuse, Bloomberg News reported.

As I was typing this piece, I just noticed something significant that I had previously missed. Something stinks:

• Starbucks announced its new Tennessee operation in mid-April, and the employee ultimatums regarding relocation also occurred in April.

• It was several weeks later, on May 11, that the Tennessee State Funding Board issued a public notice of the upcoming May 20 meeting to vote on the $30 million handout. Public comment was limited to the day of the meeting, May 20. This was now a full month after Starbucks announced its Tennessee plans.

• If the state had not already committed the $30 million, the Funding Board could have simply voted “No” and it wouldn’t have made any difference, since Starbucks had already committed to the new Tennessee operation.

• If this was just a vote to formalize a previously agreed upon commitment of the $30 million, then how does this comport with the Tennessee Open Meeting Act. How did Governor Lee know he could promise a $30 million incentive to Starbucks if it hadn’t yet been debated in a forum open to the public?

I am not accusing the five members of the Tennessee State Funding Board of doing anything illegal. To the contrary, I am sure they have very good counsel who ensured that what they did is technically in accordance with state law. But that doesn’t make it right.

The Tennessee State Funding Board has five members entrusted with the authority and wisdom to redistribute money from taxpayers to corporate welfare recipients. Those members are:

1) Governor Bill Lee
2) Treasurer David Lillard
3) Comptroller Jason Mumpower
4) Finance & Administration Commissioner Jim Bryson
5) Secretary of State Tre Hargett

Perhaps if there is enough public revulsion from Tennessee taxpayers, these vulgar and unnecessary handouts to woke corporations will stop.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Darn it. Read the content.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

2 Starbucks coffee tastes terrible. I don't know how they survive.

Posted by: Ann at May 29, 2026 11:01 AM (SHHm+)

3 And I still made first! Off to perform nooding duties.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

4 I called the others

Posted by: Ann at May 29, 2026 11:02 AM (SHHm+)

5 Another reason to avoid scarbucks

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 29, 2026 11:02 AM (Kt19C)

6 Georgia lured Hollywood with tax breaks. And now Georgia has 2 Democrat senators and Democrat governor (who pretenders to be Republican).

Funny how that works huh?

Posted by: Heroq at May 29, 2026 11:03 AM (Tk4Lb)

7 Thx Buck.
Didn't Lee throw a lot of money at an electric car facility only to see it evaporate? Seems to be a trend

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 11:03 AM (SW0z7)

8 Starbucks needs government money, REALLY?!?!

This is rotten.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 11:04 AM (X8xt3)

9 >>Georgia lured Hollywood with tax breaks. And now Georgia has 2 Democrat senators and Democrat governor (who pretenders to be Republican).

Funny how that works huh?

Yup.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 11:05 AM (X8xt3)

10 Starbucks? I remember them. I bought my last coffee there in 2020.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 11:05 AM (u/oMr)

11 Nothing has discredited free markets more than Republicans masquerading as free marketeers.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 11:05 AM (Y6K7e)

12 Starbucks coffee tastes terrible. I don't know how they survive.
Posted by: Ann

Because they offer all that crap to put in the coffee to make it not taste so bad. That's probably where most of the profit lies. And their pastries.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 11:05 AM (77rzZ)

13 I dislike corporate welfare in general. I passionately dislike corporate welfare for corporations fleeing anti-business blue states, because the economic freedom in the states they flee to is their financial incentive. But a red state offering corporate welfare to a woke corporation fleeing the nest it soiled absolutely enrages me.

I generally agree, but there is something else to consider, and that is that the red states compete among themselves to attract a Starbucks, Boeing, or whomever. It would be best to have an agreement among the red states that they will not engage in such taxpayer giveaways, but barring that, it's going to happen.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

14 Fourbux sux.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at May 29, 2026 11:06 AM (GTqXr)

15 The Tennessee State Funding Board has five members entrusted with the authority and wisdom to redistribute money from taxpayers to corporate welfare recipients. Those members are:

1) Governor Bill Lee
2) Treasurer David Lillard
3) Comptroller Jason Mumpower
4) Finance & Administration Commissioner Jim Bryson
5) Secretary of State Tre Hargett

At first glance, the board's member makeup seems a mite incestuous, as it were.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 11:06 AM (wVcYX)

16 Tennessee has a long history of successful corporate welfare and as a Tennessee resident I have some degree of concern but not an overly high level. Look at it this way. Most states blow PR money talking about how great their state is. In this case, the Starbucks move does all the talking.

Posted by: Tennessee Volunteer at May 29, 2026 11:06 AM (bbZ4l)

17 >>“Lefty Starbucks office workers refuse to move from Seattle to new hub in deep-red Tennessee”

GOOD.
Insufferable Seattle people in TN is not a good idea.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 11:06 AM (X8xt3)

18 I said 10 cc, not Tennessee!

Posted by: Dr. Frasier Crane at May 29, 2026 11:06 AM (+IsEU)

19 "Wow, that's a lovely giant horse."

"Thank you, it's our gift to you."

"How much for it?"

"... uh, it's a gift. And it's full of angry Seattle-ites."

"Satellites?"

"Seattle-ites. And they all want you dead. They'll all kill you as soon as you bring them inside your town."

"Love it! Here's money."

Posted by: Warai-otoko grows weary of the GOPe. at May 29, 2026 11:08 AM (Ot/FD)

20 >>> Subsidizing the Relocation of Cultural Adversary Starbucks

Soon Tennessee will be recognized as 'bluer' than Seattle.
Soon.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 11:08 AM (/lPRQ)

21 How do a Treasurer, a Comptroller and a Finance & Administration Commissioner figure out who is responsible for what?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 11:08 AM (u/oMr)

22 Well done. I agree with you except for one little thing: there should be no corporate welfare given to anyone for any reason ever. Other than that, screw stabbucks.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at May 29, 2026 11:09 AM (+48wn)

23 I think TN already leads in per capita. EBT.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 11:09 AM (piLYH)

24 I’ll have a Rocky Top. That’s black with eggshell and a spoonful of bacon grease

Posted by: Eromero at May 29, 2026 11:10 AM (QEJ+R)

25 a Treasurer, a Comptroller and a Finance & Administration Commissioner walk into a bar...

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 29, 2026 11:10 AM (Kt19C)

26 21 How do a Treasurer, a Comptroller and a Finance & Administration Commissioner figure out who is responsible for what?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 11:08 AM (u/oMr)

I don't even know what a Comptroller is.

Posted by: The Comptroller at May 29, 2026 11:10 AM (Ot/FD)

27 If the state had not already committed the $30 million, the Funding Board could have simply voted “No” and it wouldn’t have made any difference, since Starbucks had already committed to the new Tennessee operation.

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How much of that $30 million is being kicked-back to the members of The Tennessee State Funding Board?

/business as usual

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 11:11 AM (BGLxh)

28 Starbucks coffee tastes terrible. I don't know how they survive.
Posted by: Ann
________

Because the people who drink it have it larded up. Nobody goes to Starbucks and orders black coffee.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 29, 2026 11:11 AM (XvL8K)

29 I only know I get the biggest office.

Posted by: The Treasurer at May 29, 2026 11:11 AM (u/oMr)

30 I don't even know what a Comptroller is.

He's the guy who supervises the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

31 I don't even know what a Comptroller is.
Posted by: The Comptroller at May 29, 2026 11:10 AM (Ot/FD)

It's a troll what trolls for free.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2026 11:12 AM (8zz6B)

32 Because the people who drink it have it larded up. Nobody goes to Starbucks and orders black coffee.

I do. I like my coffee dark and bitter.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:12 AM (Riz8t)

33 You can take the Shit Head out of the Shit Hole but
you cannot take the Shit Hole out of the Shit Head

=======

There is no Magic Dirt
(that works both ways)

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 11:12 AM (/lPRQ)

34 He's the guy who supervises the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

But then who's the Chequer now, and who chancels that guy?

Posted by: The Comptroller at May 29, 2026 11:12 AM (Ot/FD)

35 sid's ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Paul at May 29, 2026 11:13 AM (x/0NT)

36 You can over roast any coffee.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 11:13 AM (piLYH)

37 Texas does not currently have a state treasurer. The office was abolished on August 31, 1996, after the last State Treasurer, Martha Whitehead, campaigned on eliminating the position to save money.

The duties of the State Treasury Department were transferred to the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Consequently, the Comptroller now serves as the state’s chief financial officer.

Texas >> Tennessee in this case.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 29, 2026 11:13 AM (wVcYX)

38 As if Starbucks are the only company selling over-roasted beans via unhygienic International Studies majors in uncomfortable conditions. That girl selling her foot juice last night produces a better product than Starbucks' swill. Why not just tell them to screw off?

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 11:13 AM (tL5sl)

39 The java giant has been struggling to persuade employees to move from Seattle — even after warning some they could lose their jobs if they refuse, Bloomberg News reported.

They will move. Bet on it. Money talks, fake principles walk.

1. Those are high level, high dollar headquarters jobs. Not penny ante barista jobs.

2. IF those workers stay in Seattle, where are they going to work? All the other big companies have, or are pulling out.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 11:13 AM (YYKrY)

40 How do a Treasurer, a Comptroller and a Finance & Administration Commissioner figure out who is responsible for what?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 11:08 AM (u/oMr)

This guy's jeopardizing our phoney-baloney jobs!

Posted by: Finance & Administration Commision Executive Vice Commisioner at May 29, 2026 11:13 AM (+IsEU)

41 Because they offer all that crap to put in the coffee to make it not taste so bad. That's probably where most of the profit lies. And their pastries.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 11:05 AM (77rzZ)

Are there pastries good? I don't think I've ever had one.

I've probably been to Starbucks fewer than 10 times in my life. Those times were when caffeine desperation struck while on the road.

Posted by: Ann at May 29, 2026 11:14 AM (SHHm+)

42 Look at it this way. Most states blow PR money talking about how great their state is. In this case, the Starbucks move does all the talking.

Posted by: Tennessee Volunteer at May 29, 2026 11:06 AM (bbZ4l)

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"What's overpriced in Tennessee stays in Tennessee."

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 11:14 AM (BGLxh)

43 Tennessee,
the state that gave us Tipper Gore,
and keeps giving us Al Gore.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 11:14 AM (/lPRQ)

44 They will move. Bet on it. Money talks, fake principles walk.

1. Those are high level, high dollar headquarters jobs. Not penny ante barista jobs.

2. IF those workers stay in Seattle, where are they going to work? All the other big companies have, or are pulling out.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 11:13 AM (YYKrY)
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I concur.

Posted by: WisRich at May 29, 2026 11:15 AM (G0vdT)

45 Because the people who drink it have it larded up. Nobody goes to Starbucks and orders black coffee.

I do. I like my coffee dark and bitter.
Posted by: Archimedes

I like my coffee like I like my women. Ground up and in the freezer.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 11:15 AM (YYKrY)

46 Tennessee might be a red state, but Nashville is decidedly blue. Like Memphis. But a little more white.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2026 11:15 AM (jehhT)

47 I do. I like my coffee dark and bitter.
Posted by: Archimedes
______

And you find Starbucks superior to McDonalds for that? Not snark, just asking.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 29, 2026 11:15 AM (XvL8K)

48 *their

Posted by: Ann at May 29, 2026 11:16 AM (SHHm+)

49 It would be cool if the corrupt shitbags in the TN state government would think about something other than the short-term lining of their own pockets that is surely going to happen...like importing a shit company full of commies from Seattle and what that might eventually mean for the long-term safety of their phony-baloney jobs.

Oh well.

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 11:16 AM (oqH4h)

50 I think there is no evidence--especially long-term--that tax breaks and other enticements for businesses ever have any actual economic benefit.

Like, any correlation is statistical noise indistinguishable from ... doing nothing.

But, you'll never, ever, ever convince local politicians because they all get to crow and strut over the announcement about all the projected jobs and growth.

Because the reality is, boring old good governance--good streets, protection of people and property, reasonable taxes, etc.--are the true long-term engines of economic growth.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 11:16 AM (73/SM)

51 In the event that the Comptroller is not able to execute his duties you need a vice Comptroller.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 11:16 AM (piLYH)

52 The java giant has been struggling to persuade employees to move from Seattle — even after warning some they could lose their jobs if they refuse, Bloomberg News reported.

They will move. Bet on it. Money talks, fake principles walk.

1. Those are high level, high dollar headquarters jobs. Not penny ante barista jobs.

Agree, especially after they look around at the job market and find out just how saleable (or not) they are.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

53 47 I do. I like my coffee dark and bitter.
Posted by: Archimedes

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Like my women and my mood

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 11:16 AM (u/oMr)

54 I've probably been to Starbucks fewer than 10 times in my life. Those times were when caffeine desperation struck while on the road.
Posted by: Ann at May 29, 2026 11:14 AM (SHHm+)

I have never gone into a Starbux of my own volition. Once or twice with a friend or relative who wanted to go there. I can et better coffee at nearly any gas station.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2026 11:17 AM (8zz6B)

55 Archimedes, I can kind of understand Boeing. Big aerospace firm, gives the local STEM grads somewhere to work.
Starbucks offers nothing. Whoever they hire aren't worth keeping in-state. At best it's a jerb program. And since wholly unsubsidized joints exist, it sucks even at that. Where's the subsidy for the Knoxville House o' Joe run by Joe and his wife?

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 11:18 AM (tL5sl)

56 And you find Starbucks superior to McDonalds for that? Not snark, just asking.

Absolutely. McD's coffee is dishwater.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:18 AM (Riz8t)

57 It's brilliant on the part of progressives!

Starbucks committed to a $100 million capital investment and the creation of 2,000 corporate jobs over the coming years to put a Southeast headquarters in downtown Nashville.

AI Overview: Nashville operates as a "blue island in a sea of red". The city is historically the most progressive and Democratic area in Tennessee, driven by a strong base of young liberals and organized labor group.

The primary barrier to progressive policies in Nashville is the conservative-dominated state legislature. State lawmakers routinely attempt to curtail the city’s authority and preempt local laws, most notably over LGBTQ+ rights, gun control, and public health.
---

And the timing, super.

Casey Owens Castello (Joe Biden's niece) officially left corporate Starbucks in February 2026 after a 12-year career.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 11:18 AM (NFX2v)

58 Ugh. I don't know who said it first but the story always remains the same -

"It's a club and we aren't in it. (and never will be)"

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 11:18 AM (440br)

59 I do. I like my coffee dark and bitter.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:12 AM (Riz8t)

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There's an "Airplane" softball there ...

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 11:18 AM (BGLxh)

60 I like my coffee like I like my women. Ground up and in the freezer.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 11:15 AM (YYKrY)

Spread 'em on the fields when you're done with 'em!

Posted by: Ira Einhorn at May 29, 2026 11:19 AM (tL5sl)

61 I do. I like my coffee dark and bitter.
Posted by: Archimedes
______

And you find Starbucks superior to McDonalds for that? Not snark, just asking.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

====

Burnt things tend to be bitter.
A pinch of salt will counter the bitterness.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 11:19 AM (/lPRQ)

62 I think there is no evidence--especially long-term--that tax breaks and other enticements for businesses ever have any actual economic benefit.

But, you'll never, ever, ever convince local politicians because they all get to crow and strut over the announcement about all the projected jobs and growth.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 11:16 AM (73/SM)

Not me! I kicked those Amazon fuckers right the fuck OUT!

- AOC

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 11:20 AM (Kdi1r)

63 I like my coffee dark and bitter.
Posted by: Archimedes

Load them up with some cream and they will cease being either.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 11:21 AM (/lPRQ)

64
It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at May 29, 2026 11:21 AM (2Ez/1)

65 I think there is no evidence--especially long-term--that tax breaks and other enticements for businesses ever have any actual economic benefit.

But, you'll never, ever, ever convince local politicians because they all get to crow and strut over the announcement about all the projected jobs and growth.

The one that drives me into a rage is spending taxpayer dollars on sports stadiums, aka subsidizing billionaire sports team owners.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:22 AM (Riz8t)

66 I, for one, am shocked--shocked!--that the namesake of one of the worst examples of government-corrupt corporate cronyism (that exists even today to solely exploit the people, the Tennessee Valley Authority) is ... engaging in more corporate cronyism.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 11:22 AM (73/SM)

67 Regardless of whether Starbucks is a woke corporation, how is there even a "State Funding Board" that gets to disburse taxpayer funds?

Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 11:23 AM (OJx5l)

68 I think there is no evidence--especially long-term--that tax breaks and other enticements for businesses ever have any actual economic benefit.

But, you'll never, ever, ever convince local politicians because they all get to crow and strut over the announcement about all the projected jobs and growth.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Not me! I kicked those Amazon fuckers right the fuck OUT!
- AOC
Posted by: Washington Nearsider

But there is definite long term evidence that not letting a company in will cost your ass millions.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 11:23 AM (YYKrY)

69 25 a Treasurer, a Comptroller and a Finance & Administration Commissioner walk into a bar...
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 29, 2026 11:10 AM

All the ordinary people that ducked under the bar just point and laugh.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at May 29, 2026 11:23 AM (Zst8M)

70 Is there more than one Republican who doesn't go wobbly when the opportunity arises? I keep imagining that "power corrupts" is not universal, but I keep being proven wrong.

Posted by: Emmie at May 29, 2026 11:24 AM (iGxGE)

71 But there is definite long term evidence that not letting a company in will cost your ass millions.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 11:23 AM (YYKrY)

I'd settle for it costing her an election.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 11:24 AM (Kdi1r)

72 They will move. Bet on it. Money talks, fake principles walk.

1. Those are high level, high dollar headquarters jobs. Not penny ante barista jobs.

2. IF those workers stay in Seattle, where are they going to work? All the other big companies have, or are pulling out.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 11:13 AM (YYKrY)
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You might be surprised how many won't move. My guess is Tennessee will do more to moderate Starbucks than the reverse.

Posted by: Black JEM at May 29, 2026 11:25 AM (GZYu7)

73 Big Southern cities are pretty much the same as any big city in the country. Normality in a state is only found when non urbanites outnumber urbanites. Oh, and the old gerrymander has not rigged the game.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 11:25 AM (Gqar8)

74 Tennessee and southern Appalachia generally don't get to plead poverty anymore. "Deliverance" was all the way back in 1972. You can get your buttsecks in any major city there now.
Northern Appalachia remains a problem. Kentucky and WV might have a case for some taxpayer help.
Not freakin' TN.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 11:25 AM (tL5sl)

75 They will move. Bet on it. Money talks, fake principles walk.

I asked ChatGPT to "write a satire resume summary for a starbuck's executive who refuses to move to Tennessee. maximum 50 words."

ChatGPT: "Visionary Starbucks executive specializing in remote leadership, artisanal cost-cutting, and strategic resistance to Nashville relocation. Proven track record of boosting shareholder confidence while insisting culture can only thrive within commuting distance of a Seattle oat milk latte and mild seasonal depression."

I'm sure Peet's will be more than willing to pick them all up.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 11:26 AM (vTZFs)

76 72 You might be surprised how many won't move. My guess is Tennessee will do more to moderate Starbucks than the reverse.

Posted by: Black JEM at May 29, 2026 11:25 AM (GZYu7)

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Politics is now more cultural than anything else, and moving to a repulsive culture is going to be too much for some people, for sure.

They'd sooner move to Denver, looking for new employment, rather than Nashville.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:26 AM (7RBt4)

77 You might be surprised how many won't move. My guess is Tennessee will do more to moderate Starbucks than the reverse.

Hmmm, that's an interesting way to put it. There's probably some truth to it, but I still think most will choose to move.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)

78 At least Starbucks is an actual profitable business.

Unlike Gov. Kemp, to the south, throwing billions of tax dollars at promises of profitability some time in the distant future--so long as subsidies for green energy don't run out.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 11:27 AM (73/SM)

79 TJM, suppose they want Knoxville to become the next Denver, like Asheville is the next Boulder.
There's a national plan to move shitlibs into nice Red states and make them California colonies.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 11:27 AM (tL5sl)

80 Northern Appalachia remains a problem. Kentucky and WV might have a case for some taxpayer help.
Not freakin' TN.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 11:25 AM (tL5sl)
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Ehhhhh....There's a lot of grinding poverty still hanging around in the North GA/East TN/Western NC area of Appalachia.

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 11:28 AM (oqH4h)

81 There's a national plan to move shitlibs into nice Red states and make them California colonies.

Because that's what the Borg does.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

82 Politics is now more cultural than anything else, and moving to a repulsive culture is going to be too much for some people, for sure.

They'd sooner move to Denver, looking for new employment, rather than Nashville.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Thankfully, the Toyotan's from California didn't feel that way. Otherwise I'd have never sold my 2br/1ba $58.8 home for $245k.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 11:29 AM (YYKrY)

83 Aside from Knoxville (Which is pretty blue due to the University being there) and Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge tourist traps, Eastern TN is Bumfuck, Egypt for all intents and purposes.

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 11:30 AM (oqH4h)

84 79 TJM, suppose they want Knoxville to become the next Denver, like Asheville is the next Boulder.
There's a national plan to move shitlibs into nice Red states and make them California colonies.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 11:27 AM (tL5sl)

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I remember when Rick Perry pilfering business HQs from California was going to turn Texas blue.

Let's be honest about scale here.

Like, 1,000 HQ employees is not going to shift a state politically. Even doing that again and again and again doesn't do it.

Especially after 2020 where cultural issues are so big for politically minded people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:30 AM (7RBt4)

85 They seize the cities as their beach heads and go from there. But this is old old news. We have watched this happening for decades. There is really not a lot to be done about this, legally. We cannot forbid people to come to a state from another state. State boundaries are not sovereign.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 11:31 AM (Gqar8)

86 ballistic, possibly, especially in the hurricane aftermath, but I doubt that a new Starbucks office in downtown Chattanooga will do much to help the hollers.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 11:32 AM (tL5sl)

87 Off topic early, but I was over at Insty, and it looks like Disqus is hosed. Gave up after 4 minutes trying to login.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 29, 2026 11:32 AM (PC+XL)

88 84 I remember when Rick Perry pilfering business HQs from California was going to turn Texas blue.

Let's be honest about scale here.

Like, 1,000 HQ employees is not going to shift a state politically. Even doing that again and again and again doesn't do it.

Especially after 2020 where cultural issues are so big for politically minded people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:30 AM (7RBt4)

Less "Will turn it blue" and more "Will ensure the state's GOP will forever be Korporate Kuck GOPe.

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 11:33 AM (uEmCf)

89 Nashville is super, super liberal already. It's like liberal firms moving to Austin, nothing will change.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 11:33 AM (2ocoG)

90 88 Less "Will turn it blue" and more "Will ensure the state's GOP will forever be Korporate Kuck GOPe.

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 11:33 AM (uEmCf)

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Point me to a state level GOP that's not this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:33 AM (7RBt4)

91 Politics is now more cultural than anything else, and moving to a repulsive culture is going to be too much for some people, for sure.

They'd sooner move to Denver, looking for new employment, rather than Nashville.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:26 AM (7RBt4)

I don't disagree with the sentiment in general, but I suspect most people are apolitical or political only to the extent of mouthing whatever pieties seem required. I'd wager most people prefer to go on paying their mortgage over living in any one jurisdiction. Kind of like the people who swear they're leaving the U.S. every four years if the Republican wins. Most don't.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 11:33 AM (Y6K7e)

92 Once I was driving back home to Michigan. Passing through rural Pennsylvania during primary season, there were signs saying "Funk" on the first line and "Comptroller" on the second -- i.e. vote for some guy named "Funk" for Comptroller. But it made me laugh because it looked like "Funk Comptroller" was the name of a local office.

We need commonsense funk control!

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 11:34 AM (77rzZ)

93 I’ll have a Rocky Top. That’s black with eggshell and a spoonful of bacon grease

Posted by: Eromero at May 29, 2026 11:10 AM (QEJ+R)

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Starbucks should create a drink called "Rocky Frappe" to celebrate their new Tennessee roots.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 11:36 AM (BGLxh)

94 They will do exactly what all the corporations that moved to Texas have done. Take the taxpayer money/tax breaks, and hire a bunch of Indians.

Posted by: resist_we_much at May 29, 2026 11:36 AM (cpys8)

95 Less "Will turn it blue" and more "Will ensure the state's GOP will forever be Korporate Kuck GOPe.

Is there any functional, conservative state-level GOP anywhere? I have some hope in that direction now that Trump has successfully gotten conservatives to actually vote in primary elections, but there's still a long way to go.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2026 11:36 AM (2ocoG)

96 My dear boy . . .

@ProjectLincoln
Stephen Miller is a little bitch.
May 28, 2026 · 9:00 PM UTC

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 11:36 AM (tL5sl)

97 Nah. In Philly region (actually quite beautiful in many areas) there's been a great influx of residents - especially professionals - from high-cost states like California, Oregon, Washington, and New York, reportedly driven by the search for greater affordability, larger homes, and the East Coast's premier transit-oriented communities.

They (who are much like the young, progressive residents of Nashville) have reshaped politics, the real estate market, etc. in record-breaking time, and it spreads very quickly.

imho

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 11:36 AM (NFX2v)

98 Let them die.
-Captain James T Kirk

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 11:36 AM (bss/y)

99 96 My dear boy . . .

@ProjectLincoln
Stephen Miller is a little bitch.
May 28, 2026 · 9:00 PM UTC

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 11:36 AM (tL5sl)

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I vote Democrat for the couthness.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:37 AM (7RBt4)

100 We need commonsense funk control!
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 11:34 AM (77rzZ)

Reporting for duty!

Posted by: George Clinton at May 29, 2026 11:37 AM (PiwSw)

101 Yeah, he's gonna win TX.

https://tinyurl.com/tjhvfs7n

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

102 86 ballistic, possibly, especially in the hurricane aftermath, but I doubt that a new Starbucks office in downtown Chattanooga will do much to help the hollers.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 11:32 AM (tL5sl)
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You're not wrong, but I'll quibble with the "possibly" part here. I grew up in BFE Western NC. Until you've spent some time finding the wrong hollers you won't understand what being dirt-ass poor looks like.

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 11:37 AM (oqH4h)

103 Less "Will turn it blue" and more "Will ensure the state's GOP will forever be Korporate Kuck GOPe.
Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 11:33 AM (uEmCf)

Point me to a state level GOP that's not this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:33 AM (7RBt4)

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* Arizona taps out *

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 11:38 AM (BGLxh)

104
101 Yeah, he's gonna win TX.

https://tinyurl.com/tjhvfs7n

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

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He got a few weeks between primary day and the runoff to try and define himself to the larger electorate.

Either he couldn't get a word in because of the GOP noise, or he just took off a few weeks from anything like a campaign.

And, the second the runoff is done, he's in constant defensive mode because Paxton's team and aligned Super-PACs had been cutting ads calling him a weird freakish gnome from Austin.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:39 AM (7RBt4)

105 97 They (who are much like the young, progressive residents of Nashville) have reshaped politics, the real estate market, etc. in record-breaking time, and it spreads very quickly.

imho
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 11:36 AM (NFX2v)

And since they keep their inflated California Salaries as they work remote in the East, they drive up prices for everyone else, who can no longer afford anything because they do NOT have inflated California Salaries.

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 11:40 AM (uEmCf)

106 When I was working at a small IT startup in Tacoma WA, we had a really great software guy. A nice enough guy and after a few years he landed a bigger IT job at Starbucks. Last I talked to him he headed up one of their departments. He was an absolute commie. And he loved the corporate climate at Starbucks.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 11:41 AM (2WIwB)

107 Yeah, he's gonna win TX.

https://tinyurl.com/tjhvfs7n

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

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"Neighbors with a uterus." -- Talafreako

Really, James. So close to Trans Period Pride and Menstrual Equity Month??? REALLY???

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 11:41 AM (BGLxh)

108 It’s them damned Boomers!!! - wait

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 11:41 AM (Gqar8)

109 103 Less "Will turn it blue" and more "Will ensure the state's GOP will forever be Korporate Kuck GOPe.
Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 11:33 AM (uEmCf)

Point me to a state level GOP that's not this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:33 AM (7RBt4)

Florida, maybe.

Posted by: But still not perfect by a long shot at May 29, 2026 11:41 AM (TbWk/)

110 You're not wrong, but I'll quibble with the "possibly" part here. I grew up in BFE Western NC. Until you've spent some time finding the wrong hollers you won't understand what being dirt-ass poor looks like.
Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026

I did some Red Cross disaster recovery work in NC, after hurricane Matthew. I had no idea that level of poverty still existed. It was stunning.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 29, 2026 11:42 AM (IYeV+)

111 In other news, Blue Origin has declared itself a nuclear power.

https://tinyurl.com/4kkpca34
https://tinyurl.com/3m57jxhc

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

112 And since they keep their inflated California Salaries as they work remote in the East, they drive up prices for everyone else, who can no longer afford anything because they do NOT have inflated California Salaries.
Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 11:40 AM (uEmCf)
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A lot of companies (including the one I work for) scale pay based on geography and CoL.

The real problem is Karen and Kevin selling their 800sqft bungalow in Santa Clara and moving to the middle of nowhere to build a gigantic mansion that screws up the property values for all of the regular homes.

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 11:43 AM (oqH4h)

113 I look at those who stay in Seattle as a positive. More work for nurse ratched.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 11:43 AM (qx7Zg)

114 To paraphrase xkcd
Jeff Bezos is not going to space today

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 11:43 AM (tL5sl)

115 26 I don't even know what a Comptroller is.

Its like state auditor. Agency reports to the state General Assembly (legislative branch). It's supposed to be a "power of the purse" check on the executive branch.

Posted by: Martin Tell at May 29, 2026 11:44 AM (sFNX2)

116 You're a bottom, I'm a bottom, we're all bottoms!

Posted by: Dulcinea del Talarico at May 29, 2026 11:45 AM (qUkBO)

117 96 My dear boy . . .

@ProjectLincoln
Stephen Miller is a little bitch.
May 28, 2026 · 9:00 PM UTC
Posted by: gKWVE

WUT? Oh, I see: againstallenemies dot net: Rick Wilson’s Against All Enemies

Stephen Miller Is A Little Bitch
MAGA Melts Down Over A Tweet
Rick Wilson, May 28, 2026
∙ Paid

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 11:45 AM (NFX2v)

118 LOL Brave ai made a funny when i asked
Jeff Bezos did not go to space today because his company, Blue Origin, suffered a catastrophic rocket explosion during a ground test rather than a crewed launch. The incident occurred on May 28, 2026, at Cape Canaveral, Florida, . . .

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 11:45 AM (tL5sl)

119 Starbucks is overrated. Expensive mud.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at May 29, 2026 11:45 AM (bfy6w)

120 And, the second the runoff is done, he's in constant defensive mode because Paxton's team and aligned Super-PACs had been cutting ads calling him a weird freakish gnome from Austin.
--
They are already good.
And he's just barely started ... he has more material and lots, lots more ads to run.

LOL, but all the GOPe squares were swearing Paxton was going to bleed hundreds of millions from other races to defend the seat.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 11:45 AM (73/SM)

121 Looks like Trump is declaring victory and getting the hell out of Iran. Of course, Iran will not do one thing it is promising to do.

Iran has 30 days to clear mines but we're going to lift our blocked immediately?

Posted by: WisRich at May 29, 2026 11:45 AM (G0vdT)

122 120 They are already good.
And he's just barely started ... he has more material and lots, lots more ads to run.

LOL, but all the GOPe squares were swearing Paxton was going to bleed hundreds of millions from other races to defend the seat.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 11:45 AM (73/SM)

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And Democrats will still put 9 figures into Talarico's campaign.

Like how they put 9 figures into Jamie Harrison's campaign against Lindsay Graham in 2020, a race that Graham won by a grand...9 points.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:47 AM (7RBt4)

123 "Starbucks office workers are reportedly balking at orders to relocate to the company’s new $100 million Nashville hub"

They should not move there or any other re state. Women are required to be pregnant and go barefoot while cooking and cleaning. MAGA mobs roam the streets with nooses looking for minorities to lynch. It is hellish. Stay in your blue utopias for your own good.

Posted by: Ripley at May 29, 2026 11:47 AM (GUOwU)

124 I can get a better cup of coffee at Panera for less money than Starbux, and the employees are less weird.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 11:47 AM (Gqar8)

125 Regardless of whether Starbucks is a woke corporation, how is there even a "State Funding Board" that gets to disburse taxpayer funds?
Posted by: GWB
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I shall remain a voice crying in the wilderness.
Get rid of "Grants". I don't care if it's to the YMCA for midnight basketball, or the Historical.Society for the community museum, or Starbucks to bring a headquarters.. no.
As long as the concept of the government giving a away tax dollars to private companies for anything but direct services to the government is normal, you're playing Whack-a-Mole about anything that chaps your hide.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 29, 2026 11:48 AM (PC+XL)

126 Iran has 30 days to clear mines but we're going to lift our blocked immediately?

Posted by: WisRich at May 29, 2026 11:45 AM (G0vdT)

Well that’s what Barak Ravid at Axios says, but he hasn’t been right about anything yet.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 11:48 AM (QDJ2U)

127 They are already good.
And he's just barely started ... he has more material and lots, lots more ads to run.

LOL, but all the GOPe squares were swearing Paxton was going to bleed hundreds of millions from other races to defend the seat.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 11:45 AM (73/SM)

And for the primary Paxton barely touched his war chest while Cornyn spend tens of million to not move the needle past 42. I don’t think Paxton spent much for the runoff. Now all that turns to Jimmy the Creep.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2026 11:49 AM (T6aVk)

128 Jeff Bezos is not going to space today
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 11:43 AM (tL5sl)

That was a pretty fantastic explosion. Sucks for Blue Origin - I wonder what the accident investigation will turn up.

Posted by: far cry at May 29, 2026 11:49 AM (WbWbV)

129 Tbf mine clearance takes time.

Posted by: steevy at May 29, 2026 11:49 AM (YwEeS)

130 124 I can get a better cup of coffee at Panera for less money than Starbux, and the employees are less weird.
Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 11:47 AM (Gqar

Really? I never had coffee from there.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2026 11:50 AM (T6aVk)

131 112 The real problem is Karen and Kevin selling their 800sqft bungalow in Santa Clara and moving to the middle of nowhere to build a gigantic mansion that screws up the property values for all of the regular homes.
Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 11:43 AM (oqH4h)

They built luxury townhouse/connected house developments all around the development I grew up in, and now the houses in my old development go for ridiculous prices that you cannot afford if you don't already own the place outright from many years ago.

They've gone up over 300% from the time I moved out of my father's house.

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 11:50 AM (uEmCf)

132 How does anyone think big companies end up relocating?

It's always because some other state or city or whatever is offering them a better deal -- meaning more taxpayer money -- than their current location. Doesn't matter if it's from blue to red or red to blue or any other combination.

Big companies do this because they can. Sports teams are the biggest and most obvious of these kinds of leeching grifters, but it's all companies. All of them.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 11:50 AM (iFTx/)

133 The sheer amount of shit-ass mailers I got from Cornyn would have been enough on its own to get me to vote for Paxton. I would have anyway, but I was so sick of throwing out that cuck's flyers I would have walked through a minefield to vote against Cornyn.

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 11:50 AM (oqH4h)

134 They should not move there or any other re state. Women are required to be pregnant and go barefoot while cooking and cleaning. MAGA mobs roam the streets with nooses looking for minorities to lynch. It is hellish. Stay in your blue utopias for your own good.
Posted by: Ripley at May 29, 2026 11:47 AM (GUOwU)

PEOPLE CARRY GUNS

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2026 11:50 AM (T6aVk)

135 Oh dear God. Really? Almost every state offers tax incentives for relocating companies and employees. That’s how it works. Tennessee is actually behind the curve. Texas has a host of programs and incentives like TEF that reward companies for relocating. But the overall revenue the state takes in over the lifespan of a company far outweighs things like tax incentives. lol.

Lowering the tax burden isn’t corporate welfare. It’s tax relief.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 29, 2026 11:51 AM (iFEms)

136 Forbes, Breaking
Business
Democrats’ Official X Account Posts Profanity-Laced Attack On Stephen Miller In Tawdry Exchange, May 27, 2026

My, my the Dems just adore that Talarico.

I adore Stephen Miller and family.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 11:51 AM (NFX2v)

137 The real problem is Karen and Kevin selling their 800sqft bungalow in Santa Clara and moving to the middle of nowhere to build a gigantic mansion that screws up the property values for all of the regular homes.
Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 11:43 AM (oqH4h)

Meh, that square can be circled by surrounding their property on all sides with multiple 20+ year old single wides complete with indoor/outdoor furniture and rusted out truck bodies

Posted by: Polka will never die at May 29, 2026 11:51 AM (9Rl/+)

138 121 Looks like Trump is declaring victory and getting the hell out of Iran. Of course, Iran will not do one thing it is promising to do.

Honestly, this might be DJT's best move to save the midterms. The people shouting loudest for democracy in Iran earlier this year were people who were calling Trump a fascist. And they didn't stop calling Trump a fascist when the war was going on, they just whined about the gas prices.
Calling someone a fascist means calling for their murder BTW.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 11:51 AM (tL5sl)

139 Dems think they have a real line of attack, forcing Republicans nationwide into defending Paxton.

Meanwhile, they have:
- creepy woke Ken-doll Talarico
- Graham "Nazis were the good guys" Planter
- and, in MI, "how about a round of applause for Hamas?! I love those guys!!"

And I think they're going to select a real loon to run in MN

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 11:51 AM (73/SM)

140 It’s really pretty good. 3 bucks or so for a large large. Self serve, so you can get a little warmup. Can doctor it however you want - no dessert drinks though.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 11:52 AM (Gqar8)

141 That was a pretty fantastic explosion. Sucks for Blue Origin - I wonder what the accident investigation will turn up.
Posted by: far cry at May 29, 2026 11:49 AM (WbWbV)

Ashes and slag, mostly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2026 11:52 AM (8zz6B)

142 Lowering the tax burden isn’t corporate welfare. It’s tax relief.
Posted by: Vengeance at May 29, 2026 11:51 AM (iFEms)

NARRATOR: it's corporate welfare.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 11:52 AM (tL5sl)

143 And, the second the runoff is done, he's in constant defensive mode because Paxton's team and aligned Super-PACs had been cutting ads calling him a weird freakish gnome from Austin.
................................................
It helps that he's a weird freakish gnome from Austin.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at May 29, 2026 11:53 AM (bfy6w)

144 That was a pretty fantastic explosion. Sucks for Blue Origin - I wonder what the accident investigation will turn up.
Posted by: far cry at May 29, 2026 11:49 AM (WbWbV)

Ashes and slag, mostly.

And possibly a portal into Kaiju world.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:53 AM (Riz8t)

145 139 Meanwhile, they have:
- creepy woke Ken-doll Talarico
- Graham "Nazis were the good guys" Planter
- and, in MI, "how about a round of applause for Hamas?! I love those guys!!"

And I think they're going to select a real loon to run in MN
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 11:51 AM (73/SM)

And running an honest-to-Allah member of Al-Qaeda in New Jersey.

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 11:53 AM (uEmCf)

146 LOL, but all the GOPe squares were swearing Paxton was going to bleed hundreds of millions from other races to defend the seat.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 11:45 AM (73/SM)

In retrospect, it’s obvious that this claim was Cornyn’s entire campaign. He and the rest of the GOP-e have given up on trying to appeal to the base, all they can do is say “oooh, democrats will win if you don’t let us keep surrendering!”

And they wonder he lost by a 2-1 margin.

The saddest/funniest part is that if Cornyn would have had the nerve to attack Talarico instead of Paxton, he would have done a whole lot better.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 11:53 AM (QDJ2U)

147 Lowering the tax burden isn’t corporate welfare. It’s tax relief.
Posted by: Vengeance at May 29, 2026 11:51 AM (iFEms)
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Cool, so why don't I get any of this sweet sweet tax relief after my Texas property taxes go up every fucking year?

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 11:53 AM (oqH4h)

148 Honestly, this might be DJT's best move to save the midterms. The people shouting loudest for democracy in Iran earlier this year were people who were calling Trump a fascist. And they didn't stop calling Trump a fascist when the war was going on, they just whined about the gas prices.
Calling someone a fascist means calling for their murder BTW.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 11:51 AM (tL5sl)
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True, he didn't have any good options. Call it a day for now, get through mid terms, then revisit if necessary.

Posted by: WisRich at May 29, 2026 11:54 AM (G0vdT)

149 131. They've gone up over 300% from the time I moved out of my father's house.
Posted by: XTC

Unfortunately, live there long enough and you won't be able to afford the taxes on your property either.

I'm feeling it too, and never thought it would happen.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 11:54 AM (NFX2v)

150 I think there is no evidence--especially long-term--that tax breaks and other enticements for businesses ever have any actual economic benefit.

Like, any correlation is statistical noise indistinguishable from ... doing nothing.

But, you'll never, ever, ever convince local politicians because they all get to crow and strut over the announcement about all the projected jobs and growth.

Because the reality is, boring old good governance--good streets, protection of people and property, reasonable taxes, etc.--are the true long-term engines of economic growth.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 11:16 AM (73/SM)
==
Once again, not exactly correct. There is a war out there by states to garner business development. It is not so much that the money is well spent, its that if you don't do that, businesses never look at you. First thing they look at is right-to-work laws (Michigan screwed themeselves into the ground eliminating that protection), then incentives generally. SOme states do it better than others. Tennessee has been rather effective. Indiana is another one that does it well.

Posted by: Black JEM at May 29, 2026 11:54 AM (GZYu7)

151 I could be mistaken, but to the lefties wanting to dump on TN or one of their neighboring states, the most used system in the touchscreen was developed by a Kentucky born scientist while working at a lab 8n Oak Ridge Tennessee. Hope that helps them choke on their morning latte.

Posted by: Rex B at May 29, 2026 11:55 AM (rgnea)

152 Reckon it must be a lot like the data centers for AI.
If we let the Chinese win the bitter burnt coffee wars,
they'll make us all speak Cantonese or something.
Mine coal for free, and ship all our hogs to them.
Therefore we must subsidize in the dark, and curse the bread.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 29, 2026 11:55 AM (zdLoL)

153 In retrospect, it’s obvious that this claim was Cornyn’s entire campaign. He and the rest of the GOP-e have given up on trying to appeal to the base, all they can do is say “oooh, democrats will win if you don’t let us keep surrendering!”

Some are praising Cornyn now for being a gentlemanly loser, which I suppose is on brand for him. Regardless, it's encouraging that the guy didn't resort to a petulant temper tantrum after being so ignominiously booted.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:55 AM (Riz8t)

154 Tennessee might be a red state, but Nashville is decidedly blue. Like Memphis. But a little more white.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2026 11:15 AM (jehhT)

This is every state. Cities are blue suburbs are purple exurbs and rural areas are red. Nashville and Austin and Berkeley have the people.

Posted by: Heroq at May 29, 2026 11:55 AM (Tk4Lb)

155 That was a pretty fantastic explosion. Sucks for Blue Origin - I wonder what the accident investigation will turn up.

Posted by: far cry at May 29, 2026 11:49 AM (WbWbV)

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Muslim Outreach?

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 11:56 AM (BGLxh)

156 143 And, the second the runoff is done, he's in constant defensive mode because Paxton's team and aligned Super-PACs had been cutting ads calling him a weird freakish gnome from Austin.
................................................
It helps that he's a weird freakish gnome from Austin.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at May 29, 2026 11:53 AM (bfy6w)

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"No way, partner!"
-Talarico, choking down some meat he's not used to

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:57 AM (7RBt4)

157 Meh, that square can be circled by surrounding their property on all sides with multiple 20+ year old single wides complete with indoor/outdoor furniture and rusted out truck bodies
Posted by: Polka will never die at May 29, 2026 11:51 AM (9Rl/+)
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Throw in a chicken and/or hog farm or two and now we're talking.

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 11:57 AM (oqH4h)

158 153 In retrospect, it’s obvious that this claim was Cornyn’s entire campaign. He and the rest of the GOP-e have given up on trying to appeal to the base, all they can do is say “oooh, democrats will win if you don’t let us keep surrendering!”

Some are praising Cornyn now for being a gentlemanly loser, which I suppose is on brand for him. Regardless, it's encouraging that the guy didn't resort to a petulant temper tantrum after being so ignominiously booted.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:55 AM (Riz8t)

The problem with playing to the base is that they know that one thing the base hates worse than even never voting for the shit they want is to lie about it and then not vote for the shit they want. It's not that they 'couldn't' play to the base to get elected, they just know it would be suicide because they know they want amnesty and loose voting rules and etc.

They are the enemy. And it is good that they are being cast off as chaff before the wind.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 11:58 AM (bss/y)

159 153 Some are praising Cornyn now for being a gentlemanly loser, which I suppose is on brand for him. Regardless, it's encouraging that the guy didn't resort to a petulant temper tantrum after being so ignominiously booted.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:55 AM (Riz8t)

=======

He needs post-Senate employment, and the Republican patronage network is much more different in 2026 than it was in 2016.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:58 AM (7RBt4)

160 Some are praising Cornyn now for being a gentlemanly loser, which I suppose is on brand for him. Regardless, it's encouraging that the guy didn't resort to a petulant temper tantrum after being so ignominiously booted.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:55 AM (Riz8t)

Even with his job on the line, Cornyn could never bring himself to do anything more than barely go through the motions of a campaign. He could never grasp that this was the problem.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 11:59 AM (QDJ2U)

161 "No way, partner!"
-Talarico, choking down some meat he's not used to
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:57 AM (7RBt4)

*Talarico runs to portalet because of IBS*

You KNOW he has it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 11:59 AM (bss/y)

162 That was a pretty fantastic explosion. Sucks for Blue Origin - I wonder what the accident investigation will turn up.

Posted by: far cry at May 29, 2026 11:49 AM (WbWbV)
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An small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port.

Posted by: WisRich at May 29, 2026 11:59 AM (G0vdT)

163 152 Reckon it must be a lot like the data centers for AI.
If we let the Chinese win the bitter burnt coffee wars,
they'll make us all speak Cantonese or something.
Mine coal for free, and ship all our hogs to them.
Therefore we must subsidize in the dark, and curse the bread.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 29, 2026 11:55 AM (zdLoL)

If China was to conquer the US, I think their first move would be mass-extermination of all who don't have any Han blood.

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 11:59 AM (iXqHn)

164 He needs post-Senate employment, and the Republican patronage network is much more different in 2026 than it was in 2016.

Eh, the dude is 74. He doesn't need another job.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:59 AM (Riz8t)

165 That was a pretty fantastic explosion. Sucks for Blue Origin - I wonder what the accident investigation will turn up.

Posted by: far cry at May 29, 2026 11:49 AM (WbWbV)

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Muslim Outreach?
Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 11:56 AM (BGLxh)

We're now talking with Blue Origin's top rocket engineer.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ef0vmKU-lTY

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 29, 2026 11:59 AM (qx7Zg)

166 He needs post-Senate employment, and the Republican patronage network is much more different in 2026 than it was in 2016.
_____

He'll have no shortage of offers for board membership on any number of NGOs!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 12:00 PM (Dv3i1)

167 Maybe Starbucks is infiltrating Tennessee like Islam is doing to Europe and us. Don’t let them in Tennessee.

Posted by: JROD at May 29, 2026 12:00 PM (OiZHj)

168 164 He needs post-Senate employment, and the Republican patronage network is much more different in 2026 than it was in 2016.

Eh, the dude is 74. He doesn't need another job.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:59 AM (Riz8t)

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Well, he was trying for 6 more years of one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 12:00 PM (7RBt4)

169 He needs post-Senate employment, and the Republican patronage network is much more different in 2026 than it was in 2016.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:58 AM (7RBt4)

Trump is going to need an Ambassador to Iran...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2026 12:00 PM (8zz6B)

170 No way, partner!"
-Talarico, choking down some meat he's not used to
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:57 AM (7RBt4)

Let’s hope there’s no video of Talarico choking down the meat that he IS used to.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 12:01 PM (QDJ2U)

171
> Meanwhile, they have:
- creepy woke Ken-doll Talarico
- Graham "Nazis were the good guys" Planter
- and, in MI, "how about a round of applause for Hamas?! I love those guys!!"

And I think they're going to select a real loon to run in MN
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 11:51 AM (73/SM)

And running an honest-to-Allah member of Al-Qaeda in New Jersey.
Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 11:53 AM (uEmCf)
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Not widely reports, for obvious reasons, but there's a growing dissatisfaction with NYC's Islamic mayor and his property grab plan. Among other things he's either done, or proposed.

Wall Street is not pleased at all.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2026 12:01 PM (jehhT)

172 >>> -Talarico, choking down some meat he's not used to

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:57 AM (7RBt4)

This comment is evergreen and can be reused in many many Talarico type situations far into the future.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 12:01 PM (3uBP9)

173 170 No way, partner!"
-Talarico, choking down some meat he's not used to
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:57 AM (7RBt4)

Let’s hope there’s no video of Talarico choking down the meat that he IS used to.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 12:01 PM (QDJ2U)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 12:01 PM (7RBt4)

174 I have meat coming in me at both ends!

Posted by: Dulcinea del Talarico at May 29, 2026 12:02 PM (qUkBO)

175 121 Looks like Trump is declaring victory and getting the hell out of Iran. Of course, Iran will not do one thing it is promising to do.

Iran has 30 days to clear mines but we're going to lift our blocked immediately?

Posted by: WisRich at May 29, 2026 11:45 AM (G0vdT)

Dang, he took my "end of May deadline" to heart.
He does need to turn the page to getting back to celebrating 250 and all the good he's done here, and being done for now will help that happen.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 12:02 PM (tOcjL)

176 Starbux is everywhere already, like Subway and Chik-fil-A. The real coming menace is Buc-ees. The Beaver - Threat, or Menace?

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 12:03 PM (Gqar8)

177 Some are praising Cornyn now for being a gentlemanly loser,
____

He quoted Paul's letter to Timothy - "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."

Paul was in jail, tortured and facing execution when he wrote that. Very much like losing a Senate primary.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 12:03 PM (Dv3i1)

178 173 170 No way, partner!"
-Talarico, choking down some meat he's not used to
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 11:57 AM (7RBt4)

Let’s hope there’s no video of Talarico choking down the meat that he IS used to.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 12:01 PM (QDJ2U)

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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 12:01 PM (7RBt4)
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Man this little thread is begging for the Ben Roethisberger sock to show up, lmao

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 12:04 PM (oqH4h)

179 Eh, the dude is 74. He doesn't need another job.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:59 AM (Riz8t)

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Well, he was trying for 6 more years of one.

He was trying for 6 more years of being a SENATOR, a maker of rules, an eye in the sky, a superior being. He's not going to want to sully himself as a grubby lobbyist.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:04 PM (Riz8t)

180 Let’s hope there’s no video of Talarico choking down the meat that he IS used to.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 12:01 PM (QDJ2U)

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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 12:01 PM (7RBt4)
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Man this little thread is begging for the Ben Roethisberger sock to show up, lmao
Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 12:04 PM (oqH4h)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE DUDE SUCKS COCK BY CHOICE!

Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at May 29, 2026 12:05 PM (bss/y)

181 179 He was trying for 6 more years of being a SENATOR, a maker of rules, an eye in the sky, a superior being. He's not going to want to sully himself as a grubby lobbyist.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:04 PM (Riz8t)

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I'm sure not ever sinecure is lobbyist.

Do nothing name on a banner of a law firm in DC will do.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 12:05 PM (7RBt4)

182 176 Starbux is everywhere already, like Subway and Chik-fil-A. The real coming menace is Buc-ees. The Beaver - Threat, or Menace?
Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 12:03 PM (Gqar

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Hey, Buc-ee's has serviceable brisket and really clean toilets that aren't occupied by people shooting up Fentanyl.

Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 12:05 PM (oqH4h)

183 Not widely reports, for obvious reasons, but there's a growing dissatisfaction with NYC's Islamic mayor and his property grab plan. Among other things he's either done, or proposed.

Wall Street is not pleased at all.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2026 12:01 PM (jehhT)
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Commies gotta commie...Mamdani is going to double-, triple-, and quadruple down on all his failed ideas. Because he has to.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 12:06 PM (gnNyN)

184 I don't think boeing moving into the carolinas from PNW shifted them to the left. Ok, different kind of employees yes. But I've read these sort of relocations often result in filtering for more conservative minded people with a surprising result of areas turning more conservative. Not always. Many shitlibs moved down to GA and Savannah especially that couldn't handle Florida for some reason and I think that produced a shift. I think a strong conservative political base in a state would make things work out. GA obviously doesn't have that.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 12:06 PM (3uBP9)

185 92 Once I was driving back home to Michigan. Passing through rural Pennsylvania during primary season, there were signs saying "Funk" on the first line and "Comptroller" on the second -- i.e. vote for some guy named "Funk" for Comptroller. But it made me laugh because it looked like "Funk Comptroller" was the name of a local office.

We need commonsense funk control!
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 11:34 AM (77rzZ)

Well, now you know how I see Vice Comptroller! Sounds like a euphemism for a Mafia accountant.

Posted by: SciVo at May 29, 2026 12:06 PM (Sy6m/)

186 The Internuts says that Cornyn is worth between 1.5 and 2 million. Pocket change for a Senator. He’ll have to take that Wamart greeter job, looks like.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 12:07 PM (Gqar8)

187 186 The Internuts says that Cornyn is worth between 1.5 and 2 million. Pocket change for a Senator. He’ll have to take that Wamart greeter job, looks like.
Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 12:07 PM (Gqar

Hmmm. Do we say then that he has not been on the take and laud him or say that he is not even good at grifting for his shiftless record and damn him?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:08 PM (bss/y)

188 182 176 Starbux is everywhere already, like Subway and Chik-fil-A. The real coming menace is Buc-ees. The Beaver - Threat, or Menace?
Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 12:03 PM (Gqar
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Hey, Buc-ee's has serviceable brisket and really clean toilets that aren't occupied by people shooting up Fentanyl.
Posted by: ballistic at May 29, 2026 12:05 PM (oqH4h)

Some nice DEI HR policies could fix that quirkiness.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 12:08 PM (Gqar8)

189 I'm sure not ever sinecure is lobbyist.

Do nothing name on a banner of a law firm in DC will do.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Reminds of that story of Robert E. Lee, postwar, being approached by some firm that wanted to make him a partner or something.

He asked what his duties would be. They told him that he would have no duties.

And he responded with something like. "Then you only want to buy my name. And my name is not for sale."

Imagine any politician saying that today.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

190 The Internuts says that Cornyn is worth between 1.5 and 2 million. Pocket change for a Senator. He’ll have to take that Wamart greeter job, looks like.

I can see it now. Instead of "Hello, welcome to Walmart", it'll be "Do you know who I am?".

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:09 PM (Riz8t)

191 Re: Jane Fonda at Insty:

Kennedy
@KennedyNation
When American POWs tried to sneak her notes with their personal information to tell their families they were still alive, she gave them to the North Vietnamese. Some of them were beaten to death. You are both commies and you can both fuck off.

Me: Fuck. I did not know that. She is a vile sack of shit who should still be shot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:10 PM (bss/y)

192 He needs post-Senate employment, and the Republican patronage network is much more different in 2026 than it was in 2016.
--
I wonder how much Tillis and Cassidy's tantrums contributed to an even greater margin of defeat?

The main pillar of the GOPe power is their ability to plausibly pretend to be conservative.

But these children petulantly burning it all down on their way out the door puts a match to that facade.

No one believes they are conservative anymore so there is no reason to vote for them.

PS: I saw a lot of names burning their reputation on "Cornyn is the most conservative choice" over the last few weeks ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 12:11 PM (73/SM)

193 ace is up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:11 PM (bss/y)

194 Eh, the dude is 74. He doesn't need another job.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 11:59 AM (Riz8t)

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Well, he was trying for 6 more years of one.

He was trying for 6 more years of being a SENATOR, a maker of rules, an eye in the sky, a superior being. He's not going to want to sully himself as a grubby lobbyist.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 12:04 PM (Riz8t)
________

He's a lawyer and former judge. He'll have at least a dozen law firms vying to add his name to their firm. He won't practice. They'll pay him a nice fat salary just to have access to his name and contacts. That's how this works.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

195 nood

ewok

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 12:11 PM (3uBP9)

196 192 PS: I saw a lot of names burning their reputation on "Cornyn is the most conservative choice" over the last few weeks ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 12:11 PM (73/SM)

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This X account doesn't share the names, but he does provide an interesting breakdown of how the GOP Senate caucus is improving:

@RealPData
·
2h
How many bad/terrible Republican Senators are in each Senate since the 112th Congress:

112th: ~26 Senators
113th: ~25 Senators
114th: ~30 Senators
115th: ~30 Senators (Trump's first term)
116th: ~25 Senators
117th: ~24 Senators
118th: ~20 Senators
119th: ~19 Senators
120th (if the map has zero changes): ~15 Senators

Food for though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 12:12 PM (7RBt4)

197 James Talarico
@jamestalarico
Ken Paxton is throwing everything he has at us.
He’s called me a radical leftist. He’s called me a fake Christian. He’s even called me a vegan!
I’m an 8th generation Texan — I've been eating BBQ since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment.

-
He IS the Baconeater!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026 12:20 PM (ndZc7)

198 True, he didn't have any good options. Call it a day for now, get through mid terms, then revisit if necessary.
Posted by: WisRich
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That depends on your definition of "good options".
If he disregards everything but keeping Congress after the midterms he does have good option.
What's the problem? " It's the economy, stupid," to quote the cadaver. And what's the source of economic unrest? Fuel prices, both directly at the pump and indirectly in transit cost for almost every consumer good.
He could prohibit oil and fuel exports. The resulting surplus would crater fuel prices and save R seats. He has to do it before labor day, though.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 29, 2026 12:41 PM (PC+XL)

199 . I think a strong conservative political base in a state would make things work out. GA obviously doesn't have that.
Posted by: banana Dream
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There's an essay in there about Atlanta's large black population and the strength of Atlanta's black political.machine and the machine's marriage of convenience to progressives, but I'm too lazy to write it.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 29, 2026 12:50 PM (PC+XL)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Mason County Landscape
Charles T. Bowling

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

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1 It looks off.

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 29, 2026 09:30 AM (HIzgC)

2 And a mailbox...

Posted by: t-bird at May 29, 2026 09:31 AM (iF8Pa)

3 Nice. Simple. Hard life.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 09:31 AM (bss/y)

4 T. H. Bentony.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

5 Mason County was dry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at May 29, 2026 09:31 AM (2Ez/1)

6 Green Acres is the place to be
Farm livin' is the life for me

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 09:31 AM (u/oMr)

7 1 It looks off.
Posted by: Will Robinson at May 29, 2026 09:30 AM (HIzgC)

It has a kind of Dali look to it without the drugs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 09:31 AM (bss/y)

8 Astronaut farmer prepares launch of single-stage rocket, T minus ten.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:31 AM (Wq24h)

9 I would still hang it on the living room wall just to hear people say how odd they think it looks.

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 29, 2026 09:31 AM (HIzgC)

10 Drug lab.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 29, 2026 09:32 AM (Kt19C)

11 The soybean harvest is gonna be a mite thin this year.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 09:32 AM (u/oMr)

12 Don't plow up the mesquite. That's how dustbowls happen

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 29, 2026 09:32 AM (yAbRW)

13 At least they never had to worry about the water pressure being too high in the house.

Posted by: t-bird at May 29, 2026 09:32 AM (iF8Pa)

14 Big house. Fancy car. Private water source. You can't hide money.

Posted by: The neighbors at May 29, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

15 I've been to Mason County. Looks just like that.

Posted by: huerfano at May 29, 2026 09:33 AM (VJX5o)

16 Is this a repeat?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 09:33 AM (Z3R2R)

17 That rocket's gonna blow up.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 09:34 AM (gtcuf)

18 Farmer wakes up every morning, and fills his lungs with stimulating fresh brown air and gray dust. Stimulating.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:34 AM (Wq24h)

19 DMA
Maker:
Artist
Charles T. Bowling
American, 1891 - 1985
Date:
1938
Collection Area:
U.S. and Canadian Art
Classification:
Paintings
Material and Technique:
Egg tempera on canvas
Dimensions:
Panel dimensions: 24 × 30 × 7/8 in. (60.96 × 76.2 × 2.22 cm) Framed dimensions: 32 1/4 × 38 3/8 × 2 in. (81.92 × 97.47 × 5.08 cm)

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:34 AM (/+uur)

20 Fine crop of dirt this year.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 09:34 AM (viF8m)

21 Hardscrabble.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026 09:35 AM (ndZc7)

22

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 29, 2026 09:35 AM (GM3Bb)

23 Notice how there are no tire tracks in the driveway? I'm not saying space aliens with anti-grav cars live there but space aliens with anti-grav cars live there!!

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 29, 2026 09:35 AM (HIzgC)

24
it's very brown
meh
no hang

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 09:35 AM (ZxPkt)

25 Which state is this in?

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

26 Charles T. Bowling

He had balls.

Sorry. I'll stay in my lane.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 09:36 AM (gtcuf)

27 Back of painting

https://dma.org/art/collection/object/3173171

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:36 AM (/+uur)

28 Never should have traded in the cow for a Model T.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 09:36 AM (u/oMr)

29 Fine crop of dirt this year.
Posted by: JackStraw

That's why he needs the barn. Store the harvest.

Posted by: t-bird at May 29, 2026 09:36 AM (iF8Pa)

30 Kinda small.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 09:37 AM (piLYH)

31 That's the banker's car out front.

Time to foreclose.

Again.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2026 09:37 AM (440br)

32 I like these sort of home spun paintings.. I've always had a soft spot for Thomas Hart Benton too..

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 09:37 AM (FtULh)

33 Auntie Em! Auntie Em!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at May 29, 2026 09:37 AM (LxER7)

34 Needs more happy little trees.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 29, 2026 09:37 AM (ftFVW)

35 26 Ha!

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:38 AM (Wq24h)

36 Charles Taylor Bowling (American, 1891-1985)
West Texas Tank, 1940
Oil on canvas laid on board
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Chas T. Bowling / 1940
Titled on the reverse: West Texas Tank

Auction 5380 | Lot: 75047 | Nov 10, 2018
Sold For: $11,000.00

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:38 AM (/+uur)

37 25 Which state is this in?

Texas, I think?

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 09:38 AM (gtcuf)

38 >>Which state is this in?

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 09:35 AM

Mason County, Texas.

Posted by: huerfano at May 29, 2026 09:38 AM (VJX5o)

39 That car is teeny. I expect a horde of clowns to emerge at any moment.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 09:39 AM (1clWT)

40 Needs a chicken in the yard.

And a cow.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2026 09:39 AM (jehhT)

41 The landscaping could use a lawn jockey.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 09:39 AM (u/oMr)

42 I don’t see anything actually living in this piece. Not a dog or a cow or a cat or a lizard.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2026 09:39 AM (A5RD0)

43 Yellow things in the yard: stones, or the scat of the Desert Sasquatch?

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:39 AM (Wq24h)

44 Welcome to Mason County!

As of April 12, 2026, Mason County is not under a Burn Ban.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:39 AM (/+uur)

45 26 Charles T. Bowling

He had balls.

Sorry. I'll stay in my lane.
----
He strikes me as a fun person.

Posted by: Oh, no... at May 29, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)

46 I Know Which Way the Wind Blows - a limerick

Way out on the Great American Plain
The clouds suggest there's going to be some rain
The windmill out in back
Of my rundown one-room shack
Tells me predicting weather is in vane.

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 09:41 AM (qgHp7)

47 That's the banker's car out front.

Time to foreclose.

Again.
Posted by: Tonypete

Like a used car dealership in East Cleveland.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 09:41 AM (rGH6a)

48 No mail. Probably ever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2026 09:41 AM (jehhT)

49 42 I don’t see anything actually living in this piece. Not a dog or a cow or a cat or a lizard.

There are some trees. Not very happy looking trees.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 09:41 AM (gtcuf)

50 Charles T. Bowling

He had balls.

Sorry. I'll stay in my lane.

He's hard to pin down.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 09:41 AM (1clWT)

51 Add some lush vegetation, a water wheel, a quaint little bridge and some light in the windows and this might make a nice collector's plate.

Posted by: Thomas Kinkaid, Painter of Light at May 29, 2026 09:42 AM (u/oMr)

52 It looks like it's the one in Texas.

Posted by: No Name Today at May 29, 2026 09:42 AM (8mulE)

53 The perfidious bankers wouldn't let the farmer have a bigger house.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 09:42 AM (piLYH)

54
Alternate title:

"Max Baer Took the Day Off From Kicking the Asses of Murderous Scumbags"

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 09:42 AM (iJfKG)

55 45 26 Charles T. Bowling

He had balls.

Sorry. I'll stay in my lane.
----
He strikes me as a fun person.
+++++
Spare us.

Posted by: Not again... at May 29, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)

56 Those are some odd proportions. 3 ft tall car and 8 ft doorway. Weird.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at May 29, 2026 09:43 AM (GTqXr)

57 Not bad. Good use of light. Wouldn't want to look at it all day, especially if I lived there.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 29, 2026 09:43 AM (CHHv1)

58 Cisterns are racist.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 09:44 AM (gtcuf)

59 Charles T. Bowling
---
He had balls.
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Sorry. I'll stay in my lane.
----
He strikes me as a fun person.

*********

Every morning he does his kegler exercises...

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 09:44 AM (qgHp7)

60 No tractor?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 09:44 AM (piLYH)

61 American Gothic without humans
Would hang, not real complex .
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 09:44 AM (SW0z7)

62 That's the banker's car out front.

Time to foreclose.

Again.
Posted by: Tonypete

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You'll notice that the wily farmer has removed the front gate, so the legally-required Notice of Sale can't be posted.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 09:44 AM (u/oMr)

63 I dont think Dirt Famer actually means that.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:45 AM (/+uur)

64 AI sez there are six states with a Mason County. I've vacationed Mason County IL a few times. Lovely nature preserves: sand prairies with racerunners and tiger beetles.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:45 AM (Wq24h)

65 Brown Acres is the place to be

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:45 AM (/+uur)

66 "No tractor?"

Worst of all: no outhouse.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:45 AM (Wq24h)

67 It's missing the car full of drunk teenagers swinging a bat at the mailbox

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 09:45 AM (tL5sl)

68 The tractor was already repo'd.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 09:46 AM (gtcuf)

69 Would make an OK jigsaw puzzle

Posted by: MkY at May 29, 2026 09:46 AM (q6tQZ)

70 Land spreading out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan
and give me that dirt

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:46 AM (/+uur)

71 Rock farm.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 09:46 AM (piLYH)

72 His work seems a bit simplistic, but earnest. Wouldn't hang, but don't hate it.

Posted by: Wally at May 29, 2026 09:46 AM (65cLN)

73 glurp!

Posted by: Le Baim at May 29, 2026 09:47 AM (HmCtv)

74 Charles T. Bowling

He had balls.

Sorry. I'll stay in my lane.
----
He strikes me as a fun person.
+++++
Spare us.
Posted by: Not again...

And the puns keep rolling

Posted by: Tuna at May 29, 2026 09:47 AM (lJ0H4)

75 Rock farm.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Ahhhh. NE Arkansas.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 09:47 AM (rGH6a)

76 How does one get water out of that water tank? I don't see a trough or a spigot.

Posted by: dantesed at May 29, 2026 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)

77 Worst of all: no outhouse.
Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:45 AM (Wq24h)

Hun
Have you check our shitter

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:47 AM (/+uur)

78 Dude, face it. Maybe farming isn't your thing.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 09:47 AM (u/oMr)

79 Mason County Texas has an Old Yeller Statue, A monument to the novel by Mason native Fred Gipson and Kristi Noem's favorite feel-good story.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 09:47 AM (1clWT)

80 59 Charles T. Bowling
---
He had balls.
---
Sorry. I'll stay in my lane.
----
He strikes me as a fun person.
******
But kinda hard to pin down.

Posted by: Groan at May 29, 2026 09:48 AM (2Ez/1)

81 It has a kind of Dali look to it without the drugs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 09:31 AM

That was my first reaction.

And Bowling could have used some green.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 29, 2026 09:48 AM (kgE5c)

82 Bowling went to the Casa View Methodist Church in east Dallas near where I grew up I own two of his paintings. Purchased at an estate sale- also in Dallas. Dust bowl era. $35.00 for both paintings. Larger painting hanging next to the dining table.

Posted by: Glenn at May 29, 2026 09:48 AM (vneJl)

83 I'm partial to landscapes and I wonder who lives there?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 09:48 AM (RIvkX)

84 would hang

Posted by: Gref at May 29, 2026 09:49 AM (5rh/l)

85 "simplistic, but earnest."

'American Folk Art,' nodded the art museum docent.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:49 AM (Wq24h)

86 Mason is between Austin and San Angelo

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:50 AM (/+uur)

87 That car has a really racy look to it.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at May 29, 2026 09:50 AM (dmDsy)

88 Mason County Texas has an Old Yeller Statue, A monument to the novel by Mason native Fred Gipson and Kristi Noem's favorite feel-good story.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 09:47 AM

And the Boston Public Garden has a Make Way for Ducklings statue...well, statues.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 29, 2026 09:50 AM (kgE5c)

89 Posted by: Glenn at May 29, 2026 09:48 AM (vneJl

That's interesting and congratulations on your purchases.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 09:51 AM (rZCVI)

90 Larger painting hanging next to the dining table.
Posted by: Glenn at May 29, 2026 09:48 AM (vneJl)

Wealth tax politicians just wrote down your IP address.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:51 AM (/+uur)

91 83 I'm partial to landscapes and I wonder who lives there?
++++++
Eva Gabor just out of frame.

Posted by: Green Acres at May 29, 2026 09:51 AM (2Ez/1)

92 FDR will get us out of this depression, just you watch.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 29, 2026 09:52 AM (rJ48h)

93 "He had balls"
Which was good or bad depending on his frame of mind.

Posted by: Rex B at May 29, 2026 09:52 AM (rgnea)

94 79 Mason County Texas has an Old Yeller Statue, A monument to the novel by Mason native Fred Gipson and Kristi Noem's favorite feel-good story.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 09:47 AM (1clWT)

She didnt cry when she kill ol Yeller

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:52 AM (/+uur)

95
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2026 09:52 AM (HdYcL)

96 Bowling went to the Casa View Methodist Church in east Dallas near where I grew up I own two of his paintings. Purchased at an estate sale- also in Dallas. Dust bowl era. $35.00 for both paintings. Larger painting hanging next to the dining table.
Posted by: Glenn

So the theme this week is CBD was in Dallas at the Art Museum and didn't reach out to local Morons for free dinners? Because I gladly would have taken him to dinner.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 09:52 AM (rGH6a)

97 Eva Gabor just out of frame.
Posted by: Green Acres at May 29, 2026 09:51 AM (2Ez/1)

Neighbor with a uterus

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:52 AM (/+uur)

98 Which state is this in?
Posted by: Bulg

*********

Thanks For Asking, Bulg - a limerick

Now that's a question I must say is fair
The setting could be almost anywhere
Is it Kansas or Nebraska?
Maybe Texas or Alaska?
Regardless it's in a state of disrepair.

Duh!

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 09:52 AM (qgHp7)

99 gleep!

Posted by: Le Haim at May 29, 2026 09:52 AM (FogNv)

100 Every morning he does his kegler exercises...

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 09:44 AM (qgHp7)

OOPH!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 09:52 AM (iERP6)

101 93 "He had balls"
Which was good or bad depending on his frame of mind.
Posted by: Rex B
++++
Get your mind out of the gutter.

Posted by: Tuesday night bowling league at May 29, 2026 09:53 AM (2Ez/1)

102 Which state is this in?
Posted by: Bulg

A very dilapidated state.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 09:53 AM (rGH6a)

103 7 out of10. Split on the Bowling painting.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 09:54 AM (piLYH)

104
Alternate title:

"Buford Orris Had the Misfortune of Building His Farm On The Only Five Acres On Earth Where Global Warming Was Actually a Thing"

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 09:54 AM (iJfKG)

105 Depression era? It reminds me of a lot of WPA art. (The other major part of WPA art is Soviet-style bold colors.)

Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2026 09:54 AM (OJx5l)

106 BREAKING: Bruce Springsteen advises that Americans should stop supporting Trump.

Developing...

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 09:54 AM (u/oMr)

107 Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 09:52 AM (rGH6a)

Next time!

Dallas is a weird city...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 09:54 AM (iERP6)

108 There's an awful lot of carpentry, and no masonry, in Mason County.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 29, 2026 09:55 AM (JCZqz)

109 Seen some research recently that, not only was the Dust Bowl drought just a normal event on the Plains, but there are often much longer, much more severe droughts, some in the 1000 year range.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 09:55 AM (73/SM)

110 97 Eva Gabor just out of frame.
Posted by: Green Acres at May 29, 2026 09:51 AM (2Ez/1)

Neighbor with a uterus
Posted by: r hennigantx
++++
We had uteri.

Posted by: Petticoat Junction at May 29, 2026 09:56 AM (2Ez/1)

111 I advise Bruce to take the next Blue Origin flight outta here.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 09:56 AM (tL5sl)

112 106 BREAKING: Bruce Springsteen advises that Americans should stop supporting Trump.

Developing...
Posted by: Cicero

Who?

Posted by: Anyone under 40 at May 29, 2026 09:56 AM (JCZqz)

113 101 93 "He had balls"
Which was good or bad depending on his frame of mind.
Posted by: Rex B
++++
Get your mind out of the gutter.
Posted by: Tuesday night bowling league at May 29, 2026 09:53 AM (2Ez/1)

I'm just saying, he may have picked the wrong settee for this work.

Posted by: Rex B at May 29, 2026 09:57 AM (rgnea)

114 In the 2024 Presidential election. Mason County TX voted 82.2% Republican.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 09:57 AM (gtcuf)

115 Mason is between Austin and San Angelo
Posted by: r hennigantx

San Angelo is the armpit of the United States.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

116 FenlonSpoke - Thanks. I had a friend back in the late 1980s who haunted estate sales. Found the paintings near where he lived at the time. He gave them to me back in 1992.

Posted by: Glenn at May 29, 2026 09:57 AM (vneJl)

117 115 no, that'd be buffalo.

Posted by: cmeat at May 29, 2026 09:57 AM (R11M+)

118 Next time!

Dallas is a weird city...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Snort.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 09:58 AM (rGH6a)

119 117 115 no, that'd be buffalo.

Posted by: cmeat at May 29, 2026 09:57 AM (R11M+)

=====

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 09:58 AM (7RBt4)

120 114 In the 2024 Presidential election. Mason County TX voted 82.2% Republican.
Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 09:57 AM (gtcuf)

17.8% voted for "my hot cousin"

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 09:58 AM (tL5sl)

121 Which state is this in?
Posted by: Bulg

Desolation.

Posted by: t-bird at May 29, 2026 09:58 AM (iF8Pa)

122 workus interruptus. gotta go send 12kv phases.

Posted by: cmeat at May 29, 2026 09:58 AM (R11M+)

123 Who?

Posted by: Anyone under 40 at May 29, 2026 09:56 AM (JCZqz)

Exactly!

Four excellent albums in the 1970s, one very good, and one interesting album in the early 1980s, and then...SELLOUT!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 09:59 AM (iERP6)

124
120 114 In the 2024 Presidential election. Mason County TX voted 82.2% Republican.
Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 09:57 AM (gtcuf)

17.8% voted for "my hot cousin"

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 09:58 AM (tL5sl)

=======

"Pack up, cousin, we're moving."
-Shelbyville Manhattan

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 09:59 AM (7RBt4)

125 That place for sale, Clark?

Posted by: Cousin Eddie at May 29, 2026 09:59 AM (u/oMr)

126 Springsteen opposes Trump? Man, when you've lost the billionaire vote, how can you claim to be a populist?

Posted by: Wally at May 29, 2026 09:59 AM (65cLN)

127 Say it with me, all together:

Could use some happy little bushes!

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at May 29, 2026 10:00 AM (0sNs1)

128 Alternate Title: "Brethren and Cistern"

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 10:00 AM (qgHp7)

129 108 There's an awful lot of carpentry, and no masonry, in Mason County.

They're famous for their jars.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 10:01 AM (gtcuf)

130 In the 2024 Presidential election. Mason County TX voted 82.2% Republican.

That's ok, I'll make it up in volume!

Posted by: Kamala Harris received 434 votes at May 29, 2026 10:02 AM (iF8Pa)

131 Looks like Larry McMurtry country.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

132 Springstein operates a fake horse farm to avoid paying taxes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 10:02 AM (piLYH)

133 Treeless landscape, yet all the structures are made of wood. In their mad rush to build, did they deforest the neighborhood?

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 10:02 AM (Wq24h)

134 Last time Mason County voted Dem, by a razor-thin margin, was 1976. Guess they really liked Carter.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 10:03 AM (gtcuf)

135
San Angelo is the armpit of the United States.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

__________

Yo.

Posted by: Port Arthur at May 29, 2026 10:03 AM (HdYcL)

136 I saw the brief appearance of troll. It's a pity Paul ain't merry.

Posted by: Rex B at May 29, 2026 10:04 AM (rgnea)

137 Mason County Landscape
Charles T. Bowling

This style of regional American art from roughly the depression period is right in my wheelhouse. Where that comes from is having spent a bunch of time poking around the rural Western US with a camera and bag of lenses.

These painters aren't Rembrandts from a technical perspective; their talents are elsewhere. As a group they have a singular ability to capture western American culture in transition, half late 19th century with the other half dipping its toes into the technological 20th century.

If they were painting today they would still nail the vastness of the American West and most likely would be capturing F250s with a Starlink antenna on the roof headed towards Amarillo to hear a country band at Starlight Ranch.

Totally would hang.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at May 29, 2026 10:04 AM (glnUu)

138 114 In the 2024 Presidential election. Mason County TX voted 82.2% Republican.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 09:57 AM (gtcuf)

The other 18% have been deported.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:04 AM (/+uur)

139 Hey, I'm originally from Buffalo.

Rochester is the nation's armpit.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 10:04 AM (gtcuf)

140 There's an awful lot of carpentry, and no masonry, in Mason County.

The masons built the Mason County (pop. several thousand) Courthouse (in 1910, in a year!) and spent the rest of the time building shacks for themselves, I guess.

Posted by: t-bird at May 29, 2026 10:05 AM (5+3vm)

141 Wonder how the well-water pressure is in that house.
In a modern setting the windmill would be
farther away
blown down
on fire
maybe all three.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 29, 2026 10:05 AM (zdLoL)

142 >>Rochester is the nation's armpit.

And I'm the other armpit!

Posted by: Gary, Indiana at May 29, 2026 10:06 AM (J4Dwc)

143 134 Last time Mason County voted Dem, by a razor-thin margin, was 1976. Guess they really liked Carter.
Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 10:03 AM (gtcuf)

I cant remember who the (R) was?
Ford?

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:06 AM (/+uur)

144 Needs more cottonwood trees, and don't fence me in!

Posted by: Rex B at May 29, 2026 10:06 AM (rgnea)

145 For my Navy CTI training, I had to go from Monterey, CA to San Angelo, TX (Goodfellow AFB). Talk about a downgrade!

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

146 Steps. How do they work?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 10:07 AM (piLYH)

147 I cant remember who the (R) was?
Ford?
Posted by: r hennigantx

Yes, Ford was the R candidate in '76.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

148
I cant remember who the (R) was?
Ford?

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:06 AM (/+uur)

__________

Yes. A narrow loss. Not sure if Jerry would have been a lot better.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2026 10:08 AM (HdYcL)

149
San Angelo is the armpit of the United States.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

I am outraged that you insult the City of My Birth by referring to it as 'the armpit of the United States'.

Everyone know that San Angelo is The Earlobe of the United States!

Humph!!!!

*Sends negative mind-thoughts at Bulg*

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 10:08 AM (iJfKG)

150 And I'm the other armpit!
Posted by: Gary, Indiana

Does Gary still stink when you drive through it on I-94?

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

151 Greeley is the armpit of Colorado. It smells like cow.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 10:10 AM (gtcuf)

152 nice cartoon. Needs characters and narrative.

Posted by: m'kay at May 29, 2026 10:10 AM (3NwUI)

153 *Sends negative mind-thoughts at Bulg*
Posted by: naturalfake

See me at 145. It was such a jolting contrast to Monterey.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

154 Everyone knows that Houston--hot, humid, swampy--is the actual armpit of America.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 10:11 AM (73/SM)

155 137 Thanks for the info Alteria Pilgram.

And keep Dallas weird? See comment 107 - CBD.

Posted by: Glenn at May 29, 2026 10:11 AM (vneJl)

156 People Who Live In Glass Houses - a limerick

Mason County really ain't too far
You can reach it in a broken down car
Your house is poorly built
All the windows are a-tilt
And it looks like your door is a jar!

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 10:12 AM (qgHp7)

157 It's a lifestyle, It ain't a livin.

Posted by: Warren at May 29, 2026 10:12 AM (3idXb)

158 > Rochester is the nation's armpit.
---------
Went to college with a guy from Rochester. About 4 or 5 of us drove from Ohio to his parents place one Friday after classes to go to a Rolling Stones concert over in Syracuse at the university there.

Over 4 decades ago.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2026 10:12 AM (jehhT)

159 San Angelo is the armpit of the United States.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

__________

Yo.
Posted by: Port Arthur

*Stinkydena has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 10:12 AM (rGH6a)

160 Is that where Wolfus is moving to?

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at May 29, 2026 10:13 AM (bfy6w)

161 Bravo muldoon!

Posted by: Dixon - Mason Line at May 29, 2026 10:13 AM (2Ez/1)

162
And the Boston Public Garden has a Make Way for Ducklings statue...well, statues.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Didn't one or more of the ducklings get stolen?

Posted by: From about That Time at May 29, 2026 10:13 AM (sl73Y)

163 Are all these armpits shaved or hirsute?

Asking for The Horde.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 10:13 AM (0sNs1)

164 nice cartoon. Needs characters and narrative.

Posted by: m'kay at May 29, 2026 10:10 AM (3NwUI)

-----------

They have coyotes and roadrunners in Mason County, Texas.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 10:13 AM (BGLxh)

165 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE BALL JARS ARE MANUFACTURED IN MASON COUNTY!

Posted by: BEN R. at May 29, 2026 10:13 AM (qgHp7)

166 DJIA
50,896.64
Uptrend
+227.67
+0.45%
LAST | 10:13:57 AM EDT
S&P 500
7,593.08
Uptrend
+29.45
+0.39%
LAST | 10:13:57 AM EDT
NASDAQ
27,035.582
Uptrend
+118.11
+0.44%
LAST | 10:13:57 AM EDT

At some point I need to sell.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:14 AM (/+uur)

167 >132 Springstein operates a fake horse farm to avoid paying taxes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 10:02 AM (piLYH)

His daughter rides dressage. She's a regular on the horse show circuit. Real working class hero Boss, regular salt of the earth guy.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at May 29, 2026 10:14 AM (GTqXr)

168 Michelle put my balls in a jar!

Posted by: Brock at May 29, 2026 10:15 AM (2Ez/1)

169 139 Hey, I'm originally from Buffalo.

Rochester is the nation's armpit.
Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 10:04 AM (gtcuf)

De ...

It's Troy.

You know that in your heart.

Posted by: browndog says woof at May 29, 2026 10:15 AM (3sXRv)

170 nice cartoon. Needs characters and narrative.
Posted by: m'kay

Well golly Davey. Do you think your parents will be home by dinner?
No, Goliath. I don't think they're coming home.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 10:15 AM (rGH6a)

171 Not sure if Jerry would have been a lot better.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2026 10:08 AM (HdYcL)

And we might not have gotten Reagan.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 10:15 AM (iERP6)

172 Who the fuck are the Knutsens?

Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.

Posted by: The Dude at May 29, 2026 10:16 AM (IqKsT)

173 Yes. A narrow loss. Not sure if Jerry would have been a lot better.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2026 10:08 AM (HdYcL)

I try and think thru all the Pres since I was born.
I always forget him.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:16 AM (/+uur)

174 Springstein operates a fake horse farm to avoid paying taxes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 10:02 AM (piLYH)

His daughter rides dressage. She's a regular on the horse show circuit. Real working class hero Boss, regular salt of the earth guy.
Posted by: Heavy Meta

Useless trivia:
In Texas, horses don't get you an ag exemption.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 10:17 AM (rGH6a)

175 Posted by: Heavy Meta at May 29, 2026 10:14 AM (GTqXr)

And he has a son who is (or at least was) a fireman in Newark.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 10:17 AM (iERP6)

176 And we might not have gotten Reagan.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 10:15 AM (iERP6)

I think Reagan was coming no matter what.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:17 AM (/+uur)

177 Pelosi's Gulch

Posted by: Suggested title at May 29, 2026 10:17 AM (vFG9F)

178 154 Everyone knows that Houston--hot, humid, swampy--is the actual armpit of America.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

*sitting quietly, hoping no one notices*

Posted by: Florida at May 29, 2026 10:18 AM (Dv3i1)

179 Where's Courage the cowardly dog?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 10:18 AM (ZpG08)

180 166 At some point I need to sell.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:14 AM (/+uur)

======

There was a woman I worked with and had connected with on Facebook.

At work, she was just kind of an intense woman on the job. On Facebook, raging leftard.

Anyway, it's not like I paid attention to FB.

Anyway, a couple of years ago, I decide to just scroll my FB feed for the first time in months, and I see this woman's post responding to the assertion that Biden's economy is bad from Trump.

Just a picture of the DOW's growth saying "This isn't a bad economy."

I wonder if she's still posting things about how the economy is great because of the stock market. Deleted my FB a while ago, so I can't check.

I bet she is. She had a metric, and she's gonna stick to it!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 10:18 AM (7RBt4)

181 For 2028 some people support Vance, some Rubio, some DeSantis...might I also suggest DeAndre Holmes?

Note NSFW (language): https://tinyurl.com/2n7afxbp

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 10:18 AM (sKqQm)

182 I think Reagan was coming no matter what.
Posted by: r hennigantx

I don't know. I think it took the awfulness of Carter to get Reagan elected. The GOP establishment didn't want him.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

183 I was a stone throw from Mason about a month ago.
In Burnet at the Lone Star Caverns.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:19 AM (/+uur)

184 Mason County has a rich historical heritage which helps define who we are today as well as into the future. Come and:

Explore our historical heritage at White Pine Village, Port of Ludington Maritime Museum, and Research Center all operated by the Mason County Historical Society.

Cozy home. A bit dry…

Izzat a Model A?

Posted by: mindful webworker - home, home on the dust bowl... at May 29, 2026 10:19 AM (kU8xu)

185 Model T I think

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:21 AM (/+uur)

186 Just a picture of the DOW's growth saying "This isn't a bad economy."

I wonder if she's still posting things about how the economy is great because of the stock market. Deleted my FB a while ago, so I can't check.

I bet she is. She had a metric, and she's gonna stick to it!/

The left has no real principals or beliefs. You can find the same leftists arguing the stock market growth doesn't matter at all now, arguing that the stock market going down in Apr meant Trump failed, and in the 2020s that a growing stock market means Biden's economy was good.

The stock market is one part of the economy and should be considered but it isn't everything. Of course during the Biden years of 10%+ in real inflation means then you'd need a larger return then that for actual stock market growth.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 10:22 AM (sKqQm)

187 DELL

414.21
Dell Technologies Inc
+97.16(+30.65%)

ho lee fook

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:23 AM (/+uur)

188 Springsteen, yeah, I just shake my head these days. On the other hand I heard the band during the Born In The USA tour. The main show was good.

That isn't what I remember. What has indelibly stuck was the hour long encore of nothing but American rock and rolls covers. That band had some serious skills.

It was in that hour that my internal debate permanently ended over which was greater: Beethoven's 5th Symphony or Woolly Bully. It wasn't even close.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at May 29, 2026 10:23 AM (glnUu)

189 My group did monthly flights from San Antonio to San Angelo to do outreach clinics in the '90s. There were two Pediatric groups in town. We would fly out in the a.m., do a morning clinic at one office, break for lunch, do an afternoon clinic at the other office and then fly home. The revenue from the day barely covered the King Air rental and pilot's downtime at a local hotel during the day.

Posted by: BEN R. at May 29, 2026 10:23 AM (qgHp7)

190 Italicans

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:23 AM (/+uur)

191

UGH...save me from the barrel...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 10:23 AM (sKqQm)

192 I thirst.
-- The Barrel

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

193 186 The stock market is one part of the economy and should be considered but it isn't everything. Of course during the Biden years of 10%+ in real inflation means then you'd need a larger return then that for actual stock market growth.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 10:22 AM (sKqQm)

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I think the stock market is algorithmic insanity driven by bots written by degenerate gamblers who demand that the line always goes up.

I think it has almost nothing to do with the economy, and I maintain that under every president.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 10:23 AM (7RBt4)

194 Speaking of Houston

Some rocket sturgeons burgled a comic book store. Next day they to sell their ill gotten loot at another store just a few miles away.

Needless to say, the police added to their collection of criminals.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 10:23 AM (ZpG08)

195 These painters aren't Rembrandts from a technical perspective; their talents are elsewhere. As a group they have a singular ability to capture western American culture in transition, half late 19th century with the other half dipping its toes into the technological 20th century.

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In addition to being America's Semiquincentennial, this year is the Route 66 Centennial -- officially birthed by telegram on April 30, 1926, and fully paved and opened on November 11, 1926,

[The Califzuela High-Speed Rail Project hardest hit ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 10:23 AM (BGLxh)

196 /sock off and close tags FTW

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 10:24 AM (qgHp7)

197 Talarico told Newsweek that he doesn't "see politics as left versus right," but instead "as top versus bottom."

Really leaning into it, isn't he?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 10:24 AM (Dv3i1)

198 DELL

414.21
Dell Technologies Inc
+97.16(+30.65%)

Their stock graph looks like one of those global warming graphs

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 10:24 AM (sKqQm)

199 Talerico better get used to being the bottom.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 10:25 AM (ZpG08)

200 1933, I'll warrant? It looks like a scene in the Dust Bowl.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 10:25 AM (wzUl9)

201 In addition to being America's Semiquincentennial, this year is the Route 66 Centennial -- officially birthed by telegram on April 30, 1926, and fully paved and opened on November 11, 1926,
Posted by: ShainS

I've never understood the Route 66 fascination. Guess it was too long before my time.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

202 That car has a really racy look to it.
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at May 29, 2026

***
Clyde Barrow reportedly thought very highly of the Ford V-8.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 10:26 AM (wzUl9)

203 200 1933, I'll warrant? It looks like a scene in the Dust Bowl.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 10:25 AM (wzUl9)

Dust Bowl would be great name for 2 teams with worst college season. Just make them play in dirt.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:26 AM (/+uur)

204 Nokia is also a stock to watch, I've held onto my metric crap ton of Nokia stock in hope of it rebounding.

It's rebounding nicely.

It's not anywhere near it's high, but I bought enough of it back in the day to where I'm almost at break even.

Which is nice.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 10:26 AM (XV/Pl)

205 Dell. AI sever revunue.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 10:26 AM (piLYH)

206 Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:23 AM (/+uur)

Big government contract. 8+$billion!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 10:26 AM (iERP6)

207 129 108 There's an awful lot of carpentry, and no masonry, in Mason County.

They're famous for their jars.
Posted by: Delurker

So they can pickle all the vegetables they gro...., er, store the booze they make to preserve their grain harv, er....they really like glass jar sand art? https://tinyurl.com/mtmpm4ds

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 29, 2026 10:27 AM (JCZqz)

208 I asked copilot and it says 50-75% of trading is AI or algorithms. I then asked what the auto trading is based on and...it gave me pages of what it bases it on...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 10:28 AM (sKqQm)

209 I don't know. I think it took the awfulness of Carter to get Reagan elected. The GOP establishment didn't want him.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

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Agree.

And without The DogEater, we likely wouldn't have gotten Trump.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 10:28 AM (BGLxh)

210 Dust Bowl would be great name for 2 teams with worst college season. Just make them play in dirt.
Posted by: r hennigantx

That's actually a fun idea -- to have the two worst regular-season teams play each other in a bowl game. I'm surprised that nobody's thought of it before.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

211 ... a fake horse farm...

*******

Phonies?

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 10:29 AM (qgHp7)

212 I've never understood the Route 66 fascination. Guess it was too long before my time.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:26 AM (77rzZ)
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It was one of the main cross country routes before the interstate highway system was built.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 10:29 AM (RIvkX)

213 Definitely a Model T Ford.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2026 10:29 AM (8zz6B)

214 The Chump Bowl, winning team gets a lifetime supply of Taco Bell chalupas.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 10:29 AM (ZpG08)

215 50 get your mind out the gutter.

Posted by: cmeat at May 29, 2026 10:30 AM (R11M+)

216 Mason County Landscape, 1940
Charles T. Bowling

The painting is sweet, very Americana. I could hang it.

The portal to Texas History - Charles T. Bowling: An Annotated Bibliography, by Colleen Lahan Makowski

tshaonline org - Charles T. Bowling: A Legacy of Regionalist Art, By: Kendall Curlee, Published: November 1, 1994, Updated: March 23, 2021

In part, "Bowling began studying fine art at age thirty-five, when a long convalescence at home left him with free time to sketch and paint. He subsequently studied with Olin H. Travis at the Dallas Art Institute and then pursued independent studies with Frank E. Klepper and Alexandre Hogue. Bowling developed a highly finished, realistic style that featured rural landscapes and urban scenes; he favored a subtle palette of grey, ochre, rust, and cool blue-green."

PBS org, Antiques Roadshow, 1940 Charles Taylor Bowling "West Texas Tank" Oil, Appraised Value (201

, $25,000 Retail
--
👍 (Very nice as we move into the weekend.) Thanks

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 10:30 AM (NFX2v)

217 I asked copilot and it says 50-75% of trading is AI or algorithms.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 10:28 AM (sKqQm)

That isn't a bad thing. There are trillions of dollars invested in index funds and other passively managed investments. Algorithmic trading is perfect for that sort of thing. It saves money.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 10:30 AM (iERP6)

218 Johnny Carson's former Bel Air mansion hits the market for $40 million. The 9,052-square-foot luxury home features six bedrooms, a tennis court and a pool.

The BelArabs was 1 of SNLs funniest skits.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:30 AM (/+uur)

219 Just looked at the portfolio. I think I can afford to buy that MacBook Air I have been oogling and still have enough money to go see Tab Beniot tonight in Silver City.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at May 29, 2026 10:31 AM (glnUu)

220 It's Troy.
You know that in your heart.
Posted by: browndog says woof at May 29, 2026 10:15 AM (3sXRv)
--

My youngest is at RPI. They call it Troylet.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 29, 2026 10:31 AM (0bjKf)

221 Somehow Reagen squeaked out a win.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 10:31 AM (piLYH)

222 I've got Varney on in case he reads another of ARiK's rants on-air.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 10:32 AM (RIvkX)

223 What goes up in Texas, stays up in Texas:

https://tinyurl.com/3kycfdp6

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 10:32 AM (Z3R2R)

224 214 The Chump Bowl, winning team gets a lifetime supply of Taco Bell chalupas.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 10:29 AM (ZpG0

Locker room es no muy bueno

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:32 AM (/+uur)

225 79 the disney remake features a black lab.

Posted by: cmeat at May 29, 2026 10:32 AM (R11M+)

226 201 In addition to being America's Semiquincentennial, this year is the Route 66 Centennial -- officially birthed by telegram on April 30, 1926, and fully paved and opened on November 11, 1926,
Posted by: ShainS

I've never understood the Route 66 fascination. Guess it was too long before my time.
Posted by: Bulg
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Modern version of the Oregon Trail, except to California and without dysentery.

Posted by: whig at May 29, 2026 10:33 AM (E4rtv)

227 https://tinyurl.com/3kycfdp6

All of those folks secretly hoped that would happen when they boarded the ride.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 10:34 AM (RIvkX)

228 Can you spare me some change
My oil strike did not come in
I pinned my hope on that
My mind is in the gutter when I watch lady golfers

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:34 AM (/+uur)

229 126 Springsteen opposes Trump? Man, when you've lost the billionaire vote, how can you claim to be a populist?
Posted by: Wally

Please.

Bruce Springsteen IS a billionaire, with his net worth officially estimated by Forbes at $1.2 billion. However, the rock icon himself publicly disputes this valuation. Of course.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 10:34 AM (NFX2v)

230 The BelArabs was 1 of SNLs funniest skits.
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:30 AM (/+uur)
--

Abdul was out in the desert shootin' at some Jews when up from the ground came a bubblin' brew.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 29, 2026 10:35 AM (0bjKf)

231 Speaking of regionalist painters. Alexander Hogue's large paintings of west Texas landscapes are quite spectacular if you can see them person. The internet and books do not do justice to them. I think there is a museum in Tulsa OK that might have some of his paintings. His erosion paintings - Mother Earth laid bare includes what looks like a sand sculpture of a bare woman with nice "bosoms"..

Posted by: Glenn at May 29, 2026 10:35 AM (vneJl)

232 There are 7 companies that have had outsized gains over the last 10 years. You would actually think that would reduce the effectiveness of algorithmic trading.

And I have seen people whose investment strategy is just "buy as much of those stocks or QQQ as possible"

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 10:35 AM (sKqQm)

233 Abdul Asad - Don Novello
Fatima Asad - Laraine Newman
Mudhad Asad - Bill Murray
Granny - Gilda Radner
Miss Hathaway - Jane Curtin

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:36 AM (/+uur)

234 Modern version of the Oregon Trail, except to California and without dysentery.
Posted by: whig at May 29, 2026 10:33 AM (E4rtv)
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iirc there is plenty of dysentery in Needles!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 10:36 AM (RIvkX)

235 I've never understood the Route 66 fascination. Guess it was too long before my time.
Posted by: Bulg

It's the kitsch. It's the Americana. It's the Burma Shave signs. It's the Walnut Bowls. It's the Midwest in the 60's.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 10:37 AM (rGH6a)

236 MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
musical guest performs “It’s Money That I Love”
musical guest performs “Pants”

Guess the Artisit?

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:37 AM (/+uur)

237 Where were all these stock prognosticators before Dells big move?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 10:38 AM (piLYH)

238 A George Floyd gift shop ? This has to be from the Bee...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 10:38 AM (yLn/F)

239 I was an usher at LA Sports arena for 2 tunnel of love tour shows. After certain time we could leave and got paid full amount. I couldn't wait to leave. Snooze.

Posted by: Dark L at May 29, 2026 10:39 AM (W5mpo)

240 Henning was Bev Hills, Green Acrs and Peticoat.

He was a genius.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:39 AM (/+uur)

241 I've never understood the Route 66 fascination. Guess it was too long before my time.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:26 AM (77rzZ)
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It was one of the main cross country routes before the interstate highway system was built.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 10:29 AM (RIvkX)

The lively and exploratory Mrs naturalfake and I have been planning to make a drive along the original Route 66 for a long time after driving along a chunk of Route 66 in New Mexico.

We thought this would be a lot of fun, however-

because of all the "new" interstate highways apparently the original Route 66 has fallen on hard times and disrepair in significant parts of it.

Some places have even become "do not go" areas.

So, that trip has moved down our list of things to do.

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 10:39 AM (iJfKG)

242 https://tinyurl.com/3kycfdp6

All of those folks secretly hoped that would happen when they boarded the ride.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 10:34 AM (RIvkX)

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Looks like a NASA training exercise.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 10:39 AM (BGLxh)

243 Springsteen is also an exceptionally good friend of former President Obama, too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 10:39 AM (NFX2v)

244 238 A George Floyd gift shop ? This has to be from the Bee...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 10:38 AM (yLn/F)

I am getting the Fake Apple Crack Pipe

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:40 AM (/+uur)

245 243 Springsteen is also an exceptionally good friend of former President Obama, too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 10:39 AM (NFX2v)

"friend" ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 10:40 AM (yLn/F)

246 I think it has almost nothing to do with the economy, and I maintain that under every president.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=======
Financialization, globalization, and mass shareholding via index funds, etc. makes it difficult to determine any relationship.

One can make a closer one between Fed's interest rates and the stock market but not necessarily the US economy.

It may be that the Fed's control of the punchbowl of liquidity (and Congress on spending), control the stock market but the Fed due to Humphrey Hawkins mandate controls the stock market via loose or tight money supply and simultaneously is charged with ensuring employment for Americans.

And that is determined in part by the President, Congress, and the financial community via the Fed board.

Our economic models generally suck because causation gets buried after a couple of layers of murky intervening variables, latency, and the increase in bot trading based on global conditions.

Posted by: whig at May 29, 2026 10:40 AM (E4rtv)

247 Some places have even become "do not go" areas.

So, that trip has moved down our list of things to do.

Sad.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 10:39 AM (iJfKG)

There is a drug store that has free cold water.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:41 AM (/+uur)

248 I was an usher at LA Sports arena for 2 tunnel of love tour shows. After certain time we could leave and got paid full amount. I couldn't wait to leave. Snooze.
Posted by: Dark L

Ushered at the Paramount in Seattle. My experience is ushers are the most brutal and accurate critics on the planet.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at May 29, 2026 10:41 AM (glnUu)

249 Henning was Bev Hills, Green Acres and Petticoat.

He was a genius.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Green Acres was the most genius. The first surreal sitcom. Maybe the only one.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

250
Springsteen is also an exceptionally good friend of former President Obama, too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 10:39 AM (NFX2v)

Springsteen is gay?!?!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 10:41 AM (iJfKG)

251 There will be letters. Oh yes, lotsa letters.

Posted by: HOA Drive By Inspector at May 29, 2026 10:41 AM (wVcYX)

252 A George Floyd gift shop ? This has to be from the Bee...
Posted by: It's me donna

That is genius. How else can you sell fentanyl in small vials legally?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 10:42 AM (rGH6a)

253 I hear the St Floyd Self-Flushing Shitter will come in at around $5M.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:42 AM (/+uur)

254 Springsteen is gay?!?!

Nah man, but Barack does give a hell of a beejer

Posted by: Bruce Springsteen at May 29, 2026 10:42 AM (sKqQm)

255 Springsteen is gay?!?!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 10:41 AM (iJfKG)

No but Bhussein is

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:42 AM (/+uur)

256 I've never understood the Route 66 fascination. Guess it was too long before my time.
Posted by: Bulg
Pre interstate system. You'd actually see where you are.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 29, 2026 10:43 AM (sl73Y)

257 253 I hear the St Floyd Self-Flushing Shitter will come in at around $5M.
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:42 AM (/+uur)

Wonder if they will have any of those gold caskets ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 10:43 AM (yLn/F)

258 Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 10:39 AM (iJfKG)

There is a move afoot to try and restore it. Don't know how it's coming along, though.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

259 The lively and exploratory Mrs naturalfake and I have been planning to make a drive along the original Route 66 for a long time after driving along a chunk of Route 66 in New Mexico.

We thought this would be a lot of fun, however-

because of all the "new" interstate highways apparently the original Route 66 has fallen on hard times and disrepair in significant parts of it.

Some places have even become "do not go" areas.

So, that trip has moved down our list of things to do.

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 10:39 AM (iJfKG)

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Owing to I-40 being closed for an accident, I took a stretch of Route 66 from Kingman to Seligman a few years ago.

The most charming part was that they still had the old Burma Shave signs ... and yes, those roads are not well-maintained now (I remember we still had and drove on (out to Jean and the State Line) "The Old L.A. Freeway" running south out of Las Vegas paralleling the new I-15 back as a yute in the 60s).

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 10:43 AM (BGLxh)

260 Springsteen is gay?!?!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 10:41 AM (iJfKG)

No...he has been married a few times which is proof positive one is not a homosexual.

Posted by: Zombie Rock Hudson at May 29, 2026 10:43 AM (IqKsT)

261 Posted by: HOA Drive By Inspector at May 29, 2026 10:41 AM (wVcYX)

Mailbox Address is not legible from mandated 35 yards.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:43 AM (/+uur)

262 iirc there is plenty of dysentery in Needles!
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Keep the windows rolled up when going through Needles and the foot on the accelerator.

Posted by: whig at May 29, 2026 10:43 AM (E4rtv)

263 I hear the St Floyd Self-Flushing Shitter will come in at around $5M.

And whatever connected company made it spent around $10k on it...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 10:43 AM (sKqQm)

264 Springsteen is also an exceptionally good friend of former President Obama, too.

Posted by: L - No nic

Friend?
With benefits?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 10:44 AM (rGH6a)

265 If Trump gets his mug on a $250.00 bill it is only fair that Obama gets his on a $3.00 bill.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at May 29, 2026 10:44 AM (glnUu)

266 Wolfus, if you're here, no front license plates in IN.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 29, 2026 10:44 AM (nz1sK)

267 Bruce Springsteen IS a billionaire, with his net worth officially estimated by Forbes at $1.2 billion. However, the rock icon himself publicly disputes this valuation. Of course.

He wouldn't want Bernie Sanders ranting against him, although lately the Bern, for unknown reasons, has apparently reconciled to mere millyunays. Billyunays are still evil, though.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 10:44 AM (Riz8t)

268 It's the kitsch. It's the Americana. It's the Burma Shave signs. It's the Walnut Bowls. It's the Midwest in the 60's.
Posted by: rickb223

With Chicago on one end and LA on the other? That's the worst spit-roasting/Eiffel Tower I've ever seen.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 29, 2026 10:44 AM (JCZqz)

269 I hear the St Floyd Self-Flushing Shitter will come in at around $5M.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:42 AM (/+uur)

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Complete with motion sensors that yell "Hands Up -- Don't Flush!"

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 10:45 AM (BGLxh)

270 Wonder if they will have any of those gold caskets ?
Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 10:43 AM (yLn/F)

Hear in Houston several hospitals claimed that the COVID would not be a problem for protesters.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 10:45 AM (/+uur)

271 Pre interstate system. You'd actually see where you are.
Posted by: From about That Time

I actually love the interstates. You can see a lot from those, too, and you don't have to put up with stoplights in every podunk town you pass through.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:45 AM (77rzZ)

272 Springsteen is not gay. He just blows.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 10:46 AM (vFG9F)

273 For what it's worth, Route 66 was written in 1946.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 10:46 AM (Riz8t)

274 There is a move afoot to try and restore it. Don't know how it's coming along, though.
Posted by: Bulg
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It should be. Lots better than giving money to Somalis to ship to their home country and pay off Democrat politicians.

Always useful to have alternatives to key interstate routes if something happens (like I-40 being shut down in the Appalachians after hurricane flooding).

Posted by: whig at May 29, 2026 10:46 AM (E4rtv)

275 Shouldn't the mailbox flag be down since it is empty?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 10:47 AM (piLYH)

276 If Trump gets his mug on a $250.00 bill it is only fair that Obama gets his on a $3.00 bill.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at May 29, 2026 10:44 AM (glnUu)

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I literally possess a $3 bill with Bubba Clinton's mug on it from the 90's (they were a thing).

I never did get the real $100 trillion Zimbabwe note that should have had Obama's mug on it ...

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 10:47 AM (BGLxh)

277 Always useful to have alternatives to key interstate routes if something happens (like I-40 being shut down in the Appalachians after hurricane flooding).
Posted by: whig

Wouldn't the back roads also have been washed out, though?

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:48 AM (77rzZ)

278 228 Can you spare me some change
My oil strike did not come in
I pinned my hope on that
My mind is in the gutter when I watch lady golfers
Posted by: r hennigantx

Poetry.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 29, 2026 10:48 AM (sl73Y)

279 267 Bruce Springsteen IS a billionaire, with his net worth officially estimated by Forbes at $1.2 billion. However, the rock icon himself publicly disputes this valuation. Of course.
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He sold his music catalog for $500 million in 2021. I'd imagine with touring income and investments plus prior earnings, reasonable to assume that is correctly more or less.

Posted by: whig at May 29, 2026 10:48 AM (E4rtv)

280 Route 66 needs another 6 since it leads to LA.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 10:49 AM (piLYH)

281 >>Bruce Springsteen IS a billionaire, with his net worth officially estimated by Forbes at $1.2 billion. However, the rock icon himself publicly disputes this valuation. Of course.

Just a working man, y'all!
Ignore my daughter riding a polo pony in the background. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 10:50 AM (X8xt3)

282 We thought this would be a lot of fun, however-

because of all the "new" interstate highways apparently the original Route 66 has fallen on hard times and disrepair in significant parts of it.

Some places have even become "do not go" areas.

So, that trip has moved down our list of things to do.

Sad.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 10:39 AM (iJfKG)

Having just done that trip (Amarillo to Kingman), I say: "Go for it!" I will say that New Mexico has done a pretty good job of promoting the Rte 66 Centennial, and accessible sections of the old routes are well marked. Much of the old 66 has become currently-used frontage roads and secondary highways, and is well-maintained. A few sections are dilapidated, but not much.

It was a very enjoyable tour.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2026 10:50 AM (8zz6B)

283 Route 66 needs another 6 since it leads to LA.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Now do I-66 into DC.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

284 I actually love the interstates. You can see a lot from those, too, and you don't have to put up with stoplights in every podunk town you pass through.
Posted by: Bulg

Love the secondary roads but the Interstates can't be beat when all you want to accomplish is to get from a to b. If you want to test your patience take 54/400 from Liberal to Wichita. Extra Credit fun: finding the speed traps as you arrive at every small town along the way.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at May 29, 2026 10:50 AM (glnUu)

285 Springsteen is gay?!?!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 10:41 AM (iJfKG)

Have you seen any photos of him recently? He is obviously an aging lesbian.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 10:51 AM (iERP6)

286 >>MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
musical guest performs “It’s Money That I Love”
musical guest performs “Pants”

Guess the Artisit?

Miley Cyrus?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 10:52 AM (X8xt3)

287 Have you seen any photos of him recently? He is obviously an aging lesbian.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

*Stephen King makes the "call me" gesture to Springsteen*

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:52 AM (77rzZ)

288 Wouldn't the back roads also have been washed out, though?
Posted by: Bulg

Not in this case. Old trails often took high ridges to avoid being flooded out which is what happened to I-40. Older highways were built often on those pathways at the disadvantage of sight grades, twists and turns, etc. Modern interstates are designed for high speed travel with constant grades, long sight lines, modern interchanges, and lower cost so often and often take river valley routes instead of ridges.

Posted by: whig at May 29, 2026 10:53 AM (E4rtv)

289 Route 66 needs another 6 since it leads to LA.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Now do I-66 into DC.

No need to focus on the big areas. I propose Breezewood, PA as the nexus of all evil in the highway system. However, there is hope for the future.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has entered the preliminary engineering and design phase for a new, direct connection between the PA Turnpike (I-76) and I-70 at the Breezewood Interchange.Because the planning, environmental reviews, and geotechnical engineering typically take several years, physical construction of the bypass interchange is still in its early stages and the new route won't be fully operational for a few more years

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 10:53 AM (Riz8t)

290 Having just done that trip (Amarillo to Kingman), I say: "Go for it!" I will say that New Mexico has done a pretty good job of promoting the Rte 66 Centennial, and accessible sections of the old routes are well marked. Much of the old 66 has become currently-used frontage roads and secondary highways, and is well-maintained. A few sections are dilapidated, but not much.

It was a very enjoyable tour.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2026 10:50 AM (8zz6B)

Ah, thanks. That's good to hear.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 10:53 AM (iJfKG)

291 Having just done that trip (Amarillo to Kingman), I say: "Go for it!" I will say that New Mexico has done a pretty good job of promoting the Rte 66 Centennial, and accessible sections of the old routes are well marked. Much of the old 66 has become currently-used frontage roads and secondary highways, and is well-maintained. A few sections are dilapidated, but not much.

It was a very enjoyable tour.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Concur. I live in New Mexico and have done much of the Rte 66 here. The key to the trip is to hide the wrist watches.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at May 29, 2026 10:53 AM (glnUu)

292 The only kind of windmills that need to be seen.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 29, 2026 10:53 AM (Aoykm)

293 139 well, scotia.

Posted by: cmeat at May 29, 2026 10:53 AM (R11M+)

294 Posted by: whig at May 29, 2026 10:53 AM (E4rtv)

Thanks. Very interesting.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:54 AM (77rzZ)

295 Have you seen any photos of him recently? He is obviously an aging lesbian.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 10:51 AM (iERP6)

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On the other side of the Satanic Commie spectrum, you've got Talafreako who's obviously a teenaged tranny lesbian.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 10:55 AM (BGLxh)

296 Seems like a lotta windmill for such a small farm.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2026 10:55 AM (piLYH)

297 It's nice, but brown...

Posted by: RandomDave at May 29, 2026 10:55 AM (aJQbY)

298 245. "friend" ?
Posted by: It's me donna

President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen first struck up a close friendship on the 2008 campaign trail. Bonding over shared values and their roles as American storytellers, the two famously encapsulated their dynamic with Obama’s quip, "I am the President. He is the Boss."

They have had a deepening bond in their friendship that spans decades and several notable milestones.

🤷‍♀️

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 10:55 AM (NFX2v)

299 150 it's not as rotten eggy as it used to be. but it ain't nuthin' nice, olfactorily or otherwise.

Posted by: cmeat at May 29, 2026 10:55 AM (R11M+)

300 President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen first struck up a close friendship on the 2008 campaign trail. Bonding over shared values and their roles as American storytellers, the two famously encapsulated their dynamic with Obama’s quip, "I am the President. He is the Boss."

And you're both insufferable d***s.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 10:56 AM (Riz8t)

301 289 I kinda like Breezewood. Talk about American kitsch -- and taken to a whole new level.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

302 >>Talarico told Newsweek that he doesn't "see politics as left versus right," but instead "as top versus bottom."

Apart from the obvious, why would he think that's better - saying you're above/on top of your political foes? That sounds less tolerant that a left/right scenario - you are beneath me, I step over you, etc.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 10:57 AM (X8xt3)

303 musical guest performs “It’s Money That I Love”

Randy Newman. That song is great. Has one of my favorite lyrics:

They say that money
Can't buy love in this world
But it'll get you a half-pound of cocaine
And a sixteen-year-old girl
And a great big long limousine
On a hot September night
Now that may not be love
But it is all right

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 29, 2026 10:57 AM (Ia3Yj)

304 I kinda like Breezewood. Talk about American kitsch -- and taken to a whole new level.

My days on earth are finite. I have no interest in sitting in a traffic jam so the locals can pillage my wallet.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2026 10:58 AM (Riz8t)

305 Thanks. Very interesting.
Posted by: Bulg
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FWIW, the section of I-40 that washed out was adjacent to a river in the lowlands and the rising water got into the roadbed and washed out the support for the asphalt top layer resulting in the lanes closest to the river disappearing for a stretch and the road bed for the other two lanes also being damaged. Took about a year to fix.

Floods do a lot of damage to the subsurface of roads anyway but add in rushing torrents of water taking out the road subbase, not bueno.

Posted by: whig at May 29, 2026 10:59 AM (E4rtv)

306 >>Talarico told Newsweek that he doesn't "see politics as left versus right," but instead "as top versus bottom."

Apart from the obvious, why would he think that's better - saying you're above/on top of your political foes? That sounds less tolerant that a left/right scenario - you are beneath me, I step over you, etc.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 10:57 AM (X8xt3)

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As I'm sure you understand, Lizzie: "top/bottom" is code for "opporessor/opressed."

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 10:59 AM (BGLxh)

307 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Late again.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 11:00 AM (2WIwB)

308 296 Seems like a lotta windmill for such a small farm.

gotta power the data center

Posted by: anachronda at May 29, 2026 11:00 AM (v3pYe)

309 >>As I'm sure you understand, Lizzie: "top/bottom" is code for "opporessor/opressed."

Oh, that hadn't occurred to me!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 11:00 AM (X8xt3)

310 197 Talarico told Newsweek that he doesn't "see politics as left versus right," but instead "as top versus bottom."

Really leaning into it, isn't he?
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Yeah. And he'll point his finger at some Book in the New Testament of the Bible and use it to tell his rapt audience Jesus said so.

Fools, all.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 11:00 AM (NFX2v)

311 As I'm sure you understand, Lizzie: "top/bottom" is code for "opporessor/opressed."
Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 10:59 AM (BGLxh)

Talarico doesn't know what "oppressed" means.

Posted by: zombie Rachel Corrie at May 29, 2026 11:01 AM (8zz6B)

312 Have you seen any photos of him recently? He is obviously an aging lesbian.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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My guess is too much work done on face to deny age. Like Death Becomes Us predicts, plastic surgery of the elites has made their faces repulsive and alien to the regular people and is just one more marker of how this decadent ruling class is not of the people in this Nation.

They have crossed the uncanny valley.

Posted by: whig at May 29, 2026 11:02 AM (E4rtv)

313 new thread up

Posted by: Ann at May 29, 2026 11:02 AM (SHHm+)

314 296 Seems like a lotta windmill for such a small farm.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Shhh. The Chinese probably own it now as a Data Center.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 11:02 AM (NFX2v)

315 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

316 It was a very enjoyable tour.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2026 10:50 AM

So you got your kicks?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 11:03 AM (0sNs1)

317 My guess is too much work done on face to deny age. Like Death Becomes Us predicts, plastic surgery of the elites has made their faces repulsive and alien to the regular people and is just one more marker of how this decadent ruling class is not of the people in this Nation.

They have crossed the uncanny valley.

Posted by: whig at May 29, 2026 11:02 AM (E4rtv)

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F. Joe Sundowner had such a bad "face lift" before the 2020 election that his beard hair was growing out of his ears.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 11:03 AM (BGLxh)

318 There is a move afoot

That'll be $25.

Posted by: foot juice vendor at May 29, 2026 11:10 AM (tL5sl)

319 219 saw tab at "space." really good.

Posted by: cmeat at May 29, 2026 11:11 AM (R11M+)

320 >As I'm sure you understand, Lizzie: "top/bottom" is code for "opporessor/opressed."
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pitcher/catcher

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 11:13 AM (ZxPkt)

321 317 and a really groovy necktie.

Posted by: cmeat at May 29, 2026 11:25 AM (R11M+)

The Morning Report — 5/ 29/26

Good morning kids. Supposedly a "deal" of some sort is in the works or on the verge of being reached with the regime in Tehran to end hostilities. As I have stated repeatedly, I have the greatest respect and admiration for President Trump, but I cannot imagine any agreement that they would ever agree to that removes the hardline Islamic elements from power, even partially let alone completely. It is they who have terrorized and brutalized their own people and spilled rivers of blood all over the world in the cause of Islamic global conquest, quite a bit of it American, over the past 47 years thanks to the complicity/idiocy of Jimmy Carter in helping unleash the Mullahs on the world. And in that time allowing them to nearly develop a functioning nuclear weapon by stockpiling tons of enriched uranium and perfecting long range missiles that for now threaten the region but perhaps can soon reach much farther. Were it not for Israel's and America's military and covert operations to thwart all of that with Epic Fury and the IDF and ongoing Mossad's campaign
of liquidating Iranian scientists, an Iranian mushroom cloud might well have vaporized Tel Aviv, Dubai, Riyadh or Vatican City or even London or Washington DC by now.

There is no alternative than the absolute and unconditional surrender of the Mullahs. If not, then the aforementioned nightmare scenario might one day become a reality. Who could have ever imagined 9/11 until it happened? There is no doubt in my mind that had Bin Laden have nukes, NYC and DC would be a radioactive dead zone.

Speaking of "unconditional surrender," as evil as Islam and the mullahs are, there is an equally evil cancer that exists among us.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said that the proposed agreement with Iran is “a surrender document.” And we appear to be “negotiating America’s unconditional surrender to Iran.” . . . because there’s literally no other option. Unless he wants to take over the whole country, because that actually would achieve regime change, it would end their nuclear program, it would reopen the strait. But you’re talking about using 300,000 Americans for a country that’s twice the size and population of Iraq. I don’t think even Ranger Pete Hegseth wants that. So the only other option is to sit down at the table and actually have a negotiation. Let’s just be honest, though, he’s not only lost the war, he’s losing the negotiation as well.”. . But, short of taking over Iran, “there’s literally no other option.” . . . Later, Moulton said that Trump “has a hope and a prayer that he might get some semblance of the nuclear deal that Obama handed to him.”

This mealy-(semen-encusted) mouthed scumbag finally lets slip what he and the traitorous bastards of the Democrat/Left want: America defeated/humiliated/destroyed and Iran to actually get an atomic weapon which is what Obama and his cohorts were nearly successful in delivering. The JCPOA along with billons in palletized cash sent to Iran during his 8 year reign of error got them very close to achieving nuclear capability.

Here at home, if Iran can't destroy America as founded, Moulton and his cadres will continue to do their damndest as they have always done.

Police reportedly responded to a call alleging the sound of gunshots had been heard at Barrett’s home, according to the same audio, which was shared on X by freelance journalist Andrew Leyden. In the audio, the dispatcher indicates police units are responding to “the suspicious noise” at a residence that has “24-hour security coverage for a high-priority resident of the county.”

Chris Rabb, a Pennsylvania House candidate backed by the "Squad" and other far-left figures, once called for the death penalty for corporate CEOs, whom he likened to "gang leaders." His words mirror increasingly violent rhetoric from the left directed at business leaders. In a 2005 blog post, Rabb said executives "should fry," citing a report that 300 CEOs were paid salaries and bonuses totaling $12 billion.

They're gunning for us, LITERALLY...

But we're evil and so must be eradicated. On the flip side of that we have this complete debasement.

‘George Floyd Square’ To Remember Him With Gift Shop. . . Also a restaurant, bar and self-cleaning toilet.

Have a great weekend,

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Also a restaurant, bar and self-cleaning toilet.
‘George Floyd Square’ To Remember Him With Gift Shop

AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!

White House officials confirmed Thursday that negotiators had agreed to a proposed memorandum of understanding following earlier reporting by Axios, which cited two U.S. officials and a regional source involved in the mediation efforts.
Report: U.S., Iran Reach Ceasefire Extension Deal Pending Trump’s Final Approval
CENTCOM: “This egregious ceasefire violation by the Iranian regime occurred hours after Iranian forces launched five one-way attack drones that posed a clear threat in and near the Strait of Hormuz.”
Iran Ceasefire Teeters as IRGC Fires Missiles and Drones at Kuwait
Anything less than an unconditional surrender would be a mistake.
Mr. President, Give The Iranian Regime Nothing
Trump Has Iran on the ropes. Now he must resist the bad deal (anything that maintains the regime is bad - jjs)
Always Be Closing: Trump Can Strike A Good Deal To End War With Iran.

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On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said that the proposed agreement with Iran is “a surrender document.” And we appear to be “negotiating America’s unconditional surrender to Iran.” But, short of taking over Iran, “there’s literally no other option.”
Moulton: ‘No Other Option’ But ‘Negotiating America’s Unconditional Surrender to Iran’
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Trump has described the program as restitution for Americans harmed by what he called politically motivated government actions during the Biden junta.
Newsom Vows 100 Percent Tax on Trump ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ Payouts
Police reportedly responded to a call alleging the sound of gunshots had been heard at Barrett’s home, according to the same audio, which was shared on X by freelance journalist Andrew Leyden. In the audio, the dispatcher indicates police units are responding to “the suspicious noise” at a residence that has “24-hour security coverage for a high-priority resident of the county.”
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Reportedly ‘Swatted’
Chris Rabb, who won the Democrat primary in an overwhelmingly blue Philadelphia congressional district, said CEOs are ‘far more devastating’ than the Crips and Bloods
Far-Left House Candidate Backed by Titty-Caca AOC and Hasan Piker Said Corporate CEOs ‘Should Fry,’ Called for ‘Frequent and Swift’ Death Penalty for CEO ‘Gangs’
Whatever the motive for the brutal beating, the real indictment belongs to the state of California, which both abandons its mentally ill to the streets and wages constant political war against President Donald Trump.
San Diego Area Veteran Known for ‘Trump House’ Dies Following Violent Attack
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
. . .six Chinese nationals identified as Special Interest Aliens, all reportedly wearing camouflage clothing.
Texas DPS, Border Patrol Apprehend Camouflage-Clad Chinese Nationals on Ranch Near Border
"If I hit y'all, I go to jail!"
WATCH: Truck Driver Confronts Anti-ICE Leftists Blocking His Way
Chandee was facing imminent deportation until Governor Walz intervened. The decision to pardon Vang underscores Walz’s repeated willingness to block the deportation of violent criminals, consistently jeopardizing public safety and undermining law enforcement.
Walz Pardons Criminal Alien to Sabotage Deportation.
The state is now overburdening Virginians who conduct private gun sales while protecting violent illegal aliens from arrest and deportation.
Under Spanberger, Illegal Aliens Face Less Scrutiny Than Law-Abiding Virginians Buying Guns
‘It is standard practice for immigration attorneys representing illegal aliens to assert that virtually every illegal alien is going to be persecuted or tortured in his or her home country.’
Trump Admin Targets Big Immigration’s Legal Industrial Complex
Gov. Healy already spent more than one billion dollars on illegal migrants, even as the rest of the country — including some blue states — were beginning to cut back on their lavish spending on illegals.
Massachusetts Dem. Governor Protects Dangerous Migrants, Discards Young Americans
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
“Think about it. At the SBA, we found $200 billion in fraudulent PPP loans that the Biden administration tried to hide and forgive and sweep under the rug.”
SBA Chief: Biden Junta Tried to ‘Hide,’ ‘Forgive’ $200 Billion in Fraudulent PPP Loans
The judge once called her husband "rock and source of inspiration."
Obama-Appointed Judge Caught Fornicating In Chambers Within Earshot Of Clerks
A new paper in support of the measure raises concerns that could doom the proposal in the courts.
Proponents of California’s Wealth Tax Unintentionally Make the Case Against It
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: The purpose of making fanciful claims such as the one this woman makes is to stymie efforts to resist Sharia or end Muslim migration into the U.S. It is there home, it has always been their home, and Sharia is as American as apple pie. . .
What One Illinois Speaker Said About Islam and America Has People Talking
A concerning history.
About That San Diego Mosque…
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
“Preliminary information indicates the suspect … was driving on Broadway when he stopped in traffic and began yelling threats at two people crossing the street.”
Jewish Couple Attacked With Baseball Bat and Dog in Santa Monica by Man Screaming ‘Genocider’
El-Sayed previously blamed Israel for causing the Hezbollah-inspired terror attack at a Michigan synagogue in March
Michigan's El-Sayed, Asked Whether the Democratic Party Has an 'Antisemitism Problem,' Pivots to 'Apartheid and Genocide'
The charge that Jews cannot be trusted to give their allegiance to the state goes back 2000 years.
Dual Loyalty?
Victor Davis Hanson: The medieval-style massacre of 1,200 Jews in their homes on Oct. 7, during a time of peace, should have increased awareness of the existential dangers Israel faced. Instead, it spawned a storm of antisemitism.
Israel-haters’ selective outrage exposes the hypocrisy of their lies
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
“Ms. Carroll has recollected additional information. … She now recalls that at some point her counsel secured additional funding from a nonprofit organization …”
DOJ’s Criminal Probe of E. Jean Carroll Goes Well Beyond Lawfare
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
According to the leftist media, every move that President Trump makes must be likened to any other act of evil or brutality that was ever recorded in history, no matter how ridiculous the comparison. Lawrence O’Donnell, host of The Last Word on the failing network MS NOW, followed this rule without hesitation on his Wednesday night broadcast. O’Donnell claimed, laughably, that “Donald Trump is desecrating the White House grounds to build a temple of violence,” as if Trump was some kind of Roman emperor.
MS NSDAP Decries Trump's ‘Temple of Violence’ on White House Grounds

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Do you really want the DMV running your broadband internet? The answer is no!
Let the private sector provide internet connectivity, not government
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Americans kept spending in April even as gasoline prices continued to surge, a sign that higher energy costs have not forced a broad retreat in household outlays.
American Consumers Keep Spending, Sending Retail Shares Soaring
Services prices climbed 0.3 percent for the third consecutive month, bringing the year-over-year increase to 3.6 percent. Housing prices moved up 0.5 percent, the largest increase in over a year, for a year-over-year increase of 3.3 percent. Health care prices moved up just 0.1 percent in April and 2.9 percent from a year ago.
Fed’s Preferred Inflation Gauge Rose Less Than Expected in April, Consumer Spending Pressured By High Gas Prices
As government deficit spending diminishes economic growth, it pushes the nation’s economic output, the GDP, well below its potential.
National Debt Reaches a Scary Milestone
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Talarico’s anti-meat crusade is a perfect encapsulation of the modern Democratic Party’s disconnect from the voters it claims to represent.
Democrats’ War on Meat Meets Texas Reality as Talarico’s Vegan Campaign Resurfaces
Oregon’s new “animal cruelty” initiative is completely insane.
Rise for the yeast!
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
On demonstrators protesting Sharia law: “Finish them off.”
Academic Assailant: Dana Cloud, University of Cincinnati
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
The decision allows the President’s executive order to remain in effect, potentially affecting mail-in voting processes during state primaries. The lawfare battle over election integrity is set to continue in Boston, Massachusetts, where the coalition of left-wing groups are pursuing a different lawsuit via the federal court.
Judge Refuses to Block Trump Order on Mail-In Voting.
An election integrity advocate's case.
Why the SAVE Act Matters
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Tim Mynett's business partner said the Office of Foreign Assets placed a hold on one of their troubled business ventures, legal filings show
US Anti-Terror Agency Froze Funds of Bro-Fo Omar's Husband During Biden Junta, Partner Says: Biden DOJ Would Later Probe Omar's 'Foreign Ties'
Jeffries apparently meant to celebrate the fact that the Knicks had made the NBA Finals for the first time in 27 years, but instead, he got blasted for the pandering social media post because many Internet users felt that the photo appeared to have been altered in Photoshop to eliminate some of the 55-year-old politician’s wrinkles and changed the shape of his face to make him look younger, the New York Post reported.
Hakeem Jeffries Mocked for Posting ‘Bizarre’ Facetuned Image of Himself in Knicks Hat
Democrat fundraiser Kelly Neumann has threatened legal action against the Free Beacon for noticing her 2024 Veterans Day tribute to Nazi officer who escaped to Brazil
In Curious Reversal, McMorrow Ally Honors Fallen US Soldiers Without Mentioning Grandfather’s Role in Nazi Army That Killed 150,000 Americans
POLITICS
Californians have had the rare opportunity to hear two Democrats “expose” each other -- though often for the wrong reasons.
Steyer vs. Becerra: California Screamin’
Just let Talarico keep playing to the woke coastal types who are more concerned with pronouns than whether Iran has nukes. If Paxton features a lot of that stuff in his campaign ads, even the most ardent Cornyn fans will probably find plenty of motivation to vote.
James Talarico Is Playing to a National Audience That Won't Be Voting for Him
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The designations impose onerous sanctions on the gangs and their members, block them from keeping their assets in the United States or freeze assets already in the country, and make it illegal for American citizens to offer material support to them. In a statement on Thursday, the State Department explained that the PCC and Red Command pose a significant security threat both in Brazil and internationally and engage in violent narco-terrorism throughout South America, meriting the designation.
Exclusive — U.S. State Department to Designate Brazil’s Top Criminal Gangs as Terrorist Groups
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Residents of Narva, NATO’s easternmost city, gathered along a promenade beneath a medieval Estonian castle May 9. But with their backs turned toward the European Union — Ukrainian and Estonian flags hanging from the fortress walls — the crowd’s attention was fixed across the river border on a bright display of Russian spectacle.
Inside Russia’s Propaganda War In NATO’s Easternmost City
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The news comes amid U.S. strikes on Iran as President Donald Trump works to secure a peace deal and as Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) recently said Iran targets the U.S. every day via cyberattacks, according to Breitbart News.
Report: Adversaries Target U.S. Military in War Zones by Using App Location Data
Fred Fleitz: Cutting the ODNI was only a start; lasting reform requires abolishing it outright and restoring CIA leadership of U.S. intelligence. (consider the next link before making that statement! - jjs)
The Next DNI Must Finish the Job and Eliminate the ODNI
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Long past time to break up this partisan deep state stronghold.
CIA Whitewashes White Coat Supremacy
Who will be held responsible?
PragerU Video: What Recent Investigations into the COVID Vaccine Reveal
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The ban is likely to improve the health of farmworkers and those living close to farms. Studies as far back as the 1980s have shown that farmworkers are twice as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease as non-farmworkers. The ban will likely increase pressure on federal regulators to reassess the pesticide’s safety at the national level. Despite the state-wide ban in Vermont, the pesticide remains one of the most widely used pesticides in the U.S.
State Bans Pesticide Linked to Parkinson’s Disease.
“Stopping this Ebola transmission depends entirely on humanitarian access,” Tedros wrote in a message published on social media. “Yet ongoing clashes are driving mass displacement, pushing exposed contacts into overcrowded camps and severing critical containment corridors.”
W.H.O. Chief Tedros: Ebola Contact Tracing in DR Congo ‘Nearly Impossible’
In Africa, an unexpected hurdle has popped up in suppressing a new Ebola outbreak.
Ebola versus traditional burial practices
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
During a static fire test of the first stage tonight in preparation for the next launch scheduled for June 4), Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded just as the test began, destroying the first stage and much of the only launchpad the company has to launch this rocket.
Blue Origin’s next New Glenn rocket explodes during static fire test on the launchpad
this lack of deeper understanding means it is impossible as yet to
predict what will happen next, or how those future changes will impact
us here on Earth.
New long term analysis of solar activity suggests the Sun is undergoing some form of internal structural change
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The Biden junta's attempt to force males into female-only spaces through Title IX is finally dead as of Tuesday, as trans-crazed groups dropped their appeals to get the rule reinstated.
Biden’s Trans-Crazed Effort To Flip Title IX On Its Head Is Finally Dead
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
A-list, relevant celebrities should be falling over themselves to perform at this event.
Not A Single Modern Celeb Could Be Bothered To Perform For America 250
Christian Toto: Far-Left host uses personal attacks to slam candidate offering L.A. hope
Is Kimmel’s Pratt Assault Start of New Late-Night War?
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1 Happy Friday

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 07:37 AM (/+uur)

2 It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 29, 2026 07:37 AM (0N4FZ)

3 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 07:37 AM (ExV1e)

4 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2026 07:38 AM (jehhT)

5 Top 5!

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 07:39 AM (+4yJ5)

6 Good morning again moron and what's up JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 07:39 AM (RIvkX)

7 BOING!

Still on KP duty. Shoulder roast in the oven grill.

Time for stovetop coffee with Mrs. BD!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 07:39 AM (D0X9e)

8 Wait, Ds. I thought you wanted us to surrender? Why the change?

And why on earth would we unfreeze billions of dollars and hand them over to the regime in Tehran? Doesn't sound wise to me.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026 07:39 AM (1Ff7Z)

9 I'm just here for the twirling.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 07:39 AM (RIvkX)

10 There is no deal. All the news agencies have been trying to walk back that reporting.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 07:40 AM (5P5DO)

11 Mornin’ Hordians!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at May 29, 2026 07:40 AM (lBqsU)

12 There is no deal. All the news agencies have been trying to walk back that reporting.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 07:40 AM (5P5DO)

I certainly hope so. It's not a good deal at all, if the terms were true.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026 07:41 AM (1Ff7Z)

13 There is no alternative than the absolute and unconditional surrender of the Mullahs.
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This!

The regime must go.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 07:42 AM (RIvkX)

14 This got willowed on the last thread:

135 As soon as people started seriously looking at Talarico, they said “wtf???”
Posted by: Tom Servo

I don't know how this works and am too tired to look it up right now, but is there someway Talarico could withdraw as the candidate and the Democrats actually substitute slightly someone more moderate ?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 07:42 AM (7RYym)

15 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

16 In 2026, Democrat candidates include a guy with a Nazi tattoo, a woman who wants to out Jews in camps, and a guy who volunteered for Al Qaeda.

Once is an accident, twice is coincidence, three times is a pattern.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 07:42 AM (pGxqu)

17 About That San Diego Mosque…

Bad link JJ

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 29, 2026 07:42 AM (qFwJc)

18 Newsom Vows 100 Percent Tax on Trump ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ Payouts

Because some reparations are not as good as others.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 07:43 AM (+4yJ5)

19 I'm delighted the Left is revealing itself as evil. I'm glad there are no more restraints or inhibitions on their behaviors. This is all for the better. "Ye shall know them by their fruits," or as the case may be, by their poisons.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 29, 2026 07:43 AM (fZiTB)

20 Gas has dropped 40 cents / gal in the last week here.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 29, 2026 07:44 AM (qFwJc)

21 San Franpsycho

I seem to be missing Rosasharn's posts. I have not seen her twirl in over two months.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

22 And then there's the degenerate in California who blocked a bill that would have made it a felony to traffic children for sex because, I am not making this up, "This bill would make it a felony for an adult to pay a minor $20 for a blow job"

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 07:45 AM (pGxqu)

23 17 About That San Diego Mosque…

Bad link JJ
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 29, 2026 07:42 AM (qFwJc)

Thanks, should be fixed now!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 29, 2026 07:45 AM (x0n13)

24 As distasteful and dangerous as the swatting of Amy Conehead Barrett may be, I do enjoy seeing these ivory tower assholes subjected to the civil barbarism the rest of the great unwashed are subjected to every day from the left commietards and their attack dogs in the law enforcement and legal system. Maybe this will wake her and others up but I am doubtful.

I hope her collection of 3rd world trophy children are safe.

Posted by: Welcome To My World, Won't You Come On In at May 29, 2026 07:45 AM (IqKsT)

25 Morning all. Headed to my PCP for fasting labs.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2026 07:45 AM (YYKrY)

26 LA Mayor Karen Bass got a filtered endorsement:

https://tinyurl.com/5n6s7ndb

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 07:46 AM (D0X9e)

27 12 There is no deal. All the news agencies have been trying to walk back that reporting.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 07:40 AM (5P5DO)

If Trump even thought this was a good deal, or any deal with these people is a good deal, then I'm very sorry.

I'm holding out hope that this is all a ruse leading to their final elimination.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 29, 2026 07:47 AM (fZiTB)

28 @20

>>Gas has dropped 40 cents / gal in the last week here.

The average cost of gas in the US is currently 4.39 a gallon.

It's got to drop 2 bucks before we get back to normal.

Anything over 2.50 a gallon is a problem.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 07:47 AM (XV/Pl)

29 Business leaders - fry them
Murderers and rapists - laud them

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 07:47 AM (RIvkX)

30 It's $3.60 /gal here. I remember it being over $4 when Joe Shitpants was POTUS.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 29, 2026 07:49 AM (qFwJc)

31 The thing to remember is that there is really no such thing as:
1) a "deal" of some sort is in the works
2) a "deal" of some sort is ... on the verge of being reached

Either you have a deal, or you don't. The last part of the deal IS the deal, at least in this case.

I don't know what Trump is waiting for, but it could be many things:
1) New tech arriving in theater
2) Support from so-called "allies" in Europe
3) Financial pressure/oil well damage to take its toll
4) Getting the insurgency ready
5) Intelligence gathering
6) Rearming
7) Working out issues with Persian Gulf allies

Obviously, there has to be a lot of secret stuff going on. We really have no idea what's really going on, we just know that Trump is intent on finishing this, and finishing it right. He always give his opponents the opportunity to do the right thing, but he has no illusions - he does not EXPECT it.

Posted by: MrExcitement at May 29, 2026 07:49 AM (ovdkm)

32 > Blue Origin’s next New Glenn rocket explodes during static fire test on the launchpad
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That... was a spectacular explosion. Massive.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2026 07:50 AM (jehhT)

33 Not A Single Modern Celeb Could Be Bothered To Perform For America 250
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They must all be too busy auditioning to be the next Doctor on Doctor Who....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 07:50 AM (gnNyN)

34 Open Source Intel @Osint613
42m

Stephen Miller on Iran:

Iran has made significant, material, and dramatic concessions to the United States that would have been impossible only a short time ago...

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 07:51 AM (D0X9e)

35 As soon as a "deal" is announced with the irgc, the denial of any such "deal" is then announced.

Stop the panic, people! There is no need!!!

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 29, 2026 07:51 AM (HIzgC)

36 In other news, while people are asking google web browser stupid shit like how many p’s in the word google, I’m seeing how many lines of production code I can squeeze out of it for free before it bombs out.

The number so far is 550 lines of code.

So what I asked google to do was create a name parser in c++.

The parser we developed takes a name string and parses it into it's component's and stores them in a JSON.

So if you enter Mr. Hector Camacho De La Luz Jr.

It will parse it as:

Salutation: Mr.
First: Hector
Middle: Camacho
Last: De La Luz
Suffix: Jr.

It timestamps the entries and creates an edited date field for when the entry gets edited.

You can perform operations like, sort, edit, delete, search by id or keyword, export to CSV, batch import a csv.

It has logic to detect duplicates and you get the point.

You can take that code and put it in your bank of helper functions for pretty much any project you're working on.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 07:52 AM (XV/Pl)

37 Moulton was always whack.

But he's upped his game from about 3 years ago when he said he was concerned- having 2 daughters- about them playing sports against trans.

He got pummeled and since then has been trying to lead the charge on all anti-trump stuff.

Eff him.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 29, 2026 07:52 AM (FxH7T)

38 Waiting confirmation that we took out the 3rd replacement for Commander of the IRGC navy.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 07:52 AM (5P5DO)

39 Not A Single Modern Celeb Could Be Bothered To Perform For America 250
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The committee is run by this witch:

https://tinyurl.com/3evhtb4f

AFAIK this is sabotage from within. Trump should have fired her the moment he came into office.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 07:54 AM (D0X9e)

40 38 Waiting confirmation that we took out the 3rd replacement for Commander of the IRGC navy.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 07:52 AM (5P5DO)

Nagumo and Toyoda are decomposed rested and ready!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 29, 2026 07:54 AM (x0n13)

41 Who could have ever imagined 9/11/2001 until it happened?

Anyone even remotely involved with security in Washington. It was an open secret for many years.

Posted by: Jus Sayin at May 29, 2026 07:55 AM (ywAtJ)

42 The Aliens.gov website is awesome. Themed like it’s a space alien site, it’s really about illegal aliens.

Put in a city name and it gives you all the statistics on number of arrests, crimes and the countries of illegal aliens.

Trump is brilliant.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 29, 2026 07:56 AM (R1eNq)

43 41 Who could have ever imagined 9/11/2001 until it happened?

Anyone even remotely involved with security in Washington. It was an open secret for many years.
Posted by: Jus Sayin at May 29, 2026 07:55 AM (ywAtJ)

I was talking about average people. Then again we could have never have imagined anyone involved with security in Washington knowing this in advance and doing nothing!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 29, 2026 07:56 AM (x0n13)

44 Since we're on the topic, sort of, my son is going to a music festival in September and the list is full of bands from the 2000s that he loved as a teenager: Chiodos, Rise Against, Devil Wears Prada, Dance Gavin Dance, Atreyu, Alexis on Fire, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, ADTR ...

Point being, I'm at the age when the bands my kids liked are doing nostalgia tours.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 07:57 AM (pGxqu)

45 I seem to be missing Rosasharn's posts. I have not seen her twirl in over two months.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 07:44 AM (u82oZ)
====

I presumed I was not waking up early enough.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 07:57 AM (RIvkX)

46 'On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said that the proposed agreement with Iran is “a surrender document.” And we appear to be “negotiating America’s unconditional surrender to Iran.” . . . because there’s literally no other option. Unless he wants to take over the whole country...'

These assholes aren't even GOOD at propaganda. This clown can not possibly even know what's in the supposed deal.

"Unconditional surrender to Iran" is their wet dream, and they know their backers don't care how absurd it is.

Invasion is their other fantasy - they want another Iraq or Afghanistan. OF COURSE there are OTHER OPTIONS.

Posted by: MrExcitement at May 29, 2026 07:57 AM (ovdkm)

47 That gift shop is going to go out of business very quickly, because 99% of anyone employed there will be stealing from the till like it's their own personal piggy bank.

I know this quite well.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 29, 2026 07:57 AM (IhL8c)

48 https://tinyurl.com/3evhtb4f

AFAIK this is sabotage from within. Trump should have fired her the moment he came into office.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 07:54 AM (D0X9e)

Link doesn't work. Who are you referring to?

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 29, 2026 07:57 AM (fZiTB)

49 Regarding the deal.

Trump is saying if X happens we'll do Y in return.

Obama/ Biden was: here's some cash. Now please follow thru on what you said you'd do.

Complete opposite "deals." If Ds are to the point we are "surrendering " they are just laying the groundwork to say "sure, it's not a surrender, but we should have gotten more."

Its a cover for the JCPOA Obama negotiated.

"See, we're at the same spot." Which isn't remotely true

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 29, 2026 07:58 AM (FxH7T)

50 Just let Talarico keep playing to the woke coastal types who are more concerned with pronouns than whether Iran has nukes. If Paxton features a lot of that stuff in his campaign ads, even the most ardent Cornyn fans will probably find plenty of motivation to vote.

--

So, so many of these detestable Democrat candidates have a plethora of incredulous past and present statements that should be served up on a golden platter to the American people. In this case, I would hope and pray that Paxton blankets the airwaves, billboards, flyers and every other method of communication available so that Texans make no mistake about what this POS really is.

They all give Republican opponents all the ammunition they need. It's right there for the taking. It's just a matter of them using their own words and shoving them back down their throats in front of every voter, as in this case, in TX.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 29, 2026 07:58 AM (qBdHI)

51 @41

>>Anyone even remotely involved with security in Washington. It was an open secret for many years.

The IC/LE apparatus knew there were terrorist cells operating in the US, they were tracking them and knew what they were up to.

Do not buy the bull sh*t line from the 9/11 commission that the IC/LE lacked the imagination to understand what terrror operatives hitting up flight schools for flight training and explicitly saying they didn't care about landing training.

They knew, everyone of them knew.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 07:58 AM (XV/Pl)

52 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

Promotion in the Iranian Navy is quite rapid. You can rise to the top like a rocket.

The fancy retirement package for serving officers is saving Iran a lot of money.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 07:58 AM (u82oZ)

53 They should just cancel that 250 America concert. It's looking like a bust other than Martina McBride but we don't want her to be all alone on stage. Very sad but, just dump it.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 29, 2026 07:59 AM (BCuCF)

54 the operative word here is "supposedly".
seems like just about every other day there are "reports" of this or that which elicit outrage, fear, what-ever. It never happens, but a day or 2 later, there it is again!

ever stop to consider that the real purpose of all these "supposed" "reports" is to produce exactly this agitation and imbalance? FUD; fear, uncertainty, doubt.
keep us in reactive mode, instead of strategically thinking about how to move forward.

Ace said it, years ago: "It's an op!" ignore it, go on with life.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 29, 2026 07:59 AM (VyBeY)

55 44 Since we're on the topic, sort of, my son is going to a music festival in September and the list is full of bands from the 2000s that he loved as a teenager: Chiodos, Rise Against, Devil Wears Prada, Dance Gavin Dance, Atreyu, Alexis on Fire, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, ADTR ...

Point being, I'm at the age when the bands my kids liked are doing nostalgia tours.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 07:57 AM (pGxqu)

I distinctly remember hearing a Muzak version of "Don't Stand So Close to Me" while shopping in a supermarket in the mid-late 90s!!! That's when it hit me that I was getting old.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 29, 2026 07:59 AM (x0n13)

56 The Donald's plan is rid the world of the mullah heads by eliminating the military; economic implosion by embargo of oil and any income streams; regime change with the persian people taking out dregs. Time is on our side. Scott Bessent yesterday mentioned the lack of payment to the IRCG, police not reporting to work and Karg island no longer moving oil. The spice ain't flowing.

Posted by: kingsman at May 29, 2026 08:00 AM (ehY6c)

57 Link works. You have to be logged into X. Original link:

https://x.com/i/grok?
conversation=1924042104088506835

In reference to Rosie Rios.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 08:00 AM (D0X9e)

58 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

Looks like I need to pull a miracle out of my ass for a professor who starts teaching a class on Monday and doesn't have his course ready to go yet...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 08:00 AM (gnNyN)

59 oh, and thank you, JJ, for wading in the sewers to bring us news!
Gut Shabbes!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 29, 2026 08:00 AM (VyBeY)

60 Torah commands 36 seperate times to welcome and protect migrants

Posted by: Paul at May 29, 2026 07:58 AM (26KDh)
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No it doesn't. Try again, Bozo.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 08:01 AM (D0X9e)

61 Lady in Black

You tube had a recent Paxton commercial doing jus that. It was hard hitting.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:02 AM (u82oZ)

62 Democratic House:

Last year, Republicans gave ICE $140 billion.

Now, Republicans want to give ICE $70 billion more.

Your taxpayer dollars are funding an out-of-control mass deportation
-------

I'm already voting Republican, you don't have to sell me.

Posted by: WisRich at May 29, 2026 08:02 AM (mMoRd)

63 Gas has dropped 40 cents / gal in the last week here.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 29, 2026 07:44 AM (qFwJc)

If this trend continues, they'll pay us to haul it away.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

64 "They knew, everyone of them knew.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 07:58 AM (XV/Pl) "

and they wanted it to happen.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 29, 2026 08:04 AM (VyBeY)

65
Ho hum. There's always a deal in the works or about to be signed or almost agreed to.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2026 08:04 AM (HdYcL)

66 Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 07:57 AM (pGxqu)

You feel old ? Good grief . I 've
never even heard of the bands your kids liked.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 08:04 AM (iWbgM)

67 Since we're on the topic, sort of, my son is going to a music festival in September and the list is full of bands from the 2000s that he loved as a teenager: Chiodos, Rise Against, Devil Wears Prada, Dance Gavin Dance, Atreyu, Alexis on Fire, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, ADTR ...

Point being, I'm at the age when the bands my kids liked are doing nostalgia tours.

--

My takeaway is that I must be so darned old (29, after all) that I've never heard of even one of these "nostalgic" groups.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 29, 2026 08:04 AM (qBdHI)

68 Morning JJ and the Horde

Posted by: Jonah at May 29, 2026 08:05 AM (YCxFk)

69 "I distinctly remember hearing a Muzak version of "Don't Stand So Close to Me" while shopping in a supermarket in the mid-late 90s!!! That's when it hit me that I was getting old."

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You're getting old when radio sucks, but the PA at the supermarket is playing banger after banger.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 08:05 AM (pGxqu)

70 n reference to Rosie Rios.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 08:00 AM (D0X9e)

Thanks.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 29, 2026 08:05 AM (fZiTB)

71 There is no agreement. The muslims will never honor a signed agreement on parchment. This is a verification process to determine whether or not we need to punish the enemies of western civilization.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 29, 2026 08:05 AM (D1E+2)

72 Hadrian the Seventh

I hope our counter-offer is so tantalizing that the IRCG leadership gather to discuss it.

Then we go all New Glen Blue Origin on them.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

73 Iranian agents caught attempting to replace naval assets at Bass Pro Shop.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 29, 2026 08:06 AM (gm9Sb)

74 Fm previous thread:

I don't know how this works and am too tired to look it up right now, but is there someway Talarico could withdraw as the candidate and the Democrats actually substitute slightly someone more moderate ?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

He is the more moderate candidate.

Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 29, 2026 08:06 AM (bfy6w)

75 I’ve said a few times and I’ll say again: I don’t want a deal with Iran. Trump is making a mistake in seeking one. The only approach here is to maintain unrelenting military pressure (no boots on ground wanted or needed) until they cry uncle. US Grant at Fort Donelson is the exemplar. Keep killing their leaders until a group arises that’s willing to surrender

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 29, 2026 08:06 AM (YXvTV)

76 "Your taxpayer dollars are funding an out-of-control mass deportation"

Your concern is noted, Democrats. We'll just charge it against your $2 trillion in fraud (and still counting.) Yeah, that's right -- those same "taxpayer dollars."

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 29, 2026 08:07 AM (fZiTB)

77 The issue of asylum claims is much more complex and difficult than the author of that piece lets on. The real issue is that current black letter law was written to facilitate asylum claims, and until that law is rewritten by Congress, we’re stuck with it.

Now how are asylum claims proven? By affidavits from the immigrant in question , plus those who know him. (Meaning family members) All other documents will be from sources outside the US, mostly impossible for US courts to verify.
It’s easy to say “don’t accept them” and yet current. Law allows that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 08:07 AM (QDJ2U)

78 Talarico video of him in a Church endorsing Tranny Children's books is pretty brutal

Posted by: Jonah at May 29, 2026 08:07 AM (YCxFk)

79
Trump and the mullahs are waiting for Lance Parkertip, Notary Public in order to sign and seal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2026 08:07 AM (HdYcL)

80 Victor Tango Kilo

My moment was when I was given more cash back than I expected at Burger King.

"Why is this so much?"

"We gave you the Senior Discount."

Unbidden.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:07 AM (u82oZ)

81 >>In reference to Rosie Rios.

Didn't she cheat while running the Boston Marathon in the early 80s?

Posted by: one hour sober at May 29, 2026 08:07 AM (J4Dwc)

82 You feel old ? Good grief . I 've
never even heard of the bands your kids liked.
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ADTR is pretty awesome, actually

https://youtu.be/Pn-6eOxnEMI

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 08:08 AM (pGxqu)

83 69 "I distinctly remember hearing a Muzak version of "Don't Stand So Close to Me" while shopping in a supermarket in the mid-late 90s!!! That's when it hit me that I was getting old."

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You're getting old when radio sucks, but the PA at the supermarket is playing banger after banger.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 08:05 AM (pGxqu)

My supermarket PA was playing "Vahevala" from Loggins and Messina. Haven't heard that in ages!!! even forgot it was L&M's tune.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 29, 2026 08:08 AM (x0n13)

84 Posted by: Lady in Black at May 29, 2026 08:04 AM (qBdHI)

Come sit by me. 😉I'll make you a cup of coffee . We can chat about bands we don't know.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 08:08 AM (iWbgM)

85 81, OMG I thought the same thing when I heard her name. LOL.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 29, 2026 08:08 AM (BCuCF)

86 C3
@C_3C_3

So…

In the past year 50 NFL players have been arrested.

3% of the league.

None have caused the outrage Jaxon Dart did just introducing the Duly Elected POTUS.

Who won the Electoral College and Popular Vote.

Think about that.
1:44 PM · May 28, 2026
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Aside from the racism and Marxism, this is a big reason to avoid sportsball.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 08:08 AM (RIvkX)

87 For some reason, the Left's new tactic when it comes to Creepy Talarico is "Well, he's more manly than Scott Pressler!"

(He's not.)

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 08:09 AM (iXqHn)

88 "‘George Floyd Square’ To Remember Him With Gift Shop"

Do they only take counterfeit bills?

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 08:09 AM (vFG9F)

89 Excellent thought by NoVa the other day. What if Elon gave the 20 most vulnerable GOP House seats unlimited funds for November

Posted by: Jonah at May 29, 2026 08:09 AM (YCxFk)

90 "Point being, I'm at the age when the bands my kids liked are doing nostalgia tours."

Reminds me of a conversation with my best friend who went to a Motley Crue show.

Her: "You would not believe the number of minivans in the parking lot!"

Me: "You are aware that the people driving those minivans were in the crowd with us the last time we saw Motley Crue live?"

Her: "Dammit."

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 08:09 AM (+4yJ5)

91 Have no doubt that the democrats are telling the IRGC to hold out because next year will be different.

Ayn Rand was right.

Posted by: Going deep. Out at May 29, 2026 08:10 AM (jt/rW)

92 88 "‘George Floyd Square’ To Remember Him With Gift Shop"

Do they only take counterfeit bills?
Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 08:09 AM (vFG9F)

Got to P-Shop a Floyd snow globe!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 29, 2026 08:10 AM (x0n13)

93 Sometime in the mid-to-late 90s popular music died. It peaked in the 70s and 80s…. Even my kids admit to me 70s and 80s music is best. Not sure why it happened but newer music one song is indistinguishable from another… it’s not bad, it’s just not… anything

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 29, 2026 08:10 AM (ALKK0)

94 "We gave you the Senior Discount."

Unbidden.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:07 AM (u82oZ)
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Don't forget this Tuesday is Walgreen's senior discount day.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 08:10 AM (RIvkX)

95 Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 08:09 AM (iXqHn)

I imagine Scott Pressler would have some kind of cogent response to that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 08:10 AM (iWbgM)

96 I don't know how this works and am too tired to look it up right now, but is there someway Talarico could withdraw as the candidate and the Democrats actually substitute slightly someone more moderate ?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

He is the more moderate candidate.
Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 29, 2026 08:06 AM (bfy6w)

Fen, the runner up in the Dem primary, and the only conceivable replacement, is Ghetto Grrl Jasmine Crockett.

But as I and others said at the time, she actually is a more mainstream candidate than Talerico is.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 08:10 AM (QDJ2U)

97 I think internal polling is skewing the administration's handling of Iran/IRGC. The public is used to immediate gratification. IMO that's an unrealistic expectation to have. But that's probably what the polls show.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2026 08:11 AM (jehhT)

98 Now how are asylum claims proven? By affidavits from the immigrant in question , plus those who know him. (Meaning family members) All other documents will be from sources outside the US, mostly impossible for US courts to verify.
It’s easy to say “don’t accept them” and yet current. Law allows that.

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It still begs the question of how many asylum claims can be accepted and approved for every bipedal illegal who quite obviously pass through other countries on their way to the Golden Goose of the USA. Legally, as I understand it, that's not the way it works. You seek asylum as you cross the next border. You don't work your way through other countries until you reach the biggest cash machine you can find.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 29, 2026 08:11 AM (qBdHI)

99 Good morning all, thx JJ. Happy Friday.
The sun is undergoing structural changes. Obligatory propaganda ministry headline "Women and Minorities Impacted the Most"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 08:12 AM (SW0z7)

100 > "‘George Floyd Square’ To Remember Him With Gift Shop"
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I wonder what the candles are scented with...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2026 08:13 AM (jehhT)

101 He is the more moderate candidate.
Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 29, 2026 08:06 AM (bfy6w

There could be someone worse?! I guess that would be the person that endorses all those views and also thinks Zionists should be castrated and thrown in camps.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 08:13 AM (iWbgM)

102 My supermarket PA was playing "Vahevala" from Loggins and Messina. Haven't heard that in ages!!! even forgot it was L&M's tune.

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That's a great song, JJ. I'll gladly carry around that earworm today.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 29, 2026 08:13 AM (qBdHI)

103 After seeing the disastrous results of starting a war in the Middle East without a plan to finish it... Trump started a war in the Middle East without a plan to finish it.

It's OK to criticize him for this.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 08:14 AM (pGxqu)

104 90's music?

Rap was never music.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 29, 2026 08:14 AM (qFwJc)

105 A Russian drone fell in Romania in a medium-sized city (Galati, over 200,000 people), exploded on top of a tall residential building, and wounded two people.
This is the second time a Russian drone fell within Galati, but last time there were no victims.
Galati is close to the Ukrainian border. Apparently Russia sometimes uses the cellphone networks of countries bordering Ukraine to guide and control its drones targeting Ukraine. As far as I can tell, often these Russian drones go over some stretch of Romanian or Polish territory and attack Ukraine from an unexpected direction.
On one hand, Russia is betting on Trump's complacency, since he is engaged in the war with Iran and cannot afford trouble elsewhere.
On the other hand, since Romania (together with most NATO countries) is already supporting Ukraine, Putin does not care about the possibility of killing Romanians with stray drones, by "accident".
Putin and his lackeys would probably welcome an extension of the conflict, to justify their lack of results: it is more honorable to fail against the whole of NATO than against just Ukraine.

Posted by: PG at May 29, 2026 08:14 AM (rXzFk)

106 I see Talarico tried to walk back some of his religious nonsense about God being non-binary etc… the problem he has it’s all on video he can’t go back in time and in-say the stupidity

Him getting beat will be even more satisfying than Beto losing

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 29, 2026 08:15 AM (ugElV)

107 The African American women in the Georgia legal community seem to be a horny bunch. Ace has to come up with a name for the judge's lover like he did with Fani's (Sweet Dick)

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 08:15 AM (SW0z7)

108 Lady in Black

Our path with respect to illegals is pace-setting for the West. The Swiss, Dutch, Danes, Swedes, Hungarians, and Poles are paying attention and trying to follow our lead.

UK, France, Germany and Spain, not so much.

I see our momentum getting stronger to make the US uninviting to illegals. Still lots to do, but we are moving forward in a good direction.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:16 AM (u82oZ)

109 Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 08:10 AM (QDJ2U

Can they replace him with Crockett?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 08:16 AM (lQ+/f)

110 "Ho hum. There's always a deal in the works or about to be signed or almost agreed to.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2026 08:04 AM (HdYcL)

I have several new Fainting Couches in stock. Each model suitable for multiple modes of panic! Buy one toady and I'll include my patented Follicle self immolation kit, absolutely free of charge.

***

*** Some exclusions may apply

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 29, 2026 08:17 AM (HIzgC)

111 106 - UN-say (not in-say). Make up a word and end up with a nonsensical comment sigh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 29, 2026 08:17 AM (ugElV)

112 So much for the facade of judicial temperament and integrity.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 08:18 AM (RIvkX)

113 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at May 29, 2026 08:19 AM (53oGX)

114 RICO.RICO.RICO.

Lost in Bessent's getting peppered yesterday over a Trump $250 bill was his saying that the IRS is targeting how NGOs financed Antifa.

These are RICO predicates and will build into cases already started in Miami and Birmingham (SPLC).

Because of the sprawling reach of RICO, this is not unrelated to the evidence Surfer Girl will drop in the next few weeks about how the 2020 election was stolen and Deep State corruption, hoovered out of the NSA's collection of everything that's ever crossed the internet.

Think of a pin board with lots of colored string and photos of the likes of George Soros and "Jimmy Drama" Comey.

Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 29, 2026 08:19 AM (dtajH)

115 I thank the dems for choosing Talarico. Watching him self immolate is so much fun.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 08:19 AM (5P5DO)

116 George Floyd Square’ To Remember Him "

Well, he's going on what, 6 years drug free?

Posted by: man at May 29, 2026 08:20 AM (XuXeR)

117 They have to sell crack, meth and PCP at the George Floyd Gift Shop

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 08:21 AM (SW0z7)

118 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 08:21 AM (77rzZ)

119 exploded on top of a tall residential building, and wounded two people."

Ah... that's not exactly a terrifying weapon then, it it?

Posted by: man at May 29, 2026 08:22 AM (XuXeR)

120 "Ms. Carroll has recollected additional information"
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For certain definitions of "information"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 29, 2026 08:22 AM (EYqKn)

121 Smell the Glove

Give them counterfeit cash to buy that stuff.

What a role model for the Left.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:22 AM (u82oZ)

122 Ever notice that every site with a "No Politics" rule just means "No Right-leaning politics"?

They always let lefties get away with being as political as they want.

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 08:22 AM (iXqHn)

123 "George Floyd Square’ To Remember Him With Gift Shop"

Nasal spray would be a must.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 08:24 AM (+4yJ5)

124 Supposedly a "deal" of some sort is in the works or on the verge of being reached with the regime in Tehran to end hostilities.

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Any minute now!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 08:25 AM (GD0B3)

125 Ever notice that every site with a "No Politics" rule just means "No Right-leaning politics"?

They always let lefties get away with being as political as they want.
Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 08:22 AM (iXqHn)

Anything with the "No agenda" label is the same way.

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 29, 2026 08:25 AM (HIzgC)

126 Talarico can "walk back" his God-is-a-tranny comments without alienating his base because Democrats accept a political form of "Taqqiya" that gives their politicians a license to pretend to be moderate until after the election.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 08:25 AM (pGxqu)

127 Welcome to the George Floyd Gift Shop. Aisle #1 features Fentanyl and weed products and paraphernalia. In Aisle #2, you can find self-help books on how to bully small, Asian store owners and assault pregnant women. In Aisle #3, come visit our wide selection of hair extensions, false eyelashes and brass knuckles. Sign up for George Floyd Perks and get (1) free stolen product of your choice a month!

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 29, 2026 08:25 AM (qBdHI)

128
Can they replace him with Crockett?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 08:16 AM (lQ+/f)

Even if they wanted to, I don’t think there’s any legal way to do it under Texas law. Texas Dems are caught in a trap of their own making, and it’s hilarious to watch. First, the Texas Dem party is completely broke, has been for a couple decades. Which means the only way to finance a campaign is by relying on large donors on the west coast and northeast.

BUT - those mega donors will only finance an ultra liberal candidate who says what they want to hear, but who is obnoxiously offensive to about 80% of the Texas voting public. And this is why no Dem has won any statewide race for 30 years now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 08:26 AM (QDJ2U)

129 Lady in Black, well done !

Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 08:26 AM (5P5DO)

130 Anyone think Iran will end with us giving them pallets of cash for some sand that they claim is uranium?

Posted by: MJ at May 29, 2026 08:27 AM (VuyAv)

131 I keep saying, the only thing more shocking than how much our government was working against us will be how different it is when our government works for us.

Trump is only barley removing some of that working against us.

And the left is howling and screaming in blind rage.

Think of this, Trump has had some amazing accomplishments, things we had dreamed of for decades...
And it shows he's just scratching the surface-- the entire weight, force and might of the federal government was entirely aligned against Americans and wholly devoted to Democrats.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 08:27 AM (73/SM)

132 Godspeed the RICO cases against the Left.

We do need to claw back the money to pay down our national debt. And stop the fraud in budgets and ballots.

Lots to do.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:27 AM (u82oZ)

133 Posted by: Lady in Black at May 29, 2026 08:25 AM (qBdHI

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 08:27 AM (lQ+/f)

134 IMHO, Time is on our side. Kharg Island is shut down. The IRGC and local police are not getting paid. The Blockade is keeping lots of imports out. Who knew that siege warfare works?

Besides the Romans.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 29, 2026 08:27 AM (qFwJc)

135 olddog, Good morning. Is your pup's leg all mended?
Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 06:54
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Morning, Ben Had. Well she's walks on 4 legs, but still limps occasionally. Hopefully, that will get better as she gets her strength back.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 29, 2026 08:28 AM (Hbeqj)

136 I too was r*ped by E. Jean Carroll behind the popcorn stand at the Waverly in 1972.
#metoo

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 08:28 AM (RIvkX)

137 Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 08:26 AM (QDJ2U

That was very informative. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 08:28 AM (lQ+/f)

138 Democratic fundraiser Kelly Neumann has threatened legal action against the Free Beacon for noticing her 2024 Veterans Day tribute to Nazi officer who escaped to Brazil
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Your 2026 Demoncrat party, in one news nugget: "lesbian trial attorney who celebrates Nazis and hangs out with Kamala"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 29, 2026 08:28 AM (zxAjZ)

139 "the entire weight, force and might of the federal government was entirely aligned against Americans and wholly devoted to Democrats."

It's as if we've had a Vampire Tapeworm in our body politic.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 29, 2026 08:30 AM (dtajH)

140 Excellent thought by NoVa the other day. What if Elon gave the 20 most vulnerable GOP House seats unlimited funds for November
Posted by: Jonah at May 29, 2026 08:09 AM (YCxFk)

It would be a campaign contribution violation?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 08:30 AM (ExV1e)

141 XTC

I was at a dinner with the Senior Center widow support group. One of the most liberal started in on the crimes of OrangeMan Bad.

I immediately said "I strongly disagree. You don't know what you are talking about."

The rest of the group quickly said "No politics."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

142 All these news outlets keep reporting what Iran wants as some kind of deal. I have yet to see anyone from the administration say they have a deal. Why would anyone believe what's being reported by the Iranians and the msm? An example from a link at Citizen's Free Press.
https://tinyurl.com/29cmu89j
The WSJ quoting Axios. Really, these are the sources being quoted? Good grief. Click bait.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 29, 2026 08:31 AM (2NHgQ)

143 138 Your 2026 Demoncrat party, in one news nugget: "lesbian trial attorney who celebrates Nazis and hangs out with Kamala"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 29, 2026 08:28 AM (zxAjZ)

Lefties have always not-so-secretly loved the Nazis. (It usually begins with "But the uniforms are so sexy!!!")

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 08:31 AM (iXqHn)

144 I used to have a different nic

Oppo research using X and AI would be allowable, if handed off to the campaigns.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:31 AM (u82oZ)

145 I imagine Scott Pressler would have some kind of cogent response to that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 08:10 AM (iWbgM)

Probably something along the lines of, "I'm man enough to admit I'm gay."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 08:31 AM (ExV1e)

146 Talarico in Texas ensures Collins wins in Maine and might pull enough money from Dem donors to put a few house seats at risk as well.

I’m convinced it was a good move to support Talarico, boot Cornyn, and support Paxton by the MAGA people.

Posted by: MJ at May 29, 2026 08:32 AM (VuyAv)

147 136 I too was r*ped by E. Jean Carroll behind the popcorn stand at the Waverly in 1972.
#metoo
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 08:28 AM (RIvkX)

LEO G.>>>>>>> E. Jean

And Leo G played Mr. Waverly, on Man From Uncle!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 29, 2026 08:32 AM (x0n13)

148 ‘George Floyd Square’ To Remember Him With Gift Shop. . . Also a restaurant, bar and self-cleaning toilet.
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Any chance they sell fentanyl? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at May 29, 2026 08:32 AM (Dv3i1)

149 The rest of the group quickly said "No politics."
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:30 AM (u82oZ)
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Some people just cannot play nicely.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

150 Top Meme this morning is top 5!!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

151 Leo G Carroll's best role was "Topper".

Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 08:33 AM (5P5DO)

152 My FIL, who is a giant douche lib, literally said I had to admit the nazi uniforms were really beautiful two days ago.

Props to the AoS commentators for being right all the time.

Well done.

Posted by: MJ at May 29, 2026 08:34 AM (VuyAv)

153 "Officer, officer! They're looting the Food King!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 08:34 AM (RIvkX)

154 141 The rest of the group quickly said "No politics."
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

The other excuse you'll commonly hear is "What YOU'RE saying is politics! What I'M saying is just the truth!"

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 08:34 AM (iXqHn)

155 The rest of the group quickly said "No politics."
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:30 AM (u82oZ)
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Tonya Harding said "no physical attacks!" after hitting Nancy Kerrigan.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 29, 2026 08:35 AM (ytIvj)

156 Can they replace him with Crockett?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 08:16 AM (lQ+/f)

I believe that the only way they could replace him is if he dies. Unlike NJ, in Texas you don't get to replace your nominee just because they're likely to lose.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

157 The Trump administration had a plan to keep Americans who are offshore and infected, or exposed to Ebola isolated outside the country before they were readmitted. These cases are all located in Africa. So they struck a deal with Kenya to set up a tent and isolation ward on a military base. The Katiba Institute challenged the deal and got a left wing Kenyan judge to stop the process.

What the WSJ failed to tell you is the Katiba Institute is a left wing, shadowy NGO funded by all the usual left wing groups and the EU.

So left wing NGO’s in foreign countries are now involved in trying to force Ebola patients onto Us shores instead of holding them in place.

I don’t think people have any idea just how devious and diabolical these hateful NGO’s are.

They are at war with us.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 29, 2026 08:36 AM (yy51U)

158 The new anthem for the Dems will be "Springtime for Hitler"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 08:36 AM (SW0z7)

159 126 Talarico can "walk back" his God-is-a-tranny comments without alienating his base because Democrats accept a political form of "Taqqiya" that gives their politicians a license to pretend to be moderate until after the election.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 08:25 AM (pGxqu)

How is he going to “walk it back” when Paxton is going to be running ads from now until November featuring video of Talarico saying those exact things?
And the example of “abortion Barbie” (Wendy Davis) is worth remembering. She was decent looking, a good speaker, had big financing from California. But realizing she was behind as November approached, she decided to start talking tough on immigration as the campaign wound down, hoping to attract more votes.

It didn’t work. No one to the right believed her, and the pro-immigrant groups got mad and stopped supporting her. In a race that was supposed to be “too close to call”, she lost to Abbot by a 62 - 38 margin.
I expect Talerico’s final numbers to be in that range.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 08:36 AM (QDJ2U)

160 San Franpsycho

Most of the widows would have been an echo chamber of the Left. Two on my side would have been silent. But I challenged it.

The Leftlings are not used to that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:36 AM (u82oZ)

161 The Morning Report — 5/ 29/26,,,Supposedly a "deal" of some sort is in the works or on the verge of being reached with the regime in Tehran to end hostilities.
...
131 I keep saying, the only thing more shocking than how much our government was working against us will be how different it is when our government works for us.
...
And the left is howling and screaming in blind rage.

What kind of deal is possible with a Regime that will target you (and your kin) for Assassination? regardless of any Treaty, or Deal?

It describes ALL sides... All of the 21st Century 24/7. foreign and domestic. Up/Down/Left/Right all are their playthings.

Why?
When the TRUTH becomes a Liability. ALL (normal) People become the Enemy. Politico's are the shock absorbers of an eternal establishment that will absolutely use ALL MEANS to stay establish regardless of the cost to you -- land of the Free? NO MORE.

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-LIBsHalftimeAmerica250
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-HereComeTheDRUMS

LET'S GO BRANDON!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhVIKhHl2ws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ0YaWMeTD8 at long long last; lets get this party started

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at May 29, 2026 08:36 AM (Fp8Cm)

162 147 And Leo G played Mr. Waverly, on Man From Uncle!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 29, 2026 08:32 AM (x0n13)

Speaking of old-timey TV, I recently started watching Get Smart.

I'm shocked how well it still holds up 50 years later.

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 08:37 AM (iXqHn)

163 Trump is only barley removing some of that working against us.
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Barley? Get oat of here!

Posted by: Canadian at May 29, 2026 08:37 AM (Dv3i1)

164 Anyone think Iran will end with us giving them pallets of cash for some sand that they claim is uranium?
Posted by: MJ at May 29, 2026 08:27 AM (VuyAv)

If only there were a way to tell the difference between bags of sand and gaseous uranium.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 08:37 AM (ExV1e)

165 When Ruy Texeria wrote his "Emerging Democrat Majority " that so enthralled the Obama factions, I think demographics was a facade.

The real truth was not a permanent majority of minorities and educated.
I think that was cover for what they believed was a realization of their decades-long march to subvert every agency at every level of government to their will.

They have built a hidden machinery in full control of government.
Demographics was the veneer painted on their brute power.
And the weakness.
Because the people still vote.
Even when the Democrats were sure they had corrupted all of government so completely change was impossible.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 08:38 AM (73/SM)

166 The rest of the group quickly said "No politics."

Almost as if they knew you were going to start cluebatting people.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 08:38 AM (+4yJ5)

167 XTC

I had an answer for that. One they would not have wanted to hear. I am getting a reputation. Don't cross me with partisan slop.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:38 AM (u82oZ)

168 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 29, 2026 08:38 AM (2Ez/1)

169 >>I don’t think people have any idea just how devious and diabolical these hateful NGO’s are.

I do.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 08:38 AM (viF8m)

170 That reminds me of an idea I had for a George Floyd t-shirt. His picture, captioned "I can't breed".

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 08:39 AM (vFG9F)

171 Barley? Get oat of here!
Posted by: Canadian

He's got at least one grain of truth in his words.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 08:39 AM (+4yJ5)

172 167 XTC

I had an answer for that. One they would not have wanted to hear. I am getting a reputation. Don't cross me with partisan slop.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:38 AM (u82oZ)

They may not have wanted to, but I'm sure they needed to.

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 08:39 AM (iXqHn)

173 So they struck a deal with Kenya to set up a tent and isolation ward on a military base. The Katiba Institute challenged the deal and got a left wing Kenyan judge to stop the process.
______

WTF? Why should we care what a Kenyan judge says?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 08:40 AM (Dv3i1)

174 I used to have a different nic

It all has to be precipitated out. That UF6 is a very heavy gas. And you are right. Gamma, Beta, and Alfa radiation is easy to spot.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:40 AM (u82oZ)

175 Oppo research using X and AI would be allowable, if handed off to the campaigns.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:31 AM (u82oZ)

If they do research that they give to the campaigns without being paid the going rate then it is a campaign contribution. They could run their own, uncoordinated, ads but I think it's better for Elon to stay chill for a bit. It's hypocritical for the left to bitch about the 2-3 billionaires who support the right while wallowing in cash from the 80-90 who support the left but hypocrisy is just Tuesday for them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 08:42 AM (ExV1e)

176 89 Excellent thought by NoVa the other day. What if Elon gave the 20 most vulnerable GOP House seats unlimited funds for November
Posted by: Jonah at May 29, 2026 08:09 AM (YCxFk)

It's always nice when I click on the morning, zoom my mouse down, and somehow pop on a compliment to me 1st thing. I haven't read anything else but this, but this made my morning.

I've had a helluva week (but sun and finally feeling a little better yesterday seemed to turn it around) and this continues the trend

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 08:42 AM (tOcjL)

177 Does the gift shop sell how-to books for aspiring rappers? What about inspirational materials for turning one’s life around?

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 08:42 AM (77rzZ)

178 OMG noooooooo!

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Long-time propagandists Katie Couric and Jim Acosta say they are very concerned that CNN and CBS News are about to become propaganda outlets.

Hysterical stuff.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026 08:43 AM (ndZc7)

179 It’s comical to realize that Texas Dems would probably have been better off going with Jasmin’s “I HATES WHITEY!!!” campaign theme.

In their primary this year, Texas Dems took the two most loathsome people in the entire state, and asked their voters to decide which one was worse. They said “Talarico!”

Btw, black Texas Dems are still pissed about it, and they’re not gonna vote for him either. They won’t vote for Paxton, they just will drop out of voting completely this round.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 08:43 AM (QDJ2U)

180 TGIF, horde!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 08:43 AM (X8xt3)

181 I finally read the article on George Floyd Square by Daniel Greenfield. That was amusing. I like Daniel Greenfield's writing. He is very smart, articulate and has a good sense of humor. I'll have to add him to "conservatives I have a crush on" list.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 08:43 AM (looXz)

182 Will the Floyd gift shop sell knee-pads?

Posted by: davidt at May 29, 2026 08:44 AM (Q+gd/)

183 140 Excellent thought by NoVa the other day. What if Elon gave the 20 most vulnerable GOP House seats unlimited funds for November
Posted by: Jonah at May 29, 2026 08:09 AM (YCxFk)

It would be a campaign contribution violation?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 08:30 AM (ExV1e)

It's the indirect give that isn't...you just spend on their behalf...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 08:44 AM (tOcjL)

184 >>Moulton was always whack.

But he's upped his game from about 3 years ago when he said he was concerned- having 2 daughters- about them playing sports against trans.

Typical meathead MA politician. Completely forgettable, so he becomes a loudmouth.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 08:45 AM (X8xt3)

185 Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 08:42 AM

Glad youre feeling a little better and may that continue.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 08:45 AM (looXz)

186 Enough of this horse shit! Time for everyone to realize that Iran has only TWO goals in life: (1) incinerating everything Israel as soon as possible, and (2) raping 9 year olds of either sex. That's it. They are always lying, scheming, dreaming, falsifying, deceiving, delaying, back-walking everything imaginable to accomplish those goals. Period. C'mon, the Donald. . . can't you perceive and understand this? Don't let your fever dream of getting the Nobel Peace amulet get in the way of common sense. Let's put an end to this. Now. We've always believed you might be playing multiple-D chess but now it's easy to imagine that you've lost your way. Some say you are going this route to prove undeniably that you gave the camel strokers the full measure of remedy before we turn that pile into a sea of glass and become justified in the eyes of the world. Well, forget it. Remember the top of the hierarchy goal of the Islamo world. . . . which is kill and burn all things Israel.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Mamdanis & Goat Screwers at May 29, 2026 08:46 AM (91R3d)

187 The judge once called her husband "rock and source of inspiration."
Obama-Appointed Judge Caught Fornicating In Chambers Within Earshot Of Clerks
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As in - "my husband is dumb as a rock and inspires me to get some strange in my chamber"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 08:46 AM (Dv3i1)

188 >> I do.

They operate as a sovereign body without borders. They disperse to try and avoid a single point of failure. They relentlessly attack on all front. Their aims are always to subvert the US government through extraordinary, asymmetrical means.

It’s really time to destroy every last one of them and their combatants. Our future depends on it.

Even the most pedestrian person knows you isolate these diseases in place to slow the spread, allow preparation outside the infected zone, and increase reaction time. There is no other way to read this except it is a deliberate attempt to spread that disease into other US vector. It’s evil all the way down.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 29, 2026 08:46 AM (yy51U)

189 >>It’s comical to realize that Texas Dems would probably have been better off going with Jasmin’s “I HATES WHITEY!!!” campaign theme.

Right?

Talarico is simply weird.
Like a charisma black hole.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 08:47 AM (X8xt3)

190 > Long-time propagandists Katie Couric and Jim Acosta say they are very concerned that CNN and CBS News are about to become propaganda outlets.
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"Concerned" because they think they're going to propaganda outlets for Trump? The Republicans?

That's... certainly a take, I guess.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2026 08:47 AM (jehhT)

191 How is he going to “walk it back” when Paxton is going to be running ads from now until November featuring video of Talarico saying those exact things?
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Because the Democrat Media Complex has his back.

Will it work? Hard to say.

Have you noticed the left has stopped indiscriminately calling their opponents "racists" and are now calling everyone on the right a "pedo?" Apparently, Ken Paxton once had to accept a plea bargain in a CSA case when the victim's family refused to testify, so he's a "pedo" now.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 08:47 AM (2UQkq)

192 Pot calling the kettle narcissistic.

Deadline
@DEADLINE
Jimmy Kimmel Skewers Spencer Pratt's Los Angeles Mayoral Run: "Another Narcissist Looking For Attention"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026 08:47 AM (ndZc7)

193 >>@WesternLensman
Long-time propagandists Katie Couric and Jim Acosta say they are very concerned that CNN and CBS News are about to become propaganda outlets.

Hysterical stuff.

The equivalent of their church being corrupted and broken up?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 08:48 AM (X8xt3)

194 {{{Nova Local}}}

Don't sell yourself short. You bring a lot to the discussions here.

And being behind enemy lines, you see the Left move without a cloaking device.

Continue your upward trend.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:48 AM (u82oZ)

195 Talarico can "walk back" his God-is-a-tranny comments without alienating his base because Democrats accept a political form of "Taqqiya" that gives their politicians a license to pretend to be moderate until after the election.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at

True.

But thats not who the walk back is aimed at.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 29, 2026 08:48 AM (FxH7T)

196 185 Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 08:42 AM

Glad youre feeling a little better and may that continue.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 08:45 AM (looXz)

Even my healthy teen boys were sick over a week...this respiratory thing sucked! Avoid it. I'm still not better, but I'm on the upswing...and upswing is better than downswing...and then dealing with healthcare and insurance...may have to become an MD Andersen patient in January (hurray Houston flights) to avoid the issue of cummunity cancer docs not be respected by insurance (MD being the blood cancer experts of the world)...not there yet, but another week of the insurance/doc/approval stuff and I'll jump...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 08:49 AM (tOcjL)

197 Scott Bessent just revealed the IRS has moved to make NGOs LIABLE for violent activity committed by their grant recipients like Antifa

George Soros has been put on NOTICE.

"The IRS is now giving guidance on the Form 990, which nonprofits they have to file. We are going to DEMAND that nonprofits know their grant recipients."

"So if a grant recipient is violent, if they are suppressing people's rights, then YOU are responsible for that."

As for the for the investigation into who is funding Antifa terrorism:

"We made substantial progress. And I think in the weeks and months ahead, we are going to have a lot to report."

Posted by: SMOD at May 29, 2026 08:49 AM (QqoO+)

198 Seem to recall that Moulton was one of the 6 legislators, led by Se. Kelly, who made the video telling servicemen to defy Trump's orders.

SCUMBAG

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 08:49 AM (X8xt3)

199 Talarico is simply weird.
Like a charisma black hole.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 08:47 AM (X8xt3)

I can't wait for the 20 women who'll come along and claim Paxton assaulted them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 08:50 AM (ExV1e)

200 Victor Tango Kilo

Without Projection the Left would be silent. 3 fingers pointing to them vice the one pointing to the pragmatists.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:50 AM (u82oZ)

201 Enough of this horse shit! ...
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Mamdanis & Goat Screwers at May 29, 2026 08:46 AM (91R3d)
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Very well put.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 08:51 AM (RIvkX)

202 The average cost of gas in the US is currently 4.39 a gallon.

It's got to drop 2 bucks before we get back to normal.

Anything over 2.50 a gallon is a problem.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 07:47 AM (XV/Pl)

Lowest price here was 2.99 back in October 2025. March 7, this year, it shot up to 3.39. Paid 4.52 last week. Dropped to 4.42 now.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 29, 2026 08:51 AM (5xuJ/)

203 >>Scott Bessent just revealed the IRS has moved to make NGOs LIABLE for violent activity committed by their grant recipients like Antifa

Lovely idea, buuuuuuuut have you seen @DataRepublican's NGO money flowchart?
Money can pass through a half dozen NGOs before landing in antifa, etc..

I applaud the effort and look forward to seeing the results!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 08:51 AM (X8xt3)

204 Have you noticed the left has stopped indiscriminately calling their opponents "racists" and are now calling everyone on the right a "pedo?"
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Yep. Annoying because for a decade it was apparent through flight lists, photos and other evidence that Bill Clinton likely partook in Epstein's below 18 offerings. Yet Trump is a pedo because the Epstein files that haven't been released are the proof that he is.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 08:51 AM (Dv3i1)

205 I don't suppose George Floyd Square would welcome a Cracker Barrel franchise...

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 08:51 AM (qgHp7)

206 It's the indirect give that isn't...you just spend on their behalf...
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The billionaire leftist PACs like Arabella and 1630 do that at Industrial scale.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 08:52 AM (2UQkq)

207 194 {{{Nova Local}}}

Don't sell yourself short. You bring a lot to the discussions here.

And being behind enemy lines, you see the Left move without a cloaking device.

Continue your upward trend.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:48 AM (u82oZ)

Thanks - it does help to be inundated with what the left thinks (well, they don't, really), how they think it, and why...and to see where inroads are possible.

Elon's money is best spent like Soros money was for prosecutors...in the way to get the most power (Soros did county prosecutors) for the cheapest cost and without the left realizing that's our angle - aka, 2 can play the local game.

So, Elon should ignore Senate seats and go lower level...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 08:52 AM (tOcjL)

208 George Soros has been put on NOTICE.

It should be noted that George Soros is 95 and hasn't had much to do with his empire of evil for a decade or so. Alex Soros OTOH...

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 08:52 AM (ExV1e)

209 "We made substantial progress. And I think in the weeks and months ahead, we are going to have a lot to report."
Posted by: SMOD

At least he didn't say "two weeks".

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 08:52 AM (Dv3i1)

210 191 Have you noticed the left has stopped indiscriminately calling their opponents "racists" and are now calling everyone on the right a "pedo?" Apparently, Ken Paxton once had to accept a plea bargain in a CSA case when the victim's family refused to testify, so he's a "pedo" now.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 08:47 AM (2UQkq)

That's their argument against anti-abortionists, too. "You only want children to be born so that you can rape them!"

Projection at 900,000 lumens.

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 08:52 AM (iXqHn)

211 SMOD @197 Spot on. See #114 above

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 29, 2026 08:53 AM (dtajH)

212 202 The average cost of gas in the US is currently 4.39 a gallon.

It's got to drop 2 bucks before we get back to normal.

Anything over 2.50 a gallon is a problem.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 07:47 AM (XV/Pl)

Lowest price here was 2.99 back in October 2025. March 7, this year, it shot up to 3.39. Paid 4.52 last week. Dropped to 4.42 now.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 29, 2026 08:51 AM (5xuJ/)

If gas is $2.99 and beef is $4.99/lb, R's will win in November, probably in a wave...if we're at $4.99 gas and $7.99/lb beef, Ds will...in the middle will be in the middle...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 08:53 AM (tOcjL)

213 This'll fix Trump’s wagon!

The Washington Post
@washingtonpost
Tom Morello, an activist and guitarist of Rage Against the Machine, announced that he organized a protest festival to take place at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Oct. 3.
Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews and more are set to perform.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026 08:54 AM (ndZc7)

214 Maybe Elon should spend HIS money the way he wants to.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 08:54 AM (5P5DO)

215 Chris Rabb, a Pennsylvania House candidate backed by the "Squad" and other far-left figures, once called for the death penalty for corporate CEOs, whom he likened to "gang leaders." His words mirror increasingly violent rhetoric from the left directed at business leaders. In a 2005 blog post, Rabb said executives "should fry," citing a report that 300 CEOs were paid salaries and bonuses totaling $12 billion.

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This is always hilarious to me. This guy, Mangione, etc. Corporate leaders are uniformly Leftist. For instance, that guy Mangione capped off donated *millions* to the Party.

These guys launder billions in bribes to the Party that constantly agitates for its own paramilitary to murder them, but they're so locked into the machine that they can't leave.

Whoops! Whoopsie.

Enjoy that bed you made, fellas. I'll save my sympathy for the people who didn't buy the bullets for their own executions. I'm reminded of the Old Bolsheviks during the Terror more than anything else.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 29, 2026 08:54 AM (sQnY9)

216 Ben Had

More Baby Moms for Elon?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:55 AM (u82oZ)

217 Gas is a 2% budget item in the average Americans household.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 08:55 AM (/+uur)

218 213 This'll fix Trump’s wagon!

The Washington Post
@washingtonpost
Tom Morello, an activist and guitarist of Rage Against the Machine, announced that he organized a protest festival to take place at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Oct. 3.
Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews and more are set to perform.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026 08:54 AM (ndZc7)

Trump's tickets were free...these communist folks want $125+ for just a lawn seat and 4 figures/ticket for any good seat. They should get flayed for requiring their protestors to pay to attend.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 08:55 AM (tOcjL)

219 NGOs started proliferating after the Church Committee tried to reign in some of the CIAs soft power tools. Many if not most were set up to carry out actions on behalf of the CIA/State Dept. complex to shape public opinion, assist in regime change and aid things like mass migration.

They went largely unnoticed by most of the American public because they operated primarily overseas and they had warm and fuzzy names that belied their true mission. They were just good hearted humanitarians.

And then they started being used domestically under Obama, the same guy who repealed the Smith-Mundt Act and made it legal for the government to use propaganda on US citizens. NGOs are an essential element of a color revolution and that's exactly what they did to us in 2016 and it continues to this day despite being badly wounded thanks to no more USAID. The fight continues.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 08:55 AM (viF8m)

220 >>Talarico can "walk back" his God-is-a-tranny comments without alienating his base because Democrats accept a political form of "Taqqiya" that gives their politicians a license to pretend to be moderate until after the election.

His God talk is similar to Obama's and Pelosi's God talk. They throw in a few verses to underscore their socialist policies as wink to their base. Everyone knows how (not) religious they are but understand that it's for show. The MSM eats it up and then asserts that they are more religious and caring than those hateful, bigoted Christian Nationalists.

It's a game, and everyone involved understands this. In fact, some, such as Obama, clearly enjoy twisting God's word to screw us over.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 08:56 AM (X8xt3)

221 Trump's tickets were free...these communist folks want $125+ for just a lawn seat and 4 figures/ticket for any good seat. They should get flayed for requiring their protestors to pay to attend.
Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 08:55 AM (tOcjL)

Yes. They're looking for a payday and they know that TDS is a good marketing tactic.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 08:57 AM (ExV1e)

222 NaCly, his choice.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 08:57 AM (5P5DO)

223 Nova Local

Let those protest concerts drain money from fellow travelers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:57 AM (u82oZ)

224 217 Gas is a 2% budget item in the average Americans household.
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 08:55 AM (/+uur)

2% budget but 10% mental b/c it's seen week after week and bought over and over...same for groceries. Your house payment costs more, but groceries affect people's perceptions week after week...b/c they buy them directly over and over.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 08:57 AM (tOcjL)

225 221 Trump's tickets were free...these communist folks want $125+ for just a lawn seat and 4 figures/ticket for any good seat. They should get flayed for requiring their protestors to pay to attend.
Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 08:55 AM (tOcjL)

Yes. They're looking for a payday and they know that TDS is a good marketing tactic.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 08:57 AM (ExV1e)

WXPN radio's morning hosts were creaming their pants over this.

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 08:58 AM (iXqHn)

226 Merriweather Post Pavilion
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Saw some really great Grateful Dead shows there in the 80s. Great venue.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 08:58 AM (RIvkX)

227 We need common sense NGO control.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 08:58 AM (Dv3i1)

228 Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 08:47 AM (2UQkq)

I suspect it's a mixture of projection and *intending* for the term to become meaningless like "nazi" and "racist". Once it's meaningless they can let their freak flags fly.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 08:58 AM (lFFaq)

229 I feel bad for the family of Len Bias. If they could have just found some cop to put a knee on him, Len would be remembered as history's greatest basketball player and human being, instead of a guy who wasted his life with drugs.

Posted by: Wally at May 29, 2026 08:59 AM (65cLN)

230 San Franpsycho

Blood, Sweat and Tears. In the 70's. Agree it is a nice venue.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 08:59 AM (u82oZ)

231 Pondering the mystery of how my work headset immediately knots up the second I put it down.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 09:00 AM (2UQkq)

232 @219 Soros amongst others had a brilliant model. He'd set up an NGO and then get activists to lobby USAID for funding. Spent minimal amount of his own money to get a lot of political change

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 09:01 AM (SW0z7)

233 At NBC: "Vomiting virus is spreading across most of the U.S."

Fortunately, the virus is very teensy-tiny, so it doesn't make all that much of a mess when it vomits.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:01 AM (Wq24h)

234 > As for the for the investigation into who is funding Antifa terrorism:

"We made substantial progress. And I think in the weeks and months ahead, we are going to have a lot to report."
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"a lot to report"

How about "a lot of people are going to prison"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2026 09:01 AM (jehhT)

235 >>Merriweather Post Pavilion

I saw G. Love and Special Sauce open for Widespread Panic at Merriweather Post Pavillion in '99.

Heh, FRFR!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 09:01 AM (X8xt3)

236 "Gas is a 2% budget item in the average Americans household."

The ones hit hard are working class who have to drive a distance to a poor paying job. And it's real pain.

But this is Trump's base, and the growth in their Turnout is why Trump is President. Signs are they still back Trump.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 29, 2026 09:01 AM (dtajH)

237 Apropos of nothing in particular I dreamed last night that I was walking with "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, the legendary Top Fuel drag racer, reminiscing about his career. I am not a racing fan, nor a gear head, and have not had a conscious thought of Garlits in decades, and I know nothing specific about his career. Could this have been a premonition of some sort?

I had to look it up. He is alive and kicking at 94 years old. I wonder if he will pop up in the celebrity obits in the next few days...

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 09:01 AM (qgHp7)

238 Two broad types of NGOs -

Operational NGOs — implement programs and deliver services (e.g., disaster relief, health clinics).

Advocacy NGOs — influence policy, raise awareness, lobby for causes.

Advocacy NGOs shouldn't receive a dime of our taxes. They are probably insulated by several layers of fakery.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 09:01 AM (Dv3i1)

239 We need common sense NGO control.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 08:58 AM (Dv3i1)

If they get government money, and they do, then they are not an NGO. The money pipeline needs to be turned off, the controls blown up, the breakers incinerated, etc.

Further, we need a Constitutional Amendment that any member of Congress who proposes funding something via an NGO must be executed within 12 hours.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

240 Wally

Drugs and thug life waste so much human potential.
I thing that drug use is down, as is alcohol use, in society as a whole.

Maybe running out of easy victims?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 09:02 AM (u82oZ)

241 Non Government Organization should have no government money ever.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 09:02 AM (5P5DO)

242 >>"We made substantial progress. And I think in the weeks and months ahead, we are going to have a lot to report."

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!
Bessent is so very capable, I really can't wait to see how this progresses.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 09:02 AM (X8xt3)

243 Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026

Sorry for the frustrations . I will add you to the prayer list in my little notebook I keep in my purse, and I'm glad you got a compliment from someone as well. They do help brighten a day!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 09:03 AM (lQ+/f)

244 I hope you have a great day today JJ.

Thanks for posting the MR the last 24 years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 09:03 AM (RIvkX)

245 I used to have a different nic, I second your suggestion.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 09:03 AM (5P5DO)

246 Neighbors with a uterus

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:03 AM (/+uur)

247 Maybe the Big Daddy dream was allegorical, something about 'race' relations. IYKWIM

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 09:03 AM (qgHp7)

248 At NBC: "Vomiting virus is spreading across most of the U.S."

This is why I don't shake hands during Mass.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 29, 2026 09:04 AM (qFwJc)

249 231 Pondering the mystery of how my work headset immediately knots up the second I put it down.

My employer sent us all pricey bone conductor headsets.

Despite the fact that the name "bone conductor" kind of squicks me out, they're pretty rad. And no cords to knot.

Posted by: Delurker at May 29, 2026 09:04 AM (gtcuf)

250 241 Non Government Organization should have no government money ever.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 09:02 AM (5P5DO)

Eliminate all non-profits

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:04 AM (/+uur)

251 Dems are upset in Texas because Colin Allred beat an openly LGBT+ Congress critter in a newly created district. How will Talarico deal with this , support a black guy or an LGBT woman?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 09:04 AM (SW0z7)

252 Chuck Martel

The start of the rise of Advocacy NGOs was the 1986-7 changes to the Combined Federal Campaign. The rules changes to add them. Formerly it was only Operational NGOs that were in that charitable donation scheme.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 09:04 AM (u82oZ)

253 You can take that code and put it in your bank of helper functions for pretty much any project you're working on.

Or you could use one of many libraries that provide such a thing that has been out in wild and fully debugged against edge cases you haven't dreamed of.

That assumes the bot in question didn't just steal that code and pass it off as something it came up with on its own.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 29, 2026 09:04 AM (Z2wiW)

254 > Merriweather Post Pavilion
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Saw some really great Grateful Dead shows there in the 80s. Great venue.
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The one when it poured rain during the show, turning the grass field behind the actual pavilion into a massive mud pit?

That was wild.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2026 09:05 AM (jehhT)

255 Talarico is simply weird.
Like a charisma black hole.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 08:47 AM (X8xt3)
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What s good description!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 29, 2026 09:05 AM (knl5M)

256 I heard that a rocket blow'd up real good.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 29, 2026 09:05 AM (2Ez/1)

257 >>Soros amongst others had a brilliant model. He'd set up an NGO and then get activists to lobby USAID for funding. Spent minimal amount of his own money to get a lot of political change

Soros made a huge portion of his fortune by working with the CIA/State to do regime changes. It's a lot easier to make money betting on currency fluctuations when you are running the game. In exchange Soros helped organize NGOs to help fulfill the mission. He was very active in Ukraine prior to the Maidan Revolution. So was John McCain.

There's a reason Soros funded much of McCain's "institute".

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 09:05 AM (viF8m)

258 248 At NBC: "Vomiting virus is spreading across most of the U.S."

This is why I don't shake hands during Mass.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 29, 2026 09:04 AM (qFwJc)

Yeah, I don't either.

In NoVa, most folks still don't shake hands, so it's not awkward...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 09:06 AM (tOcjL)

259 Dems are upset in Texas because Colin Allred beat an openly LGBT+ Congress critter in a newly created district. How will Talarico deal with this , support a black guy or an LGBT woman?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 09:04 AM (SW0z7)

Talarico: That's easy, women are icky but a bring, strong, strapping, black man... he could do things for me. Call me, Colin.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 09:06 AM (ExV1e)

260 Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 09:02 AM (X8xt3)

Did you see how well he did doing the rotating press secretary job for the lady who's on maternity leave? I think "Hot Air" has it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 09:06 AM (lQ+/f)

261 Canadian PM Carney Seeks New U.S. – Canada Partnership

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I'd prefer a U.S. - Alberta partnership.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026 09:06 AM (ndZc7)

262 The only news source reporting this “deal” is Axios. At this point Axios is a political fanfic website.

Worse than that. There is evidence Barak Rabid (Axios) is doing market manipulation around the conflict. Trades are timed to occur within minutes of his articles and his "sources" give information no one else is aware to be true.

Unless I hear it from Al Jazeera, it’s bullshit. I hate how a notoriously repressive theocratic regime is coming across as the reasonable ones in this time line.

"a notoriously repressive theocratic regime..." With Christo-fascists in power here, you need to be more specific.

"> U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reached an agreement on a 60-day memorandum of understanding to extend the ceasefire and launch negotiations on Iran's nuclear program"

It’s not a deal. It’s an extension of a ceasefire Trump hasn’t respected at all. That headline is straight BS.

Why are journalists still mindlessly parroting US officials as if they are reliable sources ? Why do people still believe them? These are the same journalists that claimed the last two years of Biden was some sort of weekend and Bernies situation.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 29, 2026 09:06 AM (JCZqz)

263 I used to have a different nic

Like the book Lone Star Planet by H. Beam Piper? Killing politicians is legal if they raise taxes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2026 09:07 AM (u82oZ)

264 "It's a lot easier to make money betting on currency fluctuations when you are running the game. "

I picture the roullette table at Rick's.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 29, 2026 09:08 AM (dtajH)

265 Operational NGOs — implement programs and deliver services (e.g., disaster relief, health clinics).

We've seen the abuse of these kinds of NGOs (Catholic Charities comes to mind). I can also get on board with cutting these off from our money. I assume no one in Congress has floated a bill to reform this because their colleagues on both sides of the aisle would screech at them like Donald Sutherland at the end of that one movie.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 09:08 AM (Dv3i1)

266 Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:03

That term is so bizarre to me. Why would someone even come up with that?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 09:08 AM (lQ+/f)

267 I heard that a rocket blow'd up real good.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

https://tinyurl.com/bdfnzz7w

Michael Bay is green with envy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)

268 Canadian PM Carney Seeks New U.S. – Canada Partnership

Trump's response - https://youtu.be/u3h-FHeTRng?t=52

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2026 09:09 AM (ExV1e)

269 Any organization that receives government funding is by definition not a non governmental organization.

When you take the king's shilling ...

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 09:10 AM (viF8m)

270 I’m a big germophobe in general, but for some reason I’ve never had a problem with shaking hands.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 09:11 AM (77rzZ)

271 246 Neighbors with a uterus
Posted by: r hennigantx

Where did they find it? They should turn it over to the police, this doesn't seem right.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 09:11 AM (Dv3i1)

272 That term is so bizarre to me. Why would someone even come up with that?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 09:08 AM (lQ+/f)

It seems to be part of his Presby faith.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:13 AM (/+uur)

273 Merriweather Post Pavilion
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Remember dropping off my boys there for Vans Warped Tour.

My spousal unit lived for a time in an apartment on a hill above MPP. On summer nights, you could open then windows and hear the music.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 09:13 AM (1clWT)

274 >>Non Government Organization should have no government money ever.

Exactly, Ben Had!!
Deserves to be repeated:

Non Government Organization should have no government money ever.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 09:14 AM (X8xt3)

275 > I heard that a rocket blow'd up real good.
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It also rendered that particular launch site... non-operational. IOW... it destroyed that too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2026 09:14 AM (jehhT)

276 Yes, I'm sure it would go over really well to refer to "my neighbor with a penis" about the nice guy across the street . He's married to a woman and his real name is Brian.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 09:14 AM (lQ+/f)

277 Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:13 AM (/+

I think it's his own bizarre thing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 09:15 AM (lQ+/f)

278 In the months following the devastating Palisades Fire of 2025, residents who lost everything have faced a second assault—not from flames, but from opportunistic thieves preying on their efforts to rebuild. An LAPD email obtained by the New York Post reveals a surge in thefts targeting construction sites, with criminals making off with plywood, tools, copper wiring, and other essential materials under the cover of darkness caused by absent streetlights. This is not mere misfortune; it is the predictable result of governance that prioritizes ideology over public safety in one of America’s most liberal strongholds.

Posted by: SMOD at May 29, 2026 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

279 270 I’m a big germophobe in general, but for some reason I’ve never had a problem with shaking hands.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 09:11 AM (77rzZ)

I didn't, either, til the blood cancer. And to be fair, it's a compromise with the doc. He'd rather I never really be in a Church-like environment (indoors, long, packed, breathing down necks, sick folks attending, etc) while I'm on treatment (but I'm always gonna be on treatment, so that's kinda a no-go), so to go, I take a few more precautions than I used to (side and back seat, no shaking hands, etc)...and I will skip and watch at home when I'm sick or recovering (like last weekend and probably this weekend since I'm still not 100%) or when the area is really bad with flu.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 09:16 AM (tOcjL)

280 Why are journalists still mindlessly parroting US officials as if they are reliable sources ?

To be fair, unless they're appearing on Brian Stelter's show, they're not reliable sources.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 29, 2026 09:17 AM (0sNs1)

281 Uterus?

Why, they barely even know us!!

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 09:17 AM (qgHp7)

282 My spousal unit lived for a time in an apartment on a hill above MPP. On summer nights, you could open then windows and hear the music.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 09:13 AM (1clWT)

***

I used to live three blocks away from MPP. Free music was a benefit of living there

Posted by: Truck Monkey at May 29, 2026 09:17 AM (affD0)

283 "Neighbors with a uterus"

Uterites. Uteritarians.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:17 AM (Wq24h)

284 >>Unless I hear it from Al Jazeera, it’s bullshit. I hate how a notoriously repressive theocratic regime is coming across as the reasonable ones in this time line.

AJ, owned by a Qatari Prince, in a country that still uses slave labor?
AJ, that has always served as Al Qeda's personal mouthpiece?

Gotta love these Lefties and their willful blindness.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 09:18 AM (X8xt3)

285 Ghost dance economics.

Elizabeth Warren Want to Tax AI Industry – to “Invest in People”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026 09:18 AM (ndZc7)

286 Meterus > Uterus > Themterus.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:18 AM (Wq24h)

287 262
Unless I hear it from Al Jazeera, it’s bullshit. I hate how a notoriously repressive theocratic regime is coming across as the reasonable ones in this time line.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 29, 2026 09:06 AM (JCZqz)

=======

"We want nuclear weapons to kill Jews and we want to keep funding terrorism across the world and we want to use an international waterway as a piggy bank to fund those things."
-Iran

"Sounds reasonable."
-American leftist

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 09:18 AM (7RBt4)

288 Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 20

I laughed. Thx.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 09:19 AM (7RYym)

289
‘George Floyd Square’ To Remember Him With Gift Shop

May I suggest they sell-

The George Floyd Memorial "I Can't Breathe" Brand Covid Face-Mask.

Fiiiiiiine, I denounce myself.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 09:19 AM (iJfKG)

290 These are the same journalists that claimed the last two years of Biden was some sort of weekend and Bernies situation.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 29, 2026 09:06 AM (JCZqz)

What?!?

The entire media swore blind that the last two years of Biden were the 'sharpest Biden ever.'

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 09:19 AM (Kdi1r)

291 So which is it Moulton ? A surrender or an illegal war ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 09:20 AM (yLn/F)

292 >>Did you see how well he did doing the rotating press secretary job for the lady who's on maternity leave? I think "Hot Air" has it.

No, Fen, will have to track it down online!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 09:20 AM (X8xt3)

293 290 These are the same journalists that claimed the last two years of Biden was some sort of weekend and Bernies situation.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 29, 2026 09:06 AM (JCZqz)

What?!?

The entire media swore blind that the last two years of Biden were the 'sharpest Biden ever.'

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 09:19 AM (Kdi1r)

=====

Jill Biden said just recently that Joe was fine all the other times.

Check and mate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 09:20 AM (7RBt4)

294 276 Yes, I'm sure it would go over really well to refer to "my neighbor with a penis" about the nice guy across the street . He's married to a woman and his real name is Brian.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 09:14 AM (lQ+/f)

Nice Dick

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:21 AM (/+uur)

295 Jill Biden said just recently that Joe was fine all the other times.

Check and mate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 09:20 AM (7RBt4)

Both before and after the "debate"....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 09:21 AM (yLn/F)

296 "Neighbors with a uterus"

*********

That's literally hysterical!

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 09:21 AM (qgHp7)

297 295 Jill Biden said just recently that Joe was fine all the other times.

Check and mate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 09:20 AM (7RBt4)

Both before and after the "debate"....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 09:21 AM (yLn/F)

======

Why would she lie? She has no incentive to lie. Women never lie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 09:22 AM (7RBt4)

298 296 Ha!

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:22 AM (Wq24h)

299 Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:21 AM (/+uur)

No. Perhaps James Talarico could use that phrase

My neighbor with a uterus sounds like an updated rider version of a Monty Python skit

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 09:23 AM (rZCVI)

300 287 "We want nuclear weapons to kill Jews and we want to keep funding terrorism across the world and we want to use an international waterway as a piggy bank to fund those things."
-Iran

"Sounds reasonable."
-American leftist
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 09:18 AM (7RBt4)

"Islam deserves its turn to oppress the West, it's only fair!"

-American Leftist, and even every "Default Demo(n)crat".

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 09:23 AM (uEmCf)

301 Jill Biden said just recently that Joe was fine all the other times.

Check and mate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 09:20 AM (7RBt4)

Look up the beach walk video
fucked up as a welfare mothers checkbook

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:23 AM (/+uur)

302 "Ruder" not "rider"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 09:23 AM (rZCVI)

303 CBS unexpectedly defended its decision to pull "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" off air, revealing in a statement Thursday that the show was losing approximately $40 million a year.

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Small price to pay for so much wisdom and truth.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 29, 2026 09:24 AM (ndZc7)

304 New long term analysis of solar activity suggests the Sun is undergoing some form of internal structural change

"Long-Term". Yeah, I'm sure you nailed it.

Posted by: The 5-Billion Year-Old Sun at May 29, 2026 09:24 AM (ATSTk)

305 >>What?!?

The entire media swore blind that the last two years of Biden were the 'sharpest Biden ever.'

IIRC, in April of 2024, the NYT called him a "super-ager" in a story about how some seniors are now staying sharp longer than usual.

Yes, they really said this months before the disastrous debate. Akin to the marveling over RBG's killer workout.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 09:24 AM (X8xt3)

306 All of a sudden Jill *biden's back in the newz.

She got a book coming out, right?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2026 09:25 AM (jehhT)

307 That's literally hysterical!
Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 09:21 AM (qgHp7)

There was an old lady that lived in a shoe
She had so many kids her uterus fell out

OWWW *smokes cig*

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:25 AM (/+uur)

308 "the Sun is undergoing some form of internal structural change"

Building shelves in the basement.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:25 AM (Wq24h)

309 >>Look up the beach walk video
fucked up as a welfare mothers checkbook

There are endless videos of Biden acting completely lost or blindsided by the Easter Bunny. The guy used to get lost on stage after mumbling through a speech someone wrote for him. He couldn't figure how to get off the stage without directions.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 09:25 AM (viF8m)

310 Elizabeth Warren Want to Tax AI Industry – to “Invest in People”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

These people honestly believe that money with the citizens is the whole problem.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 09:26 AM (+4yJ5)

311 305 IIRC, in April of 2024, the NYT called him a "super-ager" in a story about how some seniors are now staying sharp longer than usual.

Yes, they really said this months before the disastrous debate. Akin to the marveling over RBG's killer workout.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 09:24 AM (X8xt3)

I can tell you that for the last few years of his life, my grandfather hated still being sharp while his body was increasingly failing him.

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 09:27 AM (uEmCf)

312 CBS unexpectedly defended its decision to pull "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" off air, revealing in a statement Thursday that the show was losing approximately $40 million a year.

I defy someone with no experience in graft or money laundering to spend that much money producing such a show.

Posted by: t-bird at May 29, 2026 09:27 AM (mexfo)

313 CIA Navy pilot gold bar things shows you how bad government is.
I messed up an address on my FS86 and FBI called me.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:28 AM (/+uur)

314 New long term analysis of solar activity suggests the Sun is undergoing some form of internal structural change

*********

That must explain why T. Rex had such short upper limbs.

Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 09:28 AM (qgHp7)

315 312 I defy someone with no experience in graft or money laundering to spend that much money producing such a show.
Posted by: t-bird at May 29, 2026 09:27 AM (mexfo)

They probably found a way to spend that much just on the stupid "Vaxx-Scene" dancers in the stupid syringe costumes.

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 09:28 AM (uEmCf)

316 All. I just had a call from my brother. It appears that my sister is dying. She is in palliative care in the hospital with a lot of blood clots and is not expected to last much longer.

At least we reconciled earlier this year after our long estrangement.

Thoughts and prayers, please.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 09:28 AM (77rzZ)

317 "the Sun is undergoing some form of internal structural change"

It eats itself. Loss of mass to fusion reactions, and it also vomits out megatons of mass annually as plasma. IIRC. Solar autophagy.

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2026 09:28 AM (Wq24h)

318 >> CBS unexpectedly defended its decision to pull "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" off air, revealing in a statement Thursday that the show was losing approximately $40 million a year.

Why is that unexpected?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 09:29 AM (X8xt3)

319
Gretchen Whitmer "walks back" statement that she's not running for Preznit in 28.

Gosh! she looks just like Teri Hatcher! And she faced down kidnappers!

Posted by: Auspex at May 29, 2026 09:29 AM (Y8DZL)

320 Oh dang, Bulg, sorry to hear that!
Sending prayers.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2026 09:30 AM (X8xt3)

321
Prayers, Bulg.

Posted by: Auspex at May 29, 2026 09:31 AM (Y8DZL)

322 Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 09:28 AM (77rzZ)

I'm sorry to hear about her cancer and will pray for her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 09:31 AM (Nx5jP)

323 Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 09:28 AM (77rzZ)

So sorry.. Prayers

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 09:31 AM (FtULh)

324 Upstairs os open.

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 29, 2026 09:32 AM (HIzgC)

325 322 Fen, I don't think it's cancer, but thank you.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

326 Prayers up, Bulg. Sorry to hear about your sister

Posted by: Polka will never die at May 29, 2026 09:32 AM (9Rl/+)

327 upstairs is open

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 29, 2026 09:32 AM (HIzgC)

328 301 Jill Biden said just recently that Joe was fine all the other times.

Check and mate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 09:20 AM (7RBt4)

Look up the beach walk video
fucked up as a welfare mothers checkbook

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 09:23 AM (/+uur)

FJB only appeared lucid and stronk in drugged-up performance mode. Every word he should say on a teleprompter. Walking along a short, carefully prepared path, and corralled as close as possible by aides. He forked-up almost every single time he had to free-lance.

Posted by: Gref at May 29, 2026 09:34 AM (5rh/l)

329 I'm sorry to hear it, Bulg. Prayers being sent.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 09:39 AM (+4yJ5)

330 Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 09:32 AM

Whoops. Sorry.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 09:39 AM (rZCVI)

331 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

From above, "Chris Rabb, a Pennsylvania House candidate backed by the "Squad" and other far-left figures, once called for the death penalty for corporate CEOs, whom he likened to "gang leaders." His words mirror increasingly violent rhetoric from the left directed at business leaders. In a 2005 blog post, Rabb said executives "should fry," citing a report that 300 CEOs were paid salaries and bonuses totaling $12 billion."

Phila, PA is currently the 6th largest city in the US, having lost 5th place to Phoenix, AR almost a decade ago. It - the state - is a political mess no matter what stories msm feeds you.

>Facebook - Philly Crime Update
is in Philadelphia, PA.
May 20 at 8:11 AM
🚨 HEATED CLASH BETWEEN PHILLY DA LARRY KRASNER & UNION LEADER RYAN BOYER AT ELECTION DAY LUNCH

>Broad + Liberty, From the Editors: Larry Krasner is right — Bob Brady should retire. May 2026 By The Editors

Is the traditional political machine, in this case the Philly Democratic City Committee, dead, or is it "evolving," through the election of progressives such as Philly DA Larry Krasner and members of the Working Families Party on

Continued -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 10:08 AM (NFX2v)

332 City Council, and Chris Rabb for US Congress, all victorious over traditional corporate & union backed establishment figures? Or are all the little public dramas & skirmishes an effort to cover that Democratic politics have evolved (often under the cover of C19) to the point where funding from traditional corporations and unions is - and will continue being - explicitly funneled to mostly progressive & alleged 'grassroots' figures & causes?

Whatever, it grows rapidly throughout the state.
---
>FBI - New York
May 15 at 4:30 PM
Earlier today, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a senior member of Kata’ib Hizballah, a U.S. designated foreign terrorist organization, was charged with six counts of terrorism-related offenses for his activities as an operative of Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi was transferred into U.S. custody overseas and transported to the United States.

Continued -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 10:08 AM (NFX2v)

333 ADIC Barnacle: “In the span of just three months, Mohammad Al-Saadi allegedly directed 18 terrorist attacks throughout Europe—including against United States citizens and interests—and planned to conduct a similar attack here in our country. The FBI New York’s Joint Terrorism Task Force maintains its unwavering resolve to hold accountable leaders of foreign terrorist organizations who utilize mass fear and suffering to further their anti-American agenda.”

We have a President who should be praised for continually trying to make the world a safer place. And yet -

>Iraqi IRGC operative behind attacks on Jewish targets plotted to kill Ivanka Trump — report
NY Post says Kataeb Hezbollah’s Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, who is being held in US, pledged to assassinate president’s daughter to avenge 2020 killing of Qassem Soleimani, By ToI Staff

🙏 for the U.S., its military, law enforcement & 1st responders.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 10:08 AM (NFX2v)

334 296 "Neighbors with a uterus"

*********

That's literally hysterical!
Posted by: muldoon at May 29, 2026 09:21 AM (qgHp7)

GOLLLEEEE Sgt. Carter!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 29, 2026 10:14 AM (x0n13)

335 Philadelphia Inquirer, Bucks County’s Bob Harvie will face Brian Fitzpatrick in the fall as Democrats choose nominees for key Pa. swing seats
All of Gov. Josh Shapiro's endorsed candidates for Congress won their primary races.

In part, "“We’re angry that this country that we love so much feels like it’s slipping away, that the values that we hold dear are being squandered by a president and his band of enablers hellbent on injecting chaos, cruelty, and corruption into our lives every day,” Shapiro said in his roughly 20-minute speech.

Shapiro’s case for a presidential campaign in 2028 will be strengthened if he can help flip the U.S. House by elevating Harvie and other swing district candidates in the fall when he’ll also be on the ballot."
--
Governor Josh Shapiro chose not to endorse or oppose any candidate in the crowded 2026 Democratic primary race for Philadelphia's 3rd Congressional District. Shapiro's campaign stated that he sat the race out to stay focused on flipping Republican-held districts in other parts of the state, though he did call progressive State Representative CHRIS RABB to congratulate him after he won the primary against the city's Democratic establishment.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 29, 2026 10:49 AM (NFX2v)

336 Just remember... for the 2nd term in his service - and Trump is actually serving the People(losing wealth) - the US Senate, led by 'republicans' hasn't gone into recess so he can appoint. Double up on the 'blue slip' bullshit...

The US Senate - funded by their corporate masters - is our greatest enemy. The Senate is powered by foreign agencies, namely and foremostly, BRITAIN.

Do not ever forget this. Ever. They are behind the conservative Israeli's AND hostile Islam. Always.

Posted by: Danimal28 at May 29, 2026 04:55 PM (mNOhh)

Daily Tech News 26 May 2026

Top Story

Anthropic has raised another $65 billion as it approaches a planned $1 trillion IPO. (Tech Crunch)

Buy the dip. Or just stand back and enjoy the crashing sounds.
Anthropic has also released Claude Opus 4.8. (Anthropic)

It's 0.1 louder.

Tech News

The Steam Deck is back in stock, bearing a 40% price hike. (Liliputing)

And it's already sold out again.
Sandisk has announced two new models of SATA SSDs. (Tom's Hardware)

Samsung was the leading provider of these models, followed by Crucial. Samsung dropped its SATA lineup, and Crucial dropped dead.
The new Acer Aspire Go 15 has up to 8GB of RAM. (Notebook Check)

"Up to" meaning there are models with less.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Okay, we started the fire.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:10 AM

Comments

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1 Mornin' Pixy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 05:09 AM (O7YUW)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 05:09 AM (6wpGE)

3 I've notified those in the ONT that this one's live.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 05:10 AM (O7YUW)

4
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 29, 2026 05:11 AM (AMvSw)

5 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at May 29, 2026 05:12 AM (V0/Sp)

6 "And it's already sold out again."

Scalpers.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 05:13 AM (O7YUW)

7 Disclaimer: Okay, we started the fire.

Hope yer able to contain it.

Posted by: fluffy at May 29, 2026 05:14 AM (V0/Sp)

8 87 year old Door Dash Driver goes to wrong house and it changes his life in a very positive way:

https://tinyurl.com/nhmhfxrt

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 05:14 AM (Nx5jP)

9 The KLF - America: What Time Is Love

I'm not sure that's weird enough, Pixy.

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 05:15 AM (6wpGE)

10 3 I've notified those in the ONT that this one's live.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 05:10 AM (O7YUW)

Ahem.

432 Pixy's up!
Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 05:09 AM (6wpGE)

433 .
Tech News is NOOD!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 05:09 AM (O7YUW)

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 05:16 AM (6wpGE)

11 @10/m: Yup, you got to the noodin' first. Well done, m.

Please note I'm still pre-coffee. (Workin' on that.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 05:21 AM (O7YUW)

12 Disclaimer: Okay, we started the fire.'

Rejoinder: I'll just put that over here with the rest of the fire.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 05:22 AM (O7YUW)

13 Wikipedia:

(23 August 1994) Drummond and Cauty established the K Foundation and sought to subvert the art world, staging an alternative art award for the Worst Artist of the Year, and burning one million pounds sterling (approximately £2.35m or €2.75m as of 2022).

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 05:22 AM (6wpGE)

14 Woman does a lovely version of "Amazing Grace"with various Celtic instruments :

https://tinyurl.com/db87cnf5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 05:24 AM (PFs9e)

15 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 05:21 AM (O7YUW)

When you you finish up for the year with the bus? Spouse finishes June 23rd.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 05:25 AM (PFs9e)

16 @15/FenelonSpoke: June 25 for me.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 05:26 AM (O7YUW)

17 So Pixy, did you get broadsided by a meeting?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 05:27 AM (O7YUW)

18 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 05:26 AM (O7YUW)

Sorry. That's what spouse said as well. I just typed it incorrectly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 05:28 AM (ix8EF)

19 If you want weird, here's goose-steppin' to a techno beat:

https://tinyurl.com/NKPartyRockYoutube

You'd think the IRGC would do something similar, except they wouldn't tolerate the short skirts the women soldiers wear or all their exposed head hair.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 29, 2026 05:29 AM (Z2wiW)

20 Belated BOING from belated KP duty.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 05:30 AM (x8PQF)

21 moar Wikipedia:

The KLF (also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, furthermore known as the JAMs, the Timelords and other names) ...

KLF has been reported as being an initialism for "Kopyright Liberation Front", Sleevenotes from 1991 said that Cauty and Drummond have "yet to find out what K.L.F. stands for", or "Kings of the Low Frequencies".

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 05:31 AM (6wpGE)

22 Esther, Toronto autistic teen girl missing for 2 weeks, found:

https://tinyurl.com/294m4es8

But there may have been foul play:

https://tinyurl.com/3mu7c6mn

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 05:35 AM (x8PQF)

23 From the article about Samsung about to release some SATA SSDs:

"... So, we shouldn't expect the sensible pricing on the Sandisk 320 or Sandisk 520."

Still waiting for that AI/Data Center bubble to pop and the memory manufacturers to have their "Uh oh" moment.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 05:37 AM (O7YUW)

24 11 Please note I'm still pre-coffee. (Workin' on that.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 05:21 AM (O7YUW)

That sounds like a terrible situation to be in.

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 05:37 AM (6wpGE)

25 Greetings and good morning, one and all! It's a wonderful day out here in the GPROMD and I bring good news. The VA finally came through and my dad is officially at 100% disability!

So...about my request for one of you to provide an excuse for my whereabouts next month. Please disregard.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 05:38 AM (+4yJ5)

26 Waiting on God- Devotional on Psalm
27:7-14

https://tinyurl.com/2ucr2sah

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 05:39 AM (PFs9e)

27 TPosted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 05:38 AM (+4yJ5)

Glad to hear that. I know it had been a frustrating experience for you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 05:41 AM (PFs9e)

28 I know it had been a frustrating experience for you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

And it was made worse by the fact that they live in CA and I'm out here. But it's done. That's all I care about.

Naturally, my mother had to say "I know there are millions of people in the system-"

I stopped her by saying "I don't care about them. They don't care about me. I'm more interested in dad getting taken care of."

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 05:43 AM (+4yJ5)

29 22 Esther, Toronto autistic teen girl missing for 2 weeks, found:

https://tinyurl.com/294m4es8

But there may have been foul play:

https://tinyurl.com/3mu7c6mn
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 05:35 AM (x8PQF)

Seems wrong how those Toronto Sun people are harrassing him.

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 05:43 AM (6wpGE)

30 Evening and morning, all! 'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished!

Not enough sleep, so, coffee.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:44 AM (wzUl9)

31 ER "visit from hell " brightened by the kindness of a stranger." From "Sunny Skyz " site:

https://tinyurl.com/53fsd2fj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 05:46 AM (PFs9e)

32 Seems wrong how those Toronto Sun people are harassing him.

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 05:43 AM (6wpGE)
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Nothing Jimmy Olsen wouldn't have done.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 05:48 AM (x8PQF)

33 87 year old Door Dash Driver goes to wrong house and it changes his life in a very positive way

I read the article. I'm glad that there are enough people willing to help out at moments like this.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 05:50 AM (+4yJ5)

34 espresso e biscotti

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 05:50 AM (ZxPkt)

35 I spent a lot of yesterday on the phone, talking with movers and home inspection companies. I have the inspection for the new house lined up now. Moving? It looks like I can get one "van lines" company to do everything (except packing the small stuff); or three different ones: a local to load everything in a truck and bring it to the U-Pack people, U-Pack to take it to Indiana, an IN local to unload everything at the destination. Either might cost about the same in the end, but one requires less coordination.

Renting a truck and trailering my car? Not with two cats in carriers. A one-day trip might be okay, but not two days. If Linda drove, she could pilot the Buick with the cats, while I did the truck . . . but no.

I thought of leaving the cats with her, and having her bring them up by train. Amtrak doesn't look cheap, though, and she'd have to ride to Chicago and then back down to Indianapolis. Still, I'm keeping the idea in reserve.

The good side: I'll be outta here before the serious part of hurricane season!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:51 AM (wzUl9)

36 *harassing

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 05:52 AM (6wpGE)

37 If anybody is looking for a potentially good Android tablet, Walmart might have what you need with their newest versions of the ONN brand tablets.

ETA Prime on YouTube has reviewed them and they seem to be a pretty good deal for the money.

They have three sizes:
8.1" with a 90Hz IPS display @ 1000 x 1524
6GB RAM - 64GB storage - $130 -
Review: https://youtu.be/DM2xNHQ1Ml0

11" with a 90Hz IPS display @ 1840 x 1280
6GB RAM - 128GB storage - $160 -
Review: https://youtu.be/_ck_yR6iFIo

13.2" with a 120Hz IPS display @ 2400 x 1600
8GB RAM - 256GB storage - $288 -
Review: https://youtu.be/p8_gR_2yPsU

ETA Prime goes through all of the specs and plays a few games to test them out.

They all have metal back construction and SD slots as well.
The 13.2" model comes with a case in the box, too.

These could be perfect for anybody who doesn't want an iPad, Samsung, or Kindle tablet.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2026 05:52 AM (6ydKt)

38 34 espresso e biscotti
Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 05:50 AM (ZxPkt)

What a great idea!

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 05:53 AM (6wpGE)

39 There's a new Michelin star restaurant in Miami:

https://tinyurl.com/zznfvbvp

כל הכבוד

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 05:53 AM (x8PQF)

40 Congratulations, Wolfus!

I missed the destination. You aren't going to Indianapolis, are you?

Posted by: fluffy at May 29, 2026 05:54 AM (V0/Sp)

41 It's 73-75 F. (depending on source) now, with high humidity of course. Almost halfway decent workout conditions . . . but my motivation is hiding again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9)

42 Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 05:43 AM

It must be hard when you're at such a distance. You don't have any sisters or brother closer -or at all /and so the main responsibility falls on you?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 05:54 AM (IEV/x)

43 Fen, what's your take on this weird Texas guy that tortures scripture for his political ends? Just curious how prevalent that thinking is. I know it's a different church.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 29, 2026 05:54 AM (l26NL)

44 espresso e biscotti

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 05:50 AM (ZxPkt)
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Darn! Mrs. BD said we gobbled up the last of our biscotti.

Coming over!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 05:55 AM (x8PQF)

45 44 espresso e biscotti

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 05:50 AM (ZxPkt)
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Darn! Mrs. BD said we gobbled up the last of our biscotti.

Coming over!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 05:55 AM (x8PQF)

I'm already there --chomp, chomp, chomp.

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 05:56 AM (6wpGE)

46 Congratulations, Wolfus!

I missed the destination. You aren't going to Indianapolis, are you?
Posted by: fluffy at May 29, 2026

***
No, fluffy, Terre Haute, about an hour or so west. Another issue; if Linda would be willing to ride Amtrak to Indy, I'd have to go get her and the cats. It's not like the old days when trains crisscrossed the country and hit nearly every mid-sized town; oh, no.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:56 AM (wzUl9)

47 I'm already there --chomp, chomp, chomp.

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 05:56 AM (6wpGE)
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One does not chomp on biscotti!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 05:57 AM (x8PQF)

48 23 Still waiting for that AI/Data Center bubble to pop and the memory manufacturers to have their "Uh oh" moment.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

They're aware of this an that's why they're slow-walking expansion. The reason there are only three big memory manufacturers is all the rest suffered fatal "uh oh" moments in previous bubbles.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 29, 2026 05:57 AM (BLOW1)

49 You don't have any sisters or brother closer -or at all /and so the main responsibility falls on you?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I have an older brother who lives in FL. He's a flight nurse and his company can send him out to CA at a moment's notice. Mom is actually the one with the main responsibility and they live in the kind of retirement community that will take care of them.

But yeah; it's a little frustrating.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 05:58 AM (+4yJ5)

50 37 If anybody is looking for a potentially good Android tablet, Walmart might have what you need with their newest versions of the ONN brand tablets.

ETA Prime on YouTube has reviewed them and they seem to be a pretty good deal for the money.

They have three sizes:
8.1" with a 90Hz IPS display @ 1000 x 1524
6GB RAM - 64GB storage - $130 -
Review: https://youtu.be/DM2xNHQ1Ml0

Thanks. This one is my pick due to the scarcity of small tablets with good displays. I'll check out the video.

There's also an even cheaper 7" model in the lineup but it's garbage.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 29, 2026 05:59 AM (BLOW1)

51 One part of my brain, the "little devil on one shoulder" of the cartoons, is saying, "You worked out three days this week already. Take it easy!" The "little angel" on the other shoulder is murmuring, "It's good for you, and think how energized you'll be afterward."

The little devil is making crude gestures at the angel.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:59 AM (wzUl9)

52 LA DOTD will shut down a beltway of the Interstate, I-610, tonight through Monday am for maintenance. Which means the rest of the highway will be jammed. I think I'll stay on this side of the river this weekend.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 06:04 AM (wzUl9)

53 47 I'm already there --chomp, chomp, chomp.

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 05:56 AM (6wpGE)
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One does not chomp on biscotti!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 05:57 AM (x8PQF)

While I still have my teeth, I do! Just around the edges past where the coffee-dunking occurred.

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 06:05 AM (6wpGE)

54 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: I can't take it anymore!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 29, 2026 06:06 AM (TZz9Q)

55 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: I can't take it anymore!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 29, 2026

***
Reminds me that TNG's Season Two is about to end on Heroes & Icons, and the third year, where they really got their legs under them, will start next week.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 06:09 AM (wzUl9)

56 I guess I'll skip the workout. The little devil has won. I'm still a bit tired, I need to shave and have breakfast, and then to video the apartment for the local moving company so they can give me a price on loading my stuff and driving it to U-Pack.

Also Miss Linda wants to drive to a nearby thrift store, and I need to wash the rain dirt off the car while we're out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 06:11 AM (wzUl9)

57 limone biscotti is what I have on hand

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 06:14 AM (ZxPkt)

58 "A one-day trip might be okay, but not two days."

I drove from Ann Arbor, MI to North Dallas in one shot (~955 miles). With a cat sitting on top of the pile of belongings that I had stuffed in the car. (There was a litter box behind one of the seats and the cat watched the world go by on top of the pile. She had taken a trans-Atlantic flight from Germany to Fort Knox without complaint 7 years earlier, so maybe she was special.)

Yeah, I was lot younger then and I wasn't towing anything, but still an average speed of 50 mph over 18 hours is 900 miles. If you can bump the average to 55 mph over 18 hours, you get 990 miles. Given that most interstates allow at least 65 mph, you could do the jump in one go.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 29, 2026 06:16 AM (Z2wiW)

59 58 I drove from Ann Arbor, MI to North Dallas in one shot (~955 miles). With a cat sitting on top of the pile of belongings that I had stuffed in the car. (There was a litter box behind one of the seats and the cat watched the world go by on top of the pile. She had taken a trans-Atlantic flight from Germany to Fort Knox without complaint 7 years earlier, so maybe she was special.)
Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 29, 2026 06:16 AM (Z2wiW)

Good kitty!

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 06:19 AM (6wpGE)

60 What Time Is Love?

How Soon Is Now?

Posted by: Questions, questions at May 29, 2026 06:23 AM (dJeAh)

61 The turkey is back near the bird feeders.

Not sure if it is the hen or the 'chick'. It was leaping and flapping. When I was away last weekend Mrs fluffy saw Tom, hen and chick, which she said was chasing grackles. Not sure how quickly turkeys grow, but when songbird fledglings show up they are adult sized.

I shall continue to scatter extra corn.

Posted by: fluffy at May 29, 2026 06:23 AM (V0/Sp)

62 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 06:11 AM (wzUl9)

Is Miss Linda going to relocate with you?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 29, 2026 06:27 AM (3Ope8)

63 very nice PDT tweet on the death of Claude Lemieux:

Claude Lemieux, a true Legend of the Game, and one of the fiercest competitors Hockey has ever seen, has passed away. Claude was a friend to the family, and a tremendous "TRUMP" supporter. He won 4 Stanley Cups with 3 different Teams - Montreal, New Jersey, and Colorado - His 80 Career Playoff Goals rank among the All Time Greats. Brendan, my thoughts are with you, Deborah, and the whole Lemieux family - You and your Dad were Warriors on the Ice. Claude will be missed by all who love Winning and
Toughness. 🇺🇸 #MAGA President DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 06:27 AM (6wpGE)

64 mornin yall. Maddami has launched his own version of DOGE, called COGE. Already, the Taxi and Limousine Commission said it will cancel its Slack subscription in fiscal year 2027, saving thousands of dollars.

Posted by: Talafreako's dad at May 29, 2026 06:28 AM (vFG9F)

65 Oh ding dang nab it off freaky sock.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 06:28 AM (vFG9F)

66 Yeah, I was lot younger then and I wasn't towing anything, but still an average speed of 50 mph over 18 hours is 900 miles. If you can bump the average to 55 mph over 18 hours, you get 990 miles. Given that most interstates allow at least 65 mph, you could do the jump in one go.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 29, 2026

***
Terre Haute is about 700 miles. Theoretically, in the car, with bathroom breaks for me and gas stops, I could do the trip in 12 hours. I'd be worn down and making driving mistakes down toward the end, though.

A truck might be safer to drive a little slower. Fourteen hours? NOooooo.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 06:28 AM (wzUl9)

67 s Miss Linda going to relocate with you?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 29, 2026

***
I doubt it. She hasn't been willing to discuss the idea of moving for years now.

Hell, she might be glad to see the back of me for a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 06:30 AM (wzUl9)

68 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 29, 2026 06:30 AM (VyBeY)

69 It's 14 hours to the TXMOME from here and I do it in a day in a motorhome. It's not so bad. Just get an early start.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 06:30 AM (vFG9F)

70 Posted by: Talafreako's dad at May 29, 2026 06:28 AM (vFG9F)

hahahahaha nick

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 06:31 AM (6wpGE)

71 I stole Talafreako from Vince Coglianese, who I believe stole it from someone else.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 06:33 AM (vFG9F)

72 It's 14 hours to the TXMOME from here and I do it in a day in a motorhome. It's not so bad. Just get an early start.
Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026

***
I *might* be able to do it in the Buick. In a vibrating, growling truck like the one I used to move to Denver in '97? I don't think so. I was younger, and three ten-hour days wore me out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 06:34 AM (wzUl9)

73 IMHO, hire a bigger mover, like Bekins. They pick it up. They drop it off. You drive at your leisure.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 29, 2026 06:34 AM (qFwJc)

74 71 I stole Talafreako from Vince Coglianese, who I believe stole it from someone else.
Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 06:33 AM (vFG9F)

It's a good one.

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 06:34 AM (6wpGE)

75 Shop around. I moved from San Diego to SC and got wildly different quotes. btw, Bekins was the best. flat price, no surprises.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 29, 2026 06:35 AM (qFwJc)

76 t's 14 hours to the TXMOME from here and I do it in a day in a motorhome. It's not so bad. Just get an early start.
Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026

***
I *might* be able to do it in the Buick. In a vibrating, growling truck like the one I used to move to Denver in '97? I don't think so. I was younger, and three ten-hour days wore me out.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026

***
And when I moved to Denver, I didn't take my cat with me. Linda flew up and brought him to me a little later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

77 But that was 20 years ago. YMMV

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 29, 2026 06:36 AM (qFwJc)

78 77 But that was 20 years ago. YMMV
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 29, 2026 06:36 AM (qFwJc)

(narrator): And we're all 20 years older!

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 06:38 AM (6wpGE)

79 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 06:30 AM (wzUl9)

Well, it appears she is a respectable woman who won't be galivanting off across the fruited plains with some guy. Maybe you should reconsider your long standing relationship and offer her some token of your affection. Maybe a circular one made of some valuable metal with a stone.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 29, 2026 06:39 AM (3Ope8)

80 Good kitty!

Well, we described her as "buttish". She wasn't a lap cat, but she'd be near us; if you touched her, she'd lick the place you touched.

She used to open the under-sink cabinets in the bathrooms and leave them open (which my wife accused me of doing until the cat opened one of them in front of both of us). She would also wait until I finished taking a shower to go lick up that shower water (versus the water bowl water); I had taken a shower just prior to us watching the movie "Burnt by the Sun". At the end of that rather depressing (but good) movie, we realized that "Puddy" (yes, we named her that versus my earlier name of "CAT!") hadn't gone into the bathroom where I had showered to lick up the water. She had jumped on a bed and died of (I guess) a heart attack. That was on a New Year's weekend, so I had to put her in a box in the garage until something opened that could handle her. I've got her box of ashes still.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 29, 2026 06:40 AM (Z2wiW)

81 IMHO, hire a bigger mover, like Bekins. They pick it up. They drop it off. You drive at your leisure.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 29, 2026

***
That's what I'm leaning toward. I haven't called Bekins yet, though.

Timing will be tough. If I close at the end of June on the house, I'll need to come back down here, finish packing everything up, and do the move in July. And I want to have the carpet taken up and the hardwood in two rooms refinished while I'm gone -- a lot simpler to do that *before* I move all my furniture in. The repainting of two walls, well, maybe I can do that myself. I really don't want medium-brown walls in my dining room. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 06:40 AM (wzUl9)

82 Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 29, 2026 05:54 AM (l26NL

Good morning! I think he is part of the progressive church that where leftist political views are their foundation and Jesus doesn't care what you do as long as it's luuuuuuuuv. Nobody could come up with "God is non binary" or what he says about Mary and abortion while talking the Bible seriously . The fact that the pastor where he attends doesn't even mention. Jesus in his biography but something along the lines of " I love world religions" tells me all I need to know .its like the Presbyterian version of the Unitarian Universalists
That's not to say that the pastor isn't a nice person. I'm sure there are any
Number of caring people there but Talarico and his pastor are not "orthodox" Christians in the slightest

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 06:44 AM (Nx5jP)

83 It'd be quicker, though not a lot easier or cheaper, to fly up to TH for the closing and then back down. I dread the idea of airports and planes now, though, and I'll have to change planes at least once, I think.

Amtrak to Indy won't be any cheaper than a plane, and would take as long as driving.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 06:45 AM (wzUl9)

84 My Steam Deck IS the best gaming handheld I've ever owned. Had mine about 4 years now. Forgot what I paid for it, but it sure wasn't $789.

Terribly pricy, but I admit if my current unit failed I'd want to buy another. Do most of my gaming on it these days. Card battlers mostly.

Posted by: Biergood at May 29, 2026 06:46 AM (PwgSL)

85 A truck might be safer to drive a little slower. Fourteen hours? NOooooo.

Well, you know your limits and I don't. I do not want you to die due to my advice.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 29, 2026 06:48 AM (Z2wiW)

86 No, fluffy, Terre Haute, about an hour or so west. Another issue; if Linda would be willing to ride Amtrak to Indy, I'd have to go get her and the cats. It's not like the old days when trains crisscrossed the country and hit nearly every mid-sized town; oh, no.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 05:56 AM (wzUl9)

So, she's agreed to move?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026 06:50 AM (1Ff7Z)

87 A truck might be safer to drive a little slower. Fourteen hours? NOooooo.
*
Well, you know your limits and I don't. I do not want you to die due to my advice.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 29, 2026

***
Thanks, Richard! If I were still in my forties, I'd give it a try, but not now.

If Linda would agree to bring up the cats later, I could pay for her train trip with what I'd save in moving. Maybe. But I don't relish the idea of handling a truck for two days with my car trailered behind.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 06:52 AM (wzUl9)

88 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 29, 2026 06:53 AM (Hbeqj)

89 So, she's agreed to move?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026

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I haven't even told her about the house or the closing yet. Guess I have to do that tonight. She might surprise me. But knowing her for (mumblety-mumble) years, I wonder.

If she'd gone for the idea, we could have bought a bigger house with room for two people.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 06:54 AM (wzUl9)

90 olddog, Good morning. Is your pup's leg all mended?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 06:54 AM (5P5DO)

91 If you watch any video with Talarico in it, you'll wonder who thought this freak was acceptable outside of Austin, TX or San Francisco, CA.

I've commented on his idiotic message about the disease of whiteness over at Insty.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 29, 2026 06:56 AM (Z2wiW)

92 Sitting in a hotel lobby and the muzak system is playing a really bad version of "Ashokan Farewell". Pro-tip muzakers: more instruments is not necessarily better, and flutes should be used sparingly, or not at all.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 29, 2026 07:00 AM (I2GmU)

93 If she'd gone for the idea, we could have bought a bigger house with room for two people.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 06:54 AM (wzUl9)

Wait. You didn't even tell her about the house!

Uh oh....

Better consider buying that ring. Is there plenty of things there that she likes to do in NOLA?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026 07:00 AM (1Ff7Z)

94 Plus I think it's absolutely contrary to any faith to suggest that someone should hate their whiteness We are all sinners in need of God's grace but one's race is not a sin.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 07:02 AM (looXz)

95 "But I don't relish the idea of handling a truck for two days with my car trailered behind."

My wife found a contract job in Toronto during the 2008 economy. When I moved her back down to Texas in 2009, we drove through Niagara Falls on the way.

We wanted to park the car with the piles of crap in it to go look at the falls, but decided not to since there was possibility that some asshole would punch out a window to steal the stuff they could see.

If you can afford someone else moving most of your stuff, I'd go for that if you can't do the drive in one go yourself. YMMV; it wasn't a guarantee that someone would have broken into our car to steal shit, but...you know.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 29, 2026 07:02 AM (Z2wiW)

96 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 29, 2026 07:03 AM (bfy6w)

97 I've commented on his idiotic message about the disease of whiteness over at Insty.
Posted by: Richard Cranium

I watched some video of him yesterday and I detected some up talking. Finishing his sentences with an upward inflection. Like a valley girl.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 29, 2026 07:03 AM (l26NL)

98 Do you hate two factor authentication? I hate two factor authentication. It's quickly becoming pointless:

"The FBI is warning that a new hacking platform is allowing cybercriminals to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts — including Outlook, Teams and OneDrive — while bypassing multi-factor authentication entirely."

The scheme exploits Microsoft’s legitimate OAuth 2.0 “device code” authentication system — a feature commonly used to log into smart TVs, streaming devices and other hardware with limited keyboards.

Rather than stealing passwords directly, attackers trick victims into entering a code on a real Microsoft login page, unknowingly authorizing the hacker’s device

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 07:04 AM (vFG9F)

99 Thanks, Fen. Just curious.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 29, 2026 07:04 AM (l26NL)

100 > Plus I think it's absolutely contrary to any faith to suggest that someone should hate their whiteness ....

Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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he doesn't believe that
he is just virtue-signaling to the Left

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2026 07:05 AM (ZxPkt)

101 I watched some video of him yesterday and I detected some up talking.

Ugh. That and vocal fry are enough to make me stop paying attention to the speaker. And then start mocking them.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 07:07 AM (+4yJ5)

102 I see on the news around here quite often people having their U-Haul trucks broken into and even stolen while parked in hotel parking lots overnight. I would sleep in the truck.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 07:07 AM (vFG9F)

103 And then Microsquat wants me to put an app on my phone to authenticate? No thanks, I'll stay non-authentic.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 07:09 AM (vFG9F)

104 The KLF - America: What Time Is Love

Meh. No Tammy Wynette in that video.

Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 29, 2026 07:10 AM (bfy6w)

105 The woman who is black writes some interesting things on race and the Bible. She is not a progressive. From " Christian Post":

https://tinyurl.com/33nzyw77

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 07:10 AM (7RYym)

106 Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 29, 2026 07:04 AM (l26NL

Thanks for asking.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 07:12 AM (7RYym)

107 Speaking if Niagara Falls, I am happy to report that SC handicap placards are honored on the Canadian side.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 29, 2026 07:12 AM (qFwJc)

108 Rocket science is hard, yo.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at May 29, 2026 07:15 AM (tUVBO)

109 It has been hilarious to watch Talarico dismantled over the last 72 hours. I realize that this entire myth that he was “moderate” and “electable” was mainly pushed by Cornyn and his establishment allies. As soon as people started seriously looking at Talarico, they said “wtf???”

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 07:17 AM (QDJ2U)

110 My friend's U-Haul was stolen out of a hotel parking lot. Their belongings were never recovered.

Posted by: Quirky bookworm at May 29, 2026 07:17 AM (JFaIe)

111 Regarding anthropic and their IPO. Why the statement as to it crashing?
Just curious as I have done a 1 year subscription and have been using Claude and like it.

Posted by: Seth at May 29, 2026 07:18 AM (eZUFV)

112 My friend's U-Haul was stolen out of a hotel parking lot. Their belongings were never recovered.
Posted by: Quirky bookworm at May 29, 2026

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* Double-scratches renting a truck off my list *

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 07:18 AM (wzUl9)

113 Brother Tim, do you have the same email address that you had a couple of years ago? If not, would you send me some new contact information. Thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 29, 2026 07:18 AM (5P5DO)

114 I don't much care for this Walmart bacon I bought the other day. It seems a bit . . . chewy, even though I'm cooking it as I always do. Maybe I'll buy Jimmy Dean next time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 07:20 AM (wzUl9)

115 @48/Pixy: "They're aware of this an that's why they're slow-walking expansion. The reason there are only three big memory manufacturers is all the rest suffered fatal "uh oh" moments in previous bubbles."

I'm aware, but that's not the "uh oh" moment I'm referring to.

Here's how I see it having gone so far:

1. Situation normal, memory manufacturers making memory for consumer market and some for data centers.
2. Data center demand spikes massively due to AI bubble.
3. Memory manufacturers see huge profitability in pivoting to the new demand and rationing to the consumer market, so of course they do this.
4. Consumer market prices spike, and supply very much restricted.
5. OEMs and all manufacturers that rely on memory now having difficulty producing their own products to meet their consumers' demand.
6. More and more companies in (5) go out of business over time as they can't meet their customers' demands, and thus can't remain profitable.
7. Data center bubble finally pops. Demand from that sector craters.
8. Memory manufacturers pivot back to consumer market.
9. A lot of the consumer-market customers are just GONE.
10. Who do we sell to now? "Uh oh."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 07:20 AM (O7YUW)

116 And I see AI being used for good. Ellen Page being recast in 300, Dirty Dancing and Roadhouse. Hilarity ensues. Especially with Dylan Mulvaney as the female lead.

Mind you, I pity her for what she went through. The way she described what lead to her getting her surgery sounds a lot like demons whispering in her ear.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 07:21 AM (+4yJ5)

117 Better consider buying that ring. Is there plenty of things there that she likes to do in NOLA?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026

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Yes. All of them outdoors in heat that would stun a Cape buffalo.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 07:21 AM (wzUl9)

118 109 It has been hilarious to watch Talarico dismantled over the last 72 hours. I realize that this entire myth that he was “moderate” and “electable” was mainly pushed by Cornyn and his establishment allies. As soon as people started seriously looking at Talarico, they said “wtf???”
Posted by: Tom Servo

Pretty much. He's a progressive bumper sticker with feet. I keep thinking he's just an AI avatar.

Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 29, 2026 07:23 AM (bfy6w)

119 Yes. All of them outdoors in heat that would stun a Cape buffalo.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 07:21 AM (wzUl9)

Oops. Meant in Terre Haute. Is there a U nearby for lectures and stuff like what you two attended recently? Plenty of antique shops and art galleries and the like?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026 07:24 AM (1Ff7Z)

120 97 I watched some video of him yesterday and I detected some up talking. Finishing his sentences with an upward inflection. Like a valley girl.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 29, 2026 07:03 AM (l26NL)

I watched some video of him yesterday? and I detected some up talking? Finishing his sentences with an upward inflection? Like a valley girl?

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 07:25 AM (6wpGE)

121 While people are asking google web browser stupid shit like how many p’s in the word google, I’m seeing how many lines of production code I can squeeze out of it for free before it bombs out.

The number so far is 550 lines of code.

550 free lines of code is pretty damn amazing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 07:25 AM (XV/Pl)

122 If I play computer games, I guess they'll have to be simple ones, like Rogue in the text version.

" You will own nothing and be happy!"

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 29, 2026 07:26 AM (eovtb)

123 Talarico has a cell awaiting him in his future.

He is a chomo. Only a matter of time.

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at May 29, 2026 07:26 AM (IqKsT)

124 109 It has been hilarious to watch Talarico dismantled over the last 72 hours. I realize that this entire myth that he was “moderate” and “electable” was mainly pushed by Cornyn and his establishment allies. As soon as people started seriously looking at Talarico, they said “wtf???”
Posted by: Tom Servo

-------

It'll be a hoot to watch the Sunday news shows try to give him a reboot and rehab

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 29, 2026 07:31 AM (eovtb)

125 Oops. Meant in Terre Haute. Is there a U nearby for lectures and stuff like what you two attended recently? Plenty of antique shops and art galleries and the like?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026

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Yes, there is at least one branch of the Indiana state university system there. I don't know yet about antique shops, thrift stores, and galleries. But it's a town of 60K people, not 6K; it's got to have some of those.

Our usual thing on Friday nights is to have a Walmart or Aldi pizza, but she's said she's tired of that. I may order a couple of calzones from the nearby Italian place that recently had somebody drive through the front wall. They're open for carry-out, it's a short drive, and I want to keep them in business. After dinner, well, I'll show her the house pics, and try to discuss all this. I think she believed I was never gonna do it after being retired for a year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 07:31 AM (wzUl9)

126 Is Miss Linda a NO native?

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 07:33 AM (vFG9F)

127 Finishing his sentences with an upward inflection? Like a valley girl?
Posted by: m

If someone does that to me, I'll say "Are you asking a question or making a statement?" Stops them as if I was using Task Manager to kill a bad process.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2026 07:33 AM (+4yJ5)

128 “ I will sing to the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.”

Psalm 104:33

Posted by: Marcus T at May 29, 2026 07:33 AM (Qgg5f)

129 @107/no one of any consequense: "Speaking if Niagara Falls, I am happy to report that SC handicap placards are honored on the Canadian side."

This is due to the reciprocity agreement that the 50 States motor vehicle departments have with the Canadian provinces ministries of transportation. This allows Canadians and Americans to drive in each other's territories keeping their home-territory license plates on while visiting, insurance to be recognized as valid cross-border, and for any tickets gotten in another territory to be enforceable back in your own home state.

Good luck renewing your plates or driver's license if you have unpaid tickets in another territory, though.

Anyway, yes, the Handicap placard you have from your state would definitely be considered valid up here in Ontario Canada unless it was marked with an expiry date and you were beyond that date. Then they might make an issue of it, but probably not, unless it was more than 3 to 6 months out of date. At that point, you're no longer considered a "visitor" but a resident, and should have local provincial plates and a province-issued handicapped placard. They want their revenue, after all.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 07:34 AM (O7YUW)

130 Is Miss Linda a NO native?
Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026

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No, upstate NY. Though she might as well be a Swamp native; she came here for college and has hardly ever left.

I'm the native, or close to it, and I clearly see the time to flee came long ago.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 07:36 AM (wzUl9)

131 Is Miss Linda a NO native?
Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 07:33 AM (vFG9F)

Never thought about it, but is she working, Wolfus, or retired as well?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026 07:36 AM (1Ff7Z)

132 It'll be a hoot to watch the Sunday news shows try to give him a reboot and rehab
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 29, 2026 07:31 AM (eovtb)

His entire persona is based on a mockery and a hatred for traditional Christianity.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 07:36 AM (QDJ2U)

133
JJS

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 29, 2026 07:37 AM (/+uur)

134 Anybody know if IN requires a front license plate? CO did. I had to have a mounting bracket put on the front bumper of my Olds when I moved.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 07:38 AM (wzUl9)

135 As soon as people started seriously looking at Talarico, they said “wtf???”
Posted by: Tom Servo

I don't know how this works and am too tired to look it up right now, but is there someway Talarico could withdraw as the candidate and the Democrats actually substitute slightly someone more moderate ?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 07:38 AM (7RYym)

136 Good morning morons

Is Tehran burning?

If not, why not?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

137
Never thought about it, but is she working, Wolfus, or retired as well?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2026

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She never has really worked either. She taught English in S. Korea (!) for a brief time in '99, but nothing else I know of. Nor, annoyingly, does she drive.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2026 07:39 AM (wzUl9)

138 >>>I don't much care for this Walmart bacon I bought the other day. It seems a bit . . . chewy, even though I'm cooking it as I always do. Maybe I'll buy Jimmy Dean next time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

>Thick bacon is not always very good. You either burn it or the texture is off. I'll have the hamsteak.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 29, 2026 07:41 AM (D1E+2)

139 So what I asked google to do was create a name parser in c++.

The parser we developed takes a name string and parses it into it's component's and stores them in a JSON.

So if you enter Mr. Hector Camacho De La Luz Jr.

It will parse it as:

Salutation: Mr.
First: Hector
Middle: Camacho
Last: De La Luz
Suffix: Jr.

It timestamps the entries and has an edited date field for when the entry gets edited.

You can perform operations like, sort, edit, delete, search, export to CSV, batch import a csv.

It has logic to detect duplicates and you get the point.

You can take that code and put it in your bank of helper functions for pretty much any project you're working on.

The point is, that's pretty f***ing amazing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 07:41 AM (XV/Pl)

140 "No, upstate NY"

Well then she wouldn't be surprised by the snow.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2026 07:44 AM (vFG9F)

141 You can take that code and put it in your bank of helper functions for pretty much any project you're working on.

Or you could use one of many libraries that provide such a thing that has been out in wild and fully debugged against edge cases you haven't dreamed of.

That assumes the bot in question didn't just steal that code and pass it off as something it came up with on its own.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 29, 2026 07:58 AM (Z2wiW)

142
‘George Floyd Square’ To Remember Him With Gift Shop

May I suggest they sell-

The George Floyd Memorial "I Can't Breathe" Brand Covid Face-Mask.

Fiiiiiiine, I denounce myself.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 09:18 AM (iJfKG)

143 @141

>>That assumes the bot in question didn't just steal that code and pass it off as something it came up with on its own.

You think an AI bot is sentient?

Interesting.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 09:27 AM (XV/Pl)

Thursday Overnight Open Thread - May 28, 2026 [Doof]

Sunrise in Sydney Australia - From Kaz

Howdy Hordelings! So -- nowhere else you'd rather be than the Thursday night ONT, eh? Then let's go to it! Content provided for those who care. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Got an unquenchable thirst? How about some, (checks notes), FEET JUICE?!?

Cosplay Models Shock Internet by Selling “Feet Juice” at California Anime Festival

Anime conventions can get pretty wild, but when’s the last time you attended an event where cosplay models were selling actual “foot juice”, as in fruit juice from plastic buckets in which they had dipped their feet? Despite the product’s unconventional nature, the $10-15 price tag wasn’t enough to deter potential clients, and according to multiple reports, the foot juice sold out in less than an hour.
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Photos and videos from Parkon 2026 show young girls in cosplay holding up signs with foot juice offers while having their naked feet dipped in juice, and some even offering to let customers drink the juice dripping directly from their wet feet.

Yup - it's real. Go ahead and check out the video at the link.

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Haven't linked to STREET ART UTOPIA in a while. Seems like as good a night as any!

Underpasses That Became Secret Art Worlds (12 Photos)

Check out the other 11 at the link.

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Dad jokes from the deer blind!

These guys are funny.
Deer Blind Dad Jokes. pic.twitter.com/Pg4D90II1K
— ꧁Bobbi꧂ (@SaltyBitch_52) May 27, 2026

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The model for the sign has finally been found!

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Highway sign programmer has some fun

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DJ Doof - This Date In Music History Edition
from thisdayinmusic.com

On this date in 1977: Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers played together for the first time in Paris, as part of the band Strontium 90 (with Mike Howlett). The three musicians would go on to form The Police that summer.

On this date in 1996: Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan was rushed to Cedars Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles after an apparent drug overdose. The singer was later arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin.

On this date in 1983: The four day US Festival '83' took place in California, featuring The Clash, U2, David Bowie, The Pretenders, Van Halen, Stray Cats, Men At Work, Judas Priest, Stevie Nicks, Willie Nelson. INXS, Joe Walsh, Motley Crue and Ozzy Osbourne. Over 750,000 fans attended the festival.

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Tonight's ONT brought to you by anesthesia

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Doof Enterprises, LLC hopes you appreciate the effort that went into tonight's ONT. It might not have been a lot, but can you give an A for, eff... - ah, nevermind.

Your feedback may or may not be very important to Doof Enterprises. Follow Mr. Doof on X @doof2112 or do the email thing – doof2112 at proton dot me.

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Comments

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1 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 28, 2026 10:00 PM (440br)

2 Kinda wish I was first tonight.
Thanks for the ONT!

Posted by: 496 at May 28, 2026 10:00 PM (sOtuf)

3 1st?

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 28, 2026 10:00 PM (6lIrI)

4 1st

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 28, 2026 10:01 PM (6lIrI)

5 Evening

Posted by: javems at May 28, 2026 10:01 PM (zFsEm)

6 Nice job, Tonypete! Howdy, Horde.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 28, 2026 10:01 PM (6lIrI)

7 Perhaps the Operation guy was a true Redhead and had a very high tolerance for anesthesia.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 28, 2026 10:02 PM (440br)

8 Be pretty damn funny if all the weirdos drinking feet juice got trench mouth....

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 28, 2026 10:03 PM (6lIrI)

9 I done dumber things that Feet Juice but that's not important right now.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 28, 2026 10:03 PM (440br)

10 Funny. It took three "reloads" to get the complete post.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:03 PM (1Ff7Z)

11 Huh, you all figured out how to get to the post, too? (Because the "Comments" link has the wrong post in it.)

Posted by: GWB at May 28, 2026 10:03 PM (kU0PQ)

12 Operation Game -
Always thought it was an introduction to vivisection.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 10:04 PM (/lPRQ)

13 Happy-ish Thursday Evening to all...

Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Thursday . . . at May 28, 2026 10:04 PM (3ZUWJ)

14 Evenin’, All. Happy Friday Eve.

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 10:04 PM (77rzZ)

15 Somehow it's not surprising that the feet juice girl is Asian.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 10:04 PM (Riz8t)

16 I do not get foot fetish. Not at all. I just do not Grok it.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 10:05 PM (zZu0s)

17 Oh - spending a few days in southern Ahia. I had forgotten there is a vast difference between Meigs and Athens Counties' hillbillies and Eastern TN good ole' boys.

Wow.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 28, 2026 10:05 PM (440br)

18 Feet Juice.

Very weird.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 10:05 PM (u82oZ)

19 Evenin', Horde.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 28, 2026 10:05 PM (Wnv9h)

20 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 28, 2026 10:05 PM (bfy6w)

21 This just came up in my YT feed. It's only two hours old.

https://youtu.be/pQn1B5eLATs

It is James Tabor talking about David Koresh in Israel.

I had not realized there was any relationship between these two individuals but each is referenced in the other's wikipedia page.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 28, 2026 10:05 PM (AGz65)

22 Be pretty damn funny if all the weirdos drinking feet juice got trench mouth....
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher

Except that they'll all turn up at the ER and we shall pay for their stupidity ...

Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Thursday . . . at May 28, 2026 10:06 PM (3ZUWJ)

23 foot juice and then the goatse underpass.
slaanesh has visited xer spirit upon this place

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 10:06 PM (gKWVE)

24 Funny. It took three "reloads" to get the complete post.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:03 PM (1Ff7Z)

New feature I implemented. Was it intentional or was it a coding error? Y'all can figure that out!

Posted by: Doof at May 28, 2026 10:06 PM (QMAsf)

25 The deer blind jokes were humorous!

Thanks for the ONT, Doof!

Posted by: LRob in OK at May 28, 2026 10:06 PM (Jr+re)

26 18 Feet Juice.

Very weird.

Posted by: NaCly Dog

Isn't that just called wine?

Posted by: Kratwurst at May 28, 2026 10:07 PM (9gKa/)

27 Somehow it's not surprising that the feet juice girl is Asian.

Although I suppose sock-ay would be more culturally appropriate.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 10:07 PM (Riz8t)

28 Gads, that bbq guy. Why would anyone let themselves be seen like that?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)

29 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 28, 2026 10:07 PM (+9wcF)

30 I mean, nah... nope. Bony feet? Elegant feet?

I'm glad I like boobs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 10:07 PM (zZu0s)

31 Cool tunnel art pics. Very well done. I'm convinced that good artists just see the world differently than I do.

Posted by: 496 at May 28, 2026 10:07 PM (sOtuf)

32 But then again, people actually paid to drink foot juice.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)

33 Feet on young, nubile women can be cute, but are never a primary source of attraction.

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 10:08 PM (77rzZ)

34 Well, that BBQ picture is not art.
The blue sign says "No dogs."

Posted by: GWB at May 28, 2026 10:08 PM (kU0PQ)

35 There's just something hilariously charming about three bearded, tattooed, rough-and-tumble guys giggling like little girls over their dumb-ass jokes. I love it, Doof!

Posted by: tankascribe at May 28, 2026 10:08 PM (NtoJk)

36 LRob in OK

I would tell those jokes to 1st and 2nd graders. Not to my bros with deer rifles close to me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 10:08 PM (u82oZ)

37 Hello! At my dad’s. I got to use the good towels. Weird!

Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 10:08 PM (6aCYf)

38 I thought I read that it was that Gingers have a low pain tolerance. They need more anesthesia as a result? I suppose that’s another way to put it.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 10:08 PM (gzzK/)

39 Although I suppose sock-ay would be more culturally appropriate.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 10:07 PM (Riz8t)
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Nailed it

Posted by: 496 at May 28, 2026 10:08 PM (sOtuf)

40 foot juice and then the goatse underpass.
slaanesh has visited xer spirit upon this place
Posted by: gKWVE

A) Just feet? Wasn't there an e-thot selling her bathwater?

2) Actual goat*e might have been less disturbing than the toddlers-reading-the-fag-book mural.

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2026 10:09 PM (VHUov)

41 Hi Horde! Thanks for the ONT!

Spencer Pratt is on Gutfeld!

Posted by: Iris at May 28, 2026 10:09 PM (bOJ2I)

42 Feet juice? Honestly? It better not have toe nails😳...
Good f'n grief....

DOOF!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 28, 2026 10:10 PM (uTEOj)

43 Pratt is one of the panelists on Gutfeld.

Hope Bass shows up one day. Good night.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 28, 2026 10:10 PM (Sco7b)

44 Kratwurst

Wine is made with Millipore filters and probably reverse osmosis membranes these days. Not interested in culinary practices of the stone age.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 10:10 PM (u82oZ)

45 I love dad jokes.

My dad and grandpa were the kings of dad jokes.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 10:10 PM (0aYVJ)

46 New feature I implemented. Was it intentional or was it a coding error? Y'all can figure that out!
Posted by: Doof at May 28, 2026 10:06 PM (QMAsf)

I guess it depends whether you posted it, or you hand the ONT off to one of the major CoBs to post it for you.

I don't know, because I've never been asked to do a post.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:10 PM (1Ff7Z)

47 I would tell those jokes to 1st and 2nd graders.

That's why they fit in so well in the ONT, Salty!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at May 28, 2026 10:10 PM (Jr+re)

48 Gads, that bbq guy. Why would anyone let themselves be seen like that?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)

*side eyes*

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 28, 2026 10:11 PM (wVcYX)

49 ...and that's how humanity discovered that fruit juice cures athlete's foot.

Posted by: Splunge at May 28, 2026 10:11 PM (JpUeg)

50 Thanks for the dandy Thursday Night ONT, Doof!

Those deer blind dad jokes were a hoot! Those three guys were making too much noise to be actually hunting, but at least they had a good time!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 28, 2026 10:11 PM (D/6p1)

51 We all know President Trump released a book call "The Art of the Deal." I hear Hunter Biden is working on his book, "The Art of the Steal: Making Money Off Dad When He's Powerful."

It should do well with the families of Democrat and RINO politicians, and perhaps others.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 10:11 PM (qx7Zg)

52 {{{COMountainMarie}}}

Good evening, sunshine.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 10:11 PM (u82oZ)

53 37 Piper, make sure you steal ‘em.

You’re his little girl, so you can get away with it.

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 10:11 PM (77rzZ)

54 Geoff Lindsey, never been exposed to such a thing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 10:12 PM (y79kU)

55 arr

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 10:13 PM (y79kU)

56 Hello! At my dad’s. I got to use the good towels. Weird!
Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 10:08 PM (6aCYf)

You bringing carry-out from Jimmy's up here tomorrow??

Posted by: Doof at May 28, 2026 10:13 PM (QMAsf)

57 Do the girls pee in the Feet Juice? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 10:14 PM (oq9dX)

58 17 Oh - spending a few days in southern Ahia. I had forgotten there is a vast difference between Meigs and Athens Counties' hillbillies and Eastern TN good ole' boys.

Wow.
Posted by: Tonypete

More Bengals fans in Meigs and Athens Counties?

Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 28, 2026 10:14 PM (bfy6w)

59 There was this scam device that was supposed to purify/clean your body through electricity. You would put your feet in a tank of water, add some chemicals, put some electrodes in the tank, switch on the voltage, and the water would turn red like that. I wonder if that’s what she used?

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 10:14 PM (NfIzX)

60 The alien painted on the overpass at the link was pretty cool. And freaky. He's coming right for me!

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 28, 2026 10:14 PM (ftFVW)

61

You bringing carry-out from Jimmy's up here tomorrow??
Posted by: Doof at May 28, 2026 10:13 PM (QMAsf

I should! We have to convince my brother.

Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 10:15 PM (6aCYf)

62 Do the girls pee in the Feet Juice? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 10:14 PM (oq9dX)

That'd be $20. Same as downtown.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:15 PM (1Ff7Z)

63 Why did the archaeologists steal King Tut’s underwear?

Because it was loot of the tomb.

Posted by: King of Dad Jokes at May 28, 2026 10:16 PM (77rzZ)

64 Dear lord, that guy grilling is a walking heart attack

Posted by: browndog says woof at May 28, 2026 10:16 PM (3sXRv)

65 My car is powered by foot juice... because the dinosaurs are barely fermented.

Posted by: Fred Flintsone at May 28, 2026 10:16 PM (rgnea)

66 You bringing carry-out from Jimmy's up here tomorrow??
Posted by: Doof at May 28, 2026 10:13 PM (QMAsf

I should! We have to convince my brother.
Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 10:15 PM (6aCYf)

Meet me on the golf course - 1:09 tee time!

Posted by: Doof at May 28, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)

67 Booty Sweat > Feet Juice

Posted by: Alpa Cino at May 28, 2026 10:16 PM (Q+gd/)

68 Blue Origin
more like 'blew Origin' amirite

https://x.com/Breaking911/status/
2060165698211475916

Posted by: Don Black at May 28, 2026 10:17 PM (ZxPkt)

69 The alien painted on the overpass at the link was pretty cool. And freaky. He's coming right for me!
Posted by: She Hobbit at May 28, 2026 10:14 PM (ftFVW)

Wow, look who's slumming it in the ONT tonight!

Posted by: Doof at May 28, 2026 10:17 PM (QMAsf)

70 Sorry I'm late, my feet juice was past its expiration date.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 28, 2026 10:17 PM (n7lb4)

71 I thought I read that it was that Gingers have a low pain tolerance. They need more anesthesia as a result? I suppose that’s another way to put it.
Posted by: Common Tater

Higher pain tolerance. More anesthesia needed than usual. But less opioids needed than usual.

https://is.gd/h6Y68Q (nih.gov)

And the last time this was brought up, I thought it was also "stronger pleasure response," but the nih.gov link isn't going there. Prudes.

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2026 10:17 PM (VHUov)

72 Feet juice? Honestly? It better not have toe nails😳...
Good f'n grief....

DOOF!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 28, 2026 10:10 PM (uTEOj)

Howdy COMM!

Feet juice is about as ONT as it gets!

Posted by: Doof at May 28, 2026 10:18 PM (QMAsf)

73 I had a friend who was truly grossed out by feet. They'd almost make him wretch. While I don't get the foot fetish thing, they don't gross me out either.

All that being said, the concept of foot juice is absolutely disgusting and really does gross me out. I feel physically repulsed.

Posted by: 496 at May 28, 2026 10:18 PM (sOtuf)

74 this is better

https://tinyurl.com/2t9arv9e

Posted by: Don Black at May 28, 2026 10:18 PM (ZxPkt)

75 >> more like 'blew Origin' amirite

Just saw that and was about to post. Static test fire at LC-34 at the cape. Big boom indeed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 10:18 PM (w6EFb)

76 30 I mean, nah... nope. Bony feet? Elegant feet?

I'm glad I like boobs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 10:07 PM (zZu0s)

---------

Which, of course, supply their own juice

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 28, 2026 10:18 PM (6lIrI)

77 Ss that the famous Sydney Opera House in the top pic?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 10:18 PM (wzUl9)

78 feet juice >> beet juice

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 10:18 PM (NfIzX)

79 I admire the grill master's efforts to drag all of the shit down to the beach. Who brought the buns and condiments?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 28, 2026 10:18 PM (D1E+2)

80 Do the girls pee in the Feet Juice?
Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 10:14 PM (oq9dX)

Silently.

Posted by: Pterodactyl at May 28, 2026 10:19 PM (Q+gd/)

81 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 28, 2026 10:19 PM (SRRAx)

82 What does an astronaut put on his sandwich?

Launch meat.

Posted by: 496 at May 28, 2026 10:19 PM (sOtuf)

83 Feet juice? Do not see the appeal.

Love the traffic sign "bring chips" to go with Dip. Merica!

Posted by: Iris at May 28, 2026 10:19 PM (bOJ2I)

84 Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank

Why did Mozart sell all his chickens?

They kept going Bach! Bach! Bach!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 10:19 PM (u82oZ)

85 Evenin', Horde.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 28, 2026 10:05 PM (Wnv9h)

Howdy brother! Hope to see you in NoVa in a few weeks.

Posted by: Doof at May 28, 2026 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

86 >>>Go ahead and check out the video at the link.

Yes, I'll be clicking on that link at exactly half past never.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 28, 2026 10:20 PM (syz1S)

87 Wow, look who's slumming it in the ONT tonight!
Posted by: Doof

Hahaha, don't gotta work tomorrow is all.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 28, 2026 10:20 PM (ftFVW)

88 Something tells me that the "pregnant" man is going to eat all 7 of those hamburgers.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 28, 2026 10:20 PM (0Htd1)

89
LC-36, not 34. 34 was the site of the Apollo 1 fire, and was last used for Apollo 7. It's a basically a monument now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 10:20 PM (w6EFb)

90 The murals were interesting, but as usual, some pervert stuff has to be shoved in our faces.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:20 PM (1Ff7Z)

91 Bulg, I agree, FWIW. Plenty of other things that get me going, but feet are merely cute or plain or ugly. Apparently it's a huge subculture, or culture of subs, thing tho? *shrug* takes all kinds I guess, and they're not hurtin' anyone. Unless they're payin' fer it.

For those breathlessly waiting (and for those who read others' comments regardless), today's interview went... okay? But I won't hear back until sometime next week. Of course. Sigh. I keep a-trudgin' along.

Posted by: RandomDave at May 28, 2026 10:21 PM (aJQbY)

92 Although I suppose sock-ay would be more culturally appropriate.
Posted by: Archimedes

Did it have tabi bilingual foot puns?

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2026 10:21 PM (VHUov)

93 52 {{{Salty}}!

Smiles every time love💕

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 28, 2026 10:21 PM (uTEOj)

94 I find the female foot to be an elegantly curved and amazingly flexible natural sculpture. The idea of "juice" is . . . disturbing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 10:21 PM (wzUl9)

95 https://x.com/Breaking911/status/
2060165698211475916

yep, yep, yep. Done Blowed up, real good ...

.
.
.
I hope like heck no one was hurt.

Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Thursday . . . at May 28, 2026 10:21 PM (3ZUWJ)

96 Howdy, horde.

Thanks for ONT, Doof!

My "little" bro is shaped just like BBQ guy. Sad.

Posted by: JQ at May 28, 2026 10:22 PM (rdVOm)

97 It appears that I missed the Blue Origin launch.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 10:22 PM (/lPRQ)

98 Evenin’, All. Happy Friday Eve.
Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 10:04 PM (77rzZ)

How's the tutoring gig going? I'm not on much during the days lately so not sure if I missed an update.

Posted by: Doof at May 28, 2026 10:22 PM (QMAsf)

99 I posted this on an earlier thread, but didn’t stick around to see if anyone answered it.

What does the term “dew-sweeper” mean?

Posted by: King of Dad Jokes at May 28, 2026 10:22 PM (77rzZ)

100
82 What does an astronaut put on his sandwich?

Launch meat.
Posted by: 496 at May 28

What do you call a herd of sheep falling down a hill?

A lambslide.

Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 10:22 PM (6aCYf)

101 Remove wrenched ankle

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2026 10:23 PM (Cqx++)

102 In fact I may never look upon the word "juice" again without being disturbed.

Sorry, Miss Newton.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 10:24 PM (wzUl9)

103 Something tells me that the "pregnant" man is going to eat all 7 of those hamburgers.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Well, I was gonna have four double cheeseburgers, but I got hungry while I was grillin'.

Posted by: the "pregnant" man at May 28, 2026 10:24 PM (VHUov)

104
*lights cigar*
*tosses match towards ashtray*

Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 10:24 PM (HdYcL)

105 I drank concoctions out of coolers and garbage cans in college. Who TF knows what was in there besides koolaid and large amounts of alcohol. Could be girl feets. If you were lucky.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 10:24 PM (NfIzX)

106
Grilling guy is comfortable with his body.

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 10:24 PM (3ek7K)

107 It appears that I missed the Blue Origin launch.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Apparently so did they.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 28, 2026 10:24 PM (ftFVW)

108 28 Gads, that bbq guy. Why would anyone let themselves be seen like that?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)

Still not as embarassing a backyard grill picture as Chuck Shumer's.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 28, 2026 10:24 PM (n7lb4)

109 Itinerant Alley Butcher

We're lucky we missed the shrapnel. Quite exothermic.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 10:25 PM (u82oZ)

110 What do you do when a pharmacist knocks on your door?

Vitamin!

Posted by: 496 at May 28, 2026 10:26 PM (sOtuf)

111 81 TiFW

Hi honey❣️❣️!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 28, 2026 10:26 PM (uTEOj)

112
Well, the payload hadn't been installed, so they didn't lose that, but looks like a lot of damage to the pad.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 10:26 PM (w6EFb)

113 Still not as embarassing a backyard grill picture as Chuck Shumer's.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 28, 2026 10:24 PM (n7lb4)

But it's close.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:26 PM (1Ff7Z)

114 It appears that I missed the Blue Origin launch.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Apparently so did they.
Posted by: She Hobbit

===

Ahhh, test firing of the engines.
That is why we didn't hear about it.

Partial success.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 10:26 PM (/lPRQ)

115 Dad told my favorite joke of all time, to my Grandma (his MiL)

D: I have a knock-knock joke
G: okay
D: You start
G: Knock-knock
D: Who's there?
G:
G:
G: erupts in laughter

I know this one has been done before, and since, but Dad's delivery and Grandma's delightful laughter makes it a wonderful bit.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 10:26 PM (0aYVJ)

116 Rocket stuff be hard, yo~!

@Breaking911 1h
BREAKING: Blue Origin’s New Glenn exploded at Launch Complex 36 during a static fire test attempt.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 28, 2026 10:27 PM (diia5)

117
Nobody was hurt, thank goodness.

There's supposed to be safe distance protocols in place for all this just in case something like this happens.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 10:27 PM (w6EFb)

118 Why are all the pages in Hunter's book rolled up into tubes though?

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 10:27 PM (gKWVE)

119 Pug - knock-knock jokes are generally not too funny, but that one's pretty good. I may use that!

Posted by: 496 at May 28, 2026 10:28 PM (sOtuf)

120 Operation Game -
Always thought it was an introduction to vivisection.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Nickname checks out.

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2026 10:29 PM (VHUov)

121 98 Doof, I had my first gig as a solo tutor on Tuesday, but I was a nervous wreck, due to its being my first time, and puked when I got home. The tutoring session itself, however, went well.

I’ve got more gigs scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, which I think will go relatively well.

Posted by: King of Dad Jokes at May 28, 2026 10:29 PM (77rzZ)

122 Well, the payload hadn't been installed, so they didn't lose that, but looks like a lot of damage to the pad.

Posted by: publius

..and everything w/i a half mile.
Hope no gopher tortoises were injured.

Water tower looked like it went down too.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 10:29 PM (/lPRQ)

123
Looks like the explosion started in the second stage (just my eyeballing), and the explosion took out one of the lightning towers.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 10:29 PM (w6EFb)

124 Quasi-static

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 10:29 PM (NfIzX)

125 Something tells me that the "pregnant" man is going to eat all 7 of those hamburgers.
Posted by: nerdygirl
......

He's eating for three. The twins are due next month.

Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 10:29 PM (oq9dX)

126 The Operation dude got a Moe haircut. If he can handle that, he can handle being awake.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 28, 2026 10:29 PM (snZF9)

127

She's as Beautiful as a Foot

https://youtu.be/zHVCpeytQCw

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2026 10:29 PM (Cqx++)

128 Local news said that all personnel were accounted for. Nothing about injuries at the static test site.

I wonder if it will affect tomorrow's SpaceX launch from LC-40, and ULA's launch from SLC-41.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 10:30 PM (qx7Zg)

129
Well, the payload hadn't been installed, so they didn't lose that, but looks like a lot of damage to the pad.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 10:26 PM (w6EFb)

_____________

Responses to failures

NASA: blue-ribbon committees, thousands of PowerPoint presentations.

SoaceX: Build another and try again in a month.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 10:30 PM (HdYcL)

130 @Breaking911 1h
BREAKING: Blue Origin’s New Glenn exploded at Launch Complex 36 during a static fire test attempt.

But hey, let's investigate the Starship Booster mishap.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 10:30 PM (gKWVE)

131 Vitamin!
Posted by: 496 at May 28, 2026 10:26 PM (sOtuf)

What's the difference between a vitamin and a hormone?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:30 PM (1Ff7Z)

132 94 I find the female foot to be an elegantly curved and amazingly flexible natural sculpture. The idea of "juice" is . . . disturbing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Yikes!
Lemme show you MY feet...you seriously wouldn't say this🤕...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 28, 2026 10:31 PM (uTEOj)

133 Oops, off, sock:

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 10:31 PM (77rzZ)

134
Knock-knock
who's there?
Jesus
Jesus who?
Knock it off, Thomas! It's me, Jesus!

Posted by: Don Black at May 28, 2026 10:31 PM (ZxPkt)

135
What's the difference between a vitamin and a hormone?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:30 PM (1Ff7Z)

___________

The first is quieter?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 10:31 PM (HdYcL)

136 The Operation dude got a Moe haircut. If he can handle that, he can handle being awake.
Posted by: Berserker

I mean, look at what he's having extracted. You've gotta be a hardass to go in for a cardiectomy, awake or asleep.

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2026 10:32 PM (VHUov)

137 40 foot juice and then the goatse underpass.
slaanesh has visited xer spirit upon this place
Posted by: gKWVE

A) Just feet? Wasn't there an e-thot selling her bathwater?

2) Actual goat*e might have been less disturbing than the toddlers-reading-the-fag-book mural.
Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2026 10:09 PM (VHUov)

Dr. Squatch mens grooming brand sold a very limited edition soap that used Sydney Sweeney's bathwater as an ingredient, I think in 2024. (Well before her American Eagle jeans ads.)

Posted by: tankdemon at May 28, 2026 10:32 PM (n7lb4)

138 Just watched a 1949 film noir with Lloyd Bridges called Trapped. Only two things were odd or notable about it, though it was entertaining. During a chase scene in a paper mill late in the film, the movie appeared to be in color -- though the rest is certainly in B & W. (I admit I might have been half-dreaming while staring at the screen.)

The odd thing is the casting. Bridges does not play the hero, one of the Secret Service guys trying to stop some high-quality counterfeit plates from getting out. No, he's the crook who originally made them. And John Hoyt plays the central SS guy who eventually takes the ring down!

Hoyt, you'll remember, was a standby on TV in the '60s. He played the ship's doctor, Boyce, on the first Trek pilot; and he was in that ]i]Twilight Zone where a motley group is stuck at a diner, and one of them may be an actual alien from another planet. Turns out two of them are, and one is Hoyt -- as a Venusian.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 10:32 PM (wzUl9)

139 The first is quieter?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 10:31 PM (HdYcL)

You can't make a vitamin. Though, you probably can't make a hormone either....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:32 PM (1Ff7Z)

140 Doof, I had my first gig as a solo tutor on Tuesday, but I was a nervous wreck, due to its being my first time, and puked when I got home. The tutoring session itself, however, went well.

I’ve got more gigs scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, which I think will go relatively well.
Posted by: King of Dad Jokes at May 28, 2026 10:29 PM (77rzZ)

I had a side gig as a tutor when I was in college. Economics classes. Never puked afterwards. Interesting choice!

Posted by: Doof at May 28, 2026 10:32 PM (QMAsf)

141 What's the difference between a vitamin and a hormone?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:30 PM (1Ff7Z)
-------
Men can make vitamins?

Posted by: 496 at May 28, 2026 10:32 PM (sOtuf)

142
BBQ guy is Wimpie 2026.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 10:34 PM (n7rxJ)

143 I find the female foot to be an elegantly curved and amazingly flexible natural sculpture. The idea of "juice" is . . . disturbing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
Yikes!
Lemme show you MY feet...you seriously wouldn't say this🤕...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 28, 2026 [/o]

***
Well, Marie, I speak of feet like those of Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron among many others.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 10:34 PM (wzUl9)

144 Bulg, I suspect you might like some of the Boobs posts on this site

https://www.kimdutoit.com/

He also has a number of guns posts, stupid headlines, and other topics. He wrote the memorial to JimSND I linked to a while back.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 10:34 PM (qx7Zg)

145

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 10:34 PM (wzUl9)

146 Gads, that bbq guy. Why would anyone let themselves be seen like that?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)

You've never been to a Walmart in Alabama have you?

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026 10:34 PM (XMuV+)

147 You can't make a vitamin. Though, you probably can't make a hormone either....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026

***
"How do you make a hormone?"

"Refuse to pay her."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 10:35 PM (wzUl9)

148 During a chase scene in a paper mill late in the film, the movie appeared to be in color -- though the rest is certainly in B & W. (I admit I might have been half-dreaming while staring at the screen.)

Wolfus, I've seen that happen before, too. Don't know why some B&W just look like that.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:35 PM (1Ff7Z)

149 88 Something tells me that the "pregnant" man is going to eat all 7 of those hamburgers.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 28, 2026 10:20 PM (0Htd1)

That's just the first course.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 28, 2026 10:35 PM (n7lb4)

150 During my gall bladder removal I was happy to not hear any loud buzzing sounds.

Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 10:35 PM (oq9dX)

151 Those were great Dad jokes. I can't believe I've not ever heard any of them before.

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026 10:36 PM (XMuV+)

152 Would ser like ze after dinner mint?

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 10:36 PM (gKWVE)

153 My favorite knock knock joke was the one my daughter learned when she was young and would tell everyone

Knock knock
Who’s there?
Interrupting horse
Interrup…
(NEIGH!)

It was very cute

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 10:36 PM (NfIzX)

154 "In the warm afternoon sun of this bustling summer festival, we witness one of the more curious rituals of human behavior. Here, a young female of the species stands behind her modest stall, proudly offering her signature creation: foot juice.

With remarkable dedication, she squeezes and presses, extracting the precious liquid while a small but brave queue of festival-goers gathers before her. Some appear hesitant, others strangely intrigued by this exotic elixir.
Observe how she moves with practiced grace, her hands working tirelessly as she presents each cup with a bright, hopeful smile. One cannot help but marvel at the mysterious human impulse that draws people not merely to refreshment, but to this most unusual of beverages.
Truly, in all the varied wonders of the natural world, few sights are quite as delightfully peculiar as this young woman and her foot juice at the height of festival season."

Posted by: David Attenborough at May 28, 2026 10:36 PM (440br)

155 Gads, that bbq guy. Why would anyone let themselves be seen like that?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)

God gave us shirts for a reason.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 28, 2026 10:36 PM (0Htd1)

156 The Dad Jokes were a good mood-lifter, yep

Posted by: RandomDave at May 28, 2026 10:36 PM (aJQbY)

157 Gads, that bbq guy. Why would anyone let themselves be seen like that?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

You've never been to a Walmart ~~in Alabama~~ have you?
You've never been to ~~a Walmart in~~ Alabama have you?
Posted by: polynikes

FIFY, two choices.

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2026 10:36 PM (VHUov)

158 You've never been to a Walmart in Alabama have you?
Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026 10:34 PM (XMuV+)

There's plenty of spandex queens in my area.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:37 PM (1Ff7Z)

159 this vid of the explosion is much cooler

https://tinyurl.com/56d75hcu

Posted by: Don Black at May 28, 2026 10:37 PM (ZxPkt)

160 Fuck The Police!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at May 28, 2026 10:37 PM (TRCcP)

161 She's as Beautiful as a Foot

https://youtu.be/zHVCpeytQCw
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2026 10:29 PM (Cqx++)

Weird, wild stuff.

BOC is a wonder. I did not fully appreciate them when I was a lad. I love revisiting their catalogue.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 10:37 PM (0aYVJ)

162 ocal news said that all personnel were accounted for. Nothing about injuries at the static test site.

I wonder if it will affect tomorrow's SpaceX launch from LC-40, and ULA's launch from SLC-41.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Miles away. Should be no problems.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 10:38 PM (/lPRQ)

163 "How do you make a hormone?"
"Refuse to pay her."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

"Another f--king dick-and-dash."

Posted by: the moaning hoor at May 28, 2026 10:38 PM (VHUov)

164 Gads, that bbq guy. Why would anyone let themselves be seen like that?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)

With women I assume that that type of thing is attention seeking. That whole selling foot juice deal is attention seeking on the part of the gals.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 28, 2026 10:39 PM (0Htd1)

165 Gads, that bbq guy. Why would anyone let themselves be seen like that?
Posted by: OrangeEnt
*
You've never been to a Walmart ~~in Alabama~~ have you?
You've never been to ~~a Walmart in~~ Alabama have you?
Posted by: polynikes
*
FIFY, two choices.
Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2026

***
Or the West Bank of Noo Awlins. Or Pine Bluff, AR, which somehow is even worse.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 10:39 PM (wzUl9)

166 Robert the Cat (TM) update: Typical day. Spent most of it resting, while demanding pettings when I was trying to concentrate on stuff (this is normal). Almost out of the good snacks. Only a handful of swattings at me.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 28, 2026 10:39 PM (CHHv1)

167 He had a basketball appetizer.

Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 10:39 PM (oq9dX)

168 With women I assume that that type of thing is attention seeking. That whole selling foot juice deal is attention seeking on the part of the gals.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 28, 2026 10:39 PM (0Htd1)

Why would any woman want attention from weirdos who'd drink it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:41 PM (1Ff7Z)

169
Beckoning,

He didn't kill you. It was a good day, lol

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 10:41 PM (3ek7K)

170 157 Gads, that bbq guy. Why would anyone let themselves be seen like that?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

You've never been to a Walmart in Alabama have you?
You've never been to a Walmart in Alabama have you?
Posted by: polynikes

FIFY, two choices.
Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2026 10:36 PM (VHUov)

Wait a minute here!

Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 10:41 PM (HvKSW)

171 Knock knock
Who’s there?
Interrupting horse
Interrup…
(NEIGH!)

It was very cute
Posted by: banana Dream

Ah, the classics. Though I remember it with "interrupting cow."

Another childhood favorite:

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Little old lady.
Little old lady who?
I didn't know you could yodel!

Posted by: grade-school mikeski at May 28, 2026 10:41 PM (VHUov)

172 'Pregnant guy'

If I EVER get to lookin' like this, shoot me now🥺....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 28, 2026 10:41 PM (uTEOj)

173 Big black Stirling cat slept with me this afternoon. Little Dagny ignored me. But! I scooped her up this morning and again this evening and popped her onto a pillow on my lap. Both times she stayed for quite a while enjoying the petting. Maybe she'll evolve into an occasional lap cat someday.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 10:42 PM (wzUl9)

174 96 Howdy, horde.
Thanks for ONT, Doof!
My "little" bro is shaped just like BBQ guy. Sad.
Posted by: JQ

My younger sister is obese. I think they just reach a point where they give up to the lure of food.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 28, 2026 10:44 PM (0Htd1)

175 Something tells me that the "pregnant" man is going to eat all 7 of those hamburgers.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Yup, an appetizer. Cost a lot of money to make a gut like that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 28, 2026 10:44 PM (snZF9)

176 'Pregnant guy'

If I EVER get to lookin' like this, shoot me now🥺....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 28, 2026 10:41 PM (uTEOj)

Got it. Don't stick a beach ball under your shirt.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 10:45 PM (qx7Zg)

177 -Knock knock
-Who's there?
-Control freak - now you say control freak who

Posted by: 496 at May 28, 2026 10:45 PM (sOtuf)

178
The 2nd stage of the New Glenn is LOX/LH2. And that was fully stacked and loaded (to properly test everything in a launch config).

First stage is LOX/LCH4, "mee-thane" as the Brit fan bois at NSF call it.

It looks to me like the 2nd stage is where the explosion started.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 10:45 PM (w6EFb)

179
My two sisters are obese.

It's sad to see.

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 10:46 PM (3ek7K)

180 I don’t get foot fetishes. Now, mind you, I’ve got about the ugliest feet on earth. And my wife’s feet are cute. But still, she did not reject me because of my feet, nor did I choose her because of hers.

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 10:46 PM (77rzZ)

181
Bulg, she must like your boobs.

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 10:47 PM (3ek7K)

182 Big Bada Boom!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 10:48 PM (QDJ2U)

183 'Bout time I shuffled off to the land of Nod. (Why and how did "sleep" get that descriptor?) Busy day tomorrow; a workout for sure, and if it isn't slated to rain I'll go wash the car, and then lots of phone calls to make.

Play nice, all, and if you can't do that, don't get caught!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 10:48 PM (wzUl9)

184 "THIS... is an EX... ROCKET!!!"

Posted by: Piercello at May 28, 2026 10:48 PM (Ht/sz)

185 I've never tried to turn toe jam into toe juice.

Bartender, I'll have a bloody bunion. Spice it up with some gout.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 28, 2026 10:48 PM (D1E+2)

186 When I see a truly obese person I can't help but think about the undercarriage. The human skeleton was just not made to carry that kind of tonnage. I imagine there's a good deal of physical pain with being hundreds of pounds overweight.

Posted by: 496 at May 28, 2026 10:49 PM (sOtuf)

187 Hi. I'm not exactly late. I just can't think of anything worth saying. I had one joking remark, but, of course, some other Moron already used it.

Based on a joke above, I did come up with this:

When He returns, with a resurrected sense of humor:

Jesus: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock-knock…"

I'll just sit over here in the corner now.

Posted by: mindful webworker - open up it's cold out here at May 28, 2026 10:49 PM (kU8xu)

188 I don’t get foot fetishes. Now, mind you, I’ve got about the ugliest feet on earth. And my wife’s feet are cute. But still, she did not reject me because of my feet, nor did I choose her because of hers.
Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026

***
I'm merely a foot appreciator. Lovely elegant curves, all sculpted by nature.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 10:50 PM (wzUl9)

189 My younger sister is obese. I think they just reach a point where they give up to the lure of food.
Posted by: nerdygirl

It's also due to sedentary lifestyle. Bro is a trucker. Sits & drives all day, eats junk fast food & hi-calorie truckstop crap, then drinks heavily on days off.

Got the sinking feeling I'll outlive him, even tho 10 years older...

Posted by: JQ at May 28, 2026 10:51 PM (rdVOm)

190 Goodnight, everyone!

Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 10:51 PM (HvKSW)

191 181 LOL.

C”mom, Sydney, bring it on!

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 10:51 PM (77rzZ)

192 The foot juice girls should have stomped grapes.
One of the underpass artworks is in favor of indoctrinating young boys with the worthiness of gay marriage.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 28, 2026 10:52 PM (aJvZA)

193 Knock knock
Who's there?
Hatch
Hatch who?
Gesundheit!

Posted by: tankdemon at May 28, 2026 10:52 PM (n7lb4)

194 Foot fetish made me think of King of Hill episode which made me think of all the things the conservative Hill family has done.

Peggy made foot fetish videos
Hank purchased crack multiple times
Bobby cooked meth
Peggy smuggled in coke into prison
Hank was a pimp
Hank smoked weed

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026 10:52 PM (XMuV+)

195 EweTube of the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploding during launch pad test

youtu.be/1O90WZJALYc

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 28, 2026 10:52 PM (UNIfT)

196 OK, G’night, All,

May my moobs pleasantly fill you dreams:

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 10:55 PM (77rzZ)

197 May my moobs pleasantly fill you dreams:
Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 10:55 PM (77rzZ)

That's moops.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 10:55 PM (1Ff7Z)

198
No no don't need a nightmare

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 10:55 PM (3ek7K)

199 Why would any woman want attention from weirdos who'd drink it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

There is a type of person that is so desperate for attention, that they even look for bad attention.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 28, 2026 10:55 PM (0Htd1)

200 Go to New Orleans: some of its denizens rival Guatemalans for sphericity.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 28, 2026 10:55 PM (aJvZA)

201 Knocka knocka
Whosa therea?
Mea
Mea whoa?
...

Posted by: Yop at May 28, 2026 10:56 PM (RKj5x)

202 Considering she was selling the feet juice at $5 a swig (same as in town) how much do you think she grossed (and grossed is thebappropriate word) at that gathering?

I think she got at least $135.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 28, 2026 10:58 PM (n7lb4)

203
LC-36 in prior incarnations has a history of 'splodey rockets. The biggest explosion in Cape History occurred at the old LC-36A pad in Mar. 1965, when and Atlas-Centaur fell pack on the pad shortly after liftoff.

This New Glenn explosion might top that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 10:59 PM (w6EFb)

204 Piercello!!!

How are you doing? The BBQ MoMeet in Kansas City urban was quite a while ago.

ISTR you have been having an adventurous musician's life.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 11:00 PM (u82oZ)

205 I admire the grill master's efforts to drag all of the shit down to the beach. Who brought the buns and condiments?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
.......

Nobody, he doesn't want all those carbs.

Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 11:00 PM (oq9dX)

206 Don't know why some B&W just look like that.

As I recall the advent of color, much like the advent of sound, was initially used only in parts of movies. Very quickly it became an all or nothing thing (or used for meaning as in The Wizard of Oz) but movies where only a few scenes were in color did exist. Few of them remain because most of them were also distributed in full black and white to the majority of theaters.

This could of course be a misremembered Cliff Claven style fact either in whole or in part.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 28, 2026 11:00 PM (kYmoU)

207 The human skeleton was just not made to carry that kind of tonnage. I imagine there's a good deal of physical pain with being hundreds of pounds overweight.
Posted by: 496
I had a friend whose 20 year old daughter was obese. At the age of 20, she already had serious knee problems.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 28, 2026 11:00 PM (0Htd1)

208 Drinking champagne out of a hot chick's high heel was a thing back in the day based on a number of mainstream movies I've seen.

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026 11:00 PM (XMuV+)

209
Middle school kids are selling $20 dollar raffle tickets.

If you win there is a variety of guns to choose from. Husband was drooling looking at the photos.

Wyoming!!!

Love this state!

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 11:01 PM (3ek7K)

210 I'm merely a foot appreciator. Lovely elegant curves, all sculpted by nature.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I take it you've not seen the feet of ballerinas? Yeah, they look all pretty & elegant in the pointe shoes, but inside, they make Chinese foot-binding look elegant. Gnarly.

Definitely don't want to lick those juicy toes.

Posted by: mindful webworker - pier oh ette at May 28, 2026 11:01 PM (kU8xu)

211 publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Looks like the water tower was damaged and the right lightning arrestor tower is gone. Even open lattice did not protect from all that overpressure.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 11:02 PM (u82oZ)

212 188 I'm merely a foot appreciator. Lovely elegant curves, all sculpted by nature.

Once again, you've never seen MY feet. Annd, I'm a girl.
I suppose I could've been one of those Chinese gals, what with the bound up feet...
Oh well. No excuse but funky🫤...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 28, 2026 11:02 PM (uTEOj)

213 Although, my ass works out😜

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 28, 2026 11:03 PM (uTEOj)

214 Someone earlier today was talking about Quentin Tarantino always putting bare girls feet in his movies. He’s got a thing for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 11:04 PM (QDJ2U)

215 I just do not Grok it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 10:05 PM (zZu0s)

Thank you for a proper use of the term 'grok'.

Posted by: GWB at May 28, 2026 11:04 PM (kU0PQ)

216 I have no interest in a woman's feet except I once saw a decent looking girl at an Astro's game wearing sandals and she had let her toe nails grow long and painted them up. It scarred me for life and I threw up a little bit in my mouth just typing this.

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026 11:05 PM (XMuV+)

217 My younger sister is obese. I think they just reach a point where they give up
——-

“I don’t need to tuck in my shirt, it looks fine”. Hm, it goes downhill from there.

I have a portable generator, about the size of a chunky suitcase, and weighs about 50 pounds. It is insane to carry around that much extra fat. I was about 80 pounds to the high side, and finally decided I wasn’t going to live like that.

One thing I didn’t realize, when someone gets super obese, every thing they do revolves around factors we don’t think about. Is the place I need to go, is it on the second floor? Are there steps involved? Well that poses a problem. They have to plan everything out from a logistics standpoint. What about chairs? Etc. I’m sure it’s all very depressing, contributing to more overeating, and finally never venturing outside. Really sad.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 11:06 PM (0gZLS)

218 Pretty funny and 100 percent accurate "If cats had a podcast." Almost 8 minutes.

https://tinyurl.com/4vk2esvp

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 28, 2026 11:06 PM (CHHv1)

219 208 Drinking champagne out of a hot chick's high heel was a thing back in the day based on a number of mainstream movies I've seen.

I bet cocaine was involved...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 28, 2026 11:09 PM (uTEOj)

220 Blue Origin
more like 'blew Origin' amirite
Posted by: Don Black at May 28, 2026 10:17 PM (ZxPkt)

Oh my. That's not good. That was definitely unscheduled.
I hope they had a good radar focused on that so they can find all the pieces.

Posted by: GWB at May 28, 2026 11:09 PM (kU0PQ)

221 Isn't that just called wine?
Posted by: Kratwurst at May 28, 2026 10:07 PM (9gKa/)

Eyup.

https://tinyurl.com/5879dzyu

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 11:10 PM (rbvCR)

222 Evening all,

We have a launch in the morning.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-53
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: May 29, 2026
Launch Time: 7:52 a.m. EDT (1152 UTC, 13:52 CEST)

https://youtu.be/_Lo1BwU-Yec

Posted by: Joyenz at May 28, 2026 11:10 PM (2F0/Y)

223 So a pregnant woman with her stroller go to the beach and the grill master says, 'would you like onions on your triple burger'?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 28, 2026 11:11 PM (D1E+2)

224 The reason Talarico and co discount attacks by immigrants, jihads, and yutes is that they WANT those attacks.

You need shock troops to subdue the conquered population

Posted by: David French at May 28, 2026 11:11 PM (sKqQm)

225 Cosplay Models Shock Internet by Selling “Feet Juice” at California Anime Festival

Nah.

And I'm definitely not buying any baby oil from them.

Posted by: fresh-squeezed? at May 28, 2026 11:12 PM (VHUov)

226 AI slop of Odyssey
youtu.be/kVgLJZLrlro

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 11:12 PM (gKWVE)

227 James Tabor on the 1993 Waco Disaster, Part I

https://tinyurl.com/y296wetf

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 11:12 PM (y79kU)

228 I have no interest in a woman's feet
Posted by: polynikes

The guy named "many athletic shoes" isn't into feet? Really?

Posted by: mikeski, running serpentine at May 28, 2026 11:14 PM (VHUov)

229 Women's feet grow larger with age, and with pregnancies. Small feet are like small noses, indicators of youth.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 11:14 PM (rbvCR)

230
This is going to throw a monkey wrench in the early Moonbase plans. New Glenn was supposed to launch the Blue Moon landers which would carry the LTVs (new rovers) as part of the preparation for the crewed landing of Artemis IV.

These first of these were supposed to be later this year.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 11:15 PM (w6EFb)

231 There's just something hilariously charming about three bearded, tattooed, rough-and-tumble guys giggling like little girls over their dumb-ass jokes. I love it, Doof!
Posted by: tankascribe at May 28, 2026 10:08 PM (NtoJk)

I started guffawing when the one fell off his seat.
And did you get lucky with that hashtag for that particular comment? Not a oJoke?

Posted by: GWB at May 28, 2026 11:17 PM (kU0PQ)

232
The sources are saying the explosion started with the first stage engines. Probably just a fireball punched out the top that I saw coming out of the second stage.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 11:18 PM (w6EFb)

233 publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Is the Space X advantage because they have the best rocket engineers?

I know even Space X has rocket motor issues, but a lot less that past programs.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 11:19 PM (u82oZ)

234
The transporter-erector is apparently damaged beyond repair.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 11:19 PM (w6EFb)

235 *waves at NaCly dog*

Adventures abound! Tho not much playing in the current area (Philly is oversaturated with both musicians and credentials, to the point that no one wants to hire a hick cellist from the sticks, no matter how good he is).

That said, recently-ish I did make this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDNF0xrSmuY

We are hoping to escape Greater Philly soon.

Posted by: Piercello at May 28, 2026 11:19 PM (Ht/sz)

236 Is every rocket company using the same type fuel?

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026 11:20 PM (XMuV+)

237 Damn, that was a detonation. That shock wave moved on out. The pad is toast.

That was a Hollywood worthy explosion. Up there with the Delta II explosion in 97.

LH2 is a bitch. I've got stories.

Posted by: pawn at May 28, 2026 11:22 PM (+rSJz)

238 Q: Did you hear the joke about the gas lighter
A: No, what is it?
Q: You already heard it.
A: No, what is the joke about the gas lighter?
Q: What do you mean, there is no joke.
A: You just said there was!
Q: You are crazy

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 11:22 PM (rbvCR)

239 Wiki been updated already

On May 28th, 2026, a catastrophic failure during a static fire attempt of New Glenn resulted in significant damage to the pad.[6]

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 11:23 PM (/lPRQ)

240 It appears that I missed the Blue Origin launch.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 10:22 PM (/lPRQ)

So did the New Glenn.

Posted by: GWB at May 28, 2026 11:23 PM (kU0PQ)

241 LH2 is a bitch. I've got stories.
Posted by: pawn at May 28, 2026 11:22 PM (+rSJz)

That is a bit more than a "Pweep!"

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 11:23 PM (rbvCR)

242 New Glenn made a new meadow

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 11:23 PM (gKWVE)

243 Piercello

Interesting synchronization of those 4 parts.

May your escape plans lead to a future as bright as your dreams.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 11:24 PM (u82oZ)

244 >> Is the Space X advantage because they have the best rocket engineers?

They've blown up their fair share, too. But they are the best now, no question.

Rockets are basically giant bombs sitting there. One little thing goes wrong and Boom. NASA blew up their fair share back in early days. And the Rooskies certainly did as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 11:25 PM (w6EFb)

245 I noticed there are no free refills on the feet juice.

Soon, they'll have to remove the feet juice dispenser altogether based on "changing consumer trends."

Posted by: PabloD at May 28, 2026 11:26 PM (K1RVP)

246 @64

>>Dear lord, that guy grilling is a walking heart attack

I've always found it fascinating how men can generate guts like that.

Breathing must be difficult.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 11:26 PM (XV/Pl)

247 82 What does an astronaut put on his sandwich?

Launch meat.
Posted by: 496 at May 28

"I said 'lunch'! Not 'launch'!"

Posted by: The Far Out Space Nuts at May 28, 2026 11:26 PM (/aZwr)

248
The New Gleen first stage uses LOX and liquid methane. 2nd stage is LH2 and LOX.

Falcon variants uses RP-1 and LOX all stages. Starship is LOX and methane all the way as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 11:26 PM (w6EFb)

249 Sleep well Elon.

Your time is coming.

Posted by: pawn at May 28, 2026 11:26 PM (+rSJz)

250 The '83 festival lineup is how you say, eclectic.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 11:27 PM (XV/Pl)

251 That scene in Project Hail Mary where they accidentally blow up their best scientists and astronauts...
...is based on a real event in the Soviet space program. Nedelin. 78 dead, at least.
The Soviets covered it up.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 11:27 PM (gKWVE)

252 Launch meat...with a side of spacial sauce.

Posted by: Rex B at May 28, 2026 11:28 PM (rgnea)

253
Historically there have been two pads at LC-36, A and B. In the current iteration, there's just the one LC-36A, but Bezos was working on building LC-36B.

Something I was just reading said it may be the best to just accelerate completion of B rather than trying to repair A. May be the fastest way to get everything back on track.

This will also fuck up Artemis III plans.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 11:29 PM (w6EFb)

254 We have 6 morbidly obese people in my office. I is male, the rest are female. One of the females had bypass surgery and another lost 100lbs by dieting I think. They are still morbidly obese if that tells you how big they are. We used to have a guy that weighed over 500lbs but he went to another agency. I waiting for one of them to keel over one day...

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 28, 2026 11:30 PM (VCgbV)

255 Damn, that rocket went Le Boom.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 28, 2026 11:30 PM (snZF9)

256 Good evening morons y gracias Disco

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 11:30 PM (RIvkX)

257
They're saying barring "heroic efforts" New Glenn won't launch again for at least one year.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 11:30 PM (w6EFb)

258 ... word leaked about it anyway the following December.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 11:31 PM (gKWVE)

259 The '83 festival lineup is how you say, eclectic.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Willie was just there to deal dope to the rest of them.

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2026 11:32 PM (VHUov)

260 "This will also fuck up Artemis III plans."

This maybe the best thing to happen to HSF in a long time.

Just watch.

Posted by: pawn at May 28, 2026 11:32 PM (+rSJz)

261 Evening, Doof, and ONT Horde. Simply beautiful evening here in AJ.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2026 11:32 PM (8zz6B)

262
That's a lot of obese people in one office.

Do they require special accommodations, lik heavy duty chairs?

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 11:34 PM (3ek7K)

263
I've worked in various labs. I regard foot juice like any other potentially toxic liquid. With proper protective gear and disposal, it can be handled safely.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 28, 2026 11:34 PM (azNOR)

264
The transporter-erector is apparently damaged beyond repair.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

That's what she said

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 28, 2026 11:35 PM (ixS3i)

265 It must be difficult (and expensive) to constantly graze. Maintaining several hundred pounds takes dedication to the cause.

If you read the “expert” Health Expert advice, they like to claim there are dozens of reasons why Obesity is not a choice. But, in the same breath, they claim you can choose to lose the weight.

So which is it?

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 11:35 PM (0gZLS)

266 That's a lot of obese people in one office.
Do they require special accommodations, lik heavy duty chairs?
Posted by: four seasons

Instead of a water cooler they get a McFlurry dispenser.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 11:36 PM (/lPRQ)

267 Lol Krebs

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 11:36 PM (3ek7K)

268 The sources are saying the explosion started with the first stage engines. Probably just a fireball punched out the top that I saw coming out of the second stage.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 11:18 PM (w6EFb)
=====

I just got home, sounds like something bad happened.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 11:36 PM (RIvkX)

269 Obesity is a social contagion. It can spread one person to another.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 11:37 PM (RIvkX)

270 >> I just got home, sounds like something bad happened.

New Glenn rocket undergoing a static fire test at LC-36 just blew up good, real good. Damaged the pad and support structures big time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 11:38 PM (w6EFb)

271 >>>>
We used to have a guy that weighed over 500lbs but he went to another agency. I waiting for one of them to keel over one day...
Posted by: lin-duh is offended
*******
Years ago I was first engineer on a container ship. One of my watch engineers was morbidly obese. He asked me if there was a plan to get someone like himself out of the engine room if he had a medical issue. I told him that as an elk hunter whenever I had to move something his size I quartered it.

Posted by: Cosda at May 28, 2026 11:38 PM (/ZygU)

272 269 Obesity is a social contagion. It can spread one person to another.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 11:37 PM (RIvkX)

Via McDonalds, maybe

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 28, 2026 11:38 PM (xcxpd)

273
Lmao

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 11:39 PM (3ek7K)

274 They're saying barring "heroic efforts" New Glenn won't launch again for at least one year.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 11:30 PM (w6EFb)

I don't follow this shit as deep as I used to. I was born in the decade we landed on the moon, and I would have thought we would have a frigging Death Star by now, so I basically start paying attention when seriously cool things happen. With that said, I have no clue about this blue origin thing. Am I wrong thinking its just a vanity project for Bezos while Musk is actually in it to win it?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 28, 2026 11:39 PM (snZF9)

275 Salty

Long time, no see! Glad to see u r among the living.

Has your email changed since I lost saw you? Tried to contact you at Xmas.

Ozark greetings.

Posted by: mnw at May 28, 2026 11:40 PM (RCjYY)

276 Boom like pretty fireworks!

Posted by: Wakka at May 28, 2026 11:42 PM (vSvIl)

277 Moon orbits would or should have been a middle class vacation 20 years ago. But the fuckheads in congress threw it all away.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 11:42 PM (0gZLS)

278 Bezos was taking Blue Origin's actual space rockets seriously, it's not vanity.
The vanity project was the "New Shepard" program which put Katy Perry into freefall for a couple of minutes.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 11:42 PM (gKWVE)

279 What is the “New Glenn”? Named after Old John Glenn or something like that?

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 11:44 PM (0gZLS)

280 Meet the Prominent Police Officer Who Carried Out a Steamy, Two-Year Sexual Affair with Married Obama Judge in Her Chambers
- GWP

If one lacks the mental discipline to control primal animal urges they surely do not have the mental discipline to be a senior police officer or judge. These peoples primary life function should be digging ditches or being fuck puppets for subsistence food and shelter.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 11:44 PM (/lPRQ)

281 They built a custom chair for President Taft, with invisible iron reinforcements underneath, when he visited the Panama Canal.

Posted by: mnw at May 28, 2026 11:45 PM (RCjYY)

282 The transporter-erector is apparently damaged beyond repair.
Posted by: publius

The Paolo's, how you say, transporter-erector is in the pink of health.

Posted by: The Paolo at May 28, 2026 11:45 PM (440br)

283 I've always found it fascinating how men can generate guts like that.

Breathing must be difficult.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
......

Heh
among many other simple bodily functions

Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 11:45 PM (oq9dX)

284 >> I was born in the decade we landed on the moon, and I would have thought we would have a frigging Death Star by now,

I'm in the same boat timeline wise. And I'm just getting up to speed. The current Moon plans are in flux, and Isaacman and Trump admin have shaken things up.

At first, I wasn't too keen on Bezos and Blue Origin -- with the Bimbos in Space and New Shepard tourist shit, but then it hit me. If we're going to get back to the Moon and build a fucking moon bases (which we should have had a long time ago), we're going to need as many hands on deck as we can.

And competition is a good thing. So, I started pulling for Blue Origin, to at least give Elon some competition to do even better. And the current NASA/Artemis plans depending on both of them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 11:45 PM (w6EFb)

285
Jeff Bezos' brow furrows, propagating well up onto the top of his bald shiny head.

His trophy wife falls asleep facing away from him, but that's just random chance. Doesn't mean anything.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 28, 2026 11:48 PM (azNOR)

286 Dad and his side of the family were/are mostly morbidly obese.

Lucky me, I took after Mom's side-- was naturally thin and very active. Auntie (dad's *huge* sister) and her fat kids always nagged me about how skinny I was. My BMI is 25 now, so I could stand to diet/exercise more.

But I feel bad for bro-- he's almost doubled in size since Dad died 7 years ago. Ankle and knee pains plague him. I can't fix him; can only offer encouragement.

Posted by: JQ at May 28, 2026 11:48 PM (rdVOm)

287 >> Named after Old John Glenn or something like that?

Exactly. New Shepard was suborbital (hell, just straight up and down, not even much sub at all), and New Glenn is orbital.

New Glenn is pretty big, a heavy-lift class. The current version they call "7 x 2", 7 first stage engines, and 2 second stage. Payload to LEO about 100K lbs. They have an even bigger version, "9 x 4" in development which would hit 150K lbs to LEO capacity, and 44K lbs to TLI capacity.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 11:48 PM (w6EFb)

288 Breathing must be difficult.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
......
Heh
among many other simple bodily functions
Posted by: wth

I guess that's when the weight really takes off? When other pleasures are topologically impossible, you replace them with even more eating?

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2026 11:48 PM (VHUov)

289 mnw

How are you doing? Still have the Lake of the Ozarks place?

My email has not changed.

In ROT-13 it is still AnPyl_qbt@xfoebnqonaq.arg

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 11:49 PM (u82oZ)

290 I think Jeff got a serious dose of reality tonight. He's never had to deal with something like this before.

Jeff was seriously violating the law with the New Shepard for a while and basically stood the program down for a long time to actually do the proper certifications.

New Shepard, if it ever flies again, will never carry people. He was damn lucky that nothing happened before now.

Posted by: pawn at May 28, 2026 11:50 PM (+rSJz)

291 We used to have a guy that weighed over 500lbs but he went to another agency. I waiting for one of them to keel over one day...
Posted by: lin-duh is offended
*******
Years ago I was first engineer on a container ship. One of my watch engineers was morbidly obese. He asked me if there was a plan to get someone like himself out of the engine room if he had a medical issue. I told him that as an elk hunter whenever I had to move something his size I quartered it.
Posted by: Cosda
=====

In a former life I worked at a remote military station.
One of the contractor support personnel was morbidly obese... had a serious medical event.
Because nobody could haul his 500# ass up the steps into an aircraft they had to airlift him out with a C-141 using a pallet and forklift to load him up.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 11:50 PM (/lPRQ)

292 Brave AI doesn't think New Shepard was illegal. Retarded, but not illegal.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 11:52 PM (gKWVE)

293 In one of the apts. buildings I worked in, two morbidly obese love kittens were engaged in some happy time in a bathtub. Somehow, due to weight, girth, fat, slippery stuff and water, two said loves became stuck by suction and lack of physical ability to remove themselves from said tub. We called the FD to help out. Doors were removed, and all dignity was given away during the exercise.

According to the Fire Chief, getting a grip on either one of them was damn near impossible given all the flab and yuckiness.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 28, 2026 11:52 PM (440br)

294 four seasons,
Yes, we got them extra large chairs that can hold up to 500lbs. But they all have health issues.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 28, 2026 11:53 PM (VCgbV)

295 Slippery when wet.

Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 11:53 PM (oq9dX)

296 I think Jeff got a serious dose of reality tonight. He's never had to deal with something like this before.
-
Well, Rings of Power.

Posted by: Methos at May 28, 2026 11:54 PM (vSvIl)

297
Just saw this. Around 5:30PM EDT, there was a massive rattling of the cages around Columbia, SC area. It was not an earthquake, no seismic activity registered much at all, so probably a sonic boom. May have been a big meteor, but no sightings.

I didn't hear anything up this far.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 11:54 PM (w6EFb)

298 We used to have a guy that weighed over 500lbs but he went to another agency. I waiting for one of them to keel over one day...
Posted by: lin-duh is offended
*******
Years ago I was first engineer on a container ship. One of my watch engineers was morbidly obese. He asked me if there was a plan to get someone like himself out of the engine room if he had a medical issue. I told him that as an elk hunter whenever I had to move something his size I quartered it.
Posted by: Cosda
=====

In a former life I worked at a remote military station.
One of the contractor support personnel was morbidly obese... had a serious medical event.
Because nobody could haul his 500# ass up the steps into an aircraft they had to airlift him out with a C-141 using a pallet and forklift to load him up.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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My BIL was an EMT. On one response, the woman was so obese that the fire and rescue people had to use chainsaws to cut a hole in the wall in order to get her out of the house.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 28, 2026 11:55 PM (XeU6L)

299 According to the Fire Chief, getting a grip on either one of them was damn near impossible given all the flab and yuckiness.
Posted by: Tonypete

...and lots of sudsy slippery soap.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 11:55 PM (/lPRQ)

300 289 Salty

Yes, I still have the Lake place, but I haven't been down there in 5-6 years. My kids use it, but... not enuf.

I'm doing OK, thanks, for a youngster.

The email address you list in 289 above isn't the one I have from the Ozark MoMe, & I don't know what "ROT-13" is, I'm afraid.

Mine is still the same one I gave you.

Posted by: mnw at May 28, 2026 11:56 PM (RCjYY)

301 I would eat huge meals. It’s fun to eat. I’m maybe not a great cook but I’m a good cook, and that makes it tough. And then take a nap.

I started to get winded doing simple tasks. And waking up in the middle of the night with “acid reflux”. Well, initially at least, all that is, is too much goddamned food in yer gullet. It literally backs up.

Everyone talks about exercise. Exercise sucks, mostly. Put the goddamn fork down.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 11:56 PM (0gZLS)

302 My BIL was an EMT. On one response, the woman was so obese that the fire and rescue people had to use chainsaws to cut a hole in the wall in order to get her out of the house.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 28, 2026 11:55 PM (XeU6L)

A friend of mine has a sister like that. I'm talking a serious candidate for the TV show my 10,000 pound asteroid life. I seriously at this point don't think she can fit through the front door.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 28, 2026 11:57 PM (snZF9)

303 Listening to James Tabor on the Waco Siege.

At the time of the siege Tabor is reading the FBI transcript of Koresh's radio broadcast. Koresh talks of the Lion of Judah which they interpret as The Liar of Judas. Koresh also talks of the Seven Seals but the Acronyms want to know why he is talking about animals.

Stupid has been going on a long time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 11:57 PM (y79kU)

304
Now some Ring doorbell videos from the area are showing up showing what looks like a meteor trail. So that's probably what it is.

It was big boom. Some security footage showing cages being rattled, and audio of the boom.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 11:58 PM (w6EFb)

305 Okay, I just made this up.

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Marjorie Greene.
Marjorie Greene who?
*Exactly*.

Insert your favorite has-been.

Posted by: SciVo at May 28, 2026 11:58 PM (Sy6m/)

306 New Glen lacked the certifications to carry humans. to get everything straight and tested properly.
They stopped flying for over a year

I actually interviewed with BO to bring the NS up to current regulations.

I said "No thanks" to Van Horn and spending my life working on a toy.

Posted by: pawn at May 28, 2026 11:59 PM (+rSJz)

307 Calories in, calories out. It's a pretty simple equation.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2026 12:00 AM (XeU6L)

308 Opps, mashed that post up, should read:

New Glen lacked the certifications to carry humans.

They stopped flying for over a year to get everything straight and tested properly.

Posted by: pawn at May 29, 2026 12:02 AM (+rSJz)

309
126 The Operation dude got a Moe haircut. If he can handle that, he can handle being awake.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 28, 2026 10:29 PM

--------

*bzzzzt*

Curly Joe: I'm sorry, Moe.

Moe: Oh, that's all right. (Sticks index finger in Curly's eye.)

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 29, 2026 12:02 AM (VWtfl)

310 He had a radio broadcast? His name wasn’t Koresh. It was something like Vernon Smith or whatever.

I heard they could have nabbed him at any time they wanted. He drove a distinctive car, and went into town on the regular like clockwork.

But FBI funding appropriations were coming up, and they wanted a big production to show off. The standoff was getting tedious. So the story goes. About a 100 men women and children roasted.

And then Butch Reno - “I take full responsibility”

Reporter - “So you’re going to resign?”

Posted by: Common Tater at May 29, 2026 12:03 AM (0gZLS)

311 Obesity is a social contagion. It can spread one person to another.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 11:37 PM (RIvkX)

Via McDonalds, maybe
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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If the first person is the cook...

Posted by: buddhaha at May 29, 2026 12:03 AM (Zm+Tt)

312 They also built a custom-made chaise lounge for King George V (son of Queen Victoria) to cavort on with the ladies when he visited Paris.

"'Allo, Wales!" the girls used to say.

Posted by: mnw at May 29, 2026 12:04 AM (RCjYY)

313 That's a lot of obese people in one office.

Do they require special accommodations, lik heavy duty chairs?

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 11:34 PM (3ek7K)

They can never travel to Guam together...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 29, 2026 12:04 AM (nbLIj)

314 "Did it bother anybody else that the guy from the Operation game was clearly wide awake?"
-

Nope. In fact, it gave me a buzz.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 12:04 AM (5UTWB)

315 I just got home, sounds like something bad happened.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Something big has happened now.

https://youtu.be/tW8rDI_95LE

Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2026 12:05 AM (VHUov)

316 Calories in, calories out. It's a pretty simple equation
——

No no no… “I’m special” and if you cut calories back, you’ll actually gain weight, I’m big boned, it’s hereditary and it has nothing to do with willpower or discipline. It’s the power company’s fault, global warming, Flouride in the water, and microplastics

Posted by: Common Tater at May 29, 2026 12:06 AM (0gZLS)

317
Miley says she thought she heard something around that time, a muffled boom, which didn't sound like a gunshot. So, attenuated sound of that may have made it this far up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 12:07 AM (w6EFb)

318 Yup - it's real. Go ahead and check out the video at the link.

Um, no thanks...I don't need any foot fungus in my mouth...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 29, 2026 12:07 AM (l3cgK)

319 318 Yup - it's real. Go ahead and check out the video at the link.

Um, no thanks...I don't need any foot fungus in my mouth...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 29, 2026 12:07 AM (l3cgK)

Can the cures for foot fungus in the ads here be taken orally?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 29, 2026 12:07 AM (l3cgK)

320 The truth is out there ...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/aliens/

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 12:08 AM (/lPRQ)

321 mikeski, nice postpunk there

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 12:08 AM (gKWVE)

322 It’s the power company’s fault, global warming, Flouride in the water, and microplastics

Posted by: Common Tater at May 29, 2026 12:06 AM (0gZLS)
-------
I'm not as skinny as I once was. I blame Big Fork for my waistline.

Posted by: 496 at May 29, 2026 12:08 AM (sOtuf)

323 Okay, I just made this up.

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Marjorie Greene.
Marjorie Greene who?
*Exactly*.

Insert your favorite has-been.
Posted by: SciVo

Hugh O'Brian would be proud.

He said there were five stages in an actor's career:

Who's Hugh O'Brian?
Get me Hugh O'Brian!
Get me a "Hugh O'Brian" type.
Get me a young Hugh O'Brian.
Who's Hugh O'Brian?

Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2026 12:08 AM (VHUov)

324 316 Calories in, calories out. It's a pretty simple equation
——

No no no… “I’m special” and if you cut calories back, you’ll actually gain weight, I’m big boned, it’s hereditary and it has nothing to do with willpower or discipline. It’s the power company’s fault, global warming, Flouride in the water, and microplastics

Posted by: Common Tater at May 29, 2026 12:06 AM (0gZLS)

We need common sense spoon control...
Fork over yer spoons!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 29, 2026 12:08 AM (l3cgK)

325 I'm sorry, those early flights were uncrewed. There was some funny business going on with flight certifications. I didn't want to ask too many questions.

That was so long ago.

Posted by: pawn at May 29, 2026 12:08 AM (+rSJz)

326 today when I was looking up ver(r)ucas, I found that they were spread by HPV. that's the cervical cancer virus.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 12:10 AM (gKWVE)

327 A waffle is just a pancake ribbed for your pleasure.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 12:10 AM (2WIwB)

328 323

Christopher Walken once said he owed his success to the fact that, "It's really hard to find a 'Christopher Walken type.' "

Posted by: mnw at May 29, 2026 12:12 AM (RCjYY)

329 326 today when I was looking up ver(r)ucas, I found that they were spread by HPV. that's the cervical cancer virus.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 12:10 AM (gKWVE)

So how do they pop up in various places on the body?...
Okay, nevermind, I don't want to know...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 29, 2026 12:12 AM (l3cgK)

330
Just looking, New Glenn was supposed to launch two of the Mark 1 Blue Moon landers this year (Sept and later, maybe). These were going to provide a lot of "scouting" stuff at the lunar south pole.

And then, if they got test versions of their man-rated Mark 2 lander version, it was supposed to be tested in LEO with Orion as part of the Artemis III mission in 2027.

So, taking New Glenn out just fucks all that up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 12:12 AM (w6EFb)

331 I would place my money on the program being intentionally sabotaged from within:

https://tinyurl.com/5n885amf

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 12:15 AM (5UTWB)

332 I understand a bit of Tabor’s deep sadness about what happened in Waco; I didn’t know any of them, but that was my first and lasting impression from the event.
None of those people had to die , there was no reason for it. Janet Reno had them all murdered just do she could prove she was meaner than any man, or something. As I’m sure everyone here knows, there was never any reason for a standoff at all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 12:16 AM (QDJ2U)

333 Everyone talks about exercise. Exercise sucks, mostly. Put the goddamn fork down.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 11:56 PM (0gZLS)

It doesn't take long just entering your daily routine into a calorie calculator to realize that it's impossible to exercise your way to weight loss. A long and arduous workout can be countered (and then some) in moments, cheap and easy. The only way is bringing your consumption down, and exercising enough to keep your body from compensating by reducing your basal metabolism (which it may do).

Posted by: SciVo at May 29, 2026 12:17 AM (Sy6m/)

334
So, taking New Glenn out just fucks all that up.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
---

Bezos does one thing well but it's not as good as it was. He should focus on improving it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 12:18 AM (y79kU)

335 Something different my Yootoob algore rhythm threw at me this evening:

Bohemian Rhapsody Played by 100+ year old fairground organ - instrumental, automated, pre-AI
https://youtu.be/JTnGI6Knw5Q

Kind of impressive just for the work involved.

Posted by: mindful webworker - mamaaaa at May 29, 2026 12:23 AM (kU8xu)

336 Any Texas 'ettes lurking about?

Howdy, neighbor!

https://tinyurl.com/yu389rz3

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 12:23 AM (5UTWB)

337 None of those people had to die , there was no reason for it. Janet Reno had them all murdered just do she could prove she was meaner than any man, or something. As I’m sure everyone here knows, there was never any reason for a standoff at all.
Posted by: Tom Servo
---

Didn't know about Tabor until an earlier post tonight.
Here's an interview, thirty minutes in and it's still a disertation but if you're unfamiliar with Tabor or his story. It's interesting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IizTXT9tQ9Y

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 12:24 AM (y79kU)

338 322 It’s the power company’s fault, global warming, Flouride in the water, and microplastics

Posted by: Common Tater at May 29, 2026 12:06 AM (0gZLS)
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I'm not as skinny as I once was. I blame Big Fork for my waistline.
Posted by: 496 at May 29, 2026 12:08 AM (sOtuf)

I hit 225 at 25... with less than 10% body fat... they had to do the water immersion test for body fat because I was so in shape that the Navy height weight chart showed me as overweight... I was pretty dang buffed.

Now? I'm also 225, but I AM overweight... LOL...

Somehow that 42 years made a difference.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 29, 2026 12:25 AM (mP0Kj)

339
331 I would place my money on the program being intentionally sabotaged from within:

https://tinyurl.com/5n885amf
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 12:15 AM (5UTWB)

Looking at that announced playlist, if anyone ended it from inside I’d call it a mercy killing. Those acts are embarrassingly bad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 12:27 AM (QDJ2U)

340 publius,

I see this as a good thing. This will shake stuff up and hopefully it will settle out as something more reasonable, or at least more believable.

Posted by: pawn at May 29, 2026 12:27 AM (+rSJz)

341
That was one YUGE fireball. I've been looking at videos from all around. A funny one was Ring doorbell video. Somebody had ordered pizza, and the delivery guy come up and rings the bell and then the fireball goes off on the horizon behind him.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 12:28 AM (w6EFb)

342 Looking at that announced playlist, if anyone ended it from inside I’d call it a mercy killing. Those acts are embarrassingly bad.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 12:27 AM (QDJ2U)

Milli Vanilli? Seriously?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2026 12:29 AM (8zz6B)

343 well, Mac Daddy OD'd, so it's not like they could have recruited a world-class act like Kris Kross

Posted by: Kevin Federline might be available at May 29, 2026 12:32 AM (gKWVE)

344 12 Operation Game -
Always thought it was an introduction to vivisection.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 10:04 PM (/lPRQ)
____________________________

I wasn't too concerned. He was obviously a Hobo, based on the rosacea nose due to heavy drinking and the bad haircut. I figure it was acceptable because of the 1937 Hobo Laws. Encouraged even.

Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 12:33 AM (dIske)

345 Any Texas 'ettes lurking about?
Howdy, neighbor!
https://tinyurl.com/yu389rz3
Posted by: Biden's Dog

I saw Neighbors With A Uterus open for Totorro at Lonesome Rose in '24.

https://youtu.be/FVCokrs51Cg

Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2026 12:35 AM (VHUov)

346 Here's an interview, thirty minutes in and it's still a disertation but if you're unfamiliar with Tabor or his story. It's interesting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IizTXT9tQ9Y

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 12:24 AM (y79kU)

Thanks, I’ll save that and watch. I have always been disgusted by the way so many people had the attitude “oh well they were nuts, who cares if they and their children were all killed.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 12:36 AM (QDJ2U)

347 I didn't know Morris Dees could sing.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 29, 2026 12:37 AM (Cqx++)

348 None of those people had to die , there was no reason for it. Janet Reno had them all murdered just do she could prove she was meaner than any man, or something. As I’m sure everyone here knows, there was never any reason for a standoff at all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2026 12:16 AM (QDJ2U)

Just think what would have happened if Trump had done it, with children burning alive.

The media covered it up. Played as much as they could that the children were molested and all of the people deserved it. They were covering for Reno and for Clintoon. It HAD to be justified. As with Ruby Ridge.

You really cannot hate commies enough.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:39 AM (bss/y)

349 'Bout time I shuffled off to the land of Nod. (Why and how did "sleep" get that descriptor?)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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From Wiki- (which is a great source as long as the subject doesn't impinge in any manner on progressive social.or political values)
"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" is a poem for children written by American writer and poet Eugene Field and published on March 9, 1889. The original title was "Dutch Lullaby". The poem is a fantasy bed-time story about three children sailing and fishing among the stars from a boat which is a wooden shoe. The names suggest a sleepy child's blinking eyes and nodding head.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 29, 2026 12:40 AM (Zm+Tt)

350
Hell just watched a radar loop. That explosion fireball showed up on the weather radar.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 12:42 AM (w6EFb)

351 I'm wondering what the "fireflies" were that showed up all at the same time after the fireball?

Posted by: pawn at May 29, 2026 12:44 AM (+rSJz)

352 Land of Nod is where Cain was banished to.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2026 12:48 AM (8zz6B)

353 Ok, people are retarded. The tweet on Insty with the bomb explosion says: 'It looks exactly like a NUCLEAR BOMB went off!!!!!!111!'

A bit smaller.

It does not even look as big as the .1 kiloton test at the beginning of the Atomic Bomb Movie- and that was just TNT.

Big explosions form a mushroom cloud. Quit being stupid.

What would they have said during the Halifax accident? OMG, it looks like a thing that has not even been invented yet!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 29, 2026 12:51 AM (bss/y)

354 265 It must be difficult (and expensive) to constantly graze. Maintaining several hundred pounds takes dedication to the cause.

If you read the “expert” Health Expert advice, they like to claim there are dozens of reasons why Obesity is not a choice. But, in the same breath, they claim you can choose to lose the weight.

So which is it?
Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 11:35 PM (0gZLS)

As things often do, it comes back to behavioral economics. As Upton Sinclair said, it is very difficult to get a man to understand something, if his salary depends upon his not understanding it. In fact, that applied to him: he was a professional socialist, so his career depended upon not understanding how the power of incentive makes socialism impossible. Indeed, market economics explains that value is subjective, so the 'psychic' salary of goodfeelz is real and counts.

So, it is very difficult to get a man to understand something, when his goodfeelz depend upon his not understanding it. And for the obese, that may include how to lose weight by eating less. The power of incentive could make them functionally retarded.

Posted by: SciVo at May 29, 2026 12:53 AM (Sy6m/)

355
This was about 1 kT of TNT equivalent. Starship 36 explosion was about 0.5 kT.

So this is going to clock in as the biggest American rocket explosion to date. The Rooskies still hold the record for the biggest, with the N-1 explosion at 7 kT.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 12:59 AM (w6EFb)

356 307 Calories in, calories out. It's a pretty simple equation.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2026 12:00 AM (XeU6L)

Little more complicated than that, when you are really losing weight. Getting enough protein is usually an issue, since you are limited on calories so any protein takes up a fair bit of that. Then there is the slowdown of metabolism which occurs when the body is detecting starvation. So, yeah, you can just diet, but you are likely to lose muscle before much fat, and then your metabolism slows down, and you have to eat less....

Yes, I'm being watched closely by my doc, who tested my metabolism and is checking blood sugar levels, etc.

Just not eating causes more problems than it solves.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 01:00 AM (DwqWV)

357 Lost 30 lbs counting calories. That little 3x5 spiral book - kept track of everything consumed with # of calories in the next column. Limiting calories works.
Knowing what or how much you can eat and stay within your limit helps much.

Mostly baked chicken, peanuts (busy hand to mouth was a big thing for me), tuna, & peanut butter 'n jelly for the treat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 01:12 AM (y79kU)

358 I remember all too well, after the long standoff, watching live as Reno's raiders incinerated the Waco compound, men, women, and children. Horrifying and utterly avoidable.
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Gotta get gone now. Have to watch tomorrow morning for any errant twirling. Not the best Friday without it.

How long has it been since you've taken a journey to the center of your mind? Is the center of your mind the corpus collosum?

https://youtu.be/qk-SsrzeYvs

G'nite, y'all. 💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - what goes around at May 29, 2026 01:14 AM (kU8xu)

359
That N-1 explosion is the largest conventional explosion in history, looks like. And with Tsar Bomba, they hold the biggest nuclear one as well. Although that was intentional. N-1 was not.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 01:16 AM (w6EFb)

360 there is also the problems that can be caused by an altered gut biome. I was put back on a statin that is known to alter the gut biome, and inhibit some fatty acid pathways, and sure enough my blood glucose, which has been under control for a good while is now really crappy.
The bacteria in your gut has an awful lot to do with how you deal with digestion, and what calories you get out of it.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 01:16 AM (rbvCR)

361
Reporter - “So you’re going to resign?”
Posted by: Common Tater at May 29, 2026 12:03 AM (0gZLS)

Stayed all the way through to 2001.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2026 01:23 AM (po3Ws)

362 The bacteria in your gut has an awful lot to do with how you deal with digestion, and what calories you get out of it.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 29, 2026 01:16 AM (rbvCR)
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Which is one of the reasons that I don't subscribe to the "Gluten Free" fad. Most studies show that gluten has pro-biotic qualities (similar to yogurt). And, while I can understand the necessity for some gluten-free products to accomodate those with Celiac disease, it should be the exception IMO, not the rule. Instead, as usual, it would appear that the few dictate to the many.

Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 01:23 AM (dIske)

363 Yes, the gentlest way is about a daily 500 calorie deficit, which works out to about a pound a week, and may be effectively the same as the maintenance diet for your target weight, so that you wouldn't even have to change anything when you get there.

One problem is that the lack of visible results can crush motivation. Another is that it's small enough for the body to just drop the basal metabolism by that amount and negate it for no effect at all. So the ideal isn't actually practical for everyone. In practice, it can be threading between the Scylla and Charybdis of different pitfalls.

Posted by: SciVo at May 29, 2026 01:29 AM (Sy6m/)

364 [Press conference in the Rose Garden, after the fire was out. Speaking about the events at Waco ]

Let this be a warning to any in America who would be tempted to join a cult.
_President William Jefferson Clinton, April 19, 1993

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 01:32 AM (y79kU)

365
Well, I've been watching some zoomed-in slow motion replays of the New Glenn "anomaly" as they're calling it. They tried to light off the engines earlier, but something went wrong. Those NSF guys who watch everything 24/7 noticed the sound suppression system was started, but nothing happened. So there was some problem that aborted the engine start.

Later, they tried again and the engines were lit off. But from the start, it was much brighter than normal.

And then, with the very bright lower fire plume, just as I thought I saw, the second stage did blow. And then the whole thing went up in that massive fireball.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 01:42 AM (w6EFb)

366
Another wild thing (I hate to say "cool" for this) was you'll note little vapor trail looking things coming off the top of the fireball moving much faster than the fireball was expanding.

Turns out those were these little very high pressure gas tanks (helium and others). The got a little hole punched in them, and that high pressure gas just launched them off at very high speed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 01:45 AM (w6EFb)

367 364 [Press conference in the Rose Garden, after the fire was out. Speaking about the events at Waco ]

Let this be a warning to any in America who would be tempted to join a cult.
_President William Jefferson Clinton, April 19, 1993

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 01:32 AM (y79kU)

https://youtu.be/7xxgRUyzgs0&t=10s

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 29, 2026 01:47 AM (l3cgK)

368 Well, my eyelids are slamming shut. Good Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2026 01:47 AM (8zz6B)

369
There was another "anomaly" on April 9th, with Blue Origin down there, turns out, something that wasn't reported much. This was before the April 19th launch where the 2nd stage failed and they didn't get the payload high enough.

Anyway on the 9th something happened during testing of a 2nd stage, which blew a hole in the roof of one their buildings at the Cape.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 01:51 AM (w6EFb)

370 Anyway on the 9th something happened during testing of a 2nd stage, which blew a hole in the roof of one their buildings at the Cape.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 01:51 AM (w6EFb)

Well, it's not like it is rocket science.

Oh. Wait.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 01:56 AM (DwqWV)

371 >>>you'll note little vapor trail
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Link?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 01:57 AM (y79kU)

372 >> Link?

Here.
t.ly/liPZ_

If you watch the video, the Brit "mee-thane" boy there goes on about it, and there are pictures below.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 02:00 AM (w6EFb)

373
In the slow motion, you'll see the two towers shaking.

The tank farm is not in such good shape either.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 02:02 AM (w6EFb)

374 Fox news just reported that this was a static test??
This was supposed to be a launch wasn't it?

Posted by: Reforger at May 29, 2026 02:03 AM (Rxz7v)

375 >> This was supposed to be a launch wasn't it?

No, just a static fire test of the first stage engines. Now, for these, the vehicle is in a full flight configuration -- you want everything to be as it will be at a real launch -- so the 2nd stage was loaded with LOX and LH2.

The real launch was planned to be on June 4th.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 02:06 AM (w6EFb)

376
Video from Tampa, 120 miles away, showing the light from the explosion reflecting off the clouds:

t.ly/zRXiK

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 02:12 AM (w6EFb)

377 Okay. Thanks. I was following on my breaks at work and missed that part.

Posted by: Reforger at May 29, 2026 02:12 AM (Rxz7v)

378
The glow was seen in the Bahamas, 300 miles away, too, I just saw.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 02:13 AM (w6EFb)

379 So if it was 1kton of TNT then thag explosion was as big as the W79 dial a yeald 8" nuke round. That explosion was big enough to wipe out an army.

Posted by: Reforger at May 29, 2026 02:21 AM (Rxz7v)

380 Bet that shook a few houses. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

Posted by: Case at May 29, 2026 02:25 AM (8XBuM)

381 First tape, he actually said, this will give them the opportunity to (hello Joe) Build Back Better.
Oh my, on to tape two.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 02:25 AM (y79kU)

382 Alright! Monkeypox is back, baby!

And here's the Boston Herald with sound advice on how to avoid getting it:

https://tinyurl.com/2p23ujp9

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 02:31 AM (3n7qY)

383 That launch pad is shot. With a bomb like that it's cracked.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 02:31 AM (y79kU)

384 >>>a whole lotta malarkey,
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is right. Lede from a MSM yesterday making fun of them throwing plagues up against the wall to see which one would stick.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 02:36 AM (y79kU)

385 >> That launch pad is shot. With a bomb like that it's cracked.

Bezos had started construction of a "B" pad there at LC-36, and it may be better to just accelerate construction of that, rather than trying to repair this one.

Historically, there were two pads there, A and B, but only the one now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 02:36 AM (w6EFb)

386 Remember Sammy Davis Jr.'s "Here come the judge" acts on Laugh-in?

Sammy did it better:

https://tinyurl.com/4speekwm

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 02:39 AM (3n7qY)

387
Here's a video of the Atlas-Centaur explosion on Mar 2, 1965, also at LC-36A:

t.ly/AUfHf

Until tonight, that was the biggest American rocket explosion.

LC-36 has a history of rockets exploding.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 02:44 AM (w6EFb)

388 And the Russians still have first place in rocket explosions. That must have been a doozy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 02:58 AM (y79kU)

389 >> And the Russians still have first place in rocket explosions.

The N-1 rocket, their attempt at a moon rocket. Massive failure.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 02:59 AM (w6EFb)

390 Wonder if they will blame the explosion on AI?
Or maybe a Chinese spy,...

Posted by: Case at May 29, 2026 03:01 AM (8XBuM)

391 Losing that rocket is darn shame - I so want America to get settled on the moon!

Posted by: 13times at May 29, 2026 03:06 AM (/LwQg)

392 382 Alright! Monkeypox is back, baby!

And here's the Boston Herald with sound advice on how to avoid getting it:

https://tinyurl.com/2p23ujp9
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 02:31 AM (3n7qY)

Oddly, I doubt I am at risk. Lol.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 03:11 AM (DwqWV)

393 Oddly, I doubt I am at risk. Lol.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 03:11 AM (DwqWV)
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Of course not! There are no monkeys in Alaska. That's silly!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 03:13 AM (3n7qY)

394
We certainly need a footprint on the Moon before the Chicoms set one up. They have no intention of all this "For All Mankind" and all that crap.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 03:19 AM (w6EFb)

395 What do we think we are going to do on the moon? Grow crops? Manufacture consumer goods? Wave at ET when he rides by?

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 03:20 AM (DwqWV)

396 What do we think we are going to do on the moon?
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Learn how to stay alive and function in an unwelcoming environment.

Manufacture items necessary for the trip to Mars.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 03:24 AM (y79kU)

397 What do we think we are going to do on the moon? Grow crops? Manufacture consumer goods? Wave at ET when he rides by?

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 03:20 AM (DwqWV)
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Trump plans to export cheese, putting woke Wisconsin out of business.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 03:26 AM (3n7qY)

398
The Moon is the ultimate high ground. Whoever controls it controls all of the cis-lunar space. Being on the Moon is thus the ultimate air superiority.

We do not, under any circumstances want to cede that to the Chicoms, or anybody else.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 03:28 AM (w6EFb)

399 I was wondering what everyone was banging on about, then I saw the video. One hell of a bang, that.

Blue Origin isn’t doing much for awhile it seems.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2026 03:31 AM (pKv0r)

400 395 What do we think we are going to do on the moon? Grow crops? Manufacture consumer goods? Wave at ET when he rides by?
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 03:20 AM (DwqWV)

Store nuclear waste!

Posted by: Gerry Anderson at May 29, 2026 03:32 AM (pKv0r)

401 Trump plans to export cheese, putting woke Wisconsin out of business.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 03:26 AM (3n7qY)

Well, I'm good with putting Limburger up there, because of the smell, but the rest will be difficult because cows would have trouble wearing the oxygen masks.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 03:33 AM (DwqWV)

402 365
Well, I've been watching some zoomed-in slow motion replays of the New Glenn "anomaly" as they're calling it. They tried to light off the engines earlier, but something went wrong. Those NSF guys who watch everything 24/7 noticed the sound suppression system was started, but nothing happened. So there was some problem that aborted the engine start…
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 01:42 AM (w6EFb)

The Challenger explosion was a “major malfunction”…

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2026 03:35 AM (pKv0r)

403 Change the name to Green Origin. A lot of green going into it.

Posted by: Case at May 29, 2026 03:35 AM (8XBuM)

404 Which is one of the reasons that I don't subscribe to the "Gluten Free" fad. Most studies show that gluten has pro-biotic qualities (similar to yogurt). And, while I can understand the necessity for some gluten-free products to accomodate those with Celiac disease, it should be the exception IMO, not the rule. Instead, as usual, it would appear that the few dictate to the many.
Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 01:23 AM (dIske)

For some, a gluten free diet makes sense. But all of a sudden everyone is allergic to gluten, out of nowhere, after 6000 years? THAT I don’t get.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2026 03:37 AM (pKv0r)

405 51 We all know President Trump released a book call "The Art of the Deal." I hear Hunter Biden is working on his book, "The Art of the Steal: Making Money Off Dad When He's Powerful."

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 10:11 PM (qx7Zg)

I need to read it, and fast!

Posted by: Haley Cornyn at May 29, 2026 03:40 AM (pKv0r)

406 Long night ahead…

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2026 03:41 AM (pKv0r)

407 Change the name to Green Origin. A lot of green going into it.

Posted by: Case at May 29, 2026 03:35 AM (8XBuM)
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Orange fireball bad!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 03:42 AM (3n7qY)

408 Got to be gone in a hour

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:47 AM (Ia/+0)

409 Got to be gone in a hour

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:47 AM (Ia/+0)
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Ask your doctor if Canada's MAID program is right for you.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 03:49 AM (3n7qY)

410 Video from Tampa, 120 miles away, showing the light from the explosion reflecting off the clouds:

t.ly/zRXiK
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

I am about 30 miles south.
Didn't even notice it. We had some mild thunder and lightning further south earlier so probably just figured more of the same.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 03:53 AM (/lPRQ)

411
I made the mistake of reading the comments on the Daily Mail article about this explosion. Blithering idiots rattling off about stuff they don't have the slightest clue about.

Some are worried about the CO2 the explosion produced, and all the "toxic chemicals" and that shit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 03:59 AM (w6EFb)

412 Key Approaches for Regolith-Based "Lunarcrete" or Gunite-Like Materials.

Ask grok.

Posted by: 13times at May 29, 2026 03:59 AM (/LwQg)

413 09 Got to be gone in a hour

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:47 AM (Ia/+0)
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Ask your doctor if Canada's MAID program is right for you.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 03

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LOL! But seriously, I've been my caring for my ex-wife as she descends into dementia. At times she is extremely difficult. I have no wife, have no kids. If I get dementia, I really don't want to inflict it on someone else.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 29, 2026 04:05 AM (/K2a0)

414 398
The Moon is the ultimate high ground. Whoever controls it controls all of the cis-lunar space. Being on the Moon is thus the ultimate air superiority.

We do not, under any circumstances want to cede that to the Chicoms, or anybody else.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 03:28 AM (w6EFb

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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress -- Robert Heinlin

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 29, 2026 04:09 AM (/K2a0)

415 >>For some, a gluten free diet makes sense. But all of a sudden everyone is allergic to gluten, out of nowhere, after 6000 years? THAT I don’t get.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 29, 2026 03:37 AM (pKv0r)
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Drinking tap water. It's full of expelled hormones, antibiotics and hundreds of other man made chemicals that public water does not filter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2026 04:11 AM (y79kU)

416 JM me either. Luckily no.one in my family that I know had it.

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 04:11 AM (Ia/+0)

417 Bridge tunnel art is good
And nothing on this side of the pond, we just get graffiti

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 04:15 AM (Ia/+0)

418 If I get dementia, I really don't want to inflict it on someone else.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 29, 2026 04:05 AM (/K2a0)
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Mrs. BD has always said "just shoot me" if it happens to her.

No can do.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 04:16 AM (3n7qY)

419
Leveraging coarse moon regolith:

1. Mechanical Interlocking in Geopolymers and Lunar Concrete

The angular, irregular particle shapes enhance mechanical bonding in geopolymer mixes and other regolith-based materials. Sharp edges and rough surfaces improve interlocking within the binder matrix (e.g., alkali-activated aluminosilicates), contributing to higher compressive and shear strengths compared to rounded aggregates

Posted by: 13times at May 29, 2026 04:18 AM (/LwQg)

420 418 If I get dementia, I really don't want to inflict it on someone else.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 29, 2026 04:05 AM (/K2a0)
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Mrs. BD has always said "just shoot me" if it happens to her.

No can do.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 04:16 AM (3n7qY)

You can hug her through it!

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 04:19 AM (6wpGE)

421
I think there's a lunar glass you can make that would be as strong as steel.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 04:23 AM (w6EFb)

422 You can hug her through it!

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 04:19 AM (6wpGE)
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Here's praying we don't get to that.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 04:31 AM (3n7qY)

423 I think there's a lunar glass you can make that would be as strong as steel.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 04:23 AM (w6EFb)

Not in bulk, but as part of a composite, it could be amazingly strong.

Which leads to the question.... where do you get the "bio" part for your "bio-composite" on another planet?

Steal some poop from the potato pots, maybe?

Posted by: Warai-otoko don't want no poly-poopylene at May 29, 2026 04:40 AM (Ot/FD)

424 Ugh. I mentally inserted a "don't" into your statement, and then immediately conflated strength and toughness.

This is why i can't keep a job.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 29, 2026 04:43 AM (Ot/FD)

425 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress -- Robert Heinlin
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 29, 2026 04:09 AM (/K2a0)

"Gravity is a harsh mistress." -- The Tick

Posted by: SciVo at May 29, 2026 04:43 AM (Sy6m/)

426 If China ever got moon superiority, our crazy asses would probably construct a little mini moon around the moon and start hucking shit at them from it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 29, 2026 04:45 AM (Ot/FD)

427
If China got Moon superiority, our ability to get shit up there to toss at them would be seriously compromised.

And the far side of the Moon would be the ultimate stealth location.

Just imagine what the Fauci's and worse that the Chicoms could get up to there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 04:56 AM (w6EFb)

428 Gotta go

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 04:56 AM (Ia/+0)

429 421 I think there's a lunar glass you can make that would be as strong as steel.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 04:23 AM (w6EFb)

And As Cold As Ice?

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 04:58 AM (6wpGE)

430 >>>We need common sense spoon control...
Fork over yer spoons!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

>We need common sense portion control. I don't need a goddamn burger so big I can't fit it in my mouth. Two meals in a loaf of bread. $15 for a burger? I'll order from the children's menu, thank you, I don't need take home. Gluttony.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 29, 2026 04:58 AM (D1E+2)

431 422 You can hug her through it!

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 04:19 AM (6wpGE)
-

Here's praying we don't get to that.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 29, 2026 04:31 AM (3n7qY)

Indeed.
"Could" would have been a better word choice on my part.

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 04:58 AM (6wpGE)

432 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at May 29, 2026 05:09 AM (6wpGE)

433 .
Tech News is NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2026 05:09 AM (O7YUW)

Thursday More Like Fursday Amirite Cafe

Super-cell over Horbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
From Unwetterfreaks

Red Bull built a small skatepark and then lofted it into the air via hot-air balloon.

A couple of cutie foxes recovering after injuries.

This is what I'm looking for except crows.

StrongTurtle contest.

I think I probably linked this recently, but if I didn't, this squirrel wants more affection.

He's 1000% more masculine than James Talarico.

Summertime on the farm.

Puppy turns a simple level-check into Extreme Engineering.

Cat's reaction to seeing itself in the mirror for the first time..🐈🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/SR21IXoir9
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) May 28, 2026

Baby elephant collecting the road toll..🐘🍉😅 pic.twitter.com/qjdNcaQg7T
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) May 28, 2026

Senior dog becomes a puppy after meeting a new puppy..🐕🐾🐶😊 pic.twitter.com/cCOeWz7iP7
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) May 28, 2026

Out of control!

Border collie: �You scared my new sheep away..� 🐕🐾😅

📹jakesiepeI pic.twitter.com/sr2pWnbNSI
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) May 28, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:40 PM

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1
Yay

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 07:41 PM (3ek7K)

2 Hello folks.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 28, 2026 07:41 PM (CHHv1)

3 I saw a little turtle in the road today but I couldn't stop to move him out. I hope he got across the road safely.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 07:42 PM (1Vo6X)

4
Hi Beckoning and Robert!

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 07:42 PM (3ek7K)

5 Cool storm picture. Which reminds me, I've been enjoying the Euros vs Americans tit-for-tat on Xitter regarding tornados.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 28, 2026 07:43 PM (zYpTz)

6 Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all) used to attack her reflection in the mirror.

Now she just ignores it, I think.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 07:44 PM (gnNyN)

7 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 28, 2026 07:44 PM (LdBR/)

8 Damn ace, that old dog-puppy video.

*sniffs*

Fuck you you gay crow humper.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 07:44 PM (zZu0s)

9 I have actually seen black bears while mountain biking here in Oregon.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 28, 2026 07:45 PM (THY4u)

10 I don't think think I would like being swarmed by crows. Just one crow friend would be enough. I would name him "Magnon".

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 07:45 PM (vFG9F)

11 I just noticed a weird thing that happens. If I hit post on a comment in one thread at the same exact same instant a new main post occurs pixy will eat my comment. It is consumed as food for the hamsters. Kind of a latent energy thing where the universe requires a balance, one comment must be consumed for a new post to be birthed. The Miracle of Life!

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 07:45 PM (3uBP9)

12
Done with the Thursday night guys get together at public establishments as the price for 9 beers with tip now exceeds $100.

Posted by: Auspex at May 28, 2026 07:45 PM (Y8DZL)

13 I would name him "Magnon".
Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 07:45 PM (vFG9F)

Hugin.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 07:46 PM (zZu0s)

14 Done with the Thursday night guys get together at public establishments as the price for 9 beers with tip now exceeds $100.
Posted by: Auspex

Damn. Go buy a case and sit in the man cave.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 28, 2026 07:47 PM (IivNP)

15 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 07:48 PM (Ia/+0)

16 There are a remarkable amount of VS Deathmatch videos for comic characters on ewetub. Thragg (Invincible) vs 'Evolved Godzilla (have no idea) is an example.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 07:48 PM (zZu0s)

17 Kind of a latent energy thing where the universe requires a balance, one comment must be consumed for a new post to be birthed. The Miracle of Life!
Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 07:45 PM (3uBP9)
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Or the Comment Gods need their tribute...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 07:49 PM (gnNyN)

18 That first video..nope. Just nope.

Posted by: Tuna at May 28, 2026 07:49 PM (lJ0H4)

19 From last thread:
>> I do like the proper transatlantic accent of the early to mid 20th century....

The Transatlantic or Mid-Atlantic accent was entirely made up, a "received accent", peaking in the early 20th Century. It was created by upper class Northeastern to sound all sophisticated. Walter Winchell famously spoke it.

It's how Cary Grant talked. Also Katherine Hepburn. And Thurston Howell.

Mr. Howell's version was more "Locust Valley Lockjaw", a particularly snotty variant of it. Frasier and Niles Crane also used it for pompous effect.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 07:49 PM (w6EFb)

20 I saw a little turtle in the road today

It's the same old thing as yesterday

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 07:49 PM (gKWVE)

21 He's 1000% more masculine than James Talarico.

From DU:

"Did anyone else hear this response from Talarico to insults about his "masculinity"?

He is on a five-city tour of TX and talking to people as the matchup between him and Paxton begins. He addressed the masculinity thing by using his father as an example. He said, "A real man serves others."

Then he gave the example of his own father who used to mow the lawn every Saturday morning and then without telling anyone, would go next door and mow the neighbor's lawn. She was an elderly widow. He finished by saying, "That's what a man does. He serves others. And he does it without bragging or complaining.

Imagine that. I love that response."

Well, that was his dad. How about you, son?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 07:50 PM (0sNs1)

22
It was an r-dropping mixture of British and American accents. Hollywood liked it because it sounded sophisticated to the rubes.

It sounds utterly pompous-ass to me now, except for Cary Grant. That's just how he talked.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 07:51 PM (w6EFb)

23 Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 07:50 PM (0sNs1)

Wasn't his dad bragging by saying that?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 07:52 PM (1Vo6X)

24 Guaranteed that that mtn bike trail leads to tasty garbage dumpsters, coolers with drinks and car treats (bear peel passenger door windows like a easy-open can of beans).

Posted by: 13times at May 28, 2026 07:52 PM (nkuNt)

25 >>> It was an r-dropping mixture of British and American accents. Hollywood liked it because it sounded sophisticated to the rubes.

It sounds utterly pompous-ass to me now, except for Cary Grant. That's just how he talked.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 07:51 PM (w6EFb)

The brahmin accent is a real thing though. I worked with a much older guy that actually spoke that way. I assumed he was from the NE.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 07:53 PM (3uBP9)

26 Well I larned me today that wheelwrighting is not so obsolete as I thought. Turns out there's still money to be made in bespoke goods.

Posted by: SWIDT? at May 28, 2026 07:53 PM (TbWk/)

27 That guy does have a chute on just in case he goes overboard!

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 28, 2026 07:53 PM (VCgbV)

28 bear peel passenger door windows like a easy-open can of beans).
Posted by: 13times

I think you may misoverestimate me, my good man

Posted by: the Bear at May 28, 2026 07:54 PM (q6tQZ)

29 "That's what a man does. He serves others"

Read all about it at Aliens.gov!

Posted by: It's a recipe! at May 28, 2026 07:54 PM (vFG9F)

30 Stay in you lane.
- A. Bear

Posted by: Eromero at May 28, 2026 07:55 PM (LHPAg)

31 Is the Talarico mailer i saw on Twitter for real? Please tell me it's real.

Posted by: Wally at May 28, 2026 07:56 PM (9JK86)

32 "Well I larned me today that wheelwrighting is not so obsolete as I thought. Turns out there's still money to be made in bespoke goods.
Posted by: SWIDT? "

The HQ is the greatest hub on the internet for tired puns.

Posted by: It's a recipe! at May 28, 2026 07:57 PM (vFG9F)

33 >>> He's 1000% more masculine than James Talarico.

I figured it was going to be Ace's favorite video of the dog with a purse looking in the mirror. Also true.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 07:57 PM (3uBP9)

34 "Did anyone else hear this response from Talarico to insults about his "masculinity"?

His "church" provides gay and trans books to kids. That's not masculine it's predatory, evil and sick.

Posted by: He's going to the bad place at May 28, 2026 07:57 PM (TbWk/)

35 Obama appointee who sentenced Todd Chrisley trib.al/E2NqknC
"This corrupt judge who couldn’t focus on our case because she was too busy clapping dem cheeks in her chambers … she needs to be impeached and we will work with Congress and our legal team to see that this happens,” Chrisley wrote on Instagram.

Posted by: Georgia's in Florida, dumb ass at May 28, 2026 07:57 PM (gKWVE)

36 The Transatlantic or Mid-Atlantic accent was entirely made up, a "received accent", peaking in the early 20th Century. It was created by upper class Northeastern to sound all sophisticated. Walter Winchell famously spoke it.

Plus Roosevelt. Totally fake and faggy.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 28, 2026 07:58 PM (l26NL)

37 I didn't see any green clouds in that super cell so we're good for now.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 28, 2026 07:58 PM (D1E+2)

38 hen he gave the example of his own father who used to mow the lawn every Saturday morning and then without telling anyone, would go next door and mow the neighbor's lawn. She was an elderly widow. He finished by saying, "That's what a man does. He serves others. And he does it without bragging or complaining.

----

He says, while bragging (or complaining)

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 28, 2026 07:58 PM (THY4u)

39 Golfing ranges lie. I actually look like I know what I'm doing on a golf range. An actual golf course, not so much. I endeavor to perceiver. It chilly in Western Pennsyltucky. About 60 with a cool northern breeze. Pretty day though.

Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 28, 2026 07:59 PM (bfy6w)

40 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 07:49 PM (w6EFb)

That clipped patrician accent was very common even in crappy movies.

Watched an old movie via Rifftrax, supposedly taking place in Idaho, and the woman stopped and asked directions, and Mike quipped, I love that authentic Idaho accent.

Oddly enough, John Carradine was in it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 08:00 PM (0aYVJ)

41 If I don't cut that lady's yard all her damn dandelions blow over here.

Posted by: Talafreako's dad at May 28, 2026 08:00 PM (vFG9F)

42 >> The brahmin accent is a real thing though.

The Brahmin accent was a real one. There are differences with the proper Trans-Atlantic, which was entirely a made-up thing taught in the elite prep schools.

I'm not sure if the famous Thurston Howell Locust Valley Lockjaw was ever really real or just a localized affected version of Trans-Atlantic.

Anyway, if you want to sound really pompous and snotty and old money, LVL is the way to go.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 08:00 PM (w6EFb)

43 They need to ‘vestigate people like that. No normal well adjusted person publicly advocates grooming children into sex deviancy. These are horrifying developments. Public officials, elected officials. It’s insane

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 08:01 PM (I69X4)

44 It was created by upper class Northeastern to sound all sophisticated.

==

It was not created. Just a natural transition.

Posted by: runner at May 28, 2026 08:01 PM (GD0B3)

45 Well I larned me today that wheelwrighting is not so obsolete as I thought. Turns out there's still money to be made in bespoke goods.
Posted by: SWIDT?

When you ask your cabinet maker to produce your long johns, make sure you get well-oiled hinges for the trap door in the back. Squeaky or stuck hinges could cause problems in the toilet.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 08:02 PM (qx7Zg)

46 RIP Harambe

https://instapundit.com/799906/

Posted by: steevy at May 28, 2026 08:02 PM (YwEeS)

47 Willow'd:

106 Yeah, the words are still there, but when I go to look for the exact right word- it's just not. I know I know the perfect word, but it is like a empty spot on a dusty shelf- the imprint is there, but there's no jar.

It comes and goes. And then 20 mins later, you smack your head and call yourself a dumb ass. Spirit of the Staircase.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 07:20 PM (zZu0s)

I use WordWeb, mostly to check spelling, but also when my word-grabber is failing to pull a word I know I know. It has three neat features, even in the free version:

https://wordweb.info/free/

* As a light stand-alone app, you can use it from any program, without having to open a browser (or switch away from the tab you're on). Just highlight a word, and ctrl-alt-w or ctrl-right-click.

* In addition to the built-in offline dictionary/thesaurus, it has tabs for Wikipedia (which I never use) and Wiktionary (which I use all the time).

* Further, they recently added an actually useful "AI Suggestions" feature for fuzzy matches, like when XTC introduced the term 'wignat'. It gave the accurate, politically-incorrect meaning.

Posted by: SciVo at May 28, 2026 08:03 PM (Sy6m/)

48 House on Haunted Hill is another great example of actors trying to sound important.

WTF is a siddative?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 08:03 PM (0aYVJ)

49 "Did anyone else hear this response from Talarico to insults about his "masculinity"?

------------

"As much as I admire & love them -- and especially their trans grandchildren -- I AM NOT NOR HAVE I EVER BEEN A FEMALE TRANS LESBIAN!"

-- The Touchy Talafreako Campaign

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 28, 2026 08:04 PM (owOpf)

50 27 That guy does have a chute on just in case he goes overboard!

---

What if he knocks himself out while going overboard.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 28, 2026 08:04 PM (THY4u)

51 My squirrels just run away

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 08:04 PM (Ia/+0)

52 The trans Atlantic accent is grating. Actresses in vintage radio and movies all had it, and over-acted.

It was often used as a marker, “this person is wealthy, and it’s OK to laugh at them and hate them”. Fibber McGee had a couple hoity-toity visitors with the TA accent. That was the cue. Stuffy, humorless scolds. You know how they are.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 08:04 PM (I69X4)

53 So, is the contest between Paxton and Talarico going to be about Talarico's masculinity? No pms s for what they want to try to do for Texas?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 08:05 PM (rZCVI)

54 WTF is a siddative?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank

Do you want your bones to boil in acid?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 28, 2026 08:05 PM (l26NL)

55 My squirrels just run away

====

Are you training them ?

Posted by: runner at May 28, 2026 08:05 PM (GD0B3)

56 Then there's Tara Reid in "Alone In The Dark". New FOUND Land.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 08:06 PM (gKWVE)

57 >> It was not created. Just a natural transition.

I don't know enough about this to argue, other than ever source I've ever read about it describes as not a real regional accent naturally spoken, but a taught, manufactured accent.

There was a story about Katherine Hepburn joking she'd forgotten how to talk like Katherine Hepburn for some project and she'd have to learn again.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 08:06 PM (w6EFb)

58 Training them to H8 me might have something to do with it

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 08:08 PM (Ia/+0)

59 It was often used as a marker, “this person is wealthy, and it’s OK to laugh at them and hate them”. Fibber McGee had a couple hoity-toity visitors with the TA accent. That was the cue. Stuffy, humorless scolds. You know how they are.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 08:04 PM (I69X4)
_______________________

Charles Emerson Winchester

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 08:08 PM (dIske)

60 No pms s for what they want to try to do for Texas?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 08:05 PM (rZCVI)

"pms" nails Talarico to a tee.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2026 08:09 PM (8zz6B)

61 You can still get wooden wheels, and barrels that will actually hold liquids, but prepare for sticker shock. $$$.

If you wanted say, a Cannon* (and they are legal, no matter what Biden says) you would discover that a Cannon barrel isn’t particularly expensive, but a working Caisson, the wheels and all that stuff, is pretty damned expensive.

*Of course you do. Nod your head “yes”…

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 08:09 PM (I69X4)

62 I loved that old dog video. I'm living it.

Ralphy still has a lot of life in him. As the AIs put it, he's a puppy at heart dealing with an old dog body.

Stairs are not his friend but he chases Snowflake around playfully, barks insanely for his free timbits at Tim's and the free meat cup at Arby's, goes nuts when we have visitors.

But gates are going up guarding some stairs now....for my sanity too.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 08:09 PM (Sco7b)

63 Done with the Thursday night guys get together at public establishments as the price for 9 beers with tip now exceeds $100.
Posted by: Auspex
Maybe rach of you can keep it down to seven or eight beers.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 28, 2026 08:10 PM (sl73Y)

64 'preclude'?

@sentdefender 1h
A new http://Aliens.gov redirect now takes you to a live interactive map of illegal immigrant arrests, as it seems the “alien” hype was meant to prelude the interface that tracks ICE’s activities apprehending criminal illegal aliens.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 28, 2026 08:10 PM (diia5)

65 That clipped patrician accent was very common even in crappy movies.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 08:00 PM (0aYVJ)

That's one of the main reasons I hate old movies (pre-1970s or thereabouts). That, combined with stage acting. Unbearable.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 28, 2026 08:12 PM (zYpTz)

66 Does anyone take this mincing faggot, James Talarico, seriously. He's a ProgBot. I can't even imagine, despite what they post, even the lunatics at DU take him seriously. Ok, they would but nobody else.

Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 28, 2026 08:12 PM (bfy6w)

67 Dorothy in Oz is a weird one in which she was probably very trained in the mid/trans atlantic but then just added "r" at the end of vowels because that's what we do in Karnsars.

Posted by: barnarnar Drearm at May 28, 2026 08:12 PM (3uBP9)

68 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2026 08:09 PM (8zz6B)

Thanks. I must admit to not being so clever. The word was supposed to be "plans" as in "no plans for what they plan to do for Texas"?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 08:13 PM (rZCVI)

69 I don't know enough about this to argue, other than ever source I've ever read about it describes as not a real regional accent naturally spoken, but a taught, manufactured accent.

I think I remember hearing that it was an accent mutually intelligible to audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, but I don't know if that's true or relevant to it's use in film, but it was interesting

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 28, 2026 08:13 PM (C0Nlv)

70
What's that joke about conservation of 'r's? The dropped 'r's show up as extra 'r's in some redneck dialects.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 08:14 PM (w6EFb)

71 49 "Did anyone else hear this response from Talarico to insults about his "masculinity"?

I predict every banana Talarico is offered to publicly eat for the entire campaign is eaten with a knife and fork.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 08:15 PM (Sco7b)

72 but a working Caisson, the wheels and all that stuff, is pretty damned expensive.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 08:09 PM

I'm really hoping Toyota imports the HiLux now that President Trump changed the restrictive regs.

It would be the perfect motive power to keep the caissons rolling along.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 08:15 PM (0sNs1)

73 Thanks. I must admit to not being so clever. The word was supposed to be "plans" as in "no plans for what they plan to do for Texas"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 08:13 PM (rZCVI)

Talarico regards Texas as a muslim regards a comely goat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2026 08:15 PM (8zz6B)

74 >>>Training them to H8 me might have something to do with it

Posted by: Skip

>Do you have some old hamburger to feed them? Maybe some stale popcorn? A pellet gun works too.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 28, 2026 08:16 PM (D1E+2)

75 That's one of the main reasons I hate old movies (pre-1970s or thereabouts). That, combined with stage acting. Unbearable.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Still better than the mush-mouthed lack of enunciation that's so horribly common in current movies (As of ~10 years ago which is the last time I watched a current movie)

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 28, 2026 08:16 PM (C0Nlv)

76 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2026 08:15 PM (8zz6B

The Democrats couldn't come with any less weird candidate?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 08:16 PM (rZCVI)

77 They didn’t let females do anything for a long time, just whimper and wail. “Oh! George! Whatever shall I do? Whatever shall I do!?”

On the other hand, the formulaic Our Miss Brooks is unlistenable, as is Father Knows Best and Life of Riley. Political correctness and “Woke” silliness goes back quite a ways.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 08:17 PM (I69X4)

78 I predict every banana Talarico is offered to publicly eat for the entire campaign is eaten with a knife and fork.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 08:15 PM (Sco7b)

Be sure to offer him the "specially-dipped" corn dogs at the country fairs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2026 08:17 PM (8zz6B)

79 The biggest group of "r" droppers in NE are not the patrician class, just the opposite.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 08:18 PM (viF8m)

80 I saw a photo where someone had mounted a (6-pounder?) cannon on a flatbed trailer, with a sign on the back: "If you can read this, you're in range."

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 08:18 PM (qx7Zg)

81 It would be the perfect motive power to keep the caissons rolling along.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 08:15 PM (0sNs1)

-------------

Over Hank, over Dale,
As we hit the dusty trail,
And the KIngs of The Hill roll along.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 28, 2026 08:19 PM (owOpf)

82 70
What's that joke about conservation of 'r's? The dropped 'r's show up as extra 'r's in some redneck dialects.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 08:14 PM (w6EFb)

You all. Y'all. Yaw.

Posted by: Eromero at May 28, 2026 08:19 PM (LHPAg)

83 The accent that confounds me the most is Australian. They some how add the "a" sound to all their vowels in a very sneaky way but you can hear it most when they draw out long vowels. It's like the sound is always phasing in and out of "a" regardless of if it is "i" "e" "o" whatever. There is this secondary "a" sound like a carrier frequency constantly in all their speech. I can't even try to mimic it.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 08:21 PM (3uBP9)

84 Nothing flags a fake southron more than using y'all to refer to a single individual.

Posted by: MkY at May 28, 2026 08:21 PM (q6tQZ)

85 I’m not certain, but I think Cannon on a boat is legal. Like the Swivel gun Lewis and Clark had on the Keelboat. That oughtta keep them Wisconsin SOBs outta my water on the Mississippi

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 08:22 PM (I69X4)

86 Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 08:22 PM (Ia/+0)

87 The Democrats couldn't come with any less weird candidate?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 08:16 PM

My sense is they're quickly going to be singing a new song.

"Where have you gone,
Jasmine Crockett?
The Party turns its longing eyes
to a soubrette
Woo, woo, woo.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 08:22 PM (0sNs1)

88 Charles Emerson Winchester

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 08:08 PM (dIske)

-------------

... THE THIRD!!!

/great character

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 28, 2026 08:23 PM (owOpf)

89 Talarico is what Karens would come up with as their ideal Red State candidate. Male, cuz you know those patriarchal rubes won't vote for a woman, but without an ounce of masculinity. Christian, because again, rubes - but an abortion and tranny lovin' Jesus. And white, but a self-hating white.

Posted by: Wally at May 28, 2026 08:23 PM (9JK86)

90 “All Y’all” is correct usage in the plural, according to Strunk & White

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 08:23 PM (I69X4)

91 >> “All Y’all”

That, or all y'all generally implies unanimity.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 08:24 PM (w6EFb)

92 Talarico is what Karens would come up with as their ideal Red State candidate. Male, cuz you know those patriarchal rubes won't vote for a woman, but without an ounce of masculinity. Christian, because again, rubes - but an abortion and tranny lovin' Jesus. And white, but a self-hating white.
———

That’s how you can tell he’s a spook.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 08:24 PM (I69X4)

93 >>The accent that confounds me the most is Australian.

I work with an Australian and have for a while so I'm kind of used to it. Get an Aussie and a Kiwi together and they will insist their accents aren't even close and get butthurt if you suggest they sound the same.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 08:24 PM (viF8m)

94 I heard a new acronym

Instead of see you next Tuesday
Cat under a nasty tree.

I’m cracking myself up over here.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 28, 2026 08:24 PM (9jKO6)

95 Admire the man on the bike not screaming like a girl when the bear raced him. Also admired the dog's training.

I only scream like a girl with snakes. And then it's a high pitched sqwee as I run the 100yrd dash faster than Flo Jo.

My husband may scream like a girl eventually as he's now dealing with my mother's trust. He was the trustee and then she verbally promoted my brother and I didn't care. And found a bunch of crap wrong with this we want to avoid someday. I'm glad it's getting done now before she's either out of it or in heaven.

We had a "meeting" which my mother said was not needed. Yes it was needed as my father has been dead 16yrs and everything went to her. She's alert and happy and did not want to deal with it. Someday she won't be alert as she is on the other side of 95yrs now.

As usual I'm just along for the ride. I was demoted from being her healthcare surrogate years ago. Which is fine since I'm over 1000 miles away and my brother will call me, etc.

We don't have a dysfunctional family in feuding, so there's that.

There is some procrastination to rules and regulations of my father's trust on my mother's part apparently now showing up.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 28, 2026 08:25 PM (WONhk)

96 >>> Nothing flags a fake southron more than using y'all to refer to a single individual.
Posted by: MkY at May 28, 2026 08:21 PM (q6tQZ)

One person - you'in

A subset of people - y'all

The entire set of people - ally'all

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 08:25 PM (3uBP9)

97 I worked with a woman who had some kind of valley-girl way of extending one syllable words. My name is Mike, but she called me Mi-ike. It was weird. Almost like she was throwing in a diphthong. Mike is about as one-syllable as you can get.

Folks gonna talk weird, I reckon.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 08:26 PM (0aYVJ)

98 First round of golf this year after dealing with chemo effects all winter, still wicked weak in the legs from inactivity.
Only fourteen strokes worse than last fall. And I finished the eighteen. The word win is not usually associated with my golf, but I'll claim it today.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 28, 2026 08:27 PM (sl73Y)

99 >>> I worked with a woman who had some kind of valley-girl way of extending one syllable words. My name is Mike, but she called me Mi-ike. It was weird. Almost like she was throwing in a diphthong. Mike is about as one-syllable as you can get.

Folks gonna talk weird, I reckon.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 08:26 PM (0aYVJ)

Did she drop into vocalfry when she extended the vowel? Because that was a thing.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 08:28 PM (3uBP9)

100 The thing that flummoxes me about the way Australian people say the word, no.

How?

Pretty much everyone else in the world can say the word no properly.

But Australians have figured out how to cram in extra vowels and consonants.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 08:29 PM (XV/Pl)

101 Only fourteen strokes worse than last fall. And I finished the eighteen. The word win is not usually associated with my golf, but I'll claim it today.
Posted by: From about That Time

You're above ground and playing. 14 ain't bad, considering it's your first round.
And you're still above being a bogey golfer... which is me, when I'm playing well.

Posted by: MkY at May 28, 2026 08:31 PM (q6tQZ)

102 First round of golf this year after dealing with chemo effects all winter, still wicked weak in the legs from inactivity.
Only fourteen strokes worse than last fall. And I finished the eighteen. The word win is not usually associated with my golf, but I'll claim it today.
Posted by: From about That Time

Good deal.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 28, 2026 08:31 PM (IivNP)

103 There is this secondary "a" sound like a carrier frequency constantly in all their speech. I can't even try to mimic it.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 08:21 PM (3uBP9)

I say some a sounds like cake or baby like an Aussie. I still do and have lived out of MS for 50yrs.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 28, 2026 08:31 PM (WONhk)

104 Still better than the mush-mouthed lack of enunciation that's so horribly common in current movies (As of ~10 years ago which is the last time I watched a current movie)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 28, 2026 08:16 PM (C0Nlv)

A lot of that is sound mixing too. Not leveling out dialogue vs soundtrack and ambient noise.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 08:32 PM (zZu0s)

105 >>> How?

Pretty much everyone else in the world can say the word no properly.

But Australians have figured out how to cram in extra vowels and consonants.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 08:29 PM (XV/Pl)

Yes! See! There's at least an "a" in there, other vowels too. But I can't figure out how it gets there. I try to mimic the sound and get alternation between vowels. But they produce all the vowels at the same time. It's like they've developed polyphonic vocal chords.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 08:33 PM (3uBP9)

106 Did she drop into vocalfry when she extended the vowel? Because that was a thing.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 08:28 PM (3uBP9)

Oh, she hit the trifecta: valley girl, vocal fry and uptalking. Add in a dash of very passive phrasing: " I feel like..."

She's a very nice person, intelligent; but young, and raised in a world of passive voice.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 08:33 PM (0aYVJ)

107 The second knee scooter arrived, only took a couple of minutes to assemble.

No my wife doesn’t have to drag the damn thing up and down stairs for me.

Although, I probably need a third now come to think of it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 08:33 PM (XV/Pl)

108 And you're still above being a bogey golfer... which is me, when I'm playing well.
Posted by: MkY at May

You may have misread, fourteen strokes above my usual score, which would be about a thirty five handicap.
Coming back from a bad motorcycle accident I was I kid you not I counted fifty seven strokes above my previous score. Took two years to bring it back down to my previous pathetic avererage.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 28, 2026 08:37 PM (sl73Y)

109 I never got the see you next Tuesday bit. Unless maybe if you're in front of children.

You never hear men use it, so it's not to spare women in mixed company. It's strictly a chick thing. Cunt is a word - use it or don't. It's a weird affectation.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 28, 2026 08:37 PM (flbGo)

110 Girl, don't be wagging that nasty dipthong in my face.

Posted by: Eromero at May 28, 2026 08:37 PM (LHPAg)

111 >>> I don't know enough about this to argue, other than ever source I've ever read about it describes as not a real regional accent naturally spoken, but a taught, manufactured accent.

There's a linguist I follow on YouTube. I think his name is Lindsey. He's done a few eps about it. I think he says it was a real accent which was adopted by actors and exaggerated a bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xoDsZFwF-c

Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 08:39 PM (1wjle)

112
Super-cell over Horbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Also, Spring Day in Oklahoma

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 08:39 PM (HdYcL)

113
Talarico

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek, a goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!" - Big Bill Shakespeare

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 08:42 PM (HdYcL)

114 Super-cell over Horbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Also, Spring Day in Oklahoma
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 08:39 PM (HdYcL)
Looked like they had already cut their wheat or whatever.

Posted by: Eromero at May 28, 2026 08:42 PM (LHPAg)

115 It's a weird affectation.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 28, 2026 08:37 PM (flbGo)

It is an odd one. Women love dropping it, but at the same time hate hearing it. Purely female on female fighting words.

I mean, there usually is some overlap, but not here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 08:43 PM (zZu0s)

116 Geez. Still not home yet. Let work at 4:00.

30 minutes at Chiropractor's office. Stopped for gas & 4 items at Wal Mart. Still another 20 - 25 minutes to go.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2026 08:44 PM (Fzhd7)

117 Pretty much everyone else in the world can say the word no properly.

But Australians have figured out how to cram in extra vowels and consonants.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Nawh, mate!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2026 08:47 PM (Fzhd7)

118 The thing that flummoxes me about the way Australian people say the word, no.

How?

Pretty much everyone else in the world can say the word no properly.

But Australians have figured out how to cram in extra vowels and consonants.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

As requested!

https://youtube.com/shorts/mHBR6KWzoFw

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2026 08:47 PM (VHUov)

119 >> which was adopted by actors and exaggerated a bit.

Thanks. That's interesting.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 08:48 PM (w6EFb)

120 This is the absolute state of England.

British guy sees Helen Mirren, now 80 years old, walking down the street near her house in East London yesterday.

What does he do?

Ask for her autograph? Say "I loved you in Prime Suspect"? Grovel in admiration and fandom?

No.

He screams "You evil Zionist bitch!" at her, because she once said she admired Israel in an interview 50 years ago:

https://x.com/crimeldn/status/2059920113382408340?s=46

He obviously lnow where she lives and was stalking her. Acted very menacing. Now she has to fear for her life.

Posted by: zombie at May 28, 2026 08:49 PM (Av6i5)

121 If you need a smile, try these goldens:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zSNy0ay1H7s

The last is channeling Magneto - or the Florida Woman trying to free the produce.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 08:52 PM (qx7Zg)

122 He screams "You evil Zionist bitch!" at her, because she once said she admired Israel in an interview 50 years ago:

https://x.com/crimeldn/status/2059920113382408340?s=46

He obviously lnow where she lives and was stalking her. Acted very menacing. Now she has to fear for her life.
Posted by: zombie

50 years? Talk about playing the long game.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2026 08:54 PM (Fzhd7)

123 Mirren in Excalibur was a boner delivery service

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 08:56 PM (gKWVE)

124 97 I worked with a woman who had some kind of valley-girl way of extending one syllable words. My name is Mike, but she called me Mi-ike. It was weird. Almost like she was throwing in a diphthong. Mike is about as one-syllable as you can get.

Folks gonna talk weird, I reckon.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 08:26 PM (0aYVJ)
___________________________

Pug, you have to check out this quick little clip from the show "Loudermilk." It nails exactly what you said so well.

https://tinyurl.com/yrk7nh6e

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 08:57 PM (dIske)

125 I mean, there usually is some overlap, but not here.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 08:43 PM (zZu0s)

Personally, I toss the actual word around pretty casually. There's a lot of 'em running around. I just don't use it here much because I recall Ace saying it's a trigger for advertisers to start whining like c***s.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 28, 2026 08:57 PM (flbGo)

126 My PA crows like dog food and chicken nuggets.

Posted by: night lifted at May 28, 2026 08:59 PM (kJmLc)

127 You never hear men use it, so it's not to spare women in mixed company. It's strictly a chick thing. Cunt is a word - use it or don't. It's a weird affectation.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 28, 2026 08:37 PM (flbGo)

Men use it more than women. It is a particularly crude and offensive term to most women.

Calling a guy a dick doesn’t faze anyone.
The c word is jarring and nasty.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 28, 2026 09:06 PM (pP7rZ)

128 contraction didn't pronounced did-nt not did dint

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 09:07 PM (y79kU)

129 Pug, you have to check out this quick little clip from the show "Loudermilk." It nails exactly what you said so well.

https://tinyurl.com/yrk7nh6e
Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 08:57 PM (dIske)

Yeaaasss! And I like Ron Livinsgton.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 09:10 PM (0aYVJ)

130 If I looked up and saw a super-cell like that overhead, I'd probably unwetterfreaks, too!
🙄

Posted by: mindful webworker - waiter, there's a hair in my latte at May 28, 2026 09:11 PM (kU8xu)

131 Me no type good.

Livingston

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 09:12 PM (0aYVJ)

132 When the crows come, you better have food or you'll be a shitstain in their ledger.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 28, 2026 09:15 PM (D1E+2)

133
21

From DU:

"Did anyone else hear this response from Talarico to insults about his "masculinity"?

He is on a five-city tour of TX and talking to people as the matchup between him and Paxton begins. He addressed the masculinity thing by using his father as an example. He said, "A real man serves others."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 07:50 PM

-------

It's a cookbook!

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 28, 2026 09:17 PM (VWtfl)

134 You never hear men use it, ...
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I disagree. I can only think of 2 ettes that use the word.
I can think of numerous morons that do. Even if they use the silly underscore for the u.

Mis Hum strictly enforced the ban on the word on his ONTs and that is one of the reasons I miss him.

Posted by: old chick at May 28, 2026 09:18 PM (F3Dlr)

135 Last weekend we drove to the coast, Newport OR.
This weekend we are driving to Billings MT.
Nearly equal drive times, 9 hours. Each way.
A lot of driving.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 09:19 PM (0aYVJ)

136 I had a couple large Muscatine melons on my roadtrip that, sadly, were getting slightly long in the tooth. I chucked them over the side of a desert mesa cliff. I figured they would be fodder for chipmunks or lizards.

About 10 minutes went by maybe, and a pair of Ravens surfing the thermals zooked right down over them. Where’d they come from?? I didn’t think about it, but the odor must have been pure ambrosia to them. After a while they flew away, and I swear they squawked “thank you” in their raven grok language.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 09:21 PM (vOk4U)

137 How was the OR coast, Pug?

Where did you stay? Have some nice walks on the beach? Eat anything good?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 28, 2026 09:23 PM (A5RD0)

138 think what the Left is doing is combing through every old media source looking for anybody who ever expressed support or admiration for Israel, no matter how long ago, and is adding them to the Master List of Zionists, slated for cattle cars to detention centers and eventual castration when their hoped-for Great Reckoning happens.

Think Maureen "castrate all Zionists" Galindo was an outlier, an aberration? I think not. I think she is in the mainstream of current Leftist dialogue, and was a bit surprised when anyone took offense at her comments, which to her were middle-of-the-road within her cultural bubble.

Posted by: zombie at May 28, 2026 09:23 PM (Av6i5)

139 How about “no” to chicks covered in ink?

Posted by: Accomack at May 28, 2026 09:25 PM (bknhw)

140 Calling a guy a dick doesn’t faze anyone.

Now you tell me.

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 28, 2026 09:26 PM (0sNs1)

141 The biggest group of "r" droppers in NE are not the patrician class, just the opposite.
Posted by: JackStraw

When I was in the Mass. Gahd (Qwinzy Ahmory), lots of "r" doppahs. We had some guys who rounded their Os a lot too. Good people though.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 28, 2026 09:28 PM (W5mpo)

142 He is on a five-city tour of TX and talking to people as the matchup between him and Paxton begins. He addressed the masculinity thing by using his father as an example. He said, "A real man serves others."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 07:50 PM

So, he's serving dogs and cats to the Haitians and Chinese?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 09:29 PM (qx7Zg)

143 People need to stand up and be counted. United we Stand.

You don’t even have to be a “Zionist” to see this is Bullshit. Jews are like the old Canary in the Coal Mine. These fucking clowns don’t stop there. If you can’t rationalize this clearly, just think of the principles involved. You might think, “well I’m not a Jew, what do I care?” We’ve seen this movie before. We have to stand, and fight against bigotry and race hatred, we have freedom of religion and conscience and all those “Liberal” ideals that are no longer operative with the usual suspects. Fuck them.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 09:29 PM (vOk4U)

144 I see that Trump is angling to get a $250.00 bill issued with his pic on it. I am totally for waving the rule that you have to dead to get your picture on a US note under one condition: that Hope and Light gets his mug on a $3.00 bill. I can see the future plain as day, "Why that is as queer as an Obama Buck."

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at May 28, 2026 09:29 PM (glnUu)

145 138 think what the Left is doing is combing through every old media source looking for anybody who ever expressed support or admiration for Israel, no matter how long ago, and is adding them to the Master List of Zionists, slated for cattle cars to detention centers and eventual castration when their hoped-for Great Reckoning happens.

Posted by: zombie at May 28, 2026 09:23 PM (Av6i5)

That is scary to think about.

Posted by: Joemarine at May 28, 2026 09:31 PM (y171U)

146 How was the OR coast, Pug?

Where did you stay? Have some nice walks on the beach? Eat anything good?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 28, 2026 09:23 PM (A5RD0)

Stayed at a dumpy motel in Reedsport. I saw the sun rise with a few friendly barn swallows who were clearly used to humans. The smell of the sea was captivating.

We had lunch at Mo's in Newport, down on the wharf. Watched the cranky sea lions vying for the sunny spots. Watched the surf at Boiler Bay. Beautiful, sunny day.

It was a kind of spur-of-the-moment trip. But we are planning plenty of better planned trips.

we have done a lot of trips to the coast, but it had been a decade. Forgot just how captivating it is.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 09:31 PM (0aYVJ)

147 It was often used as a marker, “this person is wealthy, and it’s OK to laugh at them and hate them”. Fibber McGee had a couple hoity-toity visitors with the TA accent. That was the cue. Stuffy, humorless scolds. You know how they are.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 08:04 PM (I69X4)

[nods] Juliet Anderson

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 09:31 PM (rbvCR)

148 Yeah, guys are different as far as insults. We call ourselves dick.

I am trying to think of insults that have the same effect. Usually mother/father stuff and questionable mating practices- especially if true.

An abstract one would be 'keep his/her/it's name out of your mouth!' That became popular a bit ago.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 09:32 PM (zZu0s)

149 >>> If I looked up and saw a super-cell like that overhead, I'd probably unwetterfreaks, too!
🙄
Posted by: mindful webworker - waiter, there's a hair in my latte at May 28, 2026 09:11 PM (kU8xu)

That’s like a normal storm in Kansas. But I think part of it is you can always see the storm coming in from a long way and can catch every part of its buildup.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 09:34 PM (NfIzX)

150 >>>Last weekend we drove to the coast, Newport OR.
This weekend we are driving to Billings MT.
Nearly equal drive times, 9 hours. Each way.
A lot of driving.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank

>What is that, about $250 in fuel expense? Yikes. I'm cutting back on travel until gasoline comes down.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 28, 2026 09:34 PM (D1E+2)

151 Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank

>What is that, about $250 in fuel expense? Yikes. I'm cutting back on travel until gasoline comes down.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 28, 2026 09:34 PM (D1E+2)

We drive a 2016 Hyundai Elantra. Great gas mileage. Even with expensive Oregon prices, it was not terrible. Did not keep track, but I am thinking 150-ish. Tops.

Also, I would pay whatever I need to in order to avoid air travel.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 09:42 PM (0aYVJ)

152 Pug,

Mo’s is awesome. How fun. The Newport aquarium is also a nice stroll.

So happy you and your bride got to stroll along the waterfront, smell the salty sea and hold each other close.

How lovely.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 28, 2026 09:43 PM (cGfPY)

153 >>When I was in the Mass. Gahd (Qwinzy Ahmory), lots of "r" doppahs. We had some guys who rounded their Os a lot too. Good people though.

I lived in and around Boston for many years and it seemed normal that you could go from Southie and be in the North End in a few minutes and the accent was noticeably different. It was like that all over the area, north shore vs south shore, etc.

If you didn't live there you probably hardly noticed it or not at all but we did.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 09:45 PM (viF8m)

154 >>>We drive a 2016 Hyundai Elantra. Great gas mileage. Even with expensive Oregon prices, it was not terrible. Did not keep track, but I am thinking 150-ish. Tops.

Also, I would pay whatever I need to in order to avoid air travel.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank

>Ah. It costs me $60 to visit my mother round trip, but I drive a truck. Fewer trips. Mother's Day was the last, her birthday next.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 28, 2026 09:47 PM (D1E+2)

155 So happy you and your bride got to stroll along the waterfront, smell the salty sea and hold each other close.

How lovely.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 28, 2026 09:43 PM (cGfPY)

It reminded us of why we took so many trips to the coast with our sons when they were kids. Even when we could not exactly afford it.

Between the PNW and Yellowstone/Teton, we spoiled our kids.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 09:49 PM (0aYVJ)

156 150 >>>Last weekend we drove to the coast, Newport OR.
This weekend we are driving to Billings MT.
Nearly equal drive times, 9 hours. Each way.
A lot of driving.
---

Good show. Won't say jealous but it sounds like a tasty kolache. Safe travels.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 09:50 PM (y79kU)

157 Hold up, did someone mention Cary Grant? His chin ran cover for anything coming out of his mouth. Terrific actor, but troubled, I think.

Posted by: H at May 28, 2026 09:55 PM (Z6CxV)

158 Local Ocean was the place we tried a few years ago in Newport. Fantastic. Only around the area one day, so didn't try any other spots.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 28, 2026 09:56 PM (U/Byj)

159 Good show. Won't say jealous but it sounds like a tasty kolache. Safe travels.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 09:50 PM (y79kU)

The trip to Billings is for the celebration of life of my Mom, who passed in October. Bittersweet, of course. But we will be together as a family again. My brothers and sisters are good people. We will likely share some beer and memories. Mom and Dad raised a good bunch of kids. Seven.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 09:58 PM (0aYVJ)

160 think what the Left is doing is combing through every old media source looking for anybody who ever expressed support or admiration for Israel, no matter how long ago, and is adding them to the Master List of Zionists, slated for cattle cars to detention centers and eventual castration when their hoped-for Great Reckoning happens.

Think Maureen "castrate all Zionists" Galindo was an outlier, an aberration? I think not. I think she is in the mainstream of current Leftist dialogue, and was a bit surprised when anyone took offense at her comments, which to her were middle-of-the-road within her cultural bubble.
Posted by: zombie

I have seen for years that 'they' have claimed to be making 'lists' for the camps for such things as benign as supportive of certain countries or having a sign for the oppo party in your yard. The main crime - not wanting to get on the train or putting others on it gets you a ride.

Conversely, Santa should be keeping a naughty list of all those who expressed desires to put some on the train to camps.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 10:00 PM (/lPRQ)

161 157 Hold up, did someone mention Cary Grant? His chin ran cover for anything coming out of his mouth. Terrific actor, but troubled, I think.
Posted by: H at May 28, 2026 09:55 PM (Z6CxV)

Married to Dyan Cannon, who is still with us.

Posted by: Joemarine at May 28, 2026 10:01 PM (y171U)

162 ONT is nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 10:03 PM (zZu0s)

163 ONT!

Posted by: clarence at May 28, 2026 10:03 PM (c1D+3)

Judge Clears Way for Trump to Tighten Verification for Mail-In Votes; Scott Bessent Touts New IRS Rules to Identify Antifa's Funders; OMB Director Russ Vought Acts to Make Sure That Federal Grants Go to US Citizens Not Foreigners and Illegal Aliens

A lot of #Winning.

Democrats actually opposed Trump's rules to tighten verification of mail-in votes by saying that if voter names were checked against lists of US citizens, Democrat voters would be barred from voting.

Yes. Yes they will.

That is the point. Your llegal alien hordes are not allowed to vote and they should be disqualified from voting.

But hey, you say this Never Ever Happens, so this should have no effect on Democrat vote totals.

Right?

The Democrats pretended they were worried about "inaccurate" citizenship lists but we all know they're terrified of accurate ones.

Besides, the judge ruled: Every single federal requirement is subject to some error in implementation but we don't rule them all unconstitutional, given that people have the right to appeal and have errors corrected.

Duh.

A federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to implement his executive order tightening mail-in voting, slapping down Democrats' arguments for now that federal efforts to police voter rolls with citizenship checks was illegal.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointed jurist, ruled that Democrats failed to show they have standing at present to challenge the order or have suffered any harm that would warrant a preliminary injunction.

You'll love this: He ruled the Democrats had no standing to challenge the rules. They could establish no "harm" to themselves.

Nichols rejected several of the Democrats' arguments that Trump's executive order could disenfranchise millions of voters, including that creating state-by-state citizenship lists to check voter rolls would somehow be harmful, even if they were inaccurate.
...
The judge also rejected the notion that the federal government sending information to the states about voters would somehow violate voters' privacy.
"Plaintiffs fail to demonstrate that such action--that is, the sharing of name, age, and residence information between and among government agencies, if already known to the federal government--would cause a harm sufficient to establish Article III standing," he ruled.

Bessent says the IRS will track donations to the terrorist group Antifa.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday highlighted changes to IRS reporting policy that would help the federal government identify the funding sources for Antifa.
The organization has faced considerable scrutiny in recent years amid its repeated civil disturbances and involvement in anti-law enforcement activities. Speaking from the White House, Bessent pointed to a change in policy that would require non-profits to identify their grant recipients.

The grant-subgrant system is set up to disguise Democrat money-laundering. Terrorists have members called "cleanskins" -- terrorists who have no known criminal record or association with terrorists. These "clean skins" are used to infiltrate organizations and pull levers in favor of terrorists.

(Note a "cleanskin" can also refer to an undercover cop who has no publicly-known association with cops, so he can be infiltrated into a criminal group.)

Likewise, Democrats have "cleanskin" NGOs that they can pour US taxpayer money into. And then these "clean" NGOs donate to dirty NGOs and straight up terrorist organizations -- or Chinese covid labs adding furin cleavage sites to viruses.

The Grantee/Subgrantee system is designed precisely so that Democrats can divert taxpayer money to illegal/antiamerican/pure Democrat pillager groups. They money is given to the "clean skin" NGOs, who then immediately send the money off to where it was always intended to go, the "dirty skin" groups.

Secretary Bessent tells me the FBI and Treasury Department will have "a lot to report" on their investigation into the funding of Antifa. He says their findings will come in the weeks and months ahead. pic.twitter.com/CTSKp06AHw
— Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) May 28, 2026

Unbelievably, there was no citizenship requirement for receiving US federal grants.

Now there is:

BREAKING: Russ Vought at OMB has just overhauled $1 TRILLION in federal grants by adding: Strict E-Verify requirements, English-language rules, and political appointee oversight to ensure taxpayer dollars go to American citizens first.

Vought�s new proposal replaces automatic� pic.twitter.com/YxqCH72OIN
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) May 28, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:38 PM

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1 Are the Hawaiian judges up yet?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 28, 2026 06:40 PM (Sco7b)

2 What about the redskins?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2026 06:41 PM (Cqx++)

3 Sounds like a lot of winning.

To be followed by a lot of whining.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:41 PM (Fi81e)

4 I hope there are exceptions for the grants.

My breast research for young strippers is going to take a lot of time and money. I'll share the research.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 28, 2026 06:41 PM (Sco7b)

5 Besides, the judge ruled: Every single federal requirement is subject to some error in implementation but we don't rule them all unconstitutional, given that people have the right to appeal and have errors corrected.
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Wow. He just assaulted them with reality like that!

What about their rights?!

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:43 PM (Fi81e)

6 "What about the redskins?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr."

They are ok but I prefer Virginia for boiling.

Posted by: Guy still talking about nuts at May 28, 2026 06:44 PM (vFG9F)

7 Are the Hawaiian judges up yet?
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 28, 2026 06:40 PM (Sco7b)
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Does their dander count?

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:45 PM (Fi81e)

8 Good news.! Thanks for writing on it. Ace.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 06:45 PM (ix8EF)

9 I don't know why the constitution is so hard to read for some people. You must be a US citizen 18 or over to vote.

Showing the ID you need to do all the other things in life is not an inconvenience. I bought b bottle of bourbon today and holy smokes look! my id is right next to my credit card.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2026 06:46 PM (n5tGW)

10 There's going to be a serious dearth of shoveling cash out the back door with these changes.

People will die.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:47 PM (Fi81e)

11 Besides, the judge ruled: Every single federal requirement is subject to some error in implementation but we don't rule them all unconstitutional, given that people have the right to appeal and have errors corrected.
__________

This is why provisional ballots exist. The supposed fear of wrongly excluding people from voting is bullshit. Anybody can cast a provisional ballot.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 28, 2026 06:48 PM (XvL8K)

12 This is what I voted for.

More. Faster!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 06:48 PM (u82oZ)

13 I'd prefer an end to federal grants entirely, but I guess restricting them to citizens is a start. Certain citizens will find a way to defraud us, as well.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 28, 2026 06:48 PM (zYpTz)

14 Federal grants should go to Americans-PERIOD! I used to think that 50% of our total debt was due to fraud. Would anyone be surprised if it was north of 75%?

Posted by: Unkaren at May 28, 2026 06:48 PM (iwzRJ)

15 4 I hope there are exceptions for the grants.

My breast research for young strippers is going to take a lot of time and money. I'll share the research.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 28, 2026 06:41 PM (Sco7b)

I'll gladly subcontract for field palpation work.

Posted by: A real hands-on kind of job at May 28, 2026 06:48 PM (TbWk/)

16 "hoards," Ace-- really?

Posted by: just saying at May 28, 2026 06:49 PM (Jq3RV)

17 >>>16 "hoards," Ace-- really?

whoops

Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 06:50 PM (1wjle)

18 Yes, I voted for this.

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 28, 2026 06:51 PM (HIzgC)

19 How's 'bout we overhaul that 1T in grants by pushing them into next FY and save ourselves a T on this year's deficit?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 06:51 PM (QGaXH)

20 I'll gladly subcontract for field palpation work

Best to take a hands-on approach.

Posted by: Unkaren at May 28, 2026 06:51 PM (iwzRJ)

21
How many foreigners are citizens that shouldn't be?

.lots of them will get grants and use the money to continue trying to take down our country.

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 06:51 PM (3ek7K)

22 Bessent says the IRS will track donations to the terrorist group Antifa.

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What about the domestic terrorist group "The Democrat-Communist Party" (AKA "Murder, Inc.")?

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 28, 2026 06:53 PM (owOpf)

23 i first wrote "hoardes," combining hordes and hoards, and thought that was obviously wrong, so I settled on "hoards," which is also wrong.

Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 06:53 PM (1wjle)

24 You know who else has a cleavage site?

Posted by: Boobipedia at May 28, 2026 06:54 PM (0sNs1)

25 >>What about the domestic terrorist group "The Democrat-Communist Party" (AKA "Murder, Inc.")?

They're the ones sending the money.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 06:54 PM (viF8m)

26 The Dems already have their cartel judge in Boston lined up to over-rule the stupid Trump judge and issue an injunction against the mail EO.

yes, the Dems filed multiple suits to stop it.

No, the cartel judge will not care that SCOTUS said--just months ago--that judges can't issue nationwide injunctions against executive orders, like this one, that only asked the agencies to review whether it could issue rules under the EO.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 06:55 PM (73/SM)

27 23 i first wrote "hoardes," combining hordes and hoards, and thought that was obviously wrong, so I settled on "hoards," which is also wrong.
Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 06:53 PM (1wjle)

You could've just bluffed through it and said it was an arcane Middle English spelling.

Posted by: Lots of excess vowels that Chaucerian English at May 28, 2026 06:55 PM (TbWk/)

28 This is a banner win for the administration. Dems have no higher court that will overturn this.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 06:56 PM (QDJ2U)

29 You know who else has a cleavage site?

Posted by: Boobipedia at May 28, 2026 06:54 PM (0sNs1)
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Hitler?

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:56 PM (Fi81e)

30 >>>24 You know who else has a cleavage site?

YouTube?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IZhtdjx0O-M

youtube more like boobtube am i rite

I made the tiny mistake on clicking on a couple of hotties and now I'm in the Cheesecake to OnlyFans Addict Pipeline

Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 06:56 PM (1wjle)

31 FARTCLAM!!

Posted by: I have no idea where that came from at May 28, 2026 06:56 PM (brIJB)

32 NO NGO funding would be fine with me.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2026 06:57 PM (n5tGW)

33 Making sure that only people lawfully permitted to receive government money receive government money, and that only people lawfully permitted to vote are permitted to vote, are key characteristics of Nazism.

Posted by: EXTREME NATIONALISM!!!11!!!1 at May 28, 2026 06:58 PM (TbWk/)

34
When you get to be 29, the spelling tends to get sloppy, I've learned.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 06:58 PM (w6EFb)

35 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday highlighted changes to IRS reporting policy that would help the federal government identify the funding sources for Antifa.
Bessent pointed to a change in policy that would require non-profits to identify their grant recipients.

Wait, wut?

Trump signed an executive order in 2025 that declared Antifa a domestic terrorist organization. We needed a legal change to dig into the finances of a domestic terrorist organization?

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 06:58 PM (mkw2N)

36 "hoards," Ace-- really?
Posted by: just saying at May 28, 2026 06:49 PM (Jq3RV)

He just considers them treasure proves of diversity. And enrichment.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 06:58 PM (zZu0s)

37 >>>16 "hoards," Ace-- really?

whoops

Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 06:50 PM (1wjle)

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In Ace's defense, we have a hoard of "hordes" of illegal aliens ...

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 28, 2026 06:58 PM (owOpf)

38 Some Commissar Judge will reinstate mail voting

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 06:58 PM (Ia/+0)

39 >>> When you get to be 29, the spelling tends to get sloppy, I've learned.

yup. I'm also struggling to come up with, uh, ermmm, words.

Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 06:58 PM (1wjle)

40 I thought Hoardes was some pop singer.

Posted by: Sweety at May 28, 2026 06:59 PM (vFG9F)

41 >>> He just considers them treasure proves of diversity. And enrichment.

he gets me

Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 06:59 PM (1wjle)

42 OT: For some reason, noone have been posting WNBA standings, so here are the top 10:

1 Minnesota Lynx 5-2
2 Las Vegas Aces 4-2
3 Indiana Fever 4-2
4 Atlanta Dream 4-2
5 Golden State Valkyries 4-2
6 Portland Fire 5-3
7 Dallas Wings 4-3
8 New York Liberty 4-4
9 Washington Mystics 3-3
10 Los Angeles Sparks 3-3

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 28, 2026 06:59 PM (0sNs1)

43 40 I thought Hoardes was some pop singer.
Posted by: Sweety at May 28, 2026 06:59 PM (vFG9F)

Turned out to be Randy Marsh, with AutoTune.

Posted by: Deep cuts from South Park at May 28, 2026 07:00 PM (TbWk/)

44 >>>OT: For some reason, noone have been posting WNBA standings, so here are the top 10:

Thank heavens you're here.

Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 07:00 PM (1wjle)

45 36 "hoards," Ace-- really?
Posted by: just saying at May 28, 2026 06:49 PM (Jq3RV)

He just considers them treasure proves of diversity. And enrichment.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 06:58 PM (zZu0s)

I think you mean "troaves."

Posted by: It's getting meta now at May 28, 2026 07:00 PM (TbWk/)

46 When you get to be 29, the spelling tends to get sloppy, I've learned.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 06:58 PM (w6EFb)

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I'm noticing with each passing year a widening disconnect between my word-thoughts and their rendering by my subversive fingers (which first learned to type in 8th grade).

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 28, 2026 07:01 PM (owOpf)

47 No, the cartel judge will not care that SCOTUS said--just months ago--that judges can't issue nationwide injunctions against executive orders, like this one, that only asked the agencies to review whether it could issue rules under the EO.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 06:55 PM (73/SM)

Have any of them been punished for it? No? Then it will continue until they're stopped. Either by CONgress (yeah, right), or Trump ignoring their illegal rulings and pushing through.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 07:01 PM (1Ff7Z)

48 > I think you mean "troaves."

That's when you have lots of bread.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 07:01 PM (mkw2N)

49 >> I thought Hoardes was some pop singer.

We will never have boils.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 07:02 PM (viF8m)

50 "yup. I'm also struggling to come up with, uh, ermmm, words.

Posted by: ace"

I do that sometimes with names of things. Like "you know, that thing that toast comes out of".

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 07:02 PM (vFG9F)

51 >> I made the tiny mistake on clicking on a couple of hotties

That's better than me, looking at some of the flat-earther crap on X. The algorithm is throwing that at me now, and I've had to figure out this "mute" thing to tell it no, I don't want to see that shite.

Or better, I'll look at what I want to, not what you think I want.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 07:02 PM (w6EFb)

52 23 i first wrote "hoardes," combining hordes and hoards, and thought that was obviously wrong, so I settled on "hoards," which is also wrong.
Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 06:53 PM (1wjle)

This and the shelving chronicles are part of what makes this a fun place to visit and participate.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 07:03 PM (QGaXH)

53 Police responded to a "swatting call" at the residence of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in Virginia on Wednesday evening, police confirmed, marking the latest security scare involving a conservative public figure.

Posted by: SMOD at May 28, 2026 07:03 PM (O7XEN)

54 Will Interioir issue antifa tags? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 28, 2026 07:04 PM (YlWIZ)

55 Hey Congress

Abolish Motor Voter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2026 07:04 PM (2GVsD)

56 Tje Leftists are playing with a revolution

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 07:04 PM (Ia/+0)

57 OT: For some reason, noone have been posting WNBA standings, so here are the top 10:

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Women Not Being Attractive?

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 28, 2026 07:04 PM (owOpf)

58
I think it's "whoreds"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 07:05 PM (HdYcL)

59 CNN - "Mostly peaceful Swatting."

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2026 07:05 PM (2GVsD)

60 Judge Clears Way for Trump to Tighten Verification for Mail-In Votes - Racist!

Scott Bessent Touts New IRS Rules to Identify Antifa's Funders - Racist!

OMB Director Russ Vought Acts to Make Sure That Federal Grants Go to US Citizens Not Foreigners and Illegal Aliens - Also Racist!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 07:05 PM (RIvkX)

61 That's better than me, looking at some of the flat-earther crap on X. The algorithm is throwing that at me now
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 07:02 PM

Play your search cards right, and flat can get you my latest publicity photographs and Instagrams!

Posted by: Brie Larson at May 28, 2026 07:05 PM (0sNs1)

62 So can we start saying the voting citizenship requirement challenges have been heard in court and rejected?

Posted by: Advo at May 28, 2026 07:05 PM (jO4mz)

63 Misspelling is AI detection and repeallint.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 28, 2026 07:06 PM (YlWIZ)

64 This and the shelving chronicles are part of what makes this a fun place to visit and participate.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 07:03 PM

The Crow Chronicles are an up-and-coming addition to the canon here.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 07:07 PM (0sNs1)

65 This and the shelving chronicles are part of what makes this a fun place to visit and participate.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 07:03 PM (QGaXH)

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Along with the Fetterman and Crow sagas!

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 28, 2026 07:07 PM (owOpf)

66 Hey SCOTUS restore Prop 8

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 28, 2026 07:07 PM (YlWIZ)

67 I bet panties are in a bunch over at the Tides Foundation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 07:07 PM (RIvkX)

68 That's better than me, looking at some of the flat-earther crap on X. The algorithm is throwing that at me now, and I've had to figure out this "mute" thing to tell it no, I don't want to see that shite.

Or better, I'll look at what I want to, not what you think I want.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 07:02 PM (w6EFb)

I do a lot of muting and blocking there, not because I care about what they say, but just to keep my newsfeed from being packed full of crap I don’t want to waste time with.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 07:08 PM (QDJ2U)

69 >> Posted by: Brie Larson

I think you're actually concave, not flat.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 07:09 PM (w6EFb)

70 >>> Terrorists have members called "cleanskins" -- terrorists who have no known criminal record or association with terrorists.

Oh now we doin straight up filthism. I see how it is.

Posted by: Pig-Pen at May 28, 2026 07:09 PM (3uBP9)

71 Su ef wc meisspele ebery werd AI camt ceep vup?

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 07:09 PM (vFG9F)

72 I bet panties are in a bunch over at the Tides Foundation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 07:07 PM (RIvkX)
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Nah. They just called up the judges they own and explained what's going to be expected of them in the coming years.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 07:10 PM (Fi81e)

73 Cleanskins?

The IRA called it Sein Fein

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2026 07:10 PM (2GVsD)

74 "Police responded to a "swatting call" at the residence of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in Virginia on Wednesday evening, police confirmed, marking the latest security scare involving a conservative public figure."

They mean "allegedly somewhat conservative" judge.

Not full blown Karen or AWFL, but showing some of those tendencies.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 28, 2026 07:10 PM (vbXSk)

75 34
When you get to be 29, the spelling tends to get sloppy, I've learned.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 06:58 PM (w6EFb)

It's weird; words that I've been spelling my whole life, suddenly don't look right anymore.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 28, 2026 07:10 PM (zYpTz)

76 "It's weird; words that I've been spelling my whole life, suddenly don't look right anymore.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!"

Yeah. Wierd.

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 07:11 PM (vFG9F)

77 The Dems would have to admit that they were incompetent and criminal

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2026 07:11 PM (SW0z7)

78 >> words that I've been spelling my whole life, suddenly don't look right anymore.

Yep, noticed that to. All of the sudden, a word just looks wrong.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 07:11 PM (w6EFb)

79 I watched Sisu. It was good enough. All the good action films are revenge films now. That's ok I guess. Definitely today's zeitgeist.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 07:12 PM (3uBP9)

80 🚨BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie Vows to Publicly Read the Names of Epstein Clients Before Leaving Congress.

After losing his primary, Massie says he will use his remaining time in office to expose the Epstein client list by reading the names out loud on the House floor.

When is Massie's funeral? They whacked Epstein's ass. In jail. They won't hesitate to whack Massie.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2026 07:13 PM (Fzhd7)

81 24 You know who else has a cleavage site?
Posted by: Boobipedia at May 28, 2026 06:54 PM (0sNs1)

Are there no crystallographers among us?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 07:14 PM (QGaXH)

82 I had to skindive thru shark-infested waters just to get a measly grant when I first started my higher education. Then, I had to actually pay it back, which I did. All of this grift, graft, extortion and money laundering, I never had access to that curriculum.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 28, 2026 07:14 PM (D1E+2)

83 I guess next week is the last week of the SCOTUS term? I think that's right.

Anyway, we have the birthright citizenship, firing the Fed, and the ballot counting cases as the remaining big ones.

I've not seen any of the usual "this Justice has yet to write an opinion" stuff.

I'm pretty sure they'll say ballots have to be received by Election Day. I don't think they'll order they have to be all counted by midnight, though.

And, everyone says they'll keep the birthright citizenship and Fed independence.

But this Court has become increasingly "we have to follow what the law and Constitution says precisely, not what we wish it to say or want it to say--even in the face of decades of rulings otherwise."

It's just my feel of the general trend of the Court.
I'm saying limited to full wins for us on those as well.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 07:14 PM (73/SM)

84 Dear Massie

Promises, promises.
Candy Ovens is already writing the script blaming Jews for your 'suicide' while hiring the hitman off Craigs List.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2026 07:14 PM (2GVsD)

85 Massie's been vowing this disclosure for weeks and hasn't said anything, except for exposing four innocent people.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 07:14 PM (gKWVE)

86 words that I've been spelling my whole life, suddenly don't look right anymore.

Yep, noticed that to. All of the sudden, a word just looks wrong.
Posted by: publius

The word canceled. One L just doesn't loom right.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2026 07:15 PM (Fzhd7)

87 "Or better, I'll look at what I want to, not what you think I want." Posted by: publius

"I do a lot of muting and blocking there, not because I care about what they say, but just to keep my newsfeed from being packed full of crap I don’t want to waste time with." Posted by: Tom Servo

You guys know this "refusal to hear common sense" will come up in your "Bad Citizen Trials" if/when the next Dem is president? Just hope you have no emails denying the efficacy of the Fauci pure vaccine, or the facts of global warming. heh

Posted by: illiniwek at May 28, 2026 07:15 PM (vbXSk)

88 "After losing his primary, Massie says he will use his remaining time in office to expose the Epstein client list by reading the names out loud on the House floor."

Thereby wasting even more time and money on his petulant worthless ass.

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 07:15 PM (vFG9F)

89 I sure took an L.

Posted by: Thomas Massie at May 28, 2026 07:16 PM (gKWVE)

90 Women Not Being Attractive?
Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 28, 2026 07:04 PM (owOpf)

Women Not Being Athletes

Posted by: 8th graders can hoop better at May 28, 2026 07:16 PM (TbWk/)

91 >>> When you get to be 29, the spelling tends to get sloppy, I've learned.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 06:58 PM (w6EFb)

It's weird; words that I've been spelling my whole life, suddenly don't look right anymore.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 28, 2026 07:10 PM (zYpTz)

Yep, and another weird thing is my hands have somehow forgotten the rhythm of typing. It get's the space too early, before I finish the word. I've always been a decently fast typist. But now I have to go back a lot and delete/add spaces.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 07:16 PM (3uBP9)

92 Troves, phone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 07:16 PM (zZu0s)

93
Okay sunset at NYC will be at 8:18 PM EDT. And today gets the "half-sun" Manhattanhenge effect. A little before then, they should see about half the disc of the sun above the horizon line up nicely with the "E-W" (about ~30 degree off) streets.

If there's any Morons there, that would be a cool thing to see. Tomorrow gives the full sun alignment, the whole disc of the sun right above the horizon looking down the streets.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 07:16 PM (w6EFb)

94 BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie Vows to Publicly Read the Names of Epstein Clients Before Leaving Congress.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2026 07:13 PM (Fzhd7)
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I can get with that.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 07:16 PM (Fi81e)

95
Massie is going to lie about most of the names.

He is a shit stirrer and probably ruin some people who had nothing to do with Epstein.

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 07:17 PM (3ek7K)

96 Here's a movie idea

Suppose Massie gave a press conference and no one came?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2026 07:17 PM (2GVsD)

97 34
When you get to be 29, the spelling tends to get sloppy, I've learned.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 06:58 PM (w6EFb)

I can spel ok but kant rite wort a krap......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 07:17 PM (QGaXH)

98
Apparently, the alignment of the streets is not perfect, and some of the cross streets are better than others to get the proper effect.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 07:18 PM (w6EFb)

99 Massie could've announced the names at any time over the last year. He chose not to because most of it is BS and besides, he's getting more mileage and money this way.

I won't miss him at all.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 07:18 PM (viF8m)

100 > BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie Vows to Publicly Read the Names of Epstein Clients Before Leaving Congress.

I'm totally going to do it!

Watch me do it!

Any time now!

Don't think I won't!

Any time now!

*farts*

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 07:18 PM (mkw2N)

101 It's weird; words that I've been spelling my whole life, suddenly don't look right anymore.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 28, 2026 07:10 PM (zYpTz)

I'm not sure they ever looked right to me. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 28, 2026 07:19 PM (snZF9)

102 >>> If there's any Morons there, that would be a cool thing to see. Tomorrow gives the full sun alignment, the whole disc of the sun right above the horizon looking down the streets.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 07:16 PM (w6EFb)

Like stone 'inge but without the tiny people dancing around. NYC should get some tiny people.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 07:19 PM (3uBP9)

103 Women Not Being Attractive?
Posted by: ShainS

Women Not Being Athletes
Posted by: 8th graders can hoop better

When you jump like my fat ass...

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2026 07:19 PM (Fzhd7)

104 Better hope Hilary isn't going to pre empt that Epstein list

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 07:19 PM (Ia/+0)

105 Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 28, 2026 06:59 PM (0sNs1)

Aha! The mebounds and prayup league! LET'S GET 'EM!

BUTTER PECAN! BAAAAAAANG!

Posted by: Nelly at May 28, 2026 07:20 PM (6+ehB)

106 Yeah, the words are still there, but when I go to look for the exact right word- it's just not. I know I know the perfect word, but it is like a empty spot on a dusty shelf- the imprint is there, but there's no jar.

It comes and goes. And then 20 mins later, you smack your head and call yourself a dumb ass. Spirit of the Staircase.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 07:20 PM (zZu0s)

107 42 OT: For some reason, noone have been posting WNBA standings......

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 28, 2026 06:59 PM (0sNs1)

Because no one cares?????

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 07:20 PM (QGaXH)

108 Massie found floating in the Potomac.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 07:21 PM (y79kU)

109 > For some reason, noone have been posting WNBA standings

Any top ten High School boys basketball team from any state in the Union would destroy the WNBA championship team.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 07:22 PM (mkw2N)

110 Like stone 'inge but without the tiny people dancing around. NYC should get some tiny people.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 07:19 PM

Would you settle for going to Greenwich and getting the Village People?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 07:23 PM (0sNs1)

111 Today's press briefing :
Q(Reporter): "Your response to GOV of CA on taxing Californians 100% on using Trump's anti-weaponization fund ? "
A(Bessent) : "There is no cure for stupid"

Posted by: runner at May 28, 2026 07:23 PM (GD0B3)

112 The word canceled. One L just doesn't loom right.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2026 07:15 PM (Fzhd7)

In our defense, that and traveled used to be spelled with two l's.

I think they changed around the same time we weren't allowed to put two spaces after the period anymore.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 28, 2026 07:23 PM (zYpTz)

113 heh,...
So the white house did this:

www.whitehouse.gov/aliens

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 07:23 PM (3uBP9)

114 Massie found floating in the Potomac.

===

If only ....

Posted by: runner at May 28, 2026 07:23 PM (GD0B3)

115 Massie found floating in the Potomac.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 07:21 PM (y79kU)

...and I feel fine.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 28, 2026 07:23 PM (snZF9)

116 Now they're doing fake injuries......what next?

From Alpha News:

EXCLUSIVE: Former Minnesota employee reveals suspected fraud scheme of 'fake injuries' at Somali businesses

Posted by: beckster at May 28, 2026 07:24 PM (kX27y)

117 I made the tiny mistake on clicking on a couple of hotties and now I'm in the Cheesecake to OnlyFans Addict Pipeline

==

They are in your area! And want to meet you !

Posted by: runner at May 28, 2026 07:25 PM (GD0B3)

118 Posted by: runner at May 28, 2026 07:23 PM (GD0B3

I have a crush on Scott Bessent. Yes, I know he's gay. I don't want to sleep with him. I just think he's very smart and clever, and I do like his little round glasses which remind me of a character from a Victorian novel.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 07:25 PM (Nx5jP)

119 or just:

ALIENS.GOV

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 07:26 PM (3uBP9)

120 I'm beginning to suspect that a few of the Somalis here aren't totally on the up-and-up.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 07:26 PM (0sNs1)

121 Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 07:22 PM (mkw2N)
Or a girls' team with a couple troons.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 28, 2026 07:26 PM (wGerL)

122 That's funny right there. I wonder how much that domain cost. Does the gov have to pay for domains? I mean they kind of own the domains. I'm not sure how that works.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 07:27 PM (3uBP9)

123 Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 07:23 PM (3uBP9)

There are certainly some clever people working at the WH site.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 07:28 PM (Nx5jP)

124 obviously they own the top level gov so I guess they can do whatever they want with that.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 07:28 PM (3uBP9)

125 Wow, in Poland a soldier who was guarding the border shot at some illegal immigrants... and was put on trial for it.

Acquitted, as the Court said he was just doing his duty.

THIS IS THE WAY.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 28, 2026 07:28 PM (mP0Kj)

126 In our defense, that and traveled used to be spelled with two l's.

I think they changed around the same time we weren't allowed to put two spaces after the period anymore.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 28, 2026 07:23 PM (zYpTz)

Every time I do that, the writing programs say that's the British spelling. But I know darn sure that's the way we wrote those words mumble mumble years ago.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 07:28 PM (1Ff7Z)

127
".gov" is free for the gubmint. By federal law regulating all that shit. State and locals used to have pay a small fee, but they eliminated that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 07:29 PM (w6EFb)

128 "Traveled" is the American English spelling, while "travelled" is the British English version. Both words have the same meaning, referring to the act of journeying or moving from one place to another.
- some website

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 07:30 PM (0sNs1)

129 Massie found floating in the Potomac.

===

They all float here

Posted by: Pennywise at May 28, 2026 07:30 PM (f//cz)

130 The second "L" is superfluous. Everybody knows what "speling" means. Why waste the electrons?

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 07:31 PM (vFG9F)

131 Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 07:28 P

I've only ever spelled travelled with two ll's . I'm very old too😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 07:31 PM (Nx5jP)

132 Drop all words, use emojis.

👏😂🤪

Posted by: runner at May 28, 2026 07:31 PM (GD0B3)

133 83 ....And, everyone says they'll keep the birthright citizenship and Fed independence.

But this Court has become increasingly "we have to follow what the law and Constitution says precisely, not what we wish it to say or want it to say--even in the face of decades of rulings otherwise."

It's just my feel of the general trend of the Court.
I'm saying limited to full wins for us on those as well.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 07:14 PM (73/SM)

I find it interesting that the words 'and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.... in the fourteenth amendment are assigned no meaning or relevance to the question of birthright citizenship; but in the Second Amendment the contextual intro regarding a militia are read by the gun- grabbers as meaning only the military can have gubs.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 07:31 PM (QGaXH)

134 The word canceled. One L just doesn't loom right.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2026 07:15 PM (Fzhd7)

It’s spelled Canckled. Especially when it’s looming.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 07:31 PM (QDJ2U)

135 hieroglyphics, man

Posted by: runner at May 28, 2026 07:32 PM (GD0B3)

136 I maintain that some apostrophes are superfluous too.

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 07:34 PM (vFG9F)

137 Could we please get right with our Oxford Comma usage, and THEN worry about spelling?

Posted by: Assistant Associate AoSHQ Copy Editor, Punctuation Brigade, Comma Company at May 28, 2026 07:34 PM (0sNs1)

138 Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 07:30 PM (0sNs1)

Spellcheck does that. So do programs like ProWritingAid.

I say nay! Double "l" is correct for American English as well. I'll bet some commie changed it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 07:34 PM (1Ff7Z)

139
Yeah, the US govt "owns" and controls the .gov (and .mil, and probably some other stuff) top level domain.

So creating aliens.gov is entirely them. Now, I'm sure it costs some taxpayer dollars somehow to do something, but I doubt it amounts too much. I mean they're paying people at the least to do the work to create it, but then if they didn't have to create that thing in particular, they'd be doing something else. Maybe looking at internet porn, who knows.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 07:35 PM (w6EFb)

140 "Could we please get right with our Oxford Comma usage and THEN worry about spelling?
Posted by: Assistant Associate AoSHQ Copy Editor"

Sure.

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 07:35 PM (vFG9F)

141 I've only ever spelled travelled with two ll's . I'm very old too😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 07:31 PM (Nx5jP)

The programs nag at you to change it. Bah!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 07:36 PM (1Ff7Z)

142 This and the shelving chronicles are part of what makes this a fun place to visit and participate.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 07:03 PM

The Crow Chronicles are an up-and-coming addition to the canon here.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 07:07 PM (0sNs1)

If Ace takes up the Crowcroft Challenge, we'll want full video.

IMDB: https://tinyurl.com/5dpayr7s

Full episode: https://youtu.be/4jtUcwFBUB0

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 07:36 PM (qx7Zg)

143 "Could we please get right with our Oxford Comma usage and THEN worry about spelling?
Posted by: Assistant Associate AoSHQ Copy Editor"

Sure.
Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 07:35 PM (vFG9F)

That would take you, me and the man down the street to agree to it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 07:37 PM (1Ff7Z)

144 ?136 I maintain that some apostrophes are superfluous too.

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 07:34 PM (vFG9F)

Whatever you choose, you're bound to be wrong.

Posted by: It's and Its at May 28, 2026 07:37 PM (GTqXr)

145 >>>"Traveled" is the American English spelling, while "travelled" is the British English version. Both words have the same meaning, referring to the act of journeying or moving from one place to another.
- some website

Posted by: Duncanthrax

>The nice thing about AI is it can tirelessly bust your balls forever.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 28, 2026 07:37 PM (D1E+2)

146 The British spell it "Collour". Fags.

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 07:37 PM (vFG9F)

147 Gray and grey.

Posted by: runner at May 28, 2026 07:38 PM (GD0B3)

148 Every time I do that, the writing programs say that's the British spelling. But I know darn sure that's the way we wrote those words mumble mumble years ago.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 07:28 PM (1Ff7Z)
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American English famously takes out extra letters.

You sound like the guy that wants to stick the "u" back in "color."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 07:39 PM (gnNyN)

149 There shall be much wailing and gnashing of teeth by lefty judges. They will release more killers as payback.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 28, 2026 07:39 PM (u9SGQ)

150 He ruled the Democrats had no standing to challenge the rules. They could establish no "harm" to themselves.

LOL. LMAO, even

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 28, 2026 07:39 PM (C0Nlv)

151 nood

cafe

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 07:40 PM (3uBP9)

152 “ Future Tucker Carlson guest James Talarico:
James Talarico
@jamestalarico

Black Americans in a church.

Mexican Americans in a store.

Asian Americans in a spa.

Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country.”

That doesn’t sound like anything Carlson has ever said or thought but OK

Posted by: Coach Howard Schnebrllenegr at May 28, 2026 07:40 PM (AkmS2)

153 I do like the proper transatlantic accent of the early to mid 20th century....

Posted by: runner at May 28, 2026 07:40 PM (GD0B3)

154 Sidebar comment: does anybody, even the left, take this mincing faggot, James Talarico, seriously. I mean, he's from central casting for 'Progressive'. He's every single stereotype all in one quivering mass of useless packaging. Amazing!

Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 28, 2026 07:40 PM (bfy6w)

155 Pfffft, heard long ago a Septa Bus in Philadelphia would get into a accident and get more claims than 2 busses could hold in passengers

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 07:40 PM (Ia/+0)

156 You sound like the guy that wants to stick the "u" back in "color."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 07:39 PM (gnNyN)

Nope. It should be spelled "culer."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 07:40 PM (1Ff7Z)

157 If they're charging people in the first place for capping off criminal foreigners interlopers, Poland is doing it WRONG.

They ought to pay a $75 bounty for the ears, like with coyotes.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 28, 2026 07:40 PM (flbGo)

158 grab them by the nuts and twist
EBT Medicaid SBA is 100% graft

Question? Do you know someone that got off the grift?

I am almost 66 and do not know anyone that got on the Gravy US Big Govt Train and got off.

Maybe they did but I have never heard anyone say I was on EBT to feed the kids and now I am in a better place.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 28, 2026 07:41 PM (/+uur)

159 EXCLUSIVE: Former Minnesota employee reveals suspected fraud scheme of 'fake injuries' at Somali businesses
Posted by: beckster at May 28, 2026 07:24 PM (kX27y)

So: The Somali who set up a home healthcare agency, and then became the home health care provider at that non-existent agency, and also runs the day care and the feed our children agency and the transportation service, then reports a debilitating injury incurred at one of these places of "business." The number of layers of fraud one single person can commit is staggering.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 28, 2026 07:41 PM (zYpTz)

160 I honestly wouldn't put it past Massie to pull a bitter bitch move and say something like, "Here is the complete Epstein client list: Donald Trump. That is all."

The left would put up statues in Massie's honor in every major city in the nation.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 07:41 PM (mkw2N)

161 “ …. slapping down Democrats' arguments for now that federal efforts to police voter rolls with citizenship checks is illegal”

They always throw that in there when they don’t accept a ruling. “For now”

“But we’re gonna make you fuckers pay!!” at minimum.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 07:41 PM (I69X4)

162 EXCLUSIVE: Former Minnesota employee reveals suspected fraud scheme of 'fake injuries' at Somali businesses
Posted by: beckster at May 28, 2026 07:24 PM (kX27y)
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Fake illnesses, fake workers, fake children, fake buildings...

Is there ANYTHING about the Somalis that's real?

Maybe they are just figments of our imagination who have developed malevolent sentience....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 07:41 PM (gnNyN)

163 I know of people that would fuck a knotting pine but they would not fuck a fuckable E Jean

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 28, 2026 07:42 PM (/+uur)

164 Traveling is an American starting at point A and ending at point B. Travelling is a Brit starting at point A and never reaching point B because they got drunk.

Posted by: Eromero at May 28, 2026 07:44 PM (LHPAg)

165 Fake illnesses, fake workers, fake children, fake buildings...

Is there ANYTHING about the Somalis that's real?

Maybe they are just figments of our imagination who have developed malevolent sentience....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 07:41 PM (gnNyN)

They are not Americans.
They are worse than the people that eat turkey in the fridge for the Thanksgiving Day lunch before it is put out.
Take the worst American. Make them slovenly and indolent and crooked. That is better than any Somoli.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 28, 2026 07:45 PM (/+uur)

166
The more the funny money going from the federal government to NGOs dries up, the less money the Democrats and their allies have. I expect that without federal money, Antifa will shrivel up.

I hope investigators are taking a look at private funding by left wing billionaires too. They may try to make up some of the shortfall. They have to follow the law.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 28, 2026 07:46 PM (azNOR)

167 Unbelievably, there was no citizenship requirement for receiving US federal grants.

That... is an unbelievably clever way of disincentivizing the hiring of foreign faculty at universities.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 28, 2026 07:46 PM (C0Nlv)

168 Seriously, even building a wall is dumb. Put up a guard tower every such-and-such distance along the border. Have roving patrols cover the gaps. Shoot any living thing moving in a northerly direction.

Watch how fast illegal immigration stops.

Then also seal the border crossings and turn back the legal ones, gently but very firmly.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 28, 2026 07:48 PM (flbGo)

169 He is a shit stirrer and probably ruin some people who had nothing to do with Epstein.

Posted by: four seasons

Sounds like a strong case for defamation

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 28, 2026 07:51 PM (C0Nlv)

170 Compliment
Complement

Trips a lot of people up. Thank You for your attention to this matter

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 07:51 PM (I69X4)

171 Black Americans in a church.

Mexican Americans in a store.

Asian Americans in a spa.

Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country.”

Apparently white men aren't Americans to Talarico.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 28, 2026 07:52 PM (C0Nlv)

172 Have roving patrols cover the gaps. Shoot any living thing moving in a northerly direction.
——

A fence will work. Two fences actually, guarded in between by Pit-Bulls with AIDS.

Before they started deploying thousands and thousands of troops to the other side of the planet in undeclared wars, the chief duty of the Army was … wait for it … Patrolling the southern border.

What’s interesting a lot of people believe using the Army for securing the border is somehow illegal. Just what the fuck do you think the Army is for?

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 07:54 PM (I69X4)

173 I think they changed around the same time we weren't allowed to put two spaces after the period anymore.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
---

Bill Gates?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 07:54 PM (y79kU)

174 106 Yeah, the words are still there, but when I go to look for the exact right word- it's just not. I know I know the perfect word, but it is like a empty spot on a dusty shelf- the imprint is there, but there's no jar.

It comes and goes. And then 20 mins later, you smack your head and call yourself a dumb ass. Spirit of the Staircase.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 07:20 PM (zZu0s)

I use WordWeb, mostly to check spelling, but also when my word-grabber is failing to pull a word I know I know. It has three neat features, even in the free version:

https://wordweb.info/free/

* As a light stand-alone app, you can use it from any program, without having to open a browser (or switch away from the tab you're on). Just highlight a word, and ctrl-alt-w or ctrl-right-click.

* In addition to the built-in offline dictionary/thesaurus, it has tabs for Wikipedia (which I never use) and Wiktionary (which I use all the time).

* Further, they recently added an actually useful "AI Suggestions" feature for fuzzy matches, like when XTC introduced the term 'wignat'. It gave the accurate, politically-incorrect meaning.

Posted by: SciVo at May 28, 2026 08:01 PM (Sy6m/)

175 Nood, Cafe

Posted by: SciVo at May 28, 2026 08:01 PM (Sy6m/)

176 "You'll love this: He ruled the Democrats had no standing to challenge the rules. They could establish no 'harm' to themselves."
----------

Yes, I do love that.

Posted by: MartynWW at May 28, 2026 08:24 PM (M9zxq)

177 He ruled the Democrats had no standing to challenge the rules. They could establish no "harm" to themselves.

They *could* establish that, but they'd have to admit to a lot of illegal shit. LO-effin-L!

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 08:27 PM (QZThv)

Toxic Incompetent Radical Leftwing Propagandists Are Finally S-Canned at 60 Minutes, and the Left is (You'll Never Guess!) Hysterical

Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
2h
60 Minutes was genocided.

Lunatic Trash-Karen Sharyl Alfonsi threw her last hissy-fit over Bari Weiss holding up her hit-piece about CECOT to get comment from the object of her hit-piece -- the Trump Administration, of course -- and then publicly complained about her employers. (And probably did some leaking, but we'll just have to guess about that.)

One of her previous acts of Democrat Party Service was attacking Ron DeSantis for arranging a deal for the Magic Vaccine, which the media claimed was absolutely necessary for the survival of the species, to be made available through the large market chain Publix.

She asserted that DeSantis had made this deal in exchange for a $100,000 donation -- and would not take Democrats' word for it that they pitched and negotiated this deal with Publix themselves.

And ergo, the $100,000 donation was irrelevant.

Meanwhile, this ugly crone is claiming she was fired for her "honest" journalism.

Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
3h
"Honest" -- like in her dishonest piece about Ron DeSantis and the Publix Supermarket chain, linking Publix being given a COVID vaccine contract in exchange for a $100,000 contribution to DeSantis?
Deceptive Editing: Alfonsi confronted Gov. about the Publix deal, but 60 Minutes edited his response by omitting the portion of his answer explaining that CVS and Walgreens were tied up administering vaccines in long-term care facilities at the time, and that Publix was simply the first pharmacy to volunteer and prove it was ready for the larger roll-out needed.
Florida's emergency management director -- a Democrat -- publicly stated that the decision to use Publix was made by his office, not the Governor, and that undermined entirely the conspiracy narrative that was the foundation of the 60 Minutes story.
Other Democrats in Florida and Publix pushed back against the story.
But that didn't slow Alfonsi or 60 Minutes down since De Santis was, at that time, considered to be the frontrunner for the GOP POTUS nomination in 2024.
"In a Sunday night tweet directed at "60 Minutes," Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz wrote, "I said this before and I'll say it again. [Publix] was recommended by [Florida Division of Emergency Management] and [Florida Department of Public Health]. Period! Full stop!"
"No one from the Governors office suggested Publix," Moskowitz added. "It's just absolute malarkey."
Is it that kind of "honest" journalism you are referring to??

A Democrat mayor of Palm Beach alled the story "intentionally false" as well, saying this wasn't just "bad information," it was a deliberate, calculated lie:

But she had a potential Republican presidential candidate to take down for her Democrat masters, and went forward with the false, defamatory propaganda anyway.

And for some reason, Bari Weiss had doubts about her credibility, honesty, and professionalism!

Here's her meltdown over being fired -- or, actually, these people aren't employees, so they're not fired.

Their contracts are just allowed to blissfully expire without renewal.

Dylan Byers
@DylanByers
May 27
NEW: Sharyn Alfonsi goes scorched earth on Bari Weiss:
"Over the weekend, my contract with CBS News expired, drawing to a close nearly twenty years with the network, including more than a decade at 60 Minutes.
Following an intense editorial dispute over our CECOT story, repeated attempts by my representation to establish a path forward were met with absolute silence from network executives. The message could not be clearer: my time at 60 Minutes is apparently over.
In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like "modernization" and "restructuring" to explain away my departure. Don't be misled. This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom.

Well, they're resorting to euphemisms because they consider in unprofessional to just tell the truth about you: You're a batshit crazy partisan who is too unattractive and probably has too checkered a past to go directly into Democrat politics so you work from the shadows in the media.

How's that? Is that better than the euphemism?

Weiss also let go of a 60 Minutes producer, and replaced him with Nick Bilton.

The media are screaming that he has no prior television journalistic experience even though he's been an investigative journalist at the NYT and Vanity Fair.

And they're screaming for simple turf-protection reasons: They have a guild and they don't want non-guild-members replacing them so that they lose their phoney-baloney jobs.

I've got five words for you: Learn to fucking code, bitches.

Long-time propagandists Katie Couric and Jim Acosta say they are very concerned that CNN and CBS News are about to become propaganda outlets.

Hysterical stuff. pic.twitter.com/DdTtv90x53
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 28, 2026

WATCH: CBS and @60Minutes excluded context from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in which he explains the steps his government took to make the decision to partner with Publix on vaccine distribution.

The 60 Minutes version is first, followed by the full answer from DeSantis. pic.twitter.com/2KRQKPLOe7
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 5, 2021

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:40 PM

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1 This makes me indifferent.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 28, 2026 05:41 PM (ExV1e)

2 Good

Posted by: Ann at May 28, 2026 05:41 PM (SHHm+)

3 This won't make a bit of difference.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 28, 2026 05:41 PM (0N4FZ)

4 Oh, no. Where will I get my propaganda now?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 05:44 PM (qx7Zg)

5 Bless her heart.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 28, 2026 05:44 PM (dJeAh)

6
TickTickTickTickTickTick............

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 28, 2026 05:44 PM (IifOV)

7 Now do Scott Pelley...stat.

Posted by: WisRich at May 28, 2026 05:44 PM (G0vdT)

8 I've heard of viewing the world through rose colored glasses but not urine colored lens, Katie.

Also, luv, one should never, ever, wear black eyeliner with lower lid. Makes you look like a chy knee lizard. What on earth?

I realize, Ace, this isn't the point.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 28, 2026 05:45 PM (WONhk)

9 REEEEE

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 28, 2026 05:45 PM (Ydd86)

10 It might be easier if the left just schedule all of their anger and hatred into one small condensed time period every 24 hours.

Just for their own well-being.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 28, 2026 05:45 PM (Sco7b)

11
Old: Learn to Code

New: Learn to AI

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 28, 2026 05:45 PM (IifOV)

12
Life's a bitch.

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 05:45 PM (3ek7K)

13
Older: Learn to Plow

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 28, 2026 05:45 PM (IifOV)

14 It moved.
A little.
Will we get more pictures of Katie Couric milfdancing now?

Please say no.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:45 PM (03/BH)

15 Toxic Incompetent Radical Leftwing Propagandists Are Finally S-Canned at 60 Minutes, and the Left is (You'll Never Guess!) Hysterical
—Disinformation Expert Ace
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Wait. I guessed it!

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 05:45 PM (Fi81e)

16 Welp, another podcaster.

Posted by: WisRich at May 28, 2026 05:46 PM (G0vdT)

17 >>>7 Now do Scott Pelley...stat.

From your lips to God's ear.

Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 05:46 PM (1wjle)

18 >>Wait. I guessed it!

Nice! You win 5 Ace of Spades Klue Krew points.

Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 05:46 PM (1wjle)

19 Doesn't 60 minutes have numerous scandals in its history?

Yes. I think it does.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 05:47 PM (Fi81e)

20 Meanwhile, this ugly crone is claiming she was fired for her "honest" journalism

Whew!! For the first four words, we thought you might be referencing one of us.

Posted by: The Panelists of The View at May 28, 2026 05:47 PM (0sNs1)

21 Sharyn Alfonsi
=====

Who?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 05:47 PM (RIvkX)

22 Any news story not written in left wing propaganda and helpful to dems or hurts GOP is their definition of propaganda.

It's all so tiresome.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2026 05:47 PM (n5tGW)

23 OT: might have had a third crow visitor, one that appeared smaller than even the other smaller crow. But he (or she) flew off too quickly for me to be sure.

Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 05:48 PM (1wjle)

24 There are prizes? I never got any prizes.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 05:48 PM (viF8m)

25 A tack to the center makes sense. What took so long, though? Why wait to the point you can’t give it away?

Losing the Leftwing lunatic demographic is no great loss. A reasonable, sane, balanced approach could make the platform & program viable. Maybe. The alternative is certain extinction, from a ratings and revenue standpoint.

Don’t stockholders expect their investments not to have suicidal nutcases at the helm? What is that called again? A Fiduciary? A responsibility.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 05:48 PM (K0w3s)

26 "... they are very concerned that CNN and CBS News are about to become propaganda outlets."

It's news if it's slanted/ steered to the left. It's Propoganda if it's neutral.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 28, 2026 05:48 PM (IifOV)

27 Maybe Leftists Propaganda Ministry is losing ratings or not making money from commercials

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 05:48 PM (Ia/+0)

28 As my Dad used to say:

It's still a big pile of shit, but there is one less peanut in it today.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:48 PM (03/BH)

29 >>>It's still a big pile of shit, but there is one less peanut in it today.

wouldn't you want more peanuts and less shit?

Your dad doesn't seem to know much about poop.

Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 05:49 PM (1wjle)

30 Courage.

Posted by: Dan Rather at May 28, 2026 05:49 PM (gKWVE)

31 She can go join Colbert and whine...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 28, 2026 05:49 PM (FtULh)

32 The message could not be clearer: my time at 60 Minutes is apparently over.

This is why you need an editor, sweetcheeks.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 28, 2026 05:49 PM (vTZFs)

33 Older: Learn to Plow
Posted by: Frank Barone at May 28, 2026 05:45 PM (IifOV)

I know how to be plowed. It doesn't help.

Posted by: Don Lemon at May 28, 2026 05:50 PM (wGerL)

34 Will we get more pictures of Katie Couric milfdancing now?
Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:45 PM

She wears 6 1/2 size shoes, you know.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at May 28, 2026 05:50 PM (0sNs1)

35 I learned a new slang term today: “dew-sweeper.” Any guesses as to what it might mean?

Clue: Diogenes, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 05:50 PM (77rzZ)

36 In the premiere episode of 'Dawson's Creek', it was revealed that the main character Dawson liked to fap to Katie Couric!

It's true! And she was cute and likable once upon a time.

And now that actor is dead.....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 28, 2026 05:50 PM (Sco7b)

37 Albeit slowly the worm is turning.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 28, 2026 05:50 PM (5P5DO)

38 34 Will we get more pictures of Katie Couric milfdancing now?
Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:45 PM

Best I can do is an image of her lower colon.

Posted by: Rick Harrison at May 28, 2026 05:51 PM (dJeAh)

39 She wears 6 1/2 size shoes, you know.
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at May 28, 2026 05:50 PM (0sNs1)

Oh great. Now we're going to have to see Couric's verucas and bunions on OnlyFans.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 05:51 PM (gKWVE)

40 OT: they are making a Lethal Weapon 5.

Do they fall asleep in front of the TV with 60 mins on?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 05:51 PM (zZu0s)

41 One less egg to fry

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2026 05:51 PM (Cqx++)

42 LOL get fucked

Posted by: steevy at May 28, 2026 05:51 PM (YwEeS)

43 Katie Couric's best news piece is when she allowed them to tape her colonoscopy. I didn't learn a hell of a lot about the procedure. BUT, it gave great insight as to where most of Couric's stories originated.

BEN BEN ROETHLISBERGER: "He means, she pulled them out of her ass."

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 05:51 PM (dIske)

44 37 Albeit slowly the worm is turning.
Posted by: Ben Had

... in Couric's colon

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 05:51 PM (gKWVE)

45 I prefer "Lear to Code."

Posted by: Frasier Crane at May 28, 2026 05:51 PM (bNf8H)

46 I didn't realize the 60 minutes let go two correspondents and a producer.

Bari been busy.

Posted by: WisRich at May 28, 2026 05:52 PM (G0vdT)

47 I prefer "People are sick of your shit"

Posted by: Ben Had at May 28, 2026 05:52 PM (5P5DO)

48 Sweep me out with the morning dew my friend.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2026 05:52 PM (Cqx++)

49 There is a pretty good list of former tv lefties that are now podcasters. Makes me smile.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2026 05:53 PM (n5tGW)

50 There are prizes? I never got any prizes.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 05:48 PM

Have you seen how many documented instances there are of you disappointing ace in your AoSHQ Permanent Record?

Posted by: Bob from NSA at May 28, 2026 05:53 PM (0sNs1)

51 I'm hoping they use the euphemism "synergy", when describing her firing.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 28, 2026 05:53 PM (6p6Q6)

52 29.

I failed to ask follow-up questions. I'd have made a good journalist.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:53 PM (03/BH)

53 21 Sharyn Alfonsi
=====

Who?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 05:47 PM (RIvkX)

Andy Rooney transitioned.

Posted by: Don Lemon at May 28, 2026 05:54 PM (wGerL)

54 OT: might have had a third crow visitor, one that appeared smaller than even the other smaller crow. But he (or she) flew off too quickly for me to be sure.
Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 05:48 PM (1wjle)

Ace will soon need a microscope to see these continual diminishing crows.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 05:54 PM (8avO+)

55 >>Albeit slowly the worm is turning.

We spend every single day obsessing about every issue in great detail we sometimes lose perspective and the big picture.

We've come so far in the last year and a few months it's incredible. We are winning battle after battle and the left is falling apart. The Trump administration is doing things we only dreamed of having done and there are so many we get complacent.

It's a wonderful time to be alive.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 05:54 PM (viF8m)

56 >>>It's still a big pile of shit, but there is one less peanut in it today.

wouldn't you want more peanuts and less shit?

Your dad doesn't seem to know much about poop.
Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 05:49 PM (1wjle)

Peanuts are like the bearing gauges of the intestines.

This brings up a question: if peanuts are so packed with energy, and the high amount of indigestion fiber means they pass essentially undigested through you, then how does that work for calorie considerations?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 05:54 PM (zZu0s)

57 There is a pretty good list of former tv lefties that are now podcasters. Makes me smile.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2026 05:53 PM (n5tGW)

none are successful at it.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 05:55 PM (8avO+)

58 Honey, I shrunk the crows.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2026 05:55 PM (n5tGW)

59 That CECOT story was all about Trump sending "innocent" migrants there like Maryland Man... Speaking of that we are still stuck with that POS

Posted by: It's me donna at May 28, 2026 05:55 PM (FtULh)

60 Ace will soon need a microscope to see these continual diminishing crows.

Continually Diminishing Crows would be a good name for an alt-folk band.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 28, 2026 05:56 PM (vTZFs)

61 Critical Drinker recommends Obsession

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 05:56 PM (gKWVE)

62 I saw Lunatic Trash-Karens open for Veruca Salt at Lee's Palace in 2000.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 28, 2026 05:57 PM (dJeAh)

63 > I prefer "People are sick of your shit"
Posted by: Ben Had
--------
I've been using that for years. Mostly with the kids. But... sometimes with "others." Like the guy doing the intake for my automotive needs at the dealership. Who's on the phone with someone obviously not interested in getting their vehicle serviced. As I stand there. With an appointment. Made a week ago.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 28, 2026 05:57 PM (jehhT)

64 Shall we talk about the digestive track and corn?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2026 05:57 PM (n5tGW)

65 >>>61 Critical Drinker recommends Obsession

i'll watch the first half when he wish-compels the hot girl to bang the shit out of him, then I'll leave and make up my own ending

Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 05:57 PM (1wjle)

66 >>Have you seen how many documented instances there are of you disappointing ace in your AoSHQ Permanent Record?

You mean the guy who calls me a drug addict at least once a week? Yea, I gathered I was on the wrong side of the ledger.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 05:57 PM (viF8m)

67 Nested Russian crow dolls.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2026 05:58 PM (Cqx++)

68 Ace is slowly assembling a set of Russian Nesting Crows.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:58 PM (03/BH)

69 jinx

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:59 PM (03/BH)

70 45 I prefer "Lear to Code."

learn to cod > lear to code

Posted by: anachronda at May 28, 2026 05:59 PM (v3pYe)

71 Western Lensman image

On the left: William Hickey in a wig and aviators.
On the right: Rosie O'Donnell post face-lift. Looking good, girl!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 05:59 PM (0aYVJ)

72 I can't remember the last time I watched '60 Minutes.' That Rooney guy is on.

The saddest thing about all of this disinformation from all these bastards is that if there EVER, EVER was a very serious, life or death situation, who'd believe them?

We all know documentaries are leftist crap and the young ones certainly aren't consuming their crap.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 28, 2026 06:00 PM (Sco7b)

73 This brings up a question: if peanuts are so packed with energy, and the high amount of indigestion fiber means they pass essentially undigested through you, then how does that work for calorie considerations?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 05:54 PM

Dude. Two words: Peanut Butter.

All of the digestibility, and no chunky pass-through. It's science!

Posted by: Bill Nye, the Science Guy at May 28, 2026 06:00 PM (0sNs1)

74 Meh, IDGAF.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at May 28, 2026 06:00 PM (Q/FnY)

75 I can't stress enough how bad the advice "learn to code" is these days.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 28, 2026 06:01 PM (/d4WW)

76 i'll watch the first half when he wish-compels the hot girl to bang the shit out of him, then I'll leave and make up my own ending
Posted by: ace at May 28, 2026 05:57 PM (1wjle)
---

Uh, as I noted on Saturday's movie post, this movie skips that part, or by the time it happens, it's not...fun...at all.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 28, 2026 06:02 PM (/d4WW)

77 Sharyn Alfonsi
=====

Who?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 05:47 PM (RIvkX)

You know. The last minute addition to the Happy Days cast during its final season. The Fonz's retarded cousin..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 28, 2026 06:02 PM (nbLIj)

78 Who would win in a race? Corn or peanuts?

And what companies would sponsor the racers?

There is money to be made here, people.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 06:03 PM (03/BH)

79
I can't stress enough how bad the advice "learn to code" is these days.
Posted by: moviegique

I keep hearing ads by Mycomputercareer.com

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2026 06:03 PM (Cqx++)

80 Ace, maybe that was the baby crow learning (learing) your place to spread the word.

Our spring festive finch egg story ended in a tragedy of hideousness as apparently, per my dude, finches are trial by death and error as young parents. It takes a few times for them to figure it all out. Our new parents basically starved their babies and it was disgusting. This was after videos to grands of the spring wonder of nature and birds feeding babies.

Husband threw the dead birds, nest and plant into the garbage before we left town. The story is to tell the grands (if they remember to ask) that the birdies flew off and his camera did not work at the time.

He's still watching eagle chicks on youtube. Probably wants an eagle family of our own now vs the murder finches. The mother finch seemed retarded after seeming good for two weeks.

Votes Dim.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 28, 2026 06:04 PM (WONhk)

81 75 I can't stress enough how bad the advice "learn to code" is these days.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 28, 2026

***
I keep hearing radio ads for something called MyITCareer which trumpets that you could be "trained for a new career in cybersecurity in just months!"

Yeah, as long as you're young, not white, from another country, and willing to work for nickels and dimes, sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 06:04 PM (wzUl9)

82 This Good News Post went sideways fast.

Let's get back to business.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 06:04 PM (03/BH)

83 40 OT: they are making a Lethal Weapon 5.

Do they fall asleep in front of the TV with 60 mins on?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 05:51 PM (zZu0s)

I saw a video of an interview with Mel Gibson about this; he promised Richard Donner he would direct this sequel.
It's funny; the whole premise of the first movie was Danny Glover's character was retiring...at 50...in 1987.
And here we are..39 years later. I don't think Mel will let this one be cr*ppy. I will probably see it even though my default now is to avoid everything.

Posted by: Nelly at May 28, 2026 06:05 PM (6+ehB)

84 We are getting a helluva windstorm right now. Almost dust-storm level.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 06:05 PM (0aYVJ)

85
I keep hearing ads by Mycomputercareer.com
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2026

***
That's what I was thinking of, not "MyITCareer dot com."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 06:05 PM (wzUl9)

86 I drink these slimy cuntrats’ tears with the orgasmic bliss of a horny teenager having sex for the first time

Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 28, 2026 06:05 PM (vUhur)

87 Unfortunately, there is no real dialog that can go on between us and people who believe that an editorial change that might favor Trump is not "state media".

Simply because the editorial change shares that effect with Trump-controlled media.

They don't understand the difference between cause and correlation if it does not help their cause--and then only to the extent that the parrot-feeders feed it to them.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:05 PM (Fi81e)

88 75 I can't stress enough how bad the advice "learn to code" is these days.

that's part of the kink

Posted by: anachronda at May 28, 2026 06:05 PM (v3pYe)

89 75 I can't stress enough how bad the advice "learn to code" is these days.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 28, 2026 06:01 PM (/d4WW)

I do have a kick ass microphone, nice lighting rigs, good camera phone, nice computer and a good enough teleprompter.

Hmmmm.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 28, 2026 06:06 PM (Sco7b)

90
Do not take Alfonsi if you're allergic to Alfonsi.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:06 PM (Fi81e)

91 84.

Same here. Watching the daydrinking milfs in my subdivision chase their trash cans down the cul de sac is hilarious.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 06:06 PM (03/BH)

92 I can't stress enough how bad the advice "learn to code" is these days.

that's part of the kink
Posted by: anachronda at May 28, 2026 06:05 PM (v3pYe)
---
Indeed, AI often suck at coding, but they possibly run circles around the skills of a former urinalist.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:07 PM (Fi81e)

93 Learn a trade, son. Like wheelwright.

Posted by: Just a hair behind the times at May 28, 2026 06:07 PM (TbWk/)

94 "I've got five words for you: Learn to fucking code, bitches."

Indeed, sir. Indeed.

Posted by: Danimal28 at May 28, 2026 06:08 PM (mNOhh)

95 I've got five words for you: Learn to fucking code, bitches.

Somewhere there is a ditch to be dug.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 06:08 PM (/lPRQ)

96 Would love to see these journalice end up working as knockers at a meat-packing plant.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 06:08 PM (03/BH)

97 93 Learn a trade, son. Like wheelwright.
Posted by: Just a hair behind the times at May 28, 2026 06:07 PM (TbWk/)

Been fletching the arrow quite a bit. Does that count?

Posted by: Don Lemon at May 28, 2026 06:09 PM (wGerL)

98 #Lear2digditches.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:09 PM (Fi81e)

99 Long-time propagandists Katie Couric and Jim Acosta say they are very concerned that CNN and CBS News are about to become propaganda outlets.

Hysterical stuff.

Oh my, much concern was expressed. They're not just concerned, they're VERY concerned. I had no idea things were that serious. Oh wait, I don't care. In fact, I revel in dismissing their concerns.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 06:09 PM (Riz8t)

100 Learned a trade 50+ years ago. Never been without work.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 28, 2026 06:09 PM (5P5DO)

101
I just stumbled on something I didn't know existed. Today and tomorrow are "Manhattanhenge". Because of NYC's (mostly) rectangular street grid, and the ~30 degree offset to North, sunset will align with the cross streets.

After the solstice, it will happen again around July 11.

ANd likewise, looking in the other direction, sunrise will align around the winter solstice.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 06:10 PM (w6EFb)

102 82 This Good News Post went sideways fast.

just like that rocket on skinwalker ranch tuesday night...

Posted by: anachronda at May 28, 2026 06:10 PM (v3pYe)

103 Couric can still beat Acosta at arm wrestling.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 06:10 PM (03/BH)

104 Anderson Cooper's Striking "60 Minutes" Signoff Apparently Made CBS News's Editor-In-Chief Bari Weiss Furious As She Wasn't Given Advance Notice & Effectively Blindsided By Those Remarks. She Also Kept Privately Expressing Frustrations To Associates About Way She's Covered & Scrutinized By Media.

Don't want to be called a propagandist hack don't be a propagandist hack. Pretty simple.

Didn’t 60 minutes get sued for being a political hack when they aired a heavily doctored interview with Kamala Harris? Nm just looked it up, they settled out of court for 16M

It was typical TV editing for these types of interviews, not the sanewashing they do for Trump.

Weiss is getting the coverage she deserves. She’s destroying brand and business value to an incalculable degree.

Freedom of speech is very important to me and should be to you. When CBS censors comedians like Colbert and 60 Minutes journalists like Sharyn Alfonsi, not interested in supporting them in any way. We’ll see what happens if the merger goes through. For now, I will not support them.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 28, 2026 06:10 PM (ycI94)

105 (conversation between crows just outside of Ace's earshot)

Crow #1: "He thinks we want to be friends."
Crow #2: "What? Noooo. He looks like a 3 ft. hairy plushy."
Crow #3: "Ewawwwk."
Crow 1: "What?"
Crow 3: "Sorry, had something in my throat. Those damn Skittles he keeps giving us."
Crow #2: "Look, we accept the free snacks. When he goes inside, we shit on his car and blame the Blue Jays. Everyone's happy."
Crow #1: (gives side-eye) I think he wants us to give him a gift.
Crow #3: "OOOOh Oh, the crack pipe we stole from that dead hooker.
Crow #2: "Probably alread has one."
Crow #1: "A dead hooker?"
Crow #3: "Have you been in his garage?"

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 06:10 PM (dIske)

106 60 Minutes has been bullshit lib propaganda since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. Hearing them scream and cry about being held to some degree of journalistic standard is sweet music, like a choir angelic.

Posted by: 60 Minutes of lies at May 28, 2026 06:10 PM (TbWk/)

107 Learn to code? Lear to suck smelly hobo cock for a buck under the bridge.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 28, 2026 06:10 PM (vUhur)

108 You're a batshit crazy partisan who is too unattractive and probably has too checkered a past to go directly into Democrat politics so you work from the shadows in the media.

How's that? Is that better than the euphemism?
__________

For Ace, that's still a euphemism.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 28, 2026 06:10 PM (XvL8K)

109 Shall we talk about the digestive track and corn?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

Why not?

Posted by: Mr Peanut at May 28, 2026 06:11 PM (IivNP)

110 So what's the deal on this CECOT thing?

Posted by: No Name Today at May 28, 2026 06:11 PM (8mulE)

111 Freedom of speech is very important to me and should be to you. When CBS censors comedians like Colbert and 60 Minutes journalists like Sharyn Alfonsi, not interested in supporting them in any way.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 28, 2026 06:10 PM (ycI94)
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CBS is a private entity, morons (not in a good sense).

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:11 PM (Fi81e)

112 It might be easier if the left just schedule all of their anger and hatred into one small condensed time period every 24 hours.

Might I suggest two minutes?

Posted by: George Orwell at May 28, 2026 06:11 PM (KOF8G)

113 I've got five words for you: Learn to fucking code, bitches.

Somewhere there is a ditch to be dug.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 06:08 PM (/lPRQ)

You too can work from home doing Medical Coding! Just give us a call at 1-800-RIP-UOFF, and we'll send you more information.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 06:11 PM (qx7Zg)

114 Oh my, much concern was expressed. They're not just concerned, they're VERY concerned. I had no idea things were that serious. Oh wait, I don't care. In fact, I revel in dismissing their concerns.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026

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How much do I care about Couric and Acosta and their concerns?

Let's see. If you took one single drop of water, and extracted one single hydrogen atom from it, and could isolate and trap the single electron, I might care 1/1000th of that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 06:11 PM (wzUl9)

115 93 Learn a trade, son. Like wheelwright.

that EngelsCoachShop fellow on youtube seems to keep busy.

Posted by: anachronda at May 28, 2026 06:11 PM (v3pYe)

116 You're a batshit crazy partisan who is too unattractive and probably has too checkered a past to go directly into Democrat politics so you work from the shadows in the media.

How's that? Is that better than the euphemism?
__________

For Ace, that's still a euphemism.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 28, 2026 06:10 PM (XvL8K)
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Glory holes of the media?

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:12 PM (Fi81e)

117 > I can't stress enough how bad the advice "learn to code" is these days.
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Learn to fucking cope.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 28, 2026 06:13 PM (jehhT)

118 I started doing Tahini a couple weeks ago. Have no idea if it's doing anything, but it does not taste bad. Like a bitter, thin peanut butter.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 06:13 PM (zZu0s)

119 "Learn to fucking code, bitches."

Beautiful advice, Ace!

Posted by: Tracy at May 28, 2026 06:14 PM (EGTA2)

120 I wonder how Jim Acosta's podcast is going. Has he hit double digits on listeners yet?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 06:14 PM (Riz8t)

121 I started doing Tahini a couple weeks ago. Have no idea if it's doing anything, but it does not taste bad. Like a bitter, thin peanut butter.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026

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Tahini?

Dated her in high school. Transfer student from Hawaii.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 06:14 PM (wzUl9)

122 121.

She still send you a lot of email SPAM?

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 06:16 PM (03/BH)

123 Didn’t 60 minutes get sued for being a political hack when they aired a heavily doctored interview with Kamala Harris? Nm just looked it up, they settled out of court for 16M

It was typical TV editing for these types of interviews, not the sanewashing they do for Trump.
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Yeah, that's how you rack up a legal win. Is to show it's nothing out of the ordinary.

Some of these people are allergic to contrasting input.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:16 PM (Fi81e)

124 Tahini?

Dated her in high school. Transfer student from Hawaii.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 06:14 PM (wzUl9)

Open Sesame!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 06:16 PM (zZu0s)

125 CNN had news on an Iran Deal...yada...yada...yada...

So we may be near the middle of the end of the beginning of the middle of the conflict.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 28, 2026 06:16 PM (Sco7b)

126 Freedom of speech is very important to me and should be to you. When CBS censors comedians like Colbert and 60 Minutes journalists like Sharyn Alfonsi, not interested in supporting them in any way.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 28, 2026
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CBS is a private entity, morons (not in a good sense).
Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026

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These clowns think the media is owned by and beholden to the right, aka "Trump's government."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 06:17 PM (wzUl9)

127 The most hysterical and pathetic thing about the Katie Couric and Jim Acosta whine-fest is that they’re both doing the video from their crappy living rooms.

Seriously? With all the money these cretins were paid, they can’t spring for a professional-looking backdrop?

$2 OnlyFans whores have more respectable environs.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 28, 2026 06:17 PM (vUhur)

128 Hmmmm, newsflash, I guess.

Michigan Gov. Whitmer says she won't be running for president in 2028

What does she know? Have the Dems already concluded they can't beat Vance? No, I didn't think that either.

https://tinyurl.com/yc5z5dx5

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 06:17 PM (Riz8t)

129 Tahini?

Dated her in high school. Transfer student from Hawaii.
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You dated Raquel Welch's daughter?

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 28, 2026 06:17 PM (/d4WW)

130
Open Sesame!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026

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She was cute too. Could never get a date with her though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 06:17 PM (wzUl9)

131 Lear2SellYourAss

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:17 PM (Fi81e)

132 Seriously? With all the money these cretins were paid, they can’t spring for a professional-looking backdrop?

$2 OnlyFans whores have more respectable environs.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 28, 2026 06:17 PM (vUhur)
________________________

Couric's X-Ray Power Glasses aren't cheap.

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 06:18 PM (dIske)

133 Say what you will, Katie Couric has the cutest colon I've seen on TV.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 06:18 PM (Riz8t)

134 Learn a trade, son. Like wheelwright.
Posted by: Just a hair behind the times at May 28, 2026 06:07 PM (TbWk/)

I am at a point in my life where if I got laid off, I would go get a job at Ace Hardware, or some such.

Not Walmart. Been there, done that.

But not having some kind of job just does not fit with me.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 06:18 PM (0aYVJ)

135 >>Freedom of speech is very important to me and should be to you.

The party that cheered on the government when it partnered with social media to shut down the speech of half the country has thoughts on freedom of speech. Stupid thoughts but thoughts.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 06:19 PM (viF8m)

136 CNN had news on an Iran Deal...yada...yada...yada...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 28, 2026 06:16 PM (Sco7b)
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TACO! -- Those who otherwise claim to hate war and American soldiers dying and executive military actions.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:19 PM (Fi81e)

137 Doesn't 60 minutes have numerous scandals in its history?"

Hey, at least we're not Dateline. Now who wants to blow up a truck?
/59 minutes

Posted by: man at May 28, 2026 06:19 PM (XuXeR)

138 Open Sesame!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026

***
She was cute too. Could never get a date with her though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 06:17 PM (wzUl9)
——

I fucked her

Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 28, 2026 06:19 PM (vUhur)

139 117 > I can't stress enough how bad the advice "learn to code" is these days.
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Learn to fucking cope.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Learn to hoe.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 28, 2026 06:20 PM (ycI94)

140 >>Freedom of speech is very important to me and should be to you.

The party that cheered on the government when it partnered with social media to shut down the speech of half the country has thoughts on freedom of speech. Stupid thoughts but thoughts.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 06:19 PM (viF8m)
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100%.

They didn't seem that concerned with Janky at all.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:20 PM (Fi81e)

141 LEARN TO BLOW!

Posted by: Guy in the back of the theater at May 28, 2026 06:20 PM (vFG9F)

142 Son is leaving for a business week in Australia tomorrow. We just got back into town last night.

I don't always send him goodbye messages, even when he leaves the country. In this case I did and hoped for a healthy and safe trip with the warning that koala bears have chalmydia. Gave him stats and everything.

Because not everyone has his mother for this information.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 28, 2026 06:20 PM (WONhk)

143 Gretchen Whitmer has decided not to run for Precedent in 2028 to spend more time with her oily skin.

Seriously, you could fry chicken on her face.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 06:21 PM (03/BH)

144 Say what you will, Katie Couric has the cutest colon I've seen on TV.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026

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She's just okay in the foot department. They aren't ugly but nothing spectacular either.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 06:21 PM (wzUl9)

145 The sense of entitlement from those former 60 Minutes bozos is off the charts.

Posted by: mrp at May 28, 2026 06:21 PM (rj6Yv)

146 Open Sesame!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026

***
She was cute too. Could never get a date with her though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026
*
I fucked her
Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 28, 2026

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Hence her nickname

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 06:22 PM (wzUl9)

147 If I lost everything and had to go get a job I figure I could go to work at most any Advance Auto parts store and be manager within 2 months.

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 06:22 PM (vFG9F)

148 Gretchen Whitmer has decided not to run for Precedent in 2028 to spend more time with her oily skin.

Seriously, you could fry chicken on her face.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 06:21 PM (03/BH)
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Microwave.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:22 PM (Fi81e)

149 >> just like that rocket on skinwalker ranch tuesday night...

My patience is wearing thin. They need to go in there and just blow that mesa up and see just what the hell is in there. Some massive bunker busters or something and see just what happens.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2026 06:23 PM (w6EFb)

150 The party that cheered on the government when it partnered with social media to shut down the speech of half the country has thoughts on freedom of speech. Stupid thoughts but thoughts.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 06:19 PM (viF8m)
______________________

I would like to know if these people still work for our government:

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): Special Agents Elvis Chan and Laura Dehmlow, along with former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker. These ingrates were participating in meetings with social media to institute censorship.

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

151 Gretchen Whitmer disclosed that her appeal as President had become more selective.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:23 PM (Fi81e)

152
Michigan Gov. Whitmer says she won't be running for president in 2028

What does she know? Have the Dems already concluded they can't beat Vance? No, I didn't think that either.

https://tinyurl.com/yc5z5dx5
Posted by: Archimedes

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Surveying their talent bank now, they might be realistic enough to conclude that their 2028 candidate is going to be a sacrificial lamb.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 06:23 PM (n7rxJ)

153 Michigan Gov. Whitmer says she won't be running for president in 2028

What does she know? Have the Dems already concluded they can't beat Vance? No, I didn't think that either.

She's not going to win the primary, and it will be packed. The radicals think she sold-out to Trump, a significant chunk of Dems think America is too sexist to elect a woman, and she's white...which Dems have to publicly hate and shame, while secretly having old whites run the party.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 28, 2026 06:24 PM (ycI94)

154 If I lost everything and had to go get a job I figure I could go to work at most any Advance Auto parts store and be manager within 2 months.
Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 06:22 PM (vFG9F)

That would probably be the case with any retail operation.

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026 06:25 PM (XMuV+)

155 If I lost everything and had to go get a job I figure I could go to work at most any Advance Auto parts store and be manager within 2 months.
Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026

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I dread the idea of *having* to go back to work. If I chose to, that's one thing, but being *forced to* out of financial considerations is an awful thought.

("Hello, Wolfus! How do you like being a Walmart Greeter?"

("I'd rather be in a dragon's colon. Have a nice day.")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 06:25 PM (wzUl9)

156 Wow. Something happened. Whoopee.

Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at May 28, 2026 06:25 PM (vFG9F)

157 Surveying their talent bank now, they might be realistic enough to conclude that their 2028 candidate is going to be a sacrificial lamb.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 06:23 PM (n7rxJ)

It will be a black female goat named GOAT.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 06:25 PM (qx7Zg)

158 Surveying their talent bank now, they might be realistic enough to conclude that their 2028 candidate is going to be a sacrificial lamb.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 06:23 PM (n7rxJ)

REALLY early days for 2028 right now.

Plus, I think TJM is right at least insofar as it will be a nut around who pleases the base.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 06:26 PM (zZu0s)

159 Any news about any deal is pure bullshit.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 28, 2026 06:26 PM (5P5DO)

160 The sense of entitlement from those former 60 Minutes bozos is off the charts.

Posted by: mrp at May 28, 2026 06:21 PM (rj6Yv)
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They don't like new input, they won't like balance seeping in.

It must be TRUMP!!

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 06:26 PM (Fi81e)

161 "That would probably be the case with any retail operation.
Posted by: polynikes"

Mostly you just have to outlast everybody else.

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 06:27 PM (vFG9F)

162 News Readers continue to be the most over paid profession in the world.

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026 06:27 PM (XMuV+)

163 That would probably be the case with any retail operation.
Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026 06:25 PM (XMuV+)

The one downside is that, as you get older, I have been ... more freer with my opinions- and I did not start out particularly diplomatic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 06:27 PM (zZu0s)

164 157 Surveying their talent bank now, they might be realistic enough to conclude that their 2028 candidate is going to be a sacrificial lamb.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 06:23 PM (n7rxJ)

It will be a black female goat named GOAT.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 06:25 PM (qx7Zg)

Black transgender differently-abled pansexual quadriplegic.

Posted by: Checking the boxes. No not that box. at May 28, 2026 06:28 PM (TbWk/)

165 Mostly you just have to outlast everybody else.
Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 06:27 PM (vFG9F)

If you had a bit of sense and a good work ethic you would jump right over everyone.

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026 06:28 PM (XMuV+)

166 Also, luv, one should never, ever, wear black eyeliner with lower lid. Makes you look like a chy knee lizard. What on earth?

*SNORT*

One would think that someone whose business is appearing on camera would learn this kind of basic makeup stuff in the, oh, 35 years she's been in that game.

Idiot.

Although to be fair, I'm told that the make-up on her anus was just *perfect* when she took her viewers on a fun tour of her lower colon.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 28, 2026 06:29 PM (guGkK)

167 >>Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): Special Agents Elvis Chan and Laura Dehmlow, along with former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker. These ingrates were participating in meetings with social media to institute censorship.

Chan was put on "leave" from the FBI about a year ago and Baker has been gone a long time. He actually went to work for Twitter after leaving the FBI. Musk shit canned after buying Twitter.

Not sure about Dehmlow but Kash and Bondi were pretty good about taking out the trash.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 06:29 PM (viF8m)

168 There is some evidence that mixed nuts are a bit more difficult to fully digest and get all the food value (calories) extracted.

They are great for when you want something fairly substantial tho maybe don’t feel like firing up the grill or kitchen. They have a good mineral profile too.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 06:30 PM (TEI8e)

169 I had no idea what Talrico was even talking about in the sidebar. Thanks for explaining, ace.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 06:30 PM (zZu0s)

170 I suppose I could learn to code. No, I already know I don't like that. Maybe do web sites. I hear that's a pretty hot ting nowadays.

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 06:30 PM (vFG9F)

171 A banana on the wind.
-poetry in the style of Talarico

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 06:31 PM (zZu0s)

172 Also, luv, one should never, ever, wear black eyeliner with lower lid. Makes you look like a chy knee lizard. What on earth?

***
Sitting right here, dear.

Posted by: Zombie Audrey Hepburn at May 28, 2026 06:31 PM (wzUl9)

173 Oh no! It's over for Paxton!!

The Houston Chronicle--that was always going to endorse the Dem, and always endorses the Dem--has endorsed Talarico!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 06:31 PM (73/SM)

174 Maybe do web sites. I hear that's a pretty hot ting nowadays.
Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 06:30 PM (vFG9F)

Go Daddy dot com!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 06:32 PM (zZu0s)

175 Black tranny differently-abled pansexual quadriplegic who lives on the even side of the street in Peoria

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 06:32 PM (TEI8e)

176 157 Surveying their talent bank now, they might be realistic enough to conclude that their 2028 candidate is going to be a sacrificial lamb.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 06:23 PM (n7rxJ)
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The central question is whether they should run AOC now and lose, or run her 30 pounds later and lose.

Posted by: Abuela and the Forty Thieves at May 28, 2026 06:32 PM (qUkBO)

177 Almost dinner time for me and the cats.

Trapped, a 1949 film noir with Lloyd Bridges, is on Movies! tonight at 7 Central. I've never seen it; sounds intriguing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 06:33 PM (wzUl9)

178 Enough of the lying propaganda spewing cock-suckers.

Here's what's on the Nightly News

ABC - gas explosion in Dallas

All of them

Later
Iran deal
Trump on $250 bill
Other crap....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 28, 2026 06:33 PM (Sco7b)

179 I suppose I could learn to code. No, I already know I don't like that. Maybe do web sites. I hear that's a pretty hot ting nowadays.
Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 06:30 PM (vFG9F)

You could get a relatively high paying job as an overland truck driver. Though that would be my worst nightmare as I hate driving. But if you have a family you do what you gotta do.

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026 06:33 PM (XMuV+)

180 141 LEARN TO BLOW!

this is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: the margins at May 28, 2026 06:33 PM (v3pYe)

181 "They're is some evidence that mixed nuts are a bit more difficult to fully digest and get all the food value (calories) extracted."

I always pick out the pecans first anyway. Then the cashews, almonds, the filberts, the Brazil nuts, and then the peanuts. That way I get the full nutritional content.

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 06:34 PM (vFG9F)

182 There is some evidence that mixed nuts are a bit more difficult to fully digest and get all the food value (calories) extracted.
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So I need to put a wider cross-section of nuts in my mouth?

Posted by: James Talarico at May 28, 2026 06:34 PM (Fi81e)

183 You could get a relatively high paying job as an overland truck driver. Though that would be my worst nightmare as I hate driving. But if you have a family you do what you gotta do.
Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026

***
I could do that. But who would take care of the cats while I was gone?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 06:34 PM (wzUl9)

184 181 "They're is some evidence that mixed nuts are a bit more difficult to fully digest and get all the food value (calories) extracted."

I always pick out the pecans first anyway. Then the cashews, almonds, the filberts, the Brazil nuts, and then the peanuts. That way I get the full nutritional content.
Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 06:34 PM (vFG9F)

Blasphemer. It's cashews, then pecans, then almonds, then hazelnuts, then peanuts, and the Brazil nuts are abandoned.

Posted by: Yes, I am THAT guy at May 28, 2026 06:35 PM (TbWk/)

185 And being a truck driver would take all the fun out of road trips on my time off. "I've SEEN that Interstate already!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 06:35 PM (wzUl9)

186 I could do that. But who would take care of the cats while I was gone?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 06:34 PM (wzUl9)

Have them live in the rig. You can all use the same litter box.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 06:36 PM (zZu0s)

187 The Dems always manage to pick a worse candidate than the one they previously ran.

How can someone be worse than Beto. This is an example why you never say never.

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026 06:36 PM (XMuV+)

188 The central question is whether they should run AOC now and lose, or run her 30 pounds later and lose.
Posted by: Abuela and the Forty Thieves

Isn't the scuttlebutt that she's running for Schumer's seat? That would be an interesting fight. She's dumb, but her handlers have to know the Presidency is a losing option for her in 2028.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 28, 2026 06:36 PM (ycI94)

189 "Blasphemer. It's cashews, then pecans, then almonds, then hazelnuts, then peanuts, and the Brazil nuts are abandoned.
Posted by: Yes, I am THAT guy"

Whut? You must be some kind of Yankee.

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 06:36 PM (vFG9F)

190 Most nuts like almonds and cashews leave little flakes of themselves in my mouth. Peanuts (perhaps because they are not really nuts) don't.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 06:36 PM (wzUl9)

191 187 The Dems always manage to pick a worse candidate than the one they previously ran.

How can someone be worse than Beto. This is an example why you never say never.
Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026 06:36 PM (XMuV+)

Talarico is Temu Beto, but gayer.

Posted by: Which is quite a feat at May 28, 2026 06:36 PM (TbWk/)

192 Most nuts like almonds and cashews leave little flakes of themselves in my mouth. Peanuts (perhaps because they are not really nuts) don't.

And I suppose I'm not a planet.

Posted by: Pluto at May 28, 2026 06:37 PM (guGkK)

193 Whut? You must be some kind of Yankee.
Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 06:36 PM (vFG9F)

You. Take. That. Back.

Posted by: Pistols at dawn, suh! at May 28, 2026 06:37 PM (TbWk/)

194 >>"They're is some evidence that mixed nuts are a bit more difficult to fully digest and get all the food value (calories) extracted."
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Can't eat almonds. Go right through me. Desert camo poop.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 28, 2026 06:38 PM (0bjKf)

195 >> And I suppose I'm not a planet.
Posted by: Pluto

Burn the witch!

Posted by: Mike Brown at May 28, 2026 06:39 PM (w6EFb)

196 "You. Take. That. Back.
Posted by: Pistols at dawn, suh!"

Only if you say the code word.

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 06:39 PM (vFG9F)

197 Michigan Gov. Whitmer says she won't be running for president in 2028

Speaking of Toxic incompetent radical leftwingers

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 28, 2026 06:40 PM (wGerL)

198 Hint. Beverage of preference.

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 06:40 PM (vFG9F)

199 197 Michigan Gov. Whitmer says she won't be running for president in 2028

Speaking of Toxic incompetent radical leftwingers
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 28, 2026 06:40 PM (wGerL)

Maybe she'll do her weird lesbo-coded Dorito eucharist thing again.

Posted by: Followed by fake kidnapping at May 28, 2026 06:41 PM (TbWk/)

200 198 Hint. Beverage of preference.
Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 06:40 PM (vFG9F)

RC Cola.

Posted by: The One True Cola at May 28, 2026 06:42 PM (TbWk/)

201 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 28, 2026 06:43 PM (PiwSw)

202 I would eat a couple of cans of cashews a week but stopped after I had my first kidney stone four years ago. Cashews are one of the foods to avoid because of its high oxalate content.

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026 06:43 PM (XMuV+)

203 The Big Combo, the intriguing 1955 noir with Cornel Wilde and Richard Conte, is on Movies! now. It features an early role for Lee Van Cleef and Earl Holliman as two of Conte's gunmen. It's implied, rather subtly, that the two thugs are gay: They clearly live together and sleep in the same room, and when one is killed, the other is badly upset as if by the loss of a wife or child. Kind of startling for a 1955 movie.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2026 06:43 PM (wzUl9)

204 "198 Hint. Beverage of preference.
Posted by: fd at May 28, 2026 06:40 PM (vFG9F)

RC Cola.
Posted by: The One True Cola"

Close. The judges will allow.

Posted by: Sweety at May 28, 2026 06:45 PM (vFG9F)

205 Learn a trade, son. Like wheelwright.
Posted by: Just a hair behind the times at May 28, 2026 06:07 PM (TbWk/)

There's money to be made in that. Still a market for wood-spoke wheels. A skilled wheel wright can make good coin.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2026 06:50 PM (8zz6B)

206 polynikes thanks for warning, I like cashews too

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 06:54 PM (Ia/+0)

207 Bessent is great. Today's press briefing :
Q(Reporter): "Your response to GOV of CA on taxing Californians 100% on using Trump's anti-weaponization fund ? "
A(Bessent) : "There is no cure for stupid"

Posted by: runner at May 28, 2026 07:20 PM (GD0B3)

208 183 You could get a relatively high paying job as an overland truck driver. Though that would be my worst nightmare as I hate driving. But if you have a family you do what you gotta do.
Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026

It takes a bit of driving to start earning descent money.Takes some sacrifice as well. Once I "Learned the Ropes" it wasn't too bad. I only drove for four years. Wormed my way into the terminal office and eventually became a terminal manager. Like everything, it's what you put into it.

Posted by: javems at May 28, 2026 08:16 PM (zFsEm)

209 the editing in that clip is amazing.
man, ftb.

Posted by: cmeat at May 28, 2026 08:34 PM (R11M+)

Muslim Man Shouts Allahu Akbar as He Stabs Three Citizens In Switzerland; a Leftist SWATs Amy Coney Barrett to Get Cops to Kill Her; a Man Threatens to Kill Erika Kirk and Blow Up Every TPUSA Event

The red-green coalition continues killing us.

At some point, we're not going to put up with this any longer.

And then things will get interesting for the left.

And you should never wish to live in interesting times.

A leftist attempted to get cops to execute Amy Coney Barrett by calling in a fake report of a shooting at the residence, which of course causes cops to come armed and ready to kill any possible "attacker" on-scene.

Robby Starbuck
@robbystarbuck
4h
Someone tried to get Amy Coney Barrett, her kids and husband killed last night. That's what swatting really is: Attempted murder. Cops come in guns blazing expecting a shootout. People who initiate these should go to prison for life. Thankfully, the cops talked with her security first and prevented a potential tragedy. The left has embraced evil.

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
3h
🚨 HOLY CRAP! A leftist just tried to get Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and her family KILLED by SWATTING her, reporting "gunshots" at her house last night
Barrett notably signed onto the ruling against racial gerrymandering, which harms Dems.
Swatting = ATTEMPTED M*RDER
In 911 audio, they said: "Units responding to suspicious noise...unknown if it's going to be a swatting situation."
Whoever made the call committed an act of terrorism. Lock them up.

Police responded to a call for the sound of gunshots at the home of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett last night, but quickly realized it was a swatting call and cleared after meeting with her security detail. This is partial police audio, redacted pursuant to media� pic.twitter.com/fKKSTAVR6F
— Andrew Leyden (@PenguinSix) May 28, 2026

In Switzerland, a Maryland Man from Turkey, who has been under police watch since 2015 but never expelled from the country, shouted "allahu akbar" as he stabbed three people in front of a class of very young children.

Police say they don't know the motive -- but then say they know the motive, by saying he just has "mental health" issues.

🚨 UPDATE: A Muslim man just STABBED 3 people in Switzerland and police claim the motive is unclear

He YELLED "allahu akbar!" and went on a stabbing spree

The West DOES NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS

You invite these Muslim savages and they pillage your homeland!

Wake up and get� pic.twitter.com/mXa37fu6OP
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 28, 2026

Sure are a lot of migrant Muslims with "mental health" issues, huh? Maybe we should look into that.

Let's watch the BBC spin this as No Cause for Alarm.

A man has been arrested after three people were injured in a stabbing attack at a train station in Switzerland.
Police said the three victims - Swiss nationals aged 28, 43 and 52 - were hospitalised after the attack at Winterthur train station.
The suspect, a 31-year-old Swiss man, used a bladed weapon, they said, adding that the motive was under investigation.

Swiss man? Others say he's a Turk.

Switzerland's President Guy Parmelin said on social media he was "shocked by the terrorist attack this morning in Winterthur". "This deeply affects me," he added.
Mario Fehr, Canton Zurich's security director, said it was "clear from the scene that the motive for this act must be sought in the realm of radicalisation and extremism".
Marius Weyermann, commander of the Zurich cantonal police, said at a news conference with Fehr that the suspect lived in the area and had come to authorities' attention in 2015 for distributing Islamic State (IS) group propaganda.

No big deal. At least he doesn't vote for right-wing politicians.

He said that on Monday, the suspect was sent to a psychiatric hospital after he had presented himself at a police station, where he made "incoherent statements".
The next day he left the hospital. Officers took him back, and on Wednesday doctors certified that he no longer posed a danger to himself or others, he added.

The terrorist-aligned Associated Press forgot to mention this "Swiss man" shouted the name of his murder-god as he butchered people.

Whoops!

Whoopsie!

Either a member of the far left, or a member of Candace Owens' cult. Which would also be a member of the far left:

BREAKING: Jacob Wenske, of San Antonio, has been arrested for allegedly threatening to K*LL Erika Kirk and bomb Turning Point USA events ahead of her upcoming women�s leadership summit.

Wenske reportedly sent an email that read:

�Death to Erika Kirk and every single speaker� pic.twitter.com/ZBG0BaaoC7
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 28, 2026

Rep. Scott Peters -- D, of course -- says we have to wait to find out why a Democrat murdered a veteran for decorating his home with Trump flags.

Wait to learn what?

The guy was brutally attacked, fought for his life in the hospital and died.

And now you finally post this pathetic woke shit?

Shame on you.

Your entire feed is encouraging violence and constantly attacking ICE, the President, Israel and commonsense.� https://t.co/bPzd3pT7GI
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) May 28, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:27 PM

Comments

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1 Is that a herpes sore on the lip of that San Antonio fag?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 04:29 PM (73/SM)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 28, 2026 04:29 PM (N39Ws)

3 I'm not sure why a leftist would doxx ACB. She frequently votes with the liberals. Wouldn't t they be more likely to docx the justices that are actually conservative- like Thomas?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 04:29 PM (2sfNr)

4 They'll never find out who placed the swatting call. With internet based calling, it's damned near impossible to trace.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 28, 2026 04:30 PM (N39Ws)

5 And each perp believes they're a part of the peaceful "religion" of whatever sort.

Posted by: Rex B at May 28, 2026 04:30 PM (1f/dh)

6 How do you bring logic to these groups who seem allergic to it?

Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 04:30 PM (9U6Wl)

7 There was a lot of "random" violence leading up to the first civil war, too.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 28, 2026 04:31 PM (N1tpc)

8 I wonder if the nominal right is finally waking up to the fact that we're in a shooting war with the Democrats. They're killing people on the right almost weekly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 28, 2026 04:31 PM (jehhT)

9 lol

"I love you--SHUT UP."

walks away as Karen McWinebox sputters.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 04:31 PM (73/SM)

10 3 Intimidation.

Posted by: steevy at May 28, 2026 04:32 PM (YwEeS)

11 I'm not sure why a leftist would doxx ACB. She frequently votes with the liberals. Wouldn't t they be more likely to docx the justices that are actually conservative- like Thomas?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 04:29 PM

I suspect someone has been leaking SCOTUS decisions again and she may have a 5-4 decision coming up.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 28, 2026 04:32 PM (0N4FZ)

12 Some people need to be xxxx.

I kid, of course!

Posted by: Don Black at May 28, 2026 04:33 PM (ZxPkt)

13 I can't breathe

Posted by: 496 at May 28, 2026 04:33 PM (JjHUn)

14 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 28, 2026 04:32 PM (0N4FZ)

Thanks for the info.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 04:33 PM (2sfNr)

15 I don't know what people are worried about.

Only about 10% of muslims (for now) are willing to try to kill you.

Why are you so afraid of a tiny minority!

Bunch of Islamophobes.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 28, 2026 04:33 PM (N1tpc)

16
Cops come in guns blazing expecting a shootout.

If it was Spetsnaz, they'd shoot the family if they were between them and the terrorists.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 04:34 PM (HdYcL)

17 adding that the motive was under investigation.

Muslim stabbing: The motive may never be known
Mosque shooting: It's a hate-crime until proven otherwise

Posted by: Halfhand at May 28, 2026 04:34 PM (UdslP)

18 Priceless : your mugshot taken while you have a herpes sore

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2026 04:35 PM (zaxlN)

19 In other depressing Can't Have Nice Things news, British Museum postpones Jewish Culture Month lecture on Ancient Israel and Judah due to security concerns (Rossella Tercatin, Times of Israel).
"a significant proportion of registered attendees were individuals intending to deliberately disrupt the event"
tinyurl.com/nsvr2cth

Basically anything to do with ancient Israel/Judah having some relation to modern day Jews is now a target.

That includes Helen Mirren, who is now getting accosted in the street for being a "zionist bitch" (on Instapundit)

Posted by: (((gKWVE))) at May 28, 2026 04:35 PM (gKWVE)

20 Young Jacob has a nifty herpes sore on his lip.

Posted by: tubal at May 28, 2026 04:35 PM (Gqar8)

21 I'm not sure why a leftist would doxx ACB. She frequently votes with the liberals. Wouldn't t they be more likely to docx the justices that are actually conservative- like Thomas?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

It's a warning.

If we're co.ing after her, no one is safe.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 28, 2026 04:35 PM (FxH7T)

22 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 28, 2026 04:32 PM (0N4FZ)

Thanks for the info.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 04:33 PM

That's just a guess but it tracks with all of the leaks and slow walking decision stuff that keeps happening.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 28, 2026 04:36 PM (0N4FZ)

23
Police say they don't know the motive -- but then say they know the motive, by saying he just has "mental health" issues.

Mental health issues? He's a Muslim. Say no more.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 04:36 PM (HdYcL)

24 Ft. Sumter Summer US Tour 2026 shirts are going to fly off the shelves.

Shelves

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 04:36 PM (u/Bbx)

25 Is that a herpes sore on the lip of that San Antonio fag?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

He looks like he screws poodles.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 28, 2026 04:37 PM (1b3hX)

26 Is that a herpes sore on the lip of that San Antonio fag?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Could be lupus.

Posted by: Doogie Howser, M.D. at May 28, 2026 04:37 PM (UjdFS)

27 Swiss man? Others say he's a Turk.

The Turk became Swiss as soon as his foot stepped onto the magic soil.

This is known.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 28, 2026 04:37 PM (6ydKt)

28 The woman in that last video must be really fun at parties.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 28, 2026 04:38 PM (2Ez/1)

29 3 I'm not sure why a leftist would doxx ACB. She frequently votes with the liberals. Wouldn't t they be more likely to docx the justices that are actually conservative- like Thomas?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Maybe because ACB has kids, and if they get killed too, that will really send a message to the squares.

Maybe they are just evil bastards?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 28, 2026 04:38 PM (pcKwl)

30 It's a warning.

If we're co.ing after her, no one is safe.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 28, 2026 04:35 PM (FxH7T)

Question is, what effect will it have?

#War. Breitbart said it 15 years ago.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 28, 2026 04:38 PM (fZiTB)

31 @RNCResearch
New Mexico Democrat Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham says Democrats don't need men's votes:

“If women, Democratic women, just show up and vote, we’re good. We don’t need any of the men.”

--------

When one of the top...50? or so of your elected officials is telling the entire male gender to fuck off?

That's something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:38 PM (2t0WW)

32 Look at the Bag on that Hag!

Posted by: tubal at May 28, 2026 04:38 PM (Gqar8)

33 Herpes sore matches with The BLADE!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 28, 2026 04:39 PM (wBaIH)

34 Sure are a lot of migrant Muslims with "mental health" issues, huh? Maybe we should look into that.

=======

Stupid people who will kill anyone near them at a moment's notice understand the world on a special level that will kill their specialness if we do anything to treat their conditions.

Haven't you seen a movie?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:39 PM (2t0WW)

35 Saw this thing on Youtube about the fine-print thing the ADL does with "right wing violence".

They're really looking at violence of "extreme right-wingers", which is why a Aryan meth-head killing his brother over a suspicion he's holding out on him, is violence by "right-wing extremist".

What contributes to that balance, is they are rather unwilling to classify "left-wing extremist", so of course this group they can't populate is less violent than the group that they have a huge butterfly net for.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 04:39 PM (Fi81e)

36 *Muslim stabbing: The motive may never be known*

Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: The ghost of Dennis Miller at May 28, 2026 04:39 PM (2Ez/1)

37 The New Mexico Governor says they only need the women vote. Are Dems defining women now?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2026 04:39 PM (zaxlN)

38 Is that a herpes sore on the lip of that San Antonio fag?

Not yet but soon will be.

Posted by: Toss My Salad Guy in the joint at May 28, 2026 04:40 PM (ZR74N)

39 I love you! Shut up!

Hilarious.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2026 04:40 PM (n5tGW)

40
That mug shot is hilarious. Less testosterone than Estelle Getty.

I saw Whispy Thin Mustache open for Glory Hole in Spokane in 2007.

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 04:40 PM (u/Bbx)

41 At some point, we're not going to put up with this any longer.

And then things will get interesting for the left.
====

Way past that point.

This American has zero faith in law enforcement and the judiciary.

They are hopelessly captured by one political party.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 04:40 PM (RIvkX)

42 These knife attacks, brutal beating attacks etc. all occur within the confines of urban centers where the "victims" are often the same people that allowed this to occur and continue to occur.

I, immaturely, got annoyed that these things never happen right in front of me so I can take "positive steps to resolve the situation." The fact is that I live in an area where this behavior is discouraged, punished, and brutually dealth with if law enforcement is taking their time getting to the scene. So, of course, these zealots aren't going to try this nonsense eleswhere.

What do you think happens if Mohammad the Knife Weilder shows up in small town USA waving a knife and shouting his theological platitudes? He ends up in so many pieces that his friends get tired looking for him.

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 04:40 PM (dIske)

43 Young Jacob has a nifty herpes sore on his lip.
Posted by: tubal at May 28, 2026 04:35 PM (Gqar

It looks like it might be pulsating, ready to burst, splattering the camera lens.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 28, 2026 04:40 PM (0aYVJ)

44 Political differences must be settled at the ballot box and in respectful, civilized debate.
-----

What a bullshit artist. They KILLED Charlie Kirk, who asked ONLY that he be allowed to talk with people who disagreed with him. The tried to KILL our President multiple times, and compare him to Hitler on an hourly basis. And they COOKED the ballots to rob him of the Presidency in 2020. Anyone who calls themselves a Democrat might as well wear a red sash.

Posted by: Crusader at May 28, 2026 04:40 PM (TN0g+)

45 I'm not sure why a leftist would doxx ACB. She frequently votes with the liberals. Wouldn't t they be more likely to docx the justices that are actually conservative- like Thomas?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke
---
Because Trump appointed her.

She must be the enemy--full stop.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 04:40 PM (Fi81e)

46 What really bothered me at Delaney Hall was this:

WSAT - 6 protesters arrested after clash with ICE officers outside a New Jersey detention center
Associated Press, Published: May 28, 2026 at 2:11 PM

"The group chanted, “You will hang!” and, “Every cop, every fed, shoot yourself in the head," and other taunts at the officers, many of whom wore helmets and tactical vests."

Cricket from Gov Mikey Sherrill, Reps. Jerry Nadler, Daniel Goldman and Adriano Espaillat.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 28, 2026 04:41 PM (NFX2v)

47 We need to send Vmom and Bluebell over there to do some counter-stabbing and -shiving. With Elric in reserve to facilitate quick getaways and to run certain people down with sportcars.

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 04:41 PM (77rzZ)

48 Herpes homo makes me want to shave.

Posted by: Weasel at May 28, 2026 04:41 PM (Fo5SD)

49 Meanwhile...

First round draft pick Chud Jaxson Dart is found to want to deport 100 million people:

https://x.com/enjoyer_liberty/status/
2059819985212518683

And his girlfriend has tits:

https://x.com/ThomBrady5/status/
2060086116842115420

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:41 PM (2t0WW)

50 Maybe now that it affects one of them, the conservative justices will reconsider qualified immunity.

Wut?

part of the reason swatting has become so prevalent is police aren't responsible for their actions. So if they break into the wrong house and shoot someone, they're likely to get away with it.

If someone's willing to risk prison time on a prank like this, I'm surprised they didn't pick a different justice.

There's no question it was a right winger. ACB very occasionally doesn't side with the other conservatives on the court (same with Kavanaugh, but to a lesser degree). If it was someone who hated Republicans they'd have targeted Alito or Thomas.

*insert elmo shrug gif here* As Melania stated with her coat, I Really Don’t Care Do You?

She is directly responsible for the deaths of women who cannot access lifesaving reproductive healthcare in regressive states because of a stroke of her pen. I don’t give a shit what happens to her.

Many of these are called in by the ‘victims’ or some accomplice, to add a greater sense of victimhood and persecution! 😂🤷‍♂️ Maybe that's why the county didn't release the call audio.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 28, 2026 04:41 PM (ycI94)

51 28 The woman in that last video must be really fun at parties.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 28, 2026 04:38 PM (2Ez/1)

The proceeds from her “curse jar” would fund a pretty fantastic event, though.

Posted by: EveR at May 28, 2026 04:41 PM (wTevN)

52 39 I love you! Shut up!

Hilarious.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

Sometimes someone you love needs to hear hard advice. Given with love of course.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 28, 2026 04:41 PM (pcKwl)

53 When they say they have no idea what his motive was, who do they think they're fooling?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 28, 2026 04:41 PM (2UnvF)

54 Tahlullah Akbar

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 28, 2026 04:41 PM (w6EFb)

55 Ft. Sumter Summer US Tour 2026 shirts are going to fly off the shelves.

If it's Ace's shelves, the shelves are gonna fly first.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 04:41 PM (2ocoG)

56 “If women, Democratic women, just show up and vote, we’re good. We don’t need any of the men.”
......

Until they boycott the sperm bank.

Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 04:42 PM (UjdFS)

57 Also, last I heard, the ADL still has not classified street-executioner Luigi Mangione a "left-wing extremist".

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 04:42 PM (Fi81e)

58 Paul, you ignorant slut.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 28, 2026 04:42 PM (2UnvF)

59 Sure are a lot of migrant Muslims with "mental health" issues, huh? Maybe we should look into that.
===
"Mental health issues" is simply a license to commit murder. With state approval.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 04:43 PM (RIvkX)

60 During Eid al-Adha Muslims are allowed to murder infidels after sunrise and before sunset.

Posted by: 13times at May 28, 2026 04:43 PM (Qv+f+)

61 60 During Eid al-Adha Muslims are allowed to murder infidels after sunrise and before sunset.

Posted by: 13times at May 28, 2026 04:43 PM (Qv+f+)

=====

But responding is a hate crime.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:43 PM (2t0WW)

62 https://legalinsurrection.com/jewish couple attacked with baseball-bat and dog in santa monica by man screaming genocide

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 04:43 PM (Ia/+0)

63 Also, last I heard, the ADL still has not classified street-executioner Luigi Mangione a "left-wing extremist".

Probably it's run by lefty chicks. They all think he's hotter than the minotaur.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 04:43 PM (2ocoG)

64 Paul's here? I thought he'd be at the sperm bank making withdrawals.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 04:43 PM (gKWVE)

65 Of course authorities are going to say they don't know the motive because they would be admitting to a situation that is out of control.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 28, 2026 04:44 PM (5P5DO)

66 The answer to “how long will this go on?” Is very simple.

As long as we let it.

These things are stopped the way they have always been stopped - a firm, lethal, immediate response. And for those taken prisoner, a quick public hanging. Do that a few times, and it stops quite quickly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 04:44 PM (QDJ2U)

67
She is directly responsible for the deaths of women who cannot access lifesaving reproductive healthcare in regressive states because of a stroke of her pen. I don’t give a shit what happens to her.

So she should die because some woman can't conveniently kill her unborn baby ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 28, 2026 04:44 PM (FtULh)

68 >>>Sure are a lot of migrant Muslims with "mental health" issues, huh?
---

The Cult of Allah is a mental health issue.

It is also a legal issue. Followers of the cult are sworn to kill us or enslave us. They have proved over and over again that these are not idle words, they are sincere.

This is against our laws, our Constitution and our culture. Thousands of Americans died for the right of men to be free yet we welcome slavers into our land.
Insanity.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 04:44 PM (y79kU)

69 RWDS are inevitable.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 28, 2026 04:45 PM (ssz2a)

70 Jacob seems to be suffering from a wicked case of penis lip burn.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 04:45 PM (3uBP9)

71 She is directly responsible for the deaths of women who cannot access lifesaving reproductive healthcare in regressive states because of a stroke of her pen. I don’t give a shit what happens to her
——-

I wish we could follow up with asking them to name one.

Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 04:45 PM (9AdGW)

72 Seems like it behooves us all to get diagnosed with mental health issues at some point as insurance against having to follow the law.

If I can't be black or queer, I at least can be crazy.

Kinda like getting AAA for the car.

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 04:45 PM (u/Bbx)

73 Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 28, 2026 04:41 PM (NFX2v)

And im sure the ICE officers decided to immediately defect and join the "nice" anti ICE party. Uhhh. Huh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 04:46 PM (Yl2Ob)

74 ...deaths of women who cannot access lifesaving reproductive healthcare...
-----

Nope. She meant "abortion". "Abortion" is NOT "reproductive healthcare". Its "reproductive prevention".

Posted by: Crusader at May 28, 2026 04:46 PM (TN0g+)

75 And his girlfriend has tits:

https://x.com/ThomBrady5/status/
2060086116842115420
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

*******
As a ring of gold in a pig’s snout

So is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

Posted by: Proverbs 11:22 at May 28, 2026 04:46 PM (2Ez/1)

76 It's pointless trying to understand why leftist freaks do what they do. They don't even know what they are doing. They live in an alternate universe where Gays For Gaza, a place where gays are tossed off buildings, is actually a land of peace and harmony among all people.

They are by and large stupid, uninformed sheep who do what they are told to do and hate who they are told to hate. And often paid to do it.

On a related note, Bessent announced today that investigations are well under way to track the money that is flowing through NGOs to groups like antifa and other leftist street thugs. When the money goes away so will many of these tards.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 04:46 PM (viF8m)

77 Attention, mouth-breathing troglodytes!

Our violence is free speech.

Your free speech is violence!

Posted by: The Left, until we're in power at May 28, 2026 04:46 PM (0sNs1)

78 She is directly responsible for the deaths of women who cannot access lifesaving reproductive healthcare in regressive states because of a stroke of her pen. I don’t give a shit what happens to her.

So she should die because some woman can't conveniently kill her unborn baby ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 28, 2026 04:44 PM (FtULh)
---
It's how "progressives" cut through the red tape of civil process. Convict somebody as worthy of death, knowing that it's only time before some left-wing nutbird agrees.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 04:47 PM (Fi81e)

79 78 It's how "progressives" cut through the red tape of civil process. Convict somebody as worthy of death, knowing that it's only time before some left-wing nutbird agrees.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 04:47 PM (Fi81e)

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Can we say the same thing about Democrats who let in foreign murderers without proper vetting who then killed Americans?

Or nah

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:48 PM (2t0WW)

80 55 Ft. Sumter Summer US Tour 2026 shirts are going to fly off the shelves.

If it's Ace's shelves, the shelves are gonna fly first

Fly like a crow

Posted by: Crow from Kansas at May 28, 2026 04:48 PM (HcoTw)

81 77.

More of our free speech should involve baseball bats and bricks if so.

In for a penny, in for a Louisville Slugger they say.

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 04:48 PM (u/Bbx)

82 Murder, Inc.

Posted by: ShainS at May 28, 2026 04:48 PM (rDjBZ)

83 Remember...the late 60s saw a sustained bombing campaign of thousands of explosive devices placed by terrorist groups in America.

We still aren't even there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:48 PM (2t0WW)

84 6 How do you bring logic to these groups who seem allergic to it?
Posted by: Piper
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Hang them by their heels till they dry out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 04:49 PM (y79kU)

85 80.

To the sea.

Posted by: steve miller band at May 28, 2026 04:49 PM (u/Bbx)

86 Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 04:46 PM (viF8m)
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Reality isn't as fruitful a place for "progress" as their imaginations.

So, they prefer to live there.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 04:49 PM (Fi81e)

87 .@jamestalarico on Ken Paxton's verbal attacks: "They're going to throw everything they've got at us…They even called me a vegan. Those are fighting words."

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"Calling me a vegan is an insult."
-Democrat from Austin trying WAY too hard

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:49 PM (2t0WW)

88 >>> Paul's here? I thought he'd be at the sperm bank making withdrawals.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 04:43 PM (gKWVE)

Paul said the jerk bank called, they're running out of sperm.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 04:50 PM (3uBP9)

89 I want to fry like an eagle.

Posted by: Wet Market at May 28, 2026 04:50 PM (Fi81e)

90
The foreign Muslim Swiss stabber is kind of fat. The country has fed him well. That makes his behavior worse, not better.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 28, 2026 04:50 PM (VWtfl)

91 70 Jacob seems to be suffering from a wicked case of penis lip burn.

Could
Be monkey pox
Or hanta virus
Or a sting from the feared murder wasp

Prolly global warming tho

Posted by: Crow from Kansas at May 28, 2026 04:50 PM (HcoTw)

92 As long as these people go unpunished (every one) these acts will intensify.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 04:50 PM (y79kU)

93 I'm embarrassed to be from a state where the Democrats behave so badly for a photo op. Andy Kim got shot with pepper spray. And they don't give a damn about illegals . They just want their votes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 04:51 PM (Yl2Ob)

94 JackStraw just answered the most question of why so many leftists show up to riot. They get paid to do it.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 28, 2026 04:51 PM (5P5DO)

95 It's tough to be Whiskey Meyers in a Cardi B world.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 04:51 PM (u/Bbx)

96 @83 TJM , the bombings continued into early 70s. Over a hundred per year

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2026 04:51 PM (zaxlN)

97 Allow me to translate. When a mental health practitioner says, "Mr. So-and-So no longer poses a threat to himself or others."" what it really means is one of two things.

1. "We need the bed."
2."His insurance coverage has run out."

Ability to predict dangerous acts by an individual in even the very short term is absolutely worthless; no better than a coin flip. Yet judges rely on these predictions by psychiatrists every day.

Posted by: muldoon at May 28, 2026 04:52 PM (qgHp7)

98 The Cult of Allah is a mental health issue.

It is also a legal issue. Followers of the cult are sworn to kill us or enslave us. They have proved over and over again that these are not idle words, they are sincere.

This is against our laws, our Constitution and our culture. Thousands of Americans died for the right of men to be free yet we welcome slavers into our land.
Insanity.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 04:44 PM

One of the very first things we did as a country after we kicked the british empire out was to go and fvck up the muslim barbery pirates who were enslaving our citizens.

We have been fighting them for quite some time.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 28, 2026 04:52 PM (0N4FZ)

99 Abalone ackbar!

That's what I heard. He just wanted a fish sandwich.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2026 04:52 PM (n5tGW)

100 96 @83 TJM , the bombings continued into early 70s. Over a hundred per year

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2026 04:51 PM (zaxlN)

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True.

And still, no civil war.

Let's have some perspective, people.

We're not even at that point yet in living memory for some of you olds.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:52 PM (2t0WW)

101 Is that a herpes sore on the lip of that San Antonio fag?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 04:29 PM (73/SM)

The cock dodged as he was going down on it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2026 04:53 PM (8zz6B)

102 The red-green coalition continues killing us.

At some point, we're not going to put up with this any longer.

And then things will get interesting for the left.

Right wingers have been saying that for years. And nothing actually happens.

And there are two reasons for that:

1) We have lives and careers and are too busy for that shit. This is often commented on.

2) The left has a whole NGO/government complex turning out activists and assassins. Not only do we not have that, even Trump has been lukewarm in prosecuting members of their infrastructure.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 04:53 PM (sKqQm)

103 Halala Who Snackbar. He was just looking for a place that serves halal fondue. Bigots.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 28, 2026 04:53 PM (dJeAh)

104 100.

Don't let your accuracy and logic muddy up our fuckin water, Pal.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 04:54 PM (u/Bbx)

105 As Kurt Schlicter pointed out today, there’s an online video by Talarico himself bragging about how his entire campaign and all of their policies and purchases are Vegan.

And Talarico says “oh great so now they’re going to call me a vegan.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 04:54 PM (QDJ2U)

106 Talarico don't like meat but he sure likes the bone

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 04:54 PM (sKqQm)

107 Hula Hoop Ackbar. He wanted to give a hula hoop to poster Admiral Ackbar, in appreciation for the women he posts.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 04:54 PM (qx7Zg)

108 Don't make me tap the sign:

https://tinyurl.com/btxxxrjt

(Goes to my xitter)

Posted by: Bert G at May 28, 2026 04:55 PM (VARTN)

109 105 As Kurt Schlicter pointed out today, there’s an online video by Talarico himself bragging about how his entire campaign and all of their policies and purchases are Vegan.

And Talarico says “oh great so now they’re going to call me a vegan.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 04:54 PM (QDJ2U)

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Everything out of Talarico's mouth right now is defensive.

"I swear I'm not a weird freak from Austin."

In response to videos of him bragging about him being a weird freak from Austin.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:55 PM (2t0WW)

110 101.

Bet he chipped a tooth on the bathroom tile when it happened.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 04:55 PM (u/Bbx)

111 Breaking: Swiss knife stabs 3.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 04:56 PM (Fi81e)

112 83 Remember...the late 60s saw a sustained bombing campaign of thousands of explosive devices placed by terrorist groups in America.

We still aren't even there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering
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Thousands is hyperbolic.
Difference is today's actors are sponsored, paid and trained by professionals. And they are supported by the media, unions and judges.
The sixties were literally isolated and independent relative to today's mass assaults.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 04:56 PM (y79kU)

113 Hope there's a Taco! snackbar at the next event I go to.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2026 04:56 PM (n5tGW)

114 "They even called me a vegan. Those are fighting words..."

"...just give me a minute to catch my breath and slow my heart rate and I'll give you such a pinch!"

Posted by: muldoon at May 28, 2026 04:56 PM (qgHp7)

115 sooner or later, one of these anti-ICE riots is going to have gunfire

I hope ICE goes all redacted on their redacted

I kid of course
I am a lovable little fuzzball

Posted by: Don Black at May 28, 2026 04:57 PM (ZxPkt)

116 "And what is your job, mommy?"

"I curse out and make racist remarks to an Asian American chaplain at an ICE detention center."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 04:57 PM (PFs9e)

117 Talarico is on his back foot right out of the gate and things just might get worse for him as people dig harder.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 28, 2026 04:57 PM (5P5DO)

118 The lifesaving Healthcare bit is their mental judo to justify abortion on demand. Women have a 90% death rate in childbirth, you know. Because of all the male rape. They are saving lives, not taking them. Really, they are good people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 04:58 PM (zZu0s)

119 Paul's here? I thought he'd be at the sperm bank making withdrawals.
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he's over there cleaning the used specimen cups like it's leftover ice cream.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 04:58 PM (73/SM)

120 OT, excerpt from her book varies a bit from her interview:
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Jill Biden feared her husband had been drugged as he melted down on stage during his disastrous debate against Donald Trump.

The former first lady, 74, watched in horror as Joe Biden, 83, stumbled over his words, terrified that voters would conclude this was how he always was, she reveals in a bombshell new memoir.

'Is this a stroke? I felt like we were watching an AI hologram of the man we knew, and the hologram was glitching. Has he been drugged?' Jill writes in View From the East Wing.

She remembers thinking: 'Oh God - will people watching assume this is how he is all the time?'

Biden appeared frail and repeatedly lost his train of thought as he slurred his way through the infamous June 2024 clash with Trump, a watershed moment that triggered Democratic allies to openly question his fitness for office.

It wasn't just his supporters who saw disaster: Joe himself admitted he'd suffered a primetime car crash in front of the voting public, Jill reveals.

As Biden walked off stage, he confessed to her: 'I really f***ed up, didn't I?'

'"Yes, you did," I whispered back,' Jill writes.

Posted by: beckster at May 28, 2026 04:59 PM (kX27y)

121 112.

We also have the benefit of hindsight and the fact our enemy can't help themselves about bragging about their crimes on social media, making it really easy to find their hives compared to the underground of the dirty hippy era.

We're the side of the war that can still use a paper map and blend into a crowd.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 04:59 PM (u/Bbx)

122 Would anyone be surprised to see a video of Talarico blowing Platner? Given the general insanity of today I wouldn't be shocked

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2026 04:59 PM (zaxlN)

123 Police said the three victims - Swiss nationals aged 28, 43 and 52 - were hospitalised after the attack at Winterthur train station.
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They should probably think about the burden that they are on society, anyway.

Posted by: Canada at May 28, 2026 05:00 PM (Fi81e)

124 112 Thousands is hyperbolic.
Difference is today's actors are sponsored, paid and trained by professionals. And they are supported by the media, unions and judges.
The sixties were literally isolated and independent relative to today's mass assaults.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 04:56 PM (y79kU)

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But the Weather Underground was just homegrown and had no connections to the Soviet Union, I'm sure.

Listen...the government is on our side right now. Half of the news stories above are about...the government arresting people in response to violence. Do conservatives need to go nuts to get justice for the guy who threatened to bomb Erika Kirk when the government arrested the guy who threatened to bomb Erika Kirk?

What about the antifa members in Texas who shot a guy in the neck and all of them were arrested on conspiracy charges and were indicted and successfully prosecuted?

Perspective. That's all I'm asking for.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 05:00 PM (2t0WW)

125 Talarico looks kinda like Richie Cunningham.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 28, 2026 05:00 PM (7/s8G)

126 67. So she should die because some woman can't conveniently kill her unborn baby ?
Posted by: It's me donna

They believe she took away their super powers should they choose to use them. Their bodies, their choice.

They also believe abortion WAS enshrined in the US Constitution & she, among others, remanded the regulation and legality of abortion back to individual states, and not all states are willing to amend their constitutions to explicitly protect abortion rights.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 28, 2026 05:01 PM (NFX2v)

127 We're starting to lose our shit. A five day sardine fast?

No. Just no. Hell no.

I'd rather have the diabeetus.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 05:01 PM (zZu0s)

128 Landing in BWI. Pray for me, a fish out of water here!

Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 05:01 PM (9U6Wl)

129 As Kurt Schlicter pointed out today, there’s an online video by Talarico himself bragging about how his entire campaign and all of their policies and purchases are Vegan.

And Talarico says “oh great so now they’re going to call me a vegan.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 04:54 PM (QDJ2U)

At least he hasn't shown himself as a Trans Non-Binary Furry Vegan who is an avid bicyclist in spandex who also does Cross-Fit. You'd never know what he'd brag about first.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 05:01 PM (qx7Zg)

130 She remembers thinking: 'Oh God - will people watching ~~assume~~know this is how he is all the time?'
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Fixed.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 05:02 PM (Fi81e)

131 The lifesaving Healthcare bit is their mental judo to justify abortion on demand. Women have a 90% death rate in childbirth, you know. Because of all the male rape. They are saving lives, not taking them. Really, they are good people.
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Someone should propose a law, something like banning abortion for rape but only in cases of rape by a tranny.

If they're real women, they can't get another woman pregnant--so why would the victim need an abortion?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 05:02 PM (73/SM)

132 124.
True.
Not too many Tesla dealerships being put upon now. We've won a few fights using the normal methods.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:02 PM (u/Bbx)

133 Thousands of Americans died for the right of men to be free yet we welcome slavers into our land.
——

Who is “we” Kemosabe?

We did no such fucking thing. Ever. Get it in your head.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 05:02 PM (K0w3s)

134 Can we say the same thing about Democrats who let in foreign murderers without proper vetting who then killed Americans?

Or nah
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

IMMIGRANTS COMMIT LESS CRIME THAN AMERICANS! REEEEEE!!!!

Posted by: Rational Lefty Retards at May 28, 2026 05:03 PM (ycI94)

135 >>> Everything out of Talarico's mouth right now is defensive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026

well, not everything.

Posted by: all those penes at May 28, 2026 05:04 PM (3uBP9)

136 They believe she took away their super powers should they choose to use them. Their bodies, their choice.

They also believe abortion WAS enshrined in the US Constitution & she, among others, remanded the regulation and legality of abortion back to individual states, and not all states are willing to amend their constitutions to explicitly protect abortion rights.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 28, 2026 05:01 PM (NFX2v)
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They also believe that living in a state that swore they would never ban abortions is not really worth considering and that having to drive a state over to "save your life" is way to big of an imposition so they might as well just get a hanger from the closet.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 05:04 PM (Fi81e)

137 134 Can we say the same thing about Democrats who let in foreign murderers without proper vetting who then killed Americans?

Or nah
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

IMMIGRANTS COMMIT LESS CRIME THAN AMERICANS! REEEEEE!!!!

Posted by: Rational Lefty Retards at May 28, 2026 05:03 PM (ycI94)

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And most women don't get abortions, so any stat about abortions doesn't matter since most women don't get them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 05:04 PM (2t0WW)

138 Abalone ackbar!

That's what I heard. He just wanted a fish sandwich.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2026 04:52 PM

In fairness, abalone is a mollusk, not a fish.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 28, 2026 05:04 PM (0sNs1)

139 ...were hospitalised after the attack at Winterthur train station.

*********

Why there? Were the hospitals all full?

Posted by: muldoon at May 28, 2026 05:05 PM (qgHp7)

140 fix internet-based calling - make it absolutely traceable for 911 calls.

Posted by: Green Shades at May 28, 2026 05:05 PM (WukWc)

141 As Biden walked off stage, he confessed to her: 'I really f***ed up, didn't I?'

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No, not even the lies that make them look bad are believable. I don't for a minute believe that "Biden" even knew where he was. He may have thought he was campaigning for the Senate. He was never "President" because he was never *present*.

Posted by: Crusader at May 28, 2026 05:05 PM (TN0g+)

142 Basically voting in a dem primary you can either get shrimp cocktail or clams akbar.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2026 05:05 PM (n5tGW)

143 Landing in BWI. Pray for me, a fish out of water here!
Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 05:01 PM (9U6Wl)

British West Indies?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2026 05:06 PM (8zz6B)

144 Posted by: (((gKWVE))) at May 28, 2026 04:35 PM (gKWVE)

The British Museum is so woke is laughable. You have to search hard to find any mention of Israel and Judea in their ancient Middle East section.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 05:06 PM (iERP6)

145 {{[Piper}}}

Prayers ascending.

Ask for the protection of bluebell and her shivs (plural) if you need support.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 05:06 PM (u82oZ)

146 Gosnell didn't happen on his own.

No one was watching and enforcing safety regulations for women for DECADES.

The Gosnell Grand Jury Report concluded that political agendas and bureaucratic apathy completely eclipsed the state's duty to protect women's health. It wasn't until a joint FBI and DEA raid targeting his illegal prescription pill ring in 2010 that the squalor and illegal practices were finally uncovered.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 28, 2026 05:06 PM (NFX2v)

147 Nice face shot of the scrunt at the ICE facility. I'll bet she has to delete her social media in about 30 seconds.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 28, 2026 05:07 PM (5P5DO)

148 107 Hula Hoop Ackbar. He wanted to give a hula hoop to poster Admiral Ackbar, in appreciation for the women he posts.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

That gives me a great idea. There's gotta be a good picture or gif of one of my gals hula-hooping... https://tinyurl.com/wvbunnfd

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 28, 2026 05:07 PM (ycI94)

149 Would anyone be surprised to see a video of Talarico blowing Platner? Given the general insanity of today I wouldn't be shocked

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2026 04:59 PM

Well we still haven't seen or even seen a picture of the mythical girlfriend of talerico so anything is possible.

I mean if he admitted he was gay he would break all sorts of fundraising records. Granted he would still lose and by a larger margin if he did that but the potential grift money would be huge.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 28, 2026 05:07 PM (0N4FZ)

150 All we can do is:
walk the walk
say our prayers
lift the weights
train at the range
profile always
enforce our personal space
mind our loved ones

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:07 PM (u/Bbx)

151 And most women don't get abortions, so any stat about abortions doesn't matter since most women don't get them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 05:04 PM (2t0WW)
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And probably the vast majority of women who would get them live in a state that would never ban them.

They just want their dogma.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 05:08 PM (Fi81e)

152 What about the antifa members in Texas who shot a guy in the neck and all of them were arrested on conspiracy charges and were indicted and successfully prosecuted?

Perspective. That's all I'm asking for.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering
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I missed this. The people associated with Charlie's murder have been arrested and prosecuted. I don't even know what happened to the shooter. WTF

Were these trials posted here? The convictions?
I'm out of the loop.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 05:08 PM (y79kU)

153 That Wenske mugshot looks like the long-lost brother of Max Verstappen.

Posted by: DougInWA at May 28, 2026 05:08 PM (/+Q3C)

154 All Those Penes would be a great name for a third-wave femm punk band. Just throwin' that out there.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 05:08 PM (3uBP9)

155 Anyone see a pattern here?

Bring in jihadis to kill Americans
Bring in foreign gang members to kill Americans
Legalize and push Americans towards abortion
Persuade American women not to have kids
Import 10s of millions of non-Americans

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 05:08 PM (sKqQm)

156 I mean if he admitted he was gay he would break all sorts of fundraising records. Granted he would still lose and by a larger margin if he did that but the potential grift money would be huge.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 28, 2026 05:07 PM (0N4FZ)

He doesn't even have to do that.. Huge amounts pf money will be pouring into his campaign....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 28, 2026 05:09 PM (FtULh)

157 Talarico looks like LEGO Alfred E. Neuman.

This dude is creepy. Very creepy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 28, 2026 05:09 PM (0aYVJ)

158 Basically voting in a dem primary you can either get shrimp cocktail or clams akbar.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2026 05:05 PM (n5tGW)
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It's done nothing for us.

Posted by: Voters in Cemetaries Everywhere at May 28, 2026 05:09 PM (Fi81e)

159 And probably the vast majority of women who would get them live in a state that would never ban them.

Most of the Dem abortion love is getting black women to have abortions.

Well, a lot of black women live in red states.

This is why having it legal in blue states and not red ones still bothers them

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 05:09 PM (sKqQm)

160
Attention, mouth-breathing troglodytes!

Our violence is free speech.

Your free speech is violence!
Posted by: The Left, until we're in power

Our silence is violence too!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2026 05:10 PM (Cqx++)

161 Ask for the protection of bluebell and her shivs (plural) if you need support.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 05:06 PM

Your usage of plural is correct. Her OpSec is excellent, so no one knows the true number, but I have heard (on good authority) that the # is > 6.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 05:10 PM (0sNs1)

162 136. They also believe that living in a state that swore they would never ban abortions is not really worth considering and that having to drive a state over to "save your life" is way to big of an imposition so they might as well just get a hanger from the closet.
Posted by: Axeman

But as Gov Josh Shapiro always says, PA is open for business

AI Overview - Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has positioned himself as a key defender of abortion rights, consistently pledging to act as a firewall against restrictions. He has successfully stopped state funding to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers and refused to defend the state's Medicaid abortion ban in court.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 28, 2026 05:10 PM (NFX2v)

163 Talarico is the Scoutmaster every progressive wine mom hopes her son gets.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:10 PM (u/Bbx)

164 fix internet-based calling - make it absolutely traceable for 911 calls.
Posted by: Green Shades at May 28, 2026 05:05 PM (WukWc)

Find some way to have the 911 call center record the IMEI number of every cellphone that originates a 911 call.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2026 05:10 PM (8zz6B)

165 There is nothing wrong with pleasuring a lady penis. Carry on candidate Talarico

Posted by: David French at May 28, 2026 05:10 PM (sKqQm)

166 And probably the vast majority of women who would get them live in a state that would never ban them.

They just want their dogma.
Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 05:08 PM

And your guns.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 05:11 PM (0sNs1)

167 Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has positioned himself as a key defender of abortion rights....
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That's going to make for some awkward moments when the roll is called up yonder...

Posted by: Crusader at May 28, 2026 05:12 PM (TN0g+)

168 159. Most of the Dem abortion love is getting black women to have abortions.

Well, a lot of black women live in red states.

This is why having it legal in blue states and not red ones still bothers them
Posted by: 18-1

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Control of Medicaid funding is the issue.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 28, 2026 05:12 PM (NFX2v)

169 Some of Jason's other posts to people like his boyfriend are very touching. - Mutt Gutman

Posted by: Rex B at May 28, 2026 05:14 PM (JRv3B)

170 Yeah, it's just like the the left to turn "States can regulate abortions" to "People will die!" as a fait accompli.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 05:14 PM (Fi81e)

171 IMMIGRANTS COMMIT LESS CRIME THAN AMERICANS! REEEEEE!!!!

Posted by: Rational Lefty Retards at May 28, 2026 05:03 PM (ycI94)

_______________________________

That proclamation is amusing in that they use prison sentences as a benchmark. At the same time, the Judiciary is letting immigrants off the hook for crimes committed in the name of "hardship" or just keeping them out of the reach of Federal Immigration Law enforcement. So, even if that were a true statistic, it is faulty in its determination.

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 05:15 PM (dIske)

172
Talarico has had meat in his mouth. You can guarantee it. Tube Steak.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 28, 2026 05:15 PM (IifOV)

173 Looking at that twink I think Erika Kirk could easily curb stomp him...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 28, 2026 05:15 PM (FtULh)

174 We still aren't even there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:48 PM (2t0WW)
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Just have to shoot four. That's all it takes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 05:16 PM (RIvkX)

175
Well we still haven't seen or even seen a picture of the mythical girlfriend of talerico so anything is possible.

They're still auditioning for the part.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2026 05:17 PM (Cqx++)

176 We still aren't even there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:48 PM (2t0WW)
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Just have to shoot four. That's all it takes.
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Perhaps, but I'm not relevant anymore!

Posted by: Neil Young at May 28, 2026 05:18 PM (TN0g+)

177 Antifa decided they were going to come to our town. Every street corner had a resident with a weapon standing on it. They left in a hurry.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 28, 2026 05:18 PM (5P5DO)

178 We did no such fucking thing. Ever. Get it in your head.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 05:02 PM (K0w3s)
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Excuse me, I thought you were a voting citizen.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 05:18 PM (y79kU)

179 That proclamation is amusing in that they use prison sentences as a benchmark. At the same time, the Judiciary is letting immigrants off the hook for crimes committed in the name of "hardship" or just keeping them out of the reach of Federal Immigration Law enforcement. So, even if that were a true statistic, it is faulty in its determination.
Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 05:15 PM (dIske)
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It works the same way as this: "34 felonies!"

Or "The vast amount of violence comes from the right!" (according to their questionable methodologies).

The modern Democrat just needs something somebody can place inside his or her mouth to repeat.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 05:18 PM (Fi81e)

180 hey're still auditioning for the part.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Calling all A-cup cuties with narrow hips.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 05:19 PM (u82oZ)

181 If anyone is interested in learning more about James Talarico's church, here you go:

https://www.staopen.org/

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 28, 2026 05:19 PM (dJeAh)

182 The modern Democrat just needs something somebody can place inside his or her mouth to repeat.
Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 05:18 PM (Fi81e

And the media will back them up...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 28, 2026 05:19 PM (FtULh)

183 Muslim Man Shouts Allahu Akbar as He Stabs Three Citizens In Switzerland

I have yet so hear of anyone screaming "In the name of Jesus!" or "In the name of Buddha!" before they massacre innocent people.

GW Bush's "Religion of peace" bullshit gave the muslims all the cover they needed forever. Stupid Bush's.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 28, 2026 05:20 PM (IifOV)

184
If it was Spetsnaz, they'd shoot the family if they were between them and the terrorists.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 04:34 PM (HdYcL)

Or gas you with fentanyl. Or blasted into hamburger by high explosives. Or burned to a crisp by flamethrowers.

I kind of like the Peruvian option. Capture the terrorists on the roof of the building and then frog-march them downstairs and put a bullet in their brains before leaving the premises.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 28, 2026 05:20 PM (y9nCu)

185 [girlfriend of talerico]
They're still auditioning for the part.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2026 05:17 PM (Cqx++)

Synchronized dances from Cats? Or maybe one of those old comedies where the girl is pretending to be a boy.

Posted by: gird your codpiece at May 28, 2026 05:21 PM (gKWVE)

186 176.
Any book about Kent State not titled
A Good Start: How to Stop Commies from Throwing Rocks
is a missed opportunity.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:21 PM (u/Bbx)

187 Jill Biden feared her husband had been drugged as he melted down on stage during his disastrous debate against Donald Trump.

The former first lady, 74, watched in horror as Joe Biden, 83, stumbled over his words, terrified that voters would conclude this was how he always was, she reveals in a bombshell new memoir.

'Is this a stroke? I felt like we were watching an AI hologram of the man we knew, and the hologram was glitching. Has he been drugged?' Jill writes in View From the East Wing.

She remembers thinking: 'Oh God - will people watching assume this is how he is all the time?'

Biden appeared frail and repeatedly lost his train of thought as he slurred his way through the infamous June 2024 clash with Trump, a watershed moment that triggered Democratic allies to openly question his fitness for office.

It wasn't just his supporters who saw disaster: Joe himself admitted he'd suffered a primetime car crash in front of the voting public, Jill reveals.

As Biden walked off stage, he confessed to her: 'I really f***ed up, didn't I?'

'"Yes, you did," I whispered back,' Jill writes.
==

ALL LIES

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 05:21 PM (RIvkX)

188 Knives don’t kill people. Muslhams kill people.

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 05:22 PM (77rzZ)

189 Stupid Bush's.
Posted by: Frank Barone at May 28, 2026 05:20 PM

Miss me yet?

Posted by: Jeb! (pronounced Heb!) at May 28, 2026 05:22 PM (0sNs1)

190 Sadly, Europe is gone. The US still has a chance, and if we get our act together and properly deal with all that wish harm upon law abiding Americans, maybe we can recolonize Europe and make it Western again. MEWA!

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 28, 2026 05:22 PM (yInIL)

191 Jill Biden is going to run for something. Only reason for her to be flapping her cock socket.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:23 PM (u/Bbx)

192 The former first lady, 74, watched in horror as Joe Biden, 83, stumbled over his words, terrified that voters would conclude this was how he always was, she reveals in a bombshell new memoir.

'Is this a stroke? I felt like we were watching an AI hologram of the man we knew, and the hologram was glitching. Has he been drugged?' Jill writes in View From the East Wing.
===

Dr Jill, as a doctor, knows better. Joe is having something similar to little micro-strokes, but are not stroke-strokes. Not life threatening but each one knows a few IQ points off and leaves other effects as well. Like stair steps down vs. a big honking drop off of brain function like a full blown stroke.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 05:23 PM (/lPRQ)

193 They left in a hurry.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 28, 2026 05:18 PM (5P5DO)

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"Now youse can't leave."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 05:23 PM (RIvkX)

194 Excuse me, I thought you were a voting citizen.
——-

Voting? Are you fucking high? Nobody voted for this shit. Ever. Nowhere.

This is a conscious strategy, a war plan. Not enacted by voters or the citizenry.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 05:23 PM (K0w3s)

195 Cray Cray

Act locally. Clear and hold.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 05:24 PM (u82oZ)

196 Jill is 74. She doesn't want to run anything but Pablo's dick at a Costa Rica resort.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 05:24 PM (gKWVE)

197 ALL LIES
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 05:21 PM (RIvkX)

Of course it is... We all remember he took a week at camp David to "practice" and the word while he was there is he couldn't keep up and kept leaving to take naps... And that was before the actual debate.. We all heard it .. Jill ... No ones buying it...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 28, 2026 05:25 PM (FtULh)

198 177 Antifa decided they were going to come to our town. Every street corner had a resident with a weapon standing on it. They left in a hurry.
Posted by: Ben Had
--

Related:

There were a series of burglaries in dad's neighborhood. At a get together all households exchanged telephone numbers. Every house had a list, the ladies were the watchmen.
Any unknown car and the alarm was sent, and as above, all the men were in the front yard armed with weapons.
The burglaries ceased.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 05:25 PM (y79kU)

199 *** Remember...the late 60s saw a sustained bombing campaign of thousands of explosive devices placed by terrorist groups in America. ****

I'm sure that is comforting for Charlie Kirk's widow and Corey Comperatore's family and all the other victims of the left.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at May 28, 2026 05:25 PM (IQhz0)

200 Sadly, Europe is gone. The US still has a chance, and if we get our act together and properly deal with all that wish harm upon law abiding Americans, maybe we can recolonize Europe and make it Western again. MEWA!
Posted by: Cray Cray at May 28, 2026 05:22 PM (yInIL)
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Fvck Europe. When is the last time Europe did jack for the United States?

They can keep their moldy cheese and rot.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 05:25 PM (RIvkX)

201 "I have yet so hear of anyone screaming "In the name of Jesus!" or "In the name of Buddha!" before they massacre innocent people."

Good point, and Allahu Akbar means "Allah is the greatest" so why many people can't figure out a motive for these murders is sheer cowardice and denial.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 05:25 PM (PFs9e)

202 The church video gives off Jim Jones vibes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 28, 2026 05:26 PM (IivNP)

203 196.

From your keyboard to God's ears. Her and Debbie Bukkake-Hair Shultz are two harpies I absolutely cannot stand.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:26 PM (u/Bbx)

204 In England the Jihadists would probably be let free

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 05:26 PM (Ia/+0)

205 >>"Now youse can't leave."

I love that scene.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 05:26 PM (viF8m)

206 IF DOCTOR JILL:

Thought her husband was having a stroke

Thought maybe her husband had been drugged

Why did she let him stroll out there? In front of what, 750 million people watching around the globe?

She might be stupid, but she thinks everyone else is too? LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 05:26 PM (K0w3s)

207 As Biden walked off stage, he confessed to her: 'I really f***ed up, didn't I?'

'"Yes, you did," I whispered back,' Jill writes.
==

ALL LIES
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 05:21 PM (RIvkX)
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And then later that night: "You answered all the questions!"

She was so proud of him.

The immodium had worked.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 05:26 PM (Fi81e)

208 106 Talarico don't like meat but he sure likes the bone
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 04:54 PM (sKqQm)

Don't ruin that song for me please.

Posted by: Nelly at May 28, 2026 05:27 PM (6+ehB)

209
I saw a photo of Jill Bidet wearing the big glasses.

If she thinks big glasses make her smarter she's wrong.

WTH is it with the big glasses thing?

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 05:27 PM (3ek7K)

210 ——-

Voting? Are you fucking high? Nobody voted for this shit. Ever. Nowhere.

This is a conscious strategy, a war plan. Not enacted by voters or the citizenry.
Posted by: Common Tater
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The concept of 'we'. We are the body politic, we comprise the nation. Don't take it personal. But if you are an active citizen then you are part of we.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 05:28 PM (y79kU)

211 The left thinks that they’re going to get traction against Paxton by talking about the “scandals”. But their problem is that while they may not be known well nationally, everyone in Texas has been beat over the head with them for over ten years now. We know them all by heart, there’s nothing new for us in any of that.

And Paxton has already won three statewide races in the face of all of that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 05:28 PM (QDJ2U)

212 200. Bingo.

The rest of this planet is just a giant museum of all the failures it took before people wised up and made the USA. No reason for me to go tour it.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:28 PM (u/Bbx)

213 They can keep their moldy cheese and rot.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

"Deep within the cool, darkened caves of a cheese cellar, a quiet miracle of nature unfolds. Here, what was once mere milk has been transformed into a rich, creamy wheel — now gloriously adorned with delicate veins of blue-green mold. This is no decay in the ordinary sense. No, this is the sophisticated work of Penicillium roqueforti, a tiny fungus that has been carefully encouraged to colonize its host. As it spreads its intricate network through the cheese, it creates bold, pungent flavors and that unmistakable earthy tang that connoisseurs so revere. What appears to the untrained eye as simple rot is, in fact, one of nature’s most delicious collaborations — a masterpiece of controlled decomposition."

Posted by: David Attenborough at May 28, 2026 05:28 PM (440br)

214 They also believe that living in a state that swore they would never ban abortions is not really worth considering and that having to drive a state over to "save your life" is way to big of an imposition so they might as well just get a hanger from the closet.
Posted by: Axeman

Why doesn't NY State advertise tourism abortion if abortion is so wholesome?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 05:28 PM (/lPRQ)

215 She might be stupid, but she thinks everyone else is too? LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 05:26 PM (K0w3s)
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They are so incompetent they need multiple revisions and just hope nobody else remembers Karinge the next day laughing off the idea that Joe needed a neurological scan.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 05:29 PM (Fi81e)

216 If anyone is interested in learning more about James Talarico's church, here you go:

https://www.staopen.org/
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 28, 2026 05:19 PM

Their Minister's bio:

"I have been pastor here at St. Andrew’s for over 35 years. I have a love of world religions and a passion for social justice. My hope for ministry is to help people discover the deeper aspects of their own lives, to share life together with other seekers, and then join together to be a catalyst for making our world happier and safer for the vulnerable ones of our world."

Something (or rather someone) seems to be ... missing.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 05:29 PM (0sNs1)

217 The concept of 'we'. We are the body politic, we comprise the nation.
——

Right, that’s my point.

We didn’t have anything to do with this. We didn’t vote for 50 million illegal aliens to invade the country.

You can speak for yourself. You cannot use “we” in this context.

We did no such fucking thing, and it is offensive to suggest otherwise.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 05:30 PM (K0w3s)

218 GW Bush's "Religion of peace" bullshit gave the muslims all the cover they needed forever. Stupid Bush's.
Posted by: Frank Barone at May 28, 2026 05:20 PM (IifOV)

I never ever once understood where or why Bush came up with that idiotic “religion of peace” crap. It was stupid and it was insulting.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 05:31 PM (QDJ2U)

219 >>"Now youse can't leave."

I love that scene.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2026 05:26 PM (viF8m)
====

When I took Mrs. F. to the Bronx to eat, we parked our rental car. She was nervous about it and asked one of the old goombahs sitting in his lawn chair on the curb, "Is it safe to park here?"

He looks her up and down.

"Lady, no one bothers the cars in this neighborhood." I roll my eyes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 05:31 PM (RIvkX)

220 ""People who initiate these should go to prison for life.""

I'll settle for them being hunted with automatic weapons.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 28, 2026 05:31 PM (snZF9)

221 I'm guessing, but seems they could at least find what tower the call originated from? And again, not sure, but they also have a voice of the caller, and maybe some info from the phone itself? Need to start locking these idiots up.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 28, 2026 05:31 PM (vbXSk)

222 Saint Andrew was the patron of Constantinople.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 05:31 PM (gKWVE)

223 Shooters looters and stabbers

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 28, 2026 05:32 PM (VMdmX)

224 If the judicial system does not protect the innocent people in our society then more people will buy guns to protect themselves. And they should. You don't stand around waiting to be the next victim of some low life piece of shit who should have been in jail years ago but the system keeps letting them back out on the streets. The system is broken, it needs to be fixed or things will get worse than they are now.

Posted by: Case at May 28, 2026 05:32 PM (8XBuM)

225 Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 05:29 PM (0sNs1

Jesus is a great teacher, blah, blah blah. The other progressive denomination should just unite. with the Unitarian Universalist Church. Maybe they will.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 05:32 PM (Nx5jP)

226 I never ever once understood where or why Bush came up with that idiotic “religion of peace” crap. It was stupid and it was insulting.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 05:31 PM (QDJ2U)
=====

It was the lost opportunity to say, "They not like us!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 05:33 PM (RIvkX)

227 WTH is it with the big glasses thing?

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 05:27 PM (3ek7K)

I remember one Moron saying that if the waifish mayor of Seattle were to don those big glasses, her weak neck would be unable to hold her head up, and she would be staring at her shoes, and people would think she's an actuary.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 28, 2026 05:33 PM (0aYVJ)

228
Lol Pug

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 05:34 PM (3ek7K)

229 That Religion of Peace was a BS line

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 05:35 PM (Ia/+0)

230
WTH is it with the big glasses thing?

Elton John fans

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2026 05:36 PM (Cqx++)

231 "Lady, no one bothers the cars in this neighborhood." I roll my eyes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

When I was renting a studio on Hyde/GG in the TL and parked my car there most days, not once was it broken into. Hondos. Same thing.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 28, 2026 05:36 PM (W5mpo)

232
Lol

Posted by: four seasons at May 28, 2026 05:36 PM (3ek7K)

233 By their giant stupid plastic eyeglasses ye shall know them.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:36 PM (03/BH)

234 Come on, Joe was running circles around the staff at the WH said Binderlady.

I'm thinking ring around the rosie.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2026 05:36 PM (n5tGW)

235 The rest of this planet is just a giant museum of all the failures it took before people wised up and made the USA. No reason for me to go tour it.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:28 PM (u/Bbx)

Exactly. 1000X this.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 28, 2026 05:37 PM (snZF9)

236 221 I'm guessing, but seems they could at least find what tower the call originated from? And again, not sure, but they also have a voice of the caller, and maybe some info from the phone itself? Need to start locking these idiots up.
Posted by: illiniwek
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They could find every cell phone user at J6 but not this call? Seems that ID'ing the call would be part of 911's protocol.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 05:38 PM (y79kU)

237 Jacob Wenske
The poster boy of herpes

I'm home and did not go jihad on anyone anywhere. Mostly because I was tired before I left and now tired because I did not go jihad.

Flying fine altho I hate Boeing with the heat of 1000 suns vs Airbus. Last night the oven was busted and I had some sort of poison hummus vs what I ordered and stomach not pleased. My dude had a turkey sandwich that looked like crap. Too tired to complain as what difference does it make on the tarmac? (I learned this or leared this from Hillary).

I think I slept 12hrs straight and need to do this again. Someday I will tell you of the dog training book of my SIL's from a weird exotic breed. She's also a weird breed of human so it's fabulous. The puppy has been shipped off to a training boot camp as things were not going well. I barely had time to laugh about this insanity til today with one of our sons who called me.

I need to simply stay home at all times as it is not normal out there.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 28, 2026 05:39 PM (WONhk)

238
some info from the phone itself? Need to start locking these idiots up.
Posted by: illiniwek

Each phone has a SIM card

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2026 05:39 PM (Cqx++)

239 209 I’ve had a glasses fetish my whole life, but DOCTOR Jill doesn’t satisfy it.

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 05:39 PM (77rzZ)

240 sifty, that is comment of the week material.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 28, 2026 05:39 PM (5P5DO)

241 Looking at that sidebar on Talarico...what a piece of work he is. Good gawd, what a caricature. He needs to look in the mirror and see the radical white man he hates so much. What a virtue-signaling, appallingly sickening jerk.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 28, 2026 05:39 PM (qBdHI)

242 By their giant stupid plastic eyeglasses ye shall know them.
Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:36 PM (03/BH)

Harry Carey was streets ahead.

Posted by: Pierce Hawthorn at May 28, 2026 05:39 PM (0aYVJ)

243 ...on Hyde/GG in the TL and parked my car there most days, not once was it broken into.
=====

I hope you play the lottery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 05:40 PM (RIvkX)

244 236.

Pretty sure the NSA has the keys to my spank bank and every call and text I've ever sent. Hard to believe they don't know who made that call.

But again, they don't have pictures from the Mandalay Bay massacre either...

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:40 PM (03/BH)

245 222 Also of Russia.

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 05:40 PM (77rzZ)

246 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 28, 2026 05:39 PM (WONhk)

Are you feeling better now, Christy, even though very sleepy?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 05:41 PM (Nx5jP)

247 Nood. 60 minutes is dead.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 28, 2026 05:41 PM (ExV1e)

248 some info from the phone itself? Need to start locking these idiots up.
Posted by: illiniwek

Each phone has a SIM card
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

Most phones are IP phones now, or you can use your computer as a phone through a VPN.
Probably easy to trace cell phone calls but there are other ways to make calls.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 05:42 PM (/lPRQ)

249 "Each phone has a SIM card"

right, but I guess they can buy "burner phones". Not sure how well those can be tracked.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 28, 2026 05:42 PM (vbXSk)

250 240.

It's an honor just being nominated.

Amen and may the guys get shirts.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:42 PM (03/BH)

251 If Barrett was swatted for being the 5th vote that could only have come from the court. The justices might want to clean their own house.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 28, 2026 05:42 PM (5P5DO)

252 Sadly, Europe is gone. The US still has a chance, and if we get our act together and properly deal with all that wish harm upon law abiding Americans, maybe we can recolonize Europe and make it Western again. MEWA!
Posted by: Cray Cray at May 28, 2026 05:22 PM (yInIL)
====

Fvck Europe. When is the last time Europe did jack for the United States?

They can keep their moldy cheese and rot.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 05:25 PM (RIvkX)
——

‘It ain’t mold, ya know …’

— Casu marzu

Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 28, 2026 05:44 PM (vUhur)

253 We need a new Australia to ship this people to.

Just dump them in the middle of the Sahara. Let them rule over the scorpions and lizards.

Posted by: shenanigans at May 28, 2026 05:44 PM (qmxL/)

254 The rest of this planet is just a giant museum of all the failures it took before people wised up and made the USA. No reason for me to go tour it.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at May 28, 2026 05:28 PM (u/Bbx)

I agree. Were it not for my tour in Germany in the Army, I doubt I would ever care to visit. I did see some cool stuff over 3 years, but...

America is way better, warts and all.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 28, 2026 05:44 PM (0aYVJ)

255 Odds that Jacob Wenske creep likes dick? High.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 28, 2026 05:45 PM (vUhur)

256 I'll settle for them being hunted with automatic weapons.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 28, 2026 05:31 PM (snZF9)
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I think I saw that movie. They lost, we won.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 28, 2026 05:45 PM (Hbeqj)

257 244 236.

Pretty sure the NSA has the keys to my spank bank and every call and text I've ever sent. Hard to believe they don't know who made that call.
--

They know when they want to know.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 05:48 PM (y79kU)

258 3 I'm not sure why a leftist would doxx ACB. She frequently votes with the liberals. Wouldn't t they be more likely to docx the justices that are actually conservative- like Thomas?
———

It’s 110% or your dead to them

Posted by: Gonzotx at May 28, 2026 05:49 PM (Xwx2P)

259 Are you feeling better now, Christy, even though very sleepy?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 05:41 PM (Nx5jP)

Yes, thanks for asking, Fen. The virus has left for someone else. I was tired walking a mile throught the airport to the gate. A different tired walking from the gate to the car on return but for different reasons.

When we landed in NOLA I got a text from my bro that the power was out and generators on. I sent him text photos of my tired DIL with baby,looking tired from travel and said find us a hotel. He found one. I also told him I was not telling anyone til they ate a late lunch as I could sense hangry on the shuttle bus to the rental car.

I told them and there was silence after they ate. I even encouraged son to see if NOLA had a drive through alcohol place as I did not care prior to telling him. I softened the blow that there was a hotel.

My dude looked up the hotel and part of the title was refuge and he said refugee that made me laugh. It was great for two nights and had a pool with a lazy river for the grands.Two nights at farm

It all worked out and our family are a polite breed and no one died or was maimed. Even the weird SIL because of my fatigue.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 28, 2026 05:52 PM (WONhk)

260 258 3 I'm not sure why a leftist would doxx ACB. She frequently votes with the liberals. Wouldn't t they be more likely to docx the justices that are actually conservative- like Thomas?

Trump appointee and therefore a Nazi. I seriously doubt the thought process goes much further than that.

Posted by: Gender traitor too, perhaps at May 28, 2026 06:03 PM (TbWk/)

261 Was it Open Range where Costner said ‘some people are going to be killed and I’m going to kill them.’?

Posted by: Eromero at May 28, 2026 06:26 PM (JJ66e)

Formerly Beloved British Series "Doctor Who" Is Now So Toxically Woke and Unpopular That No Actors Are Willing to Step Into the Role
Formerly Beloved British Car Brand Jaguar Loses 99.4% Of Its Profit Year-Over-Year

Who can say why. It's all a mystery.

The role has been cursed by wokeness, and now no actors want to play Doctor Who, because they don't want to be associated with the "baggage" of the previous seasons of woke poison.

Although the show is currently on a long unplanned hiatus, the BBC had planned a "Christmas" special-- which became a New Years Special during its woke years because the show didn't want to acknowledge Christmas*. But even the "Christmas" special is in doubt because they just can't find an actor to play Doctor Who.

This is probably due to the fact that they are determined to do more woke gender- and race-bending stunt casting but the potential DEI Doctors don't want to jump into this garbage swamp at any price.

Everything woke turns to shit:

The Doctor Who Christmas special could be exterminated as the BBC is allegedly unable to find a new lead star.
The show is in a state of flux after ending its latest series in May 2025 with the sudden departure of Ncuti Gatwa as the Time Lord.

The ungrateful gay immigrant flounced when he was asked to be a jury panelist for their boradcast of Eurovision. The rumor that went around was that she refused because Israel was a contestant. The "official" reasons for the sudden withdraw all seem like bullshit -- too tired! his schedule is so hectic! -- and they keep changing. Soon after he was announced to no longer be Doctor Who. Which suggests the BBC was sick of him after his horrible ratings. People with horrible ratings don't get to act like entitled divas for long.

Former companion Billie Piper appeared to replace Gatwa as the show's new Doctor, when the character underwent a regeneration at the end of the episode.
Piper's inclusion was a "very last-minute" decision, according to the star, and came after a sharp decline in viewership ratings. The BBC opted to put the show on hiatus for the remainder of 2025, meaning there was no festive special, but showrunner Russell T Davies wrote an episode, starring Piper, that was due to be released this December.

However, it's been reported that the special might be scrapped as bosses are struggling to find anyone to take on the permanent role of the 16th Doctor, as Piper's appearance will be for one episode only. Instead, the BBC would forge ahead with a new series airing Easter 2027.
"With less than seven months to go, [the special] looks like it's hanging in the balance," a source told The Sun.
"The problem is that they have found it difficult to find anyone who'll take on the part of the 16th Time Lord, partly because it now feels like a role that comes with all the baggage of the most recent series.

The source added: "There are fears that even if they do manage to pull something together, it is going to be a poor cousin to previous Christmas specials which have always been adored by fans." The BBC declined to comment.

Have they?

...
"Rest assured, Doctor Who is going nowhere," Phillips said at the Edinburgh TV Festival, with Lindsay Salt, the BBC's director of drama, saying they were "committed" to bringing the show back.

What an unfortunate and revealing way to phrase that.

Phillips addressed a potential end to the BBC's "great" production partnership with Disney+, adding: "Going forward, with or without Disney, Doctor Who will still be on the BBC. The Tardis is going nowhere."

LOL. It's like she's subconsciously trying to admit the truth.

Gatwa, 32, said he left the programme because "it's a role that demands a lot of you, physically and emotionally and mentally".

And Judaically.

Speaking of woke disasters:

Remember Jaguar's aggressive repositioning from a car for wealthy men looking for a little speed and style to a transgender toaster for mentally-ill folx on welfare?

Their profits dropped, and this is not a joke, 99.4%.

The Guardian claims it's all due to Trump's tariffs (which are now a very reasonable 10%), a cyberattack, and generally poor conditions in the auto industry.

It has nothing to do with deciding that rich men were no longer the target clientele but rather transgender mutants living in public housing.

Jaguar Land Rover annual profit falls 99% after US tariffs and cyber-attack take toll
Britain's largest carmaker says sales also hit by competition in China as it publishes financial results

by Jasper Jolly
Jaguar Land Rover's annual profits have slumped by more than 99% as it counted the cost of US tariffs and a cyber-attack that disrupted its factories for months.
Britain's largest carmaker made only 14m pounds in profit before tax and exceptional items in the year to March, down from 2.5bn pounds the year before, according to financial results published on Thursday.
The manufacturer, which employs 33,000 people in the UK, suffered a series of blows as Donald Trump's automotive industry tariffs caused turmoil in its important export market.
That was followed by a damaging cyber-attack on the last day of August that forced the company to shut down most of its systems and factories for weeks, with disruption rippling on through the autumn.
The tariffs, which Trump raised to 25% before agreeing a deal for 10% for the UK, hit US demand for JLR's luxury cars, before supply of products was halted by the attack. As a result, revenues fell to 22.9bn pounds, down by more than a fifth compared with the previous 12 months.

Did anything happen to the brand that might have caused demand to fall, I wonder?

JLR also said sales were hit by competition in China, where a huge number of carmakers are introducing new products.
JLR was not alone in struggling with tough conditions within the automotive industry. The Japanese manufacturer Honda on Thursday reported its first annual loss in 70 years as a listed company.

Honda was forced to write off 1.6tn yen (7.4bn pounds) in investments in electric cars after Trump removed subsidies for battery vehicles, pushing it to a loss of 423bn yen.
PB Balaji, who took over as chief executive of JLR only a few weeks after the hack, said: "JLR faced a challenging year with revenue and profit affected by multiple headwinds, including a pause in production following the cyber incident."
However, he said the company "ended well" and had "come back resiliently".

Uh-huh. Your anus is very resilient but there's just so much pounding it can take.

No mention of this:

Jaguar's 'Copy Nothing' advert was unfiltered pure woke slop. https://t.co/5QdSFgoccb pic.twitter.com/SqMJmAOWMv
— Rebel Scum (@hejwych) May 25, 2026

It's similar to what doomed Doctor Who -- a bunch of gays and women in the marketing department decided that Men Should Not Have Things Men Like and remade the dependable old British brands into Stuff for Gurlz Gays and Gender-Fluids.

It's also similar in that those gender-free space mutants look like Ncuti Gatwa's version of Doctor Who:

I'm sure it's all a coincidence, though.

Leftwing brokebrained woke women continue to be more passionate fans of male homosexuals than male homosexuals themselves, and the "Modern Audience" continues to not exist.

Yet the billions-losing incompetents pushing this same failed idea year after year still have their phoney-baloney jobs, Because DEI.

DEI doesn't care about results. DEI is your church now.

*TBH, the move away from a Christmas special to a New Years special could have worked. The Doctor Who "Christmas" episodes of course had nothing to do about Christ or Christianity, and just were about corporate Christmas decorations and theming. Like an episode where London is attacked by alien space ships that look like Christmas stars, or when London is attacked by plastic Santa Claus statues, or when Doctor Who meets the literal Santa Clause. (Well it's some kind of dream bullshit.)

After six of these dopey Christmas Parody episodes, I stopped watching them, even when I was still watching Doctor Who. I never saw the Narnia parody one, for example. I realized that all "Christmas" episodes they would be absurd garbage about killer reindeer robots from space or interdimensional strangle-serpents that looked like silver garland.

But the fact that they made this change during Peak Wokeness made everyone suspect that they were just hostile to Christianity and would rather do episodes about Eid instead.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:24 PM

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1 ANOTHER FIRST?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

2 OY

Posted by: vizzy at May 28, 2026 03:25 PM (qwdJy)

3 The "Modern Audience" continues to not exist.

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"Our audience is currently 90% men in their 50s and up who love action figures. What do we do?"

"Make them gay?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:27 PM (2t0WW)

4 The only line they ever needed and f'ed that up:

For men who’d like hand-jobs from beautiful women they hardly know.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 03:27 PM (3uBP9)

5 Didn't Jag also stop production of cars while all this was happening?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 03:27 PM (zZu0s)

6 Trans furry in a wheelchair will be the next Doctor.

One season a cat, next a raccoon, followed by a stoat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2026 03:28 PM (3hJhH)

7 I wonder if Dana Mulvaney would like to be cast as the Doctor. It's not like they could do any worse than what they've been doing.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 28, 2026 03:28 PM (/k3in)

8 How's No-Talent Nolan's woke oddessey doin?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 28, 2026 03:28 PM (wBaIH)

9 Ahhh, a feel-good story.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 28, 2026 03:28 PM (N1tpc)

10 Que es mas gay?
a) Bolso mensajero
b) Scooter Vespa
c) Dr. Who
d) todo lo anterior

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 03:29 PM (73/SM)

11 My sister and her husband used to buy nothing but Jags because they are good freeway cars, and they have the money and need for a smooth ride. My sister's old daily drive was the late model station wagon that would otherwise be the sweetest luxury edition Taurus station wagon ever made if it had different branding. Still, this time they bought a Subaru.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 03:29 PM (rbvCR)

12 Jaguar last I heard was run by India

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 03:30 PM (Ia/+0)

13 a) Bolso mensajero
b) Scooter Vespa
c) Dr. Who
d) todo lo anterior
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 03:29 PM (73/SM)

CHISPIRITO

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 03:30 PM (rbvCR)

14 Granny got whacked by alien reindeer robots one Christmas Eve...

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2026 03:30 PM (3hJhH)

15 ANOTHER FIRST?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

Your winnings, sir:

Two paperclips, one dust bunny and half a stale Chips-A-Hoy cookie.

Posted by: Doing MC Duty at May 28, 2026 03:30 PM (/HDaX)

16 >>The role has been cursed by wokeness, and now no actors want to play Doctor Who, because they don't want to be associated with the "baggage" of the previous seasons of woke poison.

I think it's more along the lines of the people who would be writing any feature series or shows would be the same people who were writing the gay way bullsh*t they were cramming down peoples throats, and actors know that.

Plus a lot of these IP's are taking on an heir of The Super Bowl Half-Time show where nobody wants any part of them.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:30 PM (XV/Pl)

17 After tariffs and cyberattacks...

Tariffs and cyberattack also killed Freddy Mercury I guess.

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 03:30 PM (xOo4o)

18 Dr. Who/They/Them

Pronoun trouble.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 03:31 PM (Fi81e)

19 "a bunch of gays and women in the marketing department decided that Men Should Have Things Men Like and remade"

'Should NOT', sir.

Posted by: Patsy at May 28, 2026 03:31 PM (zZu0s)

20 "The Guardian claims it's all due to Trump's tariffs (which are now a very reasonable 10%), a cyberattack, and generally poor conditions in the auto industry."

The catastrophic drop in profits has nothing to do with Trump's tariffs, as other Euro luxury car companies made piles of money despite the tariffs. Lambo had a record year despite the tariffs. So the Guardian is full of shit.

But ... I wish it were true! Jag is a foreign company owned 100% by Indians (Tata). Who gives a shit about the profits of Indian companies who are trying to fuck us in the ass with cheap labor and punitive tariffs on our products? Fuck them.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

21 Responding to Comment 166 (usFPI) 3:26 PM in Fidel Thread:

Repeal the 17th Amendment!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 03:31 PM (QGaXH)

22 Nolan's movie is burning down hotter than Troy after the Mycenaeans got in.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2026 03:31 PM (3hJhH)

23 The Guardian claims it's all due to Trump's tariffs (which are now a very reasonable 10%), a cyberattack, and generally poor conditions in the auto industry.

What, no weather-related excuses?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 28, 2026 03:31 PM (R+iUD)

24 Jaguar last I heard was run by India
Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 03:30 PM (Ia/+0)

Yeah, Tata? Is that right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 03:32 PM (zZu0s)

25 The interesting thing is that British entertainment is just...deeply progressive. They actively and institutionally protect pedophiles (still do, apparently, David Walliams...look him up, or don't) and have been pushing racial quotas that make no sense for decades now.

The culture is suffused with people who think that audiences who complain about woke casting are backwards hicks with no power because they haven't managed to change anything at the BBC ever.

And, you have young actors who would be looking at regular paychecks for years just taking on the role which could lead to Matt Smith/David Tennant levels of stardom.

They can't find someone in that world to take on the role because of internet trolls against the last two Doctors?

That's...fascinating.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:32 PM (2t0WW)

26 Doctor who?

Posted by: Crow from Kansas at May 28, 2026 03:32 PM (HcoTw)

27 Is that tranny, paralyzed, gay, black actress still available!!???

THIS WAS THE PART SHE WAS BORN TO PLAY!!!

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 03:32 PM (Sco7b)

28 The companies pushing woke need to be punished.

Sadly, the PEOPLE pushing woke will just move on and crash another company.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 28, 2026 03:32 PM (N1tpc)

29 Jaguar last I heard was run by India
Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 03:30 PM (Ia/+0)

Yeah, Tata? Is that right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 03:32 PM (zZu0s)
_______

JLR is owned 100% by Tata. See my comment above. They can suck my phat dick.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

30 Swatting a Supreme Court Justice?

CNN - 'mostly peaceful Swatting.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2026 03:25 PM (3hJhH)
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"She deserved it." -- The Left.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 03:33 PM (Fi81e)

31 Looks like all those mutants were sitting on a giant turd in the video. Or am I reading too much into this?

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 28, 2026 03:33 PM (TezPK)

32 26 Doctor who?

Posted by: Crow from Kansas at May 28, 2026 03:32 PM (HcoTw)

=====

Only River Song knows his real name.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:33 PM (2t0WW)

33 Tom Hanks will have to lose over 80lbs to play Jaguar in this movie.

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 03:33 PM (xOo4o)

34 The Doctor Who franchise has tens of millions of fans that are willing to shower them with enough cash to start their own country. And they managed to fvck that up so bad no actor is willing to take the lead role.

Well played.......

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 28, 2026 03:33 PM (0N4FZ)

35 Beau died fighting Trump's Tariffs and cyberattacks.

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 28, 2026 03:34 PM (0256r)

36 There was an Adam's Dirk Gently BBC show that wasn't bad to start off with. I rather enjoyed it. But they had to gay it up. Full on, like in the 40's looney toons that suddenly had japs and krauts in it for war-time propaganda, that bad and out of place. It's too bad.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 03:34 PM (3uBP9)

37 So all of England's problems just showed up in the last 16 months

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 03:34 PM (Ia/+0)

38 37 So all of England's problems just showed up in the last 16 months

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 03:34 PM (Ia/+0)

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It's Reform's fault.

They get 4 MPs, and everything goes to shit!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:34 PM (2t0WW)

39 River Song would be a better Time Lord at this point.

Best female Time Lord? Romana.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2026 03:34 PM (3hJhH)

40 The Daleks have won.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 03:34 PM (Fi81e)

41 The Doctor Who horse has long been dead and now is putrid rotting flesh on the streets. Quit beating it for pocket change!
The British regulatory tax scam of licensing tellys to fund the BBC so that they can 'independently' waste citizens' tax pounds to produce propaganda crap without commercial accountability is just one indicator of their failing system.

Posted by: John at May 28, 2026 03:35 PM (0DsdP)

42 39 River Song would be a better Time Lord at this point.

Best female Time Lord? Romana.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2026 03:34 PM (3hJhH)

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River Song remained the best thing of Matt Smith's run through the whole thing.

After the first season, it became very hit or miss, and pretty much every River Song episode was a hit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:35 PM (2t0WW)

43 well I guess this is it for Inspector Spacetime!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 28, 2026 03:36 PM (j+aD2)

44 I'm beginning to get the feeling that San Antonio should be nuked for everyone's betterment:

https://tinyurl.com/5n8f6ajt

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 28, 2026 03:36 PM (5UTWB)

45 Carried over:

161 And they both look like Zohran Mamdani, while Justin Trudeau and Gavin Newsom look like Jacob Frey. Think about it, man!
Posted by: SciVo at May 28, 2026 03:04 PM (Sy6m/)

I think Gruesome Nuisance looks like the Patrick Bateman character from "American Psycho" played by Christian Bale .

California Psycho.
Posted by: The Osprey at May 28, 2026 03:25 PM (XgSza)

I believe it was Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent who said Newsom looks like Sparkle Beach Ken crossed with Patrick Bateman. Sparkle Beach Psycho.

Posted by: SciVo at May 28, 2026 03:36 PM (Sy6m/)

46 Amy Pond was the best companion.

FIGHT ME!!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:36 PM (XV/Pl)

47 Started making my tea with bottled water, it tastes much better. Bonus bottled water contains none of the hormones, bio-chemicals, and residual antibiotics that tap water does. Bonus!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 03:36 PM (y79kU)

48 For they/them who’d like hand-jobs from ugly people who's gender they hardly know.

Posted by: Jaguar marketing geniuses at May 28, 2026 03:37 PM (3uBP9)

49 I have seen Dr. Who since Colin Baker played the role.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 03:37 PM (2sfNr)

50 You just want to be arrested by police officer Amy Pond.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2026 03:37 PM (3hJhH)

51 I'm pretty sure those Faguar ads didn't run in China, so at least in that market it was general incompetence.

Posted by: logprof at May 28, 2026 03:37 PM (jo6FO)

52 Actually, I now avoid ingesting tap water every way possible.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 03:37 PM (y79kU)

53 Who knows what Tata is doing these days. I miss my Range Rover a lot. It went vroom-vroom. But, there was a long delay when I was ready for new one (over a year!) and rumors of them going belly-up have persisted for a while.

Posted by: Ann at May 28, 2026 03:37 PM (SHHm+)

54 Dr Who was crap before it went woke.

But at least it had Karen Gillian in a hot police officer-ette outfit.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 03:38 PM (sKqQm)

55 I'm working on projects now while trying to keep the dog from accidentally killing himself and have a new tv from Costco in the computer room.

I was actually willing to just have Doctor Who in the background until everything is out the door starting with Doctor One. But the rights changed, TUBI no longer has them all on demand.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 03:38 PM (Sco7b)

56 Ace, speaking of TV, start reading up on the upheaval right this moment which Bari Weiss is doing to the 80 Minutes staff.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 28, 2026 03:38 PM (5UTWB)

57 Captain Jack Harkness was gay, but he was Rock Hudson gay, a man's man gay.

A gay you could share a foxyhole with.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:38 PM (XV/Pl)

58 They should turn Doctor Who into some kind of erotic adventure. a la Outlander, largely featuring Karen Gillan.

This would get me interested again.

And as a former Jaguar owner during my UK stint, the handling of the car was absolutely sublime. The maintenance costs were absolutely bankrupting.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 28, 2026 03:39 PM (qwx/I)

59 Jumanji Brown on the 1 side of another 8-1 decision.

Well, technically it was 5 majority, 2 concur and Muh Feelz.

Kags an' Soto are like, "can you just read the fucking statute and stop with the 'but if I wrote the law' shit?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 03:39 PM (73/SM)

60 A Jag You Are if you buy one

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at May 28, 2026 03:39 PM (qmYDO)

61 while we're making fun of Jaguar it would be fun to make fun of Ferrari's new EV

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 28, 2026 03:39 PM (j+aD2)

62 "Formerly Beloved British Car Brand Jaguar Loses 99.4% Of Its Profit Year-Over-Year"

Ace, as I read the reports, it's not Jaguar that lost 99% of its profits, but the entire JLR company. JLR is Jaguar and Land Rover.

Jaguar is a total basket-case with no cars whatsoever to sell. But Land Rover is not in the same boat. Land Rover sells several popular SUVs.

For the entire JLR company to take a yuge shit is much bigger news.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:39 PM (iFTx/)

63 There was an Adam's Dirk Gently BBC show that wasn't bad to start off with. I rather enjoyed it. But they had to gay it up. Full on, like in the 40's looney toons that suddenly had japs and krauts in it for war-time propaganda, that bad and out of place. It's too bad.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 03:34 PM (3uBP9)
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The Elijah Woods series was gayed way the fuck up in Season 2.

It could hold a clinic on how to gay up a series.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 03:40 PM (Fi81e)

64 50 You just want to be arrested by police officer Amy Pond.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2026 03:37 PM (3hJhH)

======

I prefer Kiss-a-gram Amy Pond.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:40 PM (2t0WW)

65 Although the last broad they cast as the companion was kind of cute.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 28, 2026 03:40 PM (qwx/I)

66 The should make Dr. Who outright Benny Hill Slapstick, that would get people watching again.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:40 PM (XV/Pl)

67 They actively and institutionally protect pedophiles (still do, apparently, David Walliams...look him up, or don't) a

One of the oddball things about the left deciding to go all in on Epstein stuff in 2025 after 5 years of saying it was fake is that they now rant about "The Epstein Class" while at the same time defending grooming kids with gay pron and often outright molestation

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 03:40 PM (sKqQm)

68 46 Amy Pond was the best companion.

FIGHT ME!!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Sarah Jane Smith has entered the chat.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 28, 2026 03:40 PM (/k3in)

69 Captain Jack was way cool until the writers turned his omnisexuality into just being gay gay gay.

Remember to keep your French Poodle away from his partner.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2026 03:40 PM (3hJhH)

70 59 Jumanji Brown on the 1 side of another 8-1 decision.

Well, technically it was 5 majority, 2 concur and Muh Feelz.

Kags an' Soto are like, "can you just read the fucking statute and stop with the 'but if I wrote the law' shit?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 03:39 PM (73/SM)

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40 years of this.

30 if her heart gives out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:40 PM (2t0WW)

71 Theyll make it up on volume.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 28, 2026 03:40 PM (wfWhf)

72 You just want to be arrested by police officer Amy Pond.

Though if they remade those episodes now she'd be a Muslim woman in a hijab...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 03:41 PM (sKqQm)

73 46 Amy Pond was the best companion.

FIGHT ME!!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:36 PM (XV/Pl)

She was.
But I also REALLY liked Clara and the hot, black chick after Piper left. Too bad their roles sucked.

The companions of the first doctor were cool.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 03:41 PM (Sco7b)

74 >>> Actually, I now avoid ingesting tap water every way possible.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 03:37 PM (y79kU)

Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?

Posted by: Ripper at May 28, 2026 03:41 PM (3uBP9)

75 59 Jumanji Brown on the 1 side of another 8-1 decision.

Well, technically it was 5 majority, 2 concur and Muh Feelz.

Kags an' Soto are like, "can you just read the fucking statute and stop with the 'but if I wrote the law' shit?"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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That appears to be English language but coded.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 03:41 PM (y79kU)

76 1 ANOTHER FIRST?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

HOW does he do that? they ask..,..,

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 03:41 PM (QGaXH)

77 The Dr Who with his girl pal on a sidecar were OK.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 28, 2026 03:41 PM (Kt19C)

78 Well Jaguar also decided to completely shudder automobile production to "reset" to a total EV lineup. How that idea even made it past the bullshit brainstorming stage is a mystery.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 28, 2026 03:41 PM (Vh9CX)

79 A case of "motive unknown" in Switzerland:

https://tinyurl.com/3a3su7rb

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 28, 2026 03:41 PM (5UTWB)

80 Damn....I never saw that Jaguar commercial before. Whoever thought that was a good idea should be hunted with machetes.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 28, 2026 03:42 PM (snZF9)

81 Amy Pond was the best companion.

FIGHT ME!!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:36 PM (XV/Pl)
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That would be giving a crap.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 03:42 PM (Fi81e)

82 Morning Glory Milking Tardis: A Very Special Holiday Crossover Special

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 03:42 PM (xOo4o)

83 @69

>>Remember to keep your French Poodle away from his partner.

Which proves the point that you can have gay characters and make them interesting and people will accept it.

The problem is when gay become the be all and end all of pushing, THE MESSAGE.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:43 PM (XV/Pl)

84 Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?
Posted by: Ripper
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I keep my bodily fluids in shape by eliminating all of the estrogens floating in tap water.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 03:43 PM (y79kU)

85 Bonus bottled water contains none of the hormones, bio-chemicals, and residual antibiotics that tap water does. Bonus!

Posted by: Braenyard

Nobody tell him that most bottled water is just filtered municipal water with some calcium and magnesium compounds added.

Though I will admit that filtering it does make the tea taste better.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 28, 2026 03:43 PM (vJrRc)

86 No one in Britain can even say jaguar properly.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 28, 2026 03:43 PM (wfWhf)

87 Jenna Coleman was kind of cute. My wife made me sit through the Victoria miniseries with her in the lead role and it turned out to be good.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 28, 2026 03:43 PM (qwx/I)

88 Jumanji Brown on the 1 side of another 8-1 decision.

Well, technically it was 5 majority, 2 concur and Muh Feelz.

Kags an' Soto are like, "can you just read the fucking statute and stop with the 'but if I wrote the law' shit?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 03:39 PM (73/SM)

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40 years of this.

30 if her heart gives out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:40 PM (2t0WW)
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I like her. I despise her politics and her lawlessness, but I like that she gives no shits. Not even a tiny yummy shitball our loathsome gay troll loves. Jumanji will defend the leftwing position no matter what. No. Matter. What.

I wish we had hardcore ideologues like that on our side.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:44 PM (iFTx/)

89 Just CGI the old ones! After all, who wouldn't want to see Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee again as the Doctor!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 03:44 PM (1Ff7Z)

90 Aluminum.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 28, 2026 03:44 PM (wfWhf)

91 Karen Gillian is in some movie where she is getting ready for a date and baking something.

The date gets their early and while waiting at her door hears the fire alarm. He knows where her spare key is so goes in right as she comes running straight out of the shower to get the food out of the oven.

Oopsie!

I tried watching the whole movie and it was bad bad bad - I didn't make it to the shower scene. Does that mean I lose my man card?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 03:44 PM (sKqQm)

92 What does anyone bet that Ketanji dropped the dime on Barrett's home address to antifa?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 03:45 PM (zZu0s)

93 Drinking from a garden hose eliminates all contamination from tap water.

It's Gen X science.

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 03:45 PM (xOo4o)

94 88 I like her. I despise her politics and her lawlessness, but I like that she gives no shits. Not even a tiny yummy shitball our loathsome gay troll loves. Jumanji will defend the leftwing position no matter what. No. Matter. What.

I wish we had hardcore ideologues like that on our side.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:44 PM (iFTx/)

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There is something about authenticity.

It's why Crockett inspired such loyalty in the Texas black electorate. She seems authentic (though we all know it's an act because of those younger videos of her).

It's a tough balance to strike.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:45 PM (2t0WW)

95 ANOTHER FIRST?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

HOW does he do that? they ask..,..,
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 03:41 PM (QGaXH)
_______

[Blowing on knuckles ... but not in a gay way. In a very manly studly Chaddish way.]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

96 Once you learn to fake authenticity you've got it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 28, 2026 03:46 PM (wfWhf)

97 Karen Gillan demands that her husband not kill the rats in her house.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sT4qIe2Ir4w

This did not make the Architectural Digest article about her house.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:46 PM (2t0WW)

98 A case of "motive unknown" in Switzerland:

Also in the new, a Muslim nanny beheaded the Christian child she was minding and went outside carrying the head screaming Allu Akbar and this is was jihad.

Russian courts gave her a mere 5 years in jail so they just let her out.

Even Russia has gone soft on jihadis.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 03:46 PM (sKqQm)

99 >>> The Elijah Woods series was gayed way the fuck up in Season 2.

It could hold a clinic on how to gay up a series.
Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 03:40 PM (Fi81e)

It was ridiculous what they did to it. Like stapling antlers onto mice ridiculous. It made no sense. Like they heard from the front office. GAY IT UP BOYS. And they gave them frilly costumes. NO! I SAID GAY! 10x GAYER! And that's what we all got.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 03:46 PM (3uBP9)

100 You know the one about a Marxist who walks into a bar?

It's not funneh:

https://tinyurl.com/yu6kx5dw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 28, 2026 03:46 PM (5UTWB)

101 Lets take a look under the bonnet, shall we?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 28, 2026 03:46 PM (qwx/I)

102 Captain Jack Harkness was gay, but he was Rock Hudson gay, a man's man gay.

A gay you could share a foxyhole with.

Disagree. He was a good character, played by a good actor but the gayness was an obvious afterthought added on for PC-ness. The episodes where he was just Jack Harkness were good; the ones where he was Gay Jack Harkness were cringe.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 28, 2026 03:46 PM (vTZFs)

103 when Doctor Who meets the literal Santa Clause. (Well it's some kind of dream bullshit.)
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If they wanted to fix the show, that would be the episode to go back to, as you could say that the Doctor didn't escape the dream *until now* and people liked Capaldi despite the shit scripts he was stuck with.

Posted by: Methos at May 28, 2026 03:46 PM (vSvIl)

104 94.

Same authenticity as Jeffrey Dahmer.

Love him or hate him, the man followed the recipe no matter what.

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 03:47 PM (xOo4o)

105 There is much concern, these days, over health issues oft occurring that half a century ago were rare.

All of the residual hormones, antibiotics and who knows what other modern chemicals floating in all tap water may be part of the problem.
_manboobs

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 03:47 PM (y79kU)

106 103 If they wanted to fix the show, that would be the episode to go back to, as you could say that the Doctor didn't escape the dream *until now* and people liked Capaldi despite the shit scripts he was stuck with.

Posted by: Methos at May 28, 2026 03:46 PM (vSvIl)

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The way to fix the show is to realize that it's a show for children first and foremost, not for gay men wishing their fathers loved them more.

Light adventure and peril with sci-fi flare. That's all it is. It's not serious. It's not important.

It's a silly sci-fi show for children. Make it that again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:48 PM (2t0WW)

107 Joe Rockhead was a great guy and instrumental to the plot, but you never had to hear about his sexuality.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 28, 2026 03:48 PM (qwx/I)

108 It's why Crockett inspired such loyalty in the Texas black electorate. She seems authentic (though we all know it's an act because of those younger videos of her).

It's a tough balance to strike.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:45 PM (2t0WW)

Her recent commercial/endorsement for Christian Menefee had no inkling of her "blaccent" anywhere. Funny, that.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 28, 2026 03:48 PM (k9OZB)

109 The best was when the disgusting drag queen they hired to play a villain said something like " we will get 5 new fans for every bigot we lose" . LOL

Posted by: steevy at May 28, 2026 03:48 PM (YwEeS)

110 I tried watching the whole movie and it was bad bad bad - I didn't make it to the shower scene. Does that mean I lose my man card?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 03:44 PM (sKqQm)

If she did titties and you didn't stay for that? Yeah, you're lucky it didn't combust in your wallet. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 28, 2026 03:48 PM (snZF9)

111 If they wanted to fix the show, that would be the episode to go back to, as you could say that the Doctor didn't escape the dream *until now* and people liked Capaldi despite the shit scripts he was stuck with.

Posted by: Methos at May 28, 2026 03:46 PM

Already been done with bob newheart.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 28, 2026 03:49 PM (0N4FZ)

112 108
Her recent commercial/endorsement for Christian Menefee had no inkling of her "blaccent" anywhere. Funny, that.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 28, 2026 03:48 PM (k9OZB)

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Just compare her act to Hillary's hot sauce tarred act.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:49 PM (2t0WW)

113
From

JAGUAR

The Fastest Way To Her Cooter!

To

JAGUAR

You Don't Really Need a Penis, Now Do You?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 28, 2026 03:49 PM (iJfKG)

114 97 Karen Gillan demands that her husband not kill the rats in her house.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sT4qIe2Ir4w

This did not make the Architectural Digest article about her house.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering
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Exemplary, whipped but know one says it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 03:50 PM (y79kU)

115 [Blowing on knuckles ... but not in a gay way. In a very manly studly Chaddish way.]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)
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Thank you!

Posted by: Knuckles the Echidna at May 28, 2026 03:50 PM (Fi81e)

116 Their profits dropped, and this is not a joke, 99.4%.

I have read... I don't care enough to verify... that this was because they actually stopped making cars for a full year in preparation for the great homosexual electric future.

It is theorized that had they continued making 'legacy' Jags that their profits would have dropped less.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 28, 2026 03:50 PM (ExV1e)

117 A Muslim Dr Who is the only recourse.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2026 03:50 PM (zaxlN)

118 @106

>>It's a silly sci-fi show for children. Make it that again.

That's why you make it Benny Hill light with copious slapstick and you would have something.

But I don't any of these people would know how to write slapstick.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:50 PM (XV/Pl)

119 JLR is owned 100% by Tata. See my comment above. They can suck my phat dick.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

You know who would make a great salesperson for Tata and/or sucking my phat dick?

https://tinyurl.com/3sr4jme2

Or maybe

https://tinyurl.com/4bv3vkhp

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 28, 2026 03:51 PM (ycI94)

120 The best was when the disgusting drag queen they hired to play a villain said something like " we will get 5 new fans for every bigot we lose" . LOL

Posted by: steevy at May 28, 2026 03:48 PM (YwEeS)
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Yup. Queers aren't good at math.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 03:51 PM (Fi81e)

121 I reported this last night without yet knowing who the SC justice was. Now we know:

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok
3h

BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was reportedly the target of a SWATTING attempt last night after a caller reported gunshots at her address.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 28, 2026 03:51 PM (5UTWB)

122 105. I agree that our diets have been engineered to turn us into fat tax cattle, but...

Pushups and push-aways cures a lot of this.

Don't see too many manboobs on a chain gang.

My next door neighbor is constantly bitching about hormones making him fat while simultaneously being too lazy to piss his pants if his dick was on fire.

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 03:51 PM (xOo4o)

123 Jaguar's high water mark was when they did that advert with Kingsley and that guy who played Loki, about how their car was the choice for British supervillains.
It made *me* want one.
I'm not buying a car to impress soy-swilling faggots, the subaru already exists.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 03:51 PM (gKWVE)

124 It's hard to make money making cars when you aren't making cars.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 28, 2026 03:51 PM (wfWhf)

125 Doctor Who was never really any good after Keith Moon died

Posted by: Azjaeger at May 28, 2026 03:52 PM (MGKEV)

126 Light adventure and peril with sci-fi flare. That's all it is. It's not serious. It's not important.

It's a silly sci-fi show for children. Make it that again.

Gillian is good at that sort of role, see Jumanji as another example (the movie, not the SC actress).

Hire Chris Pratt or that guy from the office or Joe Keery and another Karen Gillian and you could make a marginally entertaining Dr Who like they used to...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

127 124 It's hard to make money making cars when you aren't making cars.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 28, 2026 03:51 PM (wfWhf)

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Ilhan Omar could do it with wine, she can do it with cars.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:52 PM (2t0WW)

128 A Muslim Dr Who is the only recourse.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2026 03:50 PM (zaxlN)
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With his rape-gang lieutenant.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 03:52 PM (Fi81e)

129 IRGC again firing missiles at ships in Hormuz at this time. Details at 11.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 28, 2026 03:52 PM (5UTWB)

130 Shouldn't that be Doctor Whom?

Posted by: muldoon at May 28, 2026 03:53 PM (qgHp7)

131 I think the overarching problem for Doctor Who is the same as for many other older sci-fi properties like Star Wars: audience fatigue, and especially among younger viewers as the older gens with the most affinity for the properties age out.

Seriously: who really gives a shit about Doctor Who or Star Wars now? Even if these IPs weren't fucked up the pooper by wokeness, they'd still be long in the tooth facing disinterested audiences.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

132 JLR was not alone in struggling with tough conditions within the automotive industry. The Japanese manufacturer Honda on Thursday reported its first annual loss in 70 years as a listed company.

Honda was forced to write off 1.6tn yen (7.4bn pounds) in investments in electric cars after Trump removed subsidies for battery vehicles, pushing it to a loss of 423bn yen.

Hmmm... how did Toyota do? Didn't their board fire the CEO who refused to go all-in on electric? (I may have that wrong.)

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 28, 2026 03:53 PM (ExV1e)

133
BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was reportedly the target of a SWATTING attempt last night after a caller reported gunshots at her address./i]

Until Swatters face the noose this will continue

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 03:53 PM (sKqQm)

134 >>> being too lazy to piss his pants if his dick was on fire.

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 03:51 PM (xOo4o)

LOL!

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 03:53 PM (3uBP9)

135 so the fire didn't cease?

Posted by: hasn't since AD 612 at May 28, 2026 03:53 PM (gKWVE)

136 Well, a Hindu Dr Who would solve the regeneration problem.

Instead of a Tardis he could fly around in a 7-11.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 28, 2026 03:53 PM (qwx/I)

137 Or maybe

https://tinyurl.com/4bv3vkhp

It's a good thing she's wearing a pushup bikini top or she'd have no boobs at all.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 03:53 PM (Riz8t)

138 So they are moving the planned "special" from the Christian holiday of Christmas to the Christian holiday of Easter?

While not mentioning Christ at all...Funny how that works.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 03:54 PM (gnNyN)

139 I don't think Jumanji would get the address right if she leaked it.

I don't think she had the brains needed to lick a stamp.

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 03:54 PM (xOo4o)

140 BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was reportedly the target of a SWATTING attempt last night after a caller reported gunshots at her address.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs
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Maybe it will toughen her up?

Nah.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 03:54 PM (y79kU)

141 Well, a Hindu Dr Who would solve the regeneration problem.

He could poop everywhere through all time eras...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 03:54 PM (sKqQm)

142 Mrs D watches a lot of BBC. She's big on their crime and drama stuff. I find it all dark, dismal, and formulaic. Every place is dirty and run down, senior police officials are corrupt. The chief inspector is always a woman, and there are at least two ragheads carrying badges. And the bad guy is always a white dude.
The UK today could not ever pull off a Dunkirk.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 28, 2026 03:54 PM (2WIwB)

143 142 Mrs D watches a lot of BBC. She's big on their crime and drama stuff. I find it all dark, dismal, and formulaic. Every place is dirty and run down, senior police officials are corrupt. The chief inspector is always a woman, and there are at least two ragheads carrying badges. And the bad guy is always a white dude.
The UK today could not ever pull off a Dunkirk.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 28, 2026 03:54 PM (2WIwB)

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Ludwig was fun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:55 PM (2t0WW)

144 Jaguar's high water mark was when they did that advert with Kingsley and that guy who played Loki, about how their car was the choice for British supervillains.
It made *me* want one.

Same. The third guy was Mark Strong, another favorite.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 03:55 PM (Riz8t)

145 Jaguar's high water mark was when they did that advert with Kingsley and that guy who played Loki, about how their car was the choice for British supervillains.
It made *me* want one.

Same. The third guy was Mark Strong, another favorite.

All good actors.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)

146 144 Jaguar's high water mark was when they did that advert with Kingsley and that guy who played Loki, about how their car was the choice for British supervillains.
It made *me* want one.

Same. The third guy was Mark Strong, another favorite.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 03:55 PM (Riz8t)

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The high water mark was Nick Frost driving Phillip's Jag into zombies in Shaun of the Dead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:56 PM (2t0WW)

147 Put a chick in it and make it fake and gay.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 28, 2026 03:56 PM (wfWhf)

148 @131

>>Seriously: who really gives a shit about Doctor Who or Star Wars now?

A lot of people, if you go on say Makers World for 3D Prints and just type in Star Wars, you will get thousands of different hits for thing people have created, same for Pinterest, same for YouTube when searching for Star Wars themes AI shorts.

This stuff is not being made by old farts like me, it's being made by Millenials and Zoomers.

So there is still a large base of people that give a crap about the IP's.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:56 PM (XV/Pl)

149 BBC. ... all dark, dismal, and formulaic. Every place is dirty and run down, senior police officials are corrupt. The chief inspector is always a woman, and there are at least two ragheads carrying badges. And the bad guy is always a white dude.

I got dragged into watching one of those episodes and, yeah, that's about right.
I bet the cops over there watch a lot of it on their free time and that is why Nowak had to die. Just another racist...

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 03:56 PM (gKWVE)

150 The high water mark was Nick Frost driving Phillip's Jag into zombies in Shaun of the Dead.

He made several good movies with Simon Pegg

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 03:56 PM (sKqQm)

151 Ludwig was fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:55 PM (2t0WW)

Yeah. It's the only one I like.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 28, 2026 03:57 PM (2WIwB)

152 "Your anus is very resilient but there's just so much pounding it can take."

As the song said, Take It To The Limit!

Posted by: Barry O. at May 28, 2026 03:57 PM (KDcqc)

153 145.

Any Jaguar ad or Bond movie without Jason Isaacs as the star is a missed opportunity.

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 03:57 PM (xOo4o)

154 148 A lot of people, if you go on say Makers World for 3D Prints and just type in Star Wars, you will get thousands of different hits for thing people have created, same for Pinterest, same for YouTube when searching for Star Wars themes AI shorts.

This stuff is not being made by old farts like me, it's being made by Millenials and Zoomers.

So there is still a large base of people that give a crap about the IP's.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:56 PM (XV/Pl)

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It's more like a playground people play in rather than a directed IP with strong profit potential.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:57 PM (2t0WW)

155 111 Already been done with bob newheart.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 28, 2026 03:49 PM (0N4FZ)

Not quite the same as it was two completely different series.

Try 'Dallas' where they killed off younger brother Bobby for one full season and it was so unpopular they brought him back by making the whole previous season his wife's bad dream....,

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 03:57 PM (QGaXH)

156 JLR is owned 100% by Tata. See my comment above. They can suck my phat dick.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

You know who would make a great salesperson for Tata and/or sucking my phat dick?

https://tinyurl.com/3sr4jme2

Or maybe

https://tinyurl.com/4bv3vkhp
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 28, 2026 03:51 PM (ycI94)
_____

I have that movie "Christy" sitting at home in 4K. I don't like watching ladies beat the shit outta each other, but I'll report my findings on SS to all you boob-obsessed leering perverts.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

157 Seriously: who really gives a shit about Doctor Who or Star Wars now? Even if these IPs weren't fucked up the pooper by wokeness, they'd still be long in the tooth facing disinterested audiences.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

And the prospect of 50 years of shit to 'catch up.' Homework to watch a show....thank's. I'm good.

That new Star Wars. I haven't watched the series, I know it's based on a series, so just no. And the big, new Avengers Dr. Doom - appropriately named - apparently they're going to add some scenes to a previous movie. Yeah, double no.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 03:57 PM (Sco7b)

158 The yutes I know don't care about Star Wars or Dr Who they are all in on anime and newer properties like Warhammer or Mortal Kombat

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 03:57 PM (sKqQm)

159 151 Ludwig was fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:55 PM (2t0WW)

Yeah. It's the only one I like.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 28, 2026 03:57 PM (2WIwB)

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Season 2 is filmed!

No official premiere day yet, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:57 PM (2t0WW)

160 Here's the Jag ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7gR7EYjcP8

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 03:58 PM (Riz8t)

161 Don't see too many manboobs on a chain gang.

***********

"Shakin' 'em here, Boss!"

/Dragline

Posted by: muldoon at May 28, 2026 03:58 PM (qgHp7)

162 So instead of woke, make it Islamic and sharia complaint. Yes, that is what the people want and will bring them back.

Posted by: Ripley at May 28, 2026 03:58 PM (GUOwU)

163 >>> Until Swatters face the noose this will continue
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 03:53 PM (sKqQm)

It's too easy to anonymize calls. It will continue until the reporting, responding system just stops being stupid and falling for it. HUR DUR DUR ACB is going to gun down her whole household some caller with an untraceable id told me HUR DUR DUR send the police! shoot on sight!

Or they could ban honest people from using vpns, something stupid and ineffectual like that. Probably that.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 03:59 PM (3uBP9)

164 The Jag is off.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 03:59 PM (Fi81e)

165 @154

>>It's more like a playground people play in rather than a directed IP with strong profit potential.

People love the Star Wars universe, themes and characters, they simply hate what this collection of bozos have done with it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:59 PM (XV/Pl)

166 Jaguar is the Ellen Paige of Dylan Mulvaneys.

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 03:59 PM (xOo4o)

167 138 So they are moving the planned "special" from the Christian holiday of Christmas to the Christian holiday of Easter?

While not mentioning Christ at all...Funny how that works.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 03:54 PM (gnNyN)

The "Let's Save Jesus!" episode will be epic!

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 03:59 PM (Sco7b)

168 The Elijah Woods series was gayed way the fuck up in Season 2.

It could hold a clinic on how to gay up a series.
Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 03:40 PM (Fi81e)
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Yup. They gayed it up in a way that made absolutely no sense whatsoever with a gay Romeo and Julio subplot.

There were some cool ideas in that season, but the over-the-top wokeness killed off any possibility for a third season.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 03:59 PM (gnNyN)

169 > Ncuti Gatwa

Sorry, I refuse to believe that is the name of a human being.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 28, 2026 04:00 PM (IG3/x)

170 161.

The chain gang could watch itself wash a car and cut out Lucille!

* I am against this.

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 04:00 PM (xOo4o)

171 The "Let's Save Jesus!" episode will be epic!
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 03:59 PM (Sco7b)
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Ugh. Now I'm imagining that Jesus was killed on the cross (for good) and the Doctor (regenerated) takes His place as the Risen Christ.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 04:01 PM (gnNyN)

172 I'll report my findings on SS to all you boob-obsessed leering perverts.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:57 PM

Don't forget about us.

Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot and Quentin T. at May 28, 2026 04:01 PM (KDcqc)

173 @158

>>The yutes I know don't care about Star Wars or Dr Who they are all in on anime and newer properties like Warhammer or Mortal Kombat

They like that but they also still like Star Wars, I've been to a lot of kids birthday parties and school events and Star Wars is still very much represented.

The just don't like new Star Wars, except for Baby Yoda, everyone loves baby Yoda.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 04:01 PM (XV/Pl)

174 171 The "Let's Save Jesus!" episode will be epic!
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 03:59 PM (Sco7b)
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Ugh. Now I'm imagining that Jesus was killed on the cross (for good) and the Doctor (regenerated) takes His place as the Risen Christ.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 04:01 PM (gnNyN)

======

"This is time locked, companion. That means we can't change it."

"But we changed all the other things."

"Shut up. What don't you know about me using the magical phrase time lock?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:01 PM (2t0WW)

175 I'm sorry nothing is gayer than the second season of Good Omens

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 28, 2026 04:02 PM (j+aD2)

176 Ncuti Gatwa

Sorry, I refuse to believe that is the name of a human being.

It isn't. It's the name of the new Ebola strain.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 04:02 PM (Riz8t)

177 The UK today could not ever pull off a Dunkirk.
Posted by: Diogenes

Can't manage a naval blockade.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 28, 2026 04:02 PM (1b3hX)

178 I'm sorry nothing is gayer than the second season of Good Omens

Is that the show with the gay angel that wants to bone some fallen angel?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 04:02 PM (sKqQm)

179 177 The UK today could not ever pull off a Dunkirk.
Posted by: Diogenes

Can't manage a naval blockade.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 28, 2026 04:02 PM (1b3hX)

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Russia just passed through the Channel unchallenged.

A civilian fleet would be an improvement.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:03 PM (2t0WW)

180 The UK today could not ever pull off a Dunkirk.

Modern UK would have sold its empire, and its Jews to National Socialist Germany

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 04:03 PM (sKqQm)

181 Is that the show with the gay angel that wants to bone some fallen angel?

it is!

and that's the first season which was gayer than the source material

but then the second season oh my word

btw they had a black lesbian paraplegic ANGEL in that one

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 28, 2026 04:03 PM (j+aD2)

182 It isn't. It's the name of the new Ebola strain.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Sounds catchy, hum a few bars.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 04:04 PM (y79kU)

183 One of those shows that I could have liked if it weren't so ridiculous. I watched a couple of the really old ones and found it decent.

It seems like perverts, really need to pervert everything they touch.

Posted by: Not P.C. at May 28, 2026 04:04 PM (anL5R)

184 That Jaguar commercial was -- and I'm not exaggerating in the slightest -- the stupidest, wokest pile of crap I have ever witnessed. And with what we've seen these last many years, that's saying something. If an embarrassing, steaming pile of Grade A horse manure were made into a commercial, it would be this one.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 28, 2026 04:04 PM (qBdHI)

185 I'll report my findings on SS to all you boob-obsessed leering perverts.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:57 PM

Don't forget about us.
Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot and Quentin T. at May 28, 2026 04:01 PM (KDcqc)
________

[Nodding in agreement]

-- Spinal Tap

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 04:04 PM (iFTx/)

186 The UK is so incredibly f*cked up at this point that it would be truly impressive if they don't crash and burn into full-on civil war, with 1984 levels of repression.

If labor does decide to dump Starmer, the front-runner is as bad...and maybe worse. So there is no end in sight until summer of 2029!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 04:04 PM (iERP6)

187 it is!

and that's the first season which was gayer than the source material

I saw some clips and the FX/acting are good but the writing is like gay fanfic from reddit.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 04:05 PM (sKqQm)

188 Ugh. Now I'm imagining that Jesus was killed on the cross (for good) and the Doctor (regenerated) takes His place as the Risen Christ.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 04:01 PM (gnNyN)

LOL. See epic...

Another reason I've liked horror movies is the lack of messaging in them. Those people typically have more pressing, immediate things to worry about.

And older kids shows. No gays. No blacks bitching. "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn" from 2014 is on now in the background. That was a cute funny show.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 04:05 PM (Sco7b)

189 I did not click on an AA link. My name is banana Dream and I am a recovering click every link addict.

Today I did not click on a link and was saved from whatever abject horror AA had planned for me. For yourself, your loved ones, any nearby forest creatures, always check the handle. You can do it. One unclicked URL at a time.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 04:05 PM (3uBP9)

190
Started making my tea with bottled water, it tastes much better. Bonus bottled water contains none of the hormones, bio-chemicals, and residual antibiotics that tap water does. Bonus!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 03:36 PM (y79kU)

The problem with tap water for fine culinary use like coffee is that most municipalities don't bother making the water potable by filtration, but by dumping a shitload of cheap chlorine into the water plant. It makes the water safe, but you can taste and smell the chlorine right out of the faucet, and it generally doesn't react well with food and especially with coffee.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 28, 2026 04:05 PM (y9nCu)

191 I'm sorry nothing is gayer than the second season of Good Omens
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 28, 2026 04:02 PM (j+aD2)
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I haven't seen Good Omens (though I've read the book).

It'll be tough to top the gayness in the second season of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency though.

It features a magic wand that shoots rainbow sparkles when it's waved around.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 04:05 PM (gnNyN)

192
Formerly Beloved British Series "Doctor Who" Is Now So Toxically Woke and Unpopular That No Actors Are Willing to Step Into the Role
Formerly Beloved British Car Brand Jaguar Loses 99.4% Of Its Profit Year-Over-Year

That's too bad. Hey, The Big Dummy was Best of Breed and Hound Group 3 at today's Mid-Del-Tinker KC show.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 04:05 PM (HdYcL)

193 Never drove a Jaguar but my short, painful ownership of an MGB as youth makes me distrust all British cars.

Maybe the Brits have figured out basis electrical principles since then.

Posted by: Ripley at May 28, 2026 04:05 PM (GUOwU)

194 I kinda love these lib AWFL’s who have turned their husbands into fems and obedient pussies. Oh yes, I know their husbands try to get their butch up by driving the Subaru to the gym,getting their lattes with an extra shot and maybe volunteering at the local homeless shelter while regaling all the old ladies with stories of their perceived manliness. But in the end they are a bunch of limp, pussified, wimpy spaghetti men unable to satisfy their wives.

Which is where I come in.

I hope his happens forever. Because it results in a lot of women in bars looking to meet a Mr Winkie who can stay stiff for more than five minutes. There is an endless supply of these women who tell their husbands they’re on a business trip. Meanwhile they’re with me taking various trips through the Kama Sutra and expounding, after riding me like a rodeo bull, how their husbands, who they don’t realize they turned into obedient wimps, would never ride them like a birthday pony, and then turn them over for another round of doggie style.

Keep them wimpy, AWFL’s, and I’ll keep you filled like a guy in the Dunkin’ Donuts factory.

Posted by: That Guy at May 28, 2026 04:06 PM (x/Rva)

195 Can't manage a naval blockade.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 28, 2026 04:02 PM (1b3hX)

They can't protect the Channel. The UK is functionally defenseless.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 04:06 PM (iERP6)

196 Yet another successful series/IP destroyed.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 28, 2026 04:06 PM (4KUe5)

197 195 Can't manage a naval blockade.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 28, 2026 04:02 PM (1b3hX)

They can't protect the Channel. The UK is functionally defenseless.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 04:06 PM (iERP6)

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Nobody expects the Spanish Armada!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:06 PM (2t0WW)

198 I don't think Jumanji would get the address right if she leaked it.

**********

Probably couldn't spell 9-1-1

Posted by: muldoon at May 28, 2026 04:06 PM (qgHp7)

199 Gayer than Liberace taking it up the rear from Jim Nabors while drinking Bud Light from the same glass.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 28, 2026 04:07 PM (IG3/x)

200 Lets take a look under the bonnet, shall we?
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
......

It may be the only way to determine their gender.

Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 04:07 PM (UjdFS)

201 200 Lets take a look under the bonnet, shall we?
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
......

It may be the only way to determine their gender.

Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 04:07 PM (UjdFS)

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"Ah ha...er.ha..er...haha."
-Jeff Goldblum, finding a way

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:07 PM (2t0WW)

202 There were some cool ideas in that season, but the over-the-top wokeness killed off any possibility for a third season.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 03:59 PM (gnNyN)
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The first season had an Adams-like precision.

The second season was some gay fairy tale. Totally un-Karl-Farbman-like.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 04:08 PM (Fi81e)

203
Can't manage a naval blockade.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 28, 2026 04:02 PM (1b3hX)

They can't protect the Channel. The UK is functionally defenseless.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 04:06 PM (iERP6)

"It takes three years to build a ship. It will take three hundred years to build a reputation." - Sir Andrew Cunningham

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 04:08 PM (HdYcL)

204
Ncuti Gatwa

Sorry, I refuse to believe that is the name of a human being.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 28, 2026 04:00 PM (IG3/x)

Believe it. It's one of those Cockney ghetto names.

It's pronounced "Colin Smythe"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 28, 2026 04:08 PM (y9nCu)

205 That's too bad. Hey, The Big Dummy was Best of Breed and Hound Group 3 at today's Mid-Del-Tinker KC show.

that's awesome! congrats!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 28, 2026 04:08 PM (j+aD2)

206 Posted by: That Guy at May 28, 2026 04:06 PM (x/Rva

Are you trying out a novel or this is another version of the man with many handles?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 04:08 PM (2sfNr)

207 Ncuti Gatwa

Sorry, I refuse to believe that is the name of a human being.

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Oh, come on!

Posted by: Wheel of Fortune Contestant at May 28, 2026 04:09 PM (yFLFB)

208
Never drove a Jaguar but my short, painful ownership of an MGB as youth makes me distrust all British cars.

"All parts falling off this car are of the finest British workmanship."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 04:09 PM (HdYcL)

209 Since this is a media thread...kinda-

Saw a big chunk of "Spider Noir" last night.

Meh.

I didn't hate it. But it's very mediocre.

Probably be better if Nicholas Cage was 20-30 years younger. The stunt Spider dude is clearly not him.

And like all streaming series it has a very leisurely pace so everyone at home watching their phones can keep up if they glance at "Spider Noir" every 10-15 minutes.

Eh, see it or don't. It's better than "The Boys" if that helps.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 28, 2026 04:09 PM (iJfKG)

210 BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was reportedly the target of a SWATTING attempt last night after a caller reported gunshots at her address.
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W.A.G. Tea Leaves ('cause I want to make up good news).

It's 'cause she is vote 5 on the birthright citizenship case.

Adios, MoFos

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 04:09 PM (73/SM)

211 They can't find someone in that world to take on the role because of internet trolls against the last two Doctors?

More likely because they know the show is still gonna be garbage. The chick Doctor they had before the gay black guy was actually a decent actress in other stuff, but the writing was too awful to save.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 04:09 PM (2ocoG)

212 Long thought with ever university turning into a Culture Marxists Seminaries, every graduate turning to major companies brought their Marxism with them.

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 04:09 PM (Ia/+0)

213 It features a magic wand that shoots rainbow sparkles when it's waved around.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 04:05 PM (gnNyN)
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And warriors who run with scissors.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 04:09 PM (Fi81e)

214 211 They can't find someone in that world to take on the role because of internet trolls against the last two Doctors?

More likely because they know the show is still gonna be garbage. The chick Doctor they had before the gay black guy was actually a decent actress in other stuff, but the writing was too awful to save.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 04:09 PM (2ocoG)

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They can find actors for all the other garbage BBC shows.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:09 PM (2t0WW)

215 In other military news, Canada apparently ordered surveillance planes from some company not the US.

The most advanced, complex, astounding military capabilities and design elements are that it's not US, 'hurts' Trump and 'sends a message' I guess.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 04:10 PM (Sco7b)

216 > Probably couldn't spell 9-1-1
Posted by: muldoon at May 28, 2026 04:06 PM (qgHp7)

Hey, Sonia! How do you make a capital 9? By the way, "capital" is the same thing as "cursive", right?

Posted by: Ketanji Brown Jackson at May 28, 2026 04:10 PM (IG3/x)

217 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 28, 2026 04:00 PM (IG3/x)

apparently he's a Rwandan- Canadian actor. I can understand wanting to escape Rwanda.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 04:10 PM (2sfNr)

218 Costello: I'm askin' you, who's the Doctor?
Abbott: That's it!
Costello: Well go ahead and tell me!
Abbott: Who!
Costello: The guy playing the Doctor.
Abbott: That's his name
Costello: That's whose name?
Abbott: Yes
Costello: Well go ahead and tell me
Abbott: That's the man's name!
Costello: That's whose name?
Abbott: Yeah!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 28, 2026 04:11 PM (wVcYX)

219 >> Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 04:08 PM (2sfNr)

It’s my biopic.

Posted by: That Guy at May 28, 2026 04:12 PM (x/Rva)

220 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 04:08 PM (2sfNr)

Is there a reason you obsessively police comments and accuse people of trolling?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 04:12 PM (iERP6)

221 apparently he's a Rwandan- Canadian actor. I can understand wanting to escape Rwanda.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 04:10 PM (2sfNr)

I can understand wanting to escape Canada.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 04:12 PM (Sco7b)

222 36 There was an Adam's Dirk Gently BBC show that wasn't bad to start off with. I rather enjoyed it. But they had to gay it up. Full on, like in the 40's looney toons that suddenly had japs and krauts in it for war-time propaganda, that bad and out of place. It's too bad.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 03:34 PM (3uBP9)

Yeah. Could have been good.
They fucked that one up.

Posted by: Reforger at May 28, 2026 04:12 PM (Rxz7v)

223 > "All parts falling off this car are of the finest British workmanship."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 04:09 PM (HdYcL)

Thomas Edison developed DC power.
Nicola Tesla developed AC power.
Joseph Lucas developed the short circuit.

Posted by: Ketanji Brown Jackson at May 28, 2026 04:12 PM (IG3/x)

224 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 04:12 PM (iERP6)

Just to annoy you🙂

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 04:13 PM (2sfNr)

225 In other military news, Canada apparently ordered surveillance planes from some company not the US.

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Who are they surveilling? White people who are depressed so they can be referred to MAID?

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 28, 2026 04:13 PM (qBdHI)

226 Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor had a few good Christmas Specials.

I remember one on a planet with flying great white sharks that randomly attacked people.

Then the first Special with Clara Osborne had the haunted pond that turned into a frozen ghost that was pretty cool.

They still had some imaginative episodes not too long ago (15 years).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 28, 2026 04:13 PM (6ydKt)

227 Good news "bloodbath" at CBS and 60Minutes. False advertisement though, no real blood

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2026 04:13 PM (zaxlN)

228 My hunter in high school was named Tardis. Big, bay thoroughbred when hunters were TB, before warmbloods became the thing.

Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 04:13 PM (9AdGW)

229 I can’t even have a little fun without being school momed.

I bet CBD laughed.

Posted by: That Guy at May 28, 2026 04:14 PM (x/Rva)

230 I can understand wanting to escape Canada.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 04:12 PM (Sco7b)

This. Under Kagame, Rwanda is positively First World these days.

Posted by: just don't mention the war at May 28, 2026 04:14 PM (gKWVE)

231 Why do the limeys drink their beer warm?
Because Lucas also makes refrigerators.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 28, 2026 04:14 PM (IG3/x)

232 Never drove a Jaguar but my short, painful ownership of an MGB as youth makes me distrust all British cars.

Maybe the Brits have figured out basis electrical principles since then.
Posted by: Ripley at May 28, 2026 04:05 PM (GUOwU)
_____

Spoiler Alert: They have not. The only "british" cars that aren't unreliable piles of dung are made by Germans. Today's Mini Cooper is a BMW. Aston Martin gets all its drivetrains from Mercedes.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 04:14 PM (iFTx/)

233 TARDIS?

How about RETARDIS!

Posted by: Weasel at May 28, 2026 04:15 PM (Fo5SD)

234 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 04:12 PM (iERP6)

But it was a dumb post anyway and everybody here knows when it's the man with many handles.
That might just have been a silly post anyway however.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 04:15 PM (2sfNr)

235 229 I can’t even have a little fun without being school momed.

dude that sounded like all the couples in Southern Chester County

totally believable

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 28, 2026 04:15 PM (j+aD2)

236 The only line they ever needed and f'ed that up:

For men who’d like hand-jobs from beautiful women they hardly know.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 03:27 PM (3uBP9)

At the price of a jaguar, I would be expecting a lot more than a handjob.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2026 04:16 PM (8zz6B)

237 Ncuti Gatwa

Sorry, I refuse to believe that is the name of a human being.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 28, 2026 04:00 PM (IG3/x)

Believe it. It's one of those Cockney ghetto names.

It's pronounced "Colin Smythe"
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The one that to this day makes no sense to me is "Nguyen". That's GOT to pronounced "Nuh-guy-yen", right? Right?

Posted by: Crusader at May 28, 2026 04:16 PM (TN0g+)

238
This is funny.

We were watching "One Upon a Time in Hollywood" the other night.

And the lovely and observant Mrs naturalfake said,

"The guy who made this must really have a thing for women's feet. Almost all the women show their dirty, bare feet."

I laughed and told her that Tarantino was known for that.

And once she mentioned it, I couldn't help seeing it all through the flick. Almost like QT was paid to advertise feet like Coca Cola.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 28, 2026 04:16 PM (iJfKG)

239 Joseph Lucas invented the three-position switch: Dim, Flicker, and Off.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 28, 2026 04:16 PM (IG3/x)

240 I think the problem is the BBC and the producers can’t figure out how to walk back the woke.

They don’t want to hire a white, straight, male, English, actor for the role, but they know they have to in order to have a chance at saving the show they killed with all the woke.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 28, 2026 04:16 PM (6ydKt)

241 Just to annoy you🙂

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 04:13 PM (2sfNr)

Cute.

Stop behaving like a moderator, and do what most people do, and ignore the trolls or the people whose comments they don't find interesting.

It is not your place to be the arbiter of commentary at AoSHQ.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 04:16 PM (iERP6)

242 Remember when BMW was a decent brand that made it good driving reliable car. German engineering- the whole thing. Then they tried to turn it into any every man car, and the welfare queens all started driving one.

Posted by: That Guy at May 28, 2026 04:16 PM (x/Rva)

243 Why do the limeys drink their beer warm?
.......

Cold ones make their teeth ache.

Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 04:17 PM (UjdFS)

244 233 TARDIS?

How about RETARDIS!
Posted by: Weasel at May 28, 2026 04:15 PM (Fo5SD)

Then he would have been a warmblood. 😂

Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 04:17 PM (9AdGW)

245 In other military news, Canada apparently ordered surveillance planes from some company not the US.
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I guess that's one way to say "China proxy"

Elbows up!, you iceback hosers, Xi needs you to die.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 04:17 PM (73/SM)

246 > The one that to this day makes no sense to me is "Nguyen". That's GOT to pronounced "Nuh-guy-yen", right? Right?
Posted by: Crusader at May 28, 2026 04:16 PM (TN0g+)

Years ago I had a second-generation Vietnamese dude as a customer. At some point his family just gave up and changed their name to "Nugent".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 28, 2026 04:17 PM (IG3/x)

247 It's similar to what doomed Doctor Who -- a bunch of gays and women in the marketing department decided that Men Should Not Have Things Men Like and remade the dependable old British brands into Stuff for Gurlz Gays and Gender-Fluids.
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That explains all of it.

We're not going to like it--but we're damn sure filthy hetero men aren't going to have anything to like!

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 04:17 PM (Fi81e)

248
I can understand wanting to escape Canada.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 04:12 PM (Sco7b)

Canadians and American would slag each other, but it was like fans of sports teams busting each others balls. Now, I'm afraid, Canada is becoming a worrisomely sick country, among MAID, an authoritarian Liberal government and fissiparous tendencies. It's sad and no one here wants to see it continue.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 04:17 PM (HdYcL)

249 This woke stuff stops the second some big studio drops a parody film tearing wokism into pieces. Eventually, they'll do it because they can't help themselves. Finances always win in the end:

Scarey Movie Franchise (parody)
Not Another Teen Movie (parody)
Tropic Thunder (parody)
Naked Gun (parody)
Blazing Saddles (parody)

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 04:17 PM (dIske)

250 I think the problem is the BBC and the producers can’t figure out how to walk back the woke.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 28, 2026 04:16 PM (6ydKt)

Oh, I think you are giving them far too much credit for higher-order thinking. These are mindless woke drones!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 04:18 PM (iERP6)

251 Trans furry in a wheelchair will be the next Doctor.

One season a cat, next a raccoon, followed by a stoat.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2026 03:28 PM (3hJhH)

The Festivus Special will involve slaying a golden haired American President to restore the Glorious Homosexual Empire.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 28, 2026 04:18 PM (ExV1e)

252 Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson: Made a headline-grabbing debut at the 2026 Met Gala wearing a custom Thom Browne black mohair tailcoat with a matching pleated kilt/skirt, citing his Polynesian heritage and lavalava traditions.

Colman Domingo wore a custom Harlequin-inspired Valentino look to the 2026 Met Gala. Very jester/joker like.

They're the big make stars, applauded for their great sense of style.

Its neither cute nor brave anymore.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 28, 2026 04:18 PM (NFX2v)

253 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 04:16 PM (iERP6)

Okay Doke.

I'm glad nobody else ever answers trolls

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 04:18 PM (2sfNr)

254 The only line they ever needed and f'ed that up:

For men who’d like hand-jobs from beautiful women they hardly know.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 03:27 PM (3uBP9)

At the price of a jaguar, I would be expecting a lot more than a handjob.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2026 04:16 PM (8zz6B)
______

[Laughing hysterically]

-- Rolls Royce

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 04:18 PM (iFTx/)

255 I would play Doctor What?!!!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2026 04:19 PM (n5tGW)

256 Who knew that the Chinese were in competition for the felching auto buyer market?

Posted by: Minuteman at May 28, 2026 04:19 PM (47/pr)

257
Scarey Movie Franchise (parody)
Not Another Teen Movie (parody)
Tropic Thunder (parody)
Naked Gun (parody)
Blazing Saddles (parody)

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 04:17 PM (dIske)

Airplane! (parody)

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 04:19 PM (HdYcL)

258 I wish we had hardcore ideologues like that on our side.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:44 PM (iFTx/)

Ken Paxton.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 04:19 PM (QDJ2U)

259 Trump's $8.9 billion dollar investment in INTEL
is now worth $51 billion dollars.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 04:20 PM (y79kU)

260 240 I think the problem is the BBC and the producers can’t figure out how to walk back the woke.

They don’t want to hire a white, straight, male, English, actor for the role, but they know they have to in order to have a chance at saving the show they killed with all the woke.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 28, 2026 04:16 PM (6ydKt)

I've often thought the 'best' thing we could do for Hollywood, the BBC, CBC, etc is to start a website movement.

1. We're going to refuse to watch any shows with any woke crap.

2. We won't watch new movies or shows until they are fully complete to avoid the habit of inserting woke late. When a show is done and completely free of woke, it's on the watchlist.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 04:20 PM (Sco7b)

261 Gayer than Liberace taking it up the rear from Jim Nabors while drinking Bud Light from the same glass.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 28, 2026 04:07 PM (IG3/x)

Tsk, tsk. Liberace and Jim Nabors were talented men who were gay. Stick with Obama, Big Mike, Timmy Walz and Butgigger when making jokes like that.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 04:20 PM (1Ff7Z)

262 The one that to this day makes no sense to me is "Nguyen". That's GOT to pronounced "Nuh-guy-yen", right? Right?

Posted by: Crusader at May 28, 2026 04:16 PM (TN0g+)

Thread winner!

[Get it?]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 04:20 PM (iERP6)

263 >>> This woke stuff stops the second some big studio drops a parody film tearing wokism into pieces. Eventually, they'll do it because they can't help themselves. Finances always win in the end:

Scarey Movie Franchise (parody)
Not Another Teen Movie (parody)
Tropic Thunder (parody)
Naked Gun (parody)
Blazing Saddles (parody)

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 04:17 PM (dIske)

Well there was already PCU

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 04:20 PM (3uBP9)

264
That's "pedo-protecting BBC" by the way.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 04:20 PM (HdYcL)

265 I knew a guy named Ngyuen. He made sure we pronounced it New-Yen, but he knew other families who pronounced it When, or n-when (a barely pronounced n.)

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 28, 2026 04:21 PM (0aYVJ)

266 We watched the renewed Dr Who from Eccleston and Rose right on through where Peter Capaldi was reborn as a female. I'd pretty much lost hope for the series before that, especially after the moon turned out to be a giant dragon's egg. (An episode to call a dream, if there ever was one.)

As I recall the final Capaldi episode ended with the gal falling out of the flying Tardis. Good, I thought. I can presume the Doctor is dead. And he/she was to me after that.

If they could retro-de-canonize the last two doctors, maybe I'd take another look. Maybe. If they fired all the folks who ruined it.

Posted by: mindful webworker - time and relatives dimensioned and spacey at May 28, 2026 04:22 PM (kU8xu)

267 Oh, I think you are giving them far too much credit for higher-order thinking. These are mindless woke drones!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 04:18 PM (iERP6)

If they fired Russell T. Davies, the current homo showrunner, and hired Steven Moffat back to run Doctor Who, they might be able to do something with it.

The current crew has run it into the ground.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 28, 2026 04:22 PM (6ydKt)

268 I think Jaguar is only making one electric SUV right now and it’s pathetic. Nothing else. As was noted upthread, Land Rover goes on, but Jaguar is already dead.
I’m sure the name will persist as a specialty nameplate from time to time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 04:22 PM (QDJ2U)

269 Ken Paxton.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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It is possible that Paxton will bring uncomfortableness to the Thune posse.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 04:22 PM (y79kU)

270 Yeah. Could have been good.
They fucked that one up.

Posted by: Reforger at May 28, 2026 04:12 PM (Rxz7v)
---
My wife and I still call the doctor lady from The Pitt "Bart" often enough.

And we make "Bart jokes".

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 04:23 PM (Fi81e)

271 If Lucas made guns, wars would never start.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 28, 2026 04:23 PM (IG3/x)

272 267 If they fired Russell T. Davies, the current homo showrunner, and hired Steven Moffat back to run Doctor Who, they might be able to do something with it.

The current crew has run it into the ground.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 28, 2026 04:22 PM (6ydKt)

======

Moffat was very obviously tired and out of ideas more than a season before he stopped.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:23 PM (2t0WW)

273 Everybody stop with the Fen-denigration, please. It’s her shtick, and it’s endearing. Like my boob thing.

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

274 FenelonSpoke called me a johnny-come-lately troll back when I was ranting about Trump's ad hoc, post hoc, hickory dickory dock litigation strategy in 2020.

LOL

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 04:23 PM (73/SM)

275 The current crew has run it into the ground.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 28, 2026 04:22 PM (6ydKt)

And I'll bet you 50 quid that they think their versions have been the best ever, and that it is failing because of you horrible troglodytes who are stuck in the 1950s.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 04:23 PM (iERP6)

276 I think at some point about 60% of Vietnam adopted the Nguyen name.

Posted by: Reforger at May 28, 2026 04:24 PM (Rxz7v)

277
Everybody stop with the Fen-denigration, please.

Fenigration?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 04:24 PM (HdYcL)

278 So glad I don't own a television anymore.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 28, 2026 04:24 PM (2Ez/1)

279 275
And I'll bet you 50 quid that they think their versions have been the best ever, and that it is failing because of you horrible troglodytes who are stuck in the 1950s.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 04:23 PM (iERP6)

=======

"All I know is that I am gay!"
-Russel The Davies

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:24 PM (2t0WW)

280 England is a fag country.

Posted by: Archie Bunker, 1972 at May 28, 2026 04:25 PM (ZR74N)

281 Stop behaving like a moderator, and do what most people do, and ignore the trolls or the people whose comments they don't find interesting.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

**********

Hey. That gives me an Idea. Maybe Pixy Misa could format the comments so that the Posted by: line precedes the comment...

That could improve my scrolling speed by a good 20%

Posted by: muldoon at May 28, 2026 04:25 PM (qgHp7)

282 260 240 I think the problem is the BBC and the producers can’t figure out how to walk back the woke.
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Difficult when you are a woke faggot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 04:25 PM (y79kU)

283 I think at some point about 60% of Vietnam adopted the Nguyen name.
Posted by: Reforger at May 28, 2026 04:24 PM (Rxz7v)
----
It's great for anonymity!

Posted by: Mohammed M. Muhammad at May 28, 2026 04:25 PM (gnNyN)

284 Everybody stop with the Fen-denigration, please.

Fenigration?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 04:24 PM (HdYcL)
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Defenestration?

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 04:25 PM (Fi81e)

285 My wife and I still call the doctor lady from The Pitt "Bart" often enough.

And we make "Bart jokes".
Posted by: Axeman

That's a great show.

I was born at that hospital.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 28, 2026 04:25 PM (1b3hX)

286 Well there was already PCU
Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 04:20 PM (3uBP9)
________________________

I had to look that up.

I don't remember it. In today's climate, so many people are sick of this nonsense, that they'd go see a parody on wokism just to vent. It would be extremely successful, if for no other reason than the comraderie amoung viewers holding that same opinion. Add, in a clevely written and funny script and you got a guaranteed winner.

I suggest this for the title: "The Bearded Lady"

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 04:26 PM (dIske)

287 273. Like my boob thing.
Posted by: Bulg

You think? 🤨
(Tia Lola)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 28, 2026 04:26 PM (NFX2v)

288 Marketing notwithstanding, the Land Rover brand is a gigantic steaming pile on the quality front.

Posted by: Halfhand at May 28, 2026 04:26 PM (UdslP)

289 > 283 I think at some point about 60% of Vietnam adopted the Nguyen name.
Posted by: Reforger at May 28, 2026 04:24 PM (Rxz7v)
----
It's great for anonymity!
Posted by: Mohammed M. Muhammad at May 28, 2026 04:25 PM (gnNyN)

Amateurs.

Posted by: Koreans named Kim at May 28, 2026 04:26 PM (IG3/x)

290 Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ

Thanks. It's not my shtick. It's just me. There are lots of people here. Some like me. Some loathe me. Some don't give a dam. That's life.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 04:26 PM (2sfNr)

291 >>> My wife and I still call the doctor lady from The Pitt "Bart" often enough.

And we make "Bart jokes".
Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 04:23 PM (Fi81e)

I loved Bart! Great character. Lots of really unique, interesting ideas and people in that show, that they gathered into a pile, dowsed with gasoline, and then incinerated while throwing glitter into the air.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 04:27 PM (3uBP9)

292 There was a space game by some Brits, I think, who had the villains as the Nue-Guyen. [looking it up] "Far Gate" (2001).
Maybe Brits found that scary but as an American, sort of, I'd already met too many Nguyens.
Although I'm told Brits find jarring when American books float "Kevin" as a main character name. It's considered plebian over there.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 04:27 PM (gKWVE)

293 I'm surprised the BBC hasn't made it Doctor MoWhomed at this point.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2026 04:27 PM (n5tGW)

294 So glad I don't own a television anymore.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
......

You're missing out on all the fat people dancing around singing about their pills.

Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 04:27 PM (UjdFS)

295 281 That’s a great idea, Muldoon. Perhaps you could present it to Pixie in the form of a limerick.

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 04:27 PM (77rzZ)

296 Marketing notwithstanding, the Land Rover brand is a gigantic steaming pile on the quality front.
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Yes, but they look so *sharp* sitting in the repair shop.

Posted by: Crusader at May 28, 2026 04:27 PM (TN0g+)

297 >>>Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country.

Politicians are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country.

Always has been.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 28, 2026 04:27 PM (DXLMf)

298 My cousin had a beautiful Jag XKE. Drove it to his ranch one weekend and his favorite horse left long scraping teeth marks on the hood and roof.

He sent his horse home with me.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 28, 2026 04:28 PM (5P5DO)

299 Comment I saw in last thread -

I hate to say it, but I strongly suggest staying on the NY side. Canada uses the area surrounding Niagra Falls for refugee housing.....

(me) I took my family to visit Canada for my eldest's HS graduation (we gave him a choice, party or trip). We walked from the hotel for about a mile on empty streets at about 1am to see the falls at night. This was six years ago. I assume if I did that now, we would likely experience the stabby version of cultural enrichment. Damn.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 28, 2026 04:29 PM (pcKwl)

300 So glad I don't own a television anymore.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
......

You're missing out on all the fat people dancing around singing about their pills.
------

I swear, there must be an abundance of former Broadway dancers who gained a lot of weight that can still dance! Some of those terrible commercials have some really good dancing.

Posted by: Crusader at May 28, 2026 04:29 PM (TN0g+)

301 There once was a Land Rover that didn't leak oil.

The factory recalled it and worked on it until it did.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 28, 2026 04:29 PM (IG3/x)

302 Marketing notwithstanding, the Land Rover brand is a gigantic steaming pile on the quality front.
Posted by: Halfhand at May 28, 2026 04:26 PM (UdslP)

True.

Yet weirdly I'm seeing a lot more on the road lately.

A replacement fad for EVs?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 28, 2026 04:29 PM (iJfKG)

303 It is possible that Paxton will bring uncomfortableness to the Thune posse.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 04:22 PM (y79kU)
_____________________________

I think Paxton has the potential to bring uncomfortableness to the out of their minds Judges. He's a prime candidate to sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Paxton isn't the type to suffer fools and status quo on an out of control Judiciary.

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 04:29 PM (dIske)

304 the Land Rover brand is a gigantic steaming pile on the quality front.

Posted by: Halfhand at May 28, 2026 04:26 PM (UdslP)

Which is sad, because they look great! I love the design, especially of the full-size one.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 04:29 PM (iERP6)

305 Defenestration?
Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 04:25 PM (Fi81e)

And miss our window of opportunity?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 04:29 PM (1Ff7Z)

306
Defenestration?
Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 04:25 PM (Fi81e)

And miss our window of opportunity?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2026 04:29 PM (1Ff7Z)

The pane of window puns.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 04:30 PM (HdYcL)

307 Love to see a Cromwell in England today. Probably take one look around and say "eff this"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2026 04:31 PM (zaxlN)

308

nood

shouting

musslemen

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 04:31 PM (3uBP9)

309 Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 04:20 PM (Sco7b)

Hollywood needs to fire a lot of people and start over. The L.A./London bubble prevents any of them from doing anything anti-woke, because their jobs depend on it.

There are so many creative associations and unions with so many woke rules embedded in the system, nothing short of bankruptcy will wake these people up to reality at this point.

Take Nolan’s Odyssey movie for instance.
Same shit, different year.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 28, 2026 04:31 PM (6ydKt)

310 Polly Wants a Cracker (parrot-y)

Posted by: muldoon at May 28, 2026 04:31 PM (qgHp7)

311 Character named Kevin is usually a faggot or dies in the first third of the movie.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 04:31 PM (y79kU)

312 290 Fen, I am definitely in the “like you” camp.

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 04:32 PM (77rzZ)

313 Show went downhill with the second Romana.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 28, 2026 04:33 PM (wGerL)

314 Nobody tell him that most bottled water is just filtered municipal water with some calcium and magnesium compounds added.

Though I will admit that filtering it does make the tea taste better.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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Filtering, reverse osmosis, filters out the hormones, antibiotics and other man made chemicals.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 04:34 PM (y79kU)

315 Moffat was very obviously tired and out of ideas more than a season before he stopped.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 04:23 PM (2t0WW)

A little R&R can do wonders for writers block.

Yeah, I doubt he’d go back anyhow.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 28, 2026 04:35 PM (6ydKt)

316 Well there was already PCU

PCU was great. It re-framed "Afternoon Delight" really well too.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 04:36 PM (2ocoG)

317 I agree with Hadrian.

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 04:36 PM (Ia/+0)

318 The problem with tap water for fine culinary use like coffee is that most municipalities don't bother making the water potable by filtration, but by dumping a shitload of cheap chlorine into the water plant. It makes the water safe, but you can taste and smell the chlorine right out of the faucet, and it generally doesn't react well with food and especially with coffee.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 28, 2026

One of my consulting jobs was at a silicon wafer plant. During the tour, the water quality guy went on a tirade about the quality of the local municipal water and how it was crap and how much more purification the plant had to do.

We had already switched to bottled spring water by then but it was nice to have it confirmed.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 28, 2026 04:39 PM (IYeV+)

319 Old-school chlorine would evaporate from water after a couple of days. These days, water utilities use chloramine, which doesn't.

That's why you have to treat water if you're going to use it in an aquarium.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 28, 2026 04:41 PM (IG3/x)

320 Doctor Who is, and always has been, super duper gay.

Posted by: Jim at May 28, 2026 04:43 PM (3ALkK)

321 He sent his horse home with me.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 28, 2026 04:28 PM (5P5DO)

Better than the glue factory.

Posted by: Reforger at May 28, 2026 04:43 PM (Rxz7v)

322 "The Doctor Who Christmas special could be exterminated as the BBC is allegedly unable to find a new lead star."

Maybe that stabby guy in Switzerland might be willing.

Posted by: Green Shades at May 28, 2026 05:10 PM (WukWc)

323 This isn't the diss you think it is. The fact Jaguar made a profit at all, rather than bled billions of quid, is amazing.

Posted by: Tommy Shanks at May 28, 2026 08:09 PM (KDpmu)

324 It's worth noting that the first time Doctor Who was cancelled it was because they went all in on anti Thatcher business.

history repeats itself

Posted by: DaTechguy at May 29, 2026 06:52 AM (ibeAP)

Fidel Castro's Daughter Doesn't Deny That Blackface-Wearing Gay Canadian Justin Trudeau Might Be Her Bastard Half-Brother

He looks like Castro, and he's a stone-cold authoritarian communist bitch. Almost as if he was trying to impress the man he knew to be his father.

His mother was said to be enamored of Fidel Castro and would visit the country a lot. Whether her cuck husband Pierre Trudeau approved or objected impotently, we don't know.

Apparently this rumor has been "debunked." Allegedly Trudeau's mother did not meet Fidel Castro until 1976 -- allegedly -- and Castreau was born in 1971.

So this could just be a bunch of hooey.

But Castro's own daughter seems to accept the possibility of the "conspiracy theory" being true.

Alina Fernandez, the exiled daughter of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, was pressed on Tuesday night over claims that former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is her "half brother," and did little to put the long-running conspiracy theory to rest.
The claim, mentioned by President Donald Trump in his 2024 Save America book and pushed by online believers, alleges that Castro is Trudeau's real father, not Pierre Trudeau.
...
"For years we've heard rumors that Justin Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada , could be your half brother. What do you think about it?" she said.
Fernandez smiled and apparently unwilling to give up any family lore, she replied: "The only thing I can say is that his mother used to visit the country very often."
"Well that may be a tell then," the host followed. "I guess that's a half answer."
"Yes," her guest responded.
"Do you plan to call him and maybe find out?" Pavlich pressed.
"No, no," Fernandez said. "If he wants he's welcome but I won't, I won't. I think he keeps that to himself and you have to respect that."

Fidel Castro�s daughter Alina Fern�ndez addresses the rumors that Justin Trudeau is her half brother.

The strangest part of her recent interview with @KatiePavlich is that Fern�ndez did not outwardly deny the story.

PAVLICH: �For years, we�ve heard rumors that Justin Trudeau,� pic.twitter.com/JNdkuanwZp
— Overton (@overton_news) May 28, 2026

Just a dinky little nothing post. Apologies.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:35 PM

Comments

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1 THE BLADE IS VERY FIRSTY

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 02:35 PM (iFTx/)

2 My understanding of the state of the claim is:

Her recorded trips to Cuba don't match up with Justin's conception.

But...its not like all of her travel was public knowledge either.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 02:37 PM (sKqQm)

3 A dinky little post for a dinky little man.

Posted by: pookysgirl approves at May 28, 2026 02:38 PM (Wt5PA)

4 Corrected link for "America magazine" and "The Bible does not justify abortion . From last thread:

https://tinyurl.com/mr2jt7jr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 02:39 PM (8Cor4)

5 Is being a communist genetic?

Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 02:39 PM (Wmg4n)

6 So?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 28, 2026 02:39 PM (YlWIZ)

7 Whatever you fed me gave me diarrhea.

Posted by: The Crow at May 28, 2026 02:40 PM (wn0/z)

8 Here's a crazy idea....

Genetic testing of Fidel's remains with Justin Trudeau.

Unless Fidel was cremated to avoid just such a possibility...

Surely someone still has a few strands of Castro's beard locked away as a good-luck charm, though...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 02:41 PM (gnNyN)

9 His mom was a hard to contain whore. Like JEF's mom. There could be any number of fathers. But Castro is the likely one.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 02:41 PM (3uBP9)

10 Justin Castrateau

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:41 PM (Fi81e)

11 THE BLADE IS VERY FIRSTY

This sounds like what the bad guy says in an AI written anime right before fighting the hero.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 02:41 PM (sKqQm)

12 If Fidel didn't violate her with a cigar I don't want to hear about it
Bill Clinton

Posted by: steevy at May 28, 2026 02:41 PM (YwEeS)

13 8 Here's a crazy idea....

Genetic testing of Fidel's remains with Justin Trudeau.

Unless Fidel was cremated to avoid just such a possibility...

Surely someone still has a few strands of Castro's beard locked away as a good-luck charm, though...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 02:41 PM (gnNyN)

=======

There's only one way to be sure.

Comparing their ashes when we burn both of their bodies.

I mean...they'll both be ashes, all the DNA will be destroyed, but we'll also be rid of Trudeau as a going concern.

So I'm not really seeing the downside.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:41 PM (2t0WW)

14
My understanding of the state of the claim is:

Her recorded trips to Cuba don't match up with Justin's conception.

Posted by: 18-1

===============

I've also read that the timing doesn't match up.

But it'd be interesting if Justin needed a kidney donor and he and some Cuban somehow wound up in the same hospital at the same time.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 02:42 PM (n7rxJ)

15 Unless Fidel was cremated to avoid just such a possibility...
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Raul is still around. DNA would show possible relationship.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 28, 2026 02:42 PM (TZz9Q)

16 Trudeau looks way more like Castro than Pierre. The shitbag globalist fuckface liberal institution constantly lie and cover up for eachother. I'm like 85% certain he actually is Castro's son.

Posted by: fb at May 28, 2026 02:42 PM (JVEmw)

17 "Allegedly Trudeau's mother did not meet Fidel Castro until 1976 -- allegedly -- and Castreau was born in 1971."

What does "did not meet" mean? Was she in Cuba before 1971 and supposedly didn't meet Fidel until a subsequent trip in 1976? Or was she not in Cuba at all until 1976?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 02:42 PM (iFTx/)

18 Trudeau , Newsome, and Talarico all appear to be cut from the same cloth don't they?

Though the first two are mostly straight and Talarico wouldn't touch the girls he has locked in his basement...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 02:42 PM (sKqQm)

19 15 Raul is still around. DNA would show possible relationship.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 28, 2026 02:42 PM (TZz9Q)

=======

Raul is so around the US put out an arrest warrant on him for murder at 95 years old.

Happened in the last couple of weeks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:43 PM (2t0WW)

20 Not a surprise that his mother would be a loose woman.

Lots of weak women give their bodies to their idols.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 28, 2026 02:43 PM (N1tpc)

21 What are they? Royalty? Look what keeping the bloodline pure has done to the Hapbsburgs, the imams. So maybe fornication and adultery is some kind of scientific virtue. Castro's coffin fell off the jeep. Was that so bad, haters?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 28, 2026 02:43 PM (YlWIZ)

22 Macron's wife is still more of a man than Trudeau

Posted by: 496 at May 28, 2026 02:43 PM (sOtuf)

23 Here's a crazy idea....

Genetic testing of Fidel's remains with Justin Trudeau.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 02:41 PM (gnNyN)
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Nope. That's too resolve-y.

It would demonstrate a certain amount of rigor: therefore, racist.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:44 PM (Fi81e)

24 > I think he keeps that to himself and you have to respect that

No. I don't think I will.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:44 PM (mkw2N)

25 >> Allegedly Trudeau's mother did not meet Fidel Castro until 1976 -- allegedly -- and Castreau was born in 1971."

No, but she allegedly met his dick some time before that.

Posted by: The Crow at May 28, 2026 02:44 PM (wn0/z)

26 "dink dink dink dink dink"

Posted by: The Dinks from Spaceballs at May 28, 2026 02:45 PM (cWLG3)

27 Lots of weak women give their bodies to their idols.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 28, 2026 02:43 PM (N1tpc)
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When you are a star....

Posted by: As Somebody Said at May 28, 2026 02:45 PM (Fi81e)

28 Fidel was cremated. The jeep still couldn't bear his awesome legacy. Also it was Russian and subjected to Cuban Army maintenance, but still . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 02:46 PM (rbvCR)

29 It may very well be that the story that this effete faggot's mother was a Fidel commie whore is just myth or wishcasting. But whether I believe it or not does not hinge even remotely on any bullshit timeline of when the whore allegedly met Fidel.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 02:46 PM (iFTx/)

30 > What does "did not meet" mean? Was she in Cuba before 1971 and supposedly didn't meet Fidel until a subsequent trip in 1976? Or was she not in Cuba at all until 1976?

The Trudeaus went on a well-documented, official visit to Cuba in 1976. Supposedly that was Margaret's first visit to Cuba. There's no documentation of a previous visit. HOWEVER, that doesn't mean she couldn't have possibly visited before then.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:46 PM (mkw2N)

31 Who cares? Does he owe you money?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 28, 2026 02:46 PM (YlWIZ)

32 also, because I think it is important

Oh, hay

Per some rando on Twitter:

Russ Vought at OMB has just overhauled $1 TRILLION in federal grants by adding: Strict E-Verify requirements, English-language rules, and political appointee oversight to ensure taxpayer dollars go to American citizens first.

Vought’s new proposal replaces automatic payouts with “pay for performance” standards. Grants can now be terminated for waste, fraud, underperformance, or pushing anti-American priorities like DEI, gender ideology, or Green New Scam programs

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 02:47 PM (rbvCR)

33 20 Not a surprise that his mother would be a loose woman.

Lots of weak women give their bodies to their idols.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 28, 2026 02:43 PM (N1tpc)
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I had surmised that anyone who looks like Mick Jagger would have to be one of his bastard sons.

Posted by: The Dinks from Spaceballs at May 28, 2026 02:48 PM (cWLG3)

34 Did y'all see Rubio announced we have deportation agreements with 20 countries? So if you're an illegal from El Salvador, you have the choice to go back home, or get deported by the US to Haiti or some other crap-hole. Given that choice, many will elect to go home.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:48 PM (mkw2N)

35 /sock off

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 28, 2026 02:48 PM (cWLG3)

36 Using advanced AI eyebrow-matching technology, I conclude they are related.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper, now with moar AI at May 28, 2026 02:48 PM (0256r)

37 Maybe we can bring charges against Trudeau for his pappy's war crimes, genocide and mass murder.

Worth a shot.

Posted by: The Hague at May 28, 2026 02:48 PM (ZR74N)

38 So if you're an illegal from El Salvador, you have the choice to go back home, or get deported by the US to Haiti or some other crap-hole. Given that choice, many will elect to go home.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:48 PM (mkw2N)
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Better not have any face tattoos.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 28, 2026 02:49 PM (TZz9Q)

39 Canadians loved to vacation in commie Cuba.

Posted by: steevy at May 28, 2026 02:49 PM (YwEeS)

40 Whatever. His mom was a total gutterslut and his dad's a floppy dicked cuck. He's a total fag. Nothing can change those FACTS.

Who knows who the dad is? It could even be Pierre, against all the odds. But I'd put good money that another stallion was kicking in his stable, while he watched through through the slats.

More importantly, who cares if some greasy Cuban sired the faggot son of a clapped out whore? Just shove him into a shallow grave with the other commies and let him figure out who daddy is in Hell.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 28, 2026 02:50 PM (flbGo)

41 I looked up pictures of his younger brothers Alexandre and Michel. Not too dissimilar, but not quite the spitting image of Castro. Of course, maybe Margaret kept visiting the island.

Posted by: t-bird at May 28, 2026 02:50 PM (T7fic)

42 Is being a communist genetic?
Posted by: Piper

Probably. You could argue nature vs. nurture.
People are willing to / have to accept that physical characteristics are significantly affected by genetic factors then one would have to open to mental attributes are significantly affected too.
That "communist" is a crude broad category is what it is despite a broad group of factors lumped in there.
A big factor might be simply "independence". Those who like to be left alone are highly unlikely to want to be "in charge". This is w/o getting into aptitude.

Might be some books written about.
Bet they are all deemed racist.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 02:50 PM (/lPRQ)

43 34 Did y'all see Rubio announced we have deportation agreements with 20 countries? So if you're an illegal from El Salvador, you have the choice to go back home, or get deported by the US to Haiti or some other crap-hole. Given that choice, many will elect to go home.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:48 PM (mkw2N)

========

We've actually had a handful of these agreements for years. They've been on the books, but largely unused, for a while.

The noteworthy thing is the growth of the practice, Trump's administration negotiating it with more countries to help expedite deportations.

And it's not that the individual doesn't want to go back to their home country. Outside of legit asylum claims, they have to go back to their home countries unless their home countries don't want them. Usually criminals with criminal histories.

So, the Honduran illegal murderer that Honduras doesn't want to take back gets sent to Djibouti. Where there is no serious Latin population, his non-existent French does him no good, and he probably ends up dead in a ditch because he tries to rape someone three days after arriving.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:50 PM (2t0WW)

44
Did y'all see Rubio announced we have deportation agreements with 20 countries? So if you're an illegal from El Salvador, you have the choice to go back home, or get deported by the US to Haiti or some other crap-hole. Given that choice, many will elect to go home.
Posted by: bonhomme

================

I saw that, and I awaited more Interceptions explaining that somehow this means the United States is an international laughingstock, no longer respected abroad.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 02:51 PM (n7rxJ)

45 Now do that split-face device with Shia LaBeouf. It's all connected, man! You don't know how deep it goes!

Posted by: SciVo at May 28, 2026 02:51 PM (Sy6m/)

46
Sorry to see that Claude Lemieux is dead. Remembered for A) viciously boarding Kris Draper and B) subsequently getting the tar beaten out of him by Darren McCarty.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 02:52 PM (HdYcL)

47 I'm not buying this.
Sincerely,
Web Hubbel

Yeah, this seems like a lark to me.
Sincerely,
Major James Hewitt

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 02:52 PM (dIske)

48 Canadians loved to vacation ~~in commie Cuba~~anywhere that doesn't keep bugging them about suicide.
Posted by: steevy at May 28, 2026 02:49 PM (YwEeS)
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Posted by: As Somebody Said at May 28, 2026 02:52 PM (Fi81e)

49 8 Surely someone still has a few strands of Castro's beard locked away as a good-luck charm, though...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 02:41 PM

A DNA analysis between Castro and his son Justin does not require any DNA from Castro himself. You can use the DNA from his brother Raul, who currently is alive.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at May 28, 2026 02:52 PM (qoLdL)

50 Maybe it's true or maybe this woman is just latching onto a rumor to get attention. Either way, the whole family/everyone involved is just gross.

Posted by: AMartel at May 28, 2026 02:53 PM (otvi3)

51 Just a dinky little nothing post. Apologies.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:35 PM

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"Never apologize. It's a sign of weakness."
Lt. Col. Nathan Brittles USA (Ret.)

I would think a quickie DNA test would show if there was a familial relationship. Or perhaps there's value in keeping the rumor alive?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 02:53 PM (QGaXH)

52 What does "did not meet" mean? Was she in Cuba before 1971 and supposedly didn't meet Fidel until a subsequent trip in 1976? Or was she not in Cuba at all until 1976?

The Trudeaus went on a well-documented, official visit to Cuba in 1976. Supposedly that was Margaret's first visit to Cuba. There's no documentation of a previous visit. HOWEVER, that doesn't mean she couldn't have possibly visited before then.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:46 PM (mkw2N)
_________

I would imagine it would be easy for a rich, powerful Canadian woman to go back and forth to Cuba in the 60s and 70s on the down low.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 02:53 PM (iFTx/)

53 Now do that split-face device with Shia LaBeouf. It's all connected, man! You don't know how deep it goes!
Posted by: SciVo at May 28, 2026 02:51 PM (Sy6m/)

Shia looks like Nayib Bukele's brother.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 02:53 PM (rbvCR)

54 And Alex Jones is really Bill Hicks.

Posted by: Reforger at May 28, 2026 02:53 PM (Rxz7v)

55 Sorry to see that Claude Lemieux is dead. Remembered for A) viciously boarding Kris Draper and B) subsequently getting the tar beaten out of him by Darren McCarty.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 02:52 PM (HdYcL)
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I'll take "Three People I've Never Heard Of" for $1000, Alex...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 02:53 PM (gnNyN)

56
Where there is no serious Latin population, his non-existent French does him no good, and he probably ends up dead in a ditch because he tries to rape someone three days after arriving.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

===============

I wondered about these particular deportees, and how they fare in their new homes. No one seems to know. Certainly no MSM investigator will follow up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 02:53 PM (n7rxJ)

57 I saw that, and I awaited more Interceptions explaining that somehow this means the United States is an international laughingstock, no longer respected abroad.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 02:51 PM (n7rxJ)
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The world spends days ending in -y not respecting us.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:54 PM (Fi81e)

58 56
I wondered about these particular deportees, and how they fare in their new homes. No one seems to know. Certainly no MSM investigator will follow up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 02:53 PM (n7rxJ)

======

Djibouti gets a few thousand dollars to accept them individually.

And then they get lost.

And probably dead.

Seriously, illegals, get out on your own. You'll end up dead in Djibouti if you don't.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:54 PM (2t0WW)

59 You can use the DNA from his brother Raul, who currently is alive.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at May 28, 2026 02:52 PM (qoLdL)

Or, Alternatively, someone could shoot Raul through the name of his neck, leave his corpse in the sand for the gulls, and leave Justin's parentage as one of history's mystery.

That would be fine too.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 28, 2026 02:54 PM (flbGo)

60 Protecting California.

California has spent $24 million in fire-management funds on drum circles and "indigenous fire rituals"

https://tinyurl.com/atr8ct87

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 28, 2026 02:55 PM (ndZc7)

61
I'll take "Three People I've Never Heard Of" for $1000, Alex...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 02:53 PM (gnNyN)

_____________

https://youtu.be/OkMSSxWPrqE
and
https://youtu.be/jYjhaTG49Ws

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 02:56 PM (HdYcL)

62 I wondered about these particular deportees, and how they fare in their new homes. No one seems to know. Certainly no MSM investigator will follow up.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 02:53 PM (n7rxJ)

The state of Oregon has a habit of "losing" children who are placed with family in foreign countries in getting them out of foster care in the state. I care more about that, honestly.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 02:56 PM (rbvCR)

63 8 Here's a crazy idea....

Genetic testing of Fidel's remains with Justin Trudeau.

Unless Fidel was cremated to avoid just such a possibility...

Surely someone still has a few strands of Castro's beard locked away as a good-luck charm, though...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 02:41 PM (gnNyN)

Remains, schmains.....we got his daughter. We can test her....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 02:56 PM (QGaXH)

64 What’s the ‘Ron consensus on Katie Pavlich? Hot or not?

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 02:56 PM (77rzZ)

65 When Justin hooked up with Katy, that was all I needed to know that these two were dirtbags.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 28, 2026 02:57 PM (D1E+2)

66
Odds are his father was some random his mom boinked. It was the 1970's.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 28, 2026 02:57 PM (IifOV)

67 Talking about Castreaux nowadays is as exciting as Prince Valium from Spaceballs.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 02:58 PM (qx7Zg)

68 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 02:53 PM (gnNyN)

Ice hockey players . May have all been in the Stanley Cup.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 02:58 PM (2sfNr)

69 6 So?
Posted by: Hokey Pokey
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 02:58 PM (y79kU)

70 And wasn’t Pierre gay?

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 02:59 PM (77rzZ)

71 ======

Djibouti gets a few thousand dollars to accept them individually.

And then they get lost.

And probably dead.

Seriously, illegals, get out on your own. You'll end up dead in Djibouti if you don't.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering
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Now do all moose limbs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 03:00 PM (y79kU)

72 Grants can now be terminated for waste, fraud, underperformance, or pushing anti-American priorities like DEI, gender ideology, or Green New Scam programs
Posted by: Kindltot

Using the funds for things the grants wasn't explicitly authorized to fund should also be in there. Like pediatric heart research grants used to study pediatric genital mutilation, forex. Or maybe that falls under "fraud" IDK.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 28, 2026 03:01 PM (vJrRc)

73 It seems to be a consensus amongst a number of people here that if it's a politician they don't like, except for Bill Clinton, they're probably gay.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 03:01 PM (2sfNr)

74 70 And wasn’t Pierre gay?
Posted by: Bulg

His name was Pierre. So….

Posted by: Kratwurst at May 28, 2026 03:01 PM (36bTp)

75
Re the timing.

Margaret and Pierre got married in March 1971, so I doubt she immediately made a secret trip to Cuba to have sex with Fidel.

I read her autobiography, "Beyond Reason," as one of my informal anthropology projects. She wrote the book decades ago and she described her admiration for Castro and her excitement at meeting him for the first time with gushy frankness. Or frank gushiness.

She also talked about her true love -- some guy named Yves, I think -- and chasing around the world looking for him when her marriage foundered (he had died). I don't think she did Castro.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 03:01 PM (n7rxJ)

76
So a communist father and son have small dinkys?

Dog bites man, Ace.

But hey, Memorial day week! Put on that white belt, make a G&T and relax!

Posted by: Auspex at May 28, 2026 03:02 PM (Y8DZL)

77 Man, I go uptown for a few minutes, come back and you're trying to make Trudeau popular and PM again.

And I saw a short, very heavy, pinkish red haired lady in a sundress uptown. There are so few weeks where biological females expose flesh.

It hasn't been my hour. Okay, my friends' cat did guard the house while Ralphy and I were gone. Let's see ace's developing murder of crows do that...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 28, 2026 03:02 PM (Sco7b)

78 66 Maybe Geraldo? He bragged about sleeping with her.

Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 03:03 PM (77rzZ)

79 If you only knew how much trouble it is to pick lint out of Velcro.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 03:03 PM (y79kU)

80 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 03:01 PM (n7rxJ)

Thanks for providing us some sourced information.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 03:03 PM (2sfNr)

81 "In April 1971, the Trudeaus took a long “second honeymoon” all around the Caribbean. According to Wikipedia, they visited one island they declined to disclose. It is the only island they did not disclose."
From a substack by Karen Leibowitcz that debunks the debunking.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 28, 2026 03:03 PM (0bjKf)

82 I am confused are we trying to claim that communism is hereditary?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 28, 2026 03:03 PM (0N4FZ)

83 33 I had surmised that anyone who looks like Mick Jagger would have to be one of his bastard sons.
Posted by: The Dinks from Spaceballs at May 28, 2026 02:48 PM (cWLG3)

Old Cheech and Chong Bit:

Border Official: Welcome to Mexico Senor. Where are you going?

Dreamy Heavenly Voice: Ive come to visit my children.

Official: Oh, You have ninos in Mexico, Senor?

Voice: I have children all over the world.

Official: Oh you are a rock and roll star....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 03:04 PM (QGaXH)

84 53 Now do that split-face device with Shia LaBeouf. It's all connected, man! You don't know how deep it goes!
Posted by: SciVo at May 28, 2026 02:51 PM (Sy6m/)

Shia looks like Nayib Bukele's brother.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 02:53 PM (rbvCR)

And they both look like Zohran Mamdani, while Justin Trudeau and Gavin Newsom look like Jacob Frey. Think about it, man!

Posted by: SciVo at May 28, 2026 03:04 PM (Sy6m/)

85 It seems to be a consensus amongst a number of people here that if it's a politician they don't like, except for Bill Clinton, they're probably gay.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 03:01 PM (2sfNr)

1) we are guys, it is kind of how we insult each other on a lizard brain level.

2) this guy, if he wasn't gay, did not care or decided not to do anything about his wife fucking a bunch of other dudes.

Given those two options, I'd say gay is a bit more honorable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 03:04 PM (zZu0s)

86 What’s the ‘Ron consensus on Katie Pavlich? Hot or not?
Posted by: Bulg at May 28, 2026 02:56 PM (77rzZ)
______

I wouldn't say "hot" but she's definitely pretty and has a nice body. I'm not sure she's aging well, though.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:05 PM (iFTx/)

87 1) we are guys, it is kind of how we insult each other on a lizard brain level.

2) this guy, if he wasn't gay, did not care or decided not to do anything about his wife fucking a bunch of other dudes.

Given those two options, I'd say gay is a bit more honorable.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

He's gay. She's nothing more than a beard.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2026 03:06 PM (Fzhd7)

88 I am confused are we trying to claim that communism is hereditary?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 28, 2026 03:03 PM (0N4FZ)

Not as such (at least im not):

1) his wife fucked a brutal communist dictator.

2) both parents were commies.

3) in this case, environment and nature kind of assured the outcome.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 28, 2026 03:06 PM (zZu0s)

89 I have a very special Niagra Falls trip planned that I now dread after seeing Canada go full retard.

Sigh...

Posted by: Melodicmetal at May 28, 2026 03:07 PM (61TgR)

90 Who is gayer? Pierre Trudeau or James Talafreako?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:07 PM (iFTx/)

91 > What’s the ‘Ron consensus on Katie Pavlich? Hot or not?

Smoking hot a few years ago. I haven't looked recently.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 03:08 PM (mkw2N)

92 "Just a dinky little nothing post. Apologies."

________________________________

What is: "Critiques you don't want to hear at the whorehouse, Alex"

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 03:08 PM (dIske)

93 46
Sorry to see that Claude Lemieux is dead. Remembered for A) viciously boarding Kris Draper and B) subsequently getting the tar beaten out of him by Darren McCarty.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2026 02:52 PM (HdYcL)

Detroit celebrates ... fans of any team he played against are at best unmoved.

A winning weasel

Posted by: browndog says woof at May 28, 2026 03:08 PM (3sXRv)

94 89 I have a very special Niagra Falls trip planned that I now dread after seeing Canada go full retard.

Sigh...
Posted by: Melodicmetal at May 28, 2026 03:07 PM (61TgR)

NIAGRA FALLS! Slowly I turned. Step. By. Step! Inch. By. Inch.!

Posted by: Moe Howard at May 28, 2026 03:08 PM (0256r)

95 89 I have a very special Niagra Falls trip planned that I now dread after seeing Canada go full retard.

Sigh...
Posted by: Melodicmetal at May 28, 2026 03:07 PM (61TgR)

***psst***
It's Niagara ... extra "eh"

Posted by: browndog says woof at May 28, 2026 03:09 PM (3sXRv)

96 > Who is gayer? Pierre Trudeau or James Talafreako?

Talarico. He looks and acts like he needs to be supervised around little boys.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 03:09 PM (mkw2N)

97 >>> I have a very special Niagra Falls trip planned that I now dread after seeing Canada go full retard.

Sigh...
Posted by: Melodicmetal at May 28, 2026 03:07 PM (61TgR)

I've only seen the Canada side, but what I saw I wasn't impressed with. I was expecting some kind of big nature park and it was basically a seedier version of Las Vegas. Kind of run down and slimy and very commercial.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 03:09 PM (3uBP9)

98 Katie Pavlich is beautiful by any standard of measure, she also has major league yabbos.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:10 PM (XV/Pl)

99 What is: "Critiques you don't want to hear at the whorehouse, Alex"
Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 03:08 PM (dIske)

That's how Unforgiven started.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 03:10 PM (gKWVE)

100 Colonists in the frigid north were debating what to call their newly formed nation.

After much debate, they settled on drawing letters from a hat.

"C, eh."
"N, eh."
"D, eh."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:10 PM (2t0WW)

101 Detroit celebrates ... fans of any team he played against are at best unmoved.

I'm a Flyers fan and he used to crush us.

I'm devastated. Great player and a good man. Wonderful family. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 28, 2026 03:10 PM (j+aD2)

102 Talarico. He looks and acts like he needs to be supervised around little boys.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 03:09 PM (mkw2N)
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Does he drive a panel van? That would kind of give it away.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 28, 2026 03:10 PM (TZz9Q)

103 Darren McCarty came out with a very nice statement on LeMieux's death

on ice it's war but off ice hockey is a family

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 28, 2026 03:11 PM (j+aD2)

104 Posted by: Melodicmetal at May 28, 2026 03:07 PM (61TgR)

I don't think they'll do anything harmful to an American visitor. It's not as if you're a citizen that needs to be offed by MAID.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 03:11 PM (2sfNr)

105 Does he drive a panel van? That would kind of give it away.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 28, 2026 03:10 PM (TZz9Q)

*slow grin*

Thats just what they'll be expecting us to do.

Posted by: Robert Stack at May 28, 2026 03:12 PM (zZu0s)

106 From a substack by Karen Leibowitcz that debunks the debunking.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 28, 2026 03:03 PM (0bjKf)

Related to Fawn?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 28, 2026 03:12 PM (2WIwB)

107 102 Talarico. He looks and acts like he needs to be supervised around little boys.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 03:09 PM (mkw2N)
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Does he drive a panel van? That would kind of give it away.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 28, 2026 03:10 PM (TZz9Q)

=======

He's so confident of his victory he's not bending over backwards to look like he's not from Austin.

https://x.com/JoelWBerry/status/
2059816845058642361/photo/2

And doing it badly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:12 PM (2t0WW)

108 73 It seems to be a consensus amongst a number of people here that if it's a politician they don't like, except for Bill Clinton, they're probably gay.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 03:01 PM (2sfNr)

Oh, that's just a guy thing. There's a YouTube short where a street interviewer asks a guy if he's straight or gay, shows the guy a photo of another guy and asks if he looks straight or gay, then asks if he thinks he himself looks straight or gay. Then he takes interviewee #1's photo to the next guy and asks the same questions, then takes interviewee #2's photo to the next guy and asks the same questions, and so on.

Every single guy says that he's straight and that the other guy looks gay. (My favorite, for reasons, was the guy who answered that he was "Um.. straight." Probably just caught of guard! Confused, like "What, you can't tell?") Only a few had enough self-awareness to anticipate that *another* guy looking at *him* might not think he looks straight.

Posted by: SciVo at May 28, 2026 03:12 PM (Sy6m/)

109 Who is gayer? Pierre Trudeau or James Talafreako?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:07 PM (iFTx/)
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Signs point to Yes.

Posted by: Magic 8-Ball at May 28, 2026 03:12 PM (Fi81e)

110 Related to Fawn?
Posted by: Diogenes at May 28, 2026 03:12 PM (2WIwB)
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It's been a long time since that kiln explosion...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 28, 2026 03:13 PM (TZz9Q)

111 No suspects in custody -

Police in Fairfield County, Va., responded to a “swatting” attempt at the home of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Wednesday evening, authorities have confirmed to National Review.

Posted by: beckster at May 28, 2026 03:13 PM (kX27y)

112 Who is gayer? Pierre Trudeau or James Talafreako?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026

Talafreako is gayer than Pierre. I actually think he’s creepy AF. He’s got a Silence of the Lambs vibe. Probably got an oubliette in his house where he locks up small children for his pleasure.

Posted by: Mrs Emma Peel at May 28, 2026 03:13 PM (np2zX)

113 >>> Related to Fawn?
Posted by: Diogenes at May 28, 2026 03:12 PM (2WIwB)

Left the pottery firing business. Too dangerous.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 03:13 PM (3uBP9)

114 I've only seen the Canada side, but what I saw I wasn't impressed with. I was expecting some kind of big nature park and it was basically a seedier version of Las Vegas. Kind of run down and slimy and very commercial.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 03:09 PM (3uBP9)
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It's different now. It's run down and slimy and very commercial and full of Hindus.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 28, 2026 03:13 PM (0bjKf)

115 79 If you only knew how much trouble it is to pick lint out of Velcro.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 03:03 PM (y79kU)

First glance I read that as 'Vegas' - the cheap GM product that had valve problems as I recall....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 03:13 PM (QGaXH)

116 111 No suspects in custody -

Police in Fairfield County, Va., responded to a “swatting” attempt at the home of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Wednesday evening, authorities have confirmed to National Review.

Posted by: beckster at May 28, 2026 03:13 PM (kX27y)

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Just generalized hatred of conservative justices or trying to influence some already argued case?

I guess we'll never know.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:14 PM (2t0WW)

117 The new officially sanctioned AOS terminology is, Justin Tredue's gayer than nine guys blowing 10 guys.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:15 PM (XV/Pl)

118 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 03:15 PM (Ia/+0)

119 109 Who is gayer? Pierre Trudeau or James Talafreako?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Mark Carney.

Posted by: Auspex at May 28, 2026 03:15 PM (Y8DZL)

120 Who is gayer? Pierre Trudeau or James Talafreako?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Mark Carney.
Posted by: Auspex at May 28, 2026 03:15 PM (Y8DZL)
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Keir Starmer?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 28, 2026 03:16 PM (TZz9Q)

121 119 109 Who is gayer? Pierre Trudeau or James Talafreako?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Mark Carney.
Posted by: Auspex at May 28, 2026 03:15 PM (Y8DZL)

***phew***

I'm off the hook

Posted by: Keir Starmer at May 28, 2026 03:16 PM (3sXRv)

122 Wonder if Pratt's people staged this, brilliant. Her main concern is bike lanes?????????
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Socialist LA mayoral candidate Nithya Raman is getting hammered online after appearing visibly rattled by a staged homeless encampment protest outside her own home.

“I’m glad my kids didn’t have to see that,” Raman told comedian Adam Conover on his podcast released Wednesday before adding, “I thought this campaign was going to be about bike lanes and transportation.”

Posted by: beckster at May 28, 2026 03:16 PM (kX27y)

123
Police in Fairfield County, Va., responded to a “swatting” attempt at the home of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Wednesday evening, authorities have confirmed to National Review.

Posted by: beckster at May 28, 2026 03:13 PM (kX27y)

Aren't we expecting rulings on the birthright citizenship case soon?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 28, 2026 03:16 PM (Kdi1r)

124 Long thought Trudeau was a Castro
Be neat to get DNA from both

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 03:16 PM (Ia/+0)

125 117 The new officially sanctioned AOS terminology is, Justin Tredue's gayer than nine guys blowing 10 guys.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:15 PM (XV/Pl)

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I think that's 0.9 milli-Milos in metric.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:17 PM (2t0WW)

126 The new officially sanctioned AOS terminology is, Justin Tredue's gayer than nine guys blowing 10 guys.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:15 PM (XV/Pl)

____________

What's the 10th guy doing then? Watching?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

127 Talarico. He looks and acts like he needs to be supervised around little boys.
Posted by: bonhomme
................................
His Internet history has to be nightmare fuel.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at May 28, 2026 03:17 PM (bfy6w)

128 122 “I’m glad my kids didn’t have to see that,” Raman told comedian Adam Conover on his podcast released Wednesday before adding, “I thought this campaign was going to be about bike lanes and transportation.”

Posted by: beckster at May 28, 2026 03:16 PM (kX27y)

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After the Palisades Fire she thought that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:17 PM (2t0WW)

129 What's the 10th guy doing then? Watching?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

Refractory period

Posted by: Keir Starmer at May 28, 2026 03:17 PM (3sXRv)

130 Train kept a-rollin, all night long.

- Aerosmith singing about Trudeau and Obama's mamas.

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 03:18 PM (xOo4o)

131 103 Darren McCarty came out with a very nice statement on LeMieux's death

on ice it's war but off ice hockey is a family
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 28, 2026 03:11 PM (j+aD2)

According to Wikipedia - suicide at age 60? If true, so sad. Condolences to the family and fans.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 03:18 PM (QGaXH)

132 81 "In April 1971, the Trudeaus took a long “second honeymoon” all around the Caribbean. According to Wikipedia, they visited one island they declined to disclose. It is the only island they did not disclose."
From a substack by Karen Leibowitcz that debunks the debunking.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 28, 2026 03:03 PM (0bjKf)
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^^ this ^^^

Why else would they "decline to name the island" if it wasn't Cuba? Also of note:
- Pierre and Maggie famously had an open marriage
- Maggie described Fidel as "the sexiest man I've ever met"
- Maggie is the only person in history to have written more books than she's read.

I may have added that last part

Posted by: Kevin Canuck at May 28, 2026 03:18 PM (np+aG)

133 93 46
Sorry to see that Claude Lemieux is dead. Remembered for A) viciously boarding Kris Draper...
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So, he was gay but in a manly way?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 03:18 PM (y79kU)

134 @126

>>What's the 10th guy doing then? Watching?

Initiating the human centipede?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:18 PM (XV/Pl)

135 Fairfield County, Va.
.................
Fairfax County

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at May 28, 2026 03:19 PM (bfy6w)

136 OT

What a nasty man. He wins a scholarship named after Mike Wallace and then berates CBS News for failing to use the word "genocide":
Legal Insurrection site:

https://tinyurl.com/fb7kevjy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 03:19 PM (2sfNr)

137 "Pay attention to us! We're having a disaster!"
-Los Angeles for weeks to the entire nation

"Forget about that disaster thing. We've moved on."
-Los Angeles' ruling class, to its own people

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:19 PM (2t0WW)

138 There is a good story Margaret hooked up with Fidel on a long vacation, and was pregnant damn near right after

Posted by: Skip at May 28, 2026 03:20 PM (Ia/+0)

139 The rich & famous have a thing for authoritarian whack jobs. I think it’s a combination of things.

They feel guilty for not being born poor, so they set about annoying the poor by trying to “help” the poor.

Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Fidel et al., got lots of good press in the West early on in their careers. Why, they will surely become more Democratic with time.

There’s this really bizarre blind spot about dictators. Yeah, so it’s a complete failure, millions murdered by psychopathic bastards, but it just needs a little more fine-tuning and Utopia Here We Come!

Hemingway supposedly hung around Che and the firing squads liquidating the boogie capitalists in Cuba. He liked to watch. That’s a real POS right there, if true. He did suck start a shotgun later on in his career, so he gets props for that I guess.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 03:20 PM (usFPI)

140 What a nasty man. He wins a scholarship named after Mike Wallace and then berates CBS News for failing to use the word "genocide":
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 28, 2026 03:21 PM (TZz9Q)

141 Who is gayer? Pierre Trudeau or James Talafreako?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Mark Carney.
Posted by: Auspex at May 28, 2026 03:15 PM (Y8DZL)

***phew***

I'm off the hook

Posted by: Keir Starmer at May 28, 2026 03:16 PM (3sXRv)

Only until they ask the question who is the most dickless.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 28, 2026 03:21 PM (snZF9)

142 OT:

Apparently Iran just fired a ballistic missle toward Kuwait and is saying they will not stop enrichment.

What are we doing here Bob?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:21 PM (XV/Pl)

143 So, Keir Starmer's resigned, right?

I've been told he was going to resign.

I've been told that a lot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:21 PM (2t0WW)

144 Ghey Guevara

Posted by: Tom Cochrane singing at May 28, 2026 03:22 PM (3z4Sn)

145 What a nasty man. He wins a scholarship named after Mike Wallace and then berates CBS News for failing to use the word "genocide":
Legal Insurrection site:

https://tinyurl.com/fb7kevjy
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Goes with his looks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 28, 2026 03:22 PM (y79kU)

146 Once you start seriously applying pigeonhole mathematical theory to understand the 9 guys blowing 10 guys situation you have lost the joke. You might be a little too focused on gaming out the scenario.

Just sayin.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 03:22 PM (3uBP9)

147 What a nasty man. He wins a scholarship named after Mike Wallace and then berates CBS News for failing to use the word "genocide":
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 28, 2026 03:21 PM (TZz9Q)
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Dude is gayer than those nine guys blowing the 10 guys ...

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 03:23 PM (iFTx/)

148 >>What's the 10th guy doing then? Watching?

Fluffing

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 28, 2026 03:23 PM (N39Ws)

149 143 So, Keir Starmer's resigned, right?

I've been told he was going to resign.

I've been told that a lot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:21 PM (2t0WW)

Insert the Leonardo DiCaprio / Wolf of Wall St. GIF

"Fuq it ... I'm not leaving ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at May 28, 2026 03:23 PM (3sXRv)

150 Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 28, 2026 03:21 PM (TZz9Q)

What word would you prefer that I use?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 03:23 PM (2sfNr)

151 94 89 I have a very special Niagra Falls trip planned that I now dread after seeing Canada go full retard.

Sigh...
Posted by: Melodicmetal at May 28, 2026 03:07 PM (61TgR)
________________________

I hate to say it, but I strongly suggest staying on the NY side. Canada uses the area surrounding Niagra Falls for refugee housing. They bought out a significant number of hotel rooms on the Canadian side, which coincided with the legalization of some drugs and caused the "perfect storm." The Canadian side is no longer safe, and the hotels in the area have taken a beating.

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 03:23 PM (dIske)

152 116 111 No suspects in custody -

Police in Fairfield County, Va., responded to a “swatting” attempt at the home of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Wednesday evening, authorities have confirmed to National Review.

Posted by: beckster at May 28, 2026 03:13 PM (kX27y)

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Just generalized hatred of conservative justices or trying to influence some already argued case?

I guess we'll never know.
____

I'm not saying Justice Affirmative Action Jackson did the swatting, but she definitely is dumb enough to have done it with her personal cell phone.

Posted by: "Hello, Po-lice?" at May 28, 2026 03:23 PM (qUkBO)

153 Yeah... The MOU was all agreed to, with a number of #s of enriched uranium to be debated later.
Odds when the bombs begin to fall again?

Posted by: MkY at May 28, 2026 03:23 PM (q6tQZ)

154 Speaking of, did they open the Gordy Howe bridge yet?

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at May 28, 2026 03:23 PM (BW+Gb)

155
After the Palisades Fire she thought that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:17 PM (2t0WW)
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Yes, how dumb can you be?

Posted by: beckster at May 28, 2026 03:24 PM (kX27y)

156 Another OT:

It used to be a go-to in a pinch but Wendy's Chili now tastes like crap.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:24 PM (XV/Pl)

157 142 OT:

Apparently Iran just fired a ballistic missle toward Kuwait and is saying they will not stop enrichment.

What are we doing here Bob?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:21 PM (XV/Pl)

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Not really just.

Like, 12 hours ago.

It was in response to the US hitting targets at Bandar Abbas last night.

And Iran says lots of shit, all while they still lose $450 million a day in lost import/export revenues, inflation is exploding, they're culling all their chickens because they import most of their food and can't feed the chickens anymore, and only scared Indian tanker captains with empty threats.

People get frustrated that diplomacy is even happening, but remove the language of diplomacy from the situation and look at it all again.

There's a siege on Iran, They can get about 1/100 of their normal trade with Caspain ports and railroads to Pakistan.

That's what's important.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:24 PM (2t0WW)

158 Claude Leimieux died? RIP

The guy may have been borderline criminal on the ice but he was a successful and winning hockey player. Won SC's wherever he went. Montreal, NJ, Colorado.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at May 28, 2026 03:24 PM (bfy6w)

159 I have a very special Niagra Falls trip planned that I now dread after seeing Canada go full retard.

Sigh...
Posted by: Melodicmetal

Yeah. Not going. Most places you give you a couple of Tylenol. Canada gives you cyanide.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2026 03:24 PM (Fzhd7)

160
nood

Who?

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 03:24 PM (3uBP9)

161 And they both look like Zohran Mamdani, while Justin Trudeau and Gavin Newsom look like Jacob Frey. Think about it, man!
Posted by: SciVo at May 28, 2026 03:04 PM (Sy6m/)

I think Gruesome Nuisance looks like the Patrick Bateman character from "American Psycho" played by Christian Bale .

California Psycho.

Posted by: The Osprey at May 28, 2026 03:25 PM (XgSza)

162 151 94 89 I have a very special Niagra Falls trip planned that I now dread after seeing Canada go full retard.

Sigh...
Posted by: Melodicmetal at May 28, 2026 03:07 PM (61TgR)
________________________

I hate to say it, but I strongly suggest staying on the NY side. Canada uses the area surrounding Niagra Falls for refugee housing. They bought out a significant number of hotel rooms on the Canadian side, which coincided with the legalization of some drugs and caused the "perfect storm." The Canadian side is no longer safe, and the hotels in the area have taken a beating.
Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 03:23 PM (dIske)

Actually, not a bad thought

Stay in Lewsiton, a very pretty little town just off the Niagara Escarpment.

Posted by: browndog says woof at May 28, 2026 03:25 PM (3sXRv)

163 Remembered for A) viciously boarding Kris Draper and B) subsequently getting the tar beaten out of him by Darren McCarty.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

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Claude L got a 5-minute major for that boarding play, and iirc the Wings failed to score on the power play.

It was great when McCarty beat him up the following season, but the Wings missed the chance to make the hit on Draper cost the Avs a playoff game, which would have maybe made him regret it.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 28, 2026 03:25 PM (gpQ8/)

164 Swatting a Supreme Court Justice?

CNN - 'mostly peaceful Swatting.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2026 03:25 PM (3hJhH)

165 Police in Fairfield County, Va., responded to a “swatting” attempt at the home of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Wednesday evening, authorities have confirmed to National Review.

Posted by: beckster at May 28, 2026 03:13 PM (kX27y)

Justice Brown-Jackson is clearly tired of her condescension s___

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 03:26 PM (rbvCR)

166 There’s a famous pic of Senators Horseface (D) Mass and Harkin (D) Iowa gushing while meeting some 2nd in command Cuban asshole. Harkin was one of my Senators, it’s difficult to reconcile these idiots.

I don’t think Harkin is dead, to his credit he has mostly kept his cakehole shut since retiring anyhow. But these guys are illustrative of the wide chasm between the citizenry, their constituents, and the vapid bullshit they espouse. It’s a very powerful institution, the Senate, and it’s chock full of jackass MFers, to be polite about it, even in nominally conservative states.

That doesn’t happen by accident or the “will of the people” or by democratic means by any stretch.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 03:26 PM (usFPI)

167 156 Another OT:

It used to be a go-to in a pinch but Wendy's Chili now tastes like crap.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:24 PM (XV/Pl)

It's been years since I was last in Hawaii but the local fast food chain there, "Zippy's" used to have the bomb chili & rice.

Posted by: The Osprey at May 28, 2026 03:27 PM (XgSza)

168 @157

>>That's what's important.

I don't about that, what's important is that I not pay 5 bucks for gas.

It still pretty much seems like we're continuing to dick around in a situation we cannot continue to dick around.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:27 PM (XV/Pl)

169 Amy Coney whatever swatted yesterday

her sister got a bomb threat last year:

abcnews.com
https://abcnews.com › US › supreme-court-justice-amy...
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's sister receives bomb threat ...

Mar 13, 2025 · The sister of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was recently targeted with a bomb threat, the Charleston, South Carolina, Police Department said on Wednesday.

Posted by: Don Black at May 28, 2026 03:28 PM (ZxPkt)

170 “Swatting” and “Doxxing” should be Federal Felonies.

Maybe this will get their attention.

Nah. Who am I kidding? Never mind.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 03:28 PM (usFPI)

171 168
I don't about that, what's important is that I not pay 5 bucks for gas.

It still pretty much seems like we're continuing to dick around in a situation we cannot continue to dick around.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2026 03:27 PM (XV/Pl)

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Every day the strait gets less important. Gas is already starting the climb down.

The object of the war was not low gas prices, but eliminating Iran's ability to launch nukes and fund terrorist proxies. That's the lens to look at the conflict in, not gas prices.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:29 PM (2t0WW)

172 NOOD

GAAAAAY!

Posted by: that guy who always says... at May 28, 2026 03:30 PM (R+iUD)

173 I'm glad I kept this bookmarked:

https://tinyurl.com/34tc52pw
Of Course Fidel Castro is Justin Trudeau’s Dad. Nobody Has 'Debunked' Anything
Karen Leibowitcz - Jul 15, 2020

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 28, 2026 05:38 PM (O7YUW)

174 8 Surely someone still has a few strands of Castro's beard locked away as a good-luck charm, though...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 02:41 PM

A DNA analysis between Castro and his son Justin does not require any DNA from Castro himself. You can use the DNA from his brother Raul, who currently is alive.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at May 28, 2026 02:52 PM (qoLdL)

or the sister

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 05:41 PM (8avO+)

175 er daughter

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 05:42 PM (8avO+)

176 So, Keir Starmer's resigned, right?

I've been told he was going to resign.

I've been told that a lot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 03:21 PM (2t0WW)

I think the current idea is that he will resign if Labor can win a by-election so this particular dude can be the new PM and lead Labor to triumphs. Of course this dude may lose since labor is as popular as a week dead corpse, but that pushes it out a month or so

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 05:46 PM (8avO+)

177 Protecting California.

California has spent $24 million in fire-management funds on drum circles and "indigenous fire rituals"

https://tinyurl.com/atr8ct87
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 28, 2026 02:55 PM (ndZc7)

still better than the money spent emptying LA county reservoirs over the years.

The Sandy Fire in my area is now 100 percent contained, only 1 house lost almost at once where it started. Interesting that the several large, full reservoirs in the area helped contain the fire because it was in Ventura county. Only a few dozen fighters are around keeping an eye on it down from the 500 or so working at the crisis period.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 05:50 PM (8avO+)

178 I read some reports a couple years ago that Pierre Trudeau and his wife were swingers which is not surprising in communist circles.

Posted by: Danimal28 at May 28, 2026 06:12 PM (mNOhh)

179 medium.com

Of Course Fidel Castro is Justin Trudeau’s Dad. Nobody Has ‘Debunked’ Anything by Karen Leibowitcz

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at May 29, 2026 10:12 AM (pPzaY)

180 In order for his father to be Fidel Castro, his mother would have to be somewhere close to Cuba in March and April 1971.

She was.

In April 1971, the Trudeaus took a long “second honeymoon” all around the Caribbean. According to Wikipedia, they visited one island they declined to disclose. It is the only island they did not disclose. From Wikipedia:

April 13, 1971 article from The Ottawa Journal. The article states that the Trudeaus were visiting an unidentified island in the Caribbean and wanted the press to give them privacy:

To be clear: they disclosed all the other locations they visited but asked the press for privacy when they went to the “unidentified” island. Come on.

Justin Trudeau was born 8 1/2 months later.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at May 29, 2026 10:23 AM (pPzaY)

Gavin Newsom: The State Will Tax the Enemies of the Democrat Party at a 100% Rate to Save Democracy

Seizing the estates of political enemies. Sounds very democracy-savey.

He says they will change California law to seize 100% of recompense paid to Californians from the weaponization fund for Biden Regime abuses.

Well, I'll tell you, I've been sick of liberal state governments paying out jackpot awards to Antifa and BLM "protesters" who beat cops and get arrested in return. The Democrat Party is using taxpayer funds to pay its terrorist street militias to beat up cops and menace citizens.

So it's time for the federal government to impose a 100% tax on payouts to "protesters," especially those of Antifa, BLM, the John Brown Rifle Club, etc.

Tit for tat. If you want to go full Civil War -- We're your huckleberry. You'd be a daisy if you'd oblige us.

BREAKING: California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump�s Jan. 6th �slush fund.� pic.twitter.com/IIfPUQrbuc
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) May 27, 2026

The🐰FOO
@PolitiBunny
This feels like Democrats punishing citizens because they�re mad at Trump.
How does something like this improve the lives of Californians?

From Comrade Arthur.

At least California will put the estates it seizes from political enemies of The Party to good and prudent use.

California Teaches Native Americans How to Light a Fire

The state has approved funding for "food sovereignty," owl counting, and "cultural burns."
California Governor Gavin Newsom has allocated millions of dollars to a program that funds Native American "food sovereignty," owl counting, and "cultural burns," in which tribal groups use traditional fire techniques to clear brush from the landscape and preserve their "close kinship" with plants, animals, and "other natural relatives."
Since 2023, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or CAL FIRE, has awarded $24 million to tribal groups and other nonprofits as part of its "Tribal Wildfire Resilience" program. The man effectively overseeing the program, Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot, believes that California was founded on a "state-sanctioned policy of genocide" and that the state has pursued "decades of land dispossession, discrimination, and disconnection." The Newsom administration, he said, was making progress in returning the land to the "leadership of California Native American tribes."
As part of this commitment to "cultural burning," California has created separate fire-certification processes for nontribal and tribal populations. White, black, Latino, and Asian fire bosses must receive technical certifications, including a 40-hour burn-boss course and, in some cases, a federal certificate. "Cultural fire practitioners," by contrast, are certified through simple tribal recognition that a person has "substantial experience" burning for cultural purposes.
The "cultural burns" themselves follow various rituals. Some begin with drumming, sage burning, and a prayer. Attendees sometimes go around in a circle, introducing themselves to the land. In the words of Ron Goode, chief of the North Fork Mono Tribe, the land listens to the incantations, and the intention is "to make sure that everything on the landscape--Mother Earth, Creator, everybody--understands why we're there and what we're there for."
Then the burning begins. One tribal member uses a traditional elderberry fire stick instead of a modern lighter. Some use dry branches and cottonwood bundles as kindling. In the words of one tribal chief, "Fire gives life to the land, and everyone benefits from this living spirit."
While some of the "resiliency" funding has gone toward what appear to be legitimate fire-management projects, a careful examination of the state grant information reveals that much of the program operates as a slush fund for the tribes.

As Luke Skywalker said: "NOOOO! That can't be! That's IMPOSSIBLE!"

In recent years, CalFire has awarded grants that have dubious fire-management benefits: $1 million for a grant that will help a tribe provide "forest-themed ingredients" to tribe-owned restaurants; $599,000 for another to help renovate land for use as a Native American summer camp; $166,000 to one that will pay for "[t]ribal staff and members" to observe spotted owl nests; $746,000 to one supporting a tribe's "food sovereignty" and "Fire-Centered Climate Action Plan"; and $521,000 to one that will help a tribe maintain "close kinship" with plants, animals, and "other natural relatives such as water and fire."

Read the whole thing.

Oh, and Gavin Newsom is also looting taxpayer money to build solar panels for welfare cases living in publicly-subsidized housing.

Except they're building as many solar panels as miles of "high speed rail." While spending all the money they looted to build these Luxury Homeless Solar Panels, they've only built 10% of the already-overpriced units they perjured themselves in claiming they would build.

Inside Gavin Newsom's Solar Scam
California advocates wanted to provide solar panels to 1 million low-income housing residents. After ten years, the state is more than 900,000 short of that goal.

Governor Gavin Newsom has dismissed fossil fuels as "alternative energy," and wants to power California with, among other things, the sun. Through extensive mandates and extra energy costs for non-solar consumers, the Newsom administration has directed billions to building solar energy capacity.
The centerpiece of this initiative is the Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) program. SOMAH began under Governor Jerry Brown, who signed legislation requiring a state commission to apportion up to $100 million a year from California's cap-and-trade program to pay for the installation of solar panels on apartment buildings in poor areas. Since then, California has devoted nearly $900 million to SOMAH, which the state hoped would create 300 megawatts of power by 2030 and advocates envisioned would create a million solar-using renters.
The results have been disastrous. Since 2015, the program has installed or reserved only 129 megawatts of solar power for approximately 65,600 residents--nowhere close to the target of 1 million "solar renters."
What happened? First, incompetence. For a decade, businesses and utilities have been forced to buy emissions credits, and while the state has lavished nearly $900 million on SOMAH, administrators designed the program so poorly that they have paid out only $131 million for solar installation.
As the program's largest contractor admitted in a draft audit, potential customers were turned off by the paperwork, bureaucracy, and red tape. "Initially, we found housing owners excited about the program," the contractor said, "but after a long and laborious process, they are much less enthusiastic."
That is an understatement. From the beginning, the SOMAH program has been plagued by delays and cancellations. More than 400 applications have wound up cancelled or withdrawn, or about a third of the total. On average, projects take three and a half years to make it through the program's gauntlet of paperwork and inspections.
...

CEJA uses aggressive language to support its apparent goal of banning oil. "What's at stake is our very survival," its then-executive director said in 2021. "We must make the transition to 100 percent clean energy and bring all communities along to avoid a devastating climate apartheid."

...
The other main beneficiary of the SOMAH program is a San Francisco-based corporation called Sunrun Inc., which bills itself as the country's largest solar provider and has been the contractor for 78 percent of all SOMAH projects. The company has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to political candidates--including $50,000 to Gavin Newsom's campaigns--and has employed an army of lobbyists in Sacramento.
Newsom, in turn, has packed his administration with former Sunrun employees. The governor appointed the company's public policy manager to the California Energy Commission and appointed its former chief policy officer to a regional water quality control board. In recent years, Sunrun representatives have met with government regulators' offices to discuss SOMAH, including last December, when the company supported efforts to expand the program.
SOMAH and Sunrun did not respond to requests for comment.

Maybe the federal government should slap a 100% tax on California's payouts to different voting blocs whose votes it's buying.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:32 PM

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1 It checks out

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 28, 2026 01:31 PM (N1tpc)

2 Also, this is a bill of attainder and if there is any semblance of the rule of law, it will be struck down.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 28, 2026 01:32 PM (N1tpc)

3
I think NYC passed or threatens to pass the same tax.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 01:32 PM (n7rxJ)

4 The graft is not a side effect.

The graft is the purpose. That's why the services suck. They're just the cover.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 28, 2026 01:33 PM (N1tpc)

5 First?

Posted by: Auspex at May 28, 2026 01:33 PM (Y8DZL)

6 Nooded.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 28, 2026 01:34 PM (N1tpc)

7 The point of blue state governance is to fund Dem pols and their clients and allies.

Taxing people already attacked by Dem politicians therefore makes perfect sense.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 01:34 PM (sKqQm)

8 That'll be great for business!!

Arbitrary seizure of assets worked out great for Canada. Look at us now!

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 28, 2026 01:34 PM (Sco7b)

9 You can get more than 100% out of them if -
- confiscate their property
- enslave them
- recover their body's mineral worth after death...

Or, is that 100% ?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 01:34 PM (/lPRQ)

10 The Queen has spoken, you may now kiss her pinky ring

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 01:34 PM (sKqQm)

11 So California is looking to outlaw backyard barbecues and fireplaces to protect their precious air quality, but Liz Warren's people get to start forest fires?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 28, 2026 01:35 PM (YpHHE)

12 "a careful examination of the state grant information reveals that much of the program operates as a slush fund for the tribes."

I didn't know that the Cleveland Indians had moved to California.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 01:36 PM (qx7Zg)

13 top 20

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at May 28, 2026 01:36 PM (TRCcP)

14 Tangential:

https://x.com/WinWithJMC/status/
2059214005114142850

@WinWithJMC
CALIFORNIA EARLY VOTING TURNOUT
(Data from @Political_Data
)

As of last night, volume ahead of 2022, and is noticeably more Republican. With one week left until the primary, the hypothesis of "Democrats holding onto their ballots until the very end" will be tested.

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Democrats are running more than double digits behind where they were in 2022 in terms of returning ballots in 2026.

Newsom's jungle primary win almost exactly matches up with the percentage of ballots returned by Democrats a few weeks before the final day of the primary (54% vs. 55% actual).

Now...they're only at 42%.

Democrats don't seem very happy with California governance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 01:36 PM (2t0WW)

15 > Also, this is a bill of attainder and if there is any semblance of the rule of law, it will be struck down.

Do I need to say it?

Posted by: John "It's a tax" Roberts at May 28, 2026 01:36 PM (mkw2N)

16 Also, this is a bill of attainder and if there is any semblance of the rule of law, it will be struck down.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 28, 2026 01:32 PM (N1tpc)

The State possesses the Power to Tax based on Various Characteristics of Property or Income. We find that this is entirely Right and Proper. -- CJ Roberts and the 5 quislings.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 28, 2026 01:37 PM (ExV1e)

17 How does something like this improve the lives of Californians?

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The point of Democrat governance is to loot the people, not make their lives better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 01:37 PM (2t0WW)

18 Nav Gewsom D (dyslexic)
Careening out of control bus
some assembly required

Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 01:38 PM (UjdFS)

19 I'm beginning to develop a bit of concern that crows may displace shelving in Ace's hierarchy of non-blog interests and pastimes.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 28, 2026 01:38 PM (0sNs1)

20 Also, this is a bill of attainder and if there is any semblance of the rule of law, it will be struck down.

That was my first thought. There's no way the people proposing this don't know it, but the process is the punishment.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 01:38 PM (Riz8t)

21 It's almost like California wants to go back to the Jurassic period.

You bet Jur-Ass we're taking all your stuff!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 01:38 PM (qx7Zg)

22 20
That was my first thought. There's no way the people proposing this don't know it, but the process is the punishment.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 01:38 PM (Riz8t)

======

People will just leave the state...more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 01:38 PM (2t0WW)

23 I'm beginning to develop a bit of concern that crows may displace shelving in Ace's hierarchy of non-blog interests and pastimes.

Maybe he's training a crow army to install shelves for him.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 01:38 PM (Riz8t)

24 NO KINGS!

But "elected" dictators work for them.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 01:39 PM (Fi81e)

25 Why is Newsom wearing a crown?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2026 01:39 PM (Cqx++)

26 I don't think this civil war is very civil.

The Democrats are openly using lawfare, still, to punish Trump and his supporters. They will resort to good old fashioned warfare soon enough... although, technically, they're already in a shooting war with us.

Most of those on the nominal right just haven't acknowledged the shooting part yet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 28, 2026 01:39 PM (jehhT)

27 bill of attainder
noun
A legislative act that pronounces a person guilty of a crime and imposes an attainder. The US Constitution prohibits bills of attainder.
A legislative determination imposing punishment without trial; prohibited under the United States Constitution.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 28, 2026 01:39 PM (/+uur)

28 23 I'm beginning to develop a bit of concern that crows may displace shelving in Ace's hierarchy of non-blog interests and pastimes.

Maybe he's training a crow army to install shelves for him.

It's murder

Posted by: Crow from Kansas at May 28, 2026 01:39 PM (HcoTw)

29 How does something like this improve the lives of Californians?
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That presumes that's any thought in their head at this point.

Seems that filling up a reservoir could have helped out a lot of Californians....

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 01:40 PM (Fi81e)

30 Not just CA.

A NY state rep has introduced the same measure there.

Trump should just say, "fine, the deal is off. Pay me the $10 billion. I will set up a private compensation fund. There will be zero oversight or transparency. I'll name the fucking thing "The Fund to Defeat Democrats and Ruin Their Lives" and there won't be shit you can do about it."

And let's not forget--this was the only hill in 50 years the Senate Republicans chose to die on:
Making sure no J6 got paid.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 01:41 PM (73/SM)

31 Democrats don't seem very happy with California governance.

They'll just keep counting until Bass wins, just like last time.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 01:41 PM (2ocoG)

32 He knows the base of the Democrat Party and he's trying to position himself in the left of Stalin, right of Satan, lane. Problem is it's already crowded out there.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 28, 2026 01:41 PM (wGerL)

33 anyone who makes a profit trading put options should be taxed at 100 percent.

tell me how this is different

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 28, 2026 01:41 PM (CWTWj)

34 Corvids are often introduced as a gateway 'drug' to Spheniscidae.

Posted by: Big Penguin at May 28, 2026 01:41 PM (mPxHX)

35 Sadly, Federal taxes are levied by Congress. Not going to get a focused tax on demoncrats through congress any time soon. And if you did, I have my doubts about the Supreme Court. Just saying.

No, the Joker is in charge of Jokerland. If you still live there, you have not chosen wisely.

Posted by: The Crows at May 28, 2026 01:41 PM (anL5R)

36 The WH just has to make sure no payouts go to a resident of California.

Leave it to them how to Escape from ~~New York~~California.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 01:42 PM (Fi81e)

37 This is not law. This is Gruesome just talking out of his asshole. A lot of these clowns say a lot of dumb stuff that never goes anywhere. If it's newsworthy to report on what this femme queef said, then sure. Report on it. But don't treat it like an actual law. It's not.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 01:42 PM (iFTx/)

38 This is the exact opposite of what they said when they abolished the SAT/ACT requirement. There is no other option than that they were lying then or now. Chance that they'll address why they lied? zero.point.zero

Yale fully reinstates its pre-pandemic SAT/ACT requirement in admissions.

“These test scores are strong predictors of a student’s future Yale academic performance, and there is evidence that they are less subject to bias than other elements of an application.”

https://tinyurl.com/y9d3p784

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 01:42 PM (Riz8t)

39 California is starting to feel like one of the FWPs on CBD's Sunday thread. Prolly time to burn it all down and start over...

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 28, 2026 01:42 PM (kOluj)

40 "We must make the transition to 100 percent clean energy and bring all communities along to avoid a devastating climate apartheid."
......

We'll get right on that. Is next Friday OK?

Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 01:43 PM (UjdFS)

41 Seems that filling up a reservoir could have helped out a lot of Californians....
Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 01:40 PM (Fi81e)

I'd be willing to bet that you could take - at least - 90% of things that the California government does and by just not doing them you would help out a lot of Californians.

But the people who're rich enough to be, generally, unaffected and the people who get the handouts will continue to vote for the people who're destroying their state. If it affected me less, I'd laugh about it more.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 28, 2026 01:44 PM (ExV1e)

42 anyone who makes a profit trading put options should be taxed at 100 percent.

tell me how this is different

Cali has the unrealized profits tax on deck. It'll be voted on later this year, and the Democrats have already said it'll go federal if they win in '28.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 01:44 PM (2ocoG)

43 Oh, and Gavin Newsom is also looting taxpayer money to build solar panels for welfare cases living in publicly-subsidized housing.
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The money will go toward teef for the homeless.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 01:44 PM (Fi81e)

44 I didn't know that the Cleveland Indians had moved to California.
==
They had to make way for the Cleveland Guardians.

Posted by: The Crows at May 28, 2026 01:44 PM (anL5R)

45 At best it funnels that slush fund back into state coffers where it might do some good. At worst it makes all the J6 traitors flee blue states so they don't have to give up their bribe money. Sounds like a win-win to me.

Republicans have gone way beyond being ‘soft on crime’ and are just flat out rewarding it at every turn - as long as it’s their tribe.

They're attacking the Southern Poverty Law Center for "funding" terrorist groups like the KKK and Proud Boys, when In they were infiltrating them in order to expose them. Those groups are literally Trump's Base.

They should actually tax them more than 100%. They may have been pardoned for their crimes, but you can still make them pay. Make it 200% in taxes.

Gavin is not perfect but goddamn is he a breath of fresh air sometimes. As long as the left looks for a perfect candidate they will keep losing. This is the energy we need, with the election in just over two years!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 28, 2026 01:44 PM (ycI94)

46 Good luck with that tax Gavin. Not gonna hold up in court. But, it sure sounds good to the low-info crowd.

Posted by: Ann at May 28, 2026 01:45 PM (SHHm+)

47 Hey look, a spotted owl's nest! Now hand over the $166,000.

Posted by: Not doing this shit for free! at May 28, 2026 01:45 PM (TbWk/)

48 WA State just passed a shiny new "Millionaire's Tax" that also added business tax hikes, sales tax expansions, etc. It's a 9.9% flat tax on taxable income above one million.

The camel's nose is in the tent. The rich will flee. The tax won't produce the income to government they predict. They'll lower the threshold.

I need to get out of this craphole. My biggest impediment to leaving is my wife's job. She's got her dream job. It's a teaching position that doesn't open up.

Usually, when a teacher gets this job, they will stay until they retire. You have to be positioned just right and have the luck of the gods to get it. Additionally, conservative states like Utah and Idaho pay 2/3 to 1/2 of what she earns. So she'd take a pay cut and likely wouldn't get the same position.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 01:45 PM (mkw2N)

49 California is on a quest to find out how much one human institution can find out.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 01:46 PM (Fi81e)

50 But the people who're rich enough to be, generally, unaffected and the people who get the handouts will continue to vote for the people who're destroying their state. If it affected me less, I'd laugh about it more.

You'd have to have an IQ of a Somali to believe anything about elections in blue states at this point. I know a lot of conservatives have a sexual longing for this sort of virtue signaling, but the elections are all fake and gay and everyone knows it.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 01:46 PM (2ocoG)

51 Some Sunrun asshole came to my front door trying to get me to sign up for a solar installation program "completely" funded by PG&E requiring structural upgrades, new roof, etc.
Uh, no thanks you idiot.

Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 01:46 PM (UjdFS)

52 This is the exact opposite of what they said when they abolished the SAT/ACT requirement. There is no other option than that they were lying then or now. Chance that they'll address why they lied? zero.point.zero

Yale fully reinstates its pre-pandemic SAT/ACT requirement in admissions.

“These test scores are strong predictors of a student’s future Yale academic performance, and there is evidence that they are less subject to bias than other elements of an application.”

https://tinyurl.com/y9d3p784

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 01:42 PM (Riz8t)
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Imagine how many stone-cold drooling retards must be graduating Yale -- and screwing up its reputation among prestige employers -- for the school to go back to the hated standardized tests that whites and asians do so much better than others on.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 01:47 PM (iFTx/)

53 Republicans have gone way beyond being ‘soft on crime’ and are just flat out rewarding it at every turn - as long as it’s their tribe.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 28, 2026 01:44 PM (ycI94)
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LOL. When stupidity becomes a way of life.

Dude needs to stop huffing his own farts.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 01:47 PM (Fi81e)

54 I didn't know that the Cleveland Indians had moved to California.
==
They had to make way for the Cleveland Guardians.
Posted by: The Crows at May 28, 2026 01:44 PM (anL5R)

They should have renamed themselves the Cleveland Firebirds, after the Cuyahoga River Fire.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 01:47 PM (qx7Zg)

55 Imagine how many stone-cold drooling retards must be graduating Yale

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 01:47 PM (iFTx/)
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And to think Al Gore got through with the standards in place.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 01:48 PM (Fi81e)

56 And I thought the big CA news of the day was going to be the "It's illegal to verify our elections" law ala VA.

Posted by: Methos at May 28, 2026 01:48 PM (vSvIl)

57 Imagine how many stone-cold drooling retards must be graduating Yale -- and screwing up its reputation among prestige employers -- for the school to go back to the hated standardized tests that whites and asians do so much better than others on.

The University of California faculty is revolting about the absence of SATs because they didn't sign up to teach alleged engineering students 5th grade math.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 01:48 PM (2ocoG)

58 Germany is now banning a German citizen from leaving Germany.

Everything old is new again.

Mario ZNA on X: "🚨🇩🇪German authorities have just banned a prominent German patriot from leaving the country. @max_maerkl, spokesman for Germany’s @IBDeutschland, was banned from flying to Portugal for the Remigration summit. This kind of dictatorship has become the new normal across Europe!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 28, 2026 01:49 PM (aD4fx)

59 45 Republicans have gone way beyond being ‘soft on crime’ and are just flat out rewarding it at every turn - as long as it’s their tribe.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 28, 2026 01:44 PM (ycI94)

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And progressives are throwing themselves in front of cars and bullets to keep Somali women flush in fraudlent revenue streams from the taxpayer.

I prefer being loyal to my own tribe, thank you very much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 01:49 PM (2t0WW)

60 This is a stunt. The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution will shut down this pipe dream pretty quickly. In fact, I think this issue is previously addressed in an 1819 Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland, the Supremacy Clause bars states from taxing or controlling the operations of the federal government. The "Weaponization Fund" was established within the DOJ. By levying a 100% tax, California is effectively destroying the financial relief mechanism created by the federal DOJ.

Not going to happen.

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 01:49 PM (dIske)

61 LIBs. What Price their Vision?
https://tinyurl.com/LIBs-WhatPriceTheirVision

At Long Long LAST, the prophesy of a billion years has come to pass! Let's get this Party Started!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhVIKhHl2ws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ0YaWMeTD8

LET'S GO BRANDON!
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-HereComeTheDRUMS

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at May 28, 2026 01:49 PM (8p8zX)

62 And to think Al Gore got through with the standards in place.
Posted by: Axeman

How can you say that? The dude invented the internet!

Posted by: Retards at May 28, 2026 01:49 PM (ycI94)

63 > But the people who're rich enough to be, generally, unaffected and the people who get the handouts will continue to vote for the people who're destroying their state.

Some big names have already fled CA and WA.

Starbucks just announced they're going to TN. They claim their national headquarters will stay in Seattle, but I'm betting they'll hollow that out and then disappear.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 01:49 PM (mkw2N)

64
California Governor Gavin Newsom has allocated millions of dollars to a program that funds Native American "food sovereignty," owl counting, and "cultural burns," in which tribal groups use traditional fire techniques to clear brush from the landscape and preserve their "close kinship" with plants, animals, and "other natural relatives."

I hear that Owl Counting is illegal in Indian Casinos and cultural burns doesn't apply to tax-exempt cigarettes purchased on the Reservations.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 28, 2026 01:50 PM (y9nCu)

65 Take this tax and shove it.
I ain't a-living here no more.

Posted by: Zombie Johnny Paycheck at May 28, 2026 01:50 PM (wVcYX)

66 Imagine how many stone-cold drooling retards must be graduating Yale -- and screwing up its reputation among prestige employers -- for the school to go back to the hated standardized tests that whites and asians do so much better than others on.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 01:47 PM (iFTx/)

Just take a spin through TPUSA, Crowder, Russell Hunter, Cam Higby et al's videos of student discussions/confrontations at ivy league or "prestigious" state universities. The students are as stupid and ignorant as they are vicious. At first you want to laugh, then you realize that's it's quite terrifying.

Posted by: They literally want to kill us at May 28, 2026 01:51 PM (TbWk/)

67 BTW, the "long time listener, first time caller" plants sprouting up against Paxton on X are hilarious.

Lots and lots of conservative and Christian bona fides touted.

Half are, "I'm a super Christian, so perfected that I feel Jesus Himself has already set my table in Heaven--and Talarico is the most Christian of Christians that ever was a Christian since Christ walked the Earth. We must all vote for most Christian of Christians like Christian Talarico"

The other half are, "hello fellow conservatives. I am most conservative of conservative. My Bible never leaves my sight for Jesus is my light. My strongly conservative and Christian cannot allow me the choice and we good conservative Christians must not vote for Paxton or Talarico. It is Bible written words for good Christians to not choose evil men of evil."

(this last, btw, is the erick errickson tact)

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 01:51 PM (73/SM)

68 It's just odd how any input just auto-corrupts and merges into the sludge in these people's heads.

A fund for people pursuing a redress to wrongful prosecution becomes "bribe money for J6", simply because some of the people it could go to would be J6-ers claiming prosecutorial abuse.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 01:51 PM (Fi81e)

69 Couldn't other states impose like a 400% 500% 10,000% (i.e. 100,000x) tax on all sales to CA companies? Why doesn't every stupid BS thing CA does get thrown back on them ten fold? It should.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 01:51 PM (3uBP9)

70 Imagine how many stone-cold drooling retards must be graduating Yale

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 01:47 PM (iFTx/)
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And to think Al Gore got through with the standards in place.
Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 01:48 PM (Fi81e)
_____

Gore was a nepo baby. His dad was a bigshit in Dumocrap politics. Senator, IIRC.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/)

71 Trump should announce a plan to seize any personal assets belonging to any person previously governor of California found to have had dinner at the French Laundry during covid lockdown.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2026 01:52 PM (ji8TS)

72 Half are, "I'm a super Christian, so perfected that I feel Jesus Himself has already set my table in Heaven--and Talarico is the most Christian of Christians that ever was a Christian since Christ walked the Earth. We must all vote for most Christian of Christians like Christian Talarico"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 01:51 PM (73/SM)
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Ellie Light rides again.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 01:52 PM (Fi81e)

73 Ace,

Mamdani is going to do pretty much the same thing in NYC by confiscating real estate owned by his political opponents...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 01:52 PM (iERP6)

74 Some big names have already fled CA and WA.

Marc Andreessen, the venture capitalist, said basically everyone in Silicon Valley has plans to leave if it looks like the unrealized income tax is going to pass.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 01:52 PM (2ocoG)

75 Gore was a nepo baby. His dad was a bigshit in Dumocrap politics. Senator, IIRC.

Yep - Al got into Yale because somebody made a phone call.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 28, 2026 01:53 PM (aD4fx)

76 Imagine how many stone-cold drooling retards must be graduating Yale -- and screwing up its reputation among prestige employers
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 01:47 PM

This.

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at May 28, 2026 01:53 PM (0sNs1)

77 I'm beginning to develop a bit of concern that crows may displace shelving in Ace's hierarchy of non-blog interests and pastimes.

Maybe he's training a crow army to install shelves for him.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 01:38 PM (Riz8t)

the shelves are to hold crows, that's why they came first.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 01:53 PM (8avO+)

78 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: aliassmith smith at May 28, 2026 01:53 PM (izLlr)

79 California Governor Gavin Newsom has allocated millions of dollars to a program that funds Native American "food sovereignty," owl counting, and "cultural burns," in which tribal groups use traditional fire techniques to clear brush from the landscape and preserve their "close kinship" with plants, animals, and "other natural relatives."

They act as if native Americans are somehow different than other people; they they've got a spiritual connection to the universe that other races lack. They're saying there are different races with different abilities. I'm not sure that's a position they've thought through.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 01:53 PM (Riz8t)

80 I don't think such a tax is legal.

Posted by: steevy at May 28, 2026 01:53 PM (YwEeS)

81 I don't think such a tax is legal.

"It's legal!" - President Boasberg

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 01:54 PM (2ocoG)

82 74 Some big names have already fled CA and WA.

Marc Andreessen, the venture capitalist, said basically everyone in Silicon Valley has plans to leave if it looks like the unrealized income tax is going to pass.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 01:52 PM (2ocoG)

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So, the Indians are going back to India?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 01:55 PM (2t0WW)

83 I hear that Owl Counting is illegal in Indian Casinos and cultural burns doesn't apply to tax-exempt cigarettes purchased on the Reservations.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
.......

Yeah but Rez chicks are hawt.

Posted by: wth at May 28, 2026 01:55 PM (UjdFS)

84 77 I'm beginning to develop a bit of concern that crows may displace shelving in Ace's hierarchy of non-blog interests and pastimes.

Maybe he's training a crow army to install shelves for him.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 01:38 PM (Riz8t)
_______________________________

Not to worry. The second Ace loses an eye in a pecking incident, he'll be back focussing on shelving in short order.

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 01:55 PM (dIske)

85 I didn't think it was possible that CA. could get more insane but yet here we are....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 28, 2026 01:55 PM (FtULh)

86 And this malignant clown wants to be President?!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 01:55 PM (WFtAr)

87 They act as if native Americans are somehow different than other people; they they've got a spiritual connection to the universe that other races lack. They're saying there are different races with different abilities. I'm not sure that's a position they've thought through.

Races being different is fine as long as whitey is inferior.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 01:55 PM (2ocoG)

88 The Ivanpah power facility in the Mojave is a perfect example of Cali energy policies. It is very expensive , it doesn't produce as much energy as they thought it would and it kills birds. The company that runs it was going to close it and let PG+E and SoCal Energy out of their contracts.
Unfortunately the Cali utilities commission said no you can't close because we can't replace the energy Ivanpah produces. So even though it's expensive and inefficient, keep going

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2026 01:55 PM (zaxlN)

89 So, the Indians are going back to India?

Vegas, Salt Lake City, Nashville, Austin, and Miami were cited as the top destinations.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 01:56 PM (2ocoG)

90 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: aliassmith smith at May 28, 2026 01:56 PM (izLlr)

91 Maybe some enterprising indian will get off his ass and use these absurd rules to start a business to travel around and burn down or clear all of this brush that threatens homeowners. Clear a perimeter, protect your property.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 28, 2026 01:56 PM (D1E+2)

92 81 I don't think such a tax is legal.

"It's legal!" - President Boasberg
Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 01:54 PM (2ocoG)
_________________________

Try again, Boasberg.
1819 Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland

Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 01:56 PM (dIske)

93 Sounds very bill of attaindery and unconstitutionalistic

Posted by: AMartel at May 28, 2026 01:56 PM (otvi3)

94 What the actual fu*k???
Is he really serious or just that stupid??? Or is this the puppet masters pulling his strings to see how far they can go?

Buy ammo Hordemates. Early and often.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 28, 2026 01:57 PM (2WIwB)

95 It's frightening to think Newsom could be our next POTUS.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 28, 2026 01:57 PM (NpAcC)

96
Germany is now banning a German citizen from leaving Germany.

Everything old is new again.

Mario ZNA on X: "🚨🇩🇪German authorities have just banned a prominent German patriot from leaving the country. @max_maerkl, spokesman for Germany’s @IBDeutschland, was banned from flying to Portugal for the Remigration summit. This kind of dictatorship has become the new normal across Europe!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 28, 2026 01:49 PM (aD4fx)

You can always tell which countries are dictatorships by observing which direction the machine guns are pointed to on the border.

Pointed in: Dictatorship.
Pointed out: Free country

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 28, 2026 01:57 PM (y9nCu)

97

Posted by: aliassmith smith at May 28, 2026 01:56 PM (izLlr)

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If this doesn't happen, please promise to kill yourself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 01:57 PM (2t0WW)

98 By levying a 100% tax, California is effectively destroying the financial relief mechanism created by the federal DOJ.

Not going to happen.
Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 01:49 PM (dIske)
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I buy that that is the proper analysis.

I just increasingly doubt whether the people who should care will care.

And it's a support for a case alleging prosecutorial abuse. It's not like it goes to the plaintiff. And the only result would be a decision that they were prosecuted wrong, or no, they were prosecuted correctly.

They just don't like the idea that trespassers on a lawn can't have a Scarlet A burned into them if they want that type of punishment for people who disagreed with them on politics, and have a possibility, through a legal redress to expunge the offense from their record.

These people are sick, sick, puppies.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 01:57 PM (Fi81e)

99 Seven thousand four hundred and eighty five
Seven thousand four hundred and eighty six
Seven thousand four hund..
(Whooooo!)
Oh it's just me counting the, wait,... CRAP! damnit
...
One
Two
Three
...

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 01:57 PM (3uBP9)

100
Punitive, selective taxing based on political parties?

This is California to a T.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 28, 2026 01:57 PM (IifOV)

101 You can always tell which countries are dictatorships by observing which direction the machine guns are pointed to on the border.

Pointed in: Dictatorship.
Pointed out: Free country

100%. The US would kill for more people to leave by any means available. Hell, even if I were an evil Eurocrat I'd let these troublemakers leave and just not let them back in.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 01:58 PM (2ocoG)

102 CA states attorney, Bill Essayli responded via X

nope to the greaseball

Posted by: cherries in season at May 28, 2026 01:58 PM (RZ0OO)

103 If only there was some way to not be subject to CA taxes ...

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 28, 2026 01:59 PM (1M0ma)

104 A fund for people pursuing a redress to wrongful prosecution becomes "bribe money for J6", simply because some of the people it could go to would be J6-ers claiming prosecutorial abuse.
Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 01:51 PM (Fi81e)

J6ers must be punished, they are proof that the Progs and the corrupt establishment are moral and good.
Any questioning of this, like admitting there were abuses on innocents by the established courts and legislatures, will push the need to investigate who did what corrupt act, and who profited.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 01:59 PM (rbvCR)

105 87 They act as if native Americans are somehow different than other people; they they've got a spiritual connection to the universe that other races lack. They're saying there are different races with different abilities. I'm not sure that's a position they've thought through.

Races being different is fine as long as whitey is inferior.
Posted by: Ian S.

Exactly. That's why no one here can carry knives...except Sikhs who stab young white men, and brown people who stab everybody.

Posted by: English Commies at May 28, 2026 01:59 PM (ycI94)

106 >>> Some big names have already fled CA and WA.

As they say,
You can take the shit head out of the shit hole,
but it is the shit head that makes the shit hole.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 01:59 PM (/lPRQ)

107 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: aliassmith smith at May 28, 2026 02:00 PM (izLlr)

108 > I'm a super Christian, so perfected that I feel Jesus Himself has already set my table in Heaven--and Talarico is the most Christian of Christians that ever was a Christian since Christ walked the Earth. We must all vote for most Christian of Christians like Christian Talarico

Twitter is full of Talarico's awful biblical takes.

EG: Talarico says the Bible justifies abortion. How you ask? When Gabriel appeared to Mary, he "asked the Virgin Mary for her consent before she conceived Jesus." He doesn't flesh out the argument, but apparently aborting a baby is denying consent, and that's OK, because Mary was given the choice whether to consent or not.

Talarico also says God is non-binary, and if you disagree, take it up with Paul.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:00 PM (mkw2N)

109 Germany is now banning a German citizen from leaving Germany.

Everything old is new again.

Mario ZNA on X: "🚨🇩🇪German authorities have just banned a prominent German patriot from leaving the country. @max_maerkl, spokesman for Germany’s @IBDeutschland, was banned from flying to Portugal for the Remigration summit. This kind of dictatorship has become the new normal across Europe!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 28, 2026 01:49 PM (aD4fx)

I think the law used was recently passed to require military aged men to hang around for the new 4th Reich. Dude should identify as a woman and go anyhow

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 02:00 PM (8avO+)

110 Germany is now banning a German citizen from leaving Germany.
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Not surprising. The entire EU is fascist.

The government decides whatever the government decides to decide.

Thus, the time-honored vote of feet is suddenly disallowed. Why? Because you can no longer choose your own jurisdiction if they don't like your choice.

What's scary is both California and New York have expressed a desire to have such a power.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:01 PM (Fi81e)

111 Talarico says the Bible justifies abortion. How you ask? When Gabriel appeared to Mary, he "asked the Virgin Mary for her consent before she conceived Jesus." He doesn't flesh out the argument, but apparently aborting a baby is denying consent, and that's OK, because Mary was given the choice whether to consent or not.

"Logic" this tortured is against the Geneva Convention.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 02:01 PM (Riz8t)

112 Remember how 1/6 ended up being inside baseball that no one outside the Beltway gave a shit about and that's one of a host of reasons that Trump won re-election in 2024?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:02 PM (2t0WW)

113 >>They act as if native Americans are somehow different than other people

They were a Genetic Dead End.

And their cultures are without value.

Just my 2 cents. But, there you have it.

Posted by: garrett at May 28, 2026 02:02 PM (oVTIk)

114 113 >>They act as if native Americans are somehow different than other people

They were a Genetic Dead End.

And their cultures are without value.

Just my 2 cents. But, there you have it.

Posted by: garrett at May 28, 2026 02:02 PM (oVTIk)

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Anthropology is the study of dead civilizations and explaining why they should conquer the Western World with flutes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:02 PM (2t0WW)

115
They act as if native Americans are somehow different than other people

They act as if Injuns still run around whooping in loincloths and saying "How, white man. My noble savage ancestors greet you with peace pipe."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 28, 2026 02:03 PM (y9nCu)

116 Don't forget the "Central Park Five" of the 1989 Central Park Jogger case. All confessed, individually, with the same story, and with their legal guardians present. DNA evidence convicted them.

But wait! Here comes homeless rapist who also took part, now getting a deal from the Manhattan DA only IF he'll testify that he was the only attacker.

And now here comes the execrable, zero-talent DEI cunt "filmmaker" Anna Duvernay to make a Netflix movie, a total fantasy that convicts Evil Whitey for framing them.

Presto-changeo the five "youths" are released and made millionaires by a financial settlement with the city. One of the pieces of shit is now serving on the NYC Council.

Posted by: front toward enemy at May 28, 2026 02:03 PM (TIizU)

117 What's scary is both California and New York have expressed a desire to have such a power.
Posted by: Axeman

Nonsense! We'd never stop someone from leaving. Taxing them, however...

AB 259 (2024 Proposal): Would have imposed a 0.4% annual exit tax on net worth exceeding $30 million ($15 million for married filing separately) for up to 10 years after leaving California. This bill died in committee in January 2024 due to constitutional concerns and opposition from Governor Newsom.

Posted by: California Libs at May 28, 2026 02:03 PM (ycI94)

118 >> Some big names have already fled CA and WA.

They really wanted Exit Taxes in place before they did this shit.

Of course, Portability precludes this.

Posted by: garrett at May 28, 2026 02:03 PM (oVTIk)

119 I hear you can get high from those forest themed ingredients.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2026 02:03 PM (n5tGW)

120 J6ers must be punished, they are proof that the Progs and the corrupt establishment are moral and good.
Any questioning of this, like admitting there were abuses on innocents by the established courts and legislatures, will push the need to investigate who did what corrupt act, and who profited.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 01:59 PM (rbvCR)
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Yes, the very mature, moral equivalent of fingers in ears.

That will drive the country forward to progress.

Any value to liberal principles of the 20th century has been well drained out by weaponized sympathy of the ideologues.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:03 PM (Fi81e)

121 They act as if Injuns still run around whooping in loincloths and saying "How, white man. My noble savage ancestors greet you with peace pipe."

But enough about Liz Warren.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Riz8t)

122 >>They act as if native Americans are somehow different than other people

Then give them a ration book for free fire water.
One fifth a day of vodka should do it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 28, 2026 02:04 PM (/lPRQ)

123 And this malignant clown wants to be President?!!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 01:55 PM (WFtAr)

He's going for the Democrat base - Antifa thugs and bitter liberal arts college grads who hang around campus protesting even though they are 44 years old.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 02:04 PM (8avO+)

124 CA states attorney, Bill Essayli responded via X

nope to the greaseball
Posted by: cherries in season at May 28, 2026 01:58 PM (RZ0OO)
______

Essayli is a federal U.S. attorney general for the district of CA. He's not a state AG.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 02:04 PM (iFTx/)

125 120 Yes, the very mature, moral equivalent of fingers in ears.

That will drive the country forward to progress.

Any value to liberal principles of the 20th century has been well drained out by weaponized sympathy of the ideologues.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:03 PM (Fi81e)

=====

Kamala raising money for BLM rioters...while they rioted, is just social justice, comrade.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:04 PM (2t0WW)

126 If only there was some way to not be subject to CA taxes ...
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
___________

There's not. Seems like everything I buy has a tag saying it complies with CA requirements.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 28, 2026 02:04 PM (XvL8K)

127 Germany is now banning a German citizen from leaving Germany.

Imagine Merz talking like Schwarzenegger:

"Fuck your Schengen rules"

From the EU home affairs website: Schengen guarantees free movement to more than 450 million EU citizens, along with non-EU nationals living in the EU or visiting the EU as tourists, exchange students or for business purposes, anyone legally present in the EU. 

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 02:04 PM (rbvCR)

128 >>Anthropology is the study of dead civilizations and explaining why they should conquer the Western World with flutes.

Well, they keep us safe from the Guinea Pigs.

That was a great South Park.

Posted by: garrett at May 28, 2026 02:04 PM (oVTIk)

129 128 >>Anthropology is the study of dead civilizations and explaining why they should conquer the Western World with flutes.

Well, they keep us safe from the Guinea Pigs.

That was a great South Park.

Posted by: garrett at May 28, 2026 02:04 PM (oVTIk)

======

I think it should have been a three-parter. The resolution was too quick.

Craig needed more screen time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:05 PM (2t0WW)

130 He's going for the Democrat base - Antifa thugs and bitter liberal arts college grads who hang around campus protesting even though they are 44 years old.

But enough about Taylor Lorenz.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 02:05 PM (Riz8t)

131 They act as if Injuns still run around whooping in loincloths and saying "How, white man. My noble savage ancestors greet you with peace pipe."

But enough about Liz Warren.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Riz8t)

the evidence is the actual native americans were pretty good about not setting their homes on fire. Now burning the wildlife in mass hunts, that's another thing.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 02:05 PM (8avO+)

132 They act as if Injuns still run around whooping in loincloths and saying "How, white man. My noble savage ancestors greet you with peace pipe."

But enough about Liz Warren.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Riz8t)

taylor is 88 years old.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 02:06 PM (8avO+)

133 I owe a bunch of tolls in Illinois. I'm never going to pay them and they really don't have much recourse. Would an Exit Tax work the same way, as long as your new state and the Feds also said they wouldn't help enforce an Exit Tax?

Posted by: Wally at May 28, 2026 02:06 PM (0e5Te)

134 132
taylor is 88 years old.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 02:06 PM (8avO+)

======

88 years, plus more.

So, you are correct, but not exactly accurate.

She has lived 88 years, yes, but there are more years she's experienced than that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:06 PM (2t0WW)

135 >>the evidence is the actual native americans were pretty good about not setting their homes on fire. Now burning the wildlife in mass hunts, that's another thing.

They used EVERY part of the Buffalo!

Posted by: garrett at May 28, 2026 02:06 PM (oVTIk)

136 @thehill
Thune urges Senate GOP to ‘pivot’ from Cornyn, help Paxton win in Texas
May 28, 2026 · 10:06 AM UTC

Posted by: they're afraid at May 28, 2026 02:06 PM (gKWVE)

137 I would kick Gavin Newsom in the nuts, only if I knew he had some....

Highly doubtful.

Posted by: ironwolf32 at May 28, 2026 02:07 PM (MO0/c)

138 There's not. Seems like everything I buy has a tag saying it complies with CA requirements.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 28, 2026 02:04 PM (XvL8K)

And determined by the State of California to cause cancer.

Posted by: California is cancer at May 28, 2026 02:07 PM (TbWk/)

139 We will, we will…..rob you!
-Queem

Posted by: Eromero at May 28, 2026 02:07 PM (ksJAf)

140 This is why you shouldn't get a tiny car if you park like an idiot.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cN6VcgiJapk

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2026 02:07 PM (qx7Zg)

141 136 @thehill
Thune urges Senate GOP to ‘pivot’ from Cornyn, help Paxton win in Texas
May 28, 2026 · 10:06 AM UTC

Posted by: they're afraid at May 28, 2026 02:06 PM (gKWVE)

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In this, Thune is definitely better than McConnell.

McConnell shoveled money to Murkowski so she could win a write-in campaign in 2016.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:07 PM (2t0WW)

142 Barak Ravid at Axios is writing that an Iran deal is about to be announced. But Barak Ravid has been wrong about everything he's predicted since this started, so who knows. But there's always a first time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 02:07 PM (edUvp)

143 136 @thehill
Thune urges Senate GOP to ‘pivot’ from Cornyn, help Paxton win in Texas
May 28, 2026 · 10:06 AM UTC

That's big of him...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 28, 2026 02:07 PM (FtULh)

144 Talarico says the Bible justifies abortion. How you ask? When Gabriel appeared to Mary, he "asked the Virgin Mary for her consent before she conceived Jesus."

In fact Luke 1:31:

"And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus."

I'm having trouble seeing where people are reading into that the idea that Mary had any choice in the matter.

Posted by: Methos at May 28, 2026 02:07 PM (vSvIl)

145 They used EVERY part of the Buffalo!

Hence the Buffalo Taint bourbon brand.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 02:08 PM (Riz8t)

146 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: aliassmith smith at May 28, 2026 02:08 PM (izLlr)

147 Nonsense! We'd never stop someone from leaving. Taxing them, however...

Posted by: California Libs at May 28, 2026 02:03 PM (ycI94)
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After all, what harm is letting beggars over the border right? After we tax their car out from under them, all the personal belongings they are trying to move.

I mean, so a few rain barrels and burlap sacks leave the state with them, right?

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:08 PM (Fi81e)

148 I like the line:

The United States is the only country in history where even its worst critics refuse to leave.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 28, 2026 02:08 PM (73/SM)

149 Thune urges Senate GOP to ‘pivot’ from Cornyn, help Paxton win in Texas

Oh go F yourself, you jackass. We sent YOU the message, we don't need it read back to us as if you wrote it.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 02:08 PM (Riz8t)

150 >>Barak Ravid at Axios is writing that an Iran deal is about to be announced.

It is bullshit.

Every Thursday, Axios publishes the same nonsense.

Posted by: garrett at May 28, 2026 02:08 PM (oVTIk)

151 From the EU home affairs website: Schengen guarantees free movement to more than 450 million EU citizens, along with non-EU nationals living in the EU or visiting the EU as tourists, exchange students or for business purposes, anyone legally present in the EU. 
Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 02:04 PM (rbvCR)

More of a guideline than a rule.

Anyhow, that law restricting german Youths getting out without permission is part of their 'rearmament' program, which may eventually be followed up by industry, arms factories, trained men, officers, and decades of military experience that they've pissed away since 1985.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 02:09 PM (8avO+)

152 > the evidence is the actual native americans were pretty good about not setting their homes on fire. Now burning the wildlife in mass hunts, that's another thing.

I know there are famous "buffalo jump" locations where they would drive the buffalo off of cliffs. I hadn't heard about starting fires to drive animals. I'm not saying it didn't happen.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:10 PM (mkw2N)

153 Thune urges Senate GOP to ‘pivot’ from Cornyn, help Paxton win in Texas

Oh go F yourself, you jackass. We sent YOU the message, we don't need it read back to us as if you wrote it.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 02:08 PM (Riz8t)

That is likely to be the last place we need any help. Some other of the 32 remaining races is a better choice.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 02:10 PM (8avO+)

154 150 >>Barak Ravid at Axios is writing that an Iran deal is about to be announced.

It is bullshit.

Every Thursday, Axios publishes the same nonsense.

Posted by: garrett at May 28, 2026 02:08 PM (oVTIk)

======

Pretty much.

And every Thursday, the UAE is another few miles from finishing its pipeline to completely bypass the Strait of Hormuz.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:10 PM (2t0WW)

155 Barak Ravid at Axios is writing that an Iran deal is about to be announced.

They just shot missiles at Kuwait.. Doesn't sound very "peace dealy" to me...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 28, 2026 02:10 PM (FtULh)

156 I don't care if there's a native american drum circle, face painting, or any other such accoutrements associated, as long as California gets literally anyone to manage their forests like sane non-retarded people.

Posted by: ballistic at May 28, 2026 02:10 PM (oqH4h)

157 Posted by: aliassmith smith at May 28, 2026 02:08 PM (izLlr)

Secret commands?!! So they're like brain dead zombies specially programmed in advance?

Posted by: AliasJonesJones at May 28, 2026 02:10 PM (WFtAr)

158
Taylor Lorenz and Helen Thomas were in Kindergarten together.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 28, 2026 02:11 PM (IifOV)

159 I know there are famous "buffalo jump" locations where they would drive the buffalo off of cliffs. I hadn't heard about starting fires to drive animals. I'm not saying it didn't happen.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:10 PM (mkw2N)

But they were natural conservationists, closely in tune with Mother Earth, taking only what they needed!

Posted by: More white man's lies at May 28, 2026 02:11 PM (TbWk/)

160 Modern governance has no regard for personal discretion.

Letting people get lost in their own passions keeps more noses out of government and stands in for "personal discretion" (i.e., the discretion against any type of discretion). Thus scientific states champion "hedonistic choice", but if you build any sway, you have to join or be destroyed.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:11 PM (Fi81e)

161 German authorities have just banned a prominent German patriot from leaving the country

So the current German government has re-instituted the Letters of Transit from Casablanca. How Nazi of them.

Posted by: Chuck C at May 28, 2026 02:11 PM (KOF8G)

162 157 Posted by: aliassmith smith at May 28, 2026 02:08 PM (izLlr)

Secret commands?!! So they're like brain dead zombies specially programmed in advance?

Posted by: AliasJonesJones at May 28, 2026 02:10 PM (WFtAr)

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Dude obviously doesn't live in Texas.

I mean, I don't live in Texas but I at least I know what $100 million in ads vs. $15 million in ads does to public perception of candidates.

Plus, you know, about a decade of negative stories about a guy followed by an impeachment that fails hilariously which ends up making him stronger.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:11 PM (2t0WW)

163 They were a Genetic Dead End.

And their cultures are without value.

Just my 2 cents. But, there you have it.

Posted by: garrett at May 28, 2026 02:02 PM (oVTIk)

That is difficult to refute, and it also applies to many other cultures.

Western Culture has done 99% of the heavy lifting for our civilization, and there is no way to avoid that pesky little fact.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 02:11 PM (iERP6)

164 I know there are famous "buffalo jump" locations where they would drive the buffalo off of cliffs. I hadn't heard about starting fires to drive animals. I'm not saying it didn't happen.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:10 PM (mkw2N)

According to the early settlers in CA, the local indians did not hunt buffalo, they ate grasshoppers which they captured by setting fires

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 02:11 PM (rbvCR)

165 Check out the news on Judge Eleanor Ross. Atlanta-based Northern District of Georgia.

Posted by: sometimes you get pounded BY the gavel at May 28, 2026 02:11 PM (gKWVE)

166 I wonder if anyone in Germany has thought about building a big wall around the entire country.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 02:12 PM (edUvp)

167 97. (izLlr)

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If this doesn't happen, please promise to kill yourself.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 01:57 PM (2t0WW)

This clown (izLlr) is still around? To what purpose?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 02:12 PM (QGaXH)

168 165 Check out the news on Judge Eleanor Ross. Atlanta-based Northern District of Georgia.

Posted by: sometimes you get pounded BY the gavel at May 28, 2026 02:11 PM (gKWVE)

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Perfect candidate for impeachment by Congress.

Her sins are completely unrelated to politics. It's obvious abuse of power and abuse of her office.

However, she's black and appointed by Biden, so it's still going to be perceived as political no matter what.

Still, I think this is an impeachment worth trying. Even if it fails, she's a nobody, one of a hundred like her at that level of the judiciary, and her increased prominence and "absolution" won't make a huge difference overall.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:13 PM (2t0WW)

169 167 This clown (izLlr) is still around? To what purpose?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 02:12 PM (QGaXH)

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To inform us of his favorite food.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:13 PM (2t0WW)

170 I'm having trouble seeing where people are reading into that the idea that Mary had any choice in the matter.

Posted by: Methos at May 28, 2026 02:07 PM (vSvIl)

I think I see the problem.

Go find a bottle of bourbon, and drink half of it. Then whack yourself in the head with a ball peen hammer several times.

That should help you see the logic.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 02:14 PM (iERP6)

171 They act as if Injuns still run around whooping in loincloths and saying "How, white man. My noble savage ancestors greet you with peace pipe."

But enough about Liz Warren.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Riz8t)
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Powwow Chow.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:14 PM (Fi81e)

172 > I'm having trouble seeing where people are reading into that the idea that Mary had any choice in the matter.

I tend to believe she did have a choice, but I don't see how that justifies abortion. Mary's choice (assuming for argument's sake she had a choice) was PRE CONCEPTION. Talarico's argument would make more sense if Gabriel had told Mary, "You've already got a bun in the oven, is that OK?"

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:14 PM (mkw2N)

173 170
Go find a bottle of bourbon, and drink half of it. Then whack yourself in the head with a ball peen hammer several times.

That should help you see the logic.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 02:14 PM (iERP6)

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This is a waste of bourbon.

Dewar's White Label would be more appropriate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:15 PM (2t0WW)

174 >>> taylor is 88 years old.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 02:06 PM (8avO+)

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88 years, plus more.

So, you are correct, but not exactly accurate.

She has lived 88 years, yes, but there are more years she's experienced than that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:06 PM (2t0WW)

That's 88 galactic years, i.e. rotations about the galactic core. With one rotation equivalent to approximately a quarter billion earth years. So about 22 billion years. Since her last molting.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 02:15 PM (3uBP9)

175 > the evidence is the actual native americans were pretty good about not setting their homes on fire. Now burning the wildlife in mass hunts, that's another thing.

I know there are famous "buffalo jump" locations where they would drive the buffalo off of cliffs. I hadn't heard about starting fires to drive animals. I'm not saying it didn't happen.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:10 PM (mkw2N)

That's the easiest way, even the mongol hunts with better tech and horses used torches and such to scare animals with fear of fire. Without much manpower and on foot, burns were the best trigger. Also burned plant matter is good fertilizer.

there's a lot of hooplah these days about the Dryas period extinctions in the new world and supposed meteors -- like always. In 100 years WWII damage will all be meteors.

There is signs of fire damage starting at this period, I suspect this is the time when the peeps started using fire on a wider scale for group hunts and spreading across the Americas.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 02:15 PM (8avO+)

176 I wonder if anyone in Germany has thought about building a big wall around the entire country.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 02:12 PM (edUvp)

They don't need a physical wall to combat fascism, the Greens, the CDU and the other parties have all entered into a compact to never vote or cooperate with the AfD no matter what, to prevent Fascism from arising once again in their beloved Fatherland.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 02:15 PM (rbvCR)

177 This clown (izLlr) is still around? To what purpose?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 28, 2026 02:12 PM (QGaXH)

To flush out the commenters who can't be bothered simply to ignore the troll so that it goes away, or is flushed by the system.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2026 02:15 PM (iERP6)

178 I think Ross was installed in her bench by the Senate in 2014, and Biden didn't have to cast the deciding vote. This one's on Obama and the GOP Senate leadership.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 02:15 PM (gKWVE)

179
Yale fully reinstates its pre-pandemic SAT/ACT requirement in admissions.

“These test scores are strong predictors of a student’s future Yale academic performance, and there is evidence that they are less subject to bias than other elements of an application.”

https://tinyurl.com/y9d3p784

Posted by: Archimedes

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UCSD, which prides itself on being a scary, no-football-team STEM school, is doing the same thing. I think it made national news when it abolished the SAT and found itself admitting students who LITERALLY couldn't do middle-grade math. Now they've reversed that policy, or they're considering reversing it, not sure.

I consider it something like hypocrisy. The teachers who allowed this to happen knew damn well what the results would be.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 02:15 PM (n7rxJ)

180 California is running out of money, so the Dems have to steal it from somebody.

Posted by: RebeccaH at May 28, 2026 02:15 PM (VFung)

181 Everything IN the State; Nothing OUTSIDE the State; Nothing AGAINST the State:

You cannot be prominent unless you cooperate with the direction of the state.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:16 PM (Fi81e)

182 Of course Mary had a choice. She could do God's will, or follow the commands of Satan. If Talarico is saying abortion is Satanic, then yeah, he's right.

Posted by: Wally at May 28, 2026 02:17 PM (0e5Te)

183
"Cultural fire practitioners," by contrast, are certified through simple tribal recognition that a person has "substantial experience" burning for cultural purposes.

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Didn't Hindus do this?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 02:17 PM (n7rxJ)

184 Do the Germans have banned a guy from leaving . The Nazis, the Stasi. They never learn

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2026 02:17 PM (zaxlN)

185 Maybe they restrict the cultural burns to of a few of those damned casinos?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 28, 2026 02:17 PM (2WIwB)

186 Tit for tat.

Boob thread!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 28, 2026 02:18 PM (Kt19C)

187 I know there are famous "buffalo jump" locations where they would drive the buffalo off of cliffs. I hadn't heard about starting fires to drive animals. I'm not saying it didn't happen.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:10 PM (mkw2N)

According to the early settlers in CA, the local indians did not hunt buffalo, they ate grasshoppers which they captured by setting fires
Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 02:11 PM (rbvCR)

In my area they hunted whales, and moved to the coast areas to do so. Other times they lived further inland. Not sure there were buffalo in CA, its not plains country.

Nothing wrong with locust eating, lots of protein in there.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 02:18 PM (8avO+)

188 I can't stand Newscum. The man is 365° asshole! I know that you're so proud, California.

Posted by: Tracy at May 28, 2026 02:18 PM (EGTA2)

189 there's a lot of hooplah these days about the Dryas period extinctions in the new world and supposed meteors -- like always. In 100 years WWII damage will all be meteors.

There is signs of fire damage starting at this period, I suspect this is the time when the peeps started using fire on a wider scale for group hunts and spreading across the Americas.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 02:15 PM (8avO+)

It is inconceivable that the Younger Dryas had anything to do with meteorite impacts and the secondary impact sites are a mere geographical oddity that can be dismissed with reference to authorities who claim such things never happened and were caused by wind and rain.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 02:18 PM (rbvCR)

190 "Cultural fire practitioners," by contrast, are certified through simple tribal recognition that a person has "substantial experience" burning for cultural purposes.

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Didn't Hindus do this?

See also, worshippers of Moloch.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 02:18 PM (Riz8t)

191 75 Gore was a nepo baby. His dad was a bigshit in Dumocrap politics. Senator, IIRC.

Yep - Al got into Yale because somebody made a phone call.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 28, 2026 01:53 PM (aD4fx)

Al Gore - and his roommate, Tommy Lee Jones - were Harvard men. Their standards never changed.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 28, 2026 02:18 PM (0CU3H)

192 Didn't Hindus do this?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 02:17 PM (n7rxJ)

Not anymore.

Posted by: Sir Chuckie-Jim Napier, respecter of all customs at May 28, 2026 02:19 PM (gKWVE)

193 Do the Germans have banned a guy from leaving . The Nazis, the Stasi. They never learn
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2026 02:17 PM (zaxlN)

They did better in the Ukraine in those days, for a while at least.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 02:19 PM (8avO+)

194 Yale fully reinstates its pre-pandemic SAT/ACT requirement in admissions.

“These test scores are strong predictors of a student’s future Yale academic performance, and there is evidence that they are less subject to bias than other elements of an application.”

I'm shocked they would admit this publicly. Wouldn't it be astonishing if next time they admitted IQ correlates very well with educational and financial success?

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:19 PM (mkw2N)

195 I tend to believe she did have a choice, but I don't see how that justifies abortion. Mary's choice (assuming for argument's sake she had a choice) was PRE CONCEPTION. Talarico's argument would make more sense if Gabriel had told Mary, "You've already got a bun in the oven, is that OK?"

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:14 PM (mkw2N)
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Ditto. I don't think Mary would have been the type of woman the Lord would have wanted to choose if she found it too much of an imposition.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:19 PM (Fi81e)

196 In my area they hunted whales, and moved to the coast areas to do so. Other times they lived further inland. Not sure there were buffalo in CA, its not plains country.

It seems there were.
While modern American bison (often called buffalo) were never historically native to the state, ancient ancestors of the bison roamed California's Central Valley up until about $10,000$ years ago.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 02:20 PM (Riz8t)

197 “These test scores are strong predictors of a student’s future Yale academic performance, and there is evidence that they are less subject to bias than other elements of an application.”

I'm shocked they would admit this publicly. Wouldn't it be astonishing if next time they admitted IQ correlates very well with educational and financial success?

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:19 PM (mkw2N)
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I agree. Seems like they are completely ignoring those standards' racistness.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:20 PM (Fi81e)

198 taylor is 88 years old.

Common mistake. She's 87, but allegedly "when this baby hits 88, you're gonna see some serious shit".

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 02:21 PM (2ocoG)

199 taylor is 88 years old.

Common mistake. She's 87, but allegedly "when this baby hits 88, you're gonna see some serious shit".

When she does, will she stop saying stupid stuff like "spooners"?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 02:21 PM (Riz8t)

200 Made it to ATL.

Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 02:22 PM (Wmg4n)

201 I'm shocked they would admit this publicly. Wouldn't it be astonishing if next time they admitted IQ correlates very well with educational and financial success?

That's adjacent to admitting that Somalis have the IQ of a fruit basket.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 02:22 PM (2ocoG)

202 That Mary had as much informed choice and free will as did Eve and chose differently is a central tenant of faith for millennia.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 02:22 PM (3uBP9)

203 Newsome is just floundering his faggot ass all over the place with hopes something will stick.

Too many people will never forget the ruin he brought to CA. There's nothing that he can say, propose, sign into law or otherwise that will excuse his overt corruption and what it has wrought to "The Golden State"

Posted by: Melodicmetal at May 28, 2026 02:22 PM (61TgR)

204 181 Everything IN the State; Nothing OUTSIDE the State; Nothing AGAINST the State:

You cannot be prominent unless you cooperate with the direction of the state.
Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:16 PM (Fi81e)

And the DemSocialist candidate -- eg Newscum-- will receive a bare minimum of 45 percent of the National vote by promoting The State.
The three terms of Obama -- and you could say the 3.5 terms of Obama since he sabotaged a substantial portion of Trump's first term-- have weakened America to the point that a hack clown like Newscum can be competitive in the run for POTUS.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at May 28, 2026 02:23 PM (vKBCZ)

205 170. Did Gabriel take her out to dinner first? Second or third date? If Christians can’t see through this false prophet, we are in big trouble.This guy is just a couple clicks off of the DC shooter who proclaimed himself as Jesus Christ.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 28, 2026 02:23 PM (mfFcZ)

206 “These test scores are strong predictors of a student’s future Yale academic performance, and there is evidence that they are less subject to bias than other elements of an application.”
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Yes, but aren't they strong predictors of how well students will do within a systemically racist system?

How can you say that without making sure that Yale is no longer "systemically racist"?

In short: Yale has reclaimed its racism.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:23 PM (Fi81e)

207 I've been arguing that the right needs to start looking at economic policy as a weapon since the left has been doing this for a long time - sort of like gerrymandering.

Trump is doing some of this with the USAID cuts and the like, but this is what economic policy should be overall with where we are.

The goal is to take as much from Dems and give it to R leaning voter groups. Now, that honestly can be paying down the deficit since right leaning groups are more harmed by high inflation.

But why not start taxing NGOs? Extra taxes for highly paid state workers? Onerous taxes on business offshoring and so on

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 02:24 PM (sKqQm)

208 Speaking of tribal customs, the UK has found Vickrum Digwa guilty of murder and his mother Kiran Kaur guilty of "assisting an offender".
Sadly the Brits don't hang them anymore.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 02:25 PM (gKWVE)

209 Too many people will never forget the ruin he brought to CA. There's nothing that he can say, propose, sign into law or otherwise that will excuse his overt corruption and what it has wrought to "The Golden State"

We're talking about CA, a state where Karen Bass will probably win reelection rather than being driven from public life forever.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 02:25 PM (Riz8t)

210 @208 his penalty will be being forced to eat British food

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2026 02:26 PM (zaxlN)

211 208 Speaking of tribal customs, the UK has found Vickrum Digwa guilty of murder and his mother Kiran Kaur guilty of "assisting an offender".
Sadly the Brits don't hang them anymore.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2026 02:25 PM (gKWVE)

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Murder charges for minorites mean community service as punishment in England.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:26 PM (2t0WW)

212 81 I don't think such a tax is legal.

"It's legal!" - President Boasberg
Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2026 01:54 PM (2ocoG)
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Try again, Boasberg.
1819 Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland
Posted by: Orson at May 28, 2026 01:56 PM (dIske)
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It's legal!

Posted by: Some Court Ignoring the Supreme Court at May 28, 2026 02:27 PM (Fi81e)

213
We're talking about CA, a state where Karen Bass will probably win reelection rather than being driven from public life forever.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 02:25 PM (Riz8t)

As a Californian I have to sadly agree with you...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 28, 2026 02:27 PM (FtULh)

214 No, ( Mr. Talarico ) "The annunciation does not justify abortion.". "America" magazine:

https://tinyurl.com/mr2jt7jrThe

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2026 02:27 PM (WFtAr)

215 209
We're talking about CA, a state where Karen Bass will probably win reelection rather than being driven from public life forever.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 02:25 PM (Riz8t)

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It would be hilarious if Karen Bass cheating her way to victory is what brought down the house of cards of election chicanery in the state of California.

"Why California, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. but for Karen Bass!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:27 PM (2t0WW)

216 Pretty much a given now that the #1 hobby in America will be Civil War Reenactor within the next 5 years.

Invest in wool blankets and powder horn tech now to beat the rush.

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 02:28 PM (EgBjZ)

217 Murder charges for minorites mean community service as punishment in England.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:26 PM (2t0WW)
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They are strictly prohibited from participating in the rape of the next 3 rape gang prospects.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:28 PM (Fi81e)

218 We're talking about CA, a state where Karen Bass will probably win reelection rather than being driven from public life forever.

This is how you know the fix is in.

Even if LA was an incredibly blue city she would have been voted out in the primary or forced to resign at the end of her term due to her abject, objective failure as mayor.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 02:28 PM (sKqQm)

219 217 Murder charges for minorites mean community service as punishment in England.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:26 PM (2t0WW)
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They are strictly prohibited from participating in the rape of the next 3 rape gang prospects.

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:28 PM (Fi81e)

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By strictly, they mean it's suggested and if they are found in violation of the court order, the police bobby who reports him will be fired.

They also mean Dancing with the Stars when they say strictly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:29 PM (2t0WW)

220 Its funny Talarico looks like a stereotypical evil tele-evangelist.

And sounds like a demonically possessed one

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 02:29 PM (sKqQm)

221 220 Its funny Talarico looks like a stereotypical evil tele-evangelist.

And sounds like a demonically possessed one

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 02:29 PM (sKqQm)

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He looks like a weird gnome who's definitely jerked it to tranny porn.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:30 PM (2t0WW)

222
It would be hilarious if Karen Bass cheating her way to victory is what brought down the house of cards of election chicanery in the state of California.

"Why California, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. but for Karen Bass!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Do you mean cheating in the last election, or the upcoming one?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 02:30 PM (n7rxJ)

223 222 Do you mean cheating in the last election, or the upcoming one?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 02:30 PM (n7rxJ)

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Upcoming.

"I don't know anyone who voted for Karen Bass," becoming a common refrain in upper-middle class progressive households in Burbank.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:30 PM (2t0WW)

224 Talarico sounds like something you want scraped off your shoe in a hurry before it eats through the sole.

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 02:31 PM (EgBjZ)

225 223.

Nailed it.

Posted by: sifty boones at May 28, 2026 02:32 PM (EgBjZ)

226 Talarico SUAVE!

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:32 PM (Fi81e)

227 226 Talarico SUAVE!

Posted by: Axeman at May 28, 2026 02:32 PM (Fi81e)

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In SHOCKING news that will surely make all Texas and national Republicans quake in fear...

The Houston Chronicle has endorsed Talarico!

It's obviously over for Paxton!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:32 PM (2t0WW)

228 omg Claude LeMieux killed himself?!!

what?!?! why?!?!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 28, 2026 02:33 PM (j+aD2)

229 142 Barak Ravid at Axios is writing that an Iran deal is about to be announced. But Barak Ravid has been wrong about everything he's predicted since this started, so who knows. But there's always a first time.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 02:07 PM (edUvp)

Fox is reporting it is a done deal. Iran says, not so fast (again).

Posted by: Ann at May 28, 2026 02:33 PM (SHHm+)

230 > Talarico sounds like something you want scraped off your shoe in a hurry before it eats through the sole.

"Talar" means ankle, so that makes sense.

Talarico sounds like a low budget drug to me.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:33 PM (mkw2N)

231 186 Tit for tat.

Boob thread!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 28, 2026 02:18 PM (Kt19C)

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But please, no tats on boobs!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 28, 2026 02:33 PM (cWLG3)

232 NBC tells me today that Republicans are worried that Talarico is gonna win because Paxton has baggage and was the lesser of the Rep. Candidates.. Oh.. And no one will donate to Paxton and Talarico has big money coming his way..

Posted by: It's me donna at May 28, 2026 02:34 PM (FtULh)

233
"I don't know anyone who voted for Karen Bass," becoming a common refrain in upper-middle class progressive households in Burbank.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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And here's my own airy prediction:

- She wins the upcoming election
- Some massive, preventable disaster occurs during the Olympics
- She makes insanely embarrassing excuses for herself
- Becomes toxic even to Dems
- Forced to resign
- Is succeeded by Marqueese Harris-Dawson, who is if possible even worse

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 02:34 PM (n7rxJ)

234 @227 Houston Chronicle: "We're gay for Talarico!"

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 28, 2026 02:34 PM (cWLG3)

235 California is one fucked up place.

Hopefully everyone who lives there will stay there.

Posted by: Please stay there at May 28, 2026 02:34 PM (ZR74N)

236 omg Claude LeMieux killed himself?!!

what?!?! why?!?!

That's horrible. You never know what someone's going through.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:34 PM (mkw2N)

237 BREAKING: California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.”

Ha! Only in a movie script could you see something this dumb.

Posted by: t-bird at May 28, 2026 02:35 PM (T7fic)

238 Fox is reporting it is a done deal. Iran says, not so fast (again).
Posted by: Ann at May 28, 2026 02:33 PM (SHHm+)

Trump started out as a property developer dealing with a coalition of owners in a co-op he was trying to buy so he could tear it down to build a sky scraper. He lost that one, but then again he didn't have the US Navy to back up his pressure tactics

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 02:36 PM (rbvCR)

239 omg Claude LeMieux killed himself?!!

what?!?! why?!?!

That's horrible. You never know what someone's going through.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:34 PM (mkw2N)

Shit. I just saw that he had died. Dang.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 28, 2026 02:36 PM (PSEDc)

240 There have been sooooo many warnings.

If you're an American living in a Bolshevik controlled state... run. Now.

It won't be long before they get real serious about things. Expropriations won't have legal fig leaves over them, and the killings won't be sporadic anymore.

If you're tempted to say something dumb like "but buh buh diss iz muh hoooome," get it out of your head. It's not. It belongs to them now.

Don't be caught standing there with your dick in your hand when they throw the switch.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 28, 2026 02:36 PM (flbGo)

241 238 Fox is reporting it is a done deal. Iran says, not so fast (again).
Posted by: Ann at May 28, 2026 02:33 PM (SHHm+)

Trump started out as a property developer dealing with a coalition of owners in a co-op he was trying to buy so he could tear it down to build a sky scraper. He lost that one, but then again he didn't have the US Navy to back up his pressure tactics

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 02:36 PM (rbvCR)

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I doubt this is done.

Iran's leadership is too fractured, and they haven't suffered enough through the blockade.

Still, if it's done and the US gets what it wants, well. huzzah.

All I know is that anything that happens is a failure because Trump didn't nuke Tehran which makes it all a TACO.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:37 PM (2t0WW)

242 236 omg Claude LeMieux killed himself?!!

what?!?! why?!?!

That's horrible. You never know what someone's going through.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:34 PM (mkw2N)
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Did Canada sanction it?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 28, 2026 02:37 PM (cWLG3)

243 A seven year old girl in my wife's home ward (LDS congregational group) died recently. A neighbor accidentally backed over her in his car.

I can't imagine how horrible that would be for the family or for the neighbors.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:37 PM (mkw2N)

244 Shit. I just saw that he had died. Dang.

he just carried the torch out during the first Montreal-Carolina game. he looked great!

apparently he lives in Florida and went back there after the game and they found him dead by suicide this morning.

WTF

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 28, 2026 02:38 PM (j+aD2)

245 mg Claude LeMieux killed himself?!!

On his 60th birthday?!

Posted by: t-bird at May 28, 2026 02:38 PM (T7fic)

246 >>> But please, no tats on boobs!
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 28, 2026 02:33 PM (cWLG3)

I've heard that of all the places to be wary of getting tats for women is on/near boobs because of the statistics with respect to cancer and toxins/carcinogens not having very far to travel to get to important glands.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 02:38 PM (3uBP9)

247 Did Canada sanction it?

my first thought but no

he lived in Florida

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 28, 2026 02:38 PM (j+aD2)

248 Any deal with Iran is a joke, and we all know this. Or should. They are rabid, like Hamas, Hezbollah, eh, Islam. The war will never end.

Posted by: tubal at May 28, 2026 02:38 PM (Gqar8)

249 On his 60th birthday?!

was it actually his birthday?!?! omg

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 28, 2026 02:38 PM (j+aD2)

250 nood

cuban canadian commies

Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 02:38 PM (3uBP9)

251
California is one fucked up place.

Hopefully everyone who lives there will stay there.
Posted by: Please stay there

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I think Karen Bass's re-election will be genuine, not rigged. She's way ahead in polls ffs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 28, 2026 02:39 PM (n7rxJ)

252 248 Any deal with Iran is a joke, and we all know this. Or should. They are rabid, like Hamas, Hezbollah, eh, Islam. The war will never end.

yep

this is - I fear - just Pakistan playing games with us

it's not good

also I met Mr LeMieux a few times. He was such a nice man. Damn. this is crazy.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 28, 2026 02:39 PM (j+aD2)

253 @241 If Iran still controls the Strait that would be a shitty outcome.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 28, 2026 02:39 PM (cWLG3)

254 Did Canada sanction it?

What do you mean? He had a runny nose and we cured it!

Posted by: Canada at May 28, 2026 02:39 PM (T7fic)

255 If you're tempted to say something dumb like "but buh buh diss iz muh hoooome," get it out of your head. It's not. It belongs to them now.

Don't be caught standing there with your dick in your hand when they throw the switch.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 28, 2026 02:36 PM (flbGo)
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Good luck with this. I've been barking up this tree on the HQ for the last few years and I'm met with nothing but "muh job" or "muh family."

Posted by: ballistic at May 28, 2026 02:40 PM (oqH4h)

256 Did y'all see Rubio announced we have deportation agreements with 20 countries? So if you're an illegal from El Salvador, you have the choice to go back home, or get deported by the US to Haiti or some other crap-hole. Given that choice, many elect to go home.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 28, 2026 02:41 PM (mkw2N)

257 I doubt this is done.

Iran's leadership is too fractured, and they haven't suffered enough through the blockade.

Still, if it's done and the US gets what it wants, well. huzzah.

All I know is that anything that happens is a failure because Trump didn't nuke Tehran which makes it all a TACO.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:37 PM (2t0WW)

Well the people who turned down the last few deals have recently turned up dead, so lets see if the new IGRC has any fresh perspectives. Also heard the army was fighting the IGRC here or there - the 'loyalist' ones , not the putative Western backed ones who may or may not exist to any degree.

The fixation of the press on the games in the straits means Israel and Lebanon have a pretty free hand wiping out Iran forces in Gaza and South Lebanon, so that's nice.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 28, 2026 02:42 PM (8avO+)

258 Nood Castreau.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 28, 2026 02:43 PM (Kdi1r)

259 Oh, hay

Per some rando on Twitter:

Russ Vought at OMB has just overhauled $1 TRILLION in federal grants by adding: Strict E-Verify requirements, English-language rules, and political appointee oversight to ensure taxpayer dollars go to American citizens first.

Vought’s new proposal replaces automatic payouts with “pay for performance” standards. Grants can now be terminated for waste, fraud, underperformance, or pushing anti-American priorities like DEI, gender ideology, or Green New Scam programs

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 02:43 PM (rbvCR)

260 259 Russ Vought at OMB has just overhauled $1 TRILLION in federal grants by adding: Strict E-Verify requirements, English-language rules, and political appointee oversight to ensure taxpayer dollars go to American citizens first.

Vought’s new proposal replaces automatic payouts with “pay for performance” standards. Grants can now be terminated for waste, fraud, underperformance, or pushing anti-American priorities like DEI, gender ideology, or Green New Scam programs

Posted by: Kindltot at May 28, 2026 02:43 PM (rbvCR)

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"I hate this man so much because he isn't 100% pure."
-the Libertarian Party

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 28, 2026 02:44 PM (2t0WW)

261 Keep it simple: just a 100% Federal tax on all State of California payments, regardless of type or recipient -- including foreign, out-of-state, or even tax-exempt. And all they have to do to end it is stop their tax policy warfare on Federal programs they don't like.

Posted by: SciVo at May 28, 2026 02:45 PM (Sy6m/)

262 Newsom is ever more desperate because it is increasingly clear that the Democrat nomination in 2028 is going to Kamala. And that also guarantees he will not be on the ticket in any way. He will continue to disintegrate into a sad real life imitation of a third-rate Randall Flagg.

Posted by: alanon at May 28, 2026 02:48 PM (jHMkm)

263 Newsom's Tax, or punishment, is a Bill of Attainder and is unconstitutional in the United States. California will have to secede before it can punish its Republicans for exercising their First Amendment rights.

Posted by: wferrin at May 28, 2026 05:30 PM (lCdHU)

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